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.
Young as Oklahoma in, bcr fat-morn
Lave invested $340,000 in farming im
plements. Railroads in Holland nra 10 carefully
managed that the accidental death on
thera average only ono a year for the
entire country.
More permanent progress hns boon
made in sheep culture during the last
five years, the Chicago Times avers,
than during the last half century.
Officials of the Sraithsoninn Institn
tion at Washington have discovered
evidences which load thorn to believe
that the mound builders were the pro
genitors of the modern Indians.
It is not generally known that Bal
timore has booomo the headquarters
of the spiritualists of the United
Status. Believers have proposed the
erection of a $1,000,000 church in that
city.
Kentucky is said to have been tho
first State in the Union to grant sohool
suffrage to woinon in 1815. Kansas
followed in 1801. To-day the women
of twonty-one States have this privi-
-0K-
Census figures quoted by Edward
Atkinson, in the Forum, show that tho
amount of real estate enoumbranoes in
the eleven counties in and immedi
ately around Now York City exceed
the total mortgage indebtedness on
all the farms in the Unitod States.
"What do you think of a civiliza
tion," the Denver Itoad asks, "that
will pay a girl six cents for making a
shirt in a sweater's den and gives ten
cents to a Chinaman for washing the
shirt ?"
Australia is greatly bothored just
now by an Indian question akin to our
Chinese problem. The Chinese immi
gration evil has been chooked by strong
, restrictive measures and the imposi
tion of a heavy hoad tax. There is
now a great and growing influx of
Afghans, Fanthans and other Asiastio
tribos from tho odd oorners of India,
and these people have become a peril
and nuisance in many ways.
A benevolent agency organized in
New York last winter that excited
genoral interest was the loan society
originating with Rov. Dr. Greer, of
St. Bartholomew's Churoh. Fromi
nont citizens backed it up and made it
a snocess. In all 171 loans have been
made. In no case was thore default
iu payment. This sort of philan
trophy has now statutory recognition
in New York State. Governor Flower
has signed a bill incorporating the
Provident Loan Society, capitalized at
$150,000, and to chargo a rate of in
terest not to exoeed twelve per cent.
Pawnbrokers charge thirty-six for
similar service. If any profits accrue
from the business thoy will be used
for improvements and branch offices.
The iuoorporating act provides eight
months shall bo allowed for rodemp-
ion after tho expiration of the legal
The art of flying seems to the Inde
pendent to be almost in sight, though
it may be some time yet before we ac
tually reach it. It is already quite
clear that the amount of power re
quired to maintain a body of consid
erable weight in the air and to drive
it forward with great velocity is noth
ing exorbitant ; the difficulties seem
to lie rather in the regulation and
direction of the machinery. A recent
investigation of Professor Langloy up
on what he calls "the internal work of
the wind" throws a flood of light upon
Home of the most puzzling problems
of aerial navigation. The "soaring"
of birds has long boon a mystery ; tho
way iu which, for hours, -ometiinos,
they circle round over the same spot
without an apparent motion of the
wing. Langloy find tho explanation
in tho fact (which he has demonstrated
experimentally) that the motion of the
wing is technically speaking an "un
steady" motion ; that is, neighboring
portions of air move wi'h very differ
ent directions and velocities so that
the wind-stream is full of whirls and
eddies. By taking advantage of this
the soaring bird maintains his flight
without doing any "work ;" he has
simply to change slightly the inclina
tion of his wings as he steers himself
out of one eddy into another by an
action exquisitely skilful but not
laborious. It is like the art of the
sailor who beats against the wind by
hauling his sheets and trimming his
sails. By runuing a while in one cur
rent of the wind-stream and then sud
denly steering out into an adjoining
one of different velocity and direction
the bird is able to utilize the energy
of the newly-enoountered breeze to
lift him or carry hiut where he withes
to go.
THREE LOVE SONQ3.
