THE EDIFYING SOLDIER. «etch or One of the Great Germar Toy Warehouses. The Troedel market Is on a little Is land iu the heart of the old town of Nuremberg. Along the north branch of Hit* river is an old, low eaved house with a little darkling doorway. When you have got so far you are met by a little old man—a rusty little man who looks as though he were made of metal —who leads you Into the great mysteri ous warehouse of toys. Round all the walls they are ranged —guns, cannons, motors, steamships, trumpets, sabers, and everywhere the soldiers. How many millions of metal soldiers have marched away from the Troedel market not even the rusty old man could tell you—mighty articles of pewter and tin. Hundreds of regiments, of battalions, of divisions, are drawn up on the shelves, waitiug for the day when they shall be sent out into battle. And with a kind of pride the rusty old man says. "They are edifying saldiers." That is the German way of putting it. What it means is that each army Illustrates a battle or a campaign— the war of Troy, the campaigns of Alexander, the exploits of Coeur de Lion, the war of thirty years, the siege of Orleans, the victories of Na poleon. the tattles of 1870 and (the one 1 liked best) that desperate battle in which a tiny tin hero with gleam ing teeth rou h role It up San Juan hill. In a v.oid. the edifying soldiers tench history, geography, strategy Vance Thompson in Everybody's. EATING IM PUBLIC. Ths Varied Sorrows of the Critical Man Who Dinea Out. What chance has the diner out of bei::,; completely happy? The mere actions of eating and drinking are nei ther pretty nor conducive to showing people at their best. It is really a most uncouth sight to see a man or a woman stoking food. The necessity of being polite at the same time makes it uncomfortable as well. No sooner have you got into conversation with a pleasant woman than the soup in your mustache stops all Inspiration. She despises you for your play with your napkin, and your mustache is out of shape. And who can feel that the e%eniiig Is g >ing to lie what he hoped wheu he reail7.es that his shirt front is ■mlrched with some relic of the meal? Indeed, dinner parties are really a struggle between eating and talking, a struggle which does not always end, as do most things, in the survival of the Attest. As one can't speak with one's mouth full and first hunger must be appeased, conversation and eating goon rather as a game, the one person whipping up some food while the other is speaking and then in his turn speak ing in order to enable his partner to get some nourishment. To talk or to eat might be a sensible question at the beginning of dinner, but it is not one likely to be asked. One is seldom sure which Is least worth sacrificing, the food or the conversation. How much simpler it would be If we fed apart and indulged in conversation after ward.— Mactn II Inn's. HE DID SLEEP. The Raault of Taking Peanuts and I Milk For Insomnia. Yesterday a friend who had heard that I sometimes suffer from Insomnia told me of a sure cure, says Good Health Clinic. "Eat a pint of peanuts and drink two or three glasses of milk before going to bed," said he,"and I'll warrant you'll be asleep within half an hour." I did as he suggested, and now for the benefit of others who may be afflicted with insomnia I feel it to be my duty to report what happened, so far as I am able this morning to recall the details. First let me say my friend was right. I did goto sleep very soon after my retirement. Then a friend with bis head under his arm came along and asked me If I wanted to buy his feet. I was negotiating with him when the dragon on which I was riding slipped out of bis skin and left me floating iu midair. While I was I considering how 1 should get down a bull with two heads peered over the edge of the well and said be would haul me up if 1 would first climb up and rig a windlass for him. So as I was sliding down the mountain side the brakeman came in, and I asked blui wheu the train would reach my station. "We passed your station 400 years ago," he said, calmly folding the train up and slipping It Into his vest pocket. At this Juncture the clown bounded into the ring and pulled the center pole out of the ground, lifting the tent and all the people In It up, up, up, while I stood on the earth below watching myself go out of sight among the clouds above. Then I awoke and found that I bad been asleep almost ten minutes. THE CODE OF HONOR. Dueling a* It Wti la Fraav* IB the Time of Rlcbflleu. The pass'. on for dueling, which had cost France, It was said, between 7,000 and B,ijoo lives during the twenty years of Henry IV.'s reign, was at Its height when his son came to the throne. The council of Trent In 1543 had solmenly condemned the practice of single combat, Impartially Including principals, seconds and spectators In Its penalty of excommunication. In 