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A Little Bey For Sale
A mother was busyat work one day.
When her dear little boy, with his toya
Ran in from his play, as bright as May,
With all of his traps and noise.
“You make such a din,” she said to him,
While he work’d with his tools, his joys;
“T'li put you to bed or I'll sell you,” she
said,
“To the man who buys little boys.”
A little boy for sale;
A little boy for sale;
The price is so low you ean buy him, I know;
My little boy's for sale;
A little boy for sale;
A little boy for sale;
He makes so much noise with his bammer
and toys.
My little boy for sale.
The dear little boy was quiet one day,
He bad laid his toys aside.
The mother had ceased her work to pray;
“oOb, Lord with me abide;”
A: she sits by the bed of her curly head,
A soft sweet song she sings ;
When out of the gloom of that small, quiet
room
Comes the rustle of angels’ wings.
There's no little boy for sale;
There's no little boy for sale ; :
He was bonght by the love of the Father
apove
There's no little boy for sale;
There's no little boy for sale,
There's po little boy for sale;
He was bought by the love of the Father
above,
There's no little boy for sale.
—Omaha World-Herald.
ALMOST PARTED.
BY FEEN GREENLEAPF.
<4 Oulin Delorme would onlv fall
iu sove with and marry Miss Camp.
bell, huow nice it would be!” said
stout, good-natared Mrs. Gay to her
compsuion in a loud aside.
“For her—yes,” was the cart reply.
‘““He is wealthy enough in any ecase;
but what would half of old Campbell’s
property be for one bronght up as
she has been? I hear the place is
mortgaged heavily, and the old man
lost by speculation before he died; so
his niece is not the heiress we fancied.
Yes, it wonld be a very lucky thing
for ber if Colin De orme should ask
bher to marry him, and I have no
loubt she wonld jump at the chance.”
“Madame,” said a clear voice at the
woman's chair, which made her start
and giance hastily at the fair young
fxee above her—*“‘madame, you honor
mysell and my affairs too greatly.”
Voice and face belonged to the gir
of whom they had been speaking,
Houor Campbell; and as the gossip
stammered forth some sort of apology.
she turned and glided from the room,
avery pulse in her body qnivering
with anger, wounded pride, and per
baps a far kecner pain.
Wiy uad she allowed herself to be
toax «l into appearing among the
zuests of her ecousin, to whom the old
man luid so recently in his grave was
notuiuyr, while to her be had been
dear as & father?
Why had she bronght her mourning
robes and ber mourning heart forth
from retiremcnt, even when friends
pieaded with ber to do so?
Aund they thought her poor enough
“to jnmp at the chance” of marrying
Colin Delorme, because he was to
share Ler unele’s pogsessions with her,
fnd had wealth of his own—Colin
Delorme, with his frank, bandsome
face and his cherry voice, and his
heart of gold, which any living woman
might prize more than the crown of a
King!
How heartless and material people
were! she told herself, as she went
hurriediy out of the little garden,
which sloped down to a sheltering
wot—a dell often visited by her.
In the path, with its checkered
hight, she eame face to face with the
objeet of her thoughts— Colin Del
orie,
“How pale vou are, Honor, "he said
to ber, looking with eyes the tender
est of which she did not see, into fer
voung face. *‘Are vou ill ?”
““Thank you-—no,”
““Then let me tell vou what I've
been thinking of. Honor, our unecle
dividel all be had between us. Let
us make no division, dea—and let us
join our lives and leave the old place
as it is. Do vou think I conld make
von happy as my wife, Honor, my
darling. I would try hard. I think
I conld suceeed. Will you risk your
ife in my hands ? Honor, you are
S white as death. Have I startled
voun? I thought yon knew my heart
this longz time. I know that uncle
did.”
Had Le said sneh words to her the
previous day—bat an hour before—
now glully she wonid have put out
her hands to him and said:
“Yes, Colin; I know your heart,and
I will trust my life in your hands. It
Las known no love save tihat which
vou have tanght it, and I am only
haphy when yon are near.”
Bat the words of the gossip were
fresh in her memory, the humiliation
which they ronsed still raged hotly in
lter wireast,
With a low little Janugh she turned
from Lim to gather up the long train
of Lor bluek dress, and her gray eyes
grew batter,
“*You are far too generous,” she l
said, coldly. *“I learned today that
yon are quite expected to ask me to
marry you, Colin, by our kindly ae
quaintances. You have not disap
pointed them—you have asked me;
but I am not yet so poor in soul if I
am in purse. I will not marry you
for (e sake of keeping the old home,
dear as itis. Thanks, Colin, for your
generosity. lam not tempted; Itake
no advantage of it.”
His face was quite white as she spoke
those cold, hard words—she who had
ever seemed so sweetly gentle, so softly
womanly to him.
