PI Unto how many men each hour Frail liftle-fingers seek to bring ‘Some gentle gift of love, some flowsr That is the Soul's best offering? Some happiness waich we despise, Some boon we toss aside forever ~Ahd only that our selfish eyes May smile one moment on the gives How many of us count our treasure The little lives that perish thus, To garner us a moment's pleasura A moment's space to comfort ust Blind, ever blind, we front the sun And cannot see the angels near us, Forget the tender duties done By willing slaves toshelp and cheer us. Barth and its fulness, all the fair Creations of this heaven and air, All lives which die that we may live All gifts of service, we pass by, ~All blessings Love hath power to give We scorn, O God, or we deny! ~— Robert Buchanai. A REMARKABLE STORY. BY WARDON ALLAN CURTIS, The way to Barbury was long, and James Hutchins having offered to tell another story of the sea, I gladly ac- © cepted his offer, and he began: “In the year 1801 my grandfather, William Truscott, found himself skipper and owner of the fast-sailin’ brig Mary Ann, of Marblehead. He warn’t more than twenty-four years old at the time, and considered himself mighty fortunate «n bein’ so well fifed so early in life. But seems as if he congratulated himself too soon. About the time he got to be skipper there came a streak of hard times, and nary\ a vessel sailed from Marblehead for furrin parts for several months. Even after times did begin to get better, ‘none of the merchants of the town seemed to want the Mary Aun to carry their cargoes. My grandfather was down on the wharf one day, sittin’ on a pile, lookin’ at the brig, and won- derin’ what made his luck turn bad so, when he see comin’ towards him old Ephraim Bagley, the undertaker. Grand- father thinks to himself that old Bagley see he was in danger of starvin’ before - long, and was goin’ to try to sell him a coffin before his money was all gone, so he turned away, for he hated the old feller, and wouldn't have patronized him for a good deal. ©Brig hain't been doin’ much these .. days, has it?” said Bagley. ~~ . ++ tNop,’ said my grandfather. ¢ 4] have been thinkin’ of sendin’ a _acargo to furrin parts, but Idon't g’pose there's any use of askin’ the captain of the Mary Apu to carry it. Has ship is too busy—he! hel He hain’t taken a Marblehead cargo for six months. e is too busy, he is. He! nel hel hel’ ¢sGrandfather was mad enough to choke the old feller, but he couldn't afford to lose a chance to get a cargo, so he looked up respectfully enough, and "said he warn’t busy, and asked Bagley what he wanted to carry and where he wanted it carried. ; ++ ‘Never you mind wkat nor where till I make terms,’ said Bagley. ‘You're losin’ money, young man. You know that won't do to keep your vessel idle like this, and the longer she stays idle, the less likely it is that people will ever want to use her. She's beginnin’ to get a bad name already. People try to find some reason why she ain’t used, and say she’s cranky, leaky, doesn’t mind her helm, and other things. Now J offer to pay. the wages of the crew, pervide all the food and supplies necessary for a v'yage, you to firnish ship and get noth- in’ but your board. You can’t stay around here doin’ nothin’, your board is worth more than that, and as said, your ship will get a bad name if she stays . idle much longer.’ stGrandfather see the old feller was talkin’ sense, even if he was drivin’ a hard bargain, so he said: ¢‘I will take you up. = Where do you want to go!” ¢ sNaples,’ siad Bagley; ‘an I want to take a cargo of coffins. They are -~ havin’ the plague over there, and I have: a lot of coflins on band. I think there is a chance to make money. Then folks is dying faster tban they can turn out coffins. I have 600 coffins on hand—a batch I made up when that yellow fever ship from Surinam put in at Boston, but this State was too cold, the fever didn't take holt, and I've got all them coffins on hand. I expect to make a big thing out of them Italians.’ : “Grandfather knew that the Italians didn’t use no coffins, scarcely ever bota- erin’ with graves; but he didn’t tell old Bagley so. He merely remarked that it would be necessary for 'em to load the cargo nights, for sailors was such super- stitious critturs that it would be hard to get a crew tosaila ship loaded with coffins. ++0ld Bagley seed to puttin’ the coffins aboard—him and grandfather. There was all kinds. Plain wood-colored ones; red, white, aad blue. ones for Revolu- tionary veterans; black-walnut and ma- hogany ones; some with leather handles, some with silver handles; and there was | seventy-five that was all padded and upholstered inside, with perfumery bags put around under the paddin’; had patent snap-lock, and little glass win- dows over the place where the face comes * that could be open and shut. ‘Grandfather soon got a crew togeth- er, and made everything ready to. sail. When the day for sailin’ come, what did he see but old Marm Bagley a-heavin' down the wharf, closely follered by her particular friend the Widder Haskins, both on 'om carryin’ baskets full o’ knit- iw’ work, and two big bagsl He ob- served something squirmin’ ’round in the bags, and he thought mebbe it was "gels. He axed Mis’ Bagely if 1t was,and he said no, it was cats; she was goin’ on ‘the v'yage,she and Mis’ Haskins,and they “was goin’ to take the cats for company. ‘Great Scott! he was took back. Here : was, a-goin’ to make a v'yage with ‘acargo of coffins, and a lot of cats for yoors! Every one knows that cats y uplucky critturs to haye on a ship. Mis" Bagley,’ said grandfather, ‘all ‘got left to do to make this v'y- to set sail on Friday, on board, for they'll leave the ship.- Coffins and cats] Jerusalem crickets!’ «‘Marm Bagley took the cats down into the cabin, and, thinkin' that the } vessel was loaded with sideboards, re- volvin’ bookcases, and bedsteads, the crew made sail on her; and before long the Massachusetts coast was out of sight. | Nothin’ happened on the v'yage across, ’cept when Marm Bagley let out her cats, on the fourth day from pott, and some of the old sailors took to tellin’ yarns about the strange misfortunes what had happened to ships havin’ cats on board, especially where they was black cats with white tips on their tails, like eight of Marm Bagley's twenty-seven. “The ship went across the Atlantic all right, and passed through the Straits of Gibraltar. The evenin’ arter the pas- sage, grandfather ‘was leanin’ on the rail lookin’ at the sea, and thinkin what hard luck he was havin’ with his ship, when the mate came alongside and says: ¢+ sWilliam, you have allers been a good friend to me, and I want to tell you something I heard Bagley tellin’ his wife last night. He says that when we get to Naples, and the crew finds out that them boxes below contain coffins—and he is goin’ to be sure and tell ’em—they will all refuse to make the return v'yage. what with coffins and cats both bein’ worked up to a high degree. He says you hain’t got no money to pay for a new crew, he only agreein’ to pay this one, and he expects to buy the ship of you dog-cheap, for you would rather sell it cheap than leave it to rot in Naples Bay.’ ‘Grandfather felt bad when he heard this, for he knew he couldn't sell his ship to the Italians, they doin’ most of their navigatin’ in them little lantern- rigged zebras, and his oaly chance, and a slim one too, was to sell it to some stray Englishman. He couldn’t ses no way out of the difficulty, so he went to bed wishin’ that old Bagley 'was in one of his own coffins planted in Mablehead graveyard. +‘When he came on deck in the morn- in’ he found the mates looking through the long glass at a vessel to windward. He took a squint likewise, and sec that it was an Algerine pirate vessel. There was the banks of oars, and the red flag with a white spot on. it floatin™ at the mast-head. Grandfather’ first impulse was to crowd on all sail and try to es- cape, but then he remembered what the mate had told him the night before, and ‘he thought to himself that he might as well be in the hands of a pirate {rom Aloiers as a pirate from Mablehead, so he sot down and never uttered a word. Pretty soon Bagley came od deck, and when he was told that pirates was chasin’ ‘em, he got frantic. He began givin’ orders to the . crew, but as he ddin’t give none of ’em correct, nobody minded him. The pirate ship kept gettin’ a little bit nearer, and grand- father done what I allers considered a very queer thing. He decided to turn Mohammedan. . He thought to himself that it was pretty likely that the pirates would catch'em, even if they did try to get away. Then they would be made slaves until their friends ransomed them. As for him, he didn’t have no friends or near relatives to ransom him. If he would turn Mohammedan, the Algerines would set him free and make a great man of him, like they allers did with Chris- tian slaves who turned. Then he would see that the crew was sent home without ransom—all except Bagley; he