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THE CASSOWARY.
A Peculiar Bird That Fishes With Its
Feathers.
GENERAL LEE.
Hi* Peraznil Influence and Hi*
Mió.
tary Prowess.
<>• the cormorant nnd of the
He Was a Cruelly and Malevo­ tisli Habits
In looking for tbe «ujurce of Lee's
hawk are generally known. Their
influence we have to go back,
lently Maligned Frenchman. tueihids of taking tisb are very much personal
like those of birds of prej\ But the I think, to the habit of inherited re-
,.. of
va the south
r„Uiu i
[leople
< assowary fishes according to a meth­ wpect wbkb the p:
to social ¡joaitivn it was not bora i
Loî A murderous monster od of Its owu. A A well
well kuown
known naturalist
naturalist paid
a feeling of subservience, however,
witnessed its operations
;
:„. js on
on * a river
river in
in of
for the poorest “vrucktr” bad an un­
tbe island of New Britain.
He saw a r --
-------
10 Had Matrimonial Miafortunaa, It
cassowary
come down to mistakable aud unself conscious dignity
I, True, but He Seems to Have Been the water's edge
'-e..* i~
and stand for some about bi»n. He always walked up to
y watching the wa­ and faced the bigbest with an air of
the Only One Who Came to Grief on minutes uiqiareutly
equality. No, this latent respect was a
ter carefully. I*
"
it theu
stepped Into the I
Account of Them—His Tragic End.
river where It t r
~zz about three feet natural response on tbe part of men of
was
manner* aud oft
The rniipos’^Ry detestable Bluebeard. deep and. partially squatting down, low estate to good manners
__ submerging i displayed sympathy. Lee by his con
Ku mi'iister of murderous polygamy, spread its wings out.
nection through birth and marriage
„eery name of the ogre into whose them, tbe feathers being spread and , with »be most distinguished and best
rutiled.
r,utb one used, if one could. In < hllil
The bird remained motionless and families of Virginia represented the
,«l's tappy hour, to throw India rub-
kept
Its eyes closed as if in sleep. It I superior class. Moreover, that be whs
yt lulls, was in trutb a limn wlm has
1 a Lee of Virginia and by marriage the
as c ruelly and malevolently ma- remained tn this position for a quarter I head of tbe Washington family had
¡pud by history ns Nero. Richard III., of nn hour. when, suddenly closing its from one end of the south to the other
j!,belli. tultl qiinntl. So says M wings mid straightening its feathers, it a weight which tbe present commer­
ptule France- i J prny who can stepped out on tbe liank. Here It shook cial, mammon worshiping age knows
pak with higher authority on the Itself several times, whereupon a quan­ or cares but little about.
Again, Nature in one of her moods
IM, facts of faery?—In “Ix>s Sept tity of small fishes fell out of its wings
from amid Its feathers. These tbe had made hiiu the balanced product in
femmes de la Bitrbe-Bleue et Autres nnd
liird immediately picked up aud swal­ manners and locks of the well bred
routes Mervellleux.’* One knew al- lowed.
land aristocratic traditions of the gen­
U t that Charles Perrault first wrote.
Tlie fishes had evidently mistaken
Laivut KWh the historical biography the feathers for a kind of weed that tleman transmitted and ingrafted at
Q Bluebeard, but one did not know grows in the water along the banks of an early age through the cavaliers into
fell now how deeply Perrault, prob- the rlvArs in tills island nnd which ’ Virginia life. But for his military
fey through false information, wroug- much resembles the feathers of the prowess be had something vastly more
Ljtbe memory of an excellent and ill cassowary. Tbe smaller Ashes hide in efficacious than ancestry or tilling the
toted personage. From M. France these weeds to avoid the larger ones mold of well bred traditions. He bad
the generative quality of simple, ef­
re learn that M. Bernard de Montra- that prey on them.—Exchange.
fective greatness—in other words, an
fej. of old and noble descent. Ilyed
unspotted, serenely lofty character
tKKO or thereabouts at the ancestral
whose qualities were reactive, reach­
THE MOON
ii'hateau Les Guillettes. on his estates
ing every private soldier and making
hrnveen Complegtie and Pierrefonds.
He castle, of frowning outward as- its Visual Size No Greater When ft it him unconsciously braver and better
High Than When It Is Low.
. as a man.—Morris Schaff in Atlautic.
yrt was Inside a treasure house of
The artist has to choose between sci­
Ute and wealth. Its owner, contrary
»ling existing tradition, wore no entific truth aud “convention" when
THE MISSING TURK.
«ni. only a mustache and a little he sets out to paint the moon. A three­
1ft below the lower lip. He was penny piece fixed at a distance of six An Incident In the Stage Career
Sarah Bernhardt.
i»wn through the countryside as feet from the eye (say at the end of a
i'wbeiird because Ills hair was verv horizontal six foot pole, the other end Sarah Beruliardt was once play!
