The First Fork and Spoon, It is about 900 years since forks wero invented, A princess was married to a prince of Venlce; for the breakfast she provided herself with a silver fork and a guid spoon. This se the fashion, and wealthy families soon provided themselves with like table fur niture. The greatest excitement fol lowed © thelr Introduction, and tue church condemned the use of these art} without which you would not be comfort, It is wedding cles, able that it and spoon enters England. to eat with sald Th was G13 years later that the fork Neiwson's Old Trousers, Miss Jane Douglas Roleley recently dled at Swansea, Wales, at the age of Her father served with Lord Nel son on board the Victory, and among the deceased lady's possessions were the trousers worn by Nelson at the bat- tle of Trafalgar. rc —— That there Is to Americans In eagle is shown by Ohlo Legislature, Of muasic the screams of the the i of the which ineluded the bill ered action Lilling of the feath- to prevent the songsters., How to Keep House. the luxuries and pleasures of this and {ts smaller com which nts ort or with in antithesis the form of way and by some if them in some [rifling us some of them that they wili grow to 1d rack tho with there- a right t svatom thiug, AVE he wi When Natare La Minutes, The mercy I arsaparilla Blood Parifise. All dragriste, §) Bool k Lowell re Liver lil« 3 Ke 0a8y 10 oDernte When buying Menolek's Fierce Warriors, The followers of Menelek, King of thon, while not so large as the flerce Zulus of the south, are about the tough swt warriors in the world, They do not know physical fear, I have seen a man inh a burnt stick several times into Lis flesh without winclug, declares a writer tn the New York Press. This apparent insensibility to pain 18 ae. companied with a religious frenzy in battle that renders the soldiers uncon They have no fear of death, aud thelr happiness is tv kill. cious of bodily harm. A Maine “Leather Stocking." On the level lowlands of the Molun- kus, a short distance below Sherman Mills, Aroostook County, on a farm as level and as any Western prairie, resides Mr, Joseph T. Leavitt, a gentleman upward of 60 years of age, well and favorably Known in that see tion and also In Western Penobscot and East Somerset, where he formerly re sided. He Is not a hunter by trade or his two principal occupa tions through life having been farming and blacksmithing; still he has a skill at hunting, trapping and fishing that few can equal Several years ago Mr. Leavitt left his ase with his repeating rific in pur uit of deer. A light snow had recently as smooth falleg, and he struck the trail’ of that he knew hi Being on the windward side of tye deer, and fearing that they would scent him and flee, he soon fresh deer must be made an wide cir judged them to be, moving with all the stealth liberation and caution that was io times sald movemoents of an Indian warrior On reaching the leeward few lessly as Cooper's Indian Ching to characterize the CX} or Yits Yer ved forward a [cos noise horand CUROOK just as the In living down from view by ly overtaken Mr "tt oe 1 it 10 Bee 58 Leavitt's nas he skull two; tiver loug a like the hark o There is at three inches long a of legs " n Ky fluid Arrow poison of the Vhen eu ywer of milky fluid wherever it touches in effect, t ax comes forth an and he skin it is agonizing Some people are not known as foals because their particular &ind Las never been classified, NOTES AND COMMENTS. A homicide oe hours in Italy This startling statements Hrs every two was one of the many made by Baron Garofalo, a distinguished inologist, in a lecture delivered on riminality In Relation to the Educa tion of the 'eople” tlie (ol lege His Margherita, Roman nudience Queen Next to Monace, the Europe, is Lie PLE This manager nian unpopular, and the people talk of mobil stied that there i8 some Zing tin army of 1 ” . « if seven and a half men Aecord dog -traluer ng to Mr. Peterson, an expert n London, the life formis dog extends The Ig to about edi ation however, 1 fourid nd nn dog found 118 rescuers from ree Aare in paths of the 10H HH) tons for circum- of the ten, under hour team present 1a n if one out loss of 10,000 tons daily a day. or £1LR0O000 per annum. ecintion has announced that it will erect the largest olwervatory in the on the summit of Mount San the celebrated astronomer thor, Richard A. Proctor. The associa. tion was organized some vears ago In California, but it 2 proposed to make the observatory of an international character, and secure, if possible, the co-operation of the leading Govern. ments of the world, The intention is to equip the institution with the larg. est telescopes ever constructed, the first one to have lenses five times the size o the Lick and four times that of the Yarkes telescope: if it proves a success, still more powerful instruments will be constroood on the sectional-lens