FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. MISS FRET AND MISS LAUGH little Miss Fret, In a very great pet weather; 1 Cries this warm t { {tOes, misters my ror | must carry Mis 111} nce two satlors unknown cos many buman the verge ore the fie Wher wolf charging th rove ACTORS when were headed by another wolf, who chased them n a fresh direction, lay down to rest No reached while the first hunter gooner hi tened herd the f wl i frigh irther OTT of the plain than up sprang a wolf, turned fresh who again and took up the pursuit, leaving his panting sccomplice to breath, preparatory to another chase Thus the terrified were driven from corner to corner them take Inckless, antelopes of great plain, till, stupefied and exhausted, they crowded together, lessening circles field, where the evidently waiting effectually tired prey. His calculations, however, were at fault, not having reckoned on the human presence, and just as he was preparing for the final spring, a well.directed shot proved fatal to the nearest wolf, where. the galloping in ever round the center of the sixth wolf lay hidden, till they should be out as fall 80 to fn Casy and scurried off with all possible speed. A LITTLE PRINCESS, The exiled King of France, Charles X, was then resident in Holyrood Palace with bis two grandchildren-—the Due de Bordeaux, afterward known as the Comte de Chambord; and his sister, Louise, who was never designated otherwise than as Mademoiselle. Their governess, the mother's, and, as it was thought desirable young companions, we were selected to went Holyrood, while invited to our house, to them at they worn Maude mol to court often also celle espe 1H g hd | i A 3 { from t etiquette, amine of and also because she 1s Away stiffness had a nchment to one of my s Curlindsa : OCCasion, quite romantic sisters, Sir Walter On one when she came LO Us without her broth oot leave to make ALL f fro solemnity of the Mme, de Gontaut and we all in escape draweie.room, wis “ented witl ran oll toget ourselves ther ro my fathers ! know Arriving there, Mademols some day her on the top of her in i tall i very ciever, TALE OF BURIED TREASURE French Swindiers Who Found Many Dupes Among Tradesmen, as grew warm for them. were hall a score of witnoases against gwin- dlers, who had lost all the way {rom 700 to 6,400 francs. One of them, a Mme. Bouglet, after having sent all her money, received a letter saying that the tale of buried treasure was an invention, and that she had better say nothing if she did not wish to be laughed at. Others had spent hours waiting for treins which should bring them the orphaned would wear a black dress and carry a white handkerchief The swindiers were francs and sentenced to prison, and the judgment was dered printed ir. ten Parisian twenty provincial journals, the Judge adding that he noped there would be fewer fools in consequence, «i wie fined 8.000 Of A Markat for Girls’ Mair, — At Morlaas, in Lower Pyrences, a hair market is held every Friday. and down which the traders walk, with long shears hanging from their The girls who wish to braids for inspection, a bargain is struck, the money paid, and the braids snipped off on the spot. The price varios from 8 to 20 francs A —————————— A A Ceylon bas 2,760,000 population and does an annual trade with Great Britain of $40,000,000. BED VALUED AT $25,000. Sung Dynasty and Has & History. The lover of rare nnd fiir- niture and art work woul gO into ecstacies could he but bed that is now owned by Hudson, of Washington, which was built seven l antique | cabinet ol years ni ago for one of the Chinese of the Sung dynasty, and thirty years was the imperial by day and valued at emperors whieh couch by night. CUO, This mammoth piece weighing over an ton and c« of rosewood, ebony. ak, m box wot and in figures cut of the famed Sung founder, Tai-tsnu, ! overthrow of The-S in Came by responding all ig worked It f 3 3 ound t arned that rad left the « property « later ‘ity he the I ie heat NAL the possession of a wea i hia pelled to resort to litigation t er it O recov Many people have seen the bed and Mr. Hudson has been offered $10,000 for it many times, but placesa much higher valuation upon it P.Z Leiter, the millionaire Chicago drygoods of in to ife to did not this country haus made overtures purchuse the bed. Mrs. Hearst, w desired Mr. Hudson wish to part with it. The members of the Chinese lega- tion say there is not in existence such a work of art and such a genea- could not be produced in this age, It is like a picture of Raphael-—im=- possible of duplication. The top of the bed is composed of