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Mum Csconnut culture in growing rapidly katMkf the lower const of Florida The eya from Biscayno Hay to Key Wost costaia many thousand now trees, and j more aro ten of thousands jfrom one to five years old. J. Ticrpont Morgan has r evived, ns subscriptions to tho Mrs. Hancock fund, ainee his last report $ J.tf-l, through Charles Macready, of New Orleans, from friends and admirers of General Han cock in New Oilcans and Louisiana, find f;J0 from tho "Boys in "White," of Kich- mond county, X. Y., which, up to late date, brought tho total up to fUt.o'.lo.OO. A mrt individual at Chico, Cab, bragging about Low ho could endure tha pressure of any carriage running over his cpjn hand, illustrated his remarks by placing his hand in front of tha hind wheel of a carriage that was passing. When t!ia carriage had pnssed the smart individual hud two badly smashed fin gers that may have to be amputated. What has tha young female farmer c! tha "West to say to this Ten year ago a paper-box maker died in New Orienus, leaving his widow with nothing but a knowledge of tho trado. She went to work in her attic room making boxes, and was so successful in getting orders that she soon had more than she could do. She hired help, added room after room, aud now employs thirty-five hands. She travels for her own house, taking long drumming tours through Texas and Louisiana, and is getting rich font. A circumstance that recently occurred in California reminds one of the late Mr. JEsop't fable concerning tho indignities offered the sick lion, if we may substi tute captivity for feebleness. A little elephant in a traveling mauagerie took a great dialike to the lion, aud the other night, in. Yallejo, got loose, grabbed tho i king of beasts by a hind leg, and tried to pull him through the bars of the cage. The uproar that followed waa tremen dous, and it required tha whole of tho circus force to gettho little fellow sway and chain him fast. The lion's leg waa badly wrenched. An interesting experiment, showing the influence of electricity on the growth of roots, has been made in Germany by Professor Hodefieiss. Plates of copper were thrust upright into tha earth, and connected by wire with similarly p'nted zinc plates, about one hundred fed dis tant, an electric battery being thus formed with the earth between such copper and zinc in the circuit. Beth potatoes and beets, planted between such plates, gave an increased yield beets fifteen per cent., potatoes twenty-five per cent as compared with other parts of the same field. A queer phase of railway industry is a railway tie nursery, near tho little town of Partington, Kan., in th'j southern part of tha State. It is tha largest artilici d plantation of forest trees in North America, and is owned by tha Southern Pacific'. The different sections have been planted, respectively, two, four and six years. One-fourth ia planted with tho I tilanthus, the rest with tha cataipa, and a few of whito ash. Those first planted are now about twenty-tive feet iu height, tha la't about twelve. Some of tha taller are seven inches through the stem. There are about 3,000,000 of trees in full vigoi on those plantations. Out of those tries will come the railway ties of tho future. Georgia newspapers assure us that tha most peaceable and dangerous man in all these United States lives in Mur ray county. He is kind-hearted, good tempered, never had a quarrel in his life, wouldn't hurt a fly, und everybody is afraid of him. About a ye.u ago he was cutting wood when tha axe fl . w oil the handle and killed a man who had come to pay him $0. He never got a cent of the money. The next week, whiic ferry iug a friend across thy river, he ran the boat against a suag and his friend w is drowued. About a mouth later he felled a tree on top of a stranger who was lying asleep in tha woods, killing him in stantly. Not long after he shot at a wild turkey aud killed a neighbor whom he didn't sea at all. Three wees Liter he lighted a kerosene lamp, when it sud denly exploded, burning to death a col porteur to whom tha inollensive Geor gian had extended tho hospitality of his home. All this man's frienls run v. hen they see him coming. He would be afraid to extend any kiuduesses sine to his enemies, if he had auy. His la-a public act was to crow tho street with ladder on his shoulder la.