THE SENSE OF S3 ELL
IT IS LESS ACUTE IN HUMANS NOW
THAN IT USED TO BE.
What W Row Fnneeee In rrnbatilr
the 'Merc Nemnant of m Onre l'iw
erfal Mfi'bunlim"-The Hrrn 1'owrr
f See at la the Urate Creation.
Is tilt sense of smell dying "ill among
rtvlllr.cd men? riiynlnlofclsls tell im
that, although nu entire segment nf
tbe brnlnnnmoly, the olfactory loho
Is apportioned lo the olfactory llhem,
What we now posncna Is probably "the
mere remnant of n once imwrrful
mechanism." In the lrul creation
the sense In much keener, iiltlioiigti
among the lower nipintle riiIiiiiiIh It Im
Indiscriminately blended with tint I of
taate and In tho toothed w hales Im iiuh
exlntent. On the other bund, tlocs,
specially thou that Imve been train
ed to hunt by cent, neoin lo ileieuil
upon that faculty almost entirely, even
to the exclusion of their eyesight. If
It la a "had aci-nllng" hiy or If lilt
nose la out of order yon limy nee n re
trtever literally wnlk over n dead hlnl
or even He down on the top of It, n
pretty clear proof Mint he In not look
ing for lila quarry, lie In smollliu; for
It A fox In covert will sometime
run In nnd out among tho very lee -4
Of the puck unnotieed, iiIIIioukIi In tills
caao the necessity for keeping their
beads down, owing to the fact Unit
animal smclla are heavy nnd lie close
to tho (.'found, will nerve to prevent
bounds from using their eyes. A ter
rier will race down n drive, barking
ecstatically nt the Hlcht of hln uniNier,
but even then he will usually nlve Miii
preliminary sniff before lie I n1.no
lutely autisflcd of hln Identity.
Generally apenking, awcet odorn nre
more pemlstont than their opposite, the
aulphureted compound In particular
evaporating rapidly on exposure to the
atmosphere, although the amell of de
caying iinlinnl mutter Im sold to endure
for daye after tho cause of It has been
removed. Tho olfactory BciiMe, how
over, usually becomes blunted In time
When annulled continuously by any one
odor. Workmen In big perfumeries lie
come cane hardened to tho fragrance of
their aurroundliiKn, and homo pain In
fortunately even more deadening In Us
effectn than mont forms of ph.VHlcal
Buffering. Again, different Hindis do
not mix. It la auld that if two nostrils
are atuffod with different attlmtniieea
we amcll flrnt one and then the other
alternately, but never a blending of the
two together. Thla In probably the
caae with the lower animals, too, nnd
explains how foxhounds con pick out
and follow the trail of a fox over
ground that has boon tainted by sheep
or cattle. The writer personally lian
een a pointer find birds successfully
all one afternoon on the western prai
Tlea at a time the dog himself was no
odoriferous owing to an unfortunate
encounter with a skunk on tho previ
ous day that he was hardly approach
able. Among human Individuals tho sons.)
of amell, like those of Night nnd hear
ing, varies considerably, and certain
persona aeem to bo quite unaffected by
certain odors. Just aa others are "color
blind" to certain colors or "tone deaf"
to the shrill call of a but or tho chirp
ing of a cricket Fcrhnps It la Indica
tive of tho manner in which wo nro
discontinuing the use of our noses that
there la no one word tu tho English
language (such aa "blindness" or "deaf
ness") signifying the complete absence
of the perception of amcll, although tho
condition undoubtedly exists and is in
deed not uncommon aa a sequoia of
some diseases.
