¥ Made by a Clever Workman on a Chal. lenge From Royalty. Some years ago the czar. bearing of the marvelous inventive genius of & Polish mechanic, determined to put to the test and accordingly caused forwarded to him a few copper weod clippings, a plece of an old cracked china cup. and a few cribbage board box wax accompanied by request that the Pole xhould tran< these unpromising articles into » REE: Hi It was a challenge and one that few watchmakers would have cared to take But it would have taken a harder than this to daunt the Pole He on thé unpromising ma out of them fashioned » quickly dixpatched to eight bourx after he of transformation the on its journey to St. I'« bere It arrived safely, to ight of the czar. a most unique timeplece, ix made of china and Is posed of the material that ied the old cup. Yet nt and had to be wound in three or four days. So the czar that he sent for Pole and conferred upon him wev distinctions. besides granting him a pension.—~New York Press. Human Beings Once Walled Up In Building Foundations. The practice of putting mooey under the foundation stone of a new building is the shadow of an vider tragic cus tom. The money xtunds theoretically for the ransom of the fuman being who by ancient =u tion shoud been buried in its place. Other it was held. the lding wouta stand firm and endure There was a time when this particu lar kind of human sadrifice bad u extending to most parts of the Bgs in 214 3 wg ii 2 i iif 3k ipl one German fortress at the building ot which a child was bought from its mother with hard cash and walled into the donjon tower, the unnatura mother, according to the gtory. looking on the while. Effigles of human be ings are still used In some parts of Europe as harmless substitutes, and in remoter and more ruthless places the old custom crops out fron time to time in all its grim reality. Within the laxt century two children, a and a girl, were, it was reported, lled into a blockhouse by some laborers at Dugan. Asiatic Turkey.— Westminster Gazette Millais’ Faith In Himself. The artist Millais, writes J. E. Reid. was as open and frank us a boy ih 52. pressing his belief in himself, the Leyland collection was on view. previous to its dispersal, Millais went to see it and openly usserted that his “Eve of St. Agnes” was the best pic- ture there. This egotisin was part of his character. a thing it was impossible to resent on account of the manner in which it was Millais never lost the self confid of youth. In this respect, as In many others, he re- maibed a boy to the Neither was the egotistic note confined to art mat- ters. His public were In- variably about f. His conversa- tion on all sub was impregnated with the essence of a sincere convie- tion of his own authority to speak. He liked to be always right, and such were his grasp of realities and his power of reaspning that it required very strong e and a very clever argument to convince him that he was wrong.— Youth's Companion. Flogging at Eton. On more one occasion Dr. Horn- by. the famous headmaster at Eton, is said to have flogged the wrong boy by mistake. A boy thus victimized was asked why he did not attempt to ex- culpate himself or offer any explana- ton. “If you had not been complained of.” said the tator. “why did you not say s0 to the headmaster? “Well, sir.” he replied. 1 thought that if Mr. - had not complained of me some other master might have done so.” The young scapegrace was sO season- ed a campaigner that he was prepared to take a flogging without asking cap- tious questions. as all in the day's work.—From “Eton Under Hornby.” I ———————— “t¥ "The Story of Four Uncles. “] bave four uncles,” writes a cor- t. “who are all widowers. Uncle Sam and his wife used to fight, Uncle Tom was always flirting, and Uncle Joe was ruined by his wife's ex- travagance. Uncle Martin alone ioved his wife, and when she died he was broken hearted. Still, he is the only one who married again. He married a girl who has ail the qualities he used to proudly boast his wife lacked. Men are funny and grow funnier as you know them better.” —Atchison Globe Under Water. Howell—They can take photograpns under water, can't they? Powell—I guess 80. | got a negative there once. Howell—I don’t understand you. Pow- TE ———— ——— g § it : : i i ! : i | 5 : : i ifs Ji il i 19% : : 8 i : 5 Lh § ! g miration and appreciation. umpire after he har worked a fifteen inning game which fairly bristled with close and unusual plays and got away without a kick? If you can recall such an Incident. just dot It down In your notebook that you were present at a very. very unusual happening. Do they cheer the umpire’s name when be stops a foul tip with his shin or hus a swift shoot bounced off his mask? Yex. they do—not. Any injury to the umpire usually gets a round of derisive laughter from the crowd quests that he be killed or chloroform. ed. Of course there are many people in the stands who sympathize with the umpire. Thelr sympathy is usually silence. That isn’t much balm to his injury or feelings. Applause would sound so strange to an umpire’s ears that he would proha bly become so thoroughly frightened he would jump the back fence.