-t Fourth of July, while the procehsiou as pm.ing, aud when somebody fchouted to lmu to "hurry ou," lie obligingly turned mound and ttaitc-d back. The procession was iaU out and tha day was spoiled. IfiTENT. An set lnunrhiil forth upon the sea of time is gone beyond rei-ail; An anirel may not bid it stay When once it is upon its way. A wraith unlaid or spirit briaht unto the soul which givea it birth, Kat-u act acbievod must ever be Through time and through eternity. The motive nives direction to a deed forever and for aye: When oac-e sent forth for (rood or ill It keeps that tirst direction still. A force which conimereth all power of evil is good lutein; What er the act, the motive pure And for the kcxkI it shall endure. Antoinette Van lioesen Wukeman. TWO CATS. "You dearest, sweetest 'ittle duck, so I it was; Manny s pesMis pet. Manny's pesM.s pet." ! it sounded much like "manay s pessus pet," but tha voice waa so young, so fresh, so ccoing. that Joo Parker could not believe his ears. There was something "magnetic" about it, to use the slang of tho day; at least it attracted Joe to tha row of rasp berries that flung their green arms all abroad on tha old picket-fence between hn garden and tha next neighbor's, and irresistibly bent his head to peep throuch those respectable palings and see what no couiu see. And this is what ho saw: Such a lovciy gull ucr inur waa red, to be sure, but it was that bronze red that looks brown in the depth of its ripp.es and gold on their crests. Just now. in the blazing sunshine, it was all a rich deep red, with, gilt threads among it; but then she had such eyes! large, clear, red-hazel eyes, as beautiful as a robin's or a squirrel's fringed with dark lashes, aud ovcrbrowed with delicate lark, arches, a little lifted with a look of surprise that was tha result of shape ...i- 1 and outline, I regret to say that her fair soft brow and cheeks were slightly freckled; but in such a fresh rednud white the smallest j spot will show, a:id nobody is perfectly i beautiful, not even Mary Ann May. com- j monly culled "Manny May." For in stance, her mouth was large; but then it I was so full, so red, and parted over such firm white teeth, that it seemed just to match tho saucy littla noso above and tha round dimpled chin below it. Her WHist was larjre too, just as large as tho waist of any sculptured goddess wrought by PhiJius or Praxiteles, for Manny had never 1 cen pinched in mind or body, or given over to that awful tyrant "They," who puts our girls to the torture of rack and boot fiom infancy, that they may be and do as "They" do und are. But she had a tail, strong, shapely f g ure, and its movements were all instinct with tha untrammeled grace ot nature. .... " ' -" - ' uxHUl.1 O K'lCUCU, I with both h As sue stood in her mothers parden. bosom. basket of . ,n,i..iinn .t i H..v..v. fc.v.ua aim greens an old c:ise-hmte ot tier feet, she was a perfect picture ; und she hud not an idea of it. .b.e's theories fled as he gated. The voice had not misled him. it was not a mother's voice; tha darling on whom Manny lavished her sweet words, her tender embrace, even her kisses, was a cat. But such a cat ! Peter was as great a beauty as his mistress. His coat of deep blue gray was striped and dashed witu ihining ulauk; a ring of black encircled his massive neck; his tail was ringed also w.th sable, und five wido black stripes rati from between his ears down to tha very tip of the tail, merging as thay went into one broad band; then there was a suow-white spot upon his breast, aud his powerlul paws were black as jet. "Manny's dumb silly about that there cat." was her father's chronic growl; but, since Manny was uil tho child left to him, and 'n his secret heart its living idol, be only growled. He would not have utteied a derogatory word about f&ter for auything; he even remembered to get a bit of meat for him whenever he went to the village, and had once reeu known to turn buck half a mile for that very purpose. As lor mothur May she spoiled tha cat just as she had spoiled Mary Ann. She was a dear, kindly, tender-hearted old woman with an ut er inab.lity t rule ar order or mold anybody or utiythirig. She took life as she found it, und neither fretted at nor tried to amend it a sort of moral leather bed, soft to exaspera tion, but. after all, re-tfi l to tha eager, bard-worked, exasperated and wiry peo ple of her race. "A proper nice woman,'' Semanthy Carrier said; "always un' eternally good- natered. JSo lacultv in her. but one ! that ri es yon cousider'ble when you want to have things gee; but when you're i' k or sorry, sort of comfortin' like a poulti e.'' Peter knew