It is true that we may claim a su
periority to the brute creation in tbo
range of our susceptibility to various
odors, for the carnlvora scctn to bo
quite Insensible to the scent of plants
and flowera, while the horhlvorn pay
little attention to animal odors except
for the purpose of detecting tho ap
proach of enemies, nut we are cer
tainly Inferior to them In acutcness, nt
all events we of the civilized races, al
though there seems to be no reason
Why thla sense should not be cultivat
ed and lta efficiency re-enforced by de
liberate training. This view Is sup
ported by the fact that men born deaf
nd dumb and blind have been known
to develop their Intent powora of smeHI
to a pitch of perfection qulto unintel
ligible to ordinary mortuls. We tine
spectacles to assist the eyesight, car
trumpets and artificial enr drums to
correct deafness; why should not
dene supply us with aome handy in
strument that would stimulate the ol
factory fibers or magnify the potency
of effluvia T There are many ways in
Which such an addition to our physical
(and mental) equipment might be use
ful, for the noso has the one cardinal
advantage over the eyes in that It is
quite Independent of light. After all,
even the range of vision may be outdis
tanced by that of amell, if it be true,
for instance, that the Spice Islands of
(be Indian archipelago are to be distin
guished far out at sea long before they
have been sighted from the lookout
According to Humboldt the Peruvian
Indiana on the darkest night cannot
only perceive the approach of a stran
ger while atlll far distant, but can
ven tell whether be Is a negro or an
Indian or a European. The Arabs of
the desert are auld to smell fire thirty
m forty miles away. The Indian of
ortn America certainly uses bis nose
in the pursuit of game, and Major Gen
eral Baden-Dowell strongly recom
mended the practice to white men In
bis treatise on scouting. '
Bat It la not only savages and un
civilized tribes who surpass us in tbe
efficiency of this particular organ and
In the attention which they pay to lta
education. With the Japanese "in
cense snuffing" has reached the dignity
of ceremonial. It has been prac
ticed, 'we ave told, by priests and
dalmloe for the last 400 years and Is
alien very norloimly Indeed, Urnve
CHMayn have been written on ho sub
ject, nnd an Mabnrale code of llipietto
has been trniuluted for Its uluory
nine. It Is also n form of enicriilii
ininl, nnd at a k Ik I Ko parly your host
produces on n special tray Home twen
ty or more different Minis of Incense,
from which he selects live, lo each one
of which he given n dlirerenl inline,
founded on Home literary allusion, c.ich
inline receiving It number. The varl inn
kinds nre then burned In Irregular or.
der, nouiellmen In combination of two
or three kinds, nnd the gnosis have to
write down the correspond hut num
bers on Hllpn of paper by means of
certain slutin n tuhiillcnl of the chap
ter In II celebrated classlrnl lomalne
railed "I ienjl mono galarl." 't he per
ron who guesses their Identity most
ai. cessfully wins n prize, and bet w ecu
mills yon nro allowed a whllT of vino-
nr to refresh your Jaded nostrils. In
New York ii tt attempt Wits iiimle lo
found a scries of "perfume concerts,"
w hero scent took the place of music,
but the energetic Ainorlonns voted the
eiilerl.ilnuieiit slow, nnd the Innova
tion was hardly a success.
There Is another reason for which
It iiili-hl be worth our while In pay
more attention lo this particular sense
- for lis iniiciiioule HiiMgcsllNene s. The
facnlly of memory plays n rather queer
part In coimeelloii with thai of duell
ing, although around It our menial lis
Hoclall ins cluster most slrongly, for
It Is very doubtful If anybody can Me
dially call up or "represent" n particu
lar odor, though there are cases of
subjective hallucinations of scent
among the insane, nnd the records of
(lie Society I'or Psychical llosearch
qllole Instances of what we inlidit cull
the "ghost" of n smell.- London Spec
tator. WASTE OF ENERGY.
One of llti ('.rent rrittileiim Thai Are
l'uKllttu Hie nclentlstN,
Ninety -nine per cent of the sun pow
er or energy slored up in u Ion of coal
Is lost on Its way to the electric light
bull). Thus we get only a hundredth
part of tho possible light contained In
a ton of coal. The other ninety nine
pans are lost on tho way, dissipated
hi beat nnd used up III friction In the
engine or the electric nppnriiliis nnd
never become light. To discover some
way to prevent this fearful waste of
energy Is one of the great problems
confront lug sclent lstn today.
.lust as fearful a waste of energy
goes on In man's use of bin ow n pow
ers. Instead of 1do per cent of hln en
ergy appearing III results, that are
worth while often not more than I
per cent of It gets Into bin real work,
the rest being thrown away, dissipated
In scores of ways.
A young man starts out In life wild
a large amount of force nnd vitality
stored up In hln brain, nerves nod mus
cles, lie feels an almost llinlll 'ss sup
ply of energy welling up wilhlti him, n
fullness nnd buoyancy which know no
repression, lie believes he will do won
ders with thin energy nnd Hint ho will
transmute practically all of It Into light
achievement. In the pride of hln
youth anil strength he seems to think
that there Is practically no end to his
power to throw off energy, anil so he
often llings It out on every side with
reckless prodigality. He burns It up
here In a cigarette or a pipe, there In
whisky or wine; hero ho drains It off In
heavy suppers nnd Into hours, there In
vicious living, Idleness, shlftlcssuesn
nnd ' botched work until ho llmilly
conies to himself with n shock nnd
nsUs: "Where is tho electric light I
meant to produce with nil my energy?
Is this flickering candle tlamc nil that I
can generate?" He In appalled to find
that, with nil hln superabundant vital
ity, ho has scarcely produced light
enough to illumine his' own way nnd
ban nothing left for the world, He
who had boasted of his strength and
felt confident of shedding a light that
would dazzle the world stumbles along
himself in scuildnrkness. Tho energy
which should have been transmuted
Into achievement has been lost on the
way. Orison Swett Mnrden In Success.
