■ee Miss Kent, who wondered st bls
absence.
I stt me down in tbe twilight cool
But why should she remember him?
Of a busy summer's day,
Was not rich young Townsend, who
And close my eyes, and live again
was said to be “dying for her,” ready A DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE
Tbe time so far away.
BOYS AND GIRLS.
When Eddie aud James and John were at her call? And were there uot picnics
und i>arties, and excursions, lu which
here,
Myra Keut was tbe principal figure?
And the tears to my eyes will creep.
Bnmething that Will Interest the Ju-
For I seem to sit in the old browu chair,
Iloweu often asked himself if the girl
▼eulle Members of Every Household
A-rockiu' tbe boys to sleep.
knew that she had uot seen him. It
—
Quaint Actions und Bright Hayiugs
was iu valu that be scoffed at himself,
I bring John back from a borne of wealth, for every hour iu tbe day he must own
of Many Cute and Cunning Children.
Where fame and honor dwell,
And sing and rock him to sleep once that be loved her—that tbe thought
that lie must live bis life without her
"You're a coward!” A sentence cal
more,
was so unbearable to him that Liu culated to make any schoolboy clench
More happy than tongue can tell.
| bis fists and promptly endeavor to make
fought against It.
1 brave the storms on a shoreless sea
Where tempest and surges sweep.
Ou tbe fouitli day from that ou bls accuser prove or eat his words.
And James is here and I rock aguin
which the conversation on the balcony "Yes, of course you are, or you wouldn't
"My wandering boy" to sleep.
bad been held, Itowen said that
___ ___
bo told that you were one of the party that
would give this one day to the search,' upset old Mother Tuck’s cart;' and Dan
I build a stair to the heavens tall,
and. If tbe bauble was uot found, he Isaacs, the bully of tbe school, scowled
And reach in its sweet doinaiu
would summarily cut short tbe fascina-1 at the delicate-looking, slim lad, who
For little Eddie and bring biui back
tiou
which bound him—be would take stood quietly. If nervously, before him
To my lonely borne again;
In tbe cricket ground.
tbe
evening
train to Ixmdou.
My throbbing heart is heavy now
“I think I am losing my senses,” be ' “Perhaps I am,” was the reply, “but
With a yearning strong and deep.
said, as he strolled down the road, his then I di<l not pocket any of the old
As I smooth the curia of my only babe
And rock biui once more to sleep.
eyes fixed on the ground, bis cigar for- [ woman's apples afterwards," and
Dicky Ford grew bolder as he went on:
gotten betweeu bis lips.
They say the old chair is useless now,
There was a rustle in the bushes, a "No, a spree Ls one thing, but to rob
'Tis creaking, and dull with age,
shrill bark sounded, and thru out a poor apple woman is very different”
And must be forever put aside.
“I’ll knock your young head off, if
dusked a little Skye terrier, who tlew
Like a well learned, worn out page.
at Bowen lu an exuberance of gladness you say that again," roared Dan, crim
But the old browu chair sings a song to
son with rage and the knowledge of uls
at sight of him.
me,
Itowen stopped to caress the creature, ' meanness, which he thought bail not
As it whispers of other years,
been seen by any of the other boys.
Aud it tells of tbe rougheued places which belonged to Myra Kent, aud was
But Dicky, lighter of toot than his
her constant companion.
smoothed.
And murmurs of childish tears.
Tbe young man's eyes glanced about, persecutor, had scudded off to the other
hoping to see the dog's mistress; but no eml of tlie field.
Presently there was a noise of men
Yes, the old chair tells in an undertone,
one appeared, and at last ltoweu WllS
and women shouting and screaming in
In a voii'e so creaking and old.
sure she was not near.
tbe road close by, and every boy ran to
Or the comfort it gave through summer's
Instead of going back In a few 111O-
the low wall that bounded tbe cricket
heat,
meats the dog kept near, and at last,
field. Down the road at a terrific pace
As well as in winter's cold;
when
Bowen
tried
to
drive
him
away,
(low those little dependent lives were
came a mad bull, followed by scores
Alfred persisted In remaining.
soothed
of meu and boys at a respectful dis
“You are not at all like your mis- tance.
