Paris at N<gnt.
To a traveler arriving :II night •
reveals a glamour and <-nn<ea<s a i
tery—the excited, gesticiiiatiin:
ters that greet the train as tlmuiMi in
were there to welcome friends .-mo
;ger to serve (hem: the uncertain -mm
of the tram shed, the dinning in in
ears of a strange language ;i in-.mtqi
strange language- and the wiuf it
erating flight in a trunk laden t\i
■ through unknown streets.
There is glamour, if you will, in rh
lights of the restaurants, in the diz/\
crowds and In the broad, brazen atf
nues teeming with a race of fieopie
who like to believe that every da\ i*
a holiday, but (here is mystery in tin
silent by streets, lined with bigh blank
walls and darkened windows, where i
footstep echoes dismally aud the beat
of a horse's hoofs resounds like inns
ketry. and there is mystery, too. in tin
stretches of fragrant gardens, with
their treetops reaching up dark mass
es into the golden glow that hangs like
a halo above the City of Lights."— Gor
doti Arthur Smyth in Seribner's.
Echoes.
An echo is a sound repeated from
some obstructing surface so that a
person in the path of both the original
and refb-'-ti-d waves nears the •.ouud
twice. skniud being produced ny
waves of the air. wln-n such waves
meet an opposing surface as u wai:
they are reflected like light waves
The sound so heard as if originating
behind the reflecting surface Is an
•echo. An echo returns to the point
from which the sound originated if the
reflecting surface is at right angles to
it An oblique surface deflects the
•sound in another direction so that It
may be heard elsewhere, though not at
the point where the sound originated.
If the direct and reflected sounds sue
•ceed one another with great rapidity,
as happens when the reflecting surface
Is near, the echo only clouds the orig
inal sound so that It is not heard dis
tinctly, and it is this which interferes
witii (he hearing in churches and oth
er large buildings.—Philadelphia Press.
Deals by Barter.
Long as it is since deals were usual
ly effected by barter money still does
not enter into much of the business
done in rural parts of Great Britain.
The most general transaction by this
system is grinding corn. Gleaners in
stead of paying the miller for convert
ing their wheat into flour or barley
into meal allow him to retain a cer
tain proportion of the grain, and In
Wales even farmers commonly do like
wise. Village blacksmiths in Wales
have many similar deals. Frequently
one gets a neighboring farmer to haul
him a load of coal to his smithy, and
thus becomes indebted to him for so
many hours' work, the number depend
Jng on the distance and whether more
than one horse is employed. If before
the next harvest the farmer requires
any smithy work done the debt max
be wiped out, but if it is still owing
then the smith discharges it by
into the harvest field himself.—Pear
son's Weekly.
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Witchery of a Barn.
There is a spirit of poetry about a
barn, and unconsciously men are
touched by It. Iu youth it kindles our
imagination and fosters our suscepti
bility to the simple beauty of com
mon things; daybreak, with the fresh
sweetness or the wet grass about us
as we go up the path toward the great
barn still darkly silhouetted against
the brightening sky, with the weath
ercock, high up against the tor-most
band of pink, pointing to clear, with
the opening of the barn door tb.- -lay's
work begins; the horse whinnies at the
souud for his corn; the cattle move ex
pectantly in their stanchion rows; the
chickens cackle and cluck In the hay
loft as they drop fluttering to the floor.
Day has begun-day, with at. >ts ac
tivities. with all its commonpta mess,
with ail its mysteries. Somvih ag of
all this we feel unknowing!\ is we
pull back the heavy bolt ami throw
open ttre baru door Suburban Lite.
Elephants 1 Tusks.
The largest tusks of Indian ele
phants measure not over lour or five
feet in length, outside cnrv.. and abuui
sixteen inches in circumference ;.i in
gum and weigh about -event v ton
pounds. The tusks, except iiu—e >i
very aged elephants, are -oini only to
a portion of their length. The uollo>*
Is tilled with firm, bloody pwip. m
young animals the tusks are solid ouu
for a portion of their length even out
side the gum and are hollow througn
out the embedded portion. With age
the pulp cavity decreases in depth till
in very old animals It becomes almost
obliterated.
When She Would Return.
"I saw your mother going to one of
the neighbors as I crossed the street"
said the lady caller to her friend's
little son. "Do you know when she
will be back?"
"Yes, 'rn." answered the truthful
Jimmy; "she said she'd tie back Just
as soon a9 you left"—Lippincott's.
One Way of Getting Out.
Gaston hurst like a whirlwind in
upon his friend Alphouse. "Will you
be my witness?" be cried.
