~~ HE WEEKLY BULLETIN VOI. Il. NO. 9 MOUNT JOY BOROUGH. Happenings of the Week Told in a Brief Yet Interesting Manner. 150 persons called at Squire Zellers ~ office last week. \ A baby was born to J. E. Hoover vife of this place. ay to pay your poll tax is y 18. cetings in the Beth- ~ forty-eighth Donegal a big lot in Longe- club Donaven \re was ), + M. vening. ¥rreenawalt will move into the property now occupied by Harry Mil ler, on West Main street. Z. W. Keller, the horse dealer, on Thursday shipped ten extra heavy hor— ses to Benjamin Weill at Brooklyn. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Evan gelical Lutheran church, will hold a sociable at the residence of Thomas J. Brown on Thursday evening. The Knights of Pythias had installa- tion of officers on Thursday evening and all partook of a banquet at H. L. Mooney’s after the installation. The infant daughter of Benjamin Gephart and wife of this place, died last Monday morning. The remains were interred at Elizabethtown on Fri- day. The Vaudeville and Concert compa- ny whskgapeared in the hall last Thursday evening, closed a since very successful five nights engagement oe evening. Will S. Ricker, of Wilkesbarre, son of F. A. Ricker of this place, has been commissioned First Lieutenant of Com- pany F., gth Regiment, National (iuard of Pennsylvania. Phil J. Dieter wishes to announce to the public that he hast, 1se] dom the + graperhang- and city and is prepared to « ing, decorating, etc., in city style and for reasonable charges. re- John N. Stauffer on Saturday ceived the necessary machinery for the erection of an elevator tor hoisting ice at his new ice house recently erected at the borough pumping station. A team driven by Abbie Shelly was left standing at the residence of John Pyle on Friday, when suddenly the horse on started to run. It ran to the stable mee alley where it was found. Rev. Dairiel Wolgemuth bought a lot ¢ ght of ground from M. K. Brubaker, on North Market street, opposite the dence of D. W. Kramer, on which resi- he will erect a dwelling next spring. A. B. Hoffer, mail new rural route to be served from the this carrier of borough, has been going over the route to see that the proper boxes are put up by the patrons. The service will be- gin on about the 15th. The pllowing musical organizations order at next will appear in the following the Foresters’ fair in this place, month ; Newtown band, Ephrata or- chestra, Landisville band, Salunga band and Metropolitan band of Lancaster. A meeting of thé Republican voters of the West ward of this borough will be held at the office of F. A. Ricker for the purpose of naming candidates for borough offices, on Monday evening, January zo, at 7.30. The primary will be held on Friday, January 24, between the hours of 3 and 7 p. m. A box car loaded with was being shifted at the old depot in this place and was run on Baker's coal sid— ing with such force that it ran off the tracks and along his coal shed, splinter- ing the edge of theroof. The accident occurred on Saturday and it will re- quire a wrecking crew to replace the malt, car. Albert Culp sustained a painful in- jury on Thursday. He is employed by Clarence Schock, and was helping to unload a carload of coal, which “was frozen and he was using a pick. When he raised the pick it struck the side of <the car and the one end struck him on the crown of the head, inflicting a very painful wound, MANY LOCAL NOTES. What Transpired in Our Busy Village Since the Last Issue. Ella Menaugh was at Lancaster on Friday. Thomas Yellets and wife are visiting at Marietta. Mrs. Henry Wittle has abad attack of rheumatism. Henry B. Musser has an attac k of sciatic rheumatism. Clarence Kaylor left on Monday for Providence, R. I Fanny Geib visited at Carmany’s two days last week. E. H. Reider was on the sick list two days last week. Daniel Kieffer of Middletown, was in the village on Friday. Mrs. Harry Stokes of Hanover, York county, is visiting in town. Wilbur Rank Sunday with H. H. Myers. of Lancaster, spent Mrs. John Kautz of Maytown, spent several days at Hotel Florin. E. 3. Weaver shipped eight head of horses to Middletown on Saturday. T. N. Hostetter fine crop of eight inch ice yesterday. began housing a George Whitecamp is confined to the house with a severe spell of sickness. Florence Dailey of Atglen, is the guest of her sister Mrs. Charles (ood. Amos Hambright, night operator, is off duty since last Saturday due to