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Job work oub on delivery.
"Jnclo Sam has 1410 clerks sixty
Jrs old and over.
According to present estimates about
20,000 miles of csblo will be laid with
in the next two yoars.
Houston, bo the Pont announces, is
liow the largest city in Texan, its new
directory giving it a population of
01,530.
Mexicans are allowing American ma
chinory to enter that country free, in
order to haHton development. It is
enormously wealthy, but iU wealth is
hard to develop
"Not only was the blarney stone at
the World's Fair bogus," laments tho
Now York Mail and Express, "but tho
beautiful girl from Kildare in one ot
the adjoining booths was born in Pitts-
burg" '
Lord Rosebcry, the new British Pre
mier, onoe introduced a bill to substi
tute an elective Senate for the Honso
of Lords. He is said to bo heartily in
favor of removing the veto power of
the Lords.
Quinine is not used in the United
States as extensively as it was ten years
go. In that time the consumption
has been reduced fully twenty-five per
cent. There is more quinine sold in
Louisiana than iu any other State in
the Union.
Says the Washington Star : It is
with diflioulty that people generally
can bo mado to reulize to-day that the
long business depression is ended.
Yet that is the woloome and demon'
strablo fact. For somo weeks now
the nows dispatches have contained
each day a lengthening list of manu
facturing establishments that had re
sumed operations.
The use of carrier-pigeons hag in
creased to uch a degree that the
French Government has deoided to
impose severe penalties upon all per
sons found keeping them without a
license, and to prohibit the importa
tion of foreign born pigeons, even
when merely destined for pie pur
poses, the object being to prevent any
possible carrying of news with regard
to French military matters, should
there bo necessity.
Tho United States Government owns
a grout many miles ot 'longshore tele
graph lines, connecting lighthouses,
live-saving stations and other Govern
ment property on the coast. It is
usually easy to recognize these Gov
ernment lines by their low poles of
rather small iron piping. These poles
are planted deep in the sandy beach,
and, being of small diameter, they
present little hold to the sea winds,
and thus are seldom blown down.
The United States Government is
seeking by piecept and example to
induce towns with names ending in
the forms burgh, borough, boro, and
burg, to adopt this last form. Burg
is the usual pronunciation iu the
United States of the form burgh, and
most Americans refuse to sound the
final 'h," even of Edinburgh. These
several suffixes, and, as well, bury,
brongh, and barrow, are related to
the Anglo-Saxon verb beorgan and the
German bergen, to hide or to (dieter.
Tho several suffixes are also related to
several Anglo-Saxon forms meaning
an earthwork, and from this came the
application of such suffixes to indicate
fortified town.
One element of difficulty in bring
ing Spanish-American offenders against
the laws to justice iu our Territories
derived from Mexico in the, tirs of race
and kinship. An atrocious criminal
of Mexican blood may be protected
through years of a lawless career by
relatives and family friends who them
selves are eminently respectable and,
except where the safety of friends ot
kindred are concerned, law abiding.
This protection is continued after the
criminal has been brought iutj the
courts, in the way of the bribing and
packing of juries and in the providing
of avenves of escape from prison.
Thus for years the murderer and out
law I'ortirio Tvujillo has gone at large,
or, when apprehended, has found it
easy to escape tho penalty of his
crimes. His present headquarters are
in the Manzano Mountains, east of
Albuquerque, in Eastern Bernalilo
and Valencia Counties, where, with a
price on his head, he perpetrates his
depredations and outrages with a high
and defiant hand. One form of plun
dering with Trujillo and his gang is to
go into a flock of sheep and drive off
hundreds at a time, or ?c run off cat
tle from the plains ranges, kill them,
and sell the meat to inhabitants of
tho mountain towns. They do not
hesitate at murder, either for booty
yr revenge.
PATIENCE.
Be patient ! F.iuty words to spoalt
While plenty Alls tho cup ot life,
Whll. health brings roses to tho cheek,
And for removed are oare and strife.
Vailing so glibly from the tongue
Of those I often think of this
Whom .adoring has never wrong,
Who snarooly know what putlenee Is.
Bo patient I when the sufferer llos
Prostrate bennath tome fell disease,
And longs, through torturing agonies,
Only for one short hour of ease.
