His Game Won,
In a campaign in Kansas some years
ago, when the tari was made a domi-
pant issue, an old German was run-
aing for a county office in central Kan-
sas. He didn't know enough about the
tariff to talk about it two minutes.
More than that. he didn’t care much,
for it had nothing whatever to do with |
the office he wanted anyway. But the |
voters were much excited over the
question and seemed to think that
every candidate should be able to dis-
cuss the problem from A to Izzard.
So this German and his campaign
manager invented a successful subter-
fuge. When the German got up at the
meetings to talk be would say: “Now,
shentlemen, 1 vill talk mit you about
der tariff. It is lke" :
Just then his campaign mapager
sould interrupt: “Why. John, you
have only five minutes to talk. You
cannot do - yourself justice in that!
length of time on the tariff.” !
“Then | won't talk about dot tariff,”
would be John’s inevitable reply, and
he would go on to tell that he wanted
a certain county office, and so on. His
game won, and be was elected.—Ean-
sas City Journal.
Wheat Does Not Grow Wild.
The existence of names for wheat in
the most ancient languages confirms
the evidence of its great antiquity and
of its cultivation In the more temper
ate parts of Europe, Asis and Africa.
From the evidence adduced by bota-
nists of high standing it seems highly
improbable that wheat bas ever been
found growing persistently in a wild
state, although it has often been as-
serted by poets, travelers and histo
cians. In the “Odyssey,” for example,
we are told that wheat formerly grew
in Sicily without the aid of man. Dio-
dorus repeats the tradition that Osiris
found wheat and bariey growing pro
wmiscuously in Palestine, but neither
this nor other reputed discoveries of
wheat growing wild seem at all cred-
fble, seeing that it does not appear to |
be endowed with the power of per |
sistency except under continued cul- |
ture.
The Mind During Sleep.
“During sleep.” says an authority on
mental subjects, “the workings of the
mind are under no control, and yet it
seems to have a wonderful faculty of
building up and arrauging scenes and
foncidents. 1 remember once having a
wivid dream of going into a house the
furniture and inmates of which be-
tonged to the middle ages. So clear |
was the dream that | had no diff. |
culty in recalling it, and then as |
went over each derall of dress, armor, |
Jewelry. ornaments and other objects |
seen in my vision | realized that every- |
thing | bad beheld was historically
accurate—that is to say, that probably
fn a fraction of a second my mind had
conjured up a scene to construct
which, with the sume faithfulness to
detall, while nwake would bave taken
me several hours.” |
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The Use of Condiments.
In an article ou the use of condi. |
ment= the London Lancet, the fore- |
most British medical publication, says: |
“The classic experiments of Pawlow |
have shown bow important is the role |
of the condiments In diet, how fit is |
they improve appetite and increase di- |
gestive power. Mustard, pepper and |
salt, used, of course, in sensible
amounts. assist the appetite, give a |
zest to food and partly by reflex action |
as well as local action stimulate the |
flow of digestive juices and Insure
fealthy assimilation. Even vinegar Is
known to have a softening effect on
tough fibers, and hence its use is justi
fled in so many instances.”
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The English Pheasant.
It is claimed that the pheasant of
the English preserves can trace its ped-
igree directly to the brilliant bird of
the same species in Japan. About the
middle of the nineteenth century a
few live pheasants were brought from
Japan and crossed with the common
species. The result of this was, it Is
sald. that a new race of birds was in-
‘troduced, and the beautiful pheasant. |
with its iridescent plumage, was pro-
duced and naturalized as an English
bird
! Coals of Fire.
" «1 thought.” said ne, “that those peo:
ple treated you so badly. and now see!
They luvite you to their reception
Shall you go?
“Why. certainly,” said she. “Their
inviting me showed they harbored uo
grudge against me for the way they
treated me.” —New York [’ress.
A v—
: Well Answered.
“Ok. no: | don't claim to be any dit-
ferent or any brighter than the bail-
ance of mankind. | espect | shall mar-
ry some fool soman some of these
days.”
“If you ever marry that's the kind of
a woman you will marry, all right.”—
Rochester Union.
A Telitale Touch.
«Js it true that sightiess people can
tell the color of things by touch?”
some one asked a blind man.
“Occasionally, yes.” came the an-
gwer. “lf, for instance, I touched a
redhot poker I could tell it was red.”
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Swift's Sarcasm.
. “My brethren." said Dean Swift iu
a sermon. “there are three sorts of
pride—of riches. of birth and of tal-
ents. 1 shall not now speak of the
jatter, none of you being Hable'to tha:
zbominable vice.”
Badger.
great epicure on
the hostility «7
anima’ les une
fact that it will, when
chance, devour a whi
or pheasant eps
also to be ful of
delicacy, 1 should
ble that they may
of it. It is certain
that these animals have a particulur
for the nest and larvae of
and wild bees, digging down
with strong feet and infinite persever-
till they atrain thelr object
These animals are said by keepers to
kill and devour freely young rabbits.
That they do partake of this fare at
times is, | think, certain. bit that they
destroy any very considerable number
is more than doubtful. Still, the badgz
er is carnivorous in his tastes and is
pot. even by his kindliest friends, to
be absolved from devouring at times
tender rabbits and even the young of
game birds when he can get hold of
them.— Westminster Gazette.
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Strange Fishing Matches.
