TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, MARCH 12. 1ÔC8
NOT MERELY IDLING. *
GEMS WERE
PRECIOUS.
[Original.]
NATIVE ESKIMO CLOTHES.
WOLVES OF FRANCE
th«
Light In Weight, Soft In Texture and
Absolutely Cold Proof.
A Picture cf Their Ferocity In th«
Eighteenth Century.
"That writer,” said a publisher, re
ferring to an author who seemed to be
Idling away his time, "Is in reality try
ing bard to work, to get his Ideas flow
ing. but be is stuck.
“He said to me himself that be re
sembled a man who made a bet one
Bummer day at the shore that he
would swim out a mile and a half to a
certain buoy. The bet was accepted, and
the man stripped and plunged in. His
friend retired to the hotel to watch hla
progress from the window.
“From the window with a fieldglass
the friend saw the swimmer reach the
buoy in due course, draw himself up
out of the water and sit down com
fortably, with his legs dangling over
Ro far so good. Evidently he was rest
ing, well pleased with bls feat.
“Some minutes passed, and the swim
mer had not moved, The watcher re-
turned to his book, But every now
and then be looked up, and still the
swimmer sat In the same position on
the buoy.
“An hour, two hours went by. Still
the swimmer remained. A white, slim
figure seen against tbe oncoming dark,
he sat on the buoy’s edge. His feet
dangled In the sea. He seemed to be
musing.
“Finally It began to grow quite dark,
and, thoroughly alarmed at last, tbe
watcher got a boat and a couple of
bargees aud rowed out to his friend.
“Out there the mystery was soon ex
plained. Tbe man was stuck fast to
the buoy, which had been freshly
tarred that morning.” — Washington
Star.
When winter set in and Eskimos be-
' gan to visit the ship. It soou became
apparent that they were much better
clothed to meet the cold than were the
white qxplorers, though the latter bad
everything that money could command
in the way of "an approved arctic out
fit." The Finnish boots, or "Flunskor,”
used by Nausea and other arctic ex
plorers, were excelled both in light
ness and warmth by the native boots.
A single fur coat of deerskin made in
Norway weighed as much as an entire
Eskimo suit of outer and inner gar
ments. with boots and mittens includ
ed. and was stiff as wet sailcloth,
while the native garments were soft
as a kid glove. A well made Eskimo
suit—socks and boots, underwear,
trousers and coat with hood—weighs
ten or eleven pounds, about as much
as your spring suit, and In It you
could sit comfortably on a block of
snow, with your back to the wind,
fishing through a hole in the ice. with
a temperature of 50 degrees F.. as the
writer has repeatedly done, feeling
cold nowhere but on the face, the
only part of the body that must be
left uncovered. We found a deerskin
shirt with the hair turned In warmer,
lighter and more comfortable than a
woolen, and a cap unnecessary when
the hooded coat Is worn. There was
not an Item of the arctic clothing that
was not advantageously replaced by
garments bought from the Eskimos.
No one wore garments of European
make If be was able to get his hands
on the Eskimo equivalent.—V. Stefans
son in Harper's Magazine.
“The ferocious wolf,” said a nature
student, “is the most perfect expres
sion of carnivorous bluodtbirst that
wulks. His Jaw Ts the most terrible of
weapons. Its slashing bite can break
the leg of a buffalo, and the noise of it
when at work in a sheepfold resembles
uotbiiig so much as tbe incessant
cracklug of a heavy whip.”
He took down u book.
“Here Is what tbe wolves of France
were like,” he said. “This Is a letter
from tbe famous Duchess of Orleans,
dated at Marly, Feb. 9. 1709:
“'Packs of wolves commit fearful
ravages. They have devoured the post
man of Alencon aud his horse. Two
of the beasts attacked a tradesman
near Mons, one springing at his throat.
In respouse to his shrieks two dra
goons who were walking by came to
his help. Oue drew his sword and ran
a wolf through the body, on which it
turned and seized its uew assailant by
the throat. His comrade came up and
beat the brute off, but not before It had
killed the man. Meuuwhile tlie other
wolf had seized the second dragoon
from behind and dragged bim down.
