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ANIMALS IN EFFIGY. ME FAMOUS COLLECTION OWNED BY THE SMITHSONIAN. CmU Are Made of ,Ur nd ,lu,kT B",nUUI'rof That tl Whale Could llfia Jouah Of Value to Students snt HUtorian. Strewn along for a distance of 50 rdsin tbo rear of tho Smithsonian in yLticnnro blocks of plaster of pari of very imaginable shape, sorao of largo .izeniKl others fitted together naif to form boxca. For tho most part thoy look ike the refuse of a workshop. Hero and hero one fragment cr another is seen to ,.l,lo a part of a fish or other am- J r of fore Hippers. A bigjdab bears tho Lression of a snake, as if tho creature, h" L..huiicd itself in n.nd for the win j,al waked from, its torpid statu and I'wlod away. Other objects yet more stnU"o aro faces and various parts or human bodies apparently fossilized T1h.no odd looking tilings are molds Tho Smithsonian institution has Iktii Electing them for 80 year- past, and Bimoot ie:n n.n. -v, - money. Quito a number havo boon tetch -n tint wav from Alaska, represent rarinns animals peculiar to tho 10 gioiwof tho frozen north. If a queer rep .,r fkh is found anywhere, there is nothing better than to mako a cast of it in plaster of pans, uy mis means n .hann is conicd to perfection, and that is .. f.-, miKnnin tllirnnSllS m nriifir. mill u When, a few years ago, a whalo was stranded on tho New England coast, Dr. Palmer, taxidermist of tho Smithsonian inanition, was scut to mako a copy of it in papier mache. This ho did that IBlOSiiy, w' "" - - in nlactnr. ich ho took sovoral bar rels full - him, aml tno PaPier macho cast was produced aftorward in Washington, nniv ruin-half of the whale was cast, however, representing what might bo nrmnd tho port Bide of tho animal. This is now hung up in tho National mnsnnttl. On one sido it shows the out side of the croaturo and from the other side the insido. It was a clergyman who on a certain occasion not long ago was steering some members of his flock through tho building, and, pausing in front of tho whale, remarked, pointing to the capacious interior of tho great marine mammal: "You see, my dear friends, that there was plenty of room for Jonah 1 In such wavs the Smithsonian insti tntion has collected molds and made casts of a great variety of animals, of 1 ton sending loner distances to got mem Of reptiles alone it has secured several hundreds, each representing a typical annrins whila the fishes mil UD to 1.200 and upward. From each plaster mold about 50 casts may bo mane, " oo sired. This facility of multiplication ii utilized to a considerable extent in another branch of the work not re lating to animals at all. To schools and to museums all over tho world the Smithsonian institution sends Bets of fljical aboriginal implements of Amer ica. These are valuable for purposes of studv. A mold from an actual stouo ax will furnish 50 facsimiles, which only hava to bo painted in order to look ex actly like the original. If more aro wanted, anothor mold is easily made. While it would not be easy to snip a whalo nr n wftlrna to tho Smithsonian institution, smaller animals are readily transported. Nearly all of tho creatures of which thoso molds aro made are Bent to this city for that purpose. Whon practicable, two living specimens are forwarded. One 6ervos for the mold. Tho other is a model for the artist. Bo fora cninfT fnrther it should be ex plained that the casts aro intended to represent the animals thomselvcs in the mnneum, and they must bo as lifelike ai possible. They are painted iy mou WHO are skil ort in this branch 01 arc. Iinfnr mnVinrt n. tnnlil from fl Sliako tho animal, if alive, roceives a doso of chloroform. It may or may not recover There have been instances where sor pents havo got over the effects of tho chloroform two or threo times in succes sion, ouly to be subjected to further doses and mado to serve again and Bffain Pnrlmna nn nnfrtcthAtizcd OOhid" ian will bo coiled gracefully about the branch of a tree, and tho mold will be taken from branch and snake togetner, tO hfl cnhsnnnnntlv nnintorl. nf COUTS6. Or, if it were a rattlesnake, it would probahlv b coiled in n srdral. as if ready to strike. In the west wing of the araithsonian institution is a bcauuiui exhibit, nf f KA .f f Incnnl-na nf tho United States. They look as if alive, though onlv mats en wall nrn thev Painted, with surroundings of herbage, etc., to counterfeit nature. 