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r
OLD SAYINGS. I
As poor as a church mouse,
As thin as a rail,
As fat as a porpoise,
As rough as a gale,
As brave as a lion,
As Bpry as a cat,
As bright as a sixpence,
As weak as a rat.
As proud as k,
As sly as a
As mad as
As strong as
As fair as a lily,
As empty as air,
As rich as Croesus,
As cross as a bear,
a peaco
fox,
a March
an ox,
are,
As pure as an angel,
As neat as a pin,
As smart as a steel trap,
As ugly as sin,
As dead as a doornall,
As white as a sheet,
flat as a pancake,
As red
As
as a beet,
As round as an apple,
As black as your hat,
As brown as a berry,
As blind as a bat,
As mean as a miser,
As full as a tick,
As plump as a partridge,
As sharp as a stick
As clean as a penny,
As dark as a pal.
Ag hard as a 1
Ag bitter as
As fing as a fid
As clear as a
As dry as a herring,
As deep as a well.
As light as a feather
As hard as a rock,
As stiff as a poker
As calm as a clock
As green as a gosling
As brisk as a bee
And now let me stop
Lest ynu weary of me
—Mrs. M. A. Den
BEVIS
The Lyons diligence
to start from Geneva.
the roof, and chose my
driver; there was still
and the porter «
mann!”
A tall yo
.l v III "nal
style of countenanc
*
3010,
Ing
in his arms a
which he vainly
roof.
“Monsieur,
“will have
my dog?”
Bending
you
zle you; and I have
telling you the story of
Bevis belongs to me, but
mary years since he owne«
marier, whose name is on
You will why he s
Jevis, speak the gentleman.”
The d
creat
EL ]
hig head
bright eyes, and, laying
ears, uttered a sound which
well pass for a salutaiiorn.
M. Dermann placed the
head on his knees and began to
ten the collar.
instantly Bevis drew park
with a violent jerk, and darted to-
ward the luggage on the hinder par:
of the roof. There, growling flercely
he lay down, while his muscles
stiffened, and his
fury.
“You see, Monsieur wwmined
he is to guard his should
not like to be the man who would try
to rob him of it. Here, Bevis, said he
in a soft, caressing ton: “1 wont
totek it again, poor fellow! Couitie
znd rake friends!”
The greyhound hesita*>1, stil growl.
fag. At length he returned slowly to-
ward his master, and began to lick his
hands; his muscies gradually relaxed,
and he trembled like a leaf
“There, boy, there,” said M. Der-
man, caressing him. “We won't do
it again. Lie down now, and be quiet.”
The dog nestled between his mas-
ter's feet and went to sleep. My fel.
low traveler, then turning toward me,
began:
“I am a native of Suabia, bu: I iive
fu a little village of the Sherizad, at
the foot of the Grimsel. My father |
keeps an inn for the reception of tr.v-
elers going to St. Gothard., About two
sears since thare arrived at cur house
one evening a young Englishman with +
a pale, sad countenance; he traveled |
or. fpot, and was followed by a large
greyhound—this Bevis, whom you see |
Ho daclined taking any refreshment
and ed to be shown to his sleeping
room. We gave him one over the
common hall, where we were all seat. |
ed round the fire. Presently we heard |
him pacing rapidly up and down, from |
time to time uttering broken words, |
addressed no doubt to his dog, for the |
animal moaned occasionally, ag {f re!
plying to and sympathizing with his |
master.
“At length we heard she Englishman |
On TAQ
vere
glowinz with
»
oyes
how ge
collar. 1
stop and apparently strike the dog a
violent blow, for the poor beast gave
a loud howl of agony, and seemed an
if he ran to take refuge under the bed.
afterward he lay down, and all
quiet for the night. Early next morn-
ing he came down, looking still mor:
pale than the previous evening, and,
having paid for his lodging, he took
his knapsack and resumed his journey,
followed by the greyhound, who had
whose master seemed to take no fur-
ther notice of him than to frown when
the creature ventured to caress him,
looking toward
the Englishman
the
which
ing at door,
Presently |
proceeding
along
moving slowly
f distress,
heard howls of
from a wounded dog that was dragging
himself toward me, I ran to him and
ecognized the Englishman's
His head was torn, evidently
by a bullet, and one of his paws bro
hen, 1 raised him in my arms and
carried him into the house, When I
grey
cilort
escape; so I placed him on
Then, in sgite of the tor
suffering, which
moment, he
the
5 tO
ture he was caused
him to stagger
ratched at the
avery
door of room
where his master had slept, moaning
that |
weeping myself I
with a {
great eof
at the time
help
same 10 pitecusly
“ 1 i i al t
1 100Ked about
we gave
Wking In
though he
¢
reqd
Monsieur,’ said
what
hie addressing
me |
Arthur still We
friends from childhood
years he married a
dog was pre
was
‘from ou tell ventur
hope that Si: lives
have Leen
About
heiress, and
him by
three since
wink
ricil
this
sented ) jevis
cherished for his fideiity
which was not
She left
husband
man. Sir for a di
and having ar-
ranged his affairs in England, he se:
out for the continent, followed only by
his dog. His friends knew not whith.
