p this would have bat the o belief in FE the ¢ locks 3 J Jerked wy ths sob ed thi bo womld sapply market, which bitheit, x four f dsik green body lack. He Rot a fow np were extern : lech pend 1 ht empty | fog : iri pase] trom Band t ¢ pant] 0 reel home through the frosty a step, and quiet sloapers, ened from dull ‘Areams, echo with 3 verses conse to be Aciant. What bie good temper and sincerity m yer's generous importunity! Drink todey ind drowns all ssrrow You shall perhaps tiot do i tomorrow. Best, while you have it, ose yoor bresth; There is no drinking after death. Then 108 ox swiil,. Foils for ony health. Who drinks well loves the commonwealth, CAs Be that will ta bed go siber Falls with the leat, still in Gotober, Upon this song successive changes have been sung, until now ite variations are bewildering, and to it we owe the ever popular and ntierly indefensible lee roured out for generations by many | a lusty tavern chorus: He who gous to hed xml goed to bed sober Fale an the loaves dy and dion In Cotolwe, Fut he whe goss to bist and goes to bed mello | Lives as bo di to do and dive an hopes feito # Apmis Regpiier in Atlantic. ae WAI Mai Bh ro a Su py Sotidifed Petroteom, The claim wome time ago set forth by Pan! 4 Humy, a Frinch saval offer, of havibg originated u process for the i successful solidification of peteoleons for corsaicitind mid indostrinl purpose has been further oxplained by him. | From this actount, semmarived in Th Progressive Ape, it appears that heyy common oi] Bas bon converted by 1 ventor do wk sole Book, ae hard as the hardest coed, burning slowly, giv | ing off au intense heat and showin pot the slighoist sign of melting, a to of such foe] niprescpting 8 many es © tons of coul, und the space cocupied | one ton of it being abont three cubis fot, on againnt the large space required for the coal. At a reoont gatherivg of {experss, M. & Homy exhibited sumopios of the artic and experimentid with them. On ths table were several ako of the solidified potrolenm and of low grade oily of varioos sizes and shapes, 4 : and in addition to the enkes thes were snmples of th same fuel in dry powder and paste, the petriloum powder and | pute wixed tigether and pressed form: ing 8 bowmogtueons toass, With a gross specific gravity, bard almost sa stone, | and, when burning, giving off a flume BOO times ite own vidume and a boat cll failed by indicate the emunition of either of thiewe. a 6 sys ae Time to Call » Hale. The vital stiatistion clerk felt rather | than beard Bia visitop enter the office. Ftheongh ber honda Athen dnily in AUSITEr 10 (rest inng ber of Font thar had been shown’ her and deo. cided fo boy it verified the length herself by measur. Ling it with ber outstretobsd armwm Ecomingly satisfied that the plece cobs | poumes in a part which he played 3 fret time on the 18th of th month. Ie | was Bopt. 14, too, the date of his burial, and it wax the beginning of Miss Clars 1, Morris under my engagemions, when he and a v rl about 20 ears old a, in | pied her The Eiind v oman examined tha fah vies placed befcrn her hy peering t sha doponded men of poaneh apni nile to her dom hey wy ship peli She appeared to be quite erith al and before Taha made her selection the couniey was piled high with putters of all kinds After she bad dxaniined a birge num pieces she fook up obo of the When the clerk had measured it, she tained wx much as she had bargained for, sho took n transfer ticket and went te the connter where trimmings are mld. Thers she selestad the material with which to finish her dress, examin. {rig the laces and other delicane fabries moat critically. After the blind woman had Jeff the | store the floor minager said her shop. | ping war not an unusual thing, Bhe was but one of the many blind custom: Cerw whe cume into the store regoliely. | This woman, he said, was not only able 80 maak: the pioest the matter of trimmings, bot so deli cite wan her tonoh ahs contd often die Jiarevey, tingamdh colors He addi, Alem, und © diserisiination in i rs oi that pont > Wi to begin anything on the Thieh of the wiguth er on Friday. It 1) on ive rh aud it wold nah Bare i oy the we day to him on the day befoaw, | thiut be bad ever sufiér dd afy mistartune on on either of those dnys 0 ier him oh ; fn hie fears “Ay owe éxpericnce bat