“You put it in a very singular way,
but I suppose you mean that since you
have no love for me, you will not
marry me for any more material rea
son,” he said at last. “I am glad of
that; I would not buy a wife., Bat
when you do accept the hand of some
other man, Honor, my beautiful
darling, pray heaven that he may love
you as truly as I do. The old place
is yours; I would uot touch a leaf on
any tree there. Good bye, dear. For
get that [ have spoken to you in this
way—forget that I, loving you, have
been fool enough to fancy you cared
for me!”
He turned from her and was gone
from her before she could control her
volce.
And when she stretched out her
arms and cried: ‘‘Colin, my love,
my darling, come back! Do not go
from'me! Ilove you—l love you!”
he was too far away to hear or heed;
and only a bird perched on a branch
far above her head, saw the girl fling
herself down amoug the grasses of
Maytime and sob as if her heart would
break.
It did not comfort her so very much
after all, to know that now no gossip
could say she had “‘jumped at the
chance” of becoming Colin Delorme’s
wife.
How very poor a thing the pride
which she had vindicated by rejecting
him seemed to her, as she wept pas
sionately for the chance of happiness
flung away for words from the lips of
a pair of vulgar women who were no
more to her than any other disagree
able strangers!
“I will tell him the truth to-night,”
she whispered when she was calmer.
‘““He loves me ; he will forgive me for
my folly.”
But when she reached the house she
was told that Colin Delorme had gone
to the city on urgent business and
wonld return the following evening
by the 7 o’clock train.
Such a long night, such a long day,
as those were to poor Honor in her
misery of remorse! But at last they
were over, and in a few moments the
whistle which announced the arrival
of the train at the small station below
wonld shriek on the evening air,
From a window of her room she
knew she could see the smoke from
the engine a mile away, and at one
point, where the track ran lLke a
thread across an open space, some
what elevated, she could ecateh sight
of the line of earriages ere the shriek
of the whistle told that they were
about to stop. 3
The puffs of smoke showed here and
there among the tree tops as she
looked forth, then like a long black
serpent, the train darted arouund the
curve and sped out on the bridge.
There was a swaying of the train, a
sndden erash, which reached her
dnlly from the distance, and down
throngh the shattered brickwork hud
died the engine and three of the car
riages attached to it—down but a few
feet, it is true, but at the bottom was
death to many—perhaps for Colin
Delorme.
Honor did not ery out,did not faint
but a sndden fierce strengti seemed
be infused into her shght figare, as
she sprang toward the door and
darted through. Down the corridor,
down the stairs, out at the hall door
she ran like a creature flying for her
very life.
In the drive a horse and buggy
were standing ; his host was to drive
to the station for Colin.
Hatless, cloakless, with bare arms
and shoulders gleaming from the
blackness of her dinner dress, she
sprang into the vehicle and caught up
the reins,
The servant at the horse’s head
made way for her with a frightened
glance at her white face and dilated
eves.
She turned the animal and dashed
down the drive, out at the gates and
on at a gallop along the highway.
It seemed an eternity to her before
she reached the wrecked train, and
others were there before her.
Still white as death, still “silent, she
drew rein, and leaping out, darted
into the erowd, which was endeavor
ing to extricate the erushed and man
gled passengers from the debris about
them.
One was drawn forth as she reached
the group, and at last her lips un
closel to give forth a ery of anguish.
Was that shapeiess, bleeding, moan
ing mass, of which she saw nothing to
recognize as human save a blood
stained hand, and a few tresses of nut
brown hair—was that the man she
loved?
1 She pushed the men aside frantical
ly, and was trying to win her way to
the dving man, when a hand was laid
on her shoulder, and a voice that
made her heart thrill, said:
*“‘Honor, this is no place for you
Go home, my dearest. Even a man’s
heart faints before suech horrors as
this.”
She clung to him with both hands,
trembling, sobbing, laughing —in
short, nearly mad with joy.
*“Colin! my love —my love, you are
safe—uninjured ?” she eried, incoher
ently. 1 feared—l feared— You are
safe Colin, dear Colin!”
“‘Safe, and hlessed beyond measure
to know you care.”” And he drew one
of the hands that clung to him to his
lips. *“‘l was in the smoking car, I
am unhurt, Honor; but many a poor
fellow is perhaps dying while I talk to
you. Go back, my love, and let me
give all the aid I can; for every man
who lies dying here be sure some
woman's heart will break today.”
““As mine would have broken had
vou died,” she whispered, releasing
him.
And he joined the many who were
working for the lives of the unforta
nate passengers, while she returned to
her cousin’s, confident of the exist
ence of a God of Mercy.
Six months iater, when a notice of
the marriage of Colin Delorme and
Honor Campbell appeared, Mrs. Gay’s
acquaintance of the venomed tongue
met and accosted her.
