VOL. XXXIII HIIOAUati'O FALL AND WINTER SHOES 11 libel lUll o A » Carcful WE SHOW YOU More Stylish, Servicable. Lower Priced Footwear Than Any Other Shoe House in Town Besides The Greatest Variety to Chose From. Yon can examine every particle that goes to make this line of Shoes from the bottom up. We show them in every style of toe-Bui Dog. Razor, Needle and Lon don, Double Sole and Extension Kdge. They are up-to-date. Patent Leather, Enamel, Cordovan, Willow Tan Calf Besides this line our Men's Working and . Dress Shoes at fi.oo, $ 125, f 1 50, $2.00 and . s2.y> are great values and find ready sale. / Boys and Girls School Shoes—Made strong, servicable, stylish, heel or spring. *f'/ They are water and cold resisters; they will \ \ carry a boy or girl a long road to schoo 1 . '5. \j> We have them in oil grain, kangaroo, box yl and crack-proof calf, kip, unlined, veal calf, 1 in button and lace, at 75c, SI.OO, #1.25, $1.40. /?' and 1.50. Ladies Fine Shoes in all thAiewest lasts, —C" all widths,at 85c, SI.OO, $1.25, fi.so, $2 00, \ i* $2.50, #3.00. See our welts, heavy soles, at J J |2.00, . 3.50 and $3.00. 'mSnJfmtf' P Li-oiis'Warm Shoes and Slippers, flannel I ' , -i ■ lined, at 45c, 50c, 75c, fi.oo and $1.25. \\ —f ri f« /] f They 2re Crumbs of Comfort. \ Men's and Boys' Boots and Heavy Shoes, high or low instep, box toe or plain. Men's at 75;, SI.OO $1. 25, fi.so, #2.00 and £2.50. Boys' at 75c, SI.OO, 11.25 and fx.so. If you watt gocd, servicable Footwear >t one price and where your dollar will buy as much as your neighbor's dollar will, go to -H-Bntler's Leading Shoe Hora-tf- Opp. Hotel Lowry. B. C. HUSELTON. Faultless, Every One v— \ —j Oioursnoesarefaultless in materia , in j I workmanship and in style. Our customers, and ■ N e ' r num ' jer s l " o *' da y. no au ' l \ with the prices we ask for reliable footwear. / f I£\ lAm Going to Offer l\ Some Record Breakers. "If TT'XTCJ Mens Fine Shoes, Lace or Congress #1.25 jyjL H/i.l io Mens Working Shoes 95c Mens Box toe (double sole and tap 1.35 Q I J A L 1 G Mens Heavy Beavtr Bals 1.75 fcJAJ. V/J-ikJ Mens Heavy sole waterproof Cordovans 1.90 __ T A T\l Tj l CI Ladies Waterproof Oil Grain Shoes £i.oo JL/l-lliO Ladies Kangaroo Calf Shoe 85c Ladies Fire Dongola Button Shoes 90c Q"LT/'\"lj , Q Ladies Warm Lined Shoes ( Leather trimmed 80c kJll\J JJj k3 Ladies Warm Lined Shoes I Leather trimmed) 50c Boys Fine Shoes in all the late style toes $1.25 f~v Ci Boys Working Shoes - J3V/ J. Youths Fine Shoes ower in j so small space. They are a whole medicine Hood's | cliest, always ready, al- ■ ■ ■ ways efficient, always sat- ■EI | isfactory; prevent a cold 111 or fever, cure all liver ills, Sick headache, janndice. constipation, etc. r JZc. 1 The only l'ills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. .8. RAILROAD TIME TABLE. 4 PENNSYLVANIA 7m. Western "ernsylvams Division. Schedule in Effect May 18 1890. South, —Week Days A. M. i. M A. yt. I*. M. I- M BVTLKK LeaveCjf> « > S;t*on*)'ire. .Arrive c 54 «2" n43 3K> "■ rf'l'lfr .Ir'T . . 727 84* 1207 335 5.V Butler Jet Natrona Arrive'. :« »«.*- '2 21 345 *■ u. Tarentlira 743 !>O3 12 27 Sprlnifdale 752 912 1238 tO2 Ciar.'Wor.t 12 '>3 4 li" 62" Sfcarr*t"irg 814 931 10l 422 CM Allegheny City a 25 9U 114 433 «42 A. M. A. M. P. M. r. M. P. V SHSDAY TRAlSS—Leave Bntler lor AH»- {,h< tij City atni pilnclpa! lnternie.dlute sta'loi 7:40 A. V.. ": «J and 5 (10 I*. M. >ortJi. . —.— Week Days —' — A. 3». A M. A. M. P. M. P. M. Allegheny City..Lv. 700 900 1125 300 530 Sljarpphurp Til 912 1137 I'laren'Out 9if 1145 Spmifcdale 930 11 59 557 Tirentura.... 732 939 ?208 330 Co 7 Niiirona 737 943 12 13 334 t;il BntlerJc't Ar Jtt aso 1223 340 CJo Butler Jet Lv 745 950 12 34 345 62" iJCILEB Ar. $35 10 38 ISi 435 710 A. M. A. M, P. M, P. M. r. M. SUNDAY TRAINS- Leave Allegheny City lor Butler and principal intermediate stations A. M., 1230 and7:is F. M.j Week Dayi For the Kat't Days, p. ra. a. m. a in p. m. 245 625 Lv BITTLKR. .. Ar 10 02 12 56 3U5 727 Ar Bntler Jc't LV 953 12 42 340 745 Lv Uutler Jc't Ar 940 12 'J4 34G 749 Ar Freeport.. Lv 930 12 30 350 753 " Alle-'y Jc't " 933 12 25 400 804 '• Leecbbarc.. " 920 12 1 / 419 821 '•Paulton(Aiiollo" 905 11 ."5 445 851 " .Saltubitrg "8 37 11 32 518 922 " Biairnvilie...- 805 11 On 527 930 '-iJlairsville Inc'n"7 45 10 15 SSO 11 35- Altoono "3 40 8W» I 100 310 " if»rrisburg..."ll 55 3 !'• 430 623 " Philadelphia. 1 8 50 11 20 a. nv p. in. p. ni. p. ni. Tbronph trains for the ea»t leave Pitt* bnrg (Union Station) a.