IM. and therefore his close shaven of which is made to press the lower at Marseilles in a spectacular play in
freks and chili were markedly blue. edge of the eye socket» will Just cover which she made her eutree aecompa-
It was n flue figure of a man who. tlie disk of either the sun or the moon , nled by six Turkish slaves. A Hue ou
Dpite of his manifest advantages as hanging in the sky. It Is an absolute the program announced that these six
ir«d rn.it I), did not get on well with fact that this is true whether the I Turks would accompany Mme. Bern-
moon (or the sum be high in the sky ! hardt, but when the time came for
tmen of his own rank In life. This or
low down near the horizon.
them to go on one of the youngsters
»due loan Incurable shyness on Ids
The
real "visual size" of the moon's I had disappeared. Sarah mustered tbe
|Ut. Pleasant nml pretty girls who
bd been well brought up attracted disk is no greater when it is low than live in order aud made her entrance
when it is high. No one who reads
in Immensely, but also filled him what 1 have Just written will believe with a grand flourish. The house was
crowded, but not a handclap greeted
if’li an Indescribable terror.
me. Every one thinks that he knows
Tip first notable result of this af- that the disk of the harvest moon or of her as she appeared. Then a still, small
Ittion was that the unfortunate or- the setting sun occupies a larger space , voice in the gallery murmured some-
ban. for such he had been since his in the sky when low than when I thing in an indignant tone. Fifty
irl.t youth, incapable of making pro- high. This is due to a Judgment or voices immediately took up the strain,
sals for the hand of any of the at- meutal process and is an erroneous ! and In ten seconds more the whole
•rtire and high born ladies in the one. The eye Is not at fault, but the house was shouting the same phrase.
Bernhardt strained every uerve to
dgliliorhood. married a certain Co­ curiously untrustworthy mind is.
I catch what they were complaining
tt Passage, a fascinating girl In her
What. then. Is the painter to do? He
it. against whose character nothing I yields to prejudice and often paints about. She knew the phrase began
wis known, who was going round the low moon or low sun of a size with "Manque.” but tbe rest of it was
t country with a dauciug bear, which compared with scientific fact is lost in the general hubbub. For a full
lings went well enough for a few ridiculously exaggerated.—Sir E. Ray minute the tumult continued. Then
Sarah, muttering things below her
»ths. and then Colette, who had at Laukester in London Telegraph.
breath, rushed like a fury down to the
«t reveled in being a lady of qual-
footlights. In the front row the ac-
ibegau to long for her old freedom.
Her Choice.
! tress had spotted one man who was not
Monglng became irresistible, and at
They were sisters-in-law aud reason­
if sbe took her departure secretly ably well disposed toward each other. j taking part in the hullabaloo. Pointing
itb her justly beloved bear. It is One was the mother of George, aged ¡at hint, the actress exclaimed sternly:
to be the only sensible per-
teworthy that they made their es six months, and the other was the I “You seem house. Tell me tv bat on
t* bj way of a room that bad a door I mother of Marian, aged six months son in the are kicking up this rotv
•ding to what had been water aud four days. It was impossible that earth they
bdnws. and so to open country, a slight parental rivalry should be al­ for?”
Tbe man rose, bowed to the actress
mult called this room “le petit cub­ together concealed.
and remarked in very bad American-
it but ft was also known as “the
“Marian does not seem to grow very
“Madam, you are shy one
»'bed princesses' room." because fast.” said the mother of George, with French,
Turk."
Horentlne painter had covered its a suggestion of commiseration in her
•Ils with tlie most lifelike figures of tones. “George is much taller”—
Paris Actresses.
£e. Niobe and Procris. Tlie tragic (height being measured in inches).
It is a very usual thing for the Paris
Wt of these paintings was enhanced
“Perhaps he is,"refilled the mother hostess to engage actresses to per-
Itbe porphyry flooring of the room, of Marian coldly, "but Marian weighs form for her guests, and they, of
ilicb suggested bloodstains.
course. inIngle with these guests on
more.”
bwnragmix up|ieared inconsolable
"Oh. well,” responded the slster-ln- fairly equal terms during the rest of
disappearance, which was com- law. with a smile of high bred su­ the evening. But I know of very few
*• of Colette, his first wife, mid periority, “of course I should not wish Parisian society hostesses who would
•Wess his lot would have been far George to be gross.”—Exchange.
invite actresses to dinner. I am not
•ubappy if i,e i,.1(| uevi*r tried to
sure, either, that the actresses would
*le himself. This, most uufor-
A Frank Estimate.
accept such an invitation if they got
■Wy. be <ll<| by marrying one
To many persons who are not actors it. and I may add that it is an amus
de la <"o< lie. who turned out the stage seems a delightful and fas­ ing lesson in “equality aud fraternity"
* n violent dipsomaniac. Blue- cinating place, in a book called “The to bear Mme. la Marquise address au
•N was of a nature so kindly mid Actress" Louise Closser Hale, herself actress as "mademoiselle.” The tone
* tluit. although In a fit of mad an actress, tells some of her experi­ Is exquisitely polite, but it would
•i"n she nearly killed him with a ences with girls who envy her her pro­ freeze you ou the hottest day in sum­
J*“ knife. In- continually boiled to fession. One day oue of them from mer. And yet numbers of Paris ac­
Iler by kindness. But one day behind a counter in a shop said, “I tresses are married women and. If un­
’frayed into tl.;> generally shut up should have went on the stage."
married. essentially respectable. but
■vsses' room. took the painted fig-
“She evidently wanted to talk, and 1 the word "actress” is a label, and
'or real people mid was so terri- strove to be interested," says Miss Paris is a town of labels —M Raphael
■ that she rushed wildlv Into the Hale.
in London Strand Magazine.
