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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, APRIL 2. 19C_g^ A TARDY RECOGNITION. I Did H« R«fu»<? misfortune to lose my father, who dur They were alone In the conservatory. ing the last year of bls life resided with my uncle, wbo directed then a He turned to her. Hl» voice was low. I school preparing for L'Ecole Polytech I but passionate "You know.” he «aid. “why 1 have nique. The students, the youngest of whom was twice my age. loved me asked you to come here. Will you be very mucb. and 1 was happy in tbelr my wife?" She looked at blm Intently. midst. 1 was assiduous at tbelr recrea "No,” she answered, and she uttered tions and often followed them to their classes. The teachers regarded me the monosyllable as If she loved IL No doubt she expected blm to reel wltb astonishment, but paid little at tention to me. The students observed and clutch at something, but he did Passenger« Oft.nbmei Vanish Dunng He Was Not Only One of the Greatest that I understood the work, and when nothing of the sort. "Very well,” be briskly said. "That s I a Voyage to Find a Grave Beneath Mental Calculators on Record, but a demonstration appeared difficult the know. Shall we go lu all I want to the Waves—A Bibulous Man's Lei He Wat a Gifted Mathematician. first one wbo noticed me would run after me. take me up In bls arms and. and finish our dance?” Dass’s Marvelous Mental Work. surely Swim In Midocean. She stared at him In wonder. placing me on a chair so that I could "Are—aren't you hurt by my refusal? “Queer things continually happen When scarcely three years old Gauss, reach the blackboard, make' me repeat Don’t you intend to do something des during a voyage. ” said a veteran purser according to an anecdote told by him tbe demonstration.” At the age of sixteen he entered perate?" self. followed mentally a calculation “Desperate? Certainly not—unless of an Atlantic liner. L'Ecole Polytechnique, and as tbe ex -As you are probably aware, almost of ills lather's relative in regard to the aminer knew that be bad already pass you call tackling the lobster salad des wages of »orne workmen who were the commonest occurrence during a ed the examination for the doctor's de perate.” mysterious and suddeu to be paid for overtime In proportion to gree In science he gave him some very Her pride was sorely wounded. She voyage Is L the — — w . Seven their regular wages, and. detecting a difficult questions. From one of tbe had meant to hurt him. It would have disappearance of - a passenger. mistake lu the account, be called out. answers It appeared that Bertrand bad been a proof of her jsjwer. Now she times has this happened while I have •’Father, the reckoning is wrong: it never opened a table of logarithms. hungered for revenge. There was only been following my profession, and in makes so much.” naming the exact The examiner cowwTTTered this answer one way to get even with him. no single instance have we been able "George," »he said. "I have reconsid to satisfactorily account for tbe miss amount. The calculations were repeat an Impertinence, but gave him tbe ed. and It turned out that the child highest grade. At L’Ecole Polytech ered my decision. I will be your wife.” ing traveler. Most of them, of course And the two scrawny rubber plants was correct, while all Who witnessed nique Bertrand says that be was s we put down to suicide, but I feel the performance were greatly surpris problem for bls companions. He al and tbe three yellow palms quivered bound to say that I think In some In ed. He retained an extraordinary ways received the highest grades, but wltb suppressed laughter.