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REYN0LDSV1LLK, PENN'A, WEDNESDAY MAY 2, HUM.
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mllr. i m for ui-i'i"i' i.i'tv.i'i'ii nil stiilion-i.
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JAP. P. ANDKltHON. UWL, i'AiMi. Aut,
THE LILAC.
Th llli"' lit noil rlo-i- to l:li-'lnl)i' Iniiow,
All piirrlo with hliwin, while tiio little maid
npnn.
Hor mint n lone enp, n ml lip ni n-wrnry
Ami nionnol tlnil-.lii' never cmiM j;i t llilon.
But l wlnil ftllTi"l tin- lilrn t.lr-nm.
Ami ivwonil.-rfiil i .mun i rr :!i I'l-'itlnK In,
Anil Kllzalii'tli fill, tlimuli t'.io r.mlJ nut liavii
ffii'l it,
Tlint n f r'end lir'l rot to lior ti lidphpr
itiin.
And nftur tltntnlin hrpMin tit Inn - ilir inn,
(iny nun Mnl, fur ll" wnrlil Iv.'l Ii. run
To wi'iii iiurh t iiiiuiiiirit, (,'""'1 p in e fur wni'k
init Tltnt fhownn nninwil ivlirn licr Flint
ilonp.
Ami tliopalo lirowtd HttlnXcw EtiKlnml mnM-i-n
Oiit.iilo her lp-innni lint l-'itrn"! tliflt ilny
That tlio Bwiclnets nrniiinl t. ill Mvcclen la
lor If wo will hut lit It I'tivii It -I v.r.y.
Jlttry K. Wlll.ltin In M. NU-lialnn.
AUTISANS' HOMES.
HOW GLASGOW HAS IMPROVED SOME
OF ITS POOR DISTRICTS.
Tho Intllieiien of Municipal Tenement In
ltrlglitenlitif Iluinnn 1.1ft' Clenn nml
Comfort nhlo Iw4-1IIiiki l'limlshetl to the
l'mir at ltenmmlile ItpnlntH.
Muiiicipnlitics nrc not in tvssnrily
Visor than other coriHirutolinilii'S. Gl;m
giiv has hy no nn aim Knlvcil tho huiniiu
jiviililfni. lint kIio hn ni:i'lot'.iiuioiiiil:i1)lo
L'M'rinii'iits in t!m iliivctinu of hii-lit-miinK.
hnmnn life llut, with less than
linlf n dozen Movie of nmtiivipiil tono
rnvntu, Mm iH still f;ir from pointing tho
wny to a liv.nific conilition. Wio i nlno
far from liavinKbocomo a Bix'ialistio city.
Sho hail tho opportunity to nialco cxpori
niPiits in tho most wrotchvd of her disi
tricts. The experiments havo snvevoded,
ftnd privnto entirpriHO hero, n eluowhoro,
ha nindo similar cxporiinent nml with
similar buccvss.
Tho nninivipiil tenements or nrtisan'
dwollinp, n they nro variously called,
oonnist of Mocks of flnt on cither Bido
of the Saltmarket. Tho bniltlinpfl nro
four stories in height. Tim Rronnd floors
are occupied hy shops. Tho houses ai'6
tisnally aiTiinKod so that on two floor
there nro three tenements, atonement of
two room being on each side of the
staircase and n tenement of one room lio
tween them. Thcro nro also several flats
of three rooms each. Tho tenement of
ono room is 14 by 13 foot. It is fittvd
with a bed closet, which is expected to
niiKwcr tho purpose of a pecond room, a
scullery, a lari;o press or cupboard, a
commodions dresser nnd a kitchen r.niga
Such nn apartment rents for f 40 a year.
Tho two roomed flnt has a small lobby
fitted with a press, or closet. On one
Bido of tho lobby is tho living room,
which is completely furnished as a
kitchen. A scullery adjoins. Thero is
also a bed nlcove in tho room. On tho
other Bide of tho lobby nnd on tho frout
of tho honso is tho sitting room, to which
is also attached a bed closet Snch a flnt
rent for $J9.50 per annum. Tho three
roomed flats rent for $80 a year. Gas is
supplied by tho city nt tho nsual rnto of
(10 centspor 1,000 feet, Thero is a lnnn
dry fit tho top of tho houso for tho nso
of tho tenants. Thoso artisans' dwelling
are constructed in the most substontiul
mnnncT. Tho stairs are stono, and tho
stuirway walla nro tiles or glazed brick,
which i easily kept clean.
