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Fores Wyoming ii richer in minerals than any other State in the' conatry. i . . . . .... i It U asserted by tho New York Wit ness that eighty per cent, of the earn ings of railroads go to the payment ol wages for labor. Statistics (how that daring the last ten years the value of assessed prop erty in the District of Columbia has increased from $93,491,891 to $191,. 417,804. Russia is said to have 137,000,000 more acres of land under cultivation than the United States, but these sta tistics are supposed, by the New York World, to be misleading, if not wholly false. Baltimore is the fourth maritime city in the conntry, being exoeeded by New York, Boston and New Or leans, and nearly 8000 foreign Teasels arrive and depart every year. The ex ports exceed (50,000,000 a year. ... j. 1 Large irrigation works costing $2,. 000,000 and irrigating 400,000 acres of land are to be built in the Rio Verde Valley of Arinona. The work is to be completed in eightoen months.- It in olndos about 110 miles of eanal, and a reservoir of immense oapaoity. a A French statistician says that the number of men and women in Franoe is more nearly equal than in any other country of the world, there being only 1007 women to 1000 men. In Switzer land there are 10CO men to 1000 wo men, and in flrecoe only 933. The conditions iu Hong Kong, China, ac cording to this authority, are ap palling, there being only 3GG women to 1000 men. A man whose business it is to solicit subscribers for several medical peri odicals complains that doctors are feeling the hard times, remarks the Chicago Herald. Many decline to subscribe, and more who subscribe de lay payment. The fact is that many sick folks are making shift to get along without the doctor, while some are seeking advice at the hands of lees expensive men than they have usually employed. Professor Q. Hall says: "Some years ago, by careful individual study, I found that sixty per cent, of the six-year-old children entering Boston schools had never seen a robin, eigh teen per cent, had never seen a cow, some thinking it as big as their thumb or the picture, thus making mere verbal cram of all instruction about milk, cheese, butter, leather, and so on. Over sixty per cent, had never seen growing corn, blackberries or potatoes; seventy-one per cent, did not know beans." The struggle for supremacy between gas and electric light has been a de termined one. Eleotrio light has made wonderful progress in point of cheap ness since 1877, but the gas men are also advancing. Formerly gas waa made wholly from ooal. Later on eoal and petroleum oombined (known as water gas) came to the front and re-J duoed the ccst materially, and now another big step has been taken the production of gas wholly from petro leum. A plant of that description for making both fuel and illmuiuating gas is building at Ilaverstraw, N. Y. Gas at fifty cents a thousand is bound to come, maintains the New York Re corder. The old Liberty Bull now rest in a handsome new case iu the east room of Independence Hall, Philadelphia. The case is made of selected quartered white oak, is8ve feet ten iuches square and ten feet high. Ou each of the four sides is a large plate, glass over four feet wide and seven feet high in tho coutor. At each corner is a bronzed pillar surmounted by neat carved work, while over each of the glass sides is nu arch with the names of thirteen orig inal States carved, that of Pennsyl vania being on the keystone. Facing the doorway leading down from the top, is a carved model of "Old Abe," the famous war eagle, the wings measuring fifty-four inches from tip to tip. Beneath, on the top of the case, is the inscription copied from the bell, "Proclaim liberty throughout all the world to all the inhabitants there of." On each corner of the top is a polished bronze toroh. The bell is suspended within the case from the marred old yoke on which it hung when it made its historio peal. The joke itself waa made from a tree just back of the hall. This is supported by columus of bronze and its columns rest ou a truck, which fits snugly in side the cute, and appears to be sim ply a floor. Beneath art four rubber tired wheels, which will permit a quick removal iu case f fire. The new case, complete, cost 816UO. A gas well at Montpelior, Ind., La' changed its tune, and cil flows freely from its month. Within a district having an area of thirty square miles, in the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, there are more centenarians than in any of the United States. Franoe is reported to be taking an increased interest in swine raising, and it is thought that this will en hance the attention given to the pro duction of corn. Sky-scraping buildings are becom ing so common, that after awhile, Puck