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toausry. No notice will be takeu
of uonymoiu
oamuiunicauona.
Anyone who sighs for breathing roonv
ihould go to Alrska. Tho territory has
about 370,000,000 ncros and tho popula
tion is leas than 33,000, or over 10,500
acres for every mnn, woman, child, Creole,
Aleut, Indian and white. Persons de
liring to grow up with tho country will
8nd largo opportunity in AlftBka for
practicing Hint theory.
The English royal family nro blessed
with good appetites. They look tipon
four substantial meals a day as by no
mcaus an excessive allowance of food.
Even at their 5 o'clock tea tho wafor
liko bread and butter that customarily
accompany tho syrupy Souchong or
Orango Pekoe is supplemented by beau
tifully cut sandwichos, pate de foio grass
nnd other templing dclicacios, and every
justice is done to them by tho illustri
ous ones without in any w ay "spoiling"
the claborato dinner that is to follow
later on.
A larro and substantial vault has been
constructed in Iho New York assay of
fice for the safe keeping of gold and sil
ver bullion. The vault is firo and burg
lar proof and is fully as substantial as
any in tho sub-treasury at New York.
Few aro aware that $10,000,000 in gold
nnd silver bullion is stored in the assay
ollico, which is in fact, though not in
name, one of the depositories of tho pub
lic money. Tho assay ollicc at Cu'rson
City, Nev., has been suspended, nnd
nearly $1,000,000 in gold and silver on
deposit there for assay was transferred
to tho ollico in New York.
In receiving visitors the President, ac
cording to an exchange, h:is pcculinr
habits in tho management of his arms
and hands. When ho is pleased or con
tented to listen he holds his hands about
six inches apart, with tho back part of
his hand against his coat. Tho lingers
generally nro quiet; but if they begin to
work or contract ho is growing tired.
Then he will shift from one foot to tho
other. If tho man bores him tho arms
gradually como forwnrd. Tho move is
gradual, but if the infliction continues
tho hands full to tho side thumbs in.
If still the visitor persists in staying the
arms go out and tho thumbs beat against
his Ride. Then is tho time for disap
pearing. Buoyont clothing hits been devised by
a Londoner, and seems to bo attracting
somo attention in that metropolis.
Threads of cork are intcrwoveu with cot
ton, silk, or woolen, machinery which
slices the cork to tho required thinness
forming part of tho invention. Prom
theso new materials clothes of ordinary
appearanco are constructed which bear
up tho wearer when committed unex
pectedly to the water. Tho worth bf the
new fabrics was thoroughly tested by
throwing threo persons clothed in them
from a pier Thoy floated as easily as if
incased in cork jackets. It is said they
remained in tho water over an hour with
out discomfort. The possibilities of
fireproof apparel aro next in order.
An extraordinary sccno occurred re
cently in a California theatre whilo a
'Hip Van Winkle" performance was in
progress. Tho man whose duty it was 1
to manufacture tho thunder was up in a
loft with a big piece of sheet iron, which
he was agitating vigorously. In his en
thusiasm he lost his balanco, nnd, tailing
off tho narrow platform on which he
stood, he was pecipituted through tho
ceiling of the auditorium, sheet iron aad
nil, into the arms of the panic-stricken
spectators beneath, a wogon load of lath
Bud plaster following him down. All
whi wcic not compelled to go to the
hospital agreed iu pronouncing it tho
most vivid representation of thunder
and lightning that they had ever wit
nessed on any stage.
Evidently tho life philosophic tends to
longevity. There are, at present, at the
various German universities, no fewer
than 157 professois between tho ages of
seventy and ninety. Of these, 123 do
liver their lectures as usual, seven of
them befog mote than eighty-fivo years
of aire. The oldest is tho veteran Yon
Itanke, the historiau, who is now in his
ninetieth year, but is not considered
fully equal in vigor, memory and other
faculties to Professor Klvenich, who is
thirty nine days his junior. After all, it
is not remarkable that a professar should
live to a good old nge. lie has a secured
incomo and congenial pursuits. lie
ought to be devoid of the unworthy
passions that shorten existence, and to
!ecd a life as placid as thut of the gods
of Epicurus. 15ut Germany, in spite of
tin figure we have quoted, cannot show
a professor equal to M. Chevreuil, of
Paris, who still lectures, still writes,
still conducts experiments in chemistry,
btill walks every day from his house to
his laboratory, and will, if he lives, be
100 years of age iu the August of next
year.
