" ‘Ihst'l) make such a speech as you did jas’ . aa Ura 1 Juve ber, an she’s promised to omy mind’ made sp ~'A WHITE EASTER. _ i a an L4gab'd went, be got In & tape b hours : 1. by thon as i wis in She will tut B's HRely he'd J $0 you want me to tell you the story of White Easter, €o you! Well, briag, ie my knittin an shat that winder, for the. 5 ain't mone too warm, even here in 1 duno’s I ever told you that your gran’ her, Lijah Vaux, was a sea capt’n once. so he was He novip ssid Bothin "boo ie. ; though. aa when yon ve heerd the story you jon’s be s'prised that he didn’t. * Your great-gran'fatlier, ole Colonel Vaux, was & bard man’s ever [ see 1 reckon he Bad the worst teri per of &17 MAD OB earth sick an had to go ashore. when he got started You dee. be was bors - down fg Virginny, ag His fstboer, aw Plerre { jefe Bis oh Gut of it There mnst a’ beet i's soft spot in the «le man soraew heres, | veause he knowed if Le died without s will the property’d ail go to bis son : But nobody koowed anything ‘boat 14 | Jab. The ship he'd sailed in was an old , ona, an it wan't allowed to mrake the trip | haelk on ‘count o beleg unsesworthy, Your Sr never hewrd a word for nearly | fomr gear. Then thet come 8 min who'd sailed with Lijah, au be {sf her that when | they got to Gibraltar Les Fishin was very Af a few months lzster when tiemani wernt bisck Ee tried t0 find bim an ‘earned ' that poor Lijab Bad died an been buried Vanx, was a Frenchpoan He'd fit with Napoleon, an he used to hay that ‘Bonypart - ewan the cniy general fhe worid ever amr, an Be was reads to knock anybody's head off that thought or said dillen So Bo, you sie, your great-g n' father come honest enough by bis Lot tore per. Hermaar | took him an wens to live in the oil bons. out there ail alone Lab | ‘Twas an awfnl blow to Ors. ‘cause she'd ' ep’ hopin after everybody else had give | pinup Of conrss then all the Veo x prop erty went to the boy — yomr fat her-—and Ors _ fled a Virgiusy girl xo the Lord koyws jo Well, time went on jus’ ’s it always does, bot he ever Lh ys to get her, for she es! an your father was 6 years cid, the dead about ar mach like hiza asa eaner | jminge of his father. But he wan't named 's like a buzzard, She vever had much for him, "esuse Ora @idn’t Tike the name of “eomtort, an she didn't live very long. i 1ijah. You know your father was dl ways —thay's your gran {ather—wa'n't | called Hears, but he was christeired Me | but 8 years ole when she tied, an I remem- Henry, after bis rsother's folks Your bet 's well 's can be hearin my mother teil i smother dudn’t sit down an grieve an how Colonel Yaux shook the child ‘cause ; ory like some women wonld 'a’ dose. She "he cried at the funeral : r After his wife died the old colonel grew! great deal of, an bein a preity WOrMAn An 4 went out among folks an was thought a an more overbesrin than ever, an | yotng—shes wa'n't but 17 when the was crustier poor Kettle Lijah had a hard time of it, for had a gentle disposition, Ike his mother, | | marrisd—an more’n that, bein preety well off, & course she had considerable "tention "Phere didn’t ‘pear to be & ite o’ Vans blood | paid ber. ol fou .. ; jn him au seem's if that mads the ole colo | They was one ia particular, Capt'n Lee— pel hate him. But be managed to live] fine man be was too He was bead over it. an grew up a siraight ban™ some feller's ever you see <1 alwa's be | Bbe used 10 say it wis ‘cause be was so fond Tieved the colina! i na kinder proud of kim i the bog, bt I reckon ‘twas 8 good des’ But hé wouldn't 1st on—not be. on his bwn ‘count too. You see it's kind 0’ | 1223 It just seems if Le got culder an barder| al Sownard the boy every year, He wanted Lim! , be a lawyer, an Lijab was willin to be | onban stodied hard for it I "pose every- ! ‘womld 's’ gone nll right, an they i hadn't a" fell in love Dut he did, av ¢ .eonivee It wes with the wrong girl Hand me that dle degarrriype 60 tueton : Wait €ll ghelf of the whatnot. There! wipe the dust ofl —benta all how dusty things do get! Now you cas see it.