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(AMERICA'S FIRST. KANETTK WAS THE PIONEER SB KLKPHANT OF AMERICA. Death of the Old Resist Said to Have Come to This Country in 1S23 Kb and to Have Had Forty W or More Owners. f ~T EANETTE, an elephant which _ I most showmen believe to have h been tho oldest iu the United ! S' ates and the first ever brought to America, is dead at Peru, Ind. Ker age is known to have been 110 years. The Chicago Times-Herald save she has been a tenant of menageries in this country since 1S21. i. Jeanette really died of old age. Her skin was wrinkled and drawn and her H^^KKETTE, AMERICA'S PIONEER ELEPHANT. ^ R^m^Bac V? q rJ I V> o f rtonnlia? lar>lrlriQff>f fin. ' rrffVHVo U?U tuau imvuiuwwa Mjf/ KB&Hurance which always accompanies [ JHSBcrepit old age. Jeanette had passed ' EKMHrough the hands of so many show- 1 ^^^Hbn that to anyone of these her entire jffl^MUtory is practically unknown. She ' BjgSpme in possession of her last owner * SmK 1385. Previous to that time, it.is 1 MBpstimated by those who know scraps V of the aged elephant's career, she had ( BF been owned by at least forty different ' & persons. She was of African birth and J Hi rrrao er\1A fr\i? a lia nrfn 1 nf rrnl?1 AnmnA * gg TT iau ayiu IUJ. u ud^4U4 V4 gv*v*i VMW who saw her, and was familiar with * m elephants, wonld know in an instant c I that she was an African. Her ears c i were of the enormous, "umbrella" * kind, which make elephants look not . unlike huge foxhounds. The first that was known of Jennette in this country was in 1S23. At that time an agent of an American menag- i erie was in England, and there saw the 1 elephant, in company with a number i of others just arrived l'rom the Cape, c as Africa is termed in Britain. She 1 Koon omnlnro/1 aa a Tcnrlf ItlfT JUMU WVUU VU*|/IVJ vu MW * " V ? " I phsot for sometime in Africa previous [ i SETTLING AN OLQ SCORE. (Two scenes in the tojher purchase by an English official, 1 99RfKo was engaged in gathing a small a RjgSBrd to export to England. At that v ^HSffne, it is asserted, there was not an p H elephant in the United States. The s agent from America conc3ived the idea h F that he had found a tremendous card s for his menagerie. He purchased \ Jeanette for $25,000. The purchase t was the talk of London. r The next thing to do was to get I Jeanette to the United States, and that n was no trifling matter. The year p 1823, it must be remembered, was far I in advance of the ocean greyhound, f r and the voyage across the Atlantic for v l even a human being was considered o ati prpnt Tho ftcont. VintPfiVAr. was T equal to the emergency, and one June s day when a clipper ship sailed from o Liverpool she had aboard of her, snug- fi ly stowed in the hold, the bulky form c of the comparatively youthful c Jeanette. Detail is lacking as to how t Jeanette enjoyed the voyage, but she a reached New York with but a few s abrasions of the skin and a sour tem- h per. s Naturally Jeanette created a sensation in Gotham. People came from a great distance to see her lodgings not P far from Battery Park. Then her owner placed her in a tent, because e the lodgings were not large enough to . accommodate the people who came to see her. He made money rapidly and Jeanette waxed fat^ and strong. After a while patronage began to slacken s y a bit, however, and Jeanette's owner, p | who had long ago given up the idea of v placing her in any menagerie except c c I THE DUEL. C t his own, put her in a wagon that was a considered a triumph of architectural 8 skill, and with just enough other f things to justify him in calling his c outfit a menagerie started out to tour t the east. 1 .Teanette's fame spread far and wide, t and alter exhibiting her until he had d made his fortune her owner sold her o to a menagerie. Ho>v often she s changed hands after that even the i best posted menagerie and circus man a refuses to estimate, beyond the fact c that it was at least forty times. It is fi certain, however, that there has been d no prominent menagerie in the conn- t try in the last half century which has I not had a claim on Jeanette at one o time or another. When elephants be- h gan to be common Jeanette's fame ' f faded. She was probably the most | traveled elephant the world ever I 5 knew. The tact that she fell from the j pedestal of fame so many years ago j s did not sour her temper, for she was 1 e always