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Ne neilca wtU b Ukn of ancnrmoiia rwmnntraeiiiM The receipts of tlio French treasury aro larger thau thoso of any other civil ized nation. April IS, 18G1, was the first day of the late Civil War, and May 1, 1865, was its last. This ha been oflicinlly derided by the United States War Department. In Paris out of the2,70C,000 residents it is calculated that ono in eighteen or 150,000, live on charily with a tendency toward criino. In London the propor tion is ono in thirty. It is reported, chronicles tho Phila delphia ledger, that when a certain mem ber of the Ohio Assembly wanted to tmphnsize his action in supporting a certain measure, he responded to tho roll call: "I vote aye, with n big E." The fisheries division of tho Census Bureau, at Washington, received the following from n town in Western Kansas: "We havo no fih here, as we hnvo not yet succeeded in finding a variety that can live on prairie grass." The Philadelphia Record estimates that the "average wages of persons who work .on farms and in tho mechanical arts is $1 per day. This being tho case, Mr. David A. Wells puts the cost of the Federal Government this year in a striking light when ho snys it will take 400,000,000 days work to pay the $100,000,000 ap propriated by Congrcis. Rev.. Edwnrd Everett Halo is of the opinion that Rhode Island was not named in consequence of its resemblance to the Inland of Rhodes, as ho doubts whether tho early settlers knew much about tho shape of tho Mediterranean Island. Dr. Hale thinks that, ns rhodo dendrons grow wild in all parts of Rhode, Island, its name may have been derived from that flower. An episode transpired in the Hawaiian Legislature recently that augur, no good for the peace of the country. The post office report was under consideration when Wilcox, tho leader of the revolu tion, said: "Thoro will boa new Govern ment before a year and there will bo no King, and I will tike a h:ui"H n it." Upon being called to order Wilcox in tuited the President. Young Cassin, the bell-boy, who stole $16,000 from the Hotel Veadome, New York City, bus been seuteuccd to hard labor for ten years. There was no pos sible ground for clemency, opines tho World. He philosophically remarked to the landlord of the hotel that ho would serve his time and then enjoy his stolen money, which was more than he could earn in ton years honestly, It would be poetic justice if somobody were to play a philosophic theft on tho money in the decade of Cassin's imprisonment. Official figures of tho census seem to show, according to tVanl Lenlie't Wttily, that the cities of Texas are enjoying tho most general and generous prosperity. The increaso of population since 1880 in a half dozen Texas cities, ranges from 145 to 208 per cent. Mississippi appears to have but two cities showing a decided iucrcase, and Alabama has one, Birming ham, with a phenomenal growth of 7S0 per cent, during the past ten years. On tho whole, the showing for Texas is one of the best that has been mado by any State, east or west, north or south. Eviduutly its prosperity is based upon a solid foundation. It is proposed to iucrcase tho facilities for obtaining warning of coming storms by utilizing the telephone. M. Fayc, a leading authority of tho French Academy' of Sciences, has asserted his belief in tho feasibility of the plan, and he is of opinion that the telephone is capable of transmitting storm sounds and of pre dicting s tempest at least twelve hours before it bursts. There seems no reason to believe that the telephone cannot be used for the purpose, as satisfactory work has beeu done ou somewhat the same lines by the microphone, by which instru ment, indeed, most jreliuble indications of subterranean disturbances are now ob tained. The dog of the season seems, avers the New York World, to bo the great Dane. Tho vogue of tbo pug is a thing of the past, and the f::ncy which women of more or less extreme tendencies showed for bulldogs has died from its own ex travagance. Tho Danes are about the size of well-developed tigers and resem ble those creatures in general appear ance. Their, huge muscles staud out on their shoulders aud haunches, and their close-cropped hair, short ears aud massive jaws give them a tierce and, in some in stances, an awo-iuspiriug appearance. People shrink from the dog in the streets, as a rule, but there is no necessity for fear. The huge animals are as gentle aud inoffensive as kittens, and their tem per is so equable that nothing short ot the most serious kind of au imposition will drive them to resentment. TO MY MOTHER. Bow fair you are, my mother I Ah, thongh 'tis many a year Binee you were here, Still do I see your