aS ora Am Seas nt mmm me HER SILVER SPOONS, THEY REMAINED HER PROPERTY, BUT WERE VERY COSTLY. After Buying Them Three Times She Re- fused to Risk Them Any More -A Little Story Bearing ob the Question of the Wife's Property Rights, The {ollowing story was t per read by Mrs. M. J. meeting of the The Satarday Review of that city: Today, when we woraon have not out. grown the pretty fad of collecting dou: f taintics, the grent variety and beauty of which were unknown to our | venir spoons; grandmothers, allow me to recall the story of a great aunt of ours who also Joved spoons, but whose plain cupboard | dainty after ; the from which we | the determined by that of the middle one. | drawer contained no sets of dinner coTees like those love to sip as. we sit in our clabs and | ta “his aunt when a young woman was | a teos her iu a country school until she : had s: vod enough money to indulge her | great dc ire for a set of silver spoons. She was married soon after to the young | man of hi choice. Six years passed by | —years of bard work and economy for | doth, happy years, though no children | had come to 1 is their anion—when by | a sudden illness the husband was taken | away. The day after the funeral the | grieved wife was surprised by the en-| trance to hér honi of the two brothers : of ber husband, brinyirg with them t village lawyer. They told her they had | dome to set 8 value upon their brothir's | property, in order that she might know | what part of it was hers. wi She held ber peace as they set down | the worth of each article of furniture in the little home, until they finally came to the box of spoons. Then she spoke and said: ‘These aro mine. 1 bought them wich my own money before I was roarried.”’ “Yes, ma'am,’ said the lawyer, “but you know, ma'nm, that after a la- dy is married everything belongs in law to her busband.'’ : ; "80 all the little property was divided, the brothers taking balf, and she took the spoons with the rust at the price that bad been set upom them. But it| obliged her to give ap the home, and she, with her few effects, went into rented rooms and began life anew. Oo oasionally teaching a sthool and always sewing when possible, she herself very comfortubly for about three years, when a lifelong friend of her husband, an excellent man, offered her. . his hand in marriage ; She liked him well, and her friends #0ld her it was the best thing to do, and . she thought with pleasure of again be- ' ing mistress of a home. 80 they were married. In a few years ber husband's bealth declined, and fur many months she gave bim most tender and unceasing care She had a Tow times spoken to him |. about making a will, but as it seemed an unpleasant subject she bad ceased to mention it. Finally the end came. There had come to attend the funeral his nearest relative, n nephew from New England, whoa she had never seen be- foro. In a day or two he brought two men to the cottage $0 appraise the prop- erty, and: again was there a price set} upon the well preserved spoons. On the § ho evening of that day as she was Pr 1. ing suppor thet mephew entered the kitchen and sad: “Aunt Lisa, T am disposed to be very eary with you. The worth of all of uncle's property has - been carefully estimated, and I will al- low you to include in your half of it any article of furuituro you may choose. L 3] : 2 7 And again she paid the price of her { i | tive method takes one into entirely new old in a pa- {‘oggeshall ata | Woman's Suffrage so- | ciety of Des Moines and published in! i hand has somewhat | but beyond this one clea 18 with Lae ay- of cultare. : ; i | thé palm, the ring and little finger bo’ tures two whole p |” THE EXPRESSIVE HUMAN HAND. Strength of the Fingers Is an Index to Mental Balance. Much has been written abont the , hand. | tion, physiognomists have interpr its shape amd expression, chirologisty i Artists nave degiicted itd por fer. and the gypsy queens have tried to prophesy from its markings. But na study of its peonliarvities by the indoo- fields and shows that to intcrprat the significanco of the hand ora must start on quite new lifes 3 perhars in the fact There is somnathi: tha srti that th & tapering Yor, and I racollect nn idiot youth whose extremities had the contour of a genins or a Trilhy. If one examines the