i
+ LAST CENTURY HIGHWAYMEN.
:
When They Went to the Scaffold, Titled | The Trick They Use to Clvenmvent the |
Ladies Wept For Them.
~The gentleman of the road was long
the terror of the highway between Ken: | | od gave som
As late as |
gington and Knightsbridge.
the year 1799 a detachment of hight
horse was employed to patrol nightly
‘from Hyde park ccrner to the former
. Foot passengers waited until a
conld be made up sufficiently
strong for mutual protection, a bell be-
ing rung when a start was deemed
t. An extract from Lady Cow-
per’s diary in 1715 speaks volumes:
“1 was at Kensington, where 1 in-
tended to stay as long as the camp was
in Hyde park, the roads being so secure
by it that cae might come from London
at any tine ~in the might without dan-
ger, which 1 did very often.’
The ro..irvee which such writers ae
Ainsworth Lave given to the highway-
men is not se highly calored as may be
supposed. During his brief term of of-
- fice he was a man of note, the dariing
of the fair sex, the hero of play and
.ditty. He danced at Ranelagh and dined
at the clubs with impunity, and when
at last he became notcriouns enongh to be
worth apprehension he passed in trium-
phal procession from Newgate to Ty-
burn, dressed in the newest fashion,
bowing gracefully to the windows,
where ladies of position shed real tears
of grief, and gayly quaffing a farewell |
cup with admiring friends of his own
sex.
~The courtly McLean—grocer and gal-
lant—made Hyde park his chief scene
of action. Here on a November night ip
1749 he: nearly put an eud to Horace
Walpole himself. That gentleman's
coach was stopped by McLean and his
scoomplice, Plunket, as he was return-
ing from Holland House. A pistol, no
cidentally going off, grazed the skin un-
der his eye, and stunned him. ‘The
ball went through the top of the chariot,
"and if 1 had sat aa inch nearer to the.
left side must have gona through my
- head.” But he freely forgave the fasci-
nating scoundrel, when the Jaw at last
intervened.
Ho writes: “My friend Seles is
still the fashion. Have not I reason fc
call him my friend! He rays if the pis
tol’ had shot me he had nother for him-
3
ping expedition, whare the
. candlestick, a pair of bellows.
golf. Can I do less than say I will be
hanged if he is?! He gives an amusing
description of the rash that was made
to see the condempad man in Newgate,
Three thousand people visited him in
his ceil on the first Sunday after the
sentence, ro that ho fainted twice froto
the heat. The noble members of White's
eapio in a body. Lady Caroline Peter-
ghar and other ladies of title wept over
him avd uttered broken words of com-
fort. ‘Sco of the brightest eves were
at this time in tears, '— Atalanta,
: Watch the Thomos.
A physician in charge ot a wen
~ known asylum for tie care of the insane
recently said:
*“There is one infallible test either
for the approach or the presence of lun-
oy. If the person ‘whose case is being
examined is seen to make no nee of his
~ thamb, if he lets it stand ont at right
yal from the hand and employs it
meither in salutation, writing nor any
other manual exervize, youn nay set it
‘down as a fact that that person’s men-
gal balance is gone. He or she may con-
werse intelligibly, may in every respect
be guarding the secret of a mind dis-
eased with the utinost care and cun-
ning, but the telltale uh will in-
~ fdllibly’ betray tho lurking madness
which is Sanenled ‘behind a placsitre,
A German Custom.
One of the most ioteresting fonctions.
of the up to date betrothal is the shop-
two mother
with their re-
and fathers in-law
10 be,
spective son and daug iter, go out on an
appointed morning and bring home a
broom, a carving krife and fork, a salt
cellar; a Bible, a brass door knocker, a
Thig is
a revival of an old German custom of
presenting a young pair with what they
.oonsider the seven emblems of those
virtues that go to make up a perfect
houschold. The shopping party is con-
‘cluded by a luncheon of the united fam-
‘Put to Strange Use.