1602 an edict of Henry pronounced the "damnable custom of dueling lntroduc ed by the corruption of the century" . to l»e the cause of so many piteous ac cidents, to the extreme regret and dia pleasure of the king and to the lrrep arable damage of the state "that w« should count ourselves unworthy to hold the scepter If we delayed tore ! press the euormlty of this crime." A whole series of edicts followed to the same effect, but it was easier to make edicts than to enforce them Degradation, imprisonment, confisca tion of property, loss of civil rights and death were the penalties attached to the Infringement of the laws against dueling, and still the practice prevail ed. In 1026 Klcbelleu published a milder form of prohibition. The first offense was no longer capital, a third only of the offender's property was to be confiscated, and the Judges were permitted to recognize extenuating circumstances. A few months later the Comte d« Bouteville thorght fit to test the mln-; Ister's patience in this direction. The j Place Itoyale had long been a favorite dueling ground, and De Bouteville j traveled from Brussels to fight his twenty second duel here, In the heart of Paris, In deliberate defiance of the king's authority. The result was not! encouraging. Montmorency though he was, the count went with his second to the scaffold, and the marked de crease from that time In the number of duels may be attributed either to the modernl. >n used iu framing the law or to tlit? Inexorable resolution with which it was enforced.—Macxuii lau's Magazine. COFFIN WOOD MINES. The Chinaman Digs For Wood Prlzad For Burial Caskets. There exists no object which the av erage Chiminian exhibits more regard for than the narrow box which Is des tined to contain all that is mortal of hitu. He Is never happy until it is In his possession It occupies a conspicu ous position In his house, and the rich er he is the more he expends on its ac quisition and adornment. The coffins most esteemed by the Ce lestials arc manufactured from a pe culiar resinous wood, possessing quite extraordinary preservative properties and found only in one small district In Tonquin, buried iu the earth, no living specimens of the tree now being In ex istence. The natives search for It quite as eagerly ns elsewhere gold and precious stones are run after, and, Indeed, the deposits, for such they are, are to all Intents and purposes mines of wood, the origin of which has never been sat isfactorily explained. Local legends have It that In a far distant past vast numbers of these trees existed In the dense forests with which the whole region was covered and that as a result of some tremen dous cataclysm they were uprooted and precipitated Into the ravines. Wheth er this account is true or not, the burled trees are today a source of quite considerable wealth to the lucky per son who finds them. For a coffin made of this special wood a Chinaman does not consider £SO or £»SO at all too high a price to pay.—Grand Magazine. TRADES THAT CURE ILLS. If You Want to Drive Away Disease, Turn Shepherd. "Oil workers are never bald," said a : druggist. "Visit our oil regions or those of Russia. Examine the work men's hair. It Is soft and thick and glossy, for petroleum cures incipient baldness, and If your hair Is thinning rub some In. Never mind the smell. It will do you good. "Shepherds enjoy remarkable health. The odd odor of a sheep seems to drive away disease. Sheep are especially good for whooping cough. In the sheep country when a child takes the whoop ing cough It Is the custom for tho mother to put It to play among the sheep, nnd the next day It Is well. "The men and women who wcrk among lavender, gathering It or dis tilling it, have neuralgia or nerv ous headache. Lavender, moreover. Is as good as a sea voyage for giving tone to the system. Run down persons of ten work for nothing in lavender plants In order to build themselves up. "Salt miners can wear summer clothes In blizzard weather without fear of catching cold, for colds are un ■ known among salt workers. Breweries and tanneries and printing Ink fac tories bar out consumption. Turpen tine works and ropewalks bar out rheu matism. Copper mines bar out ty phoid."