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its Stunted Tree Forms and Its Petri.
fied Forests.
In places in the Colorado desert are
stream beds where perhaps once In
several years heavy rains in distant
mountains will cause water to flow for
short time. In these dry water
several varieties of stunted
tree forms are often found. The des-
ert , which resembles the willow
with which we are familiar, though
smaller in size; the val verde, or green
a tree which is a bright green
trunk to tip of limb In every
and the Ironwood. so dense in
that it turns an ax's edge, are the
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desert vegetation, have not a leaf.
They are apparently outcasts from
the two great tree divisions, deciduous
citrus, for they have leaves nel
por to keep. These may
the living dogs of the tree
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largest of which was somewhat more
than forty feet high, with a length
from crest to crest of 500 feet. It was
in the southern Indian ocean that
waves attained their fullest develop-
ment, and they had been measured
there with a length of 780 feet.
In the Atlantic it bad been found
that waves attaiued a speed of thirty-
eight miles an hour in a wind of about
forty-four miles an hour. Speaking of
the swells in the waves that run free-
ly on the surface of the sea after the
wind has ceased, Dr. Cornish said that
during a storm in December, 1898. he
recorded breakers nesr Bournemouth |
which moved at sixty-seven miles an
hour and had a length from crest to
crest of 1.900 feet. In February, 1899,
he observed breakers on the same
shore which had a speed in deep wa-
ter of not less than seventy-eight and
a half miles an hour.—London Family
Herald.
When Kissing Was Costly.
The ¢éase of the people against Mur
line, heard by the governor of New
Haven colony in council on May day,
1660, indicates the attitude toward up- |
“Every little while physiologists come
to the front with some advantage ac-
cruing to people who have blue eyes,”
sald the city salesman. “Well, 1 dis
| covered a point that they have never
mentioned. A jeweler told me. Hels
manager of the jewelry department of
a big store. 1 applied to him for a
situation for my wife's cousin.
«What's the color of her eyes? he
asked.
“ ‘Brown,’ 1 sald.
“Bring ber down and 1 will take a
look at her, he said, ‘but I am afraid
she won't do. People with a certain
shade of blue eyes make the best jew-
elry salesmen. Many customers who
buy jewelry wact some one to try it
on so they can get the effect of the
stones when worn. There is something
about deep blue eyes that brings out
the best lights in most jewels. Take
notice and you will find that two-
thirds of the jeweiry salesmen in New
York have blue eyes.’ ”—New York
Times.
Stingy Queen Bess.
Every one who ever aid anything
for Queen Bess seems to have been
left with a bad debt on his books. So
we find ap unfortunate John Conley
writing to Sir Robert Cecil that for
the last two years he bad been suitor
for £100 for “beeves for the army” and
complaining that “unless some order
be taken 1 shall be undone.” Sir Ed-
ward Hastyngs, after spending bis life
in serving the queen, bad to pawn his
wife's jewels und beg her majesty “to
bestow sowething upon me in this wy
latter age.” So badly was thé Cee:
that beat the armada provisioned that
Francis Drake had to seize at Plyu:-
outh ninety bags of rice, and the un-
fortunute owner, after ten yeurs'
waiting. was refused payment, “rice
being ap extraordinary victual not ai
lowed for the navy.” Nor did common
soldiers fare better. The chief anxie-
ty of all Elizabeth's ministers ought.
in her view, to have been how to save
most money.—London Telegraph.
Eating For the Love of It.
Pawlow has given epicureanism In
eating strong scientific support, and
many of Horace Fletcher's ideas find
orthodox justification. The first rule o!
dietetic conduct, according to Fletcher.
is to eat only when one is bungry and
to eat only the things from which oue
anticipates enjoyment. He also teaches
that one must eat in the way that
gives the greatest sensual pleasure—
that is, by thorough chewing and tast-
ing; also serenity of mind. pleasant
surroundings at a meal, congenli
friends, pleasurable conversation—it
fact, everything that adds to enjoyment
aids digestion. In other words, the
process of digestion furnishes a beauti-
ful illustration of the influence of mind
upon matter. The inspiring stimulus
is pot mechanical, but psychic. The
preliminary essential to the orderly as-
similation of food is the keen desire
for it.—McClure's Magazine.