“The old bell which in early days stood’
on Belfry hill, north of the town of
Council Grove, Kar., and was rung to
warn the settlers of the approach of In-
diana, is now mnsed by a citizen as a
flowerpot in bis garden. For many
years after its original purpose was
gone it was the common property of the
varions religious denominations of the
town and was rong to call the people to
devotions, One day it was blown down
in a storm and broken This destroyed
its nuefulness asm bell, and the citizen
sat it inverted in his garden tnd planted
flowers in it. t.—Phil ude iptia Led HEE.
Fame.
“Mr, Speaker,’ excluiried a member
of the New Souoth Wales parliament,
“‘my colleague taunts me with a desire
for fame. I scorn the imputation, sir
Fama, sir! What fanie? It a
shaved pig with a greased tail, which
slips throagh the hands of thousands
and then is accidentally caught by
is 8
‘some lucky fellow who happens to liold
-
on to if; I let the greasy tailed (uardru-
ped go by me without an effort io clutch
it, si sir !'’—London Tit-Bits, |
The Pope Sixty Years Ago.
The pope .was upostolie delegate at
Benevento in Italy nearly €0 yeoors ago,
and when the bishop of Brindisi arrived
in Rome recently be arked the bishop
gbout the friends of his yonth there.
“Holy father, I 'was not even born
then, ’’ said the astonished bishop as the
names of forgotten celebrities fell glibly
“from the pope’s lips.
the only one of Leo’s faculties that is
igularly clear, but physically he is a
oy old man of 83 years, with a face
a8 pale as wax and with white hairs ri-
valing the whiteness of his robes. —Ex- |
: * 000 invested in diamonds.
Smge,
—
mercury bia
should know by hoart-
will do
opposition to the ideas bell by many
“prematurely of consamption.
|
"may be defined as a eapacity for holding
|
|
His memory is not |
. course he
marvelously preserved. His intellect is |
Ee SLE
DIAMOND THIEVES. sikAMER CHAIRS.
A Plece of Furniture That Has Developed
Throngh Ocean Travel.
Steamer chairs were, Ww
{in this country,
chifrs They were Tuetinned afwr a
air Dis hive, Engloyd, on
Bison and Terns and in emai!
‘WW archial Dealors.
I dealer recently interview-
of his experiences ns fol-
“A Fis weeks ago a foreigner!
came into way swie and desired to see
rings. After choosing for a long time he
picked out one valued at $18. He made |
‘me a ridiculously low -offer, which I
naturally refused. He then desired to!
08 buy on oF Sis te A Sie 100) | The use of this chair gn steamers was
tke show window. While I reached into| DegUD abont 25 years ago.
‘the window for them I observed in the | S2© #0 popular that it received its pres-
mirror on one side of the window how | ent pame. Chairs of this style are stil] |
the stranger slipped away two rings sold for land use, both indcor and out-
each worth $150. I did not turn aréund, | door, and their nse ashore is increasing, |
but went to the door, opened and then The principal manufactorer of these
; chairs in New York sells them in al- |
ot at, ior 1 hat uso arsed, Be mest if not qnite every state in the Un- |
def wonld have thrown pepper an {ion and in Central America, South
sand in my eyes and ran away with his | :
t
eT: 2 St gdp il Steamer chairs are made of maple, of |
‘sand ready for use in his hand. 1 oni and Hd a °
“Another time a thief dropped two” prico from D200 10 § 5
rings into his umbrel'a, and at another | | steamor chairs were introduced not ong |
time another slipped one into a hole in| 20, but not many are id. When!
his glove. A very common trick of dia. | Steamer chairs first began to be used,
mdnd thieves is to as! to be shown looss one man in this city made a small for
stones, which are thoicupon handed to YD DY selling thers on the piers on
him lying upon 8 Waiter, He breathes #81ling daye. As much as $15 was paid
upon them, and thereby seeks to get ono | to him for 2 chair.
or more into his mouth. Others study - _man emtroiled the best of the chair sell- |
the rings lying in the show wimdow and ing privileges, but others took up the
have one made exactly to pattern de- | business, and bis large profits were soon '
scribed. The gold is good, but the jewel | ‘materially cut down by competition.
is paste. They them come in twilight For a time sellers of chairs on the |
fnto the store and seek to exchange their | Piers handled more steamer chairs than.