—Cleveland stances we have been wrong. Now. ability for mental calculations through he was Ignorant of some the simplest Plain Dealer. here Is a case in point. Six years ago out life and remembered the first few things. For Instance, be did not know we had on board a young Australian, what words were called adverbs, as be The Lace Dressers. decimals of the logarithms of all num Lace dressing has been considered a a handsome, well set up fellow, who ts-rs. so that he was able to use the had never prepared a lesson in litera necessarily unbealthful occupation on seemed to have uioee money than data of a logarithmic table In bls men ture or in science. Bertrand’» extraordinary youth gave account of the Intense beat required to would satisfy his wants and who told tai calculations, and hence he possess cd a mental slide rule—a unique pos rise to many marvelous stories. Fortu be maintained In the room. In some me himself that he was going to the nately he wrote a brief account of his cases the temperature exceeds 100 de states to marry the prettiest and sweet session. Gauss was not only one of the great early life when he was elected In 1884 grees F. and mucb moisture is evapo est girl in all Pennsylvania. “He was the brightest fellow on est mental calculators on record, but to the French academy: hence we bave rated from tbe wet fabric. The evi he excelled equally In all branches of a more reliable sketch of this Infant dence brought forth at a recent Inves board, sang well, played well, was ex pure and applied mutbematlcs. At tbe prodigy than Is possible to obtain in tigation In England, however, shows It pert at all kinds of sport and a general age of twenty he discovered the first most other cases—for instance, in the to be an exceedingly healthful pursuit. favorite with every one. He had a rigorous proof of the fundamental case of bls countryman. Pascal. The New workers are often temporarily up cabin on the lower deck, a tine big theorem of algebra, which affirms that facts that Bertrand was permanent sec- set at tbe beginning by the high tem room, where I smoked many a cigar ary of the Academy of Sciences for perature, but no cases could lie found with him. Well, on the fifth day out every algebraic equation has as many retai ■re than a quarter of a century, that where health had broken down. On he didn't come on deck. People asked roots as Its degree, and at the age of moi. twenty-four lie published his great he Is tbe author of many theorems re the contrary, some ailments—colds, for where he was, and the general impres work on the theory of numbers under lating to modern mathematical sub instance—were found less prevalent sion seemed to be that he had been up the title "Dlsqulsitiones Arltbmetlcae.” jects and that he lived so recently add among lace dressers than among the rather late the night before and was Later In life he turned bls attention interest to the account of his marvelous workers in other branches of the in doubtless taking a few extra minutes dustry. Time keepers’ books showed between the sheets. But about noon principally to applied mathematics, es early education.—Scientific American. few absences from illness. No special the liedroom steward came to me aud pecially to astronomy and geodesy, tendency toward lung diseases could stated that he couldn't get In No. 27- ami he Is generally regarded as the be found, notwithstanding that most of the stateroom occupied by the popular Inst ot the great mathematicians wbo were pre eminent In nearly nil brunches How a Brave Boy Helped to Save the tbe workers lived lu poor and Insani traveler. No one could get any re- tary localities and led Irregular Ilves spouse, so we sent for the carpenter, of mathematical knowledge of his day. Indian Empire. Many lace dressers now enjoy vigorous Tbe door was smashed in, and the While Gauss was both a great men Not all tbe courage of war is expend tal calculator and a groat mathemati ed on the battlefield. A boy once per old age after doing this work from room was found to be empty. The portholes were wide open, and all we cian and was a real mathematical prod formed a deed which contributed great childhood.—Indianapolis News. could assume was that he had crept lgy, we proceed to consider several ly to save tbe Indian empire. At tbe out of one of these and met with a Th» D»af and Dumb. who were merely arithmetical prodi time, in 1857, he was a mere lad em In early times It was an opinion, watery grave. Reason? We never dis gies and seemed to have very little ployed as an assistant in tbe telegraph g nerul mathematical anility. The service. His name was W. Brendlsh. maintained even by philosophers, that covered any. but my belief Is that be greatest of these Is Imse. who was and be sent at the risk of bls life a the education of the d-af and dumb acted in his sleep. He was too happy born at Hamburg In 1824 and “seems dispatch from Delhi to Umballa which was Impossible. It was then believed a man to take his own life. "On another occasion two ladles. 