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sp: <•*#« •li'i'j, •.iff wiJWtFW'j Jj.t'l 'ItJ'U'll'.Ujllil'J.V\ 1 \!' «-n\-'.'^ ; •H ' •!' -\r.'?\ I - '\fffWftQO; SUPERSTITIONS, fne*«f£jr I«> Baft Omen unit, Keep* A resident ..of Dharmapiivk -.•'wrrlttog. pn the suMe#of Hindoo. sap&r$tifionB, says that d married woman; a daitetag; , girl, .a mirror, and an. Qgp—<^e ftw% •• .neglected \of the Iitfllttxi' ^cO»ea*i<t ttftW tools—are also among the first ohjeefi of gopd omen which a Hindoo should meet as goon as lie wakes from bl's ', sleep. A Hindoo docs not stiff out of his. bouse pa any errand,; not only during the Rahuljalain—afl' how fl«d .:'•& holt a.-4fcy-4)H^-also souio time ue- \foro> It. £otne do pot do any SVQI% 4wrlng Galikakalum as Well—aBother one hour and a half a flay. T*e cor- respondent does not mention that in. more, advancecR countries some pcople- niake Itakukaiam and Gullfcakalura last a. great deal Icmgoc Besides these there are Natehathlranis' (stars), of Which there ate twenty-six, each of which occurs every day, A partlou- laf Nntcjiatblram on a particular day Is either-good or bad. At times on orthodps Hindoo will not have a \good\ flay eyea to a fortnight. Even sneez- lnfi .is inauspicious.' Instances aro not rare in which men are prevented from attending their offlco by slmm sneez- ing, The espying of a male and\ a femaiaaw together memis tho np- , preaching death of -the-obBorver. in* ,fate**may bo averted by writing a letter to soine.of bis relatives at a (distance saying that lie Ja dead. The appearance of a rot snake nt the right luind sldo of a journey is considered most lucky, A Hindoo wll never feed a guest for the first time on Sundays, Tuesdays or Thursdays—these days ore supposed to bring' enmity between the bostoind tho guest. A. Hindoo dootor Will never administer medicines to Ills patient, oven i\f ho is very dangerously ill, for the first time on any day other than Sunday or Thursday, It is nlso laid down tiint a Hindoo should never Bleep with bis head toward tho sotiih- tho direction In which Yamn, tho god of. death, is supposed to live. Eosi and west are always preforred.-iIa- drs» Mall. A CROWDED CITY - . *JP* .Willie In Constantinople la I.IIiu A Fierce Btriisrcle. To walk; In Constantinople la llko a flerco and active struggle. One should look at once before, behind and under- n*ath ono's feet. Sonie danger or (lis- gut Is always throa|enlng, I sorer walked up the steep road which lends from the bridge to I'cra without tho feeling that I was fighting njy way through a hostllo city. A horn blows furiously, and a black man runs up the hU), clearing tho*wi<ybefQj» tho dosh- ing au£ struggling naTEcSof tho tram. At the samo moment a cab drives nt full speed down tho hill, and tho horses •at their foot on the pavement. In front of you a man balances slices of offnl on jUonsj-pola across his shoulder. They •angle before and behind. Ho swings ..ibterfully with Bis burden tlmrach tiro crowd. A Kurd, stooping under a weight higher than himself, follow*, step, by stop, behind you. Your feet slip in slushy mud and catch oa tho cobbles or in tun gaps of the rood. A dog with a red wound behind his ear and a long atrip ot mangy skill on his back lies asleep in the middle of tho pavement. You step into the road to avoid tho dogs and the bamais, and whtols and horses aro upon you. You •Up back Into the midst of the dogs and the bamais. As you stand aside toi a moment a beggar with o handles) arm rounded into a stomp and a woninn With her faco eaten nwny in (he cavity Of th» hood which she draws bac& be- fore you appear suddenly, Ailing -what bad aeomod tho only alley of escape. Tht sun soaks down Into the narrow •treat The smell of the mud Hses up into your nostrils, mingled with thoso unknown smells which in Constantino- ple seem to ooze upward out of tho ground and steam outward from every door and window and poor out of every allty and rise like a cloud out of the brsath and sweat and foulness of,tbe people,--Arthur Symons la Harper's Migsalno. ••metainar to Read. •young Lady Customer—I don't know iost wb*t I want. Can*t you saggesf something? Clsck—Here's a book I think might •lesae you. It starts out with tUe scsne laid In England and— Cwrtomor—Oh, I don't care how It •tairt*. How does it end?