POINTS OF VIEW.
“Oh, give me time,” she, trembling, said,
“A little time to think it over.”
He smiled and kissed her drooping head,
Avd yielded like a tender lover,
“She's but a child,” he mused that night,
“Who shrinks from fate, afraid to test it;
She really seemed quite ina fight.”
He little knew how near ho'd guessed it.
“How shall I break with Jack?” she moaned,
“He's got my letters. Oh, good gracioual
And Harry bas my ring,” she groaned ;
“He'll keep it, too, he's so audacious,
“Was over girl in such a fix?
I must got rid of Wi'l and Stephen,
And George, and Archibald; that's six.
And poor, dear cousin Tom makes seven.”
As thus she grieved in yecents wild,
He said, while joy bis features brightened :
‘Yes, she is nothing but a child,
And that is why she seemed so
ened.”
’
fright-
-[The Club.
Public interest in Siam and curiosity
as to the resources, degree of civilization,
habits and customs of the Siamese have
been quickened by the Franco-Chinese
article will be found interesting and in
structive:
The Siamese trace their decent from
the first disciples of Buddha.
=
were so annoyed by their enemies that
they deserted their country and founded
a city in Western Siam.
Southern Siam, then held by the Cambo-
of the present capital. The Laotians,
the Cambodians, the Peguans from the
all brought together in the capital city;
and this period (1350) marks the com-
mencement of Siam’s authentic history.
Along in the seventeenth century for-
eign ideas commenced to be Kindly re-
ceived in Siam, and a European merchant
the people and the King on account of
his practical ability and the interest he
took in their welfare, was appointed
governor of all the northern provinces,
of erecting a fort, on European princi-
ples, to protect hi: capital. The king
ground on the west bank, near the mouth
of a canal, and constructed a fort. This
garden ground became a portion of the
site of the unique city of Bangkok, and
the fort still stands near the royal resi
dence. Aguthia was destroyed by the
Burmese when they conquered Siam in
the latter part of the eighteenth century.
The fort had been erected for a century,
and the city of Bangkok had so far ad-
vanced in magnificence that a few years
after the destruction of the old capital it
was occupied by the royal family. The
first ki # to hold his court in Bangkok
was of Chinese origin, he having deliv
ered his country from the Burmese
There is probably no country in the
world where Buddhism has so absolute a
sway as in Siam. Even more profusely
than in Burmah is the wealth of the
kingdom lavished upon temples and
priests. It is stated that in the capital
alone there are 20,000 priests supported
by voluntary contributious.
THE SIAMESE
Bangkok, the capital, is in many re.
aspects a singular city. Its population is
CAPITAL.
1,000,000, and is curiously mixed and
cosmopolitan. Siamese and Chinese pre-
dominate in its streets, though the Ma.
lays are also very numerous, and frequent
Europeans demonstrate the presence of
Western civilization and interests, They
are, in fact, the leaven of Siam, and to
their influence and the spread of Western
ideas are due the various improvements
noticeable in the great city from which
political power proceeds to the ut
most boundaries of Siam. The army
is officered by Europeans, chiefly
English and Danes; the navy is com-
manded by Europeans, and of the many
business enterprises in Siam, most of
those which connect it with the outside
world are superintended by Europeans.
There is little love lost, however. be
tween the native and foreign elements of
society, and the intense hatred felt for
all foreigners by the large Chinese pop-
ulation may at any moment prove disas
trous to all foreign interests, English,
the low class Chinamen, who cannot dis.
tinguish between their languages, and
all are hated alike. There is every rea.
son to believe, therefore, that the pres.
ence of a hostile fleet in the river may at
any time excite the passions of the pop
ulace to an uncontrollable degree, and
mob violence in the East has a meaning
which is unknown in Western lands.
