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Tho Paris Exposition cost the Unit* ed States a million dollars. But It was probably worth more than that to American trade. Only 271 divorces have been granted by the Canadian courts in thirty-two years. This peculiar industry thrives only on the American side of the fron tier. Since the treaty of peace was signed in 1871 Germany has not extended her territory by a single acre on the Con tinent of Europe, but she lias increased her population by 10,000,000. The "co-eds" at the University of Chicago have revolted against their menu. They require the absolute ex clusion of toast, eggs, beefsteak and hash. If it were only bash one could sympathize, but toast, eggs and beef steak! Do they want pickle salad, chocolate eclair and angel cake for breakfast. This is what comes of shutting up femininity from the in fluences of the wholesome sex. Left to itself the feminine dietary would evolve? a weird and wondrous thing. But when these gentle creatures of the Lake Seminary sidle out to make glad a pork-weary world other ideas will come to them. They may come lu time to find a true fragment of the over-soul Imprisoned In a thick slab of broiled steak, red inside .and smoth ered iu onions. One of tho things that appear to have been settled by the Boer war Is the disappearance from the British army of the organization known aa the army corps. It is stated authori tatively that the division is the largest tactical unit that can be conveniently employed in the field. The army corps scut to South Africa went to pieces Immediately after it landed, and all subsequent reinforcements went out as divisions, and General Roberts worked with the divisional unit throughout. However much the corps organization may be adapted to Euro pean warfare, it has no place in such wars as Great Britain usually wages. "With the disappearance of the army corps, corps troops will go, and the divisions will have their own small proportion of cavalry and artillery. The cavalry and artillery will then have their own groupings according to cir cumstances. Ho Didn't Idke Ilia Son-in-Lnw. Joseph Dalky takes the opportunity afforded by his will of Insulting ids son-in-law in terms wheh doubtless had a pungency once, but which are hardly comprehensible to the modern render "I give to my daughter, Ann Spencer, a guinea for a ring or any other bauble she may like better; 1 give to the lout, her husband, one pen ny to buy him a lark whistld * * * arid this legacy I give him as a mark of my appreciation of his prowess and nice honor in drawing his sword on me (at ray own table), naked and unarmed as I was, and lie well fortified with cus tard." Photographing by Light of Venus. Photographing objects solely by the light from the planet Venus has been successfully accomplished. The ex periments were conducted within the dome of the Smith Observatory, at Geneva, N. Y., so that all outside light was excluded except that which came from Venus through the open shutter of the dome. The time was the dark est hour of the night, after the planet had risen and before the approach of dawn. The plates were remarkably clear.—Chicago News. Each year about 44.000.00 oi wheat arc grown in Africa. Australia stands at the foot of the great wheat producing countries.' Ini-' crc-'inri with a product of about bush els a year. In 1800 there were in all the world less than 50 shipbuilding yards. To-day there are more than 700 shipbuilding yards, turning out a total of 1,000 ves sels yearly iler of the National bank of Kings 1 at a salary of SSOOO a year, which was | quite a good deal, even for a bank ofll j clal, in a small town like Kings. Lav ery had married the sweetest little j girl in the town, in tho meantime, and ; had duplicated her with another little | girl, who was his pride and joy. He was the happiest man in that town, j and with his home, his wife and his I baby, he had every reason to he. Ho had a little money saved up and a fine j fat place that no man living could get 1 away from him, as long as ho behaved himself. j "Now, I've had a great deal of ex perience with crooks, and I have stud ied their ways and the motives th i. ; lead them to live lives of crime with great care, but this man Lavery was a | mystery that. I never could solve. Here | was a man who had never done a dis honest act in his life, who had nothing i to gain, and everything to lose by dls , honesty, and yet carefully planned out a robbery of the bank with which he had been connected since early chikl ! hood, and the or - rs of which trusted j him implicitly. Don't ask me why he j did it. 1 do not know, and no one else knows. He had never speculated or gambled, had a good home ail paid for, a loving wife, a baby and a fat sur plus at the bank. If you want to know my real opinion of the matter. I will tell you that I think Lavery was . crazy, clean crazy, and yet in poss.es | sion of all the faculties that enable a | man to plan and carry out some great | enterprise. I "Lavery didn't juggle his hooks or I nonkey with any other man's ac- counts. If he had I wouldn't have had I this story to tell. He would then have ! been an ordinary, every day felon, and j would be wearing a number in some I prison. No, that was not Lavery's game. With all the cunning of an ex perienced thief, he planned to rob the bank of all the money in the vaults, and then just drop out of sight. What might have been the stiffest kind of a job for a band of experienced cracks men, would be easy for Lavery, be cause he and the president were the only ones who had the secret of the great locks to the