Through their childish sorrows deep,
trss,” said Bowen, with some bitter
As it did its best to ease each pain,
The sight of the boys on the wall at
While rocking the boys to sleep.
ness. “She would not manifest such tracted its attention, aud with a bellow
—Telescope.
delight at being with me."
It turned on them, tearing headlong at
The man aud dog went on slowly, the wall with a mad bound. Of course,
aud it was not until some minutes had tbe boys scattered lu all directions as
*
passed that Iloweti noticed that the the animal half fell, half cleared the
terrier continually turned back and wall, and then scrambling to Its feet,
looked at him as if asking him to stood for a second before charging the
come.
fleeing crowd.
Idly at last Itowen turned and fol
Nobody Indlie hurry had noticed that
lowed Alfred, who leaped a stone wall
YRA KENT was sitting in a and flew across a field covered with Dau Isaacs had sprained his ankle as
he Jumped from the wall, and was try
low chair oti the balcony, her faded golden rod.
He utte.eJ sl:o t ing painfully to escape the notice of the
head leaned back, her eyes barks of satisfaction as lie went, and
bull by crawling into the shelter of the
lowered to the face of the young uuiu was constantly turning about to see
little clump of trees in the corner of the
who lounged on the steps near her—a
that Bowen followed. He went faster cricket ground.
handsome young man, tbe "second
and faster, so that finally ltoweu was
Suddenly, the furious beast caught
Adonis,” the ladles were wont to call
nearly running to keep him in sight.
sight of him, and with a fierce bellow
him.
Suddenly the dog leaped and scram turned on him. Poor Dan, nearly dead
"What an awful pity that Tom Bow bled down the steep bank of a dry wa with fright and pain, Just managed to
en has no money,” they said to them-
ter course, and when Bowen came to elude the mad rush by the aid of a
selves, with the most pathetic em-
the edge and looked down he uttered friendly tree, but a few minutes of
phasls. "Ills face and liis mauuers
an exclamation of alarm and surprise dodging tired him out, and he screamed
are perfect.”
ami then swung himself down from a for help, while the men and boys
“They like to flirt with me,” he said,
birch tree and fell rather than walked seemed paralyzed and unable to sug
with a smile of self-dlsdaln, but they
to a place where lay a figure whose gest any means of diverting tho bull's
know better than to say 'Yes’ to me."
blue dress and bright scarf were fam attention.
To an observer, her eyes seemed iliar to his eyes.
Then they all held their breath In
resting on his now, but lie knew they
“Myra!" be cried, as he (lung himself fright, as little Dickie, with a shout,
were only idly glancing.
burst to the front, dribbling before him
down by her.
"Ho you value Hie trinket so highly?"
All his love and agony were In that a football right up to the bull.
Bowen had Just asked.
“Come back, come back!” they cried,
word. He had feared to find her
"The trinket?” she exclaimed, Indig
senseless, dead, but she looked at him, you'll be killed!"
nantly. "I do not call It a trinket. It and a faint smile came to her
But Dicky was no coward now. With
white
Is a most precious relic; It lias been In lips,
a firm kick he sent the ball slap In the
As she met Ills eyes, as the tire
the family almost 200 years. I would in them poured down upon her, a tinge , face of tbe bull as he was on the point
| of tossing the now fagged-out Dan.
give anything to have tbe bracelet back
of color came into her face.
Staggered by the sudden sting of the
■ gain anything!”
“I think most of my ribs are broken,
■‘Let us be practical. What would and perhaps the rest of my bones,” ball the beast in Its blind rage turned
you bestow upon the num w ho will re she said, with an effort at speaking as I to follow the football as It rebounded
from Its head, seeing iu It a new enemy,
store your bracelet to you?”
lightly as her words sounded.
