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THE OLD HYMN.
f sat within a vacant room,
A low-ceiled room, quaint-shaped, oak-
beamed,
With windows looking off to sea,
O'er which the sunset’s glory streamed.
I watched the far-off flitting salls,
And “Half-way Rock” that looming
rose
A tower from the heaving sea
Whereon the scattered isles repose.
*
And some one near me gently played
A dear old hymn that stirred
heart;
"Twas “Children
King,"
of the Heavenly
start.
¢ turn,
And I a little child again,
Oh! just once more to be that chlld,
And know again the blissful rest
sleep
‘With pillowed head upon his breast!
But only vet a little while,
Though earth may call it years that
creep,
I know he'll come #0 me again,
And rock me to eternal sleep.
—Mary Devereux, in
script.
fiboard ine Silver Siar.
One rainy night, about half past »
o'clock, the train had dashed into Me-
Kibben‘s Corners, and the mail had
been delivered at the store and post
office.
John Fairjohn, the postmaster, had
opened the bag and counted the letters.
There were, as he made it out, just ten
had a red seal; and then he had found
that he had left his on the
newspaper in the back room, and with-
out his glasses he could read a
line: and so, of course, he had gone
after them, returning to find two per-
sons in the store—Farmer Roper and
Squire McKibben, whose ancestors had
given name to the place.
“Wet, ain't it?" sald Mr.
nodding.
“Wet, or not, our folks ain't going to
do without their groceries, you see’
said the squire. “Mail's in, I see. That
train came near running into my truck,
too. Wasn't noticing the flag,
drove across just in time to save
self. Any letters for me?”
“I'1l see,” said Mr. Fairjohn.
He turned to the little of en-
velopes and them in
hand like a pack of cards
“Why, only nine,” he said.
“I'm sure [I counted right. I counted
ten, and I thought one had a res
I might as well give up keeping the
office if I'm going to lose my senses
like that. There wasn't
here while I was gone,
squire?”
“Only Roper and 1,” said the
“and Roper’'s son. But he didn't
in, did he?”
“No,” old
think Job came in at all.
on somewhere”
“Well,” said the postmaster, after
another search, "well, 1 must mis-
taken. Yes, there is a letter for you-—
your folks, anyway-—and something
for you, Mr, Roper. And I suppose yon
wouldn't mind tossing that in at thes
Smiths’ as you pass.”
“Oh! no,” said Farmer Roper. “Give
it to me. That's from Smith that's
clerking it New York, I reckon.
Can't get any of "em to stay and farm.”
“Your son Job did,” said the squire.
“Oh! my son Job. He'd try the pa-
tience of his namesake said Farmer
Roper. “My son Job! Bah-"
Just at this moment the door of the
store opened and there entered at
a little woman, dressed in a cheap cali-
co dress and wrapped in a thin and
faded shawl.
She looked timidly about the store,
still more timidly at the heap of let-
ters, and then in an appealing voice,
like that of a frightened child, said
“Mr. Fairjohn, is there any letter
for me this time?”
The postmaster, who was a little
deaf, had turned his head away and
did not know that she had entered, and
she came closer to the counter and to
the light upon it before she spoke
again. She was a faded little woman.
and her face had signs of grief written
upon it, but she was not either old or
ugly yet, and there was something io
the damp curls clustering under the
faded calico hood, and in the
glasses
not
Fairjohn
and
"a
my -
1
pile
told over
there's
i
i SOL
one
thers,
any
was
Roper i
He just
said
went
be
to
like, even yet,
“Is there any letters for me this
time, Mr. Fairjohn?”’ she said again;
and this time the postmaster looked
up.
for taking such a walk to ask,” said
he, with rough kindness. Wouldn't |
have sent It if it had a come, Mrs.
Lester?”
“Well, you see, I felt in a hurry to
get it,” sald she. “You can’t blame me
for being in a hurry; it's so long.”
