A
an asylum doctor of long and varied
experience, that there are scores of
men and women in insane asylums
who have literally been sent there
through excess of joy. Many of these
“eases which are, in my opinion, the
saddest of all have come under my
own observation.
I remember in the very first asylum
with which I was connected one of
the patients was a strikingly hand-
some and very well educated man,
who was as sane as you or I except
on one point. He was really a man of
considerable wealth, but his delusion
was that he was a pauper, and he
would tell the most pitiful tales of his
destitution, begging, with tears in his
eyes, for a few coppers with which to
buy bread.
According to the story told me, he
was thie only son of a wealthy mer:
chant. In his youth he had fallen
among evil companions and had led
such a dissolute life that his father
‘mot only threatened to disinherit him,
but forbade him ever to enter his
house again. After that he seems to
“have sunk into the lowest depths of
poverty until he was glad to earn a
few coppers by selling papers or
matches in the streets.
It was at this last and lowest stage
that news came to him that his fa-
ther had died intestate and that he
Was heir to all his vast fortune. The
sudden news completely turned the
man's brain and brought on such a
condition of excitement ‘that he had
to be seat to an asylum, and when he
calmed down again he had lost all
recollection of his good fortune, and
nothing could shake his delusion that
he was oun the verge of starvation.
Another patient in the same asylum
was a young and in his lucid moments
a most intelligent fellow, whose “brain
was turned,” as the saying is, on learn-
ing that he had passed an examina-
tion. Ile had sat for the matriculation
examination at the University of Lon-
don, on passing which he had set his
heart and had asked a friend in Lon-
don to wire the result as soon as the
names were screened. at Burlington
House.
About three weeks later came a fa-
tal telegram, “Failed—sorry,” which
sent the young man into the lowest
depths of despair, for he was too old
to sit again, Not many hours later,
however, came another telegram,
“Passed Poners—very sorry crush so
great did not see name this morning.”
The revulsion of feeling was so great
that the student's reason gave way,
and he became so violent in his ex-
ecitewent that he had to be confined.
Fortunately he was not with us long
and Is now, I am glad to know, doing
very well as a solicitor,
Disappointed love sends many people
to asylums, but it is very seldom that
success in woolung drives a man mad.
It had this strange effect, however, on
one of wy late patients.
house for her brother before he had
screwed up his courage to the point of
proposing te her, but an offer followed
by mall very quickly after her.
Weeks and months passed and ne
answer came to the impatient lover
until, after waiting two years in de-
spair, he became engaged to a girl who
bad nothing but her money bags to |
recommend her and for whom he had |
not a particle of love. Searcely, how-
ever, was his fate sealed than he re-
ceived the long despaired of letter
from India, accepting his offer and ex-
plaining that the girl's brother had re-
ceived and mislarl the letter, which
had only just L «n found and had
come into her hauds.
Within an hour of the receipt of this
letter the man was a raving maniac,
and, although his condition is improy-
ed, | doubt whether he will ever re- |
cover his renson.
|
In smother remarkable case it was
the joy at seeing her husband again
that robbed a lady patient of her rea-
son. Her husband was the captain of
a merchant ship which was reported
to have gone down with all hands.
The widow had deeply mourned her
husband for nearly a year when one
day ou returning from a walk she
found him sitting in the drawing room
As hale and robust as ever,
+ With a shriek she fell unconscious |
on the floor, and when she recovered
her reason was gone. It seems that
‘her husband. after flonting for some
time. had been picked up by a possing
“tramp” and had been landed on the
west const of Africa. from which he
kad returned home by the first avall-
able vessel.— London Spectator,
Confucius.
Confucius regarded his own life as a
failure. He spoke against ambition,
yet he coveted high office, nothing less
than that of political adviser to some
great valer. A man of the highest
lineage in China, lie was yet poor and
early supported himself by teaching.
His pupils showed him an extraordi-
nary devotion. The pick of the young
men in his native state of Lu sat at
his feet, and it was they who trans-
mitted his tremendous infiuence. But
Confucius saw not his immortal suc-
cess, but his temporal failure. Only
for a few brief years did circumstances
‘permit him to exercise his practical
genius for government. He became
first a magistrate, then chief criminal
judge in Lv. and, to quote Professor
Legge, “crime ceased.” Confucius,
however, became dissatisfied with the
ruler whom he served, a weak man |
‘who neglected his duty and gave him-
self up more and more to dissipation,
‘20 he resigned his post and banished
‘himself.—London Spectator.
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The girl he !
loved had gone out to India to keep
ST —
| The Leather of the Egyptians.
The ancient Egyptians were skilled !
EE ae
ufactured It in various ways and for :
=== | various purposes besides that of fur-
| nishing covering for the feet. Indeed,
it is to those builders of the pyramids
that we are indebted for the first artis- |
the researches of archaeologists, the |
Egyptians were the first shoemakers |
who were worthy of that name. It is
a fact, too, that tanuers of today em- |
ploy very much the same methods
as did the ancients.
materials are used, and the processes |
are almost precisely similar to those in
vogue hundreds of years ago. It is |
true that tanners of the present day
have found a means of greatly shorten-
ing the time required to convert a hide
into leather and that steam power and |
modern machinery have done much to |
expedite and improve the processes of
finishing the leather; but. after all, the
principals of tanning remain the same
as they have been from the first.—
London Globe,
Posthaste.
