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i His Momentary Lapse of Deference
Coat Him High Position.
It does not pay to laugh at kings,
st least in their presence. On several
occasions where men have been given
to levity before monarchs it has been
amply proved that this is so, It was
awkward for the confidential adviser
of the czar of Russia, not long ago,
that he was unable to control his im
pulse to smile. On the occasion in
question the czar was tired and in an
unpleasant frame of mind. His foot
slipped on a wolf-skin mat. There
was something so funny about it that
the confidential-adviser lost control
of his features. That laugh at the
wrong time cost him his high position
and a salary of many thousands of dol
lars a year.
WASTE OF PUBLIC MONEY.
Example of the Incompetence of Brit
ish Officials.
A somewhat curious waste of public
money has just been brought to light
by the report of the British Committee
of Public Accounts. Recently the war
department built a store for the am
munition of the navy at Gibraltar,
costing 42,000, to be charged to navy
votes. The store was found too damp
to keepoammunition in so It was
converted into a cold meat storehouse
for both army and navy. This was
done at the expense of 47,000, in
cluding the cost of freezing machin
ery, etc., making a total expense of
89,000, of which the army pays only
23,000, although each department re
ceives the same accommodation as the
other.
Stamping Out Use of Opium.
When the Japanese took possession
of Formosa they found there a popu
lation more or less addicted to the
use of opium. It was decided to abol
ish the practice by degrees. Only
those who have suffered from its ef
fects to the extent that it occasions
intense pain to deprive them of their
pipe are now permitted, by a special
warrant which they are obliged to
procure, to continue the use thereof.
To newly commence opium smoking
is strictly forbidden, or even continue
it unless it can be shown that absten
tion is impossible. A government
monopoly of the article was expressly
established to facilitate the final ex
tinction of the habit of using it.
In the Wrong Place.
A well known and popular physi
cian, whose belief in the future ac
cords with that of the late Col. Inger
soll, had occasion recently to perform
a surgical operation upon a man not
select in his language. After etheriz
ing his patient the operation was suc
cessfully performed. When the effect
of the ether had passed off, the sub
ject, looking wildly around the room
exclaimed: "v/here am I?" The doc
tor replied, 'Oh! you are all right."
"But," said the man, "I may be all
right, but where am I?" The doctor
answered jocularly, "In Heaven." The
patient responded: "If that's so, I'd
like to know what in you are
doing here!"
Recklessness of the Motorist.
That the motorist can not help
reckless driving was maintained by
& French savant in a recent meeting
of scientists in Paris. The furore
steals on them. In setting out they
Intend to go at a moderate pace, but
as they warm to the work they must
rush on faster and faster. The flying
landscape through which they tear
forward produces the kind of giddi
ness which Arabs say takes hold of
them in the fantasia. In this state
motorists would run down those
nearest and dearest to them as un
hesitatingly as though they were so
many animals.
Is Richest Woman in World.
Mrs. Mary Louise B. Owen of New
York has become the richest woman in
the world through a decision of the
California courts awarding her the
title to 40,000 acres of land in Mexico
valued at $50,000,000. Her husband,
Col. A. K. Owen, secured a grant of
the land from the Mexican government
in 1872. This grant has recently been
affirmed by the Mexican courts, while
a dispute between Mrs. Owen and
rival claimants in this country has
just been settled by the California
supreme court in Mrs. Owen's favor.
The Hungry, Lion.
A little boy was being shown a pic
ture depicting a Roman arena, in
which there were a number of Chris
tian martyrs. A pack of lions were in
the act of springing upon their vic
tims. "It isn't fair." said the little
fellow, excitedly. "No, my son,"
agreed his mother "it isn't fair: all
those big, hungry lions "But," in
terrupted the young hopeful, "there's
one poor lion that hasn't got any
Christian."
Will Be Credit to America.