1 It in tho snmA wn with rcntileS Of other kinds. There aro ever so many queer species of lizards in this country. lartlcularly in the western deserts, ine rned toad is one of these, not being in lity a toad at all, though it looks rmo TU. ..A t.n nrliVito liznrdS IWUO. AUCIO RIO KUO v . " UAAth wall nn A nthnm which are a. ,to outrun the fastest raco norso. oach creatures as these are easily moia ed. GVnrv anala in thnir nrmnr bclnff TO producod with wonderful accuracy of detail, with land mammals it is differ ent, for a cast of a croature with a fur ,coat can hardly be made to looic iiko lifft. MAttiflloa rti Pftlmor'il col l00- tion includes casts of portions of many land nmmmitli For nxamole. hanging ,on the wall of his studio in the rear of the Smithsonian institution is a plaster htad nf n Knlr tnlrnn dimrt from the nniroalf When he has occasion to stuff tapipl ho will not bo obligod to guess V U- L i - U. nirt. nf th Vast fcloso by is a cast from the head pf Beaflion that was killed in the Pa- ,na .nother cass is irom w ?t a b. r. Some day the taxidermist will aW Ve to set up a stuffed bear with mot h open, and there will be m guei )ady. There is also a calf head ntch 1' yery lifelike, tnougn c Biti1 -cd soup. Wathington Star. IN THE HEAT OF YOUTH. NoTell.fi KecolUctloui or lyt VheB Women Were All gueena. Why is it, I wonder, that we come Into the world bo ill equipped for its ex ploration? It seems to mo. as I look back upon my youth, that, in a cirtain way my senses were fresher and keener then than they are now And yet they were continually particularly in tho matter of girls playing the most unwarrant able pranks on mo Some alien fluid, of an intense and iiery kind, got mixed with them and made them subject to all sorts of unaccountable aberrations. It is a notcrious fact that an electric current will make the most excellent compass behave in an irre.-punsiblu fash ion And yet, though tho di-turbinj? fluid which made my compass worthless was nearly always there, it has guided me somehow with tolerable safety a k.i:g distance across the truckles main. And 1 am li'.t by any means sure that I would exchange it for a trmr instru ment, subject to fewer aberrations. Tor I ta.ee tins wry sensitivene-h to t lectric inlluences to be a nroof of its . ....... fineness and excellence. Lii'o would bo a horrible dreary all'air if tii magnetic current-; which make tho needle tremble and swerve wire banished c.r nonexist ent. Hie dull, dead, stupiil sanity which has no sympathy with folly and no r. a;:i of potential madness is no duubt a standi and reliable rudder, but 1 cannot fuibear questioning whether to tho soul thus equipped tho vuyago is wortli making Ulysses of old. middlo a zed thoutih ho was, had to stutY his cars with wax lest he steer his ship into tho jaws of perdition, when tho sirens sang so deli -cioufdy, and ho did not exactly cover himself with glory during his visits to Circo and Calypso, liut what very red blood ho had, and how humanely his heart beat in every one of his manifold adventures 5 He never, liko his ship mates, became a swain, and how noble and manly was his bearing in the pres ence of tho lovely Nausicaal There is something almost touching to me in seeing tho same sentiment which stirs my own bosom recorded thousands of years ago. And, truth to tell, the man whoso pulse is subject to no irregularities and whoso judgment reeisters no aberrations in the presence of a beautiful woman is, in my opinion. "fit for treasons, stratagems ana spoils. II. II. Boyeseu in Lippiucott's. GIVE THEM A CHANCE. Rich Clrld OppreMed