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Europeans are learning that Ameri
cans are visiting them tor something
besides pleasure.
An lowa man ate a bowl of yeast to
■win a bet, and Is reported to be ull
puffed up over bis success.
At present France Is far and away
ahead of the rest of the world in tho
manufacture and use of electric veh
icles.
A California community recently
lynched at one seance five men accused
of horse stealing. This roads like the
good old dime-novel days.
In most Northern States the rush Is
from country to town. In the South
ern States the country population has
increased sixty-live per cent.; cities,
thirty-live per cent.. In ten years.
A wireless telegraph station Is to he
established on the Nantucket lightship
and another on the nearest point of
land. In this way It is expected that
vessels hound for New York City may
be reported at least twelve hours earl
ier than they can be reported now
from Sandy nook light.
All over the country, in every State
and Territory, the terrors of the law
should be made more formidable to the
kidnapers. The stealers of children
and those who go no further than to
threaten parents with the loss of son
f ■ daughter should expect no mercy.
Their punishment should be swift and
exemplary.
It is well, when somebody chatters
about the successful business men
who never went to college, to ask the
chatterer what those men are now
doing with their own sons. Do they j
send the hoys into the shop or factory j
or counting house at the age of ten or
■twelve, or do they keep them in school,
and later in college, till they are well
grown up?
Hero's another weapon that w:ll
likely serve to deter other nations
from going to war. It is a revolver re
sembling in shape a small earbire.
It was invented by a Swiss army offi
cer, and will soon be issu d to tho
troops of that country. The weapon
has a bore of 7.05 mln., and fires forty
eight shots in twenty-eight seconds,
which are warranted to kill at 2000
yards.
New England people say that the
rage for antique furniture which has
been rampant during tho past ten
years seems now to be dying out and
people are beginning to be willing to
look at furniture of modern convenient |
styles. But the supply of genuine old I
furniture possible to be obtained by I
purchase from descendants of the
early settlers must have been pretty
Veil exhausted.
Now Professor Pickering has discov
ered, or thinks ho has, that there ie
snow on the moon. That writer of en
tertaining fiction, Mr. H. G. Wells,
long ago assured us of this, and no one
who has read his story of the Falling
Angel will doubt him to bo a gentle
man of veracity. Our romaneists In
variably beat our slower science. Jules
Verne knew all about submarine boat
building long before the Holland's
first plans. As to snow on the moon,
there is no reason why there should
not lie some; it is far easier to believe
than green cheese.
A curious incident of the recent
floods in Calcutta was the stopping
Of a tram In Dalhousie square, the
Very heart of the city, by a large
flsli. which was swimming in the
Street and got caught in the wheel.
There is only one way to get ready
for immortality, ami that is to love this
life, and five it as bravely and cheer
fully and faithfully as we can —Henry
Vaii Uke-
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
Wheie are all the birds that sang
A hundred years ago?
The flowers that all in beauty sprang
A hundred years ago?
The lips that smiled, the eyes that wild
In flashes shone soft eyes .upon,
Wiiere, where, oil, where are lips and eyes,
The maidens' smiles, the lovers' sighs,
That lived so long ago?
Who peopled all the city streets
A hundred years ago?
Who filled the church with faces meek
A hundred years ago?
The sneering tale of sister frail.
The plot that worked a brother's hurt,
Where, where, oh, where are plots and
sneers,
The poor man's hopes, the rich man's
fears
That lived so long ago?
Where arc the graves where dead men
slept
A hundred years ago?
And who, when they were living, wept,
A hundred years ago?
Bv other men that know not them
Their lands are tilled, their graves are
filled,
Yet nature then was just as gay,
And bright the snn shone as to-day,
A hundred years ago.
pied For Another's Crime f
£ -
Tale fa Man lVlio Disbelieves £
jjjj Circumstantial Evidence. <£
| —r- HEY were talking iu tho hotel
I office ntul the conversation
[ turned into a discussion of
rtT the value of circumstantial
evidence. The sporting man couldn't
see how on the evidence given against
a dentist in a famous case then on
trial, any sane person could have voted
I for Ills acquittal of the murder, and
said strong things about what he
would have done to the jurymen who
differed with him had be been in the
Jury room nt the recent trial. Most
of the' others were inclined to agree
with him.