hands of a largs namber of persons with a nervous ene dowment, ho will find curious defects in Jength and relative proportions of fingers. The'length of the finger is If the index and medins are closed npon ing left extended, tho middle fingor will reach close to the placa whaera the go called lifa line runs downs, between the ball of the thumb and that of the little finger. It will tonch tho palm just below the higheat part of the ball of the thamb. The middie finger 8 taken ns the standard of length by which to gauge that of others. In a normal hand the forefinger reaches just to the root of the middie finger, the ring finger is lon- ger and should reach nearly to the mid- dle of tha nail of the meding, while the little finger should reach to the last joint of the third finger. Now, in in- ebriates, opileptics, neurotics and the degenerative generally these proportions dq i = a | THE SPANS OF LIFE. ' DIFFERENCES OF DURATION IN MEN ; AND ANIMALS. i One of tha Shortest Is that of the May phasis - Among Insects the Period of “Adoit Life Varies Greatly, An of Weisman, snd profound apd writ chanson of a charming fora Lh eseay logical thiry had car ried him into arid motapbysios, dis cuseed the daration of lifa in men and living things, death comms ymexpeoted. i ly, with an ironical indiTorenens to the i period of the anh 41% 1ife or to its iness of the mom & T preparing to be merry: the bird may La from the chirysaliz, when they are falicu ‘mpon - by blind mischanos, by enemies intent only on dianer or Ly snthinking microbes. Confronted by such extrinsie accidents, men cry out after their kind, the poet attoning an ineffuctasl lam antation, the maoralist prenchins, ths pagan urging to the day ~f : but the naturalist must bo opportanity comes with : that avoid or escape colliding fates and that yet after a fixed period ran down like a clock. Thao seeds of deaths appar. ently have been lying inert in “the body -and come to fatal maturity nfter a Jap: of time that varies littla among ind: viduals of the same species, hint that is widely different among different kinds of animals. ; : Tlia Pins Hve 200 years, the horsa but half a cen are often not observed. Tho most com- ‘mon defect is shortness, sspecially of the third and little fingers, though some- times a disproportionats length occurs. ‘Sometimes these fingers are unnatural- ly slender, or the little finger is slightly bent. The most common abnormality of the thumb is excessive shortness, with a defective mobility. These peculiarities, well accentuated, from what we may call the ‘‘decadent bhand’'—the hand that writes our sepsaous novels, the Hauptmann drama, paiots symbolia pic- tures and exploits prire atheism. Such bands may be well fcrmed to the ordi- nary eyo and may be attached to slender and graceful limbs, but this kind of besutifal hand and arm is found quite as often among the children of alochol- jos and among those highly cultivated families which have become degenerated by vicios vices and viciouus crossing. — Medical Racord. a —————— —— th ——— PYGMIES. tary. Singing birds and fowls and pheas- ants will live for nearly 20 years, but parrots, eagles, falcons and swans ar> known to survive their centary. Som: live through nearly two eenturies Queen ants and working ants may lise for years Sir John Laoblock kept queon ant alive for 13 years, during » which period she continned to lay f: tile eggs, but the males live only a fe daysx «Queen becs live two or thr years; workers aud drones a few month, although indeed in one sense the death of the latter is unnatural, ss the work ers drive tham away from the stores of food, 80 thas they perish of starvation. Among insects generally the period of adult life varies greatly. Many, like the May flies, dance in the sun only for ‘are deposited and the creatures die b>- fore nightfall Many butterflies and Some Iafermation About These Hiraage ; Mites of Blamnanity. : The Greek word pyjiny means 8 meas- ure from the elbow to the band. The pygmios were a fabulous rae of dwarfs about whom many interesting stories bave been told “According to Homer, they were 80 very small that they were attacked every year by the craves ou the coast of Oceanus and were unable to defend themselves. Writers of a later date locate the pyg- mies at the