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“Can you read the date and the
scription?” inquired the collector.
The visitor inspected the specimen;
but, although he bad the aid of a mag- |
a that it about his
words and figures were lllegible. tricks with it. A native snake
“Let me assist you,” the collector re- o. would have known there was
Be thrust an ordinary coal shore 10 Lr han ti, for the Tae abhor
the fire and permitted it to remain | rough handling on movement
there until red hot. Withdrawing It. | of any sort. The result of the exploit
he dropped the coin on the utensil, and | wag that the keeper was bitten on the
it speedily became as red hot as the | pose. He was burried off to the hos-
ahavet itself. Simmeiidy te date. | pital, but died in a few hours.—London
shone brigh glowin, figures | Globe.
on the obverse side of the coin, and |
similar treatment revealed the ho The Dreadful Looking Person.
“Dnited States of America, Ope Cent,” | Rodin. the world famous French
on the reverse. This test, according | sculptor. has bad a wonderful career,
to the numismatist. seldom fails with | and. like most men who have risen
any coin even when the es | Sow obscurity to fame, he still pre-
have been worn so perfectly smooth serves much of the simplicity of his
that they are invisible to the naked early days. One day he was entertain-
eye.~New York Press. ing a few artists, among them a Ger-
{ man who had never before visited the
The Dignity of the Office. | seniptor. At dinner they were waited
An Indian judge when frst appoint. lon by a particularly plain looking wo-
on was no ac- | man.
quainted with Hindustani. says the. “I'm surprised.” remarked the Ger-
Bombay Gazette. He was trying 8 man during one of the woman's ab-
case in which a Hindu was charged | gences from the room, “that you |
with stealing a “nilghal.” The judge should have such a very dreadful look-
did not like to betray his ignorance of ing person about you. Why don't you
what a nilghai was, so he said, “Pro- get a nice, good looking young house- |
duce the stolen property.” keeper?”
The court was held in an upper room, |
80 the usher gasped. “Please, your
lordship, it's downstairs.” :
“Then bring it up instantly!” sternly
ordered the judge.
The official departed. and a minute
later a loud bumping was heard, min-
gled with loud and earnest exhorta-
tions. Nearer came the noise; the door
was pushed open, and the panting offi-
cial appeared dragging in the blue bull,
The judge was dumfounded. but only
for an instant.
“Ah! That will do.” said he. “It is
always best. when possible. for the
judge personally to inspect the stolen
property. Remove the stolen proper
ty, usher.”
“Catgut” From Silkworms.
Probably but a small percentage of
the fishermen who use flies strung
with fine translucent ‘catgut’ are
aware that the almost unbreakable
substance that holds the hooks against
the fiercest struggles of the struck fish
comes from silkworms.
The principal center of the manu-
facture of this kind of catgut is the
island of Procida, in the bay of Na-
ples. but most of the silkworms em-
ployed are raised near Torre Annun-
ziata, at the foot of Vesuvius. The
caterpillars are killed just as they are
about to begin the spinning of cocoons,
the silk glands are removed and sub-
jected to a process of pickling. shich
is a secret of the trade, and afterward
the threads are carefully drawn out
by skilled workers, mostly women.
The length of the thread varies from
a foot to nearly twenty inches.—Sci-
entific American.
Chopin's Likes and Dislikes.
Bach and, above all, Mozart were
Chopin's ideals. “his gods.” Hummel,
Field and Moscheles were his favor-
ite pianists. [Field's nocturnes were
greatly prized by him. He admired
Schubert. though not without reserve.
Weber and Beethoven only partially
satisfied him. He disliked much of
Mendelssohn's music and found still
less to praise in Schumann, never us-
ing any of his pieces in giving bis les-
sons. He disapproved of Berlioz, and,
while he liked Meyerbeer personally,
he heartily disliked his music. Liszt
says truly that Chopin sought in the
great masterpieces only that which
corresponded with his nature. “What |
resembled it pleased him, What dif-
fered from it received scant justice
from him.”—Dole's “Famous Compos-
ers.”
The Thirsty Eim. i
it has been computed that if the
leaves of an elm tree sixty feet high
were spread out on the ground edge
to edge they would cover five acres of |
land, ‘These leaves, averaging 7,000.
000 to a full grown tree, will absorb |
water to the amount of seven tons |
during the normal summer day. Were
it not for the ingathering by the sto- |
mata during the night a few elms |
would soon draw off all the water
from a district.
He Was Prepared.
Mrs. MeTurk—Mr. McDougall, up- |
stairs. fell over his window sill an’
was kilt last night, sir. The Minister—
Dear, dear, how sad! [ trust he was
prepared for the end? Mrs. McTurk— |
Oh, I'm sure he wuz, because when he |
passed oor window I heard him say,
ao fur the bump!”—Dundee Adver- |
Three of Them.