Finally when effective help arrived
both tbe soldiers aud oue wolf were
found dead. The other had got away
As for the tradesman, his leg was so
piteously torn that it had to be ampu
tated above the knee.’ ” — Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Whsrein
«
th« Writer Resembled
Man on th« Buoy.
I Carl says you told him‘a
fry about some Jewels yort
J you were a young lady,
^^^■tell it to me?"
“if you'll promise not to repeat it.”
^^^^Mtcss of Blumenstelu took
daughter on her lap and told
OPER, th« story.
"Twenty years ago," she said, “when
Jewels were very expensive, they were
much valged by those who could af-
'H a ». ford firn ttiisn. It was, I think. Io
poo that a young lady of the
whom we will call Bertha
ted one of the ladles In
to the empress. Her majesty
one of the rarest collections
In Europe, and Bertha was
MlH^taMBonslble for them. There
was a young man at court whom we
will call Maxi millan. He was of roy
al blood through his mother, but not
h his father.
r, Maximilian took very little ln-
M court matters. He was a
student always experimenting with
liquids that he poured into little glass
tubes and boiloil mid froze and did all
sorts of queer things with. It was
•boot Iffhl time that a new and funny
substance! was discovered called ra
dium. It had a sort of glow that nev
t -L aw er died pot. Maximilian took great
Interest in-radium and was constantly
•
n trying its glow on different other sub-
A CLEVER RUSE.
■0Urt
stances.
“One day Bertha—it was about two
Remember This When You Next Pur-
Rl
years after she had been appointed
chaso Costly Jewels.
lady in Hjnltlng—went to the vault
How Mr. Pierpont .Morgnu made bls
where the 'empress’ Jewels were kept
MEN OF EARLIER AGES.
millions would take volumes to relate,
lANfr an<*’ 10 •n<1 '’ehold, they were gone—
SPEAKING PLAINLY.
but uu amustug little artifice by menus
‘
that is, all except the diamonds, which Were They the Mental Peers of the
of which he succeeded iu saving $i,000
were tn a safe within the vault. She
Men of Today?
Tho Judge’s Request snd the Counsel's can be told within the brief space of
fainted, but soon recovered and went
Prompt Response.
The general Idea that our enormous
a couple of paragraphs.
•L aw out- 'ockedithe vault and sat down to
A young and afterward distinguished
Some years ago a Jewelry firm In
1 think what she should do. It was advances In science and command over
enough that the jewels had been taken nature Berve as demonstrations of our attorney from an up country district of New York scut the financier a fine
OkEGc: While under her care, but would she mental superiority to the men of ear New York state was arguing his first l>earl, offering It to him for $5,000.
uot be held responsible as the thief? lier ages Is totally unfounded. The appeal in the old general term of the This Mr. Morgan decided to purchase,
While she was In agony as to what evidence of history and of the earliest supreme court He had been in many and two checks were made out—oue
In tbe world she should do Maximilian monuments alike goes to Indicate that legal scrimmages In justices! .courts for $5.000 aud the other for $4,000. He
M j) was annomced. In a few minutes she our Intellectual and moral nature has at home, but had never stood In the then removed the pearl from Its box
was pouring her troubles into his ear. not advanced In any perceptible degree. awesome presence of five sedate and and, having substituted for it the $5,000
“Maximilian thought for a long while In the second place, we find that the learned judges of the supreme court check, resealed the package.
Mr. Morgan's clerk was next dis
5URC-: then told her to say nothing about the supposed great mental Inferiority of in general term assembled, His em-
theft All would depend upon the em savages is equally unfounded. The barrassment was great. He repeated patched to the Jeweler's with the sealed
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press not tailing for her lost gems more they are sympathetically studied himself and misplaced his words so box and a note containing the cheek
for some time Photographs of them the more they are found to resemble often that It was quite evident that he for $4,000, statlug that Mr. Morgan
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were kept that they might be Identl- ourselves In their Inherent Intellectual must soon be routed by his own con would be pleased to purchase the pearl
fusion unless something should occur If they would be satisfied with the
lh
fled in case of loss. Maximilian took powers.
