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The United States are rapidly be coming a great manufacturing country for export, and at the present rate of progress we shall before mauy years be selling to the woltd as much of manufactured goods as of grain and meat, The Philadelphia Inquirer, regard ing American imports into Germany Bays: "Since she has discovered that the American can outsell her in her own markets she has had a very much lower opinion of Brother Jonathan than she ever had before. If we want Germany's firm and enthusiastic friendship, all that we have to do is to reverse the balance as it shows at pres ent on the books." That a toy originally designed for amusement may develop into means of instruction, is shown by the cinema tograph. Its moving pictures have been employed in Berlin to illustrate difficult surgical operations. It is proved that these vivid and accurate illustrations are a valuable aid to students, being superior to the most elaborate de scriptions. The scientific uses of photography are many, hut this is an innovation that, with characteristic enterprise, will probably he adopted by medical instructors in this coun try- The San Francisco Argonaut, com menting upon the growing tendency of American colleges to confer de grees upon distinguished individuals, says: "There nre about four hundred chartered colleges and "universities" in America enjoying the right to con fer degrees—probably more than in all the countries of Europe combined. Many of them, receiving more honor than they can bestow in the conferring of their degree, get what advertising they can from generous indulgence in the practice. After ajman has received a degree aud uses it (which he does not always do in America), its source is reiulily forgotten; but the school conferring it secures transitory notice, and its real purpose is served. Once more the great West is awake. The years of idleness anc] depression that followed inevitably upon the un natural booms of a few years ago have given way to a healthiness of growth and development that will yet make of the trans-Mississippi section the empire that Napoleon predicted \yhen he threw down his pen after signing the Louisiana treaty. Mines that had been filled with water for many a month have been pumped out aud are in operation again. Mills that have been idle are once more humming with nachinery and alive with the men and women who aro making their new livings thevo. Towns that had lost all hope are awake. Lands in Illinois, Missouri, lowa, Kansas, Nebraska and every other Western stale are in de mand at prices that are pleasing to the holders, who have been grudging paying taxes with no return for a gooil many years. Farmers who have been disgusted and discouraged in turn are beginning to find life worth living, says a writer in the Philadel phia Saturday Evening Post. Monotonous Work. A farmer entered a watchmaker's, and stood hesitatingly about for some time. At last he hedged up toward the counter with the following re quest; "I say, could one of you fellows go out in the country about five miles and repair a watch?" "Why cannot the watch he brought here?" was the reasonable reply. "Well, you see, it's this way," said the farmer. "The watch belongs to a sick man, and he has to have it beside his bed to as to tell when to take his tloses." "Then the watch must be going al! right," said the jeweler. "Yes, the watch runs, 'cause the fel ler makes it run. lie says he's getting tired of poking the wheel with a pin, and wants one of you fellers to coma and put It straight." British Columbia contains the larg est compact timber area la the world. It Includes Douglas pine, cedar, spruce and Alaska pine, worth many million* if dollars. THE FACE IN THE CROWD. It was but a face In passing—somewhere on the crowded street; Strange that, after all the darkness, In the sunlight we should meet! Strange that, after words that wounded, In the life-ways I should see Lips that never meant the music that they utttTod once to inel Did I feel pulses quicken? Did a sudden mist of tears Blur the beauty and the brightness of the sweet, remembered years? It was but a moment's feeling; though my heart was orylng loud. Still, I know 'twas but a vision fading in the fading crowd. Sure, there aro so many roses, one should never make a Mayl Faces shall be fair to-raorrow for the ones that fade to-day; Life is only In the future—weeping not above the past, And the dust of graves we grioved for brightens into bloom at last! But these memories—they will linger, steadfast as tbo stars above; Life Is life, the ages tell us—life is life and love Is love! Wherefore, on these worldly highways, there is something still of grace In the fancied benediction of a fair and fading face. Dreams—all dreams; for we are dreamers where the light above us gleam; Dreams are only lights and shadows—love itself is but a dream. Life has duties—duties calling; phantoms, should wo still embrace— Leave the lights that shine forever for a dream that frames a face? Let it pass; the crowd Is careless; of-that crowd am I to-day; Life and love are fading—fading in the mysteries away. Silent are the stars above us to our hopes and to our trust; Let us dream a heart will love us when another heart is dust. —Frank L. Stanton, in the Atlanta Constitution. 