would buy him, and make him work all-fired hard. If the ship got away, them he would be in old Bagley’s hands, and would starve at Naples, If the ship got caught, then he would be saved from ruin; would get even with Bagley, and the crew would be no worse nor better off than they were before. He had no friends to leave in America. The only thing that troubled him was leavin’ his religion; but he said to himself that if such pizen scoundrels as Bagley could be deacons in the church, he didn't care much about leavin’ such a concern. Right there is where I allers held he done wrong. It ain’t no reason for leavin’a good institution like the church because a bad man happens to belong to it. ‘‘Well, Bagley seed that grandfather didn’t t8ke interest in the question whether the Mary Ann could beat the pirate, so hesaid, ‘Truscott, if you will get us out of this scrape, I will give you two hundred dollars.’ «Grandfather looked around and seen the pirate was gettin’ a little bit nearer, and he never said a word, te I'l] give you thrée hundred,’ said Bagley: ‘ain’t that enough?’ “‘Grandfather never said a word, and Bagley went forward. By-and-by he came back. ¢¢ ¢Truscott, what's the matter with you, anyway?’ ¢-Grandfather up and told him what the mate had heard him tellin’ his wife, and said this was the reason he didn’t take no interest in escapin’ the pirate. ++ ¢Truscott,’ says Bagley, ‘if you will get us out of this scrape, I swear on the Bible that I'll give you the proceeds of this v’yage, and promise not to get the crew to desert at Naples.’ “‘Grandfatter jumped to his feet, and gave orders ‘to clap on all sail. He didn’t care for the proceeds of the v'yage, for he knew there warn't goin’ to be any, but he loved his ship; and now that Bagley had promised not to cheat him out of it, was ready to try to get away. He made Bagley give him a receipt for all there was on the ship, and the sailors signed it as witnesses, and de- posited it with the mate to give back to Bagley if he didn’t suceeed in gettin’ away from the pirates. Under the extra press of sail, the Mary Ann leaped for- ward, and the pirate began to fall be- hind; but, as luck would have it, the wind died down, and with oars and sails both, the pirate rapidly overhauled the Mary Ann, and gettin’ within range, fired away at her ito make her lie to. +¢ «Better lie to, said the mate. rather goto prison than be killed.’ ¢t sHold her to it,’ said grandfather. Don’t you see whem cat's-paws comin’? The wind will freshen in a minute. If they don’t shoot away some of o. ‘I'd riggin’, we'll escape yet.’ {Coffins and cats! For land's sake, don't | {let any of the men know them cats are They ¢ and nearer. peakin' of cat’s-paw’t He had all of Marm Bagley’s cats fetched out and put around in the riggin’ and conspicuous-like on the deck. As soon as he done this, the Algerines quit firin’. The cat is a sacred animal to the Moham- medans, and they were afraid they would hit a cat, so they quit. But the breeze didn't come up, and im no time the pirate vessel was alongside, and the pirates was gettin’ ready to board. «¢ Go down into the hold with three men,’ said grandfather to the mate, ‘and take them seventy-five upholstered mahogany coffins out of their boxes, and get em’ ready to bring on deck.’ «sThe sailors looked astonished when they heard him speak of coffins, but three of ’em went to help the mate. Up over the sides of the vessel swarmed the pirates, and before long fifty of 'em was standin’ on the deck. s¢ «What ship is this?’ asked an in- terpreter, of my grandfather; for all Barbary pirate ships carried interpreters, meetin’ people of all nations, as they did. 4 «This,” replied grandfather, ‘is a ship bearin’ presents from the President of the United States to the Sultau of Turkey.” Ydu see, the Sultanof Turkey was kinder looked up to by the Barbary States, he bein’ a sorter head to all Mo- hammedan countries. «+We shall have to examine your cargo, and if what you say is true, you shall go your way; but-if not, we shall take you .to Algiers. Let us see your presents.’ +t ‘We are carryin’ some most wonder- You just lie down in and the most beautiful Some of our They’re the dream caskets. one of ’em, dreams come to you. magicians got ’em ‘up. greatest thing out.’ ‘The interpreter translated to the old pirate captains, and then he said that. the captain wished to try one of the dream caskets, to see if grandfather was telling the truth about em. ¢ «Step into the cabin, gentlemen’ ” and the captain and ten others stepped in. : ‘Hleven mahogany coffins were fetched in. The Algerines looked at the silver handles, the silk and velvet pad- din’, the little glass windows, smelt of the perfumery, and then they believed every word grandfather had said.” They had never seed no coffins, for in their country they put folks in stone tombs. allers said, and they swaliowed all he told ’em. ¢ «Get right in,gentlemen,’said hejand they all got in, and openin’ the little glass windows, so they could breathe, he shut the covers, the patent locks fastened, and there they was. « “Them chaps is out of my way,’ thought grandfather; ‘now I must catch the others.” Then he continued aloud; ‘Gentlemen, we will leave you now, 80 as not to disturb you. You will fall asleep in about five minutes, and dream most beautiful dreams.’ “Then he and the interpreter went on deck and axed the rest of the fellers if they didn’t want to dream some. They said they was afraid the officers would be mad if they found it out, so he told ’em he would wake ’em arter a little be- fore the officers came out, and the hull thirty-nine crept into the coffins, the patent locks clicked, and there they was. The pirate vessel was a low-lyin’ craft, and the Mary Ana stood so high out of the water with her light cargo that what was takin’ place on her decks could not be seen fiom the pirate. ¢t tHow many men have you on your ship? said grandfather to the interpreter, casual like, . lw +¢ (Sixty, not countin’ the rowers, of course—Christian slaves chained. to the oars. She ain’t manned for a regular cruise. We have been carryin’ the an- nual tribute to the Sultan, and in return we are bringin’ presents of gold and silver and one of the Sultan's one hun- dred and nineteen daughters te marry the Dey of Algiers.’ «+Then fifty of the sixty Algerines were where they couldn't do no harm. Quicker than a flash grandfather pulled out a pistol, and pointed it at the interpreter’s head. ¢¢ ¢Tell them other ten men to come aboard here at once. I don’t know your lingo, but if I observe that they don’t move quick, I'll blow your brains out.’ “The intepreter called, and the ten men started to come aboard. As fast as they stepped on deck they were knocked down one by one, and put in some of the red, white and blue coffins made for Revolutionary veterans, and there was the whole passel of the pirates captured, as slick as a whistle. Grandfather searched the pirate ship, took all the valuables and divided ’em among his crew. He cut the chains off the rowers, all Spaniards and Italians, and told 'em to take the pirate vessel to the nearest Christian port. Then takin’ the Sultan's daughter aboard with him, he ‘bout ship, and sailed for America.” He sold the Algerines at five hundred dollars a head to Americans to exchange for theid friends who were captives in Algiers. As the Barbary States were then chargin’ seven hundred dollars ransom-mouey, this was cheap; nevertheless, he made a good thing out of it. The Sultan's daughter, who was a very pretty girl, he sent to school, where she got converted, and turned out a first-class girl generally. When she got through school, no# knowin’ what else to do with her, he uj and married her.” 30 you are of Turkish descent, said to James Hutchins, as he finishea his story. “Yes, I expect so,” said he, clucking to his horse. — Harper's Weekly. ————————————————— The Rothschilds annually give $20,. 000 to be distributed among the twenty arrondissements of Paris for the assist. ance of deserving persons who have diffi- culty in paying their rents, | Crime is very rare among women it | Scotland. : + made grandfather think of something. | ful things,’ says grandfather—¢‘magical” Orientals is superstitious, grandfather POPULAR E. Sm, Toby hgd Sleep is the greatest fat inducer. . The moon is said to move 3333 fee per second. : For every foot of stuture a man should weigh twenty-six pounds. It 1s said that the best walking paee is ‘seventy-five steps per minute. ; Doctors say a healthy adult should eal at least ten ounces of meat each day. A Rhode Island man has invented a device for nieasuring cloth on the loom. The average height of clouds above the earth is between one and two miles. A Canadian has invented a centrifugal extractor for honey. It leaves the comb clean and intact. - Four pounds of gold have been col- lected from the soot of the chimney of the Royal Mint in Berlin, Germany. A French inventor named Picard has achieved successful results: with simulta- neous