—New York Press. UMBRELLA AND SHOES. Thair Importance In the Eyes of the Indian Native. India Is so vast that different eti quettes prevail in different districts. We have no standard etiquette, no standard dress. We mostly copy Eu ropean etiquette while with Europeans. Even a Bengalese shakes hands with a Bengalese, speaks In English for a few luiuuie* an<i then breaks forth Into tlio vernacular. We shake hands with a European on parting, but by mistake again touch the hand to the brow In a salaam, so we both shake hands, salaam and do the like, and no sober minded European ever cared for the anomaly. The umbrella Is the emblem of royal ty, the sign of a rajah, so natives generally fold their umbrellas before a rajah and not before anybody else, however great. It Is not a part of the dress, but a protection from the rain or sun, a necessary appendage, Just like the watch and chain. You might as well ask a European to take off his waterproof coat. A cooly Is not bound to fold his umbrella when a brigadier general rides past. But a menial generally closes down the um brella on seeing his master, whom he considers his king. But no Indian, however humble, ought to fold up tho umbrella, even before a magistrate, be cause he Is neither the master of the humble passerby nor his superior offi cer, nor Is he bound to salaam him. But if he does, uo harm. In a word, natives generally fold the umbrella before a master or a superior officer and not any other citizen, however great, and tills Is no insult. While going to see a native chief In his palace the native visitor or official takes off his shoes If the reception room has a farash and the rajah Is sit ting on his musnud. But If he Is re ceived In the drawing room, furnished after the European style, the shoes are allowed. In some states no na tives can goto a rajah without a pu gree. In others the pugree Is taken off and tossed at the feet of a rajah. It is ridiculous in a European (from the Hindoo point of view) to order a native to take off his shoes. This Is what we ask our priest to do, so that we may touch the dust of his feet. A munshl when mildly rebuked by his sahib took off his shftes, but recounted the whole sc-.nie to his better half, say ing. ■•Sain hamara gor ka gurds lenay magtnn! ("The brother-in-law wants the dust of my feet.")—lndian Military Gazette. JAVA'S ISLAND OF FIRE. It IK Heallr > Lakr of Bolltnv, Bab bling Mud Slime. The greatest nn' nder In Java, If not In the entlrt- :, is the Justly celebrated "Gheko Kamdka Gumko," or "Home of the Hot Devils," known to the world as the Island of Fire. This geological singularity Is really a lake of boliing mud situated at about the center of the plains of Grobogana and Is railed an Island because the great emerald sen of vegetation which surrounds It gives It that appearance. The "island" Is about two miles in cir cumference, and Is situated at a dis tance of almost exactly fifty miles from Solo. Near the center of this geological freak Immense columns of soft, hot mud may be seen continually rising and falling like great timbers thrust through the boiling substratum by giant hands and the again quickly withdrawn. Besides the phenomenon of (he boiling mud columns there art scores of gigantic bubbles of hot slime that till up like huge balloons and keep up a series of constant explosions, the Intensity of the detonations varying with the size of the bubble. In time past, so the Javanese authorities say, there was a tall splrelike column of baked mud on the west edge of the lake which constantly belched a pure stream of cold but this has been obliterated, and everything is now a sect' ag mass of bubbling unaj and ulijut! TiPPED AS HE WENT. His Promiso to Pay a Lump Sum Weekly Did Not Bring Results. "I had heard all about the tipping system in Europe before going abroad," Bald the young man just returned from his maiden voyage, "so I thought I'd Inaugurate a new system. At a fash ionable hotel in London the valet as signed to my floor was the subject of my tirst experiment. " "See here,' I said in a frank, jovial manner when lie came into attend ma, '1 want to make an arrangement with you. It's an infernal nuisance to be handing out tips every few minutes, or, at least, when I want anything done. Now, I purpose to lump the whole thing in weekly payments. I expect to be here at least three weeks. You look after mo to the best of your ability, and at the end of each week I'll make It all right with you—ln fact. I'll give you more in a lump sum than you would get in tips. Is that satisfac- * tory V "'Quite, sir,' he said cheerfully, but I fancied he looked disappointed. " 'Very well,' said I. 'l'm going out for a drive about town. Meanwhile take my evening clothes out of my trunk, have them pressed and laid out for me. You'll find studs and buttons for the shirt in that box 011 the dresser. My shoes ire in that valise.' " 'H'all right, sir. Very good, sir. Thankee kindly,' said he, and I left with a feeling of elation. "When I pot back to the hotel 1 found my evening clothes still in the trunk, the shirt and shoes untouched and.in short, 'nothing doing.' Next day I went back to the old system."