OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
HOW A NEWSBOY HELPED,
The other day a blind man came
down Madison street walking with his
cane thrust out before him and tap-
see that he was not running into any
thing. At LaSalle street the crowd
was dense and the oable cara and street
traffic were clanging noisily by. For
a moment the blind man stood there
undecided, not knowing which way to
turn. The throng parted and left
him like an island in a swift stream
without offering to help him. On the
corner a newsboy was calling the after-
noon papers. He eanght a glimpse
of the old man and ran up, took his
arm and steered him safely across the
street. Here he started him on his
way again. Then he ran back to his
place.
‘“*Noos ?” he shouted, as if it was
the most ordinary thing in the world
to help blind men across the street
'"
“*GOOSE CUTTING. |
f
i
Avother gam, { ““goose-cut
ting,’ has been add d to the long list
in vogue at gatherings. The
hostess provides a well-drawn outline
of a goose, which is usually of red
eloth, or, if made of paper, is colored
red or black. This is merely for
purpose of distinctness, Two pairs
of scissors wre provided and a number
of sheets of plain brown paper. Each
wt ©
i vii]
S0OCINl
the
gentleman invites a lady toeut ago
with him, Y
are seated ba
in the centre
model
pair are blindfol
evolve with their rs and sl t
of paper copies of the Having
finished, each SIE d by
its :
merriment 18 always arouse
process of cutting, as the
in full view of the
pany,
re laid out on the parlor floor, names
down, and two judges,
been present at the cutting, passu
the merits of the geese submitted,
rEErs
and in turn these couples
k to ba
of the room
two chal
When
1
K in
has
TOOK
fowl,
creator
pair
rest of the o«
When finished, all the resu
who have not
tha w
tile W¢
prizes reward
to their merits
CAPTURE
Frank H. St
of “The Buece
ROW running in «
the capture of
chantwan by
and his
thus relates the m
the victo
They es
thony,
After a
place, they
sume their
long be ore th
dis
soward
a very large
trewely small ¢
these full;
to
Against
the autag
to be th ucht of
leas fellow as Bar
th y sh Pp
vess he
boat's crew
eye of a nanutic
Farthole:
2 1ys a}
Blan ¢
on
con
ay, three
ue
an alle
the
Ini
Was
lay to,
boarde«
eaptain of one of
that
this
were terrib y «
through which it h
course he wa t:d to knos
happened. When he f
great ship was in the possession of a
very small body of pirates, Bartholemy
gomething was
enue i: for
y in the long fight
and of
int had
mud that the
ad pas 1 LA
and his men were immediately made
prisoners, taken on board the
Spanish ship, were stripped of every
thing they
elothes, and
A crew from
gent to man the
captured, and then the little fleet set
sail for San Francisco in Campeachy.
An hour had worked a very great
ehange in the fortunes of Bartholemy
and his men In the fine cabin of
their grand prize they had feasted
and sung. and hd gloried over their
wonderful and now,
vessel of their captor, they were shut
np in the dark, to be en laved. or
perhaps executed !
were
even their
hold.
P ywseased,
were shut up in the
the
vostel
Spanish ships
which
wan
had be en
SUCCES; in the
DRUMMERS T.AST CALL,
A pathetic story of the Civil War
was related by the corporal of an
IHinos regiment who was captured
by the Confederates at the battle of
Wilson's Creek, and is repeated in
“Women of the War
The day before thie regiment was
ordered by General Lyons to march
toward Springfield, the drummer of
the company fell ill. There was no
one to take his place, and while the
eapiain was wondering how he should
au ply the lack a pale, sorrow-stricken
won: #. appeared at his tent door,
begging an interview. She brought
with her a little boy of twelve or
thirteen years, whom she wished to
place in ths regiment as drummer |
bo
THE LITTLE
y.
“Captain,” she said, after the boy
bad been accepted, ‘‘he won't be in |
much danger, wiil he 7" i
**No, 1 think not,’ replied the
officer. “We shall be disbanded in a |
fow weeks, I am confident.”
The new drummer soon became a |
favorite, and there was never a feast
of fruit or other hardly procured!
dsinties that “Eddie” did not get his |
share first, The soldiers were stirred
by the child's enthusiastic devotion, |
and declared that his drumming was |
different from that of all the other
drummers in the army !