telephony and telegraphy along the same wire: : Edison is at work on a phonograph for the use of blind children, that shall do away with the raised letter books hither. to used in their instruction. Electric headlights of about 2500 can- dle power are now in general use on the railroads in Indiana. They are very fav- prably spoken of by engineers. Crude petroleum has been tried as fuel In brick manufacture, showing a saving of fully one-half the price of coal fuel, to say nothing of the saving of labor in firing. A new lead-headed nail for putting on gorrugated roof has made “its appear- ance in London markets. The head flattens under the blow of the hammer and thus prevents leaking. : The alcohol process of obtaining sugar fiom cane syrup has revolutionized sugar making from that source. The process is very simple, and it is said that but one per cent. of the alcohol used is lost. J A new application of electric motors is | for supplying by means of fans draught for chimneys where very high buildings are built adjoining low ones. Such an arrangement is in suecesstul operation in Boston. A good cement to fasten glass letters upon glass windows, etc., consists of one part India rubber, three parts mastic,and tifty parts chloroform. Let the mixture stand several days in a closed vessel and apply rapidly. An oilless spindle-bearing has been invented by a Massachusetts maa. made of wood chemically treated, and it | is said that in a test one spindle ran sev- enty-six days of ten hours each, without heating or perceptible wear. ed a device for giving a smooth surface to bobbins, It consists of a facing or tube which is drawn over the bobbin, thus making it practically indestructible. The facing, itis said, can be attachea to any bobbin, The heat-conducting qualities of the metals range as follows? Silver, 100; copper, 73.805 gold, 52.20; annealed aluminum, 38.87; unannealed aluminum, 37.96; tin, 14.50; iron, 11.60; steel, 11.60; lead, 8.50; platinum, 8.50; bis- muth, 1.80. Astronomers recently observed, by photography, a solar disturbance lasting fifteen minutes, in which vapors ascended to a distance of 80,000 miles. The com- pass needle was sensibly affected,and the effect was to have been caused by a meteor striking the sun. The hot-water boxes are t3 be taken out of the French railway carriages, and warmch is to come from boxes filled with acetate of soda. The boxes are filled with soda in solid state, which is liqui- fied by being plunged into hot water. As it solidifies, which takes five or six hours, it steadily gives out heat. On the estate of the Marquis de La Laguna, in Spam, a water-wheel of twenty-horse power runs a dynamo. Plowing by electricity has been proposed, and the current is to be transmitted fo a fleld three miles distant, where a motor on a plow is to be operated. The cable to be attached to the plow is to be wound on a reel and drawn over the tield, Liberty Poles .. A dramatic feature of our early his- tory was the liberty pole so dear to Amer- ican boys and boyish men a century ago, although many of their descendants have never heard of them. _ Liberty poles were, for the most part, erected after the Revolutionary War was so long an acknowledged fact that the rebels could take time and breath to give it some picturesque expressions. After theRepublic was established we hear little more of them until the War of 1812 roused the aatagonism of the people, and up went the long shafts again, each a protest against British ag- _ gression. f During the Whisky Insurrection in the last decade of the eighteenth century, when seven counties of Pennsylvania and Virginia arrayed themselves 1n defiance of the National Government,liberty poles shot up during the night in the rebel- lious towns and villages, painted a bright red as signals of war. Liberty poles were erected during Presidential campaigns in the first part of the century by both Whigs and Dem- ocrats. They were usually made of white pines, lashed together until they reacaed a great height. The more fervid the zedl of the party the higher rose the pole. Sailors were often brought out from the seaboard’ to inland towns "to assist in the erection, aud to rig flags to the amazement and delight of the boys who knew nothing of ships or seamen. Mass-meetings were held under these poles, which were often regarded with a superstitiousaffection. The blowing down of a pole by a high wind during a campaign chilled the hopes of one par- ty, and cheered the others. These singular