predicts, cities will be known as much by their altitude as by their length and breadth. The Northwestern Lumberman, which a few years ago took the ground that the supply of white pine in the Northwestern States was inexhaustible, now shows by what it believes to be authentic figures that the shortage in one district alone for the ourrent year will be 700,000,000 feet, and informa tion points to a general shortage in all the Northwestern pine territory, running' into billions of feet. A business man remarks that it is wonderful what effect the speed of elevators has on the manners of men in transacting business. Go into an office building where the elevators rush up and down like a flush, you will find the effoot reproduced on the men who do business there. It is quick, sharp, nervons work, Where the elevators are slow there is more deliberation and conservatism. The royalties of Europe patronize the bicycle with as much energy as the boya of America. The King of the Belgians exeroises upon one daily, lit--tie Queen Welhelmina rides one when he is at her castle of Het Loo, and the Czarowitz, Princea Waldemar and Carl, of Denmark, and Princes George and Nicholas, of Greece, are all cy clists. The bicyole of the Khedive of Egypt is a gorgeous machine, almost entirely oovered with silver plating. Brooklyn appears to be rapidly los iU character as a residence suburb of New York City, observes the New Or leans Picayune. It is no longer to any great extent the "bedroom of New York," and is beooming in an eminent degree a mannfacturing town. Accord ing to the last census no fewer than 109,292 persons are employed ou the average in the 10,583 manufactories in Brooklyn. Their combined capital, is over $250,000,000 and $65,000,000 is annually paid out in wagea. If each person employed in a factory can be held to represent four others depend ent upon his or her labors, fully one half of the population is supported by home manufactures. There are 2S industries represented in the list, the first, numerically, being shoe shops, but the leading one in point of value of product is the sugar-refining inter est. More men are employed iu mak ing olothes than iu anythiug else, and foundry and machine shops come uext. In no lessthsu fifty-two different in dustries the value of the product an nually exceeds (1,000,000. The direct and indirect losses caused by the recent strike will perhaps ex ceed $100,000,000. The Presiduntof one of the largost railway oorporatious iu the country is reported as Baying: The earnings of the railroad oompauies of the Western roads fell off in two weeks an avorage of at least twenty five per cent. The pay rolls that were topped will represent a loss to em ployes of, let us say, at least six times as muoh as that suffered by the com panies. Hundreds of factories were obliged to close from lack at coal or ooke. The wages Inst in those were five times the amount lost by the inauu factories. The beef oompauies loat hundreds of thousands aud California and other fruit crops were either tem porary or total losses. The following is not an unfair recapitulation of losses, 1 think : The United Stat a. Government . . ..t 1,030, 000 Loss in earning ot railroads can tering in Chicago 8,000,1) X) Lou la earnings ol other rallroais. 2,500,003 Loss by destruction of rallwiy property . 2,500,000 Loss to railway employes in wages 20,000,000 Loss in exports, pro luoe and mer chandise 2,000,000 Loss in fruit crops 2,500,000 Loss to varied manufacturing com panies 7,500, OX) Loss to employes 33,000,000 Loss to merchants on quick goo is 5,000,000 Total si,0u0.000 To this must be added lo&s from what would have beeu increased sum mer traftio aud manufactured good for the coming season. The i'lrul ho.'. ing will easily be more t'wu $100,0011,000. WHERE THE CATTLE COME TO DRINK. At evening, where the cattla come to drink, Cool are the long marsh-grasses, dewy eool The alder thickets and the shallow pool, And the brown clay about the trodden brink. The pensive afterthought of sundown sink Over the patient sores given to peace ; The homely erics and farmstead noises eease, And tho worn day relaxes, link by link. A lesson thnt the open heart may read Breathes in this mild benignity of air, These dear familiar savours of the soil A lesson of the calm of human creed, The simple dignity of common toll, And the plain wisdom ot unspoken prayer. O, Q. D. Eoberts.in Youth's Companion. ON THE BRINK, BY AMELIA K. BARR. EARS ago there was a grand brick house stand ing in the midst o f a sweet old gar den on one of the pleasant- eat sites of R i ch mo n d Hill. It had once been the residence of a noble family, but it was at that time only a celebrated school for young ladies. The house itself was a plain, substantial brick one, and there were plenty in