beauteous face, And with the glow Of your dark eyes Cometh a grace Ot long ago, Bo gentle, too, my mother; Just as of old, upon my brow, Like benedictions now, Falleth your dear hand's touch, And still, as then. A voice that glads me overmuch Cometh again. My fair and gentle mother) How you have loved me, mother, 1 have not power to tell Knowing full well That even in the rest Above It is your will To watch and guard me with your love, Loving me still, And, as of old, my mother, I am content to be a child, By mol her's love beguiled From all these other charms; Bo, to .he last, Within thy dear, protecting arms Hold thou me fast, My guardian angel, mother I Eugene field, in Chicago A'eu. THE DOOR THAT STOOD AJAR When young Mr. Powers ctrno to New York, his father, the pastor of tho flock in Connecticut in which Mr. Powers had been reared, gave him a letter to Mrs. Mills. Mrs. Mills was the widow of the Rev. O. B. Mills, and kept a select boarding house. It was an eminently respectable boarding house, and it was clean and orderly. It was a social privilege to be long to it, although there was little else of consequence ou tho dinner table but tho silver fruit dish with which the parishioners of the late Rev. O. 15. Mills had presented him when he gave up his charge. Nor was tho boarding house very well heated, and one night, indeed, Mrs. Mills had come suddenly iu the hall bedroom occupied by young Mr. Powers, and had observed him reading by his student lnmp wrapped iu his overcoat and with a cover let around his kness. lie was so dis tressed at this that she overlooked the slight to her management, mid after that Mr. Powers kept tho door locked, nnd when his landlady knocked hastened to rid himself of his wraps before admitting her, for he was a gentle soul and thought ful for others, and did not wish to hurt her feelings again. New York, which had promised to be so full of strange nnd moving possibil ities, disappointed Mr. Powers. Ho read law all day aud E. P. Roe's novels at night, or escorted the Misses Mills to concerts and lectures or oa their rounds of good works in the missious. They were enthusiastically philanthropic, and were lady directors of a society that sent little waifs of the slums to tho seashore for ono week nt $5 a week. Their talk around the tea table with the silver fruit dish upou it was chiefly of laws for ameliorating the condition of the factory girls, or to give tho sales ladies, as they conscientiously called them, the right to sit down "during hours." Young Mr. Powers blinked at them across the table through his spectacles, and smoothed his light hair abstractedly with his hand. He wondered if this was tho sort of life in a great metrop olis he was always to lead. It was not at all the sort of life ho had promised himself, or that he had read about, and he felt dimly that it was not the only one. He doubted if it could be, aud felt, uncertainly, that he would some day rebel he did not know quite clearly as yet against what, but ho would rebel. Where were the fascinating wicked ness and the tcmptatious of a great city which his father had warned him against ; where were they to bo found f Why did the adventures which befel others pass him by, why was not the ro mance, the stirring, throbbing life of tho great centro to be his? He determined finally to seek for it as Ilaroun Al Rascbid sought it, or as Do Mussett aud Dickens sought it. He would go forth and wander in the streets nt night aud drag it out, even though it cost him his peace of mind and his reputation. Waifs of the slums and po lite conversation over tea and canned fruits were not satisfying. Adventure, ioinauce and crime even, were whut ho felt that he must taste. And in this spirit aud in this pursuit did he first stumble across the house with the barred shutters. It came about on a warm night early in the summer. The house stood ou the corner of Sixth avenue aud Twenty fourth street, and its lower floor was rented by a mun who sold cigars. Young Mr. Powers was walking home to supper one evening when he noticed two men stop iu front of the side door on the cross street. They glanced up and down the street as if fearful of ob servation or pursuit, and then dodged through the partly opened door, as if diving into space, and closed it behind them. But not so quickly but that young Mr. Power saw that beyond it was a richly furnished hallway lit by a hanging lamp and guarded by a colored servant in brilliant livery. A club, perhaps, thought young Mr. Powers. But why this prccipitutiou? Why is the outer door left ajarl and why does no light come from tho upper win dows? He felt that he was upon the brink of a terrible discovery. What it might be ho could