A QUAINT CUBAN CITY,
AMUSING AND PICTURESQUE SCENES IN
AND ABOUT GUANTANAMO,
Santa Catalina de de Guantanamo’s Dusky
Inhabitants—~-An Ideal Spot for Sportsmen
«Native (racefuln2ss.
From Caimsnera, which Is the sea-
port of Guantanamo, Cuba, a railroad
runs back into the interior about 35
miles. As (his road carries the pro-
ducts of one of the most fertile regions
in Cuba, and charges $2.12 passenger
fare from Ciimavera to Guantanamo,
a distance of fitteen miles, it is not
any wonder that it is able to pay a
yearly dividend of more than fourteen
per cent, on its capital stock, says the
Guantanamo and
country is an ideal place for the sports
ing for the ease and luxury of tropi
cal life will take up his
where alm trees wave in
breezes round Guantanamo,
hae
EA. THQUAKE OR TYPHOON,
One or the other.
Mr. Wallace Cumming in the
tury describes “Life in Manila.”
Cumming says:
The better houses differ in
Sun. The locomotives and first ciass
carriages wera built in the United
States, and are like the ordinary cars
seen here, but the second and third |
lass cars were evidently constructed
they are, being painted blue and white
and having any amount of ornamental
work on them.
The station at
er picturesque.
Guantanamo is rath-
Around it is the usual
but the Cuban loaf-
crowd of loungers;
er is a more pronounced specimen of
the type than Lis American brother,
being too lazy to do anything except |
smoke and watch the naked native
children dig x (iret
The city's full name Is Santa Cata
» i
0, and it has about
a large
part
here are a
he Chinese
pigtail look strangely out of
such dings in %
urst wa hroug streets of Guan
tanamo the strangzer finds something
new and interesting at every turn. The
streets are of fairly good width, and
some pi uce is made at having a
pavement, though it is somewhat prim
itive. ox n yf the town
T houses, son vh ire painted
brown and some light blue, are all
built on the same plan—around a larg
central “ t \ 1 is tilled with
palms and all s 3 of
tation. Unlik i I
bouts, many of ho
ond story, and mind SUM
inside runs a gallery upon which all
i Orsi " 1d Ws
ir ill 1s bar
i hin heavy ood
~ ’ ~ rl
WW RA ww glass
It aft same
i fray er is al
i r large display
' $ Rg oil
ly suggests t dea
stom ind the odor
Mt } t 1 } t Pp neates ev
py ng
0 yf Lnusing sights 1
Guantanam “ 4 5
a ~ 4 thio =
8 S smoking her g 3 fn
io IZ LOn d
Xt fly & } 1 i i *
toa gown. i \ £ an gida 4
feligit n t - i¥ i 4
rib % ff § v r of i 1 bow
A recen i { A 2 & }
in 3 4 i nn il
fie W 4 1 |B
Was &Z { i N
propri tor i i 4 5 ih 1 1
Wf Englis was a d
pir of 1 5 pity in the (45+
188 wl b y fun il
ries i Ors I loo
was of d vid 1 $ !
and cut during n making
t % to rds a qual
1 of © Isis i
ken seasoned, a
black beans; torti
pancakes fruit and
rer rslay
10 88ew
in occasionally to see
gentlemen were doing justice to her
efforts. She was coal black, weighing
about 300 pounds, aod was dressed in
a singh nt of loud colpr and
0 ntal The bil for the din
ner was of) Lo 5 oa fi
A fav e dri the Cuban Ia
dies is naranjad 5 1 of
orangeacds said he
very good for t ynplexion, and that
may ive something to do I 4
popular ty
The young « f Guantanamo all
wear white due % and = nfs
Af Hg i and
comior iv y i Fn i feng
ey all smoke in
CEE a3
perature may Ie
cogsaatiy and in givh
and receiving a gut seems #ry com
plisated to the uninitiated American
The Caban asks you for “a hit of
fire” with exquisite. politeness and |
when you hand him your cigar, which |
must be clear of ushes, it is always
with the lighted end toward Lim. He!
takes the cigar between his thumb and |
forefinger as daintily as a lady would
hold a flower, lights his own from it.
turns yours aroutsd iu his fingers with |
a motion as quick and graceful as a
prestidigitator's #0 that the lighted
end is toward you, then with another |
graceful wave he hinds you your ei
gue. gives you a band salute and a
musical “gracias.” and the thing is
done. Before lighting a cigar he does |
not bite off the end as an American
does, but takes it off with his thumb
nail.