his power and his position. Petted from his eariy kittenhood, l.e soon learned, like the young of the human species, that he could tyrannize over his pet let's, and then the warmest, softest sent was given up to him, tha door opened at his first appeal, the gtulets of tl.e lareiy used fuwis were e.ned for him. his tastes gratified, and his notions respected. One is sometimes tempted to hull accept the m isculiue theory that women hs.e tyrants, when one sees bow they manufacture them fo- themselves, Now Joseph Parker had just come to Meriden to live. A certain Mr. Webb, who had a manufactory in Vermont, h id mo veil to .Meridcn to get morn water power, und as Joo Parker was his fore man in the i.aper-iniil. lie Lao, moved too. hired a house a uttie way out of tha village, next to .Mr. May's homesteiul. and brought w ith him hii mother and h's mother's i at. Ik-nee this storv. and whatever tears may bespiinklo it. Mrs. Parker's cat was not at ail like Peter May; he was black, all black, with green-yellow eyes, and an aspect that made a stranger think of the regulation cat that was the familiur of witches in ail history. lie came from Hanover to Meridcn by rail, railed up in a strawbrrrv crate, hissing, spitting, yowl ing, and sharpening his claws on his , frail prison all tha way, to the j terror of every passenger in tha j car. Indeed. J do was forced to carry i rate and all into a baggage-car at the i third station, and ride with it tho rest of I tho wav, for the brakerocn reused to I look after it, so daunted were they by the wild animal within. Tiger was sent into solitary confinement in the cellar as soon as Mrs. Parker reached her house, and was subdued bv hunger and dark ness before they dared let him range j abroad in the new neighborhood. Now Joo l'arker had not been in Meri-! lien long enough to make much acquaint- , unce there, and was very hard at work ! the tirst few weeks of his stay, so that he . 7ZJ" 7' "l w,WWfP urca,on ?' anu 'Meun.-v ' 01 a "iimiuiu uaiui. in liic onoir or ia tua pews: he was ashamed of it, to be sure, but thore was the change of air from Ver mont mountains to the flat meadow land and low-lying pastures about the river, and than he was really overworked for a time in helping to place tho new machinery, move the old. and settle his mother in this strange place, where he knew no one to whom he could apply for help or suggestion. It was not Sunday to-day when he peeped through the fence at Manny, and suddenly, a- if by a stroke, lost his honest young heart: for, beloved reader, this is only a love-story. Only a love-story; only a record ot the great world song, tha event of so many lives, tho finality of all. "Love will find out tha way," says an ancient song, and Joo waa no exception to tha rule of tho Pathfinder. He per suaded his mother to send him over to the neighbor's tha very next night for a pitcher of milk, and also to negotiate for their daily supply. This being suc- cessfullv effected, he went daily for the millr hiitnra mill Ihimm on.l ..:i ,...o milk before mill hours, and h's pail was tilled by Mary Ann, blooming with the sweet morning air, neat, trim, and lovely at six o'clock .. .m. as a city girl at her late dinner. Joe grew worse and worse. He thought of Manny in mill and market; her face shone above tha ma chinery, her laugh tinkled with tha mill bell. He made friends with Peter also; for cats know lovers when they are lovers just as well as children know their friends. Tiger was still kept in tha high-fenced chicken-yard on the Parker premises now devoid of chick ens its a measure of precaution against his straying; he was too dear to his mis tress to be ventured at large yet. It is not to be denied that Manny looked with favorable eyes upon Joe' Parker; a personable young fellow with a good position does not fall at tho feet of every farmer's daughter, even if she is a beauty. The "anxious and aimless" hare in their ranks many a lovely face . . . Manny had been f-o fartner than tho district school for her , . J 1 I education, and her home training was to hard, practical, thorough work. She read no novels or "story papers;" the We-kly Courant and tho Puritan luvordrr helped her through Sundays, but on week-days she had work to do, and at night was tired enough to go to bed eariy. She was simple us well as sensi ble, in tha best sense of simplicity, and did not coquette with Joe any more than was natural to any girl. She dimpled and blushed when he came in, pretended t) be vexed when Peter preferred his knee to her lap, called him an "awful thing," if he caught her hand in his with tha milk-pail handle, and was always ready to go to singing-school and even ing meeting with him, so that his true love run ominously smooth. But, alas! there was trouble coming. Tige, the Parker cat, hurt himself seriou-ly in an uttempt to climb the palings of his jail-yard, for they were old and rickety, und could not bear bis weight. His mistress nursed hiin in the house for six week with great care, and when ho was quite well again, and Wronger than ever with mucti feeding, he was turned out-of-doors, and allowed to r a:u and ruvaga as he would, and at once he lit upon Peter. 