OR THE YOUNG FOLKS, OVER “Over and over, little lad, The sume thing over and over,® 80 sings the robin from his nest, Ard buzzes the bee in the clover. AND OVER. “Every spring I build my nest, Over and over, bringing Tiny twigs and wee wisps of straw, Tolling, dreaming and singing. “Every day I search the flowers, To tind the hidden treasure; Over and over, home at night, 1 bring o'erflowing measure." Over and over, every day, The sun bursts forth in glory: Over and over, soft, Whisper the same sweet story. warm winds Over and over mother toils, Aud plans fi Over and over be Aud gives lov wr one bov's pleasure, irs with it him, LA measure. So weary not, dear little lad, But bravely vour duty Over then vou'll find The ind over 14 whole may bloom in beauty . WITH ROGS, Fill a « both ends + i good have an erg boiled t the shell in the ege down it cease about h Or if you it q ksilver int biadder vith quiet teal It at str Then ake a small piece of JRilver, Wax ne ticksilver; lay the ts hi r umbling in iL at i o a small as Keeps w Anoti into a be Steep the egg, ever so vinegar for the vinegar so softer will bend and extend len breaking. in plenty of cold some nce wit water, and the egg wil and hardoess. THE MONKEY AND THE DITTY BaG and sailor ditty bag, Every pett American navy H. thread, his and, above ¢ home lebter has pic roams tue tl LETT | is. forward v is divide haberdash Eth dog scratch from one w he $00 the ant fim th “The ve near them know that they s flerce and savaze & that they pe 80 the. i544 A great and trick rqusntity of gold, have inventel a « have unweaned no food for th mares are sad Tho y ney tnx Heh COILS, days and to the Hes are sitene | ‘mares rig ed boxes thal shine and The fan river wi hither side Tiver the fhe mares sinning good these ne ver acroas t on iven he the the grass is Here graze seeing the boxes, ti have found a hid and so all day long they fill and load the boxes with their gold. till and the mares have eaten t they hear th- neizhing of their colts they hasten to return to the other side of the river. There their masters take the gold from the boxes and become and powerful, but the ants grieve over Lheir fossa.” How is that for a traveler's story? nlace to i e their gold precious might comes on beir ill When rich THE BIEFAASTS TOOTHACHE It must be terrible for an elephant to have the toothache particularly so if te ache is in proportion to his sive A dent. ist tells the following story of an elephant tha belonged to circus tle was very goo l.natured. but one day when his keeper went near him he made # vicious switch at him with his trunk. The keeper knew ths elephant so well that he said at once that he was sick something was the matier with him He sat a safe distance and watched him. “The elephant trumpete | loudlv, and acted as though he was angry, but no one could decide what was the cause of the change in this good elephant's dispoaitlon. This continued for three days. At the end of that time one of the men said: “Why, when Jack (that was the elephaat’'s name) lies down, he keeps rubbing one side of his head: I think he has got the tooth. ache’ and everybody immediately said: “Yes that's what's t ¢ matter,” ‘Fhe elephant was chained safely to posts and iron rings, so that he could not move, and the dentist was sent for. The dent. ist look=d in his month and saw that one Oth was badly decayel. He touched in great pain then the dentist went to work and filled the tooth, After a time the elephant seemed to understand that the dentist was trying to dn something for weeks appreciating the attention. Some of the elephant and the elephant recog nized him. It was rather an expensive operation, for it cost $100 to fill that one tooth, Doubtless, then, the elephant’s tooth. ever know when our teeth ache, FISHING BY HAND. Boys are sure to discover all manner of ways in which to have sport; and they | are marvelously ingenious in finding new an: in all of reekless as to rey arid ustrated by of they and Ming | modes [ these capluring game to consequent are apt he dunger es In to | their eld the boyish practice { the hands. This mode of fi {only in narrow streams; of stream is such a one found flowi th | We wil Pl + that it 18 fret feet in his is well ill f Of catching fish wilh shing can be practiced and the best sort frequently meadow | fifteen a8 Is ands ten or wid de #iX lopches Lo three banks are mainly we and slong this i for a mile or The boy are equipyel with contain thel to do the and over.! follow & boys a bag tiie one and ded with prov i ling in thrown out and then In th ~ Answ ers. Human Density. points out ht ahonidad: t tite tity the quan the Dones Archimeds certained the density of King Hiero' sid Ianner 11 which fis crown of adulterated gi How the Cuinea Cot Its Name. The guinea got coast of (uinea In gold first pence, and finally 21 shillings. ling” and ‘‘penny” both Baxon words, and the penny was first coined its name from the Africa, whence the for it was first brought It was 20 shillings: than 21 shillings 6 *iShil- are in silver Farthing is a corruption of “fourthing,” or the fourth of a penny. The Sicilian Love Potion A Sicilian love potion is made of the lover's own blood as follows: A few drops of blood are placed in an egg shell, exposed the sun for three days and to the dew for three nights, and then placed on hot ashes until the whole is reduced to a fine powder. This powder is administered surrepti- tionsly to the object of affection in a cup of coffee. to Smallest Inhabited Island, The island on which the Eddystone Lighthouse stands lies nine miles off | the Cornish coast, and is supposed to be the smallest inhabited island on the globe. At low water it is thirty feet in diameter; at high water the light- | house, whose diameter at the base is 28 3-4 feet, completely covers it. It is inhabited by three persons. i * ~ HOW MEAT IS SLICED. | Th People of the World Can Be Classified by the Way Thay Do It. A member of the Professional Wo- { man's League, traveled