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The average annual total of water
which falls as rain or snow In the
United States is 1407 cubic miles.
This amount of rain would more than
twice fill Lake Ontario. To raise this
water to the clouds from which it
fell would require the work of 500,-
000,000 horses working ten hours a
day throughout the year.
The uew British census shows a pop
ulation for England and Wales of 32,-
525,710, against 29,002,525 ten years
ago—an Increase of 3,523,191, or 12.15
per cent. The gain is slow compared
with the American standard, but it Is
Steady, showing no decline from that
of previous decades, and is remark
ably rapid for such a thickly settled
country and one so constantly drained
by emigration. The density of popu
lation in England and Wales is now no
less than 503 to the square mile, and
for England alone it Is doubtless
above the enormous figure of 600.
In report to the State Department
United States Consul-General Mason,
at Berlin, estimates that the world's
total yield of copper la it year amount
ed to 471,000 tons, of which 208,757
tons (or more than half) was produced
In North America. The next largest
producers were Germany, with 31,950
tons; Japan, with 27,000 tons, and
Chile, with 25,700 tons. Australia, Tas
mania and Spain contributed most
of the rest of the production. Besides
its ov.n production Germany last
year imported 83,500 tons of copper,
of which 08,204 tons was sent frcm
the United States.
The Irish Court of Appeal has form
ally decided the exact meaning of the
word "humph." The question came
up for judicial decision in a case from
the King's Bench Division, where
four justices had been unable to come
to a unanimous decision as to the
word's meaning. Two of them held
that "humph" as used by Sir Walter
Scott and Miss Austen in their novels
was an expressiou of dissent, and the
other two held that it meant only a,
dissatisfied state of mind. The Court
of Appeal has decided that it Is "an
expression of doubt or hesitation" or
"a grunt of dissatisfaction."
The African quagga is extinct, and
several families of antelopes have
been wiped out of existence. Zebras
are scarce, giraffes are few in number,
the rhinoceros and hippopotamus are
passing from view, and the American
bison, once roaming over the Western
prairies in herds of thousands and tens
of thousands, counts a few feeble
folk as pitifui survivors. Before this
century is half over big game will be
almost unknown. It is deplorable that
butchery on a gigautic scale has
robbed forests and jungles, plains and
valleys, mountains and meadows, to
such an extent of the fauna so well
worth study and preservation.
Docs the typewriter affect literary
style? A writer in the Boston Tran
script thinks it does. He says: "As
a general thing the typewriter pro
duces a sort of staccato, disconnected,
jerky style; to change the metaphor, a
fleshless and bony style, and awkward
withal. What is written with the ma
chine seldom has the ease and expres
siveness that the same author's hand
writing might have possessed. The
special word-by-word planning that
goes with it, be it ever so slight and
even unconscious, does get in the way
of free expression; and there is a ten
dency in ilie writer to think out his
sentence less thoroughly, and even to
use stereotyped expressions; which
fall in more conveniently with one's
practice." It might require genera
tions, he adds, for typewriting to be
come instinctive with civilized people
an handwriting is.
THE SEA OTTER.
Cursed with a skin that charms the eye-
All shot with satin sheen,
More worth than pearl or lazuli,
The pride of King and Queen.
A coat that not the equal heft
Of minted gold can uy—
He lives to be of life hnveft,
To seek a sanctuary.
A hunted thing, Jie dreads the shore.
And shuns the haunts of men.
From Attu to the Chernaboor
lie dwells without their ken;
He harbors where no harbors are,
Upon the ocean's breast,
On seaward rafts of weed afar
lie snatches troubled rest.
But when the winter tempests lash
The sullen northern sea.
The leaping rips and races thrash
And herd him to the Ice
Of ranks of surf-swept islets trailed
Athwart the swirling tides,
Where, by the huddling mist-wttaths
veiled,
The harried otter hides.
Then to his quest the hunter hastes
Upon the dying gale.
