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Nothing less than the invention of |
an automatic horse will bring the au- j
tomobile up to date.
People are still trying to find out
how to prolong their days. Yet the
oldest man in the world is in a New
Jersey poor-house.
That must have been an interesting !
paper that was not read before the j
American ornithologists in Cam
bridge, Mass., owing to the absence
of the author. It was "The Ptery
losis of Podargus, with Further Notes
on the Pterylography of the Capri
mulgidae.
The Massachusetts law declares
that the display of advertisements on
the highway, if unauthorized by the
abutting property-owner, constitute a
nuisance and the offender is punish
able by a fine. A municipal order
recognizing an essentially similar
principle has been recently adopted in
Chicago. A crusade against this form
of public disfigurement has been
started in New York City.
For several years the supply of rub
ber has been short, and prices have
ruled high. The advent of the bicycle
as a popular vehicle, and later the
use of rubber tires on automobiles
and carriages of all sorts, boomed the j
cost of the material to an unpre
cedented point. Some anxiety has
been felt with respect to the supply,
and many efforts have been made to
discover a satisfactory rubber substi
tute. However, apprehension of the
failure of the supply has been allayed
by the discovery of a great forest of
rubber trees in Bolivia. But this dis
ao\< ry should not discourage the ex
periment in rubber-tree cultivation
which is being made in Florida.
More than 35.000 per:-:, ns, with 1427
vessels, are engaged exclusively in
the fishing industry of the United
States, according to the annual report
of Commisioner Bowers, who runs the
fish and fisheries bureau of the
Federal government. The annual
catch is nearly 400,000,000 pounds,
worth about $10,000,000. Strenuous ef
forts have been n.r.deto increase the
supply of the edible species of fish
but those endeavors scarcely keep
pace with the growth of population,
and increased price: haw been noted
accordingly for what should be a
cheap and general article of food sup
ply. However, the fishermen have
prospered, although their market has
been in many instances limited or
reduced.
A missionary trust is the latest thing
in organization, according to the New
York Sun. The six great societies of
the Congregational church are now
considering a plan by which more
united efforts may be secured, and
much waste of time, material, and ef
fort may be prevented. These socie
ties are the American board of com
missioners for foreign mission, the
Congregational Church 8.-.i filing so
ciety, the Congregational Education
society, and the Congregational Si*-
day School and Publishing society.
Th.e most important feature of the
plan proposed is that the solicitation
and collection of funds for all the so
cieties shall be in charge of a sub
committee of nine to be chosen from
the several boards; and that this com
mittee shall be a board of arbitra
tion, which shall adjust and decide any
work or territory in dispute.
on Wagon TopS.
'Enterprising merchants in New
York have learned that a majority oi
the residents of the metropolis look
down on the streets from above, and
hence they are beginning to paint elab
orate signs on the tops of their uelivery
wagons ae advertisements of their
•tores.
(cHILBRENjs COLUMNI '
A Bound Trip.
At 'tiledvl 1 It l the trip begins.
We soon roach Drowsy Centre:
i The gates of Sleepylund wo push
I Apart, and slowly outer.
Within are dreams of every kind.
And naps of every nation:
! We must take rare, or nightmares mad
Will ehasc us from the station.
But. when we've onee reached Slumber
towu.
We've no more need to worry.
! The journey bark to Wide-awake
i We take in quite a hurry.
• —Christian Itcgister.
The Cat ami Pincushion*
Miss Clara Rossiter had a cat that
amused itself by drawing all the pins
out of the cushion. When the last
was removed, it would look up into
| its mistress's face with an expression
, that meant, "Please slick them in
j again." And, as often as they were
[ put in, just as often were they drawn
j out. This eat had another favorite
amusement, if a vase of flowers
! stood within reach, it used to pick
the flowers out one by one and eat
them.
A Fortunate no-.
A Chicago school has lately fur
nished a very pretty instance of child
ish sympathy and childish resource
fulness. Some people having com
plained of a dog which had no home
and no visible means .of support, a
policeman was detailed to shoot the
animal. When he appeared near the
| schoolhouse with his revolver, ono
| of the little girls asked him what he
j was going to do. He told her. and
she begged him not to shoot the ani
mal. "Rut I must," he said, "for fye
\ hasn't any license." "We'll get him
j a license if you won't shoot him,"
j said the little girl; and so the po
liceman granted a few days' respite.
