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I 1 K A SIGN OF SPRINGTIME SOME FACTS ABOUT TOPS WHICH BOYS WILL LIKE. ttptime is as ^etcoiAe to the Young* tten as the Flowers That Bloom In the Spring. Tops are signs of springtime, In every home in the city where there is a "boy there are from one to a dozen tops. Some have pegs and some have not, and some are badly battered and others in the collection show signs of new ness. There is a reason for every symptom observable in tops, and a boy can explain everything, says the N. Y. Recorder. All boys can spin tops. No one knows where or when or how they learned, or who taught them, but they know how just the same. There is a popular impression to the effect that a STltriTO AND WHIP TOP. boy is Dorn knowing about it. He knows how to spin a top the same as a girl knows how to put her doll baby to sleep, or the same as a boy knows how to whistle. No one says anything about it, or thinks anything about it,when lo, one day he winds a top up and throws it, and it spins. He doesn't even know how it happened, and if you are am bitious and inquire into it yourself, he will smile a quiet smile while he winds it up, and then he will throw it as a sort of an object lesson and tell you it is "easy enough." It does seem to be easy enough, but if you are not a boy you can try till the crack of doom and never once succeed. You may throw it with all your might, and away it will go.reeling and scurry ing off into some snug, inaccessible corner and bid you pursue it. The boy who spins a top well has a curious little trick of wedging the end of his tongue between his teeth and holding his head a bit on the side while he winds the top. But this really has nothing to do with the success of spinning a top. because you may hold the end of your tongue between your teeth till you bite it off and it will not help you at all. The top business in all New- York shops is booming just at present. The most popular top is a fcrnall one painted TWO HUMMING TOPS. green and suggests the color of the grrass and the leaves which will soon appear. This top only costs a penny and the string also costs a penny. The string should have a wooden button on one end of it to facilitate matters. This little green top has a wooden knob on the top of it. This knob, as an ad junct to the spinning powers of a top is a mooted question. Some boys take the knob out and fill the hole with lead. They claim it makes it spin better. The next boy you meet with will deny this assertion and spin the top as well with the knob on as the other boy did with the lead tilling. Another very popular top is the whip top. This one spins by being vigorous ly, persistently and skillfully lashed with a whip so full of lashes that it looks like a cat o' nine tails. The whip top is wholly unlike the Tisual string top. Its upper surface is flat and the peg is very blunt. In some shops a stick and small leather string attached is presented to each customer who purchases a penny top, but as a usual thing the whip is home made. "Whip tops make great inroads upon the household linen by the demand they create for lashes. A particularly fascinating top is the i Chinese top. It spins with a string from a fork, and from time to time it i) disgorges other lesser tops and the en tin family spin together. A CHINESE TOP. Hie game of "peg top" is one of the recently invented games and it is very popular. To play "peg top" it is first necessary to mark a ring on the ground. The large-sized ring is called the New York ring" and the small ring is called the "Boston ring." The former is more popular with New York boys for obvi ous reasons. Each boy pu ts a top in the fin#, it then becomes the privilege of THE GYROSCOPE AND HEXAGON. «&ch boy to throw or shoot or "fire" a top into the ring, aiming at the other tops. The game is to knock the other tops out of the ring or to maim, disable or injure them in any way whatsoever. To gain a peg from another boy's top is a desirable achievement. Just what A boy wants with a peg it is not possible to coniecture. Thev are regarded as %, V 4 1 ife' trophies. Indians want scalps for a similar reason, doubtless. The gyroscope is the most wonderful top. It is a phenomenon and one of the few things which even science has failed to explain. It consists of two wheels at right angles with each other, the op posite axles of the one attached to the sides of the other. As one wheel spins horizontally from a pivot in which it rests the other wheel spins in a perpen dicular position. The humming top sings a solo as it spins, and the music is as mysterious as the sound of the ocean, which every boy and girl has heard in a sea shell. But the hole in the side of the top, which is sometimes