considered a special pet by q everjone who ever had anything to do Jt rith her. t Although possessed of this good I nature, she was resentful of fancied c or real injuries, and if she once took a c dislike to a person woe betide that t unfortunate individual if he ever n ventured within reach of her trunk. e Jeanette had au antipathy to a 1 painter named Fraser, which seemed t r to turn her against all painters. Once i she broke loose and discovered a gang i of painters outside the gate on their way from work to dinner. She gave a shrill warning and thundered after them. They ran as fast as they could, THE FUNERAL. but Jeanette gained so rapidly that they were forced to take refuge 111 a barn, the great doors of which swung right open. Jeanette pressed them so hard that toey climbed up into the haymow, and there the elephant kept fViom Tintil ttioir cpif>a fnr hpln hrnnrrht """" ? 1- o aid. Jeanette was not a large elephant. She weighed only three tons. She had a persuasive way, however, whenever she took after anyone. To tell the complete story of her escapades would be an almost endless task. The greater portion of them were goodnatured, and she was never known to really hurt anyone who had not injured her. It was a favorite pastime of hers whenever she broke loose in the menagerie tent to make for the lemonade venders, put them to flight and drink all their lemonade. This she seemed to consider a most delightful treat. The same method of treatment was applied to the men and boys ivho dispensed candy, and Jeanette ippropriated so much of their stock ihat they grew to be afraid to venture Jt'tfcr uer. The people of Peru mourn for Jean;tte. She was one of the sights of the own during the winter season, and w&s& friend of two-thirds of the popuation. Her funeral was as largely at;ended as that of the most prominent litizen would have been. She was >nly an elephant, but it is something ;o have been a good elephant. Bismarck is Bored. A sadder utterance can hardly be maffined than that said to have been ately made by Prince Bismarok, now lear the end of his life, after having jocnpied the position of dictator of Surope: "I feel weak and languid, but not 11. My illness is want of the joys of WEAKNESS FOR LEMONADE. life of Jeanette.) ife. Mv existenoe is no longer of ,ny use ; I have no official duties, and chat I see as an onlooker gives me no deasure. Should I live longer it will till be the case. I feel lonely. I lave lost my wife, and as regards my ons, they have their own business. Vith growing age I have also lost inereet in agriculture and forestry. I arely visit the fields and woods, since: can no longer ride and shoot andj aove about as I like. Little by little' toliticsbegins to tire me." The faculty of retiring gracefully rom active labor and responsibility rhen years become a burden andJ thers can do the work better, is one lismarck has not learned. He has no nch resource as Gladstone has in ther interests than statecraft. He* inds nothing to do but to meddle andl omplain. The knowledge that he ireated a strong empire gives him litJ le comfort, J or he has not faith that' nrrKn^TT V*nf Vtimoalf Aart IrAon l f uj uuuj uuu utuiouii vau iw trong. When Milton was old, and: iad for "this thxee years" lost the ight of his eyes, he could say: "What supports me, dost thou ask? The conscience to have lost them overplied i In Liberty's defense, my noble task." But liberty is a better work than . mpire.?New York Independent. Compressed Air as Motive Power. The attention of inventors has been 0 concentrated on electricity and its tosBibilities, that compressed air, rhichis almost as wonderful in its apabilitie3, has been quite lost sight if. Just what it is capable of we can tot as yet understand, but we do know hat it runs locomotives, transfers the Jnited States mails, hurls the charge if an explosive a mile and a half, with 1 fnrp.A snffinient. to nnlvprizfi a rnci , -w-ww X - --Odent. It operates block signals on ailroads, loads guns, drives maohinjry, works pumps, and oarves out ill sorts of beautiful things from stone md marble. It is coming into ubc for housands of minor purposes. As a ileaning and dusting agent, it is invallable. It copies letters, shears sheep ^nd is utilized in the Btock yards to laughter and dress meat. Ab to its uture, prediction is made that it will lean house, run dumb waiters, take he place of the