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American lc oomotiye is gradually coming to be t recognized in England, and this chief ly in connection with exprea train service. It is stated on the best au ' thority that an English railroad is now building an engine patterned after an American model another example of the way. in which this country js lead ing the world iu point of mechanical ingenuity. South African trade reports during the laHt fiscal year indicate emphati cally that the United Htates has large opportunities for commercial progress in the German, English and native . colonies of South Africa. A glance, however, at the relative trade done by this country and Great Britain under - conditions, too, that favor the United States, demonstrates that we have not yet begun to scratch around the mar gin of our opportunities in the ooni inero'al world. The flay cannot be distant when we shall realize fully the importanoo of these opportunities and adapt our commercial spirit energeti cally along the lines of definite ac complishment, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. ' Camara'i fleet being useless hardly able to keep itself afloat and her others all at the bottom of the sea, Spain ought not to repine overmuch at the'furrender of' her colonial posses-' eions. She has no means of protect ing them, and few of communicating with them. Even when she had ships she could not keep them in fighting or sailing oruer. sue will be mucu bet . ter off when confined to the limits of her peninsula. If she introduces there . modern methods 6f industry and ad- ministration and teaches all her peo ' pie to read and write, suggests the X' v U m ! - 1 l now iurt xriuuue, a wouesi out fairly prosperous career may still lie before her much more satisfactory than the one she is now foroed to abandon. SSlsaaMaaMaaswaMMamMamaaaa Admiral Palumbo, the new Italian Minister of Marine, has decided to . strike off the list of the active fleet all the ships which during the next naval manoeuvres show a speed inferior to 4hat laid down by the navy regula tions. ' In addition, every effort is be. tug made to promote economy in the construction of battleships wherever uoh economy can be effected without loss o'power. For instance, instead of panelingoffloers' cabins and saloons with expensive, woods, simpler ma - terial will be employed. The older ironclads, lire the Dandolo and the Tlnllist will lia Avamlnad anil vaflfla.l wherever ueoessary. Besides all this, the German firm of Schieau has been commissioned to build four torpedo-' .boat destroyers, one of which will . have a spoed of thirty and the other rt tliirfv.f Irnnta The' physiological evils of overwork have been the subject of official inves tigation in the Swiss schools, with the result that such evils appear to be bo positive that in tho case of the Canton of Lucerne severe repressive meas ures nave come up lor consideration by those in charge of such interests. The measures, as thus proposed by high educational authority, seriously limit the. work. to be done by pupils composing the six classes of the primary schools, provide that no lessons shall be studied at home, as is commouly . the custom by children in this grade and only moderate tasks to be so re quired iu the sooondary schools. In regard io intervals, ten-minute re cesses every half-hour are called for, a week's vacation every six or seven weeks, anoattendance at school shall not begin before the age of seven. The American triumph seems com plete, says the Washington Star. The valor of the army and navy is highly praised. The marjtsmanship at sea is the marvel of the world. The kind ly treatment of the Spanish prisoners excites both admiration and gratitude, The terms of the peace protocol are generous in an unexampled degree. And now there is applause from abroad for American diplomacy! That is vjp tory, indeed. We have long been re garded as hopelessly short on diplo macy. We have been lectured and condoled with on that soore. Atten tion has been directed to our crude ness', our lack of forms and ceremon ies, and so forth. The learned for eigner has observed with pain, and at tinlCs with displeasure, that we invar iably fail to discuss international questions either with due apprecia - tion of their importance or with dne regard to the polite requirements of such negotiations. But it is conceded now that, so far, in the business with Spain, though pursuing the old, crude and direct methods, the United States has won in diplomacy as in the field of war. The whole result is in justifica Xn of its methods of managing large affairs. MODERN GRANDMOTHERS. Ton "wonder where they've (rone to, thoso grandmothers of yore. With suob quaint old nursery Jingles, that we always cried lor more, With their spectacles and aprons, and their ruffled muslin caps, And-tuotr puffs