“That's true,” sald the postmaster.
“Well, better Tuck next time. But why
don't you wait? Mr. McKibben wiil
take you over when he goes. [le
passes your corner.”
“Yes, walt, Mrs, Lester,” cried Mr.
McKibben. “I'll take ye, and wel-
come,”
But she had answered:
“Thank you. I don't mind walking,”
and was gune,
“Keeps it up, don't she?’ asked
the postmaster.
“It's a shame,” sald Mr. McKibben.
“How many years is it now sines Les-
ter went off 7"
vin Pr
“Ten,” sald the postmaster. “I
know, for it was the day I came here,
She was gs pretty a woman as you'd
want to see then, wasn't she?”
“Well, ves,” sald Mr. McKibben.
“Sailed in the Sphynx,” sald the
postmaster. “And we all know that
the Sphynx went down in that voyag:.,
all hands along with her, The rest
of the women put on widow's weeds,
them that lost husbands--four in this
town itself. They took what the Al-
| mighty sent and didn't rebel. She
i get up that her husband wasn't dead,
and would come back. She's kept it
| up ever since; come for his letters regu-
lar: and he was drowned along wilh
{all the rest, of coure, ten years ago.
She must be 30, Well, she's changed
| a good deal in that time.”
“Yes,” sald the other old man; "but
| there's my son Job, wild over her yet.
| He's offered himself twice: He stands
| ready to offer himself again any day
ready to be a father to her boy and a
| good husband to her. He's better off
than I be. His mother’s father left
{ him all he had. He's crazy, is Job—
crazy, I call it. Plenty of pretty gals
{and healthy, smart widows; and he sees
no one but that pale, slim, little thing
{ that's just going out into the mud;
{and she
i senses or she'd have him,
ta slave to keep herself and the child,
lives in a rickety
waiting for a drowned
Why, every
was drowned
"
man
| back ggain,
{ Charlie Lester
Sphynx. There wasn't a
| not cne. It was in the papers.
i the bottle was found witn
it, writ by just
ship sunk,
vet!
yel
in
soul
Now,
a letter
some
And
one
she's waitin’
~oint,’ cald the post.
only
“Crazy on that
master. “Well,
been married a week when the Sphynx
sailed; that a difference.”
“Oh, farmer
Then, being
they wagons,
Mr
the
poor soul, she'd
maxes
yes,” said the
their
went
Falrjohn,
rainy
shutters and went to
parceis ready,
to their and
having
awhile
out
stared out into
put up his
Meanwhile
through th
night
bed,
te woman on
“Walking off her disappoint
ment,” she sald to hee self, It was one
she should have been used to, and now
the absurdity of it seamed to strike her
for the first time in all these years
piodded
mud.
ghie muttered to
laugh at me
they t
“They laugh at me,”
know they
Perhaps 1 am mad; but
! know what is. Charlie t
have left me like that if he had died
he have given me some sign,
yet, if he were alive, it
they
herself. “I
don’t
love wouldn
would
and yet
3
would
stranger are
I wrong i{e must be dead.”
nd a wugh the news had
she
gave a cry,
been whi
hands to her forehead 3
r knees in the road
few m
little
mont nck
oments and
ihe
nlerval
ti ¢ nth
clouds ‘from ne
i
ana
W
some
poor
There at the dc
strong, determined 1
arose as she appro
nis hand,
Here you come,
death. Jessie Lester,
this nonsense and
a iittle. Think
an hour.”
“I do think of you."
can’t you give up
think
me, Jessie, for half
’
she said
when I must seem so bad to you”
Then she sat down on tl
Lae
head wearily against the wall of
over and sat down beside her
“Give it a softer resting place, Jea-
sie,” he said, “heres on my heart”
She looked out into the night, not
at him, as he spoke
are right, that he went down in
Sphynx with the rest, ten years ago.
But what good would I do yon? What
do you want to marry me for?”