Guantanamo, like many of the Cu.
ban cities, is poor in hotel accommaoda-
tions; but, before the war, if a trav-
eller was lucky enough to receive an
invitation to spend a few days on the
estate of one of the coffee or sugar
planters on the mountains behind Gu-
antanamo, his felicity was very nearly
perfect. The air up there is glorious
and the air in some places unsurpas-
sed, the eye sweeping over the beau-
tiful plain of Guantanamo down to the
sea.
ways from any other in the
carriageway
the
offices.
with a
where are
vants' quarters and domestic
The upper story Is of wood,
complete in itself, so that In ¢:
an earthquake it will settle together.
The ceilings are covered with cloth in
stone basement,
Ser
being
180 of
ternunl work, cut off one end and fitted
t with a gate. He then beached his
Bip inside the hollow hull of the
Camel, closed the gate, and imped
» water from its interior.—New York
Earthquakes in the Philippines.
§
earthquakes in the Pl
ally Luz anid
deserve a special story by
3. The
volcanic origin,
ippifiea
on Of Negros Is
fem
= :
of
volcanoes in constant eruption on the
Several of them are the most
in the world and are always
whole group of islands is
There are seventy
islands
violent
{| being studied by scientists from Eu-
i rope and America. The famous vol
An earthquake occurs on an average
of once every ten days. I have Known
small quakes to come at the rate of a
dozen a day for a week atatime, About
a dozen times a year there are shocks
#0 severe that people will ran about
in fright and damage will be done to
the buildings. The big bridge over the
Passig River at Manila bas been so
swerved by earthquakes twice in my
residence in the city that it has been
made unsafe for travel. In 1884 an
earthquake nearly ruined the great
stone cathedral in Manila, razed many
buildings to the ground, rocked hun-
Island were killad by falling timbers
andl walls, In 1860 the great earth
quake occurred on Negros Island. It
has never been known how many peo-
ple were killed then, but the number
is estimated at 7,000, Almost every
structure on the island was shaken
down, and great gaps, yards wide and
miles long, were cracked across the
island. The quake opened seams in
the earth from the seacoast and made
passages from the interior lakes to the
glean,
The first match factory in Japan
was established ia 1878
man, for In the thick, scrubby forest
along the line of the railroad Is un
abundance of deer suthcrent ta réstock
the Adirondacks. A short distance
back from the shore of the bay Is some
of the finest land in all Cuba, and
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
ms
Wooden pavements in Faris, France,
have been condemned, a8 they serve
as a breeding place for all kinds of
dangerous germs,
In Germany one man in 213 goes to
college; in Scotland one in 520; In the
United States one in 2,000, and In
England, one in 5,000,
Nebraska has discovered that the
much dreaded Russian thistle is a first
class fodder for cattle, ut, of course
it has many other fine points,
It would be entirely proper to In
clude American war vessels inany list
of noted health No other
places can boast low death
rates,
resorts,
such
I
mn
are much
sewing
The natives of China
pressed with American
chines, and American firms
sent a shipment to Bangkok,
at $83.000,
valued
At the close of the last century there
were supposed to be 1,000,000 aborig
ines in Australia.