of tin and some times of wood, has all to do with the music. A top which is often used for indoor games is a hexagon in shape. Any boy will tell you that the numbers are so arranged that every opposite pair of figures sums up to make seven. Thus, if you observe 5 on one side of the top you may know its opposite number is 2. The careful, thrifty boy has a pet top which he cherishes from one year to the next. This top is well trained. It can walk a tight rope or it will spin on his hand, and, under any and all cir cumstances,it may be relied on for good behavior and always reflect credit upon the skill of the owner. The top is a standard toy. It is as necessary to a boy's happiness as a knife, and the tulips and crocuses are not more surely to be expected or are more reliable harbingers of the ap proaching spring. Their Age. Van Pelt—"They tell a story that the king of the Cannibal islands once wrote a ukase to the effect that all women should be put to death on their 26th birthday." Miss Sears—" What did it amount to?" Van Pelt—"Nothing."—N. Y. Herald. HOW TH E CHINESE LOVE US. A "Foreign Devil" Placard from the Streets of Tlen-Tsin and Shanghai. The Chinese cartoon which appears on this page was drawn from a photo graph. The originals, printed in four colors, were widely posted and circulat ed in Chinese cities after the outrages last summer. The large characters at the top announce that it is the Beat ing devil's burning book picture." Above and to the right in the picture is a representation of two European missionaries being cruelly put to death, an aged mandarin standing calmly by and directing the operation. The legend to the right reads, literally translated: "10,000 arrows and 1,000 knives will not be enough to punish the pig religion for spoiling the religion and rites of our ancestors." To the left is a scene representing the burn- ft i ing of Bibles a coolie is carry ing a load of sacred books for feed ing the flames, while the people stand ing by are overcome by the stench supposed to arise from the impurities of the christian religion. The legend to the left is laden with vileness. It says that the filth of the christian re ligion—the exact significance of the characters is something awful—smells unto heaven, and the religion of the foreign devil pollutes all China. The influence of such a circular is ten times as great as that of the most active missionary. Christian missions in China are about as hopeless and fruitless a field of endeavor as man has ever en tered upon- No Hurry About It. f?hf*—u^ow, Tom, if we're to be mar ried shortly we ought to be economical and commence to save so don't smoke so many cigars." He—"All right and I won't send you any more flowers or candy and we shan't go to theater, either." She—" Let's start the economy plan after we're married. That will be time enough—won't it, dear?"—Cloak Journal. The Roman Bank Clerk. Armeilini, the banker, a notorious miser, entered the office and very care fully went through all the work done by his youngest clerk. He was per fectly satisfied and said to the young man: What salary do you get from my firm? "Up to the present, nothing, sign or!" Very good. From the first of next month I will see that it is doubled."— Popolo Romano. A boat to Be Elevated. u Paw," said the small boy, interrupt ing his conversation with a capitalist, "is that railroad you're tryin' to frfrU shares in an elevated railroad?" "No, my son," was the answer. "Well, then, what made you say yon wanted to get out, 'cause it was goin* up higher than Gilderoy's kite?" Washington Star. An eminent lord chief justice who was trying a right-of-way case, says an English paper, had before him a witness—an old farmer—who was pro ceeding to tell the jury that he had "knowed the path for sixty veer, and my feyther tould I as be hoerd my grandfather say "Stop!" said the judge, "we can't have any hear say evidence here." "No," exclaimed Farmer Giles. "Then how dost know who thy feyther was 'cept hearsay?" After the laughter had subsided the judge said: "In courts of law we can only be guided by what you have seen with your eyes, and nothing more or less." "Oh, that be bio wed for a tale!" replied the farmer. "I ha' got a bile on the back of my neck, and I never seed un but I be prepared to swear that he's there, dang un!" This sec ond triumph on the part of the witness set in a torrent of hearsay evidence about the footpath which obtained weight with the jury, albeit the judge told them it was not testimony of any value, aud the farmer's party wo? v A J*- CHACMAS AND BABOONS. Peculiarities of an Interesting Specie# of the Monkey Tribe. I had always heard that baboons can appreciate fire, though they cannot make it. A party had been