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The Boer scheme is said to be to
keep on fighting whether the tvar is
over or not.
When a French newspaper is not
sure of its news it docs not say "it is
rumored," but simply adds "under re
serve."
Nearly two-thirds of the letters car
ried by the world's postal services are
written, sent to, and read, by English
speaking people.
The present population of the United
Stales has been very considerably en
larged as a result of the annexation,
cession and purchase of islands. The
following estimates are furnished by
the Census Office:
United States 70,295,220
Porto ltico 050,213
3'hilippine Islands 7,009,000
(5 nam 8,501
Tutuila and adjacent islands 4,1G5
Total 84,201,189
There was an enormous shortage in
tho crop of green pons in the United
States during the past year, owing
principally to the ravages of the aphis,
a little green insect which destroys
the plants. Long Island suffered se
verely, and growers in Delaware,
Maryland and New Jersey were little
better off. In localities further north
the aphis did not appear, as the cool
er climate was unfavorable to its de
velopment. Altogether the loss of
growers on the pea crop amounted to
about .$3,000,000.
"They do some things better in
Fiance." The proverb is musty, but
there is nothing stale, flat or unprofi
table about the decision of 1 lie French
Co comment to lessen tho number of
di figuring advertisements on cliffs,
walls, buildings and fencoes, by put
ting a proper tax on signboards,
v-i.other they are displaying upon pub
lic or private property. The Gallic
i xaniple should he followed promptly
in the United States. No more hideous
placards can he seen anywhere than
in any of those in this country.
Owing to its vast extent Australia
embraces every variety of elimato st
eept that found within the polar cir
cles. It can grow most of the vegeta
bles and animal products of the tem
perate, sub-tropical and tropical re
gions. It is given only to two mi
lieus, l lie United States and the Com
monwealth of Australia, to be able to
produce nearly all the commodities
they need; and both of them may
share, with the rest of the world, not
tally th j surplus of their vegetable and
animal products but also their excep
tionally abundant minerals.
There is so much said nowadays
about tho benefits of salt to tho sys
tem, that a new spurt probably will
be given to ihe evil habit of salt eat
ing. Tills amounts to a disease in
some sections of England. At present
it is the fad in London to chew salt
crystals, and medical journals are be
ginning to warn the public against the
yellowing and shrinking of the skin,
the loss of hair and the general diges
tive evils it causes. The American
Indian eschews salt and has always
eschewed it. and the claim was never
made that the American Indian, in
his natural state,, was a weakling or
short-lived.
Turquoise mining in New Mex'co ii
/: vry remote origin. Many of the
present mines, when located," inilicat.-j
operations by the inhabitants of New
Mexico at a time prior to or cotempo-
Taneous with the Aztecs, stone and
tarthen vessels of great antiquity being
found in the workings.
The largest American fly is a little
over halt an inch in length.
TO BRIDGE THE BOSPHORU3.
Great Scheme to Connect ICurope find
AMIH Acroo Marmora.
Railway building is now going on at
a feverish speed throughout the Otto
man empire. The anatoliare lines are
to be extended all over the sultan's
possessions in Asia Minor. A German
syndicate, supported by French, Eng
lish and Belgian capital, lias secured a
concession to build a railway to the
ancient city of Bagdad, in Mesoptamia,
through the valleys of the Euphrates
and Tigris. From Bagdad the line is
to be extended down to the gulf of
Persia.
In connection with this railway ac
tivity it has been projected to bridge
the Bosphorus; that is to say, the strait
of Marmora, and sepa-ates Europe
from Asia.
The length of the Bosphorus is 18
miles and its greatest breadth 1 1-2
miles, and its narrowest point 1700
feet. Here it is where the finest
bridge in the world is to be erected.
It will be a suspension bridge, after
the American system, but in form and
architecture it is to be entirely Orien
tal. The European end of the bridge
will be erected at Rumeli Hissar, while
the Asiatic terminus will be at Ana
doli Hissar. It is a historic spot where
the magnificent structure will appear,
for in the year 513 B. C., the Persian
King Darius crossed here with an
army of 700,000 men the Bosphorus on
a flying bridge. Three monumental
Saracens towers, crowned with glitter
ing faience domes and minarets will
arise here from the bottom of the sea,
to support the richly decorated and
profusely gilt bridge, which, during
the night, will be lighted by thousands
of electrc lamps.
The roadway will be supported by
steel chains and will be so high that
the largest steamers and vessels can
pass below it.
