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Once on a time, the NlRhtinKale. whose
llal with her praises aft the forest ring
ing. Const-ntod at a concert to appear.
Of course her friends all flocked to hear.
And wlih them many a critic, wide-awake
To pick a flaw, or carp at a mistake.
She sans as only nightingales can sing.
And when she ended
There was a general cry of: "Brava! Splen
did!" While she, ioor thing.
Abashed and fluttering, to her neat re
treated. Quite tirriried to he so warmly greeted.
The Turkeys gobMed their delight; the
Geese.
Who had been known to hiss at many a
trial.
fSave this one no dental:
It seemed as If the applause would never
cease.
Hut! "Mong the critics on the ground.
An Ass was present, ompous and pro
found. Who said: "My friends. I will not dispute
the honor.
That you would do our little prima donna.
.Although her upiH-r notes are very shrill.
And she defies all method In her trill.
She has some talent, and, upon the whole,
"With study may soon cleverness attain.
Then, her friends tell me she's a virtuous
soul:
Put. but"
"Hut," growled the I.lon. "hy my mane.
1 never knew an Ass who did not strain
To qualify a good thing with a but!"
"Nay." said the (loose, approaching with a
strut.
Ton't interrupt him. sire: let him pro
ceed: The Ass is honest, that we all concede."
"I was alout," said Long Kar, "to re
mark That there Is tometh!ng lacking in her
whistle
Something magnetic.
To awaken chorda and feelings sym
pathetic. And kindle In the breast a spark
l-.ike like, for instance, a good. Juicy
thistle."
The assembly tittered, hut the Fox, with
gravity.
Said to the I.lon. winking.
"Our. learned friend, with his accustomed
suavity.
Mas given his opinion, without shrink
ing: Tint to do justice to the Nightingale.
He should Inform us, as no doubt he
will.
What sort of music 'tis that does not fail
His sensibilities to course and thrill."
"Why." said the critic, with a look toten
tial. And pricking up his ears, delighted much
At HpynnrJ's tone and manner, defer
ential. "Why. sir, there's nothing can so deeply
touch
My feelings, and so carry me away.
As a fine, mellow, ear-inspiring bray."
"Ah, yes." the Fox returned, without a
pause.
VSo far as you're concerned, your Judg
ment's true.
You do nan like the Nightingale, because
The Nightingale Is not an Ass like you "
K. Clark, in Youth's Companion.
TWO WEPDLViS.
Wlapn Pnnrnl Harris iieanl the ejm-ry,
mnNiivil lauti of his wife in the urlor
a he Kit in tlwi library, he lail iu;il?
his lx.k. tsf.cil his cifriu" from tjie vstr.
tiv ttl v-nt to tihe wviie of nierri
nuiiU Tlfcoiig-h t,-y Jiad t wo lit tie t..ts
tlust pivoiuik-tl t be inedibility of pluoin
iiisH in the- lu'iisclu.ld, tin father :is
jin imn-.il a lirveir its in tjie tlnyvof otmrt
shi ami would Itave. lat-n irrajtihl y
al.timt'teal by ultat KuiltIi even t.luufrh his
bursiiaes in 1i:umI uul lietui niiu-h more
JslTtalll.S.
"What in it nw.lr1.tleone?"he.-uske(I.
it h a sy tiiitlMt io nnilo, as lie enterel.
Tlie. iliniUMitive title tliil iat at all fi'
1.1ie rrlowing- uimI luippy youi.p iiuitron
to w latmi it vtasapi.lietl. for sJie was tctll,
rraffiil and scnwil of that rare
iai-autj vttliieh .L fount! in expression
lather than in an analysis of featuics.
Her fe-liiig-s il.kslietl uiaai her face with
a J list i net iuk that is int to le mi.v
lalvcn by those w lu knew lir well.
I was just froinjr to teJl ML Areiiley
nlwt tl linc your father iiuterviemcU
li.e. Dnaxl, ami you know that a Iaug--1
is always my prtvItMle to a Mnrv. In
itself anal in til? eiel it will never
ceane to 1 e funny to me."
"; alwiul. I'm pn,inr- to strele.h my-s-1f
in t h'u easy chair anl hear it nil
over aRaiik." .
"'riai-re is olj one of tli characters
to lie i nt roil u.xtl to you, Kate." she
iiftr-an, ;Mllressisirvr the visitor, mxl you
will stKi know him. lp to about the
time Iixa1 ami I were ntarritil his
fa.tJier nas a pjft-ctogre. Thtft's w hat
he r.wsus, lrxa:l. a per feet. opTe. Wei two
fiwlifi)i younir MAple btn-nine e7ipnpeil
i witluut eonsultiiif' hLs austere majcM-y.
lie Iiveil in a spkiixlitl juaiksioni just
outsiiU- the to n, s'.t well back frot.i
the rKul in a prove of ttks ami maple.
