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..f'M.iUff'aiJU.^iMUlM'WUX'iAixtiii'u.M\ t«aas\ ass ssm HI* Cool? SBViniK Cnllea n» Interpreter . ''Atthougii 'QiA HteB^'wisahJunt piati la nil inMtcrs of business aid i^ojicbed. We pW'ftftais by tbefltralghtest road,'' sald'su .old rie\y#p>per min, jtyiti be was courteous in an eminent degree anfr bud *: h)gk respect for the- lorms. of social ipter;e,oura& iWe' president of the United States his ro- ceptlofti of jorefgQ robdstefS and emi- nent, citizens was distinguished by ircurtiy etiquette arid noble bearing, It j» related that or* one occasion a t or- elgn minister Just arrived had a day B»4 an. hour appointed by Mr* Mc^wje, then secretary of state, to he presented .to ,$&• president, * n<1 / misunderstand-, lpg the premier's HVeneb and perfectly ' «t ftult J>y tfto apparent simplicity.off Kopubilcan manner* the minister (it «t»e appointed time proceeded' to the • White House alone and rang tue hell. \Je mils venu voir M. le President,'' paid the plenipotentiary to th e Irish uerynnt, \^n» what does that moon?\ wittor- ed Pat, and continued, \Be says presi- dent, though, an'I s'pose ho wishes to »eo the general,\ \Oui out,\ said the mtnstor, bowing, Without further ceremony the gentlc- * jnan was ushered into (he green room, •wjtcre the general sat, complacently smoking Ms corncob pipe, and on tho Instant h o commenced a ceremonious harangue in French, of which \Old Hickory\ did not understand one word. \What docs tho roan want, Patrick?\ asked tho general, without concealing his surprise at what ho baa witnessed. \It's French that he's spakla* In, an' with your lave PJ1 slnd for tho cook tp find out what tlio glntleinan wante.\ In duo time tho presiding ofllcer of thjs kltcheu arrives,!, the mystery was. captained, and, t o tho astonishment of tho cook, tho servant and tlio ola gen- eral, an accredited minister from a for- eign government •was developed, For- tnnjttely a t tho Instant the secretary camo in, a coreniontotm introduction took place and alt parties vrcro soon at enac—Washlngton Star. POULTRY POINTERS. Keep th e turkey bona tamo by feed- ing them closes to th e house. When tlio fowls havo a freo range, ono coots (o evory fifteen or twenty' lions Is sufltelent. •The gamea havo nwro nicat for tl'elr BhM than any other fowl, 'fliey grow slowly, but tire solid and Ann. Cooping u p tho mother hen and al- lowing tho chickens (o run around Is the safest and most economical plan. Wooden floors clasp to th e ground ab- sorb tho damp from the earth, and tho atmosphere of the house li always moist. Bono meal will greatly assist tho growth and development of bone In chickens and In a great nu»a«nre pre- vent teg weakness. Tho nests must be renewed occasion- nlly and kept clean. Clean, dry straw to the best nestling material. Tobacco stems will help to keep aw-ny vermin. If It ts desirous to have the greatest number of pounds of meat from the smallest quantity of feed, seleet the largo breed—Dorklns, Cochins or Brnh- mas. Tl»» Canute at Franco. I'ow who have not traveled hi south- cm and centra) Franee know of her vast systems of cannot and pallatized rivers. Many persons MIIPIHI months or years In Paris and know nntblni; of the great basins in that city from which caiAtls radiate, blmUn« nil parts of Prance to the great hmtrt of the rap- Ital, These canals run Into river* ton- neotllig those of flic water sheds north, sotltli nnd west. ThroURh many of these small streams—we nt homo would rail them creeks yon will nee Uttlo towboats pulling, grunting and lifting Up a heavy chain from the cannlized river bed, winding it round a dram and thus towing loug lines of barges with a most economic expenditure of power. —Argonaut I remgrnber, writes »- eprresfipjBdtot of a London paper, hearing fcord jjtif,- ferin tell tte> fallowing: story pi #R late Sheridan X.& Farjiu-Sheyd^s fn- ther^-tlic arclibtshoiilof \Jtjeath 1 think' —Tvasa great sittckJe)? fox'nuuctaalttyy » ¥$gard Ws son djd.kofe skato,. 