horse as a means of ocomotion, will wash dishes and rock he baby. There are inventors who ieclare that compressed air is already [uite as useful as electrioity,and much afer and more manageable. To bring t into its best uses, large distributing tations must be built, from which ompressed air will come as we now ;et gas and water. There will, no loubt, be a sharp rivalry between the wo great powers, electricity and com>ressed air; and between the two, we ught to be able to get most of our ainor services well and cheaply perormed. His Thrilling Adventures. John Elliott, a Canadian, told a tory at Ellis Island, which caused the aembers of the Special Board of In[uiry to open their eyes in wonder, ie had two trunks filled with curiosiieB, which he says he brought from iladagascar. Elliott said that he was iast ashore on the Island of Madagasiar. He was taken as a spy, and was o have been shot, when a pretty Madagascar girl tell in love with him and laved his life. They were married. Elliott then received a high office. At he first opportunity he escaped. His rife was not with him when he arrived.?New York Press. Tlie Dioycle is a Xfiw InvenHon. Hu-nbrecht's dinycle, patented November 10, 1896, it a striking novelty in the velocipede line. Two wheels are mounted on a V-shape axle, between which the rider situ. A crank-shaft having foot pedals is suspended from the axle convenient for the rider to | operate. Sprocket wheels are mounted at either end of the crank-ehaft and connect by drive-chain with loose sprocket : wheels on the axle. The rider's seat is swung below the bearings, so that he cannot upset. The dicycle is especially adapted to those who do not , care to go to the trouble of learning to ride a bicycle, and it is easily rid DICYCLE FOIt SOLDIERS. den, and old and young- are equally suited to it. The wheel can be used advantageously by soldiers and messengers in time of war.?Cinsinnati Enquirer, t Torpedo Mines. Modern Harbor Defenses are doscribed in St. Nicholas by Charles Rawson Thurston. He writes: The torpedo mines are operated from mining casemates located at the entrances of harbors or bays, the exaot situation and their interior arrangement being a department secret. Some mines are spherical in shape, about three feet in diameter, and constructed of steel. These, when in servioe, are expected to hold a hundred pounds of 1 high explosives, and to float near the 1 surface, liut they must be concealed ' as well as buoyant, and so to each is ' attached by a cable a mushroom anchor to keep the torpedo just below the surface, out of sight and beyond ' the reach of the fire of machine guns. These mines are intended for use in the channels that hostile ships would have to sail through, and are arranged in threes and set closely in the chan- | nel according to plans previously arranged. If necessary, the sea off the entrance to a harbor or bay conld be well filled with them. These mine3 may be exploded or may be perfectly harmless according to the will of the occupant of the mining oasemate,who, ] trnf Vi Vi i n lmnA* Ar\nn?nlna la ATI f , miu uxo lujpui taui 10 uuv ^ of reach of shot and shell, there being J tons of earth between him and the ] upper air. Out from this chamber through a ' ( tunnel below low-water mark, and | hence safe from discovery by the ( enemy or shot from them, run numer- i ous cables to the mines planted in the | j channel or in the sea. Within the j j chamber the operator has an elaborate t chart with the location of every toi- ( pedo or mine upon it. By telegraph j or other signals from observation stations near by he is kept informed of the approach of vessels, and acts as j he thinks best under the ciroum- , stances. He may receive word from i l.*_ .1.1: i. i_ _ a*- . j- A 1 i_ ui5 stations 10 sucu eneci inai wuunis | : chart he knows a vessel is directly | | within a cluster of the sunken mines, j j Then he can touch a key, and a mine { will instantly explode beneath or near , the vessel. If the vessel is a friendly , one, however, the operator can discon- ( nect his batteries, and the ship will sail in perfect safety over the tons of | explosive beneath. If the weather be | foggy, or if some other condition un- < favorable for locating a vessel prevails, j and enemies are known to be near, tha > pressing of many buttons will make ( every one of these mines a deadly j force, and any ship that