Its lMiation w.-us typical of liis exclusive
jiecss. Drxxal wiaslwu-k from collcfrc, ami
luul leeui aiUuitUtl t' tlie la-ir liefore he
tuskeil ine to lieconiei his wife. He is
pifleil with eloqikclM-e, you know, and
1 have, no ikoul.t wotikl httve made a cau
vinc.inp arrriinieut in my Ijehalf, but
after lie bail stated that I was a mu-ic
teaelus-r w itluout iuciuks Hie father wmiM
Iwar wo' more. He t-Iirew tlie case ripht
out of court. Drtxxl must. ehooe te
tween me ami his pnr;peetive inherit
anc. Of course, tJte dear feJlow never
lifsitated.
"Hut Drood is an only son, and such
a son as it is' hard for even the sternest
father to cast out. So he came to the
litt le cot tape where I lived with my aunt
to friphtt-n me out of the field."
''Misguided man," lauphed Miss Arch-
"I would have warned him had I
known, chuckled the husband.
"Father Harris is a larpe, iu)jxsinp,
prim-lookinff man with piercinp eyes
end a masterful way. He came without
a doubt as to the inerrancy of his judg
ment and without any apparent con
cept ion: of the fact that there were
others even more vitally interested than
himself." When seated lie went straight
to the subject. We had been talking
for ten minutes when auntie came in.
and I could see that she bad not come to
wave the olive branch. Her fighting
qualities never showed at such ad
vantage as when exerted for my de
fense. 7 -
"T have just been talkiag to your
nieoe,' he said, after a fornial bow, 'ami
do not find her as tractable as I had
l oped. T have told her that to marry
my son would !e to ruin his chances in
life. Kor her to jversist in the folly they
have arranged will le to deprive him
of ? tjuai ter of a million of property
ant? a brilliant career. "'
" 'l'ardon me, said auntie, with a nar
row escape from a.anort, "it will lie
your fault and yours only if these losses
be visited Uxn your son. it isyou who
threaten to east hiin out penniless. No
one else has thought of being eruelly
unjust toward him.
" 'You are mistaken, madam. I have
told this young lady that the matter
rests entirely in her hands. She has
the deciding er.'
" 'You are accusing yourself of moral
cowardice, sir. You profess to love
your son. yet you stand ready to cast
him out as a pauper provided you can
blind your conscience by accusing some
one else of the enormity. Laura's love
is such that it will dine to him after
you have stripped him of what appears
to have supreme value in your eyes.
You proosi- to disown your own flesh
and blood. When you have done your
worsU she will share the fate yon so
unnaturally inflict."
" 'You t niploy strong language, mad
am. Hut it is not for you to say how
much my heart enters into this affair.
There are social consideration; that you
cannot appreciate. To ignore them by
ermitting this marriage to take place
would be to place a millstone aliout my
son's neck. Hut I see a possible w ay onl
of the difficulty, and I have presented
it to your niece. If she will po tit
inj' exjiense to any of our more select
seminaries, w hero she can accpiire the
education and tlie accomplishments
such as should be had by the wife of
Drood Harris, the objections I urge will
be withdrawn. Hut she flatly refuses.'
"Now auntie was grand in her anger.
'Of course, -she resented, an well -js ic
fiused, sir. Such an offer was an insult
to a Wih omb. Social cons I'erat io i .
indeed' Then she opened w ith grape
and caiTster. Po you speak Kiei eti
Oerinan and Italian in addition to your
native tongue, Mr. Harris? Are op
eratic managers leiiegi.ng you to sinj;
on the stage? Were you ever abroad
three years at a time improving youi
mind and mingling in soeietv at th
Kuropean capitals? fan you tell in
the name of yotr great-greatgrandfather?
How many of your direct ante
cedentK fought in tlie revolution? What
is your family coat-of-arnis? What diir
nitaries of state are attracted here lo
calise of your provincial greatness.'
What one of your proud race in either
branch ever sacrificed a million to help
a loyal friend?'
"I tried to .stein the rushing current.
'Why go into family matter!!, auntie?"
"Don't interrupt, Laura. This man
invited it. For him to raase the ques
tion of family, when I took such credit
to myself for waiving it in his lx-half!
I hoie, - ir, that you will inform your
self Ijcfore you midetrtake a matter so
delicate, and if you do withhold that
boy's patrimony we will not lie without
eompetisat ion.