Even the so long despised Australian to break the spell. Finally, and just check. The unsuspecting Jewelers—In
these photographs and told Bertha that
he was going to put tbe best detec- savages, almost the lowest In material as be was floundering the deepest in a Ignorance, of course, of what the sealed
tlve in Berlin on the track of the Jew progress, yet show by their complex chaotic jumble of language and ideas, package now contained—closed with
els. What I kre detectives? There are language, their social regulations and the presiding judge Interrupted with the astute financier's offer. And tbe
box in which the $5,000 check serenely
'H,
no such persons now. There used to often by an Innate nobility of char the following remark:
“Mr. Smithers, I believe it will be a reposed was returned to Mr. Morgan
be, but there were so many Ingenious acter indications of a very similar In
..„„..detective story tellers that they reveal- ner nature to our own. If they pos great relief to yourself and to the court unopened!—Pearson's.
-ed to the thieves all possible ways of sess fewer philosophers and moralists, if you will address us In the same free
The Queen Bumblebee.
tracing them, and the detectives ceased they are also free from so large a and informal way that you doubtless
The length of life of a queen bum
proportion of unbalanced minds—Idiots use In addressing your local Justice, of
Id & Ct I d be of use.
blebee Is probably little more than a
,e
“Well, Maximilian took two sets of and lunatics—as we possess. On the the peace.”
“Well, then,” replied Smithers, “I year at most. Here Is one reason for
photographs away with him, telling other hand, we find in the higher Pa
Bertha that if the gems were not called cific types men who, though savages wish that while I am busy alleviating this belief: She hatches among the
for for a month all would be well. as regards material progress, are yet your honor’s dense ignorance of the late broods of summer and soon after
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It happened that tbe empress was lu- generally admitted to be physically, in law you would keep your confounded leaves the nest, leading a vagabonj
’ disposed about that time and attended tellectually and morally our equals, if mouth shut!” The court laughed existence, night and day. among the
no state occasions, so she did not need not our superiors. » « • Thirdly, we heartily and waved for him to proceed. autumn flowers. The winter she passes
her Jewels.! Bertha was In an agony have no proof whatever that even the He grew eloquent and won his case In In an earth burrow dug by herself and
URGLat suspense Jor the thirty days; then men of the stone age were mentally or the midst of hearty applause.—Bohe unaided establishes a colony In the
spring. These combined periods of fall
one day Maximilian came to see her. morally Inferior to ourselves.—Alfred mian Magazine.
and spring require the daily use of her
When theyjwere alone he unrolled a Russel Wallace In Fortnightly Review.
frail wings in Uie field at least four
tiGL’/jarcel, and there were tbe gems.
Some of th« Trials of Writeis.
rrofessor Lounsbury of Yale calls at months. Now. we know that the wings
“Of course she was w ild to know how
A Curious Giraeo.
be had recovered them, aud to her as
The most curious form, or, rather, tention to some of the difficulties of of the worker honeybee wear out in
¡oniahment be told her that they were expression, of grace after meat which English grammar with which writers less than half that time; also that the
XOSS. xgt the original gems, but others he I have ever come across was that cus have constantly to struggle In their de old queens who take to the field after
tad manufactured. I will try and ex- tomary at Clifford's Inn, one of the sire to avoid obscurity and be correct the nest breaks up In August fre
jiain to yoa how be did It. He had vanished InnB of chancery. The soci at the same time. In Harper's Maga quently have tattered wings and soon
LR^'kotlced th«# that funny substance call- ety consisted of two distinct bodies, zine Professor Lounsbury takes up the disappear. Nature does not supply In-
id radium imparted to tbe little glass the principal and rules and the Kent use of “whose" as a relative pronoun sects with new wing cells as It sup
-Obe« ha une<l a beautiful blue. This ish mess, each body having Its own ta referring to Inanimate objects and jus pile» birds with new wing feathen
1 '' ed him to a new experiment. He took ble. At the conclusion of the dinner tifies its use Blnce nothing better can So the loss of the power of flight at
laBOoi.!ert«ta crystals of different hues, put the chairman of the Kentish mess, first be devised, He discusses the use of this season of the jear to the queue
hem away in the dark, and when, aft- bowing to the principal of the inn, the singular pronoun with the word bumblebee mean:: the loss of life.