vault, and they were the only ones who ever stayed at their desks alone late into the night, i "It was nothing unusual for Lavery | to stay late at the bank. He was the kind of a man to work constantly, and the old watchman knew him so well that nothing he might do would have roused the slightest suspicion in his mind. Lavery knew this and he laid | his plans accordingly. He made ar- I rangcments to get out of town on an i early morning train, and had a most | elaborate plan for his wife to follow ! him at a later date. He did not take ! his wife into his confidence. If he had, the thing would never have come off. She would have brought him to his senses with a round turn. As it was, Lavery went on dreaming of a South Sea island home, far from the clutches of the law, with every luxury that na ture could provide. It was the dream of a crazy man, but as I said a while ago, 1 am convinced that Lavery was crazy. Well, there was a lot of inter esting detail, which I'll omit just now, so as to get down to the meat of the story. The night come when Lavery made lip his mind that the best chance j possible offered for the plundering of j the bank. In the great vaults were | some $200,000, every dollar of which ! . was within easy reach of the trusted j hand of Lavery. Of this amount over a half was in such shape that the man could carry it off with ease. i "Lavery spent that day at bin desk working about as usual. After bank ing hours he got the clerks around > him and straightened tilings out. Then j he clorcd his desk, walked into the j 1 Office of the president, announced that i 1 he was goinft out for some luncheon, | but would be hack and would remain j at the bank late. The president told | the cashier that he was working too i i hard,.but Lavery only smiled and went ! out. He came back at 8 o'clock that night and the watchman let him in. ' He had a large i;I: >.••• valise with him, , which he put aloar.. Ide his desk, and ! • then from 8 until 12 o'clock, he ! worked away over the papers on lii 3 I desk. The most remarkable thing | about it all was that Lavery was net | playing for tin." as ho worked. His I ' labor was genuine—I know that be- j ' cause I saw his books afterward. The ! old watchman came to the counting room at 11 o'clock, and again at mid- j i night, and spoke to Lavery. He an- ; 1 swercd cheerfully and once told the ' old man that he might be around until ! early in the morning. < "it was about 1 o'clock when Lav- j 1 cry rose from his desk, picked up his ' valise and started down into one of ! the vaults, the one where the large sums of money were kept. Ho didn't i look to the right or the left. Never ' was man more confident of the suc cessful operation of hi 3 plans. A slight noise as he passed through the dark passageway failed to make him ! even start. He passed on to the vault • and when he stood in front of the | great steel doors, put his valise down , on the floor and after a few seconds' i work, succeeded in swinging back the doors. Again there was a slight noise j and this time Lavery looked around. I A shadow flitted up toward him and thou disappeared in a niche in the , wall. " 'la that j on, John?' asked Lavery coolly, thinking it must be the watch- I man. There was no answer. Lavery 1 was disturbed, but not frightened. He turned to tire vault and with some haste began to rull out great packets j of bills. One or two packets he laid i on the ground, the rest he placed in j the valise, ills only light was the i flickering gas jet at the end of the ' passage, but not an inch of that vault. , was unknown to Lavery, and he could j have done Lis work without any light i at all. "Suddenly this flickering gas jet , went out. Now Livery was no fool. I He didn't del mi ■ himself with any false ideas. II" knew that there was ' soinehting behind the gas going out j except a draught. He put two and two together, and ecu hided that he had been followed ir.to the vault by some one, who didn't euro to be seen. Ho tried to think what lie might have dune or said to betray himself or his plans, lie could tl .. 1: of nothing. The fact remained, liov : r, that he was at the end of a blind passage with a valise full of the bank's money. Who- | eve- turned out the light knew the truth. Lavery put his hand in his pocket and slipped out the revolver which he always carried when he 1 stayed late at the bank. His reflec tions had occupied less than a minute, and during that time not a sound had come from the passage. Lavery waited : until It became impossible for him to remain quiet another second. The moie ho thought the more convinced j he became that he had been cornered by the officers of the hank. That was his guilty conscience. Ho thought of ills wife, and a certain little baby, ] then with an oath, something Lavery wasn't used to indulging in. he strode I forward until he had gone about 20 feet. Ho heard some one breathing ahead and without a moment's hesi- I tation, aimed his revolver in that di rection and fired three shots in rapid succession. There was a most terrific outcry. Lavery plunged ahead again, but before he had gone three steps something struck him on the hack of J the head. As he fell he turned quickly I and fired the two remaining shots from his pistol. Then he went slowly j out of the world with yells of pain and shouts of alarm from somewhere J in the distance ringing in his ears as j his mind gradually passed away. "Lavery saw the light of the world again two weeks from that night. He came to in his own home and with his wife bending over the bed. for a mo ment he couldn't recall anything. Then like a flash it all came back to him. " 'I must get away,' he crifid to his wife. 