-; PO'IOWH: — Atlantic Express, daily..—3 10 A. It. Pennsylvania Limited " —..7 15 " Day Express, " .....7 30 " Main Line Express •' 800 " Philadelphia Expreps " 430 P. I'. Eastern Express " 705 " Fast Line " 810 " For detailed informatiou. a.ldre s "hos. P Watt, Papa. AgD. Western Dii"rict, COJ ?ilth Ave. aid fcmithlield St., Pittsburg, /a. S. TKEVOST, J. K \VOOD, Gejeral »na>:er. Oen'l A iteiil. | pITTSBUKG & WESTERN Railway. Allegheny Short Line. Schedule in effect, July 19, 1896. utler Time, Depart. Arrive Allegheny Accommodation..! Bliam, 9 25 am Allegheny Kljer 8 15 -»rrj 10 IJO nut ■ kn>n Mull. « 15 am 7 »> pm New I aMle Accomo jS 15 Mil' !» 25 am Alle|Eltet,) Accoino |0 Oft im u uo |>m Kxpress 2 65 pßi 4 55 pm Chicago Express :i :« pm 12 20 pm tUegbeiy Mhii I • stpn 7 Mm Kllwooit Accoino : U of) pin 7 3t' pin icauo txpress i c 05 j ui :» 2". am AI leg lien} Kxpress '■ ! s On pin Kwne and Hrndiord Mall ,10 05 om :• 'M pie '■'arlon Accon.o 5 1 > pm; y SOaiu Koxburg ACComo 7 35 ( m, 8 05 an. SrNDAT Tr.AI??3. De Forest Jcf. Accomo 8 IS am 7 :» pin lleKllenv Accomo I 16 00 an r'hiraxo Express 3 35 pm] 4 55 pm Allegheny Afcomo 6 o.7pm 1 55 pm ttiliinaii BulTet rileepitjg <'ars and .irst-cla* ')a\ eoai-lies run tliriugb between liutler arid ' "Jlcago dailv. For through tlchetii lo points . Tll '■ \V«*i Northwest or K.mtli*e-,t apply to A H. CKOUCX. Arent Kutlcr, I'a. Trains leave the B. in O. depot In Pittburt, .or 'lie Kant as rollers. JTor Washington If C„ Baltimore, I'hltaoe] plila. ii Nev. York. 7:M au'J UKo p. m •Jiimticrl 'i»d. ,;:10. 7 a.m. I :UJ. p. m.Coi. • Nvliu,, f:4O, 7:30. a. IE. 1.10, 1.30. 1.4"., 10, u m Urilouli'Wli, 1. .0 a. m , 1 10. 1.30 5.30 p. in. Clilonto"ti. Morgat tu'v and tairnniui,7,3o, a, -ti. and 5,31 p. m Mi .Heaijaat (i.40, 7.3" a. Pi. 10 and 4.311 pm Wn-I>egieli, I'a. 7.40 aim 30 a m., 4.(X'.4.4. r > and S.oo. 1i.55 p. m. Wbt*i PK, 7.40. and 1.30 «. m.. and i.oo y.oo. 11.55 1 .. Cincinnati, st, Columbus and New ark. 7.40 a. m., 0.10. 11.55 p, in. For Chicago. 2.40 ai. l ».3o p. in. i'arler ana sleeping ears to Baltimore Wa.»h- Iniflon. finclnrjiiil and Chicago. H. O DuNKhK, Gen Supt. Allegheny, P . W. KA-SKTT. A.G.I'.A Allegheny, I'a It. P. UfcYKoLtis, Supi... Poxbarg, I'a. rpllE PITTSBURG, SHENAN *- GO & LAKK ERIE KAILKOAII TIME TaRLE —Iu «(It Vomlnv, Jure 2b, lfttHi. Trniui- a r e 1111 lij Standard (Jen rai Time (90 230 ....PuflalH s 3 1 .. j 3 m 1 oc IMm kirk \ 11IM 14 a.m.| 1 1 7 U0 l 4'.' U 48 Krle fi in 8 35 3 35 li 23 1 01) 'J IS . Wallace Juliet. 04' » 15 I U 6 20: 1 04j all .. Clrard 0 soj fID( 15 1; y.i 12 Si! s 511 ... Lockporl. ... 700 9■« I 21; 11 I,'2:|y J»; 8 51 Cialie-vllle 7 .i LI ( (.11111 i"' lv . .1 . JIJ 1.. 3 10 I 7 P. lv ar 1 fi 1.. 5571214K 45 ar Albion W. II »41 4 I'. a 41,1*3'! S3! . Mlude I.md. .. 7 21: a 53 4 .1 ' 4" 12 30 1 2> ... hprlllglHlrO. .. 7 27 !l MS 1 5 i.'i 12 21 s *"|..COliheantvllle.. 7 34|10 03 5 93 5 0-|:2U>. *OO .. Mca'V'lC Jet.. S 35 * '2O .. |l!i 171 8 42i ir ai s 1 ■ 1 25 11 i.j doe 11 51 i 42 . Il'trtslo.' 1.. Nt» l 'l. :» . ■, .... II 10 7 37 .. .Adamsvllle lo II -|3 . ..11l 38 7 27 Osgood i 0 64j 5 5, 25 II 30 7 1R1... Oreelivllie... 1, 3011 o/| «o li IS II 20 7 05 hllenaligO 1. 40 II 20 1. 2 i. 00 .0 5: i! 45 KreUixiU... 70311 14 ii 3" 5 44 10 4.1 M 25 M< recr. ... 7 22 IV "4 7 0' 30 lOCJ tf 10: Paruoe 7 3>; 12 22 7 i* 5 I'J 10 20 li 00 ... Urove city. .. 1 17 1 7 .r . 0»> 10 »s 5 48j . . Harrlsvlllc.... 7 5S|"2 45 7 3"* 45i |0 -i) 5 ■ 0!. .Brain I on. ... * 01, "2 54| 7 1 • ■ Ml. . .1 s 11. iv .Brand,lou.ar 7 lUII2 10 .. 0 -151 1 H55 ar...Billiard. .lv c 2*f ■ 1 is| .. 1 53i 8 s»| 8 '45'.v.. .keii.i rs"!77. "s iiii.2 58; ;i --1 .«>| a 42 521 .. ..hii< lid 8 22 1 1 12 s 1.1 4 tn| l» 15J 4 |o| .... BMW s S!l| 1 421 532 1 20 TII i Utoctol) PlWll mI 3 VII .... NOTK -Train No. 1 starts ironi Exposi tion I'ark at 5:45 a 111. Mondays only. No 2 rims to Exposition I'ark Saturdays only. Trains 15 anil l(i *'ill run Sunday only between Butler a.el Lxpo.-dt'or. l'ar .mak .ni! all stops IJV Huilwr u 7:30 a m Ko 'drniug leave Exposition i'ark 0 p.m. J.T. BI.AIK tieni i ll Mainger. <>recu\llle. ea W II *4 \ l(i.' \NT i; ' A M.