‘I told you that if Colin Delorme
proposed to Miss Campbell sife would
not be such an imbecile as to refuse
him and let the property be divided,
and you see I was right,” she said, ex
ultantly.
And Mrs. Gay could not tell her -
for she did not know—that, owing to
her own idle and ill-natured words,
not property, but two hearts that
loved had been very nearly divided.
New York Journal.
Hazing at West Point.
At most of our colleges hazing has
been suppressed. I thought it a dead
letter at West Point, but the latest
information from the military acad
emy is to the contrary. It is not
necessary to mention names. Thct
would cause hard feelings, but it can
be done if required. At the summer
encampment there was one of the
worst cases of hazing on record, the
details of which have been snppressed.
A young cadet was ‘“‘exercised” so
severelv that for three weeks his life
was despaired of. To ‘‘exercise’” a
vietim is to require him to stoop down
as low as possible and hop along on
both feet, in a sitting posture, till ex
haustion ensues. The cadet in qnes
tion was exercised till he fainted, when
his persecutors fled. When he re
vived he crawled to the tent of the
guard to make complaint. There he
fainted again. The officer of the
guard questioned him when he came
to.
““Have yon been exercised?” he
asked, roughly. ‘““Yes, or no?
Quick!”
““Yet,” breathed the sufferer, faint
ing a third time. Reviving, he guave
the name of the leader of the *‘gang.”
A surgeon was summoned and the
youth was borne to the hospital, where
he lay at the point of death for thsee
weeks. The utmost care was used in
moving him, his heart action being so
weak that the slightest roughness
would have caused its cessation.
Of course. the hapeless vietim was
ostracised for telling the name of his
persecutor, and his life hasbeen made
miserable ever since. The leader of
the ‘‘gang” was punished by the
authorities by being required to walk
for an hour and a half a day, with a
sentry behind him, in the presence of
the whole school. It goes without
saying that the boys regarded him as
e martyr.—New York Press.
Making Bogus Coin in Prison,
The federal officials at Indianapolis
have succeeded in getting at the prin- i
cipal facts of the counterfeiting con- 1
spiracy of the Indiana State prison at
Jeffersonvillee The case is certainly ’
the most peculiar, and in some re
spects the most astounding in the
known records of false coining in this l
country. That conviets employed in
the prison shops, and supposed o be '
under striet surveillance, ecould sue- l
ceed for three years in turning out (
large amonnts of counterfeit money
withount detection,seems little short of
miraculous. The econvicts were not I
alone in the business. The shops were
worked by a private manufacturing {
company, and one of the foremen is |
under arrest, charged with circulating
the spurious coin made by the prison
ers. But where were the prison ofii
cials all this time? A convict serving
his fifth term was the principal ‘“‘man
ufacturer,” but no doubt others were i
associated with him. The money in
cluded dollars, halves, quarters, and
nickels, large numbers of which were -
seized. The counterfeits are said to
be excellent imitations, the dollars
representing the issue of 1889, and
the nickels of 1893. No wonder the
amazing discoveries in the prison, as
the local papers put it, ‘‘caused a tre
mendous sensation.””—Boston Com
mercial.
Some Top-Heavy Names.,
“I admit that I have rather a hard
name to spell or prononnee, and that
is why I encourage my friends in their
proelivity to eall me Zig,” said C. O,
Ziegenfuss. ‘‘But while I make this
confession asto my own outlandish
patronymie, I want it understood that
mine is not the worst name in the
world. Once while I was doing news
paper work in Denver our editor ad
vertised for a new office boy. A bright
appearing young fellow with a mild
look in his eye answered the call anl
said he was ready to go to work.
“*All right,” said the editor; ‘let
me ask your name.” The lad hesi
tated a moment and eventualiy fished
out a card which bore the name ‘Her
man V. Morgenausgelagen.’
“)Clapping his hat on his head he
leftt We tried to call him back, but
it was no use.”
This story led to others in regard
to strange names. *‘‘l used to know
a man in Missouri name | Auxie An
chico Benzuli Maria Penith Hildreth
Dickinson Tompkins,”said Bob Davis.
“I have heard Dan De Quille tell of
a colored boy in Washington City
who bore the cognomenic burden of
Thomas Didymus Christonher Holmes
Henry Cadwalder Peter Jones Henry
Clay Anderson.”—San Francisco
Call.
Appreciative.
“I'd give anything for your voice,”
said an auditor to an ambitious ama
teur vocalist.
““Glad you like it,” replied the
gratified tenor.
‘lt would be so usefa! iz my basi
ness.”’ ;
‘““What are you engaged in?”
“I'm a fish pedder.”
Explanatory.