818- to have been little more than a human bore the first news of the outbreak, that language could be acquired only calculating machine, able to carry on This message, repeated to every town through the medium of the ear, as ters. disappeared. Both were charm ing and pretty, though some of the enormous calculations In his head, but which could lee reached, proved of shown by the couplet of Lucretius- nearly Incapable of understanding the priceless value. Colonel Edward Vi- To Instruct th« deaf no art could ever passengers afterward remarked that reach, they usually seemed somewhat sad principles of mathematics and of very bart in his “Sepoy Mutiny" tells tbe No care Improv« them and no wisdom and preoccupied. I had often con limited ability outside bls chosen story of bow. to quote the Judicial com teach. field.” His extraordinary ability In missioner of the Punjab, “the electric The first mention of Instruction for versed with them and regarded them mental calculation Is evidenced by the telegraph saved India.” the deaf and dumb Is found In Bede. as the most attractive women on fact that lie was able to multiply men It was the custom to close the tele A. D. t>85. No other case Is met with board. Tbe night before we docked tally two numbers, each of which con graph offices on Sunday between the for some centuries. Rudolfus Agríc was a beautiful one. though Intensely tallied UK) figures, it took him eight hours of 9 and 4. On May 10. 1857. ola of Heidelberg makes mention of dark, and It was evidently on this and three-quarters hour» to perform as the operator at Delhi was about to an educated deaf mute In bls “Dialéc night that they left the ship. No one this feat, which stands In a class by close hla station he received a message tica." 1480. It was not until 1020 that saw them after 10 o’clock. The look Itself, as no other arithmetical prodigy from the Meerut office announcing an Instruction for tbe deaf and dumb be out reported nothing. No splash was Is known to have lieen able to multiply uprising tn that section. At 4 o'clock, gan to be general. -New York Amer heard, no cry. But lu the morning mentally two numbers each consisting when the office was reopened, connec ican. they had vanished as silently and mys of more than thirty-nine figures. Two tions with Meerut were found to be teriously as the darkness, leaving no forty-figure numbers Dase was able Interrupted. word behind. Frederick the Great. to multiply In forty minutes, while he “A strange thing happened once The telegraph force at Delhi consist Frederick William I.. fa:her of Fred would multiply two elglit-tiguie num ed of the chief and two young asaist- erick the Great, was a most brutal old when we were two days from New hers lu less than one mluute. ants. Brendlsh and rtlklngton. The fellow, treating bls son almost as badly York barlwr. There was an American What Is most surprising about this office was situated outside of the city as they treat the exiles In Siberia. Un on board wbo seemed to possess many greatest calculator on record is that he about a mile from the gates. able to endure such barbarity on the friends and who apparently was ex was stupid In mathematics, retersen On discovering the break tn tbe part of bls father, Frederick resolved tremely popular. He spent half his Is said to have tried In vuln for six nectlons the chief sent tbe two to run away and seek refuge at the lime In the smoking room, standing weeks to get tbe first elements of to test the cable across the river. They court of his uncle. George II. of Eng drinks to any one and every one and mathematics Into his head, and other found that they could signal to Delhi, land. Ready to assist blm In bls at Imbibing rather more than was good eminent mathematicians found that be but not to Meerut, and reported the tempt were his two young friends. for himself. Well, almut 4 o'clock In had very little mathematical ability fact on their return. It was too late Lieutenants Katte and Keith. By the lb- afternoon he was with several Fortunately he was advised by some to do anything that night, but the next Imprudence of Katte the secret was other men ou the promenade deck—the of the leading mathematicians of bls morning