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10 MANY BIRDS JABBER HUMAN-'UNGUAGE Ordinary Parrot Often Excelled by Tropical Winged Creatures That Imitate Woman. As one of the judges at the Express parrot competition I had an opportunity of noting, not by any means for the first time, the extraordinary public interest In talking birds, and ateo the capriciousness of the familiar gray parrots, which, al though known to be the best talkers, re quire patience in those who want to hear them speak in company. Other parrots of less repute are often less shy, and some times speak as well, though undoubtedly intellectual ability is far more general among the gray birds. I remember, some ten years ago, seeing at a bird show at Oxford a specimen of the common green ring-necked parrakeet of India which con tinually talked during the exhibition. Its voice was high and thin; but its re quest: "Waiter, bring Polly pint of beer, quick! quick, quick!" was unmistakable in its clearness. This bird was a hen, and sex often seems to influence the talking capacity of a parrot. A hen red-and-yel low macaw in the Calcutta zoological gardens, which had been received by ex change from the I^ondon Zoo. used to say "Come on. Cocky!" with absolute perfec tion of intonation, while her mate never said a word. In India I also heard of a specimen of the native green parrakeet which must have been an extraordinary talker. Its owner—a soldier —said that the bird (which, by the way, he did not want to sell) spoke English, Hindustani and Japanese, and picked up fresh expres sions so readily that he was afraid to swear at the servants before it. The Indian parakeets were those first known to the ancients, and the bird which belonged to Corinna. the beloved of Ovid, has been immortalized by the poet. It was. he said, more brilliant green than emeralds, with saffron bill, and its last words were "Corinna, farewell!" Diplomatic Parrot. Another Roman parrot was. like our fiscal friends, educated in politics, and is made to remark: "For other names your teachings may avail, I taught myself to utter "Caesar, hail!' " It is a far cry. indeed, from ancient Rome to modern New Zealand, but from the latter country comes an anecdote of a political bird whose utterances were very much to the point. This was not a par rot, but a tui or parson bird. The tui is a large honeysucker about as big as a missel-thrush, with ' lovely bronze-black plumage, pet off by a pair of white neck tufts, recalling a parson's bands. It is a clever mocker and learns to speak. This particular bird belonged to an old chief, Nepia Taratoa, whom, together with many other natives. Sir Walter But ler was once addressing on some matter of grave political import. The naturalist politician, who tells the story against him self, had only just finished his speech when, before his master could reply, the tui called out from his cage overhead: "Tito" (false!) with unmistakable empha sis. It was too much for the audience, and Nepia Taratoa himself, overcome with the rest, laughingly remarked that Sir Walter's arguments were sound enough, but that the bird was clever, and still un convinced! The parson bird is a convincing proof of the fact that birds do not talk with their tongues, for, being a honeysucker, the tui has a long, extensible tongue, with a fringed tip, as unlike the human tongue as possible. As a matter of fact, a bird's voice is formed in the syrinx, which is quite low down in the windpipe, and, therefore, cannot have anything at all to do with its tongue in any case. Of other talking birds not of the parrot family the most celebrated is the Indian hill mynah, a large, thick-set starling, glossy black, with orange bill. In India, its native home. It is often kept as a pet. and when It talks really well is a perfect wonder to listen to. A Total Abstainer. The best I ever heard—in fact, the best talking bird of any kind I have met —be- longed to a friend in Calcutta, and spoke in an absolutely human way. with a deep throaty voice. He required some coaxing before he would display his talents, and the method employed was to get a native servant—a very good fellow, but of some what bibulous tastes—to talk to him. So this worthy would squat down, and re- Peat —for he spoke English well—the mynah's own phrases to the bird. But the mynah would not say. "Who