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DTT ' ' The ancients know how to cheat. JLoaded ilico Lave been found in tlio ruins of ITereulonenm. The horseless cnrrioge lias come to stay. Tlio automobiles have been lately introduced in the Paris flre do partuieiit. At the present rale of growth of population, Franco will have only 40,000,000 at a time when Germany will have reached 100,000,000 and llussia 200,000,000. Statisticians declare that only six teen out of each 1000 insane persons become so by reason of love alTuirs. These figures apply, however, only to persons in asylums. One of the fow communistio socie ties, the Adonai Shomo, has passed out of existence and. its property in Potershum, Mass., has been sold. It was of Adventist origin, originating about thirty-five years ago, and was most prosperous in the '70's. ' The project of turning Brussels, Belgium, into a seaport seems to have aet the citizens almost crazy. The mu nicipal council has passed a resolution for the construction of a huge electric nt i igbtfiouso iu the centre of the city, on the Place de Brouekers, to servo as a beacon to ocean steouiers, as well as an ornament to tho city. New York City is to have a new Academy of Design, to be erected on tho Boulevard near the tomb of Gen eral Grant, tho Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and the new University of Cojumbiu, and will add another to tho magnificent group of buildings that is now rising on the west sido of the city between Central Park and the Uudson River. Official news has reached London to the effect that the Chilean Government is about to offer a Stato bounty of $125,000 to any foreign country or firm which will undertake to establish an iron foundry in that country on a suffi ciently large scale. The action of the Government in this matter has been prompted, it is said, by the increasing evidences in that couutry of tho exist ence of iron ore in large quantities. ' Iguatius Donnelly says tho great floods aro caused by sun spots. Why tho sun spots, which must exercise an equal influence on tho cntiro circuit of the globo very twenty-four hours, should cause the Mississippi to burst its banks and leave thelthine, Dauube or Yolga practically undisturbed, may not be very clear. But since Mr. Donnelly has said it, it is evident the planting forests or building levees on a broader plan is of no use. The only way to cure the floods, suggests the New Orleans Picayune, is to knock the spots off the sun. A story was recently started by the newspapers, relutes the Trenton (N. J.) American, to tho effect that Mrs. Cleveland had melted the spoons in tho White House which had been used by Dolly Madison and had had the silver made into prettier spoons. The story was a circumstantial one, goiug on at much length to state that the silver smith had oflred their weight iu gold fur the spoons, but that Mrs. Cleve land rejected the offer, sent the spoons to tho mint, had them molted into in gots, and then required au affidavit of the silversmith that the same silver was put into the new spoons. It is scarcely necessary to say that the story was made out of the whole cloth. It was promptly denied at tho White House, and the declaration was made that the Dolly Madison spoons are still there. " The deniul has not kept pac, however, with the origiual story, which is still goiug the rouuds of the press. A writer in Publio Opinion observes "The French and Germans have fre quently made much fuss about alleged trichina in our pork, and pretended that other of our exports, that they wanted an excuse for excluding, were adulteruted; and all the time the peo ple of those nations have sent over here liquid poison, in the shape of ines, brandies, beer, ale, etc., and l heir confections have been notorious for contuiuiug deleterious ingredients. Both the German aud French wines and food articles candies, etc. are shamelessly adulterated, and often with materials that ere dangerous to health. Not six months ago the chemists of tho British Board of Trade tested a long list of Germuu, French, American and British food aud drink materials. The revelations were de cidedly favorable to the American ar ticles, and much to the discredit of German and French honesty. . Beveral of the German food articles were found 'mixed with stuff dangerous to heulthi and all the. French aud German wines Mere discovered to be about as lad a bad could be. SOMEWHERE. Bomowlicro, tnow, wo shall find thorn, all, llio rose tnat mossomeu neyonu our roach. The star that hid 'noath an Inky pnll Just ai we staggered across tho liouoh; Tho bird that stilled Its cunning song Just at we paused a moment to hear. The fruit no'er ripened for whleh we Ions, Tho skies that ilarkonou will nil Do clear. Romowhom, I know that thn klssos wait For which we languished in nays gono by. And smiles will greet us alert, eliitn. For whleh we waited In years that die. Thn words unsjKikon