the vi cinity that in every point excelled it ; but nowhere was there a garden of greater loveliness than that its high brick walls shut in. This was especially so in the morn ings and evenings, when the pleached alleys and the hazel walks and the woodbine arbors were full of groups of beautiful yonng English girls girls with flowing brown hair and eyes as blue and clear as heaven, and faces innocent and fresh as if each faoe had been made out of a rose. But even where all are beautiful, some one will be found loveliest of all, and Laura Falconer was the acknowledged belle or the upper class. She was nineteen years of age, but he still lingered at Madame Mere's school, partly because it had been her only home for five years and partly because her guardian considered it to be the best place for her until she was twenty-one, when she would receive her fortune and become her own mis tress. So Laura remained at madame's, studying a little, but still having a much larger amount of liberty than that granted to the other pupils. This liberty permitted her to shop with a proper escort and also to pay frequent visits to acquaintances resident in Richmond and London. On one of these excursions she had met Mr. Ernest Trelawny, and it is of this gentleman she is so confidentially talking to her chief friend, as they walk in the loneliest part of the gar den togethor. "I am so glad, Clara, that we met him this afternoon ; I wanted you so much to see Ernest. Is he not hand some?" "I never saw such eyes, Laura I And his figure 1 And his stylish dress ! Oh, I think he is so grand and so well, so mysterious-looking, as if he waa a poet or something." "And then his conversation, Clara! He talks aa I never heard any one else talk so romantic, dear!" "Oh, I think you must be a very happy girl, Laura ! I often wish I had some one to love me aa Ernest loves you." Laura sighed and looked up senti mentally : "You have a father and mother, Clara. I am quite alone. Ernest says that is one reason he at first felt as if he must love me." "What would Madame Mere say?'1 "Madame must not know for the world; Clara. She would write to my guardian. Oh, Clara, 1 am going to tell you a great, great secret ! . Ernest and I have determined to run away to Gretna Green and get married." "Oh-h-h-hl Laura, how dare you? Madame will be sure to find it out She never looks as if sho knew things, but she always does. AVhen are you going?" "To-night. Ernest will be waiting with a carriage at the end of the gar den wall. I have bribed cook to leave the kitchen door unlocked, and I shall go through her room and down the. back-stairs." I Thus, until the nine o'clock bell rang, the two girls talked over and over the same subject and never found it weari some, and when they bade each other a good-night in the long corridor, it was a very meaning one. They were both greatly impressed with the ro mance of the situation, and timid little Clara envied and admired her friend, and could not sleep for listening for the roll of a carriage and the parting signal which Laura had agreed to make on her friend's door as she passed it. Then Laura made her few prepara tions and sat down in the moonlight to wait for the hour. She thought of all her favorite heroines who had en acted a similar part, and tried to feel as they were asserted to have felt. "Half-past eleven I" She rose aud laid her bonnet and mantle ready, but, in spite ot her ro mantio situation, she was really chilled and unhappy and conscious of a most unnatural depression of spirits. Just then the door opened softly, and Madame Mere, with a candle iu her hand, entered the room. She waa a very small, slight woman, with a grave, lovable face and a pair of won derful eyes. In their calm, clear light lay the secrei of her power over the fifty girls whom she ruled absolutely with a glance or a smile, She came gliding in more like a sixit than, a woman, and putting tha light down, said : "Laura, I have had a dream, dear girl a dreadful dream and I am afraid. Let mo stay here with you." So she sat down and began in a low, trembling voice to talk of Laura's dead mother ; of her pure, lofty wo manhood, and of her love for her child. Laura scaroely heard her ; the time was going fast ; it was close upon midnight ; she must make an effort at once. So during a moment's pause, she said : "Will madame try to Bleep now?" "Yes, I will put out 'the light, and we will both try." "First, will madame permit me to go to Clara's room ? I have left my things there. I shall not disturb any one." In a moment madame's attitude changed; her eyes scintillated with light ; all the caressing tenderness and sorrow cf her voice and manner were gone. She was like an accusing spirit. "Down on your knees, false girl, whom no memory of mother's love could soften ! Down on your knees, and let your prayers strengthen the hands of those good angels who are fighting your evil genius this very moment ! Pray as those should pray whose very life and salvation hang upon a villain's word!" And, draw ing the girl down beside her, she watched out with het those dangerous midnight hours. At two o'clock Laura was left to weep out alone her shame and her dis appointment. Madame had kissed and forgiven and comforted her with such comfort as was possible; but youth takes hardly the breaking of its idols, and it was bitter and humiliat ing to hear that this handsome Ernest was better known to the police courts than to the noble houses he talked about, and yet Bhe had chosen his so ciety and had been willing to become his wife. Madame had not spared her ; she had spoken very plainly of a gambler's wife and of a thief's home of shames and horrors Laura trem bled to recall adding : "I had willingly kept you ignorant of such things, for the knowledge of them takes the first bloom of purity from a good girl's heart; but, alas, Laura, if you will go forbidden roads, you must at least be warned ot the sin and the sorrows that haunt them. " Laura was ill many days afterward. Madame had indeed forgiven her, but it waa hard to forgive herself ; and for a long time even a pasaing memory of her first lover brought a tingling blush of shame to her oheeks and a sickening sense of disgrace and fright to her heart. It was ten years after this event, and Laura, with her two daughters, was driving slowly across Cannock Chase. The pretty children sat on either side of her, and she drove the ponies slowly, often stopping to let the little girls alight and pull a blue bell or a handful of buttercups. Dur ing one of these stoppages, as she sat, with a smile on her handsome faoe, watching the happy little ones, some one, coming from behind, touohed her rudely on the arm. She turned and saw a man in grimy leather cloth ing, with an evil, cruel face, at her side. Supposing him to be one of the men employed in her husband's iron works, who had been discharged or who wanted help, she said : "Well, what is it, sir?" The man answered curtly: "Laura!" Then Laura looked steadily into the dirty, imbruted face. And in spite of soot and scars and bruises, she knew it. "Mr. Trelawny, why do" "Bosh! My name is Bill Yates. Yon fooled me onee my lady, but you will pay me for it now. I've been lagged sinoe then sent across for seven years only got back six months since. Glad I have found you, for I won't work any more now. Come, I want a fiver to start with." "A 'fiver?'" "Yes; a five-pound note." "iBhall not give you a penny." "Then I shall take one of them little girls the youngest is the prettiest-" "For God's sake, don't go near my children I I will give you the money." "I prefer the money, it will save me the trouble of selling the child to tho gypsies. " Laura hastily counted out the sura ; there was seven shillings more in her purse, and the villain said : 'Til take the change, too. Shall I lift the children into the phaeton?" "Don't touch them. Don't look at them I Oh, go away ! Go away !" "Go away, indeed I You were glad enough once to come to me. I have your letters yet. It would be a sweet thing to show them to your husband." "You had better murder me." "I have half a mind to ; but it suits me better to keep you for my banker. Be here next week with five pounds seven shillings, and every week after, unti! further notice, or else I will steal your child and send them letters to your fine husband." Then, with a threatening scowl and the shake of a cleiVhed fist in her face, he went away, taking with him all the joy and peace out of poor Laura's life. She now lived iu constant terror, and such a dreadful change oame so rapidly over the onee happy, baud some woman that her husband was ex ceedingly anxious, both for het health and her reason. What did she do with the unusually large sums of money she asked him for ? Why did she go out ridiug alone? Why did she not suffer her children to leave their own grounds? Why did she not sleep at night? Why was her once eveu, sun uy temper become so iriitab'e? Why did she searuh his face so eugerly every night? These and twenty other anxious, suspicious questions passed j through hi luiuJ continually, ;ut he hoped that by ignoring the change it would disappear. Alas! Things got worse and worse, and one day, after ten miserable months, he was sent for from the works in haste. Laura was raving and shrieking in the wildest paroxysm of brain-fever : "Where are the children? Sava them from that man I Henry, please take him five pounds no, he wants ten pounds now, and I can't get it!" In such piteous, moaning ejacula-. tions she revealed the secret terror that was killing her. But perfect love