Tha Scamllnavlua Island.
I never heard nny particular pother
mado' over the number of the Hcnndl
nnvian Islands. I had often heard of
tho fiords, never of the Islands. There
fore I was surprised when wo sailed
through endless Isles of granite pierc
ing through steel colored swirls of sea,
for tho islands around tho coasts of
Denmark, Sweden and Norway and
thence ncross tho gulf of Bothult and
the gulf of Finland are literally end
less, and they nre all of primitive grnn
Ite. There are great Islands, sinull Is
lands, little Islands, Islets, rocks, pin
nacles nnd noodles. Thousands of them
are nameless, although all seem to be
charted. Coming from the North capo
down the coast of Norway through
the Sknger rack, the Kattegat, past
Copenhagen and up Into the strait be
tween Gotland nnd Swedeti, I believe
the ship must pnns through scores of
thousands of Islands. In one group
ulone lying off Stockholm, the Alands
Islands, there are over 300 on the chart.
Jerome Hurt in Argonaut.
At the Head.
Bishop Polk, afterwurd General Tolk,
was one of those men who wear the
seal of authority upon their brows. On
one of his episcopal visitations he
Stopped for the night at a country Inn,
when his host nt once addressed him
aa general.
"No, my friend," auld Polk. "You are
mistaken. I am not a soldier."
, "Judge, then?" huzarded the Innkeep
er. "That la not the title given me by
those who know me," replied Polk, be
rlnnlng to be amused.
apisliup, Uien7 '
'Tight," anld Polk, laughing.
' "Well, I knew you were at the head
of your profession, whatever it wua,"
said the innkeeper.
TEACHING THE HOF SE
Will Learn Anrthlnn " Inneles
an Perlifrm,
Import horsemen believe that n horse
ran be taught to do anything that It In
possible for nil nnlnial no formed mid
to be utterly fearless. Thus we know
of horses rushing Into battle with a
fearlessness that In magnificent, nl
though In the beginning of their liven
(hey may have been foollshl ' timid,
nh) lug nt everything unusual Hint hap
pened to be seen In their travels,
lit order to touch a home fcnrlcnsncnn
he must be accustomed to nil noils of
sights nnd sounds. He must come to
know thai lns'iiuse something that be
seen or lienrn In unusual It dm-n not fol
low that It In harmful, for It Is the un
usual Ihltms that frighten him. The
horse I:: an animal of one Idea at a
time nnd In not able lo discriminate, so
nny the men w ho have made n study of
the horse. While ho will travel along
q'llolly close by the roar of a train, he
may tremble at tho Duller of a piece of
loose paper Hying In the wind. It In
not the f rightfulness of the object Unit
fceins to nlarin ti I in. but the iinfainll
Inrlly of It. Horse I ralnors nny Unit
the mistakes made In "breaking" ami
training a colt In that It In too often
done In the seclusion of some country
road Instead of iimlil (ho nlghln nnd
Rounds that the nuluial must liivcssurl
ly become familiar with later.
As noon an the horse becomes famil
iar with anything and has learned to
believe thai It will not hurt him he
w III stand quietly or trot along peace
fully, even though nil sorts of noises
and queer nlghln nro nbout him. Thus
the artillery horse will ntand ntnld Hie
roar of cannons, being used to the
noise nnd not knowing that the sound
predicts anguish and death. It in well
to accustom n homo to unusual nounds
an noon an possible after he In trained
for riding or driving. It renders hlui
safe and doolie, even though he he a
nplrlted niilmal. A certain trainer of
horses said that an Ideal school for
horses would contain thrashing ma
chines, pile drivers, sleain drills, elec
tric, steam nnd elevated cum, a bund
of martial music and a gang of quarry
I ,'n blaming rook. A horse that wan
drilled among such a bedlam aa thla
would Indeed prove Immune to strange
noises. The gentle family home, petted
by man nnd child, In not always train
ed to all this, yet lip often luiikiM a use
ful and fiiMliful animal, loved by Ida
owner and evidently making Home re
turn of nll'ectlon.- Iietroll Tribune.
A lnr llrelpa.
"Don't talk to mo about the recipes
In that magazine," said Mrs. I.une,
with grout energy. "Wnnn't that tho
very magazine that advised me to put
on that sisly solution ami leave the tu
bloclolh out overnight to tnke off those
yellow stains?"
"I'm Inclined to think it may have
boon,"- mild Mrs. Lane's slsler, with
due meekness. "I sent you a number
of them In the spring, I remember."
"Well, unci what happened?" naked
Mrs. l.iine, with rising wruth.