1 THE DERVISH AND THE 1 WAR CORRESPONDENT. | H AN ADVENTURE IN THE SOUDAN. §ll 1 the morning of rv I the day before the \ battle of Onidur { mau t* lß English I an 'l Egyptian r~ A yi I force advanced .-r—CU I along tiro west T:| bank of the Nile - I from Seg-El-Taib _A kit 8I to that high, rooky ridge abutting the j;!i V river called lier iilii reri, or "the death place of infidels." Upon this ridge the dervishes had entrenched themselves for the defence of Omdurmau; but early iu the day the gunboats accompanying the army of the sirdar, General Kitchener, shelled the ridge so vigorously that the Khalifa's troops were foroed to abandon it in haste, with some little loss, aud retire toward tlioir capital. Aleautime a battery of howitzers, under Major Elmslie of the Royal Artillery, had been landed on the other or east bauk of the river, with orders to gain a jiositiou on the hills and shell the town, directing its fire particularly against the fortifications, the Khalifa's palace, and the fatuous tomb of the Mahdi. Much interest attached to this battery. The howit zers were very effective, aud the fifty pound projectiles fired from them were oharged with the new explosivo, lyddite. 1, "HE WAS COMING ON FAST." The first shell from the lyddite bat tery was fired into Omdurman just as the English battalions, making their way through the mimosa copseaon the bank of the Nile, reached the foot of the Kerreri ridge, Kadmore, a news paper correspondent, hearing the heavy report of the gun, and feeling sure that a good view of what was going on in the direction of the town would be obtained from the top of tho Kerreri ridge, hastened on in advance of tho troops, and ran as fast as he could to gain the summit. After a ten minutes' scramble over thorns, stone 3 au l gullies, ho reached the crest of the hill, where tho dervish camps had been placed. Many white cloth tents and huts, with the still smoking embers of camp-fire 9 inside a low earth-work, here marked the enemy's abandoned lino of defence. Shells from the gunboats out on tho river had burst all about tho place, and as liadmore went on ho saw many dead. But the view from this point was not quite what ho wished. Beyond and to tho right, a few hundred yards farther away, a portion of tho ridge roso higher than tho placo where ho Btood, and he ran on, deviously, among the thorn clumps and rocks to reach tho highest point. Meanwhile, several vedettes and ad vanced skirmishers from tho laucers had climbed up close in his rear, and passed over the crest to the other sido of the ridge. Kadmore continued moving to the right, and prosently got to tho top, but at an exceedingly rough spot amidst dry thorns and stones. Four or live hissing vultures rose heavily from beside a dead body just before ho gaiued the summit, and lie also noticed another body lying faco downward between two stones— a strapping Baggara who, Kadmore conjectured, had been hit by a frag ment of a shell, and had crept hero to die. Grnesomo scenes like this were too CDUimoa in the Soudan to claim more than passing attention. Without a second glance at the bodies, Kadmore directed his attention southward to ward Omdurman- A grand view was here presented. He could see the town plainly with the naked eye, the distance being hardly more than ten miles. On the plain below, between the ridge and the northerly suburbs, and about a mile and a halt from the river, were the thousands of white touts of the Khalifa's camp. He .could see, more over, long lines of white-robed infan try moving inland to the northwest, as if to outtinuk the Kuglish advance. Across the river, on the hills of the east bank, and a mile or two farther soufli than tho Kerreri ridge, the po sition of the lyddite battery was plaint,- revealed by white puffs of smoke and the reports of the guns. They were firing shells into Omdur mau. Radmore hastily seated him self ou the grouud, with his back to a large stoue, uncased his field-glass, and put it to his eyes. Now he could discern the buildings of Omdurman in detail—the palace, the