1 ire was tha conflict, but Mrs. Parker hastened to tha rescue with a pail cf water, and tha astonished Peter, quite drenched to tha skiu, fled whilo Mrs. Parker picked up Tiger and carried him into tha kitchen. lamenting over him as if he were a hurt child. Now Mrs. Parker was a shy and siUmt woman, but verv resolute; she at once made up her mind that th'i Mays' cat should not intrude on her premises to disturb Tiger. She had tho garden fence re-euforced. and even a strip of wire netting added to its height on tha Mavs' side; but she could not cabin, crib, or confine Tigtr himself a circumstance that veed bermucti. And when Peter came home to Mary Ann after tt;at tirst duel, dripping I ke a drowned rat. she too wis indignant; but what could she do Battles set in. howls by night, skirmishes by day ; a piece was soou bitten out of Peter's lovely waving tail, a id Tiger lost half an tar. Manny made inviuiom remarks about .Mrs. Far ker'srat every day of her life, and Mrs. Parker made Joe's meals bitter to his soul w ith evil-speakmg of Peter and Peter family meaning tha Mays. Yet they were friendly enough except on the cat question. Mrs. Mav taught Mrs. ! Parker how to knit new heels luto Jot: yarn stockings, and .Mrs. Parker showed .ilaimy s mother tha last pattern of crochet eiiging; they exchanged sam ples of cake, talked skilf ully of pickles and preserves; in fact, had a liking and respect for each other all but tha cats. Before tha bist p:ea-ant autumn days 'eie Jo gathered courage to ask Alary Ann to murry bun, and she had prettily lonseiiled; they were "keepm' cMiipuuv" now, and tha old folks looked on well ph ased to think that neither of their children would stray far from hoina, though Joe insisted on having a small horaeof hisown.if onlya tenement in th village, properly remarking: "We won't mix folks, Manny it don't succeed; bo. i side, I want you all to myself " a per- i emptory sort of logic that pleased Misi I Mary Ann. and made her assent hearty and prompt They meant to be married in April; in no less time could tho modest arrav of I clothing and house linen be made ready, j for chiefly it must be sewed by Manny's deft hands; and sewed it was. with no intervention of machinery, and almost ready, when how shall I tell it!- one pleasant February dav Peter trailed into tho house with a bleedingear. a blinking eve, and one leg so hurt that he could not even limp on it. This was the cli- j max. Manny had winked at Tige's enor- minifies all that winter for Mrs. Parker's i ake (meaning Joe's i : she had only once j hurled a basin of dishwater over him. i three times chased him with a broom handle, and not thrown more than a i dozen stoncsathim which didn't count, for women never hit anything they throw t at, or at least men sav eo. i R..t U.....r.ttnrr.ninfn,t I gp and died. She flew out of the door intent to maim or slay, but Tige s black I tail just wisked out of tha gate: she i could not follow him, so she did the J next thing, which was to wash Peter's t wounds, put him to bed in the cellar. I fetch him dry catnip and warm milk, and j leave him to that solitude that tha i wounded animal seeks, and the wounded i man shuns. j It was tea-time then, and when Joo I came in at his hour for visitation he I found Manny no longer tender, arch, or t sentimental; the hazel eyes had a redder ! spark in them than he had ever seen, tha I cheeks flamed, and the red lips were : puckered into a lovely severity instead of wreathed with smiles. ! "Joe," she began, rushing at once into ; the fray, "you will have to kill Tiger. I can't stand it. He has chawed up Peter j till he's 'most dead." ; "My dead girl." said Joe, in a dis- j mayed tone, "mother sets by Tiger so." j "I can't help it; he's a horrid, dread- ful cat, and he'll murder Peter, and he's i got to be killed." i "But, .Manny, think of