are you?" "I'm off to London." or any other of his set phrases; instead, he would, after a while, come out with "Not a drop to save my soul!" which sentence, when once started, he would continue to repeat at in tervals with painful distinctness and ap parent satisfaction. The owner of this bird once had another which spoke equally well—but far less re spectable. He had bought it as a talker, but in ignorance of the extent of its knowledge or the depth of its corruption, and when a lady came in to buy a talk ing mynah it was brought out for her ob servation. If I were to .repeat what that wicked mynah said it would surprise the British matron. The mynah found a home, for the next person who wanted one—who happened to be a legal practitioner—no sooner heard the bird's somewhat unduly racy vocab ulary than he exclaimed, "That's the bird for me!" and carried it off in triumph. Saiutes a Guest. The house mynah of India, which is a neat brown bird with yellow legs and hab its much like our own starling, is not so often heard of as a talker, but I knew one very good one in Calcutta, which was par ticularly free and friendly i n conversation. As soon a.s one went to the cage it would comm<nce to bow in regular starling fash ion and to say "Mynah, mynah, pretty mynah! Call the dog! Jack, Jack, Jack!" all very much in one breath, and in a de cidedly high key. Indeed, of all talking birds this half domestic creature is about the best for a pet; it is very easy to keep, cannot bite like a parrot and gets bo tame that it can be allowed to go about the house, and even outside, with undipped wings Another good talker, which can be al lowed liberty with less risk than this my nah, owing to its greater size and strength, is the piping crow, the "magpie" of Australia, which is always on view at the crows' cages at the Zoo. This hand some pied bird has a beautiful whistle as his natural note, and in captivity he learns to pipe tunes and to speak with great readiness, and is very ready to show off his accomplishments in either direc tion. Danserous Handshake. The French journals have recently given publicity to a scientific discovery which may have a considerable influence upon pne of the most ordinary usages of social intercourse. One M. Crouzel, a chemist at Bordeaux, has discovered that the human hand is largely occupied in sowing the Reeds of all sorts of diseases. The hand he .says, is not only the most dirty but the most dangerous portion of our anat mS?^ I},,? on\ a.lns on the average 83.450, --000 bacilli. Hence, he argues, people should never shake hands. We know al ready that it is dangerous to kiss; but row. as a French paper puts it, science is no less hostile to friendship than to love All men, however, are not equal in this matter. You must not shake hands with a physician, surgeon, hairdresser or butch er—especially a pork butcher. Workers In metal are, however, much less danger ous, because the minute metallic particles form, under the influence of the hands warmth, an antiseptic oxide. It is pos sible M. Crouzel says, to protect your self, if you must shake hands, by using soap and a nail brush for five minutes plunging your hand in a warm alkaline solution, rinsing it with sterilized water drying it on a sterilized rough towel, and finally washing it again in a solution of alcohol and ether. We commend this pre caution to public men in general, and to the president of the United States in par ticular.—London Graphic. Chew Saved the Ship. A sea captain who has just feturned from a Southern voyage tells me with great pride of the bravery displayed by his wife, who accompanied him. which on one occasion was instrumental, to say the least, in saving the ship. A gale had struck them off Cape Hatteras so fierce that it was feared the vessel would not live through It, and all hands expected to go down any moment. The captain was fct the helm, nervous, excited, trying to fceep the ship from being swamped. But whi!e the other women aboard were pray ing and weeping in the cabin, the captain's wife, noticing that her husband had left his favorite plug of navy below, cut off a large chew, crawled, at the- risk of being swept overboard, up and across the deck and handed it to him, who immediately tucked it into the left corner of his mouth, spat twice, became calm when he was at the point of losing his head, and the gale was weathered.