— New York Press. LAUNCHING A VESSEL. kh* Crucial Moment I* When She Take* the Water. That a launch is a matter of mathe matics, as well as of great skill and labor. Is shown by 1 lie fact that the man of science who has the 'natter In Charge always makes a set of calcula tions showing the strain of the ship and its precise condition at practically every foot of the Journey down the ways. If a boat should get in the way. or if It should take an unusual length of time to knock out the keel blocks, ] or If any one of half a dozen things should cause serious delay, the sclen tific man knows Just how long he can wait anil just how far the limit of safety extends. There is always one supreme mo ment in a launch, and it is at a time that escapes the average spectator. It is when the vessel gets fairly well Into the water. This Is when an important factor known as the "moment of buoy ancy" comes into play. If you can Imagine a vessel sliding down an in cline without any water into which to drop, yon can see that the vessel would tip down suddenly at the end which has left the ways and would rise at the end still 011 the Incline. Hut really in successful launches tlie stern of the vessel Is gradually lifted up by the water, and this throws tlie weight for- 1 ward 011 that part of the ship still rest ing on tiie ways. The force of the water Is called the "moment of buoy ancy," and the natural tendency of the ship to drop to the bottom of the stream is called the "moment of weight." Now. the moment of buoy- : ancy must always be greater than the moment of weight, but It must not be very much greater, for If It were it i would throw too much weight forward on the part of the ship still on the ways and luiglit break tbtrm down or injure the plates or keel of the ship. When the English battleship Itamlllles was launched, this did really happen, and so great was the strain near the bow that parts of the cradle were ac tually pushed right into the bottom of the vessel. It is this danger of disaster that causes the scientific launcher to make the most careful calculations a« to the conditions surrounding the ship at every foot of her Journey into the water. BRAIN QUALITY. It IN of JiiNt n* Macli Importance ■■ the (Quantity. The brain of Daniel Webster weigh ed fifty-six or fifty-seven ounces, that of Napoleon Bonaparte about the same. This Is about three pounds and a half. These were exceeded by the brain of Cuvier, tiie great French naturalist, which weighed between fifty-nine and sixty ounces, and that of the French surgeon Dupuytren, which weighed fifty-eight ounces. The average weight of the brain of man Is about fifty ounces and of women forty flve ounces. The maximum weight of the healthy adult brain Is about sixty four ounces and the minimum tlilrty one ounces. Men of great intellectual power have generally If not always possessed large brains. The quality of the brain is, however, quite as impor tant as the quantity, so that a large brain does not of necessity constitute a great man. The size of the brain is not in proportion to the physical de velopment of the body, either In ani mals or In man. The horse has a brain less in weight than the smallest adult human brain; that of a whale seventy five feot long was found to weigh not quite twice as much as that of a man. Even in men there is no fixed relation between the size of the body and that of the brain. A small man may have j a large braLn and a big man a small I brain. A POINTER FOR TOURISTS. Put Your Prayer ItooL on Top of thf Tlilnk** In Your Trunk. "If you ever goto Bermuda 1 can tell , you how to make time at tiie custom , house," said a returning Washingtoni an. "I reached Bermuda early In the morning. I made up my luggage rath er hastily before leaving the ship. "Just as 1 was ready to close my suit case 1 noticed that I had left my prayer book 011 the lounge. I pitched it in rather unceremoniously, strapped down the case and hurried ashore. "You don't have to wait to declare aa you do when coming into the port of New York. Ys I stepped into the office 1 of the Johnny Bull official I unstrapped my case and opened it up. The official talked at me us if I had been a tela phone. " 'llello!' he said the tirst thing. 'What's this?" he asked, picking up my prayer book. Prayer book, eh? All right. Shut up your case.' "'Want to look at anything else?' I asked "'No. You're all right, my friend. Any man who will put his prayer book on top of his traps isn't likely to beat the government. I'll take that for your , declaration.' "I threw him half a dozen < i jfirs. I That's where I made my mistake. "'Got any more like these in that case?' asked the official. "I said I hadn't, hut do you know he wouldn't believe i.e. and I had to opeo up the ca • again. : Ihe went through it as if ho thought ' W:i ;l sjuuggl«r. , '»r- Wasbiiujt -a Po-.' CRACK NUT SUNDAY. 