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Many a well informed woman has her
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The Editor of the Rural New Yorker,
Than whom there is no better Potato Ex
pert in the Country, says, "Salzer's Earliest
Potato is the earliest of 38 earliest
?orts, tried by me, yielding 464 bu. j>ei
acre." Salzer's Early Wisconsin yielded foi
the Rural New Yorker 736 bu. per acre
Now Salzer has heavier yielding varieties
i than above. See Salzer's catalog.
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Salzer's Victoria Rape, yielding 60,000 lbs
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with .Salzer's Xsew National Oats, which
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meuiuiuo iwi
Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 11)00.
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They will send you their big plant and
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1,000 fine solid Cabbages.
2,000 delicious Carrots,
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FRAUDS IN A BALE OF HAYV
' Frauds la Watch Casos. '<?
According to an article in the Cincin*
i natt Commercial, a. fifty-one pound ston*
> was recently found in that city secreted
i in a bale of nay of eighty pounds. < *.\i
, This is not as bad as finding a lump o!
lead of nearly "one-half the weight of th?
. solid gold watch case secreted in the ceu*
tre of the case. } i *' >< & > ^
Gold watch cases are sold by weight, .and
! no one can see where this lead is secreted
until the springs of the case are taken oub
and the lead will be found secreted behind
' them. *
These cases are made by companies who
profess to be honest, but furnish the means
to the dishonest to rob the public. It ia
i not pleasant for anyone to find that he
has lugged a lump of lead in his watch
caae. >
Another trick of the makers of spurious
j 'j i-u j. |
SOUQ KOIU waitii laaca is iu swui|j
| "U. b. Assay." The United States doea
j not stamp any article made out of gold and
I silver except coin, and the fakir, by using
this stamp, wants to make the public believe
that the Government had something I
to do with the stamping or guaranteeing
the fineness of watch cases. * *?*'
Another trick of the watch fakir ia to
advertise a watch described as a solid gold
filled watch with a twenty or twenty-five- \
year guarantee. These Vratches are gener.
ally sent C. 0. D., ana if the purchaser has
. paid for the watch he finds that the com|
pany which guaranteed the watch to wear
is ftot in existence. v
The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company,
, of Canton, Ohio, who are constantly ex>
J posing these frauds, will furnish the name*
r of the manufacturers who are in thii ques* i
tionable business.
In France and Germany potatoes ar? j
j the staff or life. N. Y.?9
f Vice Templar, Inde1
Templars, of Silver
her cure by the use of
Vegetable Compound. :
rs ago I was nearly dead with inflam*
ly untold agony, and life was a burden
ishes internally and externally until I
elief for me. Calling at the home of a
Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound.
cided to give it a trial to see if it would '
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srence ior i was iu uou wu\uv&vu; ???? ?
ble Compound for nearly five months .;
nge, from despair to happiness, from
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y Vice Templar, Independent Order of
inccessful in more than a million
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day's work. You have some
rganism, and Lydia E. Pinkham's
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^arimore, N. D., says:
lb Mrs. Pinkhasi: I might have been
lany months of suffering and pain if I
?rn of the efficacy of Lydia E. Pinkfegetrible
Compound a few months
or I tried many remedies without finding
which helped me before I tried the
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e vxsmpouuu. l uicaucu uiv a^iuuvu
menetrtial period every month, as it
mch suffering and pain. Some months
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ths I beeame regular and natural, and so
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ire strengthened to perform the work
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I am pleased to testify as to the good
getable Compound has done for me. "
r yours, Mrs. Tillie Hart, Larimore,N.D
, therefore, believed by all women
3 ill that Lydia E. Pinkham's VegeJompound
Is the medicine they
take. It has stood the test of time,
tas hundreds of thousands of cures
redit. Women should consider it .
to use any other medicine. . Pink
ham, whose address is Lynn,
rill answer cheerfully and without
by sick women. Perhaps she has
ilp your case ? try her to-day ? it
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N STAMPS
HINtt HOUSE, 184 Leonard St., 5. Y\
? horse book;
relating to the care of Horses, or ?i
T teaching you how to so care lor anffll
k| handle Fowls as to make their raisingj
ey-earner?. It* the know-how that does it
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TRIFLES.
i
C6ufct nothing trivial! . .
