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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 1, 1893.
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Tlio political situation in Europa
continues to grow darker.
I . "
Tlie Japanese eat more fish than any
other people in the world. With
them meat entiug is a foreign innova
tion, confined to tlio rich, or rather to
thoifo rich pcoplo who prefer it to the
National dirt.
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The farmer who is feeding his wheat
to his horses should, in the opinion of
tho Courier-Journal, hold both his
wheat and bin horses until ho digests
the fact that wheat will bo wheat in
tho world's markets during the year
uhead of us.
Tho new warships are a credit to
the Nation. Recently the Philadel
phia mado the run from Rio do Janeiro
to Callao, a distance of C000 miles, in
twenty days and eighteen hours, with
out stopping anywhere.for coal. 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 onco was a
well-to-do merchant iu Wisconsin, and
likewise was of much State renown as
a pnblio speaker of force and persua
aiveness, has been taken to the alms
house in Baralioo, 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 voico to that of Lieuten
ant Totteu, and declares that - the end
of the world is at hand. In support
of bis theory, ho says that tho British
Chronological Society, composed of
noted scientific men, his arrived at
the same conclusions as those reaohod
by Lieutenant Totton and himself, and
that all prophecy points to 1899 as
the date of final smashnp.
Some idea of the enormous propor
tions the business of hotel keeping has
assumed in this country may be gained,
declares the New Orleans Picayune,
from the fact that there are in the
United States upward of 60,000 hotels,
exclusive of what may properly 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 boars are reported to be
mora plentiful now iu 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 Dixfleld away up into the un
trodden wilderness of Northern Maine,
and much of the area has seldom been
viaited by sportsmen. Driven from
the hunting grounds about Rangeley
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 be lives and has red
blood, and will, it is said, recover. No
ona has ever known absolutely what is
tbe ofiloo of the spleen. The organ is
not a vital one, but is ofteu much dis
eased and very painful. Tho opera
tion to remove it is techuiouUy called
splenectomy. Many years ago a
writer in Chambers's Miscellany eon
tended that tho spleen was tho manu
factory of the white blood corpuscles.
If that were so, tbe red corpuscles in
the veins and arteries would have soon
faded in vividness in tho patient,
Athlete Short, of Yonkers. Are the
spleen and tho vermiform appendix,
which are declared to be useless, left
as hiuta of the evolutional y process?
Was man differently constituted why 11
they were useful to him, instead of
being aa now unnecessary? Who cau
aay?
George. Vauderbilt is one of nature's
queer freaks. He is the leant kuown
of any of tho enormously wealthy meu
of New York. He must bo worth at
least $35,000,000, but he might walk
the length of the entire city without
being recognized by half a dozen per
sons. Ho has never been prominent
in any public movement. He has never
attended a public function where
crowds of people congregate, and when
he goes to the theatre or to the opera
be hides himself iu tho rear of a box,
says the New York Herald. Young
Vauderbilt has many fads. First of
.11 he is a bookworm and is iu a way a'
womau-hater. Formerly he was rated
aa being, next to John Jacob A slur, the
wealthiest young bachelor iu ihe Uni
ted States, having $1,000,000 in hi
own right and control for every past
year of hiti life. Now, as Joi.a Jacob
tutor is a husband ami father, Georyo
Vanderbilt stands at the head of his
class alone.
Tho creation of money order offices
in the small postofflces is advocated by
the Springfield (Mass.) Union on tho
ground that such offices would greatly
facilitate the transaction of business in
rural neighborhoods.
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A business man of Canada, of an en
terprising nature, has established a
"floating bank" on Kootenai Lake,
Canada. It in 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 tbe largest elm ho ever saw was
in Oxford, England, and measured
twenty-five feet in circumference.
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
800 years. If any survive to be 800
years, he thinks, it is as wrecks, liable
to go to pieces in tho first heavy
storm. '
Tho 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 one day with 150
hands and forty-five harvesters is a
feat which has bocn paralleled in Cali
fornia, Nebraska and other big West
ern grain States, but it is doubtful,
thinks the San Francisco Chronicle, if
any part of Europo can show such
rapid work.