been anite the reverse of unlucky with regard to teem. Some of my most sienefol sea | sons hive been bagen on Friday, and he mnie ope of Bis own played Sir Patrick Londy 11) “Man and {| Wife.” The fear of No. 1 extended further than this Mr Riwin would gx ‘pever sletp in room 18 atu hotel. Ha wonld rather walk the flohe of some other rooms all night withiot = bod, And By wonld never accept meetion Ney I8 in a slosping cnr. That or stateroom No 18 on a stommer was in Hi mind a positive invitation th disaster. The per son on whem the duty devolved of ar. | ranging the details of Mr. Daly's TORY that she never depended cutively pen hor tooth fo miatohing shades, § fied her selections w itigg lie even of the | clerk and her companion, wh enna | Trivong, HR A NRA SRE Oe Fra hen 3h Josey of Are Bofors the Fadpen The questions widressed to Joan a nd | S1 TEREe 3 i § ¥ 3 her apsvers day by day have teon trans. 1 pritted in the recuirds of the comrt,. Too end tum is to firority with which “¥en oill yoorelf my fudge. Be care | fal what you do, fer Tum indeed went | By the Lord, and you place yourself ju great danger.’ To answers almost sublime socoseded answers filled with naive ingenuity. Questions were pliad, traitorously cone oeived, concerning the viecions which | had come to her and the celistind voloes which thw heard and which throughont ber mbision had sounseied and guided | her. But on this point abe vas firmly atlent, Tt wax as though Ht wears a se oret which she was forbidden to betray. She conmented to take an catls to speak | pething but the trath; bot, concerning well nigh as (reat ax oxygen. Tests to ber visions, she made a reservation, gripe the production of smoke or ‘You coud cut my head off before | sronld speak,’ she protested. At night, in the durkoess of her dangecn, St { Catheripe and St Margaret sypesred to ber, and celestial voices comforted her. She svowed that she hod seem! thems * “with the éyes of bor body ¢ # ¢ and when they leave me,” she added, 1 “I wish that they would fake me with "| is whee eyes was the feverish glitter > of ane to whose lids sleep cometh not. “Poor commission threes doors to the 1 right,’’ mid the official glibly. ] "I don’t wiknt the poor commission. J want to see you," said the intrader, xi something very like deflance in his voice and yet with that undertone cae thas aroumd they sympathy oi Ee hao so da fr bat can do for you,'’ responded the I've bean trying 0 do alto ther 100 muck, nd, I've got 10 have » "t. 1 don's Seloug to | BG anion, und Pat my dear 1 never saw yoo before. : 1 never employed you, anywar?" : “Me? fe? Ob, I ain't anybody bot Heart i That's who 1 be, an I mean you. Wio are the TDMruaetis 1a geaerally host in the left band and put to the left esr, while ri “{the right band is often used in takiog | objects beard the : throagh the telephone with swir eft ad ears, bot cosld wri i Bothing if Ahir IRE ELL Wes FE 2%) their right eu I cluded that tie teipbone bas sh appre | oki Che anditory t cl nerves, ete. ba the caps cbesrved the sity test sound ibid 3 Faikly Gr | barre lime vom cinbly shin Clalihg whi std the rooonanencalicn is 0] made has the instrasent Le weed alter- od} pately at the right and lefs car. Duksre—I1 don't know how you came to lose oney in that soheme. You told me it waa a rire investment. BE Caratl The investiuent Day have 5 Do . Sah une, bat I was well done | before I got through with it. — Pittsburg | Chroniels. York churches. et potatos quae we *“The National in Century. Meck Iiand, The hum of the spinning wheel i» till a familiur sound on Block island, o (unite and interesting resort in sunimer #wod » miniatures world in winter, in which tise habits and custcmi sre thom anes X 150 yeurs ago. The island is 15 miles | WSO | of the Rhode Islsnd shore and almost | directly south of stormy Point Judith Then are times during the winter Joos land at a veloetty of #4 miles an hour, sud women take their lives in their bands when they ventore out of | doors. The jsolation of the ixiand is al- | i royal mother, quite ignorant of thy! cause, took Lim on hor lap to pacify complete. ‘John Bebofield established the first “1 woolen mill in Connecticut near Oak- | dale, whers the carding wae done hy power curds In 1798 the Block island- urs begin to send wool to the mill to be