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be paid in adranoe.
Job work oaih on delivery.
Malaria is responsible for half, the
deaths of nil iiinnkiml, according to an
English physician.
It is seid Hint two-thirds of nil the
r-ottiin duck produced in tho world is
inndo within twenty miles of Baltimore,
M1.
Tr. Burneh recently told the New
York Academy thnt less drugs and
more hygiene ought to be used iu the
euro of the hick.
1 A treble showing tho monetary sys
tem of tho world has been jiropnred
by Director of the United Stntos Mint
rrcston. The statistics show thnt the
aggregate stock of gold is 582,605,
000; silver, $4,042,700,000, nud un
covered paper, $2,0:15, 873,000.
It is stilted by the Chicago ITerald
thnt nn American house1 hss coneludod
n eout met for 2, 500, 000 tons of Japanese
coal, to bo delivered nt Snn Francisco
in tho courso of the next ten years.
Hitherto tho oonl imported at San
Franoisco has been prinoipnlly Aus
trnlinn.
Tho American Farmer admits thnt
"tho New Zonlnuders nro moro pro
gressive than wo ore. They havo
passed a law giving women, married or
single, all the rights nud privileges of
citizenship. Every woninu in New
Zealand is now nn good na any other
mnn, nud better if sho behaves her
self." The effect of a newspaper pnragraph
may be far-reaching iu its legal conse
quences sometimes especially in
France. AX. Comet, overseer nt tho
West of Franco Engine Works, was
severely attacked in tho columns of n
railroad newspaper L'Eeho des Chem
ist do Fer (Eulish, "Tho Railway
Echo"). . Ho took these criticisms so
much to heart that he committed sui
cide, leaving a widow and child. Tho
raid widow brought suit for damages
against L'Eeho, holding that her hus
band's death was tho direct result of
the criticisms in thnt paper, and the
court, concurriug in thnt view, award
ed the full amount claimed, ten thou
sand dollnrs, and condemned tho news
paper in tho entire costs of the action.
In his annual report Brigadier-Gen-ernl
Cnrliu, commanding the Depart
ment of tho Columbia, says that tho
experiment of tanking the Indian a
soldier is a decided failure so far as his
experience goeB, and he has recom
mended tho discharge of the few Indian
soldiers now in his department, less
than a company. General Cnrlin re
ports that there has been a decided
increnso iu desertions during the past
year, due, in a great measure, to the
unpopularity of the ten year service
law, and ho recommends tho repeal of
thnt law. Ho also recommends thnt
tho small posts in his department be
abandoned nud tho troops concentrated
nt a general post nt the principal rail
rond center.
Tho varieties of sleigh bells this sea
son will bo larger than ever, announces
the Chicago Herald, and manufactur
ers will cater more to luxurious tastes.
As one can now pny $50 or moro for a
whip, so can he give $40 for a body
Mr p of bells. For that he can get a
btrap covered with Alaska sealskin,
with sixty silver, brass, gold or nickel
bulls, the metal not being, of course,
so precious as tho names indicate.
Somewhat cheaper straps re made of
beaver or miuk, wool senl, kangaroo,
ooze calf or Persian lamb. Or if the
pleasure-seeker wishes, he can imitate
the tastes of the Russian, tho Lap
lander or tho Tartar. Iu foxtail
plumes ho can find tho upright, the
drooping and the hanging plumes, or
some elegant horse hair plumes, for
830 per pair.
That grand being, the American
heiress, specially created for the re
lief of embarrassed nobles, says the
London Speculator, has attained al
most to the summit of her ambition.
She has not won a throuo yet, though
she may, if the King of Servia is a
wise man ; but she has almost up
proaehed that surpassing altitude. Ac-
cording to the Fall Mall Gazette,
Prince Iseuberg-liirusteiu has been ac
cepted by Miss Pullman, daughter of
the lord of the diuiug cars, and the
hereditary prince is not only the eldest
son of a mediatised prince, one of the
even-born who might murry a Haps
burg, but is himself an imperial high'
uess, his mother having been au Aus
trian archduchess. At least so says
the Almahach do (iotha, which is a
tlnal authority. American brides who
have only won Oolouuus, Borghesoi or
English dukes, will feel quite eclipsed
and take no further pleasure iu din
juonis. The passion fur rank is cor
taiuly not confined to England, though
here it is so strong that ever, the
Queen felt promoted when fehg was
saluted Emjnebb.