than 100.000 and among them are still
cannibals,
There are now
soe
In St. Louis boys leave school at thir
stead of plaster. A wide stairway | teen years and three months, in Ch
| leads up from the carriageway. Be-| cago at fourteen years and five
tween three and four feet above the | months, in Boston at fifteen years
door of this story is a wide window- | and three months
ledee wit ype WT e the whole : RH
: nge Ww i h grooves running tio HOG With the single exception of Narway
Hiength of avery side. In these grooves there 18 no land in Europe whose are
slide blinds, and WHICH | 14 go taken up by forests ns Germany
are set small squai shells | are than a quarter of its surface b
tealled “conchas’) tnd | ing devoted to t
conchas run the fu f each Ie 3
nt ¥ Diamond Aelds recent orn
ide. Either or both can be closed at : \ ™ tn i
y 1 "| r Shantung n Chi
the same time, and both can be slid disco wl hea y A
ne fart 4 hanees
’ / . Ww i i & ¢ cual
| back to width of one at each end, | The fa & trom
! Ff €31 % ne i m
ea ving ti whole side open yd i hi 14) itty ’ :
‘ we in her affairs
low he alr » iat 1s freely t Bd : : : :
is in a formerly In the course of 1's fa
made « : Now | mo us White Squad ¢ 1¥8
galvani vastly | has been painted red ie glorie
decreases 71) ll f victor It is son 1 finest
hg dur 1ndl %- 1 4 ion of « K no Pie
i
sons the On tt to eves of an Aad gz Wi l
thor he i Iv t
oth i iy to \f W DD. Howells. 1 “
13 own phoons 4 *
' i IT ON “ iN ide 4 recen i £
1 built of bam- | 4, o offset it New York 1 ma
offs pis df { ¥ bins XR On a % vith
i i
i ind els ped d gona i % 1 f $riO
in Six to ten I n bamboo po } « As the ot 1s for t
. !
When one b (ds a YI 84 n Manila. | other
i
t $1 vy to « de wy t i i
; United States, which for mar
make safe from eartl rt 2 *
: . s hing ranked se ul to Gir PB
lems I ir i i nay .
s i tail 1 § $ inction f silt, prod ‘
4 i HK 1 ship in a heavy sea dur | - §
i in 189% nside 118 "
ng in i HOUR Ke i ® ¥ » 3 .
Suda | product of Great Britain in 189
Saf while ti file r } wif is | 4
i no rading to a HE f
fall. } tnd dest z eV ng i .
oo * | United Stat Geog il 8 y
wear it when Jud OH } 4
the nipa aes zo down i 1 Atl { if tl ~
dred © 34 ii pind yi roof | n “ ined a fn Was
MICS 8 tl | i i i ~ i i
{1 } 8 1 i J pa
} I i ng i St i :
i {a ship gets \ In Spnin w
! y 2 I pair
In s rl Vv siz $
a ship and o Wo 2
- . ’ i ’ , »
\ locked by g 1 K Ei,
1 wale 1nd : Wil i fo 1" !
' wily Ww . or 1 ” i Tu 4 { printing Unit
§ e ] ga FOR his | © posiag y
i 14 4 | 4 ol} jes 2.728 » +
i ’ i
” v I ¥ ‘ ! 3% at
ny » rn 5 i i
s nn y i
n 1 Wate « down. 2
5
im would 1 ide a 4.4 ft .
4 f >i
to ¢ ha 3 1 i 11 $ - 3
ship t work could zo iled in bu
i te 3 sing ds i In the sub tony ire A fn OY
Vis rigin ay ng do ; i
- il i sf 1% i eo 3 CH) y ‘ $i Wi O00 \
§ ot ¢ i % § '
of ii fal § it “ AD f 4
pnd it { to 1s of | i i OxXD is
: if we ow 3 gina oa gi p ' neat 1 w
) }
lock | aot In 1 the American
I il tf LIGeiess Shores ft $ | 1a “pan 1 Eh Y Mn
ountry make it the nu ry of the | per William Is not courting
loating dock, but it was in the Baltie } 1 $ at homes
that the Brat oating Kk
tha first floating dock was It is the belief of some political
t s ti . *‘otor the soft §
In the time of Pet the Lreat | anomists that the population of a
¢ hig we tpl f Eeitials 5 141 + .
