ja^iMraCs' ilf " ), ©ulnn £2. -!L A Model {•"poller. A toacher whoso Hpollint* 'a unique. Thus wrote down the "Days of the Wique": The first ho spelt 44 Sondny," The second day, 44 Munday " And now a new toacher they seek. —St. Nicholas. I'Ht.lier I'niiKy. There is a funny old story about the pansy which many children know, but many, again, do not. The pansy has five petals and five sepsis. In all pan sles two of the petals are of plain color and three are gay with stripes and spots of bright color. Tho two plain petals have but one sepel be tween them, while the two smallest, or the gay petals, have a sepal each, and the one large petal has two se pals. As the story goes, the pansy repre k seats a famiiy—a mother, two daugh ters and two stepdaughters. The mother is very cross and cruel to her stepdaughters, obliging them both to sit on one chair and wear homely dresses, while her daughters have a chair each and very gay dresses, in deed. But why doesn't the father object to such treatment of his daughters? The question is, can you find the father? He is at home. Oh, yes. And you will have to tear the house down, taking out the wife and chiiuen, to find him. He is a little bit of a man, with a white wrapper on and a nightcap. But, poor man, he is sick, and if you will look closely, you will see that he sits with his hands on his knees, a look of despair on his face and his feet in a tub of hot water.—Cincinnati In quirer. Truvolad T.ilcn Princess. A little girl came into this port on the St. Paul on Saturday. She was but 7 years of age and was traveling aionq, She could speak only Swedish, had no money, was In no one's spe cial charge, and yet no great lady, traveling with a retinue of servants, would have received more polite and chivalrous attention than wa3 accord ed this little kid from oVcr seas. A piece of sheepskin was tied about her neck and upon it were these words: "Chris Thompson, Fort Collins. Col orado. Please forward." She was sent by her grandparent in Sweden to her "father and mother, who are in the employ of Mr. Thomp son, at the place above indicated. Her tore, and keep had been paid in ad- VEtfce. The officers on the ship, the passen gers, the men in charge of the docks, / the railroad officials to whom she was - consigned, did everything within their power for her safety and the increase of her happiness. If she had eaten all that was offered licr she could have set up as a museum freak. She seemed happy aud not a hit homeEick, and left for the West in a sleeping ear with a conductor, a porter, a brake man and 17 passengers hovering about her and asking if she wanted anything to eat.—New York Correspondence Cloveiand Plain Healer. A Bear in a Trap. There were days at a time when there was nothing doing in bear traps. Tho real rushing business did not begin until about the first of dune when the moose calve:; had got hi?, enough to run fast Then Henry* dis covered to his great joy that the bears had begun marking anew their striking trees. The trapper who takes possession of a stream by blazing trees , with ills ax is only imitating a cus tom that was old before J.licha studied hear culture. Tho big bears stand up as high as they can by certain trees and mark them with their teeth. Each year they bite them anew, at the be ginning of summer and Henry showed me several freshly struck trees one day. "That bear is an old settler," said Henry, as we looked at the bites on the tree, higher than a tall man's head. So he rebated the nearest traps, aud burnt the feathers of a loon which had come too close to camp. "I think he will smell those burnt feathers a mile," said Henry. Also he toasted cheese and stuck hits of it in cleft sticks about the neighborhood to get the bear interested. This diabolism worked its spell, for on approaching the trap, three days later, we heard roars and howls a quarter of a mile away. The bear had ' become entangled in a snarl of hiow "'jf' downs, and having fought the trap and hushes for hours, lay fiat on his back as we approached, wailing his despair. Henry said he never heard a bear malm so much noise. There was a great difference in the way the bears acted. Some of thorn tried to get away, some became fu rious at our coming. But all of them took the final blow quietly, and died instantly.