AND COMMENTS.
NOTES
Any one having an old calendar of
1557 may successfully utilize it for this
year, as 1808 is an exact 1eproduction,
holidays and all. This will not again
pecur until 1045,
The six cases of poverty, as de-
fined in a recent lecture by Professor
Franklin H. Giddings, of Columbia
University, are refusal to work, lack of
employment, struggle to rise, unequal
distribution of accident, wrong public
policy and sentimental charity. Any
reader whose income is inadequate Is
invited to consider this list and de-
termine which cause fits his own case.
State insurance has assumed enor-
the number of 18,000,000 were thus
protected in 1807, and for 381,000 ac-
16,000,000 marks was paid out. Pro-
old-age.
ones find in eating their
food.
Frenchman of a chewing apparatus.
This is held in one hand and a fork in
the other. A piece of meat, or what-
sver is to be eaten, is placed between
the blades, which are opened and clos-
ed three or four times, and by this
means the food is reduced to a state
of pulp.
a difficulty
Heretofore American girls have
found it a comparatively simple mat-
ter to buy titles, but American
men have been compelled
plain, unadorned citizens, without
handles to their names. All this
to be charged to a bill which the
an Government proposes Lo
to Parliament becomes a law.
ing to the provisions of this, anyone
desiring to become a prince may secure
that title by planking down $5000
Five thousand dollars will purchase
the title of marquis, $4,006. the title of
eount, while the titles of baron will
sold in lots at $1,000 each.
the
10 remain
be
In this country there re almost
twice as many women who follow the
profession of teaching as th are
men, and the disparity is sald to be
on the increase. In Prussia, out of 65,.-
000 teachers only 9,000 are women, and
in the German Empire there are 135,-
NM) teachers and something like 10.
000,000 pupils. There are about 140.
France, 100.000 more
“Great Britain fol-
tea
ere
(XX) teacher
women tha
with
far as kn
nary
feel
many as
erness’ in
an
A lightning calculator
interest than most of his k
mandi, a native of Pylaros,
Greek Is
lows 1.066) O0HA
t 3 *
» although ff
the books she has
observant
critic,
of t
greater
nd, Dia-
one of the
of
is, i orks
After
rd on
land amandi
through the medium of the eye
mere glance at a
which 30 groups of figures are writt
he can repeat them in any and
deal with them by any arithmetical
process. It is said that he never makes
an error in calculations involving bil-
lions, d extract
cube marvellous
and acct An
Ural
gpecialist declared the other day
© lark)
a DICK DOR
en
order
\ * ART
an ae can
roots wit
¥ eminent
ail these ready-reckoners were
This not the Diamandi,
who writes poetry and novels in
intervals of business, and shows
siderable intellectual capacity.
is case with
the
con
There was to have been a wedding
near McKee, Ky., the other day,
contracting parties being Mr. Ed Luns-
ford and Miss Bettie Hayes. The pros-
pective bridegroom procured the Ili-
cense and hastened to the home of the
would-be bride, hoping to carry
his plans and have the ceremony per-
formed before the unsuspecting pa-
rents learned of it, but to his surprise,
he was met at the door oy the girl's
father, who, with a 45-calibre Colt's in
his hand, completely upset the young
Lochinvar's dream by firing two shots
under his feet and threatening to kiil
him unless he left, never to set s foot
on the premises again. Lunsford next
day returned his license to the County
Clerk's office; “not executed.”
the
out
sd
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Only seven years ago, about
time of the Baring panic, the first part
of what is now Oklahoma, was thrown
open to settlemént. Two years later,
Cherokee Outlet was added,
throngs of settlers who rushed there
to get a last slice of Uncle Bam's farms
revealed the land hunger of the people.
Oaklahoma now embraces apout half
of what ig known on tne map as the
Indian Territory. The tribes still re-
tain the other half. But the Oklahoma
half of the coming State already con-
tains 275,000 people, or more than
-t
ed. It is assessed for £32,000,000
Real valtie, 100,000,000. Last year it
producéd 2000000 bushels of wheat
and 120000 bales of cotton. It was
settled during the depression and the
people are not in debt.