LITTLE ALL-ALONEY,
Mttle All-Aloney's feet
I rittnr-patter la the hall,
And his mother rune to meet
And to kiss her toddling sweet,
Ere perchance he fall.
He is, eh, so weak and small I r
Tat what dnger shall he fear
When his mother hovoth nenr
And Be hears her cheering call
"All-Aloney?'
Little All-Aloney's face
It is all aglow with glee,
As around that romping place
At a terrifying pace
LunRoth, pluugeth ho
" And that hero seems to he
All unconscious of our cheers
Only one dear voice he hears
Calling reassuringly ;
"All-Aloney !"
Though his legs bend with their load.
Though his feet thoy seemed so small
Thnt you cannot help forebode
Borne disastrous cplsodo
In that noisy hnll ;
Neither threatening bump nor fall
Little All-Aloney fears,
But with sweet bravado steers
Whither oomes that cheery call I
"All-Aloney !"
Ah, thnt In the years to come,
When ho shares of Sorrow's store,
When bis feet are chill and numb,
When his cross Is burdensome,
Mki his heart is sore ;
Would that he could hear oneo more
The gentle voice he used to bear
Divine with mother love and cheer.
Calling from yonder spirit shore i
"All, all alone!"
Eugene Field, in Chicago Record.
REGINALD.
BY EMMA A. OPTER.
RTHUR CRAIG
tossed his cigar
away and strolled
around to where a
red-nnd-blne ham
mock was slung be
tween two oak
trees, in the big
lawn which was the
great attraction of
the select summer
hotel though it was summer no
longer ; there was an autumn scent in
the soft air. ,
But Lucy Winslow was staying here
still, with her brother's wife and her
little nephew ; therefore Arthur Craig
stayed on also.
She was sitting in the hammock,
with little Reginald beside her. Reg
inald always was beside her; their
fondness for each other was great, it
had been a sourco of affliction to Craig
all summer.
He told himself that ho wasn't jeal
ous ol Kegmalil, but if a fellow could
get a chance to ace a girl alone once a
week or so, it would be a relief. Luto
ly he had particularly wished to seo
Miss inslow alone.
"Hello, Arthur !" said Reginald.
"Ob, Reginald, smd his pretty
aunt, flushing, " say Mr. craigi '
"That fellow that was down here to
see hiin culled him Arthur, and I'm
going to, said Reginald.
He was eight years old, and had the
blue-eyed, fatr-skinned face of
cneruu. inn no cueruo was ever so
pert and precocious as Reginald.
"Let hiin, Miss Winslow," said
Craig.
He dropped down on the grass at
her feet and looked up at her.
Surely Bhe must know by this time I
"Say," said Regil.nld, "you said
you'd take me boating on the river
again and you haven't."
'We've been several times, haven't
we?" said Craig.
How sweet she looked !
"Oh, well, Aunt Lucy's always been
ulong I You said you'd take me, and
you got to!"
"Reginald, dear !" his Aunt Lucy
remonstrated.
"So I will," Craig agreed. "Did
you read that poem I gave you, Miss
Lucy?"
"Youp, she read it," 6aid Reginald.
"Read some of it to me. It ain't any
good. Got a nice cover, that's all."
Lucy laughed softly.
"It is a beautiful thing, Mr. Craig,"
she said. "I enjoyed every word of it. "
"You you saw the passage I
marked?"
Craig's face was flushed and eHger.
"Ycb!" Lucy murmured.
She looked closely at Reginald's
tailor-hat, in her lap.
"I'll tell you, Arthur," said Regin
ald, swinging his lithe little legs, "if
you'd rather take me down to Murphy's
and buy me two ioe-oream sodas choo
olate first and then strawberry in
stead of taking roe out in the boat,
w'y, you can it won't make any dif
ference to me."
"Oh, Reginald!" Lucy begged, with
a distressed luugh.
"Now, that is magnanimous !" Craig
responded. He wondered if his henrty
wish that Reginald w as somewhere else
was apparent? "I think I'll accept
that alternative. That passage I
marked, Miss Winslow I didn't do it
idly. There comes a time in n man's
life when he feels a a love like that
for some woman. "
Did she know all he meant? Her
face was downcast and averted. Reg
inald, however, wasstaringfull at him,
and Craig's inward chafings intensified.