—Frederic Irland, in Scrib ner's. The Dnrk-nHwk'* fltrntecy. The wild duck's 'lot is not a happy one, at least when a hawk has singled it out as its prey. How the duck conducts its campaign is told in the ' St. Nicholas. The wild duck possesses a large hump of curiosity, and may attimesbo brought within shot by taking advan tage of this trait; hut, ordinarily, it Is "your wits against theirs," and this ) i is me great charm of tho Eport J It is exciting to watch the duck- T hawk in pursuit of his prey. Given • an open field with the quarry, it is astonishing to witness the exhibition h of speed by these "thoroughbred" nr ers. The hawk will often overtake and strike a duck in the air, though he seems to prefer to single out from some flock, and, if possible, force him to dive. As tho duck comes to the sur face to breathe, the hawk is at hand and down goe3 the duck ones more. This is repeated until the poor duck is almost exhausted; and when tho duck pauses a second too long at tho surface the hawk pounces and tho duck is secured. Thnro is wonderful sagacity shown by these birds in forcing a diving duck away from the reeds into open water. They seem loathe to exert themselves sufficiently to capture their game on the wing, but will "dog him," as it were, from the shallows to deep water, where in sheer desperation the victim dives, fancying that one or two long reaches under water will bring him within the shelter of the reeds. Sel dom, however, is he successful in the attempt; fear and exhaustion gener ally end tho matter as the hawk wisfies. A great many ducks crippled by gunners will make for the marshes, where they hide; and sometimes if fortunate and not too severely wound ed, they will recover. But even hero they are not safe; the prowling fox or mink will strike their trail among tho sedge, and often catch them when they venture too near the shore. Out in the deeper part of the marsh duck 3 must exercise tho greatest cau tion when feeding; for when the dusk of evening settles down on lake and fen, and the mystery of the twilight reigns, a most dangerous foe —the "still hunting owl"—comes from tho darkening woods, and on silent wing the great bird quarters tho marsh backward and forward with t'uo thoroughness of a well-trained hound. Still hunting is the high art of snort and the big owls aro experts in their way. A Japanese l r nb.y Prince. The baby prince born a short timo ago In the palace of tho Prince Im perial in Japan has been the cause of unusual rejoicing even to the remotest corners of the kingdom, foi he is tho first son horn to an empress for many generations, and some day, if he UTOJ, he will become the Mikado. The Jaa anose have a strange legend, that tho white storks which make their nests in the palace gardens never use tho three topomost boughs of the tall pines to build in when a girl is to he born. This year, the Japanese declare, tho storks built their nest 3 at the top of the trees in honor cf the little prince. After tho birth of tho royal child, tho legend says, the storks rise, and spreading wide their wings, fly far away through (lie blue sky to carry tho glad news to all Japan. That is v.'iy one sec; '.arts of flying storks c:i Japanese Bays and iaus and lacquer bores, or a dcaca other tilings, for any thing bearing the likeness of one of these messengers cf good ttding3 is bo iieved to be a gift cf good omen. On the birthday of the prince, nil through tho country wherever the news had been received, the houses were gayly decorated with two Japanese flags crossed above a white lantern, on which was the motto, "Long life to the .Mikado." In tho palace itself many curious customs, handed down from nneicr.t times, were repeated with sol emn pomp. One of the funniest of these cere monies is to throw from the roofanold v.coden rice boiler. Nearly tiiree thou sand years ago, when all the buildings were loosely built, tradition says that when the Emperor's son was horn the roof of the palace let in the snow and vain and the Empress was in danger of catching cold. Then the Emperor took a rice boiler, which is made of several layers of thin wooden boxes, and made a covering to keep out the wet. From this idea roof thatching was invented, and to show that the old boiler is no longer in use it is thrown to tho ground. Another time honored custom is that of sending a messenger as soon as tho baby is bcrn to carry the nows to tho temple of the Mi kudos. A woman al ways performs this duty. She take- * cox of beautiful white wood, decorated with tno sixteen leave- chrysanthe mum, which is tho symbol of the Mi kados. Tho box is hound with long purple cords, which mean congratula tion, and contains a letter announcing the birth. This is given to the priest ess, and