went; but it now appears that
he was here last spring. Doubtless the
presence of Bevis evermore mpealling
the memory of her who had so éruelly
wronged him, must have torn his heart
and at length impelled him to destroy
the faithful creature But the shot
dot having been mortal, the dog. I
imagine, when he recovered conscious
nese, was led by instinct to seek the
bouse where his master slept last
Now, Monsieur, he is yours. and I
heartily thank you for the kindness
you have shown him.’
“About ten o'clock the stranger re
turned to his room, after having ca.
ressed Bevis, who escorted him to the
door, and then returned to his accus
tomed place before the fire. My par-
a quality un
possessed bs
fond and
with
} fe
Happy
11S Mistress
oving
other
ber
I
1
i eloped
and
Arthur sie
art
edd
it: then,
voree got
er he
rest and I prepared to follow their ex-
ample, my bed being placed at the end
of the common hall. While | was un-
dressing | heard a storm rising in the
mountains. Just then there came gn
to growl. 1 asked who wos there. A
volce replied: ‘Two travelers who
want a night's lodging. 1 opened an
small chink of the door to look out,
and perceived two ragged men, each
leaning on a large club. 1 did not like
their looks; and knowing that several
rcbberies had been committed iu the
neighborhood 1 refused them admis.
lage they would readily find shalter,
They approached the door, as though
they meant to force their way in; but
Bevis made hig voice heard in so for.
midable a manner that they judged |i
prudent to retire. 1 bolted the door
and went to bed, Bevis, according to
hig custom, lay down near the thresh-
old, but we neither of us felt inclined
to sleep.
“A quarter of an hour passed, when
suddenly the walling of the
wind came the loud, shrill ery of a hu-
man being in distress. Bevis rushed
against the door with a fearful howl,
above
at the same moment came the report
gun, followed by another cry
Two minutes afterward I was on the
road, armed with a carbine and hold
ing a dark lantern; my father and the
stranger, armed, accompanied me, As
for Bevis, he had darted out of the
house and disappeared
“We approached the which I
mentioned before at the moment when
a flagh of lightning {ilumined the
geene A hundred yards in advance
woe saw Bevis grasping a man by the
throat We hurried but
had completed his work ere we
him; for whom |
niged as those who had sought admit-
tance at inn, lay strangled
by his poverful jaws. Further on
discovered another man, whose bloody
licking
The
and
Sir Arthm
'
defile
on, the dog
reach
ed two men recog
our dead,
we
W
wounds the noble dog was
stranger approached him gave un
convulsive cry It was
Bevi
Ler of !
Here M
ject)
the m
Dermann
eming to
{tO caress
hound rds
After
a few word
“Sir Arthu
Hved
and
1 1
espe r:
3
wil fa
avenged his des
attacked
¥
bers who
in glranger
pensi
Drills Thousands
Hach
car which ran upo he i gu
mots
rai Ana drove
feet in le
the drill
the Gri
twelve
ran
chine was mounts
. ad h
in a compa
1® upper end
frame
in
the pute;
t frame
and
Brew
with a screw at t
thing, dri
gize
whole and
was of a to between the
metal rail and wooden guard
rail
conve
the
place
could
other
In some places where there wers
in }
could
the
be
rails and
continuously
work had to
and these often ran un
headway The ont
CORSET
wagons
the guard
done
places the
1i6nt rs
motor
on
bye
be done
between trains
der two minutes
fits proved to be 20 handy fo:
and men working them
came 50 expert, that during the entire
progress of the work not a train was
delayed for more than ten seconds by
the drillers.
the pur
pose the be
A Kentucky Procession.
“There came into a little town down
on the western Kentucky border one
| day recently one of tne oddest looking
i processions I ever jaughed my sides
sore at,” said Dr. Hiram French last
night “It was a man mounied on a
‘mule, and to the animal's caudal ap-
pendage the rider had tied a rope, the
other end of which was around the
neck of a cow. Tiled around the cow's
i tail was another rope, and the other
end of it around the neck of a calf and
ia third rope led a razor-back hog. The
| porker, too, had to do service as a Jead-
{er for it pulled along a brindle cur, The
| man was an eccentric old bachelor
farmer, clad in blue jeans, who lived
ion the Tennessee river, and as he will
{ have no men on his place, he does all
jof his work himself. He wanted to sell
the cow, calf and hog, and had prom-
i {aed to give a friend the old coon dog
| which brought up the rear, and as note
i of the animals could be driven, the ru-
ral genius had hit upon the novel plan
of leading them all. The sextet of
curfosivies had made the trip, over
twenty miles, without accident. —Lous-
ville Post,
OAK WOOD GETTING SCARCE.
fhc Danger of Using Up the Visible
Supply.