picnicking in some woods, and in one part was a steep descent crossed by bold ledges of rock that made a series of steps down to a spring below. This place was fixed on as a capital one to dine in and a large fire was lit on one of the ledges for cooking purposes. During the af ternoon the party was broken up and all dispersed, but considerable fire was left, as some of the logs used were very thick. Later it was discovered that one of the ladies had left her shawl or some other article on one of the ledges and several of the gentlemen returned for it. On arriving at the spot they were startled to find the ledge where the fire was left with a new set of oecupants. A number of baboons had seated them selves near the fire and some were en gaged in pushing the ends of the smaller sticks into it,while the others devoured the pieces of bread, rice, and varied scraps left from the dinner. Luckily the missing article had leen dropped on the upper ledge, and the spectators did not linger long in sucli dangerous vicin ity to these uninvited guests. Some farm hands who went there late in the evening found the baboons still chat tering round the burning embers. Dogs are of very little use as guardi ans against these ferocious depredators. They pay no heed to them unless the dog has the temerity to go for the chacma, when he gets handled so severely it is rarely he will attack a second time. Native guardians are little better, for the chacmas, with their patience and cunning in watch ing their opportunity, outwit the men, and gain their ends in the long run, in MY FRIEND RETREATED PRECIPITATELY, spite of them. The screechings and yellings they make when disturbed in their haunts are enough to frighten anyone within hearing, and when you find great pieces of rock pelting down dangerously near your head you are apt to take to your heels, happy if the screeching monsters do not overtake you. During my residence in the east I had a fine young chacma given me, about 3 years old. He grew rapidly, and in about a year he was a large and danger ous animal to strangers, though very tame with me. He would sit beside me, playing like a child, but let anyone come into the room, man or boy,and he raised himself fully erect, every hair on his head and neck standing out, made hideous faces, and showed his power ful teeth, enough to intimidate anyone, but a few gentle words from me calmed him. Fearing some accident I had a large iron chain attached to a thick ring and passed rotrnd his body,and this was fastened by a strong bolt driven into a tree. Mr. Jean Louis, as he was called,took it all quietly, but on the first chance he got alone he broke a link in the chain with a stone in the same manner as a human being would do it, yet the links were as thick as the little finger of a man's hand. On my return with a friend I found him up in a large bread fruit tree. The sight of a stranger so excited him he began pelting us with the heavy fruit, pretty dangerous mis siles when sent with so accurate an aim that we had to seek shelter to avoid them. My friend retreated precipitate ly, but when I was alone I soon had .Tean Louis down under control. He was always accustomed to watch for my return, when at once he set to work with the impatience of a child to ex amine my pockets, as I always brought him a banana, guava, or other fruit. His curiosity was great, also his imi tative faculties. Once he watched me attentively make a hole with a gimlet and insert a screw with a screwdriver, and he did the same fairly well. He could drive a nail as well as I could, draw a cork from a bot/tle and drink wine from a glass, and I believe I could have taught him almost anything save speech. I was the only male he would allow to approach him, but he never showed the same disposition toward a female. His ferocious looks, however, were enough to deter any woman from going near him. It was my intention to bring him with me to America, but circumstances prevented it. A few days before I set sail Jean Louis got loose and made for the cathedral and began tearing off the clap boards. Seeing the door open he walked in and went to the pulpit, to the horror of the sexton, who then caught sight of him. He seized and tore the velvet cushions, and when an attempt was made to dislodge him he flung the bible and prayer-book at him and fairly drove him from the building. The police were called and two men with loaded carbines shot my pet while standing erect defying them, but if I had been called I could have got him away quietly. When brought to the house and laid on the veranda he had almost a human look about him. Jean Louis now occupies a prominent place in the museum of the Royal Socie ty of Arts and Sciences at Port I^rais, Mauritius. Unlike the Romans of a later age the Egyptians did not confine the privilege of shaving to free citizens, but obliged their slaves to shave both face and head. The data are not exactly as au thentic as one would like to have, but it is believed that the custom of shaving the beard was introduced in Rome in the year 400 B. C. According to Sciplo Africanus was the first wJb.o shaved daily* I 1 .