carded into rolls. and generation after generation bave kept up the praction, Formerly many bags of grain accompa nied the wool, end grist and woolen mills were kept running day and night, while the Suhermen and farmers od themselves fn the quiet Connections | | village until the work was done, —New enjoy- York Herald. « Hard on Mothers-in-inw, In the lands of Now Britain & man WE ot speak 60 his mother-in-law. oe! Not only is speech forbidden to this rel. | ative, bat she must be avoided, and if | by any chance the lady is met the son- in-law most hide himeelf or cover his face. Suicide of both parties is the out. nome if the rule is broken, One of the | English missionaries tried to fet the natives’ ideas of an oath, and he fond the mont soleus asieveration among thom was, "If | mm not telling the truth. | bope I may touch the band of wy mother-in-law. Pearson » Maga mine. : Julian Hawthorne is the an of Na- | thanieli Hawthorne. He was born in 1846, but he does not show his 30 years. When he was » boy of 7, sume lady's re mark on the fact that be was “weak chested’ stung him, and he determined to make that comment impossible in the future. How well he mcceodud id svidenced by the fact that while he was in college his chest menssure was 48 inches, and it i# well known that the late John OU. Heenan, the pugilist, ad Slo e— vised the young man to enter the prise 1 It is emid that the first book printed | ring. | in this country fram stereotype plates | was a catechism by » Mr. Waits This work was issged in New York inthe "lyear 1513 and was compiled for the | benefit of the children of several New First Lady--1 don't see bow you ean afford to let your lodgers owe you sey- eval weeks' rent Second Lady— Well, it’ 8 like this When they're in debt it affects their ap- petites—ihey mever like to ask for second helping—#o it comes cheapist in the end, — London Tit-Bita Se—— wnderstand the brntal ; she was forinred, until, termine on hor sanonser, gh opel Hero of Francs," by Maurice Boutes de Manvel, | bess, thus of destruction by fire, aven though ther may be ample strength in the abso of five. Engineering News, done by a high priced mi bad fo remember that and | eck ot for i it." "Troy Times, He Anked Tos Mori The waiter secidontally jogged th Lolhew of the mun esting renklast i ; the wtaarant, The worse] that he was shoot 10 cot: canes fell to the Boor The next moment be avi n startied | ery and turned desthly pals; AH ras confovion, The propristor and the fsbupants of | the other tables jumped op ad roshed to his amsistapee, His face had assumed a bluish hua, whith was quickly followed Ly 4 green. ish calor and then by a purplish finge. The case looked seriou, Mr bBo wt evidently spoplectiv, ; Fionliv. to the relief of all, ho wa | resis itated, All demanded an explanation. “I mm webject to boart dhease,” I | at length exclaimed, “and ny seven: shook is likely to kill me. U's a won: der Tin alive to tell the mia “What tale?’ they uked nigesly. “Flasvous, gentlemen? bi yeplied, an his cheeks blanched at the recalled! tion, ‘you'll hardly believe we bat | gwenr on my onth that when the waite knockin that piece of bread und butose out of my band it fell tn the Aeiir with the butter side up” The others mrveved him pityiogly. “Something has affected bis brain, thoy whispered one to the other, * have | One by one they drow swiy and id bim alone. — New York Worlik, lagi i Gained Wis Point. . In ths days when her majesty wenl down tr) Windsor by road she liked oo little vo)’ fast ti) pleases bor ewcort, especially the we officers who rode thedr own horses AD galians captain, afterward un repownil| | M. P., was one day in command sul! | riding at the head of bis trogp. Just bi front of him, with his back to the horsey of In the olive iF be dviven at a rapid paen-.a of the: onrriuge, sat the Prince of Wales, then 4 small child. The captain, direct: ly the: party started, lifted his band anid shook his fist in the Hite prince's face, The privee roared with fright, and hie him. When the prinos wis quiet mul resumed his seat, the captain agsin shook his fist, and this was repeated all the way down to Windsor. (At the emi) of the journey the queen learned exactly what bad cocnrrod and issged her oon mand thar the officer should never com. mand hor escort ugnin. This woe just what the captain boped would bappen. iit, Jarpos Gawette. STS FRR Sp i 1 His Preference. Her father is a phywician and an ad- mire of culture. But he grows weary | pow and then of hearing Mabel play scales and five Ager exercises. Alter ni bulf hour of work from ber exercis: book she tarped and said: **Father, I have taken up the stody of theory.” : “Have yoo?’ “Yen Thin’ she went on, striking | a» chard, “len tone. '" “Mabel.'" be answered n a tone of patience sorely tried, ‘I'm ever so much, obliged, but [ don't think that is what 1 neni. Bat if you had s sidutive that you could try on me I'd eppreciste ili more than tongue can teil, Washing ton Star. haan The Safety Point In Floors. Probably less in known by architeoty | and structural empinesrs and Hew fours shan of reourding the 2% other por tion of a building. The relative cost of the steel besins in % floor; us compared with the terra cotta or othe filing, ha enosed some builders to go to as ex treme in increasing the apans between | incressiug the risk rk isdn Muilded Better Thus He Knew. Mis. Jackson—1 thought you told. oe you tripumed shat hat yourself [I'm sure is in juss as stylish as i i had beer: miiliner Mm Johnson (complucently }— Yes, 1 think it bas a stylish look myself. You see, ny husband sat down on i aoed dentally after 1 had got dove and gaw i exactly the right twit, —Boston Courier. drown As jockeys, monkeys might nrely be made useful and would fail avery purpos for which the maniking wht ride on rave horses are stunted and sweated. Chambers’ Jour. sal ato Ea : fo ow sei of pape sonteibated 8 Engineering by Du Riche Preller on Highthouses in Evpope the renarkeble Cistatemiont is made that the jaminoos range of w Hbt of 300,000 cundle pow- or in the Mediterranean (44 milew) in equal to that of 5,000,000 candies in the echanneloqual tou ratio of one 10 bene hens, if is ndded, that, with the excep tion «f the electric flashing light of Planiny, pear Mareeilles, of 600,000 candi power, the most powerful min. eral all lights recently installed on the French, Corsican, Algerian and Tonle fan oases of the Mediterranean do not expend 35,000 candle power, having a Toniinons range of sbont 50 miles in av erage weather. On the other land, in the clisrinel and in the bay of Biseay the largest mineral ofl lights have lo- minis powers Bp fo aboot 200,000, and the electric lighting fash lights up to 92,500,000 and 87,500,000 candies Further, the maximom light of French Hghthiouse towers—that in, the beight of ‘the ferns above about BO fo TO meters, bat wme towers “bighest Ee ihae of junta Iotel, the Biglteet above the high water ses level, while its Jemitions power ix 6,000 candles and | itu Juminons range: Emtie Jue gat, rnd of their - thing in unheard of. Jt oonid never Jead, inc and e the air. Lead snd sine rapidly corrod away, copper wus corroded 10 loss ex- tent, ‘while in and antimony were iy compressibility of alloys it is ugrested | by this nuthority that uo alloy be : until it ix satisfactorily tod | Somalia magn br sgn | ably abcive the greatest load or shook to which, itt will be subjected in owe In’ testing the effect upon soft masa pear ings when the shaft sustained » he districts of Rome were - conflsgmtion instignted it is sid, = the Empercr Nera. The number of lives lost i¢ known to smount up jute the { bundreds, but the vaiug of the opty | | destrayoed cannot even be estimated. the mpperor’s command, thousands of Rotmwes rendered homeless and dosti. tate wire employed in removing the de bris and rebuilding the bumwd ety. Nore, to divert the odiom : To brown gun barrels, wet pisos of mg with chloride of aatimony, dip it! into live gil and rab the barvel over, | Iu 48 hours it will be covered with a fine . oat af rust Then rab the barrel with a fine steel soratoh brosh and wipe with | n rag dipped in boiled linseed oil To'| vebrown, remove the old coating with. oil and emery paper; them remove the grease; with niutic pot, i Peacocks generally sorenm 3 vociferous ly win & ohiange of weather is impend., ing. [n the countries where these birds ' are native the sign. Urogarded as um | tailing. Kuobisi Khan, the ry mogul ome perar of China: wap Ss Se oh rv, from the tragedies in bis own Gosinil ‘ )
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