He kicked off his wet boots, slid his
tired feet into a pair of carpet slippers,
lit his pipe, sat down in the easy chair
with a sigh of relief and declared that
twenty thousand wild horses .couldn’t
make him stir from the house till
morning.
_ “Henry.” remarked the lady with the
knitting needles. “you posted that let-
ter I gave you this morning, I sup-
pose?
blushingly.
“I asked ma to postpone her visit for
awhile,” his wife went on. You see"—
Henry did see. His wife saw too.
What she saw was the tired man jump
from his chair, kick off his slippers,
put en his boots and skip out into the
street as If rain was the very thing he
liked wading through.
And when, five minutes later, Henry
came back with a tale that he'd just
been to see how the thermometer out-
side the postoffice stood she smiled. —
London Seraps,
Just Like Eve's Apple.
A fruit supposed to bear the mark of
‘Eve's teeth is one of the many hotan-
cal curiosities of Ceylon. The tree on
which it grows is known by the sig-
nificant name of “the forbidden fruit,”
or “Eve's apple tree.” The blossom
has a very pleasant scent, but the real-
ly remarkable feature of the tree, the
one to which it owes its name, is the
fruit. It is beautiful and hangs from
the tree in a peculiar manner. Orange
on the outside and deep crimson with-
in, each fruit has the appearance of
having had a piece bitten out of it.
This fact, together with its poisonous
quality, led the Mohammedans to rep-
resent it as the forbidden fruit of the
garden of Eden and to warn men
against its noxious properties. The
Eve. Why the bite of Adam did not
also leave its mark is not known, but
as only one piece seems to he missing
its loss ix ascribed to the woman.
Constable Had the Evidence.
One of Philadelphia’s leading corpo-
ration law ers was visiting in New
England, and, returning home, he told
how he had been arrested there. He
had not had a vacation for some years,
1 and, getting into the country. he pro-
ceeded to he a boy again,
He struck a plece of country road
| ana ran along for a half mile. He
| found a fence and vaulted it. He saw
| a tree and climbed it. Finally he re-
turned to the village. Just as he struck
the town a haud was laid on his
| shoulder, and a man said in a gruff
| voice:
Come with me.”
“hat for?’ inquired the other in
| amazement.
“I'm the constable, and you're unG2r
arrest. I've been following you, and I
think you're crazy.” — Philadelphia
Times.
Cool Presence of Mind.
Debtor (to shopgirl)—It's an outrage
for your employer to have you present
this bill here at the railroad station
in the presence of all these people!
Tell him I'll attend to the matter as
soon as I get home. And now give me
a kiss, so the people will think that
you are a relative and have come to
bid me goodby!—Fliegende Blatter.
A Risky Study.
“Why have you dropped your popu-
lar astrouciny ?" asked the visitor.
“Cause I got too many lickings,”
confided Tommy. “The other night I
told pa that Mars’ face was ever
changing, and ma heard me and
thought I meant her face. Next thing
I didn’t get any supper and got a lick-
ing besides.”—Chicago News.
Ministers Aboard Ship.
A minister aboard ship has always
been taken as a “Jonah sign” by sea-
men. In recent years, however, this
superstition has been modified to a cer-
tain extent. A young minister, the
seamen believe, will not bring as much
of a “Jonah” with him as an old one.
Simplicity Itself.
“There are only two pomnts in suc-
cess.”
“What are they?"
“Work and keep other people from
working you.”
Do 1t Now. !
Decision never becomes easier by
postponement, while habit grows
stronger every day. Common sense
you as conscience says, “Choose
:
:
The feet of Fate are tender, for ot
‘
sets her steps not on the ground,
on the heads of men.—Homer.
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About the same '
“I did, my love,” he answered un- |
mark upon the fruit is attributed to
Whey Are Frequently Miscalled by
i Travelers Abroad.
How far are you going?" asked my
fellow traveler as we came across the
St. Gotthard. “To Paris,” 1 replied.
He looked puzzled. Then 1 recollected
| that he was an alin aud that he had
told me he had never been out of Italy
as before. “Parigh” | sald. smiling, and
| he knew at once what 1 meant.
Then it occurred to me to mention
| London to him and see if he under-
| stood. He obviously did not. * “Lon-
dra.” 1 translated. “Ah, Londra!” he
| repeated. “Yes, yes” Here were two
of ux journeying together across Eu-
rope In an age which is supposed to
| have broken down the barriers that
once hindered free intercourse, yet
we were not even agreed as to the
names of the principal places on our
| route.
He enlled Milan Milano, Florence
Firenze, Turin Torino. Naples Nape'l
For Basle he said Basilea and Lucerna
for Lucerne (which the Swiss them-
selves eall Luzern, pronouncing the
z" like ts), .