mother; she a i goin' to be alone, aud she thinks every- j thing of Tiger. Whv, she never would ! forgive me if I killed him." "Well, if you like her better n you do me, all right. I shall kill him, unless pa will; so there '." Now Joe was not used to girls and their ways. He thought Mary Ann meant every word she said. He was really frightened. "But, Manny, just think. What will mother eay i ' ; 'T don t care a cent what anybody i says. I will not stand by and see my , dear sweet old cat killed by a dreadful beast like that, and not defend him. I'll : p'ison it." I "Oh, Mary Ann!"' cried Joe. ' "Then kill him yourself," she retorted. "I cannot," said Joe, steadily. I Well he knew how his silent mother i loved Tiger; like many another woman, j she bestowed on her pet all tho de- i monstrative affection she was too shy i and too reserved to lavish on Joe. The i cat slept on her bed, followed her about ' the house and garden, sprung up into . her lap and purred there as she sat alone i in tha evenings, and however tierce a fighter of his kind, was devoted and i loving to his mistress. More than ever did she cling to him now, in her word less jealousy of Joe's new love; for well sho knew that j "My son's my son till ho itets him a wife," and deeply sho felt, as most mothers ; feel, that her rule and her joy wero over, i Joe looked at Manny with his heart in his eyes, but that young person's wilful soul had got the better of her sense and her ailection both: she had given Joe . her final test; she would find out now whether he loved her or his mother best. Poor Joe! "You won't!" she asked, setting her : lips in a firm red line. "No," said Joe, with equal firmness. The situation had come to a dead lock. J ust then a wild scream was heard, aud a scurrying of feet. .Mrs. Parker, with , a face of fright, drew herself up on tha ; picket-fence, and called for Joe. "Come quick!" she cried. "Tige has tumbled into tho cistern.'' Joe ran as fa-st as he could, ne knew tho cistern was two-thirds full, and its sides slippery, but he had not an idea what to do; "he lot h;s wits aud Mary Ann found them ! She overtook him mother's kitcheu. said, breathlessly; net; it's real strong. at tha door of his "llerei here!'' sha 'here's pa's scoop You can't get him out uny other way." minutes before she had And mate et live it a vital issue with Joe that ha womd not kill this very cat. Girls are queer. So Tige, resisting to tha last, wag fished out of the water-butt and handed over to his delighted mistress, who rolled him in her apron and took him in for re pairs, flinging over h -r shoulder to Manny a curt: "I don't kiiow how to thank ye enough." .Manny!" said Joe, holdiug out his arms ia the moonlight. Marv Ann rushed into them, and sobbed out: "I did act like all possessed , I never should have liked you a uute again if you'd ki.led Tige!" Oh, wo man! woman I So they were married, and lived hnppy ever after, and had a cat of their owl handsomer than Peter, better than Tige, and as peaceuble as a tuuker. ii-st Terry Cvokc, i't 2i air. Three American horses ara to be shipped to Kosa Bonheur. the grei.t ani mal aiut r. One was bred on i!ie Son River, ia tha Kocky Mountains; anotaei is a wild horse caught u the head waters of tha .Niobarra, and a third is a mustang from tha Biu.os liiv.-r. Texas. 1 hey are designed as specimens of hows Used oil uur frontier. A STORrOFIIIf.il WATER. A HUMOROUS ACCOUNT OP A MAN'3 EXPANSIVE IMAGINATION. ' Jim MeBryari Varinns Stories ot bis Kordinsr the Haginx Waters of Coon Creek In Missouri. -V number of years ago Jim MrBryar, who now lives near Fsteilinc, resided in Northern Missouri. One day ho crossed Coon Creek at an eld font and when liii arrived in town told the story as follows: A "I give ther new bridge ther shake tcr I day and come in by Lon Chapman's old lord. ' "Was the water vcrydeepr' "It was ouly 'bout a couple o' foot." A year later he was talking with a group of friends when some one referred to the creek and McBryar sa d: "Yes, I i u'.c late ther water was pertty mid'lin high on Crook Creek last spring. Forgot ther time I wus in a hurry and cut acrost at tha old fordf 'The witcr wia iirr-ttr hi-rh. wasn't J ' "You bet it were! It come right uo ter ther wagon box and my oil boss had tor swim a little, but 1 made it ail right." Some live years after he was one day sitting in front of a grocery store and told the story lika this: "You know that spring of 'M when ther water were so blame' high over in Coon Creek " "Yes." "It just