rampart of the river walls, and conspicuously the white dome of the Mahdi's tomb. In shape, this some what resembled the tomb of General Grant at New York. Here the Mahdi had been buried, and his tomb was believed by the dervishes to possess a magical power to withstand tho Chris tians. Tho first shells fell in the town near tho river, throwing up spurts of broken brickwork; but soon a better directed shell carried away the whole gilded pinnacle of the tomb. Within a few minutes another struck tho dome, tearing an enormous hole. Then a third, entering tho shrine near tho cornice of the northerly wall, exploded within, making, in fact, an ntter wreck of tho interior, although Kad more could not see tho effect at the time. Meanwhile other shells were falling 011 the river walls, each, as it explod ed, tearing away great gaps in the masonry. Nothing appeared capable of resisting the prodigious force of the lyddite. Kadmore could see first a sheet of yellow flame blaze out, then Hying stones, dust and smoke. Wherever a shell burst panic fell; the soldiers cf the garrison ran away on all sides, perhaps to escape the fumes of tho explosive as much as its vio lence. But now Kadmore's attention was recalled by an event much nearer at hand. Ho felt a scratching under his right leg, where ho sat 011 tho loose earth and twigs beside tho stone, and glancing down, saw two scorpions. When he jumped up one of them fast ened itself viciously to the log of his trousers. At the samo instant he felt a sharp stab, as if a penknife blade had been thrust into his leg. lie was stung before he had time to move or brush the venomous croature away! A scorpion wound is a serious mat ter, ami sometimes proves fatal, to say nothing of the pain, which is in tense. Kadmore thought no more of the lyddite battery, or what was going on in Omdurman, bufcjpromptly turned his attention to his "emergency pack age," such as every soldior carried during this campaign. Among other useful articles, these packages con tain a small vial of ammonia designed for just such wounds. Scorpions are abundant in tho Sou dan. It is recommended in tho case of such bitos to make a little cut at the placo to promote a flow of blood, and then rub in tho ammonia. Kad more did so as quickly as possible. Hot wires seemed to run along the nerves of his leg; the pain was fright ful. Vertigo uoarly overcame him; > and worso still, dumbness began to affect his whole right side, his arm as well as his leg. He had sprung to his feet when first bitten, and sat ou top of tho stone while he applied the ammonia. Now he nearly fell off it, and at length was obliged to rest his head against it to support tho pain and giddiness. He believed himself to be dying. For as long as an hour he remained in a scmi-comatoßO condition; but at last ho revived a little, although his right leg, when he tried to move it, felt inert and heavy. His head had now cleared, and he opened his eyes and looked aronnd. Almost the first circumstance that he noted, consciously, was a low, scraping noise, accompanied by a slight motion in the sparse brush twenty or thirty yards down the slope, in the dirootion from which he had himself come up the hill. liaising himself a little, he saw that a man, black fellow, undoubtedly a dervish, was crawling slowly up the hill. This was quite enough to stimulate Badmore's reviving energies. He made a strong effort to rise, and succeeded in drawing himself partly up by his left leg and leaning his back against the stone. The black fellow, too, partially raised himself, and Kadmoro now saw that it was the identical body he had seen lying between two stones a little lower down the slope as he came up. He had thought it a corpse then, hut now it appeared to bo coming on! The queer lines of "Fuzzy-Wuzzy' re curred to Itadmore's mind: 'E's all 'ot sand and ginger when alive An' 'e's generally shamming when 'e's dead. "And, by Jove, he means me, too!" thought the young journalist; for ho could now sea that the crawling dervish had his eyes fixed on him, and that his distorted features wore a malignant grin. The Arab was dragging himself painfully forward, rising on one el bow and then pushing with his left foot. Although grievously wounded, fanatical hatred had nerved him to crawl after the Inglizi who had passed him, aud try to kill him. Radtnore perceived that the black chap was holding some sort of weapon in ono hand, and made a hasty effort to Craw his own revolver; but as yet his right arm was powerless. He took the pistol in his left hand, and made shift to cook it. > The dervish heard this, or marked the movemout. He stoppod, and with eyes like those of some fell rep tiles, watched