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^... ..MH....... . 3S22CE <y,swf.~ i£MpgU;om QfMHe Most •wWww »W era' ilia* ever went before an ftttOisU^ Mgnolirla his way was toe of $*' most! cQuwfentto^s.'''IKe refused to: sing'if hcjflld'not feel tbatuls ypfCe was In a condition* todci JuBftce to-th*; «dijg. anct fe himself* He was or lUiftt tiM&te* Ja SbmeppilbSr and «S» sewl without two BinoH vlaia,/one contain* Jng bryohia and the other spougia, , which lie tised alternately. His '''bgdy servant, Barbagelata, usually admin- jitered. the drug, '\OR one occasion It happened, wot .Bjtfbag^Jftta-gave bun a, larger riuahtjry ofbiyonJatbtin he had asked fop, bub iJUe fbes faithful servant that he was, U Infornioa j^l'tf master of therhistake? Brignoll Was furious. He thought hi yiw a.dead man. Ho raved «ncl storm- ed arid swore as only h e coilld. swear, Barbagelata/ thinking to relieve hlf mind, swallowed the entire contents pi the vlat \You sefV^llgnor Brlgnou, there la n» harm to the medicine,\ he said. \Ah jmuvry!\ cried Brignoll, forget- ting his own danger at once. \Xoo nro a (toad manl- What hava you done*'' ' ! All the doctors In the aolgaborhood Vera sent for, and all had to testify tlmt the drug .was harmleea before BflgaoU would hollero that parbaget lata could survive. JMclng Qmeattons In Society, Thi* trem an authority: \Don't ask flusittons; don't mention nnmes; listen •occasionally, and you will Hud yourself a society favorite.\ The first \don't\, icoini to have been most correctly pliced. Mere Is nothing which create* , it pleaaantor Impression and which ro illy leads to the most complete confl \donee than the tact which listens sym« pathetically to all a 'companion will e»y, but never probes deeper by an lm- piii»lr» interrogation. One learns to trait such nu acquaintance and feel la Ids company a peculiar aentn of \secur- ity that is very satisfying. Many of cur small attempts to matte an Impress- jrt recital are, two know, most vulner* able. One or two sharp queries would tfdais them, and wo icarn, as a burned child teiuxii to avoid theflre, Just whom •ws may not and may impose them tu> w, fSkm Uttet plswiuos Uis b» tts*. . l*eK »t UtntHl Centrol and Cancan- trfttton la Fatal, A man who does forcible work must dismiss a subject front fits mind when ho is done with it This increases the grasp and power of tho mind aud keeps it dear for concentration upon the thing under consideration. Nothing CMY be accomplished with half n ml ml; you must concentrate or focus all your powers upon the thing you are doing flMi\ you can never do when things by tht tcottvare half settled In your mind coattoujilly obtrudbig tjhenisotves tot consideration, and hindering the 'Thought of present problems. ' When you have anything In hand. Stttlo It. So not look at it, lay It down, then look at something else and lay that down also, but settle things ««you ro alone. It Is a thousand times hotter to make an occasional mistake thin never to settle anything, but bo always balancing, welshing and con- sidering: many things at a time. It is vigorous thought which counts. A subject which Is handled, BO to speak, with the tips of the mental fin- gers, never amountB to anything. You must seixo and grasp with all your might tho thins you are attempting, and do It with vigor and enthusiasm, If you wish to bear the stamp of su- periority when completed. Another defect In your work, which arises from tho faults I have mentioned, Is failure to complete things. Your work bears tho Impress of Incompleteness, and looms stlways to lack something. If you could overcome these defects you might bo successful, for you realty possess great, ability, but lack deUnttc- rioes. Evidently your mind has not been trained to exactitude. There has been carelessness In your education sdttBwhsrSi It may b« partly the fault of your teachors or your parents In not calling your attention In enrly life to these deficiencies. If this had boon done the task of correction would have been easier than It Is now, but tho faults may still be overcome if proper ailigenes-bTS used. 1 hope, for your ovrajakev'thnt you will set about \Srwith determination.