Lifo insurance companies are becom
ing the holders of enormons 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 $860,000,000, that they
recoive from policy holders about
$175,000,000 a year, that thoir gross
inoome 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 fortiethmolar 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 having another bad tooth to be
proclaimed by a flourish of trumpets
i 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
andra, in Egypt, directly through the
heart of tho continent to Capo Town.
The preliminary surveys bavo already
been made. The line will traverse.
Egypt, the Soudan, tho region of the
great lakeB, and the East Africa Com
pany's territory, German East Africa,
the Portuguese possessions, Mashoua
land, Khama's country, Bechuanalaud,
the Transvaal, the Orange Free State
and Cape Colony. - Contracts have
already been signed for constructing
the lino for more than half the dis
tance, and work ia being rapidly
pushed, so that the whole is expected
to be in working order early next year.
The Atlanta Constitutiou says:
Congressman Brosius, of Pennsyl
vania, is a man who has a vivid recol
lection of his experiouej during tho
war. He came near losing his life in
tho 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 npon a Con
federate rifle pit and of the number
only 125 came out alive. The Confed
erates waited until tbe stormiug party
wai within twenty-five yards of the
pit and then they opened deadly fire,
he tells. Brosius, who was a boy of
nineteen, stopped to pick up a
wounded comrade, and as he did so a
rifle ball pierced his shoulder, shat
tering the blade and making him a
cripple for life. He still carries a
mememto of that day in tbe shape of
a pocket diary, which he wore in his
vest. There is the mark of a bullet iu
it that would have gone through the
young soldier's heart if it had not
been btopped by the book.
HACK AND 1IEW.
Haok and How were tbe sons of Go J
In ths earlier earth than now i
Odb at His right hand, one at Hts loft,
To obey as He taught them how.
And Haok was blind, and Hew was dumb,
But both had the wild, wild heart 1
And Ood'i calm will was their burning will,
And the gist of thoir toll was art.
They mado the moon and the belted stars,
They ant the sun to ride ;
They loosed ths girdle and veil of ths sea,
Ths wind and the purplo tide.
Both flower and boat beneath thoir bands
To beauty and speed outgrow
The furious, fumbling hand of Hank,
And the glorying hand of Hew.
fhen fire and clay, they fashioned a man,
And painted him rosy brown t
And God Hlmsolf blew hard In bis eyes ,
"Let thorn burn till tney smoulder down !"
And "There !" said Haok, and "There!"
thought How,
"We'll rest, for our toll Is done."
But "Nay," the Master Workman said,
"For your toil Is Just begun.
"And ye who served Me of old as God
Bhnll serve He anew as man,
Till I compass the dream that is In My heart,
And perfoct tbe vaster plan."
And still the erafstsman over bis erat,
In the vague white light of dawn,
With God's calm will for bis burning will,
While the mounting day comes on,
J earning, wind-swift, Indolent, wild,
Tolls with those shadowy two
The faltering, restless hand of Hack,
And the tireless hand of Hew.
Bliss Carman, In Atlantic.
EYRYBOI)rS GOOD FRIEND
BI JOHNSON BURT.
HAT was the name
by which he was
mo e t frequently
designated, al
though all of his
acquaintances knew
very well that his
visiting card bore
the words, "Mr.
Robertes Brune."
Ho dressed well,
carried in pnblio a
cheerful counte
nance and an in
quiring eye, and,
aa to business, his desk was in the of
fice of a private banking house near
Wall street, and ho was supposed to be
a silent partner of the bankers them
selves. He belonged to two or three
clnbs and spent much timo in each of
them, which is not tbe 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 one 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
had a way of remembering a call or
two ho had to make, and in which he
would invite a new acquaintance of
the proper sort to join, which was so
nnlike the custom of New Yorkers in
general that men from other cities
And without New York connections
were likely to feel under obligations
to him and also to believe that they
had mado the entree of metropolitan
society.