ventures in ] will strike a torpedo, roll it over, and , automatically close an electrio circuit, which will explode the mine; and the t ship will be sunk, or badly shattered. ] These are various devices for ascertaining that the hidden mines and connections are in good working order. j i Improved Roads in the South. AtoKama V^oo Vioon ft rrr*r*r? rlanl ( MinUALUH UUO Wtcu 141SAU? ? g,uvu uyui in the last few years in the way of iin- 1 proving her public roads, but she is k not keeping up with North Carolina. $ Thirty North Carolina counties have 1 levied a general road tax, and from the sum thus realized the construction of permanent roads goes steadily on. Other counties in the State are using their convicts in road work, and evidenoes of first-class road improvements are to be seen on all sides.? Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. Corrected. iEi^ 7 ~~ **1 r? He?"I will speak to your father to- ? ,morrow." 3 ' She (glancing at the clook)?"You I mean the day after to-morrow."? t Twinkles. 1 CURIOUS FACTS. Buttons are made* of milk. Pigs draw wagons in China. There are seven institutions in Russia in active operaliDn for the treatment of hydrophobia. Within the last twenty years the number of sea vessels annually entering thehirborof Hamburg, Germany, has doubled. Massachusetts spent last yearS-4.63 on each ?1000 of its valuation for the public schools, the total amount paid being $11,829,911. The coldest part of the globe is the northeast corner of Siberia. There are only ninety-nine days in the year when the ground is olear of frost. It has been estimated that over 2,000,000 acres are devoted to the main cenance 01 aeer in cscotiana, ana tnaj, about 5000 stags are annually killed. Twelve veterans of the War of 1812 ire yet living, with apes running from ninety to 104 years. The Government is about to increase their pensions from $12 to $30 a month aach. The island of the Manhattoes sent beaver skins to Europe soon after Queen Elizabeth died. In 1626, only one year after the death of the first King James, a permanent town was sstablished upon it. The Jardin des Plantes at Paris mourns the death of the favorite female hippopotamus at the early age of forty-three, a present to France in 1855 from Halym Pasha, a brother of the khedive of Egypt. The late C. Jerome Cary, of Milwaukee, Wis., directed that his body ahould be burned, that the ashes .ihould be used to nourish a certain rosebush, and that the blossoms should be distributed among his friends. His wishes were carried out. A law has been passed iu Norway which taxes all commercial travelers on their arrival in the country in the mm of lQO kroners. The drummer must obtain a "certificate for trade" an landing, otherwise he will be subjeot to a fine of 100 kroners, in addition to the tax. The Harald Haarfager, the first battleship of modern type built for the royal Norwegian navy, was launched in England the other day. l?he ceremony was performed by Mme. Eitang, who is said to be a direct descendant of Harald Haarfager, the Eirst ki&R of Norway. Germany is forging ahead in an altogether phenomenal manner with her mercantile marine. An 1871 it consisted of 147 steamships, with a total tonnage of 82,000, wheareas, last year the government returns showed a total of come 1200 steamers, with a tonnage of over 1,000,000. Land Telegraph and Cable Bates. Telegraph rates vary greatly in this. jountry owing to the immense distances. In many of the smaller countries of tbe old world a nniform rate is made for any point within the given jonntrv. but it would be manifestly unfair to the American telegraph companies if they were compelled to send i messags from New York to San Franoisco for the same rate that they :harge tor a message from New York to Jersey City or from Chicago to Evanston. As a rule, the minimum rate for a lay message of ten words in this country is 25 cents. A message from Chicago to Boston coste 50 cents, while New York,Philadelphia and Baltimore have a 40-cent rate. The highest rates from Chicago are those for points in Southern Florida?85 cents. It costs jnly 75 cents to telegraph to any point in California or Oregon, and the r&te [or New Orleans is 50 cents. Cable ra-.es are bo much per word, instead of per message of ten words, md the figures are very much higher. Messages to England, France and Germany cost 31 cents per word from Chicago. Belgium's