"Didn't the stains disappear?" asked
her sister.
"Dlnappenrr auld Mrs. Lnno In n
withering tone. "It waa the tablecloth
that disappeared. I don't know any
thing about tho ntnlns."
I.ate Ucarlnnliia;,
Sir Walter Scott began to write his
celebrated novels at forty. Milton bo
gan "Paradise I.ont" nt fifty. Whoo
"Kant I.ynne" appeared Its author,
Mrs. Henry YVood, wan forty-five.
Cromwell was forty-one when ho be
gun his public career. The your of the
hcglra wits the fifty-third of Moham
med, nnd Marlborough reached his In
dependent command at the nnnie age.
In spiritual examples Abraham waa
seventy-live when called out of Chu
rnn, nnd Moses was eighty when he
atom! before Pharaoh as the champion
of Isruel,
The? Were All Rlaht.
He was n typlcnl backwoods farmer.
Ills first visit to a city restaurant, how
ever, had taken away none of the ap
petite he hud at home, where every
thing was placed In large dishes on the
center of the table and each one help
ed, himself. Tho waiter hud plied the
food around the plate In the customary
little dishes, which the farmer cleaned
up in turn. Settling back in his chair,
he hulled tho passing Walter:
"Hey, thero, young man! Your sam
ples nre all right Krlng ou the rest
of the stuff." Judge.
John Bright' Reply,
On one occasion John Itrlght received
a letter from a very bad writer, to
which he replied:
Dear Sir Many thanks for your letter
of the 12th Inst.- I have no doubt but that
It Is a very good letter and that It con
taint matter an Interesting- an It In Impor
tant; but, by the bye, If you nhoiild be In
town In the course of a few days, would
you mind just stepping- In and reading tt
to me? Yours faithfully,
JOHN BRIGHT.
A Watch's Variation.
As to the sympathetic vagaries of
watches a correspondent writes: "I dis
covered some years ago thut it was the
metal buckle of my braces that caused
tbe Irregularities of my own particular
wutch. I therefore now muko a rule
of putting my spectacle case on the in
side of my watch pocket thus cutting
off tbe connection." Loudon Chroni
cle. Mutual Slip.
Tom What mado you give me away
so when I waa telling that yarn at tbe
dinner table? Dick I didn't mean to;
It was only a slip of tho tongue. Dut
that's no reason why you should have
kicked me ao hard! Tom Ob. I didn't
, meuu to It was only a slip of the foot
: Detroit Free Press.
Ingratitude is a form of weakness.' I
nave nevpr known a man of real abil
ity to be ungrateful. Goethe.
THE 'CROWS OK IJDIA
THEY ARE THE ARCH VILLAINS OP
THE BIRO WORLD
Two Rltvelvn of llir Fralbereil Vina,
hnnds Kits! Mile hv Side and I'lr
Their Trlrhn of liilimllr In I nin
aioa l.nrernr Knr the l.o nf It,
It la quite Impossible for any one
Who has not sojourned In Hie "Land
of ltegiels" to appreciate the Impor
tant part played by crown In the dally
life of the Anglo Indian. India with
out Ha crown In unthinkable; It could
only be likened to London without Its
fogs. Wherever human beings have
their abodes there are inullllildes of
corvldue to be found, for the Indian
crow In an Inseparable appendage of
town nnd village. Two spisden exlnt
Ride by aide In India, the great black
bird known to Auxin Indians an the
corby nnd the smaller gray nocked spe
cies. Hot Ii birds lead liven of aimless
vagabondage; both are scoundrels of
the most pronounced type; both nre
sinners hcioiul redemption. Did l ho
black crow exist alone It would be
held lip an the emblem of nil that In
evil and mischievous. An things nre, Itn
InlqiillleN pule Into Insignificance bc
Rlde those of Itn gray necked cousin.
The very name of Hie latter bird In
siilllclont to raise the Ire of tho right
eous man. To call the arch villain of
the bird world "the splendid" In mere
mockery of words. Jcrilou, the famous
Indian naturalist, "often regrets that
such mi Inappropriate spcclllc name
should have been npplbsl lo thin spe
cies, for It tends to bring Into ridicule
among the unscientific the system of
nomenclature."
