How Wells Clock Striken. The great clock of Wells cathedral in England was built in 1322 for Glaston. bury abbey and ran 250 years before it was removed to Wells. The striking mechanism of the clock is very curious and elaborate. Above the dial Is a little battlemented turret, with four knights on horseback, armed with hinces. standing guard round it. At some distance froin the clock itself. near the end of the transept, is a life size painted figure, quaintly ugly, with a battleax In its hand. while outside the cathedral is a second large dial, guarded by two tall figures of knights In armor. When the gilt stars point to the hour, the painted figure (Jack Blandivir, as he is called by the country people about Wells, no one knows why) strikes the quarters by striking his heels against two bells behind him and then tolls the great bell of the clock by striking it with his battleax. The two standing knights in armor strike the outside bell with their halberds, and at the first stroke of the great he'l the four knights on horseback over the inside dial start at a gallop and rush round and round the turret in a mimic tournament, in which one knight Is thrown from his horse and regains his sent IS every revolution. Out of Tune. A piano tuner employed by a city frm was sent to a certain suburb to tune a piano. He found the instrument In good condition and not in the least need of attention. A few days later the firm received a letter from the owner of the plano, a lady of musical intention, stating that obe piano had not been properly tuned. It was no better than before. After receiving a reprimand from his employer the hapless tuner made an other trip to the suburbs and again tested every note, only to find, as be fore, no fault with the instrument. This time lie told the lady so. "Yes," she said, "it does seem all right, doesn't It, when you play on it, but as soon as I begin to sing It gets all out of tune again." .Iavaneme Music. The Javanese musical instruments are made mostly of bamboo. They also played upon a pipe or whistle, which was about three fe,t long and six inches across. This sounded 1ike the hollow roar of a lion. Another was a bundle of tub-s of ditYerent lengths, which covered the small boy who car ried it like a big saddle. A log hewn out with two strings stretched across it served as a drimi. A zither of six teen stri-ngs and a mno(lin of two completed thei. outdoor band, while inside one could hear otlier music miade by j ;vgs of wonderfully pure and beaulif'J tone. A Donkey Decoy. A traveler in centra-I Africa tells of a native inmter of the Wanderobo tribe who was the possessor of a most acconplished donkey, which, with an antelope's horns strapped to its head, its body covered with a skin or painted to resemihie the inimal Its master in teldelld to -Ilk Ihat (lay, was the meml; o* (i ing 2111many an unwary creatre intq tallin. a victim to the poi.4owd arrovs of' the hinnter crouch ilg b0hinld hi s fIur111 footfl(d a.ssistant. "'I'mi anious(li~ to get the namiies of all prese."I, saidlI the reorter. "Wil you obl ige me"'~ "Oh," .stid the~ meaek nan, "yoiunmay "You meani 'Mr'. and1( Mr's. er Pe(k,' donui't you?" "I wol) hiIprefer' than,", he repliecd, withm a fur i ie ghlnce oiver hiis shoul decr, "b iut for' goodneit'ss' sakIe dion't say I gave it to1 you that waiy."' T1hey' hav-e curious met hods ini Per sIn ohf insulring law and1( ordelr. A fall ure of the crops had resulteId inI a dear loaf, which umch (enragedl( thle popu)1 lace. Ini or'der to