W———
BOARDING-HOUSES FOR
PLANTS.
Flowers Cared for While Owners Are
Out of Town.
Joarding-houses for plants are a
novel institution, designed for the
housing of plants for families who
close up their city houses for several
months during the summer. Every
woman who loves flowers is at her
wits' end to devise a means of hav-
ing her plants cared for when ghe
goes away. In the case of a large
acd valuable collection this becomes
a serious matter.
It is up on Columbus avenue that
the plant boarding-houses abound.
Often in the spring and summer any
one paging a florist’s may see in his
window a strip of painted glass, or
some other sign bearing the words:
* Boarding House for Plants, 50
cents apiece.” A fow of the estab
lishments offer accommodations for
95 cents. This price covers a month's
poard and lodging for a single potted
plant.
None of these boarding houses seek
winter patronage, as the florist would
hardly be paid for his trouble in car-
ing for other people's plants, since
at that time they would occupy hot
louse space which could be turned
by the proprietor to greater advant-
in flowers of own.
Then, it is the custom
of the florist to put in a stock of hot
house plants for sale, that bei
time when most flower fanciers think
of increasing their
naturally the profits on salesis lar
than could be expected
frail boarders that requi
watchfulness on chil days
summer, the rate of board
» small ou
when
) x atten
tion as bei: L lied with water
Sometimes it happens, the men in
the business say, that the caretaker
finds that {
his boarders stands
come impoverished.
he immediately
the plant. Al
care are
charge, beir overed
board bill
duties ci
down amon
that they are
“I'd much
sanitarium,”’
to perpetually has
boy and see
fice nis
raising
100, In
ng the
collections, and
i E60 I
nowever
th il "
the soil in
sets
without
by the
s also a boy
NSIS
is all nonsense,
els of ti
the
fool shness
» language thr
drone
$
business to
is the male be » has
no gather
function is altogether different
important
worker. He isthe father
and when his work has been |
formed he is killed of!
Is
and
of the
(fiite as ns that
f the hive
ar.
ns useless,
Freak.
D. K. Persons, a farmer of
Mills, Ark., is the owner of a pig
that completely lays all other freak
porkers in the shade. It is perfectly
devoid of hair, and has a double set
of eyes, feet like human hands (even
to the nails), one very .arge ear and
a face which looks more like that of
a young baby than it does like
that of a regulation pig. From be-
tween the upper set of eyes projects
a proboscis like that of a young
elephant. This proboscis has two
holes through its entire length, and
it is through them that piggy gets
his supply of air. Mr. Persons
values the freak at %1,000 and his
neighbors say that he takes greater
care of it than all of the rest of the
stock on the place,
led
Barber's Doom Is Sealed.
Shaving by machinery has been
rendered easy by the construction of
gs machine reported to have been
made by one Melchoir Farkas. a cone
of Szegedin, in Hungary. Farkas
was put to labor in the cabinet mak-
to his work with a will, he soon dis-
layed great inventive ingenuity.
#0 have shaved all
the prison, nearly 150 in number,
within Jess than an hour's time,
Old Folks and Young Folks,
Southwest City, Mo., claims the
champion fat baby of the country—
eight months, 66 pounds.
There is in Wauchula, Fla., a
family of ten children, all born to
one mother within forty-two months,
There were twins, triplets and quin-
tuplets. A local newspaper tells
this story.
Searcely less remarkable is the
case of the 77-year-old citizen of
Neat Falls, Wash.,, who is growing
young again. His hair is changing
from white to black, his eye bright
ens and his muscles are as limber as
an angleworm’s.
Isaac ard Moses Martz of Arcadia,
Ind . are twin brothers. Their wives
are twin Each household
has twelve chi seven boys and
five girls. In each family was a pair
of twins. The Messrs. Martz are
82 years old,
Alderman John Sheehan of Buflalc
saved a Polack’s life, The Pole, to
prove his gratitude, offered
his baby boy as a gift, explaining
hat he was poor and had
] Sheehan decline
sisters.
’
Sheenan
elise.
The Scrap Heap Proved Valuable.
unex-
prove l
y more than
Cycling has
ling
pected benefit t«
ufacturer of a line
1
listinct from
Spreading Plant Diseases.
A Bootblacks' Umion
Any
The 1 was
» help of the Newsboys’ |
formed in tt
Seattle some months aj
Duke of Argyll's Plaid Trousers,
The Duke of
of be
¥
3
’
Argyll
ng the worst
repu-
tation dressed man
in Great 1 He once saw some
shepherd plaid cloth in a shop win.
dow, took a fancy to it and went into
the place and ordered a pair of trou.
gers from it. Hethen absently said
‘You can send the rest of the piece,
as I might want another pair or two
some day.”
tain.