As time went on, it was remarked at
tho 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' hos
pitality mado no objection, for they
were the professional club loungers a
class of men who never fail to enjoy
entertainments for which other men
pay. There pours into the great city
a Btcady stream of men and families
who have made money elsewhere and
want to spend it where t he most pleasure
can bo bought. To all those 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, conuuontally, that his own
frieuds were not of that particular set
because 4hey did not care to be in it,
and that they were quite as good and
leflnod as most of the people whose
names appeared oftenest in tho fash
ionable news of the daily paers 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
he knew tho best decorators and up
holsterers, and dealers in furniture
and pictures and bric-a-brac, and he
would introduce newcomers iu a man
ner which would make them truly
gTateful. He would also introduce
thorn to Holdom & Trust, the bankers
with whom he had his office, taking
care first to assure them that there was
a great difference between banks iu
great city ; the bigger institutions were
mere machines, while Holdom A Trust
was a concern modeled after the Eug
lish banks, where the accounts were
few but large, and where any customer
was made to feel as much at home as
if he were in a friend's parlor which,
indeed tbe business office of the firm
greatly resembled in its appointments
and quiet.
No oue ever seemed to find reason
to complain of Brune ; ho never took
his mule acquaintances to gambling
houses or got them drunk, and ha
never made love to tbe young ladies of
their families that came to tbe city.
Indued, to his newer acquaintance
this seemed his only fault ; for a num
ber of young women who had broken
with their original cavaliers, ss be
oame damsels who aspired t J become
city belles, fouud Bruno much more to
TV fir?
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their liking than most of the city
youths with whom, through his kind
offices, they became acquainted. He
had so much of what women call
"style," and ho knew how to say nice
things, and to suggest new ways of
killing time, and to occasionally pro
vide pleasant surprises that cost
money a faculty which is quite as
rare among citv youths, in proportion
to thoir numbers, as in any country
village. To be the wife of such a man
would be to become a social queen
so thought some pretty young women
whose knowledge came principally
from their day-dreams.
But Brune seemed provokingly blind
to all intimations that there were
hearts at his feet, waiting only to be
picked up ; even when rallied on be
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 bow freely he spent money
when he wished to entertain a party ;
but ho 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 tho depths of personal
experience.
The truth was, that Brnne had
started in 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, be
sometimes told himself, for he was
really a susceptible fellow and his
heart got a new scar about onoe 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 tho
rich man to bring the affair abont
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 lovo 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. Brnne, 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 had an able ally in her
mother, who held the family pnrso-
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 & Trnst,
very closely about Brune's business
and financial standing ; but those gen
tlemen declined to say more than that
Bruno 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
ohanoed to know that Bruno'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
thu 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 triod to make her home
even more agreeable to him than it
had been, while the daughter let her
glorious eyes rest upon him from timo
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 daHhiug horseback rides through
the wild country a sport she longed
to enjoy again, she said, yet
dared not hope for uutil she could go
back again to look over ' the family
property "Mr. Brune, that property
troubles the dead girl more than a lit
tle, and I would like to consult you
about it, if you'll allow me. You're
everybody's friend, you know."
"I am eutirely 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?--no, I thought not.
When she came of age, I insisted that
my husband should divide the estate,
aa well as the personal property, and
give her a share, she being our only
cliibl ; I wanted her to learn tbe value
of money, and how to take cure of it,
iustead of growing up a silly, fashion
able girl, only to squander tbe
property of her husband should she
ever marry. Of course she will inherit
all that remains, iu the course of
time. Shu managed it with capital
ability while we lived West, where she
was practically on the ground, but
sincH we have been Kant it has uot
yielded as largo au income aa it should.
It is very hard to secure good agents
there ; all nu n of ability are rtu.tlas
until they get into business for them
selves. I would like our portion ot
tbe estate properly lucked after, too,
and we are so desirous of focling at
ease about it that wo would bo glad to
give a competent person a third of tho
entire income for his services. I sup
poso it would be presumptuous to
hope that you could afford to give np
your business here for something that
would bring you not more than twenty-
five thousand a year a sum which wo
would gladly guarantee you ; but if
you could entertain tho idea, I assure
you that yon could easily upend a largo
part of your time in the J-jast.