comelond and clear, Tho wonln withheld in thn dim, sad past Bhnll III! with rapture our llst'nlng ear, Tho heart s best pulses neat sweet and Inst, A FLOOD THAT IIELPED. aw RANDMOTHER Melton lighted the kitchen lamp and set it in the middle of the ta ble. "We might as well have sup per," she said. "Your father prob'ly won't be bock till late." I red aud Polly drew up their chairs, and Oraudmother Melton brought a steaming bowl of mush from the stove aud dished it into two Bmaller bowls. "I'm ns hungry as a bear," observed Fred, between inouthfuls. "I think it's a shame we have to go so far to school. There isn't a siuglo boy or girl in Springville that has to go half so far as. we do." "I don't Bee why father doesn't move down there," complained Polly, pouring more of the rich yellow milk over her mush; '.'he could get to his work just as well, and it would be ever so much pleasanter than this lonesome place." "You uiiiBt remember that your father isn't a rich man," answered Grandmother Melton, gently. "He owns this cottage, and if he moved he would have to rent another home, and perhnps he couldn't sell this one." The Meltons had only been in their new home since the summer before. Both Fred and Polly had enjoyed it very much indeed during the pleasaut warm weather of August and Septem ber. Then the wide, swift Mississippi had gleamed through the willowB, and there had been unlimited boating and swimming and fishing. But with the coming of winter the roads choked full of snow and ice, and the winds swept np the river Bharp and cold, aud it was a dreary, lonesome walk of four miles to school at Springville. As the win ter progressed they had complained more aud more, aud now for a week. owing to the spring freshets, Polly had been unable to go at all, aud Fred was compelled to make a long detour over the bluffs to avoid the lagoons in the river bottoms. "They'll all get ahead of me," Polly had sobbed; "aud I can't pass my ex aminations. That morning Father Melton had gone up the river to help watch tho levees. Reports had been coming from St. Paul, Ht. Louis, Cniro aud other points farther up the great river thot the water was rising rapidly. The levees must bo watched night aud day to prevent breaks. On leaving bis home that morning Mr. Melton had told Fred that he would be back before dark, and that there was no dun per to fear from tho water. All his neighbors had told him that his cottage was high enough to be safe, even in the greatest floods. "It's after 9 o'clock now," said Polly, as she arose from the table; "I won der where father is?" "I'd go out and watch for hiiu if it wasn't raining so hard," said Fred, aud then he looked around toward tho doorway, anxiously. He caught his breath suddenly. Then he half rose from the table aud pointed at the floor. Grandmother Melton dropped her fork noisily ou her plate and her eyes followed the direc tion indicated by Fred's finger. Polly sat still aud gazed at the other two, wondering whut it all meant. There on the floor, crawling from tho crack under the door, wos a dark wriggling object. At first Fred had taken it to be one of the swamp rattlers so common to the Mississippi bottoms and his first impulse was to spring for his father's rifle which stood in the corner. "It's the flood," said Grandmother Melton when she could get her breath. By this time the black ribbon of water was spreading, Hipping luto the cracks and creeping out over the floor toward the table. Polly broke into a cry of terror. Even Grauduiother Melton seemed uncertain what to do. Fred Biiddcnly roused himself. He remembered that he was the man of the house, aud that he must watch over aud protect it iu his father's ab seuoe. So he sprung from his scat aud threw opeu the door, not without a throb of fear. It was dark outside, aud the ruin cauio down iu torrents. Curling up over the step they could see the muddy water, aud they could hear tho souud of it slapping against the house. It stretched away into the darkness in all directions as far as Fred could see. He knew that already it must be a foot or more high arouud the house. "The levee's broken," said Polly, iu a scared, awed voice. JJo vou think we'll be washed awavV" At that moment something bumped against the sido of the house with so much force that the dishes rattled. Fred ruu to the side of tho window, peered out, and found that a big log had washed down against the build ing. Grandmother Melton, who wus usu ally cool and brave under the niost Bomewlmm, the laurel wo missed while here . ri'i. I.- . i . . . . 