Ljtke Glazier, the nowly discovered
source of tho Mississippi, is a sparkling
little lake, which nestles among the
pines of a wild and unfrequented region
of Minnesota, just on the dividing ridge
which forms tho great watershed of
North America. It is about a mile and
a half in greatest diameter. The waters
of the lake are exceedingly pure, com
ing from springs.
Doctor Stitro, of London, celebrated
for his knowledge of nervous diseases,
said to a Herald correspondent, whilo
talking of tho troatmont of hydrophobia:
'"I have never known a case cured where
symptoms of hydrophobia had appeared,
however slight or intermittent. I am
inclined to believe that M. Pasteur ia
right and hopo England and America
will send doctors to study his method.
Tho reported death of a little girl after
inoculation under him proves nothing
adverse to M.Posteur, if thirty-six days
had elapsed before his treatment began.
Pcoplo can't do better than try 31. Pas
tucr. Ills inoculation is harmless and
it may do goo. Cauterization will best
prevent hydrophobia, but it must be
thorough, so that the part bitten may be
absolutely destroyed. This is best done,
I have found, with fuming nitric acid.
A hot iron might only destroy the sur
face. Nitrato of silver, in my opinion,
is utterly useless.
Commenting upon tho vast fortune
left by tho late W. II. Vanderbilt, the
Chicago Herald says: "Two hundred
millions 1 What are they? "Who can
compute their power for good or evil?
Who can imagine them in a single pile
or grasp tho responsibilities involved in
their possession? Two hundred millions
aro one-tenth of tho national debt at its
greatest figure. They are more by $20,
000 than tho entire customs revenues of
the United States, and thoy are con
siderably in excess of one-half of the en
tire revenue of the republic from all
sources. They would support the United
States army of 25,000 men for five years,
pay the 2o0,000 pensioners for three
years, run the naval establish
ment for ten years, build a double
track from New York to San Francisco,
and give every man, woman and child
in tho United States $4. Five per cent,
interest on them would yield an income
of $10,000,000 per itnnum, enough to
support every charitable institution in
America not of a public nature, to build
asylums nud hospitals for the world in
fifty years, to educato, feed and clotho
the deserving poor forever, and to make
such a thing as a slum unknown in nny
city of the republic. Tho man who con
trols a fortune liko that is not to be en
vied uulcss ho does somo good with it."
Pasteur's method of preventing hydro
phobia is by inoculation, not by vaccina
tion. Tho former process produces the
genuino malady in a mild and innocuous
form; the latter employs one malady to
antagonize uud bailie a moro serious one.
Thus cow-pox is employed to ward oil
small-pox. In a lecent chat with a cor
respondent M. Pasteur described his ex
periments aud their results as follows
"I began my experiments in 1833 in this
way: I took a portion of the spinal cord
of a dog which had died of hydrophobia
and with that I inoculatod a rabbit in
the first membrane of the brain. It wont
mad in fifteen days. Then with a por
tion of the spinal cord of this rabbit I
inoculated another rabbit in tho same
way, and it went mad in thirteen days,
and soon. I continued inoculations from
rabbit to rabbit, finding tho strength of
the virus increase each time until the
ninetieth time produced hydrophybia in
only seven days. I then took very small
portions of tho spinal cord of this nine
tieth rabbit, and which contained the
greatest virulenco yot obtained, and I
suspended these bits of virus in empty
bottles, in w hich the air was kept very
dry by means of potash on the bottom of
the bottle. After several days' exposure
in a dry, cold temperature the virus
loses all its strength. Tho time required
for this loss depends on tho size of the
piece and the dryness and coldness of
tho air. Then of this virus which has
lost its strength I take a small portion
dissolved in sterile bouillon,- and with a
pravaz syringe I innoculate the unimal.