Bangkok is the Eastern Venice. For.
merly all its houses were built on the
land, but the prevalence of cholera many
years ago go alarmed the government
that it ordered the houses on the banks
to be abandoned and directed the pesple
to live onthe river itself, Thousands
upon thousands of houses were conse-
quently built on rafts and moored to the
banks of the river, and although the
policy of river houses has been to some
extent modified by the government, no
inconsiderable part of the capital is still
on the waters of the Menam., The houses
are of slight materials, constructed on
bamboo rafts, each attended by s canoe,
for to the river resident of Bangkok a
skiff is as indispensable as a street car
to the suburban resident in an American
city. Formerly the right to build on the
banks was reserved to the king, nobility,
Slory Aud privil characters,
This right has greatly extended,
snd now Bangkok has s its limits
on both sides of the Menam, The most
striking features of the city are the pal
aces and the temples. The former are
Joeated in a citadel sscarely Bor i
nst 8 attack or prolon
and com the palaces of the _
kings and a variety of temples and other
structures pertaining to court, As
the first king has about 5,000 women st.
tached to court in one capacity or
another, the palaces are, as may be con-
very roomy.
GUARDS OF THE MAURM.
Prominent among the attendants
we the Amazon guards of the harems.
They are women trained to the use of
arms and employed to guard the king's
wives, and whenever a Indy of the harem
appears in public, she is attended by a
retinue of these female soldiers, who
answer with their lives for her
seclusion. Several very magnificent
temples are within the limits
of the palace walls, the most
remarkable being that of the ‘‘Sleep-
ing Idol” and that of the * Emer.
ald Idol.” The Sleeping Idol is a statue
150 feet long, overlaid from head to foot
with plate gold, in many places covered
with inscriptions and representations of
the transmigrations of Buddha, Not far
away is the palace of the White Ele-
phant, who is really a deity and through.
out Siam is reverenced as such, He has
his court, his attendants, his throngs of
servants, and is treated like a prince.
The White Elephant is an albino, not
completely vhite, but here and there
having spots of cream color over his
otherwise dusky hide, The Emerald
Idol's temple is a wonderful structure of
much of the wall being plated with gold.
The idol itself is said to be a solid cmer-
ald twelve inches high by eight wide,
the hair and dress of the rude figure
| gems,
| Siam is one of the least known of the
great countries of Asian. It lies at the
| lower part of the peninsula of farther
{ India, and it is out up by the gulf of
{ Siam. The mighty river Menam runs
through it from north to south and the
whole country is a network of canals,
In the winter a large part of it is covered
with water and the people go {rom house
to house and from place to place in
boats,
| Siam is about four times as big as the
State of New York: it contains about
10,000,000 people, and the country and
| the people, body and soul, belong to the
King. The king has the right to every
man’s labor, and any woman whom he
cal's upon must enter his harem. He
has the most arbitrary power of any
king of the East, and is one of the
rich monarchs of the world.
i THE
he
ROYAL PALACE,
| His palace in Bangkok is a magnifi
cent structure, with golden elephants
guarding its entrances. It has twenty.
five acres of ground about it, and it is
said that 5,000 people live within the
palace walls,
The king is said to have 300 wives,
but the queen, who is the chief of these,
is his majesty’s half sister, She is a very
bright woman and has made herself
noted for her charity. She rules the
harem and smokes cigarettes
Siam is the home of Buddhism. There
are 25,003 Buddhist priests in the Si
amese capital, and these are of all ages,
from 16 to 8). They about with
shaved heads and yellow stripes of cloth
i wound about their half-naked bodies,
and they chew the betel and smoke
cigarettes as they go begging from house
to house,
Chululong Kom, the king,
the brightest of Asiatic rulers
done much to advance civilization in
Siam He has put telegraph lines
throughout a great part of his kingdom.
There is now a street car lice in Bank
kok and the city has electric lights
It used to be that the money used in
Siam was cowne shells, or silver and gold
buttons. The king has adopted a coin
age, making mosey much the same a8
that of ours. He has & mint of his own,
and he imports Mexican dollars and re
casts these into coins for the use of his
people. The unit of value in Siam is the
tees), and the chief silver coin is about
the size of a half dollar.
He has a post office department, and
Siam belongs to the international postal
union. The king talks Eoglish, and he
is thinking of building a raiiread which
will open up the interior of his rich
kingdom. Siam is of valuable re.
sources. It bas mighty forests of teak.
wood and its mines contain the finest of
gold and silver.