3uur Method of Hearing a Sermon Still In Uae In England. "One fine autumn Sunday I attended t service In a north of England coun try church that would huve driven a New York preacher clean crazy," said the man who travels. "The congrega tion didn't do a thing but sit around and crack nuts. Faucy a New York minister talking to a crowd of that kind! The modern preacher likes to have things quiet when he talks. It disconcerts him to hear a baby cry or a woman cough or an old man snore. If he Is put out by such trifles as these, It is interesting to conjecture what ho would do If he were to take hold of a congregation where everybody brought nuts to crack during the sermon. "Worshipers, It seems, used to do this In England and even In our own states during colonial days. This dis turbance was not a weekly occurrence by any means. If It had been, tho poor preacher would have undoubted ly left his flock to administer spiritual tonsolation to suit themselves. But as it happened only once a year he was forced to endure it. This one day which was attended by such remarka ble license came the Sunday before Michaelmas day and was called 'crack nut Sunday.' Nobody, no matter how pious he might be, hesitated to avail himself of the peculiar privilege grant ed him, and men, women and children came to church with their pockets stuffed with nuts, which they compla cently cracked and munched during the sermon. "It was that kind of a sermon that so Impressed me with Its oddity. It can be easily Imagined that when for ty or fifty people get to cracking nuts 1 with all their might the noise Is apt to be something terrific, and many times the minister was hard put to it to 'hear himself think.' That custom, from being regarded with high favor for many years, finally came to bo looked upon as a nuisance, and tho habit was suppressed, except In a few remote localities, although the act of suppression was attended with consid erable difficulty, so firmly had the nut cracking fever taken hold of the fancy of the people."—New York Press. GRIM OLD CROMWELL. The Protector Madr Chrlatninn n Gloomy and Serlon* Day. "Christmas was Illegal in Cromwell's time," said an antiquary. "Those grim old Puritans were so gloomy that they would not have any gayety even on Christmas day. "Cromwell said tbatlioily and mistle toe were heathenish things. He said that they had no real Christian signifi cance; they were a part of some pagan festival of the Druids. Accordingly he made a law that if you decorated your house with mistletoe at Christmas you got thirty days In Jail. ' "The terrible old fellow 7 forbade Christmas celebrations—no dancing, no singing, no playgolng, no feasting on Christmas day; penalty, thirty days. "You see, it was his idea that Christ mas was a religious, a serious time, a time for churchgoing and prayer and reverence and for nothing else. The Innocent family that In Cromwell's day sat down to turkey and plum pudding and wound up with Christmas games I got a '"'» nth all round. I "O for a time, though. The people rebelled. Willing as the people had been to put on the gloom of those dreadful old Puritans, they Insisted on having a little Joy on Christmas day, aud Cromwell ofter n year or two had to give Into them."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. "Tht Woman In White." In a letter to Charles Dickens. Wilkie Collins Intimated the fact that the great work upon which he had devoted so much time was finished, but that the finding of a suitable title had occa sioned him much trouble. Eventually, feeling somewhat run down in health, he left London for Broadstairs, a re sort which was a favorite with both Dickens and Collins. While lying on the cliff In a meditative mood one bright morning his eyes suddenly riv eted themselves on the white light house which stood boldly out In the foreground under the dazzling rays of the midday sun. A* he gazed Collins In a semiconscious manner addressed himself In a whisper to the light house. "You are as stiff and as state ly as my whit© woman," said he. "White woman! White wo—the wom an m white. Eureka! I have got It!" And so the book was given this curi ously Inspired title. The French Idea. The Frenchman of the middle class sacrifices everything In order to obtain for his children some official position or other, a mean oue, perhaps, but a sure ojm leading after thirty years of penury to a pension verging on desti tution. This is one aspect of the decay of the /reach race. It is easy to un derstand that two races are not evenly armed for the struggle for life if one be made up of gsplrauts to official po sltlon and the other of Individuals pos- . sesslng Initiative, daring und energy For this reason do Latin races decline, while Anglo-Saxon rac<*s grow and multiply.