Hor tnndor little hand,
That might not lift a lily's wind-blown enp,
Seeking my own, In all the darkened land,
Is strong to bear me op I
Two rose loaves might enfold
Its downy whiteness, hiding It away ;
But lo I how lightly doos that dear band
hold
Tho life of me to-day (
Gentle, and sweet, and strong
It tundnrod from my soul that hand shoal i
be,
I would not mourn Its tender touoh.es
long
Roaohlng from boaven to me I
Love will some time build his nest
Where the cold snows gloam
On tho mountain's oloutly breast
Thon, whore valleys droam.
Tint we have no word of blame
When Love whispers his sweet namo.
He Is cruol, ho is kind
tloro and there he goes,
Frowning In a stormy wind
nesting In a rose.
But we have no thought of blame,
When Love lightly broathes his name!
Kind or cruel lot him bo
Tence or paining give j
When he loans his lips to me,
Lifo Is sweet to live.
Fame or tot to 'tis the same,
When Lore whispers his sweet name!
limou I lovo you, dear,
Mrnih sorrow do I bear j
Yet joyfully those sonows meet,
And with my lips I bold them sweet
B'jcausa I love you, dear I
Because I love you, dear,
No jeweled orowns I wour j
But crowns of eruelest thorns to ma
Are soft ns rosiest wreaths could be
Because I love you, doar !
Because I love you, dear,
1 trend the darkness here ;
But sweet flowers blossom In tho snow,
And loveliest lights In darkness glow
Because I lovo you, dear !
Frank L. Stanton, In Atlanta Constitution.
A PAROXYSM OF COLOR.
BY MRS. V. I. BAYNB.
HEY were having a
birthday party at
the home of Neely
Hollingwood
called Neely in
short for Cornelia
and as Mrs. Hol
lingwood was not
feeling very well
they had omitted
dancing and spent
the evening in old
fashioned games of
An intellectual sort.
The change had
pleased them all, for it introduced a
variety of pleasing amusements, and
when it was over refreshments were
served, and everybody enjoyed the
occasion that is, everybody but Neely
herself, whose birthday was being
celebrated. Her disappointment was
caused by the absonoe of her lover,
who had gone out of town on business,
and could not possibly return before
a late hour, when he had promised to
look in on his way from the depot.
Neeley was the girl about whom this
story was told : fciho had attended a
party after her engagement to Bruce
Lovull, and be, not being invited, was
naturally absent. When she went
home she threw herself pouting into a
chair and looked bored and dis
couraged. "Who was thore?" asked her mother
who, mother-like, was sitting up for
her.
"Nobody !" auswered Neely, in a
pathetic voioe.
It was only a week later when Neely
attended another party, this time
under the escort of her lover.
That night when she went home her
fjico was radiant. Mrs. Hollingwood
asked her usual question while Neely
was waltzing about the room.
"Who was there?"
"Everybody," answered the happy
girl, giving hor mother a good-night
kiss. ,
So on this birthnight celebration a
black cloud settled on Neely 's horizon
which foretold a storm.
At 11, just as the company was de
parting, Bruce Lovell arrrived and iu
time to see his former rival, Archie
Dean, sitting it out with Neely. Then
Neely's black cloud turned a dark and
dizzy green.
Archie saw the aspect of things and
it did him good. He lingered after
the others had gone, until Neely had
frozen him out, and then he rose to
go. As he did so he dropped a small
folded paper on the table. It looked
like a note, and the superscription was
in Neely's hand.
While the girl was formally seeing
Dean off, Bruce possessed himself of
the note. He was green with jealousy
and the color did not ohange when he
read iu Neely's handwriting these
words :
"Hit or elope."
"Perfidious girl!" ho muttered,
after the fashion of the stage lover,
and then Neely returned, and he
crushed the fatal note iu his hand and
looked as if he had swallowed the
poker and several ramrods.
Poor Neely. She could not for tho
life of her make things comfortable,
for when Bne tried to explain that
Archie Dean had not been invited, but
had happened in, it only made matters
worse, and her lover became a pyra
mid of frozen greenness, like a mam
moth pistachio ice cream with all the
sweetness left out. She did not know
that Bruoe had possessed himself of
tost mysterious and ambiguous note.
But she knew it next day after he
had called upon her father and mother,
shown them the troublesome docu
ment and asked them to intercede aud
prevent the elopement which had been
surreptitiously planned.