A rival of Cdlifornia In fruit-grow-
ing in a small way is Arizona, the fa-
vored section of the territory as to
soil and climate being the Salt River
Valley. This valley produced 3.200
boxes of oranges, lemons, grape-fruit,
and tangerines last year, about doub-
ling its production of ISB. There are
KR) acres planted in oranges in the
Salt River Valley thus far, and the suc-
cess which has attended the industry
will reduit 'u the planting "of many
new groves this spring. Of the R00
acres, about 500 acres are now in bear-
ing. and the others will soon begin
to produce. The varieties of oranges
grown are about equally divided be-
tween the Washington navél and seed-
lings. There the fruit ripens earlier,
as a rule, by two or three weeks than
anges have often béen the first to reach
the Eastern market. It is frequently
the case that they are placed on the
Thanksgiving table of the remotest
Bastern city by the Arizona shipper,
Georgia has a new prison law, which
it hopes will abate some of the evils of
its convict system, which in recemi
years have made it a reproach all
over the world. Under the present
lease, soon to expire, the State receives
€95.000 a year for its convicts. It is
expected that under the new ordinance
it will receive from $75,000 to $100,000,
The prisoners number, all told, 2.000,
but under the new system the women,
boys, girls and incapables are to be
put on a farm and cared for by the
State, only the able-bodied being leas-
ed out to labor, and these being in the
care of guards appointed by the State.
is expected that, with competent
vict-camp scandals, and the new ap-
with such intelligence and earnest.
ness as to lead to the belief that the
people of Georgia will not soon again
be annoyed by the charge that
State's convicts are treated cruelly.
According to recent statistical re-
turns. the total number of women over
the age of eighteen employed in
tories and workshops in the British
Islands is a little over a million,
which about 11 per cent
trades unions. Most of
fac-
belong to
these
have
but there are some
unions, organized, officered and
ducted exclusively by female
mong these are the Felt
[rimmers, and Wool Formers
ciation, with 2,48 members; th
male Cigarmakers’ Protective Union,
with other
of
separate
can-
mem
bers. Hat
o
associations
a Mttie
a few
a membership
thousand,
with a smaller
The great bulk of the
are included in the
showing a disposition out her
industrial, like her other probig
company with the men, rather
separate from them—a token that the
working British female is end
and discriminating
d knows perfectly well
her is buttered.
aver
list of
women
members
workers
still
BLill
mixed
to work
ms,
than
ywed with
judgment
on which
sound
an
sll
bread
DWARF LIFE IN AFRICA
Peculiar
the Little People.
African dwarfs,
lows in the Independent
Most
in their Bakoko and
these people are smalicr
Mabeya neigh
women
into these
the
ty of their
inland
ike life
jong
dwarf further
g, Indiani
8, 1
120 feet
its to
They li deri:
hunting.
and three or
of whicl
and th
drive the game into
are experia in trapping, too
one place Ong
they their game
neighbors for
these ned
enough
not stay in
plant, so trade
thelr
agricultural
etable food. These Mabeya head
certain kind of ownership ¢
es furnishing
ing and nets, §
th, thelr
s gre in that community
in the hu th
the i plants
so well
a feast
game
successful ey must
depend
honey,
to find hey
nuts
how
upon wild
which they know
often have
mine.
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and
nore often a fa
from
Their sheds are {1 15
long, the leaf roof touching the ground
on the s:ue and being about four and 2
half feet high on the other side. When
there are high trees the roofs are made
of the bark of one, ft or dve fs
meter. and often do no
leak
Under these sheds
in
tim
ur et
t
dia t
ia
have
before the dy
to crack and
want to move,
the pole beds,
sticks four or five
ground. There is a space left afl
between every two beds. If they have
any boxes or small trunks Ty
keep them hid in th
are
supported by forke
inches
for re
tin
¢ bus
nothin
pot or basket, a net gur
of a native ax; no man is ric h enougo
to poasess all of these. ey can move
all of their possessions on fifteen min-
| utes’ notice; maybe living here today
and two miles away to-mOrrcw Three
| moves do not equal one fire with them.
| For amusement a man goes through
violent forms of exercise, trying 0
| move ns many of the muscles in his
| body at one time as possible, the spec-
| tators clapping their hands and calling,
| beatifig on sticks and thelr drums dur-
| ing the performance. They seem to
| pelieve in one supreme being who Is
good and kind, Lut, of course, have no
definite knowledge of him.