- That was your gran'mother. Prettr! Well, guess she was pretty. They wa'n't no girl £ e# round that could hold a candle $0 her for looks An she had a spirit of ber | own too. Why, what do you think she dome? You see, she was of Irish descent maiden name was Nora McHenry. Bat Ber el she didn't like Nora, and so she culled her Well, ole Colonel Vaux used to sneer at ber every chance he got, an one day be said = in ber heariu that folks who hadn't no re ly know'd just w : 8 loud on purpose, sO's Ora could hear. "She looked st him a uinate, sn then she : walked straight up to him an says she, #You'll be safe, Colowel Vaux, for a man pow hain’t no respectability to lend.” Afv 3 $hat tha ole man forbid his son speakinto ~~ Lijsh bad alwa's been willin to do any- : Shing Bi tither wanted him to; but, you pes; he'd never been in love before, po this © wasa different matter, and when bis Ia . thersald. “1 expect you to obey me, sir,” Lijad ‘moswered: “1 ean’ obey you in this, because it 8 a matter that concerns only ine marry mea oi sorrs 1 displease you, but’ wouldn't 's’ been no story to tell if Lijab THERE STANDS THE SAME MAX. bardly knowed what it was to have a hus - ban. So, at last, she ‘to marry the capt’'n—all on "count o the boy, she sald, an maybe it was so. They was to be toarried on her birthday, the 1ith o Aydl. Easter was early that year, the Sunday in March, an, enough, it was a white Easter, jus’ Ors said that she sot up queer. ‘‘Seemed’s if she was In "nother world,” she sald. But. laws! she was al wa's havin queer notions She kel’ made up ber mind. she'd go to charch—the same chirch where she was married. They wa’n’t muny folks otit ‘count the ‘stormy day. sn the light was kind o’ dim. All at once she noticed somebody standin at the altar, a man with white bair. But a ghitirus } FPOET, He 2 phe to of lonesome Livin alone, an after all she'd | a-2hinkin of Lijah all the time, an st last she | po fence} : y March 235 This part of the fw Yirk #8 zout to hive a pew industry, and one which if sucoes- ful wit make a fortase for ifs oridina- tor and reveluiionize ese importast branches of manufactore. Mr. Levi Daniels; who lives not far fro Chantanqua lake and who hisa place jtiet snited to the busines cui @ a5 m4 vesroaly by sppointuent x48 Kindly well artecrad mn exphmation of Pie seberne, whieh” as he sare tis ot patentable, por Leodit le conkned 10 Ls gcibon™ ; : Some yerrs avo ME met i+ Dufay tie wal Known joures fat, Mijor Ca a, wee ha turned from a tris tO great for land of teat Calhoun pemtad « {animals vera pang iy, spel ad taken in pons +4 theyy £8 the pouix, many of thew must £69 cone fs exiingt 48 the greal suk. Al ovr detncstic sniluals, tins traveler ¢- plainel, were i gue LiZue 85 wikl us the wildest. The rat kas ail the attitudes of per wild ancestors, and if forces 3 to shift for hersel? he could sora show that the instinct of destraction only shept during Somes tiontion. : : 9 “afer ny chat with the major,” Mr. Diniéls went on, “1 got. tinking thie 3 > and the mere I looked as it 3 I: was either an Limo a {bing or nothing. And as it | ears fn Jove with Oa, ani she Jiked him. 1 fants reasons that in the field wonld reap the i buve Enown in five nkekins to ries in price from 30 veo fit" 86: : i Feiecy winter myself and my pede prod minis shout our pens aud some of the best of thes 1 I live, aud four years ago 1 began pee TG sverivoionts, The mung 35 ar ain £ ranring water, and bo prefers fish to other food, I got 10, 8 of them fernales, ‘felisied thers in a little spring posed and then began my experiments. In a state of nature they breed only once a year, but in captivity we can count om two litters of from 6 to 10 each. They will average eight. One pair will produce 16 in the comrse of a year. Recently I have brought down from Canada two dozen that cost me §7 apiece, but which are so large and vigorous that the strain of the Jot must be inproved. nominal price, and in the winter, when _the animals eat but little, I can supply them with odds and ends of fresh meat, so thet 1 estimate the keepof each at about $0 (*mts a year, leaving out theincrease. At 19 months old they are fell grows, though the skin is not at the best till 14 «It is difficnlt so far to come down to actual sost, as I hav~ not had animals enongh to take onemaan’s time. But pair will produce eight females in » yéar. +A present fair minkskins are worth §2 apiece, and fine ones bring twice as much. At $1 apiece I can make mony, gooll minkery than a gold mine. Iam now satisfied that the other far bearing Dariels says be | +] can get plenty of fish in season at a i and at $8 apiece I would rather have a AGONY. fic essed. the curtain rege, ’ upon Ber Jovely face © She sat twO SERS 5 ORY. : Ser chdeks ice tinicd appl blooms, - ler feeth [ike gheaming pearls, Heér