Tho Indian crow In nb'o to utilize
most tilings. A Calcutta bird ban
made Itself famous for nil time by
constructing a nest of tho when used
to secure the corks of noiln water bot
tles. Itmnhay In very Jealous of Cal
cutta, and the crown, of course, npo
their bettors. The lloniluiy birds (In
tel mined not to be outdone by the
Calctlltit coi vldae. Accordingly one of
the former promptly built her nest of
gold nnd sllven spectacle frames stol
en from Mesnrn. Lawrence & Mayo'n
factory. The value of tho materials
used In the construction of thin nest
was estimated nt 'J(l. Hut crown will
appropriate, things for Which they can
have no posslblo use. They commit
larceny for tho love of tho thing. Tho
Indian crow la tho Incurmite spirit of
mischief. Tho bird will wantonly teur
a loaf out of a book lying open on
the table. My gardener, adds Mr. De
war, puts every morning fresh llowcrn
In the vases. Thin operation la per
formed on the veranda. One day the
man wan culled away from hln work
for a couple of minutes. During hln
absence a crow swooped down ami suc
ceeded In taking n beakful of (lowers
nnd breaking tho vinio In which they
were placed, A retired colonel of my
acquaintance who lives In the Hima
layas la a very enthusiastic gardener,
and the crown nro the bane of bis life.
They rout lip hln choicest seedlings,
sever the heads of Ids most superb
(lowers from tho stalk and lly away
with tho little pieces of paper which
he places In cleft sticks to mark where
seed have boon sown.
Hut It la In towns that the Iniquity
of the crows reaches its maximum.
The Madras corvidan are a byword
throughout tho length and breadth of
India. The hospital In their favorite
playground. They are neer so happy
na when annoying tho Inmates. They
know at once when a person la too ill
to move. The consequence la that It
ban been found necessary to have mado
for all tho tables wire covers which
protect articles placed at tho bedside
from the ravages of tho "treble dated
birds." I have seen a Madras crow
quietly helping Itself to tho contents of
It basket which an old woman wua
currying on her head. Tho bird was
possessed of Htilllctent Intelligence to
refrain from alighting ou the basket
Hud It done so its presence would prob
ably have been detected. It Happed
along Just above the top of tho basket,
keeping puce with the woman, and ao,
unpercclved by her, made n meal off
the contents. The knavish tricks of
crowa nre by no means confined to hu
man beluga. As Colonel Cunningham
truly says, "Any animal pets are, of
course, even more than lnuulmute ob
jects, subject to their attentions, ami
unless In wholly Inaccessible places nro
constantly liable to have their food
purloined nnd their lives rendered a
burden by persistent and Ingenious per
secution," I once possessed n grey
hound which used to bo fed in the gar
den, A man had to stand over tbe dog
whllo it wua feeding; otherwise the
crows would devour tho greater portion
of the inoul.' Their plan of campaign
wua simple and effective. They soon
learned the dog's feeding hour and as
It drew near would take up a position
on any convenient tree. Tho moment
the' greyhound began to eat a crow
would swoop down tiud peck viciously
at its tall. The dog would, of courso,
turn ou the bird, und the others would
seize this opportunity to snatch awny
some of the food. The process would
be repeated uutil the meal wua over.
Crown tense and annoy wild creatures
with the aume readiness that they wor
ry domestic animals. They mob every
strange bird in much the same way as
the Loudon street urnb makes fun of
any person In unusual attire. Loug
mun's Magazine.
Sadden Want of Information,
Tommy Ma, lend mo a loud' pencil.
Mother I Just left pen and Ink on tho
table for you. What do you want with
a pencil? Tommy I want to write to
the editor of tbe paper to ask hint
wbatTI take Ink stains out bt the par
lor carpet Phlludelpblu Ledger.
Think much and often! speak little
and write less. Wouiuu's Life.
"A MONSTER DUMPLiNQ."
It Wei Pnnnil Tnw Bask Tata
Cant at Itmapllas; Tawa.
In Halifax county, N. 0., prior' to
Iki.i there waa a voting precinct
known by the odd nam of Dumpling
Town. In I W0, when William Uanry
Harrison waN elected president after
most exciting campaign, Dumpling
Town hud exactly 114 voters, and ev
rry man of them cast bin ballot for
Hi t risen,
The people nf the small but prosper
ous town of Hoot la nil Neck, In that
county, shoved their appreciation of
the unnnliuo'iN Vote of Dumpling Town
by it generous nnd whimsical gift. Two
ihns and a night wera consumed In
budding a big dumpling, which waa
innilc of apples nnd Hour and which
weighed III pounds, una pound for
each vole cunt at Dumpling Town.
Thin mounter of a dumpling waa put
n it suck supported by a tripod and
lowered Into an Immense Iron ktttlt.
It required two days and night to
cook It properly. Then It was lifted
out and placed In a specially mads
bowl cut from the trunk of an nor-'
inoun cypress tree, and round It wart
placed 114 dumplings of ths usual sine.
A bund of music and fifty wagons wars
nent to Dumpling Town, and In tbass
wagons were taken In Rcollami Nack
the 114 tune blue Ilnrtiaou man and
their famlllen.