It is further intended to protect both
approaches by a system of outer works,
and also to arm the bridge piers by
means of turnable batteries which—
themselves inaccessible to the fire of
the larger guns of the war vessels
will bo able, at great distances, to sink
or disable any foreign fleet which may
try to force a passage past the struc
ture.
The bridge will have another great
feature. It will afford a direct rail
way communication between Europe,
Asia Minor, Persia. India, China and
Africa. Direct trains some day will
run from Calcutta to Hamburg in 12
days, from Tong-King in French Indo-
China to Paris in 15 days; and, if Cecil
Rhodes succeeds in carrying out his
"Cape to Cairo" railway, the Bospho
rus bridge will afford direct trains to
run between Cape Town and St. Pe
tersburg in 1G days.
The bridge will be named after the
present ruler of the Ottoman empire
and be known as the "Sultan Abdul
Hamid Bosphorus bridge." Its cost
will be in the neighborhood of $15,-
000,000. It is said that most of the
European countries which have an in
terest in Turkish railway matters sup
port the scheme and that they are will
ing to contribute a certain amount to
the cost of this imposing structure.
Writing im "Ad,"
Did you ever stop to think, you who
read the advertisements in the newspa
pers, just what it means to get up the
"ad" every day for a big department
store? The man in charge usually has
a staff of assistants, who are assigned
to certain departments of the store
each day. They must familiarize them
selves with the stock of these depart
ments, while the manager of the ad
vertising department himself is sup
posed to keep thoroughly in touch with
the entire stock of the store. He
writes the general introduction to the
advertisement each day, and edits the
copy turned into him by his assist
ants, just as an editor handles the
copy of his reporters. "Just as much
care is taken with this matter as
though it were so much imperishable
literature," said the advertising man
ager of a big department store yester
day. "You sometimes hear of a famous
author spending hours over one para
graph, writing it and rewriting it to
get the best and strongest effect. You
wouldn't think that would be neces
sary in writing an advertisement, but
it is. My assistants sometimes spend
an hour over one sentence. There is
more science in writing an advertise
ment that will bring results than per
haps in any other form of composi- ,
tion."—Philadelphia Record.
Mimical Novelty in lto-U a urant.
The guests at one of the large east
side restaurants were treated to a
novelty in the way of music an even
ing or two ago that pleased them
greatly. Most of the diners had pro
gressed as far as the dessert and cof
fee, and were in a mood to appreciate
the strains of "The Palms" when the
opening chords were sounded. But
even in this resort, noted for its pleas
ant lack of conventionality, the peo
ple at the table were surprised when
above the accompaniment of the cym
bals and the violins rose the notes of
a splendid contralto voice. The clatter
of dishes and the hum of conversation
ceased; the waiters stood "at atten
tion," and every one craned lii 3 neck
for a glimpse of the singer. When
she concluded, even the orchestra ap
plauded; men sent their cards with a
word of thanks, and several ladies
pressed forward with violets and
roses for the unknown, who had re
mained seated during her song. She
afterward gave two favorite airs as
encores, and the event was the sub
ject of conversation for the rest of the
j evening.—New York Mail and Ex
press.
PROGRESS EPITOMIZED
PARAGRAPHS SHOWING A CENTURY'S
CROWTH OF OUR COUNTRY.
Facts as to Population, Commerce, Agri
culture, Communication, Transporta
tion, Social Progress anil Literature—
There Were No "Store Clothes" hi I Htm
The New York World publishes tile
following remarkable compilation
allowing in a nutshell the great for
ward strides that were made in the
nineteenth century:
POPULATION.
In 3800 Now York, Philadelphia, Bal
timore and Boston contained fewer
people than the present population of
Rochester, N. Y.
There are sixty-two cities to-day
larger than New York was a hundred
years ago.
In 3850 Chicago was an unsurveyed
swamp.
When the century began the centre
of population was eighteen miles west
of Baltimore.
Greater New York contains four
fifths as many people as composed the
whole republic in ISOO.
In 1800 there were four large cities;
to-day there are 15!).
Number of immigrants in 1800, 5000;
number in 1.800, 311,715.
Total number of immigrants during
the century, 18,500,000.
Total number of Indians who have
survived until the new century, 250,-
000.
Chicago in 1534, a village in a wil
derness; Chicago in 1894, the World's
Fair.
Three times as many people cross
Brooklyn Bridge every day as there
were in the city of New York in 1800.