4
I,
At first Neely langhod a merry,
wioked, musical laugh. Thon, as she
looked at the green face of her lover,
she became indignant, and finally re
fused to say a word either in defense
or explanation while he was present.
So the engagement was endod, and the
love that was to spread out over a
whole lifetime proved futile at its first
trial.
Neely went about with hor Load in
the air and wretched depression at her
heart. Bruoe contemplated all the
different forms of suicido, and had
about deoided on paris green as being
the best for his purpose, when a new
Bonrce of interest wag discovered.
Archie Dean wag dancing attendance
on Myrtle Blair, Neely's dearest
friend. Bruce received several mys
torlous hints that thera wag a mistake
somewhere, and from being groen he
turned to a blue of the docpest dye,
and finally sought counsel of Mrs.
Hollingwood, Neely's mother, who
had been his warm friend throngh it
all, but was prevented from spoaking
by a solemn promise extracted from
hor hy her daughter.
"Go and ask Neely herself abont tho
note I'm sure it never meant any
thing," nrged Mrs. Hollingwood.
But Bruoe was not ready for such a
sacrifice of his pride yet. He waited
another while, and then he did just
what he ought to have done in the
first plaoe if he hadn't been as green
as a Christmas goose. He went to
Neely and said :
"Take me back on probation, and I
will prove myself worthy of your con
fidence. I know that jealousy is cruel
as the grave."
Neely met him half way, after tho
fashion of her sex. .
"And I will explain all about that
note," she said, after they had kissed
and made up. "You see, we were
playing"
"Hush," said Bruce, in a peremp
tory manner that somehow Neely
liked, "not a word about that miser
able note nor our quarrel over it, un
til the anniversary of our wedding
day. Then, if I have not once been
jealous, you may tell me the whole
story, whatever it is."
To this his sweethoart willingly
agreed, and in the happiness of recon
ciliation the green cloud almost en
tirely disappeared from their horizon.
Archie Dean wag the best man at
the wedding and at the same time the
announcement was made of his en
gagement to Myrtle Blair.
The year passed, as years do, with
out regard to individuals, and the first
anniversary of the wedding day came
around. Nesly suggested that the
same company of friends be invited
that had participated iu her birthday
celebration when Brnce had discov
ered suoh a flaw in his happiness. At
the same time they oould make it a re
ception for the lately-wedded pair,
Archie and Myrtle. As all these had
heard of the quarrel without knowing
of the exact circumstances, and had
congratulated them on thoir making
up at the time, they had no hesitancy
in laying the whole matter before
them. Besides,- all these young poo
pie had bee a their friends and chums
since infancy.
When all had assembled, Bruce
made a little Bpeech, after tho fashion
of the surprised host who has received
a orayon portrait of himself and says
in a quivering voioe: "I now rise to
offer a few febble remarks," He said
that "trifles er light as air are to
the er jealous confirmations Btrong
as holy writ" Here there was ap
plause that would have done the orig
inal author's soul good to hear. He
oontinued that he was one not easily
jealous, but being wrought interrup
tions of laughter, after whioh he
dropped the language of hyperbole
and said honestly that he had made a
great fool of himself applause but
he wished now to say that ho had era
dicated by hard work every trace of
jealousy from his nature. Then he sat
down and Neely arose.
"Let us have a game of anagrams,
just as we did lost year at my birthday
party. This time I will give you the
transpositions, and you can form out
of them the original words."
She passed around a number of slips
of paper, ou eaoh of which some
sentence or phrase was written. Whon
she handed Archie Dean his slip, he
said :
"Why, I had this before, but I
can't remember for my life what it
means. "
"Head it aloud," commanded Neely,
while Myrtle and Bruoe looked on
much interested.
"Here goes," said Arohie. "flit
or elope. It's Greek to me."
"I think it is to Bruoe," said Neely
laughing, "it is the transposition of a
flower a beautiful sweet-soeuted blos
som the color of "
"Jealousy," whispered Bruoe in her
ear.
"No, goosey, it is not green. It is
a gem and a chronological instrument
also. The phrase you have there,
Archie, and whioh Bruce construed
into an invitation to an elopement, is
what you made out of it yourself."