The king has an
go
of
has
is one
and
full
income of
about $58,000,000 stored away in his
coffers. He has his own secretary of the
treasury, but he signs all the checks him-
self, and is said to be a very fine business
man. He has his cabinet, just as our
president has, and he has his war depart-
i ment and agricultural department.
{ His country is divided up into forty.
| one provinces, presided over by gover-
i nors, and he runs things to suit himself,
| making such appointments as he chooses,
THE BURDEN OF TAXES,
The people of Siam are taxed for all
| they are worth. Everything under the
{sun has to pay a percentage to the gov-
jernment. A great part of the revenue
| of the king comes from the gambling
| establishmeats. The people are a nation
{of gamblers and the gambling taxes
{ bring in $500,000 a year, The taxes are
all farmed out, as are also the people,
who as slaves of the king are ordered to
work for him a part of every year.
It is only the Chinese who are not
subject to such service, and they are re-
leased from it by the payment of a poll
tax. There are many Chinese in Siam,
and it is said that they are fast swallow-
ing up the country.
Ihe king of Siam is very anxious to
strengthen the relations with foreign
powers. He realizes the danger which
constantly menaces his country from its
geographioal position. It is the meat of
the sandwich of farther india. One slice
of this sandwich belongs to France, and
includes Cochin China. The other slice
belongs to Great Britain, and it takes up
the provinces of Burmahl. Siam lies in
the centre, and it is richer than either.
Both France and England are land
hungry, and they look with greedy eyes
upon Siam. Itis one of the richest plums
which still hang on the tree of barbarism
in the far East.
The anny is nothing to speak of.
Every man has to serve the state for
three months in the year, but there is no
armed militia. In case of a war with
England or France Siam could not do
much, aod its chief safety lies in the fact
that neither of these great countries
wants the other to have it. Probably
eventually it will be divided between
them, king of Siam is still a
man. He will be 40 years old
He is not over five feet
state occasions a cont, vest and brocaded
surong, which are loaded down with
jewels, and he often wears upon state
occasions precious stones which are worth
£1,000,000., The Siamese do not wear
{ trousers, The surong, which they tie
about the waist and tuck in at the back,
takes their place, The king wears silk
stockings, shoes which are pointed like
those of the Turk, and his costume is a
beautiful one, He is not a bad looking
man; his face is olive brown, his eyes are
black, his forehead is high and his eyes
are slightly almond in shape. He has a
little mustache and thickest of stiff,
black hair. He is very fond of his wife
that is, half-sister wife-—and he makes
a great deal of the crown prince,
NATURE OF THE GOVERNMENT.
The government of Siam isin some re-
spects much like thut of other countries
having a limited monarchy, while in one
| particular it is curiously different,
| There ure two kings, afirst and a second,
| each of whom has a state establishment,
i but only one is honored as a sovereign,
| the other acting as a sort of prime min-
ister, The whole country is divided
into districts, the government of each
| being administered by a local official
{ who is Siamese or Luosian, or Malay,
i ncoording to the prominence of the
| people in these nationalities in the popu
lation. The reigning king is Chulalong
Kom IL, known also as Somdetch Phra
Puraminde Maha, who ascended the
throne in 18638, and who governs by
from ten to twenty members, appointed
| by himself. Nominally a limited mon.