Stop a moment, though. When I say
he called Florence Firenze, and so on,
I am laying myself open to miscon-
ception aud the charge of insular in-
solence. Rather should I put it that
we English call Firenze Florence, just
as we call Padova Padaa and Livorno
Lezhorn, We cannot evenr give the
Eternal City its proper beautiful name.
insted of Romm we say Rome, which
is only a trite better than the Ger-
mans, who deep down in their throats
grunt ont “Rom.”
The Germans are very bad offenders
i in this matter of miscalling places, for
they give them often such eacophonous
equivalents as one would never think
of connectir< with the real name. The
first time | went to Italy 1 let the
train leave Bellinzona without me, |
was drinking a cup of coffee and it
slipped off. | thoroughly enjoyed a
sunny September afternoon's ramble
amid vineyards and along the shore
(so far as I recollect) of an enchanting
little lake. Then I went back to the
station to catch the evening service tc
Milan.
Presently a long and important look:
ing train thundered in. On it were
boards—*Berlin-Mailand.” 1 regarded
them idly, wondering where Malland
was and why 1 had never heard of it
before, It wax only when | saw 2a
friendly porter wildly summoning me
to enter and heard a guard erying out,
“Chiasso, Como. Milano,” that 1 re-
alized the situation and understood
Mailand to be German for the city we
call Milan, The German for Venice is
even more iil sounding—*Venedi;.”
Who would ever associate that harsh
trisyllable with the glories and loveli-
! ness of the miracle city of the lagoons?
| —London Mail.
~ Gda vigns.
A tinman in the south of England
has a sign which reads, "Quart Meas-
ures of All Rhapex and Sizes Sold
Here”
At a market town in the midlands
the following placard was affixed to
the shutters of 1 watchmaker who had
i
i
t ftors mourning:
| Mainspring Broke.”
In one of the principal streets of |
occupied by a doctor and a shoemak-
er. the man of medicine having the
front and he of the leather working in
the rear. Over the door hung the sign,
“We Repair Both Body and Sole.”
On the window of a coffes room
there one day appeared the
Till Repaired.”
Playful Monkeys.
Apes and gorillas are asually vicious
and resentful and less addicted to
key. Indeed, the monkey. asx we ail
know, Is a trickster both in his wild
and domestic state. In their native for.
ests monkeys spend hours in swingin:
from the branches of trees. suspende!
by their tails. and chattering and gri-
macing with evident signs of delight.
Humboldt mentions seeing over a hun-
dred so employed in a South American
forest.
Nothing | Mirasulous.
“You had rheumatism in your right
leg for years amd were cured of it In
an instant? How?"
“By being accidentally mixed up in
a train wreck. My right lag Is a cork
leg now.”"—Chicago Tribun \
I ———.
decamped. leaving his confiding cred: |
“Wound Up and Yuet
another small town the same shop was
notice, :
“This Coffee Room Removed Upstairs '
playful tricks than the common mon-
Te Pennsylvania Bate College.
The Boy Was , Willing vile a Fen H
to Senator Hanna. |
When Senator Hanna was walking |
through his factory in Cleveland some |
years ago ou the lookout for ov |
ideas or anything which would aid the
progress of business he overheard a |
little red headed lad remark: |
“Wish 1 had old Hanna's money and |
he was iu the poorhouse.”
The senator returned to his office |
and rang to have the boy xent to him. |
The boy came to the oftice tmigly. |
just a bit conscience stricken, wonder- |
ing if his remark had been overheard | i
and ready for the pennlty. As the lad
twisted his hands and nervously stood |
on one foot hefore the maze of those |
twinkling dark eyes fixed on him by |
the man at the dexk he felt the band |
of Uncle Mark on his shoulder: i
“So you wish you had old Hanna's |
money and he wax in the poorhonse,
eh? Suppose your wish should be |
granted. What would von do”
“Why.” stammered the lad, “the fest | |
thing 1 would do, sir. would he 10 get |
you cut of the poorhonse.””
The senator laughed and sent the !
boy back to his work. Today he is
one of the managers of a large fac-
tory. but he never tires of telling the
story that beld his first job.—Joe
Mitchell Chapple in- National Maga- |
zine.
Canine Etiquette.
In their relations with one another
dogs have a keen sense of etiquette.
A well known traveler makes this un-
expected remark about a tribe of
naked black men living on one of the
south sea islands: “In their everyday
intercourse there is much that is stiff,
formal and precise.” Almost the same
remark might be made about dogs.
Unless they are on very intimate terms
they take great pains never to brush
against or even to touch one another.
For one dog to step over another is #
dangerous hreach of etiquette unless
they are special friends. It Is no un-
common thing for two dogs to belong
to the same person and live in the
same house a:.1 yet never take the
slightest notice of each other. We
have a spaniel so dignified that he
will never permit another member of
the dog family to pillow hix head upon
him; but, with the egotism of a true
aristocrat. he does not hesitate to
make use of the other dogs for that
purpose.—Henry C. Merwin in Atlan-
tic.
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