not guess, but he had read of opium joists spread with Turk ish rugs and rich divuus, of gambling dens as gorgeous as the throue room in a palace, aud of grand hulls iu shabby buildings where men played with their souls for stakes. He had also read that they were murdered frequently aul dropped down trap doors into loathsome tellars. His reading had beeu as varied as bis experience bad been limited. He ciosfttd the street ud gazed long and earnestly at the house with the closed shutters. They were green and latticed, but no light came through them from within. The shutters were all closed. Not one by any chance stood ajar. It was as if death itself lay within, so slle it and secret and mysterious were the windows. Ho thought about little else but his discovery that night, and next morning he passed the house on the way to hi office with eyes alert and watchful. And every other morning and evening after that ho passed it with an upward glance and with inward sur mises, It grew and fastened Upon him, It became his one idea of nil that was wicked in New York and all that was beyond him. Bcforo two weeks had passed he bad enacted within its walls every vice and adventure known to romance. And at last he finally determined to enter the cigar store below and See if by some clever questioning he might not lenrn why the side door always stood ajar nnd why the blinds were never opened. "What sort of a cigar will you have?" asked the man. Now, Mr. Powers did not smoke, so he only said: "A good cigar j" to which the man said. "Here are some imported ones two for a quarter." Mr. Powers hesitated. He could not decide upon which question to ask first. "Perhaps you like them milder?" suggested the dealer, putting back the cigars. At this Mr. Powers lost his presence of mind and said: "No, these will do," and picking up the cigars, he left the shop. It did not strike him until after he had crossed the street that he had gained but littlo information. But then the storekeeper might have suspected his errand and these idle questions about the color of the cigars were only intended to throw him off. Ho was certain of this at last, and the interest in his ad venture increased. And ono night the opportunity pre sented itself nnd he seized it. He de cided that this was his chance and ap proached tho cabman frankly, but with much inward trepidation. "That house," he said, smiling in what he believed to bo a knowing and con ciliatory manner, "it's a little bit mys terious, isn't it something queer about it, eh?" "It's Case's gambling house, said the cab-driver indifferently, as he tossed the blanket over his horse. "Why?" Mr. Powers's worst suspicions were re alized and he bliuked at this man's matter-of-fact acceptance of the truth. "Oh, nothing much," ha said, aud then he asked, prompted to do so by he knew not what, "Can any one go in?" "Not any one," said the cabman, after some consideration; "you could, I guess, if you wanted to." "And what's tho limit?" asked young Mr. Powers. He did not in the least know what this meant, but he had heard or read of sorae ouch nn repression and he thought it sounded well. Some evil spirit seemed to lead him on; he felt that this was tho case and that instead of liugering here in talk with this man he should have fled at once. "Oh, you can play anything you like," returned the cabmm, "anything from 1.5 to $1500. I'll introduce you to the man on the door if you want. I guess you're a strauger in New York, aren't you?" "No, thank you," gasped Mr. Powers hurriedly, "not to-uight, some other night perhaps." Mr. Powers went to bed that night sincerely thaukful that he had resisted temptation, but he knew iu his heart that it was but for that night and that sooner or later he would make his protest against the uneventful life ho was lead ing and enter that house with the barred shutters. There was, however, one practical and humiliatiug safeguard agaiust his begin ning a career of crime. It was the 615 which the cabman had quoted as the miuimum. His nllowauce was sma'l.aud it was two weeks two weeks of great mental perturbation before the sum was ready. While he was saving it young Mr. Powers felt that he was already a hiw-brcaker. He suffered the uneasiness of a hypocrite, if not of a criminal, when the policeman on the beat said "Good morning" to him. When he sat with the Misses Mills around tho table with the silver centrepiece upon it he felt us he was sure Eugeno Aram felt when he sat among the innocent pupils iu the school. Their talk of the ways of the slums to whom they supplied fresh country 4 aud newly-laid eggs for ca a week, and of the poor working girls who could not sit down during hours, filled him with remorse. He