"Going to fight?"
"No; going to get married."
Alphonse after a pause Inquired,
"Can't you apologize?"-Cri de Paris.
Same Thing Now.
"Yon know woman was once the
head of the family," she said.
"No need to speak of that in the past
tense." replied her husband meekly.—
Philadelphia Ledger.
Jealousy Is the fear or apprehensiom
of superiority; envy Is our uneasiness
under (t ......
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age done to the statues by the German shells is plainly seen.
CARRIER PIGEONS IN WARFARE.
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Photo by American Press Association.
The Belgian soldiers carry carrier pigeons with them, transporting them in
cages on the backs of cavalrymen.
Atomic Attraction.
Hydrogen and oxygen gases sepn
rately may be compressed to the liquid
form, and then the compression fur
ther is exceedingly difficult. But in
the chemical union of two atoms of
hydrogen with one of oxygen to form
a water molecule the Immense force or
atomic attraction, or chemism, as one
may prefer to name the force, is one of
the most powerful in nature, it re
duces huge volumes of the gases down
to a far less volume, and the force is
far greater than can be secured In any
machine of screws, levers or hydraulic
,'Cesses. Atomic attraction is perhaps
ihe most powerful in nature. At least
il is strong enough to hold atoms oi
steel aud platinum together and dia
inonds.—New York American.
Napier at the Battle of Meaanee.
When in the fight 1 held my life as
gone, for as to escaping all idea of that
vauished when 1 saw the Twenty-sec
ond giving way and was obliged to ride
between the tires of two lines not
twenty yards apart l expected death
us much from our men as the enemy.
and 1 was much singed by our tire, my
whiskers twice or thrice so and my
face peppered by fellows wbo in their
fear fired high over all beads but mine
and nearly scattered my brains. In
agony I rode, holding my reins with a
broken hand (he had sprained it a few
days before) and quite unequal to a
single combat had a Beloocbee picked
me out, as one was about to do when
Marston slew him—Letter of Su
Charles Napier.
Easily Classified.
Hemmandbaw, who was writing a
letter, looked up to inquire:
"Is it ever permissible to apply gen
der to volcanoes?"
"I don't know," Mrs. Hemmendhaw
returned, "but If it is they are surely
masculine."
"Why?"
"Because they sputter, grumble and
6moke."— Youngstown Telegram.
Strong Talker.
"Mr. Smith, won't you please talk
to me?"
"Why, certainly, my little girl. But
what do you want me to say?"
"Won't you please talk like you did
wbea you were talking to yourself in
the library when the dog jumped at
you? Mine's so straight, and mamma
said the way you talked made her hair
carl." —Baltimore American.
Fashionable Fainting.
In an old English scrap book is the
following clipping, dated June 1, 1790:
No Woman can now discover her
Distinction of true Breeding better
than by a well-timed Faint at the
musical Festival in Westminster Ab
bey. The Noble Managers fiy from
their Box to her Assistance. "Who is
she?"—" Lovely Girl!"—" Feeling Crea
ture!" instantly reverberates from one
Aisle to another. But like all tunish
Airs, this, it seems, is now descending
to inferior Ranks; for no less than
three City Indies were among the five
female Fainters of Saturday last. T<
prevent therefore the further Extent
of this fashionable Influenza the Man
ngcrs, we learn, intend issuing Some
thing like the following Notice, iu Imi
tation of the Lord Chamberlain's No
tice to the Courtly Dancers, viz:
"Such Ladies who iuteud to Faint at
the next Abbey Performance, are de
sired to send their Names. Rank, and
Places of Abode to Mr. Ashley, on or
before 12 o'clock to-morrow: that a
sufficient Proportion of Bars Rest may
be set apart, in Order to give to the
whole Performance the desired Ef
feet!"
Waylaying Mendelssohn.
After the London performance of "St.
Paul" by the Sacred Harmonic society
at Exeter hall in 1537 Mendelssohn's
coach was waylaid at midnight on bis
way to Dover, but instead of being
robbed the composer was presented
with a silver snuffbox by a group of
devotees. He had behaved with charm
lug grace in an awkward incident
The London performance In question
was to have been conducted by him
But the Birmingham festival was just
due, and he was the great attraction
there in the same oratorio. It was felt
that his appearance as conductor iu
London at that juncture would detract
from the importance of his visit to
Birmingham. Mendelssohn saw the
point and canceled his London en
gagement. But he attended the per
forma nee and was so winning to all
concerned—audience, performers, ofli
cials—that he turned a disappointment
into a scene of wild enthusiasm.