—Kansas City Journal, • Con»sr« t» KUpliMU. An elephant -with a good mahout gives perhaps the best instance of dis- ciplined • courage—courage, that is, which persists In tho fade of knowledge and dlsincllnni <m—to bo seen i n the animal i world. They will submit day after day to have painful wounds dressed la obedience to their keeper and meet danger in obedience, t o or ders, though tlielr Intellijbnco Is suffi- cient Ji> understand the peril and far toO'Efiat for man to trick; thorn into » bellrfr that It Is nonexistent, No nul- mw-wlli face danger more roadHy.st mfcn'B bidding.—London Spectator- now • Gi»»« Biro Aow. A glass eye has never so free a rangi of moveraent as the real one, and when the owniof turns his eyes Btrongly in any direction the glass eye lags behind this othsr, so producing a squint Thon s the pupil of thejlass eye is of coucso s cf a fixed slse,,while the- natural pupil dilates and contracts hot only with varying amounts of light, but with varying emotions. Then again tho wkilte of the eye varies .in tint greatly from.day.to day,.bolng.sllghtly blood- shot during .headaches and yeilo-wr dur- , Jiig bilious attacks. Tuo.differences In Colot between the two eyes caused by Wiese-Chahges are even more easily no-, tlc*l than ^ke dlfferenciia in the pUplls. I \ \ . •''•':'&• \ TVTiy W*e S(IT B«n«1JO«. ««Jhe collars worn. Vy the BnstUsb 4tif the fleveftteenth century,\ said an oldl. Seieace has dempiistrated most con- 4ta the aid flays,\ said a Colorado man, Senator Tom JoWen, came to hat deafer, \were big,/starched things ™\^»? Smi^wTnerv^pov^er , Us j a good deal like a ruff. Sometimes in- .„ S E3,S Trt»a food contatttins Steve Horsey bad Just defeated deed they WerpWgger than the biggest ^ 0 ^„!l containing ruff, They required a bos of a good p ^P^ ^ tura , mt m mm , ms size-tObe carried about in. ' *•••••«• \«»•* . i^_.^ '\Jhese wMfs w4#? called bands. This JJonvef from Arkansas down on his IWk, him for the United States senate. <\ didn't seeift to catch on In Pen- vet', though ibewoS a lood-lawyer. • r|fc was run doWn at the lioel, and he todk, u to„pi» pObi to ldll -tiai-e. Ofhe, BtAftes\ Wore nshaily a round of drinks and a bunch of mining stocks, the par value of the stocks- represented being entire- ly consistent with the cost of paper and the price of pointing. It was nl- • way%.a real hardship oa Tom when in loaV! The drinks bad to be paid for fn casjij you know. But he seldom lost, ahd, So yPU kno>> the little woman at home used to go through his pockets every night for mining stocks. \Well one day there was a high strike in' a.prospect hot so very fur from -Denver, and iti telling his wife about it the future senator sighed that he wished he owned a few shakes. 'I think you do, dear/ answered the little womaii, tind then to make sure she went and looked over her possessions. To make a long story short, Tom Bow- en went downtown that afternoon with securities worth' half a million in Ills pooketr and be remembered that be bad won them nil In a single half day uot ;1onB before/'—Kow Yovir voJof»»«»*» . •\SASrJ3*el!iii|Te ; Elevator. TIiere%jpcrhnps no elevator In the wofldjtiorcejcciuslve tlran.tbat provid- ed at tEfc*capital for tho supremo court of the United States. That elevator; can be used by exactly eleven people, and JB» ono else would for « moment consider entering It except as the guest of one of these eleven privileged gentle, mon, The fortunate eleven are the nine justices of the United States supreme court, the clerk and tho marshal of the court. The elevator goes from tho. ground floor of the cnpltol to the mnln floor, on which is located the supreme court of the, United States, It is a small elevator, so that, with Its CQIV duolor, three portly forms of justices of the supremo court of tho United States would Oil It It Is one of tho very latest designs of electric elevators and la finished In magnificent Btyjo.