wondered what they would think of him if they knew of his medi tated plunge into crime. How they would shrink and turn fro a. him and pray for him as well. But he did not forego his evil purpose. He felt that he had goue too fur to retreat now. Had he not promised that cabman to return some other evening? His soul, so the young man darkly expressed it, was al ready sold. It was on a Friday night, a warm, moonlit night, that he counted his money for the lust time aud sallied forth with a desperate frown to stake it at the house with the barred shutters. He caught a glimpse of the eldest Miss Mills as he passed the purlor door. She was work ing at some charity clothing," while he he shuddered at the distance betwi n them, but he felt that he must taste of this forbidden knok dge, or remain in untempted and uutnid ignorance. He approached the house circumspectly, and ou the opposite side of the street to that on which it stood. He almost hoped that ho would find it gone, and that he could even yet return to tho Misses Mills us unspotted as he hud been when he first met them. But the house was there, ami the door ajar, with the gli mpse of tho lighted hall within. He crossed the streets aud looked about him fearfully, for it seemed to him as if every window held some one who watched him, who recognized his pur pose. Then he placed his hand upon the door, but at the ?ame instant it opened from within, and two men laugh ing and talking boisterously strode out past him. inn sudden interruption unsettled Mr. Powers, and he walked hastily around the block to calrrt himself, lid abused himself for his own lack of spirit, and determined to make the Attempt again, and that this time nothing should balk him. He took the money, which he had changed into three $5-bills, in one hand and walked boldly and rapidly to the door; Young Mr. Powers hesitated nd longen His career was to begin at once, and he was at last to start upon that fast, fascinating life of which he had dreams snd which had been denied him. He noticed without mental comment, for he waa too greatly excited that there seemed to a number of men ap proaching the place from many direc tions, but he did not Care now if tho whole world saw him. Ho placed his hand on the door knob aud stood for an instant in the strong light of the hell. Then fiom behind him he heard a sud den rush of many feet, a man shoved him aside and pushed past him, another and another followed. Ho was hustled and shouldered out on to the sidewalk. He heard a terrified yell from some one inside tho building, the answer of many excited voices, the crashing and break ing of tables and chairs and the rattle of hundreds of scattered ivory chips. "What is it, oh, what is it?" he grasped, turning to a man at his elbow. "It's a raid," answered tho mau, grimly. "The perlice have pulled it." "The police 1" Young Mr. Powers turned sick with fear, and there was left to him but one idea to escape. Ho brushed past the man and through the people, who came running up on every side, and flew nt a racing pace toward the boarding-house kept by Mrs. Mills. He felt the hand of an officer ou his shoulder nt every step; he saw himself matched through the public streets; he pictured his namo in all the papers, and his irreproachable family weeping on their knees at the cell door. He was panting and breathless when he raced up the steps of his boarding house and looked fearfully over his shoulder. The street was still and de serted and showed calmly and peacefully in the moonlight. Ho had escaped, but by so little so very little. The hand that held his latchkey fumbled with the lock, and it was with a start of guilty fear that he confronted the elder Miss Mills, who came to opeu the door for him. "Why, Mr. Powers," she said sympa thetically in her gcntlo tones, "what can be the matter? you look so pale." Young Mr. Powers became conscious that he still held the gambling fund, the awful evidence of his guilty purpose, in his hand. He never wanted to look at it agaiu. "Miss Mills," he said, "nothing's the matter. Aud, Miss Mills," he added breathlessly, "here's fifteen dollars. It will take three waifs to the seashore for one week." 2feio York Sun. Axle fir case a Universal Panacea. One afternoon, says the Kansas City Star, a big Osage Indian named The-Esgle-Wko-Won't-Fly went into the trader's store nt 3rcy Horse and inform ed Agent Florer thut he was "sick leap." lie wanted medicine and said the man ifestations were of the stomach and said he felt very bad. Florer had no medi cine, but gave the bronze individual a bot tlo of pepper-sauce aud advised copious draughts thereof , the same to be inclusivo of the peppers with which the flask was