With Wealth Should Have Special Consideration. Mv rnnsin Anthony has been in to tell me of his betrothal of his son Ajax to a young woman of exceptionally vol uminous financial prospects. My cousin is not himself a man of largo means, and his children's fortunes aro still to hn made. Nevertheless it was not with out an air of deprecation and symptoms of uneasiness that he told me what Ajax had done. But, I said, eeeing Anthony growing cnin.nn snmobodv must marry tho rich cirls. There might bo enough rich young men to pair o!r witn tnem u an me Kmiinlnrs wprB avai lable. but as long as a large percentage of the rich bachelors insist on marrying poor gins mere w uu choice but for some rich girls to marry poor men or uoue. And, after all, if a girl is truiy a meo kui, u -shame to avoid her because o' her for tuuo. When I was young, I tolu Jm, I had really loved a girl, ana sne nan loved mo, and had fihe been of age or an orphan I would havo married her if she had owned all New York between Canal street and Central park, ureaaiui as i would have been to bo burdened with euch a load, I would nave ieu true affection might make it ioieraoi. 1 think I was a comfort to l-ousui u 1( IT ivnnt nwav looking a good deal less dejected than when he came in What a happiness It is, 10 uu bui, when one gets a chance to benefit a fel low creature's spirits by changing his point of view 1 Scribner's. cnriutT No Loneer Vhdtf. as-u i,nr hnrome in our busy life of great cities so perfunctory an obliga- tion, many people nave w ; n nisika them except in cases where condolence or congratulation is in order. These cases uem-uu . lPivin of cards in person umj, visiting for form's sake is drifting out o vogue. So well is the difficulty of no complishing all one's visits nnderstood that people of the world do not hold eah other to strict account if a soawn passes without an mtercnangu u v-- They simply meet somewhere and take Jrfhi thread dropped when they las met, months before, with perfect gooa Jrnpcr.-Mrs. Burton Harrison in La dies' Home Journal. ShAM Get It. pwr-Well. I maintain that woen cau do .nything th.. : m Mr. Gazzam un, no, ua-"v" ,"7; , hn.it.Pss is one women cannot go intol bn! ""nflKnnsensel She'd make every bit as good an auctioneer as a man. ., i-.nlna an Mr Gazzam wen, jus wr. u Mrtinff no before a HE HAD NO HARD FEELINGS. iox iee that woman coming, Jack, dressed up in pink and gray? Well, that's a woman whom I loved In timet now passed awuy. I used to visit her each night and write her every day, And werdt ef burning, eager lova to her I'd wten eay. J'd tuku litr out to purtie ard to many a mat Would tend her every week or mo a costly big IXJlUJUl'l. Large turns out cf my mlary 1 cheerfully -1 - r-v For luiry ruf and such lik things to make cur ccurt.hip gay. Well, nfter till 1 U done for her, this eamo A'.thui'l l , r parents ettrn had suid to such a marriage r.ay, Packed r.p her ( I.!!.c. together nnd skipiHd i;iuy .ui uur .:ay And wedatd a yyuii; fellow down at Narra r. .i,-..tt Itiv Weil, p .oil! y, J.tck. hu's coining, and with her Vou fay tl. it ycr.'re ut-tonislutl that u word to her I i -ay . That 1 should coldly snub and scorn sui h a do Eut lirifi y:u ('('! 1 am tho man with whom eh'.- r i:! away. Charlie J. Co'iton m New York bun RCTECTIOM CF IRON COLUMNS. rtrirU 1m I'ovIIhikI CVnunt SucccHsf ally Wis 'istiiml I'ii'e. Sr.io t xeriv.ients wero recently mado by tiie buiblm;,' ins))(TtKin ilepartnu nt, Vieuu.i. on the rrottetiun of iron iruiu tire ty easing it with brick. A wrought iron column li fe't long and built of two ch.inuels connected by lattico bars w:is u-ed This was h t ni in a small chamber constructed nf brick, and tho column : loaded by levers. I hi done, it was .surrounded by a 4 '. inch brick wall laid in lire clay mortar. Tho wall did not tit closely around tho col umn, and advantago was taken of this to fix there haumles of fnsiblo metals, which should servo as a gaugo of tho tenmeraturu attained. Various samples of stone concrete