"Huy, you want to make a trade?"
Reginald demanded. "I got a k'leid
oscope, and I'm sick of it. I want a
printing press. 'Cuuso you haven't
got any, but if you'll buy one and give
me, I'll give you my k'leidoseopo and
mebbe fifty cents or so besides. Say,
'11 you do it, Arthur?"
"I'll think about it. Do you want
to run over uud see if tho mail is iu,
Reginald? I'm expectitg a letter."
Reginald reflected and shook his head.
"I guess I'll wait till byuie-by," he
said, "and you e:u go with uie and
we'll top at Murphy's "
"Miss Winslow," said Craig, des
perately, "I don't know whether yon
know whether you hnve guessed I
don't know, Miss Winslow, whether
you you have suspected "
"My goodness !" said Reginald, with
a high-pitched eight-year-old laugh ;
"what are you trying to say, Arthur?"
Craig looked nt Lucy. Was she
laughing at him, too? His face grew
warm with tho sudden wretched sus
picion that she was.
After all, was he not a fool to think
for a moment thnt sho could care for
him? Of a sudden ho saw matters in
a new, a painful light.
If sho had cared for him, would she
not hnve managed now and then that
they might see each other alone?
How rarely had that occurred how
continually had that little nnisifnce of
a nephew dogged them ! Had she con
trived it? Had she made Reginald a
defense, a guard against unwelcome
advances? He was all at once misera
bly certain of it.
He waB warm with mortification, and
cold, at heart with keen unhnppinness.
He had been stupidly slow of percep
tion, thnt was all. But that was a
thing which could be remedied.
Ho rose from the grass, and looked
down at Lucy Winslow with a set
sinile.
"Well, I don't believe I know my
self what I'm trying to say, Reginald,"
ho answered. "I needn t say good-by
to you just now, Miss Winslow, for I'll
be here a day or so yet. But I'll bo
off about Thursday, I guess, and after
a month or so at home, I expect to go
out West on business that will keep me
there indefinitely, I imagine. I shall
think of this summer often, nnd with
pleasure, I assure you.
He bowed, and turned away.
He took himself and his bitterness
up to hisroom. He felt thnt ever hour
until Thursday would be a period of
anguish ; and he began to put things
into his trunk in helter-skelter fashion.
He had half filled it when Reginald
walked in, without knocking. He sat
down in the largest chair.
"Ho?" he remarked, scoffingly,
"that tho kind of a trunk yon got,
with cloth all over it? Mine's got
wooden slats on, nnd tin and brass
nails. What's that thing? Opry-
glasses, ain't it? Say, '11 you give
'em to mo !
"Yes, tako them," said Craig, wear
ily-
Reginald spent several minutes in ex
amining objects in the room through
the glasses, for which he saw nt to re
turn no thanks.
"Say," he observed presently, turn
ing them upon Craig, . "she's crying.
That's whnt I come up to tell you. I
thought mebbe you'd like to know."
"Who's crying?" Craig demanded.
His heart stood still.
"Aunt Lucy's crying," said Regin
ald. "Sho began to cry soon 's yon
turned round, most. I told her
somebody'd see her, but sho didn't
stop, and I wasn't going to stay there
and her a blubbering, and 1 thought
I'd come up and tell you." Reginald
looked up with his augolio blue eyes
and his cherubio smile. oay, l m
going to see what s in that pniHh box,
Arthur. You care.'
Craig strode from the room. Ho
got down the stairs two at a time, and
rushed around to the red-and-blue
hammock between tho shady oak trees.
"Lucy !" he said, bending over her.
"You are not you can't be crying
because 1 in going away, Lucy
There was a hot Hush in tho tearful
face she raised to him.
"Oh, Lucy," he implored, "don't
bo ashamed of it ! If yon are crying
about me, don't you know I am tho
happiest man on earth? I was so cer
tain you .didn't enre for me, and had
tried to ward me off with with
Reginald, you know, because he was
lorever around. But if you can cry
because I am going away, Lucy, then
I can finish what I was trying to say
to you. Y'ou know what it was."
Lucy caught a sobbing breath.