the Englishman for some moments. Endmoro tried to think of certain Arabic words and phrases that he had learned, hut his memory failed to recall them. He raised bis hand deprecatingly. "Quit that! Begone!" he said, in English. "Leave mo alone, and I will you!" The Baggara showed his white teeth. Very likely ho mistook this attempt at propitiation for a defiance. Suddenly screaming forth a curse, he got up on one knee, and with his left hand on the ground, hobbled strangely forward, clutching his weapon in the other hand. Of his purpose Radmore now had no doubt. He was coming on fast, too, for a man in such plight. The necessity of self-preservation nerved tho journalist to shoot. He then put his thumb right across his knees, and utilized it as a rest for the revolver in his left hand; and as the black fellow carno up, ho oon trived to lodge two shots in his al ready shattered body, which had the effect of expediting the departure of his resolute spirit to tho Moslem Paradise. The weapon with which he had made this last dying effort against the Englishman proved to be an old sabre bayonet of the kind captured by the dervishes from Hicks Pasha fifteen years ago. Either the excitement from this rencontre or the ammonia so far neu tralized the venom of the soorpion bito that Badmore was soon able to regain his legs and make his way back to the English camp at El Oemuaia.—Youth's Companion. Blasted Hopes. In moody silence, with moody brow and folded arms, the young man stood before her. Ho was a returned soldior, a vol unteer officer, honorably dis charged from tho service of his coun try. He had come hack, as ho supposed, to make the dear girl happy who had hung upon his neek when ho bade her good-bye to go to the wars. But tho dear girl had received him coldly. A hustling comrucrtial traveler had taken advantage of his absence and supplanted him in her affections. "So!" ho said at last. "You have no remorse for your faithlessness I" "None whatever," she replied. "You prefer that chap with the sample case to mo, do you?" "Bather." He drew himself up stiffly. "Miss Grenadine Corkins," he said. "I leave this houso forever. I leave it," ho added, picking up his hat, "druminered out, but not drummed out!" And as he marched out of the room with a military step, the heartless girl called out, "Left! left! leftl left!" after him,—Chicago Tribune. Plymouth Colony's First Bulletin*, The first building used as a church in Plymouth colony was the fort. The first meeting honso was built there in IG4B. In other New England settle ments, tho first services were held in tents under trees, or under any shel< ter. The first Boston meeting house had mud walls, a thatched roof and earthern floor. It was used until 1610. The old oliurch at Hingham, Mass., still standing, was bnilt in ICBI and is known as the "Old Ship." SWAPPING AS A CALLING A BUSINESS AT WHICH SHREWD MEN GET RICH IN NEW YORK. Thev Will Trutle Anything From Clothe# Wringer to a Sky Scraper or an Ocean Steamship—Natural Ooniua Required —Notable Trades Arranged. "Nowadays people accumulate so many tilings they don't want and want so many things they haven't got that the business of relieving them of the first and supplying them with the second through the happy medium of exchange has grown enormously in New York," the prosperous-looking man with chop whiskers on whose pro fessional card appeared the legend, "Exchauge Broker," said recently to a Sun reporter. "There are more than one hundred men in New York City who follow trading or swapping as a regular thing, and a few of them have become rich in an incredibly short time. We buy np all sorts of things from ocean greyhounds, sky Bcrapers, and churches to clothes wringers, match boxes, and bed slats, and trade them off to some one who is hankering for a big ship, office build ing, church, clothes wringer, match box, or bed slat, realizing, as n gen eral thing, a handsome profit in cash or acquiring property worth more than that which we offer in exchange. "Successful exchange brokers are born, not made. The ability to swap and come out ahead every time is in herent. No matter how clever and shrewd n man may be, if swapping is not a natural passion with him, he is bound to come out at the little end of the horn eventually. In my own case, I begau to swap with an eye on the main chance when I was a little tacker of six and lived in a small river town in ft the Buckeye State. My first achievement .was to trade a pair of tadpoles and a view of a sore too to a little playmate for three sticky jaw breakers—as round, hard pieces of candy were known in those days. With this capital I acquired a genuine Barlow knife and a china taw, which