The merest mote t '
Upon the telescope may cloud a star, I
One faulty note 1
The symphony's clear harmony may mar. j
Count nothing trivial!
A woodland flower, ^ I
Or smile, illumined by love's holy light, ?
May lead, in power,
A soul to conquest o'er the hosts of night! '
?Ernest Neal Lyon, in Everybody's Mag* 1
azine. y
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? Fair ? [
?j Financier. @ I
M M 1
HEY bad finished dinner? ?
^ a cosy tete'a"tete dinner,
O O elegantly served up on a 1
& round table, and choicely ^
T<OJr cooked.
The hutler and his subordinate had
withdrawn, after placing a smart red
dispatch box, which throughout the ?
meal had occupied a prominent position
on the sideboard, upon the shining ^
cloth before the master of the house.
He, merely nodding, looked over at ?
his wife, who without a word drew a
little gold key from the collet of a J
i-Afhai? mocoira cnnl rtnp' nnrt h.inrtpfl it
II
silently across the table.
"You are very?obliging," she said, ?
with a cold little smile upon her beautifully
cut lips, and a most provoking
glitter In the eyes, "most self-denying a
to consent, so much against the grain, a
to overhaul the results of my year of
financial labor. The sheaves I have p
reaped at the stock exchange?her eye- *
lashes played at humility?"are gath- ?
nr-o/J -in fhot rticnntnlv hnv tn .1 <rrain of
, ?w a
corn."
"Of course I can't refuse, since you
are so keen upon my going through
the scrip and so forth. But you
were always an excellent woman of
business?you have had Coatleigh
Knolles to advise you?a man who ab' ?
solutely leads the financial field?and
I have no doubt your original $100,000 0
have multiplied into a million. But .
perhaps that is why you want me to
go through the contents of the dis- v
patch box. You were rich when I *
married you a year ago?you are fabulously
wealthy now. Accept my congratulations."
She had thrown off her mask of in- '
difference now, and the shimmer in
the eyes that met his own was like 13
l-ha nf mrirknlijrht rtn th<* blades of ^
? ?w
spears. 1
"You have not forgotten?you never ^
will forget?that, unlucky, abomin- 1
able, idiotic speech of mine, made a "
month after our marriage, in the heat
of our first quarrel. I have eaten these
words a hundred times?you have for
given them ostensibly?but you do not
really, and, thanks to your Scotch
blood, you never will. They rankle in
you now."
He bit his cigarette through in the
sudden closing of his strong square
teeth, and threw it aside with a hand ?
that shook a little.
"No. You're right" he acknowledged,
after a moment's pause. "We
were having a quarrel, the first real jj
word scrap we had ever had. Neither
of us was in earnest at the beginning,
?* n Wi\ TTTA?f An I
lUtJ Liliu^ ucvuuycu U.O *>c I1CUI, vu.
And you told me I had married you .
for your money.
"The accusation wasn't likely to hold ?
water, even with my enemies or with
my friends, for I happen to be what Is
generally called a rich man.' But you
had said It?and, as you say?I don't
forget I can't! Nothing has been the
same since?nothing will ever bring
back"?he draw a harsh breath?"what .
used to be.
"The day after our quarrel I took
measures?we won't detail them," the .
man went on, "to insure your having
command of your money?in fact, of
every stick, rag or bone belonging to ^
you?command more absolute, if pos- .
sible, that even the married women's j
property act ensures, l ffDsoiuteiy prohibited
you from spending any of it t
upon the household. I required of you
an undertaking that if we should have
children,'' you would not settle any portion
of your.money upon the boys, but
reserve such manifestations of your
generosity for the girls?if there were
any?"
His wife burst out laughing wildly.
Hysterical sobs gathered in her throat,
and broke from her lip3, her eyes
moistened the filmy handkerchief she
pressed against them.