"Gentlemen," said tho drummer
from the South, who had been shift
ing uneasily in ills eliair during these
remarks without having had a chance
to break into the discussion, "I should
have agreed with you about six
months ago, in fact, before my last
trip South-, but now, should I ever
have the power, never would I con
demn any human being to death on
circumstantial evidence alone."
There seemed to be a story coming
and tho other men waited.
"On my last trip," said the drum
mer, "I passed through the western
part of Kentucky and there I heard
this story, which forever lias destroyed
my faith in uncorroborated circum
stantial evidence. It was down In
Barren County. I was struck by tlie
appearance of a flue old mansion.
They told me down there that it had
belonged to a wealthy and aristocrat
ic family named Hamilton, now ex
tinct, and then I heard of the crime
which for years put the Uamiltons
under a cloud of disgrace.
"Somewhere about 1820, when the
family held their heads as high as
' any folk In Western Kentucky, John
Hamilton, the young bond of the
house, took to Louisiana n drove of
mules for the Southern market. In
New Orleans he was stricken with
yellow fever and lay for weeks nt the
point of death. At the hospital in
which lie was confined was a certain
Dr. Sanderson. The doctor took a
fancy to young Hamilton and pulled
j him through tho fever,
j "Hamilton on his part seemed to
take an equal liking to Sanderson.
They were thrown much together and
a warm friendship sprang up be
tween them. Sanderson had money
and when the time came for Hamilton
to leave tho hospital, the Kcntucklnn
Invited his friend to return with him
and try a venture iu tho slave market
in Kentucky. Sanderson was only too
willing. He resigned Ids post in the
hospital and the two men started out.
together on horseback through the
then almost untravelcd wilderness be
tween Louisiana and the Blue Grass
State.
"They arrived safely at the Hamil
ton homestead and Sanderson was
hospitably entertained for two weeks.
He had brought with him 810,000 for
investment in slave dealing, and he
was anxious to go on further to a
part of Kentucky where it could lie
readily invested. The 810,000 was in
bonds of the Louisiana State Bank.
One summer morning tho doctor took
his departure for the slave market at
j Glasgow, and young Hamilton rode
| with him for a milq or two to get lihu
, on his way and wish him good luck.
I "Hamilton returned iu an hour or
two and went about ids work. Sev
eral days passed and nothing was
heard of the doctor. Then one morn
ing, the horse on which lie had ridden
away from the Hamilton homestead
was found riderless in the road a few
miles outside of Glasgow. The sad
dle was stained with blond. In the
grass by tho roadside not far away
there was picked up a brass barrelled
flint-lock pistol. It was recognized as
belonging to Hamilton. The lock was
broken and a fragment of it was
missing.
| "Further search revealed in a shal
-1! low hole only about ,';o(> feet from
where the pistol was found a decaying
, body which was readily Identified as
Dr. Sanderson's. The 810,000 worth
of bomls which lie had carried away
1 with him were missing,
i "Now all this was discovered before
Hamilton was informed thnt his friend
was dead. As soon as the body was
found, he was placed under arrest ac
cused of the murder. One of the first
things lie did was to produce from
the lining of his hat the SIO,OOO worth
of Louisiana State bonds which Dr.
Sanderson had brought to Kentucky.
He did so, protesting, that the doctor
had given them to him in exchange for
£ cash and that he was innocent of the
murder, but nobody believed him.
y I "Then a pair of blood-stained over
alls that bad boon worn by IXamilton
wore found In n corn crib and the evi
dence seemed complete. The young
man was placed on trial at the next
term of court. Till then he had had
the best of reputation, and Ills friends
had been legion. He hadn't many
friends left when he went on trial.
