Since ISSI, according to Mulhall, j Great Britain's stock of gold and sil ver has remained nearly stationary. j Tampa, Fla., is banking on becom- , ing tho metropolis of the State. It has now a population of 30,000. Says the Chicago Dispatch: A French scientist claims that he can in fluence the course of bullets in battle j by electricity. That's nothing, when I compared with what Spain ks doing right along in Cuba. Weyleris doing all his lighting by telegraph. Tn Sweden the education of journal ism is treated as a function of the State. Under this system the young scribe develops his "nose for news" at the expense of the taxpayers. In the United States he has to hustle for himself, but he gets there all the same. In a plea for the mines bill, which ibe British Government has been somewhat dilatory in passing, the Lon don Chronicle makes the statement that "1000 miners are killed in Great, j Britain and mere than 100,000 injured ! every year. Since 1851 48,210 miners j have been killed and 4,500,000 in- ! juted. The meeting of the United States I League of Building and Loan Associa- | Hons in Philadelphia calls attention to ' the marvelous growth of these associa tions during the last few years. At the present time there are no less than 5800 building and loan associations, with 1,655,456 shareholders and 8496,- 028,405 assets. The yearly income of these associations is estimated at 8200,000,000. Fifty years ago a build ing and loan association was regarded j with distrust and there were few so • venturesome as to purchase stock. ' To-day there are millions of homes id this country which could never have been built without the money fur nished by these associations. There are Stato leagues in most of the States and a United States league to which j the various State organizations send | delegates. It was the latter which re- ! cently met in Philadelphia. Statisticians are never at a loss for ! something to do, stimating the earth's | population at 1,100,000,000. One m- I genious fellow has figured that the ! brains of the human race weigh 1,922,- I 712 tons. This gives an average weight 1 of forty-nine ounces 2>er capita. Ac cording to the observations of physi ologists, the average weight of brain in an adult male is forty-eight ounces, and in a female forty-three ounces, while at birth it is said to be about fourteen and twelve ounces, respec tively. Something, however, must bo j deducted from the above estimate, as, a child's bruin at tiie age of seven \ years averages about forty ounces, and beyond the age of forty years the weight slowly but steadily declines at the rate of about one ounce in ten years. Moreover, the brains of idiots are generally much below the average, some weighing less thnu sixteen ounces, j A German biologist has calculated that each human brain contains 300,- i 000,000 nerve cells, 5,000,000 of which j die and are succeeded by now ones every day. Dr. Matthew Woods, who has been in quest of "hydrophobia" for twenty years, and who during two summers j personally visited every case reported • in Philadelphia, asserts that he never | saw the disease either in man or am- I inal, and although he has questioned ' many physicians on the subject, he ! has not yet foun 1 one who has. At the j Philadelphia dog pound, where, on an j average, over 6090 vagrant dogs are I taken up annually, and where the j catchers and keepers are frequently bitten while handling them, not one ; case of hydrophobia has occurred dur- j ing its entire history of twenty-five i years, in which time about 150,000 i dogs were handled. Dr. Charles W. j Dulles, lecturer on the history of 1 medicines at the University of Penn- ! sylvanio, who has performed the al- j most inerediblo task of investiga- I ting, either personally or bo corre- j spondence, every case reported in the ' newspapers for the past sixteen years, | shows that hydrophobia is extremely ' rare, so much so that he inclines to ! the view that "there is no such spe- j cific malady," having, "after sixteen j years of investigation failed to find a | single case on record that can*bo con- ' clusively proven to have resulted from j the bite of a dog or any other cause." j The request of the American Anti- ' Vivisection Society that newspapers f exercise great care in rep rliug sup- j posed cases of hydrophobia is reason- | able and timely. The letter has per- j sonal endosement of such eminent physicians as Theophilus Parvm, of Jefler6on Medical College; Thomas G. Morion, of the College of Physi- i sicians ot Philadelphia; Charles Iv. j Mills, of the University of Pennsyl vania, una others equally eminent. HEART, MY HEART! J Heart, my heart! so fond to linger, Coma away! I Once with beckoning linger, | Sweetly once she bade theo stay? £Onee wlmt heavenly bliss was thine, Once her love, an I poured liko wine; Come, oh, come! make