'I must get away. Quick, give me my clothes. Oh, my God, my God!' "Lavery went off into delirium, and the doctor shook his head and looked serious when lie saw him and heard what he had said. The next time Lav ery's wandering senses came back to liim there was a strong man along side of his bed and when he tried to jump again he found liimseif pinned down. You may have guessed the situation by this time, but remember that Lav ery had not. When these two days of utter despair had passed, there was a call on the sick man, which caused him to bury his face in his hands and weep the first tears that he had shed since that eventful night. It was the old president of the bank, who came in, the old man who had bee:i Lavery's friend since childhood, and who had always idolized the boy. The tears were streaming down his face as he entered and when Lavery saw that kind old face, his cup of bitterness ran over. He couldn't look in those eyes. " 'He's nervous,' said the nurse. " 'Poor boy,' said the president, he's had a hard time of it. Weil, he must be saved for his reward.' (Lavery's heart almost burst at this.) 'Lavery,' said the president, leaning over the bed, 'don't you feel well enough to speak to me? I have waited two weeks to do my duty in this matter, and the doctor tells me you are well enough to talk a little. Lavery, your courage saved the bank $200,000. Of course, nothing that I can say now will give you any idea of the gratitude of the officers and directors. I want to tell you that you must hurry and get well, so that we can show our appreciation of your conduct.' "Then the president went out, and Lavery, almost stunned by those last few words, roilod over on his face and struggled to think. For hours he lay there silent, but thinking. His wife came in for the first time and from her lips carne the story. For a month two famous burglars from New York had been tunnelling into the passage I leading into the vaults. They had I worked from the cellar of an office I building adjoining, one of the men I having secured permission to use an I old coal bin there as a dark room for I some photographic work. " 'And dearie,' said his wife, 'if it i hadn't been for you, they would have ! got away with all that money. John, the watchman, says that the first idea i he had that anything was wrong was I when he heard your pistol. He ran j down toward the passage, and as he ! ran he heard shrieks of pain and more ! pistol shots. Suddenly everything was i quiet, and when John lighted the gas he saw two men trying to drag them selves along toward a big opening in the wall. The blood was streaming from their wounds. They were the burglars. You shot one of them three times and the other twice. John I found you unconscious on the floor with your head all crushed in. John J got help and that's all there is to it. \ except that they're only waiting for j you to get well to try those two men. j Oh. dearie, those men almost got the money. They had a big, black hag with them, and there was over $50,000 in it when it was found. There were thousands more scattered around the floor of tiie vault. How you must have ] surprised them. And, dearie, the doc tor says that you must go away for a ' long time, and the directors of the bank have voted to send us all to Europe for six months. . Beside that they have voted you SIO,OOO reward, and your place will be held for you until you get back.' "Lavery's wife went out and Lavery i tried to think. Ho found it easier than before. The truth came to him like an electric shock, but he was strong enough to listen to it without betray ing himself. He got well fast after that, and that's all there is to tell you about the matter. Yon saw Lavery , pass a few minutes ago. Ho never did a crooked thing again in his life, and I verilv he licvo that he never thought a crooked thought again, lie is a New York bank president now, and I guess 1 he in a director of about 20 others, in cluding the National of Kings. "Now you're going to ask me how I know all this. Does seem strange, doesn't it? Well. I got my first hint ol it from the head crook of the two who did the job. He told me in jail that it was a moral certainty that the caphier wan robbing the bank when he and his pal happened in. If it wasn't for the tact that they were making a hero out of the cashier, he said, he would go on the stand and tell the faets as they really were. He was a cute duck, though, and told me that they had made sue'n a popular idol out of the cashier that the jury would probably soak him harder if he cast any aspersions on the savior of the l ank. The rest of the story I got from tho only other man in the world who knows it and ho told me the whole tiling when 1 threw at hith the facts that 1 had got from the burglar and the result of my examination of tho I watchman. It was .Cars after the af fair, and so there is no harm in letting me in. Who he was, I leave you to guSss.''