I The little girl interested eight or ten
I of her friends, arranged for a "show,"
consisting of speeches, recitations,
and music, to be given by themselves,
and persuaded their teacher to an
nounce it, with its charitable object.
| They cleared enough money to raise
j the dog from a condition of vagrancy
S to a position of affluence and independ
j ence. They paid his license foe
| bought him a new collar and were
even able to deposit a small sum
I with the butcher to provide their
| caniue friend with juicy marrow-bones
and choice cuts of chuck steak in
days to come.—Youth's Companion.
Ihivv n Thunderstorm Forms,
j Tile formation of a thunderstorm
! is one of the familiar things that few
iof us know anything about. That
sounds like a contradiction, but it is
not, for while we are familiar enough
with the impressive spectacle made
j by the clouds as they gather and with
the sometimes disastrous and always
] startling effects of the storm when it
j breaks over us. how many of us can
j trace it back to its origin, step by
j step, and tell how and where it got
\ Its terrible power ?
i I.et us try to do this; There is no
doubt that the electric charge of a
cloud comes from an initial charge
j multiplied by induction. The initial
charge may be acquired by evapora
j tion, for we know that electricity may
Ihe generated in that way. Or it may
, he generated by the friction of vapor
| laden air, which, moving as wind,
| comes in contact with objects on the
I earth's surface.
j This vapor is composed of very
I minute particles of water, each of
J which becomes electrified, the charge
j accumulating in its surface. Now, as
these particles or drops come together
j and are condensed into large drops
| the surface area is reduced in pro
j portion to the volume and an in
, j creased electric accumulation is the
j result. In other words, when two
! drops are condensed into one, there
is the same quantity of water and
. j of electricity as when the drops were
j separate, but there is a good deal less
i surface, and the electric charge is in
| tensified to that extent.
J The drops so formed attract smaller
■ j drops by their great power, and thus
, | condensation, with continual increase
. j of power, goes on rapidly and a thun
: dercioud begins to form. As the
cloud is sent forward by the wind it
, affects the earth's surface hy indue
' | tion, and the earth's surface affects
it in the same way, tile cloud becom-
C I ing positively and the earth negative
-7I ly charged. Tnis goes on rapidly.
, | electric energy being, continually
j drawn to the cloud from the air, and
J the same quantity being replaced
• from the earth below. Thus it is that
• | tile thundercloud forms as quickiy
. and acquires so great au electric
i Dower. —Chicago Record.
"As Slow as a Snail."
There are some slow little walkers
'■ that move round and round our gar
. j dens. You have often seen and won
3 I dercd and exclaimed over them.
1 I They are said to be deaf and dumb
i and blind, hut after aii these draw
backs, and their slowness, too, they
j manage to walk a good deal by keep
i j ing at it, and to gee their living after
. ' a fashion of their own.
j These snails—for no doubt you
' I know the familiar little creatures—
'' j live upon the tenciorest loaves and
1 the most perfect fruits of the gar
j den. So the snails cannot be such
I very stupid creatures, for at least the
j know enough to select the best of ail
t they find for their dinner. The snail
1 I hunts his dinner by night, like many
k other animals, and he has a pleas
[l antly persistent way of going straight
| ahead and directly over everything
y | which comes in his way.
i Snails have many peculiarities. Of
course you know they carry tfieir
houses upon their backs. The house
is made of a prettily marked shell.
While a snail walks along he comes
out of this house, but still takes It
along with him. Naturalists tell us
that when a snail wants to breathe
he must draw himself into his shell
to expel the air from his lungs, and
come out when he draws air into his
lungs again. This seems to be a
very elaborate and troublesome way
of breathing, and it is to be hoped
the snail doesn't have to do it very
rapidly.
It is a curious fact that the spiral
pattern of the snail's house nearly
always turns from light to left. But
occasionally a snail is found with his
snail pattern turning in the opposite
direction. A snail, then, of this
unique variety is regarded as a
great curiosity, and if you ever find
one, keep it safely as one of the orna
ments of your collection. The shell j
is a heavy one, marked with brown j
stripes, and the snail's body is gray, j
Ho enjoys his dinners and his slow i
perambulations all summer. On the |
approach of winter he selects a snug j
corner, and there he makes a close j
cover for himself out of leaves and
dirt, fastening tiiem together with a
sticky lluid which nature has provided
him to do the work.
Tlie Uniiie of Ouam.
