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Chief Justice Juilil, of Hawaii, hopes
for Union with the United States
tho island rcpnblio to beooiao oithor a
"Federal DiRtrict or a Territory."
Marshall Yumagata, of Japan, thinks
1lntt 1 li in is tlin most wonderful coun
try miilcr the sun, and says thnt it is
tlio only Nation iu tho world that does
not nood nn Brmy.
Tho Chicago Inter-Ocean says:
''The civilization that oun photograph
tlio invisible should not despair of
finding oat what is tho real causo and
practical cure of orimo."
Eugeuo V. Debs was invited by tho
Chicago University students to ad
dress them, but the faonlty wouldn't
allow it. They think Dobs is a dan
gerous niau, explains tho Now England
Homestead.
Chicago is very much afraid that
Canada might invado her, in case of
trouble with England, and is loudly
demanding a big share of tho cosh ap
propriated for fortifications. What's
the matter with the brick battleship,
Illinois? nsks tho New Orleans
Picayune
It is tbo annonneod purposo of An
drew Carnogio to make of Pittsburg
tho "art centre'' of Amorioa, by an
nununl "salon" exhibition after the
nmuuvr of tho Paris Salon. To induce
the world's artists to send pictures for
exhibition ho has decided to give
C.jO.OOO a year for tho purchase of
prize winners.
Buffalo Bill is said, in Farm, Field
nni Firesidb, to bo tho best known
Amcriosu citizon. In Germany ho is
looked upon as a general, in France,
England and Ireland as the moat
prominent Presidential candidato, and
iu Spain and Italy ai a cabiuot officer
taking a tour for his health. Tho
members of tho Wild West Show nro
looked upon as tho oourtiers in bis
train typical Amorioan gontlomeu.
New cures for consumption continue
to be proposed, notes tho Pathfludor.
None has so fur nrovoda mienifin nnrn
invariably siioooshCuI or exclusively
neosptod. Consumption appears to bo
tho worst enemy of man's hoalth in
this day, ami it is probably increas
ing. It is thcuo serious considera
tions thnt aro urging scientists to
study moro closely tho pathology of
tho luugs. Nature abhors nnhoalth
and as soon as wo learu how to make
the conditions right it will bo as oasy
to reform a pair of luugs as to sot a
broken arm.
In Australia they are exploiting a
whale cure for rheumatism, which is
aid to be effectivo, though disagree
able. It was discovered by a drunken
ninn, relates tho New York Press, who
was staggering along tho beach near
the whaling station at Twofold Bay,
and who, seeing a dead whale out open,
took a hoader into tho doooinposing
blubber. It took two hours for him
to work his way out, and he was then
not only sober, but cured of his rheu
matism. Now, they say, a hotel has
been built in the neighboring town of
Eden, whero rheumatio patieuts wait
for tho arrival of a whale in order to
tako blubber baths.
(July one lighthouse iu ninety miles
from Sandy Ilook to Atlantic City,
aud sovcral boats, including the liner
St. Louis, havo lately ruu on tbo
bcaoh in that stretch, exclaims tho
New York Dispatch. Only one light'
house fur tbo Long Islaud shore ap
proach to Sandy Hood for sixty miles
and over, where numerous wreoks nro
beached and strew tbo coast every
year. Is the approach to the greatest
harbor iu tho world properly pro
tected considering the dangerous
sands waiting to hold any craft unfor
tunate enough to get nshoro aud con
sidering the enormous tonnage aud iti
value that has to resell this port by
ruuninj tho guuutlet of tho Jersey am'.
Long Is a ml sands?
A State organization of the school
boards of Miunesota has been formed.
There are similar organizations in Illi
nois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Texas and
Pennsylvania, aud a National conven
tion, the first, will be held iu Buffalo
this year, iu connection with tho Na
tioual Teachers' Association. The
purpose iu the organization of these
State associations of school boards is
to gather aud exohauge opinions aud
decisions. Without such organiza
tion, it is argued, school boards are
judepcudeut bodies, each acting upou
its own best judgment, uud knowing
little or uothiug of the methods of
other boards. School teachers aud
mpcriutoudeuts have their oouveu.
tions and exebaugo of ideas, aud it is
equally desirable that members of
rehool boards should have an oppor-(,-j.ifu
nt olucutiut; themselves for
the:
THE OLD CHURCH BELL.
t bangs to-day where it has huug for fifty
years or moro,
But some who loved Its silver tones the
churchyard covers o'or,
And many urothn times since then, with doop
and solum u knell,
lias tolled for dear depurtod ones the
Old
Church
Boll!