-liinnii-, Pa HUNDREDS of papers in dillerenl for correnpondence Box pa per, tahletH and erivelnpeß to match Paper by the pound or ream. AT DOUGLASS' Near P. O 241 S. Main St BUTLER, ?.UTLER, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 189 G. DELICIOUS RUSK. How Tlii* Dry and Sweetened Bread li Satisfactorily Made. A dried rusk is a pastoral sort of bread, recalling the feasts of Phyllis and Corydon under the green trees, with plenty of berries and flowing bowls of milk. These dried breads »'ate back to the earliest classic times, when for con venience large quantities of were fcaked and prepared so that it would ieep a long time. German rusk is usually slightly sweet, but the time honored recipe here given is made without sugar and is especially delicious when served with a creamy glass of iced milk in summer. It may i be eaten fresh, as it is an excellent bis j ouit Add half a cupful of butter to a pint of lukewarm milk. Sift enough bread (lour, with a teaspoonful of salt, to make i a batter about as stiff as you can stir it. j Beat in half a cupful of homemado yeast or half a yeast cake, and finally add two eggs and beat the batter untu jit is in blisters. In summer it sinuii 1 not rise over eight or ten hem , ace-ord -1 ing to the weather. In the nit rniug add ■ merely enough flour to roll cut the dough. Let it rise two hours; then roll it out until it is a little less than h;:lf au inch thick. Cut it into small cakt s and put one on top of the other until they are all paired, and let them rise for half an hour longer. At the end of this time bake them for about 20 min utes in a quick oven. When they are cooled a little, separate the cakes and pile them loosely in a large dripping pan, with their soft side up. Set them in the closet under the oven, to become thoroughly dry, for a day or two and thin hang them up in a bag in the kitchen near the range, to "cure," for three or four days longer. Where there is no range closet under the oven, the rusk may be put in the oven at night after the fire is covered and the drafts turned off and le ft till morning. They will not be very much bro%vned—merely dried and crisp. Like all rusk, these biscuits are better for keeping a week or even a fortnight. Philadelphia Times. A CORDON BLEU. How the Title Wan Flrnt Given to a Fine Cook. Although the late Due de Nemours had no pretensions to being an epicure, he was the last "cordon bleu" in France. We mean by this that ho was the last survivor of the Chevaliers de St. Esprit. Ho was also of the last creation, that of 1829, when there were only two knights made, the Dnc de Ne mours and the Count de Lecce. The Order of the St. Esprit was created in 1587, was suppressed by the revolu tion and was revived by Louis XVIII in 1814. To speak rightly, Louis XVIII considered that tho order had never ceased to exist, for he had given two collars during his exile, in 1810, th* one to Francis I, king of the iwo Sicl lies, and the other to his brother, the prince of Salerno, tho father of his brother's wife, the Duchess d'Aumnle. The ribbon of this order was a lig£ blue color. It was worn around the neck in the reigns of Henry 111 and Henry IV, but was changed by Louis XIV, when it was worn across the chest. The Chevaliers of the St. Esprit were always known under the name of Les Cordon Bleu, and this was the supreme honor during the monarchy of France. It was from this that the title of "cor don bleu" was given to a first class cook. A gf-ntlemivj' /?"i declarcd after a good meal, that he who nau cooked the dinner had proved himself a "cordon bleu" among cooks—in other words, the master of his art. The title became quite the rage, and is now al ways used to designate a good cook with out the persons who use it knowing what it means or still less the origin of tho title*. —Exchange. The Waltz In Africa. The dancers een at Kambuidi's were Bisa and Luangeni. There were four drummers and one old man with rattles, who gave a very picturesque perform ance. Tho drummers had small, barrel shaped drums, with tightened skin at either end. The drums were suspended by rope from the left shoulder. The dummers played to any crude, untrained songs in splendid time, and while play ing and singing danced about most gracefully, some steps resembling close ly the waltz. All wore long loin cloths of bark, reaching from the waist almost to the ground. They were wonderfully active, dancing and singing vigorously, whirling round on one log and spurring the ground with tho other foot. They sang, drummed and danced in perfect time. The old man had two rattles, each composed of five small, round, dried wild fruits with noisy, rattling seeds. These were threaded en brochette on thin sticks, one of which the old man held in each hand and kept time with the others, besidoa doing his share of the dancing.