FOR THE fOUNG FOLKS,
PLAYING BTEAM CARS,
All aboard, toot, toot, ding, dong,
Jump on quick, the way is long;
Off we go, ges off the track,
Look out there for Mary Mack.
Tchoo, tehoo, tehoo, tchoo, Boston
town,
All get off and walk around ;
Time for lunch, then off again,
Hide your money from robber men,
Why, Missis Jones, how do you do,
And your dear little baby, too.
How she has grown, looks like her ma,
No, she has eyes just like her pa.
Oh, my child! she is off the cars;
Do stop the train quick, Mister Klaus;
She aint hurt a bit, little dear,
Scared me through, that's quite clear.
There is mamma with a bag of cakes,
Take care, engineer, turn off the
brakes;
Unhiteh the chains and'put "em away,
—{ New Orleans Picayune.
AN INTELLIGENT HORSE,
A gentleman in New York owns a
horse that his children drive to school
mornings, and upon arriving at the
school house they all go in, leaving
the horse to go home alone, which
he does without accident or loss of
time. At night he harnesses him to
the wagon and the intelligent animal
goes after the children. If he arrives
before school is closed he waits pa-
tiently at the door until it is out and
his charges are all aboard and then
conveys them home. The distance
that the sagacious brute thus travels
alone is more than a mile. Such
instance of intelligence and sagacity
in an animal is rare, and can hardly
be accounted for on the theory of in-
stinct alone.—{ Atlanta Constitution.
an
VIOLET AND PANSY.
Violet and Pansy were great friends,
and they lived by side in a
pretty garden. Nearby lived a rose,
who was so beautiful that she became
proud. She held her head high and
would not look at the modest little
violet and pansy. They had to
stretch their heads up to see her at
all, for she grew taller and thinner
day by day.
One morning a lady came into the
garden. She admired the rose, but
never saw the two little friends so
near the ground.
She stopped and touched the rose,
and exclaimed: ‘‘Oh! What a rich
color this rose has! I will wear it to-
morrow.’’ The rose was delighted at
the prospect of being worn by her,
and sneered at the violet and pansy,
whose dewdrops fell in place of tears.
jut during the night a heavy |
shower fell and the petals, |
which had blown full with happiness,
dropped, petal by petal, the
ground.
The next day when the lady came |
in search of the rose only a stem re- |
mained, while the violets and pansies
had only been freshened by the rain.
So them instead.-—{New
York Recorder.
side
rose 8
on
she took
FLORIDA CISTERNS IN TREE-TOPS,
A writer tells of a surveying party
who were resting at noon in a forest
in Florida, when one of the men ex-
claimed: *“‘I would give fifty cents a
swallow for all water I could
drink.”
He expressed the sentiment of the
others; all were very thirsty, and
there was not a spring or stream any-
where in the vicinity.
While the men were thus talking,
the surveyor saw a crow put his bill
into a cluster of broad, long leaves
growing on the side of a tall cypress.
The leaves were those of a peculiar
air plant. They were green and
bulged out at the bottom, forming an
inverted bell. The smaller end was
held to the tree by roots grappling
the bark. Feeding on the gir and
water that it catches and holds, the
air plant becomes a sort of cistern.
The surveyor sprang to his feet with
a laugh.
“Boys,”” he said, *‘that old crow is
wiser than every one of us.”’
“How s80?"" they asked.
“Why, he knows that there are a
hundred thousand water tanks in this
forest.”’
“Where? they cried,
ment,
The surveyor cut an air plant in
two and drained nearly a pint of pure |
cold water from it. The men did not |
suffer for water after that, for every
tree in the forest had at least one air |
plant, and almost every air-plant |
contained a drink of water.
the
in amaze
DOLLS OF BAVAGERY.
The dolls of savagery have a pur-|
pose very different from those of civ-|
ilization. They are not merely play- |
things, but are the means by which |
mothers teach their children domes.
tic arts. The little girl has many |
important duties to perform when |
she shall become a woman. She
must learn to be a butcher, a tanner,
a furrier, a clothier, a hat maker, a
shoe maker, a tent maker, a net
maker and a harness maker for dogs,
All of these things the Eskimo wife
must know how to do. In that
Arctic latitude the night lasts six
months and during that long period
of darkness the people spend much
of their time in making dolls. While
the fierce storms howl without the
stone lamp swings in the under-
ground hut. The father of the family
whittles and carves out implements
of the chase. Perchance has a
piece of walrus tooth that is too
small for a ha n head. So he
turns it into a doll, which he hands
over to the mother to be dressed.
The Eskimos are very fond of chil
in providing amusements for them.