Within n latticed tower it swings, high Up
above the stroot,
And every Sabbath morn is hoard the musia
clear and sweet
Which floats above tho village roofs, and
over hill and dell.
Upborne upon tho vagrant wind, from the
O'.rt
Church
Ilcllt
Full many a change tho hand of tlmo has In
tho vlllngo wrought.
And passing years have often been with grief
and angnlh fraught;
Tot age has nover ohnngod Its tones, and
years ennnot dispel
Tho magic of tho musia from the
Old
Church
Boll)
Since It was plaood within the towor in days
of long ago,
Tho toaiposts wild have ronad It raved, and
many a driven snow
Hits sifted through the slats up there, and
mntitled as It foil
In robes of white its dwelling place, and tho
Old
Church
Boll!
Though gone from earth and earthly things
forevor passed away
Tbo faithful ones who lovod whllo bora Its
summons to obey
Now root beyond the tide of tlmo, with rap
tu re long to dwell,1
Fo there thoir footsteps guided wore by tho
Will
Church
bel1
THE TI1R00P GIRLS.
Bt EMMA A. OPPEP,
'M wondoring how
tho Throop girls
will pet along
witn JUiss Chip.
man," said Mrs,
Mosclcy to her
caller. Sho look
ed over at two
houses across the
street, a largo
wbito ono and a
little yellow one.
"Tho Throops
nave just moved
here, she ex
plained, "from
Undorhill.
There's just
Phoobe and Daisy
nua thoir lather.
I've got a sistei
in Underbill, and
she knows thorn.
one says they'ro
good girls, and smart as steel traps.
They've got ambition. They want to
go to the Normal School at Bradley,
and get an education a ad teach school.
"I'm kind of curious to sea how
they'll make ont neighboring with
Augusta Chipman," said Mrs. Mosoly,
with another chuckle.
At thut vory moment tho Tbroop
girls woro seated iu Miss Chipmau's
best room, iu whoso dimness thoir
bright young facos shone out like
stars.
They wero returning Miss Chip
man's formal call ; which they had not
enjoyed muoh. It had been a business
call, any how, Phoobe said. Miss
Chipman had informed them that she
had more appleB and potatoes than she
could use herself, and that she oould
accommoduto them with thoso articles,
at tho market price.
Accordingly, they had brought a
peck measure with them.
"Wo would like some apples," said
Phoobe. "We thought we would make
a bird's nest pudding for supper."
"You do all your house work, I un
derstand," said Miss Chipman. Sho
was middle-aged. She wore her hair
drawn back tightly and gatherod into
a diminutive knot.
"Oh, yes," Daisy answered, "and go
to school."
"Wo wnnt to go through the high
sohool here and go to the Bradley Nor
mal," said Phoebe.
"We want to be teachers," Daisy
explained. "Good ones."
They chatted away cheerfully for
some time.
Then they followed Miss Chipman
down to her well stocked cellar. Miss
Chipman looked sidewise at tbo meas
ure they had brought.
"We thought wo'd take a peck,"
said Phoebe.
"They'ro selling at thirty-five
cents," saia Miss Chipmau. "I er
1 gonerully me my own measures."
She picked up a peck measure, tilled
it with rosy Northern Spies and emp
tied it into thoir measure.
Phoebe flushed hotly. Daisy bit her
lip. Phoobe paid her, and they made
short work of getting up the cellar
stairs.
"Come again," said Miss Chipmau.
"Thauk you," said Phoebe, stitllv.
Wheu the door had closed behiud
them the Throop girls lookod at each
other. "Did you ever!" Phoebe
ejaculated.
"The mean, horrid old thing Period
Daisy. "Did she think our measure
held more thau we said?"
"She seemed to !"
"I believe hers has a false bottom,"
Daisy avowed.
"Oh, no," said Phoebe, though her
heart burued withiu her. "She hon
est, I suppose."
"But moan," Daisy subjoiued.
"P'isou mean I I've a great good
mind to tako her old apples right
straight buck to hor I"
But there was supper to bo consid
ered. Phoub;- stirred the batter uud
IS
Daisy sliced tbo apples. The pudding
was a great success and thoir father
praised it.