In a new game of "Guess" the con- !
testants are told that each question
must be answered with the name of ;
a man who has attained some sort of !
fame during the last 100 years. ldaeh j
guest is given a little tablet with his |
name written on every one of the
pages, which are numbered from one I
to 39. Two minutes are allowed to
each question. The questioner sits j
with a bowl before her. into which,
when she calls time, each player drops j
a slip upon which he has written his !
answer. This is the kind of list that
the Woman's Home Companion sug
gests that the questioner read, omit
ting, of course, the answer:
Why did England so often lose her
way in South Africa? Mr. Rhodes.
What did the Emperor of China do
when the Empress usurped the
throne? Custer.
Whose was the first zoological gar
den? Adam's.
What is Li Hung Chang credited
with being? Schley.
The lane that has no turn is a
what? Longstrcet.
How did Pharaoh's Jewish steward
sign himself? Joseph Chamberlain.
What does a Chinese lover say
when he proposes? Dewey.
What is in the graves of the three
kings that followed Richard 111? Henry
Clay.
What do the waves do to a vessel
wrecked near shore? Heeclier.
If the statue of Liberty came to life
it would be a what? Livingstone.
What does a ship do to a seasick
man? Rockefeller.
A story of Senator Depew's when
it is known to be old, is what? Spotted
Tail.
What will Turkey's exchequer be if
she pays the indemnity claim?
Leiter.
What is the chairboy likely to do
to the old lady he has to push on a
hot day? Wheeler.
What is a novel military name for
a cook? Kitchener.
When do you get up to see a sun
rise? Early.
What were Burns and Southey in
infancy? "Little Bobs."
When Max O'Rell gets on a plat
form what does he do? Speaker Reed.
What does a waiter do after he has
filled half of the glass at a table?
Fillmore.
What does the wind do in a col
lection of dried herbs? Hussel Sage.
In the settlement of disputes, do
the European nations quarrel? General
Lee.
The towns taken by the British
generally lacked what? Garrison.
The big Northern Pacific, while be
ing built, had to pay a big what for
meat? ' Buffalo Bill.
A little laurel wreath pin is an
apropos first prize, with a copy of
"Representative Men" as a consola
tion. A booby is best dispensed with;
it is apt to embarrass the recipient.
Almost any person can prepare an
original list of questions and answers.
Perhaps the easiest method to fol
low in doing this is to seek out a
number of names of celebrities, or the
names of cities, which might serve as
answers to possible queries, and then
prepare the questions to which these
names will be replies.
The Indian Doctor.
A very interesting character fre
quently met with in the Andes is the
Callaguaya, or Indian doctor, as he
is familiarly known. You find lilm
everywhere—resting upon the bench
es of the plazas in the city, tramping
iver the mountain trails, sunning him
self against the wall of a cabin by the
ailway station, drinking chica in the
market place, inspecting cattle in the
corral ol' the hacienda, and curing the
sick persons in their mud huts. You
find him in the railway cars and
among the deck passengers on the
coast steamers, where ho pays his
way by practicing his profession. With
no wardrobe but the clothes upon his
back and a bright-colored poncho, he
travels farefooted from the Isthmus
of Panama to Magellan strait, carry
ing a pack filled with dried herbs
done up in neat paper packages, cheap
jewelry, pocket handkerchiefs and
ribbons, watches and other articles
for personal adornment, knives, forks
and spoons, scissors, small mirrors.
comb 3 and brushes and other small
merchandise, which ho sella for cash
or trades for eggs and poultry, choco
late, beans, and cocoa, to bo ex
changed at the next town for moro
portable property.—The National
Geographic Magazine.
ELOPED IN A BALLOON.
*USE BY WHICH A DARINC AMERI
CAN WON A SENORITA.
fhey Were Married After One of tlie
Mo*t I'm'iloim Aclv>ntTwo I.ovt>rs
Evnr Experienced Rage or the Mexi
can Don at ili Daughter's Flight.
Since the world began, lovers have
always been equal to the task of unit
ing their destinies and fortunes in
spite of opposing parents and guard
ians. They have eloped on horse
back, escaped the vengeance of irate
fathers by sailing across stormy wa
ters, and they have used special rail
road trains to put themselves beyond
the reach of angry pursuing parents,
but in Mexico for the first time a
heroic young man and a brave girl
used a balloon to escape.