the king
oall
aside the established laws of
idom that although the Biamese
themselves the Thai, *‘the free)”
‘ their kingdom the Muung Thai, “the
kingdom,” they are practically
under the same kind government
most other Asiatics,
The King of Siam is,
speaking, a rich monarch, having an
annual revenue somewhat exceeding
£2.000,000, of which sum £287
comes from the land taxes,
the taxes on fruit trees,
free
of
Con
£675,008)
from the £100,
the opium tax, £100,000 from the gam
bling tax, £143,000 from the
duties, £800.000 {rom the tin tax, £37,
000 from the tax on edible birds nests,
and about the amount from the
fisheries tax. As all the taxes are, how-
ever, farmed out, and Siamese tax farm
ers are no more bonest than the people
of the same business in other parte
world, his majesty of Siam
small sum annually from
lationg and embezziements
and
scarcely
customs
sRme
loses
the
§
the
no
pecu
his
that
amount
fers,
ence in the personal serv
faserie i
more than half 1}
due reaches the roval
He probably makes up the di
agents, it is even
ie
oof
ler
all Siamese natives, every Siamese |
habitant of the kingdom being requi
if called upon, to at three
months’ labor in the year to his sovereig
The result may be beneficial, so far
the King is « but
quently service
the crops sho
or gathered,
give leas:
as
as he fre
al a time
when i be planted, culti
vated » result is for
beneficial to either the agriculture
general prosperity of the kiasgdom
All the iuhab are
render military service, exceptions, how
wing made in favor
of the Chinese, who are taxed instead:
of slaves, of government officials and of
those who are willing and able to pur
hiring s substitute
is practically
command
war, and although
tants uired to
requ
ever | of the priests,
chase exemption by
The whole kingdom
fore, at the king's
time of peace and of
it in some respects, one of the richest
countries the globe, 11s natuml ad
vantages lie unimproved, and a territory
almost the size of Texas has thus an an.
nual export of only about $12,000,000 a
year, consisting mostly of rice, teak,
| pepper and other tropical products,
is,
on
i AREA OF THE EMPIRE,
The limits of Siam on the north and
east have always been rather indefinite,
for to the north, adjoining British Bur.
mah, there lay a pumber of semi-inde-
pendent States, which sometimes owned
| allegiance to Siam and sometimes to Bur.
mali, as the influence of one or the other
yreponderated. The same difficulty ex-
isted in the East, where the Anamites
sometimes paid tribate to China and
sometimes to Siam. Siam itself has in
| times past been a dependency of the Chi-
{ nese empire, and even now a sort of al.
| leginnce is acknowledged and a tribute
i paid. So far as the Siamese territory can
be estimated, its utmost limits at the
time of its greatest extent were about
{ 1,200 miles from north to south and 700
{ miles in width, or very nearly one-third
{the size of the United States. That,
{ however, was before the English con.
quests in Burmah, which considerably
reduced the nominal size of the empire,
Its proseat area is estimated at 250,000
i square miles, while it has a population of
| 2,000,000 Siamese, 2,000,000 Luosians,
and 1,000,000 each of Chinese or Malays.
The Siamese have been given a bad
reputation by travelers as being turbu.
lent, quarrelsome and destitute of good
qualities, but apparently do not deserve
it, for the best authorities describe
them as a peaceable, polite and kindly,
Jeople They are not particularly good-
ooking, having a Mongolian aspect, with
large heads, broad faces, wide mouths,
short noses, low foreheads, and the teeth,
in accordance with the prevailing
fashion, stained a repulsive black, Like
most nations having little beard, they
regard this feature as a blemish, anc
early in life caréfully extract all the hairs
from their faces. Except a small tuft
on the top of the head, the cranium is
shorn, while the clothing, as is common
in Eastern and torrid countries, is of an
exceedingly airy and primitive charac
ter.
The fertility of the cultivated land in
the Menang valley is described by trav.