—Success, i Tito Itmui or Was, In us Iowa taw court nu.attorney wo arguing t wtth great earnestness and eloquence! In tho midst of bis ar- gument ho paused n moment, says the Groan Bag, and said: \I see your honor Bha&es his head at that statement 1 desife to reaffirm it, although your honor dissents.\ \1 have hot intimated,\ replied the Judge, \how I should construe the evi- dence c* what »! y decision will be lu the case, and y ur remark Is uncalled for,\ \You shook your head.\ \That may be true,\ tho court re- plied. There was a fly on my ear, and I reserved the right to remove it in any manner 1 saw fit Proceed with your argument\ The Xisrt Straw. After a fellow has -walked about fourteen miles every night for two weejtfl -with the baby it pains him to bo told 'by tho doctor! \Sou look all run down. YoU should take more exer- cise.\—Pittsburg JDiBpatch. rusty voice T»o nasty. imdy (after Bulging a fow notes) — Don't you think my should oe brought out? M&nax0r—No; pushed back.—<Jolum- bus fiiispatolj, Th^-vOriJr DiMfreemblo Part. It ls^ni^*the first half of any Job that is ^disagreeable. tCho second half la Hota&j^iiyT Orleans Thuea-Demo- Sn»eiWJ|tt^^Btnit»t Cat* In the Monferwo Jtia-belVyed that 0, the cats who'wander about upon the roola during- the month of Febru- ary are really 5 witches* whom it is la w- fiii nud even: necessary to .shoot, A (jermfen Siipersatloh-has It that If. a Mock .cat sii* Upon the bed pf a sick man it is a,, presage of bis death, while 4f \.after' Ws' decease *t Is seen iipou his gfa/Ve it ig enough to arouse doubts a* to tile locality to which his fiotil has departed* In Hungary it is thought that cats generaiiy become witches bo* twrceh toe'ages .of seven and twelTHs years'/ A Krench belief concerning the Cat Is that if the anlaial be carried in a cai't and the wind, blow from it lo the dorses they immediately falj fired. If any part of the horseman's clothing be made of cat's skin; the horse will feel as though it carried a double bur* den. In other countries,, however, BU- perstltiou isfavorable rather titan ad- Verse to the cat, A variant of the fa- mous story of the Kilkenny cats is found in Piedmont, tho cats beluc. however, replaced by wolves. P»<hs in Africa. It may he's surprise to the Unen- lightened to learn that probably no ex- plofor, in forcing his passage through Africa, hns over-for move than a few days at a time been off some b'eates track. Bvory village is connected with som* other village, every tribe with the : next tribe, every state with Its heigh- bor and therefore wit* all tho rest Tho explorer's business is simply to •elect from this uetwork of tracks, keep a genoral direction and hold OP Ws way. Thoy are veritable foot paths, never over a foot In breadth, beaten hard and netted beneath the level of th? forest bed of centuries of nat|Te traffic. hike the roads of the old Romans, these footpaths run straight on through everything, ridgo and mountain auu\ valley, never shying at obstacles, nor anywhere turning aside to orenthe. Yet within this general straightfor- wardness arc a singular eccentricity and an Indirectness of detail. And tho reason Is not far to seek. If a stout is oncountered, no native will ovej think of romoYlrtg it; ho simply walks around it. It would never occur to him that thnt stone was a dlsplaceable ob- ject and that tor the genera! weal b« might displace it Aerobntto Soldiers. Clever and skillful Is a feat which Is frequently performed by Italian sol- diers. Foreigners geoernljy suppose tbot It forms part of thelr-drlll, as they never perform it except when they are In uniform, hut it is really one of » series of gymnastic exercises which ItallSh soldiers have for many years been accustomed to practice