'Cifc' inprnlng young Sheridan, then shout eight* ye»ra old, descended pujauujJy late for breakfast and waft taet «t $&• idoor by hjs father, watch in banff* '^« this right, sirj: le this, right?\ detiianded t&es prolate In stem tones, \I 4on ! .t know, flhV,'' replleil Sheridan, itookWg at the WBjtch, and ^pretending to thijjk the question applied tp I t jaad not M Wis conduct, \but i rath6,r think'ifet fast.'* \ For thJ9 Impertinoncef young -Sfiefl- dan w# condemned to 'write an-tw&y on, \The Three Agca ot, ilsn,\ Here Is-what he Wrote? . . \There arejhree ages of wan,. \B'lrst—When he is engaged in plan- ning evory conceivable jpoae of wlek- edness, This is known as the ftgo Of innocence. \Second.—When ho la putting his. nefarious plans into operation. This la called the prime of manhood. \Thlrd he becomes anxious about his soul and torn? to religion. This Is dotflge.'; And this from a child oi! eJghtt . ,ii\ i i • Beware of what you think, for \what yoii think quite m much a s w|latyou do wolds your characfej*, Wrong acts persisted in will wreck: any life,-put wrong thoughts have Jtujt' a s supe on effect, It not infrcflntatly happens that peoplo who Hvo fafrly good lives, so ta r as, their actions go, d o not feet It .necessary to set so close a gua'rd pn their thonghts, The»o are hidden, and of what harm Is It t o occasionally cher- ish a vulgar thought if one does not allow it to escape in action? Of what harm to hato if ono does not shot? it? To Imoglno oneself committing wrong acts if ono does not actually commit them? Bot tho laws of llfo say that every thought affects the whole being. As a maa'a heart is, so will ho be, Evil thonghts gradually undermine the character, and some day these thonghts will burst into action which Is irremo- dtablc-Woiuan'B Homo Companion, Site- Bo*y ««d So«l, It is nn over Incrcanlng pity thtt tho average doctor who triea to heal tho body cares nothing for tho twul. On the otlior hand, the parson who trie* to heal tho soul caws nothing for tho body. Th o body and soul ct,naot be separated in such a manner. The dis- ease* that millet tho body ftlw affect tho soul, and vice verts. No one who I* ignorant of tho laws that govern either the soul or tho body la fit to attempt to heal th e diseases of either th e ono or tho other. A bad mn n may preach a good ser- mon, A bad man may prescribe a good medicine. But both the sermon > and tho medicine would have had a greatly Increased efficacy bad they been de- livered by a good man.—Medical Talk. CHlekuKaaitK «»* dt«ttaae*KSt Tho word Culcknnitiuga weans \dull sluggish stream,\ says tho Chattanoo- ga Times, and It I s from tho waters ot tho creek that the Indians, who were among the most daring and warlike of nil tho tribes In cast Tennessee, got their mimes. The original interpreta- tion ot Chattanooga has long been lost The general acceptation of tho mean- ing of tlio word la \hawk's noat,\ »aid to have been suggested by tho vsdley nestling in tho shadow of the ridges and mountain. Others nay that tho word Is derived from the namo Clano- wah, Riven by the Cherokcea to •mail, warlike hawks that made thch* ttciti In the dirts of Lookout mountain. '.\V '^•p^«$^i-fS3ep^mtp^,'\^ - ' • '^•'#teP'I^^Wl\J8i!>!^l* , -<*«« ,L *tti : n» you do,\ said; the eJs?ee,t young, ^ing- as She -dropieS dowft.feslde the attricOt^ widow, '•.-•'*• '• : <'There m tiffie^ .when it li einba?- tasshig'j. tjiat cbeeriMf expression of mine/* said -the. widow;\ • *^t nje tell .you. .#he» my hnaha'nd .<fli(edi *l was |ourhey»gflldu^ ; to,'lil^hom0, where he •Was: to uehuried;'>St wfcs much annoys ed'at the; persls^ucy v^lth which the jasu-across the ;al8ie sttempjed- to flirt w#J> me,^ Ffnttliy he, topic a sent in •front of ine and said* »I beg pardon, but I thdughiti'd like to taflt wjth you aj?hUe*e*4t!se; yoftJhave^^^guch.a ch^eer- fflj. expression/ *?Aiid fliere rdheent weeping my eyei otitfoftwo days. So don?