The piece wes ninety-six and one-
half yards long, and, a pair of
trousers only requires two and one-
half yards, the Duke of Argyll, who
is typically Scotch and careful, has
worn nothing but shepherd's check
trousers since 1877, the year of the
unfortunate and heedless purchase
ns
influence of Imagination.
A Milwaukee merchant, in com.
pany with a friend, stopped at a
country inn one hot summer evening,
Being fatigued from the day's
But
merchant suggested
that the window be opened, as he
could not sleep unless there was bot.
ter ventilation. The merchant
groped around in tbe dark, and at
Inste found a window, which seemed
riveted to the frame. His friend
Having done so
they at once passed off into dream.
the opening .
g. When they woke up
in the mornin
they found that ii.oy
DOOR Cue
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Tue Argentine Republic
has just begun its career
exporter, expects to ship G0. O00, OOK)
bushels of last year's crop Out of
the crop for the previous year it ex.
ported 25,000,000 bushe’s, chiefly to
England.
PROFESSOR CESARE
famous Italian criminologist, has
discovered that of the most
striking characteristics of eriminals
is the absence of wisdom teeth. This
should not make those people, how-
ever, who boast of being without
these unnecessary molars feel
comfortable
which
ns a wheat
L.oMBR( the
}
INO,
one
Tie official estimate of wheat con-
sumption in the United States Is
4.67 bushels a hea population.
It has been revise figures rep-
resenting the actual consumption of
ver 8,000 persons and it is now
fixed at 4.74 head This
i 23.85 bu the an-
Average
consump.
busheis a
hels
f 1 1
i about
perhing
x yet “
NAD BS W
Miss i. 114]
beauti-
weadiand for nearly fifteen years,
and although a graduate of the Bos-
ton Girl's High = 1879, has
preferred to keep herself on the island
summer and winter, ever her
father was appointed as keeper of
the light in 1880. Miss Lynden is an
sccomplished photographer, and
many of her charming stories are
illustrated by her own pictures
Tue trouble with the Bannocks
recalls the fact that the Indian pop-
ulation of the United States in 18080
was set down at 248,253, not in.
cluding the native inhabitants of
Alaska. who numbered 32,052. The
Indians living on the reservations
and receiving assistance from the
Government numbered
Mooi in
since
188.417. It
is believed by many who have made
a special study of Indian archaeology
that the number of Indians within
the present territory of the United
States, at the time of the discovery
of America, was little if any greater
than the number now existing a
statement which will strike many
with surprise.
OxE of the largest private estates
in the world is that of Dr. W. Seward
Webb, at Shelburne, Vt. on the
shores of Lake Champlain,
acres of beautiful rolling land bor.
dering on the lake. There Dr. Webb
maintains one of the most magnifi-
cent establishments on the Conti-
nent—Shelburne House~where he
entertains in royal style. He hasa
stable of blooded a fleet of
yachts on the lake, and has a game
preserve of several hundred acres. He
can entertain his friends with racing,
yuchting and hunting and fishing, all
of which sports he enjoys himself.
horses,
Tur two new battle ships of which
plans are now being drawn are not
to cost over ¥1, 000,000 each. Tuarn-
ing labor into time at a dollar a day,
the census average, this would make
the maximum cost of each the work
of 4,000 men for 1,000 days, or about
three years. This would include, of
course, all the time spent in prepar-
r all the materials of all kinds—as
onl to heat the fur-
» iron and steel for nails
ns, felling the trees
igeing the mineral
ig and cultivat-
and
the estimate
cost
to make lumber, d
for the paint
ing the beans for maki
So that probably
+}1 within the
y required.
pianti
ne the oll,
80 on.
actual
sod from XO to
He thinks too there
develop the lower
of the upper.
orrect-
adds the
they are the
lie exercise,
to
expense
is a tendency
mbs at the
[here is little doubt
Hess
Now York World : and
more trustworthy because Sir Bemja-
min is himself a cyclist convinced of
the benefit of the exercise when
moderately indulged. His conclusions
are supported by Dr. Reilly, of
the Chicago Board of Health, who
declares that as a result of excessive
bicycling the deaths from nervous
diseases in that city has been tripled.