Randall Howard, a wealthy young
man, whose home is in Marion county,
Mo., went to southern Texas about
a year ago to get the benefit of the
salubrious climate of the valley of
the Rio Grande. He divided his time
between Eagle Pass and Del Rio, fre
quently inaldng ' excursions into old
Mexico. He seemed to be well sup
plied with money, and being of a
jolly, liberal disposition he soon be
came well known and popular with
the best classes cf people, both in
Texas and Mexico. He was fond of
hunting and nothing pleased him
better than to collect a crowd of
your.g people and make a trip to the
Santa Rosa mountains, where game
is abundant and the finest fish in the
world are easily caught in the clear
waters of the numerous beautiful
streams.
During one of these pleasure ex
cursions young Howard made the ac
quaintance of Don Antonio Sanchez,
a wealthy ranchman, and was invited
to visit his hacienda.
Howard accepted the invitation and
he was warmly welcomed by the old
Don's wife and his beautiful daughter,
who had just returned from a con
vent school in the City of Mexico.
Not many walks had been taken
through the orange groves of the old
hacienda, where the frost never
gleams and the flowers bloom for
ever, before the young Missourian be
came satisfied that the beautiful
Spanish girl reciprocated his af
fection for her. lie abandoned his
Texas friends and moved his effects
to a little village not far from Don
Antonio's ranch. Howard had been
warned by his sweetheart that her
father's remarkable politeness and
apparent warm friendship for his
guest could not he relied upon to
withstand the test of parting with his
daughter. "He likes you very well,
Senor Howard," the young girl would
say, "hut he is the son of one of the
veterans that Santa Anna led into
Texas, and it is hardly probable that
he will permit me to marry, an
American."
The ardent lover soon discovered
that the young girl was well informed.
One day when the old Don was gradu
ally falling into one of his most hos
pitable and affectionate moods over
a bottle of wine the young man
boldly approached the subject. The
glass dropped from the old Don's
trembling hand and his eyes flashed
with rage. The hilarious, amiable
host of the previous moment was in
stantly transformed into a furious
human tiger.
"What!" he roared. "My daughter
marry a Texas American? Never!
Such audacity! 1 invite you to my
hacienda and you take advantage of
my hospitality to steal the affections
of my innocent child."
As Howard prudently began to rise
to his feet, Don Autonio began to
shout orders to his peons. To one
he said: "Bring me my pistols;" to
another, "Lock up my daughter;" and
to another, "Call the dogs."
It suddenly occurred to the young
Missourian that Texas was a nice
country, and it did not take him long
to find a t*ail that led toward a
crossing on the Rio Grande.
After sending his sweetheart a
letter by a faithful peon he set out
for St. Louis, where he developed a
plan to accomplish his purpose, which
has succeeded after one of the most
desperate and perilous adventures
that two eloping lovers ever ex
perienced.
Mr. Howard secured the services of
an accomplished aeronaut, and after
purchasing a good balloon he returned
to Texas. Taking several faithful
friends into his confidence, he sent
a trusty Mexican to the little village
of Santa Rosa, which is only a short
distance from Don Antonio's ranch, to
distribute circulars announcing that
Prof. Le Roy, a famous aeronaut,
would make a balloon ascem ion froia
the plaza of the little pueblo on the
14th of October. Senorita Alma was
well informed as to the part that she
was expected to act in the plan that
her daring lover had devised.
Promptly at the appointed time
Prof. Le Roy appeared on the plaza
of Santa Rosa and began to inflate
his monster balloon. The well-dis
guised lover mingled with the great
crowd that had assembled to witness
the ascension. The old Don's curi
osity had drawn him to the plaza,
where he was walking about, paying
little attention to his daughter, for he
thought that he had scared Iter au
dacious lover far away. As tne big
balloon began to sway in the air the
lovers drew closer together and at
a signal rrom the aeronaut they ap
proached the balloon. When the air
ship was ready to start on its voyage
Prof. Le Roy stepped into the basket
and a secret signal was given. 'Before
any one realized what was taking
place the daring lovers spratag over
tho side of the car and accomplices
cut the ropes.
Tho airship shot toward the clouds.
but not before Don Antonio had seen
his daughter in the arms of the hated
American. With the agility of a youth
he seized one of the ropes and draw
ing his revolver, he shouted, "My
daughter," and instantly fired. Le
Roy seized a knife to cut the rope,
but the girl caught his arm. She
realized that the balloon was already
so high in the air that the fall would
kill her father. Howard grasped the
situation and with heroic generosity
he turned to Le Roy and commanded
him to let the airship descend. "I
will doubtless lose my life," he said,
"but I cannot consent to be responsi
ble for the death of Alma's father."