ex. tensively in foreign lands, said the other evening that you can classify the peoples of the world by the wily they cut their meat. The powerful physical nature of the Angle-Saxon is who las well illustrated by the huge rib roasts | and the immense shoulders of mutton. | The artistic nature of the I'renchman is shown by his euntting hig meat into thin slices of fillet, into filmy more epigram and into the affnirs he i “‘rosbif it i, led wn ne i i i d seed the birth of the troops i them fo to deaths, but it a: at liberty in 1:76 and called L for the Civil War in 1561. Balks Telegraph Operators, Chinese rannot be telegraphed, and to meet this difficaity a cipher system has been invented by which in that language over the message has no need messages transmitted of the le hime fact, can be wires sender self about the mea: may be telegraphing all idea of he is sending, for he numerals. [tis very ever, with the at the other end, as have a code dictionary, and after each mes. ange received must translate it, writing such literary character in the place of the numeral that stands for it. Only about an eighth of the words in the written language of China appear in the code, but that has heen found sufficient for all practical purposes, GAY the information transmits only ie rent, how the slightest receiver of the messsge he must IR A A WAU Three-fourtha of the £50,600 be- queathed to the Hunt Library fund in Nashua, N. H., has been tied up by the successive closing of three banks in that city. Capital yunishment is to be abol shed in Nicsragua. Some Items of Interest on Femi- nine Topics. DuMaurier's Daughter—An Unconvention. tional Queen. A Deep Ribbon Cirdle, Ete, Ete. DU MAURIER AR DATGHTER. In (leon ge half the Iu blinded ficed when rug pre-Trilbian Man: artist, days er was a st ing, nghter Hil { 114 Im appre; a promin London tine h The « 1 the right and cros he tie, lacing it wro wing a ton are all bad English girls known to hang their boots 1 have been ontaide the window on Valentine's night Professor Black tells us of a singular superstition ex isting in England, which insists that if the vounger daughter of a family marries first her sisters must « N ithout is for thes done for or love luck at to Od fiance her wedding shoes, BO As ins shoe throwing is he EYPsies say unre hush selves many pur poses, urle after an old shoe, I'll be merry what here I do. In the Isle of Man an old shoe is al ways thrown after the bride, as wel as the groom, when leaving their homes, and in the south the oldest person on the plantation, white or black, always throws a shoe after any | one starting on a long journey. It is said that Mme. Patti and other women | of high standing on the stage preserve | most carefully the boots which they | wore at their debut, which they con- sider lucky to wear on the first nights of engagements forever after, i AMERICAN MANNERS, i | " man's bearing to women, a Parisian-—who is raised may lift his | shop, he would show the | is that, though Frenchman | gree street, while insult | deference on the fiction is a standing kind From to woman If Hnncovers honored, she enters man in never allowed to sta her porter “i | every a { she 18 Can street co 1if an on the railway 114 Lid Zive a seat) and every of ficial hasten to i i g 0 conductors, kind Ny man darn annoy i The i wonme COs poore these ne levices against the ing and clasps will be used those of in the orna- ones as a rule, larger. Besides the separation of irtes and skirts, old belt 1 The ly this season and last lies The and, Chicago Record. on ference between mentation are much more ornate, new SHOWN OX DRY GOODS COUNTERS, Short jackets having blouse fronts Shirt waists of striped wool taffet Round silk capes trimmed Linen collars having a ruffle on top. Hats of all shapes in shirred mons- seline, Standing linen colors with a ruflle at the top Bright plaid taffata for lining black grenadines, Bright straws trimmed with black Sailor bats faced with net or bound with velvet. Small and medium checked silk taf: feta for waists, Many etamine dress materials in light shades. Fine Valenciennes edging that rivals the real lace. Hack net spangled in jet or gold, Bhort military coats braided in gold and self color, suits of serge or flannel for years Fine belts chatelaine bag attached tan seal having a tiny Mantles having a short fitted back fronts Picture hats of white many half 1 and long stole long plumes, Hints on Training a Dog, The obedience (ret first thing wtrot i { | on the Nile ¢ 5 New York Tim X Rays Identify a Picture, X ray has been Durer Th was a head of to was 16 the Nuremberg It 1 was believed to have executed in 1821. It much and dingy with age, and had been retouched by a *‘ restorer.” In order settle all doubts as to the authenticity of the work, a photograph was taken by means of the rays, and { much was revealed that the eye could not see The features and the drap- ery appeared more distinctly than in the painting, and there also to light a Latin inscription in quaint Got characters, the mono- gram of some grand duke (for whom, perhaps, the picture was painted), the artist's initials, and the date 1524. famous on wood, and been wae dis- colored to much Came £ i ie A Turtle asa Fox Tran, C. B. Perry, of Herrick, Penn., has been fattening a twenty pound snap- ping turtle. One Sunday his tartle- ship was taken out of the barrel and allow to wander about the yard. Early on Tuesday morning Perry was arous- ed by the noise of a scuffle in the yard. Repairing there, he found the turtle hanging to the nose of a big fox, which | had been stealing from the henneries {in the vicinity for a month. Brler | Fox was near the fence endeavoring to [get over but Farmer Perry followed { and shot him dead. The turtle all the | time retained his hold and refused to | let go until the fox's nose was cut off. | Then it erawled back to his home, | carrying the nose with it as a trophy { ~New York Press.
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