"I asked you to do what you chose
with your money?short of spending
It upon my household. You had got
Into a gambling set, the Ardleighs,
Lady Cecil Wilbram, and Coatleigh
Knolles?you took the stock exchange
fever, and you used the three brougham
horses in your to-and-froings between
Chesterfield gardens and the
city. I'm not -grumbling?you were
welcome to the horses. Now you have
a motor-coupe, for which you paid
yourself. I am not grumbling at that
?you don't expect me to use it But
this box?containing the fruits of your
year's finance?you have made me t
promise to go through it?and I hate
the idea."
He unlocked the box with a shadow
on his forehead and about his lips.
The upper tray of the smart red receptacle
was full of bundles of cou-1
pons, bulky sheaves of,shares-in various
companies, crackling securities
gayly stamped and smartly engrossed,
mining scrip and foreign rails.
The first bundle he opened caused (
him to whistle a faint, long-drawn
whistlo of sheer dismay, that sent her
rebellious eyes dancing under their ,
concealing valance of lashes.
"Jumping Cats. Good heavens! Do
you mean to say that Coatleigh j
Knolles or Lady Cecil advised you to
throw away your money in a?a rank
swindle like those mines?" ,
"To do them justice," said his wife, ,
suavely, "they endeavored to dissuade
me from the speculation. Why arc
you laughing?"
His sense of humor stirred at last? <
her husband was shaking with amusement
over a fresh bundle of coupons
^piilfed out of the red dispatch box. i
"The Electric Cooking Company." i
They?they seem to have done you i
pretty thoroughly, if the- electric cookery
plant did prove a failure! Ha! ha! <
tml't "
"Do not, Oh do not," she implored,
'try to be funny." But he did not hear.
Elis eyes were streaming now, and hi8
landkerehief in play, as he rocked
- ?* -? 1 ?.UU
11K1SGII HLKJL ruiirtu w i lu
aughter over a new trouvaille.
" 'The Magic Skirt-Hanger!' Toil
jought that patent for eight hundred
>f the inventor. Do you?do you hang
'our skirts on It? 'The Patent Guilotine
Mousetrap.' you bought that indention,
too. Five hundred for a
mtent mousetrap . Here are more
nines?all wildcat'. 'The Bermuda
'latinum Syndicate.' 'The North
ierry Gold Prospecting Company.'
The Great Sahara Electric Railway
Company.' Great Scott! An electric
ailway on the desert! 'The Carpathian
3oal Mines, Limited,' the 'Bosnia Oil
Pumping Association.' I'm at the botom
of the box, and?" he paused over a
apid mental calculation?"you've inrested?and
lost?exactly $95,000, some
?dd dollars over the rottenest speculaions
that ever were boomed by a
tucket-shop. You've had the best adisers?but
you might have had the
vorst?and the whole thing is wonderully
puzzling."
mt afini'mianocfl
xuere was a. uen wuc ut ucnuuguwo
a Ills voice, his eyes were brighter,
nd the fold between his eyebrows
iad been pressed out by some invisible
fairy ironer. The sullenness,
he moodiness, the depression were
;one.
"Please give me a cigarette." His
vife took one from the case he held
o her, and as he gave her a light her
Lttle finger stole out and timidly rested
n the tip of his. "Yes, as you say, I
lave had the best advisers "
"And you've managed to muddle
.way all your money without getting
nything out of It."
"Your pardon!" She blew a ring of
erfumed smoke, and watched it spiral
lpward, growing paler. "The1 money
id bring me something. First of all,
t brought about?our quarrel, if you
emember."
"I do not forget?but these worth298
investments!"
"They will not prove worthless In
he end. They are going to bring me
n a hundred times the value exhanged
for them." The hand holding
he cigarette shook a little, the ropes
f pearls swayed.
"They will make, me?rich?as yon
iave said; a wealthy woman, in the
cay in which a woman would be
wealthy. 'Countermarks,' 'Reefs.'
Airship General Omnibusses,' 'Jumpng
Cats,' 'Magic Skirt-Hangers,' and
he other things are genuine investnents,
I assure you. I would buy
hem again to-morrow if I had any
ooney left Unfortunately"?she was
catching the face opposite with des?erate
eagerness, though her tone was
aim and level, and her drooped eyeashes
were languid?"unfortunately I
.m a pauper?dependent upon my hus>and."