no delay! Here are those bright looks she gave tlioe, j Ilors alone! What can lingering save thee? j This sweet touch or that soft tone? I Love no tearful claim can make? Hers to give and hers to take; Yes, the kisses all her own. Oh, the wealth that back she closes! Lips divine! Checks, my only roses; Eyes that Hesperus outshine! All her sweetness takes she ho** >; Hack into my bosom come, Heart, my heart! for thou art mine. ; Out, alas! I do remember; Hers thou art! Given some fond December, Never from her breast to part. Bitter, bitter is thy lot, To bo hers that loves thee not. Mine no longer, breaking heart. —M. Ohose, in tho Academy. IS SUPPORT OF A THEORY. j IHE house party at 1 " r~>j West wood were I > hv dawdling ov or j /|\ their coffee on the / } \_. moonlit piazza, r, —lv- Zj r . 1 I rS-Sv Jt was 11 merry P':- NgA" crowd ; everybody knew everybody to'-*'s-Aelse, and there was much laughter and USSgSSS&I talk, but suddenly h silence fell. Then it became patent to nil that the couple seated oti the steps leading to the lawn were engaged lu a quiet but bitter altercation. Tho girl's listless air was in striking contrast to tho man's eagerness. "Your idea is an absurd one," he ex j claimed. "Oh, fie!" she said, "to speak so ! rudely to a womau." "It is not rudeness, but truth." "Then they are apparently synony mous." "I can't help it; it exasperates me to hear an intelligent girl like you—" "Now where," sho broke in, "did ■ you pick that up? lam not the least j bit intelligent! If I were I would I know better than to argue with you; it is so perfectly hopeless"—sighing— "and you do get so excited." I "And who wouldn't?—listening to ! such impossible theories!" ' "You don't have to! I never asked | you to talk to me. I came out here ; to be by myself, and you deliberately followed me. Why didn't you stay | with the ethers? They are all picas i auter than I am." "Humility," he said, "is a cloak that fits badly on your shoulders." "My sleeves are too large, perhaps! but really you misunderstand—l have an excellent opinion of myself, I can lie quite agreeable, when 1 choose, but am not in the mood to night." "Then according to your theory you ought to be most attractive." ' "What is your theory, Kate?" called her cousin. ; "One you have heard me express thousands of times before." "Shall 1 tell him, Miss Doane?" "Certainly." "She says that a man doetn't like to feel too confident of a woman's affec tion ; that it is the element of uncer tainty in love alTairs that makes them ; interesting; that he enjoys being puz j /.led and played with, and that a clever woman has only to appear in ' different to first pique and then at tract him." "Heresy?" exclaimed a party of manly voices. | "Mr. Stewart has omitted ifu im portant clause," said Miss Doane. "I added that to do this the womau must necessarily be good to look at and not lacking in this world's goods." j "Oh, Kate, Kate," sighed her cousin, "would you insinuate that the ! masculine fancy is influenced by ! worldly advantages?" j She shrugged her shoulders: "I , have stated my case; you can make it what you choose." Tho hostess, who had been listening idly, now put in a i word. ! "The trouble with you all is that you analyze too much," she said. i "Why not take things as they come, j without worrying over their possible causes? It is so much simpler and j healthier." ; Miss Doane turned around: "Isn't Madge charming?" she said amiably. I "To hear her you would suppose that ; she had never seen the inside of a J drawing room. She gets like | that when sho comes to the country; j something in the air, probably." "And you?" said Stewart, when tho I laughter following her speech had died j away; "has it no effect on you?" "The country? Oh, yes, it makes : me—if that is possible—more indolent I than usual," and she leaned her head 1 against tho pillar and looked not at j bun, but past him to tho stretch of 1 rosy sky. ' "What an actress you arc !" he said; | "you are not the least bit indifferent, really, but it has amused yen to pose as such so long that now it has almost I become second nature." j "To pose as anything involves a cer tain amount of personal exertion." "Well, doubtless, you find it worth while, if fyour audience is apprecia ' tive ; and it usuailv is, I fancy." ! "Have you noticed those two clouds?" she said. "It is curious to watch how they keep floating first i toward and then away from each ! other, like people who are playing at I cross purposes." "You were evidently not listening 1 to n word I was saying.",; j "Oh, yes, I was. You were scold i ing me, but you generally arc, you know, and you said something about my posing. You have told mo that often before, and so—" "And so—apparently there was nc need of listening to me. I hacl no idea 1 was such a bore." Sho looked at him, saying: "Now, you see, you are angry again ! Don't you think," leaning toward hira confi- "you ought to do some thing for your temper? It may get you into trouble some day. Not every body is as amiable as I!" U4 rftill wrangling?" asked Carl Ains lie, lounging down tho steps. "My deal young friends, it grieves mo to the heart to see such u display of un christian feeling. 