"How so, madame?' asked Father
Harris, who was more nearly van
quished than he. h;ul ever lcen lieforc.
"Mt will not lie neeesary for ns to
lntet his father again.
" "Oh. auntie: I exclaim. tl, 'that is
not like you.
" I think that madame is very con
sistent in. her language. Then, tnrn
iiifr to me, he calmly admitted that li;
might have undcrest iniatcd me and
iksketl me if 1 would sing for him.
" 'She could scarcely Ik exju-cted 1o
sing for a quarter of a million dollars
under existing circumstance!, declared
a'Hitie. sarcastically. I had no ide
l hat a man of his lcuierniiieii t eon!,
le p:is-sionately fond of music, but I
f It that he bad gone through a wry
bad half hour, thought of Drood and
sang an old Scottish love song- sung
as I never sang before, for it was the
i.v of my heart to its lover. I colli.!
wcarci ly ldiee it, but Father Harris
has since admitted that there were tears
in, those cold gray eyes of his. and he
bail me sing until a ring at the door
lcll announced some one else, to b
cntcrtained. Then he put his arm
around me, looked down into my f.u-c
with a smile that had lotst everylhinj?
but tcndci ness and told me how proud
he would be to luie me for a daughter.
'I was foolishly mistaken." he sa'.d, 'but
my son should le a stillicicnt peace of
feeing. Then he added, disconnected
ly; 'Your aunt is certainly a remark
able woman.
"It was only a little later, you know,
that 1 unexpectedly came into a for
li:ne which we had given up as lost,
but in the meantime it had. Ieen ar
ranged that auntie was to lecome my
mother-in-law. How those two hot-Im-imIs
reconciled their 1cmiers ami
learned to love in so brief a co"urtshi
is beyond me. Hut auntie frequently
hopes tliat I hat e as gotxl a husband as
hers." letroit Free I'restj.
THIS AND THAT.
The three Bristol (X. II.) churches
had a combined attendance of C4 on it
recent Sunday.
Insurance companies in Wyoming
must hereafter p.iy a tax of 2', per
cent. itKn their gross premiums.
China imported l.'l.UOO.OOO .square feet
of American lumlier last year, most of
it from the states of Oregon and Wash
ington. Women in Hurniah propose to men
whom they seek in marriage, and when
they tire of them a divorce ean lie had
lor the asking.
A pair of glove jiasses through aliout
2(1(1 hands from the moment that the
skin leaves the dressers until the gloves
are purchased by the intending wearer.
According to the statistics of the
weather bureau the projverty loss from
tornado- during the last ten years has
been live times as great in Missouri as
in any other state.
Vuder t he chaeronageof their teach
ers the schoolchildren of Conoonl make
daily visits to the Xew Hampshire leg
islat'ure and watch the proceedings of
the law makers.
The bronze doors designed by F. Mac
luonnics for the central doorway of the
weit entrance to the Congressional li
brary are now in Washington and will
shortly lie placed in position.
IMPROVED FIREARMS.
Small bayonets or knives for use with
revolvers have a long round shank to
extend into the mu.le of tlie revolver.
A new design in rerieating riiles has
a double chamber or magazine for
cartridges extending the length of the
lrrel, each cltauilier lieing connected
in turn with the firing mechanism by
a lever in the stock.
Pneumatic recoil pads for firearms are
composed of a pneumatic pad which
is straptcd on the shoulder in iesition
to engage the end of the gun-stock,
one pad lieing sufficient for any number
of guns.
lie Will Hon When lie Think lie la
Vetting Whipped.
Col. Francis V. lireene, I'. S. A., re
tired, who was sent by this government
to Kussia during the last Turkish war
to represent the war depart incut at
Washington, lately told of his observa
tions of the Turkish army while in bat
tle. "The Turks are individually good
fighters," said Ceil. (Ireene. "They
are fine soldiers, very oliedicnt, fanatic
in their religion ami fatalists. The
Turks tights up to a certain point and
when he thinks matters are going
against him, he will run. Xot for any
luck of courage, but liecau.se be thinks
fate is against him. The Turkish sol
diers arc well armed. During! tie Kusso
Turkish war, the Turks were better
armed than the Kussians. They are
well clothed, but the commissary and
transMirtation systems were fatally de
tective. "In niiinlicrs the jieace strength is
125.UOO Creeks and 15O.0OO Turks, and
these can prolanbly lie increased to
three times as many on each side. In
177, the Turk put over jMl.tlOO men in
the field in Kuroj i and over KHl.OoO in
Asia, uml they made a very much
stronger resistance than the Kussians
anticipated. I think Kussia put nearly
half a million men in the field liefore the
war was over.