and other materials wi re also placed in tho chamber within tho column, llnscliam ber was then tilled with split firewood, which was lighted, and tho doors im mediatelv walled up with slabs of plas tot of naris. After tho firo had broken out tho doors wero broken in and a stream of water turned into tho room f mm n. 1 4 horscnower firo engine. An examination of the room next showed that the walls of brick, laid in Portland cement, retained their strength, while most of tho material stouo left lu tno chain her had been dostroyed. The ceil ing had been lined partly with plaster of paris and partly with terra cotta tilos Ilnth wero damaccd. The inclo- snro around the iron pillars was still standing firm, though corners of the hrirkwork wero clipped one lucn or so. and tho firo clay mortar was largely washed out of tho joints. On removing thii casino, however, tho pillar was found to bo uninjured, even tho paint being unscorched, and tho fusibio plugs only showed a temperature of 14H cie grccs F. Lngineenng. Eating Id India, Colonel Pollock, who has had a half century experience in India, asserts thai now it is almost impoHsiblo to procure there a good curry. The sorts commer cially prepared and sold all over the world cive no idea of tho ceuuiue arti cle. To procure it in perfection is now only possible m Madras, where It is consider! d worthless unless it bo abso- lntelv fresh that is. mado from newly plucked coeounuts. The deterioration of curry is iu proportion to the lack of this essential duality. How far commercial preparations nf the powder aro inferior may be easily imagined, us they may remain for Tears on tho shelves 01 ileal- rrs Im foro use. Colonel Pollock speaks highly of the merits of Kast Indian cooks. Iu the training, however, they have acriuircd in the European cuisine they have lest the art nf concocting their own imtivedivdiis. lie makes one exetp- trn m.fl lint rrhiti l In vll:it lid C'llllS 11 Ucngal steak, mado of old cocks or j ducks, which lie di elans is better than the juiciest rump steak obtuiuaLlo in Einrland. In i cut 1 to Colonel Pollock's pic tore of the. epicurean delights of India wo have nne cf a correspondent who is now in that country and is recording his impressions. He says that for fond the traveler is in a bad way. cgta bles are sapless, and it is now consider ed unsafe to eat them on count of tho presence of the bubonic plague. Meat and i'riat prcdispo.s-o cholera, i isn is fnrhiili ii liv taste, and prudence. Milk and butter lire nioro than suspicious, ami soda and ordinary water aro filled with dangerous fcerms. Soda water is mado from local stagnant pools, llic only safo thing is whisky. rew loru bun. Dingbat. The Boston Journal gives various theories as to the meaning of the word "dingbats. " Ono writer who spent his boyhood in Maine thinks it means to crvmL- imf-anso his mother when getting ready to uso the slipper threatened to put tho "dingbats" on mm. rrom vu barham academy comes tho explanation that it means the brcakiast uiscuu, which the. students disposo of by stick ing it to tho under sido of tho tablo, it. nt tho heads of other stu- ,imits nr eatimr it. A Connecticut pupil states that to receive punishment at the hands of tho teacher is known as got Hm tho dincbats." Two Philadel- phians agreed that it means money, as iu tho sentence, "I'vo got tho dingbats for it." Rut Now Hampshire agrees xvith Maine that it means spanking, o.wi Bn t.Un nmioritv appears to sido with ts.at.nrnal slipncr. It is from such "little acorns" that tho tall treo of our almost cosmopolitan language has ... . .it l- 1M 4Ua grOWlU WO gOI OllZ-tiUll iium west, "kuklux"from tho soutn, boom fmm tho ambitious cities, "crank" from tho eccentric minds in every part of tho country, "pantata" from Italy, "chalitza" from Russia. Diugbats is goiug to bo a great convenience. Quiver. . A High Boiler. , .TknM two Beats next to you, "said the nher atthe crowded theater, "seem to uuoccupU Please let these gentle men ill down In them. Those