sick- ness. wife of Rock David Brandt and Point, visited Aaron DBreneman’s on Sunday. Colic caused the death of a valuable mule belonging to David Barnhart on Saturday. The birthday party at the residence of Mrs. Fanny Hambright, was a finan- cial success. H: Philadelphia Rumor has it that J. Menaugh contemplates moving to in the near future. The Democratic primary clection will be held at the Florin Hotel on Sat- urday, January 18th. Charles Holman, of the Bull’s Head Bazaar at Lancaster, was . manager in town on Saturday. Watches and clocks repaired prompt- ly by Harry Peopple, Mount Joy, and all work guaranteed. Fred stermacher has already started his Mercantile Appraiser J. Fen— rounds of the county. Mr. Seel, of the firm of Waller & Seel, wholesale liquor dealers at Har- risburg, sold a barrel of (iibson whis key to Mrs. Metzroth. denomination The German Baptist baptized a number of persons in the Conewago creek on Sunday. Among the applicants was Bessie Hoerner. this place installed the officers of Mari- etta Castle No. 12¢' A. at that place on Friday evening. Mrs. Sarah Heisey of town, very successful operation performed at the General Hospital on Wednesday for a cancerous tumor in the breast. shares of Union National bank stock to Christ place, at private sale for $80 a share. Mount Joy Nissley of this Joseph Aldinger and wife of Cone- wago, accompanied by Bessie Hoerner, formerly of this place, visited the lat- Ile Flowers, ter’s grandmothe: on Saturday. — —a ertainment. £ Joint Mount and Spelling Bee and E J. W. Hershe a the school, one mile west o yin i 1g bee ing, Janu- Joy township, will hold entertainment on Saturd The progranig ary 25. :onsist of two spelling classes, a genéi ormation class vocal and gramophonic dialogues, ete. The cirgula the foregoing were printgd a nusic, recitations, mnouncing this office on Friday. A Very Suddeff Death. Miss Lillian Warne lied suddenly Thursday night at he on m East Done- { gal street, Mount Joy Brough on She was | employed at Brown Br sot 1 mills and | worked until 6 o'clock. bn the road home { she was stricken with J lysis. She was and few 18 33 yearsold and if Brethren terday, found on the street un: © move She died a hours later. Deceased a member of the Unite Her funeral was held ye | was carried to her wf | church. LORIN, PENNA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, A SUNDAY BLAZE. Barn and Other Outbuiidings in Ruin-- Origin of Fire a Mystery. fire occurred early on Sun- Mrs. Maria A disastrous day afternoon on the farm of Hoffman, of Mount Joy, located a a mile south of that borough, the tenant on which is her son, Henry Hoffman, Mus, Hoffman’s son-in-law, Ili Engle, is her manage , and he was at the farm when the It was he in fact, who dis- leaving the sick fire broke out, covered the flames, just after barn, where he had been attending a Having occason to pass around to the large COW. rear of the building he discovered a fodder stack on fire. Assistance was som- moned, but the sparks quickly set the barn itself in a blaze, and a tobacco house and straw shed followed. All were soon destroy- ed, together with a big lot of grain, twelve acres of tobacco, a large quantity of which had already been stripped, and much shred- ded fodder, along with nearly all the farm- ing implements and two four-horse wagons All the but the sick cow re- ferred to had been turned loose to be water- live stock ed but a little while-before the fire broke out and the sick cow was all that perished in the flames. A hog pen alone was saved. A high wind pervailed at the time and sparks were carried half a mile to Benjamin Haver stick’s, tobaeco shed, which was set on fire, The flames were discovered nearly as soon as they started, however, and extinguished was done. Hoffman’s was set on fire is unknown, several theories before any particular damage How the corn fodder stack at being advanced, but nothing positive as to cause is known. Tne loss is unusually heavy for a rural fire,and will probably reach $8,000. Thereis some insurance in the Penn Mutual Fire In surance Company. — East Donegal Items. Considerable tobacco has already been stripped but no crops have been sold. Jacob Mumma, was hauling ice from Levi Nissley’s pond the beginning of the week. Jesse Gipe and family, of Illionis, are vis- iting the former’s sister, Mrs. Hamilton Inners. Mrs. David Shonk, who under went a surgical operation of a critical nature, last