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Job work oah on del: very.
Now York, Tarii and Berlin com
bined lack forty-two square miles of
baying on great an area as London.
Among tho European countries Ger
many by far outstrip her noighbors
in tli9 number of eleotrio railways,
both in operation anil course of con
struction. As the year 1895 advances, it will,
In all probability, bo found that man
ufacturing, commercial and agricul
tural interests will show signs of re
turning prosperity.
Cadetships to Woolwich and Sand
hurst, !n England, to St. Cyr, in
. Franoo, to the Gorman, Austrian and
Russian military academies, are all
obtained by open competitive examin
ations or by appointments, tempered
by the same.
Night refuges in Paris shelter tho
art. The nine establishments in 1833
were nsod by 137 actors, forty-throe
singers, seventy-one musicians, twelve
pianists, twenty architects, 898 artists
(painters), fourteen authors and eight
ecn journalists.
Twenty years ago Dr. E. II. Dewey,
of Meadvillo, Fenn., wrote a book
proving that the way to be healthy
was to go without breakfast. Tho
cult has livod sinoe then, and, accord
ing to the New London (Conn.) Day,
there are more than one hundred per
sons in that town who cat no break
fast. Tho proportion of women suicides
to that of men is buibII ; whether be
cause their moral couxuge is less, their
moral oourago more or their woes
lighter, it would be interesting to
know. It may, however, be safely as
sumed that the last naiuod is not tho
reason, observes the New Orleans Pic
ayune. The importance of forestry is nrgod
by Professor W. T. Thistleton Dyer,
on account of the probability that the
supply of timber may bo exhausted
before that of coal. If further ap
pears in view of our complete depen
dence upon tho products of tho vege
table kingdom for tho necessaries of
our existence.
Tho proposition of some romantio
writers to put their romances to tho
test by actually living through the ex
periences described should bo dis
couraged, maintains the Chicago Reo
ord. Anyone trying to live tho ex
periences of a romance of the modern
sensational sobool would come into
contact with the police beforo.Ijo had
lived past tho first chapter.
Ono of tho tendencies of the ago in
the way of railroad improvement,
noted by the New York Telegram, is the
iocreaaod length of rails. Tho Penn
sylvania has laid a few miles of sixty
foot rails, and tho Lehigh Valley has
been trying forty-flvo-foot rails. Now
tho Columbu, Hooking Valley and
Toledo will lay few miles of tho
sixty-foot rails as an experiment Tho
utility of the long rail is that it re
quires fewer joints, and, in conse
quence, affords smooth riding.
The growth of scholarships in tho
leading universities of this oountry is
ono of tho best signs of educational
progress, declares tho San Franoisco
Chronicle. A scholarship oan only bo
obtained by a good tttudeut who has
mastered his speoialty, but at Cornell
University tho system is now tried of
offering eighteen echolarships, each
worth 8200 for two years, to freshmen
who pass cortain special examinations
in addition to tho usual test for ma
triculation. If many of our colleges
pent less money on buildings and
more on scholarships the work done
rVo'dfd'bo greatly improved in quantity
- and quality.
"Dime Novel" Beadle, the man who
became famous as the publisher of
'dime novels" long before cheap liter
ature was so plentiful as it is now,
died at residence in Cooperstown, N.
Y., recently, announces tho New Or
leans Picayune. Seeing tho immense
profit to be made on cheap and sensa
tional literature, in 1853 Mr. Beadle
established a printing offloe for that
purpose in New York, and thus bocauio
the forerunner of tho mauy conocrns
which now flood tho country with
flashy stories stories that fill the
enittll boy's heart with delight and his
soul with crime. Parents and police
who have been called on to discipline
little boys whose heads have been
turned by tho, wild advontures of
'Blue Mick, the Bowery Tongh,-' and
stories of that ilk, hardly regartl Mr.