Be pntlont ! when the wonry brnln
Is racked with thought nod anxious care,
And troubles In an endless train
Seem almost more than It ean bear.
To feel the torture of delay,
The agony of hope doferred
To labor still from dny to day,
The prize nnwon, the prayer unheard.
And still to hopo and strive and wait
The due reward of fortune's kiss
This Is to almost conquer fate,
This Is to learn what patience Is.
Despair not I though the olouds are dark,
And storm and danger veil the sky
Let fate and courage guide thy bark,
The storm will pass ; the port Is nigh.
Be patient I and the tide will turn,
Shadows will flee before the sun. .
Those are tho hopes that live and burn
To light us till our work is done.
AH the Year Bound.
LILLIAN'S LOVfiR.
BX HELEN FORREST GRAVK8.
H , I am
afraid,'' said
Jessie Mor
ton to her
self, "that I
have missed
my way."
Down in
the rooky
gorgo the
Chiqnet Riv
er roared and
foamed ;
across the
snow- man-
tied landscape.-,
red glow of sunset yet lingered ;
while the black pines and cedars
quivered in tho wind.
"I wish," added Jessie, "that I
had askod that man balow which was
bo right turning to take. But I was
afraid of him; he lookod so cross."
She was a tall, slim slip of a thing,
with blue, wistful eyes, hair of tho
real Scotch gold, and red lips, that
trembled portly with cold, partly with
a certain vague terror at the position
in which she found herself.
In her hand she carried a heavy
bag, for Jessie hod no money to pay
omnibus hire, or to engage a sleigh at
the railway station.
"Supposo," she said to herself,
"this lonolv road nhnnM 1a,1 no.
i where, except into tho woods? Sup
pose it should conduct me straight
into a gypsy camp? For it seems
mv and more desolate the farther I
go. Suppose I should be frozen to
death, all alone here, with no helping
band to save lue?"
"Take car, child," criod a loud,
clear voice. "Do you want to be run
over?"
It was no gypsy, nor yet a block
brown tramp, simply a plump, com
fortable woman, driving herself in a
trim little red cutter. She eyed Jes
sie curiously through her spectacles.
Jessie returnod the gaze with interest
"Pleas.-, madam," aid Jessie, "can
yon tell me il I am near Bucknor Hall?"
"Bless me," said the woman, "don't
you know? Bucknor Hall was burned
down last night, and the old lady was
suffocated in the smoke. Friends of
yours?"
Jessie pat her bag down in the
anowy road ; she trembled violently.
"No not exactly friends," she said.
"But I was engaged to go there as
companion and reader, and and
Oh, what shall I do now?"
The old lady lookod moditatively at
the lash of her whip.
"Come from New York?" said she,
after a pause.
"Yes from the Wilberforce Protec
tive Agency. And I spent all my money
for the ticket here."
"One or two bright round tears do
tached themselves from the long lashes
and rolled slowly down her cheeks,
Mrs. Parkhurst, who prided herself
on her knowledge of physiognomy,
made up her mind on the spot.
"One thing is very certain," said
she. "Mrs. Bucknor will never re
quire a companion an! reader now.
And if you're puzzled what to do next,
yon had better jump in and go with
me."
"Where?" said Jessie.
"Home," said Mrs. Parkhurst.
Now, Jessie Morton herself was not
bad judge of the human face divine,
and in the indescribable solitude of
this moment, she caught, at tho wel
come idea of sheltei and company.
She got into the red cutter, drew the
buffalo robe around her shivering form,
and nestled close to Mrs. Parkhurst,
before she ventctd to ask, timidly:
"Whei is nome?"
Mrs. Parkhurst shook the reins. q he
pony darted merrily over the smooth
road into the purpling dusk.
"It's the Bassett Military Institnte, "
said the, with a very visible pride.
"I'm housekeeper there."
"What!"
"Oh, Uke re !" scolded Mrs. Park
i urst. 'Y- u should held on tight
when wo turn those sharp curves. You
hai very nearly fallen out. Y'es, the
Bassett Instit lie. And a Una idacn it
x
is I I was Linking if your references
turn out wnat luey mould be we
might make room for you there. We
naad a smart vmincr woiiiaii in t.liA linen.