Eugene H. Lehman, the young Col
orado college student, the first Amer
ican to be awarded a Rhodes scholar
ship at Oxford, worked his way
through Yale, where he got employ
ment as a tutor at $1 a day and
wheeled an invalid in her chair for 25
cents an hour. His credentials
showed a higher percentage than
those submitted by twenty other stu
dents.
Morgan's Gold Dinner Service.
Pierpont Morgan has a gold dinner
service, said to he worth $SO,000,
which was presented to him by Will
lam H. Vanderbilt when he (Morgan)
made an extensive sale of New York
Central stock in Europe. It is a re
jtroduction of a service in the British
Ibyel family, but the Morgans are not
tau6 of display and seldom use it.
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THE SMALL BOY'S LONGING.
Part of the Show That Was Woefully
Disappointing.
Little Willie's father took him to
the show. It was a variety show, end
ing with a sketch called "The African
Belle," in which, after a missionary
had been bound to a stake by a lot of
dancing savages, he is rescued by the
chief's daughter after the manner of
Capt. John Smith. This last part of
the show Willie's father thought
would please the boy immensely but
the son and heir fell into a state of
gloom at its close. On the way home
the fond parent inquired: "Willie,
didn't you like'the part where all the
savages come out?" "No," replied
Willie with a sigh. "Me and the other
boys play that. When you pay to go
to a show I should think they might
kill the missionary."
PEAS FROM PHARAOHS' TOMB.
Their Product Unlike Anything Known
at Present.
There are bargains and finds to be
made in the plant world equal to any
picked up in old curiosity shops. Some
time ago a Glasgow gentleman re
ceived from his son in Egypt an en
velope full of peas, which were said
to have been found in the tomb of one
of the Pharaohs. He sent them to a
friend, of his at Kames, in the Isle of
Bute, who sowed them. They grew
up into plants quite unlike anything
known at present, strong and about
six feet high, with a great white flow
er having a red center. The pods
were long and full of excellent peas.
This new old variety found a ready
sale at good prices.
Muscular Christianity.
Prof. Bryce, in his biographical
study of Bishop Fraser, of Manches
ter, tells of a clergyman of Fraser's
diocese who had knocked a man down
who had insulted him. The bishop
wrote him a letter of reproof, point
ing out that exposed as the Church of
England was to much criticism on all
hands, her ministers ought to be very
careful of their demeanor. The of
fender replied by saying: "I must re
gretfully admit that, being grossly
insulted.'and forgetting in the heat of
the moment the critical position of
the Church of England,^ did knock
the man down, etc." Fraser was de
lighted with the turning of the tables
on himself, and afterward Invited the
clergyman to visit him.
Superfluous Boys.
A British parliamentary paper
shows that, as usual, nearly 20,000
more boys than girls were born in
the British isles last year. Whence,
then, the "superfluous woman?" The
boys die, during the first weeks and
months of life, at a far greater rate
than the supposed "weaker vessels."
In a few months they have sunk to an
equality and soon woman takes the
lead, numerically, and keeps it, nu
merically. The reason is not uncon
nected with the larger size of the
baby boy's head, for which he either
pays the penalty very early or reaps
the rewardif woman will forgive
the hintlater.
Why He Disliked Spelling Reform.
Senator F. Dumont Smith of Kins
ley lectured on "Words" in Wichita,
Kan., a few nights ago. He is for
spelling reform, and in advocating it
in his lecture said that he knew of
only one argument in favor of the old
way and that was given by an Eng
lish bishop who declared that the
present method of spelling helped the
churches. According to the bishop:
"By the time you can make a boy be
lieve that 't-h-r-o-u-gh' spells
'through,' that 't-h-o-u-g-h' spells
'though' and 'to-u-g-h' spells 'tough'
you can make him believe anything."
Motor Cars in Switzerland.
Should the experiments in progress
in the neighborhood of Berne prove as
successful as is anticipated travelers
to Switzerland in the summer of this
year will be able to cross the moun
tains by motor car instead of the
usual post diligence. The actual trials
will be made in tne spring, and the
result, if successful, will be not only
to allow travelers to make the differ
ent journeys in half the time, but to
open the mountain roads, which are at
present closed to them on account of
the horses.