The Throop girls did their faithful
best to make a cheerful homo for thoir
fothor, who workod hard, and did for
them all his scant means allowodt And
to-night they bravely buriod Miss
Chipman and her pock measure
fathoms deep boncatb thoir happy talk
and laughter.
There came a knock at tho door
when thoir father had gono downtown
after supper. Tho visitor was Ozro
Martin, from tho poorhouse two miles
away, half-witted fellow, long and
loose-jointed with an unkempt mop of
red hair and a ludicrously twisted
face. He came to tho village frequent
ly, bogging his meals from house to
house. Ho had applied to the Tbroop
girls bofore successfully, and he bore
them in mind, for he had some small
shrewdness in his witless noddle.
Phoobo let him havo a chair by tho
stove ant the remaider of the bird s
nost pudding.
"Shtopped in to Mish Chipmau's,
ncksht houeh," said Ozro, in his own
peculiar specob, " 'n she wouldn't give
a pore foliar nuthin' I . She'sh drefful
moan, she ifih." He looked spltofuh
"We know that," said Daisyt warm
ly. "Sho's fearfully stingy."
'Bhtintrv I thafsh it," Ozro agreed,
"Sho'd ought to be arroshted 'n put
in the jail 1" Malice gleamed from his
dull eyes.
"Pleasant evonins. isn't it?" said
Phoebe, considering that enough had
been said about Miss Chipman.;
BuC Daisy could not forget her,
When Ozro had gobbled the pudding
and departed, and they had spread
their books and slates on tbo table and
plunged into their "homo work,"
Daisy gave signs of a wandering mind.
Now and again she tutored spasmodi'
colly, and at last she jumped up and
bolted oft with a gicoful and inystcn
ous "Wait a mlnuto!"
She camo dancing back after a little,
(Jiggling triumphantly, she sot down
before Phoebe a small plate.
On it was a half an apple, impaled
upon which, by means of a match, was
a slip of puper, and on the paper ,was
written :
"Dear Miss Chipman We aro
afraid that you gavo us half an apple
too much, and wo beg to roturn it.
"Phoebb and Daisy Throop."
"I'm going over and leavo it at her
door, Daisy declared.
"Daisy Throop I" Phoobo gasped,
in shocked remonstrance. But she hid
her laughing faco.
"I am," said Daisy, "and yon'ro'gO'
ing with me. She'll find it in the
morning. Come on I"
"Wo mustn't," Phoebe protestod.
"Yes, we must. Sho was mean, you
know sho was I Sho deserves it. It'll
do her good."
She pullod Phoebe to tho door by
main force. They ran ont, bare hoad
ed, and climbed the fence in the dark
ness aud made thoir way through Miss
Chipmau's lawn and their suppressed
giggles trailed bohind them.
"We'll loiivo it right hero at the kit
chen door," Daisy whispered. "She'll
find it in tbo morning."
Sho crept to tho door aud sot tho
plate down softly.
Sho felt her sister's hand clutching
hers. "Look I Pboebo cried.
Tbo woodshod adioiuod tho kitohen
at the rear. Its door stood open, aud
withiu they saw a strange, bright
glare.
They rushed to tho spot. Something
loomed up blackly bofore them a tall
ligure stauding oil a barrel. A fright
ened yell burst from tho apparition.
"Who sit that, 1 Bbay? 'a familiar
voice quivered in thrill terror. The
tiory light sboue on tho red hair and
tho pale, skewed face of Ozro Marti u.
He stared at tbom ; thon, with a
ohokod aud stammering word, he
nlasped his queer fuce iu Lis lean
hands, jumped oil tho barrel and
loped oil' into the darkness.
A smoll of kerosene filled the shod,
and the rafters had caught the blazo
of a burning mass of something which
Ozro Martin had been stuffing in
amoug them. Tain! get soma water,
Phoebe cried, aud while Daisy ran she
mouuted the barrel and tore at the
burning mass. It was a bundle of rags
soaked with kerosene.
A few minutes later Miss Chipman,
hearing peculiar noises at the baok of
the bouse, dropped the paper she was
reading by her sitting room fire, took
the lamp and her pistol out of the
bureau drawer iu her bedroom, and
marched out to the woodshed. If it
was burglars Miss Chipman felt equal
to them.
Sho threw open tbo 'shed door.