"But you are going out West!" Bhe
faltered.
"Yes, and you with mo !" Craig re
torted. Nobody was near them, and ho sat
down beside her, his hand warmly
clasping hers.
"How did you know I was crying?"
Lucy queried, suddenly, after ten
minutes of glowing happiness.
"Reginald came and told me.
Reginald is a trump," snid Craig "a
jewel !"
"There he comes," Baid Lucy. "Oh,
Arthur, he's got your your smoking
jacket on !"
"It's my bath:robe," Craig re
sponded, with the composure of a
perfect, all-sntisfyiug beatitude. "I
don't mind it iu tho least 1" Saturday
Night.
(Jus For Cooking.
While electricity is trenching so
seriously upon the field of gas light
ing, any recent application of gas
which leads to nn extension of its con
sumption is of importance to gus pro
ducers. Some foreign companies seem
to have done this quite successfully iu
at leust one direction. At the recent
Dundee meeting of tho North British
Association of Gas Managers one mem
ber, Mr. J. Ballautyne, of Rothesay,
stated thnt the company had gained
nn increase of consumption of at least
l'ctty per oeut. iu about six years, due
to eookmg by gas umoug its custom
ers. Tho gas company furnishes the
cookerB to its patrons nt a rental of
ten per cent, of tho list cost price per
annum, which charge also includes
putting them iu, taking them away
and keeping them in order. About
eleveu per cent of the customers are
supplied. His and other companies
have not only found thin a protitablo
part of their market, but it has the
added advantage of being nearly a day
light consumption, thus tending to
equalize the demand on tho plant.
Engineering Record.
SCIENTIFIC A XI) INDUSTRIAL.
Clonds are on tho average about
COO yards in thickness.
American tools aro far better thnu
those of European make.
Tho largest flnh known to science is
the basking shark, an enormous but
harmless variety.
A steel ship has been constructed iu
Cardiff, Wales, with tho standing rig
ging, as well as the hull, all of steel.
The largest known species of night
flying insects is the Atlas moth, a resi
dent of the American tropics, which
has a wing spread of over a foot.
Human hair varies in thickness
from the 250th to the GOOth part of nn
inch. The coarsest fiber of wool is
about one 200th part of an inch in
diameter; the finest only the 1500th
part.
South Amorican ants havo been
known to construct a tunnel three
miles in length, a labor for them pro
portionate to that which would bo re
quired for men to tunnel nnder tho
Atlantic from New York to London.
Many larvsa of beetles and other
insects are UHed for food ; tho bee gives
honey and wax, the coccus mnnnn nnd
cochinenl, tho Spanish fly a blistering
drug, the gnll insects an astringent,
and tho silk worm an articlo of dress.
In Japan there are now twenty pub
blio electric companies in operation.
Further companies aro proposed, and
there is a considerable demand for
electrical engineers. Nearly all of tho
companies are conducted by Ameri
cans. .
A New England firm is introducing
an automatio gas lighter for Btreet
lamps, which works on the prin
ciple of an eight-day clock. It is
explained that the only attention tho
lighter requires is a weekly winding
of the clock movement, and that it
lights the lamp at the required time
and extinguishes it at daybreak.
Safety matches that can be used
without a box are to be placed on the
English market by a German inventor.
The idea is to tip the two ends of the
wood separately with those composi
tions which in the ordinary way go
one on the box and the other on tho
match. To use, break tho wood
across the middlo and rub the ends to
gether.
An agent of tho Suez Canal Com
pany has invented an apparatus to
split the electric lights that illuminate
the canal into two divergent streams,
one sending out rays one way, the
other in tho opposite direction. This
enables ships to approach each other
and meet with perfect safety. Formerly
the lights blinded pilots so that they
could not see vessels coming in the op
posite direction.
A physician points out that fnt
people endure most kinds of illness
much better than thin people, because
they have an extra amount of nutri
ment stored away in their tissues to
support them during the ordenL
Moreover, there are ninny other con
solations for persons of abundaut
girth. They are generally optimists
by nature, genial and jolly com
panions, whose society is universally
preferred to that of people with
angular frames and dispositions.