•But and. butting nt It fiercely, waa soon at
"Anything anything!" cried M I ms
I’ve found my bracelet.”
the other end of the field, while the
Kent, sitting up Iglit. her ryes spar-
As she spoke the Inst words her fnce
kliug. "You have no
much turned deathly white, and she sank boys helped the badly-frlglitened Dan
over the wall and hurried over them
1 want that bracelet! Besides my Ilf-
still further back in unconsciousness.
selves as two men with rifles made
feetlon for It, do you
A quarter of nil hour Inter, when life their appearance.
legend connected w.tli
returned to her, she found herself sup
Stopping for a while to take breath
that so long as It Is ke|
ported in Bowen’s nrms. and before she the bull glared around him as If uucer-
good luck w ill never desert tbe Kents?"
opened her eyes she felt a pair of trem-
"But the reward?" quietly perss.e.l 1 ling lips pressed passional: ly v.p u ; tain what to do next. He had not much
time for decision, however, as two re
the young num.
her own.
ports rang out heavily on the air, and
Myra Kent laugh d Hie sweet, sin
the bull fell headlong, rose with a roar
"Forgive
met
Forgive
me!"
murmur
cere laugh which Bowen had come to
of pain and anger, and then, ns another
know so well, mid which was so differ ed Bowen. “I wns wild 1 thought you
shot echoed against the school walls,
ent from that of most girls of fashion. dead! May you never suffer as 1 have.”
She tried to withdraw herself, but he fell again, with a thud, this time with
"There Is little I would not give,"
a bullet through his heart.
»lie said, half In earnest. “I believe I held her fast; he could not let her go.
“Three cheers for Dicky Ford!"
would give my hand. If the mail did me There was something 111 her face that I
emboldened him, that made his hopes shouted the boys, as they gathered
the honor to want It.”
| round the dead beast. And they gave
rise intoxlcatingly.
Tom Itowen rose to Ills feet. Though
“Aud now that I am not dead?" she ! them, too, with a will, while Dan, with
bls eyes glowed peculiarly, though Ills
I tears In his eyes. In broken tones
whispered, nt last.
face was pale, he yet commanded Ills
"Ah, now—now I will never let you begged Dicky's pardon for calling him
voice, so as to say, mockingly:
go!” he exclaimed, holding her yet a coward.
“(If course, Miss Kent, you are safe
closer. "Have you ever guessed how 1 I “Fancy going for a bull with a foot-
enough In adding that last clause to
i bail!” they all cried; "why, nobody but
love you?"
your offer of reward. You know the
“Yes I half fancied—but---- ” was 'Dicky would have thought of such a
bracelet Is gone Irrecoverably. You lost
I thing."
the low response.
“I don't know why I did It," said
tt on the highway more than a week
“But what?”
• go; you have yourself looked over
; Dick, blushing at the enthusiastic greet-
"1 dared not think of It because be
; Ings of tbe other boys; "but I just
every foot of the road. Some trump
cause I was afraid I should discover thought perhaps a kick at tbe bull with
has found It; It is probably In some ob
that I loved you!" wns the delicious re n football might take bls attention
scure pawnbroker's shop by this time.”
ply.
away from Dan.”
He added n few more words on some
A few moments after be said:
"Hurrah for Dicky Ford!" they all
other subject, and then he sauntered
“1 Intended to hnve found tlint brace shouted ngalu; and Dickie could't help
»lowly away down one of the walks of
let
myself."
thinking that he had bad. after all, his
the garden mid disappeared among the
"It's all the same," she said, shyly revenge on the boy who called biui
trees.
smiling, “since 1 hnve found It."— coward. -NVaverley Magazine.
As soon as he was out of sight Ills Spare Moments.
w hole appearance changed. He looked
The Hone Jingle.
alert and alive. He stood still a mo
Every one knows the helpful little
Hindoo Englisi.
ment, glancing aliout him.
The following Is taken from a hotel rhyme beginning "Thirty days bath
"It Is all folly. I know, but 1 am go
advertisement In the Calcutta Times: September," and the scholars who are
ing to try to And the bracelet for her.