To speed across the watery wastes
Of livid ridge and vale;
Part man, part water-imp, and part
The otter's next-of-kin.
None other has the hard-won art.
To take the velvet skin.
In his bidarka, willow-ribbed.
And wrapped with walrus hide,
I Ashed watertight and snugly cribbed,
He launches on the tide
•Sir. vard the snarling recflets rimmed
About with milk-white surge,
Where, voiced by reeling waves, is hymned
His quarry's echoing dirge.
With net or club in stealthy strife,
With spear in open war.
The crafty Aleut seeks his life
By ocean, coast, and bar.
The clanging billows call to him,
Their long-drawn anthem peals
Whence over Saanak's fretted rim
The burgomaster wheels.
Banned with a coat of glossy hair
A Czar may not despise,
A shimmering silk without compare,
The lust of princely eyes,
Of mandarin and potentate
The dearest heart's desire,
He only lives to flee his fate,
A shelter to require.
-J. S. Higgs.
COGQQGCOGOGOCOOGCGGQOOGGCO
§ A Railroad Ride
| With Savages. §
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This is a story of how two hundred
Australian aborigines, the lowest type
of humnn beings in the world, got
their iirst introduction to civilization
through the agency of a railroad train.
The incident has never been printed
before; its appearance now is due to
the following item that nppeared in
the Northern Territory Times of Feb
ruary 8:
Curly Pete, son of Chief Curly of
the Woinera trilx-, was strutting round
town yesterday attired in white duck
pants and a blue cloth cap. Ho is as
proud as a peacock. Mr. Hendry gave
him a Job yesterdny oiling up engine
8, and all the Womerns believe be is
now in lino for the chief Justiceship.
Not very many years ago a party of
engineers went up to Port Darwin, nt
the extreme northerly point of Aus
tralia, by steamer from Adelaide,
thousands of miles away, to lay plans
for a four hundred mile line of rail
road into the interior to tap the cop
per and tin mines. The enterprise was
n hazardous one, for at that time two
tribes of blacks, the Womeras and Al
ligators, were waging licrco war on
the settlers of Port Darwin.
Gradually, and after hardships that
need not lie detailed here, the engin
eers got the first fifty-mile section of
their work done, and steamships
brought up thousands of tons of ma
terial and hundreds of laborers for the
completion of the road for that dis
tance. It Is hard to give an accurate
Idea of the way the sight of these
preparations affected people of the
character of the aborigines. The
"navvies" went about their work
armed, and, with all the accessary bal
last for the roadbed close at hand, it
was only a little over n year before
their labors began to assume definite
shape.
Some blacks were laid away by their
tribesmen with bullet holes in their
bodies as mementoes of the advance
of civilization, and a few of the work
men perished miserably from poison
ous spear wounds before a sort of tact 1 :
truce was patched up. Ploddiug stead
ily in the tropical suu, the contractors
pushed ahead througli the ferns and
wattle trees, laying rails as they went,
so that construction trains couM de
liver material ns the work progressed.
The Womeras had disappeared al
most as soon as operations started,
but tile Alligators hung round in the
bush, making occasional night attacks
on the men till the day when the first
work trnin went pulling south. At
the sight of It they tracked away into
the Interior, and all trace of them was
lost till the first section, running down
to Alice River, was completed. The
first passenger coaches were put on,
and ail -Port Darwin made trips along
the line and rejoiced at the Improve
ment over bullock team travel.
Soon the natives began to come back
from their bush hauuts, timidly at
first and iu parties of two or three,
and gazed with awe, not unmixed
with veneration, at the trains speeding
along nt a thirty-mile gait It was
thought well, mainly In order to pre
vent destruction of the rails and road
bed, to educate them to tiie meaning
of the Innovation, and after a while a
few diplomats were sent out to con
fer with the head tribesmen.