were subsequently converted into still more valuable property. Great oaks from little acorns grow. From this modest beginning I suppose I amassed about SSO worth of treasures dear to tho small boy's heart by the time I was ten years old. At the age of sev enteen I owned a junk shop, and by the timo I had obtained my majority I was sole owuor of a prosperous hard ware store, a small dwelling and a vacant lot, all acquired through swap ing. "I look back with all sorts of pleas urable emotions on one event of my early career as a swapper. Do you know, I onee traded four hogsheads of New Orleans molasses for a steamboat? Nop, 'tisn't a dream. Y'ou see, tho steamboat, which was an old-fashioned stern wheeler, was on fire at the time the dicker was made, and it seemed as if I had the worst end of the bargain. It was like this: One night in the early seventies the steamer was churn ing down the Ohio, hound from Pitts burg for Cincinnati, flying light and working short-handed, when fire started. The boat's nose was headed for the Ohio shore and the crew set to work to put out the fire, but the flames gained so rapidly on them that they were compelled to give it up and take to the small boats. Every man on the burning steamboat reached the landing at our town in safety long be foro the old stern wheeler began to push over that way. Attracted by the tire, all of us young fellows went down to the landing to look on, and there we found the Captain of the steamboat jumping up aud down in the air and acting like a wildman, for he was the owner of tho boat and carried no in surance. " 'Don't you intend to make any ef fort to save something from the boat, Captain?' I asked. He came down out of the air long enough to interstice his expletives with tho information that ho was through with tho dod gasted old hulk, aud it could go to thunder and Halifax. Inspiration seized me. On the lauding were four hogsheads of molasses which I had secured by a trade that afternoon, and I called the Captain's attention to them. " 'Will you trade your steamboat as she is for those hogsheads?' I asked. He gaped at me in profound astonish ment. " 'Well, of all eternal fools!' said he at last. 'Do you own them hogs heads?' " 'I do,' I responded, dancing up and down in anxiety, for the boat was blazing like a town afire, and every minute of wasted.time meant loss of money to me in The event of a trade, 'lf you want to sjvap, say so quick.' " Blamed if I*don't go you,' as sented the Captain. 'lt's biggest care of something for nothing I ever struck.' " 'Boys, yon hear the bargain?' I said to the crowd. " 'Yes,' pipod tho crowd, 'and we'll see that the Captain sticks to it.' " 'Better see that this foolish young imbecile keeps his end of the swap,' retorted the Captain, and then, hav ing 110 more timo for the trivialities of life, ho returned with renewed fer vor to his bold, bad language. "'Como along, fellows,' I cried, and in an instant a dozen skifl's, all loaded with strong youngsters, were racing like mad out to the vessel. A promise of liberal pay inspired them with extra energy, and we nil wont to work on the^ .burning vessel with a sort of frenzy,"which resulted in the extinction of th'ej flames along about dawn. Of course tho boat was fear fully damaged,jbut there was still a great deal of property in sight. So next'day I had the hulk towed down to Cincinnati where the hull and wreckage were sold for 81500. After paying the young fel lows who had helped mo put ont tho aud deducting the actnal cost of the four hogsheads of molasses, 1 found my profits were a little more than SIOOO. The Captain never for gave mo. "One summer a few years ago I spent a vacation ou a farm not far from Monsey, N. Y. Tho owner of the farm had two daughters, one musically inclined and the other very much infatuated with her owu charms of face aud figure. The first wanted a piano aud the other pined for a dia mond ring, but tho agriculturist was too hard up at that time to buy them, although he wauted his girls to have such things. Now, I never lose a chance to make a trade, 110 matter where I go or how insignificant tho values involved, for, as I said, swap ping is a passion. Bo as I had on my hands at the time about twenty-live cheap pianos which had been seized by a client on a judgment held against a bankrupt manufacturer, and plenty of jewelry, I oflered to supply tho girls if he would trade me twenty acres of laud for a piano and diamond ring. The land was worth SSO an acres and the piano and ring wero worth less than—but never mind that. Suffice to say that the dicker was made aud I lost nothing. Next spring I built a fancy little Queen Anne cottage on my land at a cost of SISOO, and then swapped it off for a small steam yacht, which I sold some time ago for SBOOO, so you see how easy it is to mako swapping pay when you know how. "There is one protessional swapper in New York who started out less than five years ago to trade, principally in second-hand typewriters. When ho had accumulated ten or twelve he hired a young mau at $0 a week and a small office in an old-fashioned building where rents were cheap, and opened a typewriter exchange, selling the machines for two aud three times as much as they cost him and renting them out at s.