- WaBhtagrton Star. ' Treea Are the Frleata at Ken.. All trees display constantly and broadly their nature nnd the marks of tho class to which they belougr Tho oak, elm, willow, birch, beech, together with poplar, chestnut and pine, are among our uatlvo bom trees, and those moat familiar to us as the ancient land- murks, remembered so well In child- hood—tho mulberry, olive, ilex, hem« look, spruce, apple, pear nnd cherry trees-go to make up tho almost sacred circle of friends so dear to us becauso they aro mouuments of other and bap- pier days. The homestead and Its association* recall all tho dear old trees so fondly\ cherished In days \lang syne\ and so dear to mo now that It is pleasant to typo what I know of their history, Utility add why they are vnlnnblo at lumber OB tho more valuable meebnn. leal ueed which they meet They all afford the human rap a certain amount of reliable service a)nd nrethj^fbuftda- tlon of many ludu9trTc3r*fney furnish tho shlpa that cover the ocean with whit! sails and afford* easy commu- nication, with all nations. .Toe arts nnd sciences depend upon them for substantial old in completing palaces and chnrches nnd all tho grand and lasting buildings which have dotted the earth with beautiful cities and comfortable dwelling places for man. And thug wo find that the treea are really the steadfast and never falling friends of men.—Exchange. 'which apply to the wuseular. system shonld appiy'Htewis 8 to the brain.-For K la • MatW ^ftoflr A|5ft** #*«*• Color BUjianea'a. >\ Color blindness Was the $op>ic Under djsoussion. 'They tell me I'm colop blind,\ said the lawyer, Y 'but f dptft believe it. 6ften,,l admit, I mak0:itohl.: : takes lu colors.s .X gay\ that pink Jsired^ l slay that green Is blue, .Butltispffiy Ben, Jonson in 'Volpoue* says, baud shows not my neck enough,' *M!^?*?*?*2^^!1^^ aSe l prwlh* I Zmwff. ...iistwho^as^t^party.noddediap. Wheat Is: supposed to snpply to the 'Lr„„proval. s ^ .*..-•* instance, Wheat contains phosphopHS,' ^ najne g or jue colors I ani off iij. t Which it gets from the soil and in the (am not j jn 8Wt C0 ] D1 . uUna .» jjjhe p*d- _i - ^M »t.t.h ti. A ,MiTfI «-a^vf Ilt'O ... t'i'i jt-. • • - - - ^ ® m ' \^ E%Wb^ai;i' s Qfjjjic, Qlio%%^ji«J ^Jaiy;|}oea;TReine. j3y as soon as tlje f itsfc 5np-5jitlon of •ttt© cjieea$© appeal ktt(J o thretiien, ;ed?att^lc.jnii| te wsydeij!oi^ |l llu . jfrede ;^f r jeopIe,u|e s £&»'• reiriedy irl 5|(jlg,:!Hia^:WJlih, iJ)!BriectiSUCCW8,; ' Fpr stage Was an under citizen of the bath, a .person remarkable among the infe- SKf^S m *\* ^^ -^_\ W ^'-SiiS? '^utuT^yours^sta^ youC c^ humaa system the elements It gets . , ,,, t. J, i7 ***\ °\\\ from the solii, i wisdom and his broad band.' m|a| jj 19 4 e p™dent on phosphorus, \Bands; you see, wore collars, and. by ^ . ,,. ^^ oatnleal anu U8 rley the. same token bandboxes were collar te te&&mi as train foods,. «Exactlyi\'he •boies, Thoy were big and roupd, just big enough to carry a \clean well jstarebed. band-iust as biggin fact,..as they are today. T* , , \Wbonever^ therefore, .^pu talk of7, bandboxes you are un^iselously re- ferring to tup collars as *huge as rdffs that tjie English of the 'seventeenth century wore.\ i It Is a well known fact that the brain contains phosphorus In proportion, to Us power of producing mental effort and that this element must be supplied laproportionto mental activity. -*• So It can be readily seen that one « muntsi education'begins in the dlujflS. room as' well as in the classroom.- American Queen. DOING TH£ GRAND ENTRY, Cbnuod by an Bw»p«5ror. | Bnperor Frederick fflUiam of Pros- *Ia sometimes would signify his rejec- tion at what he considered an absurd. petition by drawing trn the margin an j ass' head and ears. One day, a baron of ancient patent; having co- ,ied of \These;- diagnos- ,—_ T , ....,„_,.