President Jefferson presided over a
country of 900,000 square miles; Presi
dent McKinley presides over a coun
try of 3,802,990 square miles.
PERSONAL.
George Washington died before the
nineteenth century was horn—Decem
ber 14, 1799.
Benjamin D. Silliman. of New Y r ork.
is the oldest living graduate of Yale;
born 1808.
Sole survivor of (be war of 1812, Hi
ram Cronk, of New York, aged 100
years.
COMMERCE,
New York's exports in ISOO, $14,-
000,000; in 1900, $400,000,000.
First coal mine, 1808; first iron fac
tory, 3812; first cottou mill, 1812; first
stereotyping, 1813; first gas, 1S10; first
savings bunk, 1818; first sewing ma
chine, 1818; first steam-power press,
1823; first matches, 1829; first revolver,
1835; first gold from California, 1848.
In 1800 the first patent ever issued to
a woman was granted—for straw
weaving.
No pins were made until 1811—$1 a
paper.
Total number of patents granted in
the last sixty-two years, 1,013,950.'
There are more people engaged in
manufactures alone than there were
ill the entire country in 1800.
Sugar consumed in 1800, none; in
1900, 85 pounds annually per capita.
Coffee imported in 1800, none; coffee
Imported in 1900, 900,000,000 pounds.
Business offices have grown from
two to thirty stories.
AGRICULTURE.
A hundred years ago there were no
farms west of the Mississippi; to-day
the Western wheat crop is 000,000,000
bushels, or one-quarter that of the
world.
In 1800 domestic animals were few;
to-day there are 14,000,000 horses,
2,200,000 mules; 44,000,000 cattle, 40,-
000.000 siieep and 30,000.000 swine.
The early American settlers ate their
bread with lard or gravy; butter was
rare; last year America produced oue
tliird of all the butter in the world.
In 1820 our cotton crop was 870,415
bales; in 1899 it had grown to 11,235,-
383 bales, or ninety per cent, of the
total crop grown in llie world.
A century ago farmers reaped their
grain with sickles, two acres being a
good day's work.
The plow of ISOO was a "crotch
drag;" the plow of the Western bo
nanza farms is run by steaui and turns
eight furrows at once.
COMMUNICATION.
First Atlantic cable, 185 S.
There have been 21,000 patents
granted for carriages cud wagons in
the last century.
The distance from Paris to Moscow
is less than thut between New York
and Wyoming.
In ISOO, 003 postoiHces; in 1900, 75,-
000 postofflces.
When Krie Canal was opened the
news of it was carried 550 miles in
eighty-one minutes liy the firing of
cannon ten miles apart. To-day the
news would come in one second by tel
egraph.
Number of telephones in 1880, none;
number of telephones in 1809, 1,124,840.
In 1800, oue mail a week; iu 1000,
one mail au hour.
TRANSPORTATION.
In ISOO, twelve weeks to 10urope; in
1900, five and a half days to Europe.
In 1800, six weeks to California; in
1900, five days to California.
New York and San Francisco are
nearer by telegraph than the Battery
and Harlem were by stage coach.
First canal, 3 804; first steamboat,
1833 ; first carriages, 1814; first rail
road, 3820; first street railway. City
Hall to Fourteenth street, 1832; first
steamboat crossed Atlantic, 1838.
A steamboat to-day reaches Austra
lia in less time than it required tc
reach England in 1800.
Present value of all American ships,
5215,000.000.
Fifty years ago the tonnage of Uni
ted States niercnnnt marine was 3,-180,-
208; to-day it is 5,000,000.
To carry a tone of wheat from Buf
falo to New Y'ork in 1800 cost 8100;
to-day it costs $1.50.
The railroads to-day employ as many
men as America contained in 3800—
000,000.
In 1800, corduroy roads and cow
paths; in 3000, surface, elevated and
underground railways.
In 1800, Fulton Ferry, fare four
cents; in 1000, Brooklyn Bridge, free.
The "forty-niners" drove to Califor
nia in ten weeks; to-day you may go
in a palace car in four and a half days.
SOCIAL PROGRESS.
A hundred years ago the pillory was
still in use.
No labor organizations were formed
until 1805.
Labor has advanced from two shil
lings a day to two shillings an hour.
This century began with 000,000
slaves; it closes without any.
The first lectures ever given by a
woman were delivered by Fanny
Wright in IS2S.