‘imitation for the gentiine. remJewelers' the regular dealers. The practice which |
Circular. then sprang up of offering chairs in the |
Tides In the Aiutuphor, | street on sailing days in the open space |
Distinct tides in the atmosphers, eon ' in front of the pier shed is still contin-!
responding to those of the sea and pro- | ned to some extent. This space is called |
duced twice daily by lunar atiraction, | the farm. Tiere are offered on sailing |
have been traced by M. Bouquet de Ja | days fruit, cinware and other supplies
(#5e in the barometric records of sta- such as gi yas Re Bgers Hight
tions rem ved from powerful local dis- | quire, an eamer chairs and other
turiances. The recorded observations of | 101diDg chairs.
Brest, 8t. Helena, Cano Horn, Batavia
and Singapore ive pusitive evidence of
a regular ebb aul flow according to the |
moon's position. The oToet is slight,
bat megsarable, crentest atmos.
pheric tide at Prost siown by a
movement of ovagna wh ir
a water! :
raient
to abont on hv inp tha
Ever
A diamond
lows:
need in
game uses. The Devonshire chairs were
rather larger and more elaborate than |
the steamér chair.
Children’
<add
ness of renting steamer chairs. A num- |!
ber.of the larger steamship companies’
now rent steamer chairs to passengers.
the Atlantic is from 50 cents to $1.
- Comiman as their vse has become, it i3
estimated that not much more than half
the total number of cesan
yrovide thems
— New York Sun.
THE oL D, ot D STORY:
: : Both I oved the Swine Womnn, Who Pla ded
: With Them.
- A leading Lit In the country town of Pikeville,
best kiown ¥ Tepn., out on the Nashville and Chat-
there are Fst thipo Boy? : § : > tap YL A I -ailrcad, lives a raral (quien of
the name of Geneva Marks, Many suit-
. i 3 ors hal Geneva, bat most arde:
3r t: £80, an ; V worn Lon Mitchell
a Li Erase avs La ad 2 poral youths of prominence,
> Ob INGE ewan LR the gerength os have loved her for many
imagination than apy other process that months, but with the
: yh Sond problemafical |
I know of. And I regard imagination as | willfulness of her sex Geneva has alter-
the most important of all menial facul-
os nately encournged one then the other.
ties.” This is in direct aad significant | A few days since sho made her choice,
The choice was Mitchell
When Knight heard of her decision, |
he got drunk. He was worse than drank. !
| He was crazed with liquor. Appearing |
an i
bear about
of the atmos;
to the deprh «of
Nights, to Aliea ln
Mt
“6 fri
{a ge
parents and teachers that fairy tales are |
injurious reading for the young. —New |
York Sun.
Questions of Health,
The popular notion that an athlete, |
because of his athleticism, is a healthy
maa is a delasive one. Muscnlar devel-
opment is not an affair of the copstita-
tion. Iti an accident. Strong limbs
and a weak heart are not infrequently
associates. Many a “strong man’ dies
if health
‘evening of devotion, he startled the.
“Mitchell, I want
sody knew there wo
tO &¢
5 trou
by enlling,
you.’ Everyt
ble, al so
game and apswered the call
ws, a knife
Kneeling in
rivals mot. There were bl
i flashed and Mitchell fell
on to life, then, in many cases, the
wenklings are the hemdthiest.
If neh a definition is aecarate, wom:
en aro healthier than rnaen. Their aver-
ago leogth of days is greater than curs, |
But iris dogbtful if ce tenarians, meve-
ly because they are contenarians, sre the
heaithiost, | Han
who recently died at the age of 1005 who
vas slightly paralyzed, even a8 a child,
and who was practically completely go
for more than 70 semrs. Could sacha
one have ever been correctly described |
as healthr ? It is as hard tosay what life |
is as to say what healtli ig, and the way |
in which unhealthy folks are tenacious |
of life is not the least of tho marvels. — |
All the Year Round.