1 u.j ttnyn u.r ioruiieuis rea'Mieu ior in vnln, Somewhere tho ehnplet slinll ne'er grow sere Nor loss prove victor o'er laggard gain; Tho glory bo real that once wax dream, Tho mountain Iwi leveled to vain below. And a bridge shall span the fiercest stream, Our foot no lunger bo halt nor slow. Bomowhero, Is the rest for whleh wo strive, The breast to pillow a weary head, A priest to listen and cheer and shrive, A life of living where naught Is dead; A peace as gentle as yonder cloud That flocks with beauty a shining sky. Shall fill each heart, while the song-birds loud Aro trilling music, that ne'er can die, -"-Hamilton Jay, in the Florldn Times-Union. trying circumstances, was wringing uer nanus in terror. t "Run up stairs." shouted Fred. "and Polly and I'll bring all the Btuff wo can with ns. ' ttrauumotner Melton waited no longer. She crept np the narrow stair. way to the little attic. Fred ran to the cupboard aud began filling his arms with dishes of food, while Polly iu her excitement seized the first thing that came to hand grandmother s rocking chair and struggled nn the stain with it. "We'll need clothing more'n any thing else," called Grandmother Mel ton. "Fred ran back. The floor of the cottage was now entirely covered with water. He splashed through it and seized all the clothing, coats and jack ets ho could carry. Polly bravely wiped away her tears, and when Fred brought the loads to the stairway she ran with them to tho bedroom where Oraudmother Melton was sitting. JJy this time the building had be' gnu to shake aud quiver as the water beat against it. "She's going soon," shouted Fred, "I'm afraid the water will reach ns np here,'.' suggested Grandmother Melton,, Fred looked np. The ceiling was low, and just above him there had been an old trnp-door, now nailed np. In stantly Fred seized tho ax and burst it open. Above they could see the dark sky and the rain coming down in steady torrents. Fred piled a trunk on top of the table and climbed out on the roof. Ho couldn't see far. but he could near the roaring of the water from every direction. His heart sunk; he felt sure that they would all be drowned. Suddenly something thumped heavily against the side of the building, aud the next instant the front end of the room went un and grandmother and Polly slipped down toward the rear end. Fred narrowly escupeu oeing nuriea on the roof. "We re goingl We're going!" screameu I'olly. "We're just off the foundation," an swered Fred, as bravely as he could. Then he swung back down into the bedroom and helped Oraudmother Melton and Polly up through the trap door to the roof. He covered them up as well as ne could and told them to cling to the ridgepole whatever might happen. Then he ran down for a coil of clothesline. This ho tied firmly to the window at one end of the bedroom, carried the other end up through the trap-door, along the roof and dropped it over the eaves. Down he went again and fastened it to the other window frame. It would do to hold to. Hardly had ho finished his work when the building gave another great lurch. "Hold on!" shouted Fred. The words were hardly out of his month when he found himself thrown violently from his feet. He caught a glimpse of the water pouring up tho stairway, and then the lamp was cap sized aud went out. Next he found himself pounding about in the water. "Fred! Fred!" came the agonized voice of Polly. "Here I am!" spluttered Fred. In fulling he had caught the edge of the trap-door and Polly helped him to the roof. "We had all we could do to hold ou," gasped Oraudmother Melton. "We're moving," shouted Polly. They rocked aud scraped and bumped along, with the water swirling aud crashing around them. "It's our first voyage," said Fred, with an effort to laugh; "p'raps we'll wind up iu the Gulf of Mexico." But Polly didn't laugh, neither did Oraudmother Melton. A few minutes luter they heard some one shouting far out on the stream aud they saw the glimmer of a lantern. They shouted iu return, but there was no auswer, and presently the lantern was swallowed up in the darkness and the three castaways were even more lonesome and terrified thuu before. They were compelled to cling firmly to the rope aud the ridgepole all the time, for the house was continually bumping against obstructions iu the stream aud cureening aud jolting like a boat in a rough sea. Besides this, they were wet to the skin and shiver ing with cold and fright. Occasionally huge forms would loom up near them, and they would see the outline of trees or buildings floating dowu the river. They were momentarily afraid lest their bout should bump into something aud be broken up. If this happened they knew they would have small hope of escape. Quite suddenly they felt the build iug grind on something, aud then, with a jolt, it came to a standstill. They could hear the timbers struin and creak and the current of the stream splashing about it, but it did not move. "Well, we're auchored," said Fred. "I suppose we're out somew here on a sandbar iu the Mississippi." "Do you think we hnve reached ' Memphis?" asked roily, anxiously. lo Polly it Beemed as if they had been drifting for hours. l or a long time they remained al most still. Occasionally thev joined their voices iu a great shout, but there wos no answer. Ired said the water roared bo loud that no one could hear it, anyway, but it eased their spirits to be doing something. At last they started again with a lerk and a shiver, as if some of the timbers of the building had given aw ay. They bumped ou for what seemed an endless time, aud then, offer scraping along for some minutes, they again stopped. 