he captain of a British Bonding | ontey should not exeeed half
% ver . § * ida 4 11% ¢ " ’ be
his vessel in Croostan HOT | number of its cultivated acres There
as in want of docking, and that, ow-: seven European conn
to the absenice of tide, t then trips ire over-populats a 3.4
wlox method was mpracticabl m y has 115 persons to each
wi h ha
# " a hall ves $n thie as 1 : . . » x -
ined a bulk called the Camel, aod § 100 tilled acres: England, 115; Holland
mupletely removing her decks and in. | gz. qeotland. $8. Italy, 60: Germa
659. and Switzerland, 58.
No American can afford to forget
the name of La Quaxina and Sevilla
These words are carved deep
towering wall of republican 1
tions-placed there by the same 1
lantry and devo! 0 count '
founded those in ms in the HP
ago. Every spot where an American
dies in behalf of liberty and popular
government is hallowed The hills o
Rantiago have become for all time, to
ue # shrine
One feature of the work of the war
dog is worthy of special mention, For
inztanee, in Germany, a
dressed ns a Frenchman and put on a
Hix legs are mensed in strong
leggings and the dog on
All riders know that it not re
quire much urging tc get a dog to at
tack a cyclist. The war dog is no ex.
ception, and in a very few weeks he
delights to be allowed to pull eyclists
from their wheels, Inasmuch as the
bicyvele is no small institution in the
soldier =
bicyele,
is set
does
and is expected to produce great re
sults in time of actual war,
To find a total import trade as small
a¥ that of the fiscal year 1898, the stu
dent of our commerce must turn back
as far as 1879, when the country’s pop-
ulation was smaller by nearly twenty
millions than its present total. Only
five years ago, in the fiscal year 1893,
worth of foreign goods In the past
fiscal year the total fell to $616.000,000,
The net result is an excess of exports
over imports wholly unparalleled in
our history. the so-called balance of
trade in our favor reaching $615,258.
000, against the $2%6.263.000 balance
which in 1897 was bailed as breaking
all past records.
The acquisition of Hawalli makes ail
commerce between those islands and
our Pacific cities a coasting trade, in
i
ho
which only Amorican vessels con take
part, says the New York Mall and
Express. This fact alone will enor.
mously swell the trade of Seattle, Tn
coma, Portland, San Francisco and
the other Pacific coast points, and
create a new era of prosperity where
there has for many years been depres
sion and languishing. Add to this con-
sideration the pew Pacific eable now
assured, and the incalculable volume
of commerce sure to follow our In
erensed Influence In Asiatic waters,
and the Pacific may well
gratulate itself upon the vista of pros
perity opening before it,
Const cot
The lessons in naval construction
those of the lutest preceding wars,
that of Japan with China. What was
specially noticeable in the battle of
the Chinese and Japapese
fire and splintering. Secretary of the
Navy Hilary A. Herbert tried to sub
stitute other material for wood In our
newest ships, amd, wherever this was
inconvenient, he attempted to make
the wood fire proof by a patent
cess, This last device had drawbacks,
but the need itself was
and in the
tions of the Naval Board of Survey at
that
pro
not questi
on-
foremost tevommendn
santiago was the advices the least
possible wood work should be used oa
warships, The ravages of fire on the
Spanish ships the argn
furnish all
A WOUNDED BOY'S SHOT
Brings. Down a Spanish. Sharpshootér Whe
Was Trying to Kill Him.