Much Money in Tramp-s Clothes.
A lot of young fellows in an Ohio
town had a good time with a tramp
last week. They took him into a shed,
gave him a good bath, shaved him
and cut his hair. They then bought
a new suit of clothes, white shirt and
stand-up collar and dressed him out
complete. But when they attempted
to burn his hobo clothes he objected
and fought for them with such des
peration their suspicions were
aroused, and upon searching they
found $1,400 sewed up in the coat.
Girl an Excellent Athlete.
Miss Agnes S. Wood, the champion
basket ball player and all-around ath
lete of Vassar college, has beaten the
girls' record at running and almost
equaled that of men, despite the fact
that her gait was somewhat impeded
by a rather cumbrous costume. She
does not allow athletics to interfere
with her studies and will graduate
near the head of her class.
Few Automobiles in Washington.
Official Washington does not take
kindly to the automobile and very
few persons in the executive or dip
lomatic service are seen in vehicles
other than carriages. The president
is too fond of horses ever to take up
the craze. He has always shown a
preference for surreys and seldom
drives out of town in any other kind
og vehiclft-
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ROYALTY AT THE RECEPTION
Wearisome Duties Imposed on Those
\,in High Position.
How royalty and their suites ever
manage to survive those weary hours
of standing is always a mystery to me,
says "The Countess," in the London
Outlook. "You get used to it in
time," say the maids of honor, but ap
parently not till they have been car
ried out two or three times in a faint
do the gentlemen-at-arms tightly but
toned up in uniforms and smothered in
helmets get used to the ordeal.
It is within the memory of many
how in Dublin a certain distinguished
viceroy in the middle of a drawing
room gave the order to c\ose the
doors, and having cleared the room the
entire viceregal party sat down on
the floor in various stages of collapse,
and I often wonder how it is that our
own king and queen are not similarly
overcome on these occasions. Royal
ty is the best paid profession, but as
suredly, it must be also the most
wearing.
THE JOKE OF A KING.
Historic Hoax Perpetrated by Guata
vus III. of Sweden.
King Gustavus III. of Sweden had
been frequently invited to the little
court of Schwerin. In 1783 he paid a
visit to Germany and as soon as the
Duchess of Mecklenburg heard of his
approach she prepared fetes in his
honor. But Gustavus, who disdained
the petty courts of the small rulers,
sent two of his attendantsa page
named Peyron, and Desvouges, a valet
who had formerly been an actorto be
entertained by the duchess. The two
personated the king and his minister,
Baron Sparre, and sustained the char
acters throughout. They accepted as
their due all the homage meant for
their master, danced with the Mecklen
burg ladiec who were presented to
them, and Peyron went so far as to
ask one of the ladies for her portrait.
Meantime Gustavus was enjoying him
self elsewhere in secret.
Overlooked a Detail.
A Long Island farmer came to
Brooklyn with his wife to do some
shopping the other day. On his way
back the thought came to him that he
had forgotten something. He took
out his notebook and went over each
item, checking it off, and saw that he
had made all the purchases he intend
ed. As he drove on he could not put
aside the feeling that there was some
thing missing. He again took out his
notebook and rechecked every item,
but still found no mistake. He did
this several times, but could not rid
himself of the idea that he must have
forgotten something. When he
reached home and drove up to the
house his daughter came out to meet
him, and, with a look of surprise,
asked: "Why, papa, where is moth
er?"Mail and Express.
The Long-Suffering Editor.
A Queensland contemporary re
cently published the following: "Our
foreman printer recently measured
up the space occupied by obituary
notices in the Herald during the last
couple of months or so, and found it
made three and three-quarters yards.
This is so much dead loss to the pa
per, and if a fatal epidemic struck
the town ruin would stare us In .the
face. We have, therefore, decided to
future to charge for such notices. So,
when people feel like dying, we hope
they will give directions to their next
of kin in respect of paying for the
same."