Dearborn—-Do you know the seven
wonders of the world? Wabash—Well,
1 know three of them. Dearborn—Only
three? Wabash—Yes. [I've only got
three sons, you know.—Exchange.
The Polite Chesterfield.
A nobleman of questionable veracity
told Lord Chesterfield one day that he
had drunk six bottles of champagne.
“That is more than I can swallow,”
remarked his lordship.
A Historic Irish Bull.
Notwithstanding the large amount
paid for medicine and medical attend-
ance very few deaths occurred during
the year.—From an Irish Benevolent
| ing"
In parts of France,
Society's Report.
There was a sudden ghastly silence.
Then Rodin smiled.
“1 don't like © be waited on at meals
by servants,” "he explained. “The
' dreadful looking person is my wife.”
“The Texas of Eurepe.”
In the reminiscences of Mrs. T. P.
O'Connor, “1 Myself.” the author tells
of her first meeting with Henry James,
whom she calls “a sort of Massachu-
setts Sir Galahad:”
The first time | met him | sat next
him at a dinner. [| had just come to
London, and he asked we if | liked it.
1 said 1 hadu’t made up my wind, and
he sald | would—that in London you
were allowed every independence of
opinion and action, only you must con-
tribute something socially —beauty (and
he bowed very courteously to me, and
1 bowed very prettily to him or wit
or agreeableness—and then London ac-
cepted you. | said:
itself. In Texas,
they say a man is not asked his na-
tionality, his religion or his politics,
but only if he is a good fellow.”
Texas of Europe.”
Jolted Mark Twain.
“Mark Twain,”
itor,
mously.
authorship he
compliments about it. One evening
at a dinner be sald carelessly to a sen-
ator:
* ‘Are you a novel reader?
“Yes, a great novel reader,
the reply.
“1 don't suppose you're following
that anonymous new serial, “Joan of
Are?’
“‘indeed I am, though, every in-
stallment.’
“ “What do you think of it? Is it
o
*“ “That's hardly a fair question to
ask me, the senator, who knew the
book's real author, replied. ‘You see,
I wrote “Joan of Arc” myself.”
was
Brides In Iceland.
A quaint old superstition in Iceland
is that every bride must invite all her
friends to a dinner in her own home
and every article of food must be pre-
pared by the bride herself. If she is
successful in pleasing her guests she
not only receives praise for her own
skill, but helps along her younger sis-
ters, who are then assumed to be
equally good at cooking and conse-
! quently have a much better chance of
getting married.
Woolgathering.
“For one's wits to go woolgather-
is an allusion to a pitiful indus-
try sometimes seen in older countries.
Germany and
| Spain very old people are sometimes
employed in gathering wool from
bushes in sheep pastures, where it has
| been plucked from the fleece as the
animals pass too close to the branches.
Kind Little Boy.
“Has my boy been a little defender
and been kind to dumb animals to-
day?” .
“Yes, grandma. I let your canary
cut of the cage, and when my cat
caught it 1 set Towser on her.”
A Change of Opinion.
“1 suppose. old feilow, your wife still
thinks she married a treasure?’ re-
marked a bachelor to a married friend.
“No,” said the benedict; “I bave a
distinct impression that she regards
me as a treasury!”
A Soft Answer.
Thi Tile of & wan who came home
he
= enjoy myself half as
much, and it takes me twice as long.”
my head, of course. What do you
mean? Critic—You must be glad that
fit 1s out!
{
Ambition is like love—limpatient both ,
of delay and rivals.—Denham.
“History repeats |
where I was born, |
“Ah' ‘
said Mr. James, “then London is the |
“brought out ‘Joan of Are’ anony- |
Before he acknowledged its |
sometimes fished for |
Jeoan’s Snapping Turtle Farm.
ine of the oddest farms in the world
turns out each Year tens of thousands
of snapping turtles and has solved the
problem of preserving the supply of
what is to the Japanese as great
a delicacy as diamond back terra-
pin is to some Americans. This queer
farm consists of a number of ponds.
Certain of them are set apart as breed-
ing ponds. Once a day a man goes
over the shores and with little wire
baskets covers up all new egg de-
posits. Sometimes thousands of these
wire baskets are in sight at a time
marking the places where the eggs lie
and preventing turtles from scratching
the earth from them. Hatching re
quires from forty to sixty days, ac-
cording to the weather. The young as
soon as they appear are put in separate
small ponds and are fed with finely
chopped fish. They eat this during
September and October and late in
winter, coming out In April or May.