"Turkey is Ixtnkrupt. but so She was
in ls77. and that won't stop her from
lif-hting. They will probably manage
to Ix.rrow enough money to buy guns
and ammunition, and they will get food
out of their own country. The Turks
?( years ago fought an entirely defen
sive campaiirn. No reason why they
: hould not do so neiw. Their plan was
to seize some inirtant oint. and
throw up fortification? which they con
structed with remarkable skill, and
then wait tt) lie attacked lx-hiud their
breastworks. They collected large
amounts of ammunition and provisions
in t heir fort.s ami aw aited attack. Some
times their positions were burned.
They were conqiellcd to retreat, and
then they would abandon all their am
munitions and stores and fall back on
another line of fortifications, 20 or 50
miles in the rear."
.Col. tireene was asked his opinion as
to the relative strength of the armiesof
ft recce and Turkey. "Ther is no qucs
1 ion." he said, "t hat the Turks arc more
than a match for the Creeks. I'.ut the
v. hole question is w hat stand the great
powers vv ill take. Theyareall extremely
anxious to keep caee. Iwcause if the
war is once started among the jrreat
pow jrs it is impossible to say when it
will end." Detroit Free Press.
HARD GREEK NAMES.
.Not I'ronoaiirrd talte the Aver
nsce Header W oulil Sappof.
Creek proper names have liecu the
source of considerable study to the
reading public of the I'nited State.
since the Creek troubles liegan, and the
pronunciation of the names of some o-
th- ollieials who are prominent in
Athens at the present time has been the
subj.'ct of controversy.
The man who is well versed tin the
subject said that t he modern Creek -
culiarity was to a great extent the ac
centuation and gave as an instance the
name of Mauromic hales, the Creek t-ec-retary
of the interior. The name is pro
nounced Mov-ro-michalis. w:th stronc
accent on the second sv liable. The sec
retary of foreign affairs. Alexander
Sktntes, pronounces his name Sko-ai-s,
with st roup accent on the u. The
name of Philip Varvogles, minister of
justice, is pionounccd Yar-vo-clilees.
the ch in the third sv liable lieing hard
like t he Cermaii ch. Nicholas Metaxas
minister of war, has an ea.sy name for
foreigners, but the minister of marine.
lA vides, pronounces his name l.cvec
I lies. The president of the chauilaT of
deputies writes his name Zaiiu. s and
pronounces it Za-i-mis, with accent on
the second syllable. Canaris. the fleet
commander's name, is pronounced Can
trees, with accent on the first syllable.
The name of IVIj minis ap(icars in prim
every day and most readers havt i.lcar
as to its pronunciation. His Creek
neiphUirs call the premier Helm -yun-ccs,
with accent on the second syllable.
Like the Kussians, the C recks have no
family names, except in the higher
w alks of society, and a man vv htise tiaim
is Cregorious will call his son Cregor
iades. pronouncing the d much like th
in though. The son of Demetrius is
called Demethriades.
One of the most popular names in
drcece is I'appadopoulos, which may lie
assumed by any man whose father was
a priest, ami a man instead if takini
the name of Antoniades may .-all him
self by the longer name, if Fathei
Antonia was a priest. The d in Antonia
des, I'appadopoulos and in all names
where it comes before a vowel, is pi-o-noupced
bke th in though. N. Y. Trib
une. Jhiiich Wua n Urraler Man,
farlyle's severest critic and a critic
of his own school, was an old parish
roadman at Keclcfechan.
"liecu ti long time in this neighbor
hood?" asked an F.nglish tourist.
"Ileen here a ma d ivs, sir."
"Then you know the Carlyles?"
"Wecl that! A ken the whole of them.
There was, let me see." he said, leaning
on his shovel and 'Hindering: "there was
Jock; he was a kind o througiiithc r
sort o chap, a doctor, but no bad fellow,
Jock he's dcid. mon."
"And there was Thomas," said the
inquirer, eagerly.
"Oh, ay, of civorse, there's Tain a
I'felcss, munestruck chap that writes
in Ixndon. There's naethinjr in Tarn;
but, mon, there's Jamie, ovv re in the
New lands there's n chap for ye. Jamie
takes mair sw ine ;nto Kcclefechan mar
ket than any ithcr farmer i' the parish."
bmclon Anr.wers.
A Small Sale.