seais, . - -.ebony. iw?. Please stand a little to one side. You SstwuctmeTiewof the stage. "-Chi-cago Tribune. a mflTerent Affair. i iii fix nn a little," and enamels. on the troit Free Pre- I'neumatlo Tires. Most people imagine that pneumatic tires aro novelties of recent invention, and yet thoy were actually used on Eng lish roads nearly 50 years ago. We read that "at tho Bath and west of England agricultural show, held at Guilford, a couple of carriage wheels were shown fitted with pneumatic tires. These wero mado by May & Jacobs for the Duke of Northumberland 47 years ago, but tho carriage proving too heavy for the horse they were disused. The tiros were con structed on almost exactly the same YM-icinlo ns those in uso on cycles toaay an inner air chamber, with a stronger nntor cover. When punctured, tney wero repaired by the same means as now adopted. " Hardware. An Incomplete Affair. "It is plain," said the justice, "that you stole the hog, ana 1 suau seua you n fnr 12 months. " "Jedge, kin you gimme 'bout one hour 'fo' I goes?' Whnt for?" "Well, suh, I wants ter go home en saltdat hog down!" Atlanta vonsiuu tion. Her Fortune, pfri Pisrco Yes. dear papa is very generous. On my birthday anniversary he always gives me a dollar for each vnni T linVA lived. Yulie Youngor Indeed? That must Vwen the money Charley Gayboy meant when he said yon had a fortune in your own right Buffalo uonner. A portrait of a man scratched on bone, tiT the shoulder blade of a sheep, ... onnri in 1857 in a Swiss lake 1TIW dwelling. TChAAt Is mentioned in the Scriptures as a well known grain and under wldn cultivation. Shocked the INmton Kar. Tho liorso came tearing madly down tho street. The coachman had jumped to savo his lifo and tho beautiful girl iusido tho coupo screamed for help. Suddenly tho man trom Uostou dart ed out in front of the wild eyed steed. It seemed suicidal, but upon the bravo fallow's face was a look of determina tion that would have been the glory of a knight of old. Bracing himself up for the shock, ne awaited tho opportunity that Provi dence seemed to have intended mm ior, and the people upon the sidewalks 6tood breathless. With a bound the frightened brute was unon him. He clutched the reins and swung himself out of tho way of the beating hoofs. Tho coupo swerved and was almost overturned, but righted itself, and in a moment the heroic deed was accomplished. The trembling steed stood still, tho fainting girl was lifted from her perilous position. "Where is he? Where is ner" sne cTieil. and her rescuer was pointed out Without waiting to bo introduced the beautiful creature flung herself upon his breast and cried: "Oh. sir. vou dono noble." A deathlv pallor overspread his face. He tore away from her, and as ho gal- lnned madlv from tho scene muttereu: Great heaveusl She's irom unicugoi Oh, that I had known it before I ruined f.n cent nnirof suspoudersl liut that i what comes of allowing oneself to bo swayed by impulse." Cleveland Leader. Wealth. Wealth is a blessing when properly nsoil. nnd tho mere factof any man pos sessing it can by no possibility bo held against him unless he came py u through dishonest or irauduiem means. One might ask with some show of rea Bim. w here would the hospitals, tho in firmaries, the charitable institutions, tho halls of learning and the thousand nnd nno trrcat interests of this country bo had they not been endowed and as sisted by peoplo of means, mere aro manv people in this country today who owe their education and training large ly to tho benevolence of thoso who gavo of their substauco to keep up tho schools and colleges. Tho American peoplo aro gutcd witn a fair average of good sense, and whilo they may for a timo joiu in tho outcry against tho capitalist, as such, tney can BTMireelv fail to conio back to their nor mal, rational level and look upon these nnthrnsikH ns sensational, injurious, un just and wholly uncalled for. New York Ledger. DEAR DISCIPLINE. Imprisoned In an absence drear lly Jailer Time ' For unknown crime, Resigned, I nigh in narrow sphere. But lauRhing Love, who lock diadaina, To me bringH in For diwiplino A jm!8t,o which my aoul enchains. Kow sweet is my captivity When Holitudo Im h thus iiu-ludo The one who t most dear to me. Bo Pyrumu. a 1 have heard, Ili-i Thislxi dear, bo far, though near, Could woo. thu;:li n.