month cf she Nile. We also read of northern pypiides inhabiting the regiom of Thule, nd of othems that lived in subterranean ngs on the wn side of the Cianges. Ib fis said let visited the nH bi : 10a | % my arinies attacked | him whils he was asleep. One army fall upon his right asd the other upon his lft, but the hero easily and quickly rolled them up in his lion's skin. They were not, ii seems, at all afraid of Hercules, for by the aid of a ladder they climbed up bis drinking cup and helped themselves to its contents first darling purchase of silverware, but there was not enongh left after the half was taken for ber to keep the house and Jot, so they went into the hands of strangers, and with her cat Avnt Liza again went into cozy, but hired rooma She was a pattern of thrift and tidiness, | as n smart widower of the neighborhood was srell aware, and in less than a year fis made a call upon the comely matron. He was wise enongh to make bis firss Aristotle says: ‘“The pygmies were probably some diminutive race in Upper Egypt who rods very small horses and lived in caves.'’ Ho did not believe that the stories told about them were altogether fabulous. or It bas often been declared that there are pygmy races of human beings in the ‘heart of Africa. Indeed Du Chailla “some time ago discovered a pygmy race eh en ee to] i0 tHE mountainous country on the east Visi short, but lingered a mormex? a) "ib southern grest branch of ie o door and suggested that in the near Gucbal. They ate about 434 Yost in future they become better acon t.d. Leight a called Orbcbgtn. “They She answered, 1 am Jive: Luerc SOY | peg in the midst of negro tribes of or- comfortably, and I thik, Mo I huson, dinary size,” says Du. Challe, *‘and ; v wrth while fr y that it will not ba worth whi {oF YOU | gp,erqfg nothing remarkable abo$ thew to call,” and clozinr the door hastily ghe tarned to hor cat and said: : *}lo, Tommy, 1 have bought those ¥ocoas three times, nnd I don't intend to risk them any more." : Bought the Ship That Brought Him. An interesting anecdote is told of | the late Captain Theodore Julius. Some time ago Captain Julius went over to al shipyard in Camden to take a look at the old packetship Tonawanda, which | was being converted into a coal barge. : ‘ The captain took a particular interest “in the old ship, because of his baving served as mate aboard her in the early sixties. While ho stood watching the old vessel, a tall stranger approached him and asked, ‘Isn't your name Julius?’ The captain replied in the affirmative. ‘Youn were a mate on that ship in the gummer of 18637'" Yes," said the cap- tain. ‘‘You don’t remember me,’ con- tinned the stranger, ‘‘but I remember you very well. 1 was a steerage passen- ger on the Tonawanda at that time, be- jng on my way to this country. I've been pretty prosperous, and I've just bought the old ship and am going to make a coal barge of her. Strange, isn’t it, that I should come to own the ship | that brought me, practically penniless, i to this country?’ '— Philadelphia Record. | an crim Anon A Misapprehension. “Only think,”’ exclaimed Fenderson, “of the many uses to which paper {is gow pus!’ “I know,’ replied Bass. ‘I was at the theater the other night, and I was told it was all paper, and it was a fine, substantial looking structure too. a Bostou Transcript. | and republican arms, after discarding in tbe act of striking. The motto, ‘By : | some cities. '’-—Great Divide except their diminutive gize. —Daits- more American. ; A Unique Cont of There was one Philadelphian who not only invented arms for himself, but new Arma. the ancestral arms of his family. This was Peter Brown, at one time an emi- pent citizen of Philadelphia ~~ In 1794 Williapa Priest, an English musician, became attached to the the- ater in Philadelphia in his professional capacity. In 1502 Mr. Priest priuted in London a book entitled ‘ ‘Priest's Travels In the United States,'’ which is pow exceedingly rare. The frontispiece to this book is a strange and curious de- sign, entitled ‘‘Peter Brown's Arms.” In explanation of this frontispiece Mr. Priest says: ‘Peter Brown, a biack- smith of this city, having made his for- tune, set up his coach, hut so far from being ashamed of the means by which he acquired his riches, he caused a large anvil to be painted on each side of his carriage, with two pairs of naked arms tr this I got ye. : What a Blessing Is Education! These are some answers to examina: tion questions given in an eighth grade school not a thousand miles from Chi- cago: “Liberia was established in 1523 as a colony for aspirated negroes.’ *‘Nine-tenths of all the plants not found in any other part of the world aro found in Australia.’’ “Salem Witchoraft was neither a sol- dier nor a sailor, bul he discovered for many days factors, like the time required for grow: | ing to a larger sfza and the slower | growth of animals that must waste time and energy in captaring living food, it is certain that there iv au f9%imate con- neation all turdarb tha annual Kugl.oom between the dun of Bis reprodoctive babi sense, Are hi ithe bre 2bt flowers of pants. simeo fonction is acoomplishid ara formed, ther wither an Tha business of the anti pot to live its own life, but tory its own kind, and phe term «f Wife at iis disposal is adjnsted acesritely to the special diffenitien of this purpose 3000 aud tha Antmials | aud frag rn wan , Whael 1 Yo ¥ 20. i Tr: 1 Aq » » i CONTE ine Waoismann and Alfred Russel Wallaca | suggest that death comes Xd £00B 38 DOS- gible after the due number of successor’ full tale of young and vigorous indivi duals. Natural sclection acts like wcon- tractor who has undertalien to kecp a window box gay with fresh blossoms, each plant must be removed almost be- fore its flowers fade But our present concern is with the fact rather than with explanation of the fact. Taking the needs of reprado tion as a master key, we find it unic.ing the secrets of inequalities of 1.72 The May flies live only a few hours, but their eggs are produced ahandantly and ‘have only to be dropped into pools from which their parents, leaving their chrys- alis, sprang into she sunny air The short lived moths and butterflies simi- larly are untroubled by family earea When the eggs have to ba deposited on common and abundant fcod plants the females need and possess few hours in which to accomplish their easy task. The males, on the other hand, have to fly about seeking and sorzetimes fight- ing for possession eof ths females, and to them a longer life is i1llotted. Bat- terflies and moths that live for more than a few days are those whose cater- pillars require a rarer food plant, a more carefully chosen nursery and feed- ing ground. The females have to fly about seeking convenient spots for their ‘offspring, and the eggs, instead of ripen- ing and being deposited simultanecus- ly, are laid from day tc day until the full tale be accomplisked In many tribes of bees the males play their part tut once, sod that during tbe nuptial flight of the queen. Immediately after- ward they die or shortly after are killed biy the workers The queens, secluded in the middle of the hive, produce crops of workers year after year, and so their lives are prolonged. Among the birds and beasts parental sares have brought length of days with them. The small singing birds are rapid breeders, sometimes producing five or sex nestlings twice a year, but their suemics are equally numerous, and de spite the constant atlenticn of the mal ‘and female play such havoc with the young that hardly in 30 ¥ will a "i 2.08 the species. Birds like pheasants and fowls are still more prolific, but old and young like are preved upon by a mal: titnde of enewics. The birds of prey are slow breeders Their active flight makes it impossible that the females should carry with thes a burden of developing eggs, and in their long lives they leave behifid them no more progeny than quicker breeding, shorter lived crea tures - =Saturday Review. Fly and Oné of the Longeit the Fle. | © ws t ments animals. To ma=" perhaps to mest 1. Pd rian may be | a building, the batterfly not yet dry | » | ap who uanblashy Threescore and ten is the natural | period of man's lifa. The elephant will | a few hours; the soxos ment, the eg moths are unprovided with feeding or- | _gans sod live only a few hours, others | Leaving ous of count curtain minor | sors to hy | has been produced, in orier that aach | | gpucies may always be represented by a pair rear up young enotigh to maintam | | “INDUCEMENTS” TO RETAILERS. | i Goods and Valuable Articles Civen For