It took mouths of argument to con
vince them, but finally the whole Wo
inera tribe consented to track to Port
Darwin and place themselves in the
bands of a "committee on arrange
ments." So in fear and trembling
they arrived at the settlement, and
one bright afternoon two hundred
men, v.-omen and children were select
ed to make uie trip to the river.
A dozen flat cars were put behind an
engine und into these the blacks wcr;
coaxed and shored, with Instruction!
to hold on and keep still whatever hap
pened. A thousand other natives saw
them off. and all along the line were
spread little groups of Alligator men
who screamed a welcome as the train
swept by.
It was probably the strangest collec
tion of passengers ever carried on a
railroad train. As soon as the run
started the whistle of the locomotive
tooted a joyful accompaniment to the
rattle of the wheels. The blacks be
gan their peculiar shrill cries, partly
in fear and partly in admiration, and
waved their arms about their heads
as the speed Increased. The children
munched dandelion seeds and clung
to their mothers, and two old women
crooned a solemn chant and held their
heads in their hands, afraid to look up.
At the head of the tirst car was on old
chief standing erect with his arms
folded and ready to meet the death
he believed the white people had
tricked him into.
Gradually getting used to the novel
motion and with an increased sense of
security, the majority became reas
sured, and by the time Alice Itiver
was reached nearly all were supreme
ly happy over the adventure. They
swarmed out of the cars, sounded the
wheels, pointed to the position of the
sun In the heavens and marveled at
the distance they had come in such a
little time, and wound up with a gen
eral plunge Into the cool waters of the
river.
There was no need to coax them into
the cars for the return trip. With the
exception of the two old women, who
deserted the expedition despite all ap
peals and dccldod to walk back, all
clambered merrily aboard and were
run back along to Port Darwin singing
their eorroborees and love hymns.
A little while afterward a flat car
was attached to all trains, and the na
tives soon came to know that It was
for their sole use. There was very sel
dom a day when it was not full.—John
R. Itathom, in the Chicago Record-
Herald.
A TRUE FISH STORY.
reculiur Adventures of a Wedding lllnff
That AVue I.ost Overboard.
"About the queerest lish story I
know of," said a highly truthful man
—indeed, he was a clergyman—"hap
pened to me at a little lake in Wiscon
sin, where I used to summer with ray
family. One day my wife was out in
our boat with a party of friends. She
was letting her hand trail in the water,
without thinking about its shrinking
effect, and when she finally took her
hand In her wedding ring was gone.
The lake was deep at that point, and
although we made consderable effort
to recover the ring, it was not to be
found. Naturally It worried her a
good deal, and the next year she would
not go back to the same place. Nor
did we go the following year, but the
third year we went there again, and
one day I was in the woods, about a
mile from the lake, with my boy, try
ing to get a shot at some denizen of
the forest or other. As we went peer
ing around among the trees to get a
squirrel we had seen I noticed some
thing shining on a twig In a tree about
twjtty-five feet from the ground. I
sent my boy up after It, and when he
cr.rae back I was more than astonished
to find that the shining thing was my
wife's wedding ring.
"How it ever got there was a mys
tery at first, but 1 was not a believer
in fairies and that sort of tiling, so I
began to Investigate for material
causes. The top of the tree had dead
ened, and with a suspicion in my mind
I sent my boy up to see what signs
might be above the green boughs."Mle
called down to me presently that there
were remains of a fish-hawk's nest In
the forks of the tree, and, putting this
and that together, I came to the con
clusion that the hawk had caught the
lish that had gobbled up my wife's
ring lu the lake, and had taken it to
the nest for the young hawks. They
didn't caro l'or jewelry and had loft
that part of the lish in the nest, from
which, as the nest was blown to pieces
by the wind, and lieaten by the storms,
the ring had dropped out and by
eliance had caught on the twig where
I found it. Iu any event, if that was
not the way it got there, how did it?
l'or it surely was there, and my wife
is wearing it to-day." Washington
diar.
Irrigation In Now Jersey.