—Boston Record. BIG FORTUNE FOR AN IDEA. Cash for Inventor of Scheme for Rais ing Sunken Timber. "If some scheme could be devised," said George W. Noble, of Stillwater, at the Plankinton, "by which the sunken logs which fill the beds of rivers ana creeks in the logging sections of this country could only be recovered, im mense fortunes would be made. Along the St. Croix waters it is estimated that logs enough are embedded In the sand of river bottoms to keep mills running for years. Under present conditions the loss is total, for no successful method has ever been devised to ef fect this saving. "Occasionally logs cut years ago are forced by the washings of the floods from their sand beds and driven upon the shores, where the action of sun and wind dries them out sufficiently so that they will float down stream, but the percentage of logs recovered is small, and millions of dollars' worth of property is lost beyond recovery until some enterprising genius invents a ma chine or process to recover the tim ber. "At Stillwater logs occasionally come to the sorting booms bearing marks in use half a century ago, and when they appear the old lumbermen grow reminiscent of the men who have been long forgotten, but who were impor tant operators in the pioneer logging days of Wisconsin and Minesota. "No possible estimate can be made of the amount of timber thus lost, but lumbermen estimate that the river? of Wisconsin, in the value of logs bur ied in their sands, have fortunes of millions of dollars if the logs could be recovered. Of the billions of feet of logs floated down your principal streams year after year a percentage is lost annually, finding graves in the sand. Wisconsin has ben one of the big pine states, and your Chippewa, Wisconsin, St. Crolx and Menominee rivers and their tributaries contain for tunes in sunken timber. "Strange as it may appear, the value of the timber is not lessened, even after it has been submerged for half or quarter of a century. Efforts have been occasionally made to recover sunken logs. At one time a company was organized at Stillwater to dredge streams and thus recover some of the timber, but the plan did not work with any great degree of success, this method being found too expensive. Someone will come along some day PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, NOTICE FOR SALE — TYPE, JOB AND NEWS cases, stands, fancy brass dashes and brass leads. CHAMPION SERIES. 16-A, 18-a font of 24-point; 11-A, 15-a, 36-point; 10-A, 14-a. 48-point. DUERER SERIES. 32-A and 64-a 12-point; 22-A and 48-a 18-point; 22-A and 44-a 24-point; 10-A and 21-a 36-point; 9-A and 17-a 48 --poi- 8-A and 16-a 60-point; 8-a and 14-a 72-point. BEAUTIFUL ERA SERIES. 28-A and 40-a 12-point; 12-A and 26-a 18-point; 15-A and 18-a 24-point; 10-A and 12-a 36-point; 8-A and 11-a 48 --point; 6-A and 9-a 60-point. ORBIT SERIES. 24-A and 60-a 12-point; 16-A and 32-a 18-point; 14-A.and 20-a 24-point; 10-A and 18-a 30-polnt; 10-A and 14-a 36 --point; 8-A and 12-a 48-point. CLIFTON SERIES. 18-A and 42-a 18-point; 12-A and 20-a 24-point; 10-A and 15-a 36-point; 8-A and 12-a 48-point; 8-A and 10-a 60 --point. VINCENT SERIES. 42-A and 68-a 12-point; 24-A and 4S-a 18-point; 18-A and 28-a 24-point; 10-A and 18-a 36-point; 10-A and 15-a 48 --point. LA SALLE SERIES. 24-A and 48-a 12-point; 16-A and 82-a 18-point; 9-A and 12 a 24-point; 12-A and 16-a 30-point; 9 A and 12-a 36 --point; 7-A and 12-a 48-polnt. Quads and spaces from 12 to 72-point. ALSO—IOO job and news cases. 3 double wooden stands, 2 single wooden stands. 200 fancy brass dashes and 50 lbs. 8 and 10 to pica 13-em brass leads. All type good ac new. Not one bad let ter in either of the faces named. Will accept any reasonable offer for all or any portion. Address The Globe Co., St. Paul. CONTRACT WORK. Paving Rosabel Street, From Sixth to Eighth Street, With Asphalt. Office of the Board of Public Works. City of St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 18, 1904. Sealed bids will be received by the Board of Public Works in and for the corporation of the City of St. Paul, Min nesota, at their office In said city, until 2 p. m., on the 29th day of February, A D 1904, for the paving of Rosabel street with asphalt, from southeasterly line of Sixth (Gth) street to the southeasterly line