A new law in Michigan forbids the organization of military companies composed entirely of members of one religious creed. In Franco if a structural defect in a bicycle causes au injury to the person using it, tho manufacturer is legally accountable for damages. Miss Mary Philbrook, of Jersey City, is tho first woman to bo admit ted to tho bar of New Jersey. She is pretty and twenty-two years old. Several towns in Russia have elected women as Mayors, on the ground that thoy nre best fitted to bo instructed with tho interests of tbo community. Tho annual report of the Chicago Board of Health for 1894, just issued, asserts that Chicago is tho healthiest large city, not only in tho country, but in the world. "The largest foreign population is fouud in Minnesota and Wisconsin, where over one-third of the entire number are foreigners," estimates the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Tho New York Times exclaim?: "It is all well enough to exclaim that the horse is doomed, to say that bicycles will soou send him to join the dodo and tho great auk, but as a matter ol fact the poor creature still has his frieuds ready and able to defend him. Until young men and maidens ceaso to be human nnd sentimental a comfort able American buggy, drawn by a gen tlo animal that can find his way through a mooulight summer night, or even a dark one, without any guid ance from anybody whatsoever, will remain the idenl means of locomotion for no inconsiderablo part of our population." New York City is to have a grcnt Botanic Garden. At a meeting of the incorporators it was announced that tho fund of 8250,000 has been sub scribed in full. This insures an ade quate Botanic Garden for tho city, foi those engaged in tho enterprise have fulfilled tho condition exacted bj' the Legislature on which 8500,000 is to be furnished by tho city for estab lishing such a garden, in addition to 250 acres in Bronx Park for its site. The land for tho site has been pro visionally selected; it lies 011 both sides of tho Bronx River and is admir ably suited for tho purpose in view. The gentlemen who aro engaged in this work are not satisfied with liav iug raised the required $250,000, which will be used as an endownment fund, but propose to go ahead aud in crease tho amount to 8500,000. All the great cities of Europe have Botanic Gardens ; in this country there is but one —tho Shaw Gardens in St. Louis. Harper's Weekly observes: The "honor system" of conducting college examinations without other precau tion against cheating than an agree ment of the students not to cheat is generally known in the North as tho Frinccton system. It has been in suc cessful operation at Princeton for a number of years, and its entire suc cess thero has advertised it as a sys tem of great merit. But it is not a new thing in this country, nor did it originate at Princeton. Tho Weekly is informed that it has been in use at tho University of Virginia ever since that university was founded by Thomas Jefferson, and has succeeded perfectly there. In the rare cases where cheating has been practised in spito of it the dishonest student was warned by his follows to leave college, And has done so. It has also been in use for ten years or more at tho Van derbilt University at Nashville, and possibly in other Southern colleges. While inventors of high explosives nrc searching for elements from which to manufacture effective war materi als it will be just as well, suggests tho Washington Star, for them to turn their attention to the merits of ordi nary home-made catsup, which now comes to the front with strong claims for recognition as a powerful detona tor. Mrs. Baxter, of Newtown, Long Island, has just been painfully and seriously wounded by the explosion of a bottle of this stuff, which she had withdrawn from its resting place for use on the table. It will bo a mercy if her sight is preserved, while her faco will always be sadly scarred in consequence of tho splintered glass which flew about her. Tho sudden fermentation of tho ingredients com posing this usually harmless mixturo censed the trouble. Tho accident prints to tho necessity for the great est care in the preparstion of this commodity by amateurs. Perhaps, too, it may givo rise to the appearance of some new destructive compound in the market