Mr. Belthasar Prell of Baltimore,
Md. has received a letter from his
son, Martin Prell, of Troop G, First
cavalry, The letter is dated from the
United States general hospital, Key
West, Fla, and is as follows:
“I am now at the Key West hos
pital, wounded. 1 suppose you have
already seen my name in the papers,
I am wounded and good for about six
weeks in bed before I will be able to
walk, I received a compound frac
ture in the left leg, the bullet passing
through the Inner side of my leg and
breaking it off completely. [I also re.
celved a flesh wound In the right an
kie which is pow almost well, My!
fractured leg is getting slong nicely,
and I am doing well and Lope to be
out again weeks,
“1 was real lucky In not getting kill
ed, for it hard battle, but
won the day and drove the Spaniards
put of the trenches and planted the
Stary and Stripes on the principai fort
and tbe hills around Santiago
Cuba.
“Yes the
in about six
was n we
de
Spaniards are brave fight
ers—-when they are behind a brick
wall; but when we get them out of
thelr intrenchments they are the best
runners you ever saw in your lifs
jut they did certainly fight wi
were intrenched, and thelr »
ent needed on this point, apd it w il
be our own fault if hereafter we neg
lect it, thinks the New York
Lord Reay presided a short t Lt
at the distribution of the annual prizes
nt University college, London, and |i
trayedd a considerable distu ¢ of
mind over the fact that so many oj
them had been won by st of
femal ox Lord Reavy « oun]
faint hope that sometd bw
done to put an to
is ev i?
: it he was re fl
prize f 11} PsEn ‘ x
ii { 1 3 into the «= ie f a
NG n= nd Th Cia fats
sf pind te x h the nobl i | i
ref was comprised in te
BE ADX 0 KT ¥
whethy of man or woman
was the mors SHAR : had »
fervent desire lat & questia
n w de i ir | the debat
ti i if { fot o t
I I Reavy t iil t dd iting
y England could not ws LE a
§ ¥ i Yai ’ ¥ ot 3
i ron « Id do Win
a » t e ] i mea by “a
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£ 4s teed 1 }
Bey gf 1 } ¢ bu rat
\ i ful dulteration f
flo i by wh i
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§ ctl heen As
thin t i i wit} x
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likely to suffer in case of any a or |
Only two of these s : |
1 Ix teratod | i
a y ne it ati. }
¥ ng i
ition, is satis that the rumors of |
i
iduleration are greatly exagg tend, |
A Confusion of Names
He was looking lank and lean: he
wore a threadbare suit of black and
{
under one arm he carried a
tinder the other there
bh had seen better davs He en
I vudson, wi
rev] so quietly that
busy at his desk, did not hear
“I have here" he began softly
Dodson wheeled in his chair and took
in the situation ‘1 don't care what
you have!” he roar. Don't you ses
that sign. ‘Peddlers and book agents
pot wanted,” or are you blind?”
Samson continued
RIL,
said
nt with an apologet
didn’t you say so before’
Dobson, subsiding
volume, price 21.507
tinned the long. thin man is
take it.” said Dodson
“Good day, sir”
few minutes later a friend of Dod.
happened in and took i
volume
“Hello. old man”
know you went in
jects”
“1 don’t see the Joke”
“1 believe that In times lke
these every patriotic American citi
zen should familiarize himself with the
livex of our promigent men who are at
the front making history for the glo-
vious country. We neglect these things
too long. 1 propose to keep up with
son's np the
sadd he, “I didn’t
for biblical sub
aaid Dodson
“You will have to hurry if you do,”
amswered his friend dryly. “This par
ticular Samson without the ‘Dp’ has
been dead for three thousand years"
Extermination of Mou!Z is Cellars,
Unslaked lime is best suited for this
purpose. RBeuie is blown, in the shape
of a fine powder. on the walls of the
cellar and into the joints and crevices
by means of the bellows or else
thrown on with the hand. The walls
must be damp: dry walls have to be
well moistened previously, The lime
slakes with the adhering water and
kills all organisms. On the day fol.
{owing the walls are washed off, and
as experience has proved, the cellar
will remain free from mould for at
least two Years.