Caffeine.
Caffeine, the active principle of coffee,
was discovered by Runge in 1820, In a
pure state it takes the form of long silky
needles. In ordinary coffee it is present
to the extent of about 1 per cent, but
Java coffee contains 4.4, and Marti-
nique has as much as 6.4. It is said by
some chemists that caffeine in its essen-
tialities is identical with theine, the ac-
tive principle of tea. Claus affirms that
the inferior qualities of tea contain more
caffeine than the best commercial grades.
; atid wiricaied qu step
chore ty, (ieroon
Wonan, £ in tt}
gw eetiigart in an vneol
When Knight
there was talk of a robe and a lvne
but the crowd dispersed under the
vice of cooler heads, Nest mor
Tin Ter Was cumaparati
proportionately remorseful
Geneva is at the {cor of death
grief. — Atlanta Constitution.
wil laa
Marks,
Wis CATs
t &
JN WOO Ul Bh WO
TE
Hine!
o } . ‘
$A DULL Gah
with
Manual Training.
About 20 years ago, being in Boston one
day, 1 called upou him snd was ushered
into his library unannounced. As the |
-door opened I heard a singular scraping |
sound, and the doctor rose to meet me
with a slightly en.barracsed ais,
When the servant was gone, I sid,
“I am afraid I disturbed you.’’
He laughed. ‘‘Yes, you did, bunt I
was at work on neither a poem nor a
lecture.’
- He touched a spring, and out from un-
der the library table rolled a little bench |
fitted cat with a turning lathe aud tools. |
Would Not Make Tibet. | said.
Mr. Wilson relates an arcusing story | who would
of an officer who determined to enter made ‘jimeoracks’
Chinese Tibet by stratigem. This oifi- when I think
cer managed to erces the frontier at I touch this
night, and so escaped the frontier guard. | works
Next day, however, while he was jour- chara
neying deeper into Tibet the Tibetan in.
soldiers Uvertook him and informed hi fu] puysicians to see
that as the conutry was unsafe; be ger in th
of robbers, th 3y ran ld go wi vihiich bran
order to proie y which pe- | often Ful
ment the traveler wus compelled to
agree, In a fow hours they came toa
river,« which was crossed hy a rope
bridge: The Tibetans passed over first,
in order to show that the Lridge was
safe, and then the oficer got into the
basket and wus pulled gloug by the Tib- |
etans. however, they ¢
pulling and left the Eiglis ;
ing in midair above too inv
In vain the travelsr sho
Tibetans to pu:l They 1otely mek
and nodded their heads. T b & hours pass
ed, and still the officer hung aboye the
torrent. At last the Tibetans agreed to!
pall him back if he would promise to!
leave Tibet immediately. This of
e was compelled to do and took
| his departure from the forbidden laud.
—Gentleman’s Magazine,
think that 1f a
he muat ba
physiciar
mad,
neh, aud
r, bending over my b
‘fer
Hol
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Wiint
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arrange- ject th
Gpon tne vais
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Or pt
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business
brain «
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eWspaper For the Blind.
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Suda aly,
Woria that i
f Blind
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a odie.
ated to the Hof Load
Y. 3 0F. 1893 and now e!
me Enheer
11s
Jot time
i every quarter of the gobe printed
in ‘‘raized,’”’ or Braige
considered a literary curiosity.
will succeed may be
fact that it has been twice eria ged
since the fall of 15&3.—>5t. Louis Re-
PELs ea
| A witty Fre nchm
4 is an excuse for not
rite 9 +
1 nat it
ans
ain kes I 11:
10°18 sant nat here are 1: 3 Yanik es iu
New York each of <vhich hag over §500,-
woul send the undertaker to apolog
| for him.”
hen first made
called Devonshire’
rooms and wore first made here for the
It soon be- |
i America and as far away as Australia. |
and they rangs |
For some years this |
The charge for a steamer chair across!