They fear the spirits of the departed
| and are said to move at once from a
| place where one of thelr number died.
They fear and try to appease many evil
| spirits, one of which takes a dreadful
| form for his punishment.
{| Among the Mabeyas I know of but
one blind man; yet it is a rule to find
| one blind man in a community of from
| fifteen to L.y dwarfs and sometimes
| as many as three blind ones, made
| blind some night by the agent of this
evil spirit as a punishment for some of-
| fense,
or bowl or
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"The Depths of Submissiveness.
The fact that Dr. Creighton, the
Lord Bishop of London, rolled and
smo ced nineteen cigarettes the other
day while talking with a pevspaper
man, recalls the story of the big, burly
Bishop and the little curate in the
compartment of « railway car. “You
will not mind my smoking , will you?”
d his lordship. “Not if your lord-
hip doesn’t mind my being sick,” suv-
missively replied the little curate. —Ar.
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
TWO LITTLR GIRLS
I'he lazy little girl that shivers all day
fu the sultry house at her listless play,
With a dreadful pain im her head,
Hhe never, never aows how nice and
warm,
Is the rosy little girl that, out in the
storm,
Goes skipping about with her sled.
A PACT ABOUT (LASS.
A glass plate will return to its ex-
act original form after being kept
under pressure in a bent eondition for
{wenty-five years, Gloss is the most
perfect elastic substance in existence,
Steel ranks next.
THE LOBSTER
The common lobster is found
great abundance on our coasts, usually
in the clear rocky waters, The fisher-
men take great numbers of lobsters
in baskets made on t'e same principle
The powerful tail of the lob-
sters enables them to sprimg through
have been seen to pass nearly thirty
They direct their eou se with
wonderful accuracy and can throw
themselves through apertures hardly
larger than the size of their
of course, they spring tail foremost
The grasp of the louster’'s claw is 80
to break off the claws 1s
bodies;
its hold.
The so-called lady fingers of the
lobster are its breathing apparatus,
LITTLE LIGHTS,
Sometimes children think they are
must
east
until they are as big as the older
brother or sister,
I read something the other day that
made me think the smallest might he
helpful,
Did you aver
ot, but
an inch long,
t .
. as | +
or at
see 8B
itis a tte
which shi
4
giow
Perhaps 1
about ha
LTe-1016%
say yon have seen fire -Hies sc
iiave hap) ened
What I read the o
it the good one «
little glow - worms did,
There had been a bat
men were fi
Pretty »
They had with
strument
wonld
vi
riding out
te, AnD
Gil
WAY
called a
have shown them wLY,
net see
which way the needle point hey
did not dare carry a light for fear the
enemy would see it and follow them
Just then noticed
one of the men n
z in the grass
yi the
th
it
1 1% ¢
He picked it up and pu com
pass, and there was ju
to show which way the needle pointe d
Then the men knew which way th
home was [hey were very glad, and
went on until they got home,
Don't you think these men
little gl
st a little child do as
w * Ernght,
rds,
WAY
ust Light enough
thought
a eonld do good?
And cannd
8 BR Hi
siniles, pleasant
i child's
ia AJ
make all
w-worm
much
worm sunny
and helpful
wi
deat én of
and they
Lappy
the
THE
Dollikir fo
at the kindergarten had
watching Miss Laura draw pictures of
animsalson the black-board The sun-
shine came in at the window; and the
warm, and Dollikins's
head dropped lower and lower fall it
lay on the table Lefore her, and she
was fast asleep.
Then she thought that, instead of
Miss Laura, there sat in the chair be-
hind the desk a big white duck. She
had a cap on her head, and spectacies
on her beak; and she looked so funny
that Dollikins giggled a little, sofily.
“Silen enid the duck, sternly.
