THE INTRODUCING BORE, The bore who doesn’t know a thing, Bat claims to know it all; The bore who's always chattering About the game of ball; The bore who sniffs, the bore who laughs At everything one says Their borings nothing to the calf’s Who's bored me many days, Me Bves to introduce a man To every one he meets, And like a merry rataplan This phrase forever bests: “This Is my good friend Mr, Dag Doe, this is Mr, Green, A msn I'm sure you ought to know? He smiling stands between, Up the street, and In the ears, No matter where vou be, He'll introduce you; nothing bara His frenzied courtesy. His butcher, Yiaker, tailorman And men he never knew, And men you know, s If he can, He'll introduce to you. Some day he'll die, and when he goes To sheol's torrid shore, He'll find a special fire flosvs For every kind of bore. And then he'll hear Old Nick himself Sing out with ghoulish glee: “You needn't introduce yourself, You've long been known to me!” —H. J. § ASTRANGE ADVEN TURE. { was acting as shipping clerk in the office of the Liverpool and Calcutta Steamship line at Cape Town, and, among the helpers in the big ware- | house were two or three fellows who were called ‘“Half-Hots.” They were 8 mixture of white and black, but not mulattoes. The color was more like | that of the Chineman, and their ver- nacular was a queer mixture of Eng- lish and Dutch. These fellows were as servile as slaves to one’s face, but as revengeful as fiends behind his back. The old clerk had been in fear of them and had put up with their | faults, but 1 walked them around pretty lively from the first day, and st the end of the first month had plenty of cause to discharge them. I had the power to hire and discharge my own help, having at times as many as twenty-five men in the sheds, and #0 nothing was said about these three going away. They made no protest to me, but a Boer who as acting as my assistant warned me that I had best took out for myself for the next few | weeks, as had overheard them threatening vengeance. he Two days after the discharge of the men an English ship, which had been around to the coast and Bay of Bengal collecting wild animals for the Royal Museum at London, put into Cape Town in distress, east up She was leaking so badly that she had to go in- todry dock, and she had to be lightered of almost everything before she could pass over the gate sill of the only dock at her disposal. The stored end of our big ware- house, which was a building 200 feet long by 100 feet wide. There was one big African elephant and two medium- #ized ones from India, together with two male four or five hyenas, several wolves, a couple animals were in one lions, three tigers, of bears, half a dozen snakes, a couple of panthers, and a large of monkeys. All but the elephants were in cages, and these were placed in a row at one end of the building, and the elephants far enough away so that they could not reach the cages or each other. They seemed peacefully clined, although strangers each other, and the beasts and serpents had been so shaken up at sea that they were glad to secure rest and sleep. It was in summer and the weather was very hot. The warehouse was only one story high, built of brick, and the many windows in it were doubly guarded to keep out robbers, Stout iron bars ran up and down, and out. side of them were heavy wire screens, This enabled us to leave all windows raised day, and night and keep the silding ventilated. In the centre of he building was a cupola, furnishing further light and ventilation, and at dhe east end a little room had been’ partitioned off for my office. This room contained a sleeping bunk and a sammock, and I slept here and took | ny meals at a hotel. There was no watchman inside the house, but one was sutioned on the wharf outside. At midnight of the night of which 1 sn now going to write there was » full moon, aud the interior of the big warehouse was almost as light as day, { had been asleep for an. hour ud 4 nb it phat” om Fume big ow shint, Bo wa. missed by one fool © a ring bolt in the floor, and stood " sondsids to one @ ot the windows and "He trumpeted sut of the hammock I heard him tug. Jing to break his chain. On that side 4 my office was a large window, and | number in- to § Sad! 00 need to open the door to see what was going on. I saw the Dig fellow tugging and straining, and he made the building shake with his trumpeting. 