furnished. The-Eagle-Who-Won't-Fly took the bottle and sat hopefully down on a shoe box to its consumption. Iu ten minutes it was gone. In half au hour the Eagle was after Florer again. The medicine did him no good. He felt no change. Tho medicine was not "bad" enough. Piled up back of the store were a number of boxes of axle greaso which was so stroug and rancid that to cross to leeward of them wits a desperate chance Florer took the Eagle and, giving him a splinter of shingle, told him to help him self, "As medicine," said Florer, "it's way out of sight aud you take lots of it. It'll cufe you or have you in the hands of an assigneu bcforo night." Tho Eagle was deeply grateful to be left with so much good medicine and devoured half of a box nt the first sitting. Then he thanked Florer anil went away. That afternoon the Eagle sent over one of his squaws to buy live boxes. Along came two or three others, all ufter axle grease. Before 9 o'clock that evening every Indian at Grey Horse came arouud for a box of the "big medicine." Florer had a ruu on rancid axlo greaso that cleaned him out of stock. It is now a popular medica ment with tho Osages. Consumption of Opiates. Said a well kuown druggist to me tho other day: "You would be astonished were you to know the exact amount of morphine and opium sold in one week by the local druggists. The consump tion of these drugs ii simply enormous, nnd the results appalling. We uevei have less than a half dozen calls for the poison iu one day. Ou Saturday nights one of our clerks is kept busy attending to nothing but the filling of orders for opium, morphine in liquid and powdered state, and the poisonous extract of the poppy plant in every form. The colored people are becoming the largest consum ers of the drugs, aud on the night men tioned half of the orders are bcought in by colored childreu." Louitvdle iW. A Famous Uld Laud Grant. A famous old laud grant was brought to notico recently in the office of Secre tary of State. It was that made on the 13th of June, 1760, by George II to Mary Bossoiuworth, a half breed Indian. This woman is a picturesque Hgure in Colonial history. She wns of great ser vice to the settlers, too; and the grant was made for her kindness to them. The King grauted her St. Catharine's Island, of 6:4011 ai rea. The original plat has been lost, but the graut is faithfully recorded in the archives of the depart ment. Atlanta Ctnetitulion. UUGE MASTS AT WORK, HOW BIO ELEPHANTS ARE UTIL IZED IN BURMAH. Lifting and Currying Huge Lor In Immhfr Ynrds Wonderful In tHIIgmce) Displayed by Thnnt. Both Siant end Burmah have seen their best days as the so-called lands of the Whito Elephant, says Frank 6. Carpenter in the American Agriculturist. I visited the noted beasts in the palace of the King at Bangkok and looked in Vain for gold-tipped harness, gorgeous trappings and Rhowcr baths of attar of roses which they are fabled to receive; 1 found four great beasts whose skins were more the color of a Maltese rat than wbit,and who were mottled with spots like ft leper. Each of theso beasts was bound to a post by a Hugo rope instead Of golden chains, and brown-skinned, half-naked men, each wearing a dirty rog about his waist, acted as their keepers in the place of the liveried servants which they are said to have had in the past. All the elephants of Siam belong to the Kin,and this was the same in Burmah before the English occupation. By con quest Queen Victoria has now tho right to the elephants of Burmah, and the beasts are bought and sold and used in the clearing of lands, and in some cases in plowing. The elephant plow in a two-wheeled affair with a heavy share, and the elephant is harnessed to it by ropes. The King of Siam has a band of elephant troops, and tho traveling through the interior of Farther India must be done by elephants. A good traveling elephant will make about five miles an hour ami will travel a whole day without tiring. The ele phant has a stomach somewhat akin to that of a camel in that he can store away a quantity of water for future use, nnd he often takes enough from his stomach to give himself a shower bath with his trunk. I . visited a large lumber yard at Rangoon where a number of elephants were employed in working, and I was told that they were used in much tho same way clearing land, making roads and building bridges. I have never seen moro intelligent animals, and in their work they showed the evidence of high reasoning powers and they used their wonderful strength with great skill. The lumber yard was as large as ono of tho biggest of those of Michigan, and the logs which were sawed into boards were great trunks of teak-wood trees, some of which were several feet in