iattice scroll work, upon which a canopy is placed and Chinese tapes- | try of the finest workmanship and | texture hung. The sixteen-inch pro- jection, which extends at the head and foot, makes alcove seats. Remarkable Lake On An Arctic | One of the most interesting of the | results achieved by the ussian naturalists who spent some time on the Island of SBolowetzh in the North son laboratory lias been the discovery of a remarkable lake on the Island of Kildine, iw the Arctic Ocean. This | 1ake, which is completely separated ! from fand the sea wns by a nurrow strip of discovered by the Ru naturalist, M. Herbenstein, who was s8ian struck by finding in the lake a fics hablo the fii wileh ise lusively marine in jinine| 19} common the water 18 fresh, und nh fresh water animals te, this water is br by streams from a neig nids, « lnke boring marsh l of nder the sup found supporting a mari aver yresh water is anemones nemert yehineles } astarte ), I'he sh reanch the lal Hunmunicatl THE KANGAROO. A Success in Many Ways, But not in Run ing Down Hill. eather n 18 sou The Best Country Road 6% ast ro ne, who meets the far be id yw 48 to be on well easy on legs and free from The stone roads hand, wear more in Warm than in wet Practical experience gliows that the junction of the stones and earth sections of the roads can be kept culty in the meeting and passing of loaded teams, two points which have been raised in the discussion of struction methods. No the earth roads results.” 1018€ and on the other Hanged for Cannibalism Three sciéntific gentlemen of Sierra leone, one of them a Sunday school teacher, were hanged recently by tue They belonged to a "Human Leopard Society,” the members of which hid in the bush in the neighborhood of villages, clad in leopard skins, and willed the villagers who came in their In their defense they explained order to obtain certain parts of with which to make medicine called “ju ju.”" They were taken from Free- town to the Imperi country, the scene of their erimes, where in a public stroet a scaffold was set up, on which they were allowed to hang for 48 hours, the scaffold being left in place as & wareing to other ‘‘leopards.”’ THE LIME-KILN CLUB, Fashioned Meeting. My friends es of Brother i SN ¢ testis ibrarian reported that received several historical volumes of {ree woelry, three pamph els hymn.-book The §ix evenings per and month i trade and Was now brary open to 10 for from 7 o'clock, the the past was sixty-eight The janitor reported that he had out twenty.seven cents for tin to nail rat-holes, The committee on judiciary reported a petition from Syracuse asking the club to a0 paid over tion to make it. penal offense for any person to deliver a Fourth of July oration within two miles of any crowd of people The Keeper of the Sacred Relick re. ported the mysterious disappearance of the hat worn by De Soto when he dis covered the Mississippi river, and for three or four minutes consternation was depicted on every countenance. It was then learned that Pickles Smith had taken the market. down as few men ever live through, and was then allowed thirteen minutes in which to gallop & mile and a balf and re turn with the sacred relic. Waydown Beebe then offered the follow. ing resolution: “Resolved, Dat while dis club am con. stitutionally opposed to lynch law, de memberd stan’ ready to pull on de rope it dar’ sm sny lack of help.” How to Clean Lace abon When they were set- of the party t} \ thie SOl« called a halt tling up the game one of Dire al ing ‘Well, Mr, we, do you like him? The Chinaman shrugged his shoulders and said, with a far away his “Good game,’ and quickly and emphatically ‘Not cheap.’ The general wae that he had stated the case in & nut- shell being ae emn poker sirous silence, said how look in added i eyes, then opinion Survival of a Strange Custom. A strange custom, dating back to she dark ages. has survived in some of the mountain districts in Austria | =~the painting of skulls. The small gize of most cemeteries in those re- gions makes it necessary to regularly remove the skeletons of the buried who have lain there eight or ten | years, to make room for newcomers, | The relatives of the dead thus to be {exhumed are generally notified be- | fore the removal #0 that they can at- | tend to the cleaning of the skeleton and be present at its deposit in the so-called “‘bone-hounse’’ or *‘charnel« house.’” On such oceasions the skull is often ornamented with paintings, | representing rosaries, wreaths, sunkes, &o., or it is marked witn the name of the dead person.
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