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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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