The man drew cloger ANSWEr-
ed
“Before you married Charles Lester
I loved you. All these tu since
that vessel went in mid ocean,
I've loved you. A man must have the
woman he loves if he gives his sou!
for her.”
“What a horrible thing!’
“His soul?”
“1 should have said his life”
Job. "Il don’t want to shock you.
as he
years
aown
said
sald
to have you.
thing for your boy.”
“Yes,” she answered.
would.”
There was a pause. Then she gave
him her hand.
“Job,” she said, softly, “I shall pre-
tend nothing I don’t feel, but I know
I've been crazy all this time, and if
you want me rou may have me. It's
| very good of you to ove me 80."
And thus it seemed to have ended,
| that ten years’ watching and walitirg,
{and there.was iriumph in Job's eyea
as he turned away and left her with
{ his first kiss upon her lips. But at
| the end of the green lane he paused
j and looked back.
“I told her the truth,” he sald,
{ “when 1 said that when a man loved
‘a woman as I love her, he must have
‘her, if the price were his soul itself.”
{ And then he drew from his breast a
| letter with a great red seal upon it,
i looked at it for a moment, and hid it
| away again,
Married? Yes, they were to be mar
ried. Every one at McKibben’s Cor.
ners knew that now. Jessie Lester
went no more to the post office for her
long expected letter. Job was furnish-
ing his house— had furnished it, for on
the morrow tne wedding was to take
place. And it was night again. A
{ month from that night, when she bad
“I know you
coma jor the last time, as every one
thought, through rain and mud, to
make her sadly foolish query, she was
sensible at last--very sensible, B8he
had chosen the substance instead of the
shadow,
And now, as we said, it was night,
and a wetter one than the other--later,
too, for Mr. Fairjohn had closed the
store, and was compounding himseil
what he called a “nightcap.” of warm
water, lemons and sugar, and was sup-
ping It by the stove, when there came
upon his door a feeble knock, and
when, being repeated, he heard it,
there staggered out of the rain a drip-
ping figure—that of Jessie Lester, the
bride who was to be on the morrow,
She was trembling with cold, and as
he led her to the fire she burst into
a flood of tears,
“I'm frightened,” she said,
one followed me all the way.
them."
“You've no business to be out alone
at night,” said old Falrjohn, bluntly,
“And what's the matter?”
She looked up at him piteously.
“1 thought there would be a letter,”
sald she. “I dreamt there was one, |
thought Charlie came to me and said:
to the office once more. 1 have
written, I have written,” And I thought
lI saw a with a red seal”
"Bo did 1,” muttered oid Fairjohn to
himself,
He went
ters were
her in his
“Some
I heard
Go
letter
the box where the let-
and brought them to
to
kept,
hand
1p +
yourself.” he
an
for sald. “And
Mrs outer, | old man
Remember what your
Remem
Ten years have
band left this pla
1, and you
"Look
now, 'm
Take my advice
duty will be after
ber gO
gone sine
If he's all
free of him by ut we
it TOW
Jihad
not to
are
all
man
drowned He ye
board the Sphynx
every
a good wife
this folly. I'll
this Don't
Roper and forget
take time
come
you home again
again.’
“1 seemed it had a red
seal
And as
glancing
Ow there,
spoke, old Falrjohn,
aw a dark shad-
grow darker, saw
starting up on bh de
118
war, recognized Joo
it the door,
saw it
it enter,
fense, if
Roper
He
and,
peat
he took
but, crossing
Jessie Leater,
man best, even now,”
have found a
though to-
no
the
whe very pale. and
rather
than not
vd ding day
y
to his face with a
4, Job,” sald she,
man would lose his
as mine” sald he
ose were {dle words?
his hand
instant
lay in Jesale's lap.