There was great cheering whan tbey
arrived nt Hoot la ml Nack, aud the
gnosis cheered themselves when tbey
anw the fount urepured for them, for,
besides the dumplings, no end of good
things filled many tables In the spa
clous warehouse, and the f runt lug and
fun hinted the rent of the day and Hour
ly till night.
A barrel of tho best molasses waa
used us sauce for the big dumpling,
mid the hungry people uta It all.
Youth's Companion.
PAYING IN CENTS.
Creditors Mnr flafaae Lara ml
Small Caaaffa.
Ordinarily when a debtor appears be
fore a long time creditor there la no
questioning of the United Btntea coin
In which the debt la to be paid, but
the wide possibilities possessed by an
arbitrary creditor In stipulating Just
what coins nnd In what nmounta ha
will receive payment are enough al
most to discourage borrowing.
You can't forco a mean creditor to
take more than 23 cents' worth of nick
els or 25 cents' worth of copper cents.
If you could get na much us $.1 worth
of old sliver three cent pieces: of an
other generation you could unload 13
worth ou lil in. JiiHt ua he would have In
take (." worth of the silver five cent
pieces and $3 worth of the obsolete
twenty cent pieces, which made so
much trouble In the lute seventies. Hut
you can pay out $10 In silver dimes
and silver quartern and silver half dol
lars. The Irndo dollars, of which there
tire n few atlll coming Into the treasury
of the L'ulted Htutun for redemption,
tiro worth nothing, whllo the Htanihird
dollar Is nil unlimited legal tender, us
In the old "dollar of our dads." the first
of which wan coined In 1 7b I and the
Inst lu 17:1.
Colon that virtually have disappear
ed from circulation are gold three dol
lar nnd one dollar pieces, the trude dol
lar of silver, the nickel three cent
piece, the cupper two cent piece, the
copper half cent nnd silver throe und
live cent pieces. Omaha World-Hor-uld.
. derma a Pataraallnm.
American tourists returning from Eu
rope bring buck stories of the paternal
watch which la kept upon them In tier
many. Due woman wus requested by
a policeman to hold up her gowu,
which wua a trailing, elaborate uffulr
of laco and chiffon. It wua after din
tier, nud alio was taking a stroll with
her husband through a park whose Im
maculate walks seemed to offer no
barm to Its delicacy, so she let it hung.
The policeman wus polite euough. He
informed her gravely thut any dress
that wus allowed to trull wua liable to
collect undeslruble matter and prove
Injurious to health, aud he reminded
her that one time a law was under
consideration to make the wen dug of
such, skirts a misdemeanor. New York
Tribune.'
Tha Weatharooek,
The cfilgy of the cock so often seen
on church steeples Is usually connected
with u legend lu connection with Bt.
I'eter. As a matter of fact, however,
the figure of a cock used to be placed
ou tho tops of sucred trees long be
fore It wus used on buildings. The
movement of the bird in the breeze was
supposed by the superstitious to ward
off evil spirits. On a number of mod
ern churches the familiar vane la miss
ing, but In days gone by a church was
thirdly ever built without the weather
cock on Its steeple. Loudon Stundurd,
Garden Laatarna.
The noted Jupuneso gurdons, famous
for their beuuty, owe much of their
charm to the quulnt lanterns which
nre used In great profusion. The best
of tbelr garden lanterns are made of
bronze after quaint native denlgna.
Home of them are richly curved and
nre of-great Intrinsic value. Many of
these lantrrra are of great antiquity,
nnd the best examplea are aeen ut Nik
kho, famous for Its exquisite bronzes.
Poatbnmena Kdltloaa.
"Did you ever ace anything to equal
the way aome of these live young au
thors turn out books?"
"Well, thry enn't compete with soma
of the dead onus who keep on getting
out new volumes every year." New
Orloaua Picayune.
When trouble goes hunting him a
man may dodge It, but when a man
goea hunting trouble It hasn't one
chance In a thousand of escaping him.
BURIED BANK BILL 8,
Cher Had Alatast ( rankled la llant,
hat War Redeemed,
The money counters In the t'nlM
Rtatea treasury were startled one il y,
ays Theodora Watera In die Novenili r
Bveryhmly's, by ths appearance of a
remarkable looking fat man who en
tered the department and told a slrnii' n
tale. Ha said ha wa an Ohio farmer
r9 did not believe In bunks, and i
Ii ..i burled bis money lu the groun I
fui siifs keeping. He had dug It tip
and whs horrified lo llml Hint It Was
slowly turning to dust, as notes wl I
when long burled.
1'nulc stricken, he gnlliered the illi
Integrated money Into an old pillow
raso, bound It around his wnlnt benonlh
hln clothes and started for Washington.