after their regular drill Is over. Tho'feat consists In piercing nn object with tho point of a sword wlillo tho swordsman Is'In ft most abnormal position. That It is not easy to do this can readily bo imag- ined. Tudped n soldier must praetlc* slcodlty for months before he can feel euro of reaching the mark. Whethw the slilll which ho thus acnulrcs wll ever be of any practical use to htm U doubtful; but, as It Is rather a pastime than a military exorcise, tho soldier* never think of asking themselves this aucstion A Fire nxtiiilltliltlier. A man mnde application Tor Insur- ance on a building situated in a village whore there was no fire engine. He was asked: \What are the facilities in your vil- lago for extinguishing Ore?\ \Well It rains sometimes,\- he re plied, with great simplicity. A Great Invention. Buyer—So this suspender Is called the hydrophobic? Drummer-Yes, sir; these suspenders shrink when the wearer approaches water, and when he gets near a puddle they contract lift him over it and land him, dry shod, on the other side.—New York Times. &s~ S'has* i! ik.s Site In the Shah Luka pass we have one of the many Instances in which the Nile has hurled itself at on opposing mountain barrier and cut Its way through. In fact. It often seems to se- lect these unpropitlotts places for its course when on each side a few mtles away there Is a tolerably level, unbro- ken expanse of desert For ten miles the river twists In and out before es- caping to the open once more. Its cur- rent Is very rapid, making it well nigh impassable at low wntflr because of the numerous rocks, but at the time of my descent the summer flood was well nlqng, and all but a few of these bar- riers were hidden below the surface, their presence .being marked only by oe- •The' l?»Mip*%. snft JBfeatth. \CChe passions' effect ou thfe health is not sufBcie^tly regardedi\ says a phy* aleian in the Philadelphia Record. \The passion Which is best for the health Is avarice. It keeps one cool, encourages: .regular; and industrious habits, leads to abstemiousness and niakes against ail excess. And hence the: avaricioui,: the misers, live to a great age. 5fhe raisers of history were (ill noted for their longevity. Hage is very bad: for'one; Tho passion causes ah* irregular, intermittent beating of the heart, and the Intermlttency in time* may become chronic Hatred cre- ates fever. If we hate, we grow lean, This hot passion eats us, like a flame, Pear is bad for the nerves, the heart and the bfam, and therefore we should never permit ourselves, to bo afraid. But the strangest effects of all have been cau*d by the passion of grief. The medical books record cases where, coming suddenly in n violent shock, It has caused a loss of blood from the lungs In one person, paralysis of the tongue in another and a failure of sight or temporary blindness In a third.\ 1 f- ' :*nljmaii'''Pec.0i»UBg *Ei,tl»<!t,\ Every ccjjury.' gees several specie* of animal helming extinct, In the race for life the weak inusfc yield to the strong, and because they -are per- sistently sought for food or for t eath- ersaot only individuals but Whole fam- ilies cease fa exist. The disappearance. of the great auk can be laid,-to the nineteenth .century. It became ex- tinct on the Ainerjcan slue of the At- lantic about 1840 and In Europe about 1844, The South African quagga dis «&«*.«-* ^; ajEJ j^i^',jt^M-: ; ' :; '. •-•. tphe Paris rjStauranf teflect|\;thei gc^ ^ervatiive viewsof!:tH\Sf^cli4iWv^ph«.: Parisian loves to ^t 6a ; CiSi(ib1tt#d; benches along the wail add aff WBg'-Mi aot enter into taiR With hlaaeighbgr, . -Again*.the Parisian is;s, i rtfe demiocyatt '^Itever^is' rank; h'efis wiJ'lirig;So^oIn< In the fun going forward, 1 teineiriber: one night in the Caff do JParls Seeing?•• Hungarian prince with a rent roll w scores of thousands stalk up'fo a bSaa ®t his countrymen aud tflkevttteV- first «*Tl»ree SI»eet« In the Wind.\ \What was the origin of the phrase for drunkenness,' 'three sheets in the Wind?'