Each day I innoculato it again with
virus, just a little strongor each time
until at last the system has become so
accustomed to the poison that I can use
the virus which had not been dried at all
and which would produce hydrophobia
in seven days if the system had not been
so treated to it by degrees. I have
treated one hundred dogs in this way,
and not ono bus become mad."
At Russian railway stations passengers
now find a "grievance book," in which
complaints are entered. The record of
wrongs reaches the central otliee once a
month, when tho complaints are investigated.
SPINNING.
Juit as the spinner turns the wheel
And with her son winds her thread,
So as I turned the wLeol of thought
Its every round new pleasure brought,
Until "there is," I said,
"JTo Joy that can compare with mine
In all the world no hoart so blest!"
And so the whole day long I spun,
And fast, so fast tho thread wound on
Hopo's shuttle in my breast.
But while I in the sunlight turned
The busy wheel and sung my song,
And whilo my shuttle was so full,
And all thetirend so beautiful,
My spinning all went wrong.
The thread it broke and slipped my hold,
Till I could not discern
Where and whic h was the end I sought;
It tangled, and the wheel of thought
For me refused to turn
In the old-time exultant wny;
My band its cunning all had lost'
It could no longor deftly spin,
Becuuse the thread of hope had in
The thread of sorrow crossed.
Helen A. itanville.
DUSTERS.
"Dusters" have gone out of fashion, my
dear; look ,iuto any Pullman palace car
and you will see that for yourself. 1
took one this summer, but lound it not
the thing at all; lirst-clnss travelers now
aro in stylish suits, and I'm sure they
look much better. A few years ago the
women in any waiting-room were like a
brigado ready to be ordorcd off on duty,
all in uniform the regulation gray
duster, with only a blue or brown vail
to distinguish one from another.
I am not surprised thut dainty aristo
crats have discarded the homely "but con
ventional garment, for all must admit
that dusters were eminently democratic;
that tltey were great levelers; that they
wero no respectors of persons. They
covered tho shabby alpaca quite as suc
cessfully as the glossy silk; I do npt
doubt in the least their democratic pro
clivities banished them from good so
ciety. But I have a dear old duster laid
away; you will laugh, I am sure, tc hoar
that I entertain for it the most romantic
attachment. Ah! you can t think what
a trick it served me dear old thing!
I first came South this very month
three years ago, to teach, you know,
though I do not think now' I was well
qualified for the work only pn un
tutored girl myself.
This was the first time I had ever
strayed far from home; tho trip was a
long one; I grew very tired, nnd as tho
engine steamed into the city a terrible
feeling of home-sickness took possession
of me.
I expected Professor Kaynor, the
principal, to meet me; and when the
train stopped, took my little sachel and
stood waiting, whilo all the other pas
sengers, hurried out. I began to feel
faint and dizzy with tho fear that he
might not come, but followed along
afler tho others, my heart in my throat,
my eyes gazing forward eagerly and
scanning every face in fight.
Suddenly I saw a gentleman making
his way anxiously toward me, smiling
and expectant; this was surely Mr. Kay
nor, but how young he was for the
principal of a school, and how handsome.
.It was evidently he, for his hand was
extended before we quite met, and in a
econd moro ho had clasped mine warmly,
and and ardently kissed me! Yes,
kissed mo! fair and square on the lips.
Did I scream? No, not exactly, but I
shivered, und was cold to my finger-tips,
then flushed until the angry blood burnt
into my cheeks, before he exclaimed :
"Why, little Christine, how you have
grown I Can it really bo my little Chris
tine?" a sudden fear flashing into his
face.
I tried to speak, I gasped, turned cold
again and almost fell, but managed to
ay :
"I am Miss Strettou. I nra to teach nt
Jackson academy, and expected Mr.
iiaynor to meet mo. You are not he'i"
Of courso it was very foolish. I knew
it at tho time, but knowing it did not
help matters. Great tears welled up to
ray eyes as I gazed into his, and a com
passionate look came into his pale, hand
some face.