1 don’t think I had been then it struck me that the situation was an unpleasant one. My office was opposite one of the big doors of the warehouse, but ninety feet away, To reach it I must cross the building, My first idea was to go for help to secure the elephant, but he had scarcely broken loose when pande- The other trumpet and to and every wild The big fel to my end of the swinging his trunk right and within ten feet of my monium reigned supreme. to at their chains, beast set up an outery. low warehouse, and left, elephants began strain came straigl He picked after another, and and he effort. sacks broke Erew Inore Ie wasn't the and with each with the elephants angry when loose, The watchman outside had caught the alarm, and he came to the nearest win- I dared not answer him, as the elephant was cle by, that the | cause him ack my frail shelter, Having tossed the last sack high air, the big fellow made the warehouse for the who were trumpeting at each other He knocked rush, and dow and shouted to me. 84 sound and I was fearful of my voice woul to at in a rush down smaller ones, and preparing for a row. one of them over with his then pursued the of he fled among the piles of freight, We had been pretty well cleaned out by the but had considerable 200 barrels of salt, 3500 barrels of flour, smoked boxes, large goods, Ero. and other stuff. who was smashed saw both him and spring up. cage holding the and snarling and howling and roaring before, and the rum tention of the ¢ Dropping for the moment, her as we machinery, bags of sugar, 500 American hams, with perhaps fifty and small, containing dry ceries, boots and shoes, about a thousand small elephant the lion's cage, and I plainly of them leap ove: on the monkeys. Sueh a growling no one ever heard drew the at. ly to the differ. they dove pus Hephants direct their own ences al en. wolf, the cages, and in two minutes the tire collection, ex killed and cept one in his cave, was loose flving and big fre this | a number of room. iv hman but I stood id Jet my- that I was time had arouse they dared not open the no show to each the decide p of the self out, and at once my safest SY was to kes in the darkest corner building, ints took it te 1 might MN Was high as the Hing of the ware feet, iled over. iit 9x14. and unless one of into his head to hope to escape i not as and This and | would house, the made but only about nine of it was a platform a knew thet some of the animals seek this shelter if driv + that way. All did fly to my end « as thes top the building got out of their cages, and the by of the leap upon the plat- very first move made one panthers was to form. The other was seized by of the tigers right before and the fight lasted until the elephant came to investigate. one my door, Then for about five minutes every. The up, and taking in the situation. 1 could hear the people outside moving about and talking in exciting tones, but when they hailed me I dared not reply, for the big elephant stood with- in foar feet of my window, and was growing restless for further destrue- son. Te lions stood side by side on the barrels of flour, which were piled up about eight feet high, while the tigers were further down on the other sick and well on top the bags of sugar. One panther was above me, as I have said. while the other had skulked among the machinery. The wolves 1 eould not see, but a big serpent was over by the doors, and the monkeys were aloft among the rafters. One of the bears was crowded into a corner, row, while the other I could not see. The hyenas bad been skulking among the hams, and what started the row anew wasone of them trotting down a wide aisle toward my office to find safer shelter. The satter of his feet | to aroused the big elephant and he made a break for’ the lions who were waving their tails and defying him to come on. He hit the pile of flour bar rels about in the centre, and knocked 8 lot of them down, but before he had reached them both lions leaped to his back, and from thence to the floor be- hind him. This was the signal for a terrible battle, a sort of free-for-all fight. I could see the entire length of an aisle thirty feet wide, and it was in this aisle that the lions, tigers, hy- enas and wolves fell upon each other with such ferocity that my hair stood en end, and the scores of people now at the windows fell back in terror. While the wild beasts were having it out, the two smaller elephants began 8 row, and the big fellow came swing- ing up the aisle In which the bams were scattered in search of something to vent his I drew back from the window ufraid he me He reached out his trunk and felt all over the glass, which to ama might have pulled the roof down over ite on, would see through the glass, was a new substance him, he my head had not the panther above me betrayed his presence by a growl. had better have kept The phant uttered a shrill cry reached quiet. ele. and panther