Beadle as a public benefactor, but, on
the other hand, one must remember
with abiding Kratitude that he inaug
urated the movement that put the best
thoughts the greatest books within
the reach of the poorest, 0
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MOUNT VERNON.
WHERE GKORGR WASHINGTON
UVKD AND DIKl).
Hundreds Visit (lis Historic Home
stead Pally The First President
Was an Kxtcnulve Farmer
Holies of the Revolution.
THE new and popular way of
making the great American
pilgrimage to the home and
(, tomb of Washington is by
way of the ancient and qunint old town
of Alexandria, Va. For more than a
century the only means of communi
cation with Mount Vernon by public
conveyance has been by the river.
Steamboats have curried their hun
dreds of thousands of pilgrims to the
sacred spot, and though that route was
pleasant enough, it was slow, and up
to a recent date expensive.
Tho now route is by way of Alexan
dria and the new electric railway which
lauds passengers in twenty minutes at
the very gates of Mount Vernon. And
it is a beautiful and novel rido from
tho quaint old town. Tho huo leads
out of Alexandria on Fairfax street
and follows closely tbo river bank un
til it crosses limiting Creek, at one
timo the northern boundary of tho
vast Mount Vernon estate. Then it
outs across tho broad acres which
Washington cultivated before the Revo
lution, and here and thero crosses and
recrosses the old Richmond turnpike,
which in Colonial and Revolutionary
days was tho main artery of travel be
tween tho North and South. From
the eleotrio car windows the eye can
ollow the old road for miles by the
rows of aucieut poplars planted on
cither side.
A HISTORIC ROADWAY.
Over this roal the Revolutionary
armies marched south ; by this high
wny tho Northern cities of Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York and Boston
were brought iuto communication
with Richmond, Charleston and Savan
nah. Over this ancient turnpike rum
bled tho coach and four of General
Washington when ho set out upon his
MOUNT
various pilgrimages to attend sessions
of Congress in Fbiladulphia'or take
tho oath of office as President. This
highway, too, used to resound tho
hoof-beats of his thoroughbreds when
ho made his tri-weekly visits to Alex
andria to attend church or look after
his business affairs. In later years
t'je old road resounded the tramp of
other hoofs, for it was over this thor
oughfare that the panio-stricken sol
diery fled from Bull Run in 1861, and
rushed pell-moll, horse, foot, dragoons
and unmounted across Long Bridge
into Washington. The last great
spectacle tho old turnpike ever saw
was tho march of Sherman's army,
which followed it on the march from
tho South to Washington for tho re
view iu 1S05. Since that day tho old
turnpike has borne nothing more ex
citing or sensational than tho farm
wagons and hayricks of old Virginia,
To tho right, as the "trolley"
crosses the bridge over Great Hunting
Creek, is Fort Lyous, the strongest of
all that great cordon which protected
Washington in the war days. Near
Fort Lyons is the old home, still stand
ing, of the seventh Lord Fairfax
Rev. Brian Fairfax, who in Washing
ton's day was rector of Christ Church
at Alexandria, of which Washington
was a vestryman. Tho old church is
still one of the cherished landmarks iu
Alexandria, and the edifice with Wash
ington's big square pew is carefully
preserved intact. Lord Fairfax's homo
ROOM AND BED WIIF.ItE WASHINGTON DIED.
was called Mount Eagle, and is still in
excellent preservation. A mile be
yond the bridge and tho road enters
tho "old Mount Vernon estate,"
which in Washington's day comprised
8000 acres of as fine laud as was ever
known in Virginia. ' The estate was
divided iuto five farms, known as
River Farm, Doguo . Ruu Farm, Man
sion House Farm, Union Furm and
Muddy Hole Faun. River Farm,
which the railway strikes first and
formerly known as Clifton's Neck, was
bought by Washington iu 1760 for S3
an acre. It consisted of 2000 acres.
BUILT BY WASHINGTON.