"My dear Mrs. Moorhart, sanl
Brune, trying to keep his heart out of
his mouth, "I am more flattered by
your offer than words can tell. But
really, I'm afraid you overrato my
business ability. Wero I to fail, I
would feci unspeakably unhappy ; 1
ould bo terribly humiliated should
Miss Moorhart find it necessary to
dispenso with my services, and, worse
still, to bo 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 you are clover enough at busi
ness to make your position so secure
that Bhe could not afford to dispenso
with your services, and that I wouldn't
dare do so.
"My dear modani," protested Brune,
'I beg you won't think that I could
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!
I ve said more than I intended, but
I've supposed that you held my dangh
ter in high esteem."
"Higher, my dear madam, than I
ever had for any other woman. But "
"Yon 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 Btands 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-
. 11 a
ng.
"Yon 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 goneral 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 oallod
'everybody's good friend.' "
Mrs. Moorhart bit her lip, and then
smiled as she asked :
"Will you promise to tell mo all
abont tho business as soon as you aro
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,
aocording 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 as 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 nock ; sho 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 thorn suspect it. Holdem &
Trust pay me one per cent, on the de
posits of everyone I've introduced to
their bank, yours included ; real estate
agents, furniture dealers, grocers,
merchants every one, in fact, with
whom my friends do busiuess on my
introduction pay me a commission on
my friends' business. It's a lino of
trade I never thought of getting into,
because I didn't know it existed ; but
after I'd had some commissions pressed
upon me, I resolved that tbe 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 manage1
your daughter's affairs. "
Mrs. Moorhart gently boxed her
son-in-law's ear and said :
"I'm more thau ever satisfied that
yon're just the man for the place and
dear Adah will agree with me. " Onoe
A Week.
Looking Glasses in Coffins.
Oue of tho ancient customs con
nectod with Swedish funerals was to
plaoe a small looking glass iu tho
collln of an unmarried female, so that
wheu the last trump sounds sho might
be able to arrange her tresses. It wac
tho practice for Scandinavian maidcuv
to wear their huir flowing loosely,
while the matrons wore it bound about
the head aud generally covered with
some form of cap. Hence the unmar
ried woman was imagined as awaken
iug at the judgment day with more un
tidy looks than her wedded sisters aud
more in need of a glass. Westminster
Review.
Central Park is badly tunneled by
moles aud New York park commis
sioners have appropriated $'250 to pay
for tbe services of a mole trapper for
three months. This man cleared the
moles out of the park seveu years ago.
lie buries loug wire traps iu their
holes. Ho has drivuu the destructive
auimal out of I'ruspoct Park and
Greenwood Cemetery.
AN ANIMAL'S EDUCATION.
HOW FOTJR-FOOTED CTR(TO8 VT.n
FORMER8 ARB TACOHT TRICKS.
A Itlng MaMcr lrorlbs the Way
In Which Horam, F.lrphanta, Ion
and rip; are Trained.
PEOPLE who go to circuses and
and see horse, elephants and
dogs perform wonderful tricks
must often ask themselves how
the animals aro taught to do thcra. A
leading ring master supplies interest
ing information concerning horses.
"The horse." ho says, "contrary to
general belief, is tho most stupid ani
mal on earth. He has ouly one fac
ulty memory. Having forced trick
into his head, you must nso the short
whip when he resists, and give him a
carrot when he obeys. Whips and
carrots form the secret of the trainer.
Tho horse must be from five" to seven
years 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
him run round regularly t aud then to
stop at a given signal To accomplish
this the animal is brought into tbe
ring. The trainer holds in his left
hand a tether, which is passed into
the oavesson, a kind of iron crescent
armed with sharp points fixed on tho
nose of the horse. In his right hand
he holds the long whip. Behind the
animal on assistant with a stout, short
whip is posted. Tho troiuer calls on
tho 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 cracks his long whip again,
while the assistant with his short whip
throws himself suddenly in front of
the animal, and tho result is obtained.