under tho name, say, of "Tomaloite." THE FIELD OF .ADVENTURE. THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DAR ING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. Heroic Defense Against Indians—A Woman Towed by a Tarpon—Red skins and the Breech-Loader. ONE of the bravest defenses ever made by settlers against Indians was one iu which not a man figured, nor any boy above the ago of fourteen. It took place on the hanks of the White Man's Fork of the Republican River, in Northwestern Kansas, in 18(57, on the ocoasiou of the last great Indian up rising iu that part of the country. The story is frequently told at firesides iu Kansas, where most of the survivors of the light livo at the present day. It was in Juue, in the year named, when a band of Indians, under the sub-chief Little Bear, swooped down on the settlement on the White Man's Fork and separated from the rest of the village a party of men who were 011 tho lookout for them. Though the white men fought bravely, they were driven away by tho overwhelming force of Indiaus. In tho centre of tho settlement there was a hut or cabin belonging to a man named Carter, which ha l been built in such away as to afford some defence against an Indian attack. It was twenty feet square, one-roomed ; its sides were of cottouwood logs and its roof of poles, sods and stones. There was otio door aud one window, protected by abutters, and there were loopholes all around to shoot through. Though tho sides were not bullet proof, the cabin afforded some pro tection, especially as it stood iu tho midst of a cleared hold. Iu this cabin seven women, two boys of fourteen, and several small children took refuge. Thoy had four rifles, a shot-gun aud three revolvers, with plenty of ammuuition ; for the surplus ammunition of tho whole community was stored in Carter's cabin. It had rained steadily for two days before, and tho roof of tho cabin was thoroughly soaked. As soou as the women aud children had gathered in the cabin, a resolute woman, forty years of ago, a Mrs. Wellman, assumed com maud. She saw that tho Indians were at the tirao busy with tho other party and in pillaging tho outlying cabins. She set the two boys to filling two barrels of water, and then to getting tho sides of the cabin, so that it would hardly take lire if a fire were built against it. Then tho ammunition was made ready, and a pit was dug with shovels in the middle of tho earthen floor, into which the children could bo put, out of tho range of bullets which might fly through tho house. Aud now Little Bear arid his Indians dashed up with a wliito flag. Advanc ing to within thirty feet, tho Chief called out that 110 knew they were only women and childreu; aud if they would surrender their lives would be spared, but if they resisted they would bo put to death. Mrs. Wellraau re plied resolutely that thoy would not surrender. The Indians waited half an hour. They counted upon tho "weakening" of the women. Little Bear summoned them again to surrender, but thoy re fused agaiu. Then the Indians opened fire, and the women and boys answered it. Tho Indians began encircling tho cabin, yelling and tiring. Several bul lets came through, but no one was hurt. Darkness came on, and during it the Indians dug ritle-pits as near as they dared, and remained in them, firing sharply. Several of thoin were hit by tho besieged party as they were at work. For three long days the siege was kept up. The two boys did excellent shooting, and Mrs. Wellman blazed away ceaselessly. At least a dozen Indians were killed and several others wounded. Many bullets came in. The small supply of provisions in the hut gave out, then the women fed their children and went hungry themselves. At tho close of the third day tho Indians fired a last volley into the hut ami rode away. Early the next morn ing a company of soldiers arrived from from the fort. The men of the settle ment had the worst fears as to what had happened in their absence; and they were overjoyed to find their wives aud children all safe, though half starved. A Woman Towcl by a Tarpon, With end of n ropo about her arm and the other end tied to tho tail of a silver king, weighing 190 pounds, Mrs. Richard Talbott was dragged through the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, at Grove City, Flu., on