One of the ablest lawyers of the Ken
tucky ba of that dny defended him,
but It was a hopeless case.
"Hamilton took the stand on his own
behalf add he was an excellent wit
ness. according to the stories they've
handed down In Kentucky. He swore
that he had accompanied Dr. Sander
son o mile or two on his way. had
given bint the pistol because the doc
tor ltafl none and also had persuaded
Sanderson to exchange his bonds for
United States currency because he
thought the doctor might have difficul
ty In Wishing the bonds. He had bid
den Sanderson God-speed at last, he
said, and had left him riding away
toward Glasgow.
"A negro was ready to testify that
he had stained the overalls with blood
himself, having stolen them from ids
master, to wear to a party. But he
was a. slave and his testimony was
Inadmissible. Few of those who heard
It regarded Hamilton's story as any
thing but a cleverly concocted tale to
account for circumstances so clearly
a gal nit him. The jury certainly did
not believe it, and as X thought before
hearleg of the outcome I would have
done Us those jurymen did.
"la spite of the many efforts to save
him Hamilton was adjudged guilty.
He This condemned to deatli and exe
cuted, protesting his innocence even
on the scaffold. Only one person be
lleVefj in the probability of the man's
story being true. He was the Judge.
" '1 believe John Hnmiltou was in
nocent of the murder of Dr. Sander
son,' they say he told Hamilton's
fried Is, after the execution. 'But the
very winds of heaven blew against me
in tint trial.'
''AHtl now comes the most astonish
ing part of the story. Many years af
ter Hamilton's execution, there died
In Western Kentucky an old half
witted man named King. On his
deathbed his mind seemed to grow
clear and he sent for witnesses and
told fliem what he said was the true
story of the murder of Dr. Sander
son.
"Ore day while wandering as a lad
in tiir woods near the road to Glas
gow. lie saw a stranger riding past
alone A minute later the Sheriff of
Barren County, the man who after
ward found Hamilton's broken pistol
on the road, who was instrumental tn
iindiP-g Sanderson's body and who was
Hamilton's bitterest prosecutor in the
proceedings that followed, appeared
from the opposite direction. The
Sheriff rode past the stranger, turned
and rode up to him, wrenched the
pistol from ills saddle and dealt him a
blow that knocked him from his
horse.
"Tin- dying man who told this swore
that the Sheriff knelt beside the body
and searched it. Then, seeing the lad
watching him from a little distance,
ho called him and made him help car
ry the body to the sand hole where it
was afterward found. They covered
it with leaves anil then the Sheriff,
after threatening the lad with instant
death, should he ever tell what he had
seen, remounted and rode away. Such
was his fear of the murderer, the old
man said, that he had kept the secret,
though keeping it had driven him
half crazy.
"One Caspar D. Craddock had been
Sheriff of Barren County when the
crime was committed, lie lived for
years afterward In a distaift part of
the State, but a short time before the
old man's tale was told he had dis
appeared. Investigation showed that
not long after Hamilton's execution,
Craddock had deposited nearly SIO,OOO
in United States currency in a bank
in that part of Kentucky to which he
moved, and from his subsequent life
110 one who knew him doubted for a
moment that lie was really the mur
derer of Dr. Sanderson.
"In his new home the ex-Sheriff
gave himself up to a life of crime and
violence. The citizens who had lived
near him finally warned him to leave
the community if he valued his life,
and a few days later he disappeared.
He was recognized long afterward in
Cuba, and the desperate ruse by which
lie got away from Kentucky was then
revealed. They say it was character
istic of the man.
"One night soon after he had been
warned to leave Kentucky, Craddock
was called from his home by a strang
er. The next day, in a hog pen a few
yards from the house, was found a
body clad in the remains of Crad
dock's clothes, but so gnawed and mu
tilated by the hogs that it was unrec
ognizable. Every mark by which
Craddock might have been recognized
wan obliterated, but from the clothes
the body was supposed undoubtedly to
be ('ruddock's, though 1 believe his
neighbors wondered how he could
liaye fallen into tlie hog pen.