*, cultivate <ho,t cbeexfnt iook im mmh or yo^' 11 And Bojne on e aceajBingyow of Jooklng happy\ at a Jtuherai?^-T?ew \Sork Times, It may hltereBt sonx^i of your tenders tQ know that tl»o axchaie method of reckoning by tallies £s still Jn xpgue in Pnu, \wWlp thgre X SRW a btindle of tally sticks (there caljcd tallies); ens - pended .m a baker's: shop, nnd on in- quiry J found that most of the poorer country people thus registered Hhelr purchases until they -were able to pay. The tally stick is cu t down the center, the baker and purchaser each retaining a hal|, apd when a loaf is sold the two halves arp fitted together, and a notch Is made across them, 13ae purchaser thus keeping an exact check upon the bafe- er*| score. Upon any payment being made a corresponding number of notches are shaved off,—London Athe- namm. \ - '•'• • i • \ ; Suoker'a Henrt. Smoking, as a rule, (igree* with per- sons for many years, porbaps for twen- ty years and longer, although by de- grees cigars of a finer flavor are cho- sen, but all at once, without any as- signable cause, troubles are experi- enced with the heart, which rapidly increaso and compel tho sufferer to call In the help of a medical man. The ago at which disturbances of tlio heart becomo pronounced varies ^cry much. It is bn t rare that patients are under thirty y«ara of age; tlicy are mostly between forty and sixty years old. Explain* It, \Why Is lr»\ asked tho curious guest, \that poor men usually glvo larger tips than rich men?*' \Well auh,\ said the waiter, M d e po* man don* want nobody -to tin' oat he's DQ\ an' d o rich ra#n don* want no - body to fln* out ho'* xlob, sab.''-Chr- cago Tribune, ANCIENT ME0ICINE8. S5S \jimiMjir^iJVM^A*i,f.[Ui.Z .i!L.;i>iiwi'uU'ft! ; *$#!f. Mais A Fair ESxclintiKP. Ho was one of those irrepressible youngsters who or e constantly brim- ming over with mb»cblof. Tho loving, tender hearted mother wound up a serious talK by saying, \I lore you even when you ire naughty, darling.\ A day o r two later this same small boy received n spanking, and in a llttlo while he climbed into- his mother's arms, saying as ho lovingly patted her facet '*1 lab you, mamma, BO much, even when yon *pank me.\—LltUe Chronicle. Tfce Inlc Tkttt Homer I'scd. . Ink of various hues was nsed by tho i undent Bomnns, that of a purple tint being cooBldorod the exclusive fluid for the execution of all royal writings, as it VBt* distinctively tho royal color. I t it said that Homer's works wore writ- ten in letters Of gold on a roll 120 feet in length, formed of tho intestines of serpents, bu t we arse left in ignorance as tcihoanothod of preparing this ink. ISMMlei* Btmlness. \\TOiBife Jinks-a-doln' of now?\ \Sefiht* stlii an* growlin\ at the world,\ **Whht for?\ \Won the worid won't rise up an' make a livin' for him,\—Atlanta Con- stitution. Ho Had Arrived. Luwyeiv—When I was a boy, my high- ' est ambition was to be a pirato. OUont—You're in lock. It isn't every ?mnn»iWho can realize the dreams of his youth,—Pittsburg Oazetto, Xtla Inheritance. \Did Maelterger Inherit his money r\ \Indirectly. H6 Inherited tho ability to get the best of othcra,\—Life \Real Indian.\ A young woman recently received In- struction In the art of Indian baaketry and had made several copies ot Indian baskets of which she was very proud, A friend who had been living in Ari- zona called upon the ytHfflg wamaa, who showed tho baskets With consid- erable pride. \They are really very wall done,\ commented the visitor, \but of conxs* they are not tho real Indian baskets.\ \Why Mrs. Sawyer,\ indignantly ex- claimed the maker, \how ca n yoa say that when I Just told\ yon that I made them myself ?\—Xbnth's Companion, Woatn'i prnrroTmeii. Mrs. Buttercup-i-I wish I had a mil- lion dollars- Mr. Buttercup—ilhundexatlon, wom- an, haven't you a£y business ncumen? What do yo n want to stop a t a paltry million for when you can wish fo r a hundred million just as easily and with Just as much prospect of getting it? JNo wonder we are poor!