With her little girl at her knee, the
mother takes bits of fur of the fox,
the marten and the seal, cutting
them out with a keen edged flint and
sewing them together with a bone
needle and thread of sinew.
domestic school of household in-
dustry. Mamma uses her front teeth
for cutting threads and for many
other purposes which scissors would
be appropriate for, and so, by the
time she is middle aged, the incisors
are worn down nearly to the gums.
By and by the child will be able to
help in making garments for her
parents.
During the long rinter night, in
! the intervals of doll and implement
{ manufacture, the head of the house-
{ hold busies himself in turning out
{ works of art, for the most part ivory.
| From the teeth of the walmfs he
| he is familiar—the whale,
he sea lion, the reindeer,
| the seal and the walrus itself.
and fishes are not neglected by
| facile knife.
| he represents in the same material
many Men in
| frail skin barks ealled “‘kyaks'’
the bear,
the otter,
pieces.
chase,
used as charms, but
and other vessels.
The Haida Indians of Alaska are
famous for the excellence of their art
They make beautiful
and their children amuse themselves
tiny
works. i
by S¢ nding them out to sea in
The dolls of
ona are utilized for the
re.
dressed to represent
dugout canoes.
Zunis of Ari
purpose of teaching the children
Incident-
the chil-
knowledge of the cere-
tribe Rain
rst a game with the small boy,
be
:
!
and rain maker. —{ Washing-
priests CHRON,
ally to playin ith them
1
aren acquire
monials of the making
is at fi
ay to
WHO Iuay grow up some
magicin:
won Star.
THE BICYCLE DOG.
Remarkable Records Made with the
Aid of a Canine.
my patients owns a
which he easily makes
y-five miles a day. 1
m train for me two
animals for drawing a small dog cart.
I must confess at time,
when ow how ride
did not
no CHL lence
a icyele, 1
{Une of dog
with
thirty to thirt
1
requested hin
from
to
this
nt
1 to
th
kr
had
of
possibility remaining up-
)
on the machine while a dog was draw -
I would confine m !
z him draw my vehicle while
walked: that is to
steep hills,
ure in finding my faithful
from the first days of the experiment,
drawing me rapidly. After a few days
I started in the of a fine
assemblage of spectators and
my on a gallop, went
Jourbaole to Mont-Dore,
Cassar,
presence
dogs from
gain twenty minutes over ordinary
carrigges,
have a congiderable force
One day I made twenty
miles of ascent on a gallop, with a
few minutes rest at every three
Dogs
resistence,
ing. Those who
easily make from thirty-five to sixty
miles out of them, with a very
vehicle, I know one who
ninety miles with four dogs. In
level surfaces two
harnessed, and on
entire pack pashes or draws the
wagon.
on only
steep
a dog to push his bicycle at
offers him a seat on level surfaces
and during descents. —{ Atlanta Con-
stitution.
Insuring Watches.
declared that
’
The wisencre who
Here is the
For $2 paid annually, a watch
teed against trouble. That is to say, $2
will keep it in repair for one year, no
matter how often it may get out of
It
may be dropped on a brick sidewalk,
or you may fall overboard with it in
your pocket; no questions are asked
and no limit put upon repairs to the
movement up to a total of $25, at the
rates usually charged. All styles of
watches are included in the new offer,
except a few special movements, It
is a fact that not ono man in a hun-
dred remembers the number of his
watch, The register secured by this
guarantee is therefore a complete re-
ference in case of loss or theft, A
label bearing the register number is
also inse in the cases of the
witch, requesting any stranger, in
case of personal accident or sudden
illness, to telegraph this number to
the jewelers, who : Jrompily
notify family or friends.—[New Yor
Dispatch,
~ dren and spend a good deal of time
AFTER 300 YEARS.
Mexico Known to the Spanicrds.
orado are excited over the rediscovery
near Santa Fe, of rich
that were worked by the Spaniards
more than
tion in 1680,
pressed beyond endurance, suddenly
arose, massacred the priests,
stroyed churches, and drove the last
Spaniard -out of the country. The
Indians to work in the mines, and
that labor was so hateful to them and
ree
ated all traces of mining.