At a recent State fair an inventor
exhibited a machine that he had con
structed for converting grapes into
sugar and syrup. Experts who wit
nessed the operation and others affirm,
that the process is a complete suc
cess. The experiments were mostly
confined to Muscat and other sweet
grapes known to carry a large amount
of saccharine matter. Heretofore tho
difficulty has been iu granulating
grape sugar. But by this now pro
cess it is claimed that granulation is
perfect.
Tombs ol the Banish Kings.
In tho resting place of the old kings
of Denmark, the Cathedral of Rokes
kild, a reoent visitor notes thnt there
is a column against which n number of
inonarehs have been measured, and
upon which their different heights are
recorded. One of them is Peter the
Great, and we learn by this meaus
that the shipwright C.ur meusured no
less than eighty Danish inches, equiv
alent to something like six feet, ten
inchts in our measurement. Only one
other of the sovereigns was taller, and
that was Christian I of Denmark, who,
according to this authority, was jiiht a
trifle over seven feet English. Tho
Czar, Alexander HI, is about six feet
ouo inch, and is si-out a couple of
inches taller than Christ iau IX of
Denmark, and about four inches taller
than King George of Greece, neither
of whom, nevertheless, is whut would
be called a short man. It is worth
noting that in the same ancient cathe
dral where this column is to be seen,
Saxo GrammaticiiH, the Danish histo
riun from whom Shakespeare borrowed
practically the entire plot of Ham
let," lies buried. London News.
Sewing In I'uhlic Schools.
The course of study iu sew ing in the
Bobtou public schools is interesting
for au amateur of sewing to consider.
To rend of "thimble, emery, scissors, "
set oil' neatly as articles of study, uud
aud to gaze upon a printed curriculum
of "basting, baekstitching, overcast
ing, half-backstitehiiig uud combina
tion of one running and one-half back
stitch," is to realize most iuteusely
the advantages Boston oilers to her
daughters. Iu tho fourth year are
taught, among other things, stocking
darning, straight uud bias felling,
whipping ami sewing on rulhVs, hem
stitching, blind stitching, tucking if
not taught previously, gathers over
handed to a bund, bewing on hooks
and eyes uud buttons, eyelets, loops,
and in the fifth year there is u system
of dress cutting by which girls am
taught to take measures, draught, cut
aud tit a dress wnixt. Boston Transcript.
HIRTIIPLACES OF FOODS.
IHE NATIVE LANDS OF THE VARI
OUS DRAINS AND FRUITS.
Most of Them Have F.volvcd From a
Wild State The True Home of
Indian Corn The Cherry's Origin.
THE grains and fruits used r i
food by man originated :'
different latitudes, and first
(, existed in a wild state some
being indigenous to the tropics and
some to temperate zones. As they be
came improved and differentiated they
were distributed in different countries
according to their utility and the
jprend of agriculture It was but nat
ural that tho first gradual changes
from a wild to a cultivated state
should have taken place in general in
warm countries where the climate
and the advanced state of civilization
conspired to effoct amelioration. For
instance, tho grape is indigenous to
America, nnd hnd existed here in a
wild stato long nges before tho conti
nent was discoved by Oolnmbns, but
it was first put to practical uso in
Egypt and Central Asia, to which lo
calities its origin is sometimes attrib
uted, and whence it was in reality
distributed throughout the Western
world. A similar remark may be made
of rye, one of the less valued cereals,
which is a nativo of tho temperate
zones, and spread thenco toward the
South. It is supposed to have been
unknown in India, Egypt and ancient
Palestine, and, though it was more or
less used by the ancient Greeks and
Romans, it was from the north of
Europe that thoy received it.
Nearly all the grains now in use are
of unknown antiquity. Wheat was
cultivated in eighty-six latitude as far
back in the past as we have authentic,
knowledge. Barley is thought to have
originated in the Caucasus, but it was
known and used everywhere in the
most ancient times. Oats, like rye,
was unknown in ancient India and
Egypt and among the Hebrews. The
Greeks and Romans received it from
the north of Europe. Had there been
an early civilization on this continent
tho wild oats found here and there
would probably have developed into
the useful cereal now considered abso'
lutely essential for the proper nourish
ment of horses. Xnis continent n
credited with having given Indian corn
to tho old world, but this useful cereal
was doubtless known in India and
China many hundred years before the
discovery of America. Cotton wai
used for making garments in India at
a date so remote thnt it cannot even be
guessed at. The fact is mentioned by
Aristotle. The first seeds were brought
to this country in 1621. In 1606 the cub
ture is mentioned in the records of
South Cnrolina. In 1736 the culture
was general along the eastern coast ol
Maryland, and in 1776 wo hear of ll
as fur north as Cape May. The use ol
flax for making clothing is nearly ai
ancient as thnt of cotton, and perhapi
more so, plants of soft and flexible
fiber having been without doubt among
tho first vegetable productions of tht
ancient world and their practical valiu
discovered soon after the invention o'.
weaving.