* a month. Ho built up a flourishing business in a very short time, as ho continued to add to his stock, and to-day he has big brunch establishments in several large cities. Ilis from typewriters alone must be something like $20,000 a year." Tho Amateur Sherlock Holmcft. "I wonder who that regular army officer is?" said an amateur Sherlock Holmes, of this city, indicating a middle-aged gentleman wbo had just emerged from a St. Charles street store. "How do you know he's a regular army officer?" asked an ad miring friend, "it strikes me that his appearance is distinctly unuiilitary." "Permit me to say," responded tho amateur sleuth, "that you arc a very superficial observer. You evidently overlooked the fact that wheu ho felt in his trousers pocket just now 110 raised tho bottom of his coat instead of brushing it aside. The movement was most unnatural for a civilian, and proved conclusively that ho was in tho habit of wearing a side-slashed military blouse." "Did you base your conclusion en tirely on that trifling circumstance?" asked the other, with some scorn. "Oh! no," replied the analyst airily, "it was cumulative, entirely cumu lative. I had already observed that ne carried his watch in his outside breast pocket, a habit common to offi cers, aud that lie made au involuntary moveraout toward bis larboard hip as he brushed past a lady in the door way. Of course, he was pushing aside au imaginary sword, and when lie paused aud started again with his left foot I was certain he was in tho ser vice." "You said he was a regular, I believe?" "Certainly, those things are in the habit of years." "Your sagacity does you great credit," said tho amateur's friend. "If I hadn't bought my groceries from that gentlo mau since ' ( .)2 I'd agree with you ou the spot."—Now Orleans Times-Demo crat. Wild Cats on Sable Islam!. Where cats have run wild ou isolated islands they have become very wild aud powerful. Ou Sable Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, they were introduced about 1880, and rapidly exterminated the rabbits, whieli lmd been in possession for at least half a century. In one of the harbors of lverguelen Land, a barren and desolate bit of Antarctic terra-tirma to the southeast of tho Capo of Good Hope, cats escaped from ships have made themselves at homo on a little islet known as Cat Island, which has been used as a wintering place for sealers. Here they live in holes in the ground, preying upon seabirds and their young, and are said to have developed such extraordinary ferocity that it is almost impossible to tame them even when captured young. On Aldabra, two hundred miles northwest of Madagascar, cats have completely exterminated an interesting species of rail peonliar to that island, which, being unable to fly, had no chance of escape. litiftinp** Announcements. Sometimes advertisements are funny enough to deserve gratuitous circula tion. Tho following are from Eng land, but they will bo appreciated by readers iu this couutry: Two menageries recently arrived in a border town, one of which was un der the management of Signor , and the other under that of his wife, traveling respectively on their own ac count. Here they decided to unite their forces, aud the fact was inti mated on the bill thns: "Owing to the arrival of my wife, my collection of ferocious wild ani mals is considerably augment." This was the work of a foreigner. It is thought to have been fairly out done by a native who hung out the following from a traveling exhibition of waxwork: "The public is invited to see Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Vic toria, in waxwork, oe largo as life, and other ouriosities." WONDERFUL TWIN CHICKENS. A Quwr Cage Reported From u Farm la ZVltiSftaclt usetM. A rather unusual sight was witnessed recently during a visit to a poultry farm near the "Heart of the Common wealth," says the Boston Transcript. Two chickens from the same egg are her.