week, is improving. Clayton Nissely was in Lancaster, last Saturday attending the last me ting of the old board of poor directors. H. A. Glatfelter. supervisor of the upper district of East Donegal township, has an- nounced himself as a candidate for re-elec- tion. The teachers of the Union school are pre- paring a program for a spelling bee. The bee will be held on the evening of Washing ton's birthday. Samuel Nissely, son of Rev, Ephraim Nissley, suddenly took sick on Wednesday and by evening was extremely ill. He is improving. It does not look as if the political pot in East Donegal township would boil furiously on the over this year. All seem to agree same men for the several offices to be filled. District Deputy Samuel S. Stacks of | O. K.of M.C.i Mrs. Fanny Hambright sold twenty All the old buildings on the place known as the Mumma farms, near Donegal Springs lately purchased by lx-United States Sen- ator J. Donald Cameron, will be torn down next spring and a large fine residence, barn This the in and other out buildings will be erected. farm is beautifully located and with new buildings will be one of the finest the county. mre <> Happenings at Rheems Station. The Liberty Bell passed through town on last Monday and was seen by a large crowd Leander Groff is arranging plans to open a uew street on the north side of the rail- road. A. S. Bard was absent two days from K U tower. His place was tilled by relief op- "erator H. G. Reese of Elizabethtown, had a B, H. Greider, poultryman of this place, shipped by Adams Express, several pairs of his thoroughbred chickens to Utah and Minnesota. B. B. Gonder has finished the new work at this place for Penna. R. R. Co., and has moved his plant to Eddystone, where he has a large contract. Miss Lydia Buckwalter, teacher of the IRheems school, gave an entertainment last I'riday evening, which was well attended by the citizens of this place and surround- ing towns. Messrs. W. U. Hensel, C. E. Mount- gomery, and Israel Erb, of Lancaster, were in this place last Friday, to view the road leading from a point at JacobSnyder’s farm to Donegal, in regard to having it vacated. al Trouble Over Salaries. The members of the board of poor diree- tors who went into office yesterday, will re- ceive, according to the mew salary bill, $1,500 per year or $125 per month. At pre sent they are paid so much a day and they make about $250 per year. There is oppo- sition to the men receiving this salary, es- pecially as the prison inspectors’ salaries have not been increased. If the new direc- tors get their salaries they will no doubt have to wait on a decision of the court, as County Controller Hassler will not pay it. He says they are now paid under a special law and the supreme court has decided that general salary bill cannot affect officials who are so paid. There will be opposition to the payment of the salary of the prison keeper for the same reason. At present he receives a salary of $1,200 and the rew bill allows him $2,000.—Last Tuesday's Morn- ing News, quater of HONOR ROLL. Monthly Report of the Various District Schools. Report of the Donegal school, J. M. Erb, teacher, for the month of December, Per cent, of attendance, boys 90, girls 90. Per cent. of attendance for term, boys 93, girls 95. Number of pupils enrolled during the month 45. Visits 21, Helen Risser, Dora Winterinyer, Ella Ston- er, Ada Ilemsley, Carrie Iemsley, Elsie Latz, Florence Shearer, Katie Hersh, Alice Nissley, Howard Risser, Elmer Witmer, David Wit- mer, John Nissley, Henry Lutz, Roy Schroll, Chester Livengood and Abner Weaver. Report of Breneman'’s school, N. S. Gantz teacher, The scholars have organized a Literary Society, which they will have in progress every Friday afternoon. Follow- ing are the names of those who have attend ed every day during the month : Grayhill Wolgemuth, Benjamin Wolgemuth Ervin Shaeanger, Keener Hossler, Paris Dem- John Earhart, Henry Denuny, Mamie Witmer, my, Oliver Demmy, Demy, Howard Ada Weaver, Annie, Gertie and Lizzie Sherer Mabel Kolp, Lizzie Kolp, Earhart, Katie Witmer, Minnie Snyder, Sadie Helsey. Barbara Following is the report of the Florin Pri- mary school, Anna May Hoover, teacher, for the fourth month ending December 31, 1901. Whole No. in attendance Per cent of attendance, boys 98, girls 98, aver- 26) age 98. Pupils present every day : Frank Dyer, Grover and John Kichler, Guy Eicherly, Albert I'rank, Daniel Flowers, Ar- thur Ishler, Harry