In one of the suburbs of Helfast trade
was dull, and the chief grocer in the
district found his earnings . liecoming
Ftnaller day by day. One morning an
old customer entered. In expectation of
something good, the grtx'er juniicd up
from his scat, and. rubbing his hands,
sr.id: "Well, missus, what can I get
yewi?"
"A ha'penny worth o soap." was the
reply.
"Oh," Fjfcid the disgusted grocer, "ye'll
be for washin the canary to-day?"
London Tit-Bits. .
A GENERAL AVAIL
Probable Result of a European
Uprlainy.
Attitude of the IMrTerent Xatlona To
ward Kaveh Other The HITeet
It Wonld Have oat
Aaaerleai.
If the alliance of the thre? emperors,
of Austria, llussia and tier many, holds
out, w hat can the rest of Kun do?
The Balkan and othereastern and south
eastern provinces have been led into tlie
combination, giving thre- enqierors, it
is estimated, a fighting force ot little
short of 12.IMMl.INjo men. It seems to lie a
combination of eastern Kurope against
western Kuroiie and western Kurojie
has the weakest end of the continent.
France, Italy and Kligland together
liave a fighting strength of hardly S.IMKI,
fMM men and Fmiu-e has not been en the
ln-st of terms, historically at least, with
either Italy or Kligland. The disosi
tion of S pit in and Portugal and Holland
and Belgium arid Norway and Sweden
ami Denmark in event of an outbreak of
a general Furopcau war would lieprol
lcmatieal. They would try to remain
neutral, prolKibly, if that should lie ms
sible. Spain has enough to do to put
down the insurrect ions in her colonics.
Norway and Sweden are practically
isolated from the rest of Kuroe and
could profit by their situation and leiea
tiou. Holland and Belgium would lie
right between the contending iowers
in northern Kunqie. The nat ural affilia
tions of thiksc two little but Npulous
countries would lie with western Ku
rope. Belgium is half French and Hol
land has no love for Cermauy. for tier
many is generally suspected of having
designs on that country.
At home Citgland might have trouble
w ith Ireland, tlie Irish leaders would de
mand large concessions, or give the rul
ing island a great deal of trouble. On
the sea. Frame, Italy and Kngland com
bined have two-thirds of the naval
strength of Kuroie and could sweep
everything In-fore them, but the great
war would not lie fought on water, but
on land and that land in the vicinity of
the Medite rranean. In the division of
the sjioils, for it would lie a war of
sHiliation, Unssia and Cermany uud
Austria would help themselves and the
rest would get nothing.
Sue-h might le the exnirse eif a general
European war, which, at'ordiiig to
many statesmen versed in foreign
affairs, now seems probable. It w.iuld
lie the most destructive war the world
has ever seen. Fr-ince and Ccimaiiy
could not fight on the same side and
Cermany and England could get along
no lietter together, for the anti-Cerman
feeling in England has Itecome acute.
Ccrmeiiiy and France have contended
and may contend again for territory,
but Cermany und England may in the
future contend for the ceucmcrce of the
world. Such ot least are tin hoics and
ambitions of the Hermans, who have
already gone everywhere with their
wares. In the general European war,
! recce and Turkey, who would have
been the cause of it, would lie lst sight
of.
What effect weiuld a F.uroieui war
have em America? At first the effect
would lie increased prices for all Amer
ican products and manufactures. Eu-nM-
would eat everything that this
e-otitinent couid raise. Millions of men
would tc taken from the prtnlucers and
added to t he consumers. Prices in this
country would go up with a liound and
stay up. This is no doubt alluring to
some Americans. But in the end would
it le a blessing to this country? We
think not. The increasscd prices would
be a lienefit to some, but a hardship to
eithers. We have consumers as well as
producers, in this country, and if the
former receives more for w hat he has to
sell, he would also pay more for what
lie has o buy. And alter the great war
was over would come a jierUal of de
pression, siajner or later, the steady
consumption of American products
would lie interfered with, liecause of
the disturlied industries and condi
tions. It is now generally recognized
that action and react ion ore equal.
America's tiosition in event of a
great Euroiean war would be that of
strict neutrality. It would lie a strug
gle in which we ceoild take no sides,
and in which our affections would lie
greatly divkied, although the prejmn
derance of sympathy would lie with
the nations of western Eurojie. Imth be
cause they are nearer to us geographic
ally and nearer to us by race and
blood. There would lie plenty eif
work for the American navy, however,
to protect our au ! from marauders,
and to protect the rights of Americans
abroad. Iowa State Register.
A Smart l.nwyer.