happy, and now I'll
Fairjohn, 1
month ago off
J who
glance,” and then the door
hind
But
and never
And
old Feirjohn read over her shouldes
“Aboard the Silver
“Jessie, darling I aon't know what
makes me belleve that I shall find yom
still, after all these years, but
something does
“Five of
island when
The
unged into hi
the next
seal
tA ween
» m Aae yon
said stole that
the counter
it
langed be
I knew wmte at a
him and he was gor
Jessie had torn open the letter
1. fs , y
looked after him.
these were the words she read,
Sap
SLAT
desert
down
off
Us were cast on a
the Sphynx went
two yet alive were taken
to England
Jessie, If 1
you 1 shall
our knees We must
first-—<then home. Jeasgie,
do not find you as 1 left
Your husband
“CHARLES LESTER.”
And so Jessie s letter came at last,
And as John Fairjohn looked into her
face he saw how angels look in Para-
gO
And Job Job was found drowned
in the Kill next morning. Jessie never
knew it, perhaps, for she and her boy
were on Way New York (0
meet the Silver Star when it made
port
their to
An mmgenions Sounding Apparates
Rapid test soundings were required
on a railway line be-
iron viaduct of Bezons was replaced
by an arch bridge alongside. The old
foundations for six channel piers were
removed to the bottom of the river,
It was required that the river bed
should be carefully develed. After it
had been dredged, the bottom was ex-
plored by means of a horizontal bar
of iron about 20 feet ‘ong, which waa
suspended at each end from a frame
work uniting two flat boats in catamar-
an fashion. This beam was lowered
close to the bottom and the boats were
gradually moved along in the direction
transverse to the length of the bar,
When the scraper encountered no ir.
regularity the suspending chain hung
vertically, but as soon as either end
was deflected by contact with any ob-
struction an electric circuit was closed,
which caused an alarm to be rung. The
boat was stopped and the obstruction
iocated by means of sounding poles. In
this way small stones, down to a di-
ameter of four inches, were easily lo-
cated, and the bed of the river was
leveled to within that amount of ir
regularity. This method proved rapid
and successful.
5A FL SN ANAS
Likes His Nickoames.
Emperor William was recently told
that three of his nicknames were “The
Traveling Kaiser,” “Alarm Frits” and
“Gondola Billy.” “Well,” he answered,
“inasmuch as they all make me out
a busy man, I rather like them.”
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
ft is said the debt of Greater New
Yorksis already £30,000,000 beyond the
constitutional limit,
With
breeding off and dehorning, will
next generation of children be obliged
to regard long horned cattle as freaks?
Asks the New England Homestead.
the present tendency toward
Not at all discouraged by the out-
come of last season's experimental ex-
ports of butter, Secretary Wilson, of
the Department of Agriculture,
about to resume them on an enlarged
scale,
It is claimed that the late Roland
Worthington of the Boston Traveler,
that he first employed newsboys to sell
his papers in the streets of that city,
and set up the first bulletin to display
the news,
No other
Berlin.
large city Is as quiet as
Rallway engines are not al-
lowed to blow their whistles within
the city limits, and the man whose
wagon-gearing is loose and rattling is
subject to a fine,
Professor Galloway, who has no fears
of a “coalless England,” in recent
lecture at Cardiff, estimated the coal
yet remaining in the South Wales coal
flelds at 31,6680,000,000 tons, enough, at
the present rate of 34,000,000 tons an-
nually, to last 920 years,
Professor Benjamin Howard is the
only American who has thus far been
reach the Siberian island
where the worst
able to of
Saghalien,
He asserts that
tales of the
criminals are sent
commonly accente hor-
this pris I * PXAEEC
ration
Fations
Ech
jrora of
“It
‘that
famous abroad for its prodigiot
the London
hwoman #
geams,’’ 0,
the foot,
Englis
1s
lis Erowing steadily bigger sc much 20
{in fact, that
{bave just been granted
{pay be
age-siie
the shoemakers in
an in of
rease
f the ir
ause increase in Lhe
Sot now
Kotzebue sound looms up as the
wane of the next Alaskan gold rush,
is
if
is a long from the Klondike,
but probably none the worse for that
While some of the
sound are clearly apo
is known of the actual presence
‘in the hands of the Esquimaux
Way
glories
ryphal, er
of
living
tion which is now promised
The of
old war monitors
Ing publicity
Ff +d
*
L3af
classic names of some the
in the papers are a rem-
time,
the
it into
inlscence © subsequent
the war then Secret
the Navy
name these jow lying craft
lations
tionary,
the like
when tary of
'
took his head ) Te
i nr s 1
with appel
which suggest a classical dic-
such as "Ajax," “Jason.”