eres as Live as summer A wealth of suiden curis. And asl go ped BPOD her face . There eatce 8 look of pale, Like cloudy shadow o'er tive land It passed, then came spate, : f saw the teardrops in her eyes, The robe ting fade away, Anil that fair chedk grow demthly pale . In speechicsS agony. She turned and touched ber eer’ STI | : Then slowly went away. : My heart bens f 3 & symmpatbdy. I did not heed the 3 - He soon returned ] gazed in great surprise. Fe read the question § would ask Fiash from my ¢ager ees - And as the asic died away His lps this answer bore: 2 “My shoe's feet are nur ber five. Her slices are number four” : Boston Globe. «You will not find one woman in hundred who is familiar with the rules | of heraldry.” said afashionable stationer. | “Ladies insist on baving crests embossed | on fheir writing paper, even when I tell | thera that they are ermuitted by the usages of cevturies to use only the arms, | A handsome woman eame in the store ore day and said. ‘Me. B——: I wish you : would put a crest and armson my paper.’ ! I knew it would be useless to argme | > I haver't any,” she answered. “You can makes a rice one, can’t you? learned that hier hashand was as grain dealer, a for a erest | designed & sheaf of wheat. ? For the arms I designed some hawk | beads on a shield, and she was delighted.” i i things shot d observe the reguistions sot down for the mse of epinsiers, marr women and widows: A specified frame for the arms should be used by each. The spinster is required 10 put ber fara- ily arms into a dimond frame, wiih very simple adornment. Waen a wora- an marries, the arms of ber family aust be put on: the same shield with the arms of her husband. The shield is impaled, his wife's arms occupying one position id the busband’s the other. If she be comes a widow, the frame for her unas again mssuinest the form of a ‘damond, | symbolizing her unmarried state, while | ber arms and the arms of her deceased busband remain impaled as formeriy.—- Im Duplicate. Gus de Smith came down Harlem av- enge with his chin cut in several places, so that it looked as if a drunken barber had been practicing on it. : «Marciful heaven, Gus!” exclaimed Pete Amsterdam. “What did you da to the barber? You ought to have murdered him. That was the least you could have +] didn’t do suything of the kind. Af | or he was through sdaving I invited him across the street and treated him to a cocktail snd a cigar.” : “Well, you srs s fool.” fe “No, I a.0't such & fool, after all,” re | sponded Gus, “for you see I shave wy _ {this is merely a “dainty sham devotion,” OUR GALLANT 1 \ cugTom THAT WILL E LONG AS THE NAVY frrinking the Teast to “Swecthenrts snd | Vives” Every Saturday Night—Is Makes fhe Men In the Navy Better, Truer, No- | . The pecple of this country are very | forsd- of their naval officers, 50 far 8s they know them. It would be a good | deal better for ihe country if they were : | putter known, for amotig them are to be is pat in 3 powerful natural gos farmaos found as large a percentage of fine, and heated tos *hike Leat. Taken cut, rainy, lovable and well bred men as in | IF ROSS wider a GI Bummer and is wld- , tiny of the familiar professions. - : ment. which is a vastly different thing. | work, and each crew can make 1.7100 axes | Certain cyrical young women who have i oC ; met officers and who Bave noticed bow | attentive they sre somefimes think that’ in a second. This done, one blow Thers is mot much : sty from the “drop,” and the poliof the ax . | There is nol Buc seatimenta iy Ia is sowploted md firmly » ) Two the navy, but there ins deal of 8e88-| crows of men are Boi hed sof | States savy than is to be fomnd | about the crest, and so I asked her, ® “Have you any crest with you? ‘Ch, aot | # | seretcony #0 beautiful, so exguisite, tha Women who are interested in these: weloome, it has remaited ever sine? and ; RGUTes, bestowed tpon young women whom they], meet at every port they touch. Put this! is not trae. There is insre genuine chiv-|, slry among tbe officers of the United sny class of men OB Sora i yer, who trims the ends and odges The | operator has a glass iu front of him fo protect his eyes from the sparks which It is ons of the cosveniions of ¢ By off by the hundreds ss the het Twtal pavy to plice women pon a is pressed: : 3 » anid there is no finer convention in the saw. Tae iron world. It may be because that for sq comspledt The steel for mach