" "elds, tumbled Into a deci» pool.
“But see bow tired I am.” 1 said to
■»’ was drow ned.
her. “I have to work very hard as it
Men and Women and Money-
things went on, a new affliction is. and I bad to work much harder to
Divide $500 between a boy and a
each new wife, and in each case gaiu what little recognition I have girl and start them on a vacation with
bual catastrophe was associated had.”
it, and the girl will go twice as far.
, 'be prim esses' room. The climax
“Oh, yes," she responded, compla­ . see ten times as much and come home
,
unhappy career of the more cently gazing at herself in a mirror. i with new clothes aud money in her
Wiiriby and lovable Bernard de "But, you see, I have talent.”
i purse. But the boy will lie dead broke
ragoux came with his seventh
I and have seen less. This Is the dif­
■ eanne de Lespoixse. cleverest
Dangers of Handwriting.
ference: A girl when out sightseeing
®ost fascinating of a family of
A young man Is bringing an action will live on crackers aud soda water,
T uiisi-rupnlous adventurers. No against a graphologist in Paris for and the boy will stuff himself with
lew anything about the aupposed substantial damages. A pretty heiress, three big meals a day. The same dif­
buslinnd of the mother. Of the to whom he was engaged to be mar­ ference is apparent when the boy and
^ rutla-rs. a dragoon and a musket- ried. showed a specimen of his hand­ girl are grown. Ever know that fa­
"Ue was a low rascal ami a mere writing to the graphologist and asked ther spends a lot ou eatlug when trav­
1^
0,ber lived on gaming nnd for Information. This Is the reply she eling and doesn't get to see as much
Rood nature of women to whom got: "If you should meet the man who as mother, who makes every time she
»la '' 1 °'
^nne- ths* sister, was wrote these lines upon your way misses a meal take her a few miles
lr’iallon of malicious cunning. through life avoid him. He is an ego­ farther?—Atchison Globe.
, «'*-•! with this precious family tist and a fool, has a bad temper and a
A Wonder of Science.
1» h
Chevalier de Merlus, despicable nature. The existence of
“”1 s great deal to do with the the woman who has the misfortune to
“I have been taking some moving
rag(.,|v t)f jj
Montragoux's marry him will be a Calvary.” The pictures of life on your farm." said
i “ a
u
_
“Did
to an agriculturist.
ife,
,la,ure °f this tragedy marriage has been broken off; hence photographer
*---- —- * in
— — motion?”
you catch my * laborer*
U pl,'f*‘rr,'d- tint It is curious that, the action.
asked the farmer. "I think so.” “Ab.
taki errilult represented Bluebeard
Her Usual Remark.
..
" Journey in order to lay a
well, science I* a wonderful thing!"—
“
What
did
Manie
say
when
her
fa
­
Philadelphia Inquirer.
bsho ' S ” ^e'
^a,'t ";l* exactly
* Both liefore and after bls ther gave her that new gold watch?"
,l*‘ hud heaped benefits on asked one gladsome girl.
Crushing.
“Oh. the some thing that she always
wretches. When bo was
Mrs. Newbrlde (with an air of tri­
B^tn go nwar |n t|jp matter of says. She remarked that she was hav­ umph»—Really. I was greatly surprised
¡^■t.ltsnoo bp gave B|| h|„ beya ing a perfectly lovely time.” — Ex­ to get a wedding present from the Van
"■‘‘■rve to his wife, warning cha nge.
der Gilds. They are so exclusive, you
g of pure love against the nn-
know Miss Jellus— Yes. hut they are
A
Good
8hot.
■ssociations of the princesses'
very charitable, I believe.
Mr. Juggins— A black cat r«iw to
?•,* *°°D ” b» was out of tbe our back fence last night Mrs Jug
His Only Reason.
• fr h W a " , ald to T hlm ' a D<1 11 gins—Did It bring you good luck? Mr
'bat very room that he was
Mrs Jswback (angrily»—Since you
h r,,os|y Basagglnate<l. The Juggins—That's what it did. I bit It stayed out so late, why did you come
.nd ,tlP best of ft was that M. tbe very first time I fired
home at ail? Mr Jawback (drowsily»—
0". after marrying tbe wealthy
Man's chief wl rf. r, ron«l»t« tn know , To sleep nr' dear- jusht to sleep—
I m .,’*' an ''vempl.irv busband Ing his follies. -Ro< hefoU- suld.
tbstsh all:-Exchange.
*b**t of the king
.
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