13y this time the rain bad ceased and the moon shone out faintly through the clouds. "There's lights," cried roily, joy fully. Sure enough, on the hill, not such a great distance away, they could see many lights gleaming out over the water. Nearer, there were other lights moving about, as if in boats. It s Memphis," said Tolly, and then they all shouted at the top of their voices. But no one heard them. Tho water roared too loudly. So they sat for hours and hours it Beeined to them until the gray light of morning began to break in the east. They straiued their eyes as it grew brighter and looked off across tho gray flood of water with its scattering heaps of wreckage to the town on the hill. "I thought Memphis was a bigger city than that," said Polly. "Jt isn't Memphis," said Fred, with a little joyful ring in his voice that made Polly and her grandmother look around quickly; "it s bpringville. "Siiringville!" And Spriugville it was. They could sco the little weatherbeaten church on the hill, and the red brick schoolhouse, and Judge Carson's home, and a great many other familiar places, although some of tho buildings thnt had stood near the river had disappeared. "But haveu't we come only four miles?" said Grandmother Melton, looking greatly surprised. Half nn hour later two boats came alongside and the castaways were car ried ashore. On the bank Polly found herself in the arms of her father cry ing and laughing oil at once. Father Melton looked old and worn and wor ried. He had given np his family for lost, and he was bravely helping tho other people in the work of rescue. After the flood was subsided the Meltons went down to look over their home. Father Melton hardly knew what to do, but Polly Bpoke up quite promptly. "I tell yon, father, let's leave it right here aud live iu it; Fred and I won t have so far to go to school. And what do you think? That is just what Father Melton did. He straightened the house around, built a pew foundation under it, aud the Mcl tons are living there to-duy, quite hap py and contented. So you see the flood helped two persons ot least Polly and Fred. Chicago Record. How Flower. Fasclnuto Insects. Professor F. Plateau, of the Univer sity of Ghent, has for many years car' ried on a series of observations on the modo on which insects are attracted to flowers, the results of which are pub' lished iu the bulletin of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium. His conclusions are not in accord with those of Darwin, thot the bright color of the corolla acts as a beacon to at tract insects. He believes that they are attracted chiefly by some other sense than that of sight, probobly thot of smell. In the case of the dahlia (single) and other species of Compo site, tho removal of the conspicuous rny florets have but little effect on the visits of insects; nor had the removal of the conspicuous part of the corolla in other flowers, as long as the nec tary remained. On the other hand, soys Nature, the artificial placing of honey on otherwise scentless flowers resulted iu their being immediately visited by numbers of insects. Where the same species varies iu the color of the flower, as betw een blue and white, or red and white, insects visit quite indifferently flowers of different colors belonging to the same species, Tlio Compass Plunt. What is known as the Compass plant, Pilot weed, aud Polns plant in differ ent localities, is quite curious, aud iu former days, when there were no rail roads, was of great value in guiding travelers. The leaves invariably point north and south. Mango Park has immortalized it as he says ho was guided by it, when otherw ise his wuy would have beeu lost and ho would have perished on the dry plains. Tho peculiar faculty of thus pointing to the north aud south attempted to bo ex plained by the fact that both surfaces of the leaves display equal suscepti bility to light whereus the upper sur face of the leaves of plants, in general, is more sensitive to light than the lower; hence the vertical position of the Compass plant, as unerring as the mariner's compass. Professor Asa soys of it "on the wide open prairies the leaves are said to present their faces uniformly with the north or south." American Gardening. Yli-toria'. Double. mm Iter majesty the Queen has a double in the pcrsou of an elderly lady w ho occupies or occupied a position in the Middlesex Hospital, w here she w us known as the "Queen of Middlesex." She is tho exact age of the Queen, and became a w idow iu the same yeur that the Queen lost her consort. Testing Ktel. . A new method of testing tho hard ness of