No one who #8 at all familiar with
sxisting conditions fu the lumber
can fall to note that there is
already considerable complaint of a
fearth of desirable oak. Both in quar.
ered and plain stock fairly good lots
of dry oak are notably scarce, The
sading jobbbers have had their buyers
for months picking up anything
they could find, and the result
8 that a very large proportion of the
sak on sticks has already passed into
second hands and is held by the pres-
snt owners for distribution to consum-
Mill men in the South are cut-
ing it all the time, but they not
to wait until it is dry,
dry, before selling
hoose to do so they can
fate for It in advance
on terms
are
do
even
they |
BELO-
sawing
OF
If
usually
of the
that a few years ago |
the
mill pro
1
that |
is most
salable of
fact
believed likely
perhaps
saw
y liberal. Oak
any
iuet, which indicates is
10W, and is
after, relatively a
While there is no occasion for
a8 tO the present adequacy of the oak
supply, it Is a the time
not when onsidera-
to + here
scaree article
Jarm
question if
IAs come BErious «
on should be given to the poseibilits
iol to say probability, that In
istant uture oak may beco
yf the scarce woods Considering
$ ‘tt ¢ 4
distrivuton of t}
oak
men
wide
trike
onlingency ut that It is
many umber 88 A
veri ls rR 3 " 6 distant
POSSI OL red il, Of 0 Qisian
emoved from
uggested at
fd 4
Of Geman
has been called for i
of the hard times
pe
yn has been lar
while
ge
* §
that of
Crowned Usurpers
R
lavaria
sngland ix thus
Mary IV of
Wales and 111 of
184%; her
born May 1%
, Victoria,
Seotiatd, born July J SOL
Rober Wales
IM®: pame of usurping
x Princess of Hanover
Queen Mary IV, it
traces her descent from
of Charles 1., while Queen
Prince
Now appears
the
daughts
Victoria is
direct line of suc-
oversight, which
fatal to the League's argument, no
niention is made in the Act of Settle
ment, which puts a different complex
on on matters
Ii ig interesting to that among
other usurpers of thrones is Abdul Ha
mid II of Turkey. The Turkish throne,
according to the League, has been “va.
cont 145). The crowns of
France and Spain belong equally
the notorious Spanish pretender, Don
Carlog and Charies XI of France,
New York Herald
and is thus not in the
By a strange
fiote
since
to
Remarkable Hair.
Some remarkable dog were seen at
the London dog show recently--none
being more worthy of note than the
French “bear” dogs. This ia a breed
reised in the south of France for the
the mountain fastnesses,
a dog show they are none too quiet.
Bequiman dogs were also among the
features of the exhibit. Hairless Mex.
jean dogs, Australian “wild dogs.” and
‘chow-chows” from China were all
centers of altraction.
The Chinese Of Tree.
In a recent report of the United
States Consul General at Shanghai
there {8 an interesting description of
the Tung, or Chinese oil tree.
useful tree grows to a height of fifteen
feet, and is of beautiful appearance, its
wedges
all over the country in the manufacture
of paint and varnish, for walter proof-
ing paper and umbrellas, and in soma
district for illuminating purposes, But
boats, On
the submerged parts of vessels IL is
applied hot, but on is
painted on in thin coats quite cold, All
Chinese thus olled twice a
month, made to a
glossy the
moat other
oth parts |
boats
and
appearance, while
preserved Like
commodities, thig tree oll ia often adu
retailers
are
BO are sume a
wood |
is sold by
terated before it
chiefly with cottonseed oll
ROBBING A RAILWAY.
Clever Ruse By Which the Thieves Were
Discovered.