After the engagement at Wilson's
Creek, where the Federals were de- |
feated, Corporal B —-, who had been
trrown from his horse, found himself
lying concealed from view near a:
clump of treeq, Ae he lay ther mith |
his var to the ground, be heard the
{ faint. In amoment he recognized the
| stroke of Eddie, the boy drummer,
{ and hastened toward the spot whence
| the sound pro seeded. In a clump of
{ bushes, propped against a tree, he
| found the boy. His drum was hang
{ing from a shrub within reach, and
his face was deadly pale,
“Oh, corporal,” said he, ‘1 am
glad you eame ! Won't you give we a
drink of water, please!
The corporal ran to a little sir am
bv. and bronght the chuld a
draught. Just this moment there
KO
close
nt
corporal turued to go
“Don’t leave me,”
drummer, ‘IT can't
Lie pointed to his feet
The corporal saw with that
both feet had been shot off by a canon
ball,
“He said the
them," cont
in
the dead body of a Confederate
the
Sea’
said little
walk and
horror
nod pointing
bes de him ‘He was
but he oray
et} wha l
soldier WHO Lay
+ 11 & 1 *
shot all to piec led over
1
here and
would
I
ALE Old
wl his eves wearily
The Cor oral * overs Ww
by a mist of tear
The Conf
and in the az
s as he looke
derate soldier, shot {
nies of the last
off his
eps above t!}
» take suspend
The Engl Judges’
an
Goat Hunting in
had
When
located point the
a huge
them ti it
ed stre thre 2 Oi is
started it did get to going the
havoe it caused on its down to
the valley was something fearful. Then
the boys told me to get ready for a sur-
prige. We all got onr rifles ready and
waited It was only a short time un-
til we saw emerging from the shrubby
growth below us, three fine goats, They
came towards us, bounding from erag
to crag, and apparently heedless of
the danger they were running into,
They came to within sixty yards of us
and we brought down all three
“I learned then that the goat always
tries to get above rolling rocks, and
that that is a favorite way of hunting
them.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
g0t me to
ook the combin
f us to get it
and
vay
Significant Advertisement,
A noties displayed io a Brisbane
mixed character of the unemployed in
Queensignd. It runs thus: “Wanted,
some men for a township, accustomed
Good wages. No doctors, jour
There are about fifteen women in
Chicago whose names are listed in the
directory as druggists. One of them,
a girl of limited means, helped herself
through college by taking the position
of night clerk for a year,
A QUEER MANIA,
It Attacks the Man Who Looks Down From a
Lofty Height.
Not long ago a Cleveland man was
taken up on the roof of the New Eng-
land building by some of the Century
Club boys to enjoy the view It was a
clear day and the vista In every direc.
tion was beautiful But the boys no
tice] that the visitor hung back from
the parapet and declared he could see
everything all right from the middle
of the roof Being pressed to go clos
er to the edge he flatly refused
“The fact ie,” he sald afterwards
“that I can't stand the sensation of be.
ing up at this tremendous height, No
I don't have the ordinary feeling that
I must throw myself down It isn’t
giddiness In think —doectors
have told me case BOM
what iginal.
sensation you
bridge and hs
neath. If vou
fact, 1
my
have
when standing on oa
be
{hat is
You
get
ol noticed the
vessel
wing a
look
pass
down it isn't long
standing still
all experimented in
ots
boat
we
yery
and the
Course,
this
hood
wis
have
thing
Well
sensation il g
Of times
(GAaAvVR
same
considerable height above the
If down and catch
moving object I at
f rite
ru
grous
ight of
jfruagine the
ure upon which I stand i
' s
100K
once
rapidly through sp
it. ]
and
ace and
somehow j
the
with
down
Creasmss
off }
and | 1
of mos
it
When
em
on
PRION:
0
if
there
ear
ny fingers
What is Triple Extract?
ff marta
12 nightfall or «
4
nornimg when the
Before the ire gat!
fess
recetfiacion are prepa #0
shape of large frame
stretched cotts
are
with olive
Il saturated
a
f
The cut flower
ih
mond oil
in and
: another
in
and
huge
are thickly spread
frame |&
that turn is well
thus
pile of
and
flowers
until a
pared
This 6
at the end of which time
are removed from the and
placed by fresh ones. The frames
filled and emptied every two days un-
til two weeks have passed, Then
cloths are detached from the
and placed under great
all the oil
oll thus obtained is
with the fragrance
mixed with double weight of
pure rectified spirit and put in a
called a digester.”
gimply a porcelain or block-tin kettle
that fits in another kettle When in
nee the outer vessel is filled with boil
the
flow
the
frames re
pressure,
is pressed out of them
heavily
of the flowers, and
it is its
ary
i%
veoasal which
ing wates
In this vessel the mixture of oil and
spirits “digest” for three four
days; then, after having cooled, the
spirit is decanted into another vessel
holding the same quantity of fragrant
ofl, and the digesting process is re-
peated. After being thus digested three
times the spirit is found to have taken
up enough of the perfume and it is
then decanted from the oil for the
third and last time through as tube,
one end of which is filled with cotton
wool to serve as a filter. The finid
thus prepared is called “triple ex.’
tract.” Philadelphia Times.