Don Antonio was still clinging to
the rope and rapidly sending pistol
balls into the car. The balloon slowly
descended until the feet of the en
raged father were almost upon the
earth. Howard bent over the side of
the cai, and after cutting the rope
he waved his hat at the old Don and
shouted: "I will be good to Alma, and
when you wish it we will come to
st% you." The airship, relieved of the
weight of the defeated and furious
old man, shot upwards again.
The lovers could only hear howls
of rage, and they were glad to be
beyond the reach of the desperate
man who was clenching his fists and
shaking his pistols toward them.
Some hours afterward the balloon de
scended near the little city of Del
Rio, in Texas, and the lovers took
the evening train for San Antonio,
where they soon found a priest who
made them happy.
On the next day, after writing a
letter to Don Antonio informing him
of their fortunate voyage and mar
riage, they started on a bridal tour.
Those who are bast acquainted with
Senor Sanchez says that his rage will
soon cool and that it will not be long
before he will he ready to welcome
and give his blessing to his darling
children.—Chicago Tribune.
BOSTON'S BUSIEST WOMAN.
She Manages Her Ileal Kutatn Personally
and Has Made 8200,000.
Boston has among its citizens the
busiest woman in the country, if her
wealth and freedom from the neces
sity of doing the work in which she
takes so much satisfaction be con
sidered. She is worth a quarter of
a million of dollars, and made the
money recognizing the direction that
business in a certain part of the city
was going to take.
Boylston street was a residential
thoroughfare when she first became
acquainted with it.. After a while
the idea took possession of her that
business was coming in that direction.
She had acquired money enough to
become the owner of a house, and
she decided to conveit it into a shop.
She went to see the carpenters and
builders, and bought every piece of
woodwork and glass that was required
in making the change from an old
fashioned home to a new-fashioned
shop. She inspected the work as it
proceeded, and paid off the men
every Saturday night as they filed
through her kitchen.
When this undertaking had turned
out according to her wishes after some
delay and trying waiting, she got
another house and had that turned
into smart shops with plate-glass
windows and ever/ other feature to
attract the merchant who wanted the
best quarters and could pay for them.
She got a long lease on a third house
after a while and altered that just
as she had the others, paying the
same close attention to the practical
side of the work.
When all these changes wore made,
she did not hire a janitor to look after
her buildings nor did she hand over
the management of them to a firm
of real estate dealers. She remained
in charge so practically that to this
day nobody can control them but her
self. She scrubs the stairways her
self, she washes the windows and
she has carried the bricks from the
wagon to the sidewalk they were to
repair. She lives in an unoccupied
basement of one of the houses, and
through her kitchen and dining room
passes everybody who comes to the
upper rooms of the house, through
the basement.
Every detail of the management of
the property comes under her per
sonal control. She began to take this
close personal charge of her property
when her first house was altered
into a business building, and economy
was at first her object. Later, she
continued the work in the same way
because she found it interesting, and
now that her property is valued at
nearly a quarter of a million of dol
lars, chiefly as a result of this in
dustry, she finds nothing extraordi
nary in the fact that she should con
tinue to work so hard.
There is no trace of the miser in
her conduct and there are many in
stances of her generosity, which is
especially likely to show Itself toward
her own sex. So there is no question
of her parsimony, in spite of the way
in which she lives. Sometimes her
generosity to women in business has
proved an expense to her, although
she is proud of the fact that since
the day she flr3t went into the real
estate business, nobody has lost a
cent through her. —New York Sun.
Applying tlio Kulp.
After Sunday school little Ned and
his younger cousin, Horton, were per
mitted to play in the yard on condi
tion that they would be very good
and quiet. They had not been out
long when Ned's mother heard loud
screams. Upon investigating the
cause, she found her small son sit
ting on his cousin, pounding him vig
orously in spite of Horton's pitiful
walls.
"Well, mamma," Ned explained, "I
wanted to teach him the golden rule,
and ho said he wouldn't learn It." —
Detroit Free Press.
CURIOUS FACTS.
A ronn in Atlantic City, N. T., has
made himself famous. In a whoie A
year he kept a quarter of a dollar in
his mouth, and thus won a wager of
$lO.