\ a landsma'n asked a sailor tluj Other day. \Well said the sailor, \III explain that matter to you. The two lower corners of a ship's sail are hold taut by two ropes, one called a tack and another called a sheet. The tack is always kept very tight but the sheet Is loosened according to the wind, and j the looser the sheet Is the more freely I the sail swings. If the sail Is quite J free, its sheet is said to be 'in the j wind.' Now, suppose that all three of a ship's sails were quite free. They would then fly about very crazlly, and the ship would wabble. The course of the ship wotUU'be a zigzag one, and tho reason for this would be that she had 'three sheets In tho wind.' That, 1 guess, is why n man, when he zlgzaga In bis course. Is said to bo 'three sheets la the wind* also.\—Philadelphia Itec- ord. appeared about 1870 owing to the vic-ita from the .hands oif/the-Ica4.erj ; ' slaughter by hide hunters. The twin ^he next minute \a score of Well w -\\ i,ii shelled \tortoise of the Galapagos is-' lands became extinct in all probabili- ty about- 1870V. The black emu of South Australia was also exterminated during the century, though it was abundant in 1803. The great cormo- rant was lftst seen alive about 183!), and many other speqies of birds frok. all parts of the world have likewise been exterminated, In the Banish West India islands, for example, out of fourteen species catalogued in 1705 only six still exist, and a similar his- tory can be told of many othor locali- ties. Shelter HkedTBfread. The poet Shelley was very simple In his tastes and found his chief pleasure in long, solitary rambles. Bread be- came his chief sustenance when his ' regimen attained to that austerity ' which afterward distinguished It He 1 could havo lived ~on bread alone with- out repining. , \Do you know,\ he said one day to a friend, with much surprise, \that Mr. G. does not like bread? Did you ever know a person who disliked bread?\ Ills friend explained to hlro that Mr. G. probably had no objection | to bread In moderate quantity at a proper time and with the usual ad. June's and was only unwilling to de- vour several pounds of dry bread at s meal. I Shelley hod no such objcctlon:^hls t pockets were generally well stored with brend. Sometimes be ate with his bread the commou raisins which ho bought at small grocers' shops. An Irish Duel. Tho annals of the Emerald Isle bris- tle with iucltlontfl of dueling In which Irish humor, If uot nt ah times Irish bravery, is conspicuous, tin one rfe- casion Sir Jonah Bnrrlngton'fought a duel with a barrister named XleNnlly. Tho latter had one leg shorter than the other and because it was his habit when In a hurry to take two thumping stops with the short leg-to\ bring up the space made by the long one be was nicknamed \One Pound Two.\ McN'nl- ly could get no one of his bar to fight him, and so he challenged Bnrrington. who good naturedly exchanged shots In tho Pltconlx park. The baronet hit bis opponent In the braces, then called tho \gallows and feared ho bad killed blm. When the result was made known, one of iho seconds shouted, \Mac you are tbe only rogue I ever knew who was saved by the gallowa:\ Sea f erponta Breatbc Air. Like all other serpeuts. the sea ser- pents, though permanently Inhabiting I the sea. are air brouthers. The lateral Battening of their tails greatly helps them to swim In any direction, and It specially enables them to rise rapid- ly to tho surface of the water to breathe. Thnt they may do this tho more easily mid securely their nostrils are placed at tho very end of the muz- slo and nro furnished with valves, which secure thorn from being entered by tho wntcY In which they live. Unlike other snakes, they cast their •klus In small pieces. Their eyes nro not adapted to see well out of water, and thus they cannot when lu the air take a good aim to bite. Thoy feed on small fishes, which they pnralyse by means of