Tho first landmark of Revolutionary
interest that is reached after entering
upon tho old estate is Welliusrtou Hall.
It stands about four miles from Alex
andria, on the Potomac hank, aud oc-
i . is ft
rnpies a site almost as beautiful as
Mount Vernon. Wellington Hall was
built by Washington in 1708 on a por
tion of the estate comprising COO
acres, and during his lifo it was occu
pied by Colonel Tobias Lear, who lives
in history as Washington's military
Fecretary and life-long friend. Colonel
Lenr was also tutor to the Curtis chil
dren and for more than thirty years
was a member of Washington's family.
It is said the first President built
Wellington Hall for Colonel Lear's
use, but whether this bo true or not,
he certainly occupied it for most of
his life. By his will General Wash
ington made Colonel Lear a tenant
for life, rent free, and he lived on tho
place until his death in 1816. His re
mains now repoBe in tho Congressional
Cemetery iu Washington.
After Tobias Lenr's death Welling
ton Hall passed into tho hands of the
collateral branch of tho Washington
family, the last occupant being
Charles A. Washington, a grand
nephew. He wsb a harum-scarum sort
of chap, very dissipated, and under
his management the estate soon rau
down. The old inhabitants tell funny
stories about "Charley" Washington
and his career as a farmer. On ono
occasion he took some plowshares to
Alexandria to bo sharpened, which
were urgently needed in tho spring
plowing, but falling in with toino
cronies he was induced to go off for a
mouth's sojourn at the "springs," and
never came back until tho wheat crop
had gone by default. "Charley"
Washington was a great theorist. He
once read in a farm paper that the
most profitable crop one could grow
was barley. So ho planted ten acres.
When the barley ripened ho had it
"ilailod" out and loaded on a four
horse wagon and started it for tho
Alexandria market. "Charley" went
on ahead on horseback to dispose of
tho load. But barley he fouud was an
unknown grain iu tho Alexandria mar
k( t and there was no sale for it ; but
alter a whole day's trampiug ho suc
ceeded in tra ling tho load of barley to
a brewer for a barrel of beer, which he
sent homo and stored in his cellar.
The news of the transaction leaked out,
and the same night a dozen of Char
ley's cronies in Alexandria paid a visit
VERNON.
to Wellington Hall, where they made
a night of it with tho genial proprie
tor. Before morning they had dis
posed of tbe entire crop of barley.
Charley Washington died in 1859
and tho negleoted farm passed into
other hands. Wellington Hall is a
frame dwelling, painted white, and
with the outbuildings is in good re
pair. A lane, lined' with poplars,
which the railroad crosses, connects
it with the Richmond turnpike. From
Wellington to Mount Vernon the dis
tance is five miles, the last station
being Rivorsidn Park, at Little Hunt
ing Creek, which stream divided the
old River Farm ot Washington's map
from the Mansion House Farm. A
mile beyond this creek tho car stops
at tho gates of Mount Vernon. By
this route thero is no more climbing
the steep hill from the wharf, but the
visitor enters the grounds at the foot
of the western lawn and walks up a
long flagged path through the trees to
the near side of the old mansion.
MOUNT VERNON.
It is not given to the average visitor
to the homo of Washington to see all
the beauties of the place. Much less
can he kuow tho details of the home
lifo of tho great proprietor, or under
stand the splendor of his former en
vironment. The visitor goes through
the old mansion. He looks into the
little, stuffy rooms with their odd aud
incongruous mixture of old and up-to-date
furniture. Ho gazes at the
elegant and extremely modern tinted'
and gold frescoes, at the rich and
brilliaut Persian rugs with which the
ladies of tho association have covered
the floors, and he finds it difficult to
imagiuo this the homo of the im
mortal Washington. To most visitors
it seems a great pity that there has
been such an effort made to impress
the publio with 'the fact that Wash
ington led a luxurious lifo by means of
the rich and modern trappiugs they
have smuggled into ike old mansion.