Ip the olden time in England lords
and ladies sometimes invented queer
amusements, They were always oo
the lookout for some novelty, and one
of the strangest they discovered was
fishing by a goose. A line with a bait-
ed hook attached having been fastened
to the goose, tied to its leg. she was
flung into the water from the boar in
which were all the gay lords and i
dies. Then, when an pike caught the
bait, she was sport indeed. a royal bar.
tle between bird and fish, and all thw
time, between the loud splushinzs
wheelings and flounderings. the on.
lookers in the boat giving vent to their
feelings In cheers, bandclappings and
bandkerchief waving. But the goose
was usually the victor and ended the
struggle by landing its prisoner on the
shore, where its quack-quack as it
cleared itself from the line and wad-
dled away ended the scene. The lake
of Monteith, in the southwest of Perth. |
shire, was often the scene of such an-
gling matches.
The Soldier Ant.
The lion is the king of beasts, but
all of his magnificent strength and
ferocity would avail him nothing when
he faced a mere ant. But this ant Is
not the usual kind which peacefully
goes about its domestic duties day by
day. It 1s the terrible driver or soldier
ant, said to be the most invincible
creature in the world. Against these
tiny enemies no man or band of men.
no lion or tiger, not even a herd of
elephants. can go anything but bur
riedly get out of the way. Among the
Barotse natives a favorite form of cap-
ital punishment is to coat the vietun
with grease and throw him before the
advancing army of soldier ants. I'he
quickness with which the poor wretch
is dispatched Is marvelous when It «|
considered that each ant can do noth:
ing more than merely tear out a smh
particle of flesh and carry it off.
in a surprisingly short time the writn-
ing victim wiil have been changed wi
a skeleton.
Old Saws and Sayings.
A few old saylogs on ‘he subject or
food come to us rather as a surp:is<-
in our age of dnintiness and retin.
ment, yet they bave their raison d'etrs
notwithstanding. “Meat Is much, man
ners are more;" "Cease your chatter
and mind your platter?’ “The ass tha:
brays mest eats least;” “The wing with
the liver to him who's the giver;” il»
can give little to his servant who lick
his own trencher.”
Apropos of this remark, It is amus-
ing to note that “manners” was the
name given to the remnants of a meni.
These came to the servants as official
perquisites: hence our well worn ex
pression before emptying a dish,
“Leave the last slice tor whatever fit
may be) for inanners.” though If votes
were collected on this polnt it Is hardy
likely that any of us would have taken
it as it stands in the original.
Carthage’'s Great Snake.
The ancients firmly believed in mon:
ster serpents of all kinds and of both
the land and marice species. During
the wars with Carthage a great snake
is said to have kept the Roman army
from crossing the Bagrados river for
eral days. The monster swallowed
no less than seventy Roman sol
during this combat and was not
conquered until a hundred stones from
as many different catapults were fired
upon it all at one time. The monster
skull and skin were preserved and
afterward exhibited in one of the [to-
man temples. The dried skin of the
creature was 120 feet in length, auc-
cording to Pliny.
§
Throat Trouble.
“You look bad. old man. What's the
matter?”
“Throat trouble.”
+] didn’t know you were subject to
in"
“Yes, 1 am. This throat belongs to
the newcomer in the nest house, whe
practices singiug at all hours of the
night.”
Past Is Past.
Finish every day and be dome with
ft. You have done what you could
bo |
Some blunders and absurdities,
doubt. crept in. Forget them as soon
as you can.—Emerson.
The Drawback.
“Can't you live just as cheap in the
suburhe as in town?
“Yes. but everybody knows it out
there.” —Life.
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Distance is a great promoter of ad-
miration.—~Diderot.
Yor i
prem —————
it Represents the Whole Man, Ten Fin-
gers and Ten Toes.
Twenty is called a score because It
represents the whole man, ten fingers
and ten toes. Etymologically it means
a cut or mark. In very early times,
when men could not count beyond
twenty, or “one man.” It was usual
to cut a notch In = stick and begin
again, and so It went on, one man, two
men, and so on. This Is why sheep
are still counted by the score. Now,
a tally (French taille, cut or nicked
means an account kept by means of a
notched stick, and until the end of the
panied by a written document.
tomer had ware scored against him on
what was called a tally stick, and
when it reached twenty, or a “whole
man,” be wax expected to pay, In
some English country inns scores are
still kept on » <iate, four chalk marks
and one across—tive—und four of these
make rwenty, or a score.— Westminster
Gazette, .
The Pearl Hunters’ Superstition.
The pear! hunters of Borneo and the
adjacent islands have a pecuilar su-
perstition. When they open shells in
search of pearls they ruke every ninth
find, whether It be large or small, and
put it Into a bottle, which Is kept
corked with a dend man’s tinger. The
pearls In the vial are known as “seed
pearls” or “breeding pearls,” and the
native Borneose firmly bLelleves that
they will reproduce their kind. For
every pearl put into the vial two
grains of rice are chrown in for the
pearls to “feed upon.” Some Whites
in Borneo belleve as firmly in the su-
perstition as the natives do, and al-
most every hut along the coast has its
“dead finger” bottle, with from nine
to fifty seed pearls and twice that
evenly stowed away among them.
the superstition.
The Wonderful Toad Bone.
qualities to toads and frogs and the
various parts of their bodies. Pliny
believed, for instance, thar If a toad
was brought into the midst of a mob
or other large and unruly concourse of
people “silence would instantly pre-
vail.” A small bone found in the right
side of toads “of the proper age” was
also belleved to have powers over the
various elements. “By throwing this
bone into a vessel of boiling water,”
says Pliny. “it will immediately cool
it, the water refusing to boil again un-
til the bone has been removed. To
find this bone. expose the dead toad
on ap ant hill. When the ants have
| eaten her all away except the bones,
| take each bone separately and drop it
into boiling water. Thus may the
wondrous toad bone be discovered.”
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