The eherrv in its improved eondi
i tion is of Persian descent and is am
I other fruit that might have been ira
proved from our wild varieties had oni
civilization been contemporary witl
that which preceded Egypt and Baby
lon in tho valleys of the Tigris and
Euphrates. Peaches, plums and cher
ries were nil known to the ancient
Greeks and Romans.
The apple, the most useful and sntis
factory of nil the fruits of the temper
ato zones, has been known from tim
immemorial. It originated from somf
of tho hardy wild species that are found
sometimes almost as far north as th
Arctic c 'role. It is a fruit thnt like.'
tho cold, and is found iu the greatest
perfection iu parts of New England,
New York nnd Michigan, where th
winters aro severe. As it npproncbel
the equutor it loses its finest of taste,
while still preserving its beauty. I
is a notable fact that, owing to care it
the culture, aud iu part to a preference
fortheclimute, all the fruits mentioned
in this list uro found of better quality
in Europe uud America than in the lo
calities where they are thought tohavt
originated. The oranges of India,
Burmah uud Cochin China are abso
lutely tasteless and those of Malagt
scarcely better. Tho best grown it
Spain come from the region of Valen
cia, where they have been introduced
nt a comparatively recent date. So o!
the cherries, apricots and peaches
which have attained a perfection ir
Europe and America of which the an
cient Persians never dreamed. Al.
these fruits appear to increase iu siz
and improve in flavor in latitude)
where the winter is sufficiently severe
to check the growth of tho tree and
give it u needed rest.
It could Hot be expected, for the
reasons alleged, that Anieiicu, in
habited until a recent date by suvagc
tribes only, should furnish to tht
world products that require thousand
of years of care and culture to give
them their perfect development. The
potato, however, is au invaluable boon
conferred by the new world on the
old. The toiuut-, is uImi of South
American origin, uud, though it playe
a much less important part iu alimen
tation, it is uu article v( food that
Americans would not willingly par)
with. As to the fruits in common use,
though America has done much to im
prove them, there is not one of then:
of which it can reasonably claim to be
the place of origin. Suu l'rancisci
Chronicle.
In Brazil not one per cent, of tli
male or female tcrvauts t ill Bleep iu
their master's house. They insist mi
leuving at thf latest by 7 o i lock iutHt
evening and will not ret urn befoi'u 7
or s :a tli uioiuin;.,
WISE WORDS.
Love gitfns every time it is testoil.
Home is the fortress of the virtues.
The truthful man is dead.; been dend
a long time.
The real ruler of the man is within
him, not without.
The mnn who throws a stoiio at an
other hurts himself.
It is time wasted to nrguo with a
doubt. Kick it out.
It's the youngest mnn who thiuksho
has the least time to spare.
The whisper of a slanderer can bo
heard farther thnn thunder.
There is no good quality which does
not become a vice by excess.
A woman is seldom quite so hnppy
as when she is thoroughly miserable.
Finding fault with another is only a
roundabout way of bragging on your
self. Some people are kept poor because
they will not believe it is blessed to
give.
Tho mnn who is nfraid to look his
faults squarely in the face will never
get rid of them.
No man is perfectly consistent. He
who is nearest consistency steers tho
crookedest course.
The Ethics of Weariness.