-ither upoko a word. Kato 1'iVld'a Washington. SAD LIFE OF A BEAUTY. The Countem of ludley a Devoted Wife to u ItepuUive Husband. Georgiua. countess of Dudley, enjoys tho well deserved reputation of being not only ono of tho inu.s.t beautiful ma trons in London society, but also ono of the kindest and must warm hearted of tho great ladies of May fair. Shu is a do voted mother and deserves a great nmnnnt of credit for tho manner in which shu has brought up her children and for tho devoted care and loyalty which she manifested to her eccentric husband. Until his death her existence was little better than a martyrdom, which Khe, herewith tho most exemplary patience and furtitudo. Tho lato earl w;lh manv vears her senior ami me 10 verso of handsomo, in addition to which ho in manv matters was entirely insane, having inherited his madness from his father. All this would havo caused manv a mother to hesitato before even permitting her daughter to wed sucn a but Lad v Dudley's mother, Lady Louisa MoncrietTo, dazzled by tho earl s incnmnnf over fcy. 000. 000 a year, forced hor lovely daughter to bind herself to him. . Tim contrast between the beautiful woman and the almost repulsive look inr husband who was her constant com- nrmirm was SO startling that it drew forth the hackneyed exclamation of hp.intr nnd the beast" wherever tney went. Had Lord Dudley been less wealthy he would inevitably have been crmnno.fl in a madhouse, but even our ing the closing years of bis life Lady Dnd lev never permitted him to be con h trier (4(1 as insane, although he Beldom experienced lucid moments. Lady Dud- levwax the second wire or me iaio wan nnd has seven children, six bohs and one daughter. Philadelphia Press. lleclproclty. William Abraham, a Welsh member of the English parliament, who former ivwnrlpd iii the pits and now is a Had ical miners' representative, was one vi th chief sine-era in an eisteddfod sev eral years ago when the guest of honor was Adeliua Patti. At the ciose oi mo mrfrminiice. with which she was much pleased, she requested that Abraham m oht m mtrrwineeti to ncr. iuiurunv quite proud of tho honor, the musical miner nnd M. P. presented himself. "Mr. Abraham," said tno iaay, you sing very woll. "And, madam," replied Abranam, with a bow, "so do you." london in Bits. II ad to Admit It. "Dn vou mean to tell this jury,' roared the lawyer, "that you never spoke to the accused and yet icnow mm tr li nn actor?' That' what, for he wore a fur trimmed overcoat, low shoes and white mttnn sne Ira. Wfl ndmit. vonr honor, that the pris oner at the bar is a tragedian." De troit Free Press. The most extensive wine cellar in the world is owned by the Roumanian gov ernment A railway tunnel 2,600 feet iwi between Galtaz and Barbosh could not bo used for railroad purposes because of inferior construe tion. its cosi was nearly 4,000,000 francs. It was leased to a wine dealer, who has turned it Into an immense wine cellar. The 5,000 horsepower pumping en gine in the mines at Friendsville, Pa., raises 17,500 gallons of water at each revolution ot the gigantio flywheel. ' A Touch Manxman. I'm a Manxman, and I have inherited a ruggod constitution. 