J o -
room. I suppose you can do something
else besides companion!! g and reading
eur"
"Uli, yesT
sip
"You'd like a place?"
"I must have one."
"Then," said Mrs. Parkhurst, "wo'll
think of it. Fourteen professors and
one hundred and ton boys that's a
family to take care of, isn't it? For
tho colonel's wife is an invalid, and
don't troublo herself about the house
keeping. I and my widowod daughter
run the whole establishment, and
there are nine of us sit down to din
ner in the housekeeper's room. There 1"
as they drove in between two massive
stone gate-posts, into an avonue of
rustling tamaracks. "Do you see that
pretty young lady gathering holly
berries? It's the colonel's daughter,
Miss Lillian Bassett."
"You've come back, have yon,
Parkey?" cried a sweet, girlish young
voice. "Did you bring my chocolate
caramels?"
"The candy store was shut up, Miss
Lilly."
"Oh, how perfectly shameful 1"
And a cluster of glaring red ber
ries, aided by a not unskillful hand,
hustled through the air, and hit tho
housekeeper exactly on her nose. But,
instead of evincing offense, Mrs. Park
hurst only laughed.
"Isn't she pretty?" said she, "and
such a mad-cap. Well perhaps mar
riage will sober her down."
"Is she to be married soon?" asked
Jessie.
"We don't quite know," said Mrs.
Parkhurst. "But one of the young
professors admires her very much,
and we think she don't quite dislike
him."
Jessie looked wistfully back to
where Lillian Bassett's scarlet mantle
lighted np the snowy terrace. Why
were same girls so happy, whilo others
toiled ceaselessly on in life's shad
ows? Why was life such a problem?
For awhile, however, the wheels re
volved smoothly. Jessie's references,
forwarded from the Wilberforce Pro
tective Agency, proved all that could
be desired, and she was engaged to
take charge of the linen-room.
During an outbreak of scarlet fever
she found herself particularly efficient
as a nurse, and Mrs. Parkhurst soon
began to wonder bow it was that she
had ever got along without her.
.
"Married, Lilly! Really married !
And to that handsome young pro
fessor of mathematics!" cried Adcla
Maurioe, Lillian's ex-schoolmate.
"Well, I never expected to see you
caged! And he's quite a self-mado
man, they tell me."
"I tell dear Lillian," said Miss Bolla
Bassett, the sharp-nosed maiden sister
of the genial colonel, "that she should
not make too sure of anything in this
world. The captain is very hand
some, and all that sort of thing, but
I'm afraid he's inclined to be a
flirt."
"Nonsense!" cried Lillian, coloring
wrothfully.
"Oh, but indeed, I've met him
twice at the shrubberies, walking with
that pretty yellow-haired girl that
takes care of the linen-room," per
sisted Miss Bella.
"What!" exclaimed Miss Maurice.
"One of tho servants?"
"Now, Aunt Bella, why can't you
hold your tongue, " flashed out Lillian,
"when you know very well that old
Parkhurst says she is a reduced lady?"
"Reduced ladies have no business
wandering about the laurel hedges
with handsome young engaged men,"
viciously retorted Miss Bassett. "And
I really think my brother ought to
inquire into it. There she goes,
flouncing out of the room. Well, I'm
really afraid, Adela, that our Lillian's
temper isn't altogether perfect."
"I don't think mine would be,"
said Adela Maurice, "if I were bad
gered like that.
"It is a dreadful trial, isn't it, to
see your lover drifting off into an
other woman's snares?" said Miss Bella,
wilfully misunderstanding things.
While Lillian, running up stairs,
paused to catch her breath at one of
the big mullioned windows ou the
staircase.
"How I should like to cram a big
bath sponge into Aunt Bella's cen
sorious old mouth !" said she. "Only
to think of"
Suddenly she paused. Down on the
lower pine walk, where the west winds
had swept the path dry of snow, Cap
tain Moretouwas pacing up and down
with the gold-haired young girl at his
side.