2 WW
travers.
Ives with steamer chairs,
i$ of all
snd Will’ Wuight, |
With equal | -
1 at the door of a church where Mitchell |
and his sweetheart had gone for an |
Cecongregation and broke up the meeting!
a
i attentl
did Mitchell, but he was!
At the threshold of the sanctuary the
i the lifeblood that flowed from his sida
An old friend of Dr. Holmes says:
*“This is the way I rest myself,”” he
‘‘Bnt there are people in the world |
id, “Only death |;
g a dinner |
engagement, and even then a volite man |!
ik no more at schoolmasteriug
{TO THE NORTH POLE.
{| A Correspondent Thinks It Will Soon Fe
a Favorite Samer Trip.
How to reach the north pole is a¢uet-
tinn that will pct down. Peury, after
nis recent failure, says he thinks it will
yet bo reached, Let it rather be said in
this age of electricity that it is not only
it will not only be reached, but con mu-
| nication with it established, making the
journey there a new axcursion roots for
: the pleasure seeker during a month or
| two of the year.
| Instead of the ill devised ard ir ade-
i quate attempts which have hitherto been
, made, when sufficient means combined
with intelligent operation ara eqoaled
i by a determined purpose, with more
recognition of a dependence upon Gord,
h| every obstacle will be overcome.
Conld capital see profitable invest-
ment in the enterprise; efforts woud he
| made more in proportion to the oista-
cles to be encountered.
"A smitabia station fhonid be sealocted
as far north as could always be con-
, veniently reached as aoon as the seveii-
| ty of the winfer had abated.
tion bave comfortable quarters, every-
i
thing suitable to the climate and noces-
sary to a winter residence and for a
. journey northward. Here have a sorm-
pléte electric plant and run electric
| sledge trains to the north pole, the elee-
tric locomotive engines made of alumin-
| inm to be as light as possible and rest-
| ing on wide toboggan runners, thy es-
gine propelled by paddle wheels, metal
i shod, and the dip of the paddle mala to
| adapt itself to the lightest snow or
hardest ice. The sledge cars should ho
: built of the lightest material, iniper-
| vious to the cold, heated and made som
| fortable to live in.
| With a construction train of this &
| soription advance northward cond he
made, locating the route, choosing the
most level course to be found, it leing
}
There is a company that shakes a bust lof no consequence how winding the
; road, as there is no right of way to be
purchased or points to be stopped at to
accommodate local travel. Along this
route as progress is made Jay an ¢lectrio
: bari ly it,
trie to
3 with
from i
he estat lis
ire on tue sow-—1o be
for that ma
connect another
the £ and
Com
I a
tt We 118
$
pratic
ev—-thiis ole
habitable
coma distances
x a ermld thins
Led all along che ine with
tion in case 1
If there is no open
pale and it can be reached
18 a plan thay is feasible. Xk pm
gome enfers will
i tablish a musk y and reindeer
farm and enlti i ater
‘on and Sopp! ly fresh meat
the excursionists to the north pole, —
Delolin Be: edict in New ’ York San.
the firs
were derrane
ut the
hy ana,
f that
vet §
Ww
¢
13 0g,
Rey perth
Li3i8
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rising Yankees
0X ranc
ate Sorin them
} WITH A SINGLE RAIL.
. Novel Project For a Line on the Canisdian
Border.
William E. Seeley, a resident of
Brainerd, Minn., but now in the Rainy
Lake gold country, has in proce: s of
completion a project to build a rai. ‘road
‘from Tower to Rainy Lake City, on tho
Canadian border, over a ronte where an
' ordinary railroad could scarcely be ron.
Bat the rcad planned by Nr. Soeley
Will not be an or i ne in any eins
of the word, and his plans and spec fica-
“tions are ¢ ready adiractin sible
n from railroad én
| ehinists generally.