„,-,— yow^. , They take color Ignorauce^for-colOiS blindness. Here they are as wrong as though they should say muslc'igho. ranee was music: bilndnessTi-asi^thoughj I mean, because you <could not tejl thai a ceruiln struck note was .*B flay you were dead to all musloal* gradations. Some yeaj-s ago, when, the s exnmhiatlpn ;: ia coloiti of railroad men. was inau- gurated, a howl went up, over ithe amazing amount of color> blindiieBa iny America, and niany a good • maa lost/ his Job unjustly. These pen had been off in the numea of colors, not in the colors themselves.. They .could in, a 2ay or two have been taught what Jhej lacked. Many ot them, it is likely^ were pot color blind, il say.this,be- cause recently J heard of an examlna- Uayr a Cf tUP« Korae Enjoy\ H«l I**\ ot tjie rerforxnance. The experieneesof a farm home that unexpectedly joins a wagont show circus ^ .^^^ „ ,,_ ,. ... . Is described by Sewell'Ford in \Horse* $£^ goo*rallroad*mea\that Was con\. -It T7»e(Mia. Be Hade la OolpM So »• |* ',«A package of |rtarch?\-aBkedL tjie in. miijenf and learned grocer.' sud as he •fyj^peSthepaCkaie up hetaiked^ i.'-. i'SlUirch ^lj^ited,??^l),e^said, \la Kl«joder«v Jt.WS totreducod into Bng- land, with die big iuff, in Oje time of Quaeh Bbaabeth. it*w»a like our starch of today, except, that it was made in colors-red^,yfillow N green, bjue.. The effect Of thla'was to tint dellOfttely tho White linen to Wtdeh-iibeMSitarch might ;bs,»P?Up«U .-\••. ^•Before-Queen-Blhtabeth's time ruf- fle?, aui/WOj,were,made,of flne.hol- }S,nd, wbich required no stiffening. Then thej.^uffs, of cambrlc*caine, and •theae bjusl; ef;ai*e«slty, be* starched.\ The-grooe^onsultirig. bis memoran- dum book, resinned: \More folly. Whether a man sits above me or below me, my birth remains the # same.\ Oftentimes ho would ask peo- plij in the streets who they wore, a pe- culiarity which made nervous people evade the royal- presence. One dayi when a man saw the ltlng: approaching he took to bis heels and ran, but Fred- erick William pursn\d him in hot hasto and when he overtook him asked, \Why did you run away from me?\ | \From fear,\ answered tho man,, whereupon his majesty gavo him a, heavy thwack with his cane and said. that he \wished himself to be loved and not to be feared.\ - ^ , M ^ ... .. „ ,u^w V ... the prope* way on an Etjg- At night be has a hard time pulling the nm ,X Abm)t 8Dventy of ^^ m6n - baud wsgon over the country roads, but ^ ^. t , e offrfigardlng epior ^omen- he thoroughly enjoys his -part to the clatar <>, but not a single one of them performance under the main tent Ths WM ^^ b i|n ( i,.._p hJIa a e i pb j a Record. author describes Ca Ico's feelings a? In his book on \Chiun and the Chi- nese\ Dr. Giles-gives n specimen of -Chinese- humor which, if the source wore not known, might well be mis- taken for American humor. There la a Chinese story which tells how a very stingy man took a paltry sum of money to an artist—payment Is always exacted in advance—nnd asked him to paint his portrait. The artist at once complied with the request, bul when the portrait was finished uothlng was visible save the back of the Bit- ter's bead. \What does this mean?\ cried the sit tor indignantly. \Well replied the artist, \I thought a man who paid so little as you paid wouldn't care to show his face.\ Vampire Superstitions. .Tho prevailing belief In European countries was that vampires were tho ghosts of suicides or others who had died violent deaths and were forced by tho devil to leave their graves at night and fried on the blood of men and wo- men, and any who died at the hands of these dreadiul creatures also became vampires. In this way beautiful worn- eu, became vampires and enticed young men'and fed on-their blood and flesh. It was believed that they had power to assume any shape of form desired he twoen sunset and sunrise and that the} committed most of their nwful deeds a) midnight. They were powerless in tho daytime! and Avere generally In a tor- pid state. Garlic and wild rosebushes wore guards against them, and cruci- fixes were feared by them. To prevent suicides from becoming vanipir&s the} wcro burled with a stake' driven through' tholr hearts, and the straw they had slept on was burned. All tho dogs and cats iu tho village were locked up, for If n-4og or cat jumped over a corpse it was sure to become the home of a vampire.