acem— ; The Fighting Editors. 1 remember calling at the office of a great Parisian newspaper with a friend who wished to have rectified a state- ment published in “it concerning him. When our business was made known, we were ushered into a handsomely furnished room on the first floor. Seated at desks, without a trace of pens, ink or paper or of anything in a literary way except some new novels, together with a few packages of cigarettes, were two gentlemen whose appearance made a considerable impression on me. The were faultlessly dressed in deep black (the duelist’s color). Each had the rib- bon of the Legion in his buttonhole, their long jet black mustaches were waxed out to a point as fine as a needle’s, and there was in their whole manner, their voices, their gesturesvand the expression of their eyés and mouths an indescribable something that pro- claims the man who at one time or an- other has worn a uniform. These were the fighting editors, with whom evi- dently the pen was not mightier than the sword. They were civil, however, and consented to the recgfication of the paragraph. As fighting was their trade, * they looked at it in a purely business way anfl only went out when the de- mands made were too unreasonable to be entertained. I fancy that they some- times fought in defense of articles they had never even seen.—Cornhill Maga- zine. A Roland For His Oliver. It is gaid that Professor John Stuart Blackie often told ‘‘on himself’ this anecdote, which seems to indicate that personalities are not agreeable, even to those who deserve criticism. This genial old professor used to form a very picturesque feature in the Edinburgh streets. He was a wiry old patriarch, with handsome features and " “hair falking in ringlets about his shoul- Ld ong who had seen him could “TG ore him. One day he was accosted by a very dirty dittle bootblack with his ‘‘Shine your boots, sir?’ The professor was impressed by the filthiness of the boy’s face. “I don’t want a shine, my lad,’ said he, ‘but if you’ll go and wash your face I'll give you sixpence. ’’ ‘A’ richt, sir,”’ was the lad’s reply. Then he went over to a neighboring fountain and made his ablutions. Re- ‘turning, he held out his hands for the money. ~"%Well, my lad,” said the professor, “you have earned your sixpence. Here it ig.” #~ “1 dinna want it, auld chap, *’ return- ed the boy with a lordly air. ‘‘Ye can keep it and get yer hair cut. ”’ AL Anticholera Vaccination. Anticholera vaccination originated about 12 years ago with Dr. Ferran, a Spanish physician. His vaccine of eight drops of a cholera culture mixed with bile was used with many misfortunes upon 25,000 persons, but gave sufficient encouragement to lead to Haffkine’s ex- "periments, which have proved so suc- 1 in India. Haffkine employs ttenuated cholera bacilli, followed a few days later virulent cultures. Equally good results from the use of dead cholera bacilli—killed by either heat or chloroform-=—are now claime by Kolle, who gets the same effects by simply using somewhat larger doses of his less terrifying preventive. Compara- tive tests have shown that the blood of the vaccinated individuals is now 200 times as potent in resisting cholera in- evidence of the effectiveness of modern fact is mentioned that it has had 800,- 000 victims in Russia since 1892, while in Germany, including the Hamburg epidemic, its deaths have been but 9,000. The disease seems destined soon to become as obsolete as smallpox. Bishop Coxe’s Wit. Bishop Coxe’s wit was as quick as his memory. On one occasion, being in ’ a“plight railway accident, the bishop had a lower berth on one side of a car, the corresponding berth on the other side being occupied by a, Presbyterian minister. At the time of the concussion neither was hurt, but both were thrown into the aisle, their heads hitting to- gether. ‘‘Church unity,” said the Presby- terian divine. “Not entirely, ’’ said the bishop, rais- ing his hand to his heart. *‘‘Church unity to be complete must be of the heart as well as of the head.’ Another time a very lovely elderly lady happened to mention to him that she was a second cousin of that dis- tinguished but wunprincipled man, Aaron Burr. ‘‘I wish,” said the bishop quickly, ‘‘that you had had as good a _ ~~“ cousin as ho had.’’—George Alfred ‘Stringer. Fakirs. Fakirs is the name given toa cele- brated class of fanatics found in many parts of the cast, but more particularly in India. Some of them will make a vow to continue all their lives in one posture and adhere to it strictly. Others never lie down, but remain in a stand- ing position all their lives, upheld only by sticks or ropes under the armpits. They pretend to have subdued every passion of mortality. A Difficult Problem. “What kapes ye shtill so long, Do- lan?”’ inquired Mr. Rafferty. ‘‘Oi’m thryin to convince meself that it’s no harder to push a wheelbarrow on the level than to push me bicickle up hill an Oi can’t do it.”’