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rvztlr Ctrl nF
hn rn took from the hands of the servitor “everybody," as in “There everybody
■r OAvmral
several BSfool-a
weeks, lira
be 1 looked
at ♦ them,
vhat d<
think? Why, the white some small rolls or loaves of bread met bls friends. »» ” This is manifestly 8oldi«rs' and Sailor»’ Bank Deposits.
It's odd the different sources of
become yellow topazes, and, without saying a word, dashed Inadequate, and "his or her friends” Is
als green emeralds, while them several times on the table, after clumsy. Jane Austen, writes the pro bank deposits,” remarked a bank of
stals had turned Into blue which they were taken away, Solemn fessor, avoided the difficulty by using ficial. “For example." he said, "we re
e had made the discovery silence relieved only by the thumps the plural pronoun, as In her sentence, celve thousands of dollars every year
led to the manufacture prevailed during this curious substl- “They say everybody is In love once from Cleveland, men in the army and
to be called precious tute for a verbal grace.—Cor. London in their Ilves.” He thinks no satisfac navy, The amounts range from #5 a
tory solution of this problem can. In month from privates to $30 or more
produce the gems shown Chronicle.
the nature of the case, ever be reached. from some of the officers.
aphs be had crystals cut
“Most of this is sent to us direct by
nals, then exposed them
Instinct and Reason.
the paymaster of the army or navy,
e of radium.
Instinct is the generic term for •11
A Fsast of Kisses.
a week after this that one those faculties of mind which lead to
“I once visited the little town of nal- as the case may lie. Just now we are
millionaires of America the performance of actions that are magen, In Roumanla,” said a strolling getting a lot of money from men In the
. At tbe same time came adaptive In character, but pursued player who used to wander into the navy on this cruise to the Pacific. The
cousin of the emperor. A without necessary knowledge of the re odd corners of the world, “but even I— paymaster ma'-es out a list of the
was given, tbe emperor lation between the means employed and my hair is getting a little thin, and various deposits and sends along .1
at it was for the prince- and the ends attained. Reason refers I wouldn't take first prize in a beauty check to cover the total amount. Th J.«
Was really for Jj>e big Amer- to those actions that are adaptive in contest—got enough kisses In one day the men draw their pay aud depo-i It
1 Tbe empress called for character and that are pursued with to last an average lifetime. It seems without ever seeing it. Their pass
; Bertha brought them to knowledge of the relation between the that Halmagen from time Immemorial books In a good many cases are left
¡her she nor any one else means employed and the ends aimed has had an annual festival, and on this right here.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
(key had been manufactured, at Such is the technical statement of day the population of about eighty vil
Despair.
girt of It was that the great the difference between Instinct and rea lages come swarming In. Every young
“What do you want o' tbe editor?"
| was a collector of all kinds son. but the real, basic difference be woman of the town, married or single,
Iles. through a medium, of tween the two faculties is unknown goes out on this dsy carrying a vessel asked the office buy, blocking up tbe
ipress five times the cost of and probably unknowable.—New York of wine and a small garland of flowers. doorway.
“1 have a manuscript poem.” satff"
• She sold them to him, and American.
To every visitor they offer a sup of
I them to an American mu-
wine and a kiss.”—St. Louis Republic. the long haired caller, “which I wish
to submit for bis Inspection.”
ly are really a curiosity,
Thackeray’s Pink Bonnets.
Tbe office boy closed tbe door, but re
Idn't know it. for they were
Thackeray was fond of putting pink
Compulsory Education.
appeared a moment iater.
Manufactured real gems, bonnets on such of bls lady characters
"I never thought him very bright,
“Nothin’ doin'. We ain't printin’ no
[there are millions of them, as were to be specially fascinating.
te they are cheap people The eternal Becky wore one, the but he certainly has a splendid educa- poetry now,” be said, slamming the
door In the caller’s fare.
them any more.
mushy Amelia wore one on her wed Uon.”