'Let dogs delight to bark and bite.' " "Blame Mr. Stewart, and not me," said the young girl; "you know, Carl, that I haven't the energy to quarrel with any one, especially in thi9 weather." "Of course not. Miss Doane only says the things that make other peo ple want to row." "A chaining character you have given me; after that I think I will abandon the field to you. Come, Curl," with a quick change of man ner, "let's go down to tho lake for a row." Stewart watched them with wrath in his heart—the girl was talking gayly, her soft laugh lioating back to him. "There goes a living denial of her theory," he thought. "She is loud ness itself to Ainslie and he is devo ted to her. Indifference, indeed! I'd like to see the woman who could at tract me by that. As for Miss Doane, she is a heartless little flirt, and I don't intend to fret myself about her," and he climbed tho steps and stalked gloomily off'to the smoking room. "Kate," said young Ainslie, resting on his oars, "I'm your coasiu and have a right to tell you when I think you are doing wrong; so I say—do leave poor old Stewart uloue!" "Leave poor old Stewart alone!" indignantly, "X think you had better suggest his leaving me alone." "Of course, now, you know very well what I mean. It's all right for you to trample on Herbert and Beade and myself, we're used to it—been broken in too long to protest—but Stewart's another sort; he cares aw fully about things." "Oh, indeed, so he 'cares awfully,' and the rest of you I suppose, are only amusing yourselves." "How you tease a follow! No what I mean is that he is so terribly 'all there,' don't you know, that if he lets himself be hard hit it would knock him out completely to have you throw him over." "So terribly 'all there'—what a graphic expression. Yet undeniably true in this case ; but why do you take it for granted that I will throw him over?" Mr. Ainslie's face expressed the ut most consternation. "Well, really, I don't know, but 1 thought, i somehow concluded—" '' W hat ?" "Why," a brilliant idea striking him, "that you didn't care for any body, and wouldn't until you had seen more of the world, for you aro very young, Kate, in spite of your many experiences." "Carl," said Miss Doano solemnly, "the bar has lost a shining mark in you, but I am proud to claim you as a relative." It was a fortnight later ; the house party would disperse on the morrow, and Miss Doane, to whom Westwood was dear, was taking a farewell stroll through the gardens. Sho was idling ! down u path when, catching sight of j Stewart over tho tops of the rose bushes, she ostentatiously put up her j parasol and turned in tho other direc tion. 1 But he was not to be so easily I thrown off; with a curl of the lip (for I ho had recognized the manoeuvre) he j hurried toward her. "Miss Doane!" he cried, "will you spare me a few minutes?" She turned her head. "I am not in a pleasant frame of ' mind. Uncle forwarded me my dress maker's bill this morning, with certain pungent comments of his own ap pended, and 1113' host manuscripts has just been returned to me as 'uuavail- i able,' so the atmosphere is not rosy." "Never mind about that. I will not detain you long," and ho pulled up a bench. For a few moments there was silence, for now that no had gained tho coveted interview Stewart did not seem to know what to say, and Miss Doane, with the point of her parasol, sketched triangles and circles and all sorts of impossible devices in the sandy path. While looking the pic ture of careless inattention, she was in reality curious to know how long her companion intended to continue staring ahead of him. When he finally did speak his remark was so different from what she expected that sho al most started. "I suppose you know you are very beautiful," he said. "Doubtless your mirror lias told you that already, so I need not weary you with repetitions, but 1 feel sure that you do not realize how absolutely charming you are." She looked at him wonderingly; it was a favorite method of hers, and usually worked well, but now it failed to produce the effect she intended. "Don't look liko that," he said, "or I shall think you are not sincere, and 1 don't want to think that. I want to carry away tho kindest thoughts of you.'' "You liavo changed," she said. "Ten days ago you told Mary Fair I was ' thoroughly heartless." "Did I? Well, that only shows I was a fool. I know you better now ; and what is more, I understand you." A slight pause. "I heard up at the house that you wore engaged to your cousin, and