Mr. Todd, the chief, went out found out. and Frederick was placed weather was glorious and the sen with day to turn bls extraordinary ability himself to Investigate the line. He nnder arrest. Keith escaped, but Katte scarcely a rlpple-when. throwing off to scientific uses Instead of going never returned, and. although his fate was tried by court martial, sentenced his coat, he exelaimed, 'Here goes for around the country giving public exbl- la unknown, there is little doubt that to death and executed. Frederick also a swim!’ and disappeared over the Idtlons. n career upon which be bad be was murdered. was sentenced to death and would side. entered at the age of fifteen. He cal The office was thus left In charge of have been shot but for the earnest ex- “There was a yell which almost put culatad many useful tables and was tbe two Inds. Signs of trouble began postulations of the kings of Sweden the wireless out of business, and the __ engaged on an extensive factor table to be evident close at hand. Brendlsh. and Poland. captain, who had witnessed the affair. st the time of Ills death. Tlie ease and stepping from the door, met a wounded Stopped the ship almost In her own speed with which he could count the officer, who cried out to him, “For length. Boats were lowered, and will A Powerful Combination. numbers of Ixsika in a case, the num God's sake get inside and close your Tim was a protege of Mr. Blank, a ing arms pulled to where the man was ber of sheep In a herd, etc., were al doors!” well known Boston lawyer. He was supposed to be fightlug for bis life. most more surprising that his extruor The revolt crept doser and closer often In trouble, but by personal Influ Instead of any struggle, however.' he dlnary ability as a mental calculator. The boys felt that their Ilves were In ence with the courts Mr. Blank man was taking long, easy strokes and evi Another well known mental calcula danger Roon they became sure of It. aged to have him let down easy, no It dently thoroughly enjoying hhuself. tor. having eieu less mathematical But before they fled to a place of com became a matter of talk, the Green When pulled into one of the twats he ability than Hase, is Buxton, who re- parative safety they waited to send out Bag says, that he did not suffer greatly ejaculated the single word. 'Grand!1 nmlred Illiterate through life, although to tbe Indian world tbe new» of tbe tn being arrested. and almost immediately fell Into a his fa'her had some education, lie had revolt. “How Is It. Tim." some one asked kind of comatose state. He was put a wonderful memory for uumliers uud Brendlsh ticked out the message one day. “that you are arrested very to bed In hot blankets and soon re could call off long numbers from right which caused Sir Edward to say: often, but never go to Jail or pay any covered. After an interview with the to left or from left to right with equal "Ixtok at the courage and sense of fines ?" captain he was allowed hla liberty, facility. On one occasion lie squared that little boy! With shot falling all ’Tt’a Just thia way." Tim replied. “I though a strict watch was kept on mentally a thirty-nine figure numtier round him. he stayed to manipulate have Mr. Blank for me lawyer, anl him during the rest of the voyage. In two and a half months He Ax as ex the message that waa ths means of what he doesn't know about the law I “A tragic occurrence took place about tremely slow and In thia respect re saving the runjab.” tells him." four years ago, the facts of which you aei'ibled a negro of the name of The government rewarded Brendlsh Will perhaps recall. It was during a Tom Fuller, who Is known as the Vir for hla services by giving blm ■ Ufa Didn’t Want te Bs Left. voj age east, and we had among the ginia calculator. Although entirely II pension, and as an old man be died In Mias Vere— Mr. Desmond, why did ■econd cabin passengers a widow and literate, he was able to reduce mentally the India be had helped to preserve. i you go to the dining doom before you her three young children-two boys years and months to seconds and codld greeted tbe hostess? Mr Desmond- snd a girl. The woman appeared to tie multiply tw o nine figure nnmhers. Fans In ths Eighteenth Century. Well. tbe hostess will keep, but the re much depressed, though the youngsters