u recent after noon at a terrific rate of speed. With her husband and her sou, Willie, aged twelvo years, Mrs. Talbott wont down to tho beach to search for turtle eggs. Mr. Talbott soon grew tired of this sport and got into his boat to go down the hay to lish, leaving Mrs. Talbott aud Willie still hunting for eggs. Soon after her husband loft, Mrs. Talbott noticed a great commotion among a school of porpoises near tho shore. The porpoises seemed to bo pursuing something, and in a few mo ments a great wave landed a mouster tarpon on tho beach. There wero four porpoises clinging to the fish, and it secmod greatly exhaustod by the at tack of its enemies. With an oar Mrs. Tefbott drovo off tho porpoises and shouted to Willie to bring a rope from tho boathouse, which was near. When the boy camo with tho rope, Mrs. Talbott lashed one end about tho silver king's tail and wrappod the other about her arm. Then she and Willie tried to drag tho great fish higher up on tho beach. As soon as tho tarpon felt tho tug on tho rope ho gave a Uonnce and rolled into the water, dragging Mrs. Talbott and the boy with it. Fortunately Willie was freo of the rope and soon scrambled back to shore, but the rope was wound several times about Mrs. Talbott's arms, and the silver king, revived by the water, spun down the bay, drag ging the woman behind. Mrs. Talbott had given a piercing scream as she went into the water, and this was heard by her husband, who was fishing 300 yards down the bay. Tho husband in an instant realized that his wife was in deadly peril, and made preparations to save her, if pos sible. He rowed out into tho bay so as to intercept tho fish. Soon tho tarpon came by at a ter rific speed. As it passed Mr. Tabott dealt it a blow with an oar and partly stuuued it. Then ho dragged Mrs. Talbott, who was nearly unconscious, into tho boat. St 1111 nod by tho blow and greatly exhausted by dragging Mrs. Talbott through the water, the tarpon was easily captured, and Mr. Talbott rowed to land, towing the fish. Mrs. Talbott was soou removed and found to be but slightly iujurel. Her arm was cut by the rope aud wrenched by tho strain. She siys she remem bers but little after having been dragged into tho water. Her sensa tions, she says, were similar to those of ouo iu a half sleep. The Indians and the nreocli-Londcr. "I will never forgot," said tho gen eral, picking up a broech-loading ride, "the first time I ever saw or used one of these. "In 185') I joinel tho Mexican Army and was sent after some rebel lious Indians iu Yucatan. "I was made captain. Wo got into Yucutau all right, but, after we were there, two problems confronted us. One was how to ti 11 the rebels, aud the other how to get out. To make a long story short, wo tramped through tho dense forest far into the interior without seeing much of auy one, ex cept a few harmless natives. At last I received iuformitiou that tho people we were after were encamped about forty miles away. "Wo reached tho place and found them stationed in ouo of tho most im pregnable fortifications I ever saw. It was oue of the cave dwellers' settle ments, and could not bo reached ex cept by the gracious permission of those people. We commenced a siege, aud for three long weeks we watched that cliff. Every day some luliau would come to the edgo of this cliff, dance aud make derisive gestures at us, then some of us would shoot at him. "The only guns wo had were these pan-fire rifles, and when the Indiau would see the smoke from the pan 110 would drop, and thus gaiu ample time to avoid the bullet. As I said, this kept up throe woeke, and wo were bo coming very sick of it. At tho end of that time wo received re-enforce ments. There was a Yankee with them who had tho first breech-loading ride I ever saw, and about forty cartridges. I borrowed tho rifle and waited for my aggravating Indians. 111 a short while the chief took his position on the edgo of the cliff and commenced the usual performance. I took care ful and fired. Only the chief fell. I have never heard such a howl of sur prise, and before they had recovered I picked off another. Then they lied. Tho next morning the cliff was empty. How they got away we never knew, nor did we ever catch them, but never after that did I seo 1111 Indiau dance before a breech-loi ling ritle."