casts out fear and jealousy, and Laura's husband did her no injustice. Tenderly he nursed the poor, shattered wife and mother back to life again, though it was an almost hopeless task with that nameless horror ever be-side her. One night, when she was a little stronger, he led her on to talk of the past, and he waa so loving and so pitiful that in a flood of life-giving tears she poured out to him the whole miserable story. Then the burden fell from her life, and Bhe dropped happily into the first sweet, healthy sleep she had had for nearly a year. She never asked again for her tormentor; she only knew that he had disappeared from South Stafford shire, and joy and peace came back to her heart and home. But one day, after the lapse of four years, she received a dirty, anonymous letter full of threats and insolent de mands for money. This time she went at once to her husband with the trouble. "Don't be frightened, Laura," ha answered. "I know the fellow. He is one of a gang of four who have just come to Sackett Village. He will be in jail before to-morrow night. This time he shall not escape my vengeance. " He had scarcely finished speaking whed a couple of men ran up to the house, crying: "Measterl Measterl Here be Dim mitt's height slewered away and there's 'a crowning in 1' " The iron-master leaped to his feet and was soon following the evil mes sengers to the village. He knew that Sackett waa all undermined with pits and workings, and it was possible the whole village was in danger. The disaster was right in the center of it, and he waa not long in reaohing the great yawning chasm, where the earth had given way and down which two cottages, with their inhabitants, had gone. As soon as the master appeared, the pitmen and ironmen gathered round him, though all knew that succor or help was perfectly hopeless. "Where is Bumby?" "Here I be, measter." "What mine was under this?" "Dimmit's, measter, worked out." "Is it deep?" "Six hundred feet" "Dry or wet?" "Deep water." The master looked blankly at the black abyss. "It's the third 'crowning in, i' my time. T'lfst were in to Cavill's mine. Six decent families whent down at midnight ; they were dashed to bits on t' rocks at the bottom." -'Do you know who lived in these cottages?" "One were empty, thank God. Four strange lads that worked i' Saokett's mine had t' other ; they nobbnt work ed there a week, they wor glad to get 8 hut on them at end of it." "I know, measter," said Michael Raine, the publican, "for they owe me for a week's beer and 'baooa tho score is set ag'n' John Todd, Tim Black and Bill Yates." " 'Bill Yates?' are you sure?" "Sure to certain of that name, measter, for he said he wor come spe cial to get upsides wi' you. " The ironmaster turned thought fully home, and as he kissed his wife, said : "Bill Yates is dead, Laura. My vengeanoe has beeu taken from me by Him to whom vengeance belongoth. You may rest safely now, darling." "But oh, Henry, what a destiny might have been mine !" "Don't say 'destiny', Laura. Our choices are our destiny. Nothing is ours that our choices have not made ours." This is a true story, and I tell it to many thousands of youug girls with just as muoh earnestness as Laura told it to her daughters, to show them that olaudestine love affuirs are always highly dangerous ; for a passion that is cradled iu deceit is pretty sure to end in sin or shame or sorrow. New York Lodger. Testiui a Horde's Wind. While talking about homes the other day an old farmer anid: "Wal, I'm a pretty good judge of hursus aud can always tell whether a horso is short-winded or not. "Before I buy a horse," he contin ued, "I just borrow it for about an hour or so and then I get out ou some lonely road aud see what kind of stuff he is made of. "I just let him choose his own gait for a oouple of mile posts aud finally give him plenty of rein, making him go for all he is worth. All the time I just keep my eye on his haunches, aud if I see any rotary motion there it's a sign he's thiok-wiuded, aud, of oourse, every one knows that kind ain't muoh good." Philadelphia Cull. Wonder I ul Speed ot Atlantic Liners. The highest recorded speed ou the Atlautio as au average for the whoU passage is 21. 'J kuots per hour, per formed by the Cuuard steamer Lu cauia. This bus now bueu nearly equaled by her sister ship, tho Cam pania, which has ju.