"Well, you see, he lost one of his
le Bertha suspected one of ding tour (very probably on her sec
"Bard out!” exclaimed the poet, tear
legs,
and
he
couldn't
go
Into
athletics,
ing bls balr.
I honor of stealing tbe lost ond one also), and the dashing Beatrix
so
he
just
had
to
study
at
college.
”
—
| girl finally confessed to also set off her besuty by this means -
“Chestnut!” yelled the boy over the
Houston Post.
partition. ‘Tve beard that ’un before.”
[returned them. This was Excbange.
—Chicago Tribune.
knufactured ones had gone
> Bertha consulted with
Awful Effects.
Too Much Port.
In Wethington.
•s to what they should do.
Acrid Ike—Dey say dat steady drip
Captain (to the man at the wheel)-
“I made a glaring error today.” sigh
elr return would make a pin' o’ water'll wear away a stone. Anotber point a port. quartermaster.
kndal and might create a Dreamy Pete—Jaa' t'lnk, den, wot’d Lady Paanenger-Goodness gracious! ed tbe cabinet lady.
t between Germany and happen t* a man's stomach by pourin’ That's the second pint of port be has
“How’s that?” Inquired the depart
I they said nothing about fffassfuls inter it.-Bohemian.
called for within a few mlnutea! How mental lady.
“I glared at a woman I should have
nried them."
those captains drink! — London Tele-
it became of Maximilian
Ignored completely.” — Louisville Cou
Quit« Useful.
graph
" asked the child.
"Rhe has a very useful husband "
rler Journal.
now tbe Count and Count-
“How do you make that oat?”
The Eternal Tip.
snsteln.”
An Inspiration.
"He can always suggest some thing
It la as foolish to attempt to stop
t's papa and yon."
Mrs. Knicker—Henry, why did
that he wants for dinner." — Detroit tipping as to oppose tb<* ocean tide.
child. Never «peak of ft Free Frees
Tips will never be suppressed
The leave your shoes on the stairs
I have been very Inca«*
word may be changed, but the th'og night? Knicker (dazed, but Inspired?—
you tbe «tor' "
A generous confession disarms slan will not disappear. It la so human to English custom, m'dear. Left ’em to
ELENEGR GE EGGS.
be blacked.-Puck.
der- French Proverb.
be generous -Paris Journal.
A HAPPY DRUMMER.
LAUGHTER ANALYZED.
H« Won th« Applause of th« Eccen-
trie Hana von Bulow.
Th« Observation« of • Man With ■
Sensitive Ear.
Ilans von Bulow, the famous leadei
aud composer, was one of the most
eccentric members of a profession
wherein eccentricity Is common. It In
related that one day, while walking the
streets of Vienna. Bulow came upon a
regimental band on Its way to tbe cas-
tie. Immediately he ran to tbe middle
of the street and Joined the small
boys about tbe drummer. Following
the band, be kept bowing to the sur
prised drummer, applauding him at
almost every beat.
“That Is rhythm! Excellent! That's
the way I like to hear It!" be continued
to ejaculate, to the surprise of all and
to the great delight of the small boys.
Persons lu the street began to recog
nlze tbe famous pianist and Joined the
procession, so that the band had one
of the largest audiences to which It
had ever played.
Bulow listened attentively to the end
of the last piece and then made a deep
bow before tbe drummer and his In
strument.
“Thank you,” he said. “That was re
freshing! That puts my nerves in good
condition again!”
It is said that when the drummer
learned who bls strange admirer wa
be was the proudest man in the regl
ment.—St. Louis Republic.
"Of course you have heard,” said the
man with a sensitive ear. “a laugh
that Jarred. I don't mean,” he contin
ued. "so much a laugh at an inoppor
tune time—I imaglue we have all beard
such laughs- as a laugh the quality of
which is unpleasaut. There Is some
thing contagious in laughter of the
right kind, even though you may be
the object of It. It bubbles from the
well of good humer. There Is no hid
den thought, or 'arriéré pensee.' as the
French say. behind It It is the es
sence of frankness; it is spontaneous
and whole sou led, and it cleanses the
system of the laughter and. too, of the
hearer, like a spiritual bath.