The splendor of Washington's life at
Mount Vernon was reflected by his
broad ac res, by his great farming
operations, by his hundreds of slaves,
iucluding artisans aud mechanics of
all kinds, by the wealth of his
hospitality and the magnificence of
his military and official career. There
were no frescoes of gilt and tints in
Washington's dny no wall paper,
even. There was nothing but white
washed walls aud ceilings. Nor wero
there any Dargheston rugs or Ax
miiiHter carpets.
There is au outbuilding on the
grounds, which should have given the
well-meaning ladies a hint as to what
the Father of His Country usoii to cov
er his floors. The building is called
the "spinning-room," and iu it is a
great loom for weaving the good old
fashioned rag carpets of our forefathers.
Asido from these incongruities, how
ever, the old mansion is an interest
ing, almost n hallowed spot. Thero
are not so many relics of Washington
but what thero are are full of interest.
The bod upon which he died, sent by
the Lee family, and the other furni
ture contributed by various families,
havo enabled the ladies iu control to
fit ftp Washington's chamber very
nearly as it was when its great occu
pant passed away. There are a good
many other relics on view, but not
s, -a A
MARTHA WASHINGTON 3 BEDCHAMBER.
many that are, strictly speaking, rel
ics of Washington. Thero is plenty
of Colonial furniture, but Washing
ton never saw it. Thero aro portraits,
engravings, etc., and a valuable col
lection of Washington's autograph
letters, which are mounted in the for
mer state diuing-room. There aro
two or three swords, suits of military
clothing, articles of camp eqaipage
and a brown suit of clothes, the cloth
of winch was wovon on the place which
the General wore at his first inaugu
ration as President.
After tho death of Washington in
1793, followed two yeais later by the
death of his widow, tho estate began
to go down. Washington had already
given 2000 acre: to his adoptod daugh
ter, Nellie Custis, upon which she aud
her husband, Lawrence Lewis, after
ward built the beautiful Woodlawn
mansion, located three miles below the
mansion at Mount Vernon. By hie
will Washington left other large por
tions of his estate to other relatives,
tbe homestead proper falling to the
share of Bushrod Washington, hia
nephew, who afterward became an As
sociated Justioo of the Supreme Court.
From Bushrod Washington it de
scendcl to his grandson, John Augus
tine Washington, who, in July, 1859,
Bold the mansion and grounds to
gether with 200 acres of land for th(
rather munificent sum of 8200,000. It
was a pretty hard bargain that Colone!
Washington drove, but he got away
with it. At the time the Bale was
made the mansion and outbuildings
were 6adly run down. There was evi
dence of negUct on every side. Tho
broad acreage bad diminished and
passed into other hands. The remain
der wag largely given over to weeds
and underbrush. The soil was worn
out and no effort made to reolaim it.
Verily, the glory of Mount Vernon
had departed. About 1851 several
colonies of thrifty farmers from New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and
the New England States were formed to
buy and reclaim these wornout lands.
They bought tracts of from forty to
three hundred acres to each family
and Sty very much the same methods
that Washington used they have re
habilitated tho laud so that now, out
of the original acreage of Mount Ver
non, there is very little that is not
highly improved and worth (50 to
8300 per acre.
Relics of Washington.
At the Lihby Prison War Museum,
in Chicago, thero are an old brown
velvet coat worn by Washington at
his socond inauguration, a family um
brella, much out of repair, two of his
swords, Eome tarnished epaulets, a
rusty field-glass, a belt and a needle
case carried by Mrs. Washington,
GENERAL WASHINGTON' COAT, UMBRELLA
AND FIELD-GLASS.
In all there are enough Washington
relics in Chicago to fit out a large mu
seum. Most of them are well pre
served and bear cvidunae to the fact
of Washington's wealth aud love of
rich and beautiful elothiug and arti
cles of personal aud household adorn
ment. Gcarjc Waslilnirlou'i liirlhlay.