—Louis ville Courier-Journal. A Cool Captain. A good story is told of a sea captain, who died not long ago, an I who was formerly iu command of a ship in which passengers were carried from Lor.dou to Lisbon. On ouo occasion the ship caught fire, aud tho passen gers and crew were compelled to take hurriedly to the boats. Tho captain remained perfectly cool throughout all the confusion aud fright of the de barkation, and, at last, everyone ex cept himself was got safely into tho boats. By tho time he was ready to follow, the passengers were nlmo3t wild with fear and excitemeut. Insteal of hur rying down the ladder, tho captain called out to tho sailors to hold on a minute, and, taking a cigar from his pocket, coolly lighted it with a bit ol burning ropo which had t'alleu from the rigging at his leet. Then ho de scended with deliberation, and gave the order to push off. "How could you stop to light a ci gar at inomeut?" ho was asked afterward, when some of the passen gers were talking over their esoipe. "Because," he auswere I, "I saw that if I diil not do somothiug to di vert tlio minds of those in tho boat, thero was likely to bo a panic, and, overcrowded as it was, thero was dau ger of tho boat being upset. Tho acl took but a moment, but it attracted the attention of everybody. I wai not nearly so uuconcerne I as I seemed to be, but was in reality in a fever of excitemeut. My little plausucceeded. You all forgot yourselves because you wero thinking about my curious be havior, and we got off safely."—Tit- Bits. A Three-Week Sleep, A colored woman in Guthrie, Okla homa, awakened a few days ago out of a sound sleep that had lasted a little more than three weeks. During that period all the efforts of physicians and others to awaken her were unavailing. When she awoke she quietly got up aud started about the house as though nothing unusual had occurred. She did not know she had been asleep longer than over night, and though tho doctors were able to give her but very little nourishment during her long sleep, she did not seem in any way weakened. ON THE GREAT SALT LAKE. STRANGEST BODY" OF WATER IN THE UNITED STATES. Impossible to Drown In Its Saline Depths Queer Experience of Captuln Boyton.* TTT HE Great Salt Lako is seventy I I miles long and lifty miles I across in its widest part. It (V lias an area of 2000 square miles, and of late years its greatest depth has not exceeded forty feet. In early summer, says the San Francisco Chronicle, this remarkable sea is two feet higher than it is in tho fall, ow ing to the molted snow brought down by its three largest tributaries, the Bear, Weber and Jordan Rivers. This intlux of fresh stroamsdoes not appro- j ciably lessen the saltiness of tho main i body of water, though its proportion of solid matter varies with the oscilla tions of its surface, being naturally greatest when tho lako is shallowest. Those engaged in tho manufacture of salt hero say that it takes six gallons of water to make ono gallon of salt. If any one doubts that tho water of tho lako is taken up by evaporation, and leans to the hypothesis of an un derground outlet, let him expose to the sun and wind of this high altitude a vessel of this same water and see in what an incredibly short time tho liquid is reduced to solids. The Salt Lake shores aro mostly gray Hats of indescribablo barrenness. Tho scant dwarf sage on tho water's edge is often beautifully flowered with a delicate frostwork of salt spray. On tho northern slopes and down tho western border there are numerous springs ruuuing pure brine. But stranger than this is tho fact that in several places fresh water rushes out of tho sand on East Antelope within fifteen feet of tho brimming lako basin. Tho ono perfect beach is at Garfield, a dozen or so miles west of whoro tho Jordan River i 3 crossed and at tho feet of tho Oquirrhs—a graudly picturesque rauge, in whoso clefts throughout the summer the suow lies like fallen clouds. Tho first bathing in tho lake was done at Black Rock, on Garfield Beach, which has been a resort for picnickers since tho early fifties. The various groups of islands in this Dead Sea of the Western Conti nent aro fragments of mountain chains gracefully strung out on the Hashing bosom of this strange water. The largest and best known is Antelope, which