"But there are other kinds of laugh
ter. The sneering laugh Is perhaps the
most familiar. Then there Is a quiet
laugh, a sibilant, secretive sort of laugh
that Is quite as certain to mean mis
chief. Another laugh, disagreeable In
Its nature, is tbe high pitched, nervous
eachinnation that comes either from em
barrassment or is a mere vocal habit
The worst laugh of all, however, to
my mind, is that mirthless sound pro
voked by the distress or embarrass
ment of others, and It rasps naturally
most of all the object calling it forth.
A person laughed at and hurt never
forgets the experience.” — New York
Press.
TESTING HIS TONGUE.
The Unhappy Experience of a Young
Married Woman.
A young married woman In Brooklyn
suspected that her husband was in
dulging In wine. She determined, how
ever. to say nothing till she had con
firmed her suspicions. In conversation
with her bosom friend she said she
would give anything to discover the
truth. The friend mentioned that a
man even slightly Intoxicated cannot
pronounce words of length. This gave
the young wife an Idea, which she pro
ceeded to put Into execution.
When the young women met again,
the suspicious wife announced that the
worst had been ascertained. She burst
into toirs and took from her hand bag
a paper, which she handed to her
friend.
"I gave him this," she sobbed.
The friend read from the list the fol-
lowing words: “Philoprogenitiveness,
disproportions bleness, pseudaestliesla,
phthisis, parachronism, hypochondria
sis. photochromy, syncntegorematic."
“And,” added the unhappy wife, with
a fresh sob, “the wretch missed nearly
all of them!”—New York Tribune.
In a French Chateau In Winter.
It Is not all bliss to lie Invited to ■
French chateau In midwinter, no mat
ter how distinguished the host or bow
romantic and artistic the domicile. At
least It Isn’t for the steam heated Bos
tonian, lapped In the luxury of sum
mer warmth. A visitor to a dlstract-
lngly lovely abode near Fontainebleau
says be put In twenty-four hours of
physical anguish there and simply
came away wondering how bls hosts
endured the arctic temperature of the
rooms. "If I meant to live In foreign
lands,” says this shivering person, “I
would go through the chilling process
which Inures human flesh and blood In
France. What do these people do to
render the blood In their veins to
course like fire and act like an eternal
furnace?” That’s a question Ameri
cans abroad might well like to have
answered.—Boston Herald.
HUMAN LOVE.
Th« On« Joyous Impulse That Rules
th« Whol« Wide World.
There lives somewhere in the depths
of every human heart the divine spark
that we call love. It Is tbe voice of tbe
universe slumbering in Its narrow cell
to be awakened by a whisper or to cry
out in dear desire and hear tbe echo
ing answer from another soul. With
out it life would be a pale, relentless
episode. Without Its quickening force
no temples would be reared by human
bands, yet hovels wherein it dwells be
come more glorious than palaces. Am
bition, fame and fortune are its slaves.
It chains the mind In sweet imprison
ment. makes credulity a guardian queen
and lulls suspicion to repose.
No censorship of right or wrong can
light the way of love. It walks In
pathways all its own. It laughs at
reason and dispels despair. It Is the
lisping word of children, the puzzle of
philosophers, the talisman of rulers. It
is the first and last of life—murmured
at the cradle, cherished st the grave.
It is the rainbow after tears, the cure
for every sorrow, the one Joyous im
pulse that rules the whole Wide world.
—Wade Mountfortt in Era Magazine.
Th« Instinct of Design.
When a Japanese caunot mold tbe
shape of an object, when be cannot re
deem it by a design, when, In fact, be
has no control over Its creation at all,
but it Is placed In his hands as it is,
finished, says tbe author of "Kake
mono," he will still contrive to add
beauty to it merely by arrangement.