rate is 36 cents; Eolland and Italy, 33 cents; Austria, tO cents; Greece, 44 cents; Egypt, 62 junts; Switzerland, 36 cents ; Sweden, 13 cents; Turkey, 43 cents and 53 jents; Russia, 49 cents. xne uuDiin war nati greatly mcreaseu the volume of telegraphic business in ;he West Indies. The lowest rate ia 10 cents per word for messages in Eavana. Other Cuban points are aigher, and no town in the West Indies outside of Cuba can be reached for less than 31.05. per word. Messages to Porto Rico oost SI. 85 per >7ord. Central American rates range from 50 cents (Gautemaia) to 75 centB (Costa Rica and Nicaragua). South American rates take a big jump upward. Brazilian messages cost from $1.35 to $1.87 oer word ; British Guiuna points cost *2.17. Communication with Australia is jxpensive. Queensland reaches the Highest figure, $2.62 per word, while South and West Australia rates are $1.47. Messages to China cost $2.02 per word, and the same figures apply to Corea. Japanese rates are $2.27 per word ; Java,$1.53 ; Formosa,$2.27; [ndia, $1.29; Madagascar,$1.70; New Zealand, $1.58; Philippine Islands, 52.51; Siam, $1.41. Algeria can be reached for 3S cents per word, the minimum rate for the Dark Continent. East Africa rates are $1.54 to f!l.64, while South African point? rauge between $1.58 and $1.70. West African points, as .'a rule, range ibove $2, while it costs $3.02 to send i word to Mossamedes from Chicago ?more than to reach any other telegraph station in the world direct. However, a message to Bassidore or Lingah costs the Chicago sender $1.19 per word tc Jask, Persia, and $11.76 jxtra for special dispatch boat line rom that point.?Chicago Tiinealerald. Artificial liold Ore. Specimens of artificial gold ore that lefied detection have been shown to Ldinburgh scientific men by J. C. Johnson, of Adelaide, Australia. The liscovery, some yearn ago, that gold :ou!d be deposited from its solution o the metallic state on any suitable )ase, such as iron sulphide, led Mr. rohnson to experiment with various :ompound8 of gold, and thus to proluce the most natural looking aurierous quartz from stones that had previously contained no trace of gold. ?he stone is thoroughly penetrated, he gold being introduced into the in* 1 erstices in the most natural forms.? L'rentob (N. J.) American. 1 FASHION FORECAST. WHAT T^IE DRESSY NEW YORK WOMEN WILL WEAK. Stylish Gowns for Street WearSeveral Complete Costumes L>oscrlbed?Jaunty and Fashionable Headgear. (Special New York Fashion Letter.) OH, soon will come the time, Husband or 'ather, dear, Wlien all your womankind will most Solicitous appear. They'll cook your favorite dishes, Fiue compliments they'll pay; And all your foudest wishes Will carefully obey! Ami know you not the reason? Why, really now, you ought: Fine dresses for the springtime Must speedily bo bought! I wonder why it is that, realizing as we do that summer is inevitable, we invariably leave the ordering of our new season's gowns till the very last moment, and then because we all want them made at once, and in the shorteat possible space of time, we have to exercise a considerable amount of patience. When once the new fashions are settled on, there is nothing to i i *i.: J A. T /j_ j i* gum uy waiting, auu ye* x una mysen, ; in spite of all this moralizing, one of these same procrastinating sinners who never by any chance awake to a full sense of their responsibilities, till at is forced upon them that they have not a gown which is fit to wear. However, I am sure, we all mean to improve so I'll help by describing the several very chic gowns illustrated on this page. That becoming Eton suit, the perfection of what a spring costume should be, is made of canvas weave novelty material in a combination of green and tan. The ekirt bangs exceedingly well and is lined with a rich tan. glace eilk. The little jacket is smart enough to witch the heart oat of any woman and then an appliqned ifJM BECOMING ETON SUIT. trimming of light tan cloth adds considerably to its effective appearance. It is worn over a two-tone taffeta silk blouse confined at the waist under a pointed girdle made of the material edged with a fold of the tan cloth. The hat that makes such a fitting crown for this dainty frock is of tan novelty braid and the trimming consists of loops of green velvet and gauze ribbon and a wealth of American beauty roses. The ever-popular blazer in a (eature in the next suit. The cloth used is a dark stone gray closely woven cheviot, marked in tiny square blocks by threads of the same color. SMART JACKET SUIT. The novelty of the jacket is in the way the revers widen at the bnst line, i for generally they grow narrow at the f bottom and extend in points at the ] shoulders. These revers are faced with < a heavy gray twill silk in a lighter < shade than the cloth and they are fin- i iehed with a dainty cording of black c silk in a fanoy design. 