Kline, Ray Vogle, Alvin Sides, Phares and Willie Weaver, Ray Wal- ters, Ada and Edna Breneman, Minerva Dyer Esther and Rosa Flowers, Meriam Guhl, Sadie Ishler Fannie and Fanny Kline, Katie Stauffer General News of the Community. C. Gi. Boyd, of Penn township, is the ex- ecutor of Levi Thuma, late of Rapho. Rapho township Strickler. Susan M. Strickler, of is administratrix of Ephraim R. Cyrus Oldweiler, of Elizabeth town, has been granted a pension of $6, and Abraham Buch, of Manheim, a pension of $10. Joseph L.. Smith, of near Bainbridge, lost a flne driving horse by death last Saturday night During 1901 1,193 marriage licenses were granted in this county—a slight decrease from the rumber granted the previous year. Quite anumber of fat hogs are dying from cholera throughout the rural districts, ¢s- pecially in the Donegals and Mount Joy townships. Our farmers are beginning to pay more raising of poultry This is an attention to care and within the past few years. im- portant and one of the best paying depart- ments on the farm if properly managed. Auctioneer Jackson on Saturday evening offered for sale a farm and property near Kinderhook, for executor of the late Mrs. Margaret Fisher. It purchased Charles Zeamer, of Kinderhook, for $1,350. was by tn <-> FREER The News of Newtown. R. N. Hostetter is having a slate roof put on his barn. The coming primary promises to be an interesting one. A novel mail box and the only one of its kind in town, was erected by Martin Metz- ger last week. Another spelling bee will be held in the hall in this place by the Juhior Cornet band on Saturday evening, January 25. The revival meetings in this place are still in progress nightly with a very good attendance but as yet there are no seekers. ~~ Maytown News. Several cases of chicken-pox have been reported in town. Mrs. Mary Henderson is confized to her home with sickness. Elmer Kagle of Chickies and Miss Edith Glataker of this place, were united in mar- riage last Tuesday afternoon at Harrisburg by Rev. P. H. Hershey, of the Fourth St. Church of God. The Reformed congregation last Sunday morning unanimously elected Custer Slough of Worcester, Pa., as their pastor in place of Rev. J. G. Dengler, who resigned to ac- cept a call at Weissport, Pa. Mr. Slough graduated at the Theological Seminary in in the class of 1901 and it is-not yet known whether he will accept. - Joint and Vicinity. Elmer Engle is busy stripping tobacco. Samuel Wormley is stripping tobacco for Mr. Stauffer. Harry Zeager contemplates getting a jennylind till spring. Elmer Ebersole hired himself to Christ Snyder for the coming year. A spelling bee will be held in the Joint school house, on January 25. Samuel Garber has already stripped 5,000 pounds of tobacco and is just about half through, Officers Elected. The Lancaster and Mount Joy company elected the following officers on Monday ; President, William B. Given ; Secretary and Treasurer, Oscar M. Hoff- man Directors, William W. Griest, Phil- aw, Jacob M. Trout, Noah Getz, yarber. Jacob N. Summy, T. Schock, Gabriel Moyer, M. L. Greider, Jacob yers, H. Burd Cassel, Railway ip 1902. ORIGINAL. JUDGE LYNCH. He Was a Brave and Useful Member of Our Early Society. Tradition sometimes plays strange pranks with dead men's reputations. It would make an interezting half hour for the eavesdropper beyond the Styx f he could hear the exchange of amen- ities betwgen Duns Scotus and Judge Lynch, the one a shrewd, clear reason- er, whose name now signifies a fool; the other a simple Quaker gentleman, | whose name has come to stand for or- ganized savagery. Charles Lynch was a man whose services to his country as a brave pion- eer and righteous judge, as a soldier | and a statesman, are by no means de- serving of oblivion, still less of oblo- quy. It seems indeed one of the in- iquities of fate that his name should | now be universally applied to proceed- ings that no one would condemn more heartily than he. The records of the court of Bedford county, in Virginia, and those of various Quaker meetings, the journals of the Virginia house of burgesses and of the first constitu- tional convention, taken together with family documents and traditions, show him to have been an upright and useful member of society and a wise and en- ergetic leader at the most important crisis of American history.