while tho news could not but hurt me, it was in one sense a relief, for I knew at once why you had avoided and al most ignored me. You wanted to save me pain. Experience has taught me that, if a man saw much of you ho generally cared for you, and you tried to ward mo off. But you cannot keep the moth from the candle, and I loved you in spite of your coldness. It al most looks as if there was something iu your theory, doesn't it?" Miss Doaue gathered herself to gether. Stewart did not know it, but she was summoning courage to toll him tho truth about herself. Sho loved to be well thought of, and it was a geuuino sacrifice to speak, but she could not, in common honesty, allow him to remain under his de lusion. "You must not think too well of me," she began. "I could uot," he cried. "One rarely sees so much youth and beauty and simple goodness united as I find in you." Simple goodness! The words scorched her. "You are all wrong," she cried, with burning cheeks. "I am not the least bit like that. Don't you see? Can't you understand? It vexed me to have you laugh at my theory, so I determined to make you an example of its truth. It was from no good motive—not to 'ward you off' or 'to save you pain,' but with tho distinct intention of making you care for me, 'that I pretended to be indifferent.' " Stewart got slowly to his feet. "And so," ho said, "in support of a theory, for the sake of proving your self in the right, you could plav with a man's heart anil make havoc of his life. Fool, fool, that 1 was, not to understand !" and he struck one palm sharply against tho other. "Well," with sarcastic courtesy, "the point is gained, the poor dupe is at your feet. I hope you are content." "Content!" she cried. "I was nev- ; er so sorry in my life. It seems ; strauge 1 should care, doesn't it? As you say, I have gained my point—and yet—" "Yes," he said, "and yet?" Instead of replying sho turned her head swiftly away, but not before he had seou that her eyes wero full of i tears. He stood irresolute, overcome J by surprise ; then he approached her, "Don't cry like that," he said, "You never meant to hurt me ; it was a pretty bit of acting to you, and if I was stupid and overdid my part, you are not to blame. There, look up. What will your cousin say if ho learns I distressed you ?" "What is it to me what my cousin thinks?" Mr. Stewart started. "Pardon mo, but I thought that being engaged to him—" "I am not engaged to him. Noth ing is further from my iutention." A silence followed. Then Miss Donne rose to depart, but Stewart, whose mind had been adjusting itself to the changed situation, put out a de taining hand. "Kate," ho said, "if \ you are not going to marry your cous- I in, perhaps there might bo u chance for some one else." ".Perhaps." He drew nearer. "I know I'm a perfect fool to rush on my fate, but what's worth having is certainly worth asking for. Kate, will you marry me?" She smile 1 , but her eyes were very tender. "I believo you do love mo," she said. "Well, a little." "And il I marry yon, I know I shall be happy. You are so strong and true, anil have my coulidence so ut terly, but I have been horrid to you, so rude aud disagreeable that I don't see how you can stand me." "Whv, you are going back on your theory." "The girls will certainly laugh, and Carl will never leavt me alone about it, but I don't care," liftiug her face resolutely, "I love you, and there's no use pretending I don't." A littlo while later she looked up. "I always said I would never care for anybody," sho remarked, "what j will this prove?" I "That you are a woman," he said, i —New Orleans Times-Democrat. About Opening Letters. Perhaps it is a little bit late to make the discovery, but I find from time immemorial we have been directing all our letters on the wrong side. Tho direction ought to be on the back in stead of what is now called the front of tho envelope. There would be much fewer mistakes about opening letters belonging to others if this were | the case—in fact, it would bo well nigh impossible for it to occur. Peo ple with a large amount of correspon dence frequently put all their letters face downward and then proceed to snip tho envelopes; then they go through thoin again and take the let ters out, and sometimes find they have snipped an envelope belonging to some one else. All this might be avoided if we wrote tho address on the uido the envelope is fastened. It would also have another advantage, the stamp would bo absolutely canceled by being torn across when the letter was opened. This would effectually put an end to tho nefarious machinations of those people who are said to bo able to remove the ofiicial obliteration in order that tho stamps may be used again. Ido not suppose my sugges tion will immediately change the uses of a century, but I fancy there are not a few of my readers who may be in ; clined to think that the idea is worth trying.