—Kansas City Journal. \Why She Stood. \Madam said the conductor to the plain and somewhat elderly woman standing up in the street car, \why don't you ask one of these men t o give yon a seat?\ \Because she answered, grimly sarcastic, \ I haven't the face to do it.\—Chicago Bccord-Herald. ttt th* RepaSilf* Remctlea I'M* hr Qar AJte«»t«r«, Some <>t th e remedies used by onr ancestors ought .to havo been sulllclent to scare away any dljcnse without their application. Hew are a few of them: \A halter wherewith any one has been hanged If tied about the head will cure headache. Mow growing up- on a hnman skull if dried and; pow- dered and taken as snuff is no less etii- cadoti*,** Dr. finmuel Turner, who wrote on diseases of the skin, notices a prevalent charm among old women for the shingles, the blood of a black cat taken from it s tail and smeared on the part affected. The chips of a gallows tied on a string and worn around the neck are said to havo cored agne. Spider*, as may readily be supposed, were In great repute as. remedies. Bar- ton, th e writer of the \Anatomy of Melancholy,\ was at first dubious as to tho efficacy of the spider as a remedy, though he states that ho had seen It used by hi s mother, \whom he knew to havo excellent skill in cuirargery, sore eyes and aches, till nt length,** says be, \rambling amongst authors, as I often do, t found this very modtcine In Dlos- corldea, approved by Mattbiolas and repeated by Aldrovandos. I began then to have a better opinion of it\ Bar stopping hemorrhages all sorts of things were used. Jobaa Beli says that for this purpose \they tied live toads behind th e cars or under the nrmpita or to the soleanf the feet or held them !a tea hand tal they g-eew ram Mi- chael Xferttytus says that this effect of toads Is a truth, which any person will- ing to take th e troublo may satisfy himself of by a very simple experi- ment, fo r i f yon hang the toad around a cock's neck for a day or s o you may then ent off his head and the neck win not bleed a single drop.\ The mnlade lmaglnaire of those days pursued his hobby under difficulties. It 1* $ curious •• t act, nnknown per- haps fo a majority, of readers, that Moses of Scriptural fa-mo. was called by eight different n<unes in various places in the Bible. Bathta, the daugh- ter «f ftmraoh, called, hint BJQges.be > cause she drew him out of |he. Wftter, iOchebed, his mother, called film Jleku- tbiel, saying; \X had hoped fo r him.\ Miriam, his sister,, called, him . Jsred 'because she had descended after Mm into the water to see what his end Would be. Aaron called his brother AM JZanuch because his father had 4c- serted.their mother. Amrani,, the fa- ther of Moses, called „the boy Chabar ;because he was again reunited to the mother of the lad, • Kehath, the grandfather of Moses, called bim_ Ablgdor because <3od had repaired the breach in the house of Jacob. The nurse of the grandfather of Moses called him Abi Socho Because he -was once hidden three months In the Tabernacle. All Israel called him Shemalah because \in his days God heard their cries and rescued them from their oppressors.\ A t5*efnl Coffin, A writer In an English church maga- zine once found in a collier's cottage la' Staffordshire a cofSn used as a bread and cheese cupboard. Notwith- standing hla wife's remonstrance; he told the story of tho coffin as follows; \Eighteen years -'ago I ordered that coffin. The wife and me used to have a good many words. One day she said, Tii nlvor b o content till I see thee in thy coflln.* •Well, lass,* I said, 'if that '11 contont thee it 'II soon be done.\ \Next day, I gave directions to havo the thing made. In a few days it came home, to the wife's horror. I got into it and said, *Now, lass, are thee content?