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CABLYLE AS A TUTOR AN AMUSING ANECDOTE OF THE GREAT AND GLOOMY MAN. lie Had a Frown That Terrified and a Laugh That Startled His Pupils. The Day the Donkey Came to School Ag-niu.st His Will. A writer in The Scotsman has un earthed an amusing anecdote of Thomas Carlyle as a country "dominie," for the accuracy of which he vouches. It was told in 1853 by a Cupar Fife law yer and provost who had been one of Carlyle's pupils at Kirkcaldy, to the writer and Hugb Miller. The interest of this gentleman's reminiscences of his schoolmaster was heightened by his utter unconsciousness that his old do minie was the Thomas Carlyle who was then beginning to be known to fame. The old gentleman described the older race of Scottish schoolmasters as always during school hours wearing their hats —at least keeping their heads covered— and many of the boys, viewing the pe culiar angle at which the hat stood up on the head and how near it came to the eyebrows, could conjecture if the eav t\£5 mood were to be that day predomi nant. "But my teacher," 6aid the provost, a strict and gloomy disciplinarian with the name of Carlyle, never wore his hat in the school, and indeed his brow was so overhung with dark threat ening that no extra expression to alarm us was needed from his lum hat! He did not thrash us either very often or very severely, but we had a fear that, if provoked, he would go great lengths in punishment. I have seen his mere scowl hush at once the whole school." Hugh Miller here interposed by ask ing, "Did your teacher ever burst into a strange laugh in school?" "That is a very odd question," re turned the provost. "Why do you ask? But now that I remember, he had at times a verv extraordinary laugh that made us all stare. Ifc had a train of queer chuckling which exploded in a succession of loud and deep guffaws that shook his whole body and displayed all his teeth like the keys of a piano. He then clapped bis hands on the book he hehl niust his knees. Yet none of us ne\^ new at what he was laughing. He bud a grim smile in reproving pupils and a habit of tapping their heads with his knuckles as he told them that the heads would never be worth the price of hats or the charge of a barber, though mammas and aunts had that morning combed, kissed and blessed them, as if they were teeming with the sublimest inventions and designs!" The provost saw that Hugh Miller and some other guests were listening eagerly, and be proceeded: "One morning, a few minutes before the school hour, when most of the pu pils had arrived, and, as rain was fall ing, they had gone into the school, a donkey, which had broken loose from its tether on a grassy spot near, was en tering the playground. Bill Hood and I were so far on our way, and Bill, who was a stout and frolicsome lad—the ringleader iu many sports and tricks— rushed to mount the animal and began to guide and force it into the school. "Wit desperate spurring the donkey was induced to carry its rider over the threshhold, and what a reception both of them got from the juvenile crowds! Bags of books were at once fastened to the tail and around the neck of the ass, and so busy wera Bill and half a dozen companions iu urging the animal to a canter around the school and to ascend the short stair of the master's desk that they did not notice how time was speed iug, and before they could remove the manger Mr. Cailyle appeared. "VVc expected a tremendous explosion of wrath, but he burst into a roar of laughter—such a roar, however, as, in stead of tempting us to join in it, pro duced a sudden and complete hush, and that roar was renewed again and again when the ass, withdrawing its forefeet from the first step of the desk stair and turning round, took a pace or two slow ly toward the master as if to salute him. 'That,' exclaimed Carlyle, Ms the wisest and best scholar Kirkcaldy has yet sent me. He is fit to be your teach FI He tapped the donkey's head as he wa- wont to do ours aud said, 'There's fconieilnng here far more than in the skrils cf anv of bis brethren before me, though these skulls are patted in fond admiration by papas and mammas, and though that iar grander headpiece meets on'y with merciless blows.' "li then gave some hard taps on Bill Hood's head, and would not allow him to diiMiionnt, but for a pGualty or dered him to ride up and down the fcchcel fcr an hour, while those boys ho had eu nuist active iu helping lb!i to go through the farce had to pjnieh in pairs btfcie and behind the jciT !es(.d udkui^ asr. Ho did not re CjCirP the other scholars to attend to fi.ir se\en.l school le.-^ons, but silently jp mittpd them to fraud as spectators if the grotesque procession. Then he inn it. If, rcatcd within his pulpitlike di ck. PUI vt-yal Bill and his company. '•I have IK ior years thought of this fcene,'' continued the provost, "bu it has now come back to me freshly, and I remember that my old master had a \ery strange laugh I don't know what has become cf him. nor indeed have I heaid of him since I left Kirkcaidy sehool." No Open Dates. "Yonhavo aa elegant and spacious home," said the pastor. "Yo have books, a piano, a daughter who can sing aud play and everything to make home alluring.' Why don't you throw your bouse opeu some evening ia the weak for the benefit of the homeless young men? You might save many a cue from tbe club and the saloon." "Youn^ men?" said the wealthy member. '"There's ou8 of them who ruines to my house six evenings in tbe ueolr. What are you talking abont, a^inr?"