A Paradoxical River.
On the African shore, near the gulf
licensed kissing in those times. It @p-| o¢ Aden and connecting the lake of
peared that Jacob Murline and Sarah Assal with the main By or Sy
Tuttle had been caught kissing each | goyng one of the most wonderful riv-
other. Jacob tried to throw the blame | ong in the world. This curiosity does
on Sarah, saying be thought she bad | noe flow to but from the ocean toward
“with intent let fall her gloves.” 8a-| jniand. The surface of Lake Assal
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rah denied the intent. Jacob then ad- | yeelf is nearly 700 feet below the
mitted that he “tooke her by the hand | meay tide, and it is fed by this para-
and they both sat down upon a chest. | goyical river. which is about twenty-
but whether he kyssed her or she | (yw, miles in length. It is highly prob-
kyssed him he knows not, for he Dev- gpl that the whole basin which the
er thought of it since until Mr. Ray- | lagoon partly Glls was once ap arm
mond told him that he had not layde it | ,¢ the sea which became separated
to heart as he ought.” ‘I'he stern gov- |
ernor, after duly lecturing the guilty
parties on the enormity of their of-
fense, decreed that “the sentence there-
fore concerning them is that they shall
pay either of them a fine of 20 shil-
lings to the colony.”
Khartum,
Khartum owes its existence to an
oriental form of treachery. When
Khedive Mohammed Ali invaded the
Sudan in 1820 he marched triumph-
antly to Shendi. where his troops were
entertained at a banquet by the sub-
missive natives. But while the khe-
dive’s high officials were seated at the
feast they shared the fate of the
viands and were themselves reduced
to funeral baked meats. Full of fury,
the army fell on Shendi and demol-
ished it. Marching south. the invaders
reached the junction of the Blue Nile
and White Nile. With the conquer |
or's instinct they recognized that the |
strip of land, with its few fishermen’s |
huts of straw, formed ideal strategical |
headquarters, so Khartum finally grew |
into the most sensitive part of the |
Sudan organism.
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Doubling Up.
A boy of eight years was asked by
his teacher where the zenith was. He
replied. “That spot in the heavens di- |
rectly over ope's head.” ° |
To test his knowledge further the |
teacher asked:
“Can two persons have the same %e-
nith at the same time?” |
“They can.” |
“How?”
“If one stand on the other's head.”
Taxing the Language.
Daughter—~Mamma, can’t | have a
Learning is ever in the freshness of '
ts youth, even for the oid.—Aeschylus.
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therefrom by the duning of loose sand.
The inflowing river has a limited vol-
ume. being fullest, of course, at high
tide, and has filled the basin to such
an extent that evaporation and supply
exactly balance each other.
His Maternal Grandma.
A devoted father after a day's ab
sence was met by his two little sons
“Have you been good boys?”
Silence.
“Have you been good boys?”
“No, papa: I called grandma a bac
yo said five-year-old, turning scar
et.
“Is it possible? What did you cal!
your grandma?"
“] called her a human being.”
The father. with a mighty effort,
maintained his gravity and closed the
scene decorously. “1 must forgive you
for once. but remember if you ever cal!
your grandmother a human being again
1 shall have to spank you.”
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Stated a Fact.
“Do you see the horizon yonder
| where the sky seems to ineet the
earth?”
“Yes. uncle.”
“Boy, | have journeyed so pear there
that 1 couldn't put a sispence between
my head and the Sky ©
“Qh, uncle. what a whopper.”
“It's a fact. my ind. | badn’t one to
put.”—Pearson’s Weekly.
An Unnecessary System.
“You ought to have a burglar alarm
system in your house,” stid the elec
trical! supply agent. “so that you will
be awakened if a burglar raises one of
the windows or opens a door at night.”
“No burglar can get in here while we
are peacefully sleeping!’ replied Mr.
Newpop. ‘We are weaning our baby.”
—Chicago Record-Herald.
Notable Exceptions.
Mrs. Bloobumper—Yes, everybody is
always ready to give advice.
Bloobumper—There are exceptions.
“Are there?"
“Yes; doctors and lawyers.”
The lessons of life are lost if they do
not impress us with the necessity of
making ample allowances for the im
mature conclusions of others.