Painting the Dome of the Capitol.
The dome of the capitol at Wash
ington is being painted. Every five
years its coat is renewed and 15,000
gallons of white lead are used in the
process. The work is being done by
eighteen men, under the direction of
"Billy" Lewis and "Al" Ports. The
latter has been employed for such
work about the capitol for thirty-nine
years. Ports is the only man who
ever climbed to the top of the Statue
of Liberty surmounting the dome. He
did this on Labor day, 1894, and fas
tened a garland of electric light bulbs
around the neck of her majesty.
Congo Road for Motor Cars.
The Congo Free State government
is enstructing a road in the northern
part of the state for the transport of
passengers and goods by means of
motor cars. The new route, of which
nearly 4*50 miles have been completed,
will join the important trading centers
of Dongu and Lado. While making
the road a local engineer hit upon the
happy idea of driving forty elephants
up and down the projected highway
until the thick undergrowth was
trampled down, allowing the natives to
complete the task.
No Royal Road.
St. Clair McKelway believes that
the journalism of the future will be a
profession and that men will be espe
cially educated for it. They are and
always have been. Did that important
and valuable member of the profes
sion never hear of "the hard school of
journalism?" There is no other, and
never will be, worth a pinch of snuff,
in our humble estimation. The uni
versity of experience is the one which
gives the real degrees in journalism.
Waa Always Running.
The Duke of Argyll tells this story
of Winston Churchill, which shows
that the talent for talk developed
young in the author and member of
parliament. Some years ago he visit
ed Harrow, and noticing a boy run
ning around the cricket field all by
himself asked what he was doing it
for. "That's Lord Randolph Church
fill's sen, and whenever he talks too
much we make him run three times
round the cricket field."
THE OUTLOOK FOR AUTHORS
Really Good Writers Need Not Fear
Discrimination.
The rush of the crowd to read a
book which may have no literary merit
or vitality, either of material or of
presentation, simply hecause it is
talked about, is never wholesome, and
if the crowd has grown more critical
and clear-minded in its judgments,
and has ceased to move upon sudden
impulses and learned to decide for
itself, the loss will-fall, not on writers
of real merit, but on a few whose re
wards were generally beyond their
deserts. The average of literary work
in this country in many departments
Is high. If great books are not pro
duced in large numbers, good books
are produced in very considerable
numbers, and in soundness of knowl
edge, in good taste and literary work
manship, a great advance is evident
over the work of an earlier generation.
It Is a period of quiet progress, a time
of preparation rather than a time of
accomplishment.
JOKE ON SWEET CHARITY.
And the Colored Porter, He Thorough
ly Enjoyed I
The other day a colored porter from
one of the hotels was sent, to buy some
tin cups. After making the purchase
he started back to the hotel and met
one of the hostlery's best patronsa
commercial travelerand the latter
asked the negro to carry his sample
case to a Washington street store.
A few minutes later the negro, sam
ple case, and tin cup3, were in front
of the store. The traveling man was
in the store. While waiting for him,
the negro sat down on the sample
case, and in less than a jiffy fell asleep.
One of the tin cups was in his hand,
and it fell forward, as does the cup
held by a blind man.
Perhaps you won't believe it. but
that negro collected 43 cents while he
slumbered. Passersby thought him a
blind mendicant. And maybe that por
ter didn't enjoy the joke! He did
'deed he did.Indianapolis News.
What One Mian Said.
At the City Federation meeting In
the Waldorf there were many amusing
incidents. Husbands of the broad
minded women tarried in the ante
room waiting for their spouses to go
home. One of these patient escorts
was Leroy Sunderland Smith. He
gazed through the glass doors once,
sighed and returned to his chair. Men
would come, inquire for their wives,
and then retreat to the cafe below. One
man heard a few minutes of a certain
paper. He said: "If these women's
clubs did not struggle with the prob
lem of how to raise other women's
children they would have no excuse
for being." He flung out the last
words savagely and then disappeared
to the place where highballs are con
cocted.New York Press.