was once used by the Mormons as a cattle corral for the church herd. This island is sixteen miles loug by four wide, and lies twenty miles oil* the south coast. The next in size is Btansbury, which is fourteen miles in length, while Fremont is seven miles, and Currington two-thirds as long as Fremont. The others, Btrong's Knob, Gunnison, and Dolphin, are grouped fifty miles to the Northwest of Ante lope, and are superb limestone cliffs, almost wholly without vegetation, j and haunted by millions of gulls and other sea fowl. Tho four largest islands aro used as winter pastures for sheep or cattle, but all are uninhabited and without fresh water except Antelope, whose ono honse—an aucieut adobe, built here by tho Mormons lifty years ago —is occupied by tho island herder and his family. There are hundreds of acres of good grazing ou tho east ern slope, and a few years ago, when tho Government set apnrt the Salt Lako islands as u reservation for our nearly extinct buffalo, somo tixty American bison and forty oik were transported to Antelope. The owners of tho island endeavored to breed the buffalo in with Alderuoyß, but so far have not succeeded, the shaggy, fierce eyed boasts rebolling at every ap proach to domestication. Tho elk proved even more unsatisfactory, for after a few days of restless roaming they took it into their antlercd heads to swim back to tho main shore in a body, and lauded on a point fifteen miles from Antelope, where they were promptly shot down by the settlers thereabouts. Along tho shores of tho lake and in many of the island bays tho water presents a remarkable appeur.auoe, a kind of madder red spread out for acres. Upon investigation tho cause of this songuinary color is found to he a thick layer of flouting larvm, the chrysalides of worms tho size and shapo of au oat kernel. Where these accumulations exist an offensivo smell is noticeable, and is tho one disagree able feature of theso desolate shores. In early days tin Utah Indians col lected and driod the larviu aud used tho mixture as a mush. In the fall of tho year the marshes at tho mouth of tho rivers that empty into tho lako arc covered by flocks of wild geese and ducks, with sometimes a stately bluo heron or swans with beautiful whito plumage. Their cheer ful clatter and the fresh greou of the coarso gross and singing weeds con trast delightfully with tho dreary tints and solituriuess of the immediate des ert. There are also numbers of sea gulls, which visit tho marshes to fish, coming thirty miles from their rook eries on Gunnison and its neighboring isles. The main food of tho gulls is known to bo tho influitesirual live things found in tho bitter briuo— a small winged shrimp, a smaller fly and its lnrvro, the blafic worm before alluded to—tho three atomic crea tures that comprise tho animal life of tho lake. Bathing in tho lake is one of tho most delightful experiences imagina ble. It is next to impossible to sink in such dense water, aud ono floats easily with head, arms, kuees and i'eet entirely exposed, and this without moving so much as a finger. The bath ers wabble this way and that liko so many corks cast adrift. Swimmiug the old way is evidently hard work, but an habitue of these waters will throw his body high out and go hand over linud with a speed not excelled in fresh water. Salt' Lake peoplo will tell you what hard work tho famous Boynton had in 188f> of his attempted swim to Antelope Island and tho ter irble sufferings he endured while buf feted about in his rubber suit all one night. A wind from the northwest blew a stiff breeze, and the spray dashed in his face and hardened there into salt. In tho morning tho exhaust ed man was thrown up liko a rubber ball in the marsh east of Black Rock, ou the main shore, and afterward de clared : 4 'A man can't get this water on his head and stan l it. If I were forty feet under water in the worst storm tho Atlantic ever knew, it wouldn't be ns bad as being under ono foot here. ! It was the woight of the water that knocked me out, and there isn't enough money in the world to tempt ! mo to trv it agaiu." One of the many mysteries of tho Great Salt Lake is its irregular habit i of shifting its bed. Three years ago saw tho completion of a fashionable bathing resort on a point called Lake side. The first