-7<Shlcago Tribune. ~-r . '-*-r~ / Vtotild Avoid the Trot Ma. \1 suppose you'd like to be worth a million dollars?\ she suggested. \No mum,\ replied the tramp. \It 'ud bo too niueh traubie lookttf after the money. All I want is that some feller What* worth a million dollar, •hall provio* fer me.\—Chicago Post Nice Little love SttoJr, , A dreamer and a man of action loved a woman. Tho dreamer said: \I shall write verses in her praise. They will touch her vanity, and she will love me for them.\ But the man of action said: \How old fashioned! 1 shall corner tho stock market, and that will bring; her.\ So tho dreamer wroto verses, and ha Induced a friend of his who ran n umg. nalno to print them. And tho man of action cornered something or othor and became a billionaire. In tho nteatttimo tho girl married a man who Inherited his money and lived happy ever after, But the dreamer was so proud of his verses that lie didn't enre, and the man of notion wns so busy that he didn't care. • Tho only one to sutfor was tho man eao mntrled.-t?uiart Sot. y ,'A Nile- Vlllnco. A travelet of the upper Nile tbtt«Qd$- acrlbcs a typical native village: *^§ht houses are built of Nile mud, each house accommodating A family of no matter what else, tho inhabitants of each village almost all related to each other, comprising sometimes several hundreds of people. / \Their streets aro lttteredi with Qlth. animals of every kind obstruct one's path, dogs growl nnU.snrtrl nt the ap- pearance and Intrusion of a stranger, and women dee, hiding their facer in their yashmaks lest a white man should behold their features. Files in swarms settle on the children and lay their eggs on their eyelids, unwashed because they, believe It to be contrary to their religion to wash or remove the dies from their eyes.\—Chicago Record- Herald. . ^^ Fighter* In London Streets. The reign of George II. was a great fighting time. Every man who went abroad knew that he might have to fight to defend himself against footpad or bully. Most men carried a stout stick. When Dr. JohnBon Ireafa that a man had threatened to horsewhip him he ordered a thick cudgel and was easy in his mind. There wcro no police, and therefore a uiau had to flgfat. it cannot be doubted that the martial spirit of the country, which was extraordinary, I was greatly sustained by tho pracdee * of fighting, which prevailed alike in all ranks. author describes Calico's follows; Ah; that grand entry! That was something to live for, No matter how- bad tho roads or how hard the hill* bad' been, Calico forgot it all during those ten delightful minutes when, with bis heart beating tlmoto tho rat-tat-tat of tho snare drum, ho swung prancing- ly around the yellow arena. ' It all began In the dressing tent with t period of confusion in which horses wore crowded together as thick ns they could stand, while the riders dressed and mounted In frantic haste, for to be late meant to be fined, At last tho ring- mnstor clapped his hands as a sign that AN (NtMAtS'S TEST. How He Iltac/verea That a Wfclt» Haaf'Waa, n Coward. , \Tho In/lan has a queer way,of de- termining Whether or not a mnn Is game, JudglBjrTfom nn experience. 1 had some years ago.\ said a map who. once made an educational tour of the west, \and the same little experience convinced me that the Indian's system of reasoning along this line is by no means a bad one. Stories bad been told which brought -.„-.„. V.-4-.