b'iled you remember. Well, sir, tho day ther bridge went out I come to town aud crossed where ther want no ford neither." " vVasn't it dargerous V "Well, I should just reckon it wtiz! I don't know how deep the water might o' been but there want no bottom. The old sor'l and bay had ter swim bout a hundred yards. I stood right up in ther wagon and then got pretty wet. I tell you 1 don't want any more such speri ences." Some years after old Jim moved to Dakota. He hid been here but a short time when one day he got a crowd around him on the street corner in Katelline and said: Gen'lemen. I thought one of yer spoke of high water m ther Big Sioux : es, I 'lowed I heerd it. Well, now I'll tell yer yer don't know nothing 'bout high water up 'n this country. I had a little speriem e with water down in Mis souri taat wuz just 'bout all I wanted." "How waa it!" "W'y, it wuz tha spring of '62, after the hard winter, aud I crossed tha Grand river after er doctor. The bridge was ail gone and houses wus floating down lika steamboats. I had a tine team o' hoases and I hud ter get acrost, so I just drove right in and made 'em swim. It were nigh on half a mile and it were mi in' and tho waves were a-roilin', but 1 just stood right up 'n the wagon and swung tha whip and got acrost at lost." One day this week Jim came into tha B-.U otiice and said: "Young man, I reckon you never had no 8prieuce with high water!" ".Not very much." "I 'lowed you hadn't. Well. I have. I swum a four boss team and a stage full of pas'ngers 'crost the Missouri Kiver once't." "Is that a fact?" "You bet it are. You see I wasdrivin' a stage tha spring of '37, after tha deep Bnow, and there come up a big storm and I didn't get to tha river till after dark, but I wus bound to cross. The river were foaming and letipin' and tha waves was runniu' high and it were full of logs and ice and the houses and men and cat tle that it'd washed away, but I just ays to mv pas'ng Ts: 'Lad es and gen'lemen, we crosses her" und I drove in. It were two miles to tho other shore and dark as the inside of a cow and the rain and hail were pour ing down aud tho lightnin' strikin' all erround us, but I stood up and whooped a couple o' times and in we went. I tell you it were a powerful bud place ter be, and tho i as ngers were mighty skeered, b it I just kep' whoopin' and goin' through. Hadn't gone for sheii one boss was struck by lightnin' and floaliu' trees and buildiu'a and cukes o' ice and cattle and men were rtishtu' erround us aud makin' tha cussedest noise you ever heered. I kep' whoopin' and larrupiu' the hosse-, but every little while one i f 'em would get struck by lightnin'. The current took us down bout lour mile, but tha bosses kep' er Bwimmiu' uni 1 kep' er whoop. u'. and at lat we got over. It were tough now I tell you, young man; t.nJ since then it just makes me sick to hear some of these fellers that never see notii u' bigger 'n a trout stream talk 'bout high water." Origin of Playing Curds. The invention of playing cards has b'-eu attributed to various nations. It is. not now believed that to France belongs their invenuou. It was formerly tuo igiit that they were invented by Jacqueuiin Griogouueur for tha amusement of Chanes VI. of Fran -e, durmg those at tacks cf the malady which ut !at brought hir" to tho grave. This couclu sion was reached from an entry in the account book, for 1 wi or l i.Ki, of the treasurer of I. hur.es VI. of Franc, le cordmg tha payment to .lac.pu m n Gtiugonneur of a sum of mouey for mak ing u pack of catds; but the p lymeut is clearly for painting, not tor inventing them. Tha ' h nese claim that cards were iuvenled ii 11. '0 A. I1., in that country, iu ilia reign of Seun ho. lor tha amusement ol h:s numerous concubines. Iu India there is a tradiliuu that cards have existed lroin t:me hiiim mon.il, and that they were invented by tha Brahmins. The (income of all the re earch- s in tnia .1 irc t ion has n'uT;ed in favor of the pies .uiptiou ol the As. alio origin of cards. EVENINO. The wild (rulls whewl and wavar, Tlioy call and cry. In sad, shrill notes that quiver Tweon enrth and sky; Tha rwl sun sinkj apaee, While yet his gleaming facst Looks out a moment's apnea Through mists that fly. The toiling team moves slowly In rhythmic beat. With patient heads bsnt lowiy; Tholr heavy fet Past fresh-cut furrows clear; While low waves whisper near. And sweet earth odors hers The salt airs meet. Dim wings of twilight hover O'er field and sea. For day is past and over; And silently, With