1 The bottom of the jacket is smartly | AM* n mm A ? ill ?TrV? ilo fllA I V/UC UiiU. CUgOU VY1LU Ul am rruuw wuw jaunty little side pockets have patch covers, in cat and finish similar to the AN ATTK^CnVH SUIT. i edge of the jacket. The sleeves are ( especially well shaded and are trimmed with a neat cording. This "study ii gray" is completed by a gray straM j hat adorned with exquisitely shaded plumes. Paradise aigrettes of blaoli droop over each side of the brim anc an immense bunch of velvet pansier 1 resting upon the hair at the back com < plete this fascinating bit of headgear, ' The jacket suit next shown is ar ' 1 i ^ j 1 EVER POPULAR BLAZER SUIT. c c ideal of smartness from the edge of it* ? corduroy bound skirt to the tip of the f tastefully stitched collar. The materi' c al of whioh it is fashioned is an open c weave novelty of deep brown orossbarred with two heavy threads of white, and over the entire surface is powdered tiny spots of green thai , make the combination most fascinat . ing. xne pretty strapped iront ana : seams and the smart stitching on the 1 collar and edges of the jacket all aid 6 in making the costnme as swell as one 1 could imagine. fl The hat that accompanies this snit 1 has a large crown of geraninm red ? novelty straw to which is fastened a finely shirred brim of red liberty satin v finished at the edge with a double 6 ruche. A wealth of black plumes r droop over the left side while the ? right is adorned with a bunch of ger- 1 animus surrounded with the beautiful 0 foliage provided by nature. Equally attractive in design and finish is the fourth suit depicted. The * ? ? < 11 - vr i fc ciotn asea is one 01 tee new napuieuu blues and its triirming consists of straps of the material exquisitely 13 stitched and showing the unmistakable 0 handiwork of an expert tailor. ? The gracefully hanging skirt is gar- * nitured with a stitched strap down * each side and the tight fitting waist is * similarly finished. r The beautiful hat is of fine black y Milan braid trimmed with choux of blue and of yellow meline and with a four immense black ostrich feathers. c The oostumes illustrated herewith were designed by The National Cloak Co., of New York. g Woman's Position in China. p A paper published at Shanghai says 1 that "in China a woman is not her hus- 1< band's companion and cannot be so, as sooiety is at present constituted. I1 When a young wile is introduced to a ii uew family her husband seems to be ^ the last person with whom she has p anything to do. He would be ashamed u to be seen talking to her, and if he ii should exchange views with her he h should be laughed at by the whule tl family." f< British Postal Savings. One of the greatest bankers in the vorld is the British government. As t bank it holds nearly $500,000,000 in ? poBtoffice deposits payable practically 11 >n call, and pays interest at the rate a >f two and a half per oent. per an- ^ mm to ite depositors. Last year the leposits increased $50,00(^000.?Sao a Francisco News Letter ^ , . /'. > / . ?, ... ' ... m ' m M ? i. EASY ALL! "Easy all!" rings out thq order. And the muscles cease to strain, 'And the swing of oars in rowlocka Stops its rhythmical refrain, And the sinking heart beats freely, And the spent breath comes $?ain. "Easy all!" Oh, joyous mandate To the strugglors on life's flood, Be it but a passing respite, For the brain and strength and blood, Though far distant be the guerdon, Fame or wealth or livelihood. When thtf'summer sunshino brightens Grimy street and sullen wal!, From the strips of azure heaven Seems to come the kind!y calls "Best a while, ye weary tollers, D.op your oars, an 1 easy all!" ?Pall Mall Gazette. ? PITH AND POINT. ' J Mr. Singer?"Will you accompany me, this evening?" Miss Bloomer? "Bioyole or piano?" / "There's no place like home," said the vonng woman in gray, "and that's lat."