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ART NHESA SRAD
Effects Upon the Nerves of Wrecks
Upon the Rails.
A wreck sometimes upsets even the
most iron nerved. Once the wreck
master on his arrival noticed a bare-
headed man in overalls, covered with
coal dust and blood. sitting beside his
engine with tears ruuning down his
face. He recognized him as the en-
gineer, who had been hauled out a few
minutes before from under the mass
of twisted, battered steel that had
once been a locomotive. Ningularly
enough, beyond a few cuts ud bruises
he was unhurt. He was crying be-
cause he could not find bis cap that
be had bought new that day and beg-
ged the wreck master to help him
hunt for it.
A passenger conductor of a train
that was derailed and had plunged
down an embankment crawled out of
the confusion and rendered cool and
efficient help during the half hour be-
fore the wreck train arrived. A little
later the wreck master chanced to
look around and saw the conductor
standing beside him holding a match-
box to his ear and shaking it. Pres.
ently he put it back in bis pocket, but
took it out again in a moment and
repeated his action.
“What's the matter with you?”
asked the wreck master.
“My watch has stopped. 1 can't get
it to going. and 1 don’t know what
time it is." answered the conductor,
still listening to his matchbox.
The wreck master took the conduct.
or by the shoulders and shook him
roughly. Then he “came to.” —Thad-
deus 8. Dayton in Harper's Weekly.
The Gift Was Delayed, but the Groom
Got the Bird.
A wealthy patron of the turf in New
York told an amusing story of a fa-
vorite groom and a turkey.
“I had once promised this groom,”
he said, "a Christmas turkey, but
somehow in the rush and flurry of
December 1 forgot it. It was some
days after Christmas when | remem-
bered how ! had overlooked my faith-
ful old friend.
“Meeting him in the paddock one
morning and Intending to make good
my forgetfulness, | said to the groom
by way of a joke:
“Well, Jenkins, how did you like
that turkey I sent you?
“qt was a very fine bird, sir,’ said
the groom. ‘I came very near losing it,
though.’
“ ‘How so? said 1, astonished.
“Well, sir,’ said Jenkins, ‘Christ-
mas morning came, and your turkey
hadn't reached me, so 1 rushed right
off to the express company and asked
the manager what he meant by not
sending the bird up. The manager
apologized, sir, very politely, and he
took me into a back room, where there
were ten or fifteen turkeys hanging,
and he said the labels had been lost
off them and I'd just better take
my choice. So 1 chose the largest, sir,
knowing your generosity. and it was
fine. It ate grand. Thank you very
much indeed, sir.’ ”"—Washington Star.
The Gems the Collector Bought an
Showed to the Expert.
That the collector falls into a trap
occasionally is shown by an episode
which we recall. An enthusiastic pur-
chaser of old tapestries was once of-
fered in Paris a masterpiece executed
on au large scale and held at a large
figure. Consulting an expert, he was
urged to buy, but the sum demanded
seemed to him at the moment a good
deal to invest in a tapestry, and he
let the opportunity pass
A year or so later he wet his friend,
the expert aforesaid, and asked him to
come to his house to look at two tapes.
tries he had just secured. “They are
smaller,” he sald, “than the one you
advised me to buy and which, to tell
the truth, I have always regretted, and
1 paid twice as much for them as I
was asked to pay for that glorious
piece, but while it seemed nu fearful
lot of money to spend ! imply couldn't
resist the chance.”
The specialist in tapestries walked
into the gallery of the proud collector
and gazed upon hi: prizes, He gazed
, for a time in silence and then had to
be very guarded in his speech of con-
grainlation. He was looking at the
original tapestry, which his friend
could have had for half the money,
now neatly cut in two and supplied
with borders. He never revealed tc
the victim of this ingenious little game
what precisely had bappened.—New
York Tribune.
The Fattening Process of a Marriage-
able Giri in Tunis.
The marriageable girl in Tunis has a
trying ordeal to go through after her
betrothal to the man not of her choice.
but whose choice she is. She has to be
fattened to the required size before the
ceremony can take place.
As soon as the betrothal takes piace
she is taken to a room and there coop-
ed up till the fattening process is con-
cluded. Silver shackles are fastened
round her wrists and ankles, and the
task of her parents and future hus-
band is to increase her bulk till her
wrists and ankles fill up the shackles.
If the husband is a widower or has
“discharged” his first wife the girl has
the shackles of the first spouse placed
on her, and she must fill them out.
It takes a long time to do this as a
rule, and sometimes it cannot be ac-
complished in spite of all efforts. It is
then open to the future husband to ery
off the bargain or waive the condition.
In the case of a bachelor he takes cure
to see that the bracelets and anklets
are not too large—that is, if he is fond
of the girl—but if he Is being forced
into the marriage by his parents he is
a great stickler for custom. Stout
girls are the more quickly snapped up
in Tunis.—St. James’ Gazette.
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Wrong Diagnosis.
Mrs. Slingcehin put her bead over the
fence and thus addressed her neigh-
bor, who was hanging out her wash-
ing:
“A family has moved into the empty
house across the way, Mrs, Mangle.”
“Yes, 1 know.”
“Did you notice the furniture?”
“Not particularly.”
“Two loads, and 1 wouldn't give a |
sovereign a load for it. Carpets? I
wouldn't put ‘em down. in my kitchen.
And the children! I won't allow mine
to associate with ‘em. And the moth-
er! She looks as if she had never
known a day's happiness. The father
drinks, 1 expect. Too bad that such
people should come into this neighbor-
hood. 1 wonder who they are.”
“1 know ‘em.”
“Do you? Well, I declare!
they 7"
“The mother is my sister, and the
father is the superintendent of the
Sunday school.”
“Obh-ah—um! Do yon think it's going
to rain?"