-t maUu the passage from New York to Queoustown iu five days, thirteen hours, eight miuutes over a total distance of Z'JOS knots, her average speed haviug beeu 21. BJ knots yer hour. bcieutiuo American. SAVED BY AN INCUBATOR, NATURE'S SUBSTITUTE DOINO WONDERS FOB INFANTS. How the Lives of Many Babies Have Been Saved In New York Hospi tals A Clever Device. E was incubated," the proud mother of some I I great man of the future (J" will say of her son. For the baby incubator is a success and has come to stay. The doctors de clare that incubators have already been the means of saving the lives of 100 infants in New York, Bays a cor respondent of the St. Louis Post-Despatch. In fact, the new born baby, who, under the old-fashioned methods, has no chance of living, now, if put in an incubator, stands about an even chance of becoming a healthy, crow ing youngster. Baby incubators are now in use in two hospitals in the city, the Post Graduate Hospital and the Maternity Hospital of the Women's Medical College. A bright young woman, with a sweet face and modest ways, is in charge of the babies at the Maternity Hospital. There is a room in the third story there, a room with a great window whioh lets in plenty of light and over looks tho tops of the trees in Stuy ve Bant Park. Around the walla are four cribs of from ten to twelve feet in length. In two of these there were three little lumps. You discover that these lumps are alive and breathing. They are very mall and delicate, and dainty and pink. They are babies sure enough any man could tell that, but nobody would ever think they are incubator raised. The incubator is used only for the prematurely born babies - and for babies which are so weak that the wise yonng women doctors are pretty sure that they will die if left in the open air. Strangely enough, the incubator is shaped something like a coffin, while its particular aim is to keep babies out of coffins. There are two kinds of baby incubators and they differ somewhat in construction. The moment a baby for the in cubator arrives at the Maternity Hospital the white capped nurses and the doctors gather about the little wooden box, whioh reBts upon a stand some three or four feet high. Baby is swathed very oarefully in warm clothes, and is then weighed, clothes and all, before he is laid inside, and the glass cover is placed over him. Underneath the board upon which the little mite rests are three bottles that are kept constantly full of hot water. The air passing in from below flows over these and through an open ing in the board into the chamber where the infant is. A thermometer keeps the attendant continually in formed as to the temperature, and a little aluminum anemometer in the small chimney through which the air escapes and which furnishes the draught that keeps the baby supplied with fresh air, always indicates whether or not the circulation of air is good. The weight is a very imp)rtnnt matter. Our baby in the incubator is weighed every day. A healthy baby should show a slight diurnal increase in weight, and if the doctors find that the diminutive patient is not growing heavier, they seek remedies for his indisposition. The incubator whioh will be in the babies' ward of the new building of the Post Graduate Hospital is a great improvement on that at the Maternity Hospital, although it lacks the senti mental surroundings of the one in charge of the young women doctors. In this improved affair the patient will not have to be once lifted from his snug nest from the time he is plaoed inside until he beoomes strong enough to be removed with safety. The incubator is set upon bicyole wheels, so it may be moved about whenever desired. The fresh air is heated by passing between two strata of hot water, rises up both at the head and the feet of the mattress, and is kept iu motion by an aluminum fan ruu by clockwork, thus preventing the possibility of the little patient's suffering for waut of air. There is alto a tube for the supply of oxygen, liberal quantities of which are good for babies who are hanging on to life by the merest thread, and it is be lieved this improvement will save a great many lives that would have been lost in the old incubator. By means of a clever mechanical de vice, the weight of the body is always registered, so that the physician may discover the slightest variation at any time. Of course the iuoubator must be opened to feed the baby its artifi cial food, but by means of a deft slid ing of the covers the entrance of any cold air from the outside is prevented. The temperature of the inside of the incubator is kept as near ninety-eight degrees as possible. Oil vs. Coal. A careful test was made at Chicago the other day with a couple of power ful sea-going tugs of the relative ex pense aud merit of oil and coal as fuel. The two tugs made a run from Chicago to Waukean and back, one fired with coal and tho other with oil. The coal bnrniug tu mado her j-un in three hours, and consumed $15.72 worth of fuel. The oil-burniug one, which is a much slower vessel uuder similar con dition, made the run in 7J miuutes slower time, a tieed which she had never uiuile before, ami consumed but l.