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
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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
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