He—Why did you return my written
proposal with letters *““C. O. D.”
written over it? Am Ito take itas s
refusal?
She (shyly)—No, you silly goose;
that means ““Call on Dad.”
One of the best-paid zovernesses in
the world is the King oI Spain’s, She
receives $4.520 a year.
ELEUCTRIC PLOWS.
German Farmers Harness the New
est Force in Nature.
Speedy Machines That Turn Four
Furrows at Once.
Electricity has reached the farm,
and the German farm at that—the
farm which is incomparably tardy in
adopting new means to old ends. It
is the farm which hasn’t yet given up
the use of women or draught animals
and burden bearers; yet it shows en
terprise superior to our own in being
first to harness the newest force in na
ture to the plow. Steam plows have done
service in America for thirty years.
They enabled us to make prodigious
conquests in agriculture, and extract
riches from fields on which mere man
labor wculd scarcely have been profit
able. As the steam plow and its assis
tants—sower, reaper, binder, thresher
—were superior to manunal labor, so
the electric plow and its accompani
ments are superior to steam machines.
One soon will need a technical educa
tion to ““farm it.”
Steam plows were expensive to build
and to operate; they were unweildy
in size, and there often was difficuity
in keeping them supplied with water,
and an engine without water is use
less. Electric plows are much cheap
er, lighter, more easily moved, may be
employed on small farms, and can be
used at a greater distance from the
motor. Our Consul at Leipsic has
transmitted to his home office some
facts about its construction and em
ployment. He says that for farming
on a large scale the elementary power
is produced by a stationary engine
and transferred to a motor mounted
on the plow itself.
In the cable car fashion the plow is
drawn over the field along a chain
held taut. On reaching the end of
the chain, the plow is tilted to one
side, and the simple reversal of the
current sets the plow going in the op
posite direction. In returning, it de
posits the chain sideways, ready for
the next row of furrows. The three
ground anchors that hold the chain
are easily moved to the next furrow.
For small farming there is required
an agricultural portable engine of
eight to twelve horse power, which
may stand on the edge of the field to
be plowed. It drives the dynamo,
which is on a wheeled car. As soon
as the engine is set up the dynamo
car is placed straight before it, fast
ened into the ground, the driving
wheel of the engine is connected by a
belt with a pulley on the dynamo, and
the apparatus is ready for work.
Electricity thus generated is trans
mitted to the motor on the plow
through cables attached at ecertain
distances to earriages, as shown in
the picture herewith. Thus the mov
ing plow is enabled to always keep its
connection with the electrie plant,
For large operations there are three
and four share plows that will in teun
hours plow two and one-half acres of
land to a depth of 13 3-4 inches. It
is vastly interesting to see these ma
chines turning up four furrows at
onceé at exeellent speed. Leaving out
of account thie cost of the engine—
which many farmers have for thresh
ing purposes—the expense of plough
ing by electricity may be as follows:
DR D .s b 0 sevcae senes. B
SO D R sos o covne - ovtnssoes B
BTN T s atnna e s ve o« o neion oF
Interest and sinking fund for working
capital and repairs, excluding electro
motor, at $16.20, 20 per cent, per 100
B- S nsin s b Bae delis sini s mesavnves D
On 34 20 (motor completed,) 15 per cent
PAEIID G st ivaivetttecescici AP
Fuel, 400 ki10gram5......... .......... 2"16
Lubrication........
Two lvads of water.
Total.
“With eight acres in ten hours on
heavy soil, with a depth of 9.24 inches,
the cost would be #1.29 an acre, as
azainst $2.74, the cost of doing the
work with oxen,” writes Consul Doe
derlein. *‘ln comparing with the cost
of the latter, even with a depth of
furrow of from 11.8 to 13.8 inches,
the electrie plow is still by far the
cheaper. And the working expeunses
of the electric plow for extensive hus-
Landry amount to less than half those
inearred in working the steam plow.”
—New York Press.
Lightning Strokes,
Certain fnets aboui lightning strokes,
the resnlt of vears of experixfieut' by
the United States weather burean,
bave recently been tabuniated. Thun
derstorms reach their meximum in
Juue and July, though reported in
every month except in January, the
region of winter thanderstorms cen
reing abont Louisiana. Forty such
storins are th: maximam avernge for
any such section. ITue average un
nua’ loss of life from lightming in the
TUnited States is twenty-four persons;
of loss of property over $1,500,000.
People living 1n eities and thickly
built towns ran little danger, the
risks in the country or suburbs beirg
five times as great. For the same
reason the centre of a grove or forest
is much safer than its edges or isolat
ed trees, the dense growth acting to
distribute the current. Roche ‘er
Herald.
Romance of a Cuban Patriot.