"Well, why shouldn't thej?" said
brave Lillian, swallowing the rebel
lious lump in her throat. "I sup
pose he happened to meet her, and "
At this precise moment, however,
the couple paused beside a group of
dark spruces. She could distinctly
perceive her lover bend his tall head
to kiss yes, to kiss the yellow-tressed
lassie. And then they passed on into
the tamarack thickets and were lost to
view.
Lillian stood still, her bright eyes
brimming over with tears, a pang
transfixing her heart as if some poi
soned arrow were buried there.
"And I loved him !" she said, aloud,
"Oh, how I loved him 1 But this is an
end of it all. To-night, when he comes
to talk to me to-night there must be
an end of it all !"
The young professor was certainly
a very handsome man, with his brill
iant blue eyes, his brown hair, shot
with golden gleams, and those straight,
clear-out features of his ; and when he
came cheerily in that evening, Lil
lian's heart failed within her.
''How can he bear himself so
bravely?" she thought. "Where is
his conscience his uiauly truth?"
"I am glad, Lilly, to find you alone, "
said Captain Moreton, tenderly, tak
ing her hand in his.
She jerked it away.
"I hato sitting haud-in-hand," said
she, in answer to his surprised glance.
"It's so so spoony !"
"Well, jiist as you like, darling," he
acquiesced, seating himself beside her.
"To Hud you alone, fur J wautvd to
talk with you very particularly. I
have a secret to toll you."
"There may be more socrots than
one in tho world," said Lilly, in a low
voice.
"A secret that is not entirely my
own a secret that may, pcrhaps.alter
all our existing arrangements "
"It undoubtedly will," said Lilly,
rising to her feet in her excitement.
"You need not go on, Captain Moreton.
X know all, and I give your betrothal
ring back to yon I"
"Lilly, I would scarcrly have thought
this of yon I" he said, gravely.
"No? For what did you take me,
then? Am I not a woman, with a wo
man's'spirit? Do you think I can con
tinue to love a man who is false to
me?"
"FoIro to you, Lillian? But I am
not that. Sweet, whether yon marry
me or not, I shall go on loving you
loyally to my lifo's end 1"
"How many girls do you love at
once?" bitterly asked Lillian.
"I? Why do you ask that question?"
"Because I saw yon this very after1
noon in tho pine walk with another
woman. I saw your arm around her
waist. I saw you stoop to kiss her !"
"Oh, you saw me, did you? Then
my story is half told already. It is
but a short time, Lilly, since I knew
it myself."
.She stood looking at him with large,
surprised eyes.
How dared he speak so lightly and
to her?
"Lilly, that sweet young girl whom
Mrs. Parkhurst has employed in the
linen-room Miss Moreton, she calls
herself is my own sister, and she has
concealed herself from me, fearing
that the knowledge that f lie was in the
institute in such a capacity would
prejudice my future unfavorably.
She was ft governess in Now York
she was coming here as companion to
poor old Mrs. Bucknor, who was killed
in the fire and Mrs. Parkhurst,
ignorant of any relation between us,
bro.ight her here. And, noble heroino
that she is, she would have gone away
without betraying herself, had I not
chanced to meet her by accident. Sho
thought I would be mortified, but in
stead I am proud of her beyond the
power of words to express.
" 'But Miss Bassott?" said she.
"And then I told her that this even
ing you should know all. I have kept
my word. Now I await your verdict.
Have I not reason to triumph in such
a noble sister as this?"
Lillian burst into tears ; she hid her
face on Morel on's breast.
"Oh, Will," she cried, "what a
dreadful goose I have boen to doubt
your love ! Go and bring her here ot
once. Tell her I want to see my dear
new sister. Tell her that, hereafter,
her home must be with mo. There's
plenty of room in the new house for
your sister. But first, Will, kiss me
and tell me that you forgive me,
quite."
And so the bravo young girl, who
had subordinated her wholo life to hor
brother's success, was promoted to her
proper place on life's ladder.
"I could have been happy anywhere
had I known that Will's future was
assured," said she.
And Lillian laughingly told her that
she could be as happy in the new col
lege as anywhere else.
"And we," said she, "will be a deal
happier!"
Miss Adela Maurice and Jessie were
the bridesmaids.
Aunt Bella put her disappointment
in her pocket, and the wedding came
off at Easter, greatly to Mrs. Park
hurst's delight.