—New York Sun. ; [CHILDREN'SCOLUMN] j I.lttln Bird, Don't Cry. r Tharo, little bird, dun't ory ' [ They'll cut oft your h.md, X know, , An I the strutting ways Of your barnyard days i Will be things of long ago ; j But the cook will stub you by and by— L There, little bird, don't cry! 1 There, little bird, don't cry! i They'll eat you—you bet I know I And the drumstick fat And the like of that 1 Will he tilings of long ago ; But your overfed foes will groan aud sigh— I There, little bird, don't cry ! , —Chicago Record. I Klght Thousand lives for One Fir. i "Whoever thinks tho male the supe [ ridr animal finds no rest for the sole of his foot in the contemplation of i what we, in the sublimity or our self • conceit, call 'the lower animals.' " says a writer in Ainslee's Magazine. "In our general ignorance of the house-fly we do not know just how foolish and no-account the male i 3, but we may reasonably infer that he is as mar kedly deficient as usual, seeing that ■ his eyes are so close together that they touch each other. That's always a bad sign. If you see anybody with eyes close together you are entitled to think little of his intelligence. "The fly has two sorts of eyes, the big compound one, 4000 in a bunch on each side of the head, for knocking about in daylight, and three simple eyes on tho top of the head for use in a poor light, sewing and fine prinl. Before going into ecstasies of admira tion over the creature that has 4000 eyes on each side of its head it might bo well to remember that they are not of much account. In easo of oi l flies kept over winter the compound eyes cave in and get broken, yet th? sly seems to get along and find fond. , One kind gentleman varnished over the simple eyes and plucked oft the wings of some flies. He found that ho might hold a candle close enough to burn tho compound eyes of tho liv be fore it had a suspicion that anything j out of the common was going on. In daylight ho took a knitting needle aud I brought it up in front of the fly close | enough to touch its autennae before !it dodged. If the knitting needle was | brought up on one side Mr. Fly peeked up his sticking olaster feet quite live ! ly. The Knngarnna, In the continent of Australia, where there are so many queor plants and animals, lives the numerous and droll ! looking family of the kangaroos. There are several varieties of this i family, but all have the same general I characteristics; a very 'urge tail, very j long hind legs, and very short for a I legs. Kangaroos can out-jump the very i host jumpers you over saw, or heavJ J of. They use their long hind ice.' ' something in the grasshopper style: ! and their tails are not only big, but j strong, and are of great assistance to I them In their leaps. I Their flesh is good to eat, and so 1 they are hunted a great deal. Instead of running from their pursuers like 1 (ho swift-footed hares and nntolop"S, I they jump awgy from ihem. and in j this manner they get over a great ex ! tent of country in a very short time Running would be impossible to crea tures with such ridiculously short j front legs; but leaping answers tho same purpose, and. as this is their ' natural mode of progression, tlmy do j not get tired any sooner than other animals do by running, j The kangaroos are by no means ugly animals, and. th" gh they look awkward when standing on all fours [ (which they very seldom do) they are very graceful while making thciy leaps. | One of the prettiest species of the j kangaroo family is called the ante lope kangaroo. Its head and ears arc ; similar to those of the antelope in ap pearance. ; Kangaroos aro common enough !n menageries, and the next time you j visit such a place look for one. It seems a pity to shut them up In cages, where they have no room to take even the smallest jump. But, then, if they were not caged there is no knowing where they would jump tn. Some of the old kangaroos aro rough ! customers when brought to bay. A big fellow will sometimes seize a d"g ■ ir. his short fore legs and with one of his great hind feet give him a scrape that will make him wish he had never seen a kangaroo. Just as you have seen a quiet, peace able boy when lie had been annoyed by a teasing and quarrelsome fellow, suddenly blaze up and astonish the young rascal by giving him a good thrashing.—The Weekly Boquct. Life-Saving Kxlraordinary. I In St. Nicholas, Lieutenant Worth G. Ross. U. S. Revenue Cutter Service, tells of an extraordi nary rescue on the shore of Lako Su perior. A schooner and steam bar: , were stranded at Marquette, anil aft v ! making heroic efforts a.l day long fl I succor the survivors, the would-be ! rescuers telegraphed to a regular life saving crew. Some one proposed thin |as a last resort. It seemed like a for : lorn hope, for the nearest station was then at Ship Canal, a hundred and tor. ! miles distant! However, the chance, meager as It looked, was considered \ worth taking, and ai rangements wore at cnce begun to bring the life-buet I nnd its crew. A telegram, which had I to bo carried six miles by a tug. was i tent to the keeper of the station tel j iing of tho peril of the sailors. Tae managers of the railroad oft'ert.! special train to bring the surfmen ar.d their apparatus to Marquette. As soon us the keeper received the mes sage, he and his men. with the life boat, wreeli-gun, and all necessary ap purtances, were taken on the tug, which steamed as fast as she could to Houghton, where was waiting a train consisting of an engine, a passenger coach, and two flat-cars. It took Mi® life-savers but a short t'me, with the helpers who volunteered, to put tho apparatus on board the cars and se cure it. after which the train sped swiftly out into the night on her mer ciful errand, followed by the resound ing cheers of the crowd of persons ■ who had come upon the scene. Perhaps no life-saving crew had * ever before started out on a journey so exceptional. They were stirred to the noblest impulses by its intense , significance, and had determined ' | j among themselves to do or die in the perilous task before them. Although j the track was heavy with snow, the ! powerful locomotive raced on a. high speed through the driving tempest, at, | time.3 almost reaching the rate of