Most of them are sold in the market
when they are from three to five years
old, at which time they are most deli-
cate.—Harper's.
A Resourceful Badger.
An English artist while painting a
sea plece discovered a badger's lair and
thought to play the animal a practical
Joke.
grass and weeds, he placed it inside
the mouth of the hole and, igniting it
with a match, waited for the ignomini-
| ous flight of the astonished household-
| er. But Master Badger was a resource-
| ful animal and not disposed to be
| made a butt of practical jokers. He
came up from the depths of his hole
. as soon as the penetrating smoke told
! him that there was a fire on the prew-
| 1ses and deliberately scratched earth
{on the burning grass with his strong
| claws until all danger was past. No
| human being could have grasped the
situation more quickly or dispiayed
| greater skili in dealing with an un-
| familiar event.
Building a Reputation.
Young physicians in the smaller
towns have an iden that appearing
very busy will help them greatly in
starting a practice. The following is
(told by a now prominent Kentucky
physician.
noon following the hanging out of his
shingle and started through town in
his buggy at terrific speed. A police-
man stopped the enterprising physi
| clan.
“Doctor,” he said,
October burrow in the mud for the |
i
. ————
Worked the Visitor.
| “Speaking about visiting English-
men,” said a hotel manager recently
who had been reading about one in the
newspapers, “reminds me of one that
came to the Palmer [House in Chicago
some years ago when | was room clerk
out there. He and another had been
paying a visit to the Rockies, and their
last stopping place had been Cheyenne.
Coming east they had fallen in with
some Americans who made themselves
agreeable, with this result:
“After they had put their names on
the register one of the Englishmen
leaned over the desk.
“1 say,” he whispered, ‘1 am expect-
ing President Cleveland's son to call
this evening to return £50 which I
lent him on the train. Will you please
put the money in the safe for me If |
do not happen to be in?
“] promised, for 1 had not the heart
to shatter his confidence in human na-
ture. President Cleveland didn't hap-
pen to have such a thing as a son at
that time.” --New York Sun.
Royal Perquisites.
The king has many privileges which |
: Iie never exercises. He enjoys an im-
{
memorial right to all gold and silver
mines. not only on his own land, but
! upon any of his subjects’ lands within
Gathering together a bundle of |
He had a call the after- |
“it is against the |
ety ordinance to drive at the speed |
you are going. You must accompany
me to the judge and pay your fine.”
“What
doctor.
“Five dollars.”
The doctor's hand flew to his pocket.
| “Here's $10. 1 have to come back just
j« the fine?" inquired the
‘as fast as I am going.” —Success Maga- |
! zine.
said a magazine ed- |
his dominions. So shareholders in
Rand and Westralian mines would
have to forego their dividends if the
king felt avariciously disposed. The
king is also entitled to a yearly tribute
from his tailor, consisting of a pair of
white doves, a pound of cummin seed.
a pair of scarlet hose and a silver
needle.
All sturgeons and whales caught in
British waters are royal perquisites.
The whale has a split lability.
tall belongs to the queen. while its
head goes to the king. It is generally
assnmed that the partition was decid-
ed upon in order that the queen should
always be supplied with whalebone,
but if so the founder of this act of
beneicence committed the mistake of
Its
giving the queen the wrong balf.— |
Londen Chronicle.
Witty Ann Pitt.
Bolingbroke called England's great
em ——
bam), “Sublimity Pitt,” and he dubbed Patents.
his sister Ann “Divinity Pitt.” But
that must have been long after there
were written and received the delight-
ful letters addressed to Pitt's “Dearest
Nanny.” his “little Nan,” his “little
TENTS. TRADE MARKS, COPYRIGHTS.
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Handbook on patents sent free. Oldest agency
Jug.” for securing patents. 6 years expernence.
“Oh, for the restless tongue of dear $1 nen Hiro Ny Co. Special
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ten by him from Northampton when, a ' 2 ed weekly. Largest circula-
1ad of twenty-three, be had but lately Hon, of any scientific journal. Terms 83 a year:
joined his regiment. MUNN & CO.,
Ann Pitt's restless tongue was never RAY a
stilled. for when Chesterfield, calling
on her in his later life, complained of
decay with the words, “I fear that I
am growing an old woman,” Ann brisk-
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He Was Polite. ro in Bellefonte by C. M.
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He—The great trouble with Ga 2251y. MARTIN RUDY. Pa
bleigh is he talks too much. She—
That's strange. When he's been with
| me he's scarcely said a word. He—
| Oh, he's too much of a gentleman to
' interrupt.—Boston Transcript,
‘Travelers Guide.
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