It was Georgo Washiu!to's birth
day, Tho bells wci-a riugiug aud tho
Cauijoif werj liojnyu iu commemora
tion ( UiaaRttlH'rof JlisCouutry. Lit
tle Hthel, ajiil tvj',- wise aud thought-
fcir.lieyon, 1 heiiyeurj, was gazing out
of fh window, apparently in deep
thought. Suddenly bho uwoke from
her reverie, nud, turning arouud to
her father, slid: "Papa, what are
they Koiu'j t givi) (i.jorj'o Washing-
tun for his birthday V"
A Ilc!-re.l Fate.
Vby did
mm V
"Why did General Washington
criisH tho Delaware on a dark, stormy
night?" asked tho funny man.
"Give it up," answered tho crowd.
"To get to tho other side," retorted
tho f niiuy man ; au I tliu the orc I
Killed him gently, buttiniily. Hullo.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARB TOLD BT THE
FUHNT MEN OF THE PRESS.
When rirave Men Blanch A Frank
Confession Of Course She Would
Gave II Im Something, Ktc, Etc.
lie ha I faced a thousand dnDgnrn,
He bad hrsve.l the stlnK of Kate,
And he nn 1 Fear were strangers
Till he took his elrl to sk-nte.
Philadelphia Rcccrd.
A FRANK CONFESSION.
Cora "Which of your resolutions
did you find it the hardest to keep?"
Morritt "My diary." Truth.
GAVB HIM SOMETHING.
"Did tho doctor give you anything
for your cold?"
Patent "Yof, a bill for 82. " Intcr
Occan. OP COURSE SHE WOULD.
Nell "Mr. Sillicus is only an
apology for a man."
Belle "Well, wouldn't you accept
an apology if it wero offered?" Iowa
Falls Citizen.
THE CONDITIONS OF SUCCESS.
He "Pray tell mo tho sort of girl
I ought to propose to?"
She "Well, one who is rich and
a philanthropist." Truth.
A STUDENT OF riNANCE.
"What is tho meaning of all this
talk about an elastic currency?"
"I suppose it is some scheme to
help a man to stretch his income so as
to make both ends meet." Puck.
A DIG AT TROSY PEOPLE.
Van Gambler "I soe the fashion is
coming in again for ladies to wear ear
rings. I suppose now you'll have to
have your ears bored."
Miss Ennui "I'm used to that."
WENT A-OLIMMEniNG.
"I love yon dearly, Jack," she said.
"You are tho light of my life."
"I'm Borry," said her father, as ho
appeared in the doorway, "but I will
have to put your light out." Life.
HUMAN NATURE.
Miss Specs "I've heard that 'Man
wants but little here below,' Professor,
but how much is that little?"
Professor Grump "A little more
than tho other fellows have, I fancy 1"
A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
Young Husband "Are my eggs
dono yet, darling?"
His Bride (in tears) "Oh, Jaok I I
have boiled th?ta for an hour and a
half and they are not soft yet."
Puck.
EXERCISE PROMOTES MXSCLE.
Wiggins--"Algy, how do you ao-
connt for your right hand beiug
stronger than your left?"
Baboony -"Aw-er (triumphantly) I
carwy my walking stick in my wight
hand, ye know 1"
AN IDEAL PROFESSION.
"Sho is studying for a profession,
you say?"
"Yes; that of a lecturer."
"An idoal profession, I should say ;
at least for a woman. Nothing to do
but talk."- New York Press.
TRADE REVIVAL.
"Well, old man, how is business ?"
"Booming," said tho manufacturer
of sporting goods. "I have just re
ceived an order for four million pairs
of Bprinting shoes for tho Chinese
army." Indiauapolis Journal.
MADE PALATABLE.
"You'ro impertinent, sir 1"
"But you never say that to Bob-
kers, who is twioa as insoleut as I
am."