\ She began to cry and want- ed tho 'Itorrjd thing* taken away. But that I wouldn't ailow v I n the end she got accustomed to seoln* it^nd, as wo wanted to turu it to some use, wo had tome shelves put In and made It into a bread and cheese cupboard. We havo ntver quarreled since it came.\ far*\ A kOMG S^WGfi Preferred tlaf* to Lund. They tell a good ono on a prominent real estate man of Wanrlka. Some- time ago he carried a prospector over on Beaver creek to show him a certain claim. He told tlio man that it was an exceptionally fine claim, that tlio land did' not overflow mid that ho would sell it to him for «,O0O. Tho man looked around and discovered tome rod mud way up i n a tree and asked tlio real estato ma n what cau***d that mud i n tho tree tops If the land did not overflow. Tho agent promptly replied that there wa s a kind of hog raised over in the Chickasaw country which used to range on tlio creek and that they rubbed the mu d on the trees. The prospector took a look over the land, glanced op la the tree again and told the Wnurlka man that he wouldn't take tho claim, but ho would give him $1,000 for a couple of those hogs.— Kansas City Journal. Ope That jp»cdW»*ea tne »6«*MV One tovinri* r 8r*»if 'Otte*** ' ' - Abram S, fiewli* had ft vary nlmh^ wit and dearly.loved a joke. He wajr once a guest at a*dbpner wUch.inelad-; ; ed Recorder Smyth afid&uatPE'ByartS' The recorder was: poking fun« %% the senator and read from-a newspaper: clipping what purported to bet's, /Sen*; teuee from a recent speech made, by\ the senator, bnt which was in.reality wholly flctltiousj as the senator knew .quite well. At its conclusion the laugh was long and hearty Jrt AJr. Evarts' ex- pense, aud no one laughed longer o r heartier than the senator himself. As sooh as tho laughter had subsided Mr. Hewitt suddenly leaned aoross the table and, Joolijng rather sternly Into the smiling face of therecprder, said in a well assumed tone of reproaehi \That 4erlainiy Is a reffiartable sen tence, you,r honor,, but criticism of it does not come well from you i f today's newspapers are to be believed, for they contain a sentence of much greater length which is attributed to you.\ •'Why-why, how Is that, Mr- Hew «tt?\ inquired the recordor, with con- siderable contusion. \Because said Mr. Hewitt, with the utmost gravity and that grim smile which * always accompanied his best sayings, \you are there quoted aa ut- tering a sentence that was to last through tile whole l!fe,of the prisoner,\ —Philadelphia ledger. ,Tree» Are *»e Fjriend« ** Men. < All trees display constantly and broadly their nature and the marks of tho class to which they belong. The oak, elm. willow, birch, boceh, together with poplar, «hestirat and pine, are nif ong our native born tnos, and those moat familiar to us as tho ancient land- marks, rcmemhercd ao well in child- hood—the mulberry, olive, lies, hem- lock, spruce, apple, pear and cherry trees—go to maha.up tho almost sacred circle of friends BO dear to nst because they are monuments of other «nd hup* pler days, 'Xha homestead and its aasociatlona recall all the dear ol d tree* BO fondly cherished In days \tang syne\ and sq dear to mo now that It is pleasaut to write what I Snow of their- history, utility nnd why they tiro valuable as iumbor or the moro valuable mechan- ical need which they moot. They all alford tho human race a certain, amount of reliable servico and are tho .founda- tion of many Industries. They furnish tho ships that cover tho ocean -with wldte sails and afford easy comma- ideation with all nations. The arts and' sciences depend upon them tab (\substantial ai d In compleUnj; palacea ', and churches and all tho grand nnd ' lasting buildings which lisve dotted ! the earth with bcasrtlful c.'Jca nurt , comfortable dtrelllng places for num. ' And thus we find that tlio trees (ire really tho steadfast and never failing friends of men.