At a meeting of the Veterans of the
Nintk Volanteers Infantry of Cincin
nati, recently, it was announced that
Carl Roloff, the present minister of
war of Caba, w(si former member of
the regiment, whose name is Carl
Hook. He came from Germany, en
listed in the ninth in 1861, deserted
October 10,1861, and went to Cuba.
He was conspicuous in the revolution
of 1868. —New York Observer.
Buffalo, N. Y., is now the second
greatest grain port in the world and
leads all in flour, while its ecoal and
Inmber business is enormous,
Chinese Rice Paper Making.
The rice-paper tree, one of the most
interesting of the flora of China, has
recently been successfully experiment
ed with in Florida, where it now flour
ishes, with other sub-tropical and Ori
ental species of trees and shrubs, says
the St. Louis Republic. When first
transplanted in American soil, the ex
perimenters expressed doubts of its
hardiness, fearing that it would be un
able to stand the winters. All these
fears have vanished, however, and it
is now the universal opinion that it is
as well adapted to the climate of this
country as to thatof the famed Flow
ery Kingdom. °
It is a small tree, growing to a
height of less than fifteen feet, with a
trunk or stem from three to five
inches in diameter. Its canes, which
vary in color according to season, are
large, soft and downy, the form some
what resembling that noticed in those
of the castor bean plant. The cele
brated rice paper, the product of this
queer tree, is formed of thin slices of
the pith, which is faken from the
body of the tree in beautiful oylinders
several inches in length.
The Chinese workmen apply the
blade of a sharp, straight kunife,
to these eylinders, and, turning them
round either by rude machinery
or by hand, dexterously pare the pit
from the circumference to center.
This operation makes a rell of extra
quality paper, the secroll being of
equal thickness throughout. After a
cylinder has thus been paired, it is
unrolled and weights are placed upon
it nntil the surface is rendered uni
formly smooth throughout its entire
length. It is altogether probable
that if rice paper making becomes an
industry in the United States these
primitive modes will all be done away
with.,
The Wildest Spot on Earth,
The barkentine Marion arrived re
cently with nine miners, returning in
various conditions of down-hearted
ness and jubilaney from Turnagain
Arm, a bright opening into Cook’s in
let, Alaska. Every miner who had
good luck declares that there is mno
place on earth like Turnagain Arm,
and every miner that strucks a claim
that did not pan out well states con
fidentially that this Alaska mining
boom is all a humbug and sham.
All the returning miners on the
Marion agree, however, that the camp
on Cook’s inlet is the wildest small
place in the world today. It isso far
removed from the rest of the world
that the miners have been compelled
to be a law unto themselves. There
are several hundred of them up there,
and in spite of the inducements of the
poker game and the faro table there
has not been a fight in camp. The
men all speak of it as sure proof that
it is the restrictions of civilization
that make men fight.
The miners have taken up claims on
both sides of the ecreek flowing into
Turnagain Arm, and have a variety of
rude contrivances to aid them in wash
ing the dirt that is full of fine, flaky
gold: Some of these men have done
very well. A miner named Riley,
wha was a passenger on the Marion is
credited with having made $3,000 this
season. Ducey, another of the pas
sengers on the barkentine, struck a
lead that was paying $5O a day when
he left to get more machinery.—San
Francisco Examiner.
The subject of cremation is just now
receiving marked attention in Eng
land. In densely popnlated distriets
the disposal of the dead is a matter of
vital importance to the living. Es
pecially is this so when the deaths are
caused by contagious diseases. Spaces
that have been set apart for burial
grounds have become overfull, and
there 18 no room for further inter
ments. Shallow graves are a menace
to the living, and deep ones are im
possible, from the very nature of
things. Cremation, or some similar
way of disposing of the dead, is omne
of the mnost important probicms of the
future.—New York Ledger.
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A naturalist has been making some
investigations in the fish ponds at
Guilford with regard to the much de
bated qnestion as to whether fish can
comrmuunicate a notion of their experi
ences to otlier fishes, The experi
menter, when he had caught a trout,
threw it back alive into the pond.
Then he put in a freshiy baited hook,
and only two or three trout came
after it. By experimenting in another
pond, equally well stocked, and not
throwing back any fish, Mr. Field
fonud that he could eatehr trout with
out any trouble. This seems to show
that captured fishes Wwhen released do
communnicate their suflferings to their
neighbors in the pond. —Atlanta Con
stitution.
3
Cyprus methods of agriculture are
of the most primitive descriptions.
The plow in use in Cyprus is just
what Virgil describes. They haven’t
changed their implements of agricul
ture for 2,000 years. As for the
threshing floors, they are precisely
what they were in Palestine in the
days of Araunah the Jebusite. Every
village has one or more of these.
4
Mother—Ethel, what are you doing
with the encyclopaedia ?