the Price of the Goods, © “Something will hava to be dora ti! + disnonrage ‘indacemcnts’ fo retail | declared 8 wholesale grooor, i pare food law © od some - goat ‘ These indncer iis uve the cupidiry | of the retailer. and the cons ip wif ra I by having impoal anon bim nfurrar | or aduniterate] gonde i “What do you mean LAr by dndu Lamia to the inquire: a rad card on winch {| The grocer { bands { Ay aT Le core amely- lias swords: Free with 500 plores of : rN W#'a rot the name! chewing gnin, the drome fall gilt clock here pictoy ad a root to the retailer of gi—that is Fon get $5 Wi «th-~¢ cum at retail and a 83 7 lock all for $3." | If the manufacturer stopped at chewing gue, the demoralization 1 the trades would be slight, but this got | something { + nothing iden ig #tin © ut | ed all along the Hne | in varions Jizes of tobaceo, bat. in the ret I | line of ground spices and coffee it is | vi. ir | absolutely pernicious Tis a locky © | sumer that gets any genuine ground | | gpioes now, or amy gonds that may bo eheapenod Ly mixing Mustard {mixed | with sawdnst and made hot in the I month | per. ‘Here's a cata’ ‘hy the addition of cayenns pop Sa it. is with other things «ue of a manufactur: | ‘absolutely pure spices’ {'prizes to grocers wi‘ buy thess spices | in greater or less quantity. Among the indacements are musical boxes, arms, fornisure of all kinds, staves, sewing machines, store fixtures, show | ! 1 i { : : : cases, clocks, c¢yclopadias, bicycles, baby | carriages, lawn rovers, mackintoshes, [ erockery, Tugs, silverware, watches and | locks, gold headed canes, ombrellas, { and so on up to delivery wagons aud { two seated carriages. Here's the in- | : | ducament jn the ast pam: “With 750 pounds ground spices, ab- | aolutely pare, any assortment of all- i Apice, mustard, ginger, pepper, cinna- | mon, cloves, ete, at 23 cents a pound, ' Wa give one of these carriages free. In other words, 150 pounds of spices and the carriage all fur §187.50.° ““The drug trade is afflicted with this «ame sort of thing and perhaps to as great an extent as the grocery trade. Thers ought to ba some way of heading it off. "—Indianapolis News. LEGAL INSANITY. Should “TUncontroliable Impulse” Har Criminal Conviction? The New York Law Journal recently contained an editorial article favoring | a modification of the test of insazii» In criminal enses. ‘The ability %o distin- guish between right and wrong in ref- erence to the aos committed and to know that it was wrong is a standard | of mental capacity required in New | | York to render a person responsible for crimes committed by him. oh The Law Journal argues in favor of t grading punishment according to the mental eondition of offenders wha may | ‘be *‘partially insane.’' Many alicnists, } including Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton, do mot recognize ‘'partial insnity, | saying that a person is either sane oF | insane. The state in which the mind ! acts correctly as to its judgment, but the will is controlled by some implose | | which the mind cannot master, is nos recognized in many criminal courts, because it has been found that the ex- cause of jrresistible impulse led to too | great a number of ac where defendants were really gailty of serious offenses. : In civil cases it is easier to deal with persons whose minds are 80 affected that they cannot come to corrects con- ‘clusions as to certain subjects sues at staks are frequently less fmpore- ‘a particular act was done vader the in- flaence of the delusion or mental weak: aam——— EA —— lo First Foreign Salute to Our Piag. be the first foreign salute ever given i the Amercan tag. islands bad got in trouble the yoar be- fore for saluting the American flag, but It was not obtained without some ad- | part, as the alliance between France | | and the United States was ncd then | signed, but when the French admiral’ | agreed to salate he did it courteously, | paying the compliment of having his | guns already manned when ‘Paul Jones | sailed through the fleet. —Molly Elliot | Seawell's ‘Paul Jones’ in Century. The Pompadour Roll. ! A ramor comes from Parts that parted { hair is nos to a the fashion much lon- | ger; that even more trying still the | | pompadaar roll surrounding the face is | If this be so, then for | i | to be