He traveled part of the way on home
bark, part of the way ou an Ohio river
teamboat aud part of the way by
trill ii, During the Journey be never
once took off tha pillowcase. He even
slept with It on. The oftlclala of the
treasury department found It dllllciilt
to make him part with It.
He did Hot want to go with a clerk
to a hotel for fear ths clerk might rob
him, but aa It was manifestly Impos
sible for him to disrobe In ths office he
had finally to submit. They got the
money at last, and tha condition of It
waa so bad that the treasury expert
had to be culled to decipher IL No
great wua her skill that the farmer
lost only a few hundred dollars out of
IIU.UOO.
EARTHQUAKES.
Taeerlrs tu Aeeoaal Car These L p
neavala ut ike tcarlh'e t'raal.
A scientist who bus mado a special
atudy of earthquakes nays: "Let us
Imagine the Influx of the sen Into one
of the fissures formed In the earth's
crust. Ou coining Into contact with
molten mutter It would Instantly bo
changed Into gaseous steam, expand
ing to more than IH,(HX) times Its origi
nal bulk. Thin would press Willi enor
mous force upward upon the crust of
the earth and downward upon the sur
face of the liquid lava. If there were
then mi vent for the lava to escape nn
earthquake would result."
There, nre other Ingenious .theories
which have Wright, such na Hint of
Davy, who when he discovered the
metallic bases of the earths mid alka
lis conceived that water may pene
trate to these metals If they exist un
derground in an unoxldlxed slate nnd
so net free niiMlclaiit gnseous mutter to
cause an earthquake. Rhrlnkiige of the
earth's crust is also to be taken Into
account
CLIMBING SERPENTS.
Tha Method bf Walea Tber Ulld I u
Hmoulh Surfaoea.
Hcrpents can .anally climb a smooth
wall. "I buve often seen them do no
In Ceutrul Amurlcu," nays u traveler,
writing to a Joiirilnl published in Homo.
"I watched a little one. whose bite Is
fatal, climb up a canvas stretched taut
betweuu two snakes, tin reaching the
top the reptile curled Itself round u
hundglass. und I killed It Willi a cane."
A serpent Is to lie seen in uluiost any
zoological garden which makes no
trouble of climbing Itn glass case. This
In how It nets to work: Stretching Itself
up the glass for about four Inches, It
discharges from Itn glands a quantity
of viscous mailer which nerves us an
adhesive liquid tu hold and support Its
body long enough to enable it to thrust
Itself up a II t tin higher, when the proc
ess Is repeated.
In warm cltmutea thla mucus Is very
thick and glutinous, ao that by Its aid
even heavy serpents can glide up per
fectly smooth surfaces.
Mlerosrnple Detect tire.
Ehreubcrg, prince of mleroseoplsts,
aome years ago wua employed by the
Prussian government to investigate a
enne of smuggling. A cuse hud been
otK'iiod. vuluublea extracted nnd the
cuse repacked and shipped onward to
lta destination. The only clew to the
criminals wna that the unpacking must
have been done at aome of tho customs
houses through which the goods had
passed. To all appearances the mi
croscope hud a hopeless tusk. Lhren
berg took aome of the sand which hud
boon used lu repacking, pluced It un
der the microscope, looked through the
tube, and, behold, there on the sand
lay n pecullur specimen of foriiininl
fern. That unlmul wus found only at
one place In the world und told Just
where the crime hud been committed.
Flower Kaeaaeea.
To extruct the essence from any
flower plnce u layer of the flowera In
A clean earthen pot und over them a
layer of fine suit. Ilepeat tiro process
Until the pot Is filled, cover closely
and place In the cellar. Forty days
afterwurd strain tbe essoin from the
Whole through a crape by presnure.
I'ut tho essence thus expressed In a
clear bottle and exj-ose for six weeks
In the rays of the nun and evening
dew to purify. One drop of this es
sence will communicate Its odor to a
pint of water.
Tha Wroaar Place.
"Porter, do you Intend panting a lot
of those labels on my trunk':" said tbe
young man.
"Y'es, sir." answered the po-ter.
"Well, Just give them to me and I'll
pnt them ou myself."
"Oh. I wouldn't do that, si:- You'll
look like a tattjocd man If you do."
Yon kern Stutesmau.
The Dopfiir Aaswered.
Wagstuff tloid niorn.n i.n -tor. Are
you enjoying gokl health this morn
ing? Docto- Well er that's about
tbe only kind of health u man can en
joy. Isn't It? Y.iu ncvor knew any one
to enj.iy had hei'th. did yfiV Wu'g
staff Oh yes. I've known sjuie doc
tors to eniy b id health.
f rlTTclimtfl, CLARION SUM-
- MWIVtlXK KAIMIOAO.