steel bulls has been devised in Germany. The balls are dropped from a fixed height ou a glass plate set ut an angle; if properly tempered they re bound into oue receptacle aud if they are too soft they drop into auuthsr, TIIE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Those Cycling Hells Quite tlio Hcverso A Strike for Funds Not fctnsltlve llule of Natural Kelertlon It Took the Kilge OfT I'reyer of the Klnpprs, Ktc. Those eyellng bells, those eyellng hells! How many a tale their jangling tells Of peop In'gono before their time Who heeded not their startling chime. To everyone they bring dismay, And many a heart that once was gay Within the tomb now darkly dwells Tho victims of their dlreful knells. And so 'twill bo when I am gone: Those clangorous peals will still ring on, For though caeh heart rebellious swells There's naught can quell those eyellng bells! New York Tribune. Not Sensitive. Reporter "Thot rhinoceros has 8 skin two inches thick." Editor "Humph. He'd make 0 good editor." Truth. Quite the Keverse Dollie "Was it a quiet spot whero you kissed Mollie?" Cholly "No; it was on the mouth." Yonkers Statesman. Prayer of the F.lopers. "Papa, we have come back to ask your forgiveness." "All right. Have you paid the par son, or is thnt charged to me?" A Strike for Funds. Bank Barn "What was the Inst word yon had from yonr son at col lege?" Hoy Rick "Money." Puck. Kulo of Natural Selection. May "The man I marry must bo perfectly handsome. Belle "Yon are wise. Teoplo should always marry their opposites." Truth. The Chicago Overcoat. "Dodds is cutting a great dash in his Chicago overcoat." "Chicago overcoat? What's that?" "Fur on one side and linen duster on tho other." It Took the F.tlge Oft. The Customer "Confound you! yon have cut my cheek!" Tho Barber "By Jove! so I have. I was wondering what had tuken the edge off my razor." Health Hint. Goslin "I weplied to an advertise ment which soid, 'Send $1 for a sure method of saving doctors' bills. " Dolly "Well?" Goslin "Then tho answer wos: 'Don't get sick.' " lMggustlng ISarbarity. "Europe," said the South American statesman, "is so excitable." "Yes." "Yes; they don't even hove a little war without shooting each other." Detroit News. A Wise Precaution. Start "Never kick a man when he's down." Dart "And if you kick him when he's down, better seo to it that you kick him hard enough to keep him from getting np again." Truth. Explaining- the Twang. "Why do you Americans talk through your noses?" asked Lord Toplofty. "I don't know," said Hicks. "Poss ibly because our ancestors didn't all have hats to tulk through, like you English." Harper's Bazar. What Worries Illni. "I don't mind being shot," confided one English sparrow to another, "it's being served up os a reed bird that hurts my feelings." "Why does that trouble you?" "Because it is making game of me." Narrow E.cane. "After all," said the man, at the end of the discussion, "no man really knows what his neighbors think of him." "I came mighty near knowing once," said the citizen, with a reminiscent look in his eye, "but the jury dis agreed. " Indianapolis J ournul. Kxnlalned. "Ilere, waiter," cried Cadlcy, "what's this?" "Dot's do change, Bah, foil do five dollar bill you arst me to change for you." "That's all right," said Cudley; "I gave you a five aud you bring me back four. I didu't ask for bo decided a change as ull that." Harper's Buzur. In the Wrong lies. "Well, that's a funny thing!" ex cluimed Mrs. Suuggs, w ho hud been reading a uewspuper. "A witness iu court did not know iu what mouth the Fourth of July occurs! What do you think of that?" "I think that he should not havo been called as a witness. Ho ought to have beeu a juror." Pittsburg Chrou iclo Telegraph. A Woodchm-k That Climbs Tree.. "Jock" Dodge, of Luuesboro, Peun., was sitting in bis doorway when ho saw a big woodchuck stealing ulong a kuoll across the creek, not more than a hundred rods away. The wood chuck stopped at the foot of the tree, inspected it for a moment, aud then climbed it with tho euse of a squirrel, but goiug up us a bear climbs a tree. The animal did not remain long iu the tree aud came down, letting itself down backward. It then went up an other tree, whero it could be seen nip ping off tho sprigs of the pint) tree. After eying the unusual sight for some time Dodge took his rifle uud picked the woodchuck from his perch. The animal weighed twtjuty pounds. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Gem o-iy 1 as now electric lights in over 1009 postal cars, and Austria is about to odopt the some system. Among 1318 children in the Weis bnilen schools it has been fouud thnt only three per cent, had sound teeth. Tho falling waters of Kern River havo been made to furnish the electric power for the town of Bukcrsfield, Col. The Japanese Government has voted 12,800,000 silver dollars for improve ments aud extensions in tho telephono service. The grand total of the hydraulij power at Niagara Falls secured through electrical appliances is over 215,000 horse power. It has been estimated that au oak of average size, during the five months it is iu leaf every year, sucks from the earth about 123 tons of water. In a new invention for making ve hicle wheels, they are formed from sheet metal by stamping, pressing or cutting out, and nre secured to the axle by bolts, bosses and oollars. Herr CufTey, a German expert, scut to Bombay by the Emperor William, has arranged for on animal hospital for the purpose of studying the plague poison. He intends making extensive experiments. Barrels, casks.pnils.etc, are mode in Germany by molding wood-pulp in the desired shape, subjecting it to heat iu the form of hot oir or water, steam or other vapor, and compressing it by hy draulic pressure. Paris and Madrid will soon be con nected by telephone, tho construction of a line from Paris to Bayonne having recently been determined upon. As Madrid is already connected with Sun Sebastian, it will be only necessary then to join that place with Biarritz. Professor Forbes, the eminent elec trician, whose appointment by the Egyptian government to report on the possibilities of utilizing the Nile catar acts for tho generation of electricity was noted in this column some weeks ago.has returned to Cairo aud expressed himself as strongly in favor of the pro ject. Following up the researches of two German physicists, who were recently led to conclude that three lines of oxy gen in the solar spectrum were not at mospheric, Lewis Jewell considers thot he has proven conclusively that the lines are produced by water vopor in the earth's atmosphere, and that, therefore, the Bpectroscopo does not indicate oxygen iu the sun. "Sundown ministers." -.'. "Sundown ministers, by which I mean preachers who are engaged iu depnrtmeutal or other work during the daytime and who preach evenings and days when on leave of absence," ex plained a gentleman who attended a recent conference in Baltimore, "get little or no consideration in our relig ious conferences any more, and while preachers do not like to talk out at moetiu', they have no hesitancy in speaking plainly iu private' conversa tion. Ministers have au honorable profession. They spend years prepar ing themselves for their duties, hove no other occupations or employment, aud seek no other. There is but little money iu the ministry, after all, for though a few gifted or fortunate men draw financial prizes by it, the great body of them do not receivo the wages received by the overage mechanic iu the large cities. It is not strange, therefore, that they should not like sundowners. They have no jealousy toward workers in tbo viueyard who feel they can give their talents to the good work. What they object to is that persons should compete with them when they havo other engagements un til after sundown. As a minister at the conference said to me, the sun down preacher is neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor even good red herring." Washington Stur. Why Ho Thought Theiu a Fake. - Carson City, Nov., bus had to fall back on its "giuut footprints" in a neighboring quany as its star attrac tion. A gang of convicts has been set to work at hew ing steps ami paths lead ing to tho "footprints" iu the solid rock of the quarry. Among other things a tunnel has been dug, showing where the "footprints" disappear into the mountain. This tunnel is about us high as a inau. A recent visitor brought grief to tho unfortunate convicts w ho had to 'overhear the following shrewd deductions: "Pshaw, I thought it was a fake before, but this proves it. You say them feetsteps are of a beast forty one feet high, do you? Well, if that's so, you just tell me how the critter managed to walk iuto a tunnel which bumps my head to stand erect in?" It is said that when the convicts heard this, several of them went over to tho other side and wept bitterly, aud the guards did not reprimand them for it. New York Sun. A recullar'tlpltuph. Nora M. Hughes, au uumurried woman about forty-one years of age, died the other day, uud left a will w hich provided for tho division of her property estimated ut $15,000 or $lli,00( umoiig her relatives, aud for a monument over her grave with this inscription: TO TUK UKUOUY or OMC ; ; who was sAruineKU 1V A : : BU-l'Al.LLb Ir'lllKSU. ; Miss Hughes's family know s of uo in cident in her life which should occa sion Kiu-ha peculiar epitaph. Chicago lleeord. 