diameter. There were two elephants to each saw mill. Each of these beasts was as big as the largest animal one sees in an Ameri can circus. A driver in turban and waist cloth sat upon the head of each aud di rected him by prodding him with a brass hook and by rubbing his heel ': "-ay and that over his forehead. Tu. no harness used and the elephants lifted and carried the logs upon their tusks wrapping their trunks around them in order to hokl them there. I saw one pick up a log twenty feet long, two feet thick, and as heavy as the hardest hickory tree of that size I havo even seen, and carry it a hundred yards across tho grounds and carefully place it on a truck which was to roll it against tho saw. In oue placo I saw elephants piling up logs aud they laid them one above another as evenly as though they were natural niathemutiaiaus and were working by measure. After the pile had reached the height of their heads they put tho logs on top by lilting one end and laying it on the pile nnd then placiug their tusks under the other end would move it off the ground so that they could get a kick at it with their hiud foot nnd would send it flyiug into place iu this maimer. The elephants gather up tho scraps of lumber and lay them iu piles, and I am told where they cm be used iu furmiug they show the same wonder ful intelligence. They ure too costly to be common beasts of burden, as a good working elephant is worth 11000. It takes au immense amount of food to keep them, and each ono of the beasts ut this sawmill ate a half bushel of grain and two hundred pounds of green stuil every day. Although they seem so stroug they are liuble to disease and are very delicate. They havo their baths regularly twice a day, and when the bell rings for meals they elrop their work as quick as any farm hund ut tho plow, or auy foundry mechanic eloes when the whistle blows. Some of them live to the ago of ninety years. They frequently last but a lew years after being captured. Tho cap turing is dono by tho assistance of tho tame elephants. The animals go iu droves, aud a stockade or corral is built in the wood3 aud a largo bund of men drive the elephants into this. Then men upou tame elephants ride in among them and succeed in fastening them to the trees when they are tortured into sub mission. The animals I saw in Burmah had very large tusks, aud the tusks of the Burmese elephants sometimes weigh as high as fifty pounds. Tliey are not, however, so long as those of these of the elephauts of Africa, and the beasts are not usually as large. Still, Jumbo caraii from Father India, and he was, I am told, iusane wheu he was sold. Au in sane elephant is called by tho Burmese a "Rogue" elephant, and nearly all the white elephauts are iusane. The differ ence iu color comes from a disease, but the Burmese thiuk it a miracle of nature. The people worship a white elephant from a superstition connected with the Buddhist religion. This is that in the transmigration of souls those of the purest und greatest of men go into whito unimals, and iuasmuch as the elephant is the greatest of beast, a whito one must coutain the soul of some dead king or suiut. On this account thry reverence it, and from this belief comes its royalty. American AgrieuUurUt. How Timothy Clot Its Name. Timothy grass takes its name from Timothy llmisou, a farmer of Maryland, who brought it into geuernl notice as a hay grass after he had cultivate') it ex tensively lcr his own use for years. Timothy came from Europe, but just when no one ki ows. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. America has 1,000,000 telephones; the world 1,200,000. The Russiad Government is organiz ing laboratories for the manufacture of explosives. Next year bicycles will be made of aluminum and will have the device known as the pneumatic tire. State Geologist Dumhle says the iron btc fields of Eastern Texas will yield 4,000,000 tcms to the square mile. The new process ot making glass with fuel gas manufactured on the premises is a pronounced success at the glass works at Glassboro, N. J. That hypnotism is becoming danger ous is proved by the issuing of a prescrip tion for escaping the hypnotizer. The best remedy would be, first, never be come hypnotized. An electric furnace has been patented by a Frenchman for incinerating pur poses for use in crematories. Rapidity of execution and economy are the chief virtues claimed for the new human toaster. From some fruits recently found at Pompeii, and which come to maturity in tho autumn Professor Pasquale con cludes that t;-. i eruption that buried the city did not take place in August but in November. A Cornell professor says that some of tho water filters used serve to increase rather than diminish the number of bac teria in the water that has passed through them. Quenching thirst is more to be studied than ever in its methods. The Government inspectors in charge of the school of miues nt Madrid have decided to open a chair for tho teachiug of electricity as applying to mining nnd metallurgy. They have also decided that no one in Spain is competent to fill the chair nnd they arc looking about for a proper person. Oue of tho recent improvements in the manufacture of window glass is the introduction of a process of dipping the sheet into a mammoth bath tub con. tainiug u mixture of various liquids. Its results nre instantly seeu. It re moves all dirt and defection, and the glass becomes as clear and pure as it was before it went through the flatten ing oveu. The telephone has been brought to such perfection that by its use it is not difficult to transmit the souuds of music many miles and givo them forth so that sets of dancers may move to the measures. Successful experiments of this character have been made with New York as the base of operations nnd Morristown, N. J., and Saratoga 89 re ceiving points. An important innovation has been in troduced in the shape of a machine for preparing moulds for casting. The ma chino is elesigned to produce a complete mould at oue operation, and thus to re place BKilled hand labor in making moulds from pattern plates. It is claimed that a lad can operate the machine with the assistance of a laborer, and is able to run and mould as many as 1000 boxes per day. Causes of Death. Shakespeare says: "Men have died and worms have eaten them, but not for love." Some one else says very few men die of ago. Death is the result of dis appointment, personal, mental or bodily toil, or accident. We often see the strong man cut down suddenly, nnd the invalid liviug his four-score and ten. Tho fact is that the strong m:in uses up his streugth, and the weak one nurses the little given him. The passions cer tainly shorten life, and sometimes sud denly end it. "Choked" with passion is very often not an exaggeration. Tho lower animals which live temperate lives have their .prescribed term of years. The horse lives twenty-five years, tho ox fif teen or twenty, the hog ten or twelve, the rabbit eight or nine, the guinea-pig six or seven. The numbers all bear pro portion to the time the animal takes to grow its full size. Man is the only animal that seldom comes up to the average. He ought to live one hundred years, according to the physiological law, for five times twenty are one hundred, but he scarcely reaches an average of four times the growing period. To sum it all up, man is tho most hurd-workiug and laborious of animals, also t'v moat irrecular aud intemperate, lie is irritable, and often wears out, or is consumed by tho tire of his owu reflections. The Ledger. An Episode of Poet's Boyhood. A curious iucidjut is handed down from the boyish life of Schiller. One day, in a tremendous thunderstorm, the fnmily gathered togethered iu ill-disguised terror. But Fritz was missing, aud the father, alarmed for his safety, ought him in vaiu in all the rooms of the house. He went outdoors to search for the truant, aud to his surprise, found him perched ou a branch of a solitary tri-e, eagerly watching tho heavens and the flashes which lighted up the gloom. He was wholly indifferent to the rain, which had wet him to the skiu, and to the danger he incurred. To the sharp ro proof of the father the boy replied, with a glowing face: "The lightuiug is so beautiful I wish to see where it came from." Bvttwt UerM. A Hindoo'. Politeness. The elaborate politeness of an educate ) Hindoo is something retuarkahlo. Here, for iustanco, is tho way n young Hin tloo clerk recently wrote to his employer: Most Exalted Sir: It is with thB most hab itually devout expressions of uiy sensitive respect that 1 approach tru; clemency of your uiatorful position with the neli-(lipraisiii) utterance oi' my euteaiu, and the alto torgot Um-by-inyselt assurance thai iu my own uiiud 1 aliall lis freed from the assumption thai 1 a:n asking unpardonable iIihihuous if 1 assert that 1 ilesire a short respite from uiy exextious; iiiiletxi, a fortnight lioliiiuy, as 1 am metering from three boils, us per mar gin. 1 have the honorable delight of subscribing tuys.lf your exalted reverence's serviloc UsigUOtll Ja.NJANMOL fANJAMJAl. S. CONTENT. Be not content. Contentment means fnae tion; The growing soul actios on its upward quest. i Fatlcty is the twin to satisfaction: !' AJI great achievements spring from life's unrest. j The tiny roots, deep In the dark mould hid ing. Would never bless the earth with leaf and flower Were not an inborn restlessness abiding ' In