Darboux has called attention to an A letter In the Ixtndon Spectator freshments seemed to be getting away. were as lively and merry as chl:d-en Infant prodigy. Joseph Bertrand was dated May. 1711. give» a moat Interest —London Telegraph. gonsrally are on board. The woman. It horn In Faris In 1822 and was such a ing description of an academy where a'lpears, spoke to n me of the other pis- delicate child that his parents did not ladle« could be drilled In tbe proper Water. sengers. and for her aloofness she was expect him to aril,«' at manh.sxi. and u«e of their fans and Initiated Into tbe "Water." said tbe scientific person. regarded with some suspicion. How hence his early education was partly mysteries of “the angry flutter, tbe ’Ta IPO " ever. she was very quiet and. as she neglected. At the age of four he was m<s1e«t flutter, tbe timorous flutter, the •’Tea.” answered Dustin Stax as be appeared to be reading .'1 day not »lek for a long time and overheard the confused flutter, tbe merry flutter and laid aside tbe market report, “some of much notice w»» taken of her. lessons which were given hl« brother the amorous flntter." In tbe eighteenth It Is snd a great deal of it I. O. t’."— "One morning she was stand'ng with In the same room, He knew the let- century at danctng aseemblle« In IxMk- Washington Star. hre children, looking ro-er tbe side of ters of the alphabet. but nothing more. don. Bath and other places of fashion ' WhM’’ no ’«rnlng. she When he was convalescent his parents able resort gentlemen chose tbelr part Answer. snd.lenlr tossed them, one after the brought him s book to look at the pic ners by “lottery of tbe fan.” Tbe fans Rprtggine I can always tell wb*n I • 'nto the sea and Immedla’elv fol- tures and he relates In bls account of of all tbe ladles present wees placed in am at my office whether It I» a bill col- StH . h'n*lt “ *" <•» hla childhood that he rememlicrs dis a bat. whence each gentleman bad tbe lector or a client that touches my elec •xpedltlon.ly tnd quietly that tbore tlnctly how he shocked his parents by privilege of «electing one. tbe lady to tric bell. Hlggtn» You can? Sprig, who mw the tragedy were for a few reading tbe text fluently His fright whom It belonged becoming hla allotted gin»- Yeo: no clients ever come.--Bom eiied father snatched the book from partner for the evening. Of cooree erville JonrnaL The ship was «topped |n re..ori1 „ him snd commanded that under no pre «»ch a cnstom entailed a great study tot bn* ->n»r- text should he be allowed to do any of fan« on the part of tbe gentlemen ' The Tattlers. XlM. ■" 'hratgh some In- work Roawell. Steele and Pope found some Billing» A man never learns to real re t«T7 'bpm The manner In which he learned ele thing tn My about the fan. and Olj,j ly know bls wife nnttl after they are Af Arter tiro . hn. * m th* rnr 80nrrn wag riren mentary algebra and elementary geom enlarging open tbe efforte nf hl« peed» married, no matter how long they may nP and the fh^ etry Is still more extraordinary We ceoaors, wrote s long poem In praloa of have been engaged. Darrow—You're Another secret had heen hequeathed to reproduce hla own account tbe fan. attributing Its Invention to wrong there Rometime« the girls have At the Mrs of nine I had the great Venus | lift!« brothers Some Wonderful Feats of Boys Who Became Famous. Queer Things That Happen on Atlantic Liners. GAUSS WAS A RARE GENIUS. THE LURE OF THE DEEP SEA. THE DEED OF A HERO. I I I Th. Ab-ntmin^ Arsi.««»; and Most Intelligent Woman. It was I a Fontaine, the fable writer, whom blsson's absence during sever.1 years in pursuit of an nation quite forgot him aud was not remmded of his existence until a frieml arranged a surprise meeting The father was pleased with the manners and wit of tbe young man presented to him. but failed to recog nize him and as soon as they parted promptly forgot him again. La Fontaine was a genius and a kindly man. but one can hardly dis sever absentmindeduess of such a sort from shallow heartedness. Neverthe less In the case of Professor, let us say. Jones, who failed to recognize h » daughter after a year's separation, the bond of affection was both strong aud d Mary his only daughter, married and went abroad with her busband. Their return was a week or two before the date