DUCK
THAT TAUGHT SCHOOL
asleep one morning
She been
Too WAS vary
pee
oe
said,
tiand we will all go out to the pond,
Little
children should learn to swim just as
little ducks do.” She «¢ limbed down
from her chair, and waddled out of
“Put away your work,” she
#HON
And all
shouting and clapping their
bands, Then splash ! went the big
white duck into the water. And
splash ! went little Tommy Toodles
after her. Andthen it was Dollkin's
turn,
and
“Come on I" cried the duck, ‘‘Just
turn your toes in, and spread your
wings, and jump !”
So Dollikins shut her eyes, and
jumped; and there she was in the
kindergarten, with her head on the
table in front of her, and Miss Laura
smiling down at her.
“But where is the duck 7” asied
Dollikins.} .
“I think you have been aslecp,
dear,” said Miss Laura.
AUNT LE NORA.
“Temscent carriage for a quarier!
Ten-cent « arriage for a quarter!”
In the babble of gruff hackmen's
voices, the shrill, childish ery rose
distinetly. The gray lady with the
pleasant face smiled when she heard
it. The voice was so sweet, and it
said such funny things! She took up
her shawl-strap and the little brown
grip,” and foilowed it.
“Ten-cent carriage for aquarter!
Pen-cent carriage for a quarter I”
parilled on the imperative little voice
above the din,
“Oh, here you are I” the gray lady
cried. “Well, I would like to go to
Axm.nster Street, if you please.’
“Yes'm,” mid the voice’'s owner,
5
bpromptly, ating, im db¥ghted sar
prise, '“W by, that's the strees I. live,
on, tool”
I Hebustled about busily a: minute.
(Then he suddenly stopped, aud im
{spected his ‘*‘fare’’ with grave sus
| pieion,
“I'm "raid yon won $tfit,’' he said
despoudently.
The gray lady glanced at the siny
| dog cart snd still tinier pony, aud
laughed nll over her sweetifuce.
“Oh, yes,” she hurried to sayi »e-
| assaringly, ‘*yon can make me: At.
I can be squeezed beasutitally.”’
| “You see,” the driver confided! to
| her, confidentially, as they elattesed
[awam, “I was hoping yow'd bes aumad
| lim, np "®” down passemger; bul
| guess it's all right Yom fiti quite
| nicely, [ thank.”
{ “Ithis the first time yoa'ive driven
a haok ?' questioned the gray: lady,
with mnteresd,
“Yea'm, but "tisn’'t 8 hmek,
ten-eant omrringe ’
They drove on a little way
talking. The gray lady; looking
down at the little, heated, anxious
face, sew that it was pondening grass
y,
It's a
without
o Do you shink it's too mueeli to asl,
-— aejuarter is, I the driver
asked suddenly “You sess, | never
drove s ten eent carriage before; aml
80 I hazen™ Lal much :
“I. don’t think 1t's
muoh: te ask,” the
emphatically
mee, if . Sn ow,
neednit pay but ffieen ssnts
real sorry | can’ttake you for nothiag,
but I'm earning money to send
Aunt Le’ I to
dreadfly. and she was ceaming
sway, | at
fit, — a real
"fraid she can’t «
what enred equ no
said nothing ‘cept me
Tm: earning it to send
seo Aunt Len ’
The gray lady » arms felt as {30
they wanted to hug $i TIVE
they 4 d 3 1 He
with a « r. bright
“You see,
Lenora si
expisnatory iit
.
menn ?"
"Bpemenes,
BO You
my
fer
agit
eal
want wae
LUTA.
slié 8 QOL SU NODE
One
an
avon
I
pow 1
Fapa
tad bad
bad
ome, ask ad
fits,
Wo 1} :
5 do. want
Sa
i
ia
te
ra ro
gh
+
face was all aquiver
wk
I never ‘ve
i] 4
sees Anant
oe
Wn Te nev
want to
suntie, and
r ee
harder
selina
to me."