"Of course not. I can stand impu
dence with brain sauce." Boston Ga
zette. KNOWS THE THICK.
"How is it that Politic is so popular
with the ladies?"
"He talks so well."
"Heavens 1 he never says anything
but yes aud no."
"That's it; ho allows thorn to do it
all. " Inter-Ocean.
INDUSTRY.
.-Dusty Rhodes "What havo you
beon a-iloin' lately, Duty?"
Fitz William "Working at on ex
change." Dusty Rhodes "What?"
Fitz William "I fouud a Turkish
bath coupon, and I've been a-tryiu'
to exchange it for a maul ticket."
Pack.
TWO LESSONS.
Papa "Take a lesson from the
postage stump, my son."
Sonny "Why, pa?"
Papa "Because it always sticks to
one thing uutil it gets there."
Sonny "That's true, pa. But thero
is auother lesson I might take from
the pobtage stamp, pa."
Papa "What is that, uiy son?'
Sonny "Never to click to auything
uutil I'm licked." Browning, King i
Co. 's Month! v.
FASY TO EFFECT.
MoSwatturs "I wish I could get
out of
him."
MeSwitters "Why don't you go u
to him with a roll of bills iu your
baud cud my: 'Dohsou, here's that
titty I borrowed of you?' "
MuHwattcre "But i only borrowed
teu !"
MeSwitters "That's all rigid. Tho
object is lu kill Do'json by the chock,
and the 10 is yours. "Syracuse Post
SCIENTIFIC AND IXDFSTRIAI,.
They cut glass now by electricity.
A horseshoe to be affixed without
nails has been invented.
Leon Lilienfeld, j young chemist in
Berlin, has produced art ideal white ot
An injured nail on the right hand
will be renewed ten days or two weeks
sooner than if on the left.
Parisians aro introducing porom
glass for windows on account of its al
loged ventilation facilities.
Cast-iron blocks are beiu? substi
tuted for granite blocks along thj
tramway rails in Paris streets.
A new application of electro-plating
is the sealing of cans of fruits I
meat, and of bottles of chemicals.
A fatal fall from a great height is
Baid to be paiiless, as tincousciousucss
precedes the crash of concussion.
Tho extreme cold of the poles is
mainly due to the fact that the Arctic
Ocean is certainly, and the Antartio
probably, a land-locked sei.
Lord Kelvin estimates that tho
"running slow" of tho earth iu its
daily rotation round its axis amoiinU
to twenty secouds per century.
Careful computation shows that tho
total capacity of generators and mo
tors in use in railway work in the
United States aggregate half a million
horse-power.
Southampton, England has a fur
nace for burning garbage which cost
$18,000. It consumes from twenty
five to fifty tons of garbage daily at an
annual expense of $1100.
Soap has been substituted for wax
on the recording surface of the phon
ograph by a Berlin inventor. Tho
advantage gained is that soap is unaf
fected by ordinary changes of tem
perature. An enterprise on foot is tho colloa
tion of wave power on the seashore by
building conical tunnels in the rock,
up which the billows will send the
water to be colleoted for use in eleva
ted reservoirs at the toi.
An instrument'' known as the "gas
tograph" has been constructed for tho
purpose of recording the action of the
stomach of a patient under treatment,
the movements of the food while it is
nnlergoing chemical action being
carefully and minutely recorded by
means of electricity.
According to Invention, a building
has recently been erected by Herr
Wagner, an architect at Limbnrg,
solely of materials formed of ashes,
without any admixture of sand. It is
claimed that hard natural stones of
almost every variety have been suc
cessfully imitated with this very cheap
material.
The Danger From Matches.