When tills country began wlthcraft
was a very prevalent belief.
In 1800 there were neither trusts nor
millionaires.
Fifty-two years ago was held the
first woman's rights convention in his
tory.
First Woman Suffrage law in Wyo
ming in 1870.
One hundred years ago the archives
and general offices of the Federal Gov
ernment were removed t Washington,
D. C.
Estimated national wealth at begin
ning of twentieth century, $100,000,-
000,000.
Amount paid for pensions since 1801,
$2,423,592,488.
In 1800 the public debt was $82,978,-
294; in 3899, the public debt was $2,-
002,886,024.
The New York police force in 1800
consisted on four officers and seventy
two men.
In ISOO there were thirty American
colleges; to-day there are 419 Ameri
can colleges.
The first woman's club, Sorosis, was
organized in 1888.
Tlie first woman's hospital in the
world was built in New York in 1854.
There were no "store clothes" in
1800; tiie men wore "butternut" suits
and tlie women wore "linsey-woolsey"
dresses.
LITERATURE.
First religious newspaper, 1814.
Congress had no library when the
century began; to-day it has the best
in the world.
From 200 newspapers in ISOO to 21,-
100 newspapers iu 1900.
In 1820 Sydney Smith asked, "Who
reads 1111 American book?" To-day
America publishes 5000 books a year,
hundreds of which have an interna
tional circulation.
Seventy years ago there were no pub
lic libraries in America.
CITY GROWTH.
Of the 124 cities of 1890 only 34 ex
isted as villages in 1800. Five began
in 1810, thirteen in IS2O, seven iu IS3O,
fifteen iu 1840, twenty-four in 1800 v
seventeen in 3SGO and six in 1870.
Tlie most remarkable growth per
haps is that of Chicago, from 4470 111
1840 lo 1,098,575. Seattle, from 3533
ill ISBO to 80,670, is not so rapid. It
would have to be 100,000 to equal tiio
former. Taeoma, from 73 iu 1870 to
36,000 in 1890, gave brilliant promise,
but in 1000 it had only added 1708.
Of the large cities St. Louis first ap
pears iu the census of 1820, San Fran
cisco in .1850, Cleveland (800) in 1820,
Buffalo (2095) in 1820, Detroit (1422)
in 1820, Milwaukee (17121 in LS4O, New
ark (6507) in 1820, Minneapolis (250-1)
in 1800, Omaha (1833) in 3880, Kansas
City (4418) 111 1800, Denver (4749) in
1800, Jersey City (3072) in 1840, Roch
ester (1112) In 1850, and Indianapolis
(2092) in 3540.
Of (he cities having over 100,000
population enly thirteen had a post
office in 1800.
Now postoffice free delivery is boiug
extended to the farm.
Many of (he most promising towns
of 1800 failed to make performance.
Taunton, Mass., seventeenth in the list
of 1800, with 3800, is now 131 011 the
list, with 31,036, while Salem, with
0457 in 1800, has now but 35,050. Nor
folk lias done a little better, rising in
100 years from 0026 to 48,024.
Of the 159 cities of 1900, 80 are in
the United Slates of 1800 and 70 are in
the territory acquired after that date.
A Terrible Tale of a Tijjjer.
When tigers are really at large iu
England there are no paragraphs and
the secret is firmly held. At Clifton,
though the committee which governs
its delightful zoo, deny, in Ignorance,
what actually happened, it was dis
covered by a keeper on the morning of
a children's fete that a tiger had es
caped from his cage. The superintend
cut maintained an absolute silence and
trusted to luck. A secret search of the
gardens convinced the keepers that tin
tiger had scaled the walls and was in
the open country. Thousands of chil
dren romped through tlie day, and
cried "Oh!" and "Ah!" as the fireworks
bleamed in tne night. They played and
sauntered about amid trees and shad
ed alleys and dark corners in the even
ing—and then everybody went home
tired and happy. In tlie early dawn
there wns another search, and iu the
corner of a disused money house was
found tlie "monarch of the jungle"
still trembling from freedom and fire
works. His keepers threw a hand
kerchief about his neck and led him
back to the grateful safety of his cage.
But many tilings might have hap
pened.—London Chronicle.
The Chipmunk.
Here by this rock, beneath this moss,
a hole
j Leads to his home, the den wherein
he sleeps;
Lulled by near noises of the cautious
mole
Tunnelling his mine—like some un
gainly Troll—
Or by the ceaseless cricket there that
keeps
Tuning above liirn in monotonous lute;
Or slower sounds of grass that creeps
and creeps,
And trees unrolling mighty root on
root.
j Such is the music of his sleeping
hours.