"For tbo land's sake I" she ut
tered. Tho Throop girls stood thero to
gether. Their hands and their faces
wero Btraugely blaekenod, water
dripped from their hair and from
their olothes. All around them lay a
litter of charred fragments. Tho air
recked with the odor of keroseue.
"It was Ozro Murtiu. He was try
ing to set your house afire. We came
over for for something, and we
caught him doiug it," said Phoebe,
facing Miss Chipman with a tremulous
smile; she was holding ono hand in a
pail of water.
"lie d got those old rags and itippod
them in your oil cau uud crammed
thm up there among tho beams aud
sot loom afire," said Daisy.
"it's all out, said Phoebe, reassur
ingly, for Miss Chipmau had grown
very pale.
"Every smitch I raid Daisy. "I
brought water from the pump and we
threw it, aud Phoebe pulled tho rags
out. She s burned her hand.
"Never mind," Phoebe murmured.
"Nover miud?" said Miss Chipmau.
"Come iu here I"
Sho drew them into the kituheu.
She tilled a basin with warm water aud
brought soap uud towels, uud wheu
tho girls ha l washed away their sooty
stains aud dried their dump locks ami
drossun as best they" cool !, sue took a
bottle of salve Irom u cupboard aud
carefully annotated and bound up
Phoobe s burned hand.
All this she did without sneaking
ono word. Then she sat down heavily
and stared at the Tbroop girls' grave
eyes sot in a pale face.
"You ro twd smart girls. You re
noblo girls! This house wonld have
burned down if it hadn't been for
you," she said. "And my insurance
ran out yesterday, and I hadn t writ
ton to the company to renew it. I
was going to-morrow. Such careless
ness! And you have saved me.
Saved me every penny of 8200C."
"I'm so glad, Miss Chipman," said
Phoebo, sinoerely. Miss Chipman
looked moved and softened and al
tered. She did not look like the Miss
Chipman who had sold them the
northern spies.
Daisy was opening and shutting her
mouth uneasily.
"I'm afraid I'm to blame for it
some, Miss Chipman," she faltered.
"Ozro Martin wanted to burn your
house tip out of spite. He thought
yon were mean because you wouldn't
give him any supper, and he came to
our house, and and I sympathized
witb him. 1 told him you were &icsn
and"
"Daisy I" cried Phoebe. But Miss
Chipman laughed outright, "Well,
go on," she said.
"I will go on," said Daisy. She sat
straight and stiff, and a red spot
burned in either cheek. "I'll toll it
all. I I I'll go and get it."
She stopped to the door, f nmblod on
the step outside, and returning, set
before Miss Chipman a plate contain
ing half an apple,
"There I" she Baid. "I did it.
Phoebe didn't want mo to, but I did,
and I made her come with me, and wo
left it there at the dpor, and that's
how we came to see Ozro Martin set
ting the house a -fire. I had to tell
you. There I"
Miss Chipman read tho word?
sorawled upon tho paper. And read
them again.
"Oh, dear," Fhoobe groaned, in an
agony of distress and wretchedness.
"Oh, dear I"
But Miss Chipman was smiling. It
was a grim sort of smile.
"I've just a word or two to say for
myself, dears," she said, gently. "I
offered Ozro Martin some doughtiutu,
made fresh to-day, but he said he
couldn't eat doughnuts without coffee,
and he went off sulky.
"And about the apples maybe t
shouldn't say a word to excuee it, for
I know just how terribly mean it
looked to you. But you see, I got
inlo the habit of usiig my own
measures when those shifvless Durfees
lived whore you do. Teey'd come
over here for apples and sua mer vege
tables and milk, and bring dishes to
hold twice as much as they'd ask for
or pay for, and expect me to fill them
up. And they'd borrow, and nover
pay back. I despised their st iftless,
dishonest ways, and I took nior.ns to
protcetmjBolf. JAnd my peck measure
was one.
"But there isn't an atom of Durfeo
about you. I know that tho minute I
set eyes on you. And I made np my
mind, after you'd gone home with tho
apples, that I'd come over and explain
to you how 'twas force of habit, my
using my own peck measure, and that
you needn't be afraid I'd do it again.
I was terribly ashamed of it. -
"I know I'm a stingy, hard old wo
man, " Mies Chipman declared, But
somehow, tho Tbroop girls felt like
speaking right up -and donying it.