The wowsn showed u tut finger in
whose folds of flesh wus lwmbedded a
plain gold ring.
“How much will you let me have on
this ring?" she said to the pawnbroker.
“1 can’t tell until you take it off so
1 can weigh it.” be said.
She tugged at the ring. It wouldn't
the ring toward the band. Then he
wound the long end of the thread
tightly and evenly around the finger
almost to the pail. That done, be
took the needle and unwound the
thread from the base of the finger out.
and as be unwound the ring slipped
off. He weighed the ring.
“I'wo dollars,” be said.
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Mythical Creatures of Japan.
The Japanese believe in more myth-
eal creatures than any other people on
any remarkable peculiarities of con-
formation, but gifted with superpat-
ural attributes, such us a tiger which
1s said to live to be a thousand years
old and to turn us white as a polar
bear. They also believe in a multitude
of animals distinguished mainly by
their size or by the multiplication of
their members. Among these are ser-
pents S00 feet long und large enough
to swallow an elephant, foxes with
eight legs, monkeys with four eurs,
fishes with ten beads attached to one
body, the flesh of which is a cure for
boils. They also believe In the exist-
ence of a crane which, after it bas
reached the age of GUU years, has no
need of any sustenance 2gcept water.
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Blamed the Last
A man who from all appearances
bad dined well, but not wisely, bought
a ticket at the box office of a theater
where a farce was being produced in
German. The man settled comfortably
back in his seat, smiling at the pretty
stage setting and evidently prepared ing
to enjoy an evening of pleasant diver-
sion. After a time he began to look
worried and leaned forward in his
seat.
“Strangest thing ever sperienced.” be
muttered.
A few minutes later he left the thea-
ter. At the door the ticket taker of-
fered him a return.
“Nope; don't want it,” he said as he
brushed it aside. “Guess that last
drink went to my head. Can't under-
stand a blamed thing them people
a-sayin’. I'm goin’ home to bed.”—
Philadelphia Times.
Extravagant Mourning.
Pepys’ diary bas this on the mourn
ing customs of the time: On Sept. 22, |
1660. when there was mourning for |
King Charles’ brother, the Duke of |
Gloucester, he “bought a pair of short |
black stockings to wear over a pair of |
silk ones for mourning.”
To most people. expecially when they
are on the road. time is money. but
time tables are not convertible into
cash. In the pages of “Through Sav-
uge Europe” Harry De Windt gives a
curious and amusing experience on a
Russian rallway some years ago. The
patience of the Russians is in marked
contrast with the impatience of Amer-
fcan travelers. All Russians bave a
rooted antipathy to fast railway travel,
if one may judge from an incident
which occurred some years ago when
1 was travelling across the Caucasus
from Batoum to Baku. We bad
reached a tunnel. at the entrance of
which the train waited for at least
twenty minutes.
“There is something wrong.” 1 re-
marked to a fellow passenger.
“Ol. po,” he replied: “we are only
making up the time. This tunnel was
recently made to avold a long bend
round a range of hills, and as it now
cuts off several miles a short delay is
pecessary so as to fit in with the sched-
uled time.”
“But surely we should save time by
all the time tables.”
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Form of Divorce In Old Rome.
In the earlier period of the Roman
republic divorces were quite unknown
and were rare right up to the time of
the Sullan wars. Ip the old days the
husband and wife who wished to sepa-
rate appeared for the last time before
the common hearth, a priest and
priestess being present. As oD the day
of marriage, a cake of wheaten flour
was presented to the busband and
wife. but instead of sharing it be
tween them they rejected it. Then. in.
stead of prayers, they pronounced
formulas of a strange, severe, spiteful
of worship having ceased to exist, the
marriage without further ado was for-
ever dissolved.—New York American.
Floral Etymology.
“Primrose” i= one of those words
that have shown popular association
to be stronger than etymology. It bas
po real connection with the rose, but
is the old French *“primerole” and.
anyhow. means only the “prime” or
first flower (more or less) of the year.
Our language bas insisted upon mak-
“poses” of all sorts of flowers.
We have the tuberose. which is only
“tuberosa,” tuberous, and the rose
mary, which is “rosmarious,” dew of
the sea. On the other hand the “rose”
has been dropped readily enough in
cases where popular fancy could not
see the flower. The alchemists called
green vitriol “rose of copper,” “cupri-
rosa.” In French this became *“‘coupe-
rose,” but English wore it down to the
pointless “copperas.”—London Chron-
icle.