—From tho Journals of the Late E. J. Glavo in Century. A Thirty Story Ituil'llng. A HO story office building is to be erected on Park row, Ntw York city, on the site of the old International bo te:! and will be 386 feet high from the curb line. There will be 27 main floors and 5i floors in the sido towers, 30 floors in all. The foundations consist of piles driven into the sand, cut off below the Water line and covered with concrete r.nd masonry bases for the columns. Tho outer walls will be carried by eantale vers, as in many other tall buildings of this character. —Engineering News. Most leaves contain some nourishing properties—in particular, those of the acacia tree. It would be quite possible to subsist on leaves if the supply were not stinted, and the shipwrecked mari ner will keep in very fair condition if he chew them as he would his quid of '' baeoy.'' Ths new moon falling between 4 and fi p. .w., whether in winter or summer, mean* fair, pleasant weather. TELEGRAPHERS' TALES A Ncnfouudland That Kept Watcli—Vain* or ISroiled Muitkrat. Telegraph operators have queer ex periences at limes, taoecially at tho lonely railroad station*where travel is light, hours long and the work is done at night. An experience meeting of sailors, so far as the yarn spinning is concerned, is as mild compared to a telegraphers' social session as milk is to It tar's shore leave. Several nights of the key were sitting about ~ table down town after hours recently, when tho tongues began to wag about experi ences. Gil Bradley started tho ball. "I was sent one night to sub on the Texas and Pacific at a little station called Gordon," he said. "There was one hotel of four rooms a milj from the» telegraph station and two or three cabins about the same distance off. The regular operator had his rooms over tho station and freightliouse, where sup plies were received for tho coal mines several miles away. It was tho loneliest place I ever struck, but I had to work. After fixing things I lay down on a bench to wait for the next freight. I suppose I dozed, for I jumped up with a start ut feeling a cold, wet nose sjipved into my face. There was a big New foundland dog wagging his tail as ms r rily as a buzzsaw cuts through soft wood. Well, that dog ran first to the lighted lantern on the door, then back to me, and t hen pretty soon I began to think something was wrong. Up I gut. and he led me all through the freight house, up tc fhe operator's rooms and back to the office; then calmly went to sleep with one eye open and one cur pricked up. I %vaited for the train, but before I heard it he began to bark. "The next night the same perform ance. Well, after that I used to go to 6leep, and for the week I was there that dog kept watch. You see, the regular was fond of sleep at night, so he could play poker all day. I never told on him, i but that was a well trained dog." "That's no experience," said Billy Marshall. "There was only half athrill : in that. "Why, in 1888, during the bliz j zard, I was holding down a night job in New Jersey. It was the dreariest spot that a railroad official could pick out for a station. It was so quiet in the daytime that yon could hear the sun light glint i.r.d at night tho shadows fall. It was snowing when I went on at night, and all trains were blocked, and by morning I was almost buried. My lunch was lci:g ago gone, and I felt like grinding my tcr th into some break fast. Dinner time came and went, sup per hour passed, and no relief arrived. I chewed on l- .:d pr noils and rubber bands nntil I i: it like a girl bookkeeper. I pulled in my l c-lt and nearly cut my self in two, but the old hunger was there just the JV-EC. SO I tried to sleep, but there was no sV» p in mo with that gnawing at my stomach. "All at once I saw three muskrats come up through a hole in the floor. Muskrat was bitter than starvation, so I made for them with a poker, killed one, and the others got away to freeze to death. Skinning that fellow and dressing him didn't take long, and with wire I rigged a broiler. You bet your life tho smell of that cooking rat was just great joy, and I'm no chink either. It just tickled me so that I fell aEleep and only woke up when he was so burned that the odor nearly choked me. ' 'The snowplow came along soon, however, and when I got filled up again I was sort of glad I hadn't pnt down the old mnskrat after all. Ho might not have agreed with me. " —New