— LD RS NR. . od with in hot ing the sh, 8, an and moving hing is f one- eighth pound oil the le. Bee ver the 1ty-four er, and h. NER. opt cote Watch waste, the cot at his rr than had to have to cotton to use s, wall rs and e-quare gs, two butter re, and put in ves the sing to ‘urn ine ggs in, a mine all to- on the 1 great uttered mn, take ch one tes in a should make a with a double 1 pinch id two t in a ne egg f pow- k. Re- voonful 2 puffs, ibes = e room , deco- ne pice 7 room ne cor- On a dow is en and 1 make the lit- dolls” e from re is a rawers lowest v's, old ld artis delect= magine A very, Ip as a A care space, drills terious . shelf models stains, ngs on \ 1d one sugar » from crea, in ripe 1antity easant put in 00k to , then yoonful lemon sugar; it will pint of reamy. of su- s into nl gin- ne-half lve a water flour, 1t into :d pan ityle)— ed fin- i from s good onfuls [ flour until Iks of hard to sea- Edam , heat serve I WOMEN: (7 : | SMOKING CAR FOR WOMEN, The first smoking car ever reserved for women in Great Britain left a big London terminus a few days ago for Liverpool. The windows bore a label ceading “Ladles’ Smoking.” The in- aovation attests the spread of smoking among Englishwomen during recent year. A NEW FASHION, The latest fad in table decoration among the ultra-fashionable is to com- * pletely cover the cloth with blossoms. The flowers are spread in a close mass over the entire centre of the table, leav- ing only enough space for the necessi- ties of the service. From the midst of the blossoms silver or rare china or- naments rise with charming effect. At a dinner recently given the table savas hidden under a mass of pale roses; azalea blossoms and antique Dresden china were wonderfully effective on such a setting. Another dinner given by a French countess had the cloth spread with Parma violets. MANIA FOR EMBROIDERY. “The modern French woman is pos- sessed of a mania for sewing, knitting and embroidery,” says an observer. “Are we waiting for breakfast? Mme. la Marquise will produce a lace and satin bag and out of it a strip of primitive looking embroidery, at which she works until the bell rings. After funcheon the bag reappears, and I am not sure that it does not come out in the closed motor car. This fury for industry has seized all classes of the French people. At an afternoon con- cert at Trouville one day 1 counted a dozen women around me whose hands were busy during the most thrilling ef- forts of the orchestra.” i UNPOPULAR GIRLS. The egotistical girl, who never finds any conversation interesting unless it be of herself, and who is never shown anything without telling you that she has something similar, only ever so anuch nicer and more costly. The girl who has no kindly feeling or sympathy, and looks down on all who are less fortunate in any way than herself. The girl who is always trying to make mischief between friends and jovers, and pulling her own acquaint- ances to pleces behind their backs, says Woman's Life. She who, having traveled a good deal and seen a lot of the world, can do nothing but depreciate her own coun- try and people. CREPE-AND-MEDALLIONS GOWN. If you are the possessor of a worn out Irish lace curtain, you have the material for a summer gown. A girl in Brooklyn seized a curtain that her mother was about to give to the cook. After giving the lace a bath in hot soapsuds and drying it, she cut out the medallions and placed them upon a pale blue crepe gown. She arranged the figures haphazard. The smaller medallions were used on the waist, and even the frazzled edges were sewed on so skillfully that their former state mwvas not apparent. “Crepe and lace medallions” sounds too extremely ex- pensive, and her friends are saying she certainly does spend a lot on her gowns. When she hears that, she laughs in the crepe sleeve.—New York Press. i —— { WHAT TO TEACH YOUR SON. Teach him to be true to his word and nvork. To respect religion for its own sake. | mo face all difficulties with courage and cheerfulness. To form no friendships that can bring him into degrading associations. To respect other people's convictions. To reverence womanhood. To live a clean life in thought and svord as well as in deed. Teach him that true manliness al- svays commands success. That to command he must first learn to obey. That there can be no compromise be- tween honesty and dishonesty. That the virtues of punctuality and politeness ore excellent things to cul- tivate. That a gentleman is just what the svord implies—a man who is gentle in his dealings with the opinions, feelings and weaknesses of other people—The Mother's Magazine. PARIS COIFFURES. It can’t be truthfully said that hats are improving any in grace, and it must be confessed that a large num- ber are decidedly outre and even un- couth—well calculated to make a wom- an look her worst instead of her best, as a truly good hat should, says a