of their time they are denied the | * wn ® is T IOTRY § Shen, being heatel, is cut by machinery and ¢ of seeing women. Bat they nev! | shaped. It is them ready for the welding : 2 ape | | depertment. A groove is cot into the Every Saturday night in every United | edge of tha iron, the steel of the biade States warship afloat Laere takes place § | inserted, and the whole firmly welded : jt seems to have escaped froma the lang of chivalry and wandered into Americas . i 1 | life. Taers, Satterad and amaped at it | made the men in the navy better, trues, 4 nobler and braver, for it must be cox | fessod thst the officers are, first of ail. i splendidly American. - i “YWhen a ship is under way, there is np | woman aboard Ler, She hs i there. Muybe each i iu oily of ome ix lais thou ht «rir ng his watches on deck. Of these tings he does nd speak. Bot ones euch week hé cow forts bobily with his f=liows and reve ently sends greeting froin across the sed t ber. From the Chins sea, from sto * pe Horm, from the peaceful Medite rinean comes the mensage, “Sweethearts and wives” That ever and always will be the sailor's toa And when it is given aboard Uncle ships it is a tribute to the swestness, the : ty, the beanty of American WOIaR bood. There sre men who have dn that toast every Saturday night for mc than 40 years. [It is never old to h The officers would a+ soon think of p long as er men arv a the toast. Iz is a custom old as navy. Jowiil endure aslong then When the supply of wine is running short during a Jong ervise, the off sell.” deny themselves during the week tha Nest comes the operation of teraper- ing. The steel portion of the ar is heat. | ed by being inserted in pots of molten { lead, this blade only being jramsersel I 7 is then cooled by dipping in water and goes to the hands of the inspector, JAnax is subject to rigid tests before it i pro- pounce) perfect. The steel must be of the reqnired temper. the weight of all | aves of the same sige must be uniform, | all must be ground alike sod in varices other ways conform to ax edabilished standard. The inspector who tests the quality of the steel does so biy hnmmering the blule and striking the edgw to ascer- tain whether it be too brittle or net. AR ax that breaks during the tests is twown aside t¢ be made over. : Before the material of thenrisinthe proper it has been hsated Sve 1 times, including the tempering process, snd the ax, when completed, has through the bands of about 40 each of whom has done something ‘toward perfecting it. After passing io- partment, and from that to the polish ers. who finish them upon emery wheels. — Philadelphia Record. The Way te Get OV4. rr 76. the banale and. sternal question, | himself but one answer, “I am very well.” He knows perfectly well that his : ion, if deception: it be, deceives po one. Perhaps it is well that be does not realize, for of self cosscious- mess we have holed and forgotten perhaps fur and. to spare, that § ¥ 5 ge Cin — a——" A pm A ————— dal : ell, the vie colonel nearly had & fit, bel gh. ethin familiar abous b Jab gniwnals, excepting those that nead a _ wassomad. eordered him out of thehodes | kep ie an the fn rarned him ho high arctic climate; can be raised in this | 4 ying of a double barreled fool. "Texas | day nights, : an told him te go fo bis lowborn Irish | 5 cuight at ber. Then be éame toward her latitude ata profit. Ouce the industry | gif; : ~The servants ave well trained. Th girl and starve. He peedn's look for any | of he recognized ber busban. f is started we can aDpiy the rules for} ee | bave the champagne nicely chilled : Shing more from Bim. flab ‘able wont. +1, looked thin sn oid, but she knowed breeding that bave done so much for Felling Trees by Electricity. ' ppen it almost without orders. A : a Raa ai i 3 ; him He came an sot down by ber in the | other animals, and the result wii bel Trees are felled by electricit in the! the dinner is Gunisbed the executive : ; i Some folks said Le wis glad togo. His dn’ k. She jus’ look : y [aed page if it is trae that the sizsef > Jite ut home hadn't been 50D Soo pleasant, . She so we span : aie I such splendid furs as sre not now 10 be | great foroste of Galicia. For cutting | cer arises. Very licely there is gray) inp ¥ &° snd if # hy : the AEE Hest straight to.Ora an tol her what 8 Ae Re a Tout they foand in the market.” | comparatively soft woods the tool i is | his Lair. His face is riddened by wealth | Parents are visited on the children it if Rad happened. oie aod wa't’t nothin there and when sie Yooked ‘ Cranizs Arriepre. | the form of an auger, which is mounted | er and seamed by years, for men ho | Squally true that the luster of thelr vine. ts Spot 1 i wa, sate ah she couldn't see potiin! iT 3 on a carriage, and is ‘moved to and fro | peach position cannot be young. Butlhis og sitines on long ater Be. darkness : os or tnd todesnyihing i “Wel u.can Wmagive she feit kind 0’ | and revolved at the same time by a sseall | hears in still youzg. They have diped covered them. thse who - ‘mo chance ell, you.