"I remomber," shouted Bruce, "the
original word was heliotrope."
"Exaotly," laughed Neely, "and
now let us have a game."
"I should say that the game was
up," remarked Bruoe, and at that mo
ment the last vestige of the greeu
cloud disappeared from the clear sky
of thoir happiness. Detroit Free
Press.
Bob Mawsley, of Jackson villa, Flu.,
has a pair of young eagles whioh he
has trained to carry through the air a
basket containing his seven-year-old
boy. His only regret is that he can't
enjoy a trip himself till he has caught
a few more of the birds.
Sets of admission tickets to the late
lamented World's Fair are now being
hawked about iu New York City by
street merchants as souvenirs, and are
also sold in a good many small shops.
BCIESTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The spots on the sun wore first ob
served in 1611.
In South America rain frequently
falls in torrents from a clear sky.
The metals whioh have been proved
to exist in the sun are iron, sodium,
nickle, copper, zino and marium.
A speeios of ape, closely resembling
the African gorilla, hai boon discov
ered on the Mosquito coast, Nicar
agua. One mile of wire, such as is used in
the manufacture of hair springs for
watches, would weigh less than half a
pound.
- Artificial ice is now so made in
France that upon giving it a rap it
will separate into small cubes instead
of irrogular lumps.
The lines over which it is proposed
to lay submarine telegraph cables are
now as carefully surveyed as any lino
of proposed railroad.
A doctor says in time the lungs of
Pittsburg folks get a very dark hue,
on account of the sooty smoke they are
obliged to breath constantly.
A late theory of catching cold is
that when ono enters a cold room after
being heated the bacteria in the room
flock to the warm body and enter it
through open pores of tho skin.
An astronomer calculates that if the
diameter of the sun is daily diminished
by two feet, over 8000 years must
elapse ere the astronomical instru
ments now in use could detect the
diinunition.
Sinoe the beginning of this century
no less than fifty-two volcanic islands
have risen out of the sea; nineteen
disappeared, being submerged; the
others remain, and ton are now in
habited. The colors of the chameleon do not
chango instantaneously, but require
a considerable longth of time The
change is a provision of nature for tho
protection of a helpless animal from
innumerable enemies.
The strongest animala in tho world
are those that live on a vegetable diet.
The lion is ferocious rather than
Btrong. The bull, horse, reindeer,
elephant and antelope, all conspicuous
for strength, choose a vegetable diet.
It has been estimated by competent
civil engineers that the Mississippi
River aunually discharges 19,500,000,
000,000 cubio feet of water into the
Gulf of Mexico. Of this prodigious
quantity the 1 -2900th partissodiment.
Thus it will be seen that the Missis
sippi annually deposits enough mud in
the gulf to cover a square mile of sur
face to a depth of 210 feet.
A collection of bird bones recently
received by the Paris Aoademy of
Scienoe, indicates that at a period
contemporary with man Madagascar
contained at least twelve species of the
gigantio birds, all capable of flight.
The conditions under which the bones
wcro found indicate that the birds
lived on shores, with troops of small
hippopotami, crocodiles and turtles.
It is a remarkable fact in botany
that no species of flower ever embraces,
in the colors of its petals, the whole
range of the spectrum. Where thore
are yellows and reds there are no
blues ; when blue and red ocour there
are no yellows, and when we have
blues and yellows there are no red.
Tulips come nearer to oovering the
whole range of the speotrum than any
other species. They can be found
ranging through reds, yellows and pur
ples, but a blue one has never been
found.
The Changeable Flower of China.
The botanical oddity of the Flowery
Kingdom is the flowering tree, Known
to the scientists as the Hibiscus mu
tabilis. Its beautiful flowers, gener
ally double, are pure snow in tho
morning, bright pink at noon and of
a deep, blood red at sunset, fading
into a sky-blue by bedtime. The
leaves of this particular tree somewhat
resemble those of the grapevine, being
deeply notched, or serrated, rough
and of variable lengths. The tree is
not only a native of China and Japan,
but is found in great profusion in In
dia, Corea and Siam. The "Cham
eleon flower" (so called on account of
its changeable colors, because not yet
scientifically identified and named),
reoently discovered in the Isthmus of
Tehauntepeo, is only nu American
variety of Hibiscus mutubilis. Incase
of the former, tho colors do not pass
abruptly from one shade K another, but
ohange gradually from the soft whito
of the morning to the pink and rod of
noon and evening, and thence to the
blue of night.