It has long been objected thnt these
dwelling do not meet tho necessities of
tho poorest class of lnborcrs. The rent
wore too high for men who work in the
streets or on the docks and at other kinds
of unskilled labor. Glasgow had to con
sider whether it wore possible for the
municipality to reach theso men in any
way. If it had boon a quest ion of letting
rooms to singlo men, the arrangement
could have been made easily enough.
But the difficulty was to devise homos
for largo familiog, and it usually hap
pens that in this part of the world the
poorer the man the larger is his family.
Houses oould bo built, of course, but
oould the poorest class of laborers afford
to pay a rent which would return to the
municipality an interest of 9, 8 or 4
per cent on its investment? Could the
municipality compote in that respcot
with the owners of rookeries, where
families live in single apartments?
Much deliberation was given to the sub
ject It was found that the municipality
oould put up a block of substantial
buildings to meet the wants of the class
hitherto left untouched, but that it
would not be practicable to provide any
thing more than what are called "one
roomed houses" that is to say, one
room to a family. To be sure, the rooms
oould bo divided by a partition reaching
within two or three feet of the ceiling,
the sleeping quarter being thus separated
from the cooking quarter.
' It was finally decided that block of
ingle room tenements should be con
structed. A place was cleared at the
rear of a block of artisans' dwellings,
and a plain building of three stories was
erected, with four single room tenements
on each floor, two in the front and two
behind. These were let at rents well
Within the means of nnskilled laborers.
The building was opened, nnd it has
been filled ever since. The experiment
is financially successful, but in other re
spects there is little to be said for it Of
coarse the apartments are lurgur, lighter,
healthier, better built than any single
room tenements in the old rookerios.
Nevertheless the objections to the herd
ing of a family in one room are not there
by removed. , They are merely minimized
and in a very slight degree. It is not by
any means demonstrated that a munici
pality 1 justified' in doing anything to
pefpctnnte the single room tenement sys
tem for families.
Tho construction of Glasgow's ninnic-
lpal tenement houses, whether of tho
better clns or of the poorer, is nihnini-
bio. Tho stairways, In-iiig limit entirely
of masonry, nro coiisniueiitly ilrrprnol'.
Tho stair themselves nnd the hall Moors
aro of stone, nnd the wails of tho halls
are faced with gl:ieil till or glared
bricks, an the case may lie, nnd, a 1 havo
Jiitl, are easily kept dean.
A very largo amount of work yet re
mains to bo doneon tho municipal cstato
Which come under the iiilmiiiistratioil
of the improvement fund. Old houses nro
still being torn down, nnd crowded areas
nro being cleared nway. Of course all
this is n very expensive business. But it
is being gradually carried nil so that the
cost may not fall excessively on nny
singlo year. Glasgow Cor. Bostou Her
ald Holleltmle.
What it is to ho n gennin single
minded egotist i illustrated in n recent
French volume by a story of Mine, dn
Defiant, a celebrity of tho lust century.
Mine, dn Dellant was a great invalid
and spent most of her tinio in bed, but
this fact did not prevent In r from re
ceiving a great deal of company,
Ono day when she was thus in bed
several gnesti arrived and were admit
ted. They nil began to shiver nnd pull
their clonks nroniid them.
"What," exclaimed the invnlid, "1
it cold here?"
"It is simply freezing," answered a
gncst.
"Tbank yon for telling me," said
Mine, dn Oeffant.
fche rang a bell. The guests supposed
she wn sending for a mnid to build a
fire, hut when the seivnntcunioinMuie.
du Deffnnt said:
"Amolio, bring me in my down cov
erlet." Having given this order, Bho began n
conversation alxmt other matters.
Youth's Companion.
The RenUtlru Tower of Knowledge.
I knew one colored minister in the
Bahamas who had quite a repntntion
for learning, because in hi sermons lie
used alternately tho phrases "ipse dixit"
and "ex nihilo nihil fit."
I noticed thnt whenever nny ot his
congregation showed Bigns of losing in
terest in his discourse or an inclination
to slumber he would throw ont at them
along, hooked forefinger nnd exclaim:
"How do 1 know this, do yon ask? Be
cause 'ipse dixit!' " If that would not
bring them to their senses, he would let
his chest swell, stretch both arms to
their f nil length and cry, "Ex nihilo
nihil lit!" Then eyes would bulge as if
nbi.nl. to start from their sockets, months
open indefinitely, and tho congregation
would stare and wonder how "cine small
bead could carry all ho know." Cicero
with his elegant Latin never mndo so
profound an impression. liov. Bernard
J. Reilly in Donation's Magazine
i Atlnnls Women Org-nnlEe.