"I knew," said that worthy dame,
"that she was something out of the
common the first look I had in her
faoe. Physiognomy never yet failod
mo!" Saturday Night.
At Sea ou an Ice Floe.
Rocently the lifeboat society at
Cronstadt received news that toward
the south shore of the Gulf of Finland,
about thirty miles from Cronstadt,
some 200 fishermen and peasants, and
their horses and sleighs, had been
suddenly carried out to sea on a large
ice Hoe, which had been detached ap
parently by a recent storm. Tho ioo
cutting boat) at Cronstadt were laid
up for the winter and could not be
used. Twenty sailors, however, with
two officers and assistant surgeons,
were dispatched over the ice with two
lifeboats on runners, and a similur
party started to the rescue from
Oren'enbaum, on the other side of the
mouth of the Neva. The latest tele
grams from Cronstadt btato that the
fishermen and others have baen found
and all rescued by means of a bridge
made of poles and planks, which were
thrown out from tho firm ice. Thoy
had been cut off' from the mainland
for at least forty-., ight hours, during
the latter part of which provisions
were passed over to them by the in
habitants of the nearest shore. Scien
tific American.
A Bog ol Destiny.
Phoenix, Arizona, has a bol. tailed
dog which is destined to make a place
for himself in history. Recently he
broke up a race between hose teams.
He acts as chief mourner at all funerals
held in the city. But now one inure
has been added to his accomplishments.
On several occasions recently he has
stopped runaway horses by seizing the
lines iu his teeth and holding ou till
the animals stopped. Sau Francisco
Chronicle.
Caerphilly Without Cure.
Apropos of the prevailing inability
of trainmen on our elevated ond other
railroads to call out the names of sta
tions with distinctness, a geutlemnu
who has lived for several years iu
Wales says that there is at least one
station in that country which the rail
way guards are bound to pronounce
carefully. It is Cucrphilly. Nov
York Tribune.
AN ARTIFICIAL ICE RINK
SAN FRANCISCO'S NOVEL INDOOR
AMUSEMENT,
Real Ice Artificially Produced, on
Which People Skate In Summer
Clothing How the Ice Is Made.
lr KATTNG on real ice in summei
attire is rapidly becoming one
Jl) of the most popular indoor
amusemonts in San Francisco.
To native sons and daughters who
have never experienced the rigors of
an Eastern winter, it is a thrilling
novelty. To those who have enjoyed
the exhilarating sport in a land of
blizzards and frosts, it is made more
enjoyable by the fact that winter dress
is unnecessary.
These are only a few of the reasons
why the frozen lake in the big Me
chanics' Pavillion, with nearly 10,000
square feet of polished surface, is
visited daily by hundreds who can
skate and many who are speedily learn
ing. The sheet of ice is five inches in
thickness, 100 feet long, and sixty feet
wide. At least 600 persons can skate
with comfort at a time, but it was a
trifle crowded on the opening night,
for no less than 811 glided or strug
gled over the slippery surface, accord
ing to the respective skill of the skate
wearers.
"This idea of a big skating rink with
natural ice," said W. W. Donaldson,
"is not exactly a new one in this
country. Right here in this city it
has been tried three times, but each
attempt failed because the organizers
did not master the intricate mochani
cal appliances. This is the first
natural ice skating rink operated in
the United States, and the fourth in
the world. There is one in PariB, an
other in Berlin, and a third in South
ampton, England. Therefore this is
the fourth in the world and the first
in tho United States. The successful
construction of this rink is the result
of ten years of careful study and ex
periments on my part while engaged
in the cold storage business. I was
preparing a similar rink in Chicago
when the disastrous fire destroyed the
big cold-storage building at the
World's Fair. The plant being de
stroyed, we had to abandon the
project.
"How is this natural ice produced?
There is no secret about it. The ice
is produced by a machine of the
ordinary type employed in cold-storage
work. The difference here is in
the manner of freezing, In cold stor
age it is done in tanks and insulated
rooms. Here the ice is frozen three
times a day and the refrigerament
used is anhydrous ammonia. This is
employed to cool the strong brine.