-
They were turnin
Street, and
toward
cheerin
ery
Lat
one
.* *
AL 8 DY LOL
t's
sald quickly
And
tifal thing
w
the
the gray
into tiny, ten ces carriage
out of 1%. Aunt Le
**See hom
»H
i
ho
Dorm |
Joa
nzgmyg the
»
quick cured me
%
i
¥
she cried,
and slipping
shiny fare into his
Aasion
driver, bag,
pocket
How Japamcse Woe
Japan a long way OL ar
charming story of bow courtsbhips as
carried mong
ciety of the land of
not yed confirmed
it is
certair
side ©
in
on a
th
a 3
¢ elite
the ti
been
yet
pretty enough
amdricls in houses wi
ne or more daughters
e age an empty flower
riageabl
an ornamental character
by a string and suspended
dow or veranda
The Juliet
attractive, and
as those of oiher
of serenades by
delicate ways of making an
it in etiquette for the Japanese lov-r 10
approach his
bearing plant in hand
which he 13 , Jet us hope
ereniiy, proceeds to plant In the empty
vase,
is
by three
Japan a
Romeos as anxious
lands But imstead
niight other
moonlight a
impression
s of re
%
t
he
ang
the dwelling of lady
some choice
rey -
This takes place when he is fully as.
sured that both mother and daughter
are at home Neither of course, is
at au conscious that the young man is
taking such liberty with the flower pot
their window This of
otty plant in the
equivalent
outside net
placing
flower
pI
is
a empty
pot
wit...
The youthful gardener having seitled
hie plant to his mind, 1. ires, and the
lady Is free to act as ghe pleases. If
he is the right man she takes every
care of the gift, waters it and tends it
carefully with her own hands, that all
the world may see the donor is accep -
ed os a suitor
But if he is not favorite, or if the
stern parents onject, the poor plant is
| torn from the vase and the next morn-
ing lies limp and withered on the ver-
| anda or on the path below.
}
Eating Belore Going to Bed.
A writer in Italia Termale quoted by
the National Druggist, is not mueh in
favor of the theory that late suppers
are injurious. “He declares, in fact,”
says the latter paper, “that many per-
sons who remain thin and weakly, in
spite of all precautions in regard to
diet, ete., owe the fact largely ha-
bituai abstemioueness at nightl He
says, very truly, that physiology teach-
os us that in sleeping as in waking,
there is a perpetual waste going on in
the tissues of the pody, and it seems
but logical that nourishment should be
continuous as well, The digestion of
food waken at the dinner time, or in the
early evening, is finished, as a usual
thing, before or by bedtime, yet the
activity of processes of assimilation,
otc., progress for hours afterward, and
when one retires with an empty stom-
ach, the restilt of this activity is sleep-
leseness, apd an undue wasting of the
system. ‘all other creatures,’ says the
writer, ‘outside of man, are governed
by a natural instinct, which leads those
having a stomach to eat before lying
down for the night.” :
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¢XSUAL CRUISERS,
CONVERSION OF OUR MERKTHANT
INE. INTO WARSHIRS.
Look in. War Paint
In addition to the 50 regulse cruisers
of the United States Navy, says Lhe
Washington: Star, there are. some 30
chant service which could
converted inte ¢ruisers and. which
should be taken imto account in esti
mating the naval strength of the coun
try. Thesecsitips would be unarmored
and would carry a comparatively light
complement of guna It would be im-
possible for them to fight even a small
warship, and they would be ex-
pected to do se. Their special work
would be to prey on the enemy's com-
merce and to capture unarmed mer-
chant vessels. For this they wauld be
admirably adapted by their high speed
snd light armament,
In the Naval Department, where an
exact list of thease vessels is filed, they
are officially known as auxiliary
sasual crulserss. Last year, whem Cou
gress was considering the bill
priating $850,000 for providing
mament for tis saxiliary fle
hief of the: hurean of ordnance
ported 38 vessels as avallable
kind of service
Of these 2300s an the Atlantis coast
and nine on the Pacific
call for 40 sim-inedy,
04 four-inch rapid-fire rifies
pounders, eight one-pounders
machine guns, ar
251 guns of
The largest snd best-known
are the four American
the new York, Pagis, ot
Paul, It ng to
ransformation which one
wot
t her
cruiser
bee rapidly
not
or
appro
ar
an
ie
f this
ial
if ogether Lhey
27 five-ingh and
a4 six
snd 112
armament of
a Loial
uid classes
of these
steamalips
Ma and
mate the
these big
“
the work
what
a
iE
5 interest]
0 un
auxiimry
wold
an
hanges
rrobat
liners
by Mr
ternational
INL & Wars
G. u Griscom
Xavigation
wit! writer
Most persoss will pr
od 10 learn Bow much
fitness of mm unarmo?