their poison, and thus they have nothing, to fear from tho spines of tho Bshc3 they eat. Slattgntcr Roaae Ilj-proilnof*. Some of the uses of byproducts of slaughtered animals: The blood is used for the production of albumen, the bones for knife handles, toothbrush handles, chessmen, etc.; the horns for combs'backs of brushes, largo buttons, etc; tho hoofs for buttons, ornaments and fertilisers. Neat's toot oil, extract- ed from tho feet, has a high commer- cial value. Tho fat Is used for glycer- in and buttcrln. Gelatin, glue, pep- sin and other- articles are obtained from slaughtered cattle and sheep. The value of such articles made every year represents many millions of dol- lars. people were feathered' before-hhn.|A counftsanga lovesfingpa bailetdancer- from the opera obtigedtus with,a W markable fandango; a t sugar 'refiner gave us a comic patter. Nobody car^d who his neighbor Chanced to be. It Til good fun. That was sufQclept Imagine a duke and an earl 4nd •,« rich merchant amusing the/ supper crowd at the*Carlton or the SayoyI Decidedly they do these filings better- In France.—Paris Letter in London Ex- press. \ * KeW -Stain. It is suggested by Louis ftabourdln, a French writer, that in each of the new stars that blaze forth In Jhe heavens from time to time we see the destroc-. tlon of a celestial body by a volcanic cataclysm. At any rate, .be saya, If part of the earth's crust underlying the oceaflpotald give way our earth wouh\ l doubtless present in succession to a' distant observer tbe same series pf ap- pearances that we witness In the case of \norm or new stars. First there would be an outburst of blazing bydro^ gen from the sea water decomposed by the earth's internal heat, then fu- sion of the whole Crust reducing the globe again to a molten state, and then the gradual extinction of Its IJght ow- ing to cooling. As cooling would first I take place locally, we should have a variable star, the darkened portions being periodically brought into view by tho rotation of tbe globe.-SUCCess. A. Camiillu^cnl to the Ememy. Chattanooga creek was the dividing line between the outposts of the Fed eral^and Confederate armies, and dur- ing' a lull in hostilities- the pickets of both cultivated one another's acquaint- ance, having agreed not to fire on on« I another. One day when the captain of ' the Union guard sow General Grant, i with his staff, approaching he said to J his men, \Turn out tho guard for the i couunabding general.\ Tho Confeder- ; ates on the other side of the creek, not - more than Qfty feet away, heard the j order, and their captain, conceiving the Idea of paying a compliment to the en- • emy, shouted, •Turn out the guard for the commanding general of the Federal army.\ Tho Confederate pickets stood , at attention for several moments and then saluted Grant as he rodo away. Children and Growth. The year of greatest growth In boys Is the seventeenth; In girls, the four- teenth. While girls reach full height In their fifteenth year, tfiey ncqulre full weight ut the age of twenty. Boys are stronger than girls from birth to the eleventh year; then girls become supe- rior physically to the seventeenth year, when the tables are again turned and remain, so. From November to April children grow very little and gain no weight; from April to July they gain in height, but lose In weight, and from July to November they Increase greatly ln.welght, but not in height Lincoln's Str«nf»aat Attribute. The strongest attribute of Lincoln Was his power of self control. Senti- ment might sway him, but a mob never moved him.- When JealouSies in the nrmy bred n popular clamor against General Grant while the latter was winning famous victories in the south- west, Lincoln listened to no word ol Bcaudal and by his silence rebuked tbe \detainers of tho general who afterward became the admiration of the world. . When In the fevered tumult of passion an angry north seemed to voice a gen- eral demand for the infliction of the death penalty upon Jefferson Davis, Lincoln listened in silence and Waited for reason to resume Its sway. He was sJways looking over the heads of the crowd. He was always listening to tha still small voice that echoed in the dis- tance, far away from the roor of vehe- ment denunciation. The majesty of the law constantly appealed to his flat Judicial Bense.