—Atlantic. Volunteers In South America. There is a gentleman in Boston who spent a number of years among the various little South American repub- lies and who gives an interesting ac- count of the methods of one of these | small states when it comes to a ques- | tion of making war. The “navy” of the particular power referred to con- sists of a single old fashioned side wheel steamer, armed with one gun. In time of peace she is engaged in haul- ing freight up and down the river which runs close to the capital. At the outbreak of one of the peri- odical wars not so very long ago the president of the republic took charge of the steamer and started up stream on a recruiting expedition, leaving his senior general in charge of the military preparations at the capital. A couple of days later the steamer returned, and some seventy miserable looking natives, each firmly bound with a strong rope, were mayched off and | turned over to the general, with a note from the president which read: Dear General—I send you herewith sev- enty volunteers. Please return the ropes at once. —Boston Herald. Didn't Recognize It. A distinguished member of the Unit- ed States judiciary has discovered that Le still has something to learn in the direction of agriculture, He bought a farm as a summer home for his family and finds especial de- light in walking about the place, com- menting on the condition of the crops and in many ways showing his inter- est in his new possessions. One evening during the summer he was strolling over the farm. The on the ground to dry. The judge saw it, and, calling his man, he said: “It seems to me you are very care- less. Why haven't you been more par- ticular in raking up this hay? Don't you sce that you have left little drib- blings all around?” For a minute the hired man stared, wondering if the judge was quizzing him. Then he replied: “Little dribblings! Why, man, that's | the crop!” The Prayer That Hurt, A member of a certain Massachu- setts parish, prominent for his thrift and personal consequence, was also notorious for his overbearing assump- tions and pompous airs. Under the dis- tress and fright of a dangerous illness he “put up notes” on several successive Sundays, and after. his recovery, ac- cording to usage, he offered a note to be read by the minister expressive of his thanks. The minister was somewhat “large” in this part of his prayer, recalling the danger and the previous petitions of the “squire,” and returning his grate- ful acknowledgments with the prayer that the experience might be blessed to the spiritual welfare of the restored man. He closed with these words: “And we pray, O Lord, that thy serv- ant may be cured of that ungodly strut, so offensive in the sanctuary.” Middle Ages Burials, In the middle ages founders and patrons of ecclesiastical buildings be- gan to be buried nearer and nearer to the fabric of the church or cathedral. First the porch, then the cloister, then the chapter house or chantry, came under demand; the chancel was next encroached upon, and lastly burials were allowed under the aitar itself. At the other extreme of custom was the burial of malefactors and stillborn children on the north or “devil's side” of the yard, a practice concerning which chapters might be written. Located. Mrs. Winks—Why in the world didn’t you write to me while you were away? Mrs. Minks—I did write. Mrs. Winks—Then I presume you gave the letter to your husband to mail and he is still carrying it around in his pocket. Mrs. Minks—No; I posted the letter myself. Mrs. Winks—Ah! Then, it is in my husband's pocket.—New York Weekly. -| rivalries. hired man had cut the grass during the day, | a very thin crop, and had left it lying | Ho CLOUD FORMATIONS. frhat Causes Them to Assume Such Variety In Shape. A good idea of the correct reason for varying cloud shapes may be obtained | by watching the steam from a railway engine under different conditions. As it issues from the funnel it is trans- [ parent water vapor. On a moist, cloudy {lay it will hang in thick, fleecy masses In the track of the train. In dry, bright weather it will rise in light, thin 'tvreaths, whieh quickly disappear, and gain when the engine is standing in p station the steam will collect in | masses above it. | These are practically the conditions [ bf cloud formation. The shapes vary | necording to height above the earth, to [ the temperature of the particular air {current in which they are floating, to | the force and direction of the wind at | the various altitudes and also in some | measure