emblems of protest against oppression have wholly disap- peared of late years throughout the country, except in some remote districts where old customs still are cherished by | rural communities, — Youth's Companion. It is | A man in New Hampshire has invent— 1 HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM ‘VARIOUS SOURCES, = Fonnd at Last—Necessary Anxiliaries —Pardonable Excitement—A Fam- ily Profession-—~The Retort Cour- - teous—At Any Price, Etc, Etc. Tye found at last a book I've sought many weary stages— A book with rarest'interest fraught, A book of sixty pages. A book in which there is not one Suggestion of a blunder; No type misplaced, no phrase undone, And hence a bookish wonder, It cost me not a single sou,’ No dollar from my bank-book, It advertises ‘‘Harkin’s Shoe: Three-dollar Brand”—a blank-book. —Harper’s Bazar. COMPLIMENT TO THE COOK. Frank—* ‘That steak is just exactly rare enough.” Marie—*Yes, it is very well done, in- deed.”— Detroit Free Press. A FAMILY PROFESSION. ‘George—*‘Is your father a banker?” Maud—*‘No; why?” 3 George—**Nothing, only your brother seems to be a teller." — Puck. ENOUGH FOR A WOMAN. She—*¢Will you instruct your daugh- ter in the different languages?” Great Man—¢No; one tongue is suf- ficient for a woman.”—Fun, _ NECESSARY AUXILTARIES. dl Brown—*“Anything go in with the sled?” Toy-man—¢‘Only a bottle of arnica ind a package of court-plaster,” —Judge. WELL NAMED, ¢You might try one of our Rip Van Winkle rugs.” ba «What is there special about them?” ‘They have an unusually long nap.” PARDONABLE EXCITEMENT. ‘¢¢Well, congratulate me, old fellow. ( am a father!” “Good! Roy or girl?” + «By Jove! Bo excited I forgot fo ask. ”’— Puck. THE RETORT COURTEOUS. ‘Beauty is only skin deep,’X remarked Mrs. Angulaire to her husband. ¢«Ugh,” he growled, ‘‘and it's mighty thin skin on some people I know.'— | Detroit Free Press. HIS WIFE WENT OUT. Caller—¢Is your wife in, Mr. Nabor" Nabor—¢¢No, she has just run over td Mrs. Calls for five minutes. Can you spare the time to wait a couple of hours till she gets back?’— Yankes Blade. : AT ANY PRICE. Brown —*Is Crossleigh happy in his tome, do you think?” Lo Fogg—*‘Oh, yes; he’s bound to be, even if he has to make all the rest of the family miserable.”— Boston Transcript. A DULL MARKET. Mrs. Stone (before the milliner’s win- dow)—*‘Oh, look, dear, what a love of a bonnet!” Kirby Stone (pulling her away)—*‘But in your case, dear, it is going to be a case of unrequited aifection.”—Puck. A HEAD LINE. _He—*Whenever I havea cold it isin- variably a cold in the head.” She—*Exactly. Colds always fly to the weakest part of one's body, you know.” _ (Sudden collapse of the subject.)— Comic. FAITH WITHOUT WORKS. Tramp—‘‘Madam, I have faith to be- lieve that you will take pity on me and give me a nice warm breakfast.” Madam—** Yes; but you must remem- ber that faith without works is dead. There's the woodpile at your service," — Boston Transcript. A TOUGH LOAF. _ Mrs. Newman—¢ That stupid grocer is always making mistakes. I got some bread this afternoon, and he charged it on the bill as wood.” Mr. Newman (vigorously sawing. at the loaf)—¢* Well, he wasn’t so far wrong, after all.”’— Harper's Bazar. A MISAPPREHENSION. ¢¢You are getting to be very fond of coffee, Mr. Hunker,” said Mrs. Small to her star boarder as he passed his cup up for the third replenishing. «It isn’t’ that, Mrs. Small,” replied Hunker. ‘I'm taking the hot water treatment, ”’—New York Sun. WOULD DO HIS SHARE. ; ~ 01d Mr. Dadkins—*‘You’ve been call- ing on my daughter for six months with- out saying a word to~ue; now I want to know your intentions.” Young Mr. Rising—¢‘That’sall right; T'irwilling to do the square thing, if you are. ‘What are yourintentionst’——Puck. A PROMPT PAYER. De Binks—*One good thing about Minks. Although he's a great borrower, he always pays promptly. He was in only a few moments ago and paid me the ten dollars he owed me.” De Winks-—¢‘Humph! He was into my place about an hourago and borrowed | twenty dollars of ‘me.”—New York Weakly. A CLEAR CASE. ‘I've been cudgeling my brain for an hour over this thing,” said a young De- troit - attorcey to the older one with whom he is associated in a knotty case. “Be careful,” was the quiet respor “or I'll have you arrested for .| and tell me.” was John’s broken reply.