. Tha track of Mr. Bcalev’s
consist of a single rail
and the that sects
ready referrmig to it as
road. The great advan
this road 18 Hs cheapness, it of
than one-half as much
ble track, standard
ract and oper:
KC t nsidi
and tia
of two,
are al
mstead
in ors od n
No
the
tage plains
the ground,
structed so that the 1s
feet below the lovel of the
‘ each side of the cars will be loaded as
| nearly equally a8 possible, so that the
| vehicle will ride easily and smooth iy.
That the cars cannot be upset will be
geen at a glance, as the weight in them
rail,
| will be below the rail. The piles ave to
‘be set 10 ar 12 feet apary and will be
capped with heavy wooden beams, upon
which the single rail will rest. 1t is
jSisimed by Mr. Seeley that such a road
‘has already been operated successfully
a that he has demorst rated by models
that the plan will be a success in this
case. Ove of the great needs of the
| northern part of Minnesota is a railroad
(from Tower to Rainy Lake City, and
the residents of those places are raore
| than enthusiastic over tho proposed line.
; = hicago Times. Rerald.
f
|
TEACHERS IN ENGLAND.
iA «r From One Which Tells
oe Own Story.
Pathetic Let
judged from ine
5 ul ¢ £10), fight
¢ any own but, as tis; 1 oan
§ he pe r notndig better. What will bucome of
to thin "a ‘Fliers
neve | wlaated youn
ng
ame I tread
Xen
United Sang lon »
i mie Li kd iy via
are hunareds of ¢
fdlovs in ta CHA eEra
and Luv, ca
M. A. (Gem).
xr A
cerely yours,
———
possible but among ‘the certainties that.
At this sta-
nd milk to-
and.
should be
‘being dragged under by the weight and
‘most prevalent in Cornwall and various
| will take away his luck ip fishing and |
{And the sare
{ will | meadew grows more and more conip
rong Wii i
i face.
” } the
21 hy
{ zonand flu
t they we:
vrei + Tez rwe
CUTTEN | JOEWH
Linto bis h me
" lantic
| with lgss purposeless expenditure
wih.
|
UNLUCKY 10 SAVE ¢ FROM DROWNING, |
Some Queer Superstitions of People the i
World Over.
strange - that
be Superstitions, yet it 18 80,
he small boy who sods
companion sinking ita: a vite yg grave |
without attempting to rescue him,
whether be sank becanse he was not an
expert and got beyond his depth, or
whether he was seized with cramps. It
seems ridiculous to think of, and no}
doubt it will save many a superstitious
person from risking his own neck by
It gems
nor
18
3
ig it slo ne t
struggles of a drowning person to know
it is connted unlucky and worse than
madness to try to save the life of a
drowning person or to resuscitate bim,
as sooner or later he is bound to do yon
some mean turn. :
It is another one of those oid super-
stitions handed down from generation
to generation from our European ances-
tors, and of which no one knows the der-
ivation. Traces of it are found am ng
the Sioux and other tribes of the Indians
of the west, who seem to have inherited
that belief from their forefathers along
with 80 many other qnaint things. They
gtill believe, and it’s a part of their
¢éreed, that in hunting the body of a
drowned perscn you can discover its
resting place by floating a chip of cedar
wood, which will stop, even in the
strongest current, a torn around over
the exact gpot.
In Great Britain the belief that you
must not rescne a drowning person is
parts of Scotlmmd. The French sailor
and the boatman of the Danube bow to
the decree, together with the Russians,
and let the people drown.
Dr. Taylor, in his ‘‘ Primitive Cul-
ture,’’ declares this lingering fondness
for this ¢ld creed is becanse the water
spirit is angry at being despoiled of its
victim, and should the unlucky person
who has dared to frustrate him trust
himself to the water's power he will
drown as sure as fate. :
. The Eohcmian fisherman shrinks
from snatching a drowning man from
the waters, fearing the water demon
drown him before he gets to shore with
the would he victim, In Germany,
when some one is drowned, they say,
"The rivir spirit claims his yearly sac-
rifice,’’ or, *' The Nix has taken him.’
belief is eurrent not alone
countries above ntioned,
Tho
thosa
the Kameha at
man cut ¢f the water, wonld force him |
ander, and if he should escape to the |
shore no one wonld dare receive him!
or dare to give him {oud |
He is sopnosed to be dead
falling ino the w ater,
m
voy 0 1
i: ont
thane vasrha rl ae Te
ERANR, fatner 1nan hegr
after cuca |
THE SARGASSO SEA.