An Enterprising Woman.
Miss Jessie McCubben of Alamo,
Oregon, is the owner of a valuable
mining claim in the Granite district,
which she "jumped" precisely as the
year 1903 came in. Learning that the
claim would be vacant the 1st day of
January, she drove through a blind
ing snowstorm on the night of Dec. 31,
the mercury 14 degrees below zero,
and, waiting the advent of the new
year, staked Aer claim. Another pros
pector had done likewise earlier in
the evening, but Miss McCubben was
legally in the right, and the court sus
tained her. She is a Portland girl,
19 years old.
Reminder of Old Times.
A rich man who has joined the mul
titude in New York since his quick
fortune came to him was entertaining
friends at dinner the other night. The
service was magnificent and so was
the dinner. The wife, gorgeously clad,
reigned over the table. During a lull
in conversation the rich man watched
a servant who was dexterously remov
ing crumbs from the table. Then he
looked down the glittering table at
his jeweled wife and remarked:
"Sadie, remember when you used to
shake the tablecloth out of the back
door to the hens?"
A Paper May Criticise.
A trial jury in England gave the
manager of a fifth-rate show a ver
dict of $3,750 against a newspaper
which published an adverse criticism.
The Appeal Court reversed this, and
held that the jury had no right to sub
stitute its own "opinion of the merits
of the play for the critic's opinion.
The court said it was of the highest
importance to the public that the crit
ic should not be exposed to the risk
of having a jury pass upon his taste,
and held that the trial judge misdi
rected the jury.
The Artist'6 Revenge.
A Chinese story tells how a very
stingy man took a paltry sum of
money to an artist, who always ex
acted payment in advance, and asked
him to paint his portrait. The artist
at once complied with the request, but
when the portrait was finished noth
ing was visible save the back of the
sitter's head. "What does this mean?"
cried the sitter indignantly. "Well,"
replied the artist, "I thought a man
who paid so little as you did wouldn't
care to show his face."
He Was Kept Busy.
That was a curious little confession
made to an interviewer the other day
by Color-Sergeant Barry, for twenty
seven years keeper of the stage door
at the Lyceum. In reply to a remark
about his knowledge of plays and play
ers, Sergeant Barry romanced: "I
have never seen a play in all my life.
My place is at the stage door. I have
never any time to see what is going
on on the staae."London Tit-Bits.
STATISTICS OF MIGHT HERONS
They Are Sought, by the Smithsonian
Institution.
Eight hundred night herons are wan
dering free aLout the Uuited States,
each wearing on one leg an aluminum
band inscribed "Smithsonian Institu
tion" and a number. If any person
shoots one of these birds he should
write to Paul Bartsch, biologist of the
Smithsonian, telling where it was and
how large was the bird. The night
heron is one of the most beautiful
of the aquatic birds of America, but
scientists know less about it than they
are satisfied with. Last year Mr.
Bartsch discovered several breeding
places of these birds on the Potomac
in the District of Columbia. Recently
he visited the place with several as
sistants in the night and the 800
aluminum bands were fastened to the
legs of as many young herons. Science
is anxious to know how long the night
heron lives, where it spends the win
ters and how much of the country it
covers in its wanderings. It is be
lieved that by the time a few of the
numbered aluminum bands have been
reported some of these facts will hav
been established to the satisfaction of
the ornithologists. Cleveland (O)
Plain Dealer.
THE RAINFALL IN ENGLAND.
Cyclonic Disturbances Had Little Ma*
terial Effect
Fortunately for the south of Eng
land the cyclonic disturbances, which
this year have been more than usually
numerous, have kept fairly regularly
to their normal track, says the Lon
don Chronicle. This course has tak
en them across Ireland and Scotland,
and as a result the rainfall account
in these two countries is now much
ahead of the average. Scotland north
has had an excess of nearly ten inches
the surplusage in the west and east
being nine and five inches, respective
ly. Ireland has beaten the average by
between five and six inches. The
south of England has had but a trifle
more than its usual allowance the
eastern counties, on the other hand,
being nearly an Inch short.