ig passenger |
Th sees i
on,” satd Mr
me kind of & conira
exisls
=”
between the nitedd Sta
the International
by wi}
¥
nd
na
ion Company th
ever their bx
nited St
r §
tn
agreement
nn e i'r
x perfect right t
ar
LOCPERATY Th
mand the prop
services of any other
iif undoubisdiy
indengmifl
4
so; with proper
OCORBIOn arise
“What waz don
when the postal 3
reuragement of
passed
ernment
wr
an shipping
and that, in
tive grant
pians should
) the en
Ammer
to dem
%
¥
Was
for the pri
by that act, certain
be followed in the constzuction of
vessels that were to benefit by it These
requirements were, roeghly
the wad steering
the steamship shouid be
and the parts
€
rudder
that vital
as possible, he below Lhe
line would be less
liable to Injury fram cannon shot
The plans for the American line
steamers were inspected and approv
ed by an officer of the Govern
when the boats were built,
satisfy these requirements. If you look
at the New York you will see four
white marks at regular intervals along
Direct above these
white marks, on the steamers preme-
the places where six-
inch guns would be located were she
to be armed You will notice,
that the deck supports at these points
are strengthened by an additional col-
gmn. On the deck at this point Is a
round steel cap covering a manhole,
intended for the passage of ammuni
tion from below.’
“These are the only marks indicat
ing to the uninitiated any preparation
for the placing of cammon; but there
are other provisioms. The deck plat-
form and supports are strengthened
at this point by sdditional girders and
cross beams, #0 as to sustain
weight of guns and carriages
where they
pnt
ment
and
% x
and the}
1s
5
too,
There
ing of the smaller machine guns. Prac-
tically the only thing necessary to
would be to run the gun carriages on
board and mount the guns on them.
There would probably be some aitera
tions in their internal arrangements to
a very few days.”
the naval celebration of the Queen's
jubilee, she arrived in Liverpool on
Wednesday afternoon; on Saturday she
sailed for Southampton, fully fitted out
as an uparmored cruiser. The whole
equipment had been placed on boarq
the guns were ready to be put on
board.”
“The theory of an unarmored cruiser
sway from any war ship and
strong enough
merchant vessel think that
our boats fully satisfy these
requirements. You remember that
when the Columoia made the trip
across the Atlantic at a speed of about
eighteen knots for the whole voyage
it was hailed as a remarkable achieve-
ment. It was—for a warship. But our
abips cwsas the ocean, year in and
to
1
®
‘yomr oat, im the course of thelr regular:
busine. at an ordinar:yspeed of about
20 knees. No war-vessel in existence,
anless & was one of the small torpe-
do-boat eatehers, could owerhaul them,
#1. course, a single shot trom a mod-
| en batSe-siip would go dhrough their
sides, bn ¥ think i: would take more
tifan one to destroy them, because, as
| | Have said, hey were ladd down on
{igo intemded to guard against that”
ONE HOUSEHOLD.
Atomy Them ls a Shetlandu Pony That
Has the Rua of the Muse.
illie Jobaeen is the only pony in
the world wha ls a household pet. Bil-
lle4san imported Shetland. pony which
henry 1). Jehnson of Sou . Bend, ind.,
bought fifteen years ago for his son
Harry wasn Lue was a baby,
Billia now hoasts of seveniaen years,
but he is == frolicsome as a colt. He
| hass all. the privileges usually enjoyed:
by. a.favorite hound, excep that he has
never warmed himself by, the firesige
or slept an the spare bedi But Billie
comes into the house, prancing gayly
up seven stairs, the click of his small
hoofs being like hail on a garret roof.