"I've got tho reputation, and I guess
I deserve it. I've lived here aloue so
long that I've got warpod aud soJflsh
aud mean, and I know it.
"Aud here you've saved my house
from burning. Saved me from an aw
ful misfortuue. It's no use for no to
tell you how thaukful 1 am. It's coals
of fire, aud I hope it'll do me good !
"I'm as glad as I can be that you've
come here, dearies. I guess what I
need is something young and bright
aud sweet around me, to warm mo np.
I hope we'll be real good frieuds. I
like you, and I want you to try to liko
me."
And there wero tears in Miss Chip
man's eyes.
"There!" she said. "Now, do you
like plum preserves and candied cher
ries and fruit cake? Wo will have
some, dears."
"Well!" said Mrs. Moscley, some
weeks later, "if I ever! I wouldn't
have believed it.
"I wondered, along to tho first, how
the Throop girls would get along with
Miss Chipman.
"Get along with her? Why, friend
ly ain't the word for it. They're
thick. The Throop girls are over
there half the time aud I see Mies
Chipman going over to tho Throops'
twice a day, sometimes. Tbo Tbroop
girls havo kuit her a blue head scarf,
and she wears it ; wears it all over
town. She that uever woro auytbiug
before but a black bounet."
But Mrs. Mosely was in total ignor
ance concerniu: Mm Chipmau's peek
measure aud tbo remarkable train of
events which had resultod from hor
having used it one too many times.
".-She's pretty near a new woman,
Augusta Chipman is. Thoso Throop
girls have done her a sight ol good,
that's the long and the short of it. They
do say she's goiug to help 'em through
the Bradley Normal school, that
they're so crazy to get to. I wouldn't
have believed it, a spell back, but
now Well, I don't kuow as it's quite
a miracle, but it's next thing to it."
Atluuta Coustitutiou.
WUi'ii Birds Court.
"All birds courts iu the spring,"
siys Olive Thoruu Miller, "although
it has been discovered by reueut in
vestigations thut tho majority of them
keep tho sauio uiutcj for life! Never
theless, wheu that seusou comes
around each year the uiuio bird goes
throii 'li tbo s.tino demonstrations and
m ines every ullurt to enarin tils .(xiing
anew."
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. J
STORtfcS THAT ATtE TOLD ET THE
FUNNY MEN OP THE PRESS.
A Model For Alt Thomas knew
Different Now How to hook In.
tellectual Ketlrltig, Ktc, Ktc.
Oh, busy Boo ! In many a Iny
Doth many a bard thy praises sing,
For gathering honey all the day.
Because thou likost that sort of tiling.
Yet, no reproich, art thon, O Boc!
To those that Idly take their oac;
They, cheerful worker, are like thee
In that they do Just what they please,
Puck.
TnOMAS KNEW.
Teacher "Where is tho capital of
Great Britainj Thomas?"
Thomas "Most Of it's in this coun
try ?" Chicago Becordi
'different now.
"Papa, whot is a histoiical epoch?"
"It is a period of time that used to
cover ages, but now it runs along any
where from'a week to ten days."
itETmlNd.
Mistress ''Maryj I don't approve
of your entertaining your young man
in the kitchen."
"Well, mum, he's too shy to come
in the parlor." Life.
A FRIGHT.
Jimeon "Have you a dog?"
Bmithkius "Well, I guess I We've
got one my wife embroidoredon a tidy
that we hang ont on the porch, and it
frightens tho trumps cpeechlcs?."
HOW TO IiOOK INTELLECTUAL,
"That Miss Dawson is a stupid look'
ing girl."
"Yes, isn't she?"
"Somebody ought to persuado her
to wear eyeglasses." Chicago Kecord.
KOT NECESSARILY.
"Tho faoe," said the proverbial
boarder, "is an index to the mind."
"Then," said the Cheerful Idiot,
"if a woman's face is 'made up, is it a
sign that her mind is in the same con
dition." Indianapolis Jourual.
A VICTIM OF HAT1IT.
Elder Berry "I believe I told you
Joblots used to be a school teacher?"
Dr. Thirdly "Yes. What of it?"
Elder Berry "Ever since ho got
into the church he has been urging a
change of text books." Judge.
A SIMrLE PLAN.