- Billy Evans in New York Tribune. Galilei's Rude Instrument the First Used In Astronomy. The first telescope was pointed to- ward the sky on Jan. 7. 1610, when Galilei first tried bix rude instrument and was rewarded by discovering some of the moons of Jupiter. No great magnifying power was needed for this, as at least one of the moons is large enough to be seen by the naked eye did not the nearness of the brilliant planet prevent this. Lenses bad been known for a long time and were at that time in common use by near sighted persons. The name of the real discoverer of the telescope seems to be unknown. but the accepted story now is that two young sons of a Middebury op- ticlan named Lippersiey some time between 1600 and 1608, while playing with some lenses. happened to hold two of them at a distance from each other and were surprised and delight- ed to find that the weather vane on a neighboring tower seemed to come near them when looked at through the two lenses. In April, 1609, a little telescope made in Holland was offered for sale in Paris. The next month Galilei, then a pro- fessor in the university at Padua, heard of this instrument and realized at once its importance in the study of astronomy. From the description of the Dutch instrument he bad one made at once, and in August he as- tounded the people of Venice by show- ing them from the top of the cam- panile persons entering the doors of the church at Murano. This spyglass was less than two Inches in diameter and magnified three times. ‘rom this crude instrument of Galilel to the monster telescopes forty {inches in diameter of the present day is the de velopment of only three centuries.— Argonaut. An Interruption, Among the primary pupils enrolled in a Baltimore school is the son of a prominent business man of that city. says Harper's Magazine. One after- noon at close of school the youngster sought out his father in his office. to whom he said: “Dad, I'to getting tired of school. | think I'll quit.” “Why,” asked the astonished parent. “what's the matter, Tommy? | thought you were fond of going to school.” “So 1 am, dad.” responded the young: ster, suppressing a yawn, “but it breaks up the day so.” His Opening Break. A congressman had returned to hi L the Russian army and a day be wux hnper- the Emperor "aul to a group his friends when Paul himself en- tered and for some moments looked on “Go on. sir,” said Paul The young wan besitated a moment, and then, foldiug bis arms and imitat- ing every gesture and lutonation of his sovereign. be said: “Tolstoy, you deserve to be degraded, but | remember the thoughtlessiess of “Coutinge speech. “Well, be it 0,” be said. Willing to Pay. When the British square at the bat- tle ot Abu Klea, In the Nublzy desert, was penetrated by the dervishes ue of them attempted to spear a gunuer who was in the act of ramming home a charge. The Briton bruined the Su- dapese, but the rammer bead spilt ud the man's bard =kull. Nest day the guuner was sent for. Mistakiug tbe reason and knowing from esperience that soldiers are charged for govern- ment property which they Lreak, be led off: “Please, sir, I'm very sorry | broke the rammer, but | pever thought the fellow's head could be mo hard I'l} pay for the rammer s¢ as to bear po more of the case.” Spiteful. Patience—1 hear you're engaged to be married. Patrice—Where in the world did you bear that? “My maid told me.” “How did she hear it?” “A policeman told ber.” “More mystery. How came a police- man to know it?” “Why. the man you're engaged to told him wher the officer was taking him home!" Yonkers Statesman, Hood's Sarsaparilla. 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Long Suffer | «1 gi3 sor” “And what did you sell 1 § : ; 5 ing Wife—Yes, but yon are absoluivly | Major Studdest? “I sold him amare, | B% § the worst. 1 didn't take you for that | gor” The counsel sat down, and the | LF | . | ~-Chicago Tribune. court roared. a8 ® hf A agar ot He bigest bert | p20 mens ls Mie au al: cushion. 4 rs ”, p, Y rrr 3 N X S WL e most ur | there's nothing In it, but it eases the a av J be fe 00 Fo 0¢ J& I & f aud] Fe & 0 0% 0% BS NS NE _S6 WE BG NE _S% NE We SY ! MW Ws a Seite. Joints woutlertully, SITS aE SSNS TL aL PPP LF | A
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