avriter in the New York Herald. As a rule, American women are too care- Jess in the coiffing of their hair to look avell under most of the Parisian con- fections. Tag ends and ruffled locks do not go well with the tilted hat that rises with appalling abruptness from the coiffure to tower far above it, leav- ing the base exposed in the most un- compromising fashion, this base com- prising almost the entire head of the hapless wearer. The habit of marcel waving the hair is not only bad for the hair itself as to growth and strength, but it inevitably breaks off the hair, causing more and more tag ends. In Paris they use liquid preparations for keeping the hair smooth, and also the large meshed nets made of natural Bair, these so carefully, arrapged that ‘long arm.—New York Mail, they confine all the stray ends and yet themselves ar» not visible under cas. ual inspection, Without these ad- junets or a net veil the lofty, tilted hats should be wholly abjured, for there is neither comfort nor style in them une less properly worn and with the proper accompaniments, WOMEN'S APPETITES. “Women eat too much,” said the manager of one of the smartest hotels in the city. “It's no wonder to me that women are ill half the time. It's all due to overeating, in my estimation. You know I see so much of it here that I sometimes wonder how they have any digestions at all. One wom- an, for instance, who entertains elab- orately, dropped in to see my wife only yesterday after arranging for a large dinner party on Thursday night. “Where do you think I've been? she demanded the first thing. Of course no one guessed. ‘To the doctor's to have my stomach washed out. Ob, ves, I know what you will say—too many late suppers, lobster a la New- burg and devilled crabs; but what would I do if I didn't eat? Out of town guests expect to do nothing else when they come to New York, and it's the most acceptable way to repay one's indebtedness, so unless you go info a sanitarium you must keep up with the procession.’ “I happen to know,” went on the man, “that this woman spends money galore on Turkish baths, massage, not to mention doctor's prescriptions, to keep herself in good health, when all she needs is to stop eating. The re- sults would be better in every way and immeasurably cheaper.” — New York Sun. ENA'S WEDDING ROBE. Princess Ena of Battenberg will have a gown for her marriage with King Alfonso of Spain which will be symbolic not only of her adopted coun- try but of the religion she has em- braced. The gorgeous fabric of the embroidered brocade is now being woven in Spain. After the ceremony which changes the English Princess into a Queen the wedding garment, according to the usage of the Spanish court, will be dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. This rite iz one of peculiar beauty and significance. For the rest Princess Ena's trous- seat1 will be of English manufacture. Among them will be many morning and afternoon gowns of the sheerest muslin to meet the heat of the South- ern summer. These will be elaborately tucked, with insertions of lace, some of which are heirloowns in the posses- sion of Princess Henry of Battenberg, who received them from her mother, Queen Victoria. There is in addition a most valuable collection of rare laca for the yreignoirs and petticoats of the royal bride. Sev- eral so-called Ascot toilets for the trous- seau are a mass of fine lace and the filmiest of gauze. A number of cloth and cashmere gowns are included in the number. The lingerie is of cobweb fineness and is all handwork. the stitches be- ing so small as to be barely percep- tible even with a magnifying glass. The most expert needlewomen have been employed upon it.—Philadelphia Rec- ord. A NOTABLE WOMAN OF GOTHAM, It is worth noting that Stuyvesant Fish, to whom hundrads of thousands of holders of life insurance policies are turning as unto a new Moses who shall jead them into a land of promise where the deferred dividend does not flour- ish like a green bay tree, has caught the eye of the feminine contingent. Among the Four Hundred feeling runs high over the Fish-Harriman contro- versy; and the women side numerously with Mr. Fish. This is owing in so small measure to the popularity of his wife. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish has for years represented the utilitarian side of New York aristocratic life. She has write ten books, like Mrs. Clarence Mackay, but she has consistently protested against the frivolousness of the danc- ing faction, whose pride has been hu- miliated recently by the discovery that a noted cotillon leader had been col- lecting backstairs gossip and yending it at the expense of those who had ace cepted his leadership. Without taking a prudish view of the obligations of society, spelled with a capital S, Mrs. Fish has emphasized the desirability of more practicalness in the evolutions of the Four Hune dred; and her home has been & rally ing place for women of the same views. Mr. Fish has encouraged her propaganda. Some enemies she has made by ker mordant wit. She has a sharp tongue and uses it mercilessly like a flail up- on the weaknesses of her sisters; and some of these volatile dames have, from time to time, conspired against her peace of mind. To the precious crew who were behind the “Fads and Fancies” enormity, she was an object of special interest; but she could af- ford to ignore them. She has initiated a lively campaign in behalf of her husband's interests, and the support she is securing for him is not an inconsiderable factor. Her close personal friendship with Lady Northcliffe has not been without its effect, inasmuch as Lord North- cliffe’s intervention in the matter of the Mutual Life may possibly be traced to a clever New York woman with a THIS LITTLE BOY WAS RIGHT. Said Peter Paul Augustus: “When I am grown a man, I'll help my dearest mother the very best can. I'll wait upon her kindly; she'll lean upon my arm; ' I'll lead her very gently, and keep her safe from harm. “But, when I think upon it, the time will be so long,” Said Peter Paul Augustus, “before I'm tall and strong, I think it 1 | be wiser to be her pride and joy By helping her my very best while I'm a little boy.” ~The Brown Memorial Monthly. PIGEONS MATE FOR LIFE, When a pair of pigeons become mated they are practically “married.” In a loft of fifty husbands and fifty housewives each couple attends to its own household affairs, does not worry about its neighbors, but goes on build- ing nests, laying eggs and raising young. They are very devoted to each other and divide all labor except- ing laying eggs. FLY FEATHER. Some games suited to younger chil- dren will be given to-day. Fly feather is an English play which :iakes lots of fun. Players put their chairs to- gether to form a close circle. A small downy feather with a very short stem is procured and thrown as h'gh as pos- sible in the air. It is then blown, the object of each player being not to be touched by it. The person it falls up- on pays a forfeit, and the e are re- deemed ct the end of the game. It must not be blown too violently, or it will fly so high that it will be diti- cult to reach, and the one who blows it outside the circle must also pay a forfeit. When children play it they usually prefer to dance around in pursuit of it, but they must not let go each other's hands to catch it in iis descent. The player who goes through three rounds without being touched wins the game. —Philadelphia Record. YELLOW-BELLIED WOODPECKER —He is jolly. —He is ever boisterous. —He has other little “ways wiz im.” —He ruins maple and fruit trees. —He thirsts for sap instead of for fruits. —He drills holes into the freshest. most vigorous trees. —He also s‘rips the bark from a tree that he may peck at the soft wood underneath. —He excavates eighteen or twenty inches in order to have a safe home for his family. —He ranges all the way from shiv- ery Labrador to geuial Central Amer- ica. —In April he flies northward and in October he again returns to Southern haunts. —Have you heard him drum against the limbs and truuks of trees? One authority says that is the way he calls Lis mate.—Philadelphia Record. THE CUNNING JROW. Once a chained-up watch-dog lay in front of his kennel lazily picking a bone. A hungry crow looked on with longing eyes, and hoped that by di- verting the attention of the dog it might succeed in securing the bone for itself. So it came as clcse to the ani- mal as it dared, and began to indulge in all sorts of ridiculous antics; the dog, however, took not the slightest notice. Then the crowy hurrie« off and fetched a friend, who seated himself on the bough of a tree just behind the kennel, while the first crow again danced pefore the dog. As the animal continued to remain absolutely indif- ferent, the crow friend flew into the air, suddenly swoopin;: down, and struck the dog's spine a tremendous blow with its beak. The dog started with surprise and pain, and dropping the bone, made a fierce but unsuccess 11 grab at his assailant, Meanwlile, the first crow snatched the bone as quick as light- ning, and flew off with it; the two con- spirators than shared the stolen prop- erty between them.