to the electrical condition of the atmosphere and the amount of dust in it. As a rule, the higher the clouds the | lighter they are and the more widely | spread. The so called mares’ tails and | mackerel sky are good examples of | this. Some of the former are over five miles high and are believed to be com- posed of minute particles of ice. The clouds in a mackerel sky are generally about three miles high. The heavy cumulus clouds which so often look like vast mountain ranges are only found in the lower and moists er layers of atmosphere. Their lower surfaces are from half to three-quar- ters of a mile above the earth, while their higher points may range from | two to three miles in elevation. Still lower than these come the heavy flat masses of nimbus or rain clouds which are seldom more than half a mile above the earth. Sports of the Crusaders. In their amusements Christians and infidels mingled very readily. During | the truces the two frequently engaged | in jousts and proved one another's skill iin horsemanship, in the use of the | lance, in the wielding of the sword [and in the hurling of the spear. All, | even the knights of the religious orders, | entered with zest into these friendly Both Christian and infidel were extremely fond of hunting and [ falconry. A long section in the assizes lis devoted to the laws concerning the | 1atter subject. Ousama in his autobi- ography devoted many pages to ac- | counts of hunting experiences and to [the art of falconry. The crusading leaders took their hunting dogs and fal- | cons with them as a matter of course | when they set out on the holy war. As the close proximity cf the enemy | exposed both parties to constant at- | tack, hunting agreements were made | by which each might hunt in security [on disputed territory. Gifts of dogs | and hawks were interchanged, and | friendships were sometimes formed be- cause of the mutual interest in breed- ing hunting animals. — International | Magazine. FT aE RIE His Particular Muse. He had been calling on a young lady and had been talking against time for | several hours, not noticing that she | was, to say the least, slightly wearied. | “Do you know,” he said, after com- | pleting a monologue of several thou- | sand words and thinking a little flat- tery would be appreciated, “while talk- | ing tonight I have felt as if I were in- spired by one of the muses. And which one do you think it is?” | He looked searchingly into her beau- | tiful face. The modest blush for which | he was watching proved to be a wide | yawn, which grew wider as she an- | swered: “I guess the muse that inspires you ! tonight must be Euterpe.” He didn’t really know anything about | mythology, so he couldn’t tell just what she meant. But when he got home he took down his encyclopedia, and there in cold type, staring him in the face, he saw: “Euterpe—the muse over wind instruments.” who presided A Pretty Big Tiger. Old Dickey S., a very wealthy but very illiterate East India merchant in London, took a pair of compasses and set about examining a large map of India, the margin of which was illus- trated with drawings of the wild and domestic animals of the country. Suddenly Dickey dropped the com- pass in amazement. “It can’t be! It lain’t in the horder of nature that it should be! Impossible! Ridiculous!” | “Why, Dickey, what's the matter?” “Wot’s the matter? Vy, this Bengal tiger is ninety miles long!” Dickey had measured the tiger by the scale of the map. LClectric Centipeds. Least attractive among the insects which give light are the so called “electric centipeds” — black crawlers with many legs, which have been lik- ened to serpents’ skeletons in minia- ture. They move in a snakelike fash- ion, forward or backward, leaving be- hind them a bright track of phosphor- ic light. However, they are most ac- customed to appear in the daytime, when the illumination they afford is not visible. Unfortunate Error. “What do you mean by this, sir?’ demanded the angry advertiser. “What's the matter?’ inquired the publisher of the Bangtown Bugle. “This advertisement of ‘our delicious canned meats from the best Chicago houses,” you've made it read ‘horses.’ CENTS A YEATY WANTED TO GET IN le Was Willing to Join if It D Cost Too Much, A lank, long countryman stood side of the reading room door of thd brary of congress and looked with 1 ing eyes at its gorgeous interior. Adu tance had been refused on his decld ing that he had no intention of readi | but he lingered near the door hopi something would turn up to let him i Finally he again approached the doo keeper. “You say I can’t get in, boss?” h asked. “Not unless you want to read,” was the discouraging reply. “A dollar wouldn't be any object to you, would it. boss?” The doorkeeper shook his head and waved the insistent visitor away. Ina few moments three members of con- gress approached and, noddink to the doorkeeper, said, “We are members, you know,” and passed in through the door. The countryman darted forward again. “I say, boss,” he asked confidentially, “how much does it cost to be a mem- ber? I belong to one lodge already, but ef it ain’t too all fired much I'll go you, for I certainly do want to git in thar and set down a spell; I certainly do.”— New York Tribune. Asiatic Humor. “At one of the public dinners given by Ameer Abdur Rahman Khan,” says Mr. Stephen Wheeler in his story of the ameer’s life, “an excited native rushed into the midst of the assembly and prostrated himself in front of the ameer. “Sahib!” he gasped. are coming! “ from what direction are they visi- ble? asked the ameer without chang- ing his expression. “ ‘From yonder hill’ replied the na- tive. “Climb that tree and watch until they come! was the royal command. “The native ascended to the topmost branches and was forced to remain un- til he dropped to the ground.” “Political upholsterers,” whom Addi- gon described as “grave persons,” may gee in this anecdote evidence of the ameer’s full confidence in Russia's in- tentions toward Afghanistan. It is more probable that it was a manifes- tation of that grim humor which was of the quaint oriental stripe with which the “Arabian Nights” have made us familiar. ‘The Russians A Chinaman’s Protest. - The Peking Gazette, speaking of Chi- nese in foreign lands, says: “We dress and speak differently from foreigners, just as foreigners do who come to China. But nobody in the streets calls us ‘Chinese devils.” The children in the streets wish to see how long our cues are, but the police, seeing them annoy us, scatter them. When we go into a shop to buy any- thing, we are treated with even more consideration than their own people. We enter their homes, it is the same. They seek to please us in every way, show us curios or play the organ or piano for us. The writer has been to France, England, America, Japan, Spain and South America and stayed years, and everywhere he was treated with the same courtesy.” It is to be feared that some Chinese laundrymen in this country would not wholly indorse this view. Light Without Sight. We can “perceive” light without the smallest aid from the retina. If the optic nerve is sufficiently excited to reach the sensorium and create a dis- turbance at that center of the brain where the optic nerve terminates, we shall then see light and sparks. If, moreover, the optic nerve is cut or mu- tilated in any way, we should see a brilliant flash of light, though without any sensation of pain. And so it is with the other nerves. The auditory nerve has only to be excited, not nec- essarily by sound, so as to reach its center, the brain, and we shall hear a sound. How many ghosts might not be destroyed in this way?—Chambers’ Journal. The Danish Mascot. The chimney sweeper is the Danish mascot. You see him in gold or silver, suspended on a lady’s watch chain, in- stead of the “lucky pig” or horseshoe, which is the English symbol of good luck. He also appears on note paper and postcards, implying that your cor- respondent wishes you a rise in life. It is the old fashioned sweep that is thus depicted—he who had actually to climb the chimney, his implements be- ing a four foot ladder, a short broom and a rope. i American English. We do not speak the English lan- guage in the way in which it is spoken by the people of England. We have greatly changed, enlarged and perhaps improved it in our usual progressive way. The wonder lies in the notion of: Englishmen that their way of speaking® the language is the only way and that - oR our way is wrong.—New York World. j A Good Mimie. “I don’t see what yoh all has to git so proud about,” said Miss Sadie Cot- tonball. 4 “Cohse you doesn’,” answered Miss Miami Brown. “I’ze been studyin’ de white folks. What yoh wants to do is jes’ put on de airs yohse'f an’ let ae yuthuh folks do de guessin’ ‘bout. de reason is.”—Washington Sig oe er
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