of Eighth (Sth) street, in said city, ac cording to plans and specifications on file in the office of said Board. A bond with at least two (2) sureties in a sum of at least twenty (20) per cent or a certified check on a bank of St. Paul, in a sum of at least ten (10) per cent of the gross amour t bid, must accompany each bid. Said check shall be made pay able to the Clerk of said Board. The said Board reserves the right to re ject any and all bids. JOHN S. GRODE, President. Official: R. L. GORMAN. Clerk Board of Public Works. -• Feb 16-1904-lOt CONTRACT WORK. Sewer on South Robert Street, From Dearborn to Morton Street. Office of the Board of Public Works. City of St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 16, 1904. Sealed bids will be received by the Board of Public Works in and for the corporation of the City of St. Paul, Min nesota, at their office in said city, until 2 p. m. on the 29th day of February, A. D. , 1904, for the construction of a sewer on South Robert street, from Dearborn street to Morton street, in said city, according to plans and specifications on file in the j office of said Board. A bond with at least two (2) sureties in a ' sum of at least twenty (20) per cent, or a certified check on a bank of St. Paul in a sum of at least ten (10) per cent of : the gross amount bid. must accompany ) each bid. Said check shall be made pay- i able to the Clerk of said Board. The said Board reserves the right to ! reject any and all bids. » JOHN S. GRQDE, President. Official: R. L. GORMAN, Clerk Board of Public Works. Feb. 17-1904-10t. CONTRACT WORK. Paving Rosabel Street, From Fifth Street to Sixth Street, With Sandstone. Office of the Board of Public Works, City of St. Pau], Minn., Feb. 15, 1904. Sealed kids will be received by the Board of Public Works in and for the corporation of the City of St. Paul, Min nesota, at their office in said city, until 2 p. m., on the 29th day of February, A. D. 1904, for the paving of Rosabel street, with sandstone, from northwesterly line of Fifth (sth) street to the southeasterly line of Sixth (6th) street, In said city, ac cording to plans and specifications on file in the office of said Board. A bond with at least two (2) sureties In a sum of at least twenty (20) per cent or a certified check on a bank of St. Paul, in a sum of at least ten (10) per cent of the gross amount bid, must accompany each bid. Said check shall bs made pay able to the Clerk of saiil Board. The said Board reserves tae right to re ject any and all bids. JOHN S. GIIODE, . President. Official: R. L. GORMAN, Clerk Board of Public Works. Feb 16-1904-lOt THE ST. PAUL GLOBE. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1904 ■with a plan, and this immensely valu able product, now lost, will be recov ered."—Milwaukee Sentinel. IDENTIFICATION AS AN ART. Modern Detectives Look Toward Exact- ness In Cataloguing Criminals. The functions of the Italian police have lately been extended by the adoption of a scientific method of training. This train ing includes a number of separate courses of study conducted in regularly organized schools. The courses include general identification methods by (1) photographic description, (2) by an thro pometic description, (3) by functional pe culiarities, walk, speech, writing, etc., (4) psychic description, (6) personal history; specific identifications Including criminal classification; the inductive method of crime detection; indications of the manner of death, and the classification of crim lnological data. The pupils In the course are given les sons three times a week, and are taught not only the methods of M. Bertillon, but also methods determining the most strik ing: characteristics for the purpose of pre paring descriptive charts and anthropo logical data, and for the writing of tele graphic circulars in case of persons to be sought, identified etc. The lessons and exercises are made with prisoners, photo graphs, corpses, and at places where crimes have been committed. Further, the pupils are exercised in practical criminal psychology by means of the memoirs of noted police chiefs and by interrogatories of the different classes of criminals. Frequently one of the pupils is asked to identify in a group of photographs an in dividual, a few striking characteristics of whom have been given, such character istics as may be comprised in a short tel egram. The success of the instruction may be seen when it is stated that while at first the student is only able to detect the right man among a few photographs, in time the skill Is such that the right face is indicated out of a total of more than 600 photographs. It will be seen that such a course of in- STOP I EZ^3 LOOK! r^rn LISTEN! 