"A thousand pardons, Miss Strettou.
I came to meet some one," lie continued.
"No, 1 am not Mr. Kaynor; but allow
mo to accompany you to the waiting
room. Probably hois on the platform."
I made no reply, but went with him,
and just us ho turned to help me down
the steps of the coach, a tall, portly gen
tleman, with suave, self-conscious man
ner, came forward sumcwhat slowly, say
ing: "Ah, Miss Stretton! I am Professor
Paynor, I began to fear you were not on
the train."
I could not tell you exactly why, but
estrange shyness came over mo; I did
not even look toward the gentleman who
had given me such an affectionate wel
come, only mumbled someth ng to Mr.
ltayuor, and followed him quickly to tho
omnibus.
That night, after shutting and bolting
the door of my roum, looking around
upou its bare und cheerless walls and
trying to thiuk the place homelike and
pleasant, I threw myself, iu a fit of his
torical sobbing, upon the narrow bud,
aud between smiling and weeping, man
aged to spend nu hour. What foolish
creatures girls ure!
"Why did 1 cry?" Because, to be sure,
I was houifsick, aud and because a
strango man hud kissed me, and and
perhaps a few tears were shed because
he was a stranger. I wished in my
teart of hearts that he ht;d not been ;
that he was some clear brother, cousiu
or friend, who had come to greet me so
warndy.
What wag his name? Who was the
"little Christine?" And would 1 ever
meet him again?
These were the thoughts that occupied
tho hour, but at last 1 fell asleep. "My
eyes always did make picttircs when they
were shut;" great pity I never could put
the pictures n canvas. My dreams that
night would have been a fortune, cither
painted or written. Oh, such glorious
sights and scenes and always that
stranger somewhere near.
Well, a week passed, and I am
ashamed to soy how frequently I thought
of him; of course, as I told myself then,
it was due to loneliness, to my entire
isolation, nnd to tho fact that it
was my first prolonged absence from
home.
One afternoon, a chilly, drizzling
autumn day, a servant came to ray room
with a card. "A gentleman to see you,
Miss Stretton."
1 took the card wonderingly, thinking,
"Perhaps it is the minister." Thou I
gave a hasty look into tho mirror,
smoothed back the curling bangs, gave a
touch of powder to my forehead and a
pinch to my cheeks I was beginning to
look a little pale and went immediately
to the parlor.
The light was rather dim, and I
walked the length of tho room before
discovering my guest. He was looking
from tho window, and evidently did not
hear my steps, but turned suddenly.
Honestly, I will be ashamed as long as
I live of what I almost did. It reminds
mo of the little boy who said, "Pins
have saved lots of lives by not being
swallowed." I think a kiss saved mine
that time by not being given. I was so
astonished, and, to tell the truth, so
glad, that I very nearly returned his first
enthusiastic salutation; and if I had
well, there is no telling what I would
have done; jumped into the river, I
suppose; I always was a thoughtless, im
pulsive creature.
We shook hands, though, and then
laughed, both of us, before he asked
pardon for calling, saying he had pur
posed doing so each day since our first
meeting, but feared I would consider it
presumptuous. At last he had decided
that he must offer an apology and ex
planation for conduct which doubtless
appeared scarcely that of a sane man.
"I was expecting my sister," he said;
"my sister whom I have not seen for ten
years."
Would you believe it I promised to
tell you all the truth, or you should not
hear this my heart al. ost flow out from
my lips when he said that? So "Chris
tino" was his sister, only his sister. I
had not told myself before what manner
of bird, beast, or fowl she was; now I
felt an unacknowledged satisfaction in
discovering.
"The mistake was due entirely to the
duster," he continued; "she distinctly
wrote that her costume would consist of
a grav duster and blue veil, but since I
have thought of it, it seems to ine all the
ladies wore dusters. What masking
stuff is here! I will tell her to be moro
explicit next timo; I might make an
other blunder, and it might be a worse
one."