Good Guoss.
First Passenger—l understand that
your city has the rottenest political
ring in the country. Second Passenger
—That's right. But how did yon know
where I'm from? First Passea^r—l
don't.—Li fe.
Inventor of Turpinile Which
Has Killed Many Germans
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This is the inventor of turpinite, th*
deadly gas which has been inclosed in
French shells. It is said that one ol
these shells weighing fifty-six pounds
will kill every one in a space of 400
yards of where it explodes. M. Tur
pin, the inventor, is shown in his
laboratory. Scores of Germans havf
been found dead in trenches without
a single wound in localities where this
shell has been used. The French
however, are about to abandon its us'
because, of the great danger in firing it
African English.
An extraordinary jargon, which la
claimed to be tbe English language, is
spoken by many of the natives on tbe
African continent. Mrs. Mary Gaunt
in her book "Alone In West Africa"
says:
"Listening very carefully. It took a
great deal of persuasion to make me
believe the xvords were English. When
I bought bananas from a woman sit
ting under the shade of a spreading
cotton tree and the man behind her
came forward and held out his hand,
saying, 'Make you gi'e me been, voman
coppa all,' I grasped tfie fact that he
intended to have the money long be
fore I understood that he bad said in
the only English and probably In the
only speech he knew, 'Give me her
money.'
"Some of the words, of course, be
come commonplaces of everyday life.
and I am sure the next time I call on
a friend who is rich enough to have a
manservant association of ideas will
take me back, and 1 shall ask quite
naturally, 'Massa lib?' instead of the
customary 'ls Mrs. Jones at home?'"
Bush Negroes of Guiana.
The bosch negers (bush negroes) of
French Guiana are magnificent speci
mens of physical manhood. To the
numerous cues of their braided hair
are often attached nickel bicycle clips
and to their ears rings of gold. Gaudy
colored breechcloths "made in Germa
ny" are practically their only clothing.
They are pagans and worship the cot
ton tree to propitiate a bad spirit
Obeah is the name they give to any
thing about which they may be super
stitious, applying it to all evil influ
ences, to their fetishes or charms in
general. Many resented a camera as
a bad obeah.
Their language, called taki-taki (talk
talk) is a most remarkable linguistic
compound of their original Cromautl
coast dialects, with a good measure of
pidgin English and Dutch and spiced
with a few derivatives from French
and Spanish.
Dilemmas of Welsh Postmen.
The postal departments of certain
districts in Wales are in a well nigh
chaotic condition owing to the pre
ponderance of families bearing the
name of Jones. For example, the poor,
unfortunate Swansea Valley postman
is to be pitied when he finds that be
has to deliver correctly seventeen let
ters, all addressed confidentially to "Mr.
Jones," where there are nine different
families of the name within a radius
of 500 yards in a district where the
houses are erratically numbered and
most of the streets are nameless. So
numerous are the Joneses in this part
of the principality aud so rapid is the
growth of the places in the valley that
it is now almost Impossible for a post
man—probably a Jones himself—to give
the right letters to the right Joneses
every time.—London Cur. Washington
Post
A Thundering Yarn.
A year or two ago, in a North of Eng
land city, writes Mr. J. H. Elgir, F. R.
A. S.. in the Yorkshire Weekly Post
a man told me that during a very vio
lent thunderstorm all the windows of
his club were thrown wide open. "To
let the lightning in!" I remarked. "Not
exactly," he replied, "but to let it out
again if it did get in." As a fact it
accepted the invitation to enter the
club with alacrity, and though it mag
naminously spared the foolhardy peo
ple responsible for the invitation, it
wrecked a large safe in an adjoining
room. The person who related this to
me said he would ever after look upon
lightning as the " 'cutest thing in cre
ation." It is the flash that murders;
the poor thunder never harm'd head.
The Little Thing Counted.
The Pastor (dining with the family)—
Ah, yes. Brother Smithers. it is the lit
tle things of this life that count! Lit
tle Willie (in a loud whisper)— Maw,
that's the sixth biscuit ilea took.—Ex
change.
f WHEN FACING DEATH.
Pain or Fright, It Would Appear, Is
Rarely Present.
A distinguished British physician
who has been at some pains to collect
data on the subject asserts that few
persons about to d : e have really any
fear of dissolution. There is cited the
case of tbe African explorer who was
partially devoured by a lion. He de-
clared that he felt no pain or fear and
that his only sensation was one of in
tense curiosity as to what portion of
his body the lion would take uext.