“I first noticed this on board tbe
steamer going out,” says Mr. Edwards,
“where the Japanese boy arranged the
extra blanket on the berth in a new de
sign each day. He folded it into lotus
leaves aud chrysanthemums. Into half
opened fans and half shut buds. He
had one wonderful arrangement which,
being patriotic, was more often repeat
ed than the rest. The blankets of tbe
steamship company had at top and bot
tom two wavy red lines on a white
ground. By some wonderful twist of
his fingers the boy would fold that
Heat of th« Sun.
It has been computed that the tem- blanket Into tbe rising sun, with the
perature of the surface of the son four red lines coming out of It like
would be expressed by 1S.000 degrees blood red rays. He did It so perfectly
of Fahrenheit's thermometer, or be that I recognized the flag of Japan tho
tween eighty and ninety times the tem moment I saw It.”—Youth's Compan
perature of boiling water. This Is ion.
about five times the highest tempera
Resigned Too 8oon.
ture that man is able to produce by ar
One Missouri lieutenant governor
tificial means. The light given off from
missed tbe governorship because be
the surface of the sun la reckoned as
resigned too soon. When Frederick
being 5.300 times more Intense than
Bates was elected governor, there was
that of the molten metal In a Bessemer
chosen for lieutenant governor on the
converter, though that is of an almoat
same ticket Benjamin H. Rives of
blinding brilliancy. If we compare It
Howard county. Mr. Rives held office
with oxyhydrogeu flame, the sun sheds
a dew months and resigned. Shortly
a light equal to 140 times file intensity
after his resignation Governor Bates
of the limelight.
died, and there being no lieutenant gov
ernor tbe succession fell to the presl
Children'« Favorite Toy«.
dent of tbe state senate, Abraham J.
A hundred and thlrty-two schoolboys Williams of Boone county, who served
of Paris and seventy-two girls were In for some six months as governor of
vited to describe their preference« In Missouri. Governor Williams was a
tbe way of toys. Among tbe former preacher, a sboemaket and had on«
thirty-one voted for a railway train, wooden leg.—Kansas City Star.
twenty-three for tin soldiers, ten for
steam engines, nine for building bricks
Isolated Qreeoe.
and eight for toy typewriters and me
Greece Is an isolated country of 25,-
chanical horses. Forty girls—a solid 941 square mile« that support« a popu
majority—declared without hesitation lation of some 2.500,000 people. It has
that a doll was superior to any other no railroad connection with any other
Implement of recreation. The super- country, and. being cut off from tbe
child seems, happily, a long way off.— rest of Europe by tbe mountain« of
Call Mall Gazette.
Turkish Macedonia on the north, all
commerce Is by sea. Tbe principal
Nspolson as a Rsadsr.
porta are Plraeua (the port for Athens),
Napoleon was a render—persistent, Patras and Volo on tbe mainland and
omnivorous. Indefatigable.
By the the Island porta of Ryrn and Corfu.
camp fire and In bls traveling carriage. The Greeks probably number ail told
In bls temporary staff office or his own 8,000.000. of whom about 4,000,000 are
bedroom his favorite volumes were In Turkey.
ever kept within easy reach.—Reader
Magazine.
Wall Tested.
"It seems to me that I have beard
Now and Thon.
most of tbe Ideas advanced In your
She-You love me. then? He—I love speech before.”
you now. She—Ab, well! I suppose U
“That," said Senator Sorghum, “mere
a woman can get a man to love her ly goes to show'that they are good
now and then she should be contented? Meas, which will stand wear and tear.”
—Fair Journal.
Washington Star.
Vary Censidtrst«.
A Reversal.
He—Did you tell your father, darling?
"What will happen when women
Rhe- I told him I was engaged, dear, rule?”
but not to whom. He la not well, and
"Among other things. I presume fa
I thought I would break it to bim grad ther In law Jokes will come Into style."
ually. Life.
—Lontkvllle Courier Journal.
Cenaure or praise cannot affect a man
In tbe long run the best way to make
money backing horses is to driva a who knows himself correct. — Balllmora
cart on a dump.
J American.