Many lawyers nowadays utterly dis
i"gard honor and honesty in the means
by which they e-licit evidence or invali
date the testimony of those opposed to
them, in illustration of which we need
only adduce the follow ing specimen of
eross-ejuewt ioning:
Ijiwyer Mr. Jenkins, will you have
the goodness tt answer me. directly and
categorically, a few pJain questions?
Witness Certainly, sir.
"Well, Mr. Jenkins, is there a female
' living with you who is known in the
ireightiorhood as Mrs. Jenkins?"
"There is."
"Is she unik-r your protection?"
"Yes."
"Do yeiu support her?"
"I tlo."
"Have yeiu ever iieen married to her?"
I have not." (Here several juror
scowled gloomily at Mr. Jenkins.)
That is all, Mr. Jeikin."
Opposing Counsel Stop a moment,
Mr. Jenkins. Is tlie female in question
jour mother?
"She is." Boston Post.
How It Happened.
"And so you are engaged to Cholly
Chubbins," said one girl.
"Yes," was the reply.
"How- elid he ever persuade you to
inarry him?"
"Oh, he hasnt persuaded me to mar
rv him. Yon know that lovely solitaire
ring he had?"
"Yes."
"Well, I wanted it to wear to a pro
gressive eucher party." Indianapolis
Journal.
-The half-dollar ia 1 3-16ths of an
inch in diameter.
NEW OPERA GLASSES.
W hnt Selene and Art Have Doae to
Improve Theater lllnoeulara.
The theater-going younp man and his
tailor-made aister, to all apj-arani-es,
carry no glass at all, but when the act
It-gins they pull from their iockets
Hat little envelopes of leather, not
larger than would lie needed to hold a
folded sheet of medium-sized note pa
ier. Hers Ls of brown elephant's skin,
edged with gold, and her initials set ou
at the iioint of tlie flap. Ler address
across the front side.
His euveIoie is likely enouph of
sweet-smelling russia kather, and both
are lined with satin. Their contents
prove to lie nothing less than a pair of
tipera glasses without barrels. The
small and large lenses, framed in nar
row rims of Jm-ujI. are hinged to hat
looks like a t-ilver gilt H, w it b a central
bar. The central bar shows a wheel
and numlM-red plate for fixing the fo
cus, a short skeleton ha tulle folds, out
from across the small lensvs, and in a
trice this ghost of a e-om mon place
eqiera glass is fixed for use. in piving
complete satisfaction. At the close of
the play it foltls up. is slipped into its
ciiveloie and make a pocket packagr
not as tmlky as a woman's purse minus
its contents.
Just as convenient to carry, but not
.so light to hold, is the eola-isuhle
plass. which on a central frame, draws
out as lonp as a field binocular, or tele-sco-ies
into a handy Kieket object, not
more than an iuch high. Nearly all
these g lasses are made of leather and
aluminum, to insure tiei feet light
ness when they are upheld; Isit fortlie
woman who observes the stage from a
lex seat this glittering metal is not
quite luxurious enougtr.
Her plaiis.es are mounted in tortoise
shell, tut vc v thiek to give the rich
brow n ai'd v How tones a more splen
did glow. The long stick is elalxirately
carved ar. ! fastened to the outer side
eif one of the. small light ttarrtls by a
hinge, so that the little glasses can lie
used as a lorgnon would lie. The wives
of millionaire- have their tortoise shell
trifles claluirateTy Isanded with jewels
rnd carry them in long, narrow s-ttin
bags that have gold gate tops and hook
into the dress lielt.
When no handle is used, the tiny.
Kiwerful glasses lit in cases of tlie most
delicate wicker work, lined with satin
and prettily fastened with a silver irilt
padlock. So light and delicate is all
this made that the wearer carries it
dangling from the neck by a king fine
gilt eir silver chain. Boston Clole.
BREVITIES OF FUN.
She "It must have taken a great ded
of iersi.steiM'e on your ur! to learn to
play the violin so well." He "It did.
1 had to po constantly armed for live
years." Life.
A Cruel Cut. "I hav seen lietter
d.tv-s." began the mendicant. "So have
1." setid the approached, hastily. "But
1 don't think this rain will laj.t long."
Phila.-Iphia North American.
"Ifcih aiu Luue-h use o' sufferin in
silence," said Cncle Elien. "Seems like
if dia worl' picks out anyliody fob cr
victim, it ain w inter lc satcrfied
till he hollers. Washington Star.
"John." she beg"sn. casting aside her
pcr. "Well?' "Is that Mayflower
log tt lik-h lias just lieen returned to u
a piece, eif tietrified wood, or just e-r-dinary
oak?" Philadelphia North
American.