—London Graphic. Died Uu:ler Peculiar Ci renin stances A ten-yenr-old girl of Zanesville, Ohio, died recently under peculiar cir cumstances. She was a bright girl, read every line she could find, and af ter the St. Louis cyclone was tho vic tim of nervous prostration. She read everything about the calamity. Dur ing a thunilor-storm that prevailed at Zanesville recently sho said there was another tornado coming, and soon suffered another prqstration, from the effects of which she died'. WISE WOKD^I. Loafing is not rest. Envy is a Jog that bites before bark- I ing. The man who loafs is least satisfied with his pay. Good fortnuc does not always travel in a carriage. If all our wishes wero gratified, how poor we would all be. When we measure others we make ourselves the standard. On the day we have done no good we have done much evil. When the world can't understand a man it calls him a crank. Truth often knocks at the door of him who has ears to hear. It costs about as much to be stingy as it does to be extravagant. Character is something that stays when everything else is gone. How easy it is for a lazy man to prove that luck is against hi in. Wo sometimes pray for more grace, when what we need is more grit. Our trials do not weaken us. They only show us that wo are weak. A self-made man generally spoils his boy in trying to make him like him self. No man who gives as much as he ought to give, ever wants his money back. The things which do the most to make us happy cannot bo had for money. Don't try to stop tho wind. Havo four ship ready to be helped on its way by it. When one man is heating a furnaco for another, he never thinks about the price of coal. It is hard to understand why un assuming people are so apt to wear squeaking shoes. Barn's Horn. Immense Rose Bush. San Francisco has an immense roso bush, which looks like an enormous bouquet. At the top of one side hang clusters of pure white roses. In the middle at tho top are rod roses, blooming in profusion. Pink roses hang in gay garlands at the top on tho other side. All over tho bush are branches of ro.;es of other lines and color.. Tho delicate La France, the white AT me. Plant ies, two varieties of Homer roses, the Pauline. Lebeau, tho Black Prince, the Castillian and tho white Lamarquo lend variety and at test their prolific blooms to the viril ity of the stock upon which they wero grafted. Tho owner of this rose bouquet is H. L. Barker, who is connected with the State Bureau of Mining. Once there were thirteen distinct varieties of roses on the bush, but tho tea roses grafted on proved to be short lived, and only the hardier varieties havo survived. There are enough now, eight in all, to make tho bush a curi osity. Mr. Barker's explanation is that ho likes to experiment with plants, and this rose bush is about lifteeu years old. Branch after branch has been grafted on. The original stock is the June or cabbage rose. The width of tho top is not less than twenty-five feet, and tho height equals the width. There are many stocks or trunks springing from tho roots. Carbon is plentifully supplied to in tensify the color of the blossoms.— {San Francisco Call. Elected Yicc-Prcsidcn( v ßut Never Served William Rufns King, born April 0, 1780, died April IS, 1853, was a Vice- President of the United States who never served in that capacitj*, and one who took tho oath of oifico on foreign soil—something which can bo said of no other executive ollicer who has ever been elected by the people of this country. King was an invalid, but his friends urged him to take sec ond place on tho ticket with Pierce iu 1852. Botii were elected, but Mr. King's health failed so rapidly he was forced to go to Cuba early in 1853, some two and a half mouths before inauguration day. Not having re turned to tho United States by March 4, Congress passed a special act author izing tho United States Consul at Mantanzas, Cuba, to swear him in as Vice-Presdent at about tho hcur when Pierce was taking the oath of oifico at Washington. This arrangement was carried out to a dot, and on the day appointed, at a plantation on one of tho highest hills iu the vicinity of Mantanzas, Mr. King was made Vice-President of the United States amid the solomu "Vaya vol oon Dios" (God will bo with you), of tho Creoles who had assembled to witness tho unique spectacle. Vice- President King returned to his home at Cahawka, Ala., arriving at' that place April 17, 1853, aud died the i'ol- j lowing day. His remains were laid to rest on his plantation, known as Pino Hills. Is Paper Furniture Coming] Just at present an experiment is being made at building all tho furni ture of unpretentious form of com pressed paper. This does for the living rooms what aluminum has done for tho kitchen—literally decreases the weight to a point where