then read aloud in the most holy place. Ever since the days of the tenth Mikado, nearly 2000 years ago, the same ceremony has been repeated whenever a lit,tie prince came into the world, and the priestess of this temple has always been a sister of the Mikado, or a royal princess. The eighth day of the prince's life was set apart for the ceremony of naming and hair shaving, and in this he is like all other hoy babies in Japan, for they too have their heads shaved on the eighth day. The hair shaved from the baby prince is care fully Kept as long as he lives, but when he dies it will bo placed with other rel ics in a little silken bag and tied about his neck to he buried with him. —New York Tribune. The DerjifMit N*tnrl Well. There is a man in Franco. M. Mar cel by name, who doTotes his time and his energies to the exploration of caverns and other underground places. Many of the discoveries that he has reported have attracted much atten tion, but none more than that of a natural well in the department of Hautes Alpes, of which he recently gave a description. It is the deepest cavity of its kind known. Ho lias sounded it to a depth of 1017 feet, hut believes that he has not yet reached Uia bottom- ARSENIC FACTORIES. HsbltA Acquired ly tho People Wlis Work In Them. White arsenic is tho form in which arsenic is taken by the peasants of Siyria and the Tyrol. Prof. Sehall grueber of Gaetz was the fir3t to call attention to this practice in a report which he made in 1822 to the Aus trian government on the cause of the numerous deaths from arsenic poison ing fn those districts. He found that arsenic was kept in most of the houses in Upper Styria under tho name of hydraeh, evidently a corruption of huttenrauch, or furnace smoke. His statements made were subsequently confirmed from personal observation by a Dr. McClagan of Edinburgh, but for many years afterward the arsenic eaters were generally disbelieved in, and it was not till 1860 that C. Heiso published convincing evidence. Arsenic is principally eaten by hunters and wood cutters, with the ob ject of warding off fatigue and Im proving their staying powers. Owing to the fact that tho sale of arsenic is illegal in Austria without a doctor's certificate, it is difficult to obtain defi nite information of a habit which IB kept as secret as possible. According to a Dr. Lorenzo, in that district, the arsenic is taken fasting, usually in a cup of coffee, the first dose being mi nute, but increased day by day, until it sometimes amounts to the enormous dose of 12 or 15 grains. He found that the arsenic caters were usually long lived, though liable to sudden death. They have a very fresh, youthful ap pearance, and are seldom attacked by infectious diseases. Alter the first doge the usual symp toms of slight arsenical poisoning are evident, but these soon disappear on continuing the treatment. In the arsenic factories in Salzberg it is stated that workmen who are not arsenic enters soon succumb to the fumes. The manager of one of these works Informed Mr. Hoise that ho had been medically advised to eat arsenle before taking up his position. Ho con sidered that no one should begin the practice before 12 years old nor after KO. and that in any case after 50 years of age the daily dose should be grad ually reduced, rlnce otherwise sud den death would ensue. If a confirmed arsenic eater suddenly attempts to do altogether without the drug he imme diately succumbs to the effects of ar senic poisoning. The only way to ob viate this is gradually to acclimatize the system by reducing the dose from day to day. As another evidence of the cumulative properties of arsenic it is interesting to ncto that when graveyards in Upper Styria are opened the bodies of the arsenic caters can he distinguished by their almost perfect state of preservation, due to the grad ually accumulated arsenic.