—Baptist Argus. HOW A MALTESE WAS WHIPPED. One Cay while standing at my win- dow watching the shifting clouds and drowsy swaying of the trees, my at- tention was cal'ed to the peculiar ac- tions of a large maltese cat in the field beyond our lawn. It would crawl along, stop, fumble something, th-~n go on a little distance, keeping this stopping and fumbling up for seme time. At last the lawn was reached, then through the fence the something came, followed by the cat. Then I saw what it was. A poor little mouse that the cat had been tormenting. The eat was too well fed to kill and eat its prey, but just indolent enough to torment and worry its poor vie- tim. On and en they came across the lawn. The eat would catch the poor little thing ia its claw, mouth it, and then let it go. Poor mousie, thinking he was free, would try to make good his escape, but the respite was only for a few minutes, when he would be grabbed aga. Across the lawa and up the terrace they came, just below the window where I was standing. When the top of the terrace was reached, the cat gave his victim one more squeeze, looking delighted at the poor exhausted thing, as much as to say, “I could kill and eat you if I wanted to.” Xou know it was the last straw For the Younger Children... that broke the camel's back, so this last squeeze and indignities were too much. The mouse turned round, faced the est eat on his hind legs like a squirrel when it eats a nut, and when the cat made another attempt to mo- lest him the mouse slapped the cat in the face with its little fist—I mean paw--with a blow equal to IMitzsim- mons’ own. The cat was taken so completely by surprise and so thoroughly disgusted with himself that he turned and fled, like the coward he was, and the mouse disappeared in a hole close to the cellar well, I was as surprised as the cat, and thoroughly enjoyed the discomfiture of poor pussy. I think it was the most amusing thing I ever saw, and if I had not seen the whole thing I would have been tempted to doubt the story if it had been told me.—E. Gray, in Philadelphia Ledger. — A HERO, “Ol, how cold!” escaped my lips as I stumbled through the door of a mis- erable attic tenement. The mother was out, but her twelve- year-old boy was mounted guard over the other children, as they played about the poorly furnished room. I shivered as the wind whistled through the broken window panes, causing me to pull my overcoat over my ears. The boy was in his shirt sleeves, but I refrained from asking questions as to the whereabouts of his coat in case its absence might have been the means of providing a crust of bread for the fatherless family. “Are you not cold, my boy?" I asked, “No.” said he, “not very.” Yet I noticed how his pretty pearly teeth chattered. I waited awhile and spoke to him; then I took a look into the cradle, where. sleeping quietly and comfortably. the baby lay, covered with the boy's coat. Talk about the bravery of men who face cannoa; in the heat of passion they will do any- thing; but here was a hero, on a bit- ter day. in his shirt sleeves because he wanted to shield his little brother from the biting effect of a cold February wind. Men say the age of heroism is past. It is false! So long as the nation raises boys like this one, she has within her- self the germs of a boyhood that will keep her forever in the very forefront of the world’s history.—Watchman. Property Controlled Wholly or in Part by J. D. Rockefeller. Mr. Rockefeller controls wholly or in substantial part approximately 475 great industrial, commercial and finan- cial corporations, exclusive of very re- cent acquisitions. In such of these as he does not own a majority of the stock his word is nevertheless law, since opposition to his desires means a tight destructive to those who would thwart his wishes. The 475 corpora- tions have a capitalization of $5,239, 008,802, and are grouped as follows: Railroads... «. +i.s sensces Industrial companies .... Banks and trust companies Nafe deposit companies Telegraph and telephone com- panies... .... cv Ce i es 182,870,000 Insurance companies . ei 3,200,000 Mining companies.... ...... 195,000,000 Gas, electric light and power COMPANIES. ov v0 seseroresen Traction and transportation 110,763,700 COMPANIES. .ouaruers ov saves 166,750,000 Navigation companies ....... 41,447,800 Total. ic vse ine vv nies 39,098,802 Mr. Rockefeller is largely interested in practically all of the leading banks, trust companies, building and loan companies and safe deposit and surety companies of New York City, and is also in eighteen outside financial insti- tutions. He is in five big mining cor- porations and in navigation companies, representing more than $40,000,000 of capital, of which one is the Pacific Mail Steamship. Ile controls sixty per cent. of the railroads of the coun- try, and nearly 6,000,000 human be- ings are dependent for the necessaries of life upon the earnings of those in the employ of the Rockefeller concerns. —New York World. Causes of Headache. “Every headache is not due to ine digestion,” said a doctor. ‘There are not less than fifty kinds of headaches, each due to a different cause.” The more frequent headaches are: “A dull headache across the fore. head, due to dyspepsia. “A pain in the back of the head, due to the liver. “A bursting pain in both temples, due to malnutrition. “An ache on the top of the head. as though a weight pressed on the skill, due to overwork. “An ache between the brows, just above the base of the nosé, due to