A private citizen of Southern New
Jersey, who owns considerable land
which is too dry during the summer
months for successful farming, has
determined to try irrigation, which has
proved so wonderful iu the dry lands
of the West, and has consulted with
the Survey as to the best methods of
laying out the work. This experi
ment will bo watched with interest.
There is no doubt that many other dis
tricts iu the East could be greatly
benefited and made much more pro
ductive If the example of the West
were followed and systematic irriga
tion practiced.—New York Commer
cial Advertiser.
lie Sprinted.
Counsel (examining witness)—" You
say you saw the shots fired?"
Witness—'"Yes, sir."
"How near were you to the scene of
the affray?"
"When the first shot was fired I was
about ten feet from the shooter."
"Teu feet. Well, now tell the court
where you were when the second shot
was fired."
"I didn't measure the distance."
"Approximately, how far should you
say?"
"Well. I should think that it would
be about half a mile!" —I.ondon Spare
Moments.
Housewifely talents do not promise
Came, but they teach thrift.
CURIOUS FACTS.
! The word sunuy borrowed its orig
inal significance from astrology. It de
scribed a person born under the influ
ence qf the sun, this luminary being
supposed to exercise a beneficial Influ
ence on the character of tile individu
al.
A proud record for longevity is held
by Clutton, Somerset, England. Ainoug
tbe present inmates of the workhouse
one Is agod ninety-eigiit, another nine
ty-seven and three are ninety-three,
while the average age of fifteen in
mates works out at eighty-seven and
one-half years.
French burglars are up to date. A
gang of automobillng liouse-breakers
operating in the Paris suburbs lias
been remarkably successful. Tlieir
plan of operation is to visit in the
daytime occupied mansions which are
for sale or to let, with the ostensible
purpose of buying or leasing the prop
erties .and, having secured an idea of
the "lay of the laud," they make a
second and more profitable visit after
nightfall.
The Egyptian turquoises, so called,
come in reality from Mount Sinai. The
highly-valued Tersian stones arc ob
tained from Nishapur in the most
primitive manner. A wooden wheel,
operated by the feet of two men lying
on their backs, brings the broken rock
to tile surface In hags; the fragments
are smashed with hammers, and when
a turquoise is discovered it is put
aside and sent with tile next batch to
Meshed, to bo cut.
Giles County, Virginia, contains a
remarkable natural curiosity kuown as
Salt Pom], which Is described as a
lake of fresh water sunk iu Salt Pond
Mountain at an elevation of 4500 feet
above sea level. It Is fed by no visi
ble stream, yet It is claimed to have
been gradually enlarging since 1804,
the date of Its discovery. Fish that
have been placed iu Salt Pond have
mysteriously disappeared. Its depth
is unknown, experiments with a line
300 feet long falling to reach the bot
tom. The origin of the lake is un
known.
No Cause For Alarm.
A patient angler was not long ago
diligently plying hiß rod and line in
the waters of a cool, clear, limpid
brook, when he was suddenly startled
by a loud and angry voice behind him.
"Do you know," cried the irate rip
arian owner, "that you are fishing in
forbidden water?"
"Forbidden water?" replied the fish
erman, calmly. "I was not aware of
it."
"Yes, sir, preserved water; and jier
haps you will allow me to Inform you
that I have been to a good bit of ex
pense at one time and another iu well
stocking It with fish."
"Ah, yes," continued the angler, lan
guidly; "and with what Usli, pray, may
I ask, have you so liberally replen
ished this stream?"
"Roach, sir," roared the angry land
owner; "my favorite fish."
"Ah, well, then, lu that ease," bland
ly observed the fisherman, "there's no
need for you to worry further, for I
am fishing for trout!"—Tit-Bits.
liAbouchere on (Juoen Victoria.
"I had the honor of being one of her
Majesty's dislikes. I do not supppose
that It was due to my having opposed
so many Royal grants, hut probably
had its origin at my having jeered at
the llattenbergs or some other of her
likes. And yet 1 have no doubt that I
had a more sincere admiration for her
than most of the flunkeys who bowed
aud scraped before her.