Life
| United
6,000 mill
naurance is now in force in
States 0 the amount
ions of dollars
hat las
is growing so rapidly t
about $250 (60) OO)
| increased
panies’ as
standing
on January 1
Habilities amounts
“1% increased
1.3560 m
IN08, while their
%ie 100)
at iliong of
¥ urpit 2
near
are sig
all to
E200 (0%)
above
iy Such results
nificant of
{teow f
growth,
{the |
| popu! tion) are in
The The
| mode of sending the message of con-
{ dolence to the President of the United
i
i
i
{
3
yet
body of the
reat
red.
Herald
rmers
Melbourne RAYS
| States regarding the Maine disaster
| wags by the Australian Pre-
| miers now in Melbourne before it was
dispatched One or two of the Prime
{ Ministers held that it should be sent
through one of the Governors and the
{ Secretary for the Colonies, but Mr.
| Reid brushed such arguments aside
| The people of the United States, he
{ contended, were not “foreigners” in
| the sense that those of France or Rus-
gia were, but our kith and kin, so he
decided to send the message direct
President McKinley.
discussed
io
German officers in Berlin, says Seilf-
Cuiture, enjoy many social and other
dignities and advantages. But they
can never carry an umbrella which is
regarded as an unsoldierly practice,
nor ride in an ordinary omnibus, for
that is beneath their dignity. Emper-
or Frederick rode on the first street
car introduced into Berlin twenty
years ago, and officers are accordingly
at liberty to use that mode of convey-
ance, But if they take a cab it must
be a first class one, and if they patron-
ize an entertainment they must do so
in liberal style. It is evident that the
Germans take the profession of arms
as they do everything elise, very seri-
ously.
A return presented in the Dominion
Parliament gives the Indian .popula-
tion of Canada as 90.364, and they are
scattered through all ita provinces.
Nearly three-quarters of the whole
number belong to some religious de-
nomination, the Catholics numbering
41,813, the Anglicans 16,139 and the
Methodists 10.203, the rest being divid-
ed among other Christian bodies. Of
those not registered in known religious
sects about 16,000 are pagans, probably
keeping up some form of native wor.
ship, but making no particular display
thereof and eluding statistical tabula-
tions. From an industrial point of
view the Canada Indians make quite
a respectable showing, their earnings
last year footing up about $2.50),000,
Another Grand Army colony like the
one at Pitzgereld, Ga, is planned. The
second one is to be located about six-
teen miles southwest of Staunton, Va,
on the Stribling Springs property,
which bas recently been purchased, at
a cost of $100,000, by a stock company
of veterans, The capital is £100,000,
divided into 1,000 shares, the first pay-
ment of each share being $2 and the
remainder being paid in monthly in-
stalments of $10, Hach share enti-
ties the holder to a plot of ground. The
consists of 2,000
property acquired )
cottages, and a large hotel equipped
with all modern appliances. On the
grounds are nine varieties of medicin-
al spring waters. The hotel will be
used as a sanitarium for the veterans
who, through age or other disability,
need medical attendance, A rallroad
will be built from Staunton the
springs, and manufacturing and other
industries started, All profits accru-
ing from the sale of land or franchises
will be divided among the stockhold-
ers. Each stockholder will erect a
residence on the lot assigned to him,
and hig lvellkond, in addition to his
pension, will be obtained from the In-
dustries tn be started.
to
Could Have Been Robbed at Home.