The Tehauntcpec tree is larger than
its Chinese relative of similar habits,
and the flowers have the pecularity of
only giving forth perfume when they
are red.
Several other species of Chinese
shrubs aud trees bear flowers which
change color daily, chief of whioh is
the Oriental hydraugea, which changes
from bright greou to a deep pink.
St. Louis ltepublio.
Various tirades ot Salt.
There is an old boarding-house oke
to tho eflect that a chronic grumbler
on leaving once said to his luiulliuly
that she provided her boarders with
the very best silt he had ever tasted.
This was supposed to be funny, but as
a matter of fuet there is niueh ditfor
enoo between different grades of salt
as between different grades of sugur.
Because salt is nearly i s cheap as sand,
people are apt to consider thut it is of
very little importance anyhow, but
the trade in it is a very extensive one,
although it does not yield much protit.
This universal condiment can bo
bleached and prepared for the table
so as to make it quite ornamental as
well as useful, or it can be served up
iu a shape unpleasant to the eye and
almost imperceptible to the taste.
St. Louis Globe-Der- jerut.
A GREAT CITY'S REFUSE,
DISPOSING OF NEW TORK'S MOUN
TAINS OF RUBBISH.
Towlnn the Stuff to the Lower nny
Curious Kinds Seventeen Dump
ing Places Along the Ulver Fronts.
1"THE old shoes and hats and
, bannna peels, upon which
even the wicked are bound to
fall, the broken glass and
rags, and all the rest of the rubbish
which litters the streets, all tba nonde
script and multitudinous things which
the people of Manhattan Island havo
thrown away, and which tho junkmen
have missod where do they go?
Thore are seventeen dumping placos
on tho two river fronts of Now York,
where, among other less romantic ref
use, arc deposited tho slippers which
soubrettes and other people have out
worn ; love letters and bills
which never will bo paid, and which
are tumbled into the capacious insides
of big scows, along with bits of boxes
and bands of barrels from commercial
neighborhoods downtown and the dis
carded bottles from flats uptown, and
are shoveled and raked over and then
go on a sea voyago from which they
never come back.
The shovels are continually at work,
and n whole army of men is busy
pretending to earn its Bharo of tho
great fat appropriation which tho tax
payers ot New York are forced to fork
over yearly.
There is the force in the niaiu 5Tfico
of the department in tho Court Build
ing in Centre street clorks of this
and clerks of that. Then there are
great stablos in different parts of tho
city, stables where hundreds of horses
rest. Thero nre blacksmith shops,
pnint shops, and men in pyramids to
do tho work in them. Then there are
inspectors of one thing and another at
all stages of tho game.
At each of the seventeen dumping
places nlong shore there is always a
foroe of inspectors and timekeepers nt
all hours of day and night keeping
tab on tho number of loads and on the
men who bring thom.
The scows are all reloaded as soon
as they come back from thoir journey
to sea. Tho tugboats which tow tho
dusty burdens out on every tido only
wait long enough in port to get coal
up and have a change of crews made.
Then on the next tide oft they go to
sea again, trailing at the end of long
hawsers cargoes of the city's dirt.
Aboard the garbage scows you will
always see six or eight men nt work.
Great blindiug clouds of dirt nre
around them such as would smother
an ordinary citizen, but they don't
mind it. With huge forks they claw
and shovel aud dig away, dragging
out from heaps everything that can
go to the ragpickers and bring a penny
back.
These sorters of garbage are Italians,
and are part and paroel of the great
padrone contract system. The city
gets, it is said, from the bosses, $0,
000 or $80,000 a year for the privilege
of soiting the stuff, and under the
dumps on all the piers are great dark
cavernous recesses where nsh-oovored
men and women aud children sort
over whatever the fellows with their
picks have weeded out.
A World reporter went the other
night on the Mutual, one of the
rattlety-bang old tugboats which tow
the garbage dumps down tho bay.
