What Came of It.
{Helen E. Starrett in Chicago Weekly Maga
vine, |
Mr. Smith miesed the train by
just one-half minute and
furious temper over the matter.
lived in the suburbs and went
city every day to his place of
Not once in three months di
jst
he was in a
he felt
drain, but on 18 occasion
1 me he hi
fleclaring that | alf the t
rush Inmself clear out of breath tod
it or else mis Fle
perated sta mind where he
to blame somebo abuse
wag in |
Of In hich, 10 a cond
developmer
would
any t
nugey
cou
hie
feast napunity
It was ail he
manag
gould get
worked like i
biours a day,
the house
it; she
and utt
break ist
bime. Thus
with
brain diss
It was a
next tram;
back to Mr
0 stale
CO0
momen
his
for the
be nis 3
EO i
suc
mem
that 1
breakfast fiv
his face |
wong w
Blong w
could you
The pump
and it ta
keeps ba
ing Ww
Again
him.
him t
“Ye
fixed al
“Well
as ju
wouldn't wor
convenlnnces
thern a
along.”
Mr. Snuitl
dum in his
through the dining-room rds h
wife's room. He notice
indicated an untas A
he opened the door of their room. His
wife started up hastily with an expres
gon of alarmed inquiry. Her eyes were
wet with tears. "The baby, still in his
night-clothes, was fretting in the cradle,
while a little 2-vear-old, partly dressed,
tagged at her skird
“And so vom
breakfast was well, 1 ean’t help
it and
the poor Hittle wornan covered her face
with her hands and burst into sobs and
tears. She fally expected angry com-
plaints from her husband, and in some
vagne way she felt that she was to
blame. She could not compass every-
thing, and the babies were so trouble-
some. Oh, did every young mother
have as hard a time os she did?
“Why, darling, what's the matter?”
gaid Mr. Smith, putting his arm around
his wife, “Come, I think itis mostly
my own fault. I have come through
the kitchen and I find Bridget has so
much trouble with the stove being
+ od on
i that her plate
sk fact, Softly
missed the train
late,
Iridget 8 gone to ons ©. to Y
broken and the ehimney bad that Twon-
der she rot breakfast at all.”
g
¥
it) it to get up in
thut vou have
vonr breakfast ea
sobbed the poor little woman
cil
ongl time to sea
“Bat
Brideet is so cross this morning and 1
I am so tired.”
And no wonder,
are tired, with the
babies aon
Yon have
darling, that vou
of these 1
vou all the time,
to have y
vou
1d oil
Care
wearing
SILOS
akfast at
after this.
nap and von
all right. I'm or
tave
no bu il JF!
of the bre
ing
Chinese Soldier's Ratioas,
am jpfires
ired over th 4
woh man supply, '
ter this eamp merriment m d talk
1e serious In the day is
I found the soldiers h 1d had one
ike that in the early part of the day,
aud that the two all thes
ot, bnt th eve quite contented and
appy. a i looks
Fiend
SEO ITE 1 tO i
Hess Of
rations were
lin very good eondi
h secret of their
thy abundance i
At Hangehow it arn
ware nore
felicitous a
soldier's dn
tae hat one se
HAppIn RS Was
fat
that
of pork
£rve i onl
the authorities
wually free with this
paniment of a Chinese
Only the Hired Girl,
{Lowell Courier
A little B-year-old ont in
the garden, when she stepped on a
beetle and killed it. The gardener, in
a sympathetic tone, said to her: “Per-
haps that was a mother beetle gather-
ing food for her children at home, and
they may suffer with hunger;” when
Ida replied with apparent honesty, “1
guess, Uncle Frank, it was not the
another 1 killed, but was only the hired
,
oi
girl
wns
Bound te Stick.
[Louisville Commercial.)
ride in the olden days.
horse was required to wear home-made
linen pants. A vial
Pond on the back of the horse
the honey coming in contact with
raw linen, formed an adhesion sufli-
ciently strong to keop the rider in his
position and enable him to ride with
safety,
and
BRAIN-WORKERS' ODD METHODS.
Strange Sources of Inspiration--iow
surroundings Affect the Magnetie
Mina,
(Courier-Journal, |
Bome amusing features from the lives
colobrated ve been brought
Auber
sible
for him to write in anv other place than
aris, ther
lence might be, and
f Ie
Cterman writer
wrote on horseback ; it was not pos
howevi :
beautiiul
1 :
somposed the best when he lay witl
| on in bed, and
lan
y writ
presents a § tare
[he study floor 1s
papers, behin
formally barricaded
cata, ponitry,
singing birds to Ix
and these he feeds, strokes
ont of mischief
background stand a number of
devils waiting for copy, aml bool
and
are
3
while writ
fi
if Lavy
He is very neglig
carries on
the same time.
: s dre 8.”
The Children Named the Town,
[Chicago Times)
A pioneer who onee owned
on which the town of Mioe
how the lace received it
“Thad a wife gonee,” saves th
“and 1 loved 5 dearly. Her
Maria: but tie children, not
being able to pronounce it, called her
* Mio, and finally the neighbors got to
calling her ‘Mio When the county
st was located, and 1 called Mio
after my dear wife, who had died--the
surveyor thought that a final ‘e
make the name look better; nnd so the
Pp dled ‘“Mioe.””
name
Pe I0eT
name Ww
Hor
name 1s
Whe Was Shyloek?