The Rock Island Railroad shops in
Chicago ha about (0) or S00 handy
BE i ‘
sent
sixties. Two helpers
were put to work
the early
office
hie ofl
writ-
but
any-
looked smart enough
Engineering Magazine,
of
were
the y BAYS 4
no uke
from
being everywhere
absolutely
passed one de-
partment to another
the b
tomed to’
sent down
draw
from the paint
th
made itts of the workmen, who
were main ofice” hands
from headquarters
were called
accu
as men
simply to
whol
pay
shop to Lhe
two
then
when
place
boller shog wad fun w those
and
the
J exit
office
gates si
{WO
work
and
slow
hands
iL Was very
the gale because
helpers A man
MIrooIm, where
aud i
ut. No one
f
DOr Space, sea i
lowed to go O
ony
Dr. M'Cosh’'s Expense
| Princetonian
arranged
Yale
16 friet
begging,
foliow w
Depew
ienia
WHR assertad
4 g srrarain fF
of various kinds for the purpose of t
ing up a collection ix
end
During the a
ed white with anger
ply, when the chairman recognized Mr
Depew
McCosh turn.
and started to re.
all the accusations
made against Princetonian
are entirely without foundation,’
Mr. Depew “1 have never
his begging from a broker,’
“Never! Never eried Dr. McCosh
And 1 never heard of his cttending
meetings called for other purposes and
‘begging his university.”
“Never!” again “echoed the doctor
“The only time 1 ever heard of any-
thing of that kind implied,” contin-
ned Mr. Depew
hat he stood on a New York street cor
ner with a monkey and a hand organ,
wearing a placard or which was print.
ed: ‘I am poor and blind, so please
help Princeton.” Dr. McCosh never at
tended another Yale dinner.—Philadei.
phia Record
$hnt
14
Our
lieve
ery oni
RUuesi
for
A Country Clerk's Rise.
Levi Zeigler Leiter was a clerk in a
country store in Maryland when he
wae a lad. Mr. Leiter and Marshal
| Field met in Chicago shortly after the
! former moved West to seek his for
| tune. and in 1865 they bought out the
| business of Potter Palmer. The firm
! became known Field, Palmer & Leiter
| and not long after as Fleld, Leiter &
| Co. Mr. Leiter worked like a horse
| and bought real estate. He
| care to geil it, and the values er’qrged
| wonderfully with the influx of popula
| tion. In 1881 Myr, Leiter sold ou: 9
| his partners. He had real esta
manage, and then he wanted to travel
He liked books, and added many trea.
| sures to hig superb collection. The
American Sunday School Union is one
and it is from thera that the oil is
extracted in the most primitive fashion
we wooden presses worked with
}
eral years he has lived in Washingror
the benefit of its climate. Mr. Lei.
is now €3 years old.—Argonaut.
WIT AND HUMOUR,
LpterDute Jokes and Witticisms From the
Comic Papers.
PAD COMPANY.
‘““He said Le judged people by the
eompany they kept.’
“What did yon say ?
“1 said ‘good-bye.’
'
THE SEW CUPID,
“I asked her to wear love's fotters
for me
“What did she say ?
she couldn't think of it
that everything was chainless now-a-
days.’
she said
AND HE WALKED
1 he v
nambulist,
Were
it that you
yv asked
I can’t ride
“The st« ith life
the
otherwise, now
“We 1}, 1 su
¥ out
ry fairly breathed =
ber,
in early num but it s quite
1
POOR DEUMMOND,
Mcintyre fill
Ve Yesterday
crazy,”
ment in
Renan
i ‘yon
ementrevarsed
Aauy
ned,
“How do she demand-
«dl
‘“ ‘He went crazy and married
makes it re plausible.” he
answered
seem
HUBBY 8 GOOD Q
ee
The crrate a call on a
when the
good woman, in of conversa
tion, very much extolled the virtues
of her absent husband, snd finished
up by saying: “And he is such a good
man,
“In what way ?
was maxin
f hag flo k
Yiie i wihar 3 {
dumpie memoer ol ais i
Course
too.’
asked the curate.
“Why, sir,” she said, "‘he always
says his prayers night of his
life-—drank or sober--he never misses
that.’
every
Mission Work Among Pigmies.
Miss Mclean, a woman of Glasgow,
has given a fund for mission work
among the dwarfs of the Cameroon
district, West Africa, and the work
of evangelization among them is fairly
begun, They are a wandering. hunt-
ing folk. here today and there to-
morrow, not staying long enough in
one place to have any agriculture, and
until they are instructed in more sta-
le ways of living it will bé necessary
for missionaries to follow them about
from place to place and labor among
the iHtle wanderers as they find op-
portunity.
His Precious Penny.
H. A. Sylvester, an aged man of
Rockport, Me. still owrs a penny giv.
en him when he was only two years
ola. The penny has traveled with him
on shipboard round the world: has
beep shipwrecked, seen mining riots
fn he wilds of Idaho, and has been
coveted by the pickpockets in the
wilds of San Francisco. Sylvester hung
on to it whea it was the only cent he
had to his asme, and would not ex-
change it for a golden eagle.
—— a
Two counties in Kansas raised over
2.000000 bushels of wheat each last
year.