Mr. Youngman (after long thought)
"Is there any way to find out what
a woman thinks of you, without pro
posing?" Mr. Benedict (absently) "Yes,
make her mad." Now York Weekly.
CARRIED TUB AIR AWAY.
"Yon have a fine climate here," said
the visitor to a resideut. "Such a
bracing air I"
"Yes," replied the resident, gloomily,
"but them there bicyclists come along
aud pump the air iuto their pneuma
tic tiros and carry it off." Truth.
ma COMPLAINT.
Landlady "Havo you given up
your wheel, Mr. Jones?"
"Boarder "I huven't been riding
much lately. 1 uud that it docsu t
agree with me."
Landlady "How?"
Boarder "it increases my appo
tite." I'uck.
TUB WAS OF THE WORLD.
The Pitober "It makes me tired to
hear some of them ducks talk."
Tbo Catcher "What are they
eayiu'?"
Tho Titcher 'Mere I didn't let a
mau get to tirst, uud them fellers aro
telliu' each other how the mascot won
tho game." Puck.
"why?" she askrd.
Mr. Bloobuuiper "My dear, you
have un irritutiug habit of asking
Why?' after every statoaieut 1 male.
Now won't 3-ou try to break yourself
of tho habit?"
Mrs. Bloobumpei " Why, certainly,
my love. I'm sure I didn't know I
did. I'll certainly try to break my.-elf
of tho Libit, as you suggest. But
why '"Judge.
FOLLOWINCI INSTRUCTION.-.
Younglovo (adinonishiugly) "Now
tbut vou'vo opened a bank accouut,
you must bear iu mind that the
checks must not bo sigue 1 with any ol
your pet dimiuutivos. Just settlo
on ouo name, aud use that and no
other."
Mrs. Younglovo (plaintively) "AH
right dear. I'll just sign 'Maude;'
but I dou't see how they'ro going to
identify me by th it !" l'uek.
a caukku starteu.
"1 have beim thinking for a long
time," she said, with a serious ex
pression which contrasted strongly
with her usual airiness, "(hut 1 ought
tc have some serious purpose iu life.
So I have decided to go iuto litera
ture." "You iuteud to pursue it seriously,
do you V" .
"Yes, indeed. I've bought a lovely
Louis XVI. desk aud I've got some ol
tho most exquisite stationery you ever
huw. Mother nave me u gold peu uud
a mother of pearl penholder, uul I
have just the prettiest silver inkstand !
All covered with filagree work, you
know."
"You aro cortuinly well equipped."
"Yes," she replied serenely. "1'vo
got a splendid start. All 1 have to do
now is to sit dowu tonio time aud think
up a piece to write." Wushiugtou
Stur.
Whalebone glows dealer each ye:ir,
ami is now worth its weight in silver.
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
Virginia r.ossesHes the preatcst mag
nesium mines in the world.
The eyes of birds that fly by night
aro generally about double tho size of
day birds,
The Bertillon system for idontifyius
criminals by measurements ban been
adopted by the Now York City Police
Board.
If human dwellings wero constructed
on the samo proportionate scale as the
ant-hills of Africa we should bo living
in bouses a mile high.
An odd observation of Gilbert
White, confirmed by recent writers,
is that pheasant cocks invariably crow,
as if in answer to a challenge, at tho
sound of artillery or thunder.
It is evident, according to the
American Machinist, that wheels Con
structed on the principle of the bicycle
wheel ate not suited for use in ordinary
three and four wheel vehicles since
they are planned to sustain vertical
stress only, and are altogether un
fitted for lateral strain such as othor
vehicles are subjected to.
A Frenchman has invented a record
ing attachment for the piano, for the
use of composers, by which each key,
when struok, leaves a mark on a atrip
of slowly-moving paper. By means ol
this contrivance improved musio may
be transcribed aud fleeting ideas
caught that, perhaps, it would be im
possible for the composer to recall
and commit to paper.
Plateau, a Belgian experimenter,
throws doubt on tho assumption that
insects are strongly attracted by
bright and contrasted colors in flow
ers. Showy dahlias, hiddon beneath
leaves and colored paper seemed to
bo visited by bees and butterflies
quite as often as the exposed flowers.
It is ooncludod that perception of
odors is the insects' chtaf guide.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company finds that its electric loco
motives are more expensive than those
driven by steam, the former costing
thirty-eight cents per engine-mile,
while tho cost of tho latter is but
twenty-three cents. However, as in
all other respects the use of olectricity
iu tho tunnel has given far moro satis
faction than that of stonm, tbo former
will bo continued.