Day hath another; 'tis a melody
He trips to, made by the assembled
flowers,
And light and fragrance laughing 'mid
the bowers,
And ripeness busy with the acorn
tree,
j Such strains, perhaps, as filled with
mute amaze—
The silent music of Earth's ecstasy—
The Satyr's soul, the Faun of classic
days.
—Madison Cawein, in Harper's Maga
zine
niH Mothcr'i Love.
Charles Daggart was one of three
children. When he was a boy his
father deserted the family and was not
heard of again. All the care of the
children and the home fell upon the
mother. In addition to her sorrows
and burdens, she found herself very
poor. Every effort was made, every
energy strained to rear three lovely lit
tle ones. Night and day she toiled,
growing steadier and calmer with the
struggle as her bitter memories re
ceded, and as the living demanded
greater watchfulness and care. The
boy grew up wayward; with curly hair,
with bright, affectionate ways, with
many evil tendencies —how like his
father! Fear of his future chilled the
mother's heart, and love of the lad
warmed it. She was like a thermome
ter plunged now into cold, now into
hot water. It Is a wonder that her
frail frame held together at all. The
time came when it seemed that she
could endure the struggle and uncer
tainty no longer. Charles began to
stay out late; he evidently drank at
those times—not much, but enough to
portend future danger. At such a
crisis a mother's love can do little but
watch and pray over her easily tempted
boy. No matter how late he camo in,
she greeted him with a kiss and tucked
him into bed as if ho were still her
little child, and then she said her
prayers for them both as she always
U3ed to do. Suddenly the Spanish war
cvame, and with It the harvesting of so
many thousands of young men. This
mother's son was one of the first to
enlist, and with death in her heart she
bade hira good-by. "You'll write me.
dear?" she said, at the last. She did
not dare to ask him not to drink and
associate with evil men. He knew how
afce felt about that. Week after week
went by, and no letter came from her
boy at Chickamauga. But one day she
received a letter from the lir3t lieu
tenant of his company, telling her to
come quickly. Charles was very ill.
When she arrived he lay in the hospi
tal, stricken with death. Typhoid fever,
more fatal than Spanish bullets, had
done its work. She bent over her boy
—the most erring, the dearest of her
children—and her eyes questioned him
piteously. "I've tried," he whispered.
"I have tried to be different." "He had
kept good company," said the lieuten
ant who had written the letter, "and
has been a good boy." But the lad
was now too weak to talk much with
her. He spoke but twice after this.
"I would rather die as 1 am than live
as I was," he said, feebly. Just be
fore he died he whispered: "Mother,
you loved me into being good." Who
will say that prayer and patience, ten
derness and trust for the sake of one
we love are not worth the courage and
the effort that they cost?— Youth's
Companion.
Ilulirrog; YnriiH.
"Oh, mamma, did you see that hor
rid bullfrog jump for the goldfish?"
was the exclamation of a pretty little
tot as she stood with her mother look
ing at the goldfish in the pond at
Bushnell park. The child followed with
her eyes the tiny fish and its hideous
pursuer, and watched with evident
pleasure the distance between the two
lengthening until the fish was out of
danger. Policeman Strickland, who
had been doing police duty in the park
for a number of years, is probably
more familiar with the habits of the
denizens of the pond than any one
else in the city. Mr. Strickland says
that the bullfrogs do not habitually
prey on the fish. The ugly looking
creatures live In harmony, as a rule,
with their beautiful neighbors. But
occasionally a bullfrog is seen eating a
fish. Officer Strickland does not think
that the pangs of hunger excite the
frogs to make an attack on the fishes.
They will not molest them in ordinary
circumstances. It Is only when the
fish provoke them that they will make
an attack. When the fishes become
frisky In their gambols and approach
too near a frog, the latter shows its
dislike of them by snapping. When the
fishes congregate in large schools to
nibble at the crumbs thrown in the
water they jostle and jump over each
other. It sometimes happens that at
these feasts a frog will be enjoying a
siesta in the shade of the leaf of an
aquatic plant or a tuft of grass. The
quick movements of the nimble fish in
their bright hues of scarlet, made more
brilliant by the rays of the sun, dis
turb the slothful creature near the
bank. Its bulging eyes assume a
fierce expression, and a discordant
croak from its distended throat indi
cates its rising wrath. It watches the
feasting beauties for a few minutes,
and then, with a gulping sound, it
springs among them. It always catches
one in its wide mouth and proceeds to
devour its victim more in anger than
to satisfy hunger. It is a well known
fact that the shaking of anything
bright or red in front of a frog irritate
it beyond endurance.