„- -jt Pliny, Roman FROM WASHINGTON Tariff and Reciprocity Will be tlie Watchwords of the Coming Campaign. President Harrison's Past Rec ord is Without a Single Flaw. The Alliance a Political Failure —It Has Accomplished Nothing of Value. From Our Own Soeclal Correspondent. WASHINGTON, June 11.—Harrison and Reid. Protection and Reciprocity. Those are the simple words, con veying great meaning, which are on the lips of everyone at the Nation's Capital o to-day. Tliey indicate the republican candidates named at Minneapolis for the presidency and vice-presidency, and the issues which the party will force upon the country's forum for the next four months. It was made plain in every utterance at [Minneapolis' convention, at which there were so many from the Dakotas, that this is to be a campaign, from the leaders of both parties based upon business propositions. Trade and finance will be at the botton of every step, every issue. The bulk of the oracular evidence of the convention was indicative of an interest in the tariff and our new trade schemes through the channels of reciprocity. There was not a speech made before the convention which failed to partake most largely of tariff and reciprocity. PRESIDENT IIARIUSON 8 RECORD in a business way was discussed on the street corners, the hotel lobbies and in the headquarters of the various state delegations. There was not one but that said it was without a flaw it had fulfilled every promise made four years ago which it was possible for a president and liis party to ful fill. There were those who, while prais ing the President and his accomplish ments, conscientiously believed it best not to re-nominate him. They were those who held' party interest above men. They feared the prece dent of a second term, or believed it better to have another man, whose entry would give hope of better days for those out of office. Senator Petti grew was one of the latter. Senator Pettigrew was not opposed to Presi dent Harrison factiously, he said, but because the conditions of the party, demanded new blood a new lease for those out. But the Senator is a good Republican and will fall gracefully into line. NO MUGWUMPS will be found among the republicans this year, I predict. As I said in a letter a couple of weeks ago, before I knew that our leader would not be Blaine, republicans, since the exper ience of 1884, have shown a disposi tion to bring about reforms in their own party. They have found that it is ruinous to individuals and to party to leave their first love and go off for the establishment of a new party. They have shown a bold disposition to stay and by reason and force compel their party to either adopt their own plans and ideas out right or compromise. What have the Republicnan farmers gained in legis lation by leaving their party and go ing off into a new organization. Not a single line of legislation proposed by an Alliance member of either house of this Congress will be found upon the Revised Statutes when the term expires March 3rd next. THE PARTY OF THE FARMER is not the alliance, but the republi can. The farmer has gotten more out of this administration in every way than has any one else. Reciproc ity, features of the tariff and statu tory laws relating to irrigation, diseases of cattle and all kinds of live stock, seed, etc., are everywhere rec ognized as foremost interests in the new laws. The alliance has proven a common political enemy. It has cut into Re publican ranks in tho Northwest and made inroads upon the Democrats in the South. It is but natural therefore that as a party It should fail to get the respect of either of the great old parties in Congress. I am inclined to the notion that the farmers, in cal culating their political possibilities in going into the Alliance from the Dakotas, for instance, have failed to take general facts into consideration. They have looked at local effects of the movement. The country is too cosmopolitan to ever admit of the success of a distinctive class political movement, be it Alliance, Prohibition Labor or what-not. While it might be strong in one locality, in one state, it would fail elsewhere, for as soon as you leave one locality you encounter different conditions. It is possible to establish and main tain prohibition in a new state, where the population is small and no one will enter except