elars as something wonderful. ost of
the river valley is what is called in this
country bottom land, which is annually
overflowed and fertilized by the river,
and is described us yielding as bounti-
fully as the valley of the Nile. The
wealth of the forests is wonderful, but on
account of the climate large tracts have
never yet been explored, and what
lie beyond is unknown. In the
uw
ever,
‘odoriferous woods and h
's found everywhere, and it and the
rattan form a large portion of the bouges
of the population: teak, rosewocd,
ebony and other valuable timber tress
are foand in profusion, and must in time
become sources of great wenith to the
power falling heir to the kingdom. That
power will also fall heir to a good deal
of trouble with the population, which is
of so mixed and heterogeneous a charno
ter that the elements of serious difficulty
are always present,
THE BODY AND III'S HEALTIL
—
Yawxing, — Although ene yawning
feeling of comfort, It acts likes mass
of the lungs imaginable, Dr. Nugeli,
therefore, advises people not to concern
as possible, to exercise the lungs and all
troubles may thus be prevented. Dr,
Niwegeli orders the patient troubled with
too much wax in the ear, accompanied
with pain, to yawn often and deeply,
The pain will soon disappear. Ile, also,
in case of nasal eatarrh, inflammation of
the patient as often as pos-ible during
each day to yawn from six to ten times
to swallow, The result be
ing. If
{ natural massage fi ' in
will reach a satisfactory
its eurative properties, —
! Zeit,
surpris-
fawninz as a
organs, he
ion of
one looks ug
Soriin Unsere
Hixts Apovr Eating. ~The time at
{ which the principal meal is taken is not,
within great img
{if certain essential conditions are com
| plied with. The selected hour should be
adhered to: for the stomach a quires the
habit
if it is disappoiated, either the appe-
tite fails or i The
{ food last taken should not ton
dd re
2 fast. The diner
overtired,
will share in the general exh
the stomach been
sfforts to digest too
limits, of such swortance
adigestion iowa,
{4
h
i
ave been
recent, nor sh th have
should not have
loner
ong
stomauch
If
thie
istion,
exhausted
t or by
irtake of the
| been otherwise
fi
bas
it a meal
f recy
too
weneral
nro i
sti of }
to form Juices
sary for digestion To his principal
a man should bring his body fresh
and vigorous and a stomach refresacd | 3
rest alter having i work within
reasonably short peri
exha
will be unabls aeCes
3
meni
yi} i
never be bolted and hurried over
{food shoald be well i
materials should be
the meat good and the
inner sh
masts
e best ol
vegetiagtues |
gaily
: should be «
ye In
vu f
ariel
*
geatilile hings, «
done lig
Putian i
fe shoul
physionl exercise
rapid walking ne
think over b
seriously in
nember that a piece
: sli
Sines, Or
any way it
of
beef remains and
ymach for abo
f salt beef
or
remains in the stom i
improper changes ; digestion
pd until t
t takes place imperfoetls
gestion and nightmare are the consequen
oes. Finally, donot
is better to ent too litt
h an app tite,
not
he sieeper wWaken
diges
get up wit
an inviting one, is :
| Habitual repletion is much t
cated if people could or
attend to these simpli
| benefit to health id
i The gaia in economy, too, would In
| greater than many of think It is
astonishing bow little food a man re
lirections,
wot be ond
HIDOUS,
1%
| and properly taken. Improper food im-
i properly taken it not only to a great ex.
! tent wasted, but will, in the end, lead to
| serious disaster. —{ “The Family Doc
tor,” in Cassell’s Magazioe,
RELIABLE RECIPES
Baxep Arrie Poopixo. Take
yolks of four eggs, six large
grated, three tablespoonfuls of butter,
the peel of one lemon.
and lemon with the grated apples. Pour
this in a deep pudding dish to bake
Whip the whites, and then last grate a
little natmeg over the top. Eat cold
with cream.
Liven. — A very nice and tasty way of
cooking liver is to cut it in slices about
an eighth of an inch thick, snd to make
the dish look wsice stamp the liver in
rounds with a pastry cutter, and season
it with peppér and salt; them entirely
cover with eggs and bread ernmbs and
fry in clean, hot grease until a nice
golden color. Fry some very thin slices
of bacon and arrange thom between the
liver and poura thick brown sauce round
the dish, and unless you prefer the sauce
plain, you will find the addition of a
ittle gherkin and capers will improve it
very much,
Tar Previvx Saxowrcn is made as
follows: Break a fresh egg in a bow!
and beat thoroughly; add one and one
half cupfuis of sweet milk, a sait-spoon-
ful of salt and a table spoonful of melted
butter. Beat well and add | iy one
and three-quarters cupfuls of sitted flour
mixed with one and one-half teaspoon.
fuls of baking poowder. Bake in roll.
ogi ae ay Wailer eg
° with » nife, whic
will not crumble the crusts, §
a ah patter and Sb With Bualy
roast mutton, sli
The mutton must not be o , but
a trifle rare. As they are cut, lay the
two parts of ench muffin next each other
#0 that they may fit when put together,
THE JOKERS’ BUDGET.
JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS,
Just What's the Matter—The T w
Great Divigions—Und oubtediy—T1h
Fall of Silver, ete, ete,
JUST WHAT'S THE MATTER.
She only wish to break the engage-
love one devotedly.