"Geutlemeu who come In hotel not say "grinding away” at anatomy will per
1 should Ike to do that. Of course I
anything aliout their meals they will haps Hud this one of some value:
cannot ask her to lie my wife; she Is
be charged for, and If they should say llow many bones in the human face?
the last person under the sun to be a
beforehand that they are going out to Fourteen, when they're all in place.
poor num's wife. Her father would
breakfast or dinner, etc., and If they How many bones in the human head?
disinherit her. and how am I going to
say that they not have anything to eat Eight, my child, as I’ve often said.
get her the fol de nds which are neces
they will tie charged, and If not so they How many bones in the human ear?
sary to her existence?"
Four in each, and they help to bear.
will not lie charged, or unless they
While lie walked lie was looking bring It to the notice of the manager How many bones in the human spine?
among the dust -covered golden roti and of the place, aud should they want to Twenty-four, like a climbing vine.
How many bonea in the human chest?
grasses along the roadside He went say anything they must order the man Twenty four ribs, sud two of the rest.
on thus for half a mile, then he reach ager for one. not any one else, aud un How many bones in the shoulders bind?
ed a turn, and retraced Ills steps on the less they bring not It to the notice of Two In each—one before, one behind.
other able of the way. lie gave up the the manager they will l»e charged for How many bones in the human arm?
next three hour« to a thorough exam the least things accord'ng to the hotel In each arm one; two in each fort-arm.
Inatlon of the space of road where the rate, and no fuss will l»e allowed after llow many bones in the human wrist?
Eight in each. If none are missed,
bracelet hail been lost.
ward about It."
llow many bones in the palm of the
Like ail people who an* looking for
band?
some lost article, it »• euied to him that
I I rar lllootl or Bo -rs.
Five in each, with many a band,
underneath every shrub, secreted be
First blood In the Transvaal war fell llow many bones in the lingers ten?
bind every atone, lie should find the to the Boers oil Oct. 12. an armored Tn euty-fight, and by joints they bend.
treasure. Then1 Is • wonderful fascina train on the way to Matching being How many bones in the human hip?
tion In such a search.
attacked and disabled, and the little One in each, like a dish they dip.
How many bones in the human thigh?
It was not until dusk that Bowen British force captured.
One In each, and deep they lie.
gave It up for that day. and returned to
llow many bones in the human knees?
the hotel lu the village where he was
l.ota of men might acquire fortune« One In each, the kneepan. please,
staying.
If they didn't watte ao much time In llow many bones in the leg from the
For the next two days he was en
figuring bow to make money without
knee?
gaged In tbe same way. «nd be did uot w ork.
Two iu each, we can plainly see.
ROCKING THE BOYS TO SLEEP.
J
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The Lost Bracelet.
J
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CHILDREN’S COLUMN.
llow many bones In the ankle strong?
GIVES AWAY HIS INCOME.
Seven iu each, but none are long.
How many bones iu tbe ball of the foot? A Reading Physician Whose Profits Go
Five in each, as the palms are put.
to Church and Charity.
How many bones iu the toes, half a
Dr. Isaac Detweiler, of Readlug, Pa.,
score?
is probably the < nly physician In the
Twenty-eight, aud there are no more.
world who gives every dollar derived
from his practice of
simple Slinon.
med Id ue to tbe
church and charity.
For over ten years
he has been doing
this, although
It
was not generally
known.
Dr. Det
weiler
celebrated
his seventieth blrth-
d a y
anniversary
r>R. DETWEILER.
this week.
lie fished the whole long moruiug
Dr. Detweiler has lived In Reading
through.
thirty-six years. When starting out in
The whole long afternoon.
Until above the chimney tops
life he made a vow that as be pros
l'eeped up tbe laughing moon.
pered In Ills profession or business he
would give a certain percentage to tbe
Then winding up his line, he said,
cause of religion and charity. He has
"They will uot bite to-day:
done so. More than ten years ago he
It must have beeu those barking dogs
made another vow that whatever in
That scared the fish away.”
come be might derive thereafter from
bis practice of medicine would be given
Took Them Along.