"It was realized when news came
that Cratldoek was alive ill Cuba that
lie had either murdered his caller and
alter exchanging clothes had thrown
liis body into the pen, knowing what
the result would be, or that lie had
disinterred and thrown into the pen
some in v. Iy buried body for the pur
pose of concealing his flight.
"There, gentlemen," concluded the
drummer from the South. "This is no
fairy tale. It is well known in West
ern Kentucky and when I henrd it
from the lips of men whose fathers
well knew Hamilton and the circum
stances attending ills trial. I resolved
never again to believe uncorroborated
circumstantial evidence."—New York
Sun.
The death of an ostrich in the New
York Zoo of consumption disposes of
the theory that an ostrich can con
sume anything with safety.
THE KING OF ITALY'S DISCOVERIES
Why Victor Emmanuel Is Unpopulm
With lIU OWil Servants.
There Is an element of the unex
pected about King Victor Emmanuel
which Is beginning to render him noi
oso (a bore) to certain classes of his
subjects. I suppose all the world over
civil service clerks are more assidlous
than any others In their efforts to ren
der their positions sinecures, but in
Italy they reach the acme of perfec
tion in this respect. The other morn
ing Signor Prluetti, Minister of For
eign Affairs, went, as usual, to the
Quirlual for the royal signature to va
rious documents, which the King
signed without comment until he ar
rived at one for the augmentation of
the staff of the Foreign Office. "This,"
he said to the surprise of the Minister,
"you may leave; I desire to look into
it," and there the matter ended for the
moment.
The next morning His Majesty went
out alone and on foot, arriving at the
Foreign Office about 9 o'clock, and be
gan a tour of discovery, we may call
it, in search of some one to speak to.
Jl last in a small room toward the
roof he came upon a lone man busily
engaged In—rolling a cigarette. "Ah I"
said the King, "you are already at
your work; pray what are the regular
morning hours in this office?" "From
8 to 12," stammered the unhappy man,
wishing his bad luck had not led him
so early out of bed. "And what hour,
may I ask, can I hope to see your cata
logues?" "About 11," the embarrassed
clerk replied, too confused not to tell
the truth. "Oh! well, go on with your
smoke, and tell your chief of my vls't
when he comes," which of course was
done, causing dismay to reign supreme
in the breasts of the ",00 odd clerks
thus caught napping. Meanwhile the
Minister was called and dryly told that
instead of increasing the staff of the
office it might be Just as well to see
that those already there did their duty.
—Borne Correspondc-ncb of tho Fall
Mall Gazette.
WISE WORDS.
Gratitude is the music of the heart.
Suspicion is the poison of true friend
ship.
Watch lest prosperity destroy gener
osity.
Blame-all and praise-all are two
blockheads.
To know how to suggest is the great
art of teaching.
ne that waits upon fortune is never
sure of a dinner.
It Is more easy to be wise for others
than for ourselves.
Frugality is a fair fortune, and hab
its of industry a good estate.
Tho feeling of distrust is always the
last which a great mind acquires.
A learned blockhead is a greater
blockhead than nu ignorant one.
The genius, wit and spirit of a na
tion are discovered in its proverbs.
Flcasure is the flower that fades;
remembrance is the lasting perfume.
The certain way to be cheated Is to
fancy one's self more cunning than
others.
One man who does things is worth
a hundred who talk about the things
they are going to do.
Debt is a skeleton the bones of which
rattle us often In a palace as In a
.hovel. Indeed, ofteuer, since credit is
not given to the very poor.
New Fruit From Jupun.
A new fruit was placed on exhibition
In the pomologieal display in the Hor
ticultural Building. It is the loquot,
a distinct species of fruit that grows
in Japan. The loquot is unknown
here, but the samples shown have an
appearance that promises much In the
way of popularity. Some patriotic
loul in the lower reaches on California
has gone into the work of developing
the loquot, anil these specimens arc
probably the first ever seen in this
part of tlie world. They look like u
May apple and they taste like a nec
tarine.