he be a teetotaler, but in the east and south tliey will not have it. Just so with the alliance. FARMERS WHO STICK to their own party, be it Democratic or Bepublinan, get into the majority V *3 1,-f -Mi. V now and then, if not at all times, and they can successfully accomplish their purpose, by making reasonable de mands upon the majority. It is a noticable fact that every alliance member of congress is a political renegade, a professional politician. The real farmer, who has some general interests and his country at heart, get nothing but bad wind. These ideas are thrown out with honest intentions, for I am from fanner's stock myself and have been many years in politics and with politicians A QUIET CAMPAIGN From first to last will be conducted from the Republican side with Harrison and Reid. There will be no noise, no bluster, but the intelligence of voters will be appealed to at all times. I know the people of the Northwest wanted to see Blaine president. That was natural and proper. But Harrison lias made the best president we had since Lincoln When he was nominated in 1888 there was even more disappointment than there is anywhere now. His cam paign opened quietly, devoid of enthusiasm. The campaign of 1838 was one of conscience, based upon intelligence. Harrison grew. He was a magnificent soldier, an honest man, one of the people, a lawyer of the highest type, and a statesman who had done more than any other for the new states, and as the election approched the voters began' to admire the man. The enthusiasm came at the polls. That is where it will come in 1892. That is where it does the most good. Harrison and Reid will be elected in November. PERRY S. HEATS. Sending Oat Samples. Chicago Herald: I wonder whether one person in a thousand who asks for a sample of a piece of dry goods ever stops to think what it costs the merchants of this country a year to satisfactorily respond to the sample request?" asked the manager of one of Chicago's greatest dry goods houses the other day as he opened the thirty-eighth request found in a single mail. "I had a talk with the managers of a dozen or more big houses not long ago," lie continued, "and among other things discussed was that of giving away samples and sending out samples of dry goods,etc., by salesmen. Finally we got to figuring on the matter. "The result was most appalling. Same of us liad been connected with big factories in our time, as well as other large houses, wholesale and retail. We found that, placed at a conservative figure, there are more than $3,000,000 worth of goods given away, and consequently destroyed in samples every year in the United States. "When you come to figure this out it means an average of 6 cents apiece for every man, woman and child, including all the babies, in the United States. "This $3,000,000 or more, eventually, of course, comes out of the pockets of the purchasers, or, more properly speaking, the consumers of dry goods. The sample feature of the dry goods business is at once one of the greatest nuisances and blessings that we have. Where the nuisance comes in is easily to be seen: the blessing of it is in the fact that it saves us, or, I should say, the dearly beloved people, many a thousand dollars which otherwise would go for the expense of sending out more traveling salesmen. Thou sands of dollars' worth of goods are sent out every day to retail customers over the country from which we never hear a word, But do we lose it? Oh, no—never! We simply count upon it as being so much clear loss or necessary expense, along with clerk hire, taxes, etc., and ask the more for the goods we sell. The Rainmaker Made It Rain. The G. A. R. association of south west Minnesota had a most success ful day at their annual encampment held at Fulda. About 200 veterans, 200 sons of veterans and a large number of members of the W. R. C. are in Camp Aldrich, located near the lake alongside a fine grove, where they had about 100 tents. Ex-Gov. Mc-Gill delivered an address at the camp fire. W. A. Ward ascended in a balloon at 7 P. M. and descended by parachute. He gave an exhibition at rainmaking and in less than twenty minutes a heavy shower came up which lasted two hours and shortened the evening programme for the even ing camp fire. Band Master Klein, of Fort Meade, who is well known all over the Hills, has been dishonorably discharged from the United States service for acts unbecoming an officer and for appropriating for his own use money belonging to the Fort Meade band, of which he was leader. He was also indebted to numerous merchants in Sturgis, but by going to Tilford in a buggy and boarding the east bound passenger at that place, he succeeded in eluding them. Gambling was the principal cause of