He— Love one devotedly!
could love a dozen devotedly. —{ Life,
THE TWO GREAT DIVISIONS,
day?”
**No; only wet the just,”
“What about the unjust?”
“Oh, they bad borrowed all the um-
brellas. "—[ Judge.
USDOUBTEDLY,
“I'm afraid you won't be able to get
country.”
“Why not?”
“Couldn't he be classed as a contract.
laborer” —{ Truth,
THE FALL OF SILVER.
Teacher
bushel how many bushels could I
band?
Tommy (who has heard his father dis
[Chicago Record.
cuss finance) —One, ~
A NATURAL ISFERESNCH
“What city has the largest floating pop
inguired the teacher, “Cork.”
snswered the brightlittie boy at the foot
of the class. —| Chicago Herald,
ulation.”
BEGAN WRONG.
with the
city the
“We had a terrible time
Convention of Physicians in our
other day.’
“What about?”
fou
disc ’
“They a disease,
a micr f
Ge I -
couldn't
{ Vogue.
i #
iv.
Ww
A HARTY TOILET.
Jttle Dick
io, anvhow?
Little Dot
locts ome sod see me,
scrubbin® my tongue
look at, -1Good News,
and I
be fit
wr to «
"i
44]
#0 IL 4
PERFECTLY Wi
Miss Candour—1 hear your engage.
ment Mr. Flightic is broken
Miss Mugg Yes: 1 have cast him off
Miss Candour— Perfectly right,
wi
JH
with
o spends all his time with other gir
call to see his afflanced
six months, ought to be
[New York Weekly.
and doesnt
wife once |
ofl.
in
ast
A PHILAXTHI
PIRT.
Whitegoods—Now, Mr, Redink, thes
talking about this income tax: and,
may affect your income, 1 thou
best to reduce your salary
thousand to fifteen hundred
think they'll tax any income as
fifteen hundred,
Redink — But, on
Whitegoods — Now, not a word!
know | an bear to hear
k bear to
thanked. — Puck
Mr
never «
A DASOFLROUS SUMNER GIRL.
He
lovely?
“he
So we are engaged.
Perfectly
He—I wonder if anyboly saw me when
I kissed vou last night?
Shoe-—1 hope so, :
He-—What!
She--1 hope so.
He Why?
She] mean business, and want wit
nesses. | Detroit Free Press,
WHY HE DIDX'T REMIT.
Tailor (meeting friend on the street
I thought you said you'd mail the $5 bill
you owe me?
Creditor 1 did mean to, but when |
went to the post office to mail it I found
that placard on the walls: “*Post no
AX IDEA.
Little Beth (in the country)—Grand-
Grandpa-—Why, Beth?
Beth—Oh, there's such a lot of grass
to keep off of. —[Tid-Bits,
WHAT WOULD PAPA Sav?
Teacher Now, Tommy, suppose you
had 25 cents, and you wanted seven
cents for candy, five for apples and five
for lemonade, how many ceuts would
you have left?
Tommy—Twenty-five.
“How could that be?”
“I'd have them charged to Ne
[Chicago Tribune. Bed 1s pape
AXXOYING FASHION,
; Laura (at the seaside) —How annoy-
ng.
Flora—What, dear?
Laura—| have been looking threugh
this field-glass at Chollie Chaps and
Maud Everfly down there on the beach
and they are dressed so much alike that 1
can't tell whether he has his arm around
her or she has her arm around him --
{Indianapolis Journal.
XO MAKNERS,
Mother—Why don’t you get acquainted
with that nice little girl across the
street?
Little Dot—'Cause she isn’t used to
soley.
“You are surely mistaken.”
“No'm. She hasn't any manners.”
“Why, what has she dove!”
“Ween I grinned at her she didn’t grin
back.” --{Street & Smith's.
MIXED WIS DATES,
H Biggia—Yea did Columbus
1 was
RH SARIS
got on a new sult. Can I have one, toof®
“ Not now, Wikie.”
“Then 1 guess 71 go out and pick &
fight with him."~--{ Life,
ROT RESPONSIBLE,
Summer Boarder—I saw a snake seven
feet long us 1 came across the fields this
afternoon. 1 thought you told me you
never had any snakes?