—Washington Star. Great quantities of sulphur are mined in the craters of several extinct volca- noes in Mexico. Massachusetts annually imports from beyond her border eggs to the value of $56,000,000. On an average five peffons are killed daily in the coal mines of England, fection as that of the unvaccinated. As, methods of dealing with cholera the: He Would Not Deny It. A federal judge lately charged a jury | in a liquor case as follows: “In fates; years there seems to have been a dis- position to deny or ignore jadicial knowledge as to what constitutes in- toxicating liquors, aud the courts have manifested a desire to disavow any ju- dicial kuowledge on this subject. At the same time some of the courts have not hesitated to impute to juries an ex- tensive knowledge and information in | this regard. This court, however, will | follow the precedent established by the decision of Chuucellor Walworth upon this subject and will assume judicial knowledge concerning intoxicating liquors. In a trial in the state of Wis- cousin, where this. question arose in 1888, the trial judge declared that a man must be a driveling idiot who did | ) not know what beer was, and that it was not necessary to prove it to be an intoxicatnig liguor. ‘‘Later the supreme court of that state, in passing on the charge of the tria! judge, declared that his rulings in the case upon this question were not only clearly correct, but if his peculiar manner gave them force and emphasis it was not only proper, but commend- able. This court, therefore, will neither stultify itself nor impeach its own ve- racity by telling yon that it has not ju- dicial knowledge that the liquar com- monly known as ‘whisky’ is an intoxi- cating liquor or that the drink com- monly called a ‘whisky cocktail’ is an intoxicating drink. ’’—Lease and Com- ment. | Wesley and Methody. Louis XIV’s famous saying, “I am the state,’ js not far from being appli- cable to Wesley, however he would have revolted from saying, ‘‘I am the church.”’ But unquestionably the pro- longation of his life as both the apostle and lawgiver of his church throughout the whole of its adolescent and forma- tive period, during which it was plastic to his organizing and guiding hand, se- cured to it both its stable basis and its symmetrical development. Asa preach- er second only to that incomparable Whitefield whom a skeptic like Hume said he would go 20 miles to hean; as a hymnist second only to his peerless brother Charles, who has given 627 hymns to the Methodist hymn book, he was pre-eminent in fitness for patri- archal administration and government. No man has come so near the position of a Protestant pope. In Great Britain his sole judgment sufficed to exclude any member or minister deemed un- The Oat and the Mirror, o I had a favorite cat, which came habitually to my bedroom door as sogn a8 persons began to move about the Embalming Perfumes, Myrrh, which was fabulously suppos- ed to be the tears of Myrrha, who was turned into a shrob, was a plant of Caught by a New Game, ‘‘What's the matter with yon?” asked the head of the firm when he lish commercial traveler, having receiv- house in the morning and mewed for admittance, scratching to emphasize his request if immediate response were not made. One morning the idea seized me to place him upon the dressing table while | I was dressing. The cat at once gaw his | reflection in the mirror and began to arch his back and whisk his tail. He twisted and turned himself and began of course his apparent adversary did the same, mirror, evidently without the desired result. glass to investigate, returning thorough- ly dissatisfied und eager to get at closer quarters. began to stroke him, and in the mirror he now saw his own reflection and mine, with my hand upon his head. It seemed as if the cat took in the situa-! tion at once, tor he glanced from me to the reflection several times, lost his ir- ritation and settled down to watch the | proceedings, every now and then look- ing into the mirror and back to me. Many a time subsequently he took up! his position before the mirror, quietly | and naturally regarding his own and | my image without the slightest emo- tion. —Current Literature. An Unconscious Rebuff. The Rev. H. R. Haweis, author of | “Music and Morals,” tells a good story in his book, ‘‘Travel and Talk,” of an | unconscious rebuff he once received in a railway carriage: ! An old gentleman who sat opposite l had been eying me over his evening pa- | per with what I fancied was a look of recognition. Presently he handed me ' the paper and pointed to an article on | a musical subject. ‘‘I thought, sir,’’ he said politely, ‘‘you might like to see this article," One glance was sufficient. I recog- | nized an almost verbatim chapter of “Music and Morals.” Disgusted at the fraud, I handed the paper back, re- marking that I was quite familiar with the contents. *‘In fact,’’ I rashly added, ‘‘it is a chapter out of ‘Music and Mor- als.” You may know the book?’ “Indeed, sir, I never heard of it. Who! is it by?’ “Oh,” I said, ‘‘a man named Haweis —a parson, you know.” ‘Oh, really! I never heard of him!’ ‘‘Haven’t you?’ said L worthy. In America, in 1770, the deed of the old John Street church, the first Meth- odist church in America, restricted its use to such persons as Wesley should appoint. This autocratic gonstitution was but a natural incident of the period of tuteluge through which scattered co- cieties, mainly composed of the humbler sort of people, with their visible bond chiefly in the person of their beloved : founder and father, grew at length into, a fully organized church in the form of a Presbyterian episcopacy. —Outlook. = Calling the Chickens. In England the calls chuck, chuck, or coop, coop, prevail; in Virginia, coo-che, coo-che; in Pennsylvania, pee, pee. This latter call is widely em- ployed, being reported from Germany, Spain (as pi, pi), Bulgaria, Hungary, Bavaria and the Tyrol. In the Austrian province the term is used in combina- tion, thus: Pulla, pi, pi; the call pul- lele, pul, pul, also occurs there, In some parts of Germany the poul- try are called with tick, tick; in Prus- sia, put, pat, 2nd young chickens with tuk, tuk (Grimm), and schip, schip, the latter being an imitation of their own cry. In eastern Prussia hens are called with kluckschen, kluck, kluck; also tippchen, tipp, tipp. Grimm re- cords also pi, pi, and tiet, tiet. Wein- hold reports from Bavaria bibi, bibeli bidli; pi, pi, and pul, pul. In Denmark the call is pootle; in Holland, kip, kip; in Bohemia, tyoo; in Bulgaria, tiri, tiri.—American An- thropologist. A Safe Place. Father %Zugh Lagan of “San Rafael is a pious priest and an excellent racon- teur. His reverence relates that he was called in recently to administer the last rites of mother church to a dying sin- ner, who, like himself, was a native of the Emerald isle. “I have but one request to make, father,’ gasped the dying penitent. *‘What is it, my son?” inquired the priest. ‘‘That when Iam dead, father, you will put me to rest in the Hebrew cemetery.’ ‘‘And what for?’ asked Father La- gan, “Because, your reverence,” moaned the sick man, ‘‘it is the last place on the face of the globe where the divil would look for an Irishman. ’’—London Figaro. What She Wouldn't Do. At Hawick the people used to wear wooden clogs, which made ‘a clanking noise on the pavement. A dying old woman had some friends by her bedside, who said to her: ‘‘Weel, Jenny, ye are gaun to heaven, and gin ye see ony o’ oor folk .ye can tell them we’re a’ weel.”’ To which Jenny replied: *‘Weel, gin I should see them I'se tell them. But ye mauna expect me to gang clank- clankin through heaven lookin for your folk. ’”’—Scottish Nights. Animals and Steam Machinery. That proverbially stupid animal, the ox, stands composedly on the rails without having any idea of the danger that threatens him. Dogs run among the wheels of a departing railway train without suffering any injury, and birds seem to have a peculiar delight in the steam engine. Larks often build their nests and rear their young under the switches of a railway over which heavy trains are constantly rolling, and swal- “No, ’" said he. *“Oh!’’ said I, and the conversation dropped. So of whomsoever it may be said or sung, “’E dun know where ’‘e are,” in the long run ‘‘most everybody” finds his level, - Chewing the Betel Nut: _ Maxwell Sommerville, in his book “Siam on the Meinam, From the Gulf to Ayuthia,’” says that, the chewing of the betel nut being a common habit, at every little distance as you go through the bazaar of Bangkok may b. seen petty merchants busy making and sell- ing the preparation so universally mas- ticated. “The leaves if which the prepared mixture fs wrapped are from a vine known as the chavica betel. The nut is from the arica betel palm, which reaches a height of about 60 fest, whose branches bear several large bunches of nuts, which harden and redden as they ripen, and which resemble somewhat the bunches of fruit on the date bearing palm. The dealers cut up their green leaves into the proper triangular form, crack the nuts, and with wooden spatu- las work the tumeric stained juice into a paste. It is amusing to see how skill- fully they form the pieces of green leaf into pointed, cone shaped cups, into each one of which they place a portion of the ingredients.’ Oxygen and Mushrooms, A singular way of removing oxygen from the air by the aid of a plant is described by Dr. T. L. Phipson iu Lhe Chemical News. Insidea gi: = bell jar, suspended over water, is placed a mush- room, and sunlight is allowed to fall upon the plant. The mushroom absorbs the oxygen from the air in the jar, and the carbonic acid formed during the process is absorbed by the water, which gradually rises in the jar to one-fifth of its height. The mushroom now dries up, but its animation is only suspend- ed, as may be proved by introducing beside'it a green plant, when it will recommence to vegetate, being nour- ished by the oxygen exhaled from the fresh plant. The Huns. The first mention of the Huns in his- tory is in China, B. C. 210. They con- quered that country and were afterward driven out by the Celestials and marched clear across Asia, penetrating the coun- try now known as Hungary in 376 A. D. For atime they threatened to overrun the whole of the continent, but were defeated in the heart of France and driven back tothe banks of the Danube. The Two Garricks. George Garrick, borther of the cele- brated David, was the latter’s most de- voted slave and laborious pack horse. On coming behind the scéne he usually inquired, ‘‘Has David wanted me?’ It being asked once how George came to die so soon after the demise of his fa- mous brother, a wag replied, ‘‘David wanted him,” Women as Thieves. Why are ladies the biggest thieves in existence? Because they steel their pet- ticoats, bone their stays, erib their ba- bies and hook their dresses.—Golden Penny. About $2,000,000 worth of American whisky is annually sent abroad, most of it from Baltimore. It is said that no country in the world shows so great a variety of plant life as Mexico. lows make their homes in engine houses. to ‘‘spit,'’ as if eager for a contest, pig Then he struck savagely at the | Puzzled, he went behind the! With a hearty laugh I drew pear and | | the memory of the dead the mummies | proclaims his Arner had taken know what she thonght of him in a way that reminded me of some London slum scenes. his temper, as he surely does sooner or —0r wives. — “Travels In West Africa,’’ teers, and on the first parade day his sister came with his mother to see the regiment, step. —Glasgow Herald. handsome appearance, with spreading, fernlike folinge and large umbels of , white flowers, It was found principally | in Arabia and Abyssinia. In early times | the perfume distilled from it was great: ly in requisition for embalming. Herodotus gives a detailed acoount of the ancient mode of embalming, which | is perhaps more instructive than pleas- | ing. perfumes. It was then steeped in na- tron, a strong selution of soda} for 70 days. After this it was wrapped in bands of fine perfumed linen, smeared with aromatic gums. Not: only people were thus embalmed, but the crocodiles of Lake Moeris, which, after their mummification, were decorated with ornaments and jewels and laid in one of the subterranean passages of the great labyrinth with much pomp and display. The sacred cat, ichneamon and other cherished ani- mals devoutly worshiped by the Egyp- tians were embalmed with scrupulous and fanatical care. On days special to were newly sprinkled with perfume, in- cense was offered before them and their heads anointed with fresh oil—in the same spirit as we lay new blooms upon the graves of our dead. — London Society A View of the Sultan. Here is a first view of the sultan as Mrs. Max Muller sees him. She de- scribes it in her ‘‘ Letters From Constan- tinople:”’ “The green enameled and richly gilded barc—che comes in sight, drawn by two glorious black horses cover: d with gold- harness, driven by am. n in bright k..e and gold livery, and each side the groom: in blue and g: . and every man in sight, naval, mili tary, civil, master or servant, in the all pervadirg but all becoming fez. “In the carriage sits a small yet stately man, in a simple cloth military overcoat, with no cider or decoration « f any sort, only his curved sword an fez like the rest. His large hooked nc iun mother E.