Anecdotes of dogs are Innumerable. In these good causes. The amount of
Au eutertaluing one tells of a farmer, money he hats given since then aggre
who, having sold a flock of sheep to a gates tens of thousands. Although to
dealer, lent him his dog to drive them day not considering himself an active
home, a distance of thirty miles, de practitioner, his receipts from Ills pro-
siring him to give the dog a meal at I fession last year amounted to probably
the Journey’s end and tell It to go 8140 a month, all of which was or will
home. The drover found the dog so be donated to religious and charitable
useful that he determined to steal it, purposes.
During the Spanish-American war he
and, instead of seudiug It back, be
locked it up. The collie grew sulky, contributed $225 for tbe purchase of
aud at last effected its escape. Evident Bible» and testaments for tbe soldiers,
ly deeming the drover bad no more aud he paid for much other religious
right to detain the sheep than lie bad ' literature that was sent to them.
to detain itself, the honest creature
Candy for the Soliltera.
weut into the field, collected all tl.e
Candy of good quality, consisting of
sheep that had belonged to its master,
and. to that person’s great astonish mixed chocolate creams, lemon drops,
ment. drove tbe whole floek home cocoanut maroons and acidulated fruit
drops, has been added to tbe regular
again.
ration of the Americnu soldier. One
Who Was Shot?
New York firm lias shipped more than
A duel was once fought by two men fifty tons of confectionery during the
named Sliott and Nott. Nott was shot past year for the troops lu the Philip
and Shott was not. In this case It is pines, Cuba and Porto Rico. The use
better to be Shott than Nott. There of candy as an army rntlon originated
was a rumor that Nott was not shot, in some experiments on tbe diet of tbe
but that Shott was shot notwithstand troops conducted by the German gov
ing. Circumstantial evidence is not al ernment ten years ago. They showed
ways good. On trial It might appear that the addition of candy and choco
that the shot Shott shot shot Nott, or it late to tbe regular ration greatly Im-
might be possible that the shot Shott proved tbe health and endurance of the
shot shot himself, when the whole af troops uslug it. Since that time the
fair would be as at first, and Shott German government has Issued cakes
would be shot aud Nott would be not. of chocolate and a limited amount of
We think, however, that the shot Shott other confectionery. Tlie Queen for
shot shot not Shott, but Nott; any way. warded five hundred thousand pounds
It is hard to tell who was shot.
of chocolate in half-pound packages as
a Christmas treat for tlie troops In tbe
To Be Gentlemen.
Transvaal. American jam manufactur
The students of the Waterloo high
ers are considering a movement to add
school of Auburn. Ind., have subscrib
Jam to tlie army rntlon. It having been
ed to the following rules of propriety,
found wholesome for the British army.
which marks quite a departure from
the usual rowdyism of college boys:
"Bridge," or ’’liussiaii Whist "
1. We will not communicate uor ask
America has already rivaled England
to communicate while iu tbe school as a home for whist; It will be Inter
building.
esting to see whether we shall also fol
2. We will keep refined positions in low the example of our trans-Atlantic
cousins In the mania for “bridge,” or
our school seats.
“Russian whist,” which Is now all the
3. We will cultivate a light step.
4. We will uot ask for iudlvdual fa rage In London, and in many card cir
cles has made whist as obsolete ns
vors.
5. We will prepare all writing ma “Boston.” It Is a sort of dummy whist.
Different suits of cards give different
terial in the morning.
values to the tricks, the red suits, for
Thought All Dogs Barked,
example, being more valuable than the
"Are you an old sea-dog?” asked black. The dealer does not turn up a
4-yenr-old Bobby of his sailor uncle, trump card, but has the privilege of
whom he had Just met for the first making any suit he pleases trumps, or
may declare no trumps, which In
time.
"Yes, that's what they call me,” was creases the value of the tricks. This
value, also, may be doubled again and
the reply.
"Well, then," continued Bobby, “let again by the holders of good hands, so
that It Is a game of uncertainties. The
me hear you bark.”
best authorities use the American leads,
He Divided Equally,
which are rather dropping out of use In
“Robbie, did you divide the orange English whist.
A treatise on bridge
in equal parts betweeu your little by Archibald Dunn, Jr., has lately been
friend and yourself?"
published In England, and there is like
"Yes'in; I gave him all the outside ly to be demand for American books.—
Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
and took all the Inside.”