Tucked under tho cushions in the
pilot-house the library of the craft
was a book which had been plucked
from the ash-heap a pretty book,
with a blue binding with gilt lettering,
a gift book, with the name of a well
known society young woman written
on its title page. The lady had tired
of it, seemingly, and with its story it
had gone through all those hands and
all that dirt to furnish a pastime
for the patient crew of the Mutual
in their idle hours.
And all those curiosities and family
secrets travel under a strenuous deal
of system. There is not a stage that
garbage goes through which is not
governed by a "regulation." From
the time that your Bervant rolls the
barrel to tho curbstone there is a fine
or imprisonment or a penalty of some
sort attached to uny mishandling of
its contents. There is a documentary
report to bo made, too, showing thut
these requirements have been fultlllod.
Tab is kept ou every barrel of ashes.
So accurate is the system thut a care
ful detective might, with the data
theso books and pnpers would furnish,
trace to its sourco any crime the evi
dence of which was brought to light
in the garbage dumps.
Careful scrutiny is maintained, too,
over the refuse after it leaves port.
There is a shore inspector who rides
up and down in a tugboat and watches
for a strict fulfillment of the rules
about siguals, about tho dumping at
tho proper distance outside the Hook,
to wit, nearly twenty-three miles from
the city, aud about dumping at the
lroier time, so that the tide shall cur
ry all tho garbage out to sea instead
of back into tho lower bay. The regu
lations thut a tugbout captuiu must
beur in mind, and copies of which ho
always curries with him, would make
two columns of tho World. But then
it is a big city and a big task to keep
it cleuu.
It is no wonder that the regulations
are niuny, no wonder that tho work is
such a dirty one, no wonder that the
pickings of tho refuse are worth so
much in hard dollars. New York
World.
Soup Futul to (ierrns.
Two fumous chemists of Hamburg
have discovered that a preparation iu
proportions of an ounce of koup to
three gallons of wuter will destroy
cholera bacilli in a few minutes. If a
small quantity of corrosive sublimate
be added to tho soup greater certainty
is secured, but the soap alono will do
the work. New York Telegram.
Losses la Great Battles,
At Mollwitz tho Prussians lost eight
een per cent., the Austrian twenty
eight per cent. At Kolin, Frederick's
foroe suffered to the extent of thirty
seven per cent., while bis victory cost
his enemies only fonrtoen per cent.
At Zorndorf, the bloodiest battle of
which we have any record that we may
roly upon, the proportion of loss to
the total forces engaged rose to the
enormous total of from ono-half to
one-third. Ennorsdorf was almost as
destructive to human life, and Freder
ick lost thirty-five per cent., against
twenty-six por cent, of the allies.
With tho advout of Napoleon nnd
the loosened formation of tho Revolu
tionary armies, losses were at first di
minished ; but at Aspcrn the Austrian
left nearly twenty-eight per cent, of
thoir men on tho battlefield, and the
French, although the bulletius denied
it, aro said to have been weaker by
one-half after tho battle. Borodino,
too, deprived tho Russians of thirty
six per cent, and the Fronch of twenty
five per cent. During the lator Na
polconio wars wo find tho losses some
what lower, although after Ligny tho
Prussians wore weaker by as niauy as
twenty per cent., and tho victory of
Waterloo cost us rather moro than
that proportion.
When, however, we turn to tho cam
paigns which succeeded tho lull of ex
haustion following tho downfall of tho
first empire, we nre confronted with
no such bloody reoords, iu spite of the
invention of percussion caps, rifles and
even riflod cannon. The allies of tho
Alma only lost somo six per cent., and
tho Russians fourtaen per ceut. Inkcr
manu, however, was as bloody as
Waterloo, but it wai a etrugglo in
which tactics played a very small
part.
The losses at Magenta and Solferiuo
were comparatively flight. Although
tho couBequeuces of Kouiggratz were
immense, they were cheaply purchased
by tho victors; while in' 1870, not
withstanding that both sides were
armed with breech-loaders, tho losses
never approached tho hugo totals of
somu of tho battles of the early cen
tury or of those of the Seven Years'
War. At Worth, it is true, ono-sixth
of tho total forces engaged were either
killed or wounded, but nt Gravelotte
tho proportion was only one-eleventh,
and nt Weissenburg one-twelfth.