—Pails Steele. NATURAL KITCHENS. Places Where Cooking la Done In Boillni Spring* There are one or two countries—lce land, for example—where washday is not dreaded, because nature provides the hot water at one's very door in the shape of steaming springs of spouting geysers. But there is only one country where the native women do practically all their cooking by unaided nature, and thai Is the North Island of New Zealand. Here Is a wonderland of n thousand square miles so volcanic that , a Are may I* Mghted by Inserting a few sticks in the earth, and wherever one makes a hole he speedily has a pool of boiling water, into which a pudding may be lowered Incased In a cloth and j cooked expeditiously. Frequently In perfectly cold streams a boiling hot current may be seen aud j felt running along the edge of the river, and liere the Maori women do their own and the white man's wash j ing. Xaturally the volcanic region of New Zealand is a dangerous country to wander In without a guide, and many j tourists have lost their lives as the re sult of such carelessness. Maori serv- | ants boll coffee and eggs in this way.— s New York Ttlbuue. _______ A Rural Slip. Considerable amusement was once caused by a slip of Emperor Nicholas' - pen !u accepting the offers of several companies of Siberian militia who vol- j nuteered for service at the front. The petition read, "We humbly lay at your majesty's feel our desire to be per- , mlttad to light and die for the father land." The emperor In accepting wrote OD tho uiuxgln of the petition la his own hand. ' I thank yo\j sincerely and i hope your wishes may lie fully real- i l*ed." A PLOT THAT !~AILED, The Scheme to Blow Up Napoleon 111. With Gunpowder. An interesting story Is that of a frus trated plot against Napoleon 111. which has never got into the history book, but which is oue of the favorite stories I of M. Victorieu Sardou. In 1000, when the frontage of the Theatre Francais was rebuilt after the disastrous tire in which one of the most charming actresses of the Maison de M iiere lost her life, several shops disupi ar. il, among them being that of the famous Uestaurant Chevet. It was U'it properl,. speaking a restaurant. Chevet used !<> sell liqueurs, groceries, smoked meats, etc., and in a couple of lo'.v eeilinged rooms on the first floor he would serve a meal or two to cou nois Mirs. One day in 1805 or 1866 two young men of fashion, Russians both Of them, came in and called for dinner in < i.e of the little rooms which were above the shop. They asked for caviare, bid when they got if they pro tested ! r .• that the caviare was of Inferior < t . . lity aud called for the own er of the ship. 11.' came, apologized and v;i s met • i 1 : i the remark, tender ed laughing!; liv one of the diners, that next time they came they would bring their ovji caviare. They came again :::i ! brought it in a little white wooden 1 irrel. a <1 .vhen they left they had it put < "Me side for them. From time to ii:.. two young Russians came and d" 11 > hez Chevet, dined in variably i 1 ■ 1 1• • s ime loom and always began th- ii dinner with their own ca viare, One day they finished the bar rel, an 1 a !'•• d iys later, in the after n< 11. .nc of th.»n» brought another oue, "Put i! i M the little cupboard In the room we always dine in,"he said to the waiter, "and do not let anybody touch it until we come to dine." - The waiter took it. but 011 his way upstairs something peculiar struck him, "Look at this barrel," he said to the restaurant keeper. "There is some thing queer about it." j "That is no business of ours," said the master of the establishment, "and I am not giing to look at it, anyhow, What will our customers say if they fliul we have opened it?" "Oh," said the waiter, "we can open It and close it again, and they will nev er know. It is certainly different from i the last barrel. It is heavier, to begin | with." His insistence prevailed, and the bar* ! rel was opened. The restaurant keep er and the waiter started back in fright. There was no cavaire, but gun powder in that little barrel, which was l an infernal machine. The little dining 1 room was exactly underneath the impe rial box, and there is little doubt that the emperor's next visit to the Comedie i I'rancaise would have been his last had the carefully laid plot not been discov ered. The plotters nevsr were caught, although the secret of the plot was carefully guarded and traps were laid | for them in Chevet's restaurant for several days.—St. James' Gazette. Turkish Political Prisoners. When a Turkish political prisoner U sentenced to be deported to Tripoli of to the Euphrates, his friends bid him ! farewell. Thej know that they will \ never see him again alive and in all probability never hear of him again unless enormous sums are forthcoming to bribe scores of different officials. In fact, the only difference between a death sentence in Turkey and one of I transportation is that the former is more rapid and more merciful. The government prefers the latter because it is less public. Now and then, how cnci, news leaks through. Of poo»" Midhab Pasha, for instance, it In known that near Bagdad his brutal guards beat out his brains with thy butt end of their rifles.—London An swers. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "The largest, broadest, deepest anr; most Ineffectual genius of the nine teeutli century"—thus has Colerhlg* been described, and probably no bet ter description of the great philoso pher aud litterateur can be found. Pt was a youth of impulses and tried li> turn to become a cobbler, a surgeon and a .ipidier before he settled do.vu aud cave proof of his vast literary at tainments. Some of his poems have been accepted as the noblest pieces of imaginative writing produced by a modern poet, while as a literary critic he had few equals in his generation. He was a bom journalist and lecturer too.- Pens, i's Weeklv. ill 11(1 r? 11 mill Hoc;*. The child who is taught to love an! ma Is and to have a dog as a companion is introduced to a friend of the truest and best kind—the kind of friendship 1 that lasts. Have you never had a dog? | Then you don't know what pleasure can bo had In his companionship in rambles, in his quiet presence In your | room, his unobtrusiveness when human company would bore you; a "chum" who always adapts himself to your mood when man or woman would jar upon you. By all means cultivate In children a love of animals, especially of "man's best friend," the dog.—New Vork Herald. KILLtkTCOUCH AND CURE THE LUIMCS I w,TH Dr. King's I New Bkm /CONSUMPTION Price i FOR 1 OUGHSand 50c&$l.00| WOLDS Free Trial, G Surest and Quickest Cure for all I THROAT and LUNG TROUB- 8 LES, or HONE'S BACK, ■uau acHßca aanraaßs&u&sar. 3 * iiiiiii A. Reliable TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing. Spoutlne and Caneral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranfti, | Furnaces. «to. PRICES TUB LOWEST! QLILITI TDK BEST! 1 JOHN HIXSON 1 NO. ME' FRONT ST. j FAMOUS ARCHERS. Stories of Wonderful Skill With Bow ' and Arrow. The expre-Hion "drawing ;i long bow" j does not of necessity mean Ihe telling of a falsehood. It sometimes refers to j n wonderful story, which may be true | enough, but which is so marvelous as j to require a firm trust in the veracity < of th. 1 narrator to enable the hearer to j believe it. Some of the longest bows j of this s >rt li tve been drawn about, bows aud arrows. The :e storie began long ago. Virgil ; in the ".Kneid" tells of four archers ! who weiv shooting for a prize, the j mark bci. c.l pigeon tied by a cord to I the mast «• a ship. The first man hit j the mast, th • ond cut the cord, and : th> third • not the pigeon as it flew aw: /. T'> 1 . -ji'rth archer, having noth ing I ft to shout, drew his bow and sent his •*»•<> v flying toward the sky with s! < :* "i that the friction of the air set !' leathers on fire, and it svv.'iil oil. i,'k.? a meteor, to disappear i'i t clou 1 j The ■; >"ic- told of Robin Ilood's j arch >•. lii: t ated by his wonderful! perform;:as Locksley in Scott's j ••Ivauhoe," s--o also a decided strain! 11. >ll :: •ns'ble [vi. 011's credulity. The j t' :nn r. • >1 William Tell, doubted j by ni;:e.;. 1 ersOTis. is believed by others I to Iwe a 112.! i:,.'ilion of fact. There! was '"an" nam;-1 l-'oke of whom the same .or;. t«.I-1. and William of, Cloud** ley. : i. giisbiuan, is said to' havo shot an ip le from his son's head j merely t<• show his expertne -, Mo t - ic of hows and arrows re- ! late to til.- aim of the archers, but a l';\ • :.ian. iliaise de Vigenere,. tells one i ! : show ; (lie tremendous force with which an arrow may be: propelled if the I o\v be strong and long enough. According to his own ac count of tho matter, lie saw Barbaros sa. a Turk, admiral of a ship called the : Grand Solyman, send an arrow from j his bow rlkht through a cannon ball. | Where Snow Falls. If you are n >t n lover of snow, go toj Malta, which is the nearest spot where I you are certain of complete immunity. 1 If yn'.i are 112 >ii.l of It. tiie suburbs of St. Peters !ur« will furnish all you need to ask, for there yoli may be sure of It for l"o days in the year. The happy medium is supplied by Copenhagen, with thirty days, while Palermo, Home and Venice, with one, two and five days i respectively, may be recommended to! those who me ely care for snow as a casual and fleeting guest.—London : Chron! le. His Suggestion. "That young woman Is not intelli gent, amiable or even decently courte ous." "Oh, but her father is worth a million dollars." "Then i think she should be required to display a notice to that effect."- As Clean as z Whistle. Any one who has witnessed the man ufacture of a rustic whistle can be at no loss for the origin of the saying, "As clean as a whistle." A piece of young ash about four inches long and the thickness of a finger is hammered all over with the handle of a knife un til the bark is disengaged from the «ood and capable of being drawn off. i A notch aud a cut or two having been made in tii • stick, the cuticle Is re placed, aud the instrument Is complet ed. When stripped of Its covering the white wood, with its colorless sap, pre sents the very acme of cleanness.