York Sun. The Science of Smiles. Tho gentle art of smiling is tho latest thing which science has been meddling with, tracing back to its very beginning and pointing out with something like a sneer how this facial expression first came to adorn the face of primeval man. Mr. Edward Cuyer, in a recent lec ture in Paris before the Societe d'An thropologie, stated that our smiles, how ever winning to outward seeming, are simply records of our very remote an cestors' selfishness, greediness and pug nacity. The passion that dominated all others in primitive man was th« desiro for food. Tho animals of those days were lingo and fierce, and the implements of hunting few and crude. The naked hunter, therefore, was forced to go oft times with an empty stomach, but When ho made a kill ho gorged himself With meat. Tho anticipation of the ap proaching satisfaction of his hanger caused him to open his inouth and show his teeth, partly through pleasure and partly through au instinctive impulse to get himself in readiness for the im mediate stowing away of his food. With the progress of civilization, however, this facial contortion grew to bo caused bv ijthui-, nleasnrahle thinps- OUQ men came the souna of audible laughter. The graceful smile of the hostess, therefore, as she receives her guests is merely an inherited expression of satis faction derived from a savage progen itor who anticipated a good time when he had people to dinner—or for dinner. Again, the open smile of more open pleasure is simply u survival of the gap ing mouth with which the semisimian prepared to tackle roast grandmother.— Now York Journal. MEN AND MONKEYS. THE DWARFS AND THE LEMURS OF MADAGASCAR. A People Who Average Only 3 F«-et O luclie* In Height—Queer Utile Animal* Wlil<-li Arc Consiilered Connecting I.IIIUH Between Monkey* and Lower Order*. There are at least two distinct tribes «f Malagasy dwarfs, who are among the smallest people in the world. The Kimos average only 3 feot 0 inches in height. They aro rather light in color, have remarkably long arms and aro bold in defending their territory, using spear and bow. Of pastoral habits, they excel in certain handicrafts. They dwell in the southern center of the island, at a high elevation above the sea. Even more monkeyliko aro the Be hosy, who occupy a densely wooded country umong the hills of Bemaraha. They jump from tree to tree just like monkeys and are not easily followed, inasmuch as their territory is exceed ingly rocky. They are very timid, and it is said tliat they die of fright when captured. In the northern part of Mad agascar is the most remarkable natural fortress in tho world. It is occupied by a tribe who call themselves the people of tho rocks. The fortress is a lofty and precipitous rock, of enormous size, 1,000 feet high and eight square miles in area. Its sides aro so steep that it cannot bo climbed without artificial means. Within it is hollow, ami the only entranco is by a subterranean passage, a portion of which is so narrow that only one person can pass at a time, while on either side of tho path is deep water. There is plenty of room for explora tion and fresh discovery in Madagascar, which is the third largest island in the world. It is nearly four times tho size of England and Wales, having an area of 230,000 square miles. The most re markable animals found -there are the true lemurs, which exist nowhere else in the world, though related forms oc cur in Africa and India. They are re garded by naturalists as links connect ing tho monkeys with the lower mam mals. There aro about til) species, and the collection made by Dr. W. K. Ab bott contains one that is entirely new to science. Tho biggest aro about three feet long. Ono of tho most remarkable Kjiecios is called tho "specter" because it is pure white, and in going about at night lias a striking and ghostlike appearance. Other kinds aro black, with bands of yellow and red—in fact, they aro very striking looking animals. liouglily speaking, they are divided into two groups—tho long tailed and the short tailed. The latter do not survive cap tivity for any length of time, but the long tailed ones havo been brought to Europe and havo been induced to breed in cages, especially a peculiar ring tail ed species. Thero used to be lemurs in North America long ages b> fore man appeared on tills continent. Professor Cope, tho famous paleontologist, found the skull of ono in Colorado a few years ago. He regards it as tho mor-tprecious