In a lecture at Cambridge, England,
on the subject of "Weariness," Pro
fessor Michael Foster said undue ex
ertion was exertion in which tho mus
cles worked too fast for the rest of tho
body. The hunted hnro died not be
cause ho was choked for want of breath,
not because his heart stood still, its
store of energy having given out, but
because a poisoned blood poisoned his
brain and his whole body. So also tho
schoolboy, urged by prido to go on
running beyond tho earlier symptoms
of distress, struggled on until the
heaped np poison deadened his brniu,
and he fell dazed and giddy, as in a
fit, rising again, it might be, and
stumbling on unconscious, or half un
conscious only, by mere niechuuienl
inertia of his nervous system, fnlling
once more, poisoned by poisons of his
own making. AU our knowledge went
to show that the work of the brain,
like the work of tho mnscles, was ac
companiod by a chemical chnnge, and
that the chemical changes were of the
same order in the brain as in tho
muscle. If an adequate stream of pure
blood were necessary for the life of the
muscle, equally true, perhaps even
more true, was this of thebrnin. More
over, the struggle for existence had
brought to the front a brain ever
ready to outrun its morehumblo help
mate, and even in the best regulated
economy the period of most efleetivo
work between the moment all tho
complex machinery had been got into
working order and the moment when
weariness began to toll was bounded
by all too narrow limits. The sound
way to extend those limits was not so
much to render the brnin more ngile
as to encourage the humbler help
mates, so that their more efficient co
operation might defer the onset of
weariness. New York Press.
A Remarkable Career.
A remarkable autography goes with
a damage suit for $5000 filed at Wash
ington, D. C. The complaintisagainst
a Washington street railway. Tho
complainant is Henry Johnson, who
says he was badly cut aud bruised by
tho car starting while he was getting
off. Attached to tho complaint is tho
affidavit of Johnson that he was born
in Georgetown on Christmas day in the
year 1800 ; was hired out to Geiieral
Walter Smith, who comminded the
militia at the battle of Bladousburg;
was captured by Captain Patrick, uud
was present and saw them burn tho
Capitol, and when ho was seventeen
years old he went with Commodore
Porter as a cabin boy on a four years'
cruiso. In 1824 he went ns a footman
with his old mistress to meet General
Lafayette, and escorted him to Gen
eral Smith's iu Georgetown ; was with
General Macon in Florida duriug the
four years' war with tho Indians; had
waited on General Scott, Gaines and
Jessup; lived with General Totteu,
and waited on Daniel Webster, Clay
and Calhoun when living with Mr.
Nicholsou ut Georgetown Heights.
Was with Captain Herudou on the
George Law, that was burned, nud
when the women ami children aud
crew were off he stood close to Cap
tain llernil 'ii at tho wheelhouse, and
he saiil to him : "You go uud shift for
yourself," and he begged tho captain
to come with him, when he replied:
"No; I must stand by my ship." Then
strapping himself to a door he was
thrown into the sea and saved, and
saw the ship go down with the captuin.
The Cats Ate tho Crickets.
There is a man in Harlem who has
a much respected aunt. The aunt is
wealthy aud eccentric. She came to
live with this Harlem resident, aud
having been reared iu the country and
having recently fomo from there she
missed the rural hum of insect,-) and
the agricultural noises of a country
residence.
Being anxious to -please his rela
tive and muko her reconciled to city
life this llurle n man hired a number
of boys to Becure crickets for him. He
bought twenty cans of crickets nud
turned them out to pasture iu his
buck yard. For several nights the
cheerful chirping of the crickets
proved very soothing to the u;fed nit tit.
Tho various eats in the neighborhood
soou became uwaro of the unusual
number of crickets in this back yard.
Cuts Hre fond of crickets, ami now the
Harlem umu has cuts und no crickets
iu his buck yard. He says th it all tho
cuts in Harlem have made his yard a
trystidg place aud tho uuut threatens
to move back into the couutrv. New
York Herald
THE SILENT BATTLli
Phnll I tell ymi about the battle
Thnt was fought In tho world to-dny,
Whero thousands went down like heroes
To death In the pltll"ss fray?
You may know some of tho wounded
And somo of the fallen when
I toll you this wonderful bnttle
Was fought In the hearts of min.
Not with the sounding of trumpets,
Nor clashing of sabers drawn.
But, silent as twilight in autumn,
All dny tho fight went on.
And over against temptation
A mother's prayers were cast
That had come by silent mnrolies
From the lullaby land of tno past.
And over the flold of battle
Tho force of ambition went,
Driving before It, like arrows,
Tho children of sweet content.
And momorles odd and olden
Came up through the dust of years,
And hopes thnt were glad and golden
Were mot by a host of fears.