1 seldom wear gloves even in your winters, and much th time I co without an overcoat. For many years I followed the sea, and I Imrl one adventure that few would havo lived to tell of. It was a midnight of December when I was ordered aloft tn ctnw the main roval. and before I knew what I was about I fell from the vanlnrm into the sea. No oue on deck had noticed my fall, and apparently no one had heard my cry, for the ship kept rifrht. on. There I was. with heavy boots and a heavy coat, alone amid the waves of tho Atlantic. You may not oeat e me but I did not feel greatly alarmed 1 managed to get out of my boots a.d coat, oud then I began to swim to Koep float. Somehow I felt that I Bhould be saved. We had passed a ves sel about sunset, and 1 thought sne a and pick mo up. I had been a good swimmer all my life, and I kept afloat till daybreak, when mat oidji VASUP 1 did come along and fish me out, four hours after I fell in. We got into Nw York three days after my ship ar rived nnd -vheri I came aboard, as she lay at her wharf, my mates took me for a ghost Now York bun. Truthful. HAnerftl Grant was." Bays General Porter in McClure'8 Magazine, "without exception the most absolutely truthful man I ever encountered in pub lic or private life. He was not only truthful himself, but lie nad a norror ui untruth In others. " An anecdote illus- tr.ttr-a this trait. Ono dav while sitting in his bedroom in tho Whito House, where he nan re tired to writo a mossago to congress, a card was brought in by a servant. An officer on duty at the time, 6eeing that tho president did not want to be disturbed, rcmarkod to mo scrvum, Kar tho nresideut is not In. (General Grant overheard the remark, turned around suddenly in his chair anil cried out to tin ant: "Tell him no sue.i ...ing! I don't lie myself, and I don't want any ono to lie for mo 1" A Scrap of Taper. Not long ago, says a writer in Tho Realm. I was walking in the garden at Ilawardon with Mr. Gladstone. "What would you do with that?" he said sud denly, pointing to a bit of newspaper lying on the lawn. "I think I'd pick it up and take it away, " I answered, aston ished. "Ah! Well, this is what 1 dc with it," said Mr. Gladstone. There upon he placed the point of his walking stick on the middle of the scrap or pa per, twisted tho stick round and round, and with much dexterity left tho bit of paper in the soil and out of sight. "The Duke of Buccleugh taught mo to do that," he said as we resumod out walk. "It is good for the ground." The Greece of Today. To understand the phenomenal rise of Greece, we must bear in mind that, though the Greeks had been miserably downtiodden by the Turks for 400 years; tho liest hope of the ieople, borne by an unholy tribute far away from their mothers' homes and trained into the tools of an inhuman tyranny, and though, had it not been for the "unto ward event" at Navarino, tho whole population of the Morea would havo been exterminated beneath the merciless tramp of Turkish hoofs, there, never theless, lived behind the outward show of slavish debasement a heart of sturdy independence that cherished the patriot ic memories of ages and seized eagerly on every chance that might enable it to stand before tho world in the attitude nnd character that had given it tho most prominent place iu tho history of the human race. The two years' strujrglo that gavo to Greece the right to lock Europe in tho face, as n noblo people determined to die. rathr than live the slaves of a hateful tyranny, at the same timo gavo to Eurnpo the assurance that t.irccco was living Greece again, and Christian conscience tuid classic memories com bined, when once the yoke was broken, to ( liable the Greeks to snow to tlio world that, in spite of the bombshells cf Vtuiee and the sabers nf Turkey, not only fchould a Gmk mother bear sons to grew up free from tho rapine oi luik ivh hands, but desolate Athens should rise to her old position, and, along with Edinburgh, Glasgow nnd Aber deen, nsseit its place among lanious Eu ropean cities that combine commercial enterprise with cultivated intelligence. It was this noble patriotic pride that, m tho short space of half a century, turned the little ruined villago into a an impos ing city. Professor John Stuart Ulacme in 1 rum. A Trick of Actors, Must people know that the memory may bo easily confused by learning a passage in two or threo different ways, or by having once heard an incorrect f om of giving it. W orkmg on tins prin ciple, actors are fond of putting Etum- bling