"What I admired In Iter was her
contempt for those who were tryiug
to buy social distinction by means of
their money bags, mid the simplicity
of her habits; while I always felt that
if she did occasionally Interfere too
much In politics, she did so less than
any other of her predecessors aud al
ways yielded to the advice tendered
to her by responsible advisers In re
gard to policy and sometimes in regard
to less important matters. She would
not have been a woman had she not
acted on her likes nml dislikes, and In
everything she was thoroughly wom
anly."—London Truth.
Grandmother'* Revolt.
An excellent woman, whose married
sous and daughters have away of Hit
ting off every summer to seashore or
mountains, leaving their offspring in
her loving care, was delicately ap
proached by one of them as to her
plans for the coming season.
"I suppose you will open the cottage
as usual, won't you, mother? The chil
dren so enjoy being with you!"
"No, 1 shall not open the cottage,"
was the quiet but decided reply. "My
grandchildren will be abandoned to
the care of their parents this summer.
1 am going abroad."—Youth's Com
panion.
A Camera in a Hunk.
It Is said that the Bank of France
has an invisible studio iu a gallery be
hind the cashiers, so that at a giveu
signal from oue of them any suspected
customer can Instantly have his pho
tograph taken without Ids knowledge.
The camera has also become very use
ful In the detection of frauds, a word
or figure that to the eye seemed com
pletely erased being clearly repro
duced In photographs of the document
that had been tampered with.
Tile Uvea ot 'Bun Harass.
The average working life of a Lon
don omnibus horse is five years; that
of a tram horse is ouly four. He is the
same sort of horse; he comes to work
at the same nge; he costs about the
same; and be works the same few
hours; hut so much greater Is his ef
fort that it costs a shilling a week
more to feed him, and he is worked
out in four-fiths of the time.
RULERS WELL GUARDED
MEASURES TO PROTECT THE LIVES
OF EUROPEAN ROYALTY.
Leopold of Belgium Likes to Ksrape Ills
Secret Police—The Czar and Hie Sultan
Carefully Watched—Tho Kiilwr'n Hab
its—Precautions Taken by Others.
European royalty may pick and
choose society to a certain extent, hut
the private police, like the poor, rulers
have always with them.
Some sovereigns object strenuously
to the surveillance. A few manage to
escape It. Leopold 1L of Belgium oc
casionally accomplishes that feat, by
making his movements so sudden and
unexpected that his vigilant protectors
do not know he is going, until he is
gone.
Ho frequently scurries off to his
shooting box, in the Ardennes, quite
j alone, and often drives through his
I capital in a closed carriage unattend
| I'd; but his police are conscientious,
! when they have the chance. At all
public appearances ho Is guarded by a
large squad, of plain-clothes men; and
at night, an armed and trusty valet
locks the monarch In his room and
sleeps in the anteroom, whose door is
also locked and guarded.
The royal family of Denmark sets
ishle private police, as It disregards
many other irksome royal traditions;
and, save on unusual occasions, goes
.bout unattended and simply. But the
members of tlic family who have be
tome sovereigns of other countries do
not lire so simply.
The Dowager Czarina, who was a
JPrlnoc6s of Denmark, stepped Into an
atmosphere of private police. The
Czar of Hussia Is guarded more strict
ly than any other monarch of Europe
save Abdul Humid, the Sultan.
Nicholas 11. chafes against the at
tendance, hut recognizes the necessity;
und, wherever he moves, he Is sur
rounded by secret guards, as well as
openly authorized attendants. If lie
walks in the forest of Peterhof, he
cannot flatter himself that he is alone;
for posted behind trees, leaning over
bridges, studying fountains, are in
conspicuous mcu, absorbingly interest
ed in the landscape. When he trav
els or riu s or drives, the same pre
cautions arc observed. In his palace
his every movement Is watched, his
every step followed.