Ethel —Looking for my doll’s stock
ing; papa said that everything was to
be found in the encyclopaedia.—ln
dianapolis Journal
Tattooing is the craze in England
just now, and one member of Parh
ment bas had his whole family marked
to assist in identification in case of an
accident,
The Crematorium,
. Do Fishes Talk!?
Primitive Metheds.
Literal.
A UNIQUE POST.
Wonderful Skill of a Woman in
Reading Illegible Addresses.
Employment in the Postoffice
Department at Washington.
Letters addressed illegibly or in
eorrectly, come to the postoffice de
partment at Washington by the mil
lion.
To the “‘live letter division™ of the
department come all letters of this
character. This division is in charge
ef a woman. She hes a large force of
clerks. Under her the division has
grown from a mere adjunct to an im
portant and interesting field of labor,
and in the whole range of goverment
emplovment there is no other post
which is so unique and requires more
detective talent.
About 5,000,000 such Iletters are
yearly turned into this division, and
nearly every one gets to its destina
tion, if there is the faintest clue on
which to work. A letter to be sent to
the detective division must be so il
legible or so curiously directed that
none of the clerks at the Post Ofiice
from which it was sent can read it
When it reaches Washington it is an
Egyptian puzzle, which no one seems
able to solve. But with her wonder
ful brain and her long course of train
ing, this woman is able to send letters
to destinations that one would never
dream were meant.
Once a letter came addressed to
Bent Arroy. Neb.,but as there was no
office of that name in the State, she
sent it to Broken Bow, which is the
name of a small settlement. Another
missive was addressed to Goose Bay,
N. C., and returned as there was no
such place. The Ilady reasoned that
there was somewhere about that part
of the country a town of some such
name and decided upon Duck Creek
as the one meant and she was right,
A third letter was addressed to Rat
Trap, Miss., and she sent it to its
rigbtful owner at Fox Trap in the
same state.
Some of the most interesting letters
are preserved in a drawer, which is
full of emnvelopes that have been de
ciphered, received and sent back at the
request of the office. Thereis notone
among them that the average person
could read. For instance, here is one
in a ecramped hand for Tigerfols, N. Y.,
but no one would dream that Niagara
Falls was the place meant. Another
letter was to be sent to Chunkie City,
but Sandusky was the place meant.
Knowledge was put on one envelope
which was meant for Norwich, Dbut it
got to Its destination all right.
One of the most puzzling addresses
was one in the State of Furgoine. It
went the rounds of the office, and at
last some bright body tried pronounec
ing it rapidly, and it was then dis
covered that Virginia was the place
meant,
Some witty person wrote his ad
dress in short hand, but it was read
and delivered. One letter came from
New York that no one in this city
could make head or tail of. DBut this
woman puzzie reader decided that
what seemed but a series of meaning
less scratches was meant for District-
Attorney Nicoll. —New York World,
Deflt at Opening Clams.
Trudging down the street of a Long
Island fishing village one can’t help
noticing the piles of clam shells near
some of the houses. One in partica
lar attracts attention. It is an em
bankment higher than the house it
incloses on three sides. The oldest
inhabitant discoursed about them thus:
““The people who live in those
houses open clams and string them
for market. Women open all the
ciams, and become so expert they will
open and string 3,000 or 4,000 a day.
I have seen them on a wager toss three
clams into the air and eatch and open
them as they fell, keeping two in air
all the time. That big mound you
speak of is where a woman lives who
works for several fishermen. She
gets four cents a hnndred, and will
make $1.50 and $2 a day. That
mouud has been some time accumniai
ing. She says it keeps the house
warm in winter. Most of the monuds,
llowever, have not been there » vear,
for since the towns are improviug the
roeds the sheils are in great demand.
They mix with the sand and make a
splendid road. The fishermen sell
them. AR
**But finex"c are some shell -heaps
around here that are older than the
white man. The Indians made them.
This stringing clams is the old Indian
way, aud we learned it from them.
They used to have a regular trade
with tribes back iu the conutry. They
used to dry clams, too. Then again,
in some places you will find the shells
chipped and worn. That is where
they made wampum, for Long Island
was a famous place for it, and turned
out some of the finest known. Find
things in them ? Oh, yes; but noth
ing very curions. I have seen some
arrow heads taken out, and some
stone knives, which they evidently
worked with, and have heard of bones
being found ; that’s all. An Indian is
a natural clam huanter, though.,”—
New York Press.
Kissing Unknown in Japan.
*‘Strange as it may appear,” says
M. de Guerville in his account of Jap
anese woman, ‘‘a kiss is an unknown
thing in Japan. A lover never kisses
his sweetheart, a mother never kisses
her child. He made a great mistake
the man who wrote that ‘a kiss is na
ture’s Volapuk,the uuniversal langunage
of love.” You can kiss any Japanese
girl. She will not object, for she
cannot possibly understand what vou
mean. She will only think *‘What
queer people these foreigners are.””