—Science Gossip, Ccr'nln Failure, In Fclinnl Hygiene. Probably no book on the general subject of school hygiene has be°n published from the days of Horace Mann to tho present time that does not Include at least a reference to the po sition of the pupil at his desk. In deed, even Locke hinted at this when he wrote that the puipil "should learn how tc lay his* Paper and place his Arm and Body to It." One of the blessings promised by those who in troduced the vertical system of pen manship was a correction of the crook ed-back position of the pupils, since they must sit eorrecily in order to write the script correctly. The verti cal system, if properly used, does pos sess this merit, as long as the child Is engaijod in the writing everclse. but It.". Influence amounts,to little beyond tbis. Although I visited scores of school-rooms of all grades, In country and clly. yet. so far as I can recall, the position of the pupil while writing was apparently unnoticed by any teacher, r.t any time, in any room, ex cept during the few minutes set apart for "penmanship." This is all the more painful when we consider that writing 5.3 a distinct exercise occupies only a few minutes each day, while one-fifth to one-half of the time spent by the pupil in the school building is occupied by written work. Indeed, the spelling of the motto of the school room of today seems to have been slightly changed until It reads: "Al ways do write." Tho undue amout of time given to this work may be more or less peda gogical; but it is most certainly unhy gienic, for not only are the muscles of the trunk and arms involved in an in correct position at the desk, for the greater part of the time, hut the in jury to the eyes from too close atten tion to the script and from the care ful following of the pen and pcneil points would seem to be incalculable. Incorrect posture insidiously tends to Induce rpinal curva'ture and diseases of the internal organs—R. Clark In the Forum. Pacific Coast Discoveries. According to Dr. Yv r ilson, of the United States national museum, the fringo of country lying between tho coast range and the Pacific contains many peculiarities yet unexplained. For instance, it has a greater number of families of Indian languages than all the ro3t of North America com bined. The arrow-heads and spear heads there are different from those found anywhere elso. Pottery was not one of the arts of the Pacific coast, although it was made by tho neigh boring peoples of Mexico and the Pueblo country. On the other hand, the finest speclmons of basketry in the world, perhaps, in either ancient or modern times, are found there. It may be said, by the way, that Dr. Y/ilson regards the famous Calaveras slaill as a renu'ne relic of ancient tr.an on tho Pacific slope. California Fruit In Europe. The latest American "invasion" of Europe it the carrying of fresh Cali fornia fruit g to London and Paris in the face of the competition of the .Spanish and Italian fruit-growers. A Valencia. Spain, paper says: "Cali fornia oranges, peaches, apples and pears reach Paris, after traversing G,- 000 miiesj, in a more appetizing condi tion than ours," and adds that her fruit-growers can only compote with America by employing •America's im proved methods of cultivation. Cali fornia is a natural fruit garden, and its crops are far too large to be con sumed in the home markets. For years, the California orchardist has have been seriously considering the foreign demand, and many wonderful schemes have been devised to ship fresh fruit abroad. California prunes have generally, taken tho place of the French article, and California oranges have been cultivated until they have reached a state of perfection never bo fore attained. Why We Are Right-Handed. Sir James Sawyer, M. D., has prob ably hit upon the most plausible reason for th right-handedness of the human race. In the early days, he says, when those might keep who could, we were a fighting people and a people who fought hand to hand. Naturally, in this kind of fighting, it is most con venient to wieid a weapon which can he used by one bond only, leaving the other hand and arm free for pre serving balance, for defensive cover ing and offensive seizing. Now the right hond would naturally be used in preference to the left for weilding a weapon, in order that the heart might be kept as far away as possible from the assault of an adversary. Hence, right-handedness arose and was passed on from father to son. France Leads in Picture Postcards. A Paris correspondent says that in France 88,000,000 picture postcards pass through the postoffice annually. That country takes the lead of all others. Austria-Hungary coming next, with 31,000,000. In Italy there are 27,- 000,000 cards handled by the mails, and in England 14,000,000. Other countries although falling below these figures, also number them by millions. The total in circulation throughout the world in one year is said by experts to Jpe 2,260,000,000. There are more than 25,000 Indiana and Eskimos in Alaska, of whom 7,000 arc Protestants, 13,735 are under the care of the Greek church, and about 500 are" Catholics. 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