summer peoplo came by the thousands, and were enthusias tic in their praiso3 of the bathing at "Lake Park." But alas for tho owners of tho resort and tho narrow-gauge railroad that made hourly trips back and fourth to tho city! Before tho next season opened the row of bath houses stood up high aud dry a quarter of a mile from tho salt zone that con fined the lake's liquid green; tho red roofed pavilion was deserted and wind swept, and empty, suu-cracked benches were set forlornly about the unused walks; the lake had turned its back upon tho "Park," aud would havo none of it. Tho handsome new buildings, whose solo tenants aro now the "birds of tho air" and tho horned tood, but add full desertnes* to tho wide, lonely waste of Lakeside. Tho long wharf, once tho mooring of pleasure craft, is left to the desultory uso of stockmen, who auohor an oc casional 4 'cattle boat" alongside after its bellowing cargo has been unloaded on the chute hard by. Ono of the first thiugs that strikes a newcomer is tho comparative absence of boat life on tho Great Salt Lake. A sail iu sight is tho exceptiou, and has rather a startling effect on tho otherwise empty water. Thero are several schooners owned by private parties, a kind of toy steamer called tho Tuilla, that makes excursions out from Baltair, and the gay little Cambria. There are also two or three schooner-rigged cattle boats, which are really the safest boats ou the lake, and are used chiefly to transport stock from Antelope aud Frouiont. WISE WORDS. An acorn is bigger than a saw log. Tho wounds made by a friend never heal. Thorns grow fast whilo a lazy man sleeps. Behind tho shadow thero is always a light. Half-hearted service is tho coward's tribute. The more wo lovo the more wo can see to love. Somo peoplo havo moro reputation than character. The man who ha 3 gold for his mas ter wears iron fetters. To-morrow is the fool's seed time. To-day is the time to do. All other eyes aro full of beams to tho man who has a mote in his own eye. A mistake is Rure to attract atten tion where a virtuo would bo over looked. Tho poorest man is not tho ono who has tho lo.ast, but tho ono who wants the most. Thero is moro help in an ounco of encouragement than thero is in a ton of good advice. A happy heart is worth moro nny wliero than a podigreo runuiug back to the Mayflower. Tho fellow who is doing nothing himself is sure to complain that no body else is doing enough. Tho only roason why we don't 800 the face of truth everywhere is be cause wo live too low down. Eloquoucc may sometimes provoko righteous indignation, but it cannot produce righteousness of life. —Ram's Horn. A Lesson for Bad Bays. Nicodemus tho six-toe.l cat that took tho lir3t prize at tho New York cat show, is a living warniug to nil wicked boys who have a weakuess for testing tho old traditions as to a cat with nine lives. Nicodemus was ou way to tho dock in tho arms of a bad boy, who proposed to drop him into tho rivor, wheu a mau rausomed him with a silver dimo and sent him to the cat show. Ever siuco ho secure 1 tho first prizo he has been ou exhibition in a dime museum, and SIOOO has been refused for him. Every bad boy who drops a cat into tho lake should care fully consider the story of Nicodemus beforo ho sacrifices the life of what may bo the prizo cat of the land. Long Wire Without Support. A telephone wire is carried a mi Jo and a half without support over Lake Wftllen, bctwoen Qninten and Murg, in tho canton ot St. Gall, in Switzer land. Tho wiro is two millimetres in diameter.—New York Journal. For ft Riant Ship. A spar 114 feet long without a knot or blemish, forty-eight inches in diameter at tlio big end, fweuty-nine inches at tho small end, was run iuto Lako Whatcom, Washington, recently. —Portland Oregoniau. SCIENTIFIC AN!) INDUSTRIAL. Aluminum is being in making the boilies of cabs. In nearly all the arid land regions water can be obtained at a depth of COO to GOO feet. A Pittsburg company has secured a largo foreign contract for aluminum for army purposes. A bteel ship has been constructed in Cardiff, with the standing rigging, QS well as hull, all of steel. The castor oil plant and tlietobaccc plant are both looked upon by the auunal world with almost unanimous disapproval. M. de Montessus de Ballore has cal culated that in the