"Tho horse has a greot objection to
kneeling or lying down at any mo
ment. This feat is taught by means
of iron bracelets placed on his ankles
and attached to a tether held by tho
trainer, who, by Buddon jerks or pulls
as he is moving, makes him fall or
kneel. The animal remembers the
lessons, and, by dint of whip and car
rot, ultimately performs them at tho
mere command of tho trainer. Tho
horse is taught to dance to music
in tho samo way with tho foot brace
lets." With rospect to dogs, a celebrated
trainer, who is now exhibiting a
troupe of them, says their education
is a work of time and pat ieuoe. Some
times it takes two years. "I nso
neither sugar nor whip," ho iuforrus
us. "I take my dog in my hands, tolk
to him and try to make him under
stand what ho is to do. I jwrform tho
tricks myself, and tho dogs follow aud
imitate me." At present he is show
ing a carriage dog which performs on
tho single wire. "I will tell you how
I taught him to become an equilibrist.
I made him first of all walk on a plank
which was balanced to and fro. Tho
plank was gradually reduced in width
every day and tho movement accel
erated. At length tho plank dwindled
down to a narrow slip; this was re
placed by a long, round stick, and ul
timately tho dog found himself on the
single wire." Strange to say this dog
is blind. Scent is the great quality
which enables dogs to perform so mo
tricks. For example, the poodles are
taught by their scent. Tho trainer
touches tho dominoes which tho dog
has to play, and the animal, smelling
them, picks them out from the rest
and plays them.
The pig is said to bo tho most diffi
cult animal to train. A clown who ex
hibits a troupe of performing porkers
does not believe in learuod pigs. They
are to be taught only by their weak
point, their gluttony. "When I havo
got my young pig," ho says, "I begin
on tho principle that I shall obtain
nothing from hiin without satisfying
his appetite. I feed him myself, and
during a few days I vary his food in
order to find out what he likes best.
As soon as I have discovered his favorite
dish I duprive him of it completely.
This dish is my great talisman. Tho
chief pig I am now performing with
prefers beef fat. I put a piece iu my
pocket. I jump over hurdles uiid the
pig follows me, doing likewise, iu this
way he learns his exercise aud gets his
fat. I decrease the piece of fat every
day aud at lust I give him nothing.
Should he refuse to work I thrash him
till he does, and having completed bis
performance I recompense hiin with
his favorite meal."
Tho elephant, on the contrary, is ex
tremely intelligent, aud his education
would be easy but for his cumbersome
weight, which forces tho trainer to have
recourse to cruel means. For iu
stance, to make him raise and hold out
his foot an iron ring with sharp points
is placed on it, and being drawu by a
rope the points enter the Hush. Tho
elephant, feeling the pain, lifts up his
foot and keeps it iu the uir till the pain
ceases. After a few repetitious he re
members tho paiu, and at the sight of
the iron raises his foot. His instruction,
thanks to his intelligence, is soon com
pleted. Some elephants are taught iu
less than a fortnight to play on a drum,
work a tricycle, aud beg on their bind
legs- New York Advertiser.
I'slnj Cameras to Chock Cruelty,
At a meeting of the Directors of tho
Massachusetts Society for tho Preven
tion of Cruelty to Animals, President
Angell exhibited pictures taken with
kodaks. He proposes to uso tho ko
dd.s to show not ouly high check reins
aud horses mutilated by docking, to
gether with owuors who drive and ride
them, but also all kiudsof cruelty that
can be found ou cattle ears, iu cattle
yards, slaughter houses, markets,
horse-racing, polo games aud other
wise. Boston Transcript.
FORTITUDE.
The sonl that suitors and for pain fs stronger
Grows groat with strength above the
strength of Fate ;
Though years be brief, or though forever
longer
They wax In pain that knows no end or
date :
Thongh Time he woeful ; though Time's
god's aro ru"l,
Ills heart te still for love and truth a shrine
WbTe, unnonsnmed of fire, the altar fuel
Burns ever with a light and life divine.
William Vincent Byars.
Hl'JIOn OF THE DAY.
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
fault, ask her dearest female friend.
When tho dealers put down tho
prices on peaches the women put them
up. Boston Globe.
'What are you wearing glasses
for?" "For my eyes, stupid. S'poso
I'm wearing them for corns?"
When the colleges open it will bo '
brawn versus brain, and may thb best
man win. Rochester Post-Express.