I scarcely knew what this meant, but
it sounded pleasantly in my ears anyway."
He left, after awhile, asking to be al
lowed to call "now and then," and I
flew back upstairs, and went up to the
looking-glass, thinking, "I wish I had
worn my b!uo cashmere to-day, instead
of this sombre brown." What giddy
creatures girls are, to be sure!
Well, he did call now and then, and I
must admit he was always welcome.
One day, just about tho beginning of
the Christmas holidays, we hud an en
gagement for a walk, and after returning
(tho eveniug was dark and cool) he came
in, only for a moment, ho said. Tho
room was warm, with a red fire slumber
in? under a great bank of black coal. I
opened it a little and leaned forward,
holding my fingers to tho blaze. Di
rectly, something influenced mo to look
up. He had remained standing, and
was very near me, gazing down upon my
face with such au intense searching
look, that involuntarily I clasped my
hands before my face. I cannot say why,
exactly. I fear it was to conceal what
he might see there, but 1 shrank from
his glance, intuitively.
"lon't," he said, very gently, and
stooping over me, drew my hands away
and held them in his own.
I havo always contended that there
was an unfair advantage, for 1 never
could conceal my feelings. Ho held my
hands in a tisht clasp, and I turned away,
but directly ho drew me nearer and lifted
up ray face until he could look straight
down into my eyes.
Then a quick indignation, a sudden
nnger, took possession of mo, and I
wrenched myself away, and asked,
nroudlv, "How dare you! by what
fight!"
"Becauso I dare to leve you!" he in
terrupted: "dare to love you with all
tho intensity of mv whole being!"
Then those foolish tears of mine came
again, and he threw his arms about me,
and gazed down into my eyes, exclaim
ing: "Now you look as iu the first mo
ment I loved you!"
Then he kissed my lips for the second
time, und we were betrothed.
It was a queer courtship ultogether
one in which the clitnux, the acme, was
reached in the very first moment, for I
believe I loved him then as truly as I
have ever loved hiui since. "In tho dark
hour fortunes meet us;" that homo-leaving
would have been quite different if 1
had guessed toward what I was journey
ing. Aud yon see, the duster was really re
sponsible for the wholo thing. Upon
what thread our destinies do hang!
So it will make no difference how en
tirely dusters may be tabooed by aristo
crats, I will be a democrat to the extent
of feeling a great weakness for mine, i.t
least. I utmost feel like wearing it to
the altar next week, instead of tho regu
lation white satin and lace. An odd-
looking bride I would make, to be sure;
but I'm happy oh. so happy ! He's just
the dearest fellow in tho world!
Now, I've kept my promise, and told
you tho wholo story. Annah IL Walton.
Mistakes About Hydrophobia.
A New York veterinary surgeon said
to a Sun representative.
"The most widespread error about
hydrophobia is that it is most prevalent
in tho hot months. A surprising num
ber of people hold lit as an article of
faith that the 'dog 'days' are so called
becauso that season is particularly dan
gerous to dogs. At all events, the belief
is almost universal that July and August
are the months in which -to look out for
mad dogs. As a matter of fact, statis
tics show that there is less hydrophobia
in those two months than in any in the
year, and that cases of hydrophobia in
winter, early in the winter and late in
the winter, that is, in November and
December and in February and March,
are rather more than twico as frequent
as they are in July. You have only to
read the papers every year to verify this.
The numerous reports of cases with
which the papers aro at this moment
filled verify it. A distinguished veteri
nary surgeon in England kept a record
of hydrophobia cases for a series of
years, and the result was that he discov
ered that, in England at least, February
was the most dangerous month. A record
kept in France during a period of ten
years showed an average of twenty
cases in January, 21 in March, and 23 in
April, while in July there were only 12.
From this series of observations the in
ference was drawn that the disease was
much more prevalent in the rainy than
in the dry months. This hot weather
error, like tho error about aversion to
water being a symptom of the disease, is
also a source of danger. People lock
up, muzzle, and drown dogs during the
months when it is safest to let them run
at large, and let them run at large just
when they are most liable to the disease
and most dangerous.