Pasha. Turkish ambassador
at London, used to tell of un attack
made upon him by a bear during a
hunt iu the east The beast tore off a
bit of tlie Turk s band, a part of his
arm and a portion of his shoulder.
Rusteni solemnly averred that he suf
fered neither pain nor fear, but that tie
felt the greatest indignation because
the bear grunted with so much
faction while munching him.
Grant Allen, whose scientific habit oi
thought gave weight to his words. sar
that in his boyhood he nad a narrow
escape from drowning.
While skating he fell through thin
Ice over a place whence several blocks
had the day before been removed. He
was carried under the thicker ire h
youd aud when he came to the surface
Iried to break through by butting his
head against it. The result wus that
he wast stunned, then numbed by the
cold aud so waterlogged that artificial
respiration had to be employed to re
store him. These are the impressions
as recorded by him with reference to
the pain he suffered:
"The knowledge that I have thus ex
perienced death in my own person has
had a great dea! to do with my utter
physical indifference to it. I know how
It feels. I had only a sense of cold
damp and breathlessness, a short strug
gle, aud then all was over.
"I had been momentarily uncomfort
able, but it was not half so bad as
breaking an arm or having a tooth
drawn. In frict. dying is as painless as
falling asleep. It is only the previous
struggle, the sense of its approach, that
is at all uncomfortable. Even this is
less unpleasant than I should have ex
pected. There was a total absence of
any craven shrinking. The sensatioix
was merely the physical one of gasping
for breath.—Harper's Weekly.
Not Since the Flood.
Sir Henry Irving once received what
he at the time considered a very pal
pable snub, delivered him by a high
lander. While touring in Scotland the
actor visited some of the notable tradi
tionary scenes associated with Shako
speareau drama. As a matter of course
one of the first pilgrimages was to tbt
blasted heath where Macbeth met the
witches. In an agreeable mood Sir
Henry as they drove uloug turned smil
ingly to his driver.
"Are there any witches about now?"
he asked.
The driver whipped up his horses.
"Not since the flood," he replied in
his curt Scots way.
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BUILDIUU A LIGHTHOUSE.
Rearing the Bell Rock Tower Was ■
Perilous Piece of Work.
Right down to the time of John
Smenton, who inveuted the stone tow
er, lighthouses were built of wood. It
was Smeaton's success In placing a
stone edifice on the dreaded Fddystouo
rocks in the eighteenth century which
really gave an impetus to lighthouse
, building, and since then the sea builder
j has achieved many notable conquests
in ail parts of the globe,
j The next erected was that built by
R. Stevenson on the Bell rock, on tne
, famous Inch cape reef, off the coast of
Scotland. The construction of this
1 lighthouse was one long, terrible battle
with the angry sea. The securing of
the foundations, naturally the most
hazardous part of the whole undertak
! iug. proved exceedingly difficult
It is recorded that the men worked
with desperation. Only two could re-
I main on the rock at n time, but they
stuck there with the tenacity of leech
es. the cold waters of the North sea
bearing down every few minutes and
sweeping entirely over them. When
the first stone was at last swung into
position the men. ragged, chilled and
worn with the awful struggle, clung to
the iron rods which they had erected
upon the reef and cheered madly, like
soldiers just over the ramparts of an
enemy's fort.
Again and again they were absolute
ly driven from the rock. When the
tower began to appear well above the
sea terrible storms arose and swamped
the works. On several occasions '
blocks weighing as much as two tons
were ruthlessly torn out of their places
and swept into the sea despite dove
tailed joints and Portland cement. In
the end the sea builder proved victori
ous, as be always does, but It cost four
j f ears' labor and the expenditure of
£OO,OOO before the lighthouse stood
complete.—Wide World Magazine.
Near Laurels.
A certain major iu the Philippines,
who seemed to be favored with the
good will of the powers, managed in
some way always to get leave just be
fore trouble with the natives was due.
His colonel suspected him of having
no stomach for fighting.
"Some day," remarked the colonel,
"they'll want to give that fellow a
decoration, and I'll suggest one. It
will be a wreath of leaves of absence."
—New York Post.
Why Men's Hats Have a Bow.
A bow is always to be found on the
left side of a man's hat. This is a sur
vival of the old days when hats were
costly articles. In order to provide
against the hat being blown away in
stormy weather a cord or ribbon was
fastened around the crown, with ends
hanging so that they could be fastened
to part of the attire or could be
grasped by the hand. The ends fell on
the left side, of course, as the left
hand is more often disengaged than
the right. When not required it was
usual for the ends to be tied in a bow.
The bow became smaller and smaller,
but it still remains and is likely to do
so as long as men wear hats. 3