Various Mourning Customs.
When mourning for their dead the
Israelites neither washed nor anointed 1
themselves. Greeks and Romans fasted.
In Europe they wear black, in China
white, in Turkey violet and in Ethiopia
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Divided the Wedding Presents.
The following advertisement ap
pears in a Hungarian Journal: "lima
Rok and Franz Sitoli have great pleas
ure in informing their friends that
their engagement is broken off, and
that they have amicably agreed to di
vide the wedding presents received In
stead of returning them to the donor."
JOINED THE SOCIETY.
She —You don't mean to tell me that
Green has joined a sewing society?
He—Well, I heard that he was sow
ing his wild oats.
1 ~" '
Vuh.'*' s_*lL best salesman
W/ft u cannot work more
'MI/ffrlz-Zthan 12 hours a day.
'f/lwJwil 1 a <' vert ' sement
. < your goods in this paper
(I mliralffliaßaSi works while you sleep and
wake—24 hours a day.
It works in many house
' / V',- y holds at the same time.
It talks better than the
'—_ most fluent $ ... a week
salesman.
No one slams the door
in its face.
.. <J RESULT: It sells goods.
*3 About the cost? Far less
than the $ . . . . salesman
t Hand does lots more work.
(Copyright, I'JIW, by \Y. N. U.)
Exaggerated Cruelty.
A well known gentleman took horse
exercise dally, accompanied by n inag
niflcent bloodhound, until he conceived
an enthusiasm for cycling, when he
altered the program by leaving the
bloodhound at home and taking as his
companion a fine dachshund.
The pair were passing through a
village recently when a laboring youth
remarked to his "pal:"
"If Ol wor proline minister Oi'd put
a stop ter this 'ere bicyclin' business."
"Why?" queried the other.
"Cos it owt ter be stopped, if only
for th' sake o' that dog as is n-puffln*
(long behind theer," rejoined the first
speaker. "It ain't sport; it's cruelty
to hanimais."
His companion disagreed and said
he thought the dog benefited by the
exercise.
"Exercise!" retorted the other scorn
fully. "D'ye call-that exercise? You
never saw that dog afore 'is master
started blkin', did yer?"
"No, I didn't."
"Well," said the youth, " 'e wor one
0' th' finest bloodhounds you iver clap
ped heyes on, an' wot's 'e now? 'ls
body's dwindled away to nowt, while
'is legs is worn clean darn to th'
stumps. Ol repeat. It's cruelty ter han
imais."—London Bystander.
Got His Money's Worth.
A lady palmist was recently prose
cuted, and an amusing incident was
noted in connection with the case. One
of the witnesses called by the police
was an individual who did not appear
to be overburdened with intelligence.
During a smart cross examination de
fendant's counsel asked him:
"On first going into the room did
you pay a shilling fee to the defend
ant?"
"Yes," was the reply.
"What did she tell you in return for
the money?"
"Oh," said the witness, "she towld
mo lots o' things, some on 'em true,
some on 'em half true an' some on 'em
less."
"Now," continued the counsel after
the laughter had died away, "this is
the point I wish to get at: Was there
any attempt at imposition? Did you
lady Impose upon you at all?"
"Oh, dear, no!" was the response. "I
knowed it wor all gammon, so there
couldn't be no imposition. Besides, it
wor a bad shillin' as I guv her, to start
with!"— London Tit-Bits.
Marriage In Picardy.
A Picardy custom, founded on a
broad basis of common sense as well
as the idea of complete partnership, is
that which puts a new bride through a
kind of examination in Ae trade of her
husband. It may, of course, have be
come something of a burlesque, and
the bride may purposely show less dex
terity than she need. Still, the consid
eration of the wife as a helpmate is
very clearly shown in the performance.
If the young wife's husband be a farm
er, she will be asked to harness a
horse and cart and to harrow a small
piece of land. If her choice has fallen
on an ironworker, she must hammer a
piece of iron; if on a miller, she must
measure out wheat from a basket at
the church door; if on a smith, she is
supposed to be able to strike the anvil;
if on a sailor, she has to clean and
mend some netting, and so on with the
other occupations. Evidently the keep
ing of an idle wife is not understood in
ricardy.—T. P.'s London Weekly.
Whale and Elephant Meat.
There is something unpleasant about
the thought of eating whale meat, but
it is said that the reality is very pala
table. Japan has quite a trade in
canned and salted whale meat, and
there is to be a campaign to educate
the European peoples to like it. Some
whaling companies have distributed
from their headquarters samples of
canned whale meat, and those who
have eaten it describe it as tenderer
than beef and much like it in taste.
Whale steak seems no queerer than
Frankfort sausage made out of an ele
phant, which is what some German
people have been eating. An enter
prising butcher over there, hearing
that an unruly elephant in the Ghent
zoological gardens was to be killed,
engaged the carcass. He made 3,800
pounds of sausage out of it and sold
every pound at good prices.