blocks in ono another's way. a stock joke, dear to tho hearts oi an players, is tho regular thing to be in flicted upon a beginner in tho first act of "Richard IIL" It is in the scene where tho coffin of Henry VI is borne across tho stage. Ono or the men wno carry it has been raised from tho posi tion of supernumerary to his first speak ing part, which consists oi a singio uuv. Before the performance, it is usual for some older actor to tnko him aside and impress him with tho enormous diffi culties of oelivering that sentence cor rectly. The victim listens nervously. "Now, most actors," says his tor mentor gravely, "make this mistake the first timo they play tho part : In stead of saying, as it is, 'wy ioru, stand back, and let tho coffin pass, tney give it this way, 'My lord, stand back. and let tho parson cough. And after ho has heard tho latter ver sion, absurd though it is, tho chances are that the poor supernumerary win give that to tho audienco on tho first night New York Tribune. Sheridan and Waterloo. an American gentleman recently went over the field of Waterloo with a guide who boasted that he escorted General Sheridan over the scone of Na poleon's great defeat. "What did Gen eral Sheridan say?" asked my friend. "Oh, nothing." "Ho must have said something." "Well, he only sahV lt vas a good place for a fight' " In Zante, one of the Ionian isles, there Is a petroleum spring that is mentioned by Herodotus. It has been known for nearly 3.000 years.. Fort Wayne was named after General Anthony Wayne. The Czar's iold IMate. For tho bunouet that took placo im- mediatelv after tho coronation of the czar no less than 320,000 pounds weight of tho finest crystal, gold and silver plate was used, 00,000 pounds of this being composed of the precious metals. Tho most famous services of plato aro the Orloff and the Loudon service, me last including, among other things, copies of four equestrian statues on the Anichkoff bridgo iu St. Petersburg, four others representing hunting scenes and ono St. George and the dragon, a writer in London Society says that among the crystals there were somo wondcrmi vases, with bunches of grapes cut in re lief. Tho Orloff service consists of 16 vases, richly decorated, and DO largo sil ver centerpieces for tho table, of ex quisite workmanship. A third service, known as tho Parisian golden service, bought in 1807, consists of tureens, dishes and centerpieces. The Telephone Worked. Accordim? to a Kentucky paper, when tho telephone was first introduced in th.nr. utnto nn old farmer who did not exactly understand tho working of tho invention bought a new pair oi ikkhs for his sou, who lived down in Texas. Ho hung the footwear ucross the wire at sundown one evening, uuring inn night some one took the boots and placed a pair of old ones across the wire, picxi, morning tho old gentleman went out and, to his delight, ho saw tho old boots. Ho hastened into the house, ex claiming to his wife: "Say, Sal, this here tellerphone is tho In st thing yet John got his boots last night, and i m blasted if ho didn't send tho old una home!" . A Checkered Career. Tn th recent sweep of the Bois de rtnnWno for disreputable characters a tramp with a strange history was taken. He had been a sailor and master of a sailing vessel, had undertaken to ex nir.ro Abvnsinin nnd had ended by be coming chief cook to King Menelek. He grew homesick, however, mauo ms ea cape, and on reaching Franco had been unable to find work. Why ne Trareled. First Englishman Going to Ameri ca to get a wife? Second Englishman Aw, yaas. Are you? "Naw, I'm going, dontcherknow, to get away from one, ' 'New York Times. , Western Australia's supply of Jarrah and karri, the hard woods used for street pavemonts, is practically inexhaustible, The Jarrah (Eucalyptus tuarginati) cov ers 14,000 square miles of the country and the karri (E. divcrsicolor) 2,000 square miles more. According to a musical journal, there are in London at this moment 244,000 femaloi who are learning music.