The story is told that on his last
visit to Queen Victoria at Balmoral,
the Czar mistook the path in the for
est, and was obliged to ask his way
from a peasant whom he met. Tlie
man answered him In Kusslan. He was
one of the Czar's own private detec
tives.
William of Germany, until recently,
was the only living ruler In Europe
upon whose life no attempt had bpen
made. 11l natured critics say that he
didn't enjoy tlic distinction, that, in
fact, he deeply resented It, aud that
the recent assault was halm to his
soul. Dramatic danger a sensational
monarch may endure, but to be ig
nored!
In spite of his apparent immunity,
the German Emperor has always beeu
surrounded by elaborate precautions.
Ills private police service Is large and
efficient, and bis famous six-foot
bodyguard, looking tremendously spec
tacular In their eighteenth century
liats and coats, are always In evi
dence in the royal cute-chamlier.
When the Emperor travels he causes
almost as much of a stir as the Czar.
Every mile of the railroad, every
bridge, tunnel and rail is examined.
Special guards are stationed along the
route aud the train is well guarded.
It Is only fair to say that the Emperor
himself seems altogether fearless, and
makes so many sudden moves, with
out reference to safeguards that his
secret police are chronically out of i
breath.
The English King has a bodyguard i
corresponding to the German body
guard; hut the Honorable Corps of
Gcutlemen-ot-Arms and the Yeomen
of the Guard do not work for salaries
as their German prototypes do. They
are for ornamental purposes only, and
never are on duty except at state
functions.
Tim real work of looking after Eng
lish royalty Is In the hands of Super
intendent Eraser and his private po
lice. The late Queen was always
guarded lu public, hut less apprehen
slou was felt about her than about
the lb-luce of Wales, whose democrat
ic fashion of appearing here, there
and everywhere, made him an easy
mark for attack and kept his police at
tendants busy. Superintendent Wink
ler, who had charge of the Prince's
person, was not allowed to accom
pany him to Homburg last year, and
Insists that If that exception had not
been made, Spidio's attack would
never have come off.
The Duke of York had his own
private police, much to his disgust,
and his children are constantly guard
ed, even In tlieir play, by detectives.
Humbert of Italy was one of the
monarclis who most cordially detested
the necessity of police attendance, and
avoided it whenever that was possi
ble. He Insisted upon driving about
even the most squalid parts of Rome
nnd Naples in an open carriage with
only one attendant, and would not
listen to the constant protests against
ills reckless exposure of Ills life. Ills
police service was carefully organized,
nnd guarded him in spite of his objec
tions.
Whenever one met the handsome
King driving in his dashing fashion
one was sure to meet at a discreet dis
tance behind tlic royal carriage an in
conspicuous cab in hot pursuit, nnd in
tbe cab was the keen, dark face of tbe
bead of the secret police, lu the pal
nee the King had a special guard, a
gigantic Picdmontese, wlio slept at
bis door and was always near him.
The present King of Italy Is much
more strictly guarded than Humbert
was, but tlie Dowager Queen Margher-
Ita goes wherever slie chooses in car
riage or on foot, and scorns all idea of
surveillance.
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria
was as democratic in her actions as
Queen Margherita and always object
ed to public attendance, whicli was.
nevertheless, imposed. The Austrian
Emperor, whose life has n,at been at
tacked since he was nineteen, is care
fully guarded, and the late Empress
was always intensely anxious in re
gard to his safety, though absolutely
unconcerned about herself.
The personal defence of the royal
family of Spain is intrusted to a
bodyguard of men from Espinosa, this
town having enjoyed the honor for
hundreds of years. These men of Es
pinosa accompany the members of
the royal family. One of them sleeps
at the door of each royal bedchamber
and the rest of the guard in noiseless
slippers pace the halls of the palace.
But the hardest worked police in the
world is the private force of the Sul
tan Abdul Ilamid. A Frenchman,
M. Bonnin, is at the head of the serv
ice, and, if ever a policeman earned
his wages, he does.