for him, held aloft for a moment, for him, and although the and tore at the trunk feeling he and then dashed to the floor break was seized, with such foroe as to bone ia his body. If ever a man was scared out , ho that went swinging down one aisle and up another, before He knocked the other two down among the flour barrels, and then pur- sued the they their fight and fled before him. every of his boots by an adventure Wis no more alarmed than I was as elephant clearing everything him. ceased He picked up ham after ham and flung wild beasts as them the length of the building, and a large cogwheel belonging to an engine bulkhead with shatter four of the the the second row began to its close was thirty-five and all the time each beast and animal uttering his peculiar The row brought to a close in a peculiar man- ner. The bears had kept clear of the fight as long as possible, but when finally forced into it both tackled the big elephant as the party responsible As they did so he rushed full tilt at’ one of the big doors, with him, himself up the wharf to the main street with one of the bears fastened to a hind leg. not too badly injured at once broke for the door. One of the of the panthers were dead in the ware house, The other tig through the town and were killed miles was flung against my {oO From such force as boards. time minutes, WAS own War cory. Was for the situation, and carried it out and took Such of the wild beasts as were tigers and fers escaped away a day or two subse of the instead of be quently Hons was dead, and the nting up the street as went out, ran along the wharf aboard a leaped hundred yards away. One day Two of the five hyenas got dag while Not a woit monkeys ft by ports, and kept themselves out of the TOW, Of the two small elephants one had and next was shot in his hiding place. oul alive, and were killed next under a barn but the secreted was left alive, ani serpents had climed alo the sup a leg broken and the other had been a severely injured internally that he « The t bears, tie o fore morning. big one, togeth- or with the kept right on through the town and beyond, they separated, by the men who went in pursuit, while the elephant was captured and brought back, so generally knocked out that he was three months getting over it. It was six months after the adven. sure before we learned what broughi it about. Then ascertained that one of the discharged “Half Hots’ took this way to be revenged om me and the company. Standing at the window opposite the big elephant he had used a hollow reed to blow little darts at him, and one of these had struck the monster in the right eye and made him furious. The warchouse was a sight to behold the next morning. Over 300 barrels of flour had been smashed, the sugar was scattered from end to end, dry goods and groceries littered the floor, and the corn could never be separated from the sugar. The hams were about the only things saved, and these had been tossed to every point of the com- pass. The all-around damage was esti- mated at $100,000, and the man re- sponsible for it died before he could be hrouglhit to trial. two where The bears were shot we Pio Iico, who was the last Mexican Governor of California, is lving in poverty in that State at the age of ninety years, -A London Woman's lub proposes to have rooms set apart for smokers and billiard tables. ual who has ever had to MONKS OF ST. BRUNO.] VISIT TO THE FAMOUS ASTARY, How the Hospitable Brethren Work, Worship and Live. Did you ever notice what a pleasant tion” On such drink kummel, occasions one "” of fine “petit verre A ac- best-—1is benedictine, or chartreuse, little chartreuse, yellow or green, is the that as if all your cording to taste just the your stomach vou’ll feel jaune thing, and with inside debts were paid, and you had nothing world to worry about, At the foot of a feet hig ond on monks of Grand monntain which Chartreuse quite the 4 i. 000 h, lve, fathers of that order of It is not an easy thing the are placards effect admitted ts except the reverend where a few holy the famous liquor, to manufactory, and superintend fabrication though obtain admittance to there stuck up in public places to the that visit “strangers are not the establishment, by special permission from father general.” All the glories of a setting sun were on the mountain sides, and the distant trees and ravines were tinged in golden the The door was opened by colors when 1 reached Grande Chartreuse. a brother, He bade bas ever penetrated. My led large in guide me the descend ACTOR of from and to the common courtyard, centre which two streams the making day a mournful sound hall, riage notices were