The population of England at the
time of the Conquest did not exceed
2,000,000 all told.
ers in the trees did the best wor
“Alter 1 was wounded nd wd
i to the r I saw MIE One
shooting at me about 300 vards from
pe. ¢ Was shooting pret jose
to my head. I was in pain and wouna
edd In x jogs ld not even
walk, but I still £1
had onded on
§ 1 would ¢ t te r 1
get hit Bo 1 took a good i
it go and =aw his ig fi ind
thet Rpaniard d en I wa ¥
iain, and then crawled no hospital
tent ad n wonnd %
‘It of the ost d gre
wig! r AW In voir ¢ ¢
thers ead and wou i wher
BVYHr YO fol Hut the bovs |
bravely and ic lie tiie Eg nid
thie ret t Wert fide X
dea } thse iy I huis
ng vhole day y ied bullets
and t “ r tha
rain: bi ‘ n ‘
the harder the and
the more they would advan
Mr. Prell has been in the gular ar
my iris oF i { “1
cellent shot His wer, Leonard
Pre} i ! of i Mars
1 y ¢ .
i i oh f
Avoiding Colds
Avo 2 Id 1 Art v 1
& iid be ac rid] by ever vid
i iN ¥ requires omy pr er
P itions, are often th X
1 of ‘ i of t instil
t r or of ving T OK
Vi 1 it i x wy
eX 2 tl lool g for ‘ ¥
. + 4 $n TE of pire
‘ BOC
il abe
"n
jiini $
f Va LE
{ ol by
Rs 1) ¥
y back of
legs, as
i fr 1p 1 1 &
stscepntible fo avoid i toenadet
the skin be tough el sa that
shone
i
1
h i
it will bear cold alr better: ti
by daily cold sponge bathing
than any other way. If this
taken up during the warm
and Rept up during the entire
rill do much towards exempt
w :
viduals from colds
People who have not acquired this
resistance will have to exercise mor
pains to adapt their «
ise to the condition of the eclimat
Getting heated in changeable wen
renders the individual very much more
susceptible to taking cold. Practical
adiustment of clothing, exercise rest
—
expectation of ouying articles of The
above description, possessing artistie
or historic value, Toe consul com
tinues:
“The vital feature of the law is the
obligation now resting upon all brok-
ers, dealers in old furniture, linen,
ofhes, Jewels, books, dishes, arms
and other objects to keep an official
register, signed by the commissaire of
police or the mayor, containing day by
day, without blanks or erasures, the
name, surname, character and dwel
{ ling oF those with whom sald broker
has contracted; also the nature, qual
ity and price of all said merchandise;
and sald register must be forthcoming
{on demand Penalties are prescribed
{ for violation of the foregoing provis-
lon, the purpose of pre-
vent fraud in the exchange of old and
second hand goods, especially such as
are sought by collectors.”
which is to
A FLOATING MACHINE SHOP.
The Remarkable Crew and Equipment Car
ried by the Vulcan.
| The floating machine shop of the
United States navy has been named
the “Vulcan,” and this vessel is now
with Admiral Sampson's fleet and was
ready to repair any damage which
might have been tained at the
} Ad al Ce i mt it 4
OW - i A i (YO 1 it
entio ) i ig W yi f 3 Keud
vessel n ¢ot Ww Wreck
ing companies. It | id that $300
HH) was spen 1 altering and equip
ping this vessel Officially Yul
can’ 5 an engines whi 1nd
f 14 at ry » * 2 i ae i iat
am.” Khor we for ¢ war, En
- i er a: i f Me iy r Ol i i it i
i N 5 pirle Tw pur Land] 1
t \ y engineers
pa Hp 1nd : 1 At
! d Flving =» udrons Only
J W er wa i or i 19% fee
Lux Board, a AS tran
fe ed at the B i rd
While the ip is } ended for
5 BE | My Ties two
r rosin 2 The
5 y § On vake of
e flee 1 ‘ i ye 3
0 Ww g ip wide ad law
f a ~ x % pply fresh
ater $4 in
repairs ; . SEH TL
ihe bow of ed to a
& Poe : : f 4 = acs
‘ 3 evaporators
and dist Wf a cay vy equal to a
i VO [v AMM gall if water
hers a ) foun w a
woln, w will stings fo
bw n n i Fao Shi
wt foo
oR gned for ¥
y g v 1 4 4 ” '
our ng i » OG 1 jig
hid hw ! % 1
We 1h bod 1 % “ %
in ar 4 amd
t 1 Mad ¥ ‘
gines nd
ig T I 1 iT i
> 1 » 4 €
: - ~
. has
vf § we TR |
Inte i ns “a
‘ tes ie %
rriod = . 4 of y
1 nd Mie
11.4 nd
Yan ory »
manager { { g D I 2
n Fo rr f ¢) f en
4 “ r Gard N % yoosdd
of the Armingtor « Eng Works,
of Provide R Island, who has
rity of ix bes nechanies aboard,
i Professor Aldrich, of the Univer.