Those who make a business of catch
ing frogs, knowing that the creatures'
tempers are effected by the quick
movements of anything of a red color,
use a piece of flannel as a bait. Tho
active movements of the gold fish have
the same effect on *he frogs as bait.
So long as the fish swim slowly by
the frogs the latter will not molest
them.
Officer Strickland tells the story of
a voracious bullfrog that is worth
repeating. He vouches for the ac
curacy of it, he having seen the frog
and the fish. A frog caught an un
usually large goldfish one day and
.'.warn to a pond lily leaf to devour it
at its ease. The head of the fish was
in the frog's mouth and the greater
part of the body and tail protruded out
of it. The fish wiggled quite violently
for a few minutes and then died. But
the frog was unable to devour it and
made movements which indicated a
desire to be relieved of the surplus por
tion of the fish, which it could not
conveniently find room for. But tho
fish, before it died, had wriggled itself
too far down the frog's throat to be
ejected, and there it stuck. The frog
remained on the leaf in an apparently
comatose state for forty-eight hours,
until it had digested the entire fish.
A frog was seen one day in the pond
catching a sparrow and carrying it to
its slimy quarters beneath the surface
of the water. The frog was an old
one and wa3 of enormous size. It was
seated among tall grass when a child
threw crumbs into the water for the
goldfish. Some of the crumbs fell on
a large leaf, and a sparrow, hungry for
its meal, had the temerity to fly from
the branch of a tree on to the leaf and
pick a crumb. As the bird lighted on
the leaf the frog made a quick jump
and landed right on top of the intrud
er. There was an agitated flutter and
a cry of despair from the bird as the
frog seized it and dived with it be
ueath the water.—Exchange.
Renewed Hl* Youth.
While walking aloqg the Reading
railway near Annvillo yosteiday morn
ing, Jacob Artz, a North AnnVtlle
township farmer, was seized with a
desire to imitate the dangerous prac
tice of daring boys who tint! it great
fun to place their tongues against the
first covered surface of iron or stool,
says the Philadelphia Ledger. The
sensation produced by the contact of
Artz's organ of taste with the cold
steel was delightful, and his thoughts
reverted to the happy times when a
boy he touched his tongue to an iron
pump handle or the iron handles of
the doors at home. The full realiza
tion of hi 3 foolhardy act was brought
to Artz by the noise of a fast approach
ing freight train. Then he tried to re
move his tongue from the rail, but
could not. Louder and nearer was the
sound made by the train, and, looking
in Its direction, Artz was almost para
lyzed from fear, for the train was on
the same track to which he was held a
helpless prisoner. Every effort to pull
the tongue from the rail caused Artz
to fear it would be torn out of his
mouth, but, finally, deciding to save
his life even at the cost of his tongue,
he gave it a quick wrench and was
free. Artz lost no time in securing
medical attention. Dr. E. B. Marshall
of Annville relieved him considerably
in mind and body, informing him that
the tongue or the greater portion of it
was still in place, although badly torn,
lie carefully closed the wounds with
several stitches. The tongue has swol
len to large proportions, and Artz suf
fers severely.
How Anliimln Rise.
A cow or an ox rises in a leisurely,
dignified manner, first on its hind legs!
then gracefully up on the fore legs.
A horse comes up jerkingly with spas
modic effort on its fore legs, then
lurchingly, often with a snort or a
grunt, as of great effort, rises up fully
standing. Lying down is an everyday
affair with the cow or ox, but seeming
ly an unnatural attitude and one lack
ing in grace on the part of the horse.
By the way, how does a cat or deg rise
from the lying-down' posture?
Didn't Have to I'ray.
In a certain parish near Dumfries,
Scotland, a newly made eldeT was sum
moned to the sick bed of a parishioner.
Being naturally a bashful man, he was
in great anxiety as to the "prayer he
wad ha'e to pit up," and wished to
avoid going altogether. At length ht
was persuaded by his wife and started
on his errand. On his return his wife
greeted him with the query. "And how
did ye get on, William?" "Oh, grand!
He was deid!"