—Leslie's Weeklr. DIuwit—Say, our backbones are like serial stories, aren't they? Thinwit—Prove it? Dlnwife^Cohtlnued in our neck*>> Harvord Lampoon. Heantngra of Several STamea. Asia means morning or easi; Europe, evening or west; Ausiratta-means lying to or in the south; hence we may con- sider thnt these names meaii t eastern land, western land and southern land. Asia Is a Greek word; Europe Is a He- brew word; Australia Is a Latin word. The origin of the word Africa Is uncer- tain. Some conjecture that it is a Se- mitic word meaning \Land of Wander- ers.\ MlmleUrr In Caterplllnri. A very large caterpillar stretched It- self from the foliage of a tree which I was examining and startled me by Us resemblance to o small 'hnaki. Theurst three segments behind the head were dilatable at the will of the Insect and had on each side a large black pupil- latcd spot, which resembled the eye of the snake. It was a poisonous or vl- perlne species mimicked and not an In- nocuous snake. This was proved by the Imitation of keeled, scales on tho crown, which was produced by the re- cumbent feet as the caterpillar threw ttself backward. I carried off the cat- erpillar and alarmed every one In the village where I was then living to whom I showed It—\Records of a Nat- uralist In the Amazon.\ Two Talcs of Truffled Torkeyn. The Abbe Morelct was accustomed to say: \There needs be; two to eat a truflled turkey. I never do otherwise. I have one today. We will be two— the turkey and myself.\ The archbishop of SOnzal_was an- other truffled tufkey lover. His grand vicar had lost a turkey to him on a bet and delayed paying up because, as he alleged, \truffles were bad that year.\ ^ ( \Bah! Bah!\ said the archbishop. \We will chance the truffles. This is a false report that has been circulated by the turkeys.\—\The Pleasures of the Table,\ by G. H. Eliwanget . DnnOtected. Miss Speitz—Of course, no one could truthfully speak of her as pretty. Mr. Lovett — Well—er—perhaps not, but she has such a quiet, unaffected i manner. I Miss Speitz—Yes, but it has taken hor several years to acquire it—Phila- delphia Press. Toilet of the Cat. , Qats, targe and small, mako the most careful toilet of any class of animals, excepting some of the opossums. Tho lions and tigers wash themselves in ex- actly the same manner as the cat wet- ting the dark, rubberlike ball.of the fore foot and Inner toe and passfug It over tbe face and behind the ears. 1'he foot Is thus, at the same time a fai.e sponge and brush, and the rough tongue combs the rest of the body. TelllntT of «h.e Bat»r> When a Dutch baby makes Its arriv- al, the tact Is announced by a man wearing a black coat and a white tie who la hired by the little one's parents to -go round to all their friends with packets of sweets, which are appropri- ately decorated with a picture of a ba- by and an angel. The coafecrJoo U made of aniseed and sugar. IJoogh sweets signify the birth of a boy, smooth sweets tlu^ of a glrL Tbe t2ul> Iren of the families to whom they aril sent cat the sweets spread Upon their bread and butter Xn the eighteenth century the birth of a child was an- nounced by tying; a pincushion deco- rated with .lace and ribbons to the door knocker of the parents' hous*. want JLaaaalaisa. \Walling in the bank directly 1st front of me was a charming woman of twen- ty or so who was having her-urit ex- perience In banking,\ said the mer- chant as he lighted his cigar after luncheon. \She was asked the ques- tions usual -for one Who Is opening an. account—her name, address, whether married or single and her father's and nse-ther's name* ShegefealsBgsifMgai until the clerk asked: ** 'Mother's maiden namei please.