-can imagio i so you desire pity for their falling power? The = - | - ‘a diff 3 : } thev may have it for thi Qathe. | years ia the mind of the Hslenir, May “Oh, that's a different thing. You are | they may ha ¢ this toast on Sathr: | L000 oh one day to benrtenthit same be his turc to tread i8. : 5 : For so are accounts carvied forwasd sad not always to the wrong sid of fhe H—————— i i ro BILLINGS’ PROTEST. © help him, an 'twa'n't long befors Ura heard ey ™ (rn. an walt Tor me toeome shivety an queer. She arued an spoke to : rors "says be. “as soon's I'm able ) take care 0' you, 5 i : 1 will, Lifah,"éhys Ora, “an T'm sure 4 s. Bo they was married { tn, as she always dogs. Oue mother sat on the .f wore & bluse the woman behind her. “Did you see any: body entne into ny pew?’ says she. “Why, po.” says the woman. “They ain’s been no body there but you.” L ; That aftertmon she told some of the vil ‘ings gomsips that she thought the Widow Vax was gettin queer in ber bind. An wheo they beard, as they did soon after, that she'd broke her engagunest “with Capt'n Lee an wouldn't give no reason for ey was ready to believe she was queer. Poor Lee was s'niost cravy. But be wounlda’t Jet nobody sey a word against her. She had a right to do as she lied, ho said * He went away, an I néver beard 0’ his com- io bck. © April went by, an May come along, swil- your gran’ 4 porch, shellin peas. She print dress an her hair was | a blowin in little earls afl aroun her face— Jt ha STE GOT 70 00 AWAY.Y very quietly at the little churehy an Lijah | sled went to Boston 16 a man he knew would that he was going tose. He'd got a place as ‘supercargo, an be wrote that be was goin to havegood pay, an he'd be back before many months, an when he went again. be'd take her with him. So she was quite happy an as pretty a picture as a man-would wish to’ ¥ | gee. She wa'n't a gran'mother thea, you | know, but a'prefty young woman. . The boy was playin roun her, an every- ng Was pleasant as you please. All at : elick goes the gate. Ora looks up, an there stan’s the same man she ses in the chusell, gray haired au ola Jockin, but the same (ace. the face ¢ the man she'd mas nix years before. ‘She ‘Was scared, "cause folks don’t take kindly to spooks as a general thing. Bat when he got within & few feet Of her be Mapped an spoke, ; : “Don't you kaow me, deur?’ says be. "Twas Lijah in real flesh an blood ‘this time. an what a story be had to tell! waemukis 811 sorts Gif plave about the fu- ture. They was married on Easter Sunday, an the night before there was two inches o . suow fell, A white Easter was somethin that hadn't been seen in Virginny for a good many years 1¢ was still spowinwhen your gras’ {ather went to the church with - his bride. 2 2 Bat when they come out the sun Was shiping an everything was glistenin as if the earth. was covered with diamonds. “It’s a good sign” says Oro. “The world's ut on a weddin dress in my honer.” "Well, the menths went by, an not a word come from Lijuh. You. see, in them days, . ships didn’t go flyin across the ocean’s if “ghey was towed hy lightnin, an they wa'n’t ro vables nor even telegraphs. Se 'twa'n’t sa strange altar all. But when the Easter - day come round agin, your gran'mother felt rather sad an lonesome, though she _wa'n't slome. A baby boy had come to her for a Christmas gift. That was your father. Gettin intrested, ain't you? Well, you | ose ought to be, This story comes pretty ae dide’t want for néthin, ‘cause her father was well to ¢o, an she lived at home. - Ole Colonel Vaux never paid po attention to her nor her baby, He'd got so cross an snappy that nobody dared go a-nigh him. At last one day, nbout two years after He'd been sick in Gibraltar, just as the man'd said, an when be got up there was | somethin wrong with his bead. He couldnt