object in his great collection of fossils. The skull is not bigger than a squirrel's. Anato mists classify animals by their teeth more accurately than in any other way. The jaws of this small lemur are pro vided with a dentition so surprisingly humanlike that cue might actually im agine the teeth to be those of a minia ture man. It is thought that the lemurs may have originated on the American conti nent and spread westward to Asia over a land route which has since disap peared. That is only a speculative the ory. It is practically certain that there was anciently a laud connection between Madagascar and Africa. A great geo logical convulsion having separated the island from the mainland, the lemurs in Madagascar found conditions favorable for their survival, while elsewhere they j disappeared. Thus it comes about that this strange group of mammals is re stricted to Madagascar today. They are very monkeylike. In fact, they might be called low down monkeys. They live in trees and feed on frnits and insects. The lemnrs wandered about in flocks. By means of their strong hind legs they are able to leap from tree to tree dis tances of ten feet or more, so that they look as if they were flying. Occasionally they betake themselves to the ground, walking for short spaces erect and wav ing their arms over their heads in such a way as to present a remarkable effect. Toward nightfall the forests resound with their startled cries. They eat the eggs of birds when they can get them. Though disposed by nature to be shy, they are quite harmless and tamable to some extent in captivity. At night the woods of Madagascar are vocal with the wailing cries of the lemurs, which sound like the lamenta tions of human beings in distress. These creatures have heads more foxlike than moukeylike, with sharp muzzles and large, expressive eyes. The smallest species of lemur is about the size of a big rat. Another kind has white whisk ers, and yet another is provided with a bushy tail, which in repose is usually coiled around the animal's neck like a comforter. Borrowing la India. India is a nation of pawnshops, ac cording to General Booth. The people think the cleverest man is he who de vises the largest number of ways by which to borrow money. They put in pledge their lands, oxen, jewelry, them selves, their children and their grand children, and cases have even been known where a father, to obtain money to defray the expenses of his daughter's wedding, has pledged as collateral the first child to be born of the union. And Kxpeuslve. He—What a frank, open countenance Miss Murdy has. She—Yes. It's eternally open when I'm with her.—Detroit Free Press. HE SAVED THE BABIES But the Story Wan Tolr desperation. If 1 were a railroad president, I don't think I would care for a private car if I expected to travel alone.—New York Times. Nnver talked I'olltlea. "You say ho never talks politics?" "I've known him ten years and I never even heard him mention the sub ject. " "And you seem to think that it's creditable to him?" I da " "Well, I want to say that any man who lives 111 this country and doesn't care enough for its welfare to discuss the political questions that arise is not"— "But this man is dumb."—Chicago I J OI»t. Wood of the Croft*. The people of the different countries have their various traditions concerning the wood of which the cross was made. In Kngland the peasants say that it was of elderwood, and that lightning never strikes that tree. Dean French, in a note to his "Sacred Latin Poetry," declares that it was made of tho wood of the aspen, mid that since the day of the orueitixion the leaves of that tree have never ceased to shudder. ** A Wise Head. Trettr Daughter—Mother, when will I be of ape?" Mother—When you are 18. "Can't I get married before that?" "Indeed you shan't! Not a day." Homely Daughter—Must I wait until 1 am IS, too? Mother—No-o—er—my dear. You have such an old head on your shoul ders that I am sure you will choose wisely. Marry when you like.—X. Y. Weekly. Next Door to the Truth. "Catherine, you are a brunette. I be lieve?" "Yes, madam." "Are you engaged to the coachman next door?" "Why, no, madam—l never saw him." ! "But there was a red hair in your soup last evening." "Ah, madam, you forget that mon sieur, your husband, has auburn hair." . ; —La Monde Comique. The LoQg-llfaded Gardener. Oh, the gardener fortune doth find Who not until noon fondly slumbers, j But rises at sunrise to mind His Pease and Q-cumbers. NOT A FRENCH BARBER. Distinguished Foreigner—Have you nevaire met my cousin, ze Duce le Mont morenci, ven ho vas in ze NewYorl? Plain American—No, I always shaTe myself.