* ! i**'l don't quite rmderstand, ria afraid,' she said hesitatingly. • \ 'I mean your mother's name whea she Was a girl,' explained the clerk, ^«How should rknow? I don*t flks impertinence, sir! How snould Ikdow? I didn't know he% when she wis & girl The idea!- Are you trying to maJca fua of me, sir?* \—New York Times. A. Stnonna Snake. ta Marianne North's \Recollections of a Happy Life\ is a descrip'tion-df *a tame snake. Its mistress would soma times twist the pretty bronze creature »the great plait of hair she wore around her head M'-ftmztf/ffliffiWiiinh'i {folic, CbofeftrtS Biarrl^ea, $eme> dy.assopftftfrilxl'; fli'st jbijdii'rtti'ijn of tlie diseafee:t^at^ r; afed a w-feateu^ diredJHof *eppi^;u#vilj6'yem.^d'y in. Jb;i» '^a?^ For jsateby OJhgS, Al'ISack. - ;- . ,jf.\ ; igjia«-,.ae»fo^-.prfiwMeK 1 » ••'•**•' ta» -'Pleaaorei 'of cbnyeramtlon. ;Ohe Very f 's^rl6ua ,f disBWbaCB: ! to out pieastee' #4; icohveriati^h *wltb ?; toe -weft uifdrrted' $efeBon is the ue>vous strain thattelnvolvedi' W* are always worldering: what w*U happen when he Wmes :to the;end of his resources. Aft- er llstenmgtc^onevifho discourses' with surprising accuracy upon any 1 particu- lar topic we feei-* delicacy In changing the\ subject; it seems ff hutai trick like' suddenly removing th«? chair or. which a guest is about i& sit down for theiev^rjlng. With one who Is Interest- ed in a great many things he knows little about there la 'ho such difficulty. If he has passed Jiie first Hush of youth, ft no longer embarrasses him to - be caught now and then 1» a mistake. indeed your .correetioh is welcomed ai an agreeable Interruption afid sSrvoi as a starting point for a. new series of observations, The pleasure of conversation is en banced if one feels assured not only of Wide margins of ignorance, but also of the absence of any uncanny quickness of mind. * 1 should not Ititend be a neighbor to a* wit It would b> like, betug In prox- imity to,a live wire. A certain Insulat- ing dim of kindly stujildlty Is needed to give a margin of safety to human in- tercourse. There are certain minds whose processes' convey the impression of alternating currents of high voltage *o a Wire that is not quite large enough for them. From such I would with- draw rhyself. Ohe is freed frorh sll iwb apprehen- sions In the companionship of pubpw who make ue» pretensions to any kind of cleverness. •T.b* itughter of fools Is .like the crackling of thorns under • pot?. What cheerful sounds—the crack- ling ~H>f the dry thorns and the merry bubbllng'ot th« pot!—& H. Crotbers is AtlsnticV • PICKINGS FROM FICTION. She took onr nughty few airs for a per- son la xnoaratn,—\IjOTey , Mary.\ One cannot b» happy until he has learned how, and for that one must suff*r.~\One*s Wooaenklnd.** If w» coafd only take chloroform for difficult tasks and wake to find them doaei--* , ms laughter First\ There's no hope this side of the grave for the man who tabws It all. On the other tide Jiis devil doesn't Want blm— the Lord wont fcavt him.—\Adam Bush.\ Bom* of us lee the roeary of life only at separata betaX not touching the dl- vUe eonstrslniug thread, and are taken by surprise when w« com* to {he cross! —\MotbanetBiitt.** • Our thoughts, our opinions, are like applet oo* tht irt*; thoy mutt take time to ripen, mad wbert they ate ripe how easily they fall I A mare nudge brings ihemdow&>^n4ter*ry Values/* Tht only thottt, I bolitva, who creep Into this world are dead young moth- ers m turned to »*• how their Ihlldren far*. T.h«rt is no other inducement great enough to bring the departed t*efc-*Tne Utile White Bird.\ • PICKINGS FROM FICTION. Aalttnc a Good Deal. \How about the rent of this house of yours. Flitter? Doesn't the landlord nsk n good deal for It?\ Flitter-Yes; he often asks five and six times a month for It.