eye strain.” Japanese Stoicism, U. Iwatani, a Japanese soldier on his way home from prison in Russia, com- mitted suicide on receiving a letter from his father saying that his con- duct in being taken alive would spoil the reputation of the Japanese army and cast odium on the names of the family and the villagers, and con- cluding by ordering him not to return home alive. Nathan Wesley Hale, a Republican Congressman from Tennessee, can claim descendance from Oliver Crom- well, and one of his ancestors, General Nathan Towson, was a Quartermaster. Genoaral under George Washington. New York has just been paid by the Natignal Government for equipment ied in the War of 1812 DOLLS OF ALL NATIONS, —— London Collector Describes the Play, things of Savage Children, The dolls of all nations and of all times occupied the attention of the Folk-Lore Society in London, the other night, when a lecture was given by Edward Lovett, who for years has col- lected dolls of every sort and size from all over the world. “It is most probable that dolls have existed in all times and in all coun- tries,” declared Mr, Lovett, “They have been found in the tombs of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian children, and some in my possession are at least 3000 years old.” Photographs of the queerest dolls imaginable were shown. From Cen- tral Africa came a fetish doll, con- sisting of a bundle of sticks with a piece of cloth wrapped around, and a small box in the middle supposed to contain the spivit of a departed ware rior, kept by adoring relatives. The doll played with by the children of Central Africa is a gourd, wrapped in a rag, with seeds on the top to rep- resent hair, The little ones of the French Congo nurse weird, carved wooden figures, with necks as long as cranes, and hands possessed of a mul- titude of fingers. | Some of the Indian dolls boast of a strange anatomy, the legs starting from just under the neck, while the hands are placed straight on the body without the formality of arms being introduced. “It is a strange fact,” said Mr. Lov- ett, “that the ancient Egyptian doll has jointed limbs exactly the same as the Dutch doll of to-day. The oldest Japanese dolls also are jointed, and so are the Matabele specimens. “The Christmas dolls of Germany, Belgium, and Russia show St. Nicholas or Santa Claus carrying in one hand | presents for good children, and in the other a birch for the bad ones. In Belgium St. Nicholas is too important a personage to go down the chimneys to the stockings himself, so he sends down his servant Ruprecht, who is al- s0 a popular doll. “Dolls used to be placed over shops to indicate what kind of mercrhandise was to be found within. For instance, a large bone draped with rags pointed out a rag and bone store. Some of my dolls are of iron and stone—evidently not being used ss playthings. Others are of wood and clay, and one old Eng- lish doll is of chalk, with flint eyes. “Dolls from Labrador and Alaska, and those of the North American In- dians before civilization reached them, | are quite characteristic while the faces | of the different tribes are admirably | shown. The same is the case with an- | cient Roman dolls. “All over the world dolls used to be made by the inhabitants for the amuse- ment of the children and dressed in the costume of the particular district. Now the shop doll is everywhere the golly- ! svog with the big eyes. “In some parts of France the people used to make dolls which caricatured each other. and this proved a source of considerable amusement to dwellers in lonely parts.” In the discussion which followed the lecture, it was pointed out that the his- tory of dolls has never yet been seri- ously considered, and that “the folk lore of dolls” had yet to be written. Manufacture of Pulp, The work of the Forest Service in gathering statistics of forest products for the past year his furnished the basis for a provisional statement of the wood consumed in the manufac- ture of paper pulp. As the accompany- ing table shows the returns from 159 firms, controlling 232 pulp mills, give out 3,000,000 cords as the total amount of wood used, Wood. Cords. Spruce (domestic]....coeensrarsnnes 1,564,000 Spruce (imported)........ . 614,000 Poplar (domestic) ..... 274,000 Poplar (imported) . 22,000 Hemlock... ... . 370,000 Pine ..o. veinivisn 57,000 Baleam.. .. svicdiian i «22,000 Miscellaneous..os eves ssenneans oe 93,000 Total .ovv sreeiv avsnee raavre5,016,000 The wood used was divided among the various processes as follows: Sul phite, 1,538,000 cords; soda, 410,000 cords; ground wood, 1,068,000 cords. The total pulp production by all pro- cesses by the firms reporting was 1,993,000 tons. According to the cen- sus of 1900, the consumption of pulp wood was then 1,986,310 cords, so that there has been an increase of over fifty per cent. in the last six years, This demonstrates, in a striking man- ner, the drai1 upon the forests caused by the pulp industry.