Friends.
"Dear friends," said the philosopher,
"are scarce items in this world. They
are too few to be counted."
"What d'ye call a friend?" he was
asked.
"A friend," he replied, "is one who
would lend you money if you wanted
It and to whom you would lend money
—if you had it."—New York Times.
Mr. Manning's Grudge.
Mrs. Manning—Do you think It is
right to let that Greyson fellow keep
company with our Martha? Mr. Man
ning—No, I can't say that it is. Young
Greyson is a nice chap, but I've a
grudge against his father, and I don't
care if the son has to suffer for it.—
Exchange.
An Alibi.
Examiner—What is an alibi? Can
didate For the Bar—An alibi is commit
ting a crime In one place when you are
in another place. If you can be in two
other places the alibi is all the strong
er in law.—Puck.
Knew Him.
"Yes, I'm anxious to get my daugh
ter off m.v hands. I'll admit."
"Then why don't you let her marry
ine?"
"What good would that do?"—Cleve
and Leader.
Who would not have feet set on his
aeck let him not stoop.—ltalian Prov-
Lady Passenger's Log.
It was blowing rather hard, and
there was u nasty sea on uu hour and
a half before the first breakfast bugle.
An officer of an ocean liner hurried
along tiie [vassage between the state
rooms, and a timid voice called to bin
"Oh, Mr. Officer, please stop!"
He turned and saw :i dear ">!d i i
with a wrapper thrown ar-«ti»n'
peeping through her Inl." up. .t •:
"Yes, madam." said 1 >•. i •
"Mr. Officer, please woih :
this a gale?" asked 11>.•
lously.
"Oh. no. madam! Tl" : -
least danger, I assuiv v
"Well, is It half a gale •
"Not even half a
such an excellent sea b"ut 1 . i;
needn't worry a bit." ex pin 1..'
ficer.
"Well, what would you call r.
please?" said the lady, steadying her
self as the vessel rolled.
"Just a fresh nor'west breeze, mad
am, with a cross sea running. But
realb', there's nothing to fear."
"TTiank you so much. I just wanted
to get it quite right in my diary, you
know."—New York Times.
A Chinese Superstition.
Fengshui is the Chinese superstition
that determines good site or locality,
and if a town on the Yangtze has not
a good fengshui trade will not come to
it, and it will be ruined. A town
named Peishih had Its pagoda In the
wrong place—not far enough down the
river—and the result was that all traf
fic which should have come to It was
swept past, Peishih being left out In
the cold. The people pulled down the
pagoda and built another one in the
supposed right spot, as nothing would
convince them that the depression
could arise from any other cause than
that of a bad fengshui.
The city of Wanshein, on the other
hand, has a perfect fengshui. two fine
pagodas, and is very prosperous. But
the fact that Wanshein is situated in
a fertile valley, where wheat, barley
and the poppy flourish abundantly,
while Peishih is barren and miserable,
does not concern the inhabitants BO
much as the fengshui site. This re
markable idea In the Chinese mind is
only one of thousands like it
Mastication.
"The body Is a manufactory," said
a doctor recently. "It has to manufac
ture bone and blood and muscle and
brain out of bread and butter, eggs,
beef and milk, and a wonderful proc
ess It is. Now, the first part of the
process takes place in the mouth, and,
as in most factories, the first is the
most important. If a wrong start is
made, everything that follows is put
"wrong. If the food isn't well mas
ticated and mixed with the saliva, the
stomach, the liver and the intestines
are thrown out of gear; consequent
ly most of the more advanced doctors
are paying a great deal of attention to
the condition of their patients' teeth.
They know, to garble Shakespeare a
bit, that "good digestion waits on mas
tication, and health on both."—New
York Tribune.
How Letters Strike Our Eyes.
Roman letters of various sizes are
commonly called into request by ocu
lists in testing vision. Recent experi
ments show great differences in the
ease with which the various letters are
recognized by the same person. T is
especially difficult of recognition and
is apt to be mistaken for Y. By a sim
ilar optical illusion the angle of L is
rounded off, making the letter resem
ble a reversed J. V is the easiest of
all letters to recognize, and O presents
little difficulty. K is more easily rec
ognized than 11, which resembles it
closely, and both N and Z are easily
recognized. A is easily guessed at
from its general form, but is difficult
of positive recognition, including dis
tinct perception of the horizontal line.
E and F are among the most difficult
of all letters.
Discouraging.
A pompous man went into a drug
store early the other morning to buy
a cigar. The only person he found
there was the soda water dispenser.
The boy was sweeping out the store.
"Sweeping out. eh?" said the man.
"Well, thafs how I got my start."
The boy looked him over and re
plied, "Aw, what do you want to dis
courage me like that for?"
When the man left he was frown
ing.—Denver Post.
Edifying.