Dul!ins "Oh. I lont lielieve in long
engagements! Why, 1 didu't know my
wife six weeks liefore I married her."
Mulliiis--"Ah. I didn't know mine until
a month after I liaarried her." Tit
Bits. Mistress "Why, Mary, you have
elated your letter a week ahead." Maid
"Yis'ni; it will take over a week for
it to get to me mot her. and she wouldn't
-are to be ix-ading old news." IV.sU.n
Transcript.
Success in Sight. "Dr. Henslow is
one tif the Iiu-kiest men I ever saw."
"I.ieky? I don't know how you make
him out lucky. He's to lie tr'.ed for
hciesy, and may lone his pulpit."
"That's just it. Ho wrote a liook a
few year- ago, that has never la-en
heard of since it came from the pub
lishers. Now that he is to le tried, it
will, of (Mtirsr, lie one of the literary
.sensations of the day. Cleveland
Leader.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The cost of cremating a 1-ody in
France is onlv three francs, equal to 2s.
r.d.
A strip of land to extend the Liver
mh1 stock exchange was recently pur
e based at the rate of. 11 l.OOti.fhiO er
acre.
So tlense is the water in the eleepest
parts of the ocean that au ironclad, if
it were to sink, would never reach the
bottom.
The weight of the six largest elia
monds are: Koh-i-noor, 103 carats:
Star of Brazil, 125; Kcpvnt eif France,
1!5".; Austrian Kaiser, 139; Kajah of
Ikirneo. 367.
In Vienna the servant girl is not ier
mittcd to climb out on the winelow
sill to clean windows without a safety
lM-lt and roie- attached to it which
fastens to the building, so that in e-ase
she should slip or lose her lmlance she
is susiiendcd in safety, and e-an lie
drawn back into the w indow.
If the human lieing possessed
strength as great in pro-sort ion as thjt
of shellfish the average, man would lie
able to lift the enormous weight of
2,i7f..MMj pounds, pulling in the sam-degree
as a limM't. And if the man pulled
in the same pro-Mirl ionate degree ns the
ce-ckle, "he would sustain n weight of
no less than 2.1or.5Mi pounds.
WAR AND WARRIORS.
Of the. 27.5M muskets pk-kcl up at
tletlysburg aft-r tiie battle 2l.oH) were
loaded. Aliout half eif them -ontiii-d
two charges, about a quarter from,
three tei ten and one piece coiitain-.l 2j.
It is believed that a ton of lead is
fired in the form of bullets for e-very
mon killed, in l-attle. Statistics of Ku
ropean wars eo to show that from 3.IMMJ
to IO.ikmi shots are fired for every per
ROtl dissiblel.
The Presklent, since, his inaugura
tion, presented te John (larlier, an old
noldier eomnule mvv residing in Bra
zil, IikL. a er-uiip stool whir-It he used
eluring the. war of the reliellion. tusl
Carlver i.- proliably tlie proudest and
haotiiest man in the lloosier state.
CURIOUS I-aCTST
Tlicre ore three time a many muav
cles in the tail of a cat as there are in
the. human hand and wrist.
1 here are 4S different materials used
.in constructing a piano, which euiuo
from no fewer than 16 -oun trie-sin
France hospiu-ls for infectious dis
eases are furnished with telephones, so
that the sick may converse with their
f riemls w ithout elanger of communicat
ing disease.
It is said the wound made by tbe
tooth of the cobra apeeies of serpent is
a mere puncture and causes little swell
ing. IV-ath ensues from paralysis of
the nerve centers.
A French Canadian couple, Louis
Darwin and his wife, now livmp in St.
Paul, recently celebrated the eightieth
anniversary -if their marriage. The
hus-liand is 107 years old and the wife
is lui.
Fruit-eating bats eat fruit only, and
are confined to Asia, the islands of the
East Indian un-hipelago lieing one of
their .rin.i.il habitats. The-y cover
the trees in tiny time in vast multitudes,
looking like a h litre thick eif crows.
It is sakl that the Eskimos have a
queer custom in regard to doctors. At
ea. ii vis.it the .U tor is jKiid. If the pa
tient recovers the physician keeps the
money; if tlie patient dies the money
is retiirueU to the family of the de-ce-ise-l.
It is believed that some of the camels
i:tiM.rted in lsSa to run wild in Arizona
are still in existence. Induns occa
sionally re-sort havinp- seen some, aod
lately the international boundary c-om-inission
saw two with their spy glasses
on the Mexican iNirder.
I'.ank of England notesare Biadefrom
new white linen cuttings never from
"iij t hinir t hat has be, u worn. So e-are-fully
Ls the paj-er prepared that even
the num'ier tf dips into the pulp made
by eaeh v. .i kni.in is regihtered ou a dial
bv machinerv.