Settled the Case.
“I was called up in 1878 to defend a
man who was charged with the most
unusual misdeamor | ever heard of any
clerk entering on a court calender,’
said a lawyer friend from the moun-
tains, Sunday. “A young farm hand
came to me at the hotel, where | was
stopping, my home being in another
town, but my practice extended to the
country seat [ was then in. The swain
told me he had been charged by a girl,
to whom he had been paying attention,
with giving her measles, she claiming
that the disease, which had been epi-
demic in the neighborhood, had been
communicated to her by kissing her
repsatedly. The girl's surly father
sued the badly frightened defendant for
$00 damages, claiming he had expend.
#
Or
ed that sum in doctor's bills for tha
afflicted daughter, My client pleaded
guilty to kissing the plaintiff, but said
he couldn't ‘a-hoped it ef’ he'd ben a-
mind ter, and insisted that he had
never had measles I tried the case
before a Kind hearted old squire, and
after the court had heard the testimosy
he delivered a long opinion, in which
he held that a girl as pretty as the
plaintiff would make a boy risk mea.
gles and ‘even dumb chills’ to sip the
of her coral-like lips The
‘jolly’ put both sides in good
and defendant two week
married the plaintiff and se'tled
of appease the
of her Louisville Ic
sEweels
judge's
numor, the
later
the
wrath
cost the suit to
father
|
MAKING ARTIFICIAL ICE.
of Water Inte Solid
Blocks.
fce
Converting Cans
Artificial cold or may be mo
|
{
In the
liqu
amount
or les volatile liquid
this
the
structed
Of
converted
was water One tenth
f
of water used wus into io
but as it was maintain
uum in ihe g araiu its
orking wa
LO
Yad perfect
problem
therefor
i
iad to be sub Hguifis
ulphurous ac lHquified ammon
gaseous
suitable sul
F ammonia
general 1
application
LONnIa
degrees
In this ref
vanized ir
the large
customed to
through
Not Bite
Snakes Do
"3 11018 wh }
fh the upper
nothing to
not
f
draws ilaelf
jaw havi:
gerpent does swallow iis
but
glowiy over
devours it
skin and
dition
bones of its
of the
iy loose cor of
fangs
depositing a thick
i before swallow
tis a The tongue does
moisture enough to do this
| OYer its prey
ing it mistake
not carry
but
when once inside
saliva, The
& an abundance of tongue
is looked upon as a sting, and the ecm
m fook out for its
mon
expression “
The tongne is a mobile, extensile or
both and taste So far
the delicate imple
use, and
pleasure;
gan of touch
the
AnEer
is of greatest ex
presses fear
ment
OI
we have often proved whenever a dif
ferent kind of food was given, There
fs no doubt but that the tongue of a
snake ig very important to its owner
as the slightest injury, even to jig tip.
generally results in the snake's death
-Scientific American
Buying By Sample.
A certain gentleman in this town is
the proud possessor of a remarkably
red nose, The term proud is used
advigedly, as the owner is continually
relating stories having a bearing on
the brilliant hue of his nasal treasure.
The following is one of them: He
was in Exeter one afternoon, and hav-
ing completed his business, was amus-
ing himself by as Inspection of the
shop windows.
While admiring some ties in a cer-
tain window, and considering whether
he should speculate or not, a little girl
came out of the establishment, and
finally caught him by the sleeve.
“Please will you come into the shop
with me, only for a minute?” she ask.
ed.