"If it were not beyond the bounds of
>robability, I should suspect you of
>eing?
"Glad?".
"Perhaps not quite glad, but cerainly
not sorry."
"Yes? Some husbands would mourn."
"I am n<jt one of them. Were you
;oing into the drawing room?"
"Yes." , '
"TMi if I mav. You used to
lng to me?a year age. Will you
five me some of the old songs tolight?"
"I am so out of practice," she murnured,
but she went to the piano and
ang "Love's Coronation." Her voice
hrobbed across the gulf of a year's
:strangement with a message of love,
>f longing, of peace.
He received it, standing very erect
ind 8tiff upon the.hearth rug, calm,
:ool and composed, the mode), to all
ippearances of an ordinary husband
>f the superior class, but his. collar
eemed to strangle him, and the heart
>eneath his formal shirt front beat
nadly.
"Thank you," he said, as she finshed
the song, "I always liked that"
"It is certainly appropriate to the
iccaslon," she returned, "and would
>e more so if a little altered. For I
mven'teven half a cro^n to give you,
f you wanted one, I believe.".."You
take your losses very coolly I"
le observed.
"As I had the honor to mention before,"
she returned, "I don't consider
hat I have lost It will be a winning
n the end?for me!" ? . *
His back was turned, his elbow restng
on the mantel shelf. She knew
hat he was Intently studying her relection
in the mirror above.
"What." he asked, "do you expect
o win?"
Her arms went out to him. With a
ong, tremulous cry, she uttered one
ivord:
"You!"?Lady's Pictorial.
The Alphabet of Success.
Attend carefully to details. '
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
HoW integrity sacre<L
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil
houghts. ?,v
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are
lot.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the veracity of a friend.
Respect the counsel of your- parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not. taste not, handle not intoxicating
drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement
Ventury not upon the threshold of
svrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Extend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and
success is certain.?Ladies' Home Journal.
When Tea TV as New.
Tea in the seventeenth century was
offered as a curious foreign drink; it
was prepared with care and d^uok
with some trepidation. A learned physician,
Dr: Lister, wrote that "tea and
coffee were permitted by God's provideace
for lessening the number of
mankind by shortening life, as a kind
of silent plague."?Besant's Survey of
London.
?< i
In Valparaiso all the conductors on
:he trolley cars are women.
Sleepers of earthenware are used on
3ome of the railroads of Japan. i
The mother of Governor Bectham,
af Kentucky, has a remarkably record.
She'has the unprecedented distinction
of having been the mother of a Governor.
the daughter of a Governor, the
sister of a Governor, and the cousin of
a Governor. ; j.
Women in Austria are never put in
prison. A female criminal, no .matter
how terrible her record, instead of being
sent to jail, is conveyed to one of
the convents devoted to that purpose,
and there sue is Kept until toe expiration
of the term for which she was
sentenced. ( , .
A Chicago paper contained an adver*
tisement reading thns: "Any thin person
will learn how to get fat by sending
fifty cents to the undersigned."
A gullible fellow, who is as thin as a
rail, forwarded the sum asked, by
mail, and received this reply: "Buy
it at the butcher's."
Girls in Norway must know hofv tf
sew, knit and bake before their guardians
will permit them to have beaux.
Some of them are so eager to acquire
these useful accomplishments that they
are learned before they can read and
write. In this country, in some fami- ,
Ua? ?it -?Aci OI?A o^iinno/1 hv I
ilW, liuuacuuiu uuuco ate ouuuu^u
girls; they are taught to pound the
piano, to sing, and chatter French. Ia
many instances they marry fellows too
poor to even hire a piano, and too ig* v
norant to speak good English.
READY TO CO.- ?
Kindly Office Joe Blaolcbarn Performed
For & Negro About to Be Hanged.
When Senator Joe Blackburn was
a struggling young lawyer, as all really
great statesmen must havfe been at
some stage of their career, he was i
called upon to defend a negro charged
with murder. Mr. Blackburn did the
best' he could?made an impassioned
address to the jury and ail -that sort of
thing?but the defendant was sentenced
to pay the extreme penalty.