a child is able bo move the largest piece. It is not proposed in this process to detract in the least from beauty of shape or grace and elaborateness of ornamenta tion, but to lesson the price as well as tho weight. Tho first products in tho way of paper furniture wero finished in enamel paint, anil a double Colonial bed of paper, with all its clothing— its pillows and mattresses—was lifted about by a sixteen-year-old girl. "But will this new material wear?" is the query sure to be asked by housekeep ers who nro hopefully testing tho new pressed paper and aluminium batntubs and finding them much to their liking —Philadelphia Ledger. suiEsrmc and industrial. Ninety-four per cent, of the Rtreei railroaila in the State of New York are now operated by olectricity. The latest works on anthropology say that it cannot be proven that any race of giants ever peopled the globe. The only fur-covered, four-footed member of the animal kingdom which lays eggs like a fowl is the native beaver of Australia. The human brain, according to Cuvier, is the one-twenty-eighth part of the body; that of the horse but the oue-four-huudreth part. Soil brought up from a depth of 32(5 f£et in a vault in one 'of the Bel gian mines is said to have grown weeds unknown to the botanists. C. 0. Parsons, Bessemer, Ala., eaya that it is impossible for a bee to carry and store poisoned honey. It would kill her before she got to the hive. Professor Metericht, the Paris meteorologist, calculates that a hot, bright day in midsummer sees not less than 5,280,000,000 tons of water evap orated from the surfuoe of the Medi terranean Sea. The pathological museum, for which Professor Virchow has been collecting material for the last forty years, 13 at last to be built in Berlin, tho Govern ment having voted tho necessary funns for the structure. It is said that Dr. Max Wolf, of Heidelberg, who has discovered a number of asteroids, has nover direct ly seen an asteroid. His discoveries have been made from photographic plates, while stars are shown us points. There seems to be some difference of opinion as to the looation of the cold- I est spot in the world. GJr. Myer says ' that at Hildje, Siberia, eighty-five do- ! grees below the zero of Fahrenheit is i considered nothing out of the ordin ary. Drs. Brissaud and Marie, two French authorities on nervous dis eases, cite Prince Bismarck as one of the few instances of very bright mind found in a very tall body. They say that the healthiest persons are rather under than above the middle height and that the children who come out best at school examinations in France ; are those whoso bodies have grown ! slowly. W. H. Loyd, of Duluth, Minn,, an officer of the Northern Pacific Rail- I way Company, has invented a method of telegraphing diagrams and drawings '■ which deserves notice. It consists in telegraphing by predetermined signs 1 the positions of a series of points on a I sheet of paper cross ruled into squares ' und then joining the points thus laid down on a similar sheet of paper at | the distant station by lines, so as to ' reproduce the original figure. Au Incident of a Kentucky Flood. Rousseau Johnson lives with his family in Hatton, through which Dutch Fork of Benson Creek passes. Mr. Johnson's little frame house sits on a gentle slope fifty yards from the creek. About 3 o'clock Tuesday morning he was awakened by water creeping over the bed on which he, ] his wife and three small children slept. They all jumped out, Johnson and his wife grabbing the children. The water in the room was up to their waists. Mrs. Johnson held both the children, while her husband jumped through the kitchen window on the upper side of the house and then lift ed them through. The rain was fall ing in torrents and they sought shel ter in tho woodshed. The watjr rose rapidly and they had to leave, going to the henhouse, ten feet distant, and further up tho hillside. They re mained there until 0 o'clock in the morning with the water up to their ankles, Mrs. Johnson holding a month old baby in her arms all the time. As soon as daylight came Johnson made his way to the house of a neighbor, where he received a horse and wagon and hauled his family away.