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EVERYONE SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN THIS I mmlTm , mm eLot[i —:———■——-, REMARKABLE PROPOSAL. y' ■ M&^% „. ta/ , „„ mi ' . .■- ■■•--i"-? >y^ « vv/riL• ■..■■-...■.•■- ' St. Paul Minn IQO4 -. .: — . ■■■. -.•-•■' •'-- •■■ '-■ - -/'■■■ Dear Sir:—l desire to enter for one or more of your Go to Work at Once! Get Up Your Club and Make Wlm^&^ZSaZ^ m Sure of Y^ur Ticket. My name is My address The World's Fair opens May 1, 1904. The tickets we give you are first class tickets, and Will be good on all regular trains during the World's Fair. '^" My References Are: — — Name Address Do Your Friends a Favor by Calling Their Attention to Our Offer. \ *<^^ Addresß ..^h- •".;• •• • :•.-,•■ struction fits : theipelice not- only . or : the detection of crime, but for the surveillance of all classes ofs*ociety.—Police Scientific Review. £-. - -:;-Jf*| ■ ":'*-J\S'/i '"•' : "■ " \—j- — ', .v -v-iMorgan'a art Treasures. <:u Two years ago, when Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan purchased in London v the great Raphael "MadorfWa"* of St: : Anthony of : Padua," for wb»n-tie" pata $500,000, and • which is. now irr hie house in London, to • gether with mani*! Valuable art works, It • : wag; calculated tnatr the total value 'of his art possessions abroad was abtfuf $1,620, --000. ,;•-; »,-- £ :: ■% f fi*.j:%l.£: -i-y ; £ \ The duty*whfch "Morgan would have; to pay If he were willing to "do so to bring] over these art - works "would: amount to ■■■$324,000.-,; '.'■.•;: . '; _. '■';-:-:"v; :':T"';"" y \ The chief of Mb. 'Morgan's art treasures, . kept abroad .. presunaably. on account. of j the: tariff, with their valuations, are: ,; Dorcester House gallery .......:: $110,000 Mannheim collection; of Limoges i; ~y. A enamels and antique's.. ;~,'l : v.. .> .450,000 Gavets' coHectiori >of antique :••--■ 1 sculpture ......;..:............ 75,000 Sir Joshua Reynolds' painting of ■;.'- ■.,■-- ■-! Lady Betty Helme and chil- . . \ dren ...." .....:... .. 110.000 Rubens' portrait '"'•'ofi a-' : Grand '•" ~^"*'>:-\\ Duke,.....^....:..5~.:.-;.. zz . 125,000 Balleroy Castle collection of an- -- ■ - dent tapestries ."..<-.: ...- 100,000 i Raphael's Madonna of -- St. -An- • "«'. , thony of Padua . ■ ••'.•• •• 500.000 | Gainsborough's Duchess of Dcv- . > onshire .....>'. ..>.. .\..V.7i.v.., 150,000 i Total $1,620,000 The greet frescoes by Fragonard, the early French decorative painter, pur chased by Mr. Morgan, and in his London house, are not included in this list. They are said to have cost him about $300,000. If added, at that valuation, to his other possessions above named, the total of about $2,000,000 in art works would be reached. To import these under the pres ent tariff Mr. Morgan would be required to pay a duty of $400,000.—New York Commercial. Folding Letters, "I see you have lots of applications," said the advertising manager to the busi ness house manager who had advertised for a typewriter and bookkeeper. . "From all over New England," said the business man, jamming his pockets full. "But what some of the girls who answer are thinking of I cannot imagine. Here is one girl who will come fifty miles to take a place at $5 a week." - "Can you tell much as to their qualifi cations by their letters?" "Can I? - Well, rather. For instance, there is the writing; there is the spelling of the words; there is the way the letter is put togetherr there is even the way the letter is folded. Ever think that letters are folded so as to save time nowadays?" "No," said the advertising man. "It's all I.can do to get the stamps to put on 'em. My stenographer folds 'em all right, I guess. How should it be done?" "Easy enough, simple enough, but fold ed wrong often enough," said the business man sententiously. "If your typewriter knows her business, she takes the sheet and folds tt up from the bottom toward the top, leaving the proper width for the envelope, then over from right to left and from left to right—so. Then when your letter is opened it is right side up. See?" "I see." murmui-ad the advertising man. "And how many applicants fold their let ters that way?" "Oh, three or four out of a dozen, per haps. Quite a commentary en business as she is taught, eh?" remarked the busi ness man as he strolled away.