Mi*; Blackburn was then taking his
first dip into politics, running for some
small local office. He had a hard time
getting people to' attend; the meetings
at which he was advertised to speak,
and luck generally appeared to be
against:him. 'Well, hanging day came,
and 'the'doomed man was told that he
would have fifteen mihutes in which
to say his last words.
Mr. Blackburn accompanied the man
to the scaffold, and as his eyes wan.
dered over the. several hundred of his
fellow citizens who had come to witness
the spectacle?more than he conld
ever hope to attract by his own eloquence?his
brain was lit-up by a flash
of genius. He had a few hurried
words with his client, in which he
painted the waste of words it.would be
for the unfortunate. man to talk at
such a time and impressed upon him
what a godsend the opportunity to
make a speech would be to him, Blackburn.
The negro somewhat reluctantly
agreed to let him go ahead.
Thereupon, much to the surprise of
the auditors, Mr. Blackburn launched
into an effort on the issues of the hour.
He was proceeding to his own entire
satisfaction, when be felt a tugging at
his cosft tails. Glancing around,' be
encountered the pained expression of
.the negro.
"Say, Massa Joe," he whispered, "dat
speech wot yuh made tuh de jury wae
bad nu?f to hang me, but dis yuh one"
?shaking his head sadly?"Mistuh
She'iff, please pull dat rope."?Waab
ington Star. .,* :
^" I
, "Beat on Earth!"
"You can say what you please about~
Schuylkill water," said Capt Tuckers
the well-known pilot, the other day,v
?"but say nothing against the Delaware.
It la the best water in the ;
'world.'* ?''l?4rS??
i-,.'As Capt. Tucker practically lives on
the river (one way) he ought to know.
But the reporter wanted reasons.
"I would rather have my ship's tanka
filled with Delaware water than any
other on earth, and so would" every
commander I know. It tastes good
and, best of all, it keeps. Not even
spring water, has the keeping qualities
that this river water has."
"Does water spoil?" inquired the
sceptic. ,
"Certainly," replied the captain. "Fill 1
a ship's tank witn tne purest ana ue?t,
and in a few weeks it looses its taste;
get flat, as it were, and that is where
the Delaware is ahead. Its water has
been known to taste fresh after a voyage
to China. This is due to the nature
of the soil that is drained by the
river. The mountains and the slate
regions of the Delaware and Lehigh
rivers supply certain chemicals which
act as a preservative and make the
water different from any other. Why,
I have actually known captains to put
in from sea during a voyage solely to
fill their tanks with Delaware water
in preference to any other."?Philadelphia
Telegraph.
Lawyer Got Lion's Share.
Daniel Godwyn, who died in Eng
Inad in 176!), left an estate to the So*
fn, T>prmn<*ntinn nf the GoS*
V.XC LJ lt/l tub A.
pel, and the remnants of this beguest
have just reached that society in tha
shape of a sum of $244. It seems that
the testator bequeathed leasehold
property to the society in violation
of the Mortain act. After a delay
of fourteen years the estate went
"into Chancery," where it remained
from 1783 until the other day, when
the balance was paid out to the society,
only $244 being left after payment
of the expenses of such amazingly
protracted litigation.
American Drefunnbers.'
If all the dressmakers known to
exist in America worked twenty-four
, hours of each day for a whole year,
; without stopping for sleep or meals,
thr^y would still be able to make one
> dress,apiece for less than seven-eightha
of the T^omen of America.
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FLOWERS OF PREY.
\M>? mt the Form sad Color of OrcbJ&?
- Ildr Prey Think Plants.
in some respects the most
uprising result of late entomological
exploration is the discovery of semblances
of orchidaceous flowers en*
flowed with animal life and Voracious
carniverous appetites, thtt seize and
incontinently devour insect vegetarians
which, allured by their form and
color, iucautiously alight upon them.