FOGQY FACTS.
Fog to sailors and travelers is fre
quent l v a source of annoyance and dan
ger. "Whether vapor e-oudenses as fine
Scotch miM oreoarst' black fog is large
ly tleterniinol by the dust. If we can
remove, the d-ast fr.in the air we have
iremovetl the nuek-i of cemdensation."
Five metisxls for remov inp d list have
l--n suggested filtration, settling, re-e-oiitlt-iisiiig.
calcining ttud electrifie-a-t
im. TIs- last-named is 4 bought to con
tain the j-reete-st iosililitJes and the
day is proliably ue-ar at hand w hen elee--trie
f----lisR-llers will l. plac-d on
ships, ferry boats and at all terminal
del -ots ai:d cretwded thoroughfares.
It is known that fogs may form in
tlsTce dilTen-nt ways first, when tbe
air has 1-cvn cea.led by rapid radiation;
set-ond, vv hen the cooling results from a
mixture of different air currents, and.
third, win-re a cooling lias l-en caued
by au upliftirur of the air. The sea
fogs come from a diffen-uce ef tetn
lcrature betwen the uaterand uVair.
toaet f,.gs tare cau-d by tlampair from
the sea pasiiig over the c-soler land, or
are formed at sea, when there is some
great area ef high pressure.
In California last year large quanti
ties .f fruit were saved by a process
known as "fog-building." The newest
and iiRist. ciTective method of prevent
ing fro-st cotwsts in tlie introduction of
large amounts of moist ure in the vapor
ous state. "When this var condenses,
or. in either words, when tbe fog- is
f..rnnsl. an enoruams amount of lieaA is
given off. genendly at tlie very height
at w hich it is nKt Deedenl. Fog and.
frost both ex-cur w lieu tlie skies
e-lear and little or no air is stirring."
PERSONAL POINTS.
Joseph H. Choate's e!jh is esti-mau-d
at J2.ihhi.oihi ail made in the
practice of law.
The la.st days of Prof. Drummood
seem to have iecti extremely pathetic.
He was quite helpless ar.d had to be
vv heeled ilwut in a Isath e-hair.
Clara Morris has Isoik-d eVrwn
"Camille" into a JO-minute sketch and
is making p reparations to perform it
e-u the vaudeville stage.
Mrs. Iiiigtry possesses a dressing
bag which is. perhais, tle. costliast of
its kind. It is adorned w it h gold and
jeweled fitting-, and cost $7,eM.
The king ef Siani has left Bangkok
for a EuroH-an trip, ami his majety
is exjM'cted to juiss through the I'nited
States in September on bis way home.
Miss Kitty Abbey, the only child of
the late Henry E. Abbey by his first
wife, is to ! the beneficiary of ths
farewell Met rolitan oa-ra perform
aruv of t lie season.
Mine. Blanc says she admires tlie
young men of America. They are the
most chivalrous men in the world to
day, in her opinion, and, unapproacha
ble in their consideration for women.
Princeton has promptly elected
C rover Cleveland to her k-adingclub
the Nas.utu and he is finding his so
ciety and associates much pleasanter
than when he was first gentleman of
the rejiulWic.
A Champion Llarhtiaelaht.
Bemarkable in many ways, the "tut-
gnat" of the far west is most curious
for its almost total lack ef weight. The
little insect has a i.e-orly mieToscopie
laaly but a relatively hu?e spread of
wings, whieh gives it the apparent
size of a mosquito. In some iarts eif
California "tule gnats" swarm to
densely aliout burning lamps that se -ei;tJ
times during an evenimr the dead
must le -leared away to give the light
a eihance. In brightly illumined stores
the gnats are verit.tble jiests. and it was
in a bile county (Cal.) drug store that
a curieius ex jieriment was recently
rru.de. As many gnats were collectee
as could la- hcuia-d ution a pan eif the
ait hee-ary's wide; the ttuali.ft
veight in use to measure the most de'i
eate ilrugs was then put uison the eit
Msite put and wits found to overbal
ance the mountain of glials. N. O.
Times-Democrat. .
IT IS SAID
i nat w ith money & man may pur-e-lutse
all he wants most in the world.
Tliat those who are much together
grow singularly alike astiniegoesoa.
That nx-morie tf w hat we learn
t hrouh liittemess and sorrow may not
always lie held in regret.
That there is no emotion ever invent
ed ed thevk-vil or man that cannot Le
controlled or purchased hy hard cah-
'to-