remeniber who he was, nor where he come from, nor nothin. Othérwise he was all | right, sn he'd twen travelin oo the sea ever i since. He'd been all roun the world, an in thera days a man who'd been all roun the world was a wonder. At last he'd brought up in Scotland. Strange enough, { there'd, been a white Easter taere that year. i Seeil the snow on the ground seemed to i bring back somethin to Lim. He'd gone to { church, he said, an he must ‘a’ fell aslenp, { for he found himself back in the old church i at home, standin at the altar, an he'd seen | her settin in the pew an sot down beside | her, Then be woke up, an all the past come : back to him. | Well, Lijah took passage for home by the | first «hip. In them days it took six weeks i"to cross the Atlantic. i After he'd tol his story an nearly hugged : nothin "bout him till he sec liim that day— he says to Ora: “An you was true to me all | these years, dear. There's not many wom- ten like you. You've never even thought o’ : anybody else, have you!” An your gran’- ' mother blushed an said nothin, an Lijah ! was satisfied. Beats all what faith some fe has. But there, T s’pose "twas just as i well. 7 Killed Sfx Men, but Sentesesd at Last For Stealing. {Special Correspondence. ; Lonpsatee, N. M., Maren 22. — ‘Rusty” Billings has beea for five years one oi the toughest men on the border and a “Phern in the side of Doth Mexican and American officersof the peace. His prin- be bas driven hundreds upen bundreds of these animals away from their right ful owners. He would carry on his dep- redations on one side of the line mntil hints began to get bot, when he would skip across to the: other side and begid op s:there. Then by the time he had stirred up twoor th ae hornets’ nests 4n thas region things would have quicied ‘down across the border, and over he would go again. In this way be crossed and recrossed the line many times a year, sometimes bobling up in dew hunting grounds and sometimes reappearing in .. Everybody knew what Rusty's voca- tion was, but nobody ever saw him in the act and lived to tell the tale. -And as he would shoot at any time on slight provocation and seldom missed what be “shot at, most people were careful not to say muuch on suspicion. - Just how many aotches he hail on the butt of his revolv- er nobody knew, the popular estimate ; anywhere from five to fifteen. the boy to death—you. see, be didn't know But ‘Rusty's downfall came at last. Not long ago ho wanted a pigand nelped himself to the first desirable one he saw. Piggy didn't want to go, and through his obstinacy and protestationait cameabout that Rusty was caught unawares anc pabbed on the spot. He has just stood trial on the charge of stealing the pic and has been sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. When the judge asked him if he had anything to say why sen tence thould not be provounced agin hit, be got up, with & look of disgust cn his face, and said: 5 «Judge, this is pretty tough! Her Tye Leen stealing horses and cattle for the last five years, and Pre stolen horses ‘by the drove nud eattle by the herd and killed siz men in the ueantime, and aow here Lam to Uo veut to the penis tiary for stealing cos peor, little, orn sy hog! It's a disgrace, that’s what it is! 1 wonidn't care if it was for ene of ihe killin's I've done—even one of 1 greasers—but for stealing a hog! Jadpe you oughin't to expect a man « f honor to stand it!” But Rudy bad to stan li, * after all, and today was taken to the peu ftentiary. P.F.EKrniy. ‘eipal occupation has been horse and cat- | (tie stealing, and curing these five years wedges ate inserted to prevent the rift from closing, and when the tres iy near- ly cut through an ax cr bandsaw is sed to finish the work. In this way trees are folivd very mapidiy and with but litt labor. ~ Leadon Tit-Bits : Crowih of thee English Language. In the year 1794 the habitual users of the English langnage did not nuniber over Ay, 008; in F902, 103,000,000. If these figures are correct (and they are from a recognized sutbority), by the end of the present century not less than 120,- 060,000 people will use the language in their everyday conversation. It the same ratio of increase holds good; Eog- lish will be spoken by at least 840,000,000 of people in the year 2000,—3%. Louis Republic. : ; The statement that » child 3} years in its vocabulary that it wae abls to ose psed by ber cafld. . All the parts of salt