'llureourt'. lli-ty Chimney. Sir William George Ycnublcs Vernon llureourt, M. P., Liberal leader iu the llritish House of Commons, bus been lined $2. oil and costs iu u London Po lice Court for allowing his chimney to i-utch tiro through nut having btrtu cleaned. SUNSHINE. A lesson In Itself sublime, , A lesson worth enshrining,' J Is this: "I tako no hood of tlme.l Save wh-n the sun is Bhlulng." As life Is sometimes bright and fair, And sometimes dark and lonely, I.et ns forget thn toll and care, And "note bright hours only." v The darkest shadows of tho night Are Just before the morning; Then let us wait tho coming light, 1 t ii Muuiug puauioms scorning. And while we're passing on tho tldo Of Time's fast ebbing river. Let s pinole tho blossoms by Its sido And bless tho gracious giver. HUMOR OF THE DAY. "There's Charley Skates in block. I wonder if he is in mourning for his sins." "No, I don't think they're all dend yet." Truth. Jinks "W-is his father a great man?" Binks "I gccs so; he doesn't seem to amount to much himself." New York Advertiser. .- Spykes "Do you ho o any trouble meeting your ereditois?" Spokes "Not ot all. I flud my trouble in dodg ing them." Detroit Free Tress. Freddy "What is a bucket shop, papa?" Papa "A bucket Bhop, my sou, is the business place of the broker across the way." New York Adver tiser. "Did you get your name cleared in that investigation?" asked the Alder man's friend. "No," wos the gloomy auswer. "It is still mud." Philadel phia Journal. Blizzard Bill "I hove seen cyclones out West that blew the bark ofl; trees." Texas Tom "That's nothing. I saw one once that blew the bark off a bull dog." Truth. To "Reader:" To-morrow will be Wednesday. To-morrow isn't Wednes day, substantially for the some reason that yesterday isn't Monday. Grasp it? Chicago Tribune. The St. Louis Post Dispatch says that there is no State in tho Union in which anybody but a funny writer soys "sah" for "sir." Yes, su'h; that's bo, Buh. Chicago Times-Herald. "At what age does a man really be gin to feel the weight of years?" "Usu ally on his twenty-first birthday; and it takes the sensation at least four or five years to wear off." Cincinnati Enquirer. "And would you love mo just as much, count, if I were a poor girl?" "How can you doubt me? I would love you just as much os you would me if you should liud'out that I wasn't count." Standard. An Unconscious Explanation: First Chappie "I wonder now, Charlie, how the donkey ever came to be used as the er, emblem of stupidity?" Second Chappie (with a yawn) "Don't know, I'm sure, deuh boy; it must have been before our day." Brooklyn Life. "What would our wives soy, if they knew w here we are?" said the captain af a Liverpool clipper, feeling his way along the banks of New foundland in a thick fog. "I wouldn't mind what they laid," rejoined the mate, "if we only knew where we are ourselves." Household Words. Philadelphia Man "Well, you can make all the fun you want to of our slow ness, but I know one country chap who came here and made 300,000 iu three months." New Yorker His that so? How did ho make it?" Phila-" delphian "Got a job iu the mint." Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Slurs of the Ignorant:" There aro ontirely too many offices," said a pri vate citizen. "How yon fellows do like to henr yourselves kick," said the officeholder, w ith much warmth. "Too many offices! And here I am so over crowded with work that I have to give up two good hours every duy from my business to attend to my job." 'ui cinuuti Inquirer. . ' An Ideal Cltlxen. . i - The ideal citizen is the man who believes that all men are brothers, and that the nation is merely au exteusion of his family, to be loved, respected, aud cared for aco.irdingly. Such a man attends personally to ull civic du ties with which ho deems himself charged. Those which are within his own control he would uo moro trust to his inferiors than he would leave the olucatiou of his children to kitchen servants. The publio demands upon his time, thought, aud money, como upon him suddenly, aud often they find him ill -prepared ; imt he nerves himself t j the inevitable, know iug that iu tho village, Stato and Nation, any mistake or neglect upon his part must impose a peuulty, sooner or luter, upon those whom he loves. Johu Habbertou, Water Carried the Current. At a recent fire iu the basement of a Chicago electric power-house, tho firemen had great trouble iu getting at the blaze. They had to chop holes in the floor of the dynamo-room be fore they could get a stream ou tho blazing pile of waste. Not waiting "'0 dynamos to be shut down the through tho black smoke au i turned a streuni on tho flumes. r y ,ud lu un instant they were flung to tho groiiud with great violence, aud the hose sent Hying into the air. A heavy current had passed aloiig the stream aud had shocked them. Though un conscious wheu rescued they quickly recovered. Electrical lteview. A Kerb-, of Culut'iileuce. The sixty-second double wedding anniversary wus recently celebrated, in a small tow n iu Indiana, of Moses and Isuue Marty, twins, who married Tabithu and Luviiiiu Mel'ormiek.tw ins. Each couple bus had seven sons uud live daughters, tho first children be ing born within a few days of each other, uud the lust children ult;o being of almost exactly the some aye. Medi cal Journal.
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