New York Lodger.
The Fisherman Duck's Sad Fate.
Tho fisherman duck, in addition ta
his liking for fish, is very fond of
oysters, aud hereby hangs a tale, or
rathor a bill. When tho oyster is
feeding at high tide in that state of
calm felioity that characterizes the in
nocent aud just when nt dinner, with
its mouth wide open, driuking in hap
piness like a river, without thought
of savage foe, it is tho custom of the
wily tishermuu duck to dive swiftly
down upon it and jab it to its tender
heart before tho astonished bivalve
has time to know "whero it is nt,"
which is in tho duck's mouth before
it can shut its own. It is a trick
which is generally successful, but
sometimes it fails, as in the c:no of the
duck whose obituary we are now writ
ing. This duck, unfortunately for
himself, dived and fouud au oyster.
It was only a little one, but it had its
mouth wide open and looked so harm
less aud innocent that the Senatorial
duok viewed it with contempt. With
great disdain ho approached it, and
inserting his bill, was just upon the
point of telling the small bivalve not
to be in a hurry to bo eaten whon
the little oyster closod its mouth with
the peculiar firmness that character
izes meek peoplo when you get
them started. The duck rose to tho
surface and vainly tried to get rid ot
his dinner, but tho little oystar was
comfortable and held ou. Though a
small oyster, it wm too heavy for tho
duck's head. Before long the hoad
went under water, aud the Senatorial
duck was drowned in his own cle
ment aud at his own game. Tho
oyster still lives and was exhibited
Thursday in tho Sun office, serene end
happy, holding firmly to the fisher
man duck, which was very dead in
deed. Baltimore Sun.
Wisdom Tooth ot a Mammoth.
A fossil curiosity in tho shape of a
mammoth's tooth was found a few
days ago in West Seattlo by Joseph S.
Richards. Tho tooth was fouud at tho
foot of the bluff, not far from tho
beach, and was covered with clay at
the time, indicating that it had beeu
unearthed by tho breaking away of tho
hill. The crown of tho tooth, which
wasofanovul shape, measure J seven
aud a half inches iu its largest diumo
ter, three and a half inches iu its
smallest diameter aud eighteen inches
iu circumference. The posterior edge
of the tooth was four inches in length,
the anterior edge six inches, the lurgest
circumference twenty-two inches und
the weight nine and a half pounds. It
is supposed to bo the lower back tooth
from tho left side of tho jaw. The
ridges havo turned to ehalco lony and
extend entirely through tho tooth,
while the material between has the ap
pearance of iron. Scuttle (Wash) Post
lutelligeuccr. A Oncer Idiom.
Tho other day I heard a queer
idiom which I herewith present to col
lectors of linguistic curiosities. The
speaker was ons of the ladies iu tho
family of a Government official who
had been serving his country abroa I
for a short time. "No," she said,
"Wo did not cure for Europe; we
thought it very dull. Wo were not
bunched once during our whole btay
abroad." Tho expression was so un
usual that uu enterprising listener,
bolder than the others, asked whut it
might moan. "Whut do 1 mean by
"bunched?" repeated tho tlrat speaker
iu surprise. "Why.no one Kent us
any flowers. Whut else could I menu?''
Kute Field's Washington.
SUCCESS AND FAILURE,
We hear of the grand sueeessos- t
Of the obstacles ovoreome,
We hear the songs of triumph
And praise for great deeds doniV .
But we seldom hoar of tho failures r
Ot the efforts that came to naught,
Or the cry of disappointment f
From hearts with misery fraught.
We loudly hail the vlotor .
In the struggle for gold or fame,
Cut give little heed to the thousands
Who labor and struggle in vain, r
Honor to him who wins the race ,
We all aro glad to pay, '
But thoro's little respect or pity
For the many who fall by the way.
Joseph Banlstor, In Raymond's Monthly,
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A sure thing Your feminine oppo
nent. The counterfeiter nevor takes more
than a passing interost in his busi
ness. "The stnffof which heroes are made"
Wood pulp and printer's ink.