WONDERFUL
A Wisu Child.
Nerve of u Mun with Broken Leg Hop
ping Towurd Home,
William Frauds, 42 years old, of 300
Van Slcklen avenue, Brooklyn, aston
ished the police of the Liberty Avenue
Station, In tlint borough, with a re
markable exhibition of nerve. Francis
was found ou tbe street near the Van
Slcklen Avenue Statiou of the Kings
County Elevated Railroad hopping
along on one foot In the direction of his
home. He would fall, and then, with
great effort, pick himself up again and
continue hopping.
"What's the matter with you?” ask
ed a policeman.
“Guess I've broken my leg,” return
ed Francis, quietly.
"Broken your leg? Where did It
happen?” gasped tbe surprised police
mail.
“Oh, I fell on a sidewalk over In
Manhattan.” replied Francis, about to
resume his bopping toward home.
The policeman stopped him. "Do
you mean to say that you came all the
way from Manhattan to East New
York with a broken leg?" he asked in
amazement.
"Why. yes; I thought the best thing
I could do would t>e to come home, aud
1 came.
"How’d you come?”
"By the elevated."
The policeman called an ambulance,
and after Francis had been attended
by the surgeon he was taken to bls
home.
"Gee. 1 suppose If he'd broken both
his legs he'd have walked home on his
hands." declared the policeman in pro
found admiration of Frauds' nerve.—
New York Times.
Pretty nearly everybody understands,
of course, that house rents are very
considerably greater In London than
they are in provincial towns, and that
in the metropolis they vary greatly,
and are very stiff iu the regions in
which society hovers. But a writer in
Tit-Bits ventures to think that even
few Londoners have much Idea of the
enormous figures paid for the rentals
of fashionable bouses In Belgravia aud
Mayfair, or realize how few square
yards of the west end it takes to pro
duce a million sterling iu this way.
Now, take, to start with, Park lane,
that highly fashionable thoroughfare.
It is rather staggering to learn that
$50,000 a year Is really not at all very
extravagant rent to pay for a good
house lu this quarter! The plain, sim
ple fact of the matter is. however, that
you cannot get a decent bouse here for
less than $15,000, and even such a one
would only have three or four bed
rooms,, and, generally speaking, would
not have greater accommodations than
a bouse at $250 or $300 a year in tbe
suburbs, or at halt that price In a pro
vincial town.
Grosvenor
square and Berkeley
square are renowned headquarters of
society, which pays astonishingly for
its residence there. Consider the for
mer first. The whole square comprises
fewer than sixty houses, but ft is a
fact that their combined annual rental
is aliout $750,000! Big as the rents are.
getting a house here is a matter of
great difficulty and seldom is there one
to let for long. Nothing can be got for
less than $5,000 a year and from this
figure an Intending tenant may go up
to $30,000 a year.
Berkeley square Is likewise illfHcult
to get Into. It is rather old-fashioned
and severe and the average man or
woman from the country might not be
able to see anything about the houses
which would Justify a heavy drain be
ing made upon a tenant's pocket. But
all the same houses here are always at
a premium and you will not get much
of a residence for $2,500 a year, nor yet,
so far as that goes, Is the accommoda
tion very astonishing if $10,000 a year
is paid.
St. James' square is another ultra
fashionable quarter which a millionaire
might have to wait years to get into if
he desired to live there—$15,000 or $20,-
000 a year is quite a moderate rent for
a bouse so situated—while Norfolk
house, where the Duke of Norfolk re
sides. and such others as Lord Derby’s
residence at 33. would easily realize
$50,000 a year in rent.
Carlton House terrace, where states
men and ambassadors live, also costs
Its tenants dearly. At least $20,000 a
year must be paid for anything good in
this particular neighborhood and Mr.
Astor gave more than $.300,000 when he
purchased one of the houses In the ter
race. formerly occupied by Lord Gran
ville. Yet the ordinary man would re
mark that the houses are not even semi
detached and that outwardly, at all
events, they are far from imposing.