"But hydrophobia is after all so rare a
disease that there is no necessity of half
the fuss that is made over it. During
the five years from 180(3 to 1871 there
wero in New York city only twenty-two
cases, or an average of three and two
thirds per annum among the inillionand
a quarter of people here. This is a
greater number of cases than was shown
by a long record kept in Paris, where
during a series of forty years only ninety-four
cases occurred, or an' average of
two and one-third per year."
Doc Towns.
The prairie dog is a burrowing animal,
and the spot on which it congregates is
literally honeycombed with its tunnels.
There is, however, a kind of order ob
served in the "dog towns," as these war
rens aro popularly called, for the auimals
always have certain roads or streets in
which no burrow is made. The affairs
of the community seem to be regulated
by a single leader, called tho big dog,
who sits before tho cntrauco of his bur
row and issues his orders from thence to
the community. In front of every bur
row a small heap of dirt is raised, which
is made Irom tho excavated soil, and
which is generally employed as a seat
for the occupant of the burrow. As long
as no danger is apprehended, the little
animals are all in lively motion, sitting
upon their mounds or hurrying from one
tunnel to another, as eagerly as if they
were transacting the most important
business. Suddenly a sharp yelp is
heard, and the peaceful scene is in a mo
ment transformed into a whirl of indis
tinguishable confusion. Quick barks
resound on every side, the air is fillod
with a dust-cloud, iu the midst of which
is distinctly seen au inteimiugled mass of
flourishing legs and whisking tails, and
in a moment the populous "town" is
deserted. Not a dog is visible, and the
wholo spot is apparently untenanted.
But in a few minutes a pair of dark eyes
are seen gleaming at the entrance of some
burrow, a set of glistening teeth next
shino through tho dusky recesses, and in
a few minutes first one aud then another
prairie dog issues from his retreat, until
the whole community is again in lively
action.
Pntroling Russian Railroads.
The track from Churkov to Nikolajev,
in Kussda, is patrolcd before each train
by a watchman of each section, who car
ries forward a number found by him at
tho beginning of his section and left on
a hook provided for at the end, even
numbers being carried in one direction
and odd numbers in the other. The
numbers, which are painted on metal
plates, are hung in view of tho trains, so
that officials passing can readily see
them, and by means of a small table of
the positions of the number on any day
or hour can see whether tho watchmen
are doing their work. A honk without
a number indicates tho negligence of a
watchman, w ho cuu be readily identified,
since every watchman is required to give
notice when he doos not find a number
at the beginning of his section, and must
do so to avoid having the carelessness
ascribed to him.
The Street Crier Mono. '
The ancient colored mail who, on the
darkest winter moriiiugs, was wont to
make his rounds carrying a tray on his
head and melodiously sinking, is no
longer a familiar feature of Philadelphia
street life. This was his song, chanted
with peculiar gurgle, hulf warble, as
"catchy" as anything a mock Tyrolean
ever warbled on the stage:
Do hominy man
Am on h-e-e-s way,
Wid lo (food hominy!
Tho oyster peddlers put theirjextended
hand to their mouths, us a sort of a voice
deflector, aud yell at the tip top of the
scule:
Oysters, oli
Ytro da go,
.Forty coats a hundred!
le-eas Siltinan.
BEYOND THE O ATE.
rwo dimpled hands tho bars of iron grasped;
' Two blue and wondering eyes the space
looked through.
This massive gate a boundary had been set,
Nor was she ever known to be but true.
Strange were the sights she saw across the
Y way
A little child had died some days before
And as she watched, amid the silence hashed.
Borne carriod flowers, some a casket bore.
Tho little watcher at the garden gate
Grew fearful, hers such thoughts and won
dering were,
Till said the nnrso: "Come here, dear child.
Weop not
We all must go. 'Tis God has sent for her.'
''If Ho should sond for me" thus spoke the
child-
"'111 have t toll the angel, 'Do not wait. '
Though God has sent for me, I cannot come;
I never go boyond the garden gate."'