mountain, night where pious engravings and car- stuck the People were eating, and on wall plentifully. bearded brother was at a desk for food and and photo- an old, ready to receive orders drink, graphs, Apart from its cloister the interio liquor, rosaries of much, the Grande Chartreuse is nothing 660 feet has but the cloister, some long, and lighted by 110 windows, indeed an imposing aspect. The chapel of Ong is small and quite devoid of works is divided into two of the art; it parts, Chas the other for the laical hall of the are ro of wooden destined for those ux, who are pri oRlE, The , in which chapter house we benches and portraits of general fathers ceiling, has no interest week May the priors of all the houses of the then connected the little inte d a stone, on which is engraved the name of the these stones sleep those been at On the w ooden Crosses Here each year in the first Ox Chartreux meet to occupy 18elves with spiritual affairs with In tery are graves each surmn their institutions CET with and defunct, beneath who have the head of the establishment, other side are without inscriptions, mark the last resting place of the Chartreux. The library, volumnes, simple and these which possesses 25,000 stitution where there of luxury. tomy carrying, replacing, seeking doe- umentary volumnes, books big The refectory is a beautiful arched room: a table at the end is re- served for the prior of the house; the other monks occupying tables ir rank of priority. little. little vessels for wine and water are of earthenware, Not a word is spoken during the meal, but a brother chants the lessons for the morning; they only take their repast in common on Sundays and on certain fete days. Grande Chartreuse monks do not live in cells, but each inmate has his own little house, Near the door is a little wicket gate throngh which the monk receives his food, which is always without meat, and visitors have like wise to onform to this regulation. Should the brother require aughi else he writes down his needs and leaves the paper at the wicket, ané presently he finds at the same phot what he bad asked for. There iss gallery which in Winter months is a prommade ground, but a little garden in front of each honse serves for exer- cise in Summer time. ; On the ground floor 1 saw a brother Freing the bed was an oratory ; ware basin and a piece of soap; the floor was stone and the walls white- washed, On the wall hung a mountain staff, | BOLD AGAL walk in common up the mountain side; then they talk to their hearts’ eoplent | and make the mountain echo with their A little workroom furnished with a table, two wheels in white deal chair pleted this monk's lodgings, and they | by | images | COI- may bo seen The descendants of St. Bruno pride themselves on their rigorous fidelity to Although the years old, Carthusian customs. Or der is more than 800 not a reform has ever and not only have they shade of change or been made, not relaxed in their vigilance, but, ger still, they all modifies r have obstinately that Popes have wtions —— A Yankee Verdict. After a four-day at Rutland, Calvin M. of Hampton has been found #' trial Yt. N.Y. Inman, not guilty i fect. 1, 1888, The tion on the evidence, Yankee ney, jary consults the verdict in oie who to It was agreed that those the prisoner guilty hold some the right hand, considering the empty handed. were and not They object in closed those prisoner guilty were to be and all were jury and opened their hands, The jury out only ten minutes Bob's Discovery. Young Hopedul-— said if I'd read the olsituaries of great men in Papa, vou the paper every day for a year you'd give me Well, I did, and the is up. Fond Father— Very well, Bob, but I said you must read intelligently and draw a lesson from the lives of those who have won fame and fortune. Now, what have a gold watch Year reading? Y. H.—I noticed that nearly all the great men fitted themselves for one thing, and then got rich or famous at something else. Made "em Giggle. least Woman Me., wi admiring herself in There North Berwick. time is at one in wastes no front and she proved it last 3 of a be looking glu, inday bath by attending church and Sab- school with her balf ad sinner nnet adorned with ozen cards which a mas- culine had tucked in among the trimmings a Gn or two before, prob- them ar, but she wonld see on her headgs ood woman's mind was on Sun- Pl s8Ons for got a chance to giggle. —— school , not bonnets, when she dressed churcu, and so the } 1 JOO Sunday-sd Cats and Snakes, A Winipauk, ( not jong ago heard s at owner one hrieks from his a lady guest in the parlor of itchfork., In the onfl., © day wife and his house and got a | middle of the floor, with kittens about her, the family and in front of her on the carpet was a lively green snake. Theladies were on parlor her ant cat, with arched backs and bristling fur, betrayed a terror second to that of the occupants of the The only piano. that the snake was worth trying for a banquet. The houscholder set his heel on the reptile. ———— Helped Himself. A few days ago a large hog belong- ing to Leroy Hardy, of Stark, Ga. of the house, went into the house, and after climbing upon a feather bed proceeded to tear the bed and clothing into doll rags. His hogship thought he had found a beautiful play house, and in his delight and playfulness tore things up generally. When the inmates of the house came in the floors were liter- ally covered . with feathers, and the festive brute ran from the house look- ing more like one of the feathered tribe than a fat porker, A Stop in Time, us Muotor- 3 hat on earth did you top the train for?” ow brakeman ¥hy, here's » window that went way up {Wor touch, wir.” Conductor— Well, what of it, yoy confirmed idot ?” New brakeman-—¢ Haven't you toll me a hundred times i 1 Sound any loose to sto n at coos, ry pe of accidents Ready for Tawking— Well, § Resident, A number of boys just about the age | When boys feel the most mischievous, | mys the Duffalo Express, got a piece gaspipe, filled it with sand, and pinggaed it at the ends, leaving room out, done the gaspipe pre. sented a very formidable appearance, Land that night the | SL place «1 it at the 'door of a resident in thelr neighboss All in the house had gone to was left undisturbed till The lord of the house was it, and, after he shock it caused cautiously examine he back in warning wife and “bomb ’ hang disc Overy the 10 awhile e firet to from kim, he began it. After the yard, laughter went first his not led it. Presently he to go near the #8 he cal returned carrying the end of He clothesline, on one which he a slip-noose, advanced toe we trouble and and wife the noose over it hen telling his n to the of the yard, fence he shut a sudden BORO and daughter to go dow corner he retreated to the back sing over the the rope This was all the young walls hing him from able to and when the poor man, who had suffered graces, who were 2 distance, were stand, an awful strain on his nerves, pulled himself up till his nose rested on the fence that he might see the tesult of his desperate effort an explo- iter far louder than he bad expected from the bomb greeted isn’t in the who bv that top of the sion of laugl him, and-—there a boy neighborhood will go bouse now, EE A JOB LOT. An Ohio tleared £3, work, peddier claims to have 000 out of his summer's Mapleton, Me., points with pride to + local four-and-a-half-pound Irish padato. A stranger at an Akron hotel got in his sleep and threw his watch ap wt of the window. Hammered gold rings, with a dia- mond or ruby, are the latest style in men’s finger rings in London. claims to seme A hunter near Wheeling have shot eight squirrels on the in less dan ten minutes, The Stuart in wn in the early tree successful Lond Exhibition part of Year foliowed by a Tudor Exhibitios J. B. aptured Green, of Mosherville, Mich., an eel inl nill lame which weighed six lf pounds and or was forty inches long. At Pa. ivery mails the de. operation ap] for the letter carrires, Corry, , when roe of were G0 went into there ications Farmer Martin, of Mahoning ( ounty, Ohio tramp, gave an old pair of pants to a £18 and valuable notes from the pockets, Polish R soldiers in Russian army complain that var. moans are taken to to receive the ministra- tions of the Greek priests, The country having the largest pro- portion of cultivated land is Denmark, Russia having the smallest. The United Kingdom has 29 per cent. of land tilled, against 71 untilled. Mrs. Cynthia McPheeters, Mving near Greencastle, Ind., is ninety years old. On her last birthday she enter tained a party of friends and baked the cake that formed a portion of the repast. Frederick Livingston, aged eighty eight years, and the oldest man in Peterboro, N. H., is president of the First National Bank in that town, and is found daily at his post of duty. A The Milestone. Men 4 Suman, & hitting erowd, we hasten, Less ‘fol moves a summer eloud across lu MA TRY. set hrm Jrho vil kis Jogend read, Yori Ca aan 14 ust 8O tn oe Te iont. Just 80 much of the journey done ere falls te Tired fact eli way have bither won, and font Jo EER nr ot Jung ove 0 bude of wiring IEEE Tourney dame. Soft and glow lke a mourner's ters there falls forgetting to remove yan Catholic the ions underhand induce them
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