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The Dancing Mania.
The “dancing wauia” of the middle |
| ages came on the heels of the great
plague known us the “black death.”
It was some sort of nervous disease
and is now supposed to have been
what is known as “St. Vitus’ dance.”
It began in the year 1374 at Alx-la-
Chapelle and spread all over Germany.
the Netherlands and Italy. The dan-
Next day | cers formed circles band in hand and
“came one from my father's with a appearing to have lost all reason, con-
black cloth coat, made of my short
cloak, to walk up and down in." The
problem of mourning for men must
have been greater than it is now in
those days. when ordinary mascaline
costume was less somber. On this oc-
| tinued dancing. regardless of the by-
| standers, for hours together until in
their wild delirium they fell to the
| ground in sheer exhaustion. Panting
| and foaming at the mouth, they would
| suddenly spring up and begin the
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casion Pepys records seeing “the king | dance again, to be again exhausted,
in purple mourning for his brother." ' and so ob until they died. The mania
There is one mourning extravagance
of the early eighteenth century which
would scarcely commend itself—the
soles of the shoes used to be blacked.
—8t. James®' Gazette.
The Two Occasions.
At a Scotch temperance meeting an
old man. scarcely celebrated for his so-
| involved millions of people.
The Twelve Jurymen.
A prisoner 1s tried by twelve of his
i fellow countrymen. This custom is a
thousand years old. and we get it from
| the vikings. The vikings divided their
country up into cantons, which were
subdivided into twelve portions, each
briety. arose and after addressing the | under a chieftain. When a malefactor
audience upon the desirability of mod-
eration in all things, remarked:
“My friends, there's just twa oceca-
sions when | tak’ whisky.”
There was a chorus of “Abs!” in the
audience, when be continued. “1 only
tak’ whisky when | hae haggis for
dinner. and the only other occasion
when 1 tak’ whisky is when | hae no
baggis for dinner.”
Suspicious.
It was down in the marker district.
“What this country needs is plenty
of bone and sinew.” said the tall one.
“Yes, and plenty of grit and sand.”
echoed the short one. “By the way.
what business are you in*"
“Oh. I'm a butcher. And you?"
“Wh—er—1 distribute strawberries
when they arrive from the southern
markets.” —Chicago News.
The Human Mind.
Slow in forming. swift in acting;
slow in the making. swift in the work-
ing; slow in the summit. swift down
the other slope. It is the way of na-
ture and the way of the human mind.
~-Anthony Hope.
Precocious In Spots.
Bobby—Do | have to go to school,
mother? Mother—Of course, Bobby.
Bobby— Why. mother. | heard you tell
father last night that | knew entirely
too much.—Detroit Free Press.
The Unknown Great.
“My tooth hurts like Sam HII"
“Who the Dickens is Sam Hill?”
“Well. who in Sam Hill is Dickens?”
«Toledo Blade.
Be neither ignorant nor careless with
respect to the future.—Vergil
| was brought to justice it was usual
. for each chieftain to select a man from
the district over which he ruled and
compel him to try the prisoner. the
verdict of these twelve men being de
clared by the judge to be final
Made Her Mad.
“1 thought 1 overheard you and your
| wife quarreling a little while ago.
| What was the trouble?”
| “She brought home a new hat. and
after putting it on she turned to me
and said she didn't believe it was be
coming.”
“Well
“1 agreed with her."—Chicago Rec-
| ord-Herald.
A One Sided Rule.
Once when P. T. Parpum was tak-
ing tickets at the entrance of his cir-
| cus a man asked him if he could go
in without paying.
“You can pay without going in,” said
Barnum, “but you can't go in without
paying. The rule doesn’t work both
ways.”
Not by Exclusion.
He—I had a hard time getting a
| good wife.
She—Goodness: Have you been mar-
ried several times?
“Ob. no. But | courted my present
one six years.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
Usually the Way.
Mamie—She is trying to keep her
marriage a secret.
Maud-How do you know?
“She told me so.”
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To forgive a fault in another is more
sublime than to be faultless oneself.~
| George Sava.
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