of snowy Pair, and their broad enticing lapsf" Why, thfcy've gone, dear, with the children of those old and bappy days, When little onos were little ones, In thoughts and acts and ways; When everything was different and simpler lives were led, Those days aro gone, "the tliuos have obaiiged," with that, tbe whole Is Slid. The grandma of the "modern ebild" most crimp and talk and dross, It not, I lenr, tbe modern child might love her grandma less, For lads mid lassies of these days aro critical, I ween, With a graudiua of "yo oldou time" they wouldn't ouce be seen. Hut, after all, benoath tbe dress, and tbls we won't forget, Tliat grandma's grandma, now as then, her love Is ours yet. And If the children turn to hor demand her lore and care, They'll And that underneath it all the grandma's always there. F. H. A., In Boston Transcript. THE VICTOR'S SPOILS. $ A. Story of () By Gwendolen Overton.' ISS TERRENCE, going down the lino, watched the girl who was com ing toward hor. There were three men with the girl, and only Lancas ter was with Miss Terrence. How evor, as ho was all the world to her, Helena-like, Bhe lacked not worlds of company. The six men met on the walk in front of Captain Lansing's quarters. Lansing was a cynio who observed his kind and told the result of his ob servations. Such are deservedly un popular, but commnnd appreciative audiences that are the envy of the good-hearted. It was to au audience of the sort that he recounted the meet ing, the same afternoon, wheu the band stopped playing aud the invad ing hosts from tho town had scattered aud left the post to its rightful owners. "Dorothy Terrence" he began, laying his sabre across his knees and settling back to the tomporary rcposo which alone can full to the lot of the officer of the day "Dorothy Terreuce came up the walk. She had Lancaster with her, and she was looking happy. Miss Leeds tho banker's daughter, you know came down the walk. -She had Kant, and Dartmoor, aud Fer guesson with hor, aud she wns look ing like a celestial being. They wero both dressed iu white but there was a difference. Mrs. Lousing says it luy in a silk foundation. I!e that as it may, there was a fearfully aud wonderfully made hat, all drifts and mists, and .sprays of white, atop of Miss Leeds, and a fluffy-all-round sort of parasol atop of that. . Dor othy saw Miss Leeds from afar, but the latter did not see Dorothy. They came together in front of my quarters 'aud I with my harp was there.' Dorothy moved to one side. It was her instant attitude, and, I fear, prophetic. The woman who steps aside cau always stay there. But all might havo gone well, and this story might never have been told, if Kant had not indulged his vulgar pro pensity for introductions. Miss Leeds bestowed a sweet and trausitory smile npon Miss Terrence; but Lancaster is not the best-looking fellow iu the Pre sidio for nothing. If any of you hap pen to share my good fortuue of know ing her, you will understaud what in the nature of things and of men happened when she turned her eyes npon him with a triok she has of seem ing to look into one's veryjsoul. She has the most beautiful voice outside of the heavenly choir, and she brought it in to play also. Dorothy stood it as long as she could, and then she tried to get him away. He never even heard her. If Miss Leeds had not gazed soul searohingly at him, aud told him that the runst be going, but vould see him at tbe hop, he doubtless would be fttauding there still, with Dorothy anxionsly watching him. It will be worth going to the hop to see things happen." ! Lancaster stood at the door of the dressing-room and ' watched Mias Leeds, whilehe waited for Dorothy. He saw her throw back her gorgeous cloak and drop it from her with the careless disdain of a celestial creature discarding some temporary earthly gar ment. That it fell on a chair and crushed other less splendid wrappings beneath it was a detail which esoaped him. He watched her as the huddling feminine mass made way for her at the mirror and she stood unchallenged, leisurely touching her glimmering brown hair and pinning a great white rose upon her shouldor. Dorothy waited at his side for fully five minutes before he saw her. Then she laughed mockingly up iuto his fact, and wished that her laughter might have been a blow. As soon as he oould leave her he went running and sliding across the floor to where Miss Leeds stood at bay before a besieging group. She was backed against the wall, and a. sun burst of sabres was just above her head. "There are only twenty dances," she kept repeating, "aud I never divide." Lancaster took two of his fellow officers by the shoulders and put them out of his way. Miss Leeds looked into his eyes and smiled as, it seemed to him, no womau had ever smiled be fore. She put her card iuto his hand. "The two with tho crosses are the ones