[Glasgow Chiel.}
(Dramatis Personm
and his “Only Hope,” aged 13,
latter is busy at his lessons, )
Only Hope (suddenly Iboking
from his books)
lock
Paterfamilias (with a look of surprise
and horror) ‘Great goodness, boy,
look was?
Go and read spur bible,
wir I”
i
SCREENS AND POSES.
Deviees which Photographers Use to
Yinke Good-Looking Fictures,
[New York Journal. }
“Now, then, sir,” said the sitting are
tist photograph gallery, forcing
the back of the reporter's head into the
vise, “keep the head about
hin up; and just try and
vou ?
The reporter attempted
licddn't see why | should
of a
fet
80 with
but
his
to smile
hold up
a deep SHRAOW
avy Crockett,
hen 1 am
right thet
fend]
fq
frank
there
Te
while gallantly
le Bexar, in
Crockett, a 8
congress soon after his
sind served for two ter
he was elected by the
ney for the Ninth dist
Re MOVIN N¢ w
ynessee riflemen,
i of David, wa
Orleans, he was fo
if The National,
y Mem
18562
to
there £1
Nove i
from
he died in
pls,
wher ber,
flealthy Bosiness Rivalry.
{New York Sun.)
“Here y'are, now; two pack ages for
10 elled wly-looking
velope peddler in Grand street. “Hor
v'are, tl way: two packages for O
howled another envelope ped-
crowding his fellow-mor-
chant off the sidewalk Women out
shopping noted the differences in pric
1 the two-for-five
Then both peddlers drifted
and the one who
liad sold no envelopes divided his stock
with the other, remarking, with a
chuckle: “It works boss, pard, don't it?”
conts 3 a BK o¢n-
1 4
y
1
1 | Ng §
and soon bought ont i
cent man
Carefal of His Character,
{Chicago Herald.)
The Worcester, Mass, town records
lis ear bitten off by a horse, and the
i
|
the manner of the injury and record
it on the town books, so that the loss
should not ba prejudicial to the boy
DANGER ON THE STAGE.
“Pull Thud” Which Killed
Johnny Galinagher, of the Lorellus,
[New York Cor, Utica Observer.)
Danger is always
of the show busines
bes n rendere i arly viilueloss in this
by the ¢ sient of the law for
etting underneatl New forms of
Vind d to
a popular element
The trapeze has
If
nfore
city
Cured His Hump.
{Detroit Fix
Fry
with a
Toe Poor | i
and
hat man
had rather
be deformed
iw
than have
money
“1 can «
Al 800,
are h m1
COM
he walked toward the
invited iti to i up sta
kick. but he had to go
158
or four 1
his
twenty
he formi
two
pair of sock
: Purty smart!” HTOW led the am
as he was
“Not si
who CATTIOR B hamp on hi
You didn’t.”
1
allowed to go
y very,” was the reply;
carry a staff neck
YWhoelesale Cremation,
{Chicago Herald
When the Belgian chemist M, Cretens
was charged with the purification of the
battlefield of Sedan, he was compelled
to resort to cremation in order to dis-
pose of the heaps of halfeovered
bodies. Not one case of illness occu
red among his 250 workmen, though
they were at work. under a blazing san
After the battle of Worth and Grave:
Jotte and the two sieges of Paris the
bodies of the slain were cremated, and
none of the nal contagious disorders
occurred. In Russia, after the retreat
of the grand army, corpses were
burned wholesale, and later, before
Paris, 4,000 were cremated with a sim-
ilar avoidance of bad effect. It is said
if n similar method had been adopted in
Egypt the cholera would not have
broken out at Damietia,
At the Npike.
A sign board erected opposite where
the last spike was driven on the North.
ern Pacific railroad bears the following;
“Lake Superior, 1,198 miles; Puget
Sound, 74% miles,
HIGNE OF PROSPERITY
Eh $ :
[From the
¥Y LOTS
grow dull;
Where
gnien Zrow
siiln are empty
A New Kewerage My stem,
and
, others gre
g of a rich purple
an abundance, and
igradarls
aa
Are * rie
dis
alifornia
a field nnexcelled
of flora, bat for the geologist
{ the conntry
£1
¥4 4 1 yh
material than Aru
the LERRLL
mineralogis
botanists
richer 13%.
Very Inspiring.
[Chicago News]
Lord Coleridge b
Mount Vernon and
as been wisiling
was much charmed
with the historic spot ts beauty,”
he, “has not the stupendous
grandeur of Niagara, nor the awful
sublimfty of Chicago's mayor, but with
all its hallowed memories and smell of
dead leaves and rusty iron, I found ib
very inspiring.”
Pisaster,
{ Exchange.)
What to him was love or hope? What
He stepped on
each stair with a sound like a drum,
and the girl below with the scrubbing
things laughed like a flond to seo him
Come,
From statistics compiled in Prossia it
is learned that twins oconr once in 88
births, triplets onee in 7,010, and quad-
ruplets once in 371,120,