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RE
ST
Tho fl nost draught horses i n the world
arn socn iu tbu fdroets of English
cities. '
An estimate tif tlio size of Texas
may bo obtained by considering that
it in fifty-four timed ns lurgo ns Con
necticut. Tlio owner of somo once busy nliip
yards in Waldboro, Mo., bus been
plowing them up for conversion into
grass field.
As evidence of tho loneliness of tho
Pncitlo Occuu it is stated thnt the
steamer City of Peking on a recent
trip sailed 1210 miles without meeting
a Biuglo vessel.
Homestead fiirmers in this country
earn eight per cent, of tho total earn
ings of tho -Nation, and their farms
and stock represent seven per cent, of
tho National wealth.
It is reported that tho Ghcxiruh
palace, situntod on tho banks of tho
Nile, is to bo converted into a hotel ;
that a lino of Btoam ferries is to ply
across from Cairo, and that the Nile is
to be tunneled.
The United States produce 2220
pounds of grain to each-inhabitant ;
Denmark, 2225 ; Canada, 1500 ; Russia,
1200; Rouinanio, 1150) Spain, 1100;
France, 9D0; Sweden, OHO; Argentine
Republic, 850; Australia, -700 ; Ger
many, 700; Belgium, 600; Portugal,
. C50 ; Ireland, 500 ; Scotland, 490 ;
England, 800.
Henrik Ibsen, tho Swedish dramat
ist, is desirous of visiting England,
principally, as ho declares, to see tho
old men. "In all other countries," ho
says, "the best work is done by men
between forty and fifty years of ago;
in England a man of Beveuty or eighty
is still in his prime. I should like to
ace such mon as Gladstone, Salisbury
and Herbert Spencer."
Tho Japanese Government is said to
have demanded that tho Hawaiian
Government extend tho voting fran
chise to Japancso on the islands, tho
same as to Europeans and Americans.
In the opinion of tho Sau Francisco
Chronicle "the demand has no legal
baokiug, for every Nation has an ab
solute right to regulate tho elective
franchise for itself, but if Japan shall
insist Hawaii will be powerless to re
sist, unless she bo backed up by some
strong Natiou. "
Says the Century Magazine : Tho
United States sells its forest lands at
$2.50 an acre, lumber companies in
directly acquiring a square mile of land
for little over $1603, while tho timber
on it iB ofteu worth 820,000. The
rencli Liovemmeut forosts return an
average profit of $2. 50 an acre annually
from timber sules, or two and a hnlf
per cent, interest on the value of tho
land. The United htates now owns
ouly enough forest land to provide a
continual timber supply to its present
population, if fore-its are managed and
used as in Oermany. Tho United
States is exactly iu the position of a
man making largo drafts on and using
up an immense idle capital, which, if
properly invested, would return an in
terest sufficient for his expenditures.
In 1885 tho Govirumeut of Bavaria
sent an expert forester to study tho
timbers of the United States, who
stated: "In fifty years you will have
to import your timber, and as you will
probably have a preference for Ameri
can kinds, we shall now begin to grow
them, in order to bo ready to send
them to you at tho proper time."
Tho Boston Advertiser reports an iu
creased demand nt the oflico of the
Massachusetts Stuto Board of Agricul
ture for its descriptivo catalogue of
abandoned farms. This fact taken
alone would furnish no iudicatiou that
purchases were contemplated, but, as
the Advertiser points out, there was
also during tho hard times of 1873
noticeublo increase iu the demand for
farm lands, and reasoning from this
analogy it says : "If by any uufortu
uate possibility tho stringency of th
past few weeks were to bo continued it
is very likely that the 'ubandoued
farms' would be bought up very large
ly. A not inconsiderable class of mill
ooeratives have saved up money, and
if there were any very real prospec
that the 'shutdown of some of th
Massachusetts mills was to lie Jong
continued, these operatives would go
to farming as a better thing than re
maining idle iu a largo city. A uum
ber of those who have made good
wages as mill operatives are well ac
nuainted with farminu methods, aud
can make at least a living ou a farm
while at the same time they would fcav
uo rent to pay. Tho low prices at
which the abandoned farms are offered
are tempting to many operatives wh
desire to own a farm of their own."
It is estimated that 119,000,000 cop
per pennies havo been lost to circular
tion in tbo century since the United
Htates began to coin money.
It is a foot of curious interest thai
twenty-fonr of tho 6100 murderers ar
retted in tho United States in 1890
were blind men.
A queer now law in Chihuahua, Mex
ico, permits any ono to shoot at sight
a person caught stealing cattle. Such
a law seems like a dangerous invita
tion to the holders of private grudges.
The American mosquito has crossed
tho Atlantic, is entertaining itself to
its heart's content on tho bluo blood
of England, and, according to tho
Now York Ledger, is getting in its fine
work most effectively.
The religious census of Australia,
just completed, shows 1,485,066 mem
bers of tho Church of England, 84,118
Catholics, 493,869 Presbyterians and
394,564 Methodists. These aro the
four most numerous denominations.
A learned German who hag devoted
himself to the study of physiology and
allied sciences makos a startling asser
tion that mustaches are becoming
commoner among women in tho pres
ent day than in tho past. He says
that in Constantinople among tho un
veiled women one out of ton possesses
an unmistakablo covering of down on
tho upper lip.
Keroscno oil is rapidly growing in
favor as a cheap illumimint in China.
The consumption, which was 8,256,
000 gallons in 1882, had risen to 49,
848,000 gallons in 1891. Of this
amount eighty per cent, was imported
from America and twenty per cent,
from Russia. The illumimint before
kerosene was introduced wms bean or
tea oil. The Chinese have discovered,
however, that kerosene is cheaper anal
gives much better light. It is called
fire oil by them.
It is mentioned as an instance of
what the foshionablo world has como
to that a recent private concert given
in London oost the hostess $12,500.
According to this figure entertaining
one's guests will soon be impossible,
and society must inaugurate some new
method of keeping its end up in that
line. First-class artists over there ask
sums ranging from $1000 to $2500 for
three or four songs, but, fortunately,
tho number of these artists is limited,
and those who employ them are tho
painfully rich.
The Sergeant-at-Arms of tho nonse
of Commons would feel lost if he had
to exercise similar functions in ono of
our American It gislatures say in Kan
sas or even Illinois, declares tho Chi
cago Herald. He is too easily upset.
Mr. Erskine for that is the gentle
man's name is described as going
about during the recent fracas "be
seeching infuriated legislators who
were engaged iu the fray to desist, and
begging others who were marching
around with their hats on, to remove
tho offending headgear." Imagine an
American Sergeant-at-Arms begging
and beseeching. He would use a club.
The series of official reports setting
forth the material and educational
progress of tho country, recently is
sued by tho Mexican Government,
though not marking so great an ad
vance as expected, is still very encour
aging. During the past twenty years,
the period covered by the comparisons,
the railway mileage has increased
twentyfold, and the telegraph mileage.
eightfold, followed in each ease by a
proportionate increase of business.
Exports aud imports have largely in
creased, as have also manufactures aud
agriculture, and the appropriations of
the Federal and State Governments
and municipalities for educational
purposes has advanced from $1,600,
0!M) to $3,500,000. Peace aud pros
perity have been secured, especially
during the Presidency of General
Diaz, who holds the reins of Govern
ment with a firm hand, and who is not
afraid to suppress the tendency to
revolutionary movement by tho prompt
application of military force. The
couutry still suffers, however, from
the lock of esteem for productive in
dustry on tho part of the upper classes,
whose chief ambition is to hold public
offices, imitating in this respect tho
Argentines, and the absence of trained
habits of industry ou the part of the
Iudiau aud mixed races, which consti
tute four-fifths of tho population.
What is most needed is industrious im
migrants to develop the vast natural
resources of the Republic, a fact clear
ly perceived by the Government, which
has already permitted the establish
ment of Mormon colonies iu Chihua
hua and Souora, aud bid for immigra
tion from northern Europe,
BONO OF A HEART.
Pear heart I love you ! all the day I wonder
It skins are rich with blue,
Or bending black with tempest and with
thunder,
Dear heart, dear heart, o'er you t
Door heart I love you ! when pale stars are
gleaming
(Sad stars to me, and tew !)
I wondor if God s lovelier lights are stream
ing,
Dear heart, dear heart, o'er you I
Dear heart U llfo had only one bright blos
som,
One rose to meit the dew
I'd kiss it, climbing to your restful bosom
And wear Us thorn for you !
. Atlanta Constitution.
OLD ROSES' ROMANCE
T was a barren
country, and Wad
gory was generally
shriveled with
heat, but he al
ways had roses in
his garden, on his
window-sill or in
his button-holo.
Growing flowers
under difficulties
was his recreation.
That was whv he
was called Old Rosea It was not other
wise inapt, for there was something
antique about him, though he wasn't
old ; a flavor, an old-fashioned repose
and self-possession. He was inspector
oi tanks from this God-forsaken coun
try. Apart from his duiies he kept most
ly to himself, though when not travel
ing he always went down to O'Fallen's
Hotel once a day for a cup of tea tea
kept especially for him ; and as he
drank this slowly he talked to Vic, the
barmaid, or to any chance visitors
whom he knew. He never drank with
any one, nor asked any one to drink,
and, strange to say, no ono resented
this. As Vie said, "he was different."
Dicky Merritt, tho solicitor, who was
hail-fellow with squatter, homestead
lessee, cocatoo-farmer and shearer,
called him "a lively old buffer."
It was he, indeed, who gave him the
name of Old Roses. Dickey sometimes
went over to Long Neck Billabong,
where Old Roses lived, for a reel, as
he put it, and he always carried away
a deep impression of the Inspector's
qualities. "Had his day," said Dickey
in O'Fallen's sitting-room one night,
"in marble halls, or I'm a Jack. Run
neck and neck with almighty swells
once. Might livo here for a thousand
years and he'd still be the nonesuch of
the back blocks. I'd patent him file
my caveat for him to-morrow if I could
bully Old Roses!"
Victoria Dowling, the barmaid, lifted
her chin slightly from her hands, as
she leaned through the opening be
tween tho bar anil tho sitting-room,
and said: "Mr. Merritt, Old Roses is
a gentleman, and a gentleman is a gen
tleman till he "
"Till he humps his bluey into the
Never Never Land, Vic? But what do
you know about gentlemen, anyway?
You were born five miles from the
Jumping Sandhills, my dear !"
"Oh," was tho quiet reply, "a wo
man the commonest woman knows
a gentleman by instinct. It isn't what
they do, it's what they don't do ; and
Old Roses doesn't do lots of things."
"Right you are, Victoria; right you
are again I xou uo the Jumping Hand
bills credit. Old Roses has the root
of the matter iu him and there you
i ; i"
UB(D lb .
Dickey had a profound admiration
for Vio. She had brains, was perfect
ly fearless, and every one in the
Wadgery country who visited O'Fal
len's had a wholesome respect for her
opinion.
About this time news came that the
Governor, Lord Malice, would pass
through Wadgery on his tour up tho
dock uiockb. a great junction was
necessary. It was arranged. Then
came the question of the address of
welcome to be delivered at the bun-
fluet. Dickey Merritt and the local
doctor were proposed as composers,
but they both declared they'd only
"make rot of it," aud suggested Old
Roses.
They went to lay the thing before
nun. Ihey found aim in his garden,
He greeted them smiling in his enig
matical way, and listened. While
Dickey spoke, a flush slowly passed
over him, and then immediately left
liim pale ; but ho stood perfectly still,
his hand leaning against a sandal tree,
and the coldness of his face warmed
up again slowly. His head having
been bent attentively as ho listened,
they did not see anything unusual.
After a moment of silence and in
scrutable deliberation, ho answered
that he would do as they wished.
Dickey hinted that he would require
some information about Lord Malice's
past career and his family's history,
but ho assured them that he did not
need it ; and his eyes idled somewhat
ironically, with Dickey's face.
When the two had gone Old Roses
sat in his room, a handful of letters, a
photograph, aud a couple of decora
tious spread out before him ; his fin
gers resting on them, and his look cn
gaged with a very far horizon.
lho Governor came. He was met
outside the township by the citizeLs
and escorted in a dusty and numer
ous cavalcade. They pushed tho in
spection house. The garden was
blooming, ana ou tlio root a flag was
flying. Struck by the singular char
aqter of the place Lord Malice asked
who lived there, and proposed stop
ping for a moment to make the ac
quaiutuuee of its owner, udding, with
some slight sarcasm, that if the olli
oers of the Government were too busy
to pay their respects to their (ioveruor,
their Governor must pay his respects
to them.
But Old Roses was not iu the garden
nor iu the house, and they loft with
tf
out seeing him. Ho was sitting un
der a willow at the Billabong, reading
over and over to himself tho address
to bo delivered before tho Governor in
the evening. And as ho read his face
had a wintry and inhospitable look.
Ihe night como. Old Roses entered
the dining room quietly with the
crowd, far in tho Governor's wake.
According to his request, ho was given
a scat in a distant corner, whero ho
was quite inconspicuous. Most of the
men prosont were In evening dress.
He wore a plain tweed suit, but car
ried a handsome rose in his bntton-
holo. It was impossible to put him at
a disadvantage. He looked distin
guished as he was. He appeared to be
much interested in Lord Malice. Ihe
early proceedings were cordial, for the
Governor and his suite mado them
selves most agreeable, and talk flowed
amiably.
After a timo there was a rattlo of
knives and forks, and the Chairman
aroso. Then, after a chorus of "hear,
hears," there was general silence. The
doorways of the rooms were filled by
tho women servants of tho hotel. Chief
among them was Vic, who kept her
eyes mostly on Old Roses. She knew
that he was to road the address and
speak, and she was mere interested in
him and his success than in Lord
Malice and suite. Her admiration of
him was great. He had always treated
her as a lady, and it had done her
good. He had looked earnestly and
kindly into her brown eyes, and
"And I call upon Mr. Adam Sher
wood to speak to the health of his Ex
cellency, Lord Malice."
In his modest corner, Old Roses
stretehed to his feet. The Governor
glanced over carelessly. He only saw
a figure in gray, with a rose at button-
bole. The Chairman whispered that it
was the owner of the house and gar
den which had interested his Excel
lency that afternoon. His Excellency
looked a littlo closer, but saw only a
rim of iron gray hair above the paper
held before Old Roses' face.
Then a voice came from behind the
paper: "lour .excellency, Mr. Chair
man and Gentlomen "
At the first words the Governor
started, and his eyes flushed searching
ly, curiously at the paper that walled
the face and at the iron gray hair.
Tbo voice was distinct and clear, with
modulated emphasis. It had a pe
culiarly penetrating quality. A few in
tho room and particularly Vic were
Btruck by something in tho voice
that it resembled another. She soon
found the trail. Her eyes also fastened
on the paper. Then she moved and
went to another door.
Here she could see behind the paper
at an angle. Her eyes ran from the
screened face to that of the Governor.
His Excellency had dropped the lower
part of his face in his hand, and he
was listening intently. Vio noticed
that his eyes were painfully grave and
concerned. She also noticed other
things.
Tho address was strange. It had
been submitted to the committee and
though it struck them as out-of-the-wayish,
it had been approved. It
seemed different When read as Old
Roses was reading it. Tho words
Bounded so inclement as thoy were
chiselled out by tho speaker's voice.
Dickey Merrit afterward declared that
many phrases were interpolated by
Old Roses at the moment.
Tho speaker referred intimately and
with peculiar knowledge to the family
history of Lord Malice, to certain
more or less private mutters which did
not concern the public, to the author
ity of the name and the high duty de
volving upon one who bore the earl
dom of Malice. He dwelt upon the
personal character of his Excellency's
antecedents, and praised their honor
able services to the country. He re
ferred to the death of Lord Malice's
eldest brother in Burnish, but ho did
it strangely.
Then, with acute incisiveness, ho
drew a picture of what a person in so
exalted a position as a Governor
should bo aud should not be. His
voice assuredly had at this point a flue
edge of scoru. Tho aides-de-camp
were nervous, the Chairman apprehen
sive, the committee ill at ease. But
tho Governor now was perfectly still,
though, as Vio Dowling thought,
rather pinched and old-lookiug. His
eyes never wandered from that paper
nor the gray hair.
Presently the voice of the speaker
changed.
"But," said he, "in Lord Malice we
have the perfect Governor ; a man of
blameless and enviable life, aud pos
sessed abundantly of discreetness,
judgment, administrative ability and
power ; tho absolute type of English
nobility aud British character !"
Thou he dropped the paper from be
fore his face, aud his eyes met those
of the Governor, aud stayed. Lord
Mulicolet go a long, choking breath,
which sounded very much like im
measurable relief. During the rest of
the speech delivered iu a fino tem
pered voice he sat as in a dream, yet
his eyes iuteutly upon the othur, w ho
now seemed to recite rather than read.
He thrilled all by tho pleasant reson
ance of his tones, aud sent the blood
aching delightfully through Vic Dow
liug's veius.
Wheu he sat down there was im
mense applause. The Governor rose
in reply. Ho spoke in a low voice,
but any one listening outside would
have said that Old Roses was still
speaking. By this resemblance the
girl Vie had trailed to others. It was
now apparent to many, but Dickey
said afterward tlutt it was simply a
ease of birth and breeding men used
to walking red carpet grew aliko, just
as btud-owuers uud rabbit-catchers
did.
Tho last words of tho Governor's
reply Were delivered iu a very con
vincing tone si his eyes hung on Old
Roses' face. "And, as I am indebted
to you, gent lemeu, for the feelings of
loyaly to thv throny, which prompted
this reception and th address just de
livered, so am I indebted to Mr.
Adam Sherwood for his admirablo lan
guage and the unusual sincerity of liis
speaking ; and to both you and him
for most notablo kindness. Imme
diately after the Governor's speech
Old Roses stole out, but as ho passed
through tho door where Vio stood his
hand brushed against hers. Feeling
its touch, ho grasped it eagerly for an
instant, as though ho was glad of tho
friendliness in her eyes.
It was just before dawn of tho morn
ing that the Governor knocked at tho
door of tho house by Long Neck Bil
labong. Tho door opened at once, and
he entered without a word.
He and Old Roses stood face to face.
His face was drawn and worn, the
other's cold and colm.
"Tom, Tom," Lord Malice said, "wo
thought you were dead "
"That is, Edward, having left me to
my fate in Burmnh you were only
half a mile away with a column of
stout soldiers and hillmen you waited
till my death was reported, and as
sured, and then came on to England ;
for two things, to take tho title just
made vacant by our father's death,
and to marry my intended wife, who,
God knows, appeared to have little
care which brother it was. Yon got
both. I was long a prisoner. When
I got free, I knew ; I waited. I was
waiting till you had a child. lwelve
years have gone ; you have no child.
But I shall spare you yet awhile. If
your wife shall die, or you should have
a child, I shall return."
Tho Governor lifted his head wearily
from tho table where ho now sat.
'Tom, " he said, in a low, heavy voice,
'I was always something of a scoun
drel, but I've repented of that thing
every day of my life since. It has
been knives knives all tho way. 1
am glad I can't tell you how glad
that yon are alive."
Ho stretched out hiB nana with a
motion of great relief. "I was afraid
you were going to speak to-night to
tell all, even thougn i was your
brother. You spare me for the sake"
"For the Bake of our name," tho
other interjected, stonily.
"For the Bake of our name. But I
would have taken my punishment,
taken it in thankfulness, because you
are alive."
"Taken it like a man, your Excel
lency," was tho low rejoinder.
"You will not wipe tho thing ont,
Tom?" said the other anxiously.
Tom Hallwood dried tho perspira
tion from his forehead.
"It can never bo wiped out, for you
shook all my faith in my old world.
That's the worst thing that can hap
pen a man. I only believe in the very
common people now those who are
not put npon thoir honor. One
doesn't expect it of them, and unlikely
as tt is, one isn't often deoeived in
them. I think we'd better talk no
more about it."
"You mean I had better go, Tom?"
"I think so. I am going to marry
soon." Tho other started nervously.
"You needn't bo so shocked. I'll como
back one day, but not till your wife
dies, or you have had a child, as I
said."
Tho Governor rose to his feet and
went to the door. "Whom do you in
tend marrying?" he asked, in a voice
far from regal or vice-regal, only
humbled and disturbed. The reply
was instant and koen. "A barmaid. "
The other's hand dropped from the
door. But Old Rosos, passing over,
opened it, and, mutely waiting for tho
other to pass through, said : "Good
day, my lord I"
The Governor passed out from the
palo light of the lamp into the gray
and moist morning. He turned at a
point whero the house, would be lost
to view, and saw the other still stand
ing there. The voice of Old Roses
kept ringing in his cars sardonically.
He knew that his punishment must go
on and on.
And it did. Old Roses marriod Vic
toria Dowling from the Jumping Sand
hills, and there was comely issue, and
that issue is now at Eton ; for Esau
came into tho birthright, as he hinted
he would, at his own time. But ho
and his wife have a way of being indif
ferent to tho gay, astonished world.
Aud, uncommon as it may seom, he
has not tired other. Loudon Speaker.
Substitutes a l'iuger fur a 'ose.
Fred Darcy, a boy eighteen years
old, is at St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester,
X. Y., recovering from the first stage
of a peculiar surgical operation. When
young, necrosis of the uasal bones de
stroyed his nose, leaving an unsightly
depression. Doctor Johu O. Rowe, a
Rochester specialist, undertook to pro
vide an artificial nose. He has done
so by amputating tho third finger of
tho left hand at the first joint and
takiug tho bone of tho middle finger
for the bridge of the artificial nose.
Tho skin of tho face was raised uud the
finger put iu place uud stitched to the
tissue above the nose. Iu order to
secure circulation and maintain life iu
the finger the hand has been bound to
the face for a week, but will be re
leased ou Sunday by an amputation at
the finger's second joint, alter which
now nostrils will be established iu con
nection with tho old. Doctor Rowe
has had ono case of the kind before.
Chicago Record.
Human Skeleton Twenty-five Feet Long.
M. Le Cat, tho French scientist, iu
his monograph ou giants says: At
Dauphine ou January 11, Uilli, at u
placu known as the Giant's Field, a
hrk'k tomb thirty feet long, twelve
feet wide und ei;,'ht feet high wus dis
covered. When opened it was found
to colli-: in a human skeleton entire
twouty-tive feet and a half long, ton
feet wido uerosi the shoulders uud
eight feet thick from the breast bone
to the back. His teeth wero each
about tho si.e of au ox's foot aud his
shiuboiies each measured four feet iu
length. St. Louis Republic,
RATS. MICE AND ROACHES,
THET SWARM AT THE DEPART
MENTS IN WASHINGTON.
Vermin Are Destroying Many Valua
ble Papers Kodents Cleaned Out
of the White House.
YERMIN make much troublo
for the Government at Wash
ington. Until recently tho
White House has been infested
by myriads of rats. They were cleaned
out at tho beginning of tho Harrison
administration by an expert with fer
rets. The wooden floors in tho base
ment of the Executive Mansion were
taken np and concrete was laid down
instead. This was done mainly for the
purpose of keeping out such four
footed foes in the future. Tho mice
in the building are few, by reason of
the efficiency of a black and w hite cat
that strayed in aud settled down in the
kitchen four years ago. When Grant
became President for tho first time tho
rats were so aggressive that Mrs. Grant
demanded the removal of the stable,
which then adjoined tho building on
the cast. But tho destruction of tho
stable did not remove tho rodent pests.
In fact, they wero so bold that ono of
them tripped up tho fat colored cook
as she walked across the kitchen, and
she killed it by Bitting down upon it.
The animals made a network of tunnels
under the brick pavements and in the
walls. Thoy were not content with
ordinary food, but preferred the rem
nants of state dinners. Crump, steward
of the White House under Hayes, swore
that a banquet committee of the older
rats used to examine his books each
night for the purpose of 'finding out
what would be served for dinner the
next day.
Tho Pension Office is tho chosen
haunt of ruts. Swarms of them adopted
the building as their home while it
was as yet iu process of construction.
At present the walls are alive with
them, and tho floors are full of their
holes. They feod on the remnants of
2000 daily lunches eaten in tho build
ing. Such Bcraps commonly find their
way to the waste paper room, which
serves tho rodents as a breeding place.
In the same binding sparrows are al
most as great a nuisance as the preda
tory quadrupeds described. They
make their nests by hundreds among
the timbers beneath tho lofty roof. In
summer pigeons fly in through tho
open windows and raise, families on tho
premises. Some of theso aro "homers"
lost on journeys with messages.
Rats used to do a great deal of dam
age at the Postoftlco Departmeut. They
ate quantities of money orders aud
postal notes, as well as blank books.
Much damage was dono by them to
"dead" packages in the storeroom for
such goods. So, two years ago, a rat
catcher was employed. Ho brought
ferrets ami cleared out tho building.
Incidentally he astonished the officials
by crawling all around tho structure,
a distance of four blocks, making his
way beneath tho flooring of tho Biib
basemont, where there was no Bpaco
to wrigglo through save such as had
been left in puttiug down the
Bewer and gas pipes. This ferret
like proceeding is very destruc
tive to health, ou account of the bad
air onl tuophitio gases encountered.
Three hundred and odd cats are regu
larly kept on tho rolls of tho Postofliee
Department to prevent rats from eating
tho contents of mail bags. Formerly
rats were very bad at tho Patent
Office, but they were driveu ont with
ferretn. They used to chew up a great
mauy valuable papers, making their
nests among the stacks of paten', rec
ords, covering half a million inven
tions, which occupy many thousand
cubic feet in tho basement.. The few
rodents which still remain are kept
down in numbers by nearly a score of
cats.
The Treasury has not been able to
get rid of the rats which iufest its
building. Ferrets wero tried a year
ago with only partial success. Some
of tho floors were toru up and what
appeared to be the principal breeding
place was discovered in tho waste
paper room. A good many lu sts wero
destroyed. Fortunately, the pests
cannot get at tho paper money to
gnaw it, because it is shut up iu safes.
At tho Senate end of the Capitol there
uro very few rats. This seems odd, in
asmuch as there are a great many iu
the sub-basement of tho House wing.
Only a year ago they caused a lire in
the folding-room by nibbling matches.
They aro fond of eating tho paste off
tho wrappers of public documents ulso.
Tho Government Printing Ollice,
which was badly troubled with rats
a few years ago, has been wholly de
serted by them for some time past.
Another nuisance that alllicts tho
Government departments is roaches.
Tho Pension OlKco swarms with them.
At night the watchmen catch big fat
ones uud keep them until morning iu
pasteboard boxes. Then they feed
them to the goldfishes iu the fountain
in the middle of tho great cour t. Tho
latter gobble them greedily, which fact
suggests that possible such vermin
might bo made use of by anglers for
bait. The scientific library of the
Puteut Oflico is visited onee iu two
years by nil expert who destroys all
"the roaches by contract. The War,
State and Navy Building used to be
overrun with roaches, but they have
been nearly cleaned out. The docu
ment room of tho Housi of l!epr seiita
tives is bothered u goo I lc:il with
roaches. There are not a few of them
ulso iu the White House, so that the
clerks there are obliged to put their
postage stamps in tin boxis to keep
the creatures lloni eating the mucilage
oil' the backs. Most of the roaches re
ferred to are of the kind know n us
water bugs or t'rotoii bugs. They
were originally imported li'om Ger
many. - Washington Mar.
In 1K7-1 tin: whole number of fail
ures iu this couutry. was only 01-l,
THE WIND'S STORV.
I am sure that the wind is upcakln?,
For each flower is nodding its head.
And the limbs ot tho trues are croaking
I wish that I knew what it snld.
Borne story, perhap, it is Mling,
A story of some distant land ,
But to me it is like the swolling
Of breakors upon the white snnd.
The leaves wa't a moment to listen,
Then shake with a perfect dollcM,
All the flowers like diamonds glisten
And nod first to left, then to right.
The wind posses on In its measure.
And long ere tho story is through
The forest is dancing with pleasure
1 wish I could understand, too.
Flavel Beott Mines, in Frank LcsliCfe
HIMOR OF THE IAY.
Tho general run of men After tho
last street car. Philadelphia Record.
Tho man who falls iu love very often
dislocates his common sense. Puck.
To make bills is human; to pay them
these days is divine. Pittsburg
Bulletin.
Forged notes can always be properly
classed amoug the gilt-edged paper ou
a bank. Chicogo Inter-Ocean.
The most popular bird of passago
arriving at the port of New York this
month is tho gold eagle. Bait imoro
American-. '
"That," said tho man who smote a
calamity howler, "is ono of tho best
financial strokes I ever made." Wash
ington Star.
The photograph of a boy never looks
like him, because ho ouo ever saw a
boy as clean as he is iu a photograph.
Atchison Globe.
The clerk who attempts to live be
yond his means will soon bo obliged to
live beyond the reach of his friends.
New Orleans Picayune.
"What sort of o,girl is she?" "C
she is a miss with a mission." "Ah?"
"And her mission is seeking a man
with a mansion." Sketch.
Occasionally you will meet a man
who seems to think just as you do.
What clever ideas he has, and what a
pity ho is so scaroo. Blizzard.
Jack the Clipper has been arretted
in New York. The girls whoso tresses
he cut will be present at his trial to
upbraid him. Galveston News.
Customer "Do you suppose you
can take a good picture of me ?" Pho
tographer "I shall havo to answer
you in the negative, sir." Voguo.
Unmixed evils rarely occur. The
fact that money has been tight is sdid
to have resulted iu a good deal of
eober thought. Baltimore American.
It is not true that "eVery man
Hfs price has," as they say
I know of one, an honest man,
Who glve himself away.
Vogue.
A man never looks so helpless aud
insignificant as when standing around
a dry goods Btore waiting for his wife
to got through trading. Lowell
Courier.
It is very hard to explain tho attrac
tions of country life to a city man who
has just investigated tho voltage of a
black-faced bumble-bee. Baltimore
American.
"And yon are poor?" "Yes, but wo
are happy." "Happy iu your pov
erty?" "Yes, for every ouo around
us is poorer than ourselves." New
York Press.
Miss Antique "How mean theso
newspapers are I Hero is a column
headed 'Proposals,' aud it is all about
public improvements aud such non
sense." Tho Club.
Mrs. Skidmore (reading) "Ph i
ippa Fawcctt, who won such great dis
tinction as senior wrangler at Oxford,
is still unmarried." Mr. Skidmore
"No wonder." Detroit Free Press.
Watts "I can't see what reason
you havo for comparing old inr.a
Gotrox to a sausage." Potts -"Because
his stuff is oil that makes him of
any consequence. "Indianapolis Jour
nal. Gaswoll "I'm disgusted with you ig
Mr. Van Praam." Dukane "Why?"
"He does nothing but flirt with tho
girls." "Then you dou't like to st- J a
man's efforts all miss directed."
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
"Can't you settle this bill to-u.iv,
sir?" asked tho tailor of the delinquent
M. P. "No, Snip, it woul-lu t lie i : r
liamentary. I've merely glanced cr
it, you know, audi can't pass u I ill
until after it third reading." Tid
Bits. He blushed a fiery red ; her heart
went pit-a-pat; she gently hung her
head, aud looked down on tin mat.
He trembled in his pceh ; he roi-.i
from where he sat, an-1 shouted with a
screech, "Vou're sittiuoii my hit!"
Tid Hits.
"So you only havo a week's vacation
instead of two, this year?" "Yes;
they told mo 1 must either give up
half my vacatiou or iosethi situation;
and 1 concluded that half a lo.if was
much butter th-.iu uo broad." lirook
lyu Life.
"Men are not to betniste I," she re
marked to her young, r an I moro suc
cessful friend. "Oh, my dear," s ai l
her friend, sweetly, "has it taken all
these years to teach you that?" The
silence that followed couldn't bo
broken with a sledgehammer. De
troit Free Press.
A young lawyer talked four Hours
to a Indiana jury who felt like lynch
ing him. His opponent, a ; ri' l- d
old professional, arose, looked s.e,-tly
at tho Judge, ami said : " our h..n r,
1 will follow the example of lay young
fricud, who has ju-t finished, an li.ili
Iii 1 1 the case without argument." Hull
ho sat down, an I the sih-nee was lur.;,)
uud oppressive. ChriM lull ut Work.
There are now seventy lim-sot oceu i
mail steamers. In lss th, r- w. re
107,137 steam VenovU oh the liiU u