I promised yon," she said. And as she had promised and p had asked nothing, his heart beat high with triumph. Not that it was a case of lovo at first sight. lio wns in love with Dorothy. But the most faithful of Army Life. men may pay the court she expeote to a belle, and may allow himself to be flattered by her marked favors. He could honestly, then and for several weeks afterward, give Dorothy the comfort she sorely needed, and say that ho did not even think Miss Leeds beautiful. "She has style and charm," he passed judgment, "but not beauty. And she is a flirt." He meant that Miss Terrence should understand how entirely he abhorred that. "Did she try to flirt when you called upon her?" He had made a point of confessing the call directly it was made, and he thought it tactless of Dorothy to insist upon it. He shrugged his shoulders. "She does that witb every man." It was a truth which he fully appre ciated, Jjut its feeble light no longer fell npou the path of duty when the time oame that the sun of Miss Leeds's oountenance shed its glow upon the highway of inclination. And yet she did her best to make it clear to him. "Now, listeu to something I mean to tell you," she said to him. She set down her tea-cup and leaned toward him, with her elbows upon her knees and. her chin between her soft, pink palms. Jler eyes were lookiug straight into his, and they' filled his heart with anticipation. "Do you know that this is a risky game we are playing, and that we havo been playing it for all it is worth this last fortnight or so?" Lancaster kuit his brows. "It is not worth while to pretend you don't understand. We both know exactly what I mean. But I want to bo sure we both know that it is only a game. I am not in earnest, and you must not be." He gazed at her, speechless. "I suppose you are thinking that the suggestion of serions intentions might come first from you," she said; "that may be your way of looking at it, but it is not mine. I don't care to let you have anything to reproaoh me with. I have had enough of that in the past. I am a hopeless flirt, you know. I go into the thing for the fnn there is in it, and it is only fair to warn you." She loaned back in her chair and felt to watching the passers-by npon the street and to biting' at a cube of sugar, meditatively. "If you will accept matters that way, we can have a very good time; if you don't, I have warned you; and the consequences if there are any must be on your own head. Lancaster laughed rather weakly. "I accept the terms," he said. "It is understood that this is only a flirta tion.'' Which he explained to Dorothy at much length, but which Bhe would not understand and was so unreason able about as to break her engage ment. Lancaster was deeply aggrieved aud rather more deeply relieved. But it made one fact plain to him: that he was seriously in love with a girl who frankly told him that he was no more to her than a score had been before, thau scores might be thereafter. And it was all in vain that he tried to change her. "I warned you quite fairly," she reminded him, bending forward to stroke the glossy neck of his black mare. It was the mare that, of old, Dorothy had considered almost her own property, and on which she had lavished the overflow of her affection for Lancaster, "I warned you," Miss Leeds repeated, "and nobody has suf ferod but yourself, unless" she glunced at him with a quizzical little smile "unless there was another girl?" "There was another girl," he an swered. She shrngged her shoulders toler antly. "That was to have been ex pected. Most problems of the heart are in tbe rule of three. He frowned angrily and his lips curved in contempt. "Are you abso lutely heartless? Have you no pity for her?" "Not a great deal. If you wero the sort to desert hor in a fortnight for a girl who made not tho slightest effort to win you, and who told you that she didn't love you, I think, upon the whole, that she is ruther well rid of you.". Lancaster was biting his lips, aud he was very augry. "She is a better woman than you," he said. "That may be. But still," she laughed, good uaturedly, "do you think I am bad enough for you to be passing judgment npon me?" "I do; for you are doing the thing cold-bloodedly, and I I," he said, despondently, "have lost my head." She smiled into his eyes. "Yon don't want to do that. It is such a handsome head. Lose your heart it is not worth nearly so much." He turned iu his saddle and laced her. "I am likely to lose more thau that," he burst out, suddenly; "I am likely to lose my life." Oh! come, she said, "you are not contemplating falling on the point of your sabre, or drowning yourself in the bay, or superinducing galloping consumption, are you? I have had men do a number of things for me, but never quite that." . "I am not contemplating doing any of those. I may be a good deal of a