~From Prelim- inary Agricultural Report. Small Figures Tiresome. Do you know that these small amounts, such as millions and,billions, are growing tiresome? I am going in for astronomy, where numbers are really worth while considering. There is our nearest neighbor among the fixed stars, dear old Alpha Centauri, who is just 25,000,000,000,000 miles away. She gets about her orbit at the rate of 186,000 miles a second, and when she throws out hcr flashlight it takes vs four years and 128 days to see it. If she should cry aloud we should be 3,000,000 years in hearing the sound of her voice. The Chicago Limited, starting from Alpha Centauri for New York, would arrive here in about 75,000,000 years.—Victor Smith, in the New York Press. Italy’s Annual Coal Bill. Anticipating an increase in the price of British coal in the near future, the harnessing of water power is engag- ing the attention of Italy. There is said to be 6,000,000-horse power avail- able in that country. The British cone sul at Naples says that the annual coal bill of Italy is $40,000,000, most | of which is paid to England. In 1905 486 new national banks were ' organized. REBATES. Hiclety pickety, my black hen, She lays eggs for railway men, They, to make the hen repeat, | Give her back the shells to eat. Thus we see another who (iets her little rebate too. ~Charles R. Barnes, in the New York World A GREAT HOG. “That old guy is the greatest hog I know of.” “Why so?’ “He's trying to get a corner on pig iron market.,”—Dallas Ne —————— A HEAD-OFF COLLISYON. Mike—“So Cassidy was k!Hed in & railroad wreck—was it a head-on col- lision?” Pat—*“No, begobs—his head was off when they found him, Oi belave."— Life. THE CZAR'S THOUGHTS. “I wonder what the Czar thought when he heard there was dynamite under his apartments?” : “I guess he thought he'd prefer the ground floor of a cellarless house.”"— Cleveland Plain Dealer. H MAIDENLY CONFIDENCES. “What if you were to find a strange man in your room?’ “Mercy! Of course I should sink through the floor.” “But what if the flat below were occupied by a bachelor ?’—Puck. oe iF THE DIFFERENCE, “Pa,” asked Tommy, “what's the dif- ference between ‘assurance’ and ‘in. surance? “Well, my son, one is what the agent has and the other is what he persists in trying to sell you.”"—Catholic Stand- ard and Times. AND SHE KNEW, “What do you think of that sculptor who destroyed the statues of those lady angels?” “He was right,” said the much-mar- ried woman. ‘Women are the only ans gels. Who ever heard of a man bein one ?’—Detroit Free Press. $8 NOTHING NEW, Farmer Green—“Say. neighbor Jonts raised such a big pumpkin that he cut it in half and made two cradles out of it for hisstwins.” City Boarder—*“That’'snothing. Down in the city we often have three cops asleep on a single heat.”—Judge. A BLOW. “They call it ‘sweet sixteen,’ ” sighed the girl, “and yet this is the bitteres hour of my life!” “What is it, dear?” said her friend “It is the day for me to take my, diploma,” she confessed. “and my grad: uation dress doesn't fit!"—Detroit Fred Press. LOOKING FOR JOKES. “What could that spruce, man-about: town looking gentleman possibly want with an almanac?’ asked the drug store lounger. s “Oh, he finds ‘em useful in his busis ness,” responded the druggist. “He writes comic operas.”’—Louisville Cou. riec-Journal, QUITE IMMATERIAL Chemist (to poor woman)—*“You must take this medicine three times a day, after meals." Patient—"But, sir, I seldom get meals these ’ard times.” Chemist (passing on to next ¢ tomer)—“Then take it before.” —G gow (Scotland) Times. USEFUL JOHN, Passenger—‘What became of Bulger family?” od "Bus Driver—*“0Oh, Bill turned fine. Got to be an actor. Tom artist; Mary's a music teacher. Bu John never amounted to much. It took all he could earn to support the othe ers.”’—NModern Society. RATHER CAUSTIC. Gunner—“That was a very unkind red 4 mark Cutter made about airship i ventors.” Guyer—“What was it?” Gunner—“Why, he said if the ship: were as flighty as their inventors they would have been a success ili Columbus Dispatch. oA HIS JOKE, “What's old man Groucher kicking about?” asked the hardware dealer. “Wanted ten pounds o' nails,” res plied the clerk, “an’ wouldn't trust ue to send ’em. Insisted on taking them with him.” “Huh! 1 hope he'll sweat for it.” “I'll bet he will. I sneaked five or six extra pounds of ‘em in the packs age.”"—Cleveland Leader. WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS. Visitor—“Is your daughter a member shakespeare Dramatic Club, Mrs. B.—"Yes; she plays in all the title roles. She's finished ‘Taming the Wild Shrew,” and mow they are res hearsing ‘Much About Doing Nothing. That's one comfort, as my dear father used to say of us, ‘the children are cer tainly well educated.’ "—Pick-Me-Up, ;
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