appointed, and owing to a series of misunderstandings and errors the professor was not Informed, was not at home when they arrived and met them first at tbe house of a neighbor, where they bad gone to Inquire about Whar« Idols Are Eat«», At certain seasons iu sotn, ludia it 1» the duty of tvtrr * person to eat a special sort ot lioiiery. Every confectioner in oer. for instance, has a poi« about in feet high at his door, and to nailed a great book about a foot |«J aud thick in proportion. oD oot ¿J of this is » brisk fire, with a bui earthen pan on It. Before the man may be seen sitting, for not»/ stands when be can sit. with a kind » wooden ladle, and with this be brisk stirs a quautity of bubbling, biack looking sugar till It liecu01e, tough. Be then scrapes It Gtgathw and put» it on a piece of board to cm a little, aud then, getting up and d«. teroualy throwing It on tbe larg« book he begins to pull out the tough tub stance. He draws It out to th« l«U(tk of four or five feet at a time aud tbm«i •t back and elongate» It again, and ro ■e manipulate« It till tbe mass becooq a» white as «now. This composltloa m treated la manufactured in all aorta of sacred form«—figures of little Idolamd gods—and l> e" gerly* bought for sumption.—Strand Magazine. Ink Frose on ths Psn. Tlie wlnt .r of 1(183-4 tu Europe mi ■old* its place as one of tbe most «■ ere and reiuarkuble ou record. So remendous was tbe cold that tm» him. .. _ pill asunder wltb deafening repom. A reception was In progress there, he strangest sight of all was on the and he arrived some time after them 'humes. Here on more than a foot as a guest aud still unaware of their □ Ickness of Ice a thoroughgoing toro return. Strolling Into his friend's li if streets was erected There rrro brary. away from the crowd, he be lallors' shops, butchers' shops, tobu- came aware, as he was Inspecting the onlsts. printers and. Indeed, mauretk- books, of some ladies In conversation •r businesses all lielng carried on all on the other side of a portiere, one of hey had stood there for years. whom displayed an astonishing amount Writing anywhere but uear a lirp of knowledge of his own particular lire w as 1. possible, as the Ink froze la hobby. He was surprised aud de pot and on tbe pen. wbole barrel! ot lighted. liquids were froren solid and wine wu "There's a lady In the next room old In one pound blocks New brpil you must positively present me to,” he >n being taken out of the oven «obld said eagerly to his host, who had Join Immediately stlffeu and become Mild ed him—“a most Intelligent woman! here were hundreds of death! frout She's been talking of tbe prehistoric he cold, and throughout tbe frost th« races In a surprisingly discriminating uoor suffered miserably. — i’eaiMu'i manner. Who is she ?” Weekly. "A Mrs. Smith, I believe,” replied the host, much amused, sluce he knew Liitle Great Men. who the lady was. "Come—I will pre A Chiuei c v. ho had long studied the sent you now." -.vorka of Confucius. who knew the They passed the curtain, and the pro liaruc.ers of 14.000 words and could fessor. who had failed to connect the read u gr at part of every book Ulti name of Mrs. Smith with bis Mary, ■ame In his way once took It Into Uli was duly introduced, for the ladles had head to travel luto Eurojie. l'|>on bls overheard Ills inquiry aud the reply arrival at Amsterdam hts passion for and were disposed to keep up the joke. letters naturally led him to a book Peering shortsightedly through bls big seller's shop, uud as he could speak t glasses, which, by his usual mistake, little Dutch he civilly asked the Iwiok- were his reading glasses when they seller for the works of the lumiortil should have been his object glasses, he Xlxofou. Tbe bookseller assured hla did not recognize Mary when be saw he had never heard the book mention her, and tbe father and d lugliter actu ed before. "Alaa,” cried our traveler, ally opened a conversation on prehis ■to what purpose, then, has he fasted toric man and carried It on for several o death to gain a renowu which bu minutes before the strain proved, too ¡ever traveled beyond tbe precinct» of much. I'hlua?" There Is scarce a village 1» Then tbe listeners broke down in Europe and not one University that 1» Inughter. and Mary, with a cry that she not thus furnished with Its little great could not keep It up any longer, caught men.