—Chicago Tribune. MOONLIGHT IN MUSICr Story of How Beethoven Created His Wonderful Sonata. Beethoven's famous composition, the "Moonlight Sonata," is said to have been composed under the following cir cumstances: One evening, as Beethoven and a friend were hurrying through the streets of Bonn, they heard the familiar notes of the "Sonata In P. Something in the musician'8 touch attracted the attention of Beethoven, and he stopped and listened.' Suddenly the music stop ped, and the despairing words of the musician came to them through the open window, "Oh, if I could but bear some really good musician play this wonderful piece!" and the words ended in a sob. "Let us go in, said Beethoven. They entered and found the player a young girl, poor and blind. Beethoven sat down at the old harpsichord and played as he had never played before. His listeners were spellbound. "Tell us," they begged, "who are you?" For answer he played the opening bars in the "Sonata In F. "I is Beethoven I" they exclaimed in awe and admiration. Suddenly the candle flickered and went out. Beethoven ceased playing and bowed his head upon his hand. His friend threw open the shutters. A flood of beautiful moonlight entered the room. Its transfiguring light touched up the poor old instrument and rested upon the noble figure bowed before it, The profound silence was broken at last by the musician, who said: "Listen! I will improvise a sonata to the moon light." Then was created this wonder ful sonata, beginning in a sad, tender movement, the embodiment in sound of the gentle moonlight transfiguring and glorifying the dark earth. Suddenly the music ceased, and with a brief farewell Beethoven hurried home to put upon paper this famous composition.—Philadelphia Saturday Post A REALISTIC ACT. An Amusing: Story of Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle. While lie was playing Rip Van Winkle at Chicago Jefferson once went to the theater'very much exhaust ed by a long day's fishing on the lake. As the curtain rose on the third act it disclosed the white haired Rip still deep in his 20 years' nap. Five, 10, 20 min utes passed and he did not awaken. The audience began to get impatient aud the prompter uneasy. The great actor doubtless knew what he was about, but this was carrying the realistic business too far. The fact was that all this time Jefferson was really sleeping the sleep of the just, or rather of the fisherman who had sat eight hours in the sun. Finally the gallery became uproarious, and one of the "gods" wanted to know if there was going to be "1 9 years more of this snooze business!" At this point Jefferson began to snore. This decided the prompter, who opened a small trap beneath the stage and began to prod Rip from below. The fagged comedian fumbled in his pocket for an imaginary railway ticket and muttered drowsily, "Going right through, 'ductor." At this entirely new reading the au dience was transfixed with amazement, when all at once Jefferson sat up with a loud shriek, evidently in agony. The exasperated prompter had "jabbed" him with a pin. Consciousness of the situation came to him and the play went on after that with a rush.—Phila delphia Post. A Binding Chinese Oath. We are accustomed to all manner of swearing—that is, of course, legal oatb taking—in tbis country, but we do not rrccliect benring of so queer a medium of attestation as a "guillotined black .cockatoo." That is wbat tbo police of a country district iu New South Wales had to provide the other day for a fin icking Chinaman, who obstinately de clined to swear ou anything else. Head* lt?s fowls were brought, but in vain. Even a black swan, a luxury surely for a Chinese witness, was declined. After many days a dead cockatoo of the required huo was discovered iu a hut of one of the other "heathen," as thev call the Celestials, who mulcted the officials 10 shillings for a fast decom posing bird. Then the solemn and pe culiar oath was duly administered, when the difficult witness blandly declared that he knew nothing about the oase and sat down smiling.—London Chron icle Revised Geograplij-. A eorresiJCiH1Gnt reports an occurrence which took placo at a night school."-" "Williams,/' asked the instructor, "which is the largest island in the world?" "It's either Atia or Africa,"' replied the young man to whom the question wrs uddressfd. I am tpcaking of islands, Williams. [ThcsG are continents."' I think not, fcir," drawled Wil liams. Wb:n the Suez canal was cut, it mado islands of both of 'em, sir. Ccme to think of it, sir, the largest is Asm and Europe. It's ail one piece of ground."—Youih's Companion. Ills First Client. In an address delivered at Hartford the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale told ths story of James Russell Lowell's first client as Lowell had told it to hijpr Lowell had hardly opened his law office when a stranger appeared. The young lawyer deferentially offered hirn a chair, took out his notebook, talked of the weather, and when he finally came to business found the stranger was a hill collector. W at will be the cost of the war?" esked Queen Augusta when French and Germans grew belligerent. "Only, a l^apoleon," replied Bismarck. A fine ostrich is calculated to yield ROMAN WEALTH AND WASTE Pearls.DiBBolved In "Wine and a Re lay of Dinners Fo Mark Antony. "jE, H. House, writing on "Bripht Sides of History" in St. Nicholas, tells this story of ancient extravagance: "The pearl which Cleopatra drank to Antony's health was valued at