the thing. { a return of the rats, those Carons 1 abominations of our mothers’ time over { which the bair is brushed, wiil once | With the bair brushed | | more be used. | back in this fashion it is to be arranged | | 10 the shape of a figure 5, quite high at | i the back of the head, apd the | knot, which bas been with us long i enough to become modified into quite | a graceful arrapgement, will have to ga The Trilby Waist. A new wrinkle in designs is the “Trilby’’ waist, which is trimmed with close bands, laid over the fullness of a plaited or gathered bodice. Triiby her self wore only two of these decorations, which crossed in frous, and this adber- ence to the model is absolute, other forms of trimming filling up Wdeficien- cies and making the crossed bunds ap- vertiser. to 4 it is bad enough ‘iy labels his took | Ny % i There ara about | 150 differoat articles. named in i3 ne | fira- | jaistals in cases * THE RETIRED BURGLAR. be : cram, Ome of the Most Remarkable Incidents In Fiis Variegated Career, leomid find in the dining room,’ said tha retired burglar, telling of bis experience “30 A in wastern “1 started for the parior honse This parlor was just in front of the dining room, | and there viore heavy curtains between +I pushed these curtains one side ard went in carefully, so as not to mar the farniture by kicking it, feeling along | ft, # for the table which I ! tHe canter, i foond it very solid of molding or carving along | I had struck it on a side apparently, Pand so 1 felt toward the dining room anti] I eame to a corner. of the | and then I felt along the {or new must bw in I cama tor presently and fanling, with a st the cries md for She nest corner to get the dimensions of it I strack the « srner so quiek that it made my bair raise right up. I knew i thary was ouly ond thing they build of ! such shape, aud that's a coffin, *'] tarned my light on it, and it was a big oak easket, one of the kind they sis “ Lier fit hod [ didn’t dare {though I oaht to have then handies { Tha head wis toward the front of the housn and the foot toward the diniug raony, I set my lamp down and got ray | screwdriver out of my bag and began on one of the handles ‘nearest the [ook 1 i eager I suppose I mast hava felt a litt bag. I know [ went around the end and then up the other side pretty prompt, getting ‘em olf smooth as could be, avd around the head and started down the ! othor side wwhera I'd begun. 1 got. the handle off by the head on that side, and in tbe middle. In turning the last screw out of the handle I dropped my screwdriver “It geemid to me as though it made mare ncise than an iron teiegraph pole | dronping iuside of an cmpty iron oil tack. I just Jay down and waited. 1 didn’t dare run. I expected a million stairs and from all around, and I jost waited, Iving on the floor, but thers didn’t anybody come. Yoo know, the fact was that dropping that screwdriver bacn't miado noise enough to wake up a mousse, but it seemed to me like the greatest racket you ever heard, and it seared me most to death. Eat when no and set it in the notch of the screw again, and I'd just got that handie off when 1 henrd somebody say: “* ‘Don't you think you're crowdin ns hers a little, my friend, carrying away thems handles? Is was the dead man sitfing ap and looking down at ine. suppose he'd Leen in an epileptic trance or something of that sort, and dropping that scrowdriver had madi just shock enough to start him into life again. “1 wan so scared I dropped the han: dls, but I grabbed my bag—I suppose isatinet male mo do that--and started out through the dining room again and dewn osilar and out by the window 1 came in by: I dida't wait to see if any- body was coming this time. ‘I got #117 for those five bandles. It | scermod a pity to lose the other ane, but | is was always a great satisfaction to ma | Now York Son. She Wilted Him, There id patron | Pennsylvania strect line who has the { roputation of being most dreadfally dis- agreeable. The ecnduotaors say bho ix a kicker, and the neighbors say be has the i dyspepsia. Anyway he generally creates i a scene wherever he goes, but sine & | pneent experience ho is a little particu. nr aboms bis condoct en a street car aie Ui ’ tt “after | had gathered fu what 1. Massachusetts, | table, makes now’ duys, square