fool, but not enough of a one to put an end to myself for a woman who cares nothing for me." "Yet that has been done," sho sug gested. "What I meant was and what I intended to tell you when I asked you to come to-day, was that I am going to the war." "That was to have been expected, of course. Is yonr regiment ordered?" "Not yet, I am especially favored." "When do you leave?" "The day after to-morrow. And now I am going to ask you to'proinise me something." The? had reined in their horses by the dynamite-guns, and Bat looking out over the white-capped blue sea. "So that it is not something I can not promise." '.'Not that." I shall leave that until I come baok it I do come back. If I do not in short, if I am killed" she gave a little shudder; he saw that she uid, and repented "if I am killed, I shall leave orders that my most treas ured possessions shall be sent to you." "Do you meau this mare?" "I mean the mare. It will make me as happy as it would seem I am meant to be, to know that if I die you will have her, and will ride her, and be kind to her. For yon are fond of her, too." Miss Leeds knit her brows and con sidered. "And if I should not?" she said. "She shall not go to any one else. I will have Dartmoor' shoot heron the day that he hears my death con firmed." Miss Leeds switohed at the skirt of her habit. "Is there no one else who is fond of her, also?" "No," he answered. "But that other girl you told me of?" There flashed ' back upon Lancas ter's memory how Dorothy had been wont to stand with her arms around the arohed black neck, and h'er cheek against the warm, soft nose; how the mare had followed her tamely around the garrison, as she would follow no other but himself. Then Miss Leeds turned the sun of her questioning eyes upon him. They were serious now, and their gentle light scattered the mists of memories. She only valued the horse for the master's sake, and the master is no longer anything to her. "Will you do as I ask?" A little, ironical smile, the smile of an easy-going cynicism curled her lips. "Unto the victor belong the spoils. Yes, if auything happens to you, I will take the horse. But you must not be rash. I believe I prefer your safety to it." Two months afterward, Miss Leeds, bending forward to stroke the glossy neck of the black mare that had be longed to Lieutenant Lancaster, turned and glanced up into the face of the man who was riding beside her. "Who wns the girl you bowed to near the gates? 'The one with the big, sad eyes?" " "It was Dorothy Terrence," he told her, "Lancaster used ouce to be en gaged to her." "No wonder, then, that sho looked at me reproachfully." She tried tj laugh, but the laughter broke and she grew white as she set the mare into a gallop. "There may, you know " she called to him, mockingly, abovo the clatter of the hoofs "there may lurk the adder of remorse, among the victor's spoils." Argonaut. Puzsled Over Our Slang. "What gives me most trouble," said a foreign military attache, "is trying to trauslate your American language into English first, and then into my own language, so as to give my government a correct understand ing of the spirit and character of your soldiers. I find tho phrase 'get there,' for example, difficult. When I eaw your infantry going forward against the opposing troops in the forts and intrenchments, I said to the officer with me that the infantry should not attempt such a movement without artillery. 'You're right,' he told me, 'but the boys will get there.' "At night, wheu we wero all bo hungry, I ventured to inquire if a further movement were contemplated till your army was provisioned. Then the officers, who were gentlemanly, all laughed and said the army would think about rations wheu they 'got there.' The second day wo met many of your wounded men coming back as we were going forward. When the Colonel asked them about the fighting so many times I heard them say: 'We got there.' And afterward also I heard those words very often. But it is so difficult for me to explain so my own people will understaud it, what nature of taetics is 'got there.' " Boston Transcript. A New-Fancied Idea. A prominent downtown restaurant has put in a machine which "cuts ico," literally and also figuratively, in that it saves money. Back behind the kitchen, shafting and the machinery uecesnory to run an ordinary band saw have been put in, together with a little table. Au employe takes a big cake of ico and saws it up into little cubes, just as a workman in a sawmill might make cubes out of a piece of timber. The saw goes through the ice with out causing any appreciable loss of material, the ice melts more slowly, and the little cubes, when placed in a glass of water, look neat and trim. Al together, there isa grcatsaviug of time aud ice. Chieogo Juurual. TIIE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Ilia Waterloo