Perhaps this is an extreme view
but it is not doubtful that a person
of sedentary life and indoor habits
can commit suicide in a most de-
lightful way by ‘‘scorching’’ through
his holidays on a bicycle. No form
of exercise is more attractive, and
when it is indulged in with a knowl-
edge of the limits of endurance no
exercise is likely to prove more
healthy. But thousands of young
people and a good many older ones
who think they are strengthening
themselves by exercise are really
wrecking their nervous systems by
overexertion and ‘‘overtraining.’’
All this may be trusted to right it
self in time, for the bicycle has come
But in the mean time those
y
ff the «
of these observations,
own experience will go on filling the
The very playthings in Japan have
The Japan
gays that even the game of
chess is transformed, the figures be-
Japanese and Chinery voldiery of
various ranks,
FOFt THE YOUNG FOLKS.
JACK'S RESOLVE,
“It I were the
wide
As the
day,”
Jack with a nod,
about
In a wearied-to-death sort of way,
“And my wealth and my power were
MILIGRS (UIs e
king of a country as
% 2d
bright
sky on a summer
Said as he hunted
ght choose,
I'd get with the
had?
that wonderful power I'd use?
now what
gold that |
How
I would give + last cent that I had
int
For an pf
v erown to the cost
from
heart is
Arron
way
more
Tom’ Ber
years—in
responsible wition in ti L
hold of ictoria Jenton
who was of humble birth
lad at Brighton when his paren
a
fact
was but
1 fow 3}
died within =a months
other. It was shortly after
events when the attention
was called to the young boy under
rather peculiar circumstances.
One day while Benton was gather-
ing shells on the beach at Brighton
to make pincushions, which he sold
to the summer visitors, a young boy,
nicely dressed and about his own
age, appeared upon the scene and
scattered with a vigorous kick the
accumulated shells Benton gath-
ered up his treasures, and, placing
them again in a pile, warned the in-
truder that if he repeated the trick
he would give him a *‘good licking.”’
The kick was repeated with even
more vigor than before and the shells
were sent flying in every direction.
True to his word, the ‘‘poor boy”
soundly thrashed the stranger. It
wns a close contest at first, as the
lads were quite evenly matehed, but
the more fully daveloped strength of
Benton finally brought him off
victorious,
Just as the melee was over a gentle-
of e:
these
Jueen %
former said :—*You did quite right,
young man; we have seen the whole
transaction.
ceived the thrashing he well merit.
ed.” A number of questions were
asked the lad as to himself and his
family. The replies told the boy's
life, how the death of his parents had
brought poverty to himself and his
brothers and sisters.
“This is the Queen,” sald the
ntleman, who was none other than
Prince Albert, ‘and the young man
| to whom you administered such a
merited whipping is the Prince
Wales.’”’ Turning to the Prince
| continued (==**You must
young man to school and pay for b
tuition out of yourown pocket money
That cannot add to your punishment
but ean benefit this {i with
whom u picked such an uncalled
for quarrel
Thas it
i
met the Queen
send t
poor iad
Denton
He was
between
that Tom’
of England
1 midway
Dover After com-
pleting his studies there he was
taken into Her Majesty's service
and remained : “entire life.
Between Benton
thers
L 5 Ne
friendshi
wan
gent to a schoo
Portland and
there his
WwW hies
USE OF PAPER PULP.
it Is Being Converted Into
Curious Things.
Many
We
have
as well as
Water co
S20 is the mu
h baskets, berry baskets
almost everything under
which used to come
blue and white bags, oatme
ers, ice cream, shoes, dresses —
home in a paper box.
salt
A New Trolley Brake.
A Chicago paper describes a new
automatic trolley brake, which
seems to fill the bill admirably. To
work it the motorman has only to
turn a crank six inches; that sets a
spool working on the axle, the spool
winds up the wheels in the length of
a car. if necessary, and brings the
vehicle to a full stop—a vast im-
provement over the old brake, which,
controlled only by human muscle,
generally fails to stop the carin less
than several hundred feet The
great merit of the automatic brake is
that it will enable the driver to bring
the car to a halt in time to permit
escape of persons who, under the old
brake, would run risk of being over-
taken and injared or killed.
Armenian Fasts.
The Armenians are great people
{ for fasts During one they eat
nothing for a week. On the Satur-
day there is no real refreshment, but
the younger unmarried members of
the family are allowed to partake of
eake snd salt 80 as to have dreams
about water, and it is a sacred rule
that every young man must marry
the girl who gave him fresh water to
drink in his dream that night,