Gentleman (looking for rooms)— Did
you say a music teacher occupies the
>ext apartment? That cannot be very
pleasant. Landlady (eagerly) Oil.
that's nothing. He has eleven chil
dren, and they make so much noise
you can't hear the piano.—Harper's
Bazar.
Utilizing Her.
"My dear, the hired girl has quit."
"Well, that's all right. Just drop a
line to your mother inviting her to
visit us. She'll do the housework un
til we can get another maid."—New
York Journal.
Out of Her Reach.
Elsie—Why N Clara always so shun
of money? Didn't her father leaw
her a lot? Madge—Yes; but, you see.
she's uot to get it till she's thix-ty, and
she'll never own up to that."—Boston
Transcript.
Opulence.
"What is your idea of happiness?"
"To be able to spend my own mune.t
Just as If I were going to turn in I;:I
expense account when I got home."—
Chicago Record-Herald.
Ilnnk lias its bores as well ns pleas
ires.—Beaconsfleid.
The Monkey and the Pie.
An Indian faker had a monkey that
he had brought up from babyhood,
says an English writer. The pair were
fast friends, the monkey being a faith
ful attendant on his master and as
good as a watchdog. One day the
faker made a pie for dinner and left
it to cook on a charcoal Are while he
went for a walk. As the cooking pro
ceeded the savory smell was too much
for the monkey. It raised the crust
and tasted the chicken. Finding the
food very tasty, it ate more and more
until nothing but the crust remained.
Then it remembered its master, who
would shortly return hungry and ready
to enjoy his meal. What was to be
done? The sharp eyes of the monkey
detected some crows not far away, so
without loss of time it lay down on
the ground as If dead. By and by n
crow came along and pecked at the
monkey, which seized the bird in i
twinkling, strangled It. stripped off th
feathers, placed it In pieces In th
dish, covered It over with the cruf
and then contentedly awaited the ri
turn of the faker, to whom the whr
lncident was related by an e.vewltne
Left Handed Vituperatives.
Most counties in England have th
Idiomatic expressions to denote 1
handedness, and they are often r
fixed to the unfortunate left han
child's name. In London the ten
kack handed, the word being
equivalent to awkward. In La
shire it is k-pawed. In Yorkshire
lock or gawk handed, an expres
dating back to at least the sevente
century. In Derbyshire are used
terms keg handed, cork handed
corky handed, while In the Tee!
district cuddy handed is common
in Nottinghamshire wallet handed
In the south of England si
terms to detfote left handednes
also found. In Dorset it is st
handed and In Devonshire i
handed. In Scotland we find
handed and in the west cawry b.
In Ireland a left handed man is
a kithogtie. Tim Healy used thi
In a speech at East Wieklow, li
he said that Mr. O'Kell.v com
with his left hand and had
given his opponent some "kltl
that would spoil his political
during the contest. —London CI
Bursting Balloons.
The greatest danger of a hijz
In a balloon is concerned
changing density of the atn
On the ground the atmosphen
on the balloon with a weight
fifteen pounds for every sqy
of its surface. As the ball'o
however, the air grows thi
its pressure becomes in coi
less and less. As the pressi
outside atmosphere decrease
loon expands, and if the ar
made too rapidly or withou'
care the gas inside the sii'
will expand until Ihe ball
But the bursting of a balk
air is by no means necessr
eatastrophe. Every balloo
ed with a "ripping cord" \.
pulled, cuts a long rent in 11
out of which the gas speedi
The silk line is then carriet
into the upper portion of
where in the majority •
forms a parachute and bi
thing safely to earth.
Doubtful Praise
Mr. Faxon was the olde
the "select boarding bouF
he lived, and his landlad
referred people to him '
mendation of her table*. 1
«o praise the foorl highly
••(tfiseientiously do. but
overstepped his mark.
"I'm dyspeptic, sir." sni
had gone to Mr. Faxon
quiries about the boardii
my food has to be sin
cooked—no high sensonin
ible compounds."
Mr. Faxon looked at
bland and reassuring sn
"My dear sir," he sni
impressive manner, "yoi
fears. All I have eat
years I have been undo
roof would not interfct
gestion of the most do
in the land."
When Lovers Watch
Most curious of the
stitions of New Engln
torn of requiring love
corpse. It associate'
marriage with the s
poetic and has only
the oldest towns wi
No obligation of tbi
was more scrupulous
that a dead body sh<
alone at uight. In
the solemn watchers
women, deacons. sH<
colonies grew honeM
ed troths were 112 reqi
these long vigils.
Sa
"Your political a
you every name be
the agitated friend.
"Don't interrupt
Senator Sorghum,
a man searching
epithets than goii
for facts."— NVashi
Tho Way
"The longest da:
June, pa, but whe
"Sometimes in
August, depend!
mother takes
York I'ress.
Foresight is v»
row is very fooli
| any rato better
1 ilti\—Sir Joliu L*