—Exchange. Tie Cranberry. / • The value of the cranberry a s a me- dicinal agent was early recognised by tlio American aborigines, who prepared poultices from Uiem to extract th e ven- om from poisoned arrows. On th e same principle they are nsed now as a rem- edy fo r erysipelas, taken Interim Uy or applied as a poultice. In malarial and typhoid conditions tho acid of the fruit Is specially commended, while dyspep- tics wh o Inck gastric Juice are also of- fered cranberries. Baton raw they are said to be a n excellent remedy for bil- iousness. Aa a health food cranber- ries should not be strained, as too much of their substance is lost Not a JnAjre. A good instance of repartee occurred in a law court when the following con- versation took place between a witness, a rustic looking Individual, and the presiding Judge. Judge—You sa y you had occasion to tagte this whisky? Witness—Yes, my lord. Judge—Now, are you sure you could tell the difference between good and bad whisky? Witness (drawling) — Well, I don't quite know as I could exactly, me lord (with a knowing smile), for, ye see, I'm not a Judge!—London Times. Sntrar Sinking ta 1700. The historian Laflltnll, the period of whoso observation dated back to 170O-O5, describes how in March tho Indians make transverse incisions with their hatchets, from which trickles an abundance of water, which they after^ ward boll over a Are. He says the sugar thus made has nearly always a burned taste, bnt that the French make it better than the Indian wssaeBi from whom they learned how t o make it Bossu, writing in 1756, Is equally explicit as t o the source of sugar mak- ing. Nothing to Do. Totvne—The last time I saw Jenkins ho was looking pretty blue; said he had nothing to do, Browne—He told me the same thing today when I met him, but he was quite cheerful. Towne-Reslgned to It, I suppose. Browne—Resigned to it! No; Just appointed to it He's go t a political Job.—Philadelphia Press. Aa Anectloto o* nrljrno>ll. Though ono of tho moat nervous stag* CM that ever treat before an audience. Brlgnoil In Ida way was oae of tho I most conscientious. He refused to j sing if he did not feel that his 1 voice | was in a condition to do Justice to the I ! song and to himself. lie was a Onm' I believer In homeopathy and was never [ without two email vials, one contain* lag bryoala a»d this other apougla, j which b o used alternately. Sis body , servant, Barbaselata, usually admin* ; Sstercd tho irug. j On one occasion it happened that j Barbagelata gave hiuna larger quantity of bryonia than he bad asked far, but, Hko the faithful BervoUt that ho was, he Informed Ids master of the mistake. Brlgnoil was furious. li e thought lie was a dead man. He raved and storm- ed and swore as only he wnld swear. I Barbagelata, thinking' to relieve his mind, swallowed the csaHro contents of the vial. j \You se*, Slgnor Brlgnoil, th**re ts n« harm In tao medicine,\ he said. \Ab mis,«ryr* cried Brlgnoil. forget- ting his own danger a t onre. \You are a dead manl What have you donor* , All the doctors In the np%hborhnod were sent for, and al l had to testify that the drug was harmless before Brignotl would believe that Barbage- lata could anrtiYe. Costly *o Admire. ••Why Is it that wealthy people be come so cold and cynical?\ • -, . \They don't necessarily,\ answered Mr. OumfOS. *Tbey have their enthu- siasms. Th e trouble is that a rich man can't admire anything without being solicited to buy^ it\—Washington Star. Poatpvanalol Effnle-ei>co. \He's quite a star as an after dinner speaker, Isn't he?\ . \Star? He's a regular moon. Hebe- comes brighter the fuller he gets,\— Philadelphia Press, \ A Ulnnt Emperor, Maximums, the giant Roman\ em- peror, could twist coins into corkscrews, powder hard rocks between bis fingers and do other seemingly Impossible things. When angered, he often broke the ja w o f a horse or the skull of an ox with his Bst. His wife's bracelet served him for a ring, and every day he ah? sixty pounds of meat aud drank an amphora of wine. A Co-tljr Me. \My wife found a poker chip in my pocket, and I told her i t was a dyspep- sia tablet\ \That was clover.