weary sense and sieht. Through vales of failing light, The plowman welcomes night. Where rest shall be). it. Armytage, in the Academy. HUMOR OF THE DAT. After all, it is tha bad child gets the palm. Judge. Tha board of education The black- -board. Burlington Free Pre. - A man of exalted berth the fellow w ho has the upper bunk in a steamer. Detroit Free Presa. Most of tha pie factories are situated in New-England, as are also the pill fac tories. There is a moral in this. Nexa. Haven Aries. The advice "always aim a little higher than the mark" scarcely applies to kiss ing. Nobody would want to kisa his best girl on the nose. Philadelphia Cull. A contemporary has an article on the most inexpensive way of filling tha teeth. The most inexpensive way we know of is to eat peanuts. Boston Cou rier. "Are Southern girls flirts J" asks tha Richmond . ate. Why, bless you, ye. So are Northern girls. Also Eastern and Western girls. Ask us something hard. Detroit Free Pres. The Leather Reporter has an article headed: "How to Take the Hide Oil a Calf." The best way to take the hide off a calf is to lead the calf into politics. Arkawtaw Traveler. A New Jersey girl has eloped with au Indian. The manner in which our gOT ernment permits tha Indians to be im posed upon by tha white race is shame ful. Xorrirtoicn Herald. It is astonishing how much easier it ia at 11 o'clock in tho evening to get up at 8 o'clock in the morning than it is when 8 o'clock in the morning has really co'.ie. You would not think it would be thut way, but it is. Cambridje Chrunicle. The consumption of lead pencils in tho United States is placed at 00,000 a day. If every woman who uses a lead pencil were to sharpen her own the con sumption, it is estimated, would amount to about 250,000,000 a day. Sorrutoum lit raid. Deformity in an Italian City. A Milan letter to tho Paris J nerican IU'lUUr says : All the monsters phjsical I have seen elsewhere throughout m t whole life would not, if collected to gether, approach by even a few hundred iiii tha persons similarly atllicted whom I have met in the streets of Milan during tho past three months. I could not go into one of tha publi gardens, traverse one of the piazzas, enter one of th churches, sit in a tramcar, without find ing myself confronted with at least one or two hunchbacks. It is, in fact, a veritable city of tnasimodos. Add to those bewhiskered aud chiraueypot hatted d warfs some four feet high, brush ing pompously past you, and diminutive women, youug and old, still lower o stature, waddling along tha pavements, cripples of regular aud irregular sizes and of both sexes,and you might well ask yourself in wonder, as I asked my artist friend, how comes it that we find sue.' an inordinate amount of deformity in a country where tha rudest clodhopper hai a soul und passion for beauty, whether it be in in ileshor biood or on canvas The answer was brief und to the point: "These deformities are traditional. Lom bardians are well known to be so c!an-ni-h in their habits (and have been so for many a generation) that they often intermarry within tha forbidden degree of kim'red." 1 Steamships of tha Future. ; ' The ship of tha next century" ne-'O) ! not be. us Professor Thurston forestalls ! it. a naval Babylonian tower, but it wil i be one of rational dimensions, being m ; harmony witn. such dimensions as tha ; human raee can properly master and con I trol; but "the snip of tho next century" will lirst a:-ply its motive power in a ; more rational method than the propeller screw represents. The crank shuft wil i be done away With. The water, to bt ; moved from head to sum iu order to prod oca relative motion, will bo con ducted not ou a circu.t around tha good i .-hip's body, but right through it length wise in a straight line, und the water re ; jeeted at the stem will steer tha vessel , And th propelling power wiii bo applied : to the screw ut its circumference, iu plac : of its centre, if a screw be used at uil. And HI couseque i :e the weigtit ( I , machinery lor exercising tha st.ine pro I pel mg power wil be materially lca. , And tha res'star.ce of tha water it the .-tern being im n ..se.i, and the resistance , at the head b nig ie-oned, iho same amount of power will pio.iuce giMitci ; speed. l h is not a "1 lulhaii ' rep.e- seating increased dimension-, but u:i "lnve-iig:itr ' r presenting tha ogr: a t of liiiiuaii ihough', W lil be l.iU S .lp of ( tho liexl CUllUi'v.'' i -in K':'Uii M.l'j-
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