principle mv.ated by Astronomer Gathman of Chicago. Mount San Miguel ¢ mprisea about 12.000 acres and hb. _ «elevation of 3600 feet, An American engineer named Hob son has contributed to the Revue Bleue an article on the Eastern situation, In which he plainly expresses nis doubts armed a cessation of Lie once, since the present have Britain go to war at that by next vear, or the year after, France an er will have a far stroug Britain will then possess dual and Russia wil cas would he belleves 1 Russin togeth navy than Hobson or Myr aHiance of France iy d of the sy 'rance for money, declares that the SPOKE triple alliance, IRussin for men,” are almost inexhaustible, but ciammot stand the keeping up Is 1weh longer, and England sacrifices to heavy regain superiority whi she warships of the first-class.” 1 and France will, therefore, wi rest of Europe Is bankrupt HIPS, Arrange a nes i Mr, Hols England Hil Array I ought Ten Acres of Ducks. If any of The Tim rd degire tu hoa tes ival almost Kmaller but equally amethyata occur in Pelaware Carolina. Oriental amethyst is a pur ple variety of sapphire far more rare and valuable than the ordinary ame- thyst, A Fad of American Poets. A society of American poets has been pose of encouraging the wearing of cloaks by professional verse-makers, y& ihe Hinstrated American. It was found that a number of the men who genuine passion for cloaks, but that they were lacking in the courage to in- dulge their fancy. It is thought their association in a regularly incorporated society will give them the requisite nerve, An Artist Without Arms. The comrade without arms was the most nesiduous worker. It was amos. ing to watch his mittened feet step out of their shoes and at the shortest not. ice proceed to do duty as hands. His nlmble toes would screw and unscrew the tops of the colortubes, or handle the brush, as steadily as the best and deftest of fingers could handle it. Very much unlike any of us, he was most punctilious in the care he bestowed on Is paint-box, as also on his personal appearance. CROWNING A CZAR IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES IN THE CA- THEDRAL AT MOSCOW A Journal by the Daughter of the British Ambassador Describing the Coronation of the Late Czar of Russia Mary Gra arnt Hon Crowning Miss Thorut our thin! The own Hike ' 4 3 prepa red In jo nriests with ¢ f care In vessela of «ilver aml they ¢ themeaenlveos a abwolntely for for gixteon honrae bhafare 4 ronation y spending After the the time in prayer Cmpernr he holy Alzo union shiv receives ax anointed at tl on the farchead nm ie : of the Iroek ordinary his coronation. “in view of the savy that resides in her person.” re. receive, in both Of all thig 1 saw nothing heer ase of the intervening pillar. Bot 1 their majesties leave their thrones, and on down the etepe of the platform fo the holy doors of the goreen, closely at. did see coded and followed by endless hizh dignitaries, returning in the same order after the anointing and the holy com. munien., After this there was little more of the ceremonial Aral. At the ond of the nsual services there wore some special pnravers amd shiante for the newly erownsd “Long life to the erownel of God!" and in the lence that followed priogte held up the cross for thelr ma- jesties to Kizs, the emperor reniacad the rrown, which he had laid azide at the beginning of the mask, and. sar. ing the globe and scenter, moved with the emprest toward the eathedral doors. FOOD THAT WAS DEADLY. | Fate of Somes Animals That Bit Off More than They Could Chew, tragedy in nature’ fre it A twenty 1 tM iid five-pound dea TOT8, wn venirs, vies have su hatte ir pebbles quarz, Ceylon obtaining oreign gem for from the beach foreign fopas crocidoll and twice the valine of calirhgori, moonstone the supposed cutting OINetimes even wo stones found by the visitors are ex- changed for ones from Bohemia, Oldenburg and the Jura. Cutting is done abroad on so large a scale and by Iabor so poorly paid that the cut stones can be delivered in this country at one tenth of the price of cutting here, as the rock-crystal itself has but little valve. 4% 14 cut The Mud Wasp. For centuries the mud wasp has built ite cells of soft mud. In the bottom of these celle the female lays its minute ogg. milding its wud heme just the size that the young will be when grown, Before closing its mad-walled cell the wasp catches a suitable sized spider, | injects into Its body a flaid that causes it to remain torpid through the winter, nntil with the warmth of returning spring the young wasp grows and con. sumes the spider for food, thus gaining | strength to break the mud walls and ‘emerge inte the outer world a fall {winged jagect. Yet no mud wasp from {the beginning has ever seen its young. i i | {'rinceton University Is to have a new | orary building to cost $500,000.
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