\ \Par from It! She swallowed the chip, and tho-doctor's bills cost me more than the jaekpot^—Phlladelphhj SoothtnK. Pompous Customer—That insect pow- der yon sold me the other day is no good. The cockroaches fatten on It. Affable Salesman — Yes, sir. That's the first stage. They get fat on It and then di e of apoplexy. Come round next week and report again. Anything I can do for you, tna'am? Heroic SnerlHce. Belle—Do you think Chappie loves mo?, Grace—I know It. H e told me today that he Was going to shave off his mus- tache BO that he could devote more thought to yon . Enconraiflngr. The Prospective Bride—I sometimes wish! had more experience In house- keeping and domestic life. The Old Stager—But, my dear, if you had you would never, get married. Brntnlly Frank. The Wlfe-rWhat will you do when you have no little wide to mend your slothes for you? The Wretch—Have money to buy aew ones.—Exchange. The,ftomflni^e^ their bau- ; quote op. Cftuc^e^ ; -AW.sujjp>5tti!g them, felves .on' c-ao eib'o# j(nd ^eatihg. witii their ingers from dis)ieslrj,iac,ed,ta tho center ojtjjie table. > ; JlafiK. was s.jipplieu with a napSin,.;iihd; imhfes: wore used, though I,taogs no t #jeax*\1nttt every one. Was ^supplied velta/paey ...Nothing, JfcKQniiseem, Couia_be,,m6ie;f«UgninB thaii to partake of « repast in' such au .awkward posture, or; less conducive to neataiess, it \being almpsj frjep'ossible to keep/tlie hands cleaaueven. wjtii water supplied by tha-siaves or tcs. prevent tho food and wine:fro*l falling oa the clothing and the : dfaperJes\of the concli. This tpahaer of featlng disappeared durihg-the dark a^e s BO -far as the couch was qOhcernea, but \tlie peculiar, iry of tftMheWtood with fingers froni a common dish: continned: afterward fofmore than.a;0O<ryeftr|,' Tfte 3Bln,^ •Dnrtlnk' STeep,' •'During sleep,\ says; an authority on mental subjects, ''the Wofkings of tho mind are under no <;«ntroJ, and yet it seems to have A wonderful faculty of building np and arranging* scenes and incidents. I rememher once having u vivid dream t* going into n. house u, c furniture and inmatea of which be- longed to the mlddlo ages. So clear was tho dream that I. had ao dlflu-uitj in recalling it.'and rJbon.ns I went over eacbdtetall of dress, armor, Jewelry, or. namexits and other object* seen in my vision I realized tba* everything I ha.i beheld was historically accurate—that Is to say, that probably la «. fraction ol a second my mind Iwd conjured xro n scene to construct whlol*, with tho same faithfulness to detail, whllo awake would havo 'taken wo several lours/\ ____ > _ - _ i ___ > ___ • * Murvelou a**c»iorle». Among men noted.for wonderful memories were, JBlfan, who was said to bo able to repeat Homer; Professor Xawson, who boasteel that bo could re- peat th e whole-fif too Bible, except n few veraeai lard Maca'titoy. \who mado the same boast.aoorrt \Pljgylm's Prog. rcs3\ and \Paradise %t&\f Or, terden, a friend of Sir Walter Scott, who could repeat aa act of parliament on bearing It read, but once, andl a tartdon report- er, who took no notes, but vuiild write out an unexpected debate verbatim. Henry Olay could not memorize a sin gle stanta of a poena, but never forgot a name, a face or aa argument. AM EXCfflNCt INUOENT. •Xk* Story «f n Hfaclit Hide an *n l:*ratl*n lr_nliro*i3. \Xott can firavcl w«li perfect safety on Eg3T)tfan rallroscta now.** said an EBglis&oalcial, \but St was not always no. There were time* whea It reiralnxi tact to jftTe your throat from getting cut, as yoa will waited from a Hide ex- perience that occurred to xae. It was just before the fanatlcat outbreak of 1S82, I had heard some ugjy rumors, but I bad t o go up by train ouo aig:.i from Pott Said to teaallla. 