All the white men who
exact location of the mines were
killed during the insurrection, and
when De Vargas reconquered New
Mexico in 1692 none of his men could
find the mines. Men have spent their
money and their
for them, and so futile
the hist ny
knew the
in searching
the
lives
has been
of them has
come to be regarded inere
and fable, But the old Spanish peo-
ple of New Mexico have alway 8 Ktout-
the Pueblo Indians
have preserved in their traditions the
of the
search that
us legend
ly asserted that
secrets mines, and that they
old worki is
Bo jealous is knowledge are
the Indians with
death any umber who
sBntion of 0
sunish
80 much
mine to i
The richest
were §
but they coulis
of
Jemez
croppings
4
3
:
beet
have
district Now
mineral belt
untry wild with e¢
that
eile.
fissures in por.
and south
Jemex moun
trend of the
es high assays in
HAVE Ite
vied has beer
for e ehit
milex + ut
several parallel
ord 01d
1 ARSAvVIng aigh
five miles, There are
veins i of
miners whi
eamp declare th ne stroke
» have been in the Cochiti
is the
bigrest that
Years,
(ff course the usual comparison
with the Comstock | some
times to the disparagement of the
latter. The Cochiti Indians view
with wonder and bewilderment the
procession of prospectors through
their ancient plaza and have not yet
wen made in fifteen
alo
mace,
in
their precautions to conceal the old
Spanish mines have been in vain.—
[Ran Francisco Examiner.
CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING.
Places Where Thunder and Lightning
Are incessant.
The phenomenon known as light-
ning, followed by a rolling, reverber-
ating report, recognized as thunder,
is common to a wide zone of the earth,
but it is not generally known there
are localities where the vivid flagh-
eastern coast of the island of San
Domingo, a leading member of the
group of the West Indies, [It is not
tinuous the year: round. but
with the commencement of the rainy
season comes this zig-zag feature of
electric illumination, which is then
continuous day and might for weeks,
The storm, centre is not continue
ously local, but shifts over a consid
erable area, and. as thunder is seldom
heard over a greater distance than
eight miles, and the lightning in the
night will illuminate so as to be seen
thirty miles, there may be days in
some localities where the twinkle on
the sky is In continuous succession
while the rolling reports are alment.
Then again come days and nights
when the electric artillery is piercing
in its detonations, and especially is
this the case when two separate local
cloud centres join, as it were, in an
electrical duel, and, as sometimes
securs, a third participant appears
to add to the elemental warfare, Then
there is a blazing sky with blinding
vividness, and stunning peals that
seem to pin the listener to the earth,
Long before the echoes can die away
come others, until the auricular me-
chanigm seems hammered into chaos,
Just how und why it is that there
is here generated so immense an
amount of electricity ad'to keep up
such an incessant ignition is one of
those problems that can only be
| solved when sufficient data are at
[hand to work upon. It is probable
that with the commencement of the
rainy season this region is the border
of opposing air and ocean currents
whose friction has something to do in
the case. This would tend to bring
into contact opposing clouds, vari-
ously charged, and as lightning is the
passing of electricity from one cloud
to another, seeking equilibrium, or
{ the passing of the fluid from a cloud
to the earth, it is probable that, in
this continued friction of currents,
may be found a starting point to un-
ravel the mystery, It is in swirling
and opposing cloud strata, especially
| where these get into gyratory motion,
that electrical phenomena are most
abundant, just as in an even,
uniform flow of elouds, such dis-
turbance is rarer and entirely
absent.
It would not geem, from the meagre
information bearing on this matter,
that the electrical interchange
tween the clouds and the earth
there is no reference made to what
are termed lightning strokes—when
the descending current strikes a tree
building, or other object, or strikes
the ground directly. But it would
certainly be a trying ordeal on any
fairly balanced nervous organization
to behold a blazing sky for days and
to the 1n-
often
is be
listen
the thunder until
Beem
nights together and
of
Benses
4
‘a nt roll
cessant roll)
ng
the very
further Happi such
i 1 rarely bestowed
and this shunned
and the
when the
it by
urgh Dispatch.
recognition.
localities have beer
One is
more
wel
LIKE MARK TWAIN'S NAG.
Servia's Chief Poet Tells of a Horse
That Could Outrace a Rain-Storm.
} Am
gojentings
Nikola Tesla dis known to
{ the greatest
role
vief Servian poet
an Jovan-
his writer
affec.
fit the
Im an
: father
prompts
of me
his nat
ive
cepted,
hie af
Prox tical
HE Were his instincts
a vear later he aban:
to devote himself
WOors
founded
J
attained a great nations
ige and popularity. Since
pursued |
and
i bel 1
ANG Ppeloveaq,
is several journals
1 3
tich have 1
id
¥
$4 Ro 2 3 :
HiI% DROJESKION Aas a
hiysician now lives, honored
in Belgrade.