' About 20 of the leading women of
this city interested in church and bonev
i olent work met recently and organized
I a Woman Buffrago association. Mrs.
' McLcndon, a mombor of an oristocratio
I family, was elected president Their
i idea is to push tho question of woman
suffrago bo as to havo a good report to
1 make to tho national association, which
holds its next meeting in this city.
1 Within a month there will be woman
suffrage associations organized in every
j ciry in tho citato. Tho preacher of this
; city have taken a decided stand against
j the movomont, which only challenges
the opposition of the women. Atlanta
Dispatch.
Women's Grievance,
! An English periodical conducted ex
' clusively for women has been proponnd
I ing this question to its readers, "What
is women s greatest griovance?" The
seven most popular grievances and the
"comparative violence" of each are
shown in the following table:
1 -"One Uw for a man and another for a
woman" 87
S Numerical preponderance ot women 10
8 Abnenoe of good aarvanta 14
4 Smallueaa of women's wage compared
with men's Is
5 That men refuse to take women aerlouely t
ft The overcrowded state of the female la
bor market ft
7 -The abeence ot a grievance i
The Women's Bf orement In Uerm&ny,
The women's movement in Germany
is making great progress. The congress
called by the lady delegates to the
World's fair at Chicago met in Berlin
recently, and it is the intention of the
ladies to form a onion of all the chari
table and homaiM socioties in Germany
in order that the work of the societies
may be conducted upon a broader plan.
A thorough exchange of views between
the different societies is proposed, and
it seems likely that the movement wilt
have a decidedly beneficial effect upon
the female mind, in Germany. Berlin
Correspondent
On of Karope'i Beauties.
Princess Younaoupoff, who has just
died at her borne near Paris, was once
one of the most beautiful women in
Europe. At a very early age she was a
widow and refused many offers of mar
riage. - However, when more than 00
years old she foil in love with a young
man named Chanvean and became hi
wife. Two years ago he died, and the in
consolable widow retired to her country
home and there passed away. Princess
Younsoupoff had an income of $260,000
annually, and her turquoises are said to
be the moat wonderful in the world.
IN A HAUNTED HOUSE.
Rnslna VoKps Worjr of Her Fmnlly'a Inola
tlnn In Crowded London.
In everyday talk Rosina Voke wim
altogether and hewilchiM'y tho llnsinr
Wo knew across the foo(li;;iils thesame .
big, linnet eyes, tho same ilrolly stno- !
cato spiirh, tho snmn ti.ssing of that .
fluffy l lane of shining hair, anil the mat- !
ter of lu rcpeii h wastpiitens flavor-iomo
ns nny lines her playwright ever wt
down for her speaking. It iri a pity sho
never told neross tho footlights for all
tho world to hear tho story she onco told
to a favored few. The Voices family, alio
said, had returned to Loudon from a I
provincial tour, and Intending to remain '
for the season divided to hire a houso in
pri feri neo to taking loilginfr. Tin y
lo. iked upon it as miraculous lin k to find
a house in mi eminently ngrvi able neigh
borhood at a phenomenally low rent.
They soon found out the reason. A par
ticularly shocking murder had bvn
committed in tho houso a few year bc
foro, and since then it had stood unten
anted, its evil repntatioii intensifying
with every night its daik windows
gloomed upon tho elso cheerful street.
"Hut it was u lovely, comfortable
house," said Muslim, "and wo didn't
mind its story a bit in fact, wo thought
it rather distinguished than otherwise,
anil, as for spooks, we'd nil played 'em
too often in Christmas pantomimes to
hold 'em in nny csptvial awe. Beside
we never saw any nothin.!?, I give you
iny word, more fearsome limn a black
1km 'tin ever crossed our paths in that ma
ligned house. But for all that a mow
uncomfortable three mouths our happy
go lucky family never sticnt The neigh
bor gavo the houso a bad naino nnd
hnngcil it. They took the attitude that
any ono willing to live in a murder
stained houso whs simply an accessory
after the fact. My dears, never shall I
forget the first morning I called on the
local butcher with a plea for chops.
Send them to 843 street,' piped 1
cheerily. The butcher turned duskily
pala He edged behind hi block. He
glowered at mo over It, 'Three forty
three, yon said, mum?' he gasped. 'Man
alive, yosl' said I. 'Wo live thero, and
wo'ro not ghosts, or we shouldn't need
chops!'