1 wa s th * only European la the compartment Soon after we started »r* old &xab sheik leaned over arid calmly heli^d hinisotC (o a couple of clgara that were sticking out of my breast pocket- i knew what that meanst, and I got a sort of cold feeling along the spine, for lost then I caughe th e gleam of a dagger In tho band of a man to the left of me. I said nothing, but opening my bag , brought oat a box of cigars and band- ed them round. The Arabs emptied the box. I tallied affably mid lighted my pipe, expecting every moment to he feuifed. They were elglit to one, nnd I tvas unarmed. Suddenly tUo old sheik reached from the racfs n large melon he had placed there. Then he IcariiHl across and, taking bold of the hand that held the dagger, brought It Into view. IilfUng it frora the unresisting fingers of hi s fellow aioaleta. ho tran- qjfllly eat two slices off the melon. He handed me one and proceeded to eat the other. Then my heart gave a Jump, and as 1 eagerly sucked at the fruit 1 know I was safe, for wo had eaten to- gether. Bat I didn't get to Isinailla Umt night.'* \Hew 1 was thatF Inquired a HSr-ner. \Because.\ said he. \tliey rnnnlered the engine driver, the stoker and every other European In the train-\— Kansas City Independent. £»fclrty Qnewtions la Society. This from an authority: -irjon't ask questions; don't mention names; listen occasionally, and you will and yourself . n society favorite\ The first \don't\ seems to have been most correctly placed. There Is nothing which creates a pleasanter impression and which re- ally leads to the most complete confi- dence than the tact which listens sym- pathetically to all a companion will say, but never probes deeper by an Im- pulsive interrogation. One learns to trust'such an acquaintance and feel in j his company a peculiar senso of secnr- } ity that Is very satisfying. Many of ' onr small attempts to make an impress- \ lve recital are, we know, most vulner-.i able. One Or two sharp queries wsuld - riddle them, and we learn, as a burned child learns to avoid the fire, just whom we may not and may Impose them Up- on. The fatter please ns the better. Feminine Logic. The pretty girl was looking out ot the window as the trolley car pushed slowly np the hill pa£t her house. The car was crowded, and a number of men were riding on the rear platform. Jnst as the car. renehed a point oppo- site the girl's bouse an attractive look- ing bos fell from the pocket of a very swell young man standing on th e car step. The pretty girl held her breath until the car spi^d out of sight. Then she rushed out ^and grabbed the box. It was a pound of delicious chocolates'. \i couldn't stop the car, could I?\ she said to her conscience. \And besides it was probably intended for a pretty girl, and\—with a peek into the looking fiass-\a pretty girt ha s it\-Pitfsburg SAYINGS OF THE WISE. The eyes of other people are the eyea that ruin us,—l<Tankh\Ei. If yo n would know' and not be known, live In a city.—Coltoa- The way of the wwld Is to n-^ke laws, bnt foltow cnstt»nis.-SIoutiiig«e- We carry happiness Into onr condi- tion, but cannot hope to find it there.— Holmes. Prosperity Is no Jnst scale. Adver- sity Is the only baJaneo to weigh friends.—Plutarch. . Children ar e unconscious philoso- phers. They refuse to pull to pieces their enjoyments to see what they are made of.—Henry Ward lleeclier. Energy will do anything that can be done in this world, and tie talents, no circumstances, no opportUrdtioSj will make a two legged animal a man with- out it—Goethe. Great, ever fruitful, profitable for re- proof, for eneonragenient, tor building np in manful purposes- dud works, are the words of those tiiat In their day were men,—Carlyle, The Artist. Palette—De Auber is the most ego- tistical chap I ever met Brusher—How's that? Palette-Why, every- time be paints s landscape he imagines he flatters na- ture.—Gliicago NeWs. Deceptive JJ«ni-liigf. \To heitr that ybung-dlerk: talk yoo would think he owned the place\ \How's that?\ • \Why* he never, saya a Word agalnsl hd| einp]oy.erK?WEansasCMy. Journal. VOL. Gen N.B. <r»-%^ I «'**'< Oi S( $ tr-%%* F old bic tcrJ-te-d for ins then le Ok txueing wheels cones, broken Youroi *<#&