“Certainly.” answered the gentleman,
following her at once. Arrived at the
counter, the little one astonished
everybody by remarking: “Theer,
fi ., muvver wants a ribbon the seme
color as this gentleman's nose.’
it is intimated that one English per
sou 1a every twenty-four has red hair.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Eigland 1s not so engrossed in hold-
‘1g on 10 her present possessions but
that she can find the time to take an
interest in the dismemberment of
China
y : 1
matter of inks
An expert in the t and
papers pays that the books of the pres
ent neriod printed such poo
ink on perl that fu
ture generation
with
paper
not be r«
them
ale
hable
will
of reading
such
an op
tunity
Boston bas been mak
fifteen £5 bills by cutting fourteen
to pieces and pasting the frag
toro he They
Somebody in
ments are
Boston, but there be
are
make money
been signed Dy
and
nur
has been qi
1a ; v ads taal
IN», which been made
ic. have been awaited with
Leen
ceaded
fhe births in that ex-
he respectable
iz account-
decrease of
yell
the deaths oy i
The Eain
the
figure of 94.000
for only in
thag is, a prolon
bat principally by a
crease in the number 0
the birth rate
smaliest in any
the earth. The
Jirope is ON pet
n France is so alarming that the pub-
i its are fain 10 ax as sat
tory the same figures, about, that trou-
so much in
births of S65.0806, «
377 in that y
ar
not
fon of life
giderable in
Never.
theless, per 1,000
13 the
f
225
civilized nation
Oo birth rate
Average
1,000
ept
1801
pared with 5006, eal
Steps are being taken at the National
Museum in Washington to carry out an
a hall of American history. Prof.
Goode had long cherished the idea, and
Prof. Holmes, who is in charge of the
department of anthropology, is equally
enthusiastic. It is the purpose to have
the institution as nearly national in
character as possible, and every effort
will be made to have as many things
in it relating to early American his-
tory, that of the United States in par-
ticular, as can be obtained. The ob-
jects and relics will be presented
chronologically, beginning with the
period when Leif Ericsson, in his Vi-
king ship, visited America. Then will
follow, in order, Columbus, the Pil-
grims, Capt. John Smiths party, the
Dutch and other settlers, after which
will come relics of the Revolutionary
war, the war of 1512, and the war of
the Rebellion. There will also be ex-
hibits of the growth in facilities of
navigation and of railroading, and of
the remarkable advance fn the use of
electricity.
Many interesting experiments have
been made recently by the United
States Bureau of Education with a
view to finding ou! how much actual
jabor the brain at afferent ages and of
different sexes ean perform, and how
long it can work without fatigue. Some
- SS —— ET
of our learned scientists are of the
opinion that many nervous diseases are
being developed fn our schools, aa
opigion borne out by these recent in-
vestigations, Mental conceantlration is
found to impoverish the blood. City
children are found to be more nervous
on than those who live in
the coin This is ascribed to the
and excitement of city life, the
hurry for dodging of
bi , the .con digtraction of
i and re.
new people
cured
of mind
of
the averag:
ty
bustle
treet cars, the
ant
Bighty
v wit}
On willl
new the
ciat
it however, be
Cue
that short bree
each
irk The
recommended
are fatigued is
sved
tonty
pent;
recess
half-hour or so
mort
for those
ad-
¥ p
LOT
Veen
practical
the
in inrition
ang oi y for
musi
glern bh I
an old Huguenot fami
members
Complos w hose
tims of a terrible
{ he
others
own
them
Cyclists See a Strange Sight
gE aves are
ur reputation
id a whe
ling in Europe last summer
ah
for tourist
went bi
And
But 1
some of
.
un te
1 i
a
no o have i
going to tell you Bow 1 had
taken ont of me
‘We were going through Swilzeriacd
had of the
descent Geneva
we reaso i
am
tiie conceit
the close first
and reached
day's The
with-
were
for our
through our
way
toward
P 10 coast
we
and, as
IFRK es {ear
Iasi us
uid not
» back-pedalled all the
‘As after
he veranda of the lodge
of
we were sitting SUPPer om
discussing the
exercise, and
dreading the morrow, which meant
more of the same out attention
was suddenly called to a cloud of dust
descending the mountain side Then
we saw a cyvelist, coasting as nice as
you please, towing a good-sized sap-
pling, which acted as an effective brake
without injury to the tires. One of the
bays ejaculated ‘Weil! Why didn’t
we think of that? The rest were sim-
ply dumb. That man was a German,
I now take off my hat te our German
brethren of the wheel "Pall Mall
jazette
our unusual
sort
fce Cream om Fire.
At a children's party the other day
the ice cream was served in a way to
draw forth the most extravagant ex-
clamations of delight from the young
company. It was packed in little can-
dlesticks cleverly made of pink paper
and to add to the illusion in the bol-
tow of the tube which formed the can-
dle a short taper was inserted and
lighted. Most children had seen burn-
ing plum pudding at Christmas time
but ice cream on fire was a paradox to
which they were not accustomed --
Philadelphia Record.
A perfect ruby, which weighs four
carats or more, commands a
times the value of a diamond
same size. A ruby of
out any defects, is
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