An ostrict seldom jumps over an ob
struction of some height, as a well o*
mound—perhaps fearing for its frail
bones—the usual way of clearing the
obstacle being to breast the wall or
mound, and then to roll over it somc
kow-
In ruling paper the worker, using
quill and ruler, seventy years ago, took
4SOO hours to do work now done by
machine in two and three-quarter
hours. The old-time worker got $1 a
day; now the two men employed earn
$7 a day between tliem.
Canton. China, possesses the queer
est street in the world. It is roofed J
witii glazed paper fastened on bam
boo, and contains more signboards to
the square foot than any street in any
other country. It contains no other
shops but tiiose of apothecaries and
dentists.
In 1051 the Massachusetts Court ex
pressed its "utter detestation that men
and women of meane condition, edu
cation, and calling, should take upon
them the garbe of gentlemen by wear
ing of gold or silver lace, or buttons or
poynts at their knees, or walke In
great boots, or women of the same
ranke to wear silke or tiffany hoods or
scarfs."
Bavaria has the most curious of all
claims to notoriety, which Is that *t
possesses the longest lightning con
ductor in the world. It rises some
yards above the top of the meteoro
logical station on the Zugspitze, the
highest point in the German Empire,
and runs down tlio side of the moun
tain to the bottom of the Hollentlial.
where there is running water all the
year round. The length of the rod
is five and a half kilometres—nearly
three and a half miles.
Always Watches the Trail.
Senator Sboup, of Idaho, never sits
with his back toward a door. If he
goes into the Senate restaurant for a
midday meal he seeks a place about
the board where any one entering the
room will face his stalwart figure and
keen blue eye. Likewise when he
scats himself in a committee room,
where several men may be gathered,
he picks out a chair where he can keep
a clear watch on the trail by which lie
entered. It is simply the force of
habit. For thirty or forty years of bis
eventful career he lived with a gun in
his hand. A Pennsylvanian by birth,
he, nevertheless, took part in the stir
ring life of the frontier at an early
age. For many years his home was in
a log cabin, with only one window and
one door, and where, when he was
within, it was a matter of reasonable
caution to keep an eye on the ap
proaches. During the Civil War per
iod he served almost continuously as
a scout along the base of the Rocky
Mountains in New Mexico and along
the Canadian, Pecos and Red rivers.
So thoroughly accustomed did he bo
come to this that the habit of the scout
and frontiersman clings to liim uncon
sciously after a decade of service in
the United States Senate.
Two New Words Coined.
Two new words were brought into
Kansas City by travelers lately. One
taken from a poster somewhere is
"laugliiest." It was applied to a show
and was merely a variation on "fun
niest," which has become too common
for the average circus billboard writ
er.
The other new word is "mortician."
It is a puzzler till one studies over is
a while; then lie becomes enlightened.
It menus "undertaker." Rut how ele
gant! It is unto the plebeian "under
taker" as "tonsorial artist" is to "bar
ber," and even "funeral director" looks
like a Canadian dime beside it. Who
will he Kansas City's first "mor
tician?"—Kansac City Journal.
A Wonderful* Old Lady.
Lord Kosebery's mother, the Duch
ess of Cleveland, is a wonderful old
j lady. Though she is in licr eighty
first year, she is still lull of energy
and is a delightful companion. The
Loudon King mentions as an illustra
tion of her activity that sh< did nof
indulge her love for travel until she
was over seventy years of age, and
since then she lias made many a jou:
ney, including a tour to India, the
West Indies and British South Africa.
The duchess was married to the late
Duke of Cleveland in 1854, three years
after the death of Lord Dalmeny,
Lord Rosebery's father.
Comforting.
Upon the farewell appearance of a
popular prima donna, a local paper in-
jeeted in its report of the same the
following comforting paragraph: "The
house was packed, and as it had been
positively announced that it was her
last appearance, the enthusiasm was
unbounded."—Boston Courier.
How to Learn Your Friend's Income.
Do you know how to discover a
mail's income? Ask liim what lie
thinks a comfortable income should be
and divide his answer by two. This
is the rule given by a Harvard pro
fessor of economics—a shrewd man!—
Boston Journal.
A Chinese Industry.
An example of patient industry Is
the sorting of hogs' bristles as it is
carried on at Tien-Tsin, China. Each
one of the bristles has to be picked out,
measured and placed in the bundle of
hairs of corresponding length.