II n wore a wide hat and a sash,
And stared in away that was 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.
"Tho pleasantost way to take cod
liver oil," says an old gourmand, "is
to fatten pigeons with it, aud then eat
the pigeons."
"I am told that Carson always heaps
roals 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 van
like best?" Tommy "Recess." Chi
cago Inter-Ocean.
Hark, from the tomlis a doleful sound
Comes to us, one and all ;
It Is a maldn down the at met,
Who sings, "After the linil "
-Detroit Free Press.
Jiggs "The last I saw of Gayboy ho
said he was out for a timo. I wonder
If bo got it?" Jaggs "Yes; the
judgo gave him ton days." Buffalo
Courier.
Everything American goes in
France. They oven want American ser
vants there, and have not yet learned
that there is no such thing. Boston
Journal.
Mothor "Children, have you said
your prayers?" Tilly "Yes, mam
ma." "You wero very quick about
it" "I prayed oue-half and Daisy
the other." Texas Sittings.
The Debutante (aside) "How many
verses shall I sing?" The Professor
"Do yon want an encore?" Ths
Debutante "Of course." The Pro
fessor "One." Boston Budget,
Khe was airy
A a fairy. t
And no man she'd ever let
Tofhflik. I gu", ' ;
ill heavlneea, ' iv
Vntil she took to baking bral.
Ilurra'o Courier.
"I read an account of how a girl fell
over forty feet without killing herself."
"Good gracious! How did sho do
it?" "Tried to get out of a moving
street car with exactly twenty man iu
it. "--Vogue.
Hostess "Ho you are poing to I
married, Ethel?" Girl Fri-nd "Yes."
"I thought you said you intended to
remain single." "I did ; but I've been
taking lutwans in the cookinq school,
and I don't waut to wasto thtm.'V
Chips. Mrs. Fangle "Have yo'l secured a
lodger for your second floor yet, Mr.
GoHliu?"Goalin (horrified)--"Ihavmi'l
been looking for a Io.Ilmt, madniu. "
Mrs. Fangle "Why, I'm certain my
husband told me you had roomi to let
in your upper story." Waif.
Her Friend "I thought you wers
going to marry a man with a til'e or
forever reinaiiisiiigle." Mrs. Nuaeddo
- "He has a title, 1 bog leavj to in
form you." "What is it. pray?"
"Pucksy darling. I gavo It to bliu
myself. " Indianapolis Journal.
"You quite devoted yourself to that
frightful-looking Van htick on the
train the other day, I' litU; what ou
earth made you do tint?" "Well, it
was absolutely necessary to pay some
attention to hiin. You don't sup
pose I wanted people to think he art
my husband 1" Brooklyn Life.
For two bouts tho fashionable lady
kept the draper exhibiting ln (.-oadt,
and at tho end of thst pri.l elia
sweetly asked : "Are you quite auru
you l.-ve howu Jim fver thing you
have?" "No, inaduii,"' ,ul tbu
draper, with an ineinuat mi; smile, "I
have yet an old account in my Imlg. r
which 1 shall very gladly show yon."
Tld-Uits.
A misguided individual came up to
a young lady the -tlier day aud con
gratulated her upon l.cr 1114 1 ; tneitt.
It may bo rations! to cougrut'ilaiK a
girl that it is uo wir-e or oue of uu
certniu years 0:1 hot iniiiii( her last
trick, but neither would be adviublc.
Tho best that an enuxed girl's frivu l:i
cull do is to extend to her their best
wishes and try to a i'.h'iold the kik'l
The mau is the one to be congratulated,
for ho plui";e iut matrimony with
both eyes c peu, Mi l it is his ou fault
if ho does not tiud the bhs i for which
he sijha. Brooklyn Life.
Every American l'l evident h is hue
from three to tbiity to towi.;. named
for him. There aio thirty cities uud
towus named after Alexander Hamil
ton, thirty Clintons, t. nt v-four
Websters, twt-utv Beutoiis, tbirt n
Jalhouns, sevin Clays, nineteen
J.iiueys, tweuty-ono D.'Ufc-lasts,tenty
blaiues.