Puck.
When a girl counts on her fingers,
she invariably counts most on tho en
gagement finger.
When competition among surgeon
is not usually strong, they nearly all
havo cut prices. Truth.
Tho man with only one idea is much
more dangerous than the man without
any idoas nt all. Dallas News.
"Tho Colonel is a very reserved
man." "Yes. Always was all through
the war. " Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A good namo will give you the use
of other men's riches. But its riskier
to be an indorsor than a capitalist.
Puck.
Pessimist "Rovcngo is sweot."
Thilosophor "Maybe ; but it loaves a
bad tasto in your mouth. " New York
Journal.
Priscilla "Don't you wish you were
old Van Bullion's wife?" Prunella--"No;
but I wish I was his widow."
Now York Herald.
If a woman wants a welcome when
she gets home she should leave her
husband with tho baby when she goes.
Atchison Globe.
Whon a boy washes his face without
being told, his mother thinks that
there is something the matter with
him. Fittsburg Dispatch.
We all admit that marriage is a lot
tory, but we arc, also, convinced that
wo know the lucky combination.
Kate Field's Washington.
A petrified woman has been found
in Illinois. It is suspected that her
husband paid a dressmaker's bill with
out kicking. Buffalo Express.
Tlipy say that time Is money, yet
'Xwoulil be a joy most strange
If we could take live mlnutus out
And get t5 chunge.
American Industries.
"What did Mangie receive that
medal for that he now wears?" "He
has run over more people than any
man in our bicyclo club." Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Edith "I thought you and Mabel
were fast friends. " NeUie "We used
to be." "And you ore not now?"
"No." "What wash's name?" Now
York Weekly.
"There is one thing can be said of
Brown he always attends to his own
business." "Yes, sir; that's why his
last employer discharged him." Chi
cago Inter-Ocean.
Teacher of Decorum "Now, Jim
my, why is it that a man speaks of his
wife ns his better half?" Jimmy
"Mobbe, 't's cos she costs th' most!"
Clevelaud Plain Doaler.
"You should boo Cholly in his new
spring suit. He is out of Bight."
"Then he illustrates a proverb."
"What proverb?" "Out of sight, out
of mind. " Now York Press.
All up and down the whole creation,
Every wnere we roam,
The wlilll ot p:ilut aud soapsuds makes
Every place like homo.
Chluugo Inter-Oeuan.
Am.able Visitor "And this is the
baby, is it? Why, it's the very image
of itsfuther." Cynical Undo "Well,
it needn't mind that as long as it has
good health. " Chicago Tribune.
"That's tho kind of weather profit
for me," mentally observed tho mer
chant, calmly charging a customer 83
for a $2 umbrella one ruiny morning a
diiy or two ago. Bulhdo Courier.
Teacher "Tho Prince was born
when the battle of Leipzig took place.
Now, who can tell me tho date of his
birth?" Pupil "Tho 17th, 18th and
l'Jth of October." Fliegcude Blact
ter. Hazel "Do yon know, papa never
knows whon Tom goes home. The
clock is always stopped when he calls."
Ethel "Dear me ! Is he homely
enough for that?" Chicago Inter
Ocean.
".Mj dear young woman, it is well
known that intellectual women are not
good-looking." "And how would you
classify meV" "Why, you are not at
all intellectual." "Oh, you flatterer 1"
Flicgeude Blaetter.
Editor "I regret, Mr. Barnstorm
er, that my paper referred to your
starring trip as a 'starving one.' " Mr.
Barnstormer "Don't mention it.
Your statement was absolutely cor
rect." New York Journal.
May "Aro you still calling on Nel
lie Update?" Brother Jack "Yes;
she's a very bright girl." May "She
must be ; I he.ir you don't need a light
iu tho parlor when you aud she uro
there. I Uiladelphia Record.
"Excuse me, sir," s:tid the beggar,
"but did you ever hear it said that
money talks?" "I buve," said the
wayfarer. "Well er would you
mind letting me have a dime for a few
minutes' chat? I'm awful lonesome."
Harper's Bazar.