his downfall. The Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias met at Fiejrre last week. World's Fair Notes. A very fine collection of tropical plants, including some of the largest specimens, will be sent from Jamacia to the World's Fair. The arrange ments for their transportioft have already been made. Great Britain's building at the World's Fair is now in process of erection. The structures of a number of other foreign nations will be begun within ten days or two weeks, as commissioners are on the ground pre paring to inaugurate work. Tlie postal facilities and service at the "World's Fair will constitute a part of the U. S. government exhibit and, naturally, will be made as near perfection as possible. The expense estimated to be necessary to accom plish this is $163,047. Postmaster General Wanamaker has asked that an appropriation of that sum be made by the government. A miniture model of a typical, west ern farm, complete in every detail, will be exhibited in the "Washington state building at the World's Fair. Among other exhibits will be a col lection of specimens of Married in a Cemetery. l$ie strangest and most unique marriage ever performed in Balti more took place last week within the boundaries of Green Mount Cemetery over the grave of the parents of the bride. Additional importance attached to the event owing to the prominence of the contracting parties. The groom was Colonel Hen doick Yon Stamp, ex-Minister of Denmark to the United States, the bride was Miss Mildred Hammond, of this city, daughter of the late Gen eral Hammond. Six carraiges were occupied by the wedding party, but the vehicles were supposed to be a fun eral cortege, as they slowly moved through the cemetery. When the Hammond lot was reached the graves were strewn with flowers, and the wedding was quickly performed, the bride standing upon the grave of her mother, and the groom standing upon the grave of the bride's father. The bride is of one of Maryland's oldest families, being a remote decendant of President George Wash ington. She is 40 and the groom 44 years old. The party left for Wash ington. Scientific American: According to a report made by Vice Consul Robin son, of Colon, on the Isthmus of Pan ama, the business of preparing banana meal for the' New York market will soon be carried on in that region. He states that a company has been organized with a capital of $75,000, under the name of the Banana Food company, for the pur pose of drying and otherwise prepar ing bananas and plantains for food. He says it has been ascertained that while apples yield only 12 per cent., bananas with the skins removed yield 25 per cent of thoroughly desiccated fruit. The supply of bananas is practically unlimited. The fruit grows to maturity all the year round, and may be obtained every day throughout the year, so that the man ufacture of the new food can be made continuous. E. A. Sherman, of Sioux Falls, was married in that city last week to Miss Kathlee E. Elwell. He was at one time treasurer and auditor of Dakota territory. A gold brick weighing 1,086 ounces and valued at $1,494 was shipped east from Ieaiwood Saturday. •v all the species of birds, fish and animals to be found in the state. The interior of the building will be decorated in large part by the women of the state. Pope Leo XIII has shown the deep interest he feels in the World's Fair and in America by deciding to exhibit at the Fair some of the rare treasures of art, literature and history which the Vatican contains. Archbishop Ireland, now in Rome, has cabled this information and asked for space for the exhibit. Among the Montana exhibits to be sent to the world's fair at Chicago is a 500-pound brick of solid gold taken from one mine, the "Spotted Horse," located at Maiden, Fergus county. The "Spotted Horse" mine has quite a remarkable history. It was discov ered by Phil McAdow, who worked it for years in a small way, but sufficient to yield him a good income. About two years ago he bonded it for $500, 000 to a party of capitalists, includ ing ex-Gov. Hauser, of Montana. The bond was to run for a year. Before the year was out the capitalists con cluded the mine was not worth the money and threw up the bond. They had already paid McAdow $300, 000 of the bond but prepared to sacrifice that amount "rather than "sink" any more money, as they thought they were doing. The mine, of course, reverted to McAdow. He began working it again, on a somewhat larger scale than before. In six months after the bond was surrendered, McAdow turned up in Helena with a $50,000 gold brick under his arm. From that time on he has been taking out money. The $150,000 brick he says he doesn't need now, so he will send it to Chicago. I in I* i .*• '*1 1