of Virginia, one of the best elec
experts In the country. Out of
itire crew of two hun on
wo have the right to wear the
8B cap. 8 ntific American
Corn Diet Makes Tall Men.
» proof that corn bread diet makes
found
11
ere hominy and
staff of life.
1 tutriota it
ural districts in
i
cally can Iw
in the rural districts of Indiana
CONSTI uIes iw
a any of the
» ®tates on which there is no dish
red from riosity, and
i'n IR A ou
and protection. during the ose states men who fall below the
when are prevalent, w stature of five feet are dwarfs. Six
be a temporary measure against tak feet is the regulation size, amd men
ing cold, while. on the other hand considerably above this
coniktant worry about one's inability , 84 cepted by he inhabitants
fo adjust these conditions may be a! 82 a matter of le
cause for its development.—New York | Of course, climat oe must be
Ledger, | considered when stature is under dis
An Amusing Incident
An amusing incident occurred in an
A. B. & C. car the other afternoon,
Four young couples, evidepley out for
an enjoyable day, were sefited on one
side of the car
good time. While their merriment
was at ite height a seven-year-old boy
across the aisle suddenly leaned for.
ward.
“Nay,
young
girl?
The voung man looked up In sur
prise, and the girl--a pretty girl, too-
blushed.
“Talmage, Talmage.” said the boy's
father, “what do you mean by such
talk
The boy looked at his father in
prised disgust.
“What's the matter with you, dad?”
he cried. “You told me you'd do it if
you was him!”
And the father found the landscape
decidedly interesting until the young
people left the car
Antigue Furniture in France.
mister.” he called to one of the
men, “why don't yon kiss your
sur
from Marseilles in reference to a law
dealing with curio and old furniture
merchants, promulgated on February
15. 1808, a knowledge of which, he
says, may be of service to the many
Americans who visit France with the
but the food fo
of calculation. 1t is generally accepted
by men who have given this subject
thought that the six-footers of Indi
ana, Illinois and Kenlucky as a rale
were brought up on hominy or corn
if the
crowned heads of Europe could but be
convinced that corn bread will result
in a nation of six-footers, the Ameri
can farmer would hardly be able to
raise corn enough to supply the Earo-
pean markets Cincinnati Times-Star,
cussion rms the basis
The Professor as 0 Nurse.
A certain learned professor, who
lives in New York, has a wife and
family, but, professor-like, his
thoughts are always with his books.
One evening his wife, who ad been
out for some hours, returned to find
the house remarkably quiet. She had
left the children playing about, but
now they were nowhere to be seen.
She asked what had become of them,
and the professor explained that as
they had made a good deal of noise,
he had put them to bad without! wait.
ing for her or calling a maid.
“1 hope they gave you no trouble”
ghe sabl.
“No,” said the professor, “with the
exception of that one in the cot! there.
He objected a good 4 al to my un
dressing him and putting him to bed
The wife went (0 insoect the cot.
“Why.” she exclahined, “that’s iit.
te Johnuy Green from pexi door! —