Katharine MpD. Rice, in Harper.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
People we must put up with Pawn
brokers. A fine art Presiding over a polio
court. Uatclvet.
A detective story "We've caught thsj
culprit." Judge.
There is only one bill more powerful
than the plumber's the mosquito's.
Whitehall Timet.
The smart business man like the
woodman makes good use of his "ads."
Germantown Independent .
The clerk who works for tho merchant
who will not advertise, knows tho tor
tures of solitary confinement. Waterloo
Observer.
The cigar that is called Imported is
about as appropriately named as tho
hired girl we call domestic. Yonkeri
Statesman.
"A genuino patriot," said an orator
recently, "must at all times be ready to
die for his country, even though it should
cost him his life I" (Thundering ap
plause.) "Petroleum has declined twenty-one
cents," says an exchange. But before
you praise petroleum for its honesty,
wait until it is offered one dollar, and sea
whether it declines that. Pack.
"Beans Hegarded as Food," is the
heading in an exchange. That is the
way beans should be regarded. Anyone
who would regard beans as a beverage
would be away off. iVM York Graphic.
An ancient old maiden in Cologne,
Wished to give her pet poodle a bognei
The condition of her cupboard
Equaled that of Mine. Hubbard,
Consequently the poor dog had nogne.
Palmer Journal.
"You dear thing." she said gushingly;
"how handsome your bonnet does look.
I'm sure it iooks as well as it did last
winter." Only a woman could say
things liko this aud say them so easy.
Itockland (Me.) Courier.
Gognlesop "Very stupid girl, that
Miss Wilpiu." Ilamworth "How so?"
"Why, you see, we were guessing con
undrums the other evening, and I asked
her what was the difference between my
self and a donkey." "Well." "Well?
Why, by Jove.she said she didn't know."
Philadelphia Times.
HUE SHOULD HAVE DARNED 'KM.
The beautiful maiden is shopping to-day,
Quite busy, and to bor surprise,
While through the thronged street she is tak
ing her way, ,
Her beau iu the street she espies.
Good gracious'l 'tis awful I He's coming, no
doulit,
And swift to her heart strikes a pain;
The eyes of affection will single ber out,
He'll see her aud speak, that is plain,
Bbe halts, blushes redly, then crosses the
street,
Avoiding the youth thnt she loves;
The maid it would mortify much should they
meet
There are holes in the tips of her gloves!
Boston Courier.
Rabies.
Babies is liable to attack dogs of any
breed or sex, though statistics seem to
show that it is niore common among
males than femules.
With regard to tho early symptoms, an
animal that has the disease invariably
loses its appetite; and though this is
common to the majority of complaints,
it should not be ignored, but should act
as a warning to owners to wateh for
other symptoms, which, in tho case of
rabies, speedily develop. Tho dog's
manner changes; he shows a disposition
to hide himself in corners or under
chairs; in fact, anywhere, so as to get
out of sight. Then he will never rest
in one place for long together, but is con
tinually changing his position, and ap
pears to be al ways on the watch. His bark,
too, is altered, und without provocation
he will at times give tongue to a dismal
short howl, or to what would perhaps
be better described as half a howl and
hulf a bark, fl' '11 gnaw at anything
that comes in hid '. If he be in a
room he will bite at the chair legs, or
the carpet, or at a tableclotn; and if in
a kennel, he will attack the comers of it.
He will also attempt to masticate stones,
und will readily consume straw aud filth
of any kind. Another early symptom is
tao disposition to bite other dogs in
fact, a rabid auiinul will unhesitatingly
attack a dog or cat with which he may
have lived for years on the most friendly
terms.
It seems that rabies is more prevalent
in the spriug und autumn, and not as is
generally supposed, in the summer
months. When an uniuiul shows symp
toms of the disease, it should be at ouce
securely chained up, as, although it is
practically harmless in tho early stages
to those w hom it knows, it is not so
with strangers. JmiuIvu Truth.
Thero are 1.10,000,000 tons of coal
waste piled up iu the uuth-acitu regiou: