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Tho political situation in Europa
continue to grow darker.
The Japanese ent more fish than any
either people in the world. With
them meat eating is a foreign innova
tion, confined to the rich, or rather to
those, rich jeole who prefer it to tho
National diet.
Tho farmer who is feeding hi wheat
to hi horxea idiotild, in the opinion of
tho Courier-Journal, hold both bis
wheat and bin horses until ho digests
the fact that wheat will bo wheat iu
tho world's markets during the year
uhead of us.
Tho new warships are a credit to
tho Nation, llecently the Philadel
phia made the run from Kio deJaueiro
to Callno, a distance of 5000 miles, in
twenty days and eighteen hours, with
out stopping anywhere for conl. This
was a speed of 242 miles a day and a
continuous run of twenty-one days
without stopping at any coaling sta
tion. A poor old man, who once was a
well-to-do merchant iu Wisconsin, and
likewise was of much State renown as
public sieaker of force and persna
aiveness, has been taken to the alms
house in Baraboo, weak in mind and
poverty-stricken, and past eighty years
of age. "The poorhouse is hospitable
when all other friends fail," is the
comment of the New York Times.
Doctor J. T. Boyd, of Indianapolis,
has added his voice to that of Lieuten
ant Totteu, and declare that the end
of the world is at hand. In support
of his theory, ho nays that tho British
Chronological Socioty, composed of
noted scientific men, his arrived at
the same conclusions as those reached
by Lieutenant Totten and himself, and
that all prophecy points to 1899 as
the date of tinal smashup.
Some idea of the enormous propor
tions the business of hotel keeping has
assumed in this country may be gained,
declares the New Orleans Ficayune,
from the fact that there are in the
United States upward of 50,000 hotels,
exclusive of what may projerly be
termed inns and taverns, and what are
commonly known as apartment-houses,
although the latter are in many in
stances conducted as hotels, in that
they have a common kitchen and dining-room.
Deer and bears are reported to be
more plentiful now- in the "great
woods" of Oxford County, Maine, thau
at any other time during the present
generation. These woods extend, in a
belt from four to six miles wide,
from Dixficld away tip into the un
trodden wilderness of Northern Maine,
and much of the area has seldom been
visited by sortsmen. Driven from
the hunting grounds about Raugeley
Lake the game took refuge in these
. woods, and have multiplied there un
molested. The New York News observes : Now
the surgeons have cut out a man's
spleen, uud yet he lives and has red
blood, and will, it is said, recover. No
one has ever known absolutely what is
the office of the spleen. Tho organ is
not a vital one, but is ofteu much dis
eased and very painful. Tho opera
tion to remove it is technically called
splenectomy. Many years ago a
writer in Chambers's Miscellany con
tended that tho spleen was tho manu
factory of the white blood corpuscles.
If that were so, the red corpuscles in
the veins and arteries would have soon
faded in vividness iu the patient,
Athlete Short, of Yonkers. Are the
spleen and the vermiform appendix,
which are declared to be useless, left
as hints of the evolutionary process?
Was man differently constituted when
they were useful to him, instead of
being as now unnecessary? Who cau
say?
George Yanderbilt is one of nature's
queer freuks. He is the leort known
of any of the enormously wealthy men
of New York. He must lc worth nt
least $35,000,000, but he might walk
the length of the entire city without
being recognized by half a dozen per
sons. He has never been prominent
in any public movement. Hehas nev-r
attended a public function where
crowds of people congregate, and w heu
he goes to the theatre or to the opera
be hides himself iu the rear of a box,
says the New York Herald. Young
Vanderbilt has uiuny fads. First of
all he is a lookworm uud is iu a way a
woman-hater. Formerly lit; was rated
as being, next to John .lueoh Astui , the
wealthiest young bachelor iu ihe Uni
ted Htates, having 81, 000, Oil!) in las
own right and control for every pa-t
yesr of his life. Now, as Jonu Jacob
ibtor is a husband ami fnthti, CJeurgo
Vanderbilt stands at the head of his
class alone.
The creation of money order offices
in the small postofjiec is advocated by
the Springfield (Mass.) Union on tho
ground that such office would greatly
facilitate the transaction of business in
rural neighborhoods.
A business man of Canada, of an en
terprising nature, has established a
"floating bank" on Kootenai Lake,
Canada. It is in a steamer which
journeys from place to place along tho
lake ; thus enabling its owner to sup
ply the inhabitants of the lake villages
with banking facilities.
Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes says
that the largest elm ho ever saw was
iu Oxford, England, and measured
twenty-five feet in cirenmference.
There was an elm of about the same
size in Springfield, Mass., some years
ago. The Doctor estimates the life of
the American elm at between 200 and
300 years. If any survive to be 300
years, he thiuks, it is as wrecks, liable
to go to pieces in the first heavy
storm.
The method of harvesting wheat on
the great bonanza ranches of the Da
kota is said to have amazed tho for
eign Agricultural Commissioners at
the World's Fair. To clear up 610
acres of wheat in ono day with 150
bands and forty-five harvesters is a
feat which has been paralleled in Cali
fornia, Nebraska and other big West
ern grain States, but it is doubtful,
thinks the Shu Francisco Chrouiele, if
any part of Europo can show such
rapid work.
Life insurance conjpauics are becom
ing the holder of enormous masses of
capital, notes the New York Tribune.
Statistics made public at the last meet
ing of the National Association of Life
Underwriters show that the companies
taking no account of assessment cor
porations and societies, hold assets to
the value of $800,000,000, that they
receive from policy holders about
$175,000,000 a year, that their gross
income is nearly $220,000,000 annually,
and that they pay about $100,000,000
annually to the insured in the form of
death losses, surrenders and dividends.
Though most people are equipped
with thirty-two teeth only, the Shah
of Persia appears to be more amply
provided for, as we are told that he
has just had his fortieth "molar ex
tracted. The phenomenon is thus ex
plained. The first time his Eastern
Majesty suffered from a decayed tooth
and had to have it removed his loyal
subjects offered him as a solatium a
number of presents amounting in all
to ten thousand gold sequins. Hav
ing thus discovered a new source of
supply for his privy purse, the Shah,
whenever he feels the want of those
little presents that help to maintain
the glow of friendship, causes the fact
of his hsving another bad tooth to be
procluinied by a flourish of trumpets
. i all parts of his empire, and the
presents begin to pour in.
Great Britain has undertaken an
other great enterprise in Africa, which
will probably have an immense effect
in the extension of its empire and tho
civilization of the dark continent. It
is to erect a telegraph line from Alex
andia, in Egypt, directly through the
heart of the continent to Cape Town.
The preliminary surveys have already
been made. The lino will traverse
Egypt, the Soudan, the region of the
great lakes, and the East Africa Com
pany's territory, German East Africa,
the Portuguese ossesbious, Mashona
land, Khama's country, Bechuanaland,
the Transvaal, the Orange Free State
and Cape Colony. Contracts have
already beet signed for constructing
the line for more than half the dis
tance, and work is being rapidly
pushed, so that the whole is expected
to be in working order early next year.
The Atlanta Constitution says:
Congressman Brosius, of Pennsyl
vania, is a man who has a vivid recol
lection of his experience during the
war. He came near losing his life in
the fight with Pickett's forces at
Green Plains. He was one of the 300
men who charged across a wheat-field,
a third of a mile in width upon a Con
federate rifle pit and of the number
only 125 came out alive. The Confed
erates waited until the sturmiug party
wai within twenty-five yards of the
pit and then they opened deadly fire,
he tells. Brosius, who was a boy of
nineteen, Btopped to pick up a
wounded comrade, and as he did so a
rifle ball pier oed his shoulder, shat
tering the blade and making him a
cripple for life. He still carries a
ujemeinto of that duy in the shape of
a pocket diary, which he wore in his
Vest. There is the mark of a bullet in
it that would have gone through the
young soldier's heart if it had not
been btopped by the book.
HACK AND HEW.
Haok and How were the son of Gol
In the earlier earth than now ;
On. at His rlirht hand, on. at HI left,
To obey as He taught them how.
And Hook was Mind, aDd How was dumb,
But both had the wild, wild heart ;
And Ood's calm will was thflr burning will,
And the gist of their toll was art.
They made the moon and the belted stars,
They H the sun to ride s
Tbey loosed the girdle and veil of the se3,
The wind and the purple tide.
Both flower and bnat l-ennath their bands
To beauty and Svd outgrew
The furious, fumbling hand of Ha"k,
And the glorying hand of Hew.
Then fire and clay, they fashioned a man,
And painted him rosy brown ;
And God Himself blew hard In his eyes ,
"Let tbom burn till toey smoulder down P'
And "There V said Hack, and "There P'
thought How,
"We ll rest, for our toll Is done."
But "Kay," the Master Workman said,
"For your toll Is Just begun.
"And ye who served Me of old as God
Shall serve Me anew as man,
Till I compass the dream that Is in My heart,
And perfect the vaster plan."
And still tho crafstsman over his craft,
In the vague white light of dawn.
With God's calm will for his burning will,
While the mounting day comes on,
learning, wind-swift, indolent, wild,
Toils with those shadowy two
The faltering, restless hand of Hack,
And the tireless hand of Hew.
Bliss Carman, In Atlantic.
EVERYBODY'S GOOD FRIEND
HI JOHNSON BtTtT.
HAT was the name
by which he was
mo s t frequently
designated, al
though all of his
acquaintances knew
very well that his
visiting card bore
the words, "Mr.
Robcrtes Brune."
He dressed well,
carried in pnblic a
cheerful counte
nance and an in
quiring eye, and,
as to business, his desk was in the of
fice of a private banking house near
Wall street, and he was supposed to be
a silent partner of the bankers them
selves. He belonged to two or three
clnbs and spent much time in each of
them, which is not the way of city
men of brisk business manner, such as
Mr. Brune possessed ; and scores of
strangers, brought into one or other
of the clubs by city acquaintances who
did not know what else to do with
them, gratefully remembered Mr.
Brune as ono of the evening's chief
sources of enjoyment. He had a way
of becoming acquainted quickly and
of making new acquaintances feel en
tirely at ease with him, and he also
bad a way of remembering a call or
two he had to make, and in w hich he
would invite a new acquaintance of
the proper sort to join, which was so
unlike the custom of New Yorkers in
general that men from other cities
Cnd without New York connections
were likely to feel under obligations
to him and also to believe that they
bad made the entree of metropolitan
society.
As time went on, it was remarked at
the clubs that Brune himself intro
duced many men from out of town,
but as all of these were anxious to re
pay all courtesies they received, and
were fairly able to do it, the members
who took most notice of Brune's hos
pitality made no objection, for they
were the professional club loungers a
class of men who never fail to enjoy
entertuinments for which other men
pay. There pours into the great city
a steady stream of men and families
who have made money elsewhere and
want to spend it where the most pleasure
can bo bought. To all these who fell
in his way Brune was as hearty as if
they had been old friends. He did
not introduce them to members of the
"Four Hundred," but he explained to
them, confident ally, that his own
friends were not of that particular set
because they did not care to be in it,
and that they were quite as good and
jefined as most of the people whose
names appeared oftenest iu the fash
ionable news of the dnily papers a
statement which nobody could deny.
He would take unwearied pains, too,
with families who desired to make the
city their home ; he would take them
to real estate agents who could be
trusted to deal fairly with them, and
be knew tho best decorators and up
holsterers, nnd dealers in furniture
and pictures and bric-a-brac, and he
would introduce newcomers iu a man
ner which would make them truly
grateful. He would also introduce
them ta Holdem A- Trust, the bunkers
with whom he had his office, taking
care first to assure them that there was
u great difference between banks iu a
gTeat city ; the bigger institutions were
mere machines, while Holdem & Trust
was a concern modeled after the Eng
lish banks, where the accounts were
few but large, and where any customer
was uiude to feel as much at home as
if he were in a friend's parlor which,
indeed the business office of the firm
greatly resembled in its appointments
and quiet.
No one ever seemed to find reason
to complain of Brune ; h- never took
his male acquaintances to gambling
houses or got tlit-m drunk, and he
never made love to the young ladies of
their families tint came to thy city.
Indeed, to his newer acquaintances
this seemed his only fault ; for a nuui
lr of young women who had broken
with their original cavaliers, ss be
came dumsels who aspired t become
city bclKs, found Brune much more to
their liking than most of tho city
youths with whom, through his kind
offices, they became acquainted. He
had so much of what women call
"style," and he knew how to say nice
things, and to suggest new ways of
killing time, and to occasionally pro
vide pleasant surprise that cost
money a faculty which is quite as
rare among citv youths, in proortion
to their numbers, as in anv couutrv
village. To be the wife of such a man !
would be to become a social queen
so thought some pretty young women
whose knowledge csmo principally
from their day-dreams.
But Brune seemed provokingly blind
to all intimations that there were
hearts nt his feet, waiting only to be
picked up; even when rallied on le
ing a bachelor he would escape by
laughing and saying that he was really
too poor to marry and do justice to a
wife. This appeared strange to many
who saw how freely he spent money
when he wished to entertain a party ;
but he was always able to say truly
that a bachelor's personal expenses
were comparatively trifling, while to
maintain a home in good style in the
city cost a great lot of money a
statement which heads of families,
whether new or old, were always ready
to verify from thu depths of personal
experience.
The truth was, that Brune had
started iu lifo with a firm determina
tion to marry rich or not at all, and
he was keeping himself faithful to that
purpose. It cost him terribly, he
sometimes told himself, for he was
really a susceptible fellow and his
heart got a new scar about once a year ;
but he wasn't going to win a girl
merely to have her taken from him by
a matter-of-fact father, who didn't
want his money spent by his daugh
ter's husband. He was in the market ;
if any rich man wanted him for a son-in-law
there was a proper way for the
rich man to bring the affair about
provided the daughter was pleasing.
Indeed, Brune was obliged to elude
one brilliant opportunity to marry
money, both father and daughter be
ing willing and anxious ; but the lady
was a kittenish creature past forty,
while Brune himself was little beyond
thirty.
But the god of love and the goddess
of plenty kept their eye upon him,
and there came a time when they
seemed to join forces. Miss Adah
Moorhart, a handsome damsel from the
far West, had set her heart on becom
ing Mrs. Brune, and, as she had been
accustomed to having her own way
about everything else, she did not in
tend to be thwarted in her one great
est desire. She hsd an able ally in her
mother, who held the family purse
strings and wanted just such a man as
Brune in the family, her own husband
having amounted to nothing since he
inherited his father's money; Being
a prudent woman, she had interrogated
her bankers, Messrs. Holdem k Trust,
very closely about Brune's business
and financial standing; but those gen
tlemen declined to say more than that
Brune banked with them ; his account,
though not very large, was never over
drawn ; he had a few thousand dollars'
worth of securities in their safe; his
business was a commission business,
which, in New York, was a term which
covered almost anything; but they
chanced to know that Brune's own
branch of it was of a confidential na
ture, and that all the checks he depos
ited with them were drawn by houses
of good business standing. Behind all
this there seemed some mystery which
Mrs. Moorhart was determined to
solve; but the bankers pleaded bus
iness confidence as their excuse for not
going into particulars, unless author
ized to do so by their customer.
From that day Brune's fortune was
made, as he half suspected when his
bankers told him of Mrs. Moorhart 's
visit, for a woman of strong will and
abundant leisure will expend a lot of
both for the bliss of fathoming a mys
tery. Certainly there could not be
anything wrong about Brune, or some
one would know of it ; no one who
knew him said anything but good of
him ; besides, had he not always been
known as everybody's good friend?
Mrs. Moorhart tried to make her borne
even more agreeablo to hiiu than it
had been, while the daughter let her
glorious eyes rest upon him from time
to time in a manner which no man
with eyes of his own could fail to un
derstand. "Mr. Brune," said Mrs. Moorhart
one evening, after her daughter had
entertained Brune greatly by telling
of dashing horseback rides through
the wild country a sport she longed
to enjoy again, she said, yet
dared not hope for until she could go
back again to look over 'the family
property "Mr. Brune, that property
troubles the dead girl more thau a lit
tle, uud I would like to consult you
about it, if you'll allow me. You're
everybody's friend, you know."
"I am entirely at your service, my
dear madam. "
"I heartily wish you were," replied
the lady with a sigh. "Much of the
Western property which my husband
inherited belongs to Adah she is not
here, is she?--uo, I thought not.
When she came of age, I insisted that
tuv hnsbuud should divide the estate,
as well as the personal property, and
j give her a share, she being our ouly
I child ; I wanted her to learn the value
of money, and how to take cure of it,
instead of growing up a silly, fashion
able girl, only to squander the
J property of her husband should she
! ever marry. Of course she will inherit
i all that remains, in the course of
time. She managed it with capital
ability while we lived West, where she
; was practically on the ground, but
I since we have been East it has not
yielded as lnre an income as it should.
It is very hard to secure good uents
there ; all men of ability ure re,.-tie
, until they get into business for them-
selves. I would like our portion ct
j t he estate properly locked after, too,
and we are so desirons of feeling at
ease alout it that we would be glad to
give a competent person a third of tho
entire income for his services. 1 sup
pose it would bo presumptuous to
hope that you could afford to give tip
your business here for something that
would bring you not more than twenty
five thousand a yenr a sum which wo
would gladly guarantee you ; but if
you could entertain the idea, I assure
yon that you could easily spend a large
part of your time in the East."
"My dear Mrs. Moorhart," said
Brune, trying to keep his heart out of
hi mouth, "I am more flattered by
vour offer than words con tell. But
really, I'm afraid you overrate my
business ability. Were I to foil, I
would feel unspeakably unhappy ; I
would be terribly humiliated should
MiB Moorhart find it necessary to
dispense with my services, and, worse
still, to be found fault with by her, of
all women in the world."
"I should imagine," said Mrs. Moor
hart, slowly and with a confident look,
"that yon are clever enough at busi
ness to make your position so secure
that she could not afford to dispense
with your services, and that I wouldn't
dare do so.
"My dear madam," protested Brune,
"I beg von won't think that I cor Id
plan to take any advantage in business
of a lady of two ladies, indeed.
"I didn't suppose anything unfair,"
was the reply; "all's fair in there 1
I've said more than I intended, but
I've supposed that you held my daugh
ter in high esteem."
"Higher, my dear madam, than 1
ever had for any other woman. But "
"You must be less observing than
your sex in general if you have not
learned that Adah, who is no flighty
girl, returns your regard."
"I am deeply grateful for your con
fidence, my dear madam."
"May I ask whether any other
woman stands in the way of your act
ing upon my suggestion and becoming
my daughter's business manager for
life?"
"None none. By your kind per
mission, I will speak to her this even-
.
ing.
"You will make her very happy. But
perhaps my suggestion will lead you
to neglect business interests of your
own."
"My own business," said Brune,
slowly, "can be dropped at any time
without loss that is, any loss to be
thought of for a moment while I have
such a wife to look forward to."
"I have never known just what your
business was, but "
"It is merely a general commission
business," said Brune.
"Selling, or buying?"
"Well, neither, strictly speaking;
that is well, I assure you there is
nothing wrong about it, for 'twas
through it that I came to be called
'everybody's good friend. ' "
Mrs. Moorhart bit her lip, and then
smiled aa she asked :
"Will you promise to tell mo all
about the business as soon as you arc
married?"
"Upon my honor."
"Insist upon an early marriage, then
all men do, I believe and I will see
that Adah accedes to your wish."
The wedding was a splendid affair,
according to the newspapers; the
bridegroom alone had so many friends
and well-wishers that not all of the in
vited could get into the church. As
to the presents, they were a6 numerous
and handsome as might be expected
by a bride who was rich and handsome
and a man who was everybody's good
friend. When the happy couple re
turned from the church to the house,
the bride's mother didn't fall in tears
on her daughter's neck ; she led her
son-in-law aside and whispered :
"You promised "
"Yes, to tell you abont my business.
Well, it's been to be everybody's good
friend, and be well paid for it, though
none of them susect it. Holdem A
Trust pay me one per cent, on tho de
posits of everyone I've introduced to
their bank, yours included ; real estate
agent, furniture dealers, grocers,
merchants every one, iu fact, with
whom my friends do business on my
introduction pay me a commission on
my friends' business. It's a line of
trade I never thought of getting into,
because I didn't kuow it existed; but
after I'd had some commission pressed
upon me, I resolved that the business
and I were made for each other. Of
course, any commissions I get here
after on your trade I will return to
you. Perhaps, now you know all, you
regret having selected me to munagd
your daughter's affairs."
Mrs. Moorhart gently boxed her
sou-in law's ear and said :
"I'm more than ever satisfied that
you're just the man for the place and
dear Adah will agree with me." Once
A Week.
Looking (Masses in Coffiiit.
One of the ancient customs con
uected with Swedish funerals was to
place a stnull looking glars iu the
I collin of au uutnurried female, so that
I w hen the lust trump sounds she might
be able to arrange her tresses. It wa.-
the pructioe for Scandinavian umideus
to wear their hair flowing loosely,
while the matrons wore it bound about
I the head and generally covered with
some form of cap. Hence the unmar
ried woman was imagined as awaken-
ing at the judgment day with more un
tidy looks than her wedded sisters uud
more in need of a glass. Westminster
Itoview.
Central Park is bally tunneled by
moles and New York park commis
sioners have appropriated 8-j'l to pay
for the services of a mole trupper for
three months. This man cleared the
moles out of the park seven years ago.
i He buries lon wire traps iu their
holes. He has driven the destructive
I animal out of Prospect Purk and
Greenwood Cemetery.
AN ANIMAL'S EDUCATION.
HOW FOUR-FOOTED CIRCTJ3 PER
FORMERS ARE TAUGHT TRICKS.
A Ring Master Describes the Way
In Which Horses, Klepliantw, Dogs
and Pigs are Trained.
1 EOPLE who go to circuses an I
I and see horses, elephants and
l dog perform wonderful tricks
d mnt often ask themselves how
the animals are taught to do them. A
leading ring master supplies interest
ing information concerning horses.
"The horse," ho says, "contrary to
general belief, is tho most rtupid ani
mal on earth. He has only ono fac
ulty memory. Having forced trick
into his head, you must use the short
whip when he resists, and give him a
carrot when he obeys. Whip and
carrots form the secret of the troiner.
The horse murt be from five to seven
year old. Before that age ho is too
spirited, after it his muscles are not
elastic enough.
"The first thing to do is to accus
tom your horse to the ring, to mako
bim run round regularly and then to
stop at a given signal. To accomplish
this the animal is brought into the
ring. The trainer holds in his left
hand a tether, which is passed into
the cavesson, a kind of iron crescent
armed with sharp points fixed on thf)
nose of the horse. In his right hand
he holds the long whip. Behind the
animal an assistant with a stout, short
whip is posted. The troiner calls on
the horse to start, and pulling his
tether and smacking his long whip
forces him to gallop round. If he re
fuses the assistant uses his whip also.
If he is obedient he is rewarded with
a carrot. To make him stop short the
trainer crocks his long whip again,
while the assistant with his short whip
throws himself suddenly in front of
the animal, and tho result is obtained.
"The horse has a great objection to
kneeling or lying down nt any mo
ment. This feat is taught by means
of iron bracelets placed on his ankles
and attached to a tether held by the
trainer, who, by sudden jerks or pulls
as he is moving, makes him fall or
kneel. The animal remembers tho
lessons, and, by dint of whip nnd car
rot, ultimately performs them at tho
mere command of tho trainer. The
horse is taught to dance to music
in tho samo way with tho foot brace
lets." With respect to dogs, a celebrated
trainer, who is now exhibiting a
troupe of them, says their education
is a work of time and patience. Some
times it takes two years. "I use
neither sugar nor whip," he informs
us. "I take my dog in my hands, talk
to him and try to make him under
stand whot he is to do. I perform the
tricks myself, and tho dogs follow and
imitate me." At present he is show
ing a carriage dog w hich performs on
tho single wire. "I will tell you how
I taught him to become au equilibrist.
I made him first of all walk on a plank
which was balanced to and fro. Tho
plank was gradunlly reduced in w idth
every day and the movement accel
erated. At length the plank dwindled
down to a narrow slip; this was re
placed by a long, round stic!;, and ul
timately the dog found himself on the
single wire." Strange to say this dog
is blind. Scent is the great quality
which enables dogs to perform some
tricks. For example, the poodles are
taught by their scent. The trainer
touches the dominoes which the dog
has to play, and the animal, smelling
them, picks them out from the rest
and plays them.
The pig is said to be tho most diffi
cult nnimal to train. A clown who ex
hibits a troupe of performing porkers
does not believe in learned piirs. They
are to be taught only by their weak
point, their gluttony. "When I have
got my young pig," ho says, "I begin
on tho principle that I shall obtain
nothing from him without satisfying
his appetite. I fee 1 him myself, and
during a few days I vary his food in
order to find out what be likes best.
As soon as I have discovered his favorite
dish I deprive him ot it completely.
This dish is my great talisman. The
chief pig I am now performing with
prefers beef fat. I put u piece in my
pocket. I jump over hurdles ulid the
pig follows me, doing likewise, in this
way he learns his exercise uud gets his
fat. 1 decrease the piece of fnt every
duy and r.t lust 1 give him nothing.
Should he refuse to work I thrash him
till he does, and having completed hi"
performance I recompense, bun with
his favorite meal."
The elephant, on the contrary, is ex
tremely intelligent, end his educutioii
would be easy but for his cumbersome
weight, which forces the trainer to have
recourse to cruel means. For in
sln"e, to make him raise und hold out
his foot an iron ring with sharp points
is placed on it, and beint; drawn by a
rope the point.- enter the llesh. Th-r
elephant, feeling the puin, lifts up his
foot and keeps it in the air till the pain
ceases. After a few repetitions he re
members the paiu, unl at the sight of
the iron raise, his foot. His instruct ion,
thanks to his intelligence, is soon com
pletcd. Some elephant ore taught in
less than a fortnight tophiyon a drum,
work u tricycle, uud beg on their hind
le' S, New York Advertiser.
I'sin? Cameras to Check t'ruelty.
At a meeting of the Director of the
Mu-aehust tts Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Animals, President
Allell exhibited picture.-, taken With
koduks. lie propo-.es to use the ko-
.1.1. r, t show not only high cheek rein ,
and horses mutilated by docking, to
gether with owii'-rs who drive and ride
them, but aKo ull kiudsof cruelty that
cuu be found on cattle cars, in cattle
yurds, slaughter hou:-s, markets,
horoc-rai'iuji, polo games uud other
wise. Button Transcript.
FORTITUDE.
The soul that suffers and for pntn h stronger
Grows great with strength above the
strngth of Fnt ;
Though years be brief, or though forever
longer
They wax In pain Hint knows no end or
date :
Thoneh Time be woeful ; though Time's
god are eru-l,
His heart is still for love and truth n shrine
Where, un'Mnsumed of fire, the altar fuel
Burns ever with a llcht and life divine.
William Vincent Lyars.
Hl MOi: OF THE DAT.
Every man with a bright son be
lieves in heredity. Atchison Globe.
There are always some rare bargains
at the meat market. Galveston News.
If you want to know a woman's
faults, ask her dearest female friend.
When the dealers put down the
prices on peaches the women put them
up. Boston Globe,
'What are you wearing glasses
for?" "For my eyes, stupid. S'pose
I'm wearing them for corns?"
When the colleges open it will bo
brawn versus brain, and may the best
man win. Rochester Post-Express.
H wore a wid hat and a sasb.
And stared in sway thnt m bold,
But the girls every one adored him.
For you see he was four years old.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Many a girl makes a bad blunder in
not taking a man at his word when he
says, "I am not worthy of your love."
Puck.
"The pleasantest way to take cod
liver oil, " says an old gourmand, "is
to fatten pigeons with it, and then eat
the pigeons."
"I am told that Carson always heaps
coals on his enemies' heads." "Well,
he is rich and can afford to do such
things." Truth.
Friend "Well, Tommy, now that
you've started to school, what do yu
like best?" Tommy "lieccss. "Chi
cago Inter-Ocean.
Hark, from the toml a doleful sound
Comes to us. on and all :
It i a maiden down th str"t.
Who sings, "After the llall "
Detroit Free Press.
.Tiggs--"The last I saw of Gayboy he
said he was out for a time. I wonder
if ho got it?" Jagg "Yes; the
judgo gave him ten days." Buffalo
Courier.
Everything Americnn goes in
Frauce. They even want American ser
vants there, and have not yet learned
that there is no such thing. Boston
Journal.
Mother "Children, have you said
your prayers?" Tilly "Yes, mam
ma." "You were very quick about
it." "I prayed one-half and Daisy
the other." Texas Sittings.
The Debutante (aside) "How many
verse shall I sing?" The Professor
"Do yon want an encore?" The
Debutante "Of course." The Pro
fessor "One." Boston Budget.
She was airy
A a fairy. j
And no man she'd ever lei
T-i thfnt. I gu-ss. i
Of heaviness. '
I'ntil "betook to baking bread.
IiuftVo Courier.
"I read nn account of how a pirl fell
over forty feet without killing herself."
"Good gracious! How did she do
it?" "Tried to get out of a moving
street car with exactly twenty men in
it. "--Vogue.
Hostess "So you are going to be
married, Ethel?'' "dirl Friend "Yes. "
"I thought you said you intended to
remain single." "I did ; but I've been
taking lessans in the cooking school,
and I dou'l waut t-j waste them."
Chips.
Mrs. Fanglc "H:ivo yo'i secured o
lodger for your second lloor yet, Mr.
Gosliu?" Goslin (horrified) "I haven't
been looking for i lodger, imubim."
Mrs. Fangle "Why, I'm certain my
husband told mo you had rooms to let
in your upper story." W.iif.
Her Friend -"I thought you xver
going to murry a man vith a title or
forever remain single." Mrs. Nuwcdde
- "He has a title, I beg leave to in
form you." "What is it, pr:iy?"
"I'ueksy darling. I gave It to him
myself. " - Indianapolis .loiiruul.
"Von quite devoted yourself to that
frightful looking Von Slick on the
tiaiu the other day, F. I'.th", what on
eaith made you do t!eit?" "Well, it
was absolutely necessary to pay some
attention to him. You ih'U t sup
pose I wanted people to think he was
my husban II" Brooklyn Life.
For two boms the fa-htonablc lady
kcit the draper exhibiting his ru.nls,
an 1 at the t lid of that period che
nn tly nsked : "Are y oi apiite sure
you l.Hve shown nn- everything you
have?" "No. mid-mi, ' s-aid the
draper, w ith 'i ineinuit inc; sm:!e. "I
have yet an oh! account in my l-.lgtr
which I shtll verv oladlv show you."
Tid-Bit.
A misguided individual came up to
a young lady the other day and cou
j.r itiihited hi r r.p.c.i I.cr t iivj t ;euu nt.
It may be rational to conirulubile a
girl that it is no u.r-e or one ol un
certain years o:i not i'ii.n.; her last
trick, but neither would be i'..lvi-al le.
The lu st thut an eior.ied gi-1 s frie'i hi
ivti do is to extend to her tin lr best
wishes and try to wi; ii'iold the hc.!l
The mail is t he one t- be coti-Tut ulat ed.
for he plui";c mt matrimony with
la th ey- pen, r. n i it his own fault
if he does Lot lUl 1 the !'! for which
he sijhs. Brook! v ii Lib-.
Ex cry American. Pj si.ieut h-i hue
from thrie to tl.n-ty two to-.u., nai-icd
fol hnu. Theiv ale thirty eitu.-. and
towns ii mo ! Mexm-br Haiml-
ion, th.itv 'hi-l oiv., U, nt T.cir
W'ebslers, tttintv ii- lil"lc, thilt-li
Jallioiins. iinn ('Jays. nn.it eu
liu 've, t neuty-one D.-ut'hiM-s.ni'eii'y
LiulUc.