And the heart grew worn and weary
And said : "Oh, can It bs
That I am worth the struggle
Yon are mnking to-dny for me?"
For the heart itself was the trophy
And prize of this wavering fight !
And tell me, O gentle reader,
Who camps on the field to-night?
Alfred Ellison.
II UXOR OF THE DAY.
Kisses are tho coupons of love.
Don't be a valet to your hero ; it
may disgust him.
The most lovsde of dumb animals
is a good listener. Puck.
After all, tho love knot is the top
knot on the head of human hnppiuess.
Puck.
A cynio observes thnt the most popu
Inr nir with the girls these dnys is a
millionaire.
A girl will never forgive a follow
whom she has jilted for making a suc
cess of life. Puck.
When a mnn gets a hearing in court,
he is likely to hear something thnt ho
doesn't like. Puck.
It is tho man who wenrs Congress
gniters who wonders how tho shoe
string sellers make a living.
Bhe told the young mnn oftentimes
She really couldn't love him :
Six fuel, she : but live foot, he
Of course she folt above him.
Detroit Tribune.
Solemn Stranger "All flesh is
grass." Deaf Mnn "Hey?" Solemn
Stranger "No, grass." New York
Press.
The bulldog has a pretty tight grip
in this world, though he often escapes
trouble by tho mere Bkin of his teeth.
Truth.
Gunson "Another increase in your
family, eh? Son or a daughter?"
Pilbee (gloomingly) "Son-iu-iaw."
Kuto Field's Washington.
"I've como out of this tight squeeze
in pretty good shnpe," snid tho new
half-dollar, fresh from tho stamping
machine. Chicago Tribune.
"Man wants but little hr below,"
Dut 'tis this fact that daunts
He's sure to get a little less
Thuu the little that he wants.
Washington 8tnr.
Some of the fushiouublo schools nre
making world-wide reputations by
teaching the young lady students to
spell their names wrong. Galveston
News.
In tho American Colony: Sho "Is
Miss Bond engaged to Princo Sans
sou?" He "Not exactly. He has uu
option for ninety days, 1 believe."
Harlem Life.
When a woman has quail for dinuei
sho wants to invite iu a neighbor, so
the neighbor may know it, but a man
doesn't want anybody there but him
Bclf. Atchison Globe.
Customer (in bookstore) "I would
like to get some good book on faith."
Clerk "Sorry, sir, but our rule it to
sell nothing to strangers except for
cash." Buffalo Courier.
Miss Newcombe "Seems to be rat her
a good year this for fruit, Giles? Are
all your trees as full of apples an that
one!" Giles "Oh, nuw, miss, only
the apple trees." Judy.
Ho had a sorrel trotting-horto
Which was so praky slow
Ho named him Chinese, utter a while.
llecttuso he wouldn't go,
Detroit Free Press.
Van Noodle "D'yer know, Miss
Tuiigbit, that old iluffer Chapwith
culled me a mull' tho other night?"
Miss Tungbit "Indeed Why, I think
you more closely resemble n boa."
Brooklyn Life.
Jack (who has popped) "It takes
you a long time to decide." Nettie
"I know it ; and I've about concluded
to wear a dcnii train of white chiffon
over lute silk and have no brides
maids. " -Ti mih Sittings.
.Mrs. llillus (after the company had
gone) - "Johnny, you shouldn't have
eutoii those preserved fruits. They
were not intended to be eaten. They
were put on the tahleto till up." Johnny
Billus -"Well, that's what I used 'cm
for, lu imiua. "-Chicago Tribune.
Two cubmcua short time ago had a
fishing imiteh for half a sovereign and
drinks. Suddenly one of the jurvies
fancied he had a bite, uu I, being over
anxious, had tho misfortune to fall
into the river. On his regaining tho
shore, his rival shouted out : "Ml bets
are oil', Jim ; none o' yerdiin' in after
'cm. " Tit Hits.
Landgrave is the only one of the old
Teutonic titles that surics. It was
Invented iu 1130 by Louis of Thuriu
gia, to distinguish himself from tlio
crowd of Grufs who tilled the German
courts.
Mexico's standing Hi'iny number
44,0:1(1 men, or r.boiit double tiuit o.'
tl;y I'll!' f M ltrs