—Louis ville Courier-Journal. This Fish Ate Roses. A fish that eats roses as a regulat diet is owned by a well-known pisca torialist. It is a Japanese fantail and lives in a small aquarium with miscel laneous specimens of the finny tribe. The way this fish happened to begin its diet of roses was quite accidental. The present owner was one day changing the water in the aquarium when a small tea rose fell from the lapel of his coat into the bowl. The fantail was floating near the surface, and darted for the rose and began eat ing it. The owner did not interfere and the fish consumed nearly all the rose. He thought the matter odd and daily put a rose into the bowl. Thai was two summers ago. Qno of me owner's daily duties since that time has been to secure a rose for the fish. Last winter, when roses were nol plentiful, ho neglected this duty, and tho fish would not go near the food put into the bowl for several days. How to Bat Bananas. The banana yields more food to the acre than any other plant, and yet it disagrees with no end of Northern stomachs. Thia is beeauso wo eat it tho wrong way. But the wife of a missionary to tho tropics tells the glad tidings from heathen shores of how to eat a banana. AVhcn you have stripped off the willing rind, just scrape off tho stringy and hniry coat that lies beneath the rind, and you may eat your banana without tasting it all the rest of the day.—St. Louis Star Sayings. Silver More Durable. A gold coin passes from one to another 2,000,000,000 times before the stamp or impression upon it be comes obliterated by friction, while a silver coin changes between 3,250,- 000,000 times before it becomes en tirely defaced. T;JE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT AP.T2 TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Woman's Variability—A Bright Wo man—Tho Summer Art School— A Serious One—Proud, Etc. Time works a strange distraction lu the object of her zeal; She's forgot to want the ballot Since she learned to ride the wheel. —Washington Star. MORE GOLDEN THAN SILENCE. Jawkins "Why do you applaud that rot?" Hogg—"Hang it, if you would do the same it would help us not to hear it."—Truth. HISTORY'S ITERATION. Maud Askit—"Which one of them did you say you hated?" Grace Cariot "Sh! they'll hear you; I'll kiss tho one I mean on both cheeks. '—Puck. A BRIGHT WOMAN. Miss Gowanus—"l envy tho way you can talk to Mr. Caustique; ho never sits on any of your remarks." Miss Gotham—"No; I make them too pointed."—Judge. A WISE PRECAUTION. "Largo ears are a sign of generos ity," observed tho philosopher. "That'e true; but then most men with largo ears are sensitive about it, and try to conceal them."—Harper's Bazar. * A SERIOUS ONE. Citizen (offering bonds) —"I own a six-Rtory flat house in Harlem." Magistrate—"That's all right. Any incumbrance?" Citizen —"Well, there's the janitor." —Puck. THE SUMMER ART SCHOOL. "This is very good, Missßagley, but you want to bring your background out a little more strongly." "I know, Mr. Crane; but don't you think the frame will do that?"— Ha rper's Bazar. IMPRESSED WITH THE FACT. "Johunie!" said Mr. Chaflie to that hopeful youth, "I did not know uutil to-day that you were whipped at school last week." "Didn't you know it, pa? I knew it all the time."—Texas Sitter. PROUD. "I owe no man u cent," said he proudly. They gazed on him with wondering admiration. "No mun op earth. The only per sons I owe are my landlady and my washerwoman.Cincinnati Enquirer. NOTHING MEAN ABOUT IIER. Mabel —"Emily steams her hus band's letters open every chance she gets." Mauue—"Oil, well, she isn't mean about it. She seals them up again aud never blows him up."— Truth. PROOF OF ABILITY. "Young Jones is u pretty bright fellow." "Didn't he deliver the valedictory at his college commencement a couple of weeks ago?" "Yes; and he's begun to revise his opinions already." ON THE TRAIN. Rural Passenger—"Young man, I'd like to get your views 011 the crime of Seventy-three." Cholly—"Aw wcally aw!— there's so much cwimiual news in the papers—I—aw—didn't notice any thing about it, doucherkuow !" NATURALLY. Teacher —"Tommy, when was Homo built?" Tommy—"ln the night." Teacher—"How came you to make such a mistake?"/ Tommy—"You said yesterday Borne wasn't built in a day."—Brooklyn Life. SOLDIERS TOO COMMON. Mother—"Ella, you have been play ing all the afternoon with these toy soldiers. That's uot a proper amuse ment for a big girl like you." Daughter—"But, mamma. I am not playing with the soldiers. I picked out the officers and played withtkoui." —Texas Sifter. KNOWING. Blobbs—"What nonsenso it is for newspapers in their accounts of wed dings to describe the brides being led to the altar," Slobbs—"How so?" Blobbs—"Why most of the girls could find their way in the dark."— Pearson's Weekly. SOUND BUSINESS POLICY. Mrs. Walker—"l don't see why tho doctors all recommend bicycle riding. If it makes people healthier, it is a loss to the doctors." Mr. Walker—"l know; but they figure that one sound, healthy rider will disable at least live pedestrians per week."—Puck. CONSOLING TO THE PATIENT. "Mourning goods, please," she said to tho floorwalker at Sanger's em porium. "Yes, madame; this way, if you will," aud then adding, feelingly, "death is a sad thing, madams." "It is, indeed!" she responded. "I'll not make any purchases this morning. I only wanted to see the latest things you have in the mourning line; my husband is a very sick man."—Texas Sifter.
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