seed and germ, to stir them .with its power. Were man contented with his lot forever, " He had not sought strange seas with sails unfurled; And the vast wonder of our shores had never Pawned on the gar of an admiring world. Prize what is yours, but bo not quite con tented; There Is a healthful restlessness of soul By which a mighty purpose is augmented, In urging men to reach a higher goal. So when Hie restless impulse rises, driving Your calm content before it, elo not grieve; It is the upward reaching and the striving Of the God In you, to achieve, achieve I Ella Wheeler H't'lco. I1UM0K OF THE DAY. Hard and fast The tough. Want advertisements All the pa pers. The man who hesitates usually iti himself from loss. Life. It is a bright mun that can tell the ago of a saw by loo":ing at its teeth. The young man who forged his way to the front is now iutho penitentiary. The sea has n net population of several thousand inillious. Washington Star. A real estate man may be very know ing uud yet have lots to lcarj. Sift ings. Trend not in crooked paths, unless you arc a landscape gardeuer. Tex.it Sift ing: "There s no rest for tho wicked." "Oh, yes there is. There's arrest for tho wicked . " Munaey't HW fy. "What were yourhusban's last words!" "He hadn't any," sobbed the widow. "I was with hi ao." 27i Xew Moon. "Plunkitt,"saidDucketts,"if you had a million, what would you do?" "Wish I had another," replied Pluukitt. When a man bolts his food he swal lows it. When a man bolts a nomination he bolts it because ho can't swallow it. Queer. Cape Cod Item. William Penn granted tho land upou which the first paper mill iu America was built. Pen and puper usually go to gether. American Stationer. "By tho way, what do you think of Smith's calling?" "Oh, I don't mind it. I always tell the servant to say I'm out when Smith calls." Boston Trantcript. Old Lady (in drug-store, to smnll boy) "Whntum I to take this medicine in, sonny?" Sonny "Tako it in your mouth, mum. 'Taiu'tto be rubbed on." Ethel "Have you ever noticed that there is something despressiug in tho darkness?" Maud "No, but I have often noticed something pressing." AWe York llerali. Exasperated Judge (whoso patience has been sorely tried both by the plain tiff und defendant) "My chief regret is that I can't decide agaiust both sides." 1'eiat Sifting. "Well, Fritz, did you have a good time at your auul'sJ" "Oh, yes, father; sho took such f,ood care of me; she used to ask me every day whether I was home sick." Fliegende Jllaetter. Mrs. Blossom (to her husband, who has come homo with a black eve) "That's what you get for riding a bicycle." Mr. Blossom (mournfully) "No, my dear, it's what I get for not being able to ride one." Epoch. Johnny (looking nt lightning-rod on burn) "I'd like to know why it branches out into two parts after It gets upon the roof." Willie (with supremo contempt for the other's ignorance) "To catch the forked lightning, o' course!" Chicago 'lribune. A Cooking School Graduate : Slio "Darliug, please tell the grocer to send me up two quarts of uhe, fresh sponges." He "You can't get sponges at tho uex ccr's, ducky, but I'll stop at the drug gist's for them. What kiud do you want?" She "I want tho kind used luakiiig sponge cuke, aud tell him they must be fresh." Scuttle Pros. For the benefit aud eucouragement of those who are sitting up all night tryiug to solve tlmt "twenty-one" problem re cently prcseuted in this column, we will respectfully annouueo thut the winner may have his choice of th) Capitol, tho State, War aud Navy buildi:!, tho Treasury building and contents, tho White House, the Mouumcnt or anything else iu sight. Now work hard, dear littlo boys and girls, uud let us see who will get tho prize! Washington Star. (Jueeu Victoria's First Love. The uuiue of the lute Lord Ellen borough was, says the New York Sun, in bis youth associated with licit of Queen, then Princess, Victoria. It was a mutter of common rumor tlmt the two young people were devoted to each other, uud that the youthful Quecu in. sisted that she should choose him us her consort. But reasons of state prevailed over love, uud youusj Elleuboiough was given a commission in tiiu niuiy, uii 1 went to India, wiiere ho dUtiuguiVn.'d himself. Ills romantic love uJiir led to the writing of a ballad, which used to lie sung iu the drawing rooms of liivut, Britain, the first verse of which was us follows: I'll ban,; my harp on u illoiv trej, I'll oil t tha wars aalu; A innti'ef ill home lias iu charms for me. The baiilclivld no iu: The lady 1 lovo wiii sojn be a bride. With a dindoiu on lier brow. O why did Ue flatter uiy Uu l.b p.'ulo? Hue's g.i.u i to leave me now.
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