After the brine is cooled it is pumped
through a system of pipes 40,000 feet
in length, " which run through tho
water that is turned into ice. The
cold brine absorbs the heat. The floor
beneath is insulated and made up of
dead air cells and covered with lead
to make it watertight.
"In the placing of the pipes lies the
principal secret. The pipes run in
three centers from a header at each
end of the tank. These headers are
six inches in diameter, and the pipe is
taken out of each header at six-inch
centers. This admits of circulating
tho brine from both ends at tho same
time. The return is also taken from
both ends and carried back to the
brine tank. By this mcauB we have a
cooling surface exposed to the outside
air. In this way we outwit nature, and
our ice surface has au even tempera
ture all over. Through inch pipes
leading from the headers the brine is
kept in constant motion.
"Of course, after being used several
hours the surface of the ice becomes
cut up and somewhat rough. That is
why we have three sessions daily
morning, noon, and night. During
the intervals the snow is swept off the
ice, and with a hose or orchard spray
er a thin coating of water is spread
over the ioe to fill up the cuts. In
this manner wo have a perfectly
smooth surface three times a duy. The
water is frozen at a temperature of
about ten degrees above zero, which
would be as cold, probably, and as
hard as ice frozen in any cold coun
try when the temperature is above
zero." Han Francisco Call.
A Very Variable Star,
One of the most remarkable stars in
the sky, whose antics have puzzled the
astronomers ever since it has been
carefully observed, is Argus, some
times the brightest star in the constel
lation. Argo Navia, one of the most
brilliant constellations in the southern
heavens. When this htar was firnt cata
logued, in the seventeenth century, it
was set down as a star of the fourth
magnitude. In less than a century it
rose to the second ; then at tho begin
ning of this century diminished again
to the fourth, rose in a few years to
the seoond, became in 1H27 of the first
magnitude, then again of the second,
again iu 1838 of the first, rivaling
Sirius iu brilliancy, then gradually
dwindling down to a fctar which at
present is barely visible to the un
aided eye. A satisfactory explanation
of these rapid and singular changes
has thus far baffled the sagacity of
astronomers. 1'icayuue.
Australian Kgg.
Eggs ore now shipped from Aus
tralia to England. A trial shipment,
made by the Hon. J. l. Conner, of
Victorian eggs and t-heese, was lately
inspected by an officer from the de
partment of the Agent-General for
Victoria. With regard to the pockiug
of the eggs, they hud, iu the first
place, been rubbed over with grease
and afterward ploccd with bran, flour,
lime and pollard iu small case. When
opened they were found to bo : 'rfeet
ly fresh aud sweet. The i bosses,
which consisted of both forty j nmds
and "siiiull loaf" sizes, weresoun i uud
ot gcod. flavor. Soieutilio Auwr
HliENTIHC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
Silk is woven by electricity.
Aluminum does not rust or tarnish.
The steam engines of tho world to
day give 60,000,000 horse-power.
There is a prospect of steam tur
bines being applied to torpedo boats.
Zoologists say that all known species
of wild animals are gradually dimin
ishing in size.
A large meteor fell tear Atchison,
Kan., and people for miles around
went looking for it.
The inventors in Chicago ore quar
relling over the ownership of an ap
paratus for tho transfusion of blood.
Opticians say that the eye can de
tect the oolor produced by adding but
one-millionth of a gramme of fuchsine
to a glass of water.
According to careful estimates,
three hours of close study wear out
the body more than a whole day of
hard physioal exercise.
Italian fire engines are supplied with
hose fitted with electric wires, so that
the fireman handling the hose can
communicate with those at the en
gine. Every well-developed adult of the
human species has lung surface equal
to 1100 square feet. The heart's power
is sufficient to lift itself 13,000 feet
each hour.
Among the most astonishing freaks
of tornadoes are the stripping ot
feathers from fowls aud of clothing
from persons. As these effects cannot
be produced by tho wind, they aro
ascribed to electricity.
In the Western deserts a spot of
ground becomes excessively heated,
causing tho air above to descend. This
produces on influx of the atmosphere
from all sides, but unequally, the re
Bult being a gyratory motion and a
sand-storm.
St. Mary's Falls, Mich., is now being
i'-tlized for electrio power produc
tion, the power being transferred to
the San It by wire. A new flouring
mill 'ill be run by electricity, and it is
contemplated to use electrio power in
the iron mines.