Advancement of Women.
At a meeting of the English Wom
en's Liberal association a letter was
read in which the daughter of George
Meredith, the novelist, said: **My
father, George Meredith, wishes me to
say that it heartens him to see women
banded together in union. What na
ture originally decreed men are but
beginning to seethat they are fitted
for most o* the avenues open to en
ergy, and by their entering upon ac
tive life they will no longer be open
to the accusation men so frpquently
bring against them of their being nar
row and craven. Much more he could
say, but he has short time at his com-
mand."
A Good Plaoe to Stop.
He really ought not to have gone
into the Latin class that day. He was
called up first, and read as far as he
had prepared. Then he skirmished on
a little farther. This is the way it
went: "I, Ulysses, saw her (Dido's)
heavenly form advancing like a god
dess in the sunlight. I sprang to
ward her, and she welcomed me. Her
hair fell down upon her shoulders like
the sunbeams on Olympus. Her eyes
shone like two jewels of the sea. II
threw my armsmy armsabout
about herher neckneckandand
that's as far as I got, professor."
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Butcher and His Hat.
"I always thought it paid to be po
lite until I got into this business," re
marked a prosperous retail butcher,
"but I find that it costs me about $25
a year. My trade is with nice people,
and when fashionable women come
into the shop I have to tip my hat to
them. A butcher's fingers are always
mofe or less greasy from handling the
meat, and in about a month a new hat
Is no longer fit to wear. Grease is
about the only thing that won't come
out of a derby, and I will be the hat
ter's best customer until the weather
grows warm and I wil-1 be able to go
bareheaded."
Production of Nitrate of Soda.
The annual report of the Nitrate
Association of Chile, which controls
the world's supply of nitrate of soda,
shows the production in 1902 to have
been 2,982,522.80 pounds from sev
enty-eight works. The nitrate beds
are near the surface and are worked
as stone quarries. It is anticipated
that the immense amount of nitrate
the United States now gets from
Chile for use in fertilizers will ulti
mately be supplied by factories mak
ing it by electrical process from the
air, as is being done at Niagara Falls.
Etiquette of the Feud.
"There's just ene thing, sah," ob
serbed Col. Gore of Kentucky, "in
which we are away behind Turkey."
"What's that?" CoL Bullet asked,
quickly. "Well, sah, after a general
killin' the porte always sends a polite
note of apology to the survivors of
the massacre. If we could only end
our feuds in that way, sah "But
we can't, sah," exclaimed Col. Bullet,
excitedly, "for the simple reason, sah,
that when one of our feuds ends'no
body's left, sah, to apologize to!"
The World's Rarest Bird.
To find the rarest bird in existence
you must go to the mountains between
I Anam and Loas, where there is a cer
tain kind of pheasant. For many
years its existence was known only
by the fact that its longest and most
splendid plum* was in much request
by mandarins lor their headgear. A
single skin is wartti ?500, and the
bird living would be priceless, for it
soon die* in captlrity.
CLEANLINESS AS A VICE-
Young Matron Criticises Methods of
Her Mother-in-Law.
"Cleanliness is next to godliness, I
know," said the young matron whosa
mother-in-law lives with her, "but
there is such a thing as carrying it
too far, I think. Now, my husband's
mother ia fearfully and wonderfully
neat. In fact, at times I feel that to
live in a pigpen would be a relief.
From morning till night there is noth
ing but clean, clean, clean. Bits of
carpet are- laid in the places most
likely to trip you up. These are in
tended to keep the floor underneath)
free from stain and then the carpets
are taken up and the floor underneath
scrubbed as carefully as if it had not
been protected all the time. You can
not imagine just how trying it is. But
the other day she reached the limit.
She came in, took off her shoes, care
fully washed them and set them but
to dry! Think of it! It's a wonder sha
did not wash her hat." i
STRENGTH OF MEN AND OXEN.