I'ljsseiiaorl'rnlnMeiifliiiiin, first t IsseTrnlnn,
1'iiiiy ncc,i sunnuy, I'liniiiictliis with V, U.
It. 'I l a Ins itl Miiiiiiiiui villi!.
Homo SAST,
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In envri itMoiu-r 17. IKil. I'or further liifor-
"'' !""." ""' 1 '"ill""'' a rsl onice
nl MriMtk villi, pa.
I no uuro that Cures
Coughs,
Grippe,
Whooping Cough, Asthma'
Dronohltls and Inotplttnt
Consumption Is
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S.ilil l,y II. Alen.Hlolie.
A MIGHTY PREACHER.
John Hoes Wus ntrona; of Arm Mil
m I. mill flslier,
John It oss wan u Hootch minister
who flourished In tho early part of the
seventeenth century. Tnlen of bin won
derful deeds are told to thin day lu hln
former parish of lllalr. At one time
tho reverend iicul Ionian walked to
Mause, n distance of about three miles,
for tho purpose of seeing n certain
farmer and If possible Inducing hi in to
come to church, where lie had never!
been. Ho found him fishing In the riv
er nud usked to bo allowed to have a
cant. "I never lend my rod to nny
body," said tho farmer. "Hut," replied
the minister, "I have come ull the wuy
expressly lo sen you, und I must have
a cunt." The farmer, who was a very
strong man and had never been beaten
lu a fist lluht, offered to fight for It
"All right," suld tha minister, and he!
gave the fanner such a innuling that;
he wus glad to glvo up hln rod. Hut It!
wan a dilTcrcut kind of fishing thut the!
minister hud coinn for. lie asked the;
farmer to keep tho rod aid conduct!
til in to his house ut Muiisn. When tbeyi
arrived the minister said, "Now, you
go ou your knees nnd pray," telllnif
him Unit he would not leave till hs did
so.
Ho the farmer fell on bin knees and
cried, "Oh, Lord, deliver me from thla
num." "Mop:" suld tho minister. "Thfct
la very good. I hope you may always
be able to do un well. Now, you have
to promise to come to the kirk next
Huuduy." This the farmer did. Not
long afterward he became a leading
elder.
Icebergs an Indicators.
In the loves limit Ion of the currents
round tho const of Newfoundland It
has been observed that there is at
times a wide difference in the direction
of tho drift of Icebergs and that of
the flat or pan Ice, which, having no
great depth, Is governed In its mo
tions by the niirfueo currents and tbe
winds, whereas the Icebergs, the lar
ger fin rt of which Is submerged to a
great depth, follow only the movement
of tho ocean water na a whole and are
iinlnlliienced by tho winds. In conae'j
ipicncc a huge herg may often he aeenj
majestically maintaining Its slow ad-j
vuiicn In opposition to the wind and!
across the gonernl motion of the fields!
of flat Ice surrounding It. The scaler;
often take iiilvuntiieo of thin fact by;
niootiiic thivr vessels to'nn Iceberg in!
order to prevent u drift to leownrd. i
Youth's Companion. '
While Vou Willi.
Klio li id taken her umbrella Into one
of those places where they offer to re
cover the. n "w hile you wait." "It will
take tiv j days," s.ihl tl.o twin. "But I
can't p.i. !bly wait two duys In here,"
she io, :i hi. t rated. "It's so very stnfTy,
Isn't tt V" " l.e umbrella mender, with
out a Hi ii i said be would send It
uroiui l in a couple of days. 8l:e point
ed out to Irin that there wus still a big
difference bciweou wbut he advertised
und what lie ould accomplish. Then
he explained. "It will be done while
you wait." suld he. "but you needu't
bee;lii i wait until day after tomor
row." CuJciiuu New s.
Too Much Atbletlea. 1
Muny physlclana now claim that the!
general health Is hurt rather than ben-!
efltcd by athletics, that muscle bnild-i
Ing Is not nece.-is.iry b nix d health.;
thut to bring nbout n perfectly train-!
ed condition has u severe eTect on!
the nerves, that a built up muscle bus
a tendency to ilc;,oncrute und that the;
heart, bolm,- n muscular organ, shares;
In thla dunger. ;
Jest an With Her Father. !
"Your daughter's music Is linprov-j
Ing," suld the professor, "but when she!
ruus the scales I have to wutch her;
pretty closely."
"Just like her father." auld Mrs. Nu-;
riteh. "lie mado h.'s money In the
grocery business." lUillade!! hln Ledg-i
. ' : i
It is not tho Intelligent ' mnu who!
rules, but Intelligence; not the wise!
man, but wisdom. Goethe. 1
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