We wonder how our anoestors man
aged to get along at all before the in
vention of matches ; they are so indis
pensably handy that we keep them in
every room of the house, tho "men
folk carry them in their pockets,
leave them hanging in their "other
clothes" in a dozen closets in all por
tions of the house ; we havo a handful
resting within reach while we sleep ;
they are dropped hero and there as we
attempt to handle them ; if it is light,
and wo readily see them, they aro
picked up, otherwise they are left till
a more convenient season which
generally does not come, simply be
cause they are forgotten, being "only
a match" we can get plenty more for
a cent, and time is too valuable to be
wasted over so insignificant a trifle.
The moral is obvious; familiarity
has bred contempt, and in the use of
these dangerous little conveniences we
have become extremely careless. It is
time to turn over a new leaf. Keep
matches in but a few places in the
house or the office. Let those few be
fireproof receptaoles, in which tho
matches could burn to ashes without
endangering anything. Remember
that combustion cannot go on without
a supply of air, aud for that reason,
as well as to prevent accidental scat
tering, the match boxes should always
bo kept covered. Good Housekeep
ing. The ;gs a Grasshopper Lays.
How many eggs does a grasshopper
lay? Mahomet, according to the
Khalif Omar, said, when theso insect
fell upou him, that he could read
udou their wings the words: "We are
tbe legions of God, aud wo bear
ninety-nine eggs. When e produce
a hundred we shall devour the world."
In a paper read before the Paris
Academy of Sciences, M. Kuuckel
d'flerculai says that Mahomet was
wrong in supposing that the locust
laid exactly uiuety-uiuo eggs at a
time, although he was quite right iu
attributing to it extraordinary
fecundity. M. Kuuckel has been
carefully watching souid lojusts for
mouths, and he finds that one of these
insects will lay as many as from 50 J
to 900 eggs during a season of from
ten to eleven mouths. Ho poiuts out
that if tho French Government wish
to get rid of the locust plague from
which Algeria sutlVrs, it is particularly
advisable to kill tho inserts just be
fore the seasou when their eggs are
laid. London News.
Church Huts.
It is a queer fact that in the buso
meut of a certain LcwUtuu church live
bats that never go out, but exist upou
the mice they can catch there. The
janitor suys that a dozen of them will
watch for a mouse, un I when he ap
pears svtoop down on hiiu, aud a'ter a
lively battle is couriered. If any of
the bats are overcome in the fray they
are eaten, too. The basement was en
tirely freed from theui once. Tho
furnace teudcr would 'euve the wiudow
open till midnight, and then close it
while the bats were outside, au I they
had to find another ubodc.--LeHittou
(Me.) Journal,
A HAPPY FELLOW,
From the mealow where f sit,
Bee a sky o' tine,
God was six days palntlu' It
Jest fer me an' ycu
Every time It strikes my eye
I keep say In' : "ThPre'i your sky I
Dlue no' b?nlln'
Ai' unendin' !"
Sol sing, nn' never sigh.
Sunshine over bill an' glen
BirJs In every tree ;
When Go 1 made the country, ten
Acros came to me !
Every time It blosoms fair
I kepp sayin' : "That's yoursbnre I
I'.osos pro win'
It, vers flowin' !"
Bo I'm happy everywhere !
BprlnRorvinter r.iln or shine,
Don't care where I'm at,
fco much of the oountry's min9
Tralso the Lor J fer that !
Hky an' mea low, high or low,
I keep snyfn' as I go :
"There'syour birthright I"
Got the earth right
That's why I'm s-ilngin' to !
Frank L. Stanton, lu Truth,
11U.V0R OK THE DAT.
"Takes after his father" The boy
with sawed-off trousers. Puck.
When a man is resigned to fate, fate
usually accepts the resignation. Puck.
Things are not what they seem.
Free lunch, for instance, is not free.
Atchison Globe. -.
Tell a girl that she writes an inter
esting letter, and she begins to dream'
of writing a book. Atchison Globe.
It is all right to court tbe Muse:
but her editorial guardians make it
awfully hard to get hold of any of her
money. Puck.