- =- • about a clash between the IndlaU'und all was la readiness. There was n mo- a white mnn. The two men orjghrafly moutary hush. Then a bugle sounded, had nothing against each*other. The the flaps were thrown back, and to the crushing accompaniment of the band tho seemingly chaotic mass unfolded into a double line as tho horses broke into n sharp gallop around the freshly dug ring. The flrst time Calico did the grand entry bo felt ns though bo had been sucked into a whirlpool and was being carried nronnd by some Irresistible force. So dazed was he by tho music, by the bum of human voices nnd by the unfamiliar sights that ho forgot scarcity sufrd HOW DOGS FIND THElfl WA\ Indian had a bad reputatlon-that Is, he had the reputation of being a bad man,, a desperate, dangerous fellow, i who would fight a buKsnw at tho drop ' of a hut The white man who blew 11»to tho section had in some way gained a similar reputation. Ho was said t j be a dangerous, character and a niau who had never been whipped. W« concluded that we would have soma fun. We met the Indian and told him a long story about his new rival, and reminded him that his laurels were In to rear and kick. Ho could only prance danger and .succeeded in getting bht, and snort. He went forward became pride stirred, and his Indian blood was tho rider of the outside horse dragged soon up to tRe fighting point. Soou him along by tho bridle rein. Around after this we 'met the white man, and and nreund ho circled until ho lost all i we filled him up with the same kind sense of direction, and when he was J of tnlk. He said bo would take care of finally shunted out through tho dress- j the ludlnn nil right h\duo .time, and» lug tent fity^ he was BO dbsay ho could I In short, would niafeo_bini toko to the woods. Shortly we met) tho Indian ngnln and told him the desperate white mnn wns after his scalp. He. smiled, and shook his bead. k '•A few days Inter we were talking, to the white man when the Indian came up to Join the group. He bad spotted the stranger, npa knew him *y. sight. Without saying a word to him. be walked-urr within arm's reach and atrucl? the white man In the face with a-rough. heavy glove. Ho paused for a few seconds and hit him again. 'HghP he exclaimed as he Wheeled around and walked away. The .white man looked nt the Indian In amazement, .but made no show of resentment. Later in the day when we asked the Indian why It wns that he did not follow up the tnsnlt with blows he told us the white man was a coward. In explain- ing how be knew It he sold the man's •Jaw dropped* when he strucli him In the face the second time with the glove nud that this, with the Indian, wns a n unfailing sign of cowardice.**—New Or- leans Times-Democrat TUe Kent Thins. \Tell me, Harold,\ she said as the gentle old horse they were driving along the country road dropped into a walk, \am I your ideal gtrl7' \No he said fervently. \Xou're my real girl I\ Whereupon the horse, finding him- self totally neglected, stooped and be gan to browse.—Chicago Tribune. Evidence That They rosacea Pecul- iar power to Cattle Them. In the old days of the James river canal a tine setter was taken by his master on & packet boat which wa* so crowded that the dog was put In the captain's cabin to be out of tho way. says tho New Vork Mail and Express His owucr reached hiB destination nift-v er nightfall and had token so mucbl wine by that time that ho was carrieo\ off tho boat, and .no one remembered his setter. iiext morning the captain took th» dog on deck with him, but was much afraid ho would jump off to tho tow- path and try to return that way, and so handsome an animal would have bees In danger of belttg stolen. Carlo, however, lay perfectly quiet but with an air of listening that at* tracted notice. Toward noon \ho heard the sound of the horn of a packot com- ing from the opposite way, and as the beats passed each other he ina.de a leap and was next heard from as having got off at the place ghere his master bad stopped and as%aving gone at once to the house where he was a guest Could human Intelligence have sur- passed that? This same dog lay on his master's grave and refused food until he died from starvation. But I do not give this as a case in point A gentleman who lived a hundred