nearly $400,000, so at one mouthful she dis posed of as much as the cost of Cali gula's supper. I suppose that was the most valuable pearl we have any knowl edge of. Though JuliusN Cseear owned one worth $250,000, which he gave to the mother of Brutus—the same Brutus who afterward helped to kill Caesar. Pearls seem to have held out particu lar temptations to people who took pleasure in wasteful follies, perhaps be cause no other jewel could be so easily swallowed. "Cleopatra's prank was not the first of its kind. The same absurdity had been committed by a silly fellow in Rome named iEsop—not your favorite fable teller, for he lived centuries earlier, and was a very wise man. The Roman iEsop was the son of a rich aot or, and, just to make himself talked about, he took a pearl from the eardrop of Caecilia, the wife of the tyrant Sylla, and, according to writers of that age, drank it in vinegar, I believe that the possibility of dissolving this kind of gem is disputed by many modern au thorities, but the ancients appear to have had no doubt on the subject, for the instances recorded by them were numerous and were attested by men of scientific standing. A Japanese natural ist, who has studied pearls minutely, states that he has found them of such various quality and structure that the existence of specimens which might be melted does net seem to him inconceiv able. But whether JEsop liquefied his pearl or not the performance certainly cost him a sum equivalent to $40,000— quite enough, though nothing in com parison with what Cleopatra squander ed. Hers was the wildest piece of ex travagance that I can recall. "It was the fashion to be extravagant then. Mary Antony was not far behind the Egpytian queen in that respect, though his fancy was not for beverages flavored by trinkets. Substantial food was more in his line. A visitor who once went into the kitchen of his palace iu Alexandria saw eight wild boars roasting at the same time and thought there must be an immense number of guests expected, but the cook told him only 12 persons would dine that day, and the reason of the extensive prepara tions was that no one could say exactly when Antony would go to the table. But whenever he gave the signal the meat must be just in proper condition at that moment. So it was the rule to get ready a series of dinners, overlap ping one another, you might say, at in tervals of 15 or 20 minutes. Only one could be eaten, and the rest were wasted, but the waste did not matter. Antony was ~Mever kept waiting, and that, in his opinion, was the thing to be eoneid ered." MY LADY NICOTINE. Tbe Alleged Effects of Tobacco and Its Enormous Consumption. Probably no pleasure of life has bad its praises eo mnch sting as smoking. Here is the other side. Doctors say tobacco used in excess produces: Palpitation of the heart, muscular tremblings, weakness and paralysis of the legs, dizziness of the head, noises in the ears, cold perspiration all over the body, colicky pains in the stomach, inability to exert the mind, congested aud sore throat, burning of the tongne, dry and parched m'outh, tartar and blackness of tbe teeth, confusion of sight, catarrh of the stomach, catarrh of the throat and nose, sallow complex ion, very Lad dyspepsia, lopsided mouth, nervous anxiety, cancer of the lips, diminished appetite, pale and anaemic gums, loss of memory, omis sion of every fifth pulse beat, ruin of the will power, irritability of temper, extreme and incurable melancholy, rest lessness and sleeplessness, blindness and deafness, apoplexy and paralysis, con vulsions and death. In the case of children it stunts their growth, when a person is consumptive it hastens his death, when the heart is weak it almost completely stops the beating, when you have a cough tobac co keeps it going for weeks, and. it in terferes with singing and swallowing. Yet about 1,500,000,000 pounds of it are smoked every year.—New York World. "Worthy of "Whistler. As an iu"list Jack Gamble is consider ed as independent as ho is successful. Ho possesse" an unlimited quantity of candor, upon the expiession of which he places uo restraint. He is much liked notwithstanding, and was not long ago offeied a commission to paint the portrait cf a certain wealthy man, whose features are more remarkable for their bloom than for their refinement. Jack critically scanned the broad fea tures of hjs proposed subject. "Upon oue condition will I paint you," he declared'dramatically. What!" gasped the amazed Croesus, tpaechless at the eflrontery of this pov erty stricken artist. "Yes, pursued Gamble, with easy grace.- "Upon condition that I shall Le al owed to put in a little intelligence.''* And the funny part of it was that Jack got the commission.—San, Fran cisco News Letter. Taekfng, I What do they mean by 'tacking?' asked a young woman on her first sail of a young woman who was on her sec ond. W said the wise one in a care ful .whisper, "tacking is jnst—just sail ing on the bias, Helen."—Exchange,f^S ',^'rml Risrht ou the Head. Trainer—Hit him like a a .,_ Pugilist—Like a nail? Trainee—Yes on jthe bea Herald. JCb Smith Merit* Most Durable 'Cypc writer Made, Premier Buyers do Kot experiment* Writ for J^ew Catalogue free. 4 A 1 1 IVEx-cs- Protect Yourselves ?"There —Syracuse Pfcmfer5 Cypewriter—1^ fiae HU the Latest Improvements* Popular Because of ."Tmprovement the Order of the Zbc Smith premier typewriter Co* Syracuse, J*. 'Y., 0 8 3 ST, PAUL BRANCH OFFICE, NO. 13f E 6TH ST. 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