“I want to expose a game tnat is
i going on here in town,” said a visitor
{ with a bad taste in his mouth this
morning. '
“What is the game?” was asked.
“l have been lied to and robbed of
$000."
“You should have reported such mat.
ters to the police.”
“No; you are a-thinking I'm a-wor-
rying about that $600, but I ain't—the
being fooled is worse than that.”
“How were you fooled? Did soma-
body bunco you?”
“Yes, that money was a
sure-enough bunco, but the other was
the worse—they lied to me.”
“In what way?”
“Well, you see, 1 came here to Den-
business
ver, from the East, and a couple of fel
lows were showing me around
up in a high In
Pike's Peak, and
T hey
and
I wanted
After
to drinking and 1 mi
took ifiding
ne
howed me
tty bh
ty bad
{to get a peep at that pre
go!
money."
“Pretty
who trusts
“That ain't it
for that-—for the m
i if they had
{this we
my
mean trick
you
else
"What did they
“About the Peak
me mad, They sh
of Pike
ago, Suct
ers ought be
here just to see Pike
} what makes
owed m Peak
{ instead iscovered just
a minute
{Oo
need to have
robbed,
right
{ Denver Times
perie nee
Making Wood Rims for Bicycles
wood
have beer] stean
they are submitted
ire
They
of which
cave surface of the outs
the
rim
per machine
stained
the spokes,
The wood must be perfect, and not the
lathes, one
ide, and anoth
convex surface of the inside of the
After passing on to the sandpa
smoothing, they are
and varnished and bored for
and are ready for shipment.
for
least defect or discoloration is allowed
to pass. Much of the machinery has
been designed expressly for this plant,
and the machines, as well as all the
steps in the construction of the rims,
require the supervision of skilled me-
chanics. —8t. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Little Tables
In good housekeeping, as in nature,
nothing need be wasted One might
suppose that an old chair had a legi-
timate ending when the seat was guile
gone, and the rungs falling apart. Yet
the four legs will support a square
board. and, when the whole ig stained
and varnished, there is a most useful
littla table for the porch; or, painted
white, it may become a stand to Keep
close by the sewing chair and hold the
work basket. A second table may be
evolved by using the longest spokes of
the chair back as legs, only in this case
the shape of the table's top had best
be triangular, and for it three legs will
be sufficient. This will make a very
small table, and need not be stained
of painted if a bright cover is thrown
over it; but its most convenient use
will be to hold a light tea kettle at
four o'clock. All these handicraft
triflea should be handed over to our
amateur carpenters—boys and girls
for it is the right of every family of
children to possess a wool chest and a
work bench set in the garret. A tool
chest ig an excellent investment ig a
household. New York Ledger.
A——— S———— C—O.
A Useful, Strong Paste.
This article, so useful in the home,
can be depended upon to do duty well,
if prepared as follows: In half a quart
of warm water dissolve a small tea-
spoonful of alum, and when it cools add
enough. flour to make it into a thin
paste, Stir it till smooth, then add
a pinch or so of powdered resin, and
pour on to the paste half a cupful of
boiling water. When well mixed and
thickened, turn into a receptacle with
a cover, and store in a dry corner of a
cupboard, When required for use, soft.
en a small quantity with warm water,
~Philadelphia Times Le
The New Orleans Pleavune says: All
sections of this glorious country are
now a unit in sentiment. The U, 8
now means US.
THE STAGE DRIVER'S BLUFP.
Aairbreadth Stories of Accidents F4l.28 19
Awe Pssenger With Suicidal Notions.