"Well, the long nnd Bhort of it was
we could get nothing Bent thnt wasn't
ordered nt high noon, nnd then tho
butcher's boy had a way of firing up tho
thing from tho bottom of tho step
didn't want to como within grabbing dis
tance of the door apparently. That was
hard on tho provisions, especially tho
oggs. No milkman would deliver milk
in tho gray of tho moriiin-r, not he! Wo
had sulwequciitly to bring it homo in a
can. When the water pipes burst, wo had
to sop 'cm up with our stockings, whilo
the boys scoured London for a plumber
rash enongh to cross our fated threshold.
We lived like Robinson Crusoe on a
densely populated island. It wo borno
in upon us at last that it was a pity so
much wholesomo terror should go to
i waste. Bo tho last fow days of our stay
! there we took to burning blue lights
: at midnight in the area window and
: omitting hollow groans from tho frout
J cellar. I fancy our landlord reaped tho
' results of this light minded conduct We
uover iuquircd. "Boston Trunscript
Shakespeare' Cats,
Bhnkospeare makes frequent refer
ences to the cat in his play. Lady Mac
beth taunt her husband when ho hangs
back from tho murder with:
I-pttlnu 1 iIhto not wait upon t would.
Like the pour cat I' the adage,
alluding to that animal's fondness for
fish "What cat's averse to fish?" but
its unwillinguoHl to wet its feet in
catching them.
Falstaff seizes upon another feature of
tho animal's character, so detested by
all wakeful sleepers iutownB: " 'Sbloodl
I am a melancholy as a gib cat!" When
Morcutio longs for a fray with Tybalt,
ho aocoste him: "Good king of cats,
would have nothing but ono of your nine
lives. Thnt I mean to make bold withal,
and, as yon shall use me hereafter, dry
beat the rest of the eight," and them'
upon receives that celebrated "scratch'
which was "not so deep as a well nor so
wide as a church door. "New York
Sun.
Robert Louie Stevenera'a Home,
"Vailima, " which is Sanioon for "fine
waters, " U the name which the Steven'
sons have given to their beautiful' jume
in Apia. Four miles from the beach and
600 feet above the sea level a clearing
was made among the trees, and the
house, a rambling two story strnoture,
painted dark gray and with a red roof,
wa erected. Roomy and oomfortable
porches encircle both stories of the
house, and from the upper, looking north'
ward, can be seen the "fine waters" of
the Pacific. At the back are the green
lopes of the Apian mountains. There is
no driveway to "Vailima"' from the
town, the house being accessible only to
foot passengers or to those mounted on
the sore footed native horses. Ladies'
Borne JonrnsX
A Bottomless Lake In Sweden.
In Thomas Nashe's "Terrors of the
Night" published in 1694 he says
that Lake Wetter. Sweden, is bottom'
lees. He also tells other peculiar things
respecting it "Over it no fowle flies
but is frozen to death nor anie maun
pass but is mummed like a statue of
marble. Awle ye inhabitants around
about it are deafened with ye hidioons
roar of hits waters when out of its midst
as out of Mont Gibull a sulphurous
stinking smoak issues that woll nil poy.
sons ye whole oouutrie about" St
Louis RoouMla
DIAMOND SMUGGLINGS
The T.nv Willi Wlili'h l'rpclons Ktnnr nt
Large Value Mnjr lie l onpralrd.
One of tho simplest device for smug
(ding diamonds is that of tho holla'?
heeled shoe. It is asserted that lniots
nnd shoe constructed so ns to lenvo a
small vacant space in the heels nro easily
obtained in Kurope, and tin yarn espe
cially iiiimufactun d for the purpose of
supplying smuggler with u means for
escaping detection.
Tim porous plaster lias often served as
a means of secreting diamonds. When
it is understood that (10,000 worth of
diamonds or more can cosily boinclosod
in a paper parcel nbont n wide ns this
column, 1 ' inches high mid about n
quarter of an inch thick, it is easy to
imprehend that such a pnekngn can bo
kept securely in plneo by means of an
innocent but highly serviceable porous
plieter.
O:;o of tho most ingenious nietlioii
ever employed was tho uso of a cake of
soap, wherein a number of diamonds
had been iiulieilileil. It Is highly proba
ble that this plan would have proved
successful had it not lieeu that tho offi
cers of tho government had received in-
filiation that tho suspected person bad
diamonds with him and searched hi f f-
cts so thoroughly that they examined
even tho gem si ridded block of sonp.