The loquot grows on trees of the
nppearance of a peach tree. It is yel
low and juicy and lias a smooth skin.
There are two enormous seeds as big
as small chestnuts. In the natural
state the loquot is all seeds, with u
thin layer of wrinkled and drawn skin.
They come into bloom in Novembel
and. are ripe and ready for market in
February and March. The fact that
they are ripe so early is the real ex
cuse for their cultivation, as peaches
and apples are much better. There
aTe several varieties, this one being
the advance. They grow In enormous
clusters, thick as grapes, and the
tree is borne to the ground by the
weight of them.—Buffalo Express.
Tlio Old L.tuly and Her Frog.
There is the well-known medical
story of tho old lady who Imagined
that she had a frog in her stomach.
Her doctor, after vainly trying to per
suade her that it was only imagina
tion, considered a little deception justi
fiable to prevent this idea becoming
fixed In her mind. Having adminis
tered an emetic, lie managed to adroit
ly introduce a frog into the basin, as
if it laid Just arrived from the old
lady's stomach. The patient's Joy was
great, as there was proof positive that
she had been right ail along as to the
cause of her illness. Her joy was soon
overclouded, as the idea struck her
that, although there wits the old frog,
there might be little frogs left behind.
The doctor, however, was equal to this
sudden emergency, for on a rapid ex
amination of the frog be immediately
tssured tlie patient that her fears were
groundless, as her late guest was a
jentleman frog.—Notes and Queries.
When a soda water fountain blows
ap it becomes a fizzlcal wreck.
EVIL OF EATING ALONE
TALK AND COMPANIONSHIP ARE ES
SENTIAL TO PROPER DIGESTION.
Prematura Dyspepsia Is One of tho Most
Trying Features of Unmarried Life—
Physically and Intellectually AVo I la.
prove AVlth Companionship*
At a time like the present, tvlien tho
marrying age ot the average man of
the middle classes Is being more and
more postponed, the physical Ills of
bnchelordom come Increasingly under
the notice of the medical man. It Is
not good for man or woman to live
alone. Indeed, it has been well said
that for solitude to be successful a
man must be either angel or devil.
This refers, perhaps, mainly to the
moral aspects of isolation, and with
these we have now no concern.
There arc certain physical ills, how
ever, which are not the least among
the disadvantages of loneliness. Of
these there is mnny a clerk in London,
many a young barrister, rising, per
haps, but not yet far enough risen,
many a business man or journalist
who will say that one of the most
trying features of his unmarried llfo
is to have to eat alone. And a prema
ture dyspepsia is the only thing that
ever takes him to his medical man.
There nre some few happily disposed
individuals who enn dine alone and
not eat too fast, nor too much nor too
little. With the majority it Is differ
ent. The average man puts his novel
pr his paper before him and thinks
that he will lengthen out the meal
with due deliberation with reading a
little with, and more between, the
courses. He will just employ his
mind enough to help, and too little
to Interfere with digestion. In fact,
he will provide that gentle mental ac
companiment which with happier peo
ple conversation gives to a meal.
This is your solitary's excellent Idea.
In reality he becomes engrossed In
what ho is reading till suddenly find
ing bis chop cold ho demolishes it in
a few mouthfuls; or else he finds that
he Is hungry and paying no attention
to tho book, which he flings aside, he
rushes through his food as fast as
possible, to plunge Into his nrmclialr
and literature nfterward. In either
case the lonely man must digest at a
disadvantage. For due and easy nu
trition food should be slowly taken
and the mind should not he Intensely
exercised during the process. Every
one knows that violent bodily exercise
is bad just after n meal, and mental
exertion is equally so.
Wise people do not even argue dur
ing or just after dinner, and observa
tion of after-dinner speeches will con
duce any one that most speakers neith
er endure themselves nor excite in
their hearers any severe intellectual
effort.