Usually skeletons of prehistoric
peoples are found near tho surface.
Except in the high mounds of the
Mississippi valley tbey are seldom
more buried than ten feet deep. So
it is interesting to note that an ex
cellently preservod skeloton was found
at Atlantio Highlands, N. J., twenty
two feet bolow tho present surface,
accompanied by pipe, tomahawk,
drinking cup, shells and othor articles.
Discovered Pigmies iu Africa.
Donaldson Smith, tho young phy
sician who hu3 been on an expedition
to Lako Rudolph, Africa, arrived in
New York from London on board tho
Amerioan lino steamer St. Louis yes
terday afternoon, and last oveuiug
reuchod his home iu this city, Bays
tho Philadelphia Times.
Perhaps of the greatest popular in
terest is his discovery of many new
tribes whose existence was previously
unknown. Among these is a race of
pigmies, tho fact of whoso discovery
has caused a commotion iu suientillo
cirelos. Thc30 curious people are of
African typo. Although of great phy
sical boanty, with well-formed limbs:,
they nro barely removed from animals.
Late in life, tbey settlo down aud
marry. Tbeso remarkable people are
ull between four and five feet high aud
live in primitive conical huts.
Their only industry is com raining
and the rearing of sheep and gouts.
They are born huuters. In warfare
they uso poisoned arrows, tho wounds
intlictod by which prove fatal withiu
an hour.
Salt lu History.
The necessity for salt among aborig
iual races must have been paramount,
for nature craves it. Salts of soda are
to be found iu all animal uud vegeta
ble substances man uses, but it does
not seem to be so assimilable as sodio
chloride. Primitive Americans were
certainly fortuuate, because sources
of salt fur away from tho seubo ird aro
fairly numerous. :Tbe work of procur
ing salt must have fallen in a large
measure ou womon. There was a Mex
icau goddess who was honored us tbo
salt giver. Bancroft, iu his Azteo
studies, tells how au Aztej kiug kept
cho Tlassalas without salt for yours,
until they acknowledged his sover
eignty. I'roul Positive.
A Sootsmau who wanted to loam
what profession he would have his son
enter, put hiiu iuto a room with a
tbeologieal work, au apple and a six
penny piece. If ho found him wheu
ho returued reading tho book, he in
tended to make a clergyman of hiiu ;
if eating tho apple, u farmer, and if
interested iu tho mouey, a backer.
When ho did return he found tho
boy sittiug ou the book, with the six
peuoe iu his pocket, uud tbo apple al
most devoured.
"That settles It," said tho keeu
Scotsman, "the lad's a boru lawyer, I
can easily see." Suu Fruucisoo Ex
aminer. Peculiar Way to bnnii (Jut a Living.
There is a lumwitu au ollieo on
West Twenty-oiglitU street who is
grinding out a living iu a peculiar
way. Ho conducts a bur.-au of uumeu
c'ature. Ilia specialty is to liuiiio
titles for all sorts of plays. Of course,
he must read tho plays first. Many
authors who aro unable to conceive an
appropriate title for their plays go to
tins individual lor a catchy uame. If
tlio play is a success ho generally gels
a hatiilsomo bomis in addition to his
fee. ilo liai been iu tlio business lor
si MU y.-ar.-, in: I ho .iys niily two of
tlio plays winiii hi: named bavo j;ouo
Uuder.",NeV Villi. W ill i.
THE GOOSE FEAVHEn.
(An American Indian 8ocg.)
Tiloflk lako, black Inke
Tho wild goose hid within the brake;
The string upon my bow fell loose,
Tho arrow slipped and misse l tho gooso,
no heard my step and flew pwayj
I found a fenthor where he luyi
Anowtliin, arrow thin
I struck tho black goose-foather iu.
Mask lake, Muck lake
A goose lies dead within the brake.
This mora his own black feather whlrrod,
And sped the shaft that killed the bird.
Charles A. Colltnan, In Century,
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
"A scrnp of hiBtory" The battle of
Gettysburg. Life.
It is risky to praise a woman's hus
band to her, and still moro risky to
disparage him.
The fashionable tailor has dicovcred
that his customers dwell in tho land
of promise. Fuok.