Smokeless powder has been followed
by a chemical combination called a
"fog creator." A German named
Reihm is the inventor. It is a shell,
whioh, when it explodes, enshrouds in
darkness the troops at whom it. is
aimed. It also causes the soldiers to
congh.
Edison is now at work with a plan
to grease the sides of ships so that
they will slip through the water more
readily. He says the friction of salt
water and its constituents is much
more than is geneially believed, and
if he can only do what he is trying to
do the Campania can make the voyage
between New York aud Liverpool in
four days.
Professor Falb, of Berlin, prophe
sies a very probablo collision between
the earth and the comet of 1866 on
November 13th, 1899, when the come
will cut the point where the earth ar
rives every year at that time. But ho
does not think harm could come of
such a collision, the material of the
comet being so light, unless the car
bonio acid gas, of which it is probably
composed, should poison our at'
mosphere. But, anyway, he says we
may look out for a magnificent shower
of meteors on that date.
A Student's Confession.
D. A. Costigan, a student at the
University of Fayette, West Union,
Iowa, who was alleged to have been
sandbagged and dragged out of town
on Tuesday night, has made a full
confession in writing exonerating
every one but himself. To avoid tak
ing part in au oratorical contest,
Costigan besmeared his clothes with
dirt and his face with blood ond in
jected fluid under tho skin above Inn
eye so that the eyo appeared swelled
as if struck by a club. He reappeared
at his room at 11 o'clock at night and
told his room-mate that uaknown men
had knocked him down, currying hiui
four miles in the country. The mutter
was investigated by the college offi
cers, but no clue could bo obtained.
Costigan's actions excited suspicion,
and finally his room-mute charged
him with complicity iu the mutter.
Costigan then admitted that he hud
planued the whole affair to escape the
contest aud create a sensation. Costi
gan is about twenty-live years of age.
He was a candidate for County Superin
tendent of SchoolB in Clayton County
last fall. He has left the university.
New York Post.
IO tux Kalers.
According to Homer, the lotus eat
ers were a people who lived ou tho
northern coast of Africa, visited by
Ulysses in his wanderings, and who
endeavored to detain his companions
by giving them tho lotus to eat who
ever ate of this fruit wished never to
depart. The Arabs culled the fruit of
the lotus the "fruit of destiny,"
which they believe is to be euteu iu
Paradise. The lotus is a shrub two or
thrne feet high, and its fruit, which is
produced in great abundance, is
dwurf of the size of a wild plum,
which has a pleasant, sweet taste. The
name lotus has beo ugiven to several
beautiful specimens of water lily, es
pecially to th blue water lily aud tho
Egyptian water lily. Chicago Her
ald. An Alrirau Prince.
What do you think of this for a
name? Eyo Kkpeuyou Eyo II. That,
however, is the uaiue of an African
Prince taken by au Englishman to
Liverpool to be educated, uud now ho
is so cold, shivering all day over tho
fire, he asks but for one thing iu the
world to go back to Africa, where
once he went about in bare feet aud
Miiihliiue to bis luwjt'H Otiuteut, New
Yuik Journal,
SONO OK THE RED BIRD.
When tho first faint glow of light
On my window, pale and white,
Wakes the thought that night Is o'er
When I fain would slumber more,
And at range visions lade and glow
As my dreams flit to and fro, 1
Suddenly without I bear
Piping clear, but soft and near :
"Cheer up, oheer up, cheer ! Choer t
Day is coming, dny is hero !
Merry, merry, morning, mrry I
Sleep no more, O do not tarry,
Light is breaking, cheer, oheer, cheerP
Lying there in vain regrot
That the day owes night a debt .
That the dark Is soothing still,
Though the light will lead and thrill ;
Musing o'er a fading dream,
Conning o'er some worldly schems,
Suddenly again I hoar
Sweet and mellow, strong and clear ;
"Cheer up, oheer np, oheer ! Cheer I
Love Is waiting, love is near !
Money, money, nay, not money,
Makes life hnppy, makes love sunny I
Work is blessing, cheor 1 Cheer ! Cheer 1"
Charles W. Stevenson, in Chicago Record,
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A close friend Tho one who novel
lends yon anything. Philadelphia
Record.