Ar we left Bandy Gulch for Rising
Bur. there were six male passengers to
go by the stage, and the route was over
the mountains and full of chances of
disaster, relates a correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution, The driver
came out from breakfast as soon as
the stage was re. dy, and looking about
on the passengers, he selected a small,
pale faced man and invited him to
elimb up beside him While the pale
faced man was climbing the driver
whispered to the rest of us
“I picked him out in order to scare
him to death. You fellows will see a
heap of fun before we've gone ten
miles.”
Two minutes west of the Gulch the
road made a sudden turn, with a shesr
fall of a hundred feet to Wild
Cat Creek, and the put nis
horses at the gallop and said to the
man:
“We may get arouna all right, or wa
may fetch up down below. Hold yer
breath and say yer prayers’
The passenger and
id not change countenance, and, after
making the course all right, the driver
rather dignantly demanded
“Didn't you that off run
within a foot of the edge of the preci-
pice?”
"ht
the reply
down
driver
made no move
fh wheel
an within six inches, sir!” was
Jeyond that curve was a down grade
a flour
Pre i \
irged h
of a mile
of his
horses to a dead run
side had
every
and with a yell and
ish whip the driver in
The five of us ju-
for dear life, and
to hang on at
socmed
half minute
bound to go over,
“Did yer know that if we'd
rock dead men
sf
Li
the slags
struck a
we'd all been in 2O
me?
“Of
“And
“Not
Three or
CONTI
ye wasn't
at all”
on the
tried his another
In his make
a close call of it one wheel ran off the
1
Bia.
the
four further
mil
man
determin
os
driver with
curve, ation to
edge of the precipice, and only a
effort of the horses saved
coach We were flung in a heap and
frightened half to «eath, but the man
be lost a puff of
safe the
den
side the driver never
When things
him with
was a brink of graves.’
was the quiet reply
ever
his cigar were
driver turned
“That,
“Guess it
on
surely
was,"
will
The closest shave you
comes.”
11
have till the t one
Yes.”
“Boe
idk
what sort
of a
“Don't
here, now
you?” was the query
know
critter ar
you to git skeart?
to scare
+ 5 Tyre 13 Gd
happened
yet
conveniently
y here intend
A Pair of Trained Goldfish.
illiam ¥. Simon, No. 485 East 46h
has a pair of trained goidfishes
They are of the Japan fantail variety
and four years old. He began training
them when they were very small, and
now they perform many remarkable
and amusing tricks. One of them is
leaping through a ring. This he sus-
pends by a cord in the natatorium, and
at the word of command they jump
through it after the fashion of a dog
through a hoop, back and forth, so long
as the ring heid in position for
them, Mr. Simon also has taught
them another novel but more intricate
feat. It is no less than going through
the figures of a quadrille. This, Mr
Simon says, required a great deal of
time and a vast amount of patience, but
he was finally rewarded with perfection
in the unique performance. As there are
only two of them, they cannot be said
to perform a quadriile proper, bat they
go through all the movements of the
genuine article. “Forward and back.”
over and back to places™
“swing corners,” “grand right and left”
and “all promenade’ are rendered with
the utmost precision.
Ww
Street
is
ACTORS
The Mosguito’s Sting.
The bill of a mosquito is a complex
institution. It has a blunt fork at the
head and is apparently grooved. Work-
ing through the groove, and projecting
from the angle of the fork, is a lance
of perfect form, sharpened with a fins
bevel. On either side of the lance two
saws are arranged, with their pointa
fine and sharp. The backs of these
saws play against the. lance. When
the mosquito alights with its peculiar
hum §t thrusts its keen lance and
then enlarges the aperture with the
two saws, which play beside the lance
until the forked bill, with its capillary
arrangement for pumping blood, can
be inserted. The sawing process ia
what grates upon the nerves of the
victim and causes him to strike wildly
at the sawyer,
What They Calicd a Chicage Street
There was once a street on the North
Side called Gostba
There was once a street on the North
Side called Geatie.
There was once a street on the North
Bide called Gothie.