and solid, and | throes «ilver hapdies on each side | Jock in, but 1 felt as! after I'd got that ono off and into the | then I went at the last handle, the one | sgole would come pouring down the ? Pp : bociy came | picked up the screwdriver : 4 te think that I'd woke the man ap. "== | of the Narth | THE ARCHITECT. . Oh, farsons and fine is the rare architeed Who recks not of lator or sos, : Whose Uuildings with jewels and silver are i decked, | Where never a beguty is Jost. : In silences works he through the day and the "inights a | Nor sound of a hammer is beard. : Pagidas and palaces, gleaming with light, Ariss at his beck or his word? i i In country or town, on the meadow or hill, i He chooses and wes a site, : | Wo nw deth ho own but the law of his will, And pone may dara question. his right. Unwearied by time and andannted by foe, . Untrammelsd by fear or command, He builds for all people, the high and the low, | With patient and provident hand 1 | The castle and cottnse alike he'll adorns, | Nor meanest of things doth disdain. {The peasant sleeps swoetly and finda im morn : tA palace on his yindow. pane. | | Oh. famous and fine is this archifent regen, i Who roclis pot of Isbor or ona, { Who bulls gorgeons mansions and yet has | spars, + The king of 21) Lobders, Jock Prost! PLAYED WITH THE BULL'S HEAD. Lg to wZhtelia Cote in Youth's! arpanion. | The Penalties Attached to a IT In Poker Held Agpinst Five Licgw Sarae varieties of cards hava the pio- | tare of » bull's head spon the fly third | ord, which is known as the ‘joker,’ | andl largely affected by progressive ' enchre players when they ars workioR | aseitaonsly for plated watch charms and cotton laco collars It is seldom ‘used in a game of poker, but in some sections it is left in the deck upon such occasions, and when ‘a man holds it he is at liberty to give it\thn same vaine. er night a party of jovial spirits sat down to while away a few hours at the seductive pastime, and when some one thing should go.”’ In the parlance of he is not discovered, and as all the players were equally well equipped with tricks the proposition was acceded to . During the game one of the players excused himself for a moment on some apparently proper plea and left the rooms. While he was absent he secured a naw deck of cards and arranged them receive four aces, while the man to his left would get four kings. In bis hurry be failed to remove the bull's head. Re- surning to the room, he took his seat, and winking to the man next to him, wheee deal it happened to bs, be deftly slipped him the *‘cold deck.’ The deal er, having confidence in bis friend, took the pack and dealt out the hands on oonrse he got the four aces. The betting was confined to him and the man to his cash and all bis worldly possessions in the way of jewelry and wearing apparel staked on the result, the hands were called. : The dealer gladly anncunced the pro- priotorship of four aces and reached out for the plander. The other man stop- ped him instanter. ‘Why, you can’t beat four aces! ejaculated the dealer. “*Oh, yes, [ can,” said bis opponent. “I've got four kings and the bull's head, and that nmkes five. That means that | take the pot and all the ress of | your clothes, and that every time I | meet you on the street in the next six | months you'il have give me a §d { bill" - : : ‘Then the game broke up. — Washing- | ton Post. 3 A Wonder of Coloring In Flinvers. | The editor of ‘‘Notes For the Cuari- | ous’ recently read a wonderful (7) ac- | count of a bunch of roses kept in a New | York herbarium, which still retin their | original color, notwithstanding the fact | that they were cut from the parent stalk ue poker this means a great deal. A player can cheat to his heart's content provided so that the person who deait them would The is- ! tant, and it is possible to learn whether | pess which affects the person concerned. | In Quiberon bay there was a great French fleet vuder the conimand of Ad- | miral La Motte-Picquet, and from him | Paul Jones obtained what. he claimed to | It is true that the! governor cf one of the Dutch West India | | Ele boarded a crowded car. at—well, | ghogq years and ane month before the some street between Ohio and Seventh. | gioning of our Declaration of Ladepend- , The aisle was filled with persons bold. | gnee The editor of the paper in which ing on to the straps. He stood for a sec. land in the doorway and glowered a8 | ering it the ‘‘cighth wonder of the | those within. The conductor placed his | world,”' asked if any reader could give hand on the shoulder of the bud tera- information concerning a case in which | peredd man and said: . an | “Pass on, please, and dons stand a | tae doorway!’ : : [ "The disagreeable man turned his head | oo a bit and snapped. in return’ © “Don't get gay. Stop your pushing, or I'l} report’ ’— | on Egyptian mummies known to have The unfortunate man, while making | heen dead over 6,000 The red natural eolors for so long » time. We wonld state that we have seen 11 preserved wreaths and garlands of | lotus, red and yellow poppies, and other serve that n worhan was atteinpting to | those dried and pressed but a month Ir | pass out. Like many others, he thought | ; anclassifed flowers which were found { La Motte-Picquet's was undoubtedly | the first direct and unqualified salate. | dress as wall as boldness co Paul Jones’ | Psyche | pear like decoration —New York Ad- the ear had stopped for him alone. Eat Lis erabbed remarks were cus short by | an energetic shove from the lady passen- ger. She thought his cutting remarks | ywere aimed at ber, and in a high ptiched | yaiee she replied: “You are insulting, sir, and very un- gentlemanly. I must got out, and if yon | are not encugh of a gentleman to allow | ne to pass 1 shall do some reporting.’ The bad tempered man tried to explain | nnd apologize, but the woman brushed | past him. All the passengers heard the | remarks and witnessed the incident, and | the disagreeable man looked truly { nshamed. — Indianapolis Journal. ‘ i His First Visit, | *‘It seems very swampy along here, 6d | observed the New Yorker, looking lan- | guidly out of the car window. “How | much farther is it to Chicago?’ | ‘You've been in Chicago half an | mour,'’ said the cunductor majesticallys “Good gracious! I don’t see any resi- | dences.”’ | *‘You must be nearsighted, sir. I can | soe the dwelling of one of the oldest | tamilies ia Chicago not half .a mile away.’ game?’ “Muskrat.” ‘Bless my soul!’ —Clhicago Tribane. Saxony was so called because it was inhabited by the Saxons, who took their same from the sea ax, n small battleax ! or knife which they bore in their gir- In 1578 the complete success of water gas as an illaminant was made apparent “I—1can’'s see itatall What's their | | a year before, aud in the cnse of the yel- { low variety there was no distinguish- able difference between those from the anciens tombs and specimens which bad | been driel but a week. If theeditor who refurs to the colonial ross as wonders will visit the Egyrtiun museum at Cairo, he will find dried eolormd flowers der. —St. Louis Republic The New Tiana. The return of the tines seems to de- pote that the style of hairdressing is ‘again in the ascendant This ought to be goed news to all excep the divinely tall woman, to whom the loss of an inch or two by a coiffure dressed low in the neck was immaterial. To the aver- age woman the Madonua style of head- dress was certainly a handicap. It wag ‘gested a revival of the archaio scarcely more in keeping with the ordinary Bris- ish profile than the professed apprecia- tion of Botticelli is with the ordinary British character. — Pall Mall Budget. 2 Thoughtiemly Frank. “1 suppose you will be out again So- night,’ remarked Sportington's wife sevurely. : “1 will,” he replied with feeling, “+‘guless 1 manage to hold better hands than I got last: night. ''-—Washington Star. : fa) ny | Calvin's face was too strongly mark- Led ro be enlled handsome. Impressive | and, stern are. the words that best de- | scribe his features. Dahomey is the smaliest state in | i rics. It has 4,000 square miles, alm the exact size of Conpecticut, - as any other oard in his bund. The oth- asked what kind of poker should be played another suggested that ‘‘every- left, and at last, when each had his the notice appeared, he go doubt consid- | roses or other flowers hod retained their this speech to the ennducter, did not ob- i poppies were but a shade lighter than of sufficicu; antiquity to excite bis wWOn-y §
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