—New Yorker. WaVerlngr. Nervous Old Lady (addressing officer oh board a passenger steamer)—Oh, captain, I wish you'd go and speak to the man at the wheel. He keeps turn- ing it first one way and then the other, and I'm sure he doesn't know his own Jnlnd.--London King. 1 Proof Positive. . Miss Charcoal-I tell yo*, Miz' John- Sing, dese heah patent medicines hain't no 'count at all. t'ze been usln'.dis Illy balm face bleach fo' a yeah now, an' It 'fected me none.—Exchange. A Bit Unklna. golden — Burgess says he always says what he, thinks. Belden—That accounts for It Saw him at the club last night, and he didn't utter a word the whole evening. —Boston Transcript. Not Settled. Jones—Does he love her still? JohUson-No} hor father keeps him on the Jhmp all the time.—Kansas City Independent ' - ' Her Title to tt. , Nell—Is she a society woman? Belle—Yes,. Indeed. She belongs to n6 less than eighteen societies for the sup- pression Of as many tWngA-Phlladel- phla Recdvd. The genltis ahd inspiration of Amer- ican clViuzatlon rest upon the Individ* nal thought, character and action of every cltl3»n.-T-Schoolmaste<r. It** never too late to laugh:—\Sons of the Morning.\ The next best thing to a. somebody Is a nobody In a* good set—\A. Study In Temptations.*-' In life, as well as racing^ all the worst accidents happen at little ditches and cut down fences.—\Plain Tales From the Hills.\ One's parents are a necessity, one's grandparents an ornament and one's husband's parents a nulsaUce.—\A Double Thread.\ The truest pnUosophy hi not to long for anything in paMIcutar, hut to ac- cept -e**rjrthiaf ~w it comfer and find out tte'i^son of-it* coaung.-—*'A Ro- manee of a^vo WorMs.*' . Gin ony man has sae muckle land that he diana ken the folk that sow nu' .reap U,4heti atojojigin' that he's ower Intickle for the gfhiete c? the eommon- wealth.-^\arh*e Days r«f Aula Lang Syne.\ His religion Was of the kind that la carried into eVeiydayJWe, \not a cloak .to be thrown around the soil begrimed and once threatened to go down thus f vestments of ^shady bnsjness life to decorated to a dinner party .of Taihesihide them on Sunday.\—\Richard stiff people. r JitHtuns.** But one of the snake's oWn eccentric- ities serves to distinguish it among 4j With ottgeXCeptio-ntheW'has been a KsSafpetT^\ ^ ^H^Hclt in postal revenues every year It was as fond-of glitterihg things'at its mistress herself, and when she,tooit off* her many rings and placed them On different parts of the/table it Would go about collecting them and stringing them on Its lithe body. Then it would tie itself in a knot, so that thte rings could not be taken off .until it was pleased to untie itself again, <• Hyphen Sticofeed* Brmes. The Professor—They have traveled «uifeiy along the happy Journey until t»w their hopes aire about td be re- alized. . ' ;mlntie 1835; . / Thousands of IetterU are mailed ev- ery day Withdht tb* vesjlge of an ad- dress to/indicite fbr%hom v they are in- tended.' ' \- Mail matfer;oC*.ny' i klnd addressed: in a vague^iind ixtdeunitie;way, such as to \the xnost prominent; physician,\ etc., is not delivearable/ Be^antih'^&ikhn? nrafr postmaster general, boasted that under his admin 'fatratidn 'ah* tnV^JKaeffW-tte- tounti?/ *had tieetfprBv^ded-^Itu'a.weekly mnll. -• One may-MiFa letfef/destined for\ iforelgh-pgrir without' prepayuient of the Jntininl , , Tw* •* a. Klna. ' ' . Jehkins-\What an egbt&ncii'fBuotv Jafrjer is> ' ' •, • . -. Hnwlelgu^Sfet more so than. Blare. mm BC HEV FITT BU Mrs. Malaprop^-YeSj.Cupid, the^.gbd, postage, ttwaii^goforx^ardiodestina- of love, must how give way to Hyphen; '•tfofi, ahdrthf Recipient'will\be required •»\» god of matritoohy.^Eabbars ncity ,to pay double rates fpr.^the privilege of Teading-it ithe&oes it efficiently. 'AttaB^caldrpio^-bice a record i» iefitof the dhtefeht ways of spelling the narhe'iof'tliaf StJ^toThail address- When the twbget together, itremind* -^ ^f^f^^l^^-^ meOf.meiawotre^au4;ai •*.ft y^ti ^wH^ten^sCri^ : . ^^^^^^' ^ CI Cc H R Old '*»