Naturally Be is the banner member
ths circws troupe which holds high
carnival in the children’s: bedroom, i
their okie! recreation stormy
weather Oops, Cals, pig-
a fascinating
PETS OF
latter
of
i8 I
and the pony, d
eons and wahliss furnish
Program
Ase Billie && anly viaight inches
highs He easily stands or is on an or-
dinany chadr, with Lis front feel dang-
ling: against his breast like the bands
of im lackadaisical lady kisses his mas.
ter; and plays the corpse to perfection
When the babies are te basket sad-
dior He steps soflly, evidently appreci-
atifig tise heiples 8 »f his precious
lomi. Bw when dar buys get up-
om His week be jumps. kicks and frolics
like a stiff-leggeu ncho, enjoying
the fun. as keenly as riders. He
readily Becomes dation of an
pyramid ) fiat on the
1 while Sir Eldrid, a splendid StL
Bernard, les atop hime The cap»
gone are Dot, two tiny
tams. weighing
each. Bulle and Str
thes sarme and
pasiure
im the same
toperier like playful
frre
he
the ©
the
aximad
»
¥
Penny amd
anda
twente-8ve ounces
flooded Diack
Eldrid sleep in stall,
x hen torned out
the twa frofli
Home passion [«
famoms St. Bernard
1 argest dog ever
h was owsed by Ges Jo-
Chigago. He keeps
igeons, some
nn S00 mile
recent liness
of the pig-
NE MeSEAESR
made the sight
an and fif-
100K the
ird was five
runing heme and
ef, an. hour,
as he
hnsou
Be was set
cle for about ten
back to a
min his head
wien looking
on then
for his com-
son away
wgre of pigeons
sen-
ietlers,
ir pets,
Majer McKinles
Known
soph Ti
a large flock
of which
ia
whi
#
ri
homing |
rren
LAY
RA
bei}
Durirgz hirneor
eons were kept!
invaud
Ei
1Wo
from the
hty miles in
mirut When
pair to Chicago, the male
hours d = half
of elg
teen
he first
os.
An ret
¥
ag cor
fmater bird
dim the next
ane
Jo
and then
chin
nd down as
wrmething
that he was
fan. Mr. Jo
sgtiool and
% them It
timental fashion of sending
awit although Mr. Johnson's private
messengers distance Uncle Sam in
speed they do not pose as competitors
in the United States mail service.—In-
dianapolis Journal,
come
ney
birds
Ae
al
wail
8 Are
wit sweet and
The
A circular just issued by the nited
States Department of griculture is
devoted The cultivated vetches™
Perhaps everyene doesn’t know what
bh is. The plants described in the
Department's cireular are all natives
of the Old werld, and among them are
the “hairy wetch” or “sand vetch”, tue
‘spring vwetch”™ “tares.” the “win-
ter vetch™ and the “kidney veteh™
ares have beeu cullivatsd in Eu-
rope for upward of twenty centuries
They were by the Romans
and esteemed by them as a valuable
fodder erop. The result of ._elr intro-
duction into the United States how-
ever, has not been satisfactory, and it
has been found that clovers and field
peas render better results
The kidney vetch has not given good
| results. The winter vetch has proved
of value in the Southern States, but
the hairy vetch has given the besl re.
sults of all, and the circular says that
it is “one of the most promising fod-
der crops which has been brought into
| the United States in recent years and
| by some is considered especial: valua-
| ble for light, sandy solls."—New York
Sun,
“Tares™ of Scriptures.
A
A
{io
A yeu
or
cultivated
ET
A Rising Family.
Bangor, Me., has an eight-cornered
house, a house shaped like a piece of
pie, a house with no front door, and a
half house {one side having been burn.
‘ed off); but the queerest dwelling In
! all Maine is in the town of Dennyaville,
| Washington county. It was built about
gix years ago by a poor man, who was
obliged to go to the edge of the woods,
where land was cheap, for his jot, and
utilized the trunks of four big sprucs
| trees, that formed a square of sixteen
| feet, for the corner posts. Pretty soon
| the poor man went west to make his
fortune, leaving his family behind in
the queer house. In five years he re.
turned as poor as when he jeft. He
| found .uat in the meaniime his family
| pad risen in the world. The four Ii
| corner posts had just grown up
| four feet and carried the house with
| them. It is a good, soud house, but un.
loss the trees stop growing the man
need a fire escape ladder in.
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