The First American Patent, First among the 600,000 or so of “Letters Patent” that have so far been granted in this country for ‘‘new and useful” inventions was that issued by the General Court of Massachusetts to Joseph Jenks, March 6, 1646, for an “engin of mils to go by water” or in other words, a water wheel, In England ‘‘letters patent,” that is to say, ‘‘open letters,” addressed from the Kivg to the whole people, or “mo nopolies,”” as they are also ealled, wero granted not merely for processcs actually invented by thie plicant, but for those “‘lirst nitro duced” in England. And this prac tice continues in England at the pres eut day I'hat 18 to Fn country ition, and he is the into England, he for it. In the 18 very different, fox SArY the machines and ij wv, if an lishman sees some other valuab] first to may have United here, it be the mere! ViCte BOIM« it naten? Sta Wb an applicant '" and not made grant. was the commits sen water It was alw ays “the early crown, or « ee —— - A BRIGHT STAR. OF THE MAN WHO ANDERSON TO FAMF A SKETCH MARY LED With Tharne, Also Leading Roles Booth, Barrett and i 8 and as na pei! porter and know ing the samt the Mu wens ing, with ’ ring propert is } I that medion the heunmatism, [1 left er, | the first with It those exoru and back It After sitting minutes the not when | AS vyer, “ni rists ut w flown LE] A FOR ) After | x of Pink Pills it struck vere jess troublesome i and I began almost un faith In the Pink Pills, I improved so rapld'y that I could rise after sitting ot iesk for an hour and the twinges of rheumatism that accompanied my rising were so mild that I senrosiy noticed them. During the past two weeks wo have had much rainy weather in Mt, Louis, But thie dampness Lins not had the slightest #ffect in bringing back the rheumatism, which | conslder a sufMelent and reliable test of the efMoncy of Pink Pills, I may also say that the Pink Pilis have acted as a tonic on my stomach, which I thought was well nign de. stroyed by the thousind and one sileged gemedies 1 consumed {a the past five years." lly me that the pal tried another Lox consciously 10 hav pains COURAGE, That shrouds a warrlor's name in glory ; Wa thrill to learn, from lays herolo, How patriots perished ; finely stole. Yeot loftier courage means the giving Far loss to dylng than to living. It moans, with truth's divine assurance, To arm the soul in stern endurance ; It moans with grip no stress can sever To oluteh the sword of high endeavor 1 per {stence, d And wage, in patience an This bloodless battle called ex Edgar Fawcett, in Youth's Comp et —— WOLF SOLANGE. TICK in hand, bagsslung over onr shoulder had nll 1341 been the afternoon the bean forest ol which ¢ the Saint 1" walking Pronsays, half Aman 1 IVOrs Wo greet with quickening pulse the story | . : | alarming the good people who lived on those farms, and were even seen in tho streets of Saint-Bonnet-le-Desert, an out-of-the-way little place close to the forest. Wolf hunts were ized to kill them, and fifty were paid for a woif’'s head. I myself saw three —two full grown ones and a young one--on the opposite bank of the Cher one morning when 1 wae on my way to Saint-Amand in my cart. **But neither the hard winter organ francs nov | the wolves prevented Laurent and So i lange from meeting at night in the | forest ; inspite of all dangers they con- tinued their nightly expedition, Every | evening Laurent left Lurcey-Levy, his { slipped away from Ur tiful | district and half | the Nevers distriot The | of our tramp for the day | wns the a little place divides the f dined with an 1 doctor who a tremendo Sal an artist, y meet ielion lived ost moeling were When the Tourniers discovered that the lovers still other. and perceive { that reither soft words nor blows had any effect upon Solange, they cama | ighty 4 they would send her to service at Ur say, on the model farm of M. Roger Duaflos, our Deputy. | “Perhaps you think that this step | put a stop to the lovers’ meeting? If #0, you are quite mistaken difference that they had to see each other at night. As soon as it was 1 y village and th opportunities of in the was close by, the numerous and easy, saw each on Wi ecision out Was The only | hud- | | they could and i quite dark the young people slipped | away from the respective farms on whioh they worked, and, taking a short ont to save time and to avoid | the high road, met in the forest un- known to any one, “It was in 1879, The summer and the winter--and a terrible winter it was! The Cher was full of picces of floating ice, and finally it froze right over; the high treos of Tronsays bent under the weight of the snow ; the for- ost was deserted, the roads having be- come almost impassable; and we saw what had not been seen for many a yoar—wolves! ‘You, young gentlemen, They prowled about the farms of Lurcey-Levy and Ursay, antumn passed in this way, then came | i | : | | ie arte Lh | Walk,’ our | ,wothree | gun under hisarm, and walked through the snow-covered forest with a blithe, f stop; Solange, her wide, ) o'clock ; ‘The on say at and the met at a glade called h " 1 about a mile and a half here evening they met a usual, l the lade mt ju Laurent reach I he slippe upon the fi l nd | ndquarters, while an lows, Was Rio yward Laurent and with the tongn “ ‘Rest the the hollow of you sl rent. ‘Now let hin “Bang! The w the air and fell ell the others if gave a jump in doad without a sound ; rushed away as hard disappeared in EA the brushwood ‘‘ ‘Run to the wolf, quick, Solange?!’ exclaimed hor lover. ‘Drag it as {ar up the road as you oan; there is danger, the others won't yot.' “‘She ran to the dead wolf ealled her back when she fow steps, “We onght to ent off the head, yon know, so as to get the reward.’ ““ ‘Have you got a knife? she asked, “ ‘Yea, here in my belt,’ “It was a hunting-knife, with a short handle and a wide blade. Bhe took it and, running to where the animal lay, sho cut off ita head and dragged the oaronss by one foot over the slippery ground ss far away mas she could, and returned to Laurent with she head, “What Laurent had forseen took place. The wolves frightened at first no come back but he had gone a wolves, | by the death of their companion, outlying | eame back-—-all five of them when they smelt blood. By the light of the from moon the two young peoples saw group of wolves struggling, fighting and rolling over 030 another in their | efforts to get a full share of the prey, of which they devoured every scrap. “Laurent began to : from his broken leg. Solange, whose | nerves were giving way nnder the vainly endeavoring to against fatigue suffer terrible sirain, strugele wns and drowsi- ness; twice the gun nearly fell from her hands, “Having finished began to e near The girl fired once, at random in their midst, bat n fingers trembled, and the vide of } } At t of the gun away along the distance, where they stoppe un few minutes, and then came “Lourent and ] 5 all over w their meal, the wolves to ine young pe ple, twice, | her fr bullets the repor ried short VA went baci AdYel [IS with Laure: took pl L ace Ir francs reward v Cher, an | out like monnt We saw Wolf boys and come back to her h her arms and her si she smiled at 4 y : resurn, an le as bef in “Good even French The Eftects of Cold on Life, nents M | French | st, with the object of trying the elfect of extre A dog placed in a copper receiver kept at a temperature of sixly to seventy de grees OC. below the {reczing point of water became warmer by half a de gree in the of the first ten mae very 13) ng er lately n earried out by " the well-known el emi ne cold on life, conrse minutes, and after an hour and a half | WAH found to be only one degree colder than it had at first. A little later, however, nature seems to have given up the struggle, for it suddenly died Insects resisted been O. below zero, but not thirty-five de- | grees. Myriapods lived down to fifty degrees, and snails to 130 degrees be- |low zero, The eggs of birds lost their vitality at two to three degrees below zero, and those of ants at zero. | Infusoria died at ninety degroes, but at 218 degrees below zero bacteria still remained virulent, London Ex- change, ——— — | | | Peculiar Snow, | | When people at Elva, Ky., arose the other morning they foand the ground covered with two inches of white snow, | and this covered with a yellow-tinted | staff thet would turn water inky | black. There is no explatation of the phenomenon, and an analysis has been undertaken. —New York Mer- | ery, H ho | the wl for | " temperature of twenty-eight degrees | uninteresting babies,’ Women of the Dresden china is the craze, are collecting it regardless price. The eldest daughter of General Phil. | Sheridan has recently made her debut the in Washington. for women are at Massa- Box-nailing contests newest entertainment chusetts church fairs, Of the there are women in the professions 2500 doctors, 2750 preachers, and an increasing number of Mrs. Mary A reached the to lewyers having three Livermore, of seventy th LYig YeArs, 18 retire from lecture piatiorm. Miss t han beet t, has been Indy with a girl 1 has the nough about ee chefs up to a consequence the tables of Europe court Yai id at the of len thinks men 114 1 St wien thing ) © pisin ol, a the wo fow | she admires have clevi rness She particu- American girls wo Grand Duchess Vera Constan- tinova, of Waurtemburg, the exclusive distinction among European princely houses ot having twin daugh- Her children, the Duchesses Elsa and Olga, are nearly nineteen, aad are charming, wholesome young women enjoy a tors, Miss Helen Gould is not one of the women who find only picturesque charity attractive. With the check that goos yearly to the Babies’ Shel- ter of the Church of the Hely Com- munion too, the econdition; “Reserve cots for the two most HOCK, the To clean jet bonnets and jet trim- | | | mings use a piece of black velvet or a | bit of plush to rab lightly over the lusty beads, and rhinestone buokles | and ornaments ean as well be cleaned by this means, while feather-trimmed headgear is freshened greatly by shek- ing gently near au open fire. The voluminous sleeve seems about to be cut down in its career of expan- sion, for the Princess of Wales and the Duchess of York Lave declared in favor of one of more modest propor. tions, At a recent wedding their sleoves were perceptibly smaller, and as the English bridegroom bad the courage to request a similar reduction in the size of the wedding gown, it was granted, Congress Can't De It, Ther out the country that Congress wil Is n general hopenn 1 belle! for the distress and suf! 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