A Wonderful Region In the Atlantic
Which No Man Has Explored.
The surface of the Sargasso sea seems |
like a perfect meadow of seaweed! It is
supposed that this enormous mass of |
gulf weed may have been partly grown: |
“at the bottom of the shallower parts of |
the sea and partly torn from the shores |
of Florida and the Bubama islands by |
the force of the gulf stream. It is then!
swept aronnd by the same agency into |
the Sargasso sea, where it. lives and
propagates, floating freely in midocean.
is ever inc oust beth |
by addition and propaga! ion, 80 that | the
and no daaht at the inner parts extenc
to a consilerable depth below the sur
Nor is this all, for at least twa: thirds
of all tlie infinite flotsam which the gail |
stream carries along with it in ite conrse
sooner or later finds a resting place
Fere may 1
xb tn trees torn from he for
ssigof Petr 1 by the waters of the Anu
ated down far out to sen u nt
wapht and » we pt along by {]
od from Honduras,
an Florida, ean
the islands, staved in, br
)
Sargasso £24. De Bed
viaks of
}
a
Grange
3 and boat frog
coken and bottom
trees fro
‘mpward ; wrécks and remains of all ports
reaped from the rich harvest of the At-
; whole keels ar skeletons of ruin-
ed ships, so covered with barnacles,
shells and weeds that the original out- |
line is entirely lost to view, and here
.and there n derelict ship, transformed
from a floating terror of the deep into'a
mystery ut out of reach of man ina
museum of unexplained enigraas.— |
Chambers’ Journal
Praises the Rieycle.
It seems to be coming—scientific ap-
proval—in all directions. Dr. Cham- |
poniere, member of the Academy of
Medicine, has made ‘observations on |
Frenchwomen who have used the wheel,
and he finds they are better performers
‘than men, learning more easily and |
of |
He finds a marked increase in tO0
Lined all aver the!
force.
amount o f muse le deve
i eupacity 13 inereascu
action «1 toe
{ae aeposition of Tat
ria t
Arad
3 . ¥ x
heart 1s 1
15 av
1 » i.
10 Cal dy
nes too
| ond.
swinnmets |
- young man came in
snow. white, with his;
| Will Ventnre Tio
and most zanortant even
| great
- picn
3 spread npon the roand, 86 elt
i» of which the way
i opposing tribes ruage theilie
TOWNS OF SETTLED HABITS.
London and Philsdelphis Alike In This
ely
In her article on ‘The Myth of the
400,” in Cosmopolitan, Mre. Burton
Harrison tolls of an Awerican calling
upon a lady in London and finding her
seated in a big chair by the window en-
gaged in some sort of needlework. A
) and paid his re-
Fpects, as it was her day at home, and
then bowed himself out. Three years
| later the American was again in Lon-
don, and again he called upon the lady.
“Jt was her day at home, and there she
sat in the same chair by the same win-
dew with the samo needlework, or inme
very like it, in ber hand, and, more re-
markable still, the same young man
called and made the same remarks he
‘had made three years bofore. Mrs. Har-
rison tells this anecdote to show how’
unchanged things are in England and
how you are pretty sure to find people
just about as yon left them. The illus-
tration is a good oue, But I dan auaweh
it with a better one over here, :
I bave the pleasure of knowirg a
family in Philadeiphia svho have lived
- in the same Louse for 40 years. As the
children of this family grow up they
developed a murical talent from forr or
five generations of men lenrned in the
law as well as skilled with the bow.