(i.' worth of oil. Besides, she made no smoke. She is to be put to work iu the river, and submitted to all sorts of practical teste. New Orleans Pica J'uue. The earliest suow ever known ia England was on October 7, IS. "J. A LESSON IN LOVE. 'Love is not wise." they say Those sne advisers that have lived and died, And In their sterner moments put aside The arch Intruder from tholr way ; "Love is not wise," they say. They seek to frighten thee Thou who art far from their old, stupid world, And on the airy wings of youth art whirled Above all practicality j They seek to frighten thee. Decline their wlsdSni now ; And seek that only that cur hearts perceive, Only that grand, great bliss which I believe Comes from our spirits' secret vow Decline their wisdom now '. Edmond Tlcton, in Times-Democrat. IirMOR OF THE BAT. Money talks in all languages. Truth. A receiving teller The soandal- bearer. Truth. Fame is smely a bubble; for plenty of "soap" will make it. Puok. There is a little wolf and a little rabbit in every man. Atchison Globe. In the grammar of femininity two negatives make two affirmatives. Puck. Most men and their stomachs don't understand each other. Atchison Globe. Let us be frank, and admit that we are all somewhat gossipy. Atchison Globe. rr-i t. ... . n Aw.Ia . . . ikn.. who have greatness thrust upon them. Truth. The difficulty in chasing men lies in getting them started to ruu. Atchi son Globe. Tolerance is tho admission oi the right of other people to hold wrong views. Puck. There is no suocess so sweet as tho success achieved by acting aaiust the advice of our friends. Puck. "And do yon think Binks can fill the requirements of the place ?" "M m, well if it requires Binks, he can." Puok. No man will ever amount to much who labors under the impression that somebody else is always iu his way. Dallas News. "Does your wife put up all her oan tuff herself?" "Certainly. Self-preservation is the first law of nature." Boston Transoript. Prisoilla "I want to get a gown to match my complexion." Perdita "Why don't yon get a hand-painted one?" Brooklyn Life. He who thinks that imagination is solely an attribute of youth should chat a while with one of our "oldest inhabitants." Truth. Caller "Your son graduated from college this year, did he not?" Mrs. Malaprop "Yes; he was valetudinari an of his class." Puck. There are times whon the man who thinks he fills the public eye merely occupies the position of a speck of dust. Milwaukee Jonrnal. Training will do muoh for a man; but it will not teach him never to neglect to look for the towel before he rills his eyes full of soap. Puck. According to Kipling, the elephant is a gentleman. Nonsense! Whoever heard of a gentleman erryiu? his tmuk himself? Bostou Trauscript The world no doubt owes a great many peoplo a liviug; but the records do not show that it ever has assigned for the benefit of its crodi tors, Puok. Though womuu, lovely woman Hoiiiellmi'S (nils to Imvo her way, You cm but your hot ton dollir Tn.it she II alwiiyn have her say. luJlnnaDolis Journal. A teu-cent box of blacking, proper ly applied, will command more re speot thau a hundred dollar diamond aud runty iootwear ou a man who is seeking work. Washington Star. "There is more pleasure in giving than receiving," was the proverb that a mother was trying to instill iuto a youthful mind. "That's true about castor oil, mother," was the answer she got. New York Advertiser. It has been said that there is some thiug not nnpleasing to us in the mis fortunes of our friends. While most likely this is true, yet pleasure, at tho misfortuues of our enemies, is still do ing business at the old stand. Puok. Haughty Lady (who has just pur chased a stamp) "Must I put it on luyKcW'i" Postoffice Assistant (very politely) "Not necessarily, ma'am J it will probably accomplish more if you put ltoutheletter." Newark Led ger. Ho "I had a queer dream about yon last night, Miss Louisa. I was about to give yon a kiss, whuu sud denly we wero separated by a river that gradually grew aa big as the Rhino." She "Ami was there no bridge or uo boat?" Fliegeude Blaet tor. "How many feet ought I to have to the liue for this poem?" asked the young man, aa he sauntered careless ly iuto the editor's office. "I hardly know," wearily replied the gloomy mail of shears, "but if I ha I a thou saud I would gladly give thorn to you." Atlanta Const it utiou. The Telegraph in China, A Chinese euuiueer, educated iu New Iluven, Conn., has linurly completed a tulej.'rbih liue, Sil.lU miles long, across tho Gobi desert, from IVkiu to Ka-sh-gar, Chinese Turkcstsu. It has been three year under construction, and poles iu places were hauled i:KI mill., l'luuch lines connect i. wiib the Rus siau system. Literary Digest. Only eight per cent, of the popula tion if St. Louis, Mo., live iu tenement.
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