— London Answers Joseph Bonaparte. Joseph Bonaparte fled to America j after the hundred days and bought a home In Philadelphia, where he lived j hi winter, and a mansion in New Jer- j sey, where he passed his summers. He J was much liked in this country, but ' could not make up his mind to stay j here, so returned to Europe, hoping to j profit by the changes of government In I Fra-'.ce. He was always disappointed j vud un.; himself a 1 unwelcome guest ; In every c >lll ry siv • England. He j finally li slon to live In Italy an i•! d .1 I'i ■ « ein 1841. -*vr - w |M r -w i f % Moms paaef . - ilv iiuV.UV A Wtiu? VA | : of Danville. Of course vou read i, 1 1 pig ifiN i NL llMl lILHU. L •'! "* If THE j| " POPULAR i APER. Everybody F ds It. €✓ j i \ Pubiishc Every Mor Oxcept 1 Sunday i i j No. II L Ms > St.i j ~ \ SIIDSC?'*,:! J I 1 1 jf .JIP "*** WEIGHT OF PLANETS. j It ie the Mass of the Body That Counte With the Astronomer. If a ham weighing thirty pounds j wer ■ taken up to the inoon and weigh ed there, the "pull"—the attractive j force of the moon upon the ham— ! would amount to only five pounds, i There would he another weight of the ; ham for the planet Mars and yet an other on the sun. A ham weighing | thirty pounds at New York ought to weigh some SOU pounds on the sun's | surface; hence the astronomer does not speak of the weight of a planet, be | cause.- that would depend upon the | place where It was weighed. But he i speaks of the mass of the planet, j which means how much planet there Is, : no matter where It might be weighed. | At the same time we mlglt, without any inexactness, agree that uie weight of a heavenly body should be fixed by the weight it would have in Xew York. As we could not Imagine a planet in New York, because It may lie larger than the earth itself, what ! we are to imagine is this: Suppose th» | planet could be divided into a million million million equal parts and one of I these parts brought to New York and weighed. Wo could easily find its weight in poinds or tons. Then mul tiply this by a million million million, and we shall have a weight of the plan | et. This would be equivalent to what astronomers might take as the mass of j the planet.—Current Literature. A Use For His Hat. A funny incident of a drawing room | meeting was recently noticed. A grave looA'og gentleman, with an unusually tall imt, entered and, seeing no rack in i the hall, placed his hat on the floor just behind the door. I'retty soon another grave man entered, with a large, drip j ping umbrella, and, peering anxiously for the usual receptacle, saw in the gloom the hat resting on the floor. His eyesight was probably poor, for he i mistook it for <>ue of the new umbrella | holders, and In it he deposited his drlp ; ping umbrella. This was an example i for those who followed, and in a short I time the solemn looKing hat was I stanchlv holding a dozen umbrellas, i At the end of the meeting the water in the hat was an inch in depth.—London Tit-Bits. WAGER OF BATTLE. The riml Duels \re Salil to Hare (teen t'onKlil In Italy. The tirst duels were fought in Italy, ■ •.•oordiny to who speaks of i manuscript discovered at Cassel and 'escribes a duel between a father and sua sua in the reign of the Euiperor The odoric. When Charlemagne forbade wager of battle among the Lombard* he encountered the fiercest opposition from the nobles. Early in the ninth vc:,uiry De Medicis, a knight, defeated In single combat the bandit Mugel, who devastated the Florentine district now called after him, Mugello. Otho !J. granted the prayer of the nobility for there establishment of wager of battle in 988. Women and priests w ere n;»t compelled to accept it. The " - iaus showed less gallantry. With a woman had to accept, nor could name a champion. Her male op ! >iieiii, however, was burled to his waist in the earth. Armed with a club, he tried to strike her as she cir cled around him, his weapon being a j ball of iron at the end of a cord. If he i failed -to touch her at the third at tempt he was vanquished, which meant to him death with dishonor. Beccarin says that the reason so many duels were fought in Italy in : the early days is that where the law does not afford protection one must look to single combat to retain the re spect of one's fellow men. In the mid dle ages the ferocity of Italian duels passes belief. "Any way of putting an j enemy to death ('ogui modo") is good j enough," says one of their writers "When an Italian spares his vanquish ed adversary." say- Bran tome, "he | malms his arms a:; ! legs ;;i; i gives him as a memento his Ui'tdne.iS aad I generosity a hidem- gr.s'i arrnss ibe j face." Lam; .i.;uau » • ""ft -T ! on a painted moi.. i of ', : > S:':♦»•?.:t '-e fore be st.r !> .; S • •!. was called "la .- "• >. bill msine Mil 1111 iijfL fe tout to oo oil Ms of Prating 4—. *] nri IS . ■!, ll'S ML 'II iill PUB. ( ~rsM j A. well ] tasty, Bill c. 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