Are the members of a college Pi Eta
society particularly partial to pastry I
Lowell Courier.
Generally a man can get into fash
ionable society with a golden wedge.
new lorn journal.
Woman's sleeves must be hot-tempered,
as they aro nearly always ruffled
np. Florida Times.
Jones "What does he do?-' Brown
'Do?" Why, he doss e 'erybody."
Florida Times-Union.
As muoh hate can somet imes be put
into a word as can be fired out of
muskot. - - Ram's Horn.
A genuine sign in a Market street
restaurant, Philadelphia : "Six o'clock
dinner hero from 6.30 toi.30.'- Life.
The fellow who tells all he knows
wouldn't be half so insufferable if he
knows all he tells. PhiadolpUia Rec
ord. It is an indisputable fact that every
man who wears his watch In his vest
pocket is behind time. Philadelphia
Record.
Nedders "What's a bon mot?"
Slowitz "Something you always think
of after it's too late to say it." Chi
cago Record.
If yon have nothing else to do see
how rapidly yon can say "sonp
soothes theosophists thoroughly."
Texas Sittings.
The Benefits: "What makes soma
girls look young so long?" "The men
ore to blame. They won't propose."
Life's Calendar.
A man denies himself pleasures whon
he is young that he may have money
to pay out to the doctors when he is
old. Atchison Globe.
It is a mistake to suppose that wo
men ever marry for money ; some
times, however, they marry for tho
want of it. Boston Transcript.
Sime "Your father was .in old
whaler, wasn't he, Jimmie?" Jiminio
"Yes; but near as 1 can remember
ma did her share of it! Boston
Courier.
"My wife is very sick, Doctor " "Is
she suffering much?" "Sufloringj
Well, I should say so. Why, sha had
such a bad cold she coa't talk."
Spare Moments.
"How is it that Liditop takes so
much interest iu all that Nupop's baby
tries to say?" "Oh, he's writing a
dialect story aud depends ou the baby
for ideas." Inter-Oceau.
Stuyvesant "Half the world never
knows how tho other half lives."
Madison "That's what comes of liv
ing in flats without au air shaft."
Browning, King & Co.'s Monthly.
Affable Swell "Well, the fact is,
my name is not Smithson. You see,
I am traveling incog. There's my
card." Fellow Passenger "Glad to
hear it. I'm traveling iu pickles.
Here's mine." Brooklyu Life.
Mother "Don't you think that a
boy of your size could take the tacks
out of this curpet if he wanted to?"
Small Son "I guess so. Shall I tako
my sled and go out aud see if I can
find one who wiits to?" Good News.
Lady "You say you are a musician.
Well, I'll give you a little pructiee.
Just go over to the woodhed aud
tackle a few chords." Tramp "Ex
cuse me, madam, I am a tenor and I
fear those chords are too heavy fqi
me. " Philadelphia Record.
"I wish some missionaries didn't
vary so much," said King Kanuabilc,
as he swallowed his portion of the roast.
"I wish ho, too," said (.jueen Kunaa
bile, "but there are so many brands ol
Presbyteriaus these days it's hard to
tell what to order." Harlem Life.
Man of Fashion (reading a newspa
per that a villugo schoolmaster ha I
shot hims.df because he could not pay
a debt of fifty murks) "Ridiculous!
Why, if I were to shoot myself for
every fifty marks that I owe I bhou-d
1hi kept at it all tho year round!"
Fliegeude lilaetter.
Mrs. Houeymoou (to brid 'groom, in
railway train) "Do yon love me?"
Old l'urty (confidentially fiom the
other seat to the bridegroom) "She's
asked you thut foty seven tiu.es al
ready. I get out here, but I'll leav.
the score with this gentleman by tho
window." Tit-Hits.
It Worked Both Ways: .She
"Does the fact thut I huvo moniy
make any difference to you, deares '
He "Of course it do. s, my own. It
is such u comfort to know that if 1
should die you w on Id l provided for. "
She "Hut suppose 1 should die?"
lie "1'hen I would be pt'ovj led fwi,"
-Lifo's Calendar.