*, and as they have already lived five weeks and are apparently as well as any of the others the chances are that they will grow up and become healthful members of poultry society. The owner says he has already re ceived an offer of $25 for the pair, but prefers to keep the chickens. His at tention was called to them first when he saw two bills trying to break out through the shell. The egg contain ing the twins was carried into the house, the shell was carefully removed and the two infant chickens were given the first sight of the world. They were wrapped up in cotton battingand were placed in the oven of the kitchen stove and kept there for some time. For the first three weeks they were not allowed to go out of doors, and were fed on malted milk and brandy served to them from a mediciue drop per. The little fellows are now strong and are able to look after themselves, aud run about in a large yard with 100 or more of their relatives. One peculiarity about these chickens, which, by the way, are of the variety known as Butt* Brahmas, is their ex treme exclusiveuess. They have noth ing whatever to do with the others and are constantly together. Where one is seen, the other is sure to be within a foot or two of it. If one ol them is picked up or separated from the other both start to calling to each other, and keep this up until the one which has been taken up has been placed on tho ground. Tlieu they im mediately "join forces" and start off on a foraging trip. The owner of this remarkable pair of chickens says that he has written to the publishers of two poultry maga zines, and has received word that ho has been particularly fortunate in keeping these twins alive as long as he has. Instances of two chickens from one egg have been reported be fore, but it has never been proved, so it is said, that they lived more than seven or eight days. Sle>, Too, Was of a Lavco Family. At a little informal married women's luncheon out in Eckiugtou tiie other afternoon, given by the hostess in honor of her "guest from the West" —a daiuty, languorous, black-eyed woman under thirty—tho conversa tion switched to the subject of large families. It appeared that most of the lunchers carne from prolific fami lies. Each appeared anxious to give her family's large tribal record for a considerable distance back, uud none noticed the alarmed countenance of the hostess as the talk progressed. The hostess made many ineffectual efforts to signal the conversation to a standstill; likewise, she unavailingly endeavored to sidetrack the large family theme. But it was no go, and it was finally up to her "guest from the West" to put forth the numerical coutributious of her ancestors to pre vious censuses. When the question was put to her directly she exhibited nary a fiiucli, but smiling languidly, remarked: "I am the youngest of twelve daughters and eighteen brothers." "Impossible!" exclaimed all the women except the hostess, who con templated the figures ou her fau with a drawn, dreary smile. "Not at all." replied the guest. "You are perhaps unaware that I was born and reared in Salt Lake City." "Oh!" blankly exclaimed the other women. "Quite so!" Then the hostess experienced no difficulty in shifting the current of talk into the weather channel.—Wash ington Post. A Tlirllty Western Dam * el. A spirit of thrift was shown oy a young woman who entered a car with tnndry boxes aud bundles. An other young person came in at the next station aud recognized hor "Oh, my, who is to be married? "Nobody, and me last of all." "Then what are the flowers for?' "A funeral; our teacher died, and we girls put together to get this wreath." "Poor thing, did she know she was going to die?" "I don't think so;" then, after a pause, she added cheerfully, "hut she does by this time," all being said in a most unconscious way. "How much was the wreath?" "Two dollars and sixty cents. I only had two twenty-five." "Did you pay the difference?' "Dear, no. I made him give it to me for two dollars, so 1 saved my own quarter I put in, but I'm going to make the girls think I paid two sixty." "Well, that's right; the wear and tear is worth a quarter surely."—Ob server. The Kulera of Canada. The Torouto Mail and Empire quotes A. A. Bruneau, a Canadian member of Parliament, as follows: "I am glad to tell you that the Dominion of Canada is now ruled by Bh-ench-Cauadiaus. "Yes, French-Canadians are now the leaders of Canada, aud I will tell you their names. "They are Sir Wilfrid Laurier, .Joseph Israel 'Parte aud A. A. Bin neau. "The old-timers are passed away, and a new era has arrived. "The French-Canadians are now the rulers of Canada." Attempts are being made in the couuty of Kent, England, to extermin ate the sparrow. Sparrow clubs have been formed, and money prizeß are given to those producing the largest number of hegda.
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