Unnecessary I'rocrastlna tion A Clouded Ufa Her Difficulty Au Art A Deaatly drudge A Deceived Wire Alive to Business, Etc., Etc. There was a man In our town Who posed as quite a wit, And when a question he was asked, Ho always answered "Nit." One day he met bis Waterloo In a maiden dressed iu pink; lie asked her if she'd marry lilm; Bhe unswered, "I don't think." Chicago News. Unnecessary Procrastination. "The man who wins," she said, "is the man who is always ready to em brace an opportunity." "Well," he whispered, after he had slipped an arm around her, "how do I strike you as a winner?" "Only fair," she answered. "This might have happened a mouth ago." Chicago Daily News. Her Difficulty. "Have I done anything to offend yon, darling?" he asked, brokenly. "To-day you passed me without bow ing, and now yon Bit there with such au air of hauteur and pride that " "George," interrupted the girl, with an unbending air, but in her voice a cadence sweeter thau music in the night, "I have a stiff neck." Pick-Me-Up. . An Art. "That man is a great political leader," said Mr. Corutossel's neigh bor." "Well," was the answer, "he isn't exactly what I'd call a leader. But he certainly has a great knack of findin' out which way the procession is goin' an' then gettin' out in front an' hoi lerin' 'come on fellers.' " Washing ton Star. A Clouded Life. Mrs. Bliffers "Yonr old friend has such a sad face. W'hyisit?" Mr. Bliffers "Years ago ho pro posed to a very beautiful girl, and " Mrs. Bliffers "And she refused him?" Mr. Bliffers -"No. Sho married him." New York Weekly. A Deadly flrudge. "You aud Briggius don't seem to be very good friends any moro." "No, he is a wolf iu sheep's cloth ing." "Why, what did he ever do to make you conceive such au opinion of him?" "Made me believe I ought to take my bicycle apart for the purpose of Cleaning it." Chicago News. A Deceived Wife. "I don't suppose my wife'U speak to me again for a week." " "Why?" "About a month ago I bought a new razor without letting her know it, aud since then she's kept on rip ping seams with the old one. When she found out last night how she had been fooled her consternation was really pitiful." Clevelaud Leader. Alive to lluslness. Clipper "You remember Renten, the real-estate agent who went to the front with the volunteers?" Lipper "Yes, very well." Clipper "Well, at the battle of Siboney the American troops hadn't any more than captured the field wheu he went to the commanding officer and asked if he oouldu't have au opt'.ou on it for sale or lease." Richmond Dispatch. A Narrow Karaite. "Ah, no!" she sighod. "There is nothing new under the sun." He felt around for the mustache he thought he was raising, and turned a beseeching look upon hor. "Of course," she went on, "that can't be classed as now. It looks sev eral weeks old at least." For a moment, however, she thought she had permitted the Cooplethwaite millions to get away. Indianapolis Journal. Moral EITeot of lining all Anrcstor. "You say Mrs. Weeks was here dur" ing my absence?" said the superin tendent of the lunatic asylum to tho attendant. "Yes, sir," was tho reply, "she called to see about taking her hnsbiind home, but he positively refused to go said he would rather stay here." "I thought there was something suspicious about that man," said the superintendent. "He isn't crazy ut all." Chicogo News. Modern Conversations. Hicks "Wheeler and lirassey met for the first time yesterday and they got on together famously. They kept up their talk until late in theeveniiig." Wicks "What were they tulkiug about?" Hicks "Bicycles and golf." Wicks "But Wheeler doesn't know the first thing about golf." Hicks "Neither does Brussey know anything about bicycling. Each kept it up on his favorite topio without lis tening to the other." Boston Tran script. Her Misfortune. Mr. root, a very diffident man, was unable to prevent him.telf being in troduced one evening tJ a fascinating young lady, who, in) understanding his name, constantly Addressed him as Mr. Peters, much to tlio gentle man's distress. Finally summoning up the courage, he earnestly remon strated, "Oh, don't call me Peters Call me recti" "Ah, but I don't know you well enough, Mr. Peters," said the young lady, blushing, as she withdrew be hind her fuu, Loudon Weekly Telegraph. F0UCHT A DUEL IN TEXAS. At Fifteen Feet, With Kevolvers, and lo Continue Hhootlng to the Death. Two young men of El Taso, Texas, appealed to the code duello a few days ago tj settle a score which they felt called for the shedding of blood. As a result of the meeting ou the field of honor one of the principals and his second are in jail. Tho other princi pal is in the hospital aud his second has fled to Mexico. The feud which precipitated the duel had its origin three years ago, when Ramon Gomez, a young mer chant of El Paso, eloped with aud married the pretty