In fact, the experience of countless
generations, from the red Indian of
the woods to the white-shirted diners
of a modern party, has perpetuated the
lesson that a man should not eat
alone, nor think much at tills time,
but should talk and be talked to while
he feeds. Most people do not think
much when tliey talk, and talking is a
natural accompaniment of eating and
drinking.
What docs it fare with the many
solitary women of to-day? No better,
we kuow, than with the men, but dif
ferently. Alone or not a man may gen
erally be trusted at any rate to take
food enough. (We suppose, of course,
that he can get it.) With a woman it
is different. She is more emotional,
more imaginative, and less inclined to
realize the gross necessities of exist
ence. Therefore, the woman doomed
to dine alone as often as not does not
dine at all. She gets dyspepsia be
cause her digestion lias not sufficient
practice, a man gets it because his
functions practice it too often in the
wrong way.
Worst of all, perhaps, is the case of
the solitary cook. In the myriads of
small llats in London there are thous
ands of women "doing" for their soli
tary masters or mistresses. These
women, whose main occupation is to
prepare food for others, find it impos
sible to enjoy, or even to tnke, food
themselves. As confectioners nre said
to give their apprentices a free run
of the stock of tho snop for the first
few days, knowing that it will effectu
ally cure appetite afterward, so tho
women who are always occupied with
buying and preparing food grow un
able to use it for themselves. These
people suffer from dyspepsia, which is
cured if somebody else manages their
kitchen for a week, allowing tlieni to
take meals without preparing them.
It needs no moralist to declare the
evils of solitariness. Mr.u and woman
is a gregarious animal. Physically and
Intellectually we Improve with com
panionship. Certainly It is not good
to eat r.nd to drink alone. It is a sad
fact of our big cities that they hold
hundreds of men and women who in
Hie day are too busy and at night too
lonely to feed with profit, much less
with any pleasure.—The Lancet.
Not a New Fabric.
Possibly your idea of ehallle, ore of
our fashionable spring fabrics, is that
it is a very new idea. On the con
trary, it dates back seventy-five years,
and from tho very beginning its flue
quality and beautiful designs gave it
wide vogue. Silk and worsted both
are used in Its composition.—Philadel
phia ltecord.
Ancient Needlcg.
Needles when first invented were
such clumsy affairs the beautiful and
fine work the women of olden times
used to do with them seems little short
of a miracle. Ivory, bone or metal, In
the latter case with a loop instead of
a head, were first used in their com
position.
MAKING A MAN.
Hurry the baby as fast as you can,
Hurry him, worry him, make him a man.
Off with his baby clothes, get him in pants.
Feed him on brain-foous and make him
advance.
Hustle him, soon as he's able to walk,
Into a grammar school; cram him wits
tarn.
Fill his poor head full of figures and facts,
Keep on a-jamming them in till it cracks.
Once boys grew up at a rational rate,
Now we develop a man while you wait.
Kush him through college, compel him ts
grab
Of every know subject, a dip and a dab.
Get him in business and after the cash.
All by the time he can grow a moustache.
Let him forget he was ever a boy,
Make gold his god and its jingle his joy.
Keep aim a-hustliug and clear out ol
breath,
Until lie wins—nervous prostration and
death.
—Nixon Waterman, in C. E. World. i
HUMOR OK THE DAY.
The Maid—"Do you think kissing is
bail for one, doctor?" The Doctor—
"Well, I should say It was better for
two."—Yonkers Statesman.
Belle—"Do you tliiuk the world is
growing better?" Flora —"I thought
so, my dear, until I married George to
reform him."—The Smart Set.
Her Mother —"How are his table
manners?" Ethel "His table man
ners are all right, but his telephone
mauners are simply awful."—Judge.
Daughter—"But he Is so full of ab
surd ideals." Mother—"Never mind
that, dear. Your father was just the i
same before I married him."—Tit-Bits.