Tesla has given a literal transla.
tion of some of Zmai's shorter
and Mr. Robert Underwood
has put them into metrical
Engli One of these will
ren
HW IHS,
form
ah
all
the fast horse, as told to him by Ou-
dinot
recorded in The Galaxy for
is?1 In that veracious narrative it
is related that, during a
i storm, the horse kept in advance of
{ the rain so that not a single drop fell
on the driver, but the dog was swim-
ming behind the wagon all the way,
As told by Zmai and versified by
horse :
And now about speed
should say !
P Just listen—1'11 tell yon,
“Is he fast?’ 1
One equinox day,
Coming home from Erdout in the usual
WAY,
A terrible storm overtook us.
plain
There was nothing to do but to run
i forit. Rain,
| Like the blackness of night, gave us chase,
: But that nag,
| Though he'd had a hard day, didn't trem-
ble or sag
Theh the lightning would flash,
And the thunder would crash
{ With a terrible din.
| They were er to catch him: but he
would just neigh,
Twas
lop away.
Well, this made the storm the more furi-
ous yet,
And we raced and we raced, but he wasn't
upset ,
And he wouldn't give in !
At last when we got to the foot of the hill
At the end of the trail,
By the stream where our white gipsy cas-
tle was net,
And the boys from the camp came a wav.
ing their caps,
At a word he stood still,
To be hugged by the girls and be praised
1/1 the haps
We had beaten the gale,
And Selim was dry as a bone—well, per.
hinps,
Just a A Siitle bit damp on the tip of his
a ar
What Makes the Sky Blue.
If there was no dust haze above us
the sky would be black, That is, we
would be looking into the blackness
of a limitless space. When in fine,
clear weather we have a deep, rich
blue above us it is caused by a haze,
The particles in the haze of the heav-
ens correspond with those of the tube
in the koniscope
is caused by the light shining through
a depth of fine haze.~{Science.
is
THE JOKER'S
JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS.
ite Animals-~Iin Desperate Straits
~«No Use For Fire- Light, Ete., Ete.
WANTED WILLIE'S RESPECT.
Father—Bobby, I thought I told
you to divide that apple with your
little sister,
Jobby—Well, I wasn't going to
have Willie Bryan think we had only
one apple in the house.
HIS FAVORITE ANIMALS.
Sunday-School Teacher—Do you
love animals?
Boy—Yes'm,
“That's I'm glad you do.
What animals do you like best?’
Snakes,
right;
(roodness! Why do you like
nakes?’’
.411
to kill
ain't wicked
{Goud News.
““Canse it
em.’
IN DESPERATE BTRAITS.
Lawyer—What are your assets?
Client—About $15,000,
Lawyer—What are your
a?
' come in yet
assign.—{ Hallo,
NO USE FOR FIRE-LIGHT,
Mrs,
I tell ve
Mr.
ng—Henry, I smell
Percushing—Well
I can’t
1 ve )
i
Mrs.
candle
idiot? Judge.
Miss
are
Breezyv—{ih
ams of b
Miss Curt y—My!
swiully small, then?
THE CIRCUS REASON I8 OX,
Tommy—Mamma, my
we should
Should
g
we?
amma-Why, ce
omm) —Wel]
mine th n.
Mamma—What do you mean, Tom-
my?
Tommy—Why, the circus
wi ox
-CRn t
s afternoon
is here!
SURE THING.
Hotel Proj rietor— We
an)
ion’t allow
Y games of chance he
i i re
rambler—This is not
My
friend he
Lif
Chance
DIFFEREXT NOW,
Barlow—Before you w
were full of theories
How did
yndition and
a
orsr %
conironts me now.
A BERIOUS SEMASHUP,
the
I hear
up with nervous prostration,
Ferguson—Yes, result
Spence r—W hat is
Ponderly’s iliness?
the
mental accident
Rpencer--A mental accident!
Ferguson—Yes A col
tween two trains of thought
be-
iasion
A FUTURE FINANCIER.
Mrs. DeBroker—Well how
did you and the boys
your peanut speculation?
Small Son—When we got through 1
owed the other boys fifty cents.
Mrs. DeBroker—Hum!
Small Son—Oh,
my son
come out on
Mrs. DeBroker—~Eh?
Small Son—Yes
cents. —{ Good News.
AN OBJECTION.
have a prejudice against you?’ in-
quired the lawyer.
I want
{Green Bag.
THE TENDER HEARTED GIRLS,
Miss Passe—~It is my conviction
that marriage is a delusion and a fail-
ure.
it must be to have that conviction,
dear, —{ Chicago Record.
A PROVERB ILLUSTRATED,
“You should see Cholly in his new
suit. He is out of sight.”
‘““Then he illustrates a proverh.’’
“What proverb?’