The wife of this smuggler helped In r
spouse, and In r plan was not less ingen
ious tli nit that of her husband. Her hat
was ornamented with hunches of grapes,
which until r ordinary circumstances
Would only have awakened tho envy of
oilier wenrers of bonnets. Within the
grniH wero diamonds and fancy stones
of great vnlne.
Another smuggler wa especially pro
vided by Providence with a smuggling
device in the shnpo of a heavy covering
of thick, bushy hair, which ho arranged
so that it stood up from hi forehead
like nn Impenetrable bush. Within this
mas of heavy hair ho deposited a good
ly stock of diamond and succeeded for
a time in escnping the vigilunce of the
custom house official.
As these scheme have beoomo known
to tho custom house authorities tho in
genuity of smuggler has been more se
verely taxed. A recent discovery rlls-
closed the following elnborato plan,
which succeeded a great many times be
fore it was discovered:
Two Bniuirglcr operated in partner
ship. Tho first crossed the ocean and be
fore leaving the whnrf reserved a return
berth for a certain date. Tho (Into and
tho number of tho berth wero nt once
cabled to his nccomplico in America.
Having purchased hi diamonds, in due
time he returned to this country in nc
corihiuee with tho instructions previous
ly cabled. No amount of examination
resulted in finding any diamond upon
his person. Meanwhile, however, his
partner had secured tho samo berth.
When tho day for sailing came, part
ner No. 3, nccompnnied by his family,
entered tho cabin and extracted from a
secure hiding place several parcels of
dinmouds left there by his aivomplioo.
Theso ho handed to hi tearful family,
who after bidding him goodby left tho
steamer unsuspected and brought tho
diumonds into tho market. It took a long
time to (Uncover this scheme. Jewel
ers' Weokly.
M- On Tike's Peak.
"The officer in charge of tho United
States signal sorvice station on tho top
of Pike's peak ha rather a lonesome
ti mo of it, especially in winter," said
Major C. P. Leonnrd of Coloruda "Ho
lives in a low, fiat building mndo of
stone, which is anchored and hoi ted to
the granito bowlders. During tho winter
mouths he ha up connection whatever
with tho rest of the world, a it is im
possible for a human being to ascend to
his station and just as impossible for
him to go down.
"Snow i his only water supply, and
even in tho heat of summer thero is ul
wuys enough within a fow feet of hi
door to furnish all tho water ueetlcd.
Hi official duties are light, requiring
only an occasional inspection of tho in
struments. Tho rest of the time he oc
cupies in reading and viewing tho sur
rounding country through his telescope.
On a clear day the houses of Colorado
Springs, 30 miles away, are pluinly vis
ible, and during the summer he can see
men walking around the town in their
shirt sleeves and ladios clothed in white
dresses, while he is perched up among
the clouds, with snow piled around on
all sides. "St Louis Globe-Democrat
On Parade.
It was a great day in the driving park,
and there had never been a finer display
of wealth on wheels seen in that local
ity, and a man had come out to see what
it all meant It was plain he had never
seen a carriage parade before. After a
bit he turned to one of the great mass of
spectators.
"What is it?" he inquired, nodding
toward the gorgeous pageaut
"It's a oarriage parade of our most
fashionable classes, " was the reply.
"Oh," said the man, "it's a kind of
a parade of the unemployed, is it?"
The other one' looked curiously at the
"That's all right, " said the man, as if
be knew what he was talking about, and
be walked away. Detroit Free Press.
' As Maeb as She Could Admit.
Mr. Wickwire Now, my dear, you
must admit that Mrs. Watts luiked ex
ceedingly well in her new gowu.
Mrs. Wiokwiro Ye-e-s, the gowu did
look very wll on her. Iudiuuapolis
Journal.