He ordered a saddle of mutton,
Tho waiter brought it, of course;
Said he, after trying to carve it,
" 'Tis the saddle, no doubt, of a horse."
—Chicago News.
The Prime Minister "Then Your
Majesty likes eomle opera?" The C'zar
—"Very much! A comic opera is about
the only thing in which I don't look
for a plot."—Puck.
"I can easily see the reason why a > ,
badly told story seldom gets much ™
countenance." "And what is the rea
son?" "They're a sort of poor rela
tion."—Philadelphia Times.
The wedding ring that the heiress gets
Oft serves a special plan.
'Tis just a circlet that squares the debts
Of some poor nobleman.
—Philadelphia Record.
Mrs. Fljjit—"Why doesn't Mr. Sinith
ers come to our house any more?" Mr.
Fljjit—'"l can't imagine; I'm sure I al
ways tried to entertain him by tiie
smart tilings our baby does, too."—
Ohio State Journal.
Philanthropist—"What's the matter,
little boy? What are you crying
about?" Little Boy—"The fellers on
the street have formed a trust and I
ain't in it. A feller can't play baseball
or shinny all by hisself, cau he?"—Bos
tern Transcript.
"What kind of a cover is this on
your umbrella?" said the inquisitive
friend. "Well," answered the unblush
ing person, "judging by the way it
came into my possession and the way
it will probably depart, I should call it '~y I
a changeable silk."—Chicago News. .!
Customer—"And Is this chair really
an antique piece of furniture?" Deal
er—"Antique, maduml There's no
doubt about that. Why. it was so
worm-eaten when I bought it that I
had to have a new hack and a new seat
and three new legs made l'or it."—Tit-
Bits.
"I haven't much use for BlllhersJey,"
said tho proud papa. "Why?" asked
the proud mamma. "I listened to him
for au hour to-duy while he told me
about what his baby bad said, or tried
to say, and Just as I was about to tell
him about ours be left me, sayiug he
had to catch a train." Baltimore
American.
lloxers an 1*11! Stlrkerfl.
The Boxers nre still causing consid
erable anxiety In some parte of Cliiua.
Pictorial Boxer placards are beiug
sold at mnuy of the markets. One is
a sheet fourteen by twenty-four inches u
in size, portraying !u red, yellow and '
green the conquests of the Boxers
over the foreigners. It is entitled
"The ltampage of tho Five Foreign
(Powers) in China." The central fig
ure is a foreign house of Impossible
architecture, which is being set on P
fire by flames from the finger-tips of
young girls labeled "Bright Bed Lan
terns." On the other side of the
doomed structure Is a sunke or dragon
called "Fire God." Below is the
"Golden Bell," under which the Box- j
ers are crawling to secure Invisibility,
and ut the bottom five uufortuunte j
foreigners are beiug done to death
with pike and sword. This sort of
thing has often a most uufortuunte
effect upon the average uneducated t
China man.—Westminster Gazette.
Skyscrapers In Ancient Times.
The idea prevails that "skyscrapers"
nre of modern American origin, but
Professor Laneiaui declares that in ft '
aucient Rome, as early as the time of
Augustus, buildiugs ten or twelve
stories high were common. Later they
are believed to have been much high
er, rivaling our most modern apart
ment buildings ill size and height. It
is well known that at Constantinople
the Emperor Constantino found his
view of the water cut off by the sky
scrapers erected between his palace
and the water front, though lie had
placed his palace on high ground.—
Baltimore Sun.
Sncreil Lily's Atlas.
Deception has even reached the dis
ciples of Flora. There lias lately been
Introduced Into the market a bulb
called "The sacred lily of the Nile."
The name Is Insufficiently catching to
fascinate lovers of flowers, and a
friend of mine added the new flower
to his conservatory. Time passed, and
up came the plaut, but when the "sa
cred lily of the Nile" appeared, he i
found only an old but still agreeable j
friend in the homely narcissus.—East j
Anglian Times. '