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
An Italian captain claims to have
invented a gun which will fire 1,000
rounds.
The range of the human voice is
said to extend from forty-three to
2,048 vibrations per second.
Now comes a new telegraph ma
chine system which it is claimed will
transmit from 720 to 948 words a min
ute.
The orchids are true parasites,
growing on other plants and drawing
their substance from them and from
the air.
The brain of a woman is smaller
than that of a man, but it is some
what larger in proportion to the
weight of the body.
Observation recently made on =
criminal beheaded in France proved
that the heart beat continued for six
minutes after the ax fell,
It is said that a bat finds its way
without the assistance of its eyes. A
blinded bat will avoid wires and ob
structions as dexterously as if it could
see perfectly.
The electric plow is pronounced a
success in Germany, both from a prac
tical and an economical standpoint.
It is now expected that the application
of electricity is to be extended to
other farm work, ineluding the dig
ging of beets and potatoes
Bicycles have been much annoyed
by the malicious throwing of tacks in
the roadway to perforate the pneu
matic tires. To meet this difficulty it
has been proposed to attach a magnet
to the front wheel, so as to pick up
the tacks as the machine rolls along.
Reports from the lake regions of
Minnesota and the Dekotas announce
that the lakes in that section are not
only greatly diminished in quantity,
but some are disappearing entirely.
This state of affairs is largely attributa
ble to the deficiency in rainfall for
the past ten years.
The West Highland Railway com
pany of London has found it neces
sary to hang ‘‘grouse protectors” on
many of their telegraph wires. These
protectors consist of several sheets of
tin, which rattle together, and warn
the birds of danger. Before this in
stitution hundredsof birds were killed
by striking the wires.
Paper HRorseshoes.
A practical invention by aveterinary
surgeon is now successfully applied at
Berlin. He manufactures horseshoes
of paper impregnated with oil or tur
pentine to make it water-prool.
After Dbeing saturated, it is glued to
gether in thin layers with a cement
which does not become brittle when
drying and consists of a mixture of
Venetian turpentine, powdered chalk,
linseed oil and lacquer. These horse
shoes are made in various thicknesses.
The holes, admitting the nails by
which the shoe is fastened to the hoof,
are stamped through the paper when
moist ;it is then eubjected to a very
strong pressure, under a hydraulic
press, and, when dry, can be filed and
planed to fit,the hoof snugly.
The inventor has already attempted
to make these horseshoes of paper
pulp, adding chalk, sand, turpentine
and linseed oil in such quantities that
the material is impermeable to moist
ure. This compositon possesses the
necessary elasticity and toughness for
the purpose; it ean be pressed in
molds and dried afterwards, or eat
out of blocks of the mass and placead
under strong pressure. The shoes
made my pasting together paper sheets
are preferable, as they are stronger
than those made of the compressed
material. These shoes can be fastened
to the horse’s Loof either by nails, as
usual, or be cemecuted with glue con
sisting of gnmm of ammonia one part
and gutta-percha two parts, —Puaper
World.
Strange Project for Atlantie Travel,
The strangest project for rapid
tramsatlantic travel 1s that of the
French engineer, Bazin. His ideal
“ship” 18 not a ship at all, bat a plat
form several stories high, earried on
and propelled by tubes or “‘rollers”
about sixty feet in diameter, entering
the water about twenty feet. The "r
ventor claims that with suen rotating
mouster rollers & speed of thirty-two
knots an honr is possible. A very
small model has shown satisfactory
resnits, so much so asto attract the at
tention of the French Government. A
model seventy-five feet long is now in
course of construction.—New York
World.
A Paradise For Farmets,
Harrison, county, Ky., seems to be
a paradise for farmers, The locai
paper says Uncle Billy Buazzard of
Harrison county, raised one of the
largest radishes ever produced 1n that
section of the state. Their combined
weight was 16 1-2 pounds, one weigh
ing 8 1-2 pounds. Uncle Billy and
Unecle Jim Humble bought four hogs
the other day, for the purpose of
speculation. The four weighed 2,000
pounds.
A Dangerous Rival,
Foreign Suiter—l lay at your feet
a coronet and a castle with a long
rent-roll. I am sure you cannot do
better than to accept.
American Beauty—You flatter your
self, sirr. Oae of my suiters is an
American who sells coal in Winter
and ice in Summer. New York
Weekly*
Out of the Game,
“Does he stand well at college?”
“Pretty well, His weak eyes are
against him.”
“An?”
‘“Yes. They won’t stand kicking
and gouging. —Detroit Tribune.
Never and Forever.
Never to see thy face again,
Forever and forever:
Never to love, though love be pain
Forever and forever!