— Rehoboth day Herold. pastor. the pocket of my new dress, and easier than finding the pocketin a d Not long ago in a public sehoo amination, an eccentri ‘examiner hat views would King A of universal suffrage, the and printed books if he were now?” s A pupil wrote, in answer: «Jf King “Alfred were alive now, ne would be too old to take interest in any. thing.”— London Tit-Bils. J GOT THE NEWS CORRECT. = Mr. Fleiszig wanted to leave the city by the last train, and not knowing when it left, sent his servant to see say John, go down to the depot and when the last train goes, and hurry . John went off and did not return for more than two hours, when he rushed back into the room all out of breath. «Where in the world have you been all this time?’ demanded his master. i ¢¢Train just left,sir—this very ninute,% Suns BREAKING BAD NEWS. Farmer Jan was walking sadly down | the the road one day, in Holstein whe village pastor me" him. : ¢:Why so sad, Farmer Jan!” ss «Ah 'T have a very sad errand, pastor replied Jan. “What is 1t?” ¢tFather Henrick’s cow 1s dead pasture, and I am on my way fo hi " m.” ¢¢A hard task, Jan.” yah ¢tIndeed it is; pastor, but I shall bri it to him gently.” «How will you do that?” “[ shall tell him first that it i8 mother who is dead, and then, h opened the way for the sadder news I shall tell him it is not his mothe: the cow !"'— London Tit Bits, ? THE MODUS OPERANDL Wife—:‘My dear, I left my thimb ou'd run up stairsand—"* Husbacd—¢Now, see here, going off on any such job as that.’ ¢How foolish you are! Nothing 883, All you have to do is to slip 16 on. s¢Slip what on?’ els ¢‘The dress, of course. Buf you: n't try to button it, you know.” «Oh, I needn't!" : «No, slipping it on is enough.’ - ‘Well, then what?” * ; ¢Use common sease, of course. you have to do after the dress is on i8 dive down and crossways and a Ii slanting, and up and around, just as see ladies do in a street-car when the conductor comes along, and your hand ‘will go straight into the pocket — York Weekly. Dogs as Sireet-Cleaners. canine numerals. not begin to compare with this ei pecially in the old part, as in Stam . At times they lined the street, making it yellow and furry for two or. three rods. Again, dogs lay stretched, singly, in the middle of the street asleep, and car- riages and foot travelers went out of their ‘way to pass them for hours ruther than trouble to move them. Puppies ran about ‘ad libitum, and dear little things they were, too. Lage These dogs are not a fine breed. Their. hair is course and rough, and their bod- ies thick and heavy. But they have good, mild faces, gentle eyes, and, as for attacking anyone, it seems never to enter-their minds. Cats, too, are plenty, and often is seen -a happy family of j} dogs, cats and chickens sharing the y street with perfect good nature. ‘The | dogs are the street cleaners. At night, 1 when refuse is thrown out from the house, they have feasting, and by morn- ing nothing but what can be easily car- ried away in baskets or on donkey-back is left. They belong to nobody, and would lead a happy and carefree life did they not somehow get many injuries. The howl of a dog sounds every few minutes even in Para, and it is not rare to see torn ears, bleeding eyes and scratched, hairless skin,— Philadelphia Ledger. ? oy i rd EI 5 The Discovery of a Great Kine. A walk over the mountain to Fried- ensville, Penn., one spring day when the farmers were plcwing their fields, brought the late Dr. i: ] known to mineralogists, to where a team was dragging a plow near the road. A talk with the driver brought out the fact that his farm was cursed with more than the usual amount of stones, andasample was tossed over the fence to the doctor, as evidemce. It was recognized as a mass of quartz carrying calamine—a sili- cate of zinc. The fence was climbed and * and the/two followed the plow forward and back across a field covered with similar/ masses. Neva Had the doctor been a shrewd man he would have bought the farm and died rich. As he wasan honest lover of na- ture he said a few words to tke plowman that transformed an exhausted Pennsyl- vania farm into the seat of the Ueberroth mine; that set in operation the ex zinc works of Bethlehem, Penn built the ‘‘President’—a pum] could raise 17,000 gallons of water per minute. ‘This chance shot at a fortune is but one of many, and a dozen volumes would ill suffice to note the salie; of the record. If so much can haphazard, it is evident that a system ‘training in economic geology will furnish’ a means of livelihood, as well us an in the consideration of economi | tions of mining, — Engineering Me
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