“Out of sight,
[New York Press.
THERE TO 8TAY.
“Is anybody waiting on you.
madam?’ inquired the floor walker.
“Yes, sir,” retorted the middie-
aged matron, fiercely. “I reckon
they're waitin’ to see if I won't go
away without stayin’ forthe 17 cents
in change that's a~-comin’ to me!" =
[Chicago Tribune.
WHERE TERROR MAY RE SEEN,
“I've passed through frightful ex.
periences,”’ sald Jaggers, proudly,
“and seen the most thrilling exhibi-
tions of human terror. Once in Afri-
ea I saw a couple of tourists overtaken
by two enormous and ferocious lions,
and once
8 “That's
taggers.
vator with
out of mind.” =
nothing,”’ Interrupted
“Were you ever on an eles
ple of women w
PIANO,
“Bobby Is attending to his piano
lessons very faithfully of late,” said
the youth's uncle, *‘‘Yes,’' replied
his mother. “1 don’t have any
trouble with him about that
now.” ‘How did you manage it?’
‘‘Bome of the neighbors complained
of the noise his exercises made and 1
Now he thinks it
-i Boston Gazette,
f
{
{ told him about it,
| fun to practise.’
CONSOLATION.
from
ull she
difficult selection
In the midst of it
| suddenly stopped in confusion,
“What's the matter?” inquired one
| of the company.
i “1 struck a
plied,
“Well, what of it?" said another
Nobody but Wagner would ever
know it, and he's {30 ahead
with the music.”
And
Tribune
playing a
Wagner,
f ’
fulse note, ghe re-
desd,
A CORVERBATIONAL DIFFICK
‘Don’t you like Professor Think-
‘ :
fEKeq one girl
ph |
»
dear, no!
or
65"
When
listen to what
reply
r
-i Washington Sta
trouble.
ou cant
APT TO EXAGGERATE
ns
happens on Saturday
MAKES A
Harry—And
me all aay
DIFFEREXCH
dearest, do you think
latio®
iil
Dearest—I
A MISt
NDERSETANDI
Servant—Mr. Greatman is
ot
tiemen. 1 am to
IeDoolan
of t
i a
BOW
Ors
rd -
x }
» 3
We
gight worse'n
is
can show
, slamming the door. }—{Chi-
cago] ribune.
EVERY CLUBWOMAN WANTS AX OFFICE.
Mr. Sarcas (reading the prospectus
Ladies’ Ment Improvement
to which his wife belongs
Twenty Why
a membership of
of the al
Club Jo
Vice-Presidents?
u've only got
wenty-three!
Mrs, BSarcas—Yes:
ther
¥
3
:
but, you see,
enough of the othe® of.
fices to go around. —{ Chicago Record.
weren 1
DOING HER DUTY.
I saw her at the village pump,
Jeside the broken wall:
I heard the handle creak and thump,
I saw the water fall.
She placed the pail upon her head,
And as she passed me by
‘I've just milking,
said,
And winked the other eye.
—{ Pick-Me-Up.
HER FAVORITE FLOWER.
been sir,”” she
He asked her fav'rite flower:
Her tastes he quite forgot,
And thought in that sweet hour
She'd say : “‘Forget-me-not.”’
He asked her fav'rite flower—
Ah! sad the story told;
A mail without a dower,
She answered : ““Mari-gold.”
~—{ Puck.
RISKING A GUESS,
Teacher—In which of his battles
{was Gen, Custer killed?
| Numskull (after reflection)—I be-
lieve it was in his last.—{ Brookiyn
Life.
A FORD MOTHER.
“Dear me!” cried the nurse,
baby has swallowed my
ticket. What shail I do?’
| "Go and buy another right away,”
| returned the mother. “I'm not going
| to have the baby punched.’ —{Har-
per’s Bazar.
“the
railroad
TROUBLESOME CHILDREN,
Aunty—What a lot of pretty dolls
you have.
Little Niece—Yes, aunty. they is
zenl pretty, but 1 do have so much
trouble wiz zem. Sometimes 1 fink
they must be all boys.—{Toronto
A SOW
A Queer Epitaph.
Levi R. Pierson, of Hudson, Mich.,
has erected a monument for himself
and wife in his cemetery lot. On one
side it bears the following inscrip.
tion: ‘‘Fellow-pilgrim: Help in trou.
ble, if you po it, comes from nature,
humanity, knowledge, here on this
earth, nowhere else; think of it.
R. Pierseon, attorney-at-law. No
charges.” On the reverse of the stone
is the following: ‘Levi R. Pie
died happy, and knew just as much
A,
*