The Sultan has a firm nnd tlxed lie
lief that he is to die a violent death;
and this cheerful certainty be con
templates with anything but Oriental
calm. He refuses to move without
a small army to protect him. When
he goes to the Great Mosque 30,000 sol
diers nre turned ont to guard the route
and a troop of picked men surrounds
the'carriage closely.
In his palace he has fifty bedrooms,
all with iron doors and complicated
locks, and be circulates around in
them like an Arabian Nights' monarch
of guilty conscience,—New York Sun.
Plea For "Clean" News.
From tlie Illinois yearly meeting of
Friends at Hoopeston comes a plea in
ihe form of a circular which the Chi
cago Post does not hesitate to indorse.
It Is an appeal to the newspapers that
they "send out clean news to the peo
ple who are looking to them for the
truth."
This organization recognlzt s tlie pub
lie press as the connecting link of the
masses, one of the strongest factors
in general education, powerful to en
lighten and uplift, but equally potent
to mislead and degrade. Therefore It
asks that "ail who use this influence
of public power examine closely to
see that they send out clean news."
Continuing, the petitioners say: "We
greatly desire that every sheet of whit.-
paper sent out may not be blurred by
tlie poison cf the insidious influence
of vile matter, spreading moral decay
over the minds of our young people."
From the tenor of this pica, evident
ly it comes largely from fathers and
mothers. They are asking the news
papers to help them in their endeavor
to make of their children good men
and women. What self-respecting edi
tor, reporter or publisher can fail to
see the justness of their request or
can refuse to co-operate heartily with
them?— Chicago Post.
It in Aim In Life,
Teople bother little boys so! Ail tlio
tourists to Ills Island home used to
ask this one: "What are you going
to be, boy? what are you going to
be?' and the boy had patiently replied
at every interruption of his important
undertakings: "I am going to he a
sailor and climb the masts."
Last fjummcr lie took an ocean voy
age and was very seasick, and the
third day Ids father asked: "What
are you going to be, boy? what are
you going to bo?"
"I am not going to be a sailor and
climb the masts," he replied. "I am
going to be a soldier and shoot cau
j non."
1 A big uncle took tlie boy to see a
i famous cyelorama, where the smoke
and carnage and realistic dead bodies
la the foreground shattered another of
hts ambitions. To the teasing ques
tion. "What are you going to lie, hoy?
what are you going to be?" came the
answer in a burst of confidence:
"I am not going to be a sailor and
climb tlie masts. I am not going to
be a soldier and slioot cannon. I am
going to lie a bachelor and marry
mamma!"— Youth's Companion.
The Mule in Hypnotism,
Max Cnrnaveaux, wlio gives exhibi
tions of Ids power in hypnotism, lias
decided that in future he will be more
careful in tlie selection of bis sub
jects for experiment.
One of bis favorite tricks was to per
suade the man who lubinitted to him
for test that he was a mule, and great
merriment always followed the mulish
antics of the victim while lie was un
der the hypnotic influence. '
But one day, down in Lyndon, Kan- *
sas, Mr. Carnaveaux, feeling unusual
ly sprightly cud jovial, presumed a lit
tle too far on the good.nature and
geniality of the mule pro tem., and
carried away by tlie strength of hyp
notic suggestion, the man under the
spell suddenly kicked out with great
violence and struck the hypnotist in
the hand, fracturing one of the bones.
For a few weeks, therefore, there
have been 110 hypnotic experiments
of any sort, and Mr. Carnaveaux has
made up his mind to give up the mule
trick and rely on animals of more
peacoablc and reliable dispositions.—
Youth's Companion.
The Outlook For Sport.
Tbe summer may be long remem
bered as a season famous for its
sports. Cycling, autouioblling, golfing,
yachting, canoeing, horse racing, base
ball playing and every other kind of
game and pastime promise to be very
much in evidence during the season. '
It looks as if tlie next few months are
going to be well worth living,—Boston
Herald.