—Texas Sifter. All's Well That End* Well. How is that feud between you and Jim McSnif ter getting 1 on ? Is it as bitter as ever?" "No; the whole thing 1 is happily ended." "I am glad to hear that." "Yes, I am out on bond and the coro ner is sitting on James right .now."— Texas Sifter. A Barfaln Sale. She—Just look, dear, I bought 200 papers of tacks for 50 cents. He— What in thunder did you do that for ? Tlicy ore cheap enough, but what are wo ever to do with 200 papers of tacks? She—Why—ah—oh! Maybe some day somebody you don't like will get a bicy cle.—lndianapolis Journal. What She Would Bay. "■What would you say," she asked her dearest friend, "if I told you that I was engaged to the count?" "I'm sure I don't know," replied the dearest friend absent-mindedly, "I wouldn't be exactly surprised, you know, because I never Aid think much of his taste."—Chicago Post. What Made the Difference. Mrs. Meiuiitall —Don't you think If it woman could have a whole house full of just as the Turk has a favorite wife? Mr. Shrucleleigh—Of course. They would not all have the same incomes.— Brooklyn Life. Domestic Repartee. "After a man baa reached the age of 40," said Mrs. Disbrow, "he thinks every pood-looking- woman he sees is in love with him." "I am sure, my dear," retorted Mr. D , "I have never accused you."— Detroit Free Press. She Needed It- Mrs. Crimsonbcak —That Miss Fussan feather is putting on a heap of airs, nowadays. Mr. Crimsonbeak —Well, I saw her at the opera, the other night, and I'm glad if the poor girl's been putting 1 on something.—Yonkers Statesman. Three Wifei. "Well, of all the impudence I Asking me to help you because you have three wives to Bupport!" "They don't belong' to me, mister; nothin' of the sort. Tbey belong 1 to me sons-in-laws." —Indianapolis Jour nal. A Dead Glve-Away. Charlie Bondclipper—l haven't got anything for you. Why don't you bor row from your friend? Johnnie Fewscads—What's the use of asking him? lie always expects to bo paid back.—Texas Sifter. Not (Jnduly Puffed Up. "It has been frequently remarked," writes the editor of the Spiketown Bliz zard. "that wo look like the emperor of Germany. This simply goes to show that the emperor of Germany looks like : us."—Chicago Tribune. Only One of the Kind. "Most extraordinary man." "In what way?" "I think he's the only man in the country who has such a manufacturing plant of any description and hasn't be gun to malei! bicycles."—Chicago Post. Mutation. "I was asked yesterday," said Brown, the ladies' hairdresser, "how a girl's hair, which is now called 'red' by the young men, could be changed in color. Get rich," said I, "and everybody will then call it 'golden.'»—'fo Date. A Good Excuse. Louise—llarry, I hate to ask you, but tell me, do you snore in your slod nite; "but why?" "Because," returned Mr. Lingerly, "if I meet him again with the same boots on with which he saw me last night, lie will. That's all."—Brooklyn Life- No. 45 r-M>. : THE HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE* It I* la No Way Related to tht CM* man. I utterly fail to see •where English* men have received the impression thM the Hungarian language is a sort oi underling dialect of German, says * writer in Nineteenth Century. Qgf man and English, as is well known, are Aryan languages. Hungarian is no Aryan langaage at all. Its very char* ecter Is opposed to that of the Germaq idiom. If German or English maj; fairly be compared to n tree, the branches and fruits of which are in* deed visible, the roots of which, how ever, are underground and hidden away, ♦he Hungarian language is like a tree the roots of which are almost visible! and by a kind of linguistic Roentgen photography we can almost watch the sap of the roots rising into the stem and branches. It is, in other words, agglutinative. The first syllable of each word sents the root of the word; tenses ot pronouns are soldered on to the roott It is originally the language of nomad and roving tribes anxiously clinging to their word roots for fear of Ir-'-j all means of understanding one : other. Of German words in Uunf-ari:-i there is only a handful, and they ; e used mostly as clowns and rs In the courtly avenues of Hungarian sen tences. The Hungarians do not detect ijie Germana, but they do not like thorn, either. The German, known to