Since Maw Joined the Club.
My maw has joined some woman’s clubs,
an' I ain’t doin’ a thing
But havin' just the biilliest time I've ever
had, by jing.
I go out every day and play all around
the neighborhood.
An' no one tells me when I start, “Re
member, now; be good.”
If I feel like it, I behave, an’ if I don't
I'm tough.
An' when the other kids get gay, I give
their ears a cuff.
For I’m the whole thing round here now
an' I ain't no cheap dub
Since my maw went downtown one day
an' joined a woman's club.
I can’t spend time to go to school; I have
to stay at home
An' mind the bell and take the cards of
visitors that come.
It’s heaps of fun to meet a lot of ladies
at the door
An' tell them that my maw is not a livin’
here no more.
1 gab about my paw and me, an' some
times almost die
To see ’em wriggle round an' try to find
the reason why;
1 s'pose they think she’s been divorced,
an’ all that flub-a-dub—
I tell you, life's a picnic since maw joined
a woman's club.
My paw an’ I get dinner now down to a
restaurant.
An’ he’s as good as be can be an’ give ma
what I want;
I have ice cream—all I can eat—an*
oranges an' such.
An’ every night I eat enough, paw says,
to kill the Dutch:
I get plum puddin’, pie an’ cake, an’
coffee strong an' black.
Just like the kind they bring to paw an*
he don't send it back.
I like to live like this, you bet, we have
such bully grub.
An' I shan't kick if my maw goes an*
“
An El «tic Currency.
joins another club.
“What we need is an elastic curren —Minneapolis Journal.
cy,” said Mr. Geezer, who was elucidat
ing the money question to his wife.
Htopped His Paper.
“Then, why doesn't the government
The Judge at Beira, 8outh Africa,
print bankuotts cu thin sheets of rub has stoped the Issue of the Belrn Tost
tier?” demanded Mrs. Geezer, with ths for two weeks, as the responsible ed
air of one who has aolved a mighty itor necessary by the Portuguese law,
problem.—Harper's Bazar.
Senor Lucianno Lanna. has been con
Inspector—Suppose 1 lent your father
flOOin June aud he promised to pay me
back £10 on the first of every month,
how much would lie owe me at the end
of the year? Now, think well before
you answer.
Pupil—£100, sir.
Inspector—You're a very ignorant
little girl. You don't know tbe most
elementary rules of arithmetic!
Pupil—Ab, sir, but you don't know
father!—Punch.
Church Cats.
There exists In Naples a race of cats
which live lu churches. They are kept
aud feil by the authorities on purpose
to eat the mice which iufest all old
buildings there. The animals may
often I* seen walking about among the
congregation, or sitting gravely before
tbe altar during the time of mass.
Acetyl ne-Gaa Signals.
Cremation In Iemiloa.
From Corfe castle to Bournemouth
In 1885 ouly three bodies were dis West Cliff English military men have
posed of by the I-otidon Cremation So passed acetylene gas signals, a distance
ciety. In 181)8 the numtier had risen of twelve miles—the message being
to 240.
clear to the naked eye.
To Make a Holiday.
HOUSE RENTS HIGH IN LONDON.
Deal ruble Quarters Command Big Rates
iu the World’s Metropolis.
Varying Effects of Inst.
The average numtier of horses killed
Frost baa a variety of effects upon
in Spanish bull tights every year ex- different products. Under the «ame In
e«<e<la 5.000. w hile from 1.000 to l^*uu fluence eggs wll> burst, apples con
bulls are sacrificed.
tract sud potatoes turn black.
demned to that length of imprisonment
for some technical offense committed
twelve months ago when be was Com
missary of Police.
Comet».
No comet, so far as is known, has
ever come in contact with the earth or
mingled its sulistance with our atmos
phere. The nearest approach ever ob
served was the comet of 1770. which
approached to within 1,400,000 mile« of
our planet.
Paternity Encouraged.
French parents possessing seven or
more children have certain exemption«
from taxation. In France there are
150,000 families so exempted.
The actions of a small man sometimes
make him great.