Unele Ezra—~Wal, I don't, I been a
member of the temp’rance lodge for nigh
twenty years, —{ Indianapolis Journal,
HOW THEY GROW,
First Year—The biggest trout I ever
{caught was a foot and a half leng, and
he bad a big fish-hook in his stomach.
Tenth Year—Did I ever tell you about
the trout 1 once caught?! It was over a
yard long, and had an anchor in his
stomach, —| New York Weekly.
THE PERVERBITY OF BORROWERS,
Tom--You want to borrow money?
Why, you refused the loan I offered you
y esterday !
Cholies— Well, yesterday I was merely
hard up for a few necessaries, To-day I
need it for some luxuries I've just learned
of. — {Chicago Record.
ODDS AND EBXDS
The eloquent young orator at Bridg-
ton Academy who chose “ Farming, the
Jest of Arts,” as his graduating theme,
{ has genuine blisters on his hands, He
got them playing tennis and boating,
| zot
lewiston Journal.
If there is a man in the brave
““ I can’t aff when
{in the presence of a woman not his wife,
Lt. {Atchison {xiobe,
sq $277
Hog at
enougn 10 say,
{ ot hie £1
trot him ou
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| Bos inh
jo,” narzed
{ earthquake. “instead of
blowing them off,
give every
{ Journal
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And rakes up sta
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- Chicago
that you are not more
to the
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as I do, You
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earned rest
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much similarity between
livelibood,” said
manufacturer,
manufacturer,
t colors, while
ndianapolis Jour-
admitted
is not
you cull grinders.
cars’
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of “twenty
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down and rest awhile
‘ho says there new
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the meaning of ne rofits even if
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POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES
A Russian physician has been makizg
: to find out
how far animals can count. He declares
that the crow can count up to tes and is
hereby superior in arithmetic to certain
{ Polynes an t men, who cannot
six.
some curious experiments
tribes of
get beyond five
Micnoscoric 8
| serew io td that used in the
movement of a w some of these are
at a box of them appears to
to be filled with fine
With a strong glass, how-
¢ are seen to be perfect in every
ough only 4-1000 of an inch in
thimble 1 hold over
They are not counted,
irks
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¥ x “3 aloe
REWS, ~The smailiest
s world
is
sich.
$4 4.3
but sold by
Tax Sun THE Sea. — Ope gallon of
| water weighs ten pounds, so the number
of gallons in the Pacific is over 200,000, -
| 000,000,000, an amount which would take
| more than a million years to pass over
the Falls of Niagara. Yet, put into a
{ sphere, the whole of the Pacific would
| only measure 726 miles across, The At-
| lantic could be contained bodily in the
| Pacific nearly three times. The number
tof cubic feet is 117 followed by seven
{teen ciphers; a number that would be
| ticked off by our million clocks in 870, -
000 years, Its weight is 335,000,000, -
000 tons, and the number of gallons
lin it 93,000,000,000,000, A sphere
to hold the Atlantic would have
to be 533} miles in diameter. If it were
made to fill a circular pipe reaching
from the earth to the sun-—a distance of
03.000,000 ‘miles—the dismeter of the
pipe would be 1,837 yards, or rather over
{a mile; while a pipe of similar length to
contain the Pacific would be over a mile
and threc-quarters across. Yet the dis-
tance to the sun is so great that, as has
been pointed out, if a child were born
with an arm long enough to reach the
sun it would not live long enough to
know that it had touched it, for sensa-
tion passcs along our nerves at the rate
of 100 feet a second, and to travel from
the sun to the earth at that rate would
take a century and a half, and such an
abnormal infant is an unlikely centen.
arian. | Longman’'s,
OF
A New Way ro Pansenve Prereres.
«A recent invention of W. 8. Simpson,
which promises to do away with the
dangers which all pictures, and espe-
cially water color drawings have hitherto
undergone from the disastrous effect of
light on pigments. Mr. Sim
by an SxGerditgly in d made
t possible to frame ures, large or
small, under this d ble condition.
The canvas or mting is placed in a
chamber or ox pe. Bon wopper
to
SOME WAY,
5 “ hig fi oy