—Oliver Goldsmith. the old gentleman around the neck and kissed him. First American Play. "Bless my soul, Mrs. Smith!” he The first play written by an Ameri gasped, bewildered. "Why— Mary!”— can produced in this country, according Youth's Companion. to the Philadelphia Public I-edger. wu the tragedy. ”Tbe Prince of Parthta." Reticence or Ignorance? by Thomas Godfrey, which wu The inhabitants of Chinese villages brought out at th« Southwark tbeatN are very Ignorant of the places In in the Quaker City in April. 1797. bf their own neighborhood, according to I-ewls Hallam’s company, the drat or an interview with W. J. Garnett, the guulzatlou of players to visit Phila third secretary of the British legation delphia. Godfrew was an ambition» at Peking, which the Manchester young poet, who died at an early age. Guardian prints. Mr. Garnett return His play was above mediocrity and an ed a little while ago from a journey Important purt of tbe volume of bi» through the provinces of Shantung works publlslied tn 1705. and Klangsu, and a s-ample of the conversation that took place when he A Un Far HI» Obituary. asked the way from one village to an A well meaning and cousclentlom other Is below: editor on being shown by the m*» "Is this the way to Tsouhseln?” most Interested that the death of tbe “Are you going to Tsouhseln?” commandant was falsely reported I" “Yes. Is this the way?” his pai»er. apologized profusely and of “Oh. you are going to Tsouhseln. are fered to make It all right. you? Where do you come from?” “We’ll print a correction at one«." b* “From Chiningchow. Please, Is this said. the way to Tsouhseln?" “Well." said tbe man wbo <»»>'• ‘Oh. you've come from Chiningchow. ■lead, “perhaps It w ould be better to Id have you? Are you going Into the city It stand I’ll show It to my friend» walls of Tsouhse'n?” when they want to borrow money." Finally the native would admit that he did not know the way to Tsouhseln. Painful Etiquette. At the entrance to another village an The royal court ot France used to be ancient villager was asked what the a great place for etiquette Louis XIV. name of the place was. After asking once caught a severe cold owing te In turn who Mr. Garnett was, where he the fact that on his arising from bi» had come from, where he was going l>ed oue cold morning tbe lord of tbe and why he wanted an Inn, he consid chain Iter, whose duty It was to band ered the original question when repeat him bls shirt, happened to be absent ed by the patient Inquirer and finally Not one of the numerous courtier» closed the conversation by saying: present had the courage to trangre* "How should I know? I 8m not a etiquette by banding tbe garment to learned man.” the shivering monarch.—London Scrap Book. Whin Children Went to War. Among other Improvements In the Indifferent. «rt of war as attained by the world In “I can't give you an opinion on these later days is the abolition of the question.” the statesman replied. ”1» practice of sending children to sea as cause it’s a question I pay no attention was the case when the midshipmen of to. I am Indifferent to It—a» Indiffer wre ¿'“‘r of EnKlan<l often ent as the backsw-oodsman! *“*■ Tn °f l“S" th"n fn’«een years, That lady, yon know, looked on wblw renm J?”' °f nuffer,n and A”» I" her busband bad a fierce hand to ban in thir^“1 ,he ’leM of B,’“n"und. tussle with a bear, and afterward M from .T? Wh,<,h he wltne!”' said It was ’the only fight she Penelope, related saw where she didn't care wbo woa. h' Wb»7 f °ne °f ‘he*e ,UUe '«‘Hows: whoie’^S-ZTv?"^^ Going On. «■l.nt behavior of . ^)e ™ £ veer, n? Ch"*’- ,hlrt,*n °r fire tJsnT ’ th' ,lm,‘ when ‘h* romJTcX hOt ' hnpMn"5 A terrible noise of thumping stamping came from Bob’» room e»W one morning. "Bobby. Bobby." called hla mod* from downstair», "wbat 1» going up there?" "My shoe«," replied Bob Ono Drawback. Olive—Wbat an improvement It be If tbe time ever cornea when «vary body can get a seat In tbe afreet ca Violet—Ob. I don’t know. A girl ***" never be sure then that she was Prtn»’ —Puck. by more Illustrious he^eS this, howev.r . - roes- 8^?^’ Bo»n after Some children act as If " censtant surprise to them that ' parents bad tbe excellent taste ♦» them out— Nantucket InquB* Mirror. *