sixteen-year-old sister of Antonio Velarde, of Juarez, Mexico. Young Velarde, who is a Spaniard, moved to El Paso after his Bister's marriage aud engaged in the cigar business. He refused to recog nize Gomez, saying ho was a stealer of young girls and unworthy of notice. The contempt of Velarde greatly en raged Gomez, who sent his brother-in-law insulting messages, until Ve larde threatened to horsewhip him if he sent any more, whereupon Gomez sent word to Velarde that ho was a eoward and would not fight. The fiery young Spaniard's answer to this was a challenge, and the two meu, aocompanied by their seconds, Pablo Alvarez and Aveiino Valarde, met on the river bank, within the cor porate limits of the city, and fought. The principals were stationed five yards apart, each armed with a .45 calibre Colt's, and instructed to begiu firing at the word "Fire," and con tinue shooting to the death. Gomez fired three shots, and at Valavdo's sec ond shot Gomez fell, with the bono of his left leg shattered below the knee. Both of Velarde's shots took effect in his brother-in-law's left leg. When Gomez fell Velarde ran to ward him and the wounded man raised on his elbow and tired a fourth shot just as Velarde beat him iuto in sensibility with his gun. At this stage of the proceedings au officer appeared and the seconds es caped. Velarde was put iu jail, to gether with one of the secouds who was caught later, and Gomez was taken to the hospital, whero his leg was amputated. Valarde protested against being arrested, saying tho fight was by mutual agreement. Officers Bay this is the first nrest ever made in Texas for duelling, which is a penitentiary offence. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A German inventor has obtained an English patent for an improved asbes tos stuff asbestos leather aud its mode of manufacture. ' Manila hemp is tbe fibre of a species of banana (Musa textilis) which thrives only in certain localities of the Philip pine Islands, where it is cultivated by the natives. A curious fact that has been brought out is that during tho last twelve years at least, the meau temperature of April and May has boeu the same as tho mean temperature of tho year. Evidence collected by M. Camillo Flammarion tends to show a connec tion between the sun spot period and the yearly returu of swullows, cuckoos and nightingales, aud tho flowering of chestnuts and lilacs. The precise length ot the mile of tho ancient Romans has been investigated by Senor Antonio Plazquez, who finds it to have been the same as tho Arab mile--1672 metres although it ban been hitherto rated at 1481 metres. Osmium is the most infusiblo of tho metals. It resists the oxbydrogeu flame, in which platinum aud iridium flow like water, aud is even almost en tirely unaffected by tho electrio arc, which readily melts the extremely re fractory ruthenium. An average man or womau requires not less than 3UU0 cubic feet of fresh air per hour, continuously supplied during that period, wheu asleep or in repose; about 4050 cubic feet per hour whou engaged in light work; 10,000 cubic feet per hour if engaged iu heavy work. Nlieep Without Wool. Tho principal kind of meat con sumed by the people of Arabia, both native aud foreign, is tho mutton of the Somali, or blackhead shoe), aud no matter by whom oateu all pro nounce it the best mutton ever tasted. Tho sheep, as its name indicates, is from the Somali country ou tho Afri can coast. These sheep have no wool, but short fiuo hair, similar to that of the dog. The most peculiar thing about them is that they have a large lump of pure fat growing right at tho root of tho tail, aud this fut varies in size and weight according to the con dition of the sheep. A medium-sized lump of this fat weighs about font pounds. Such a sheep which weighs from thirty-five to forty pounds, is soid at from four to five rupees (eighty-five cents to $1.05). Tho skin wheu sun-driod is exported, and large quantities of them go every year to the New York market, where they are known as ''mocha skins," but like the "mocha coffee" of commerce, this is merely a term and nothing else. Iu 1897 these skins were imported into Now York to tho value of $t28,22b Detroit Free Press. The Sheikh and Ills llouae. When the French came into contact with the Bedouin iu Algeria it was thought that a ready way of civilizing him would bo to assist him to build himself a permaneut habitation. A sheikh who was thus favored was full t( gratitudo to the French engineers who had built Lim a house. "Since my house was finished," ho said, "I have not lost a siuglo sheep. I lock them up in my house every night, aud next morning I find them all in safety." "Then where do you sleep yourself?" asked an officer iu amuze nieut. "Oh, for myself, a sheikh can live only iu his tent!" said the other with dignity. Household Words. REFLECTED CLORY. Bhe nsed to smile upon me. But she doesn't any more; Bbe holds her head much higher Than she ever did before. Bbe regards me as a being Of a lower sphere to-day, For her cousin fought with Dewey When he took M nulla bay. Bbe used to sit and listen ' To the thrilling tales I told; Bhe used to look upun me As aiKong the brave and lold. But I've ceased to interest her; Hho looks down on me to-dnv. For her cousin was with Dewey When be took Manila bay. Ob, I wish her valiant cousin Were In Van Dieinen's Land And that I bad been witb Dewey To pitch in and take a band. Ab, her manner's cold and distant, And hiT glnuces seem to say, "You were not out therewith fiewey When be took Manila bay." Cleveland Leader. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Dick "Business is business, you know, Cholly." Cholly "Ya-as. That's why I object to it, doncher kuow?" Puck. May Knott "I did not think Jaok would marry." DeWitt "Neither did he. He considered himself an immune." Judge. "Chollie is all right, but I think his cables have been cut." "Cabiea cut!" "Yes; he has no intelligence." Indianapolis. Journal. She "John; I'm sure there's a bur glar downstairs!" He "Well, we can tell by examining the silverware in the morning!" Puck. He "What is the use of the bridal veil, anyhow?" She "Why, it pre vents the man seeing that the woman is laughing at him." Yonkers States man. He "Did your friend, the soprano, ever reach high C?" She "Yes, one day while she was at the den tint's, I believe she 'did." Yonkers Statesman. Miss Frocks "Mr. Spokes, do you like 'Songs Without Words?'" Mr. Spokes "Well, I very much prefer them to songs without sense." De troit Free Press. Bride (breaking in at housekeep ing) "What miserable little eggs againl I really must tell the grocer to let the hens sit ou them a little longer." Roxbury Gazette. Riprap "The eyes aro the windows of the soul." Wigwafr "Then the soul of the mun whose eyes have been blacked looks out of stained glass windows." Detroit Free Tress. Mother "Joe, why do you suppose that old hen persists iu Lying in the coal-bin?" Joe "Why, mother, I think sho has seen tho sign 'Now is the time to lay iu your coal.' "Life. New Cook "Do ye put pertaties on to boil iu cold water or hot?" Old Cook (trained by her mistress) "Phwich iver way is th' most throu ble do be th' roight way." New York Weekly. George "You would make a good magician, Miss Sweetly." Miss Sweetly (who has just promised to bo a sister to George) "Aud how so?" George "Slight of hand, you know." Judge. "When a mnu is angry he tells yon what he thinks of you." "Yes, and wheu a woman is angry sho tells you what she thinks of you and what everybody else thinks of you." Chi cago Record. "What is the difference between yonr teas?" Clerk "In those of the first quality somo bad tea is mixed with the good, aud iu those of the second quulity some good is mixed with the bad.'" Fliegonde Blaetter, Mamma "What do you mean, pounding'yonr littlo brother's finger with the hammer? ' "Well, 'cause that's just what I did to mine, and you said he must havo everything just the same as I have." Hurper's Ba zar. Proud Dame "I do not see how you could think of marrying into such a commonplace fumily as that." Romantic Daughter "Oh! I'm not going to marry into his family; he'B going to marry into my family." New York Weekly. "Don't you think, Mr. Spatts, that yonr joke about the butter is getting rather old aud tiresome?" asked the lady of the house. "Urn, yes; it does resouible tho eggs somewhat," re sponded tho kicker. Philadelphia North American. Noah "Are all the onir on board?" Jophet "All but t ichthy ichlhy gimme a (writes ichthyosaurus and the , ies iosaurus) there! Nooh (whispering) "Don't say a word about them; they never will be missed." Puck. Brown "I don't understand it. Wheu I gave my lawyer tho fads in the caso ho decided it iu five minutes." Jones "Well?" Brown "Well, when it got into the courts it took the jndget three weeks to decide tho same points, and they decided the other way!" Puck. Freddy's Uncle "Well, no.Freddy, I don't think I care to swap knives with you; you see there's a history goes with my knife." Freddy (aftel a momeut of sad relied ion) "Well, Uncle Jack, t hero's a 'Robinson Cru soe' goes with mine how'll that do?" Truth. She "You read your political paper aud I read my fashion journal. 1 don't see Ly you object to what J read." Ho "There is a great dif ference. There is no additional ex pense wheu 1 read my paper, but at soon as you read your paper you main a break for some millinery store." Standard. War sets tho money 1:1 motion. Tin Revolutionary War tost SKl.1,l'.l8."lM the War of 1812, $ls7,l.V.,l0i; Mexi can War, $74,000,0(10; the Italian wan aud other minor ars, $1,000,000,000, aud the Civil War, 88.500,000.000.
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