A 1'oliinnnnn Monarch,
Amonnrch among poisnnoimsiiakcs Is
tho enormous luimadryad, which grows
to be a much ns 11 feet in length and
i bo fierce Hint it will sometimes nitnek
nnd even ehoso any one who ventures
near to it nest. Nativosiirikoehi'rniers,
who will hmidlo tint fiercest rubra fear-
li-ssly, nro usually lonth to touch a ha-
nmdryad, though I hnvo occasionally
wen a Inrgn spe hvcii of this veiiomoti i
reptile in their bags. U lay Us ( ggn In
a heap of decaying leaves, which it col
lect for tho purpose, nnd sils upon the
top to keep off intruders. A road through
tho jungle will sometimes bo" closed
against all vomer by a pair of these
snake, and woe beljile tho uiifortmintii
traveler who stumbles unnwnrcs upon
tho nest. The linmmlvynd feeds Inr ; ly
Upon other simkes, lint it is fortunately
somewhat rare. Curiously enough, it i.i
Hot always nggversivo. Indt cil it some
times happen that it is quite unwilling
to strike. Superficially it is not unlike
a harmless rock snake, nnd not Very
long ago in Burundi a man brought one
in from the jungle and kept it loose in
hi house for somo day under tho im
pression that it was one of tin so crea
tures. During ihe whole of its captivity
it never attempted to bite any one, and
its captor, who had lxvii familiarly pull
ing it about by tho tail, was only ap
prised of his niistnkn by a forest o."ieer
who happened to turn up nnd w ho knew
a good deal about snakes. It isea-'ytn
imtigiuo tho has to with which tho nina
tenr sunk'' charmer procectli ti to dh'posu
of lib! captive. MeClure's Magazine.
Mongolian IhrIc.
Theso Tnichinar Mongol iuro much
given to all forms of magic Storm dis
pelling they appear t. havo learned from
tho K'amba Tibetans, but tho origin of
somo of their other practice is not so
clear. Certain among them, they claim,
enn ennso n person to bo stricken ill or
can even compass hi dentil. After hav
ing procured a fow hairs, a nail paring
or something from the person of the in
tended victim, they make a little imago
of him in flour, and in this stick tho
relic. Then it suffices to prick the head,
heart, lungs or limb of the efllTy to
causo acuto pulns to lrc felt by the orig
inal in tho samo portion of his body. Of
courso ono must recite certain potent
charm tho while. Ill them lie tho se
cret of Biiccess. I inn not nwioro that this
modo of bewitching n ix'rsou, so well
known in the western world in ancient
and mediieval times, obtain to nny
great extent In Asia. Personally I havo
never met it elsewhere. W. Woodvillo
Mockhill in Century.
An Illnlorlo Pen.
Whenever the ex-empress of the French
writes about her lamented husband, she
Invariably uses tho diamond pen which
signed tho treaty of Paris. Each of t!io
14 plenipotentiaries wanted to keep tho
pun with which he signed tho Paris trea
ty a a memento of the occasion. They,
however, yielded to the request of the
Empress Eugenie, who begged that only
one lien should be used, which should bo
retained by her na a souvenir. Only one
pen was accordingly used. It wus a
quill plucked from a golden eagle's w'mr
and richly mounted with diuuioudb ami
gold. Loudon Tit-Bits.
A Duke tlcliukcil.
When commanding tho Galatea some
years ago, tho Duke of Edinburgh called
In plain clothes on an admiral, who re
buked him with the stiff greeting, "I
should hava been very happy to roceivo
your royal highness on any other occa
sion, but unhappily at this moment I
um expecting a visit from thucuptuiii of
tho Galatea. " Tiio duke went bock to
his ship and put on his uniform. Sou
Francisco Arguuuut
Like I nto I.lkP.
An officer and a lawyer talking of a
disastrous battle, the former was lament
ing tho number of bravo soldier who fell
on tho occasion, when the lawyer ol
served that "those who livo by tiio
sword must expect to die by tho sword. ' '
"By a similar rule," answered the of
ficer, "thoso who live by tho law must
expect to dio by tho luw. "New York
Lodgor.
Colorado has 8,000,000 acres under
artificial irrigation. The farm products,
exceed $13,000,000 a year. There aro
1,600,000 cattle, 3,000,000 sheep. The
coalfields cover 40,000 squoro miles.
The supplies of marble, granite and other
buildiug stone are inexhaustible.
In testing the lifting power of grow
ing plants and vegetables an experi
ment made under the auspice of the
United States department of agriculture
it was found that common pumpkins
oould lift a weight of 8 tons.
Philadelphia has some long streets-
Second street, IS miles; Germantown
and Ridge avenue, 10 miles; Broad
street, Of miles; Frankford avenue, 8
miles; Fifth street, 6) miles; Market
street, 6i miles.
A man's time, when well husbanded,
is like a cultivated field of which n few
acres produce more of what is useful to
life than extensive province, even of
the richest soil, when overrun with
weeds.
The poet writes of the mnsio of the
woodland depths, but ho omitted to say
that it is tho piuo tree that gives the
pitch. Lowell Courier.
The mortar and pnstlo still in tuo iu
most parts of Asia and all over Africa is
the prototype of the modern Hour mill.