Never judge a man by the coat ho
wears. Ho may have borrowed it for
the occasion. Life.
Tho low made about a good many
things is a good deal groater than the
things themselves. Puckt
Many of the self-made men ongbt to
try again, and get a facial manipula
tor to assist tLem. Adams Freeman.
Borne men's way of flattering them
selves is to exaggerate the cleverness
nf thnsn vlll cheAt thnrn. .AtcTiiann
Globe.
Time may bo monoy, but it is aston
ishing how long a follow will hung
around to borrow a small amount.
Truth.
Brush your baby's hair upward, add
it will grow curly. How wo wish our
mother bad known this I Atchison
Globe.
Most any man will esteem himself
linger enough to sing in church, and
be moro respectful elsewhere. Adams
Freeman.
"A Nutmeg History" is the title of
a now book. Somo histories aro great,
but this suggests a grater. Norris-
town Herald.
For all wo know, tho gaudy butter
fly may have moments iu which it re
grets tho fine times it had as a cater
pillar. Puck.
Sho "They must have quarreled
yesterday." He "What makes you
think bo?" She "He's so attentive
now I" Chicago Record.
Tommy "Paw, isn't man the lord
of creation?" Mr. Figg "Most of the
time. But not when house-cleaning is
going on." Iudianapolis Journal.
When a young woman "throws her
self at the head cf a young man," it U
pretty strong evidenoa the latter is "a
good catch." Norristowu Herald.
That Settlod It: Alberta "I soo
that Miriam aud Mr. ISertwhistlu's en
gagement is off." Alethoa "Yes; he
bought a bicyclo that wasu't tho same
make as hers." Puck.
A Laporto (Ind.) oouplo kopt their
marriage a secrot for eight years.
What makes tho affair moro remark
able is that the youurr lady was rot
deaf and dumb. Xurristown Her
ald. First Spinster "What do you think
the comiug man will bo like?" Second
Spinster (wearily) "Ob, I don't
know. I don't bolievo he's comiug. I
havo given up looking for him."
Harper's Bazar.
A I'orountiun Procession.
Miss Mary Grace Thornton, daugh
ter of tho British Ambassador, de
scribes tbo coronation of Alexander
III. of Russia iu tho Muy Century.
Tho writer says: "I was certainly dis
appointed iu tbo bit of procession
that I looked forward to most tho
'Deputes ties Peupladcs Asiatiques
suumises a la Russie;' which promised
to be tbo most origiual, something
that one could see iu Russia ouly. Tho
opening- of tbo procession was char
acteristic; Ko.lov, tho head of tbo
police, and twelve policemen. Then
came tho Emperor's private escort,
very handsome iu red and gold, two
Cossack regiments, the Cossack depu
ties, aud my friends tho Asiatics. No
wonder I didn't find them imposing;
for just as they were passing the
bauds struck up the National hymn,
the horses started, aud tho deputies
became a confused mass clinging to
their horses' maues. The owner of a
very beautiful yellow silk dressing
gown all thoir costumes lookod liko
Uressiug gowns- kept his head uul his
seat; but I saw the Khau of Khiva's
liU!-;o black fur bat bobbing up aud
down in a most uu-kbauu-y way."
Tlu Largest Olive drove.
Threo of the largest olive groves in
the world are plautiug iu Sontheru
California. Oue grove, of 400 acres,
iu Orange Couuty, will contain 40,00i)
trees. Another, uear Coltou, will havo
111,000 trees, aud tho thirJ, near l'o
moua, will have 4,000 trees. Thero
is moro olive planting iu California
this season thau at auy previous time,
the boom being due to tho iuoreased
popularity of California olives in
American murkets. Tho olive crop of
Southern Culiforcia lust season was
Ivorth Sl'20,000, uud tho growers say
thut throe times tho amouut of fruit
oould havo been sold. New York
Suu.
A Pigeon's tostly .Meal.
Tho other day ut Veuiee a geutlo
mau who was visitiug that city bought
somo Indian corn, with which ho fed
the historieul pigeons iu tho Pluzo
Sun Marco. While tbo birds were
feeding, says tho London News, a dia
mond fell from tho riug ho was wear
ing uud was immediately suullowud by
ouo of the pigeons. The geutlemuu
put out his baud to try to catch tho
bird, but iu so doing frighteued tho
iv hole Hock, which llovv avvuy to tho
Doge's palace.