Never to see thy eyes of blue,
Never to feel thy heartthrobs true,
Forever and forever!
Never to touch thy hands and thrill,
Forever and forever :
Never to kiss as fond lips will,
Forever and forever!
0, Destiny! postpone the day
When clay must crumble and be clay
Forever and forever!
HUMOROUS.
Let well enough alone, if you can
not do better.
The things a man prizes the most
are those the fellow just ahead of him
picks up.
That old philosopher must have
loved the chorus girl. She always
sings at her work.
“Who is your family physician ?”
““We don’t have any: we let our folks
die a natural death.”
Yeast—Did yon ever hug a delu
sion? Crimsonbeak—Yes; before 1
married I thought the woman I loved
was worth a fortune.”
“I hardly know whether to marry
her or not,” said the count. *“‘Her
father is in the clothing trade.”
““There is money in clothes,” said the
duke. *“‘There isn’t any in mine,”’
sald the count.
He was a gay geologist :
His name was crafty Fox.
He with an heiress fell in love
Because she had the rocks,
“You don’t objeect to a contributor
dropping into poetry once in & while,
I presume?” said the caller with an af
fable smile. “‘Certainiy not, sir. Sit
down,” replied the editor, pushing
the waste basket toward him.
Beatrice sends us some verses en
titled, Why Do I Live?” We eannot
use vour contribution, Beatrice, but
we can answer your conundrnm. Yon
live simply because youn send your
verses instead of brinzing them,
Mrs. Prattie, to her visitor—Have
vou heard of the splendid eatehh Miss
Swiftly bas made ? She is engaged
to a nobleman, the baron of—of— (to
her husband)—What is he baron of,
my dear ? Er. Praitle, who has met
him—ldeas.
Mr. Mann—That was a very pretiy
bonnet that Miss hapote had on
Mrs. Mann—And pray how long have
you been a judge of millinery? Mr.
Mann—Never claimed to be. All that
I know is the other womeun declared
that it was hideous,
Ab, the love untold, and the kiss unkissed,
Too often in life we reach ;
But the eandidate never will let us get
So far as the unspoken speech,
In the eleetrie; First standee—Do
you believe that a man has a right to
kick, under sufiicient provoeation?
Second standee— Most certainiv, First
standee—ll am glad you think as 1 do;
but how in time am I to kick uuless
you get off my foot?
Mrs. Slimson (severely) —Wiilie,
ihis lady complains that yon have been
fighti®g with her littlg boy and want.
Yoil to promise never (8 so again.
Willie (to Jady)—You needn’t be
afraid ma’am. Your boy will keep
out of my wav after this.
Gus—Did yon make an impressicn
on that pretty giri you got so wild
about? George —— I'm afraid not.
When I ealled she summoned her
cthaperon, aud then the two spent the
even:ng arguing the points of a new
costume, with me as nmpire.”
“I undersiand that the railroad
companies are making greai prepara
tions for earrving bieyceles next sum
mer.” “‘Yes, wheelmen are beginning
to get their rights,. Why, I know of
one road this year that actusily re
fused to allow more than two trunks
to be put on the top of one wheel.”
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Soft Breads Yersus Teelh,
A terrible example of what we may
all expeet if we continue to spoil our
digestions and complexiors with soft
bread a rolls, a Boston dentist tells
the following story: Within the past
vear he had come to §im for profes
sional treatment four Swedish girls
The teeth of each of these young
women were really erumbling away.
Aud why? In their native eountry,
where the Swedish bread is baked at
intervals duriug the vear, and hung
on poles to dry and harden, the teeth
had their proper exereise. But when
these girls became subject to *‘Amer
ican civilization,” and were obliged
to eat the pap and pastry in homes
where more time is devoted to cater
ing to the taste than to finding out
the needs and requirements of the
body, the masticating of food was no
louger u necossity, and the teeth find
ing they were of uo more service, de
cided to take themseclves out of the
wuav.—New York Advertiser.
The ,‘:liseptlc Fad.
On the theory' that if a little 1a
good, a great deal must be much pet
ter, mediez! men and nurses are run-s
ning wild on the subject of antisep
tics. So great is the extreme to which
this has been carried that medical so- \
cieties have felt ecalled npon to sound
a note of warning. It seems scarcely
possibie that doctors could so far for
get themselves as to make use of such
powerful drugs in quantities that can
cause injury to patients, but medical
records assure us that this has been
done on severai occssions. A number
of children have been rendered un
conscious from the liberal use of anti
septics, and have remained in a coma.
tose state for some hours. While an
tiseptics are known and recognized as
the most inestimable value to human- -
ity, it may be well to stop and con
sider how far they may be used with
safety. New York Ledger.
—Will T. Hale.