Who are
The First Tooth Festival.
Among the Syrians there is no such
thing as giving a party in celebration
of the first anniversary of the birth of
a child, The celebration is held when
the imby cuts its first tooth. On such
an occasion friends of the parents are
not luvited to the house to eat cakes
and listen to a phonograph, but what-
ever sweets may be prepared for the
oceasion are sent by the parents to the
homes of the friends whom they wish
to inform of the news, The friends
later visit the parents aud tender their
congratulations, The dishes in which
the sanainieh is carried to neighbors
and friends are not returned immedi-
ately. Sometimes it is a week or even
two before they are back in their cus
tomary places in the family cupboard
When they are returned they ure not
empty.
Old Superstition ‘and Cold Facts From
the Astronomers.
There is an old superstition which
dies hard. and that is that the posi-
tion of the horns of the new moon
telis what the weather will be. If the
horns of the crescent are on the same
level it will hold water, and hence it
is a dry moon, but If it is tipped up
then the water will run out, and it is
& wet moon.
One thing has helped keep this be-
lief alive. “he moon is “dry” in the
part of the spring that is usually fair,
while it is “wet” during the season of
autumn rains.
If this were a sure sign of the
weather we could have our predic-
tions published many years in ad-
vance, for an astronomer can predict
the exact position of the moon at any
time in the future.
The cause for the different positions
of the crescent is simple. The moon is
south of the sun in the autumn and
north of it in spring. The crescent is
found by the light of the sun falling
on the moon, and the horns are natu-
rally in a line perpendicular to the di-
rection of the sun from the moon.
That Is all there is to this old super-
stition.—Boston Herald.
Daring of the Eskimos and Their Work
With the Harpoon.
With the harpoon as a weapon the
hunters left the solid ice to spring
lightly from one small piece to an-
other until a pan large enough to hold
them was reached far out in the open
lake. The pieces over which the pas-
sage was made were often so small
that they would have sunk under a
man's weight had he faltered or hesi-
tated upon them for a moment. It
seemed to me that the Eskimos were
absolutely reckless in this passage
over the broken pieces and took no
account of the manner in which they
should return. Certainly only a fear-
less man with a clear eye and nerves
of iron could accomplish it
A large, safe pan once attained well
in the midst of the blowing walrus, a
stand was taken near its edge, where,
with harpoon poised, the hunter wait-
ed until a walrus came within striking
distance. Then like lightning the
weapon was sunk deep into the ani-
mal's body, and quick as a flash a bar-
poon shaft provided with a heavy
point of iron was driven firmly into
the ice and several turns of line taken
around it and held taut by the Eskimo.
This strong line held the walrus iu
spite of its struggles to free itself, and
not an inch was surrendered to it by
the Eskimo. As the walrus gradually
tired the line was tightened little by
little until finally the great animal
was well alongside the pan, when it
was quickly dispatched with a lance.—
Harry Whitney in Outing.
Subdued.
Hotel Guest (to pretty waiter givl)—
This steak is not very good. Pretty
Walter Girl—Teaorcoffee? Guest— This
steak—it's tough and- Pretty Waiter
Girl (to another pretty waiter girl)—
Charley was asking after you this
morning, Jen. (To guest)—Did you say
teaorcoffee? Guest (gloomily)—Coffee.
—New York Sun.
He Failed to See It.
Mr. Closecoyne (during his wife's re
ception)—8he gives ‘em lights; she
gives em music; she gives ‘em food.
flowers, champague, and that's what
she calls receiving!—Puck.
Shocked.
Ella—Bella married an octogenarian.
Stella—1 don't think the girl ought to
change her religion for a man.—Ex-
change.
We are not in this world to do what
we wish, but to be willing to do that
which It is our duty to do.—Gounod.
How an Obstinate English Lord Was
OQutwitted In Naples. 1
Lord Charies Hamilton used to go
about Naples attended by a large, fe-
rocious bulldog. Having decided upon
going to Rome, he proceeded to the
station and took his place in a first
class carriage, the “dawg” taking up
a position on a seat opposite his mas-
ter. The platform inspector, with
many gesticulations, declared that the
bulldog should not travel in a passen-
} Ser carriage.
“Very well, then; take him out,” was
Lord Charles’ rejoinder.
In vain the official expostulated. He
merely reiterated his former reply, a
plece of advice it is needless to say
which was not followed. and Lord
Charles, apparently master of the sit-
uation, threw himself back in his seut
and calmly lighted a cigar.
But the Italians were not to be out-
done, and, quietly detaching the car-
riage In which the English *“milor”
was seated, they made up the train
with another compartment and started
it off.
Lord Charles sat quietly smoking for
about a quarter of an hour and then.
surprised at the delay, thrust his head
out of the window and demanded
when the train was going to start. His
feelings when the situation was de-
scribed to him may be imagined.—Lon-
don Tit-Bits,
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Sacred Nuts of Japan.
Although well known to travelers
and collectors of curiosities, the horn
nut. or “sacred nut.” of Japan was al-
most wholly unknown to fruit and nut
jdeniers in this country prior to 1888,
iwhen a New York commission mer-
‘chant received the first large consign-
ment. They are called “sacred nuts”
because used in certain forms of Jap-
anese worship. where they are placed
on the altar and ignited. Being very
rich in oil, they burn with a hot, bluish
flame and give off a peculiar odor, the
fumes being supposed to rise as an ac-
ceptable incense to the gods. They
grow under water and have a leaf like
an American lily, the form of the nut
itself being an almost exact counter-
part of an Asian buffalo’s head. droop-
ing horns and all. In the raw state
they are hard and tasteless, but when
cooked the flavor resembles that of
tain their edible qualities for upward
of twenty years.
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brass finisher to rub yon up a trifle?
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