tli« Magyars chiefly in his Austrian mani festation, does not appear a model worth imitating. The Austrian is po lite, amiable, industrious, iut, before anything else, pleasure-loving. A LESSON TO GLOUCESTER. Smallpox Epidemic Teaches People tike Value of Tacclnatlon. The recent outbreak of smallpox in the slums of Gloucester was, according to recent reports in the London Stand ard, a very serious affair. Eleven per sons are known to have been, removed to the hospital in two days in one par tfeular court. Tho neighborhood re ferred to is In an exceedingly dirty con dition, and crowded to excess. A medical man states that not one single person who has been successfully revacclnated has been admitted to any of the hospitals suffering from the dis ease. Every facility is now offered to the working classes to be vaccinated or re vaccinated, free of expense, with lumph if desired, either at their own homes or at the numerous vaccination stations which have been temporarily opened in all parts of the city. The effect of the epidemic on xnaas trades was disastrous, business In some cases being almost at a Drapers, tailors, dealers In furnitures etc., were greatly affected, while there* ceipts of tram-cars were little mora than one-half the amount talrwti at of dinarj' times, and this notwithstanding the fact that on the windows of eaon car a notice was posted stating that tha conveyance was regularly disinfected* With reference to the cost of the epi« demlc to the city a prominent official in formed me that, judging from past ex perience, he estimates that this will be at least £IO,OOO or £12,000. OF POLITICAL IMPORTANOC. Rapid Increase of Population In OWBUI —Meed of an Outlet. The rapid increase of population in Germany, due, it is believed, to the in crease of manufactures, is becoming of political Importance says of the census, taken nn ikMmbu c, 1895, the empire now contains 52,244,- 503 inhabitants, while France contain! only 30,000,0j)0. Tho Germans, more over, add at least 5,000,000 to their number every ten years, while the French may be said not to increase at all. As Ik>Ui countries train every available man, the German army must always be greater than the French, and in another generation will be greater by more thun a third. Again, It la doubtful whether Germany, which la naturally a far poorer country than France, can long sustain its population, which must, therefore, either emigrate In increasing r. ibers or burst out is some direction inu> lands less over full. It is believed to bo a clear per ception of these facts which makessome ruling men In Germany so eager for a dependency into which German* might swarm. They woold not swarnl even if they got one. Tho idea of the German emigrant is to escape official dom, not to replace himself tinder it in a country beyond the seas. Purrhiulng a Monkey. , A dealer in stuffed animals who also kept a few live creatures for sale, gave his shop boy, who was permitted to sell the stuffed specimens, orders to call him when anyone asked for any of tha living animals, says Youth's One diy a gentleman called and de' manded a monkey. "Anyone of these?' asked the who wua in charge. He pointed to the stuffed specimens. "No—l wont a live monkey," an swered the customer. The boy stepped to the door of tht back shop and called to his master: "You're wanted, sir." Karnlnga of English Lawyers. It is observed in England that moit young men fresh from tha universities are abandoning tho study of law fox medicine. Perhaps this is not so strange when the London Telegraph calculates that "if tho money earned by practic ing barristers were equally divided among all counsel, practicing and hon orary, there would remain tho mu nificent sum of 13 guineas a year tot each." 1 Life In tho Deep Sea. In many of tho soundings made bjl Bir John Boss sea worms, or annelids, were brought up from depths varying from 119 to 1,000 fathoms. At a depth of 800 fal homs his nets caught a beauti ful specimen of the caput medusa. The specimen was preserved and is now in the British must-urn in London. Driven to lti "Women, If your hats were doffed Bo men could seu tho staffs, Tho "lords" would not go out so oft To quench their burning rags. —L. A. W. Bulletin. KXCCSABLE ERBOR ft** "Since when have you become bereated in chemistry?" "Nonsense. That's my wife's toilet table." —Fliegendo Blaetter. Justice. The crime Is charged before the bar; Th« Jury then doth sit To see which one ut them ■> murderer ot-lt. r