?Boston Transcript. Mendicant (to benevolent old lady who has given him a penny)?"Quite rare you can spare this, ma'am?"? Cit-Bite. She?"Have you read 'A Hundred fears to Come?'" He?"No. What ,s it about'; a messenger boy?"?lnlianapolis Journal. A Serious Omission?"I was swinJled on this new dictionary," 'How?" "It hasn't any index."? Ilpvolnnd Plain "DflftlAr Either Way?Flat Hunter?"Is this i spare room or a closet?" Agent? It depends, madam, on how many . $sj you have in your family."?Pack. Auntie?"You sav you had a bad sold? Did you ever hear of a good sold?" Johnny?"I had one once ;hat kept me home from school."? Puck. . - M t, vffiB Mr. Beech wood ? "Young Point Breeze has wheels in his head." Mr. Eomewood? "They ure of the '97 nodel, too." ? Pittsburg Ohroniolo relegraph. Xjm Mr. Surley (savagely)?"That confounded baby is always crying. What'a -it- i_: on i> a wrong wun mm.' lure, ouriwj [sweetly)?"He's got your temper* ,ove."?Tit-Bits. "I am very sorry, monsieur, but I jannot consider your proposal. I shall never marrv." "Never marry? But, mademoiselle, what do you in* lend to do with your immense for;une?"?Tit-Bits. "Those sandwiches remind me of ny native town," said an American to ' ^ the girl at the railway restaurant. "Deadham?" asked the girl at the jounter. "No; Needham."?Answers. Newlywed (proudly) ? "I always nake it a point to tell my wife every- / ;hing that happens." Old Sport? "Pooh! That's nothing. I tell my wife lots of things that never happen." -Tit-Bits. "Your coffee never seems to lose ,ts strength," said Mr.. Starr. '"Do rou know why that is?" asked Mrs. tVeirdhash, beamingly. "Because, I suppose, it has never been strained." ?New York Journal. "Cholly?"My dear fellow,' I do wish rou'd lend me that ten 1 asked for. [t'e a case of life or death." Tom? 'How can that be?" Cholly?"Why, ; I've got to pay five of it to Algy, or nv credit will be killed!"?Harper'# Bazar. A country minister, talking to an )ld lady about his son who had emigrated, was very pathetic over the langers of the cteep. "Hoots, minis- , er," quoth Janet, "ye needna haver ae muckle aboot it; it'll nae be sae . iwfu' deep; it's been an unco' dry rear. "-Tit-Bits. "That," said the waiter to the loney man who was taking his dinner at a heap restaurant, "that is real gentine country-bred mutton, sir." Tes," returned the guest, thoughtully, "it's even what you might call lied-in-the-wool."?Cincinnati Com- < aercial Tribune. One of the Family, it may interest some 01 our readers o glance through this short charac* eristic sketch of James Seymour, bora n London in 1702, which is more trongly impressive than many longer oemoira. The fact that he displayed , fondness for drawing and painting n boyhood, and subsequently gained elebrity by his skill in designing iorse3, is too well known to comment - , ipon. Once the proud Duke of Somrset employed Seymour to paint a oom at his seat in Sussex with the lortraits of his rnuuing horses. Havng admitted the artist to his table, ho me day drank to him, saying, "Cousin Seymour, your health." The painter replied, "My lord, I eally believe that I have the honor of ieing of your Grace's family." This hurt the pride or the Duke so auch that he rose from the ta*ble and ? rdered his steward to pay Seymour nd dismiss him. Finding, however. bat no one in England could complete be pictures begun, he condescended o send for hie cousin. The painter esponded to the message in these rords: "My lord, I will now prove that I m of your Grace's family, for 1 won't ome."?Harper's Round Table. Sclf-Propelliug Fire Engine. A gigantio self-propelling fire en* ine, built for the Boston Fire Deartment, was given a successful test. t can travel ten miles au hour on tho 5vel and climb any hill in that city, ts dimensions are: Height over all, 0 feet; length over all, 16 feet 6 iches; width over all, 7 feet 3 inches; eight, equipped for service, 17,000 ounds; capacity, gallons per ruinte, 1350. Through fifty feet of leadjg hose 3^ inches in diameter, orizontal streams, H-inoh nozzle, it hrew 348 feet; lj-inch nozzle, 388 set; 2-inch nozzle, 31SH feet. Peter's Strange Vehiclc. Peter O'Shaughnessy, a prospector f Anaconda, Montana, while at work 1 Sheep Gulch last Monday, started landslide at an elevation of 4000 jet. With rare presence of mind I'Shaughnessy sat astride of his shove* nd, with the exception of a few ruisea, rode safely to the bottom.-^ alt Laka Tribune.