miles from a city moved there with all his possessions, Including a bulldog which had been raised! at his father's home, where he had hitherto resided. He was locked up in the car with the Glnscnir an a. Remedy. No matter what the disease, the first thing the Chinaman thinks of Is gin- seng. His faith In ins medicine helps to cure him beyond any doubt Given such trust In any physician or any drug, there is no question'tint what it would reduce our mortality record. If a man wonts to sober up after.a night of feasting and wines, the, remedy Is ginseng. If he has used too much the opium pipe, give him ginseng.- If the baby's stomach is out of-order, put giri- seng Into its food. If the appetite is An Unjrist Aversion. \Yes our society's new president cer talnly Is a busy, woman, but they suy she Is neglecting her duties as a wife and mother.\ \That Is not true. I know for a fact that she manages to see her family al- most every day.\-7Brooklyn Life. Confession. \Pardon me, dear,\ said the village editor's bride, \for appearing at dinner In my wrapper, b<|g'— ' r \Oh that's all riglrt.\ Interrupted tt.? knight of the paste pot; \some of oui best thoughts come to us In wrappers.\ —St. Louis Star. , Two Courses Open. Bonaventure de Fonrcroy, a clever society poet of the seventeenth cen- tury, a splendid orator, an eminent ad- vocate and an intimate friend of Uo- Here to boot, on being asked one day gone, it calls for the same drug. The rich season-their food With it as we «..- ts.. *, « ,. ,. . ... , would with pepper, ^believing, that it' furniture andlnthebustle of unloading aIas auction. The, aged -ChlmMnan| by, a magistrate what he meant to do wift=4ia^/n rpnliprl «'tf thfiroi. ««^ » \ uv '•\\ \ lucl \ «\>*- p* me man is tne S5ffffil?!!& with-authors,\ sold disappeared, and two days afterward he reached his former home, coming by nn Inland route; as was known by par- ties who recognized him, so that he evi- dently marked out his own path with- out reference to the railroad on which ke hkd bfcnn cnmou.sa* Thnikerar Didn't Wear Spurs. Thackeray was not a vain man, aud he disliked vanity in .others and made it the subject of his ridicule.and Sar- casm. . • After long pleading his' family in- duced him to have his portrait paint- ed, and Lawrence, a famotis London artist, gladly undertook the task, Soon after the picture Was, complet- ed Thackeray chanced to be dining at his Club When a pompous .officer of the guards stopped beside the table and said: \Haw Thackeray, old • boy, I hear Lawrence,has been,painting your por- trait.\ \So he has,\ was the response.' \I'ull.length?\ \No; full length portraits are for sol- diers,, that - we may see • their. spurs. But the other end of the man Is the from growing feebie.—-niedlcal Talk. a barrlsterij if not I'll make hurt a hu**»-'! Thackeray. SnnflomerFnel. In Russia sunflower stalks gathered, from the fields and dried In piles have entirely t replaced iflreWood. In. fact^ these stalks are preferred: even to pine, wood, produclrig a quick, and\hOt.name^ fire. About 2,000'ponnds of stfch-flre-i WOod-are gatheredt from an acre ofV land, thus adding a great boon to„a'-dis4 triet Where Wood \is scarce. Sunflower/ sheila are also Used for heittag-pUrjj; poses not only in private housesi.but: la.large factories, as -WeUViOChey ar*5 burned in ovens specially prepared .forq then- consun^Dtion- :• <;• Harms In tae Iotas Srataas. There, are ^at-leaM* tw*Uty»niaonip* i*f the *s0lar,,syatem.<, Sa^n^mlooe hip« eight, the blggestfOf them, Titaa P bejtn£- nearly twit* the ilse of the moon, mn4 Jupiter, possesses vifouftmagingjtoya!' ,fbout as large: as the orb of terrestrial nlghV-to Ctenymede,-\! knew!*w<#nsr SritBiJ* dli \It toiH^r^ed^thnt^'wbmthe queen bad cuttf*niB,d!| of Iawn,,and cambric for her own,pflnee!y wearing, there was none in England could tell bow to starch them; bjnt tho queen made spe- cial means for some Women that\ could starch, and-SIrs, Gullham, wlfe*of tho royal coachman, .was the first- rtarch- er.