If we may judge by wigs and shaven
faces, the barber seems to have been
the most important eighteenth-cen
tury personage. Puck.
The tide taken at the flood only
bears a man on to fortune when he is
smart enough to walk ashore before it
can take him back. Puck.
Caller -"Where are yon going for
your vacation, dear?" Mrs. Make
bread "Going to let cook go for a
couple of weeks." luter-Occan.
Mistress (thinking about dessert)
"What kind of pies are you most fa
miliar with?" New Girl "Bakers
pies, Mum." New York Weekly.
"I e.innot live without yoo,"
Tiio love-lorn suitor sighed ;
"And I could not live with you,"
The wealthy maid replied.
Naw York Morulug Journal.
Harry "I understand she gave you
aflat refusal?" Jaok "Yes; nothing
bnt a four-story brownstone would
satisfy her." Kato Field's Washing
ton. You can not raise flowers with last
year's sunshine ; but the rosiest flow
ers of fancy often spring from the
glowing warmth of lust year's over
coat. Jinks "I understand you were
pretty well off before you were mar
ried." Blinks "Yes; but I didn't
know it." Smith, Gray & Co.'s
Monthly.
Little Boy "How old aro yon?"
Miss Autiquo (confusedly) "iou
should not ask a lady how old she is."
Little Boy "Oh, 'xcuse me. How
young are you?" Good News.
"Blamed if I see any fun in haying
to put up at a hotel," muttered Bilk
er to himself as he handed his watch
and chain over to the olerk as security
for his board. Buffalo Courier.
The ancient knight leaned lightly
Upon his lance. "Marry " The
modern maid was on his neck in an in
stant. "Oh, Roderick," she cried,
"This is so sudden I" Pick Me Up.
Young Sculptor "Well, Bronscn,
wliat-do you think of tbt bust?"
Brouson "H'm it may be a good
bust but, really, Chizzle, it strikes -me
as a bad break." Harper's Bazar.
Oh, don't you remember Sweat Alloe, Ben
Bolt,
8wM-t Alice with hair so brown ;
flow she clipped it all olt and bought a
L ion l wig
Ai 90on as she got Into town.
Philadelphia Record.
JJMaudo (at tho piano) "I do hate
these finger exercises. I thiuk they're
just horrid." Edith "Why, I thiuk
they're lovely. They do show off
oue's rings to such advautago, you
kuow." Boston Trunseript.
Nettie "What did Mr. Knowall
write on the card he put in the basket
of tlowors?" Blanche "For the one
I love best." Nettie "The horrid
creature has bought them for him
self." Chicago Inter-Ocean.
If marriage Is a failure, as the critics oft
have said,
And tbe wedding-bell but toll Love's
elegy j
If marriagd is a failure, and love so soon is
dead,
A clear case ot henrt-ful ure it must be.
Carolyn Wells.
First Pater "Loaded down as usu
al." Second Pater "Yef. It's piano
musio for uiy daughter." First Pater
"Apparently she gets it by the ton."
Second Pater (wearily) "Yes, but
she delivers it by the pound." ritts
burg Bulletin.
"I can tell you, baron, that when
my offer of uiurriago was rejected by
tho prima douua I was so utterly mis
erable that I was on the point of
throwing myself out of the wiudow."
"What pruveuted you?" "The
height." Karlsbadeu Wocheublatt.
In Active Practice at Muety-eiglit.
Dr. West brook Farrier, of Biddeford.
Me., is said to bo a physician in active
uruettee. tlumuli iiinutv-piirht TAura
x ' o j n j -
old, and, stilt more remarkable, to be
in tho habit of visiting his patients
nuulHrl nn a liiivplrt lfrt.ttriliiit.MB
-a j v
his exceptional vigor at this advanced
ga to tne use oi wiutergreen lea, oi
wuicu ne is sain to ue au arueut au-
vocate. Chicago Times,
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