—Spring field Republican. A Five-Ton Curtain. What the makers assert is the most perfect fireproof stage curtain ever con structed in America has been hung in McVicker's theater in Chicago. The en tire apparatus of the steel and 1 combina tion shield and its steel supports weighs five tons. „• It is more of a movable steel partition than a curtain. The drop is so arranged with counterweights that it will come down at the releasing of a catch. The curtain is 2 13-16 inches thick. On the side toward *he audience there Is a course of corrugated steel. Back of this is a layer of magnesia-covered asbestos. concealed by a sheet of heavy asbestos. In making the' curtain the steel frame first was laid out on the stage floor and the pieces, made to order in the shop, were riveted together. Then the sections of the shield, each as heavy as a man could lift, were made fast In their places. —Ne* York Commercial. Our Fluid Doubles. Each human being has a fluid double. This is the assertion of Col. Albert Rochas. eX-admiriisirator of the Polytech nic school and a well known physicist. He has just been making 1 some remark able experiments with hypnotised sub jects. In. the hypnotic state. Rochaa says, this fluid equivalent of the human body rises above the latter and floats above his head, attached by an impalpable cord, like a captive balloon. Several experiments have been made with individuals to prove this. A person was put to sleep and the demonstrator mounted in the roo.ni above the sleeping subject and touched the spat to whichs it wr» thought the double would probably rise. The result was a piercing scream from the hypnotized individual below. Several hypnotists think that on ac count of the suffering- the subject under goes from these experiments it will be better to hypnotize animals for further investigation. A3 it is known that they, too. have this fluid double.—Chicago Chronicle. A Zealous Attorney. An employe of the arsenal here was on trial recently In one of the minor courts of the district for stealing fifty pounds of powder. His work was to remove powder from damaged shells, and it was alleged in the warrant and charged in the indict ment that he had taken fifty pounds of the explosive he had sciaped out of the pro jectiles and sold it to a second-hand deal er here. They had fifty pounds of powder in a bag as an exhibit. : There was auury. The prosecuting at torney -zealous to punish the malefactor, proved tbat he had stolen more than fifty Mrtn«ts^ <rf"l^^ en J** sh«>wed the man naa stolen 250 pounds. '■**.*; kr The jury Went out. • After half an hour word came to the judge that the Jury wanted some, instructions. They ofu.ie in ,' he; f t man said: "Y, our honor, we find tnat thi3 an has stolen powder. Fifty ffijflJ* U has been shSwn here "nl ihei£ «, ♦". p£ wdei: taken from the Itnu ■>*? l- ** has be«n proved that he stole 250 pounds of powder, and what we ~ot wwrtlSlo^ Js wh,ether the fifty pounds of powder shown here as an exhibit is wuh ntl nal flfty pounds, he is charged $tvnnn!u s ln the indictment. Is this sto?e Pnrn^ 8 ?f Powder the fifty.pounds he nr£md^h£ v another of the five fifty Fnth! to g0 t0 make UP the 250 pounds In the total amount he stole? What flftv d?c Utme Snt? d giS*S aS chared in thifin^ - The court did not know. The nroswuitl ng attorney did not know, and thTjury let the man go.—Philadelphia Record ? Much More Elaborate, scrlntion>?ay h£>r Weddinß: tHWarecl de • "Oh. more than that!" ■ • "Indeed?" "Yes. It Beggared her father."— cago Post. An Option and a Refusal. Towne—The last time I saw Nervey he was going up to propose to Miss Roxley and he behaved as if he actually had an option on her fortune. Browne—Oh, all that has been changed He got the refusal of it since then —Phil adelphia Press, AQUEDUCT. When stocks are watered, you will note How fate may smile or frown; Some bank accounts will gayly float, And some, alas, will drown. —Washington Star. If "Globe Wants" didn't pay, so many people wouldn't be using them. See?