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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 .- "• >.
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