known earthquake regions of the world a shock occurs on tho average every half hour. The Simplou tunnel in Switzerland will begin two and a half kilometres from Brieg and come out twentv-hve kilometres from Domo D'Ossola. A plumb-line suspended a fow foot from tho side of a large building in clines a little from the perpendicular, because tho weight is attracted by tho edifice. There have boon iustancos where bodies, when exhumed, have been fouud turned ou their faces; but that has been explained as having been caused by some chemical action accru ing during the process of decomposi tion. Tue Bolivian tiu mines aro very rich, but they are geuerally situated at an altitude of over 11,003 feet above sea level, so that between high freights, lack of' railroads and insuffi cient capital they are hardly devel oped at all. A now device for utilizing coal dust for fuel is to mix coal, molasses and water, coal dust and petroleum. An other fuel mixture is that of sawdust, Irish moss, asbestos fibre and burned limestone, theso being heated together and made iuto bricks with coal dust. Take a polished knitting-noadle and dip it into a deep vessel full of milk ; withdraw it immediately in an upright position. Some of tho fluid will haug ou to tho needle if tho inilk is pure, but if water has been added, even in small proportions, 110 milk will ro main ou tho needle. An eugiucer of tho Chicago Drain ago Board has figured out from care ful experiments and computations that tho level of the great lakes will bo lowered j>erin<inently between one and a half and two inches by tho big draiu ago caual. Tho effect will bo greater on tho upper than on tho lower lakes. While genuine hydrophobia is not understood, thero is an increasing suspicion among pathologists that many cases of what is supposed to bo hydrophobia aro merely acute hys teria. As it is as fatal to tho sufferer, however, it will mako no differeuoo what it is called unlos3 a remedy is found for it. Making Wall Taper. It ia very interesting to go through a wall paper factory and follow tho processes of manufacture. The de signs are tho lirst things observed. Formerly thero was a scarpity of theso, but now there is a flood, and a manu facturer must exerciso much artistic taste and business ability iu making selections. Various designers have different specialties—some flowers, others architectural ideas, etc.—and of recent years architects have devo ted many of their spare moments to originating wall paper designs. A complete design consists of throo pieces —side wall, border and ceiling. The general width of patterns of tho side wall and coiling as used in tho trado and manufactured by Americau inachiuery is eighteen inches, and tho longth of tho repeat in the pattern is eight, eleven and three-fourths or fourteen and three-fourths inches, as suggested by the character of the de sign, the shorter repeuts being tho most satisfactory to the trade in gen eral. Many of the best effects are produced in papers containing only four to six colors, but B3 many as twenty or twenty-five are sometimes used. Each color and shade in a de sign moans a separate roller to tho tuuuufacturer.—New York Telegram. Weight ol the Hair. An interesting articlo was published in a Paris paper recently regarding Iho weight which a hair from tho hu inau head cau support. . "Hair," says the author, "have a force of resistance hard to believe unless oue has con vinced himself by too experiment." Bichat does not four to say that noth ing else, uot even excepting a fibrous tissue, can support so largo a weight in proportion to its volume. Grellier, who shares his opinion, has estimated that a singlo hair cau carry a woight of 1031 decigrams (more than a hun dred grams). According to Richter, j a blond hair can bear more than hix ounces, and a black one still more. One can thus appreciate iho great ! strength of the ropes which tho Car thaginians made of tho hair.—New York Advertiser. !Startlcti tlie Congregation. Tho new canon of Westminster, England, is credited with a ready wit. A story is told of his having once been terribly interrupted by the iucessunt coughing of his congregation. Where upon he suddenly paused in his ser mon, and interjected tho romark : "Last night I was dining with tho Triuce of Wales." Tho effect was miraculous, aud n deathly silencereigued as tho preacher continued: | "As a matter of fact, I was not din- I ing with the Prince of Wale 3 last i night, but with my own family. I atn j glad, however, to lind that I have at j last secured your uttentiou. "—Pear eon's Weekly. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THJ? FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. The Rose From Iler Ilnir-IIIs Busi ness—No Longer Aristocratic- Talking Shop, Etc., Etc. She gave him tho rose from her hair; Ho had called and was going away; She gavo him the rose, hul she did not sup pose He would keep it forever and aye. Yet the dead rose was carefully kept As he was too true to her, far! For tho rose that she gave him found nn odorous grave In his other girl's potpourri jar. —Washington Po3t, nis BUSINESS. "You ought to see that follow strike a balance." "T suppose he's a bookkeeper?" "No, he's a professional juggler."— Detroit Free Press. OBLITERATED. Probhs—"So you were in tho lowa cyclone. At what point did the storm leave the town?" Dobbs—"lt didu't leave the town took it along."—Truth. NO LONGER ARISTOCRATIC. Sayles "You're surely not going to have Mrs. Naylor arrested! Don't you remember that she had klepto mania last winter?" Thredd—"l r es; but her husband has failed since thou."—Puck. MIGHT BE DIS JRAOED. Young Wife—"What! You think of joining tho army? Horrors!" Husband (tendorly) "Aro you afraid I'll get killed?" Young Wife "N-o; I'm afraid you'll ruu."—New York Weekly. HE HAD IIIS DOUBT 1. Ziffgaby—"l think a man is a coward who would utriko a woman, don't you?" Perksby—"Well, I don't know. No coward would dare to strike my mother-iu-law."—Brooklyn Eagle. NOT AN ENCOURAGING EXAMPLE. "Give me tho man who sings at his work," quoted tho citizen who believes all lie reads. "Well," rejoined the skeptic. "I'm not so sure about it. You know the mosquito does that."—Washington Star. TALK (NO SHOP. • "Ismy proposal accepted?"' he aske l of the daughter of the naval construc tor. "It is received and filed," she re sponded, "hut I expressly reserve the right to reject any or ull bids."— Judge. EASILY EXPLAINED. "I wonder what makes theso but tons burst off so?" Dora petulantly ex claimed. David looked at her tight-fitting dress. "Force of habit, probably," ho said after a thoughtful pause.— liocklaud Tribune. HER METHOD. ".Mrs. Brown never sits up to wait for her husband?" "No?" "No. When she expects him to bo out late, she retires early, sets the alarm at .3 o'clock, and gets up, re freshed and reproachful."—Life. DIDN'T PHASE HIM. "3o you think you can stand the arduous duties of a variety actor? You know in our play we find occasion to throw you down a thirty-foot flight of stairs iuto a barrel of rata water." "I thiuk I can stand if," said tho hungry inau. "I was a tax collector for three year*."—Tit-Bits. THE REASON WHY. New Parson —"Which do you like best, Willie, your day school or your Sunday-school? ' Willie—"My Sunday-school." New Parson-—"! am glad to hear that. Why do you like your Sunday school the best?" Willie—"Because it H only once a week." TWO VARIETIES IN ONE. Bass "And of which variety is your wife, tho clinging vine or tho self-assertive?" Cass —"A little of both. Wiieu sho wants a new dress or a new bonnet she generally begins in the olinging-vine role; if thit doesu't bring the money, then she changes to the self-assertive; and—well—sho invariably gets tin dress or tho bouuot."—Boston Tran script. THE BLUFF WORKED. At 7 o'clock in tho morning two duellists, who are to light to the death at a place in tho suburbs, met at the ticket office of tbo railway station. "Give mo A return ticket, as usual," says the first duellist to the clerk, iu a terrible tone and with a ferocious twist of his moustache. "J do you always buy returu tickets? stammered his opponent. "Always." "Then I apologize."—Tit-Bits. DEVICES OF THE MILKMAN. "I declare!" Mrs. Wiggiu exolaimo 1, pouring a light bluo stroain out of the pitcher, "if the milk doesn't grow poorer every day ! What shall we do with tho milkman?" Mr. Wiggiu sawed gloomily ht his meat. "I suppose there's no way out of it " he grumbled; "I'll havo to pay his And the next morning they had real milk lor breakfast.—Rockland Tri bune.
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