- i to our window piercing éyes are as he passes, but his face is still and immovable, and he ecaluics Lo cue, though his whole perscn has a swaying motion, so faint thot it may only Le caused by the swavii 1 no tt cf the cariage. Opposite L: ier] miujesty sits Osman Ghazi hero'ct LU12vna, y te friend, whom he trusts implicitly, Mother Goose. The thost popular children’s book ever writteh was ‘‘Mother Goose’s Melodies.’ Mrs. Goose, or ‘‘Mother Goose,” as she was familiarly called, was the mother-in-law of Thomas Fleet, a Boston printer, early in the last cen- tury. When his first child was born, his mother-in-law devoted all her at tention to the baby, and, it is ®4id, greatly annoyed Fleet by her persidtent and not particularly musical ¢hanting of the old English ditties she had heard in her childhood., The ‘idea occurred to Fleet of writing ‘down ‘these songs and publishing them ‘in book form. The oldest extant copy bears the date of 1719. The price marked on the title page was ‘‘two coppers.’’ This account of the origin of “Mother Goose’’ is dis- credited by some critics, who declare that in 1697 Perrault published “Contes de ma Mere 1’Oye,’’ or *‘Stories of Mother Goose.”” The name *‘‘Mother Goose’! was familiar in French folk- lore, being used by writers of this lit. erature over a century before the time of Perrault. The Black Maria. In Bostcn’s early days a negress named Maria Lee kept a sailors’ board- ing house near the water front. She was a woman of gigantic size and pro- digious strength and was of great as- sistance to the authorities in keeping the peace. When an unusually trouble- some fellow was on the way to the lockup, Black Maria, as Maria Lee was called, would come to the assistance of the policeman, and her services were in such requisition for this purpose that her name was associated with almost every arrest made, Black Maria often carried a prisoner to the lockup on her shoulder, and when the prison van was instituted for the purpose of carrying prisoners it nat- arally enough was styled the Black Maria.—Journal of Education. A Stupid Lady Bountiful. “I once showed an old lady much given to good works of the Lady Boun- tiful order how scie proteges of hers who were cor on the verge of starvation mi be placed in possession of a smull but regular and sufficient in- come. ‘My dear,’ she said, ‘I don’t think it is a good plan. They would get too independent. I like them to come to me when they are in difficul- ties and ask for what they want.’ ”’— “Rich and Poor,” by Mrs, Bosanquet. Women In West Africa. Many times when walking on Lem- barene island have I seen a lady stand. in the street and let her husband, who shelter inside the house, When the hushand loses later, being a man, he whacks his wife by Mary H. Kingsley. Sisterly Admiration, A raw Scotch lad joined the volun- On the march past Jock was out of “Look, mither,” said his sister, “they’re a’ oot o’ step but oor Jock.” I After the body had undergone much preparation, which, to spare your feelings, I will not describe, it was filled with powdered myrrh, cassia and other oame in and found the junior partner pacing the floor like a caged lion. *‘ Understand that this is strictly be- tween ourselves, '’ came the answer in an irritated voice. ‘There are some without any assistance or sympathy from others. I was sitting here an hour ago looking through the mail. A well dressed man with pleasing manners came in and asked for you, stating that there was an important matter of busi- ness about which he must talk with you personally. We had a pleasant lit- tle chat, when he looked at his watch, said he seemed to have conflicting en- gagements, and asked if he might use the telephone. Of course I consented and showed him through the next room into the booth. ‘In about ten minutes he came out smiling, thanked me cordially and said he would be back in half an hour to transact his business with you. He wasn’t more than out of the building when the telephone jingled and the main office inquired whom that message to St. Louis should be charged to. ‘* ‘What message?’ I yelled excitedly. ‘‘ ‘Why, the one that just went over the long dwtance, of course.’ ‘*My knees quaked gnd my voice quavered as I asked how much it was. ** ‘Just $15.80,’ came the maddening Freply. ** ‘Charge it to me,’ I shouted, and then chased wildly around the block looking for the fellow. That was an- other fool trick. To think of a man of my age and experience being such an unmitigated and infernal chump! I'll hunt that fellow to the ends of the earth. But don’t you say a word. Mind now. "’—Detroit Free Press. The Tame Fox. Southey’s story is of a tame fox at Bridgwater, which had been brought up from a cub to run in the wheel as a turnspit. One day, however, ®his vaga- bond instincts proved too much for him, and he determined to take a holiday. The fleshpots of his Egypt were as dust and ashes to his palate compared with the chickens of his own selection. Un- fortunately he chose the hunting season for his excursion, and soon came in con- tact with his hereditary persecutors. He evidently determined to give them a good run, for he took them twice through a stream called the Parrot, after a grand circumbendibus, which involved a chase of nearly 30 miles. He cry, and re-entering the kitchen re- sumed operations in the wheel with as much unconcern as though he had never left it. The fat cook, with whom he was a great favorite, succeeded in beat- ing the hounds off until the arrival of the huntsman, whe humanely assisted in saving a%ife which, if sagacity and ingenuity by virtues, well deserved to be spareti- —New Illustrated Magazine. She Was Prepared. A certain minister always felt it to be his duty to give each young couple a little serious advice before he per- formed the marriage ceremony, and for this purpose he usually took them aside, one at a time, and talked very soberly to each of them regarding the great im- portance of the step they were to take and the new responsibilities they were to assume. One day he talked in his most earnest manner for several min- utes to a young woman who had come to be married to a bright looking young man. ‘*And now,” he said in closing, *‘I hope you will fully realize the extreme importance of the step you are taking and that you are prepared for it.” ‘‘ Prepared!” she said innocently. ¢ Well, if I ain’t prepared I don’t know who is. I've got 4 common quilts and 2 nice ones and 4 brand new feather beds, 10 sheets and 12 pairs of pillow slips, 4 all linen tablecloths, a dozen spoons and a good six quart teakettle. If I ain’t prepared, no girl in this coun- try ever was.’’—Dundee Times. Books Which Come High, A writer in a critical review says that one-half of the book buying public does not know what the other half buys. All the books that are published are by no means to be found in the bookstores. The most beautiful and costly books never find their way into the shops at all, are not sent out for re- view and are known to a very limited number of people. Immense sums are yearly spent on the making of such books, which bring from $100 to $1,000 each. These expensive volumes are not sold in the ordinary way, but entirely by subscription, and the business of | selling them in the United States is in the hands of about half a dozen men, who neither sell nor attempt to sol anything else. Their season is shé™, but the profits are large, and they li at the most expensive hotels and’ drive about luxuriously in broughanis with a man servant in attendance to carry tho books. Long Ago Life In Washington, There are some entertaining pictures of life in Washington %0 years ago in Stratford Canning’s diary and letters. “My predecessor,” he writes, “had greatly. the advantage over me in his collection ef good stories. I record one of them to serve as a pattern of the rest. He was Sir Charles Bagot, a man of very attractive manners, intelligent, witty and kind. An American minister and his wife dining with him one day, he heard Lady Bagot, who was at some distance, say rather, quickly, ‘My dear Mrs. S., what can you be dping? The salad bowl had been offered to Mrs. S., and her arm was lost in it up to the elbow. Her reply was prompt—‘Only rollicking for an onion, my lady.’ ”’ The Venetian Rialto. The Rialto at Venice is said to have been built from designs of Michael Angelo. It consists of a single marble arch 28 feet long and was completéd nbout 1592. things that a man wants to endure made his way back with hounds in full | ter asking for a ‘‘sentiment’’ and his! ger that which is of interest only to yourself, always inclose a stamp. There's your senti- ment, and here's your autograph. ing country in the world although the industry is conducted on an enormous scale in ghe United States and elge- where. —— "Scotty's Reckless Generosity, ~~ On his fitst visit to Aberdeen an Eng- ed some marks of kindness from one of its inhabitants, exclaimed in an offhand way on his departure: ‘“If at any time you or any of your people come up to London, don’t put up at a hotel, but come to us.’’ ‘Oh, thank ye!’ replied the Scot la- ronically, and away the southron went. ¥ Six months passed, and the English- man had long forgotten the incident, when, to his surprise, he received one morning the following note: My DEAR FRIEND—AS myself, my wife and four children are coming up to London for a . fortnight, we will be glad to avall ourselves of your kind invitation. Facing the situation with unquestion- able courage, the southerner put him- self to unutterable inconvenience to ac- commodate his guests. He took them everywhere, paid for everything, and | at the end of the stipulated time they announced their departure. The host ac- companied them to the station and in the fullness of his gratitude at the ex- odus invited the father to have a part- ing drink. ‘‘Come along, old fellow. What is it to be—whisky and soda, as usual? Two Scotches and soda, please, miss,” ‘‘Na, na!’ replied the Scot solemnly. ‘“Nane o’ that. Ye’ve been vera guid to me and mine durin the last fortnicht— | hae ta’en us everywhere and paid for everything. Na, na; we'll hag a toss for the last.’’—London Answers tEoy ¥ On the Pronunciation of Pepys. The Hon. Walter Pepys has collected 17 varieties of the spelling of the name, and he lays some stress upon the French form Pepy as authority for the pronun- ciation favored by him. Peeps seems to follow the usual practice, as Weems for - Wemys, and, moreover, it is that adopt- ed by the descendants of the diarist’s sister Paulina, the family of Pepys Cockerell. Peeps is also the traditional pronunciation adopted at Cambridge. Here is, I think, strong evidence in fa- vor of Peeps. At the same time I believe that in this name, as in other words, the pronunciation of the vowel q hag changed since the seventeenth century, and that the name in Pepys’ own day was actually pronounced Papes. This opinion is grounded on the phonetid spelling Peaps and Peyps which have come down to us, and both these would represent Papes; ea—a, as in yea, break, great; ey—a, us in obey and they. In this matter, however, I have nof the courage of my opinion, and I am not, therefore, prepared to adopt this pronunciation. — Notes and Queries. Electro-maghetic Voiéé, Professor W. E. Ayrton of London stated recently that ‘‘there is no doubt the day will come, maybe when you and I are forgotten, when copper wires, gutta percha coverings and iron sheath- ings will be relegated to the museum of antiquities. Then, when a person wants ‘to telegraph to a friend, he knows not where, he will call in an electro-mag- netic voice, which will be heard loud by him who has the electro-magnetic ear, but will be silent to every one else. He will call, ‘Where are you? and the reply will come loud to the man with the electro-magnetic ear, ‘I am at the bottom of the coal mine, or crossing the Andes, or in the middle of the Pacific.” Or, perhaps, no voice will come at all, and he may then expect the friend is dead. Think what that will mean. Think of the calling which goes on from room to rcom, then think of that calling when it extends from pole to pole—a calling quite audible to him who wants to hear, absolutely silent to him who does not.” n i Japanese Self Sacrifice, a d On board the Matsushima one man, who had been shot ims the abdomen and whose intestines were protruding from the gaping wounds, refused to be car- ried to the surgeon’s ward, because, he gpid, he did not want to take any of the | fighters from their work in order to carry him below. Another, after hay- ing had his body burned out of all recognition in attempting to extihgfish a fire, stood by helping all he could till the flames were put ont, hen he died. A third (mortally swbunded) man, whose every gasp brought forth a gn h of, blood, would not close his eyes until he had told a comrade where the key of an important locker was and what the locker contained. A chief gunner, whose under jaw had been shot away and who could, of course, not utter a word, signed to a subordinat8 with a nod te take his place and fell dead after he had ‘placed the handle of the gun lever in his subordinate’s hand.—‘‘Heroig ‘Japan, 2” A Mathematical Wonder. d Jedediah Buxton was the greatest prodigy of mathematics that ever ap- | peared in England. His education wag very limited, and he had never been ' taught arithmetic or indeed any branch of mathematics, so that his abilities in this respect were peculiarly natural,’ He would walk over a piece of land and | tell with exactness how many acres and | square rods were contained in it. Bis | Inemory was so great that while resolv. ing a question he could leave off and! resume the occupation again the mext! morning or at a week, a month or sey-} eral months later aud proceed regularly till it was completed. fg Lincoln's Sentiment. Abraham Lincoln once received a let- BE 2 autograph. 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