* \to WW A ^anders.,-woman r \fran iVas dor.PIasie, came Jo London and established there a school for the\* ^teacMng-of starchlijg. The school suc- ceeded, She Flanders £rau got Tleh: She cborged j£5 a lesson and an extra 20 shillings for« recipe for the making W«taicb.-out of. wheat ! fe»ur, bran,lad Wot*. «,\X«lIow- w*s the.moaf'faihlonablo colore In,itarehiam«ng.the nobility. Tho Puriian»,'u«ea blue starch, though a t firtt.thoj had been against the staff ul- togetber,-dttbblng It 'a certalho fctodo of ltqtdde matter which they call atarch, wherein the-devU both willed them to wash aud diva- their rnffc» t vrhloh, when they badry, will then stand stiffs and Jnflex*hl*,about their necks.* .\Starch lagpade from, wheat, corn nnd pqtatocs,,a»d starving men have often subsisted on It, finding it nour- ishing, though not .tasty.\-London Graphic, ^ THE«T6O<EARL.Y BIRD. ( '—-• l \ l T\ l S • A *ael*l Xal«*ae« F»r -Whom 1*eri~ ' 2« 8s> Xxosuse. • •innetoo' eirly^bltds-are a source of,, troableandJneoavcnJence to the entlro udgbborhood, Invito, the too.early birds to a dinner, and they arrive an hour before tho time. Tour last Ufttlo tenches hsve to bo fletegafod toftbei flfst amiable soul who Appreciates till misery of entertaining the-tooeariy birds* Yotx bad-Intended to replace a rase of carnations .with oneof'roaes-cr possibly you had at tho last-moment intended to shift the pinto \ cards, having suddenly , remembered \that Miss JonM»b*d-a-qol6t fancy for Mr. Smith;-that filr. JSmlth, reclpro- sST Smith ^HTbaiie to wonder, snd Miss Jones will have to summon up her presence of mind and conceal her dis- appointment; The too cajtfyblrds must be greeted as though your'were glad to tee them-and appreciated their appar- ent impttlencettehave the fun begin. *You really would like to give your .hair »anotherf touchy but not so. Xour -guests await yon. . < The too early birds haunt the railway stations hours before the train leaves and start off oa the journey jaded and outof sorts. If the too early birds are evei- amlo- hleJtla atjHiclua44ireyiatts'» hour that the rest of mankind Is elsewhere, and the^ttoyfcaet'ggsasMly: appreciated, tt tberel Is one class of humanity more exaspetaunr toan the too early birds I have-yet to meet them. Tho man. ,wiio ISJIOO late may entaiMncon- venteDC*, butitJeasfcyout have the sat- isfaction of noting; his discomfiture at missing tbefr&iXtiiroUgfc hlsoWH act. The too early birds are au InfHetlon. nnd they cany with them no compea- ^ang*^efle«tlon> »rb»tefeA-Plttsburg Chronldtt-TeleirraDh. DISGUISES OF NATURE. 1 T*e~*}»Utr; •{-!>•*•n«e-JUJS'«m»«t- la Kvsry AnitaaJU Q By a decree of nature oneihalf tho, Worid Jonrjahes, at.the.exqpe.nse^ofctho' Ither half. \'The spttrrev* chases*the. b,utt%rflyV«but the kaWlHehases *tho : iparrow, iffor the* problem of life Isi 'twofajfejtiis'hoCsaQugn merely, to •ai It li> necessary to avoid being eat-! cm Set naturo-detests killing tor- kllP lag's sake. Massacre forma no part of ber greafrsplan. So We4ee that every, creature to.provided with, some more or less effwtty^ualityji of defense'by means of wbichJiaie-*ttacks of Its not. urol enemleijara rendered less frequpnt orJejwJeallys. . Thus the antelope by means of-Its *aps^prjApp^|tfyt^ the -iion.'>-Tho. armadillo,•>rolled*in its wohdrout coat of mall, lies secure among a*score of~hungry,jgnawlng foes* ^While^tt^\ white* fiaropscarcely dUitlngulBhable tfrom > the -snow on WhIcn*itjcr6uchesiI4s»oftei1i overlooked by his f oft-the tpx^^tM alfccreatures none baj, r^iS'e^^PlijainiSfe protee- Uon -than the insects. Some of them PSssaisj^itipgfijothea Wteiiand a few • ^u|Siwt)^U^.^f|.ppiBtu)oTJ6 ; «apor to •tup^fy 6* blind their pursuers. Again, _ there t«2iniwclsiclottedi4Sn Impenetrn- sPoF^iui''^ te ^ ^^nnii^^^ inseeta cofered with sharp ..,. „_ ... r ^mW/Utot #^d«8&*rickles M& pX&m whoso miles, 'whereas the moon beloairirk***?^? 0 ^ 8 $'- defease consist in nothing this wo«dV<^t*W ikual^ou^ Mt - VOL. I- V H. 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