Every Sunday between 13 and 1 o'clock
it was the custom of the father and the
sons to play classic music, the father be- |
ing first violin, one son viola, one see-
ond violin, the other violoncello. They
played well, and as 1 lived nearer Phil-
adelphia in those days than I do today
I often dropped in at these rehearsals,
as they calied them.
Five years ago I was in Philadelphia
on a Sunday. I had not sven my old
friends in 15 years, but 1 was sure fey
were living at the old placa. I walked
around to the house, and as I mounted
the marble steps I heard sounds of mu-
gic. Could it be possible that a ‘‘re-
hearsal”’ was going on? Yes, sure
enough. There sat the father, his hair
: violin tueked un-
der his chin, and the thrue ‘Boys’
fathers themeolve smi] playing awa; a8
they had been doing s:nce they were
children. To ba snve, they were ranyried
men and did acl BY at home, hat they
met every Snnud: at their fa-
ther's for tiie’ i expent wn
ran on to Phil nig before
long, and, though it 1 at Joab
five years since J was at on friend's
house, I expect iG hor a insiy on
Sunday morning, for i shall the my
visit 80 as to meine a Sunde y.~-Cridie.
re
wag
INDIANS E CAM:Z BUTTORS.
ir All on a lovee Raee
- Their Chiel Diversioa.
“An Indian heise race is the greatest
of tha year to
the tribes who part tate in 1g," said
Ramon Thornton of Cleyeune to a re-
porter. *‘It is totally unlike our equine
! contests, for, to begin with, there is .
only one race, for which it takes months
and weeks to arrange the desis and I
must tell yon thut the average Indian is
‘a remurkably good matchiouker. I do
not think [ever suai race thal was not
Jroductive of a cluse, exciting finish.
*As Boon gs ig sat for the
soniest a, wonan and
papnogs tf bath frihes assembio at the
appointed piace, beisgiog
worldly wealth to sappore their cham-
When the day of i.e race arrives,
ared bi is ts
ra
tae Hay
sow
v
several large puri
ors wid chiefs of tha
ives, wile
3 cach
ge Jord
ono REOTaR iY
bot. Silently aod with
sha sbeng fn ward aad
2 UH
Si IR N08
le to the
gid» then
behind sya toa
bearing the U4
The head eiief of
makes the fret
stolid ecuant
deposita bis tars aad oloer vu
the blanket, gang
to add his much prized nd
whole The leader of the other
places artic!
the first heap, A grunt
is a bet. So it poes do
gering being conduetd wi
that befits the oceision,
challéring span
WUE Od
wile
CRATE
yy $:1
Alachida
Glren evan
OR 3
or 3 ned,
wn the hue, wa.
- @ prravity
for ech tribe
. knows that its oppe cents will bes all
they have got. Even little groups «f
peuies are led off to cueside and buach-
ed together, and that means that the
loser will walk many a weary mile
through blinding alkc i 42ot before he
gees tho topes of Lis pera Bas tLhae
is po haggling, vo disputes, no excla-
mations of sarprisa or cl agrin at the re-
salt. It is impossible, as far as aay out-
ward demoustration is concerned, to
distinguish the victor from ho vane
quished, and in that respect. I think the
American Indian stands acne among
; the nations of the woud ''—Atlauta
Journal
Oh, Eostont
A funny incident-—und not so funny,
tor all——ocep red oft the Foun the ofl.
er afternoon. Two erelicis ye
pectedy. The
the right, and tiie mm
her svkeel, ne
bled to their feet, rio
and glared at each
Then
woman's: face
wheel, rolled
np
le
An eyewliness
lant exough
said,
Ly bu
10 Was
4 Way
A domestis
im Chicana
.
nl some vu
; purposes
the
The doctor disclal
theorize, bus at th article. |
port homself to ness
Frenchwornn as the! product of the bi
CVOLe, J :
The Peirl river, Mission, wos
called hwo th
“the rv
¥
1
£ CHF OF
dream of 2
hte,
Uiuguay was named from the.
:
which flows through it.
tals was theo
way
ok 8 their Si
are