that in this case the child tv; have & wucsbalary of 1,323 words. — New York Post, sie At the winter palace, St. Petersburg, there is a room full of diamonds, pearls of Rassias is alliwed to borrow fron this: room after giving a receipt for what she takes, and generally th grand dachesses are allowed to borrow from it alsc. Jewelers are fervently wishing that tise styles prevalent in France in the tenth century might be revived for the sake col business, Judith, the wife of Caipuchin, wore a solid gindie of geld that widghed four poonds, and all the fashionable dames followed her example. ; Hoopskirts, which came into vogue in $ the year 150, weighed between {0 and 8 | pounds, bat it was the “fashion,” and j they were lugged about by the belies of j She period despite the discomfort. Professor Eur! Pearson pronounces ae i : > i | Monte Carlo roulette wheel, us wiewad | from the standard of exact science, “tae | | most prodigious miracle of the century.” | “The Thinglit tribe of Alaska numbers i 4,800 persons. ‘Fur generations they have spent the greater part of their time fn caves. : : electric motor. As the cul deepens, | well, and the content of well filled : os ache shimes on thetr faces. But when the rest way of getting it is $0 keep & age would not have more than 150 words: understandingly led a careful mother to jured | note for a mionth the number of words snd other precious stones. The empress | Poonvrrm besa 4 C0 Tires, i Lieutenint commander rises they ave still. | lence. : : Ee stands straight with his band up- raised, the champagne bubbling 3 eiously. Whe «Gentlemen, are your glasses charged?” There is mot ene which is empty. The | officers rise and bow their heads in an- swer, As Ta «] give you" (the heutenant commagnd- er spenks earnestly, nnd there is a soft | glimmer in hiseyes)—*1 give you sweet- heazts and wives, God bless them “Sweethearts and wives—God. | them” comes in chorus from the ofie Then they drink, and if there runsdj their spinal cords a little thrill, shale 8 bit it is o tribute to and th American womanhood to this toast is drunk. With gives, and the swish and gurgle waters dulling their ears, thers is before them, like the azure bus of a dream, a home with a» do - Ci Tones | On Saturday sight the officer at sea ffeels | 3307, 4tion of the mothat, who | that he is very near home. soem 3 $0 the captain that as she paid first class Every one knows that naval of are famous for the attractions they have for the SN. This may § that it isn't the uniform alone whi ¢ : » the magnet. —New York World, Sule means Gost pri endnets, Taste : ; The Fergen J E.. - | Sir John Evans says, in Long | Magazine, “that nok even the tl tiquary is proof against the forge confesses that not only has be { first class privileges. Hloridu Style of Esting Orsnges. There are many ways of oatiog or anges, but the Floridian has probably the moet common sense way of disposing accounts of them as if they hadibeen | pares the orange much the sqime as gne ! genuine—accounts which any amotut of | would peel Sn apgle; taking care rot to i subsequent withdrawals #aile to saknibi- Peut through the white rind thas protects | in every department of archmology.| Spu- | the poles and casting throagh the cen- | flous manuscripts, inscriptions, pems, | ter the seed pods areyemoved. The rest | pottery, glass, enamels, ivores, ‘wins, | is easy. As a colored boy in Juchson { weapons, impletmenis and armaments ; ville said, “Put yoah face in it and | have each and all been foisted on cfllect- till you come to the rind.” N jors ut different times sad in vhrions | Sunbeam. i 2 Abend of All Other MH ; “A Modern Hero. See that man? wid coe Mine, M~ —, a very talented pijniste, | people who Were talking | when sitting next to Colonel Ramofiog ag in bfe. : a i | the Jinner table, asked him in a winning | “Yes.” i i tone of voice: ~. 3 “Bebasleft behind lots of «Are vou fond . £ music, colonel” struggled to overtake him." “}adame,” replied the warrior, foiling | “Vi ho is he?” : a savage pairof eyes, “I am not ated of | “Conducter c= a cuble car.”"— Wash : : | imgten Star. : ok te | itt" ~-FParss Rappel. | fave nbe thought she was entitled to 3 Madam,” said the captaby, “frstclass purchased forgeries, but has published of the fruit. He nses » sharp knifeand 3 biate. Counterfeits und forgeriesaliound i the palp. Then Loiding the orange at
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