Bulk for Bulk, the Former Are the
Stronger.
Few people know that a man, bulk
for bulk, is stronger than an ox, but
it appears that such is the case. The
matter was tested not long since at a.
fair in America, one of the attractions*
of which was a congest of a yoke of"
oxen against an equal weight of men.
A drag was loaded with granite blocks*,
weighing in the aggregate 4,95fc
pounds. The yoke of oxen that mad*
the trial weighed 3,220 pounds, and
twenty men, allowing 160 pounds to'
the man, were set against them. The
men took hold of the drag first, and
easily walked off with it, covering a
distance of 95 feet in the space of two
minutes. The oxen at their trial moved
only eighty-five feet in the same length
of time, and the men were accordingly
declared winners.Pearson's Weekly*.
Governor Saves Boy's Life.
It is fortunate for one Georgia youthi
that Gov. Garvin of Rhole Island is a.
physician and surgeon of standing.
The governor and a number of north
ern friends were at AndersonvQle to
attend the dedication of a monument
in memory of Rhode Island soldiers
who died In Andersonville prison.
While the exercises were in progress
a carriage team took fright, ran away
and upset the vehicle. Edwin Calla
way, one of the occupants, had his
leg' broken, the jagged bone severing
an artery. Gov. Garvin, on hearing of
the boy's plight, hurried to his help,,
tied the severed artery and cut the
broken bone, just in time to save the
sufferer from bleeding to death.
Bank's Burglar Trap Didn't Work.
In its account of the recent bank,
burglary at Allen, the Emporia (Kan.)-
Gazette explains that the trap set by
the bank for robbers did not work.
The trap in question is unique enough
to be interesting. "Above the vault,"
says the Gazette, "was a thin ceiling
and about a ton of sand above it.
This was there in case cracksmen
should attempt to blow open the safe,
when the ceiling would burst at the
explosion and the sand fill the vault,
making it impossible to get at the
safe. However, the ceiling did not
burst and the sand remains undis
turbed.Kansas City (Mo.) Journal.
Chorus Girls of Wealth.
Among the twenty girls who took,
part in an amateur comic opera per
formance in Philadelphia the other
evening were fifteen whose fathers
are millionaires. It is said that the
girls in question represented some-
$40,000,000. The affair was the big
gest event among the Hebrews of
Philadelphia for twenty years. A
trainload of wealthy New Yorkers
went over specially to take part in or
witness the performance, which was
given under the auspices of the Mer
cantile club.
Brave Sailor Soon Forgotten.
Discouragingly tardy progress is be
ing made with the proposed monument
to Rear Admiral James E Jorrett. It
was thought that the gallant conduct
and wide popularity of the admiral
would have called forth generous re
sponse to the committee's appeal, but
that expectation has not been realized.
The headquarters of the association,
are in Washington and Rear Admiral
A. E. K. Benham is chairman of a
committee having the matter in imme
diate charge.
The Ones That Suffered.
An aged Scotch minister, who was
very boastful, says ex-Speaker Joseph
L. Barbour of the Connecticut legisla
ture, once said to his good friend.
"Think of it! I preached two hours
and twenty minutes last Sunday!"
"Didn't it weary you very much?" in
quired the other solicitously. "Oh, no,"
said the minister. "But you should
have seen the congregation!"New
York Times.
One Point of View.
"I am very much afraid that you do
not* appreciate the spirit of a free
country," "Oh, yes I do." answered
the man who had recently landed in
New York, in a dialect which it is
needless to reproduce. "What do you
understand by a free country?" "It is
a place where you are free to do as
you choose if you manage to get on
the police force."
Had Had Opportunity.
Two society buds at the Waldorf
Astoria were commenting upon the
marriage of Mrs. I^ewis Rutherfurd to
William K. Vanderbilt "It's a fine
match." safci one "the bride certainly,
belongs to the Upper Ten." "She ought
to," was the tart answer, "she's mar
ried three of them!"New Yorto'
Times.