These flower Insects belong to the
curious family Montidae, of which we
have a well-known member in our
Southern States, Phasmomantis Carolina,
commonly called "praying mantis."
though if the first part of the
name was spelled with an "e" instead
of an "a," it would be far more appropriate,
since no known insect is more
bloodthirsty and destructive of smaller
arid weaker individuals belonging to its
claw. Its form is characteristic of its
predatory habits. The mantis is really
a four-legged insect, for the four limbs
are so modified that they cannot under
any circumstances be used iu walking
and are no more properly termed legs
than would be the arms of men or
the wings of birds. They are, in fact
the natural weapons of the insect and
are used for nothing else than fighting
and for capturing prey.1 i
An insect discoyered by Wood Mason
masquerades sometimes as a pink and
at others as a white orchid. The whole
flower Insect is either conspicuously,
white of of a resplendent pink color,
and both in colop and form perfectly,
Imitates a flower. The. lower or apparently
anterior petal of an orchida
teous oiossom, me laDeuum, ox tea 01
4 very curious shape. Is, represented
by the, abdomen of the Insect, while
the parts which might be ts&en regarding
it as an insect, for Its wings,
are actually the femurs of; the two
pairs of posterior limbs, so greatly expanded,
flattened and shaped in such
manner as to represent the remaining
petals of the flower. As the mantis
rests, head downwards amid the stems
and leaves of a plant, the forelegs
drawn in so that they cannot be seen,
the thighs of the two hind legs radiating
out on each side, and the'thorax
and the"'abdomen raised at right angles
to each other, the insect might easily at
first sight deceive more discriminating
entomologists than the honey-seekers
that settle upon it
An allied species, exactly resembling
a pink orchid, is mentioned by Dr.
Wallace, on the authority of Sir
Charles Dilke, as inhabiting Java. Its
BDeclaltv is alluring and capturing but
terflies. The expected guest having
arrived, the seeming feast spread out
for his delectation arises and devours
bim.
Professor 8. Kurz, while at Pegu, in
lower Burmah, saw whatJifc- supposed
to be an orchid of a specie* unfamiliar
to him, but upon examination found
It to be a mantis of the genus GongyIu8.
As is common with the habit of
Its kind when alighting upon a plant.
It hung head downward, exposing the
under surface to view, sometimes motionless,
and sometimes swaying gently
fike a flower touched by gentle zephyrs.
A bright violet-blue dilation of the
thorax, in front of which its forelegs,
banded violet and black, extended like
petals, simulated the corolla of a
papilionaceous flower so perfectly as to
deceive the eyes of a practiced botanist
* >
A whole tribe of spiders, members of
the Thomisdae family, living in flower
cups, assume the colors and markings
of the flowers in which they lie in wait
for victims.
Brazilian birds, flycatchers, display
a brilliantly colored crest easily mistaken
for a flower cup. - Insects, atI
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iruuieu Uy TTUat appgai. a tv w ?*
ly opened blossom,: fiatnish the birds
with food, N An Asiatic lizard is entirely
covered like the surface of the
desert plain where it lives, except that
at each angle of the mouth' blooms a
brilliant red folding of the flesh exactly
resembling a little flower that grows
In the sand Insects lured by the seen*;
tng flower are incontinently disillusioned
when they settle upon it?Scientific
American.
?$&&? T*
$... Old Verbosity.
: , We prided ourselves that Haw kin!
was squelched. Every time he essayed
tb speak we answered not. Every time
he sought to engage our attention, he
found:.; that our attention was otherwise
engaged. A silence at length fell
upon the dining room, a blissful
dreamy silence. We looked at each
other with congratulatory smiles,
Havtfuns was squelched at last
But what? We suddenly heard the
preparatory little cough with which
Hawkins invariably launches hts
sneech -ascainst an unoffending people.
"And speaking about nothing at all,"
remarked.- Hawking, "aud speaking
about nothing at all, reminds me of a
little "
And there he was! . :
Sometimes we think we will gel
married, so that we can vary this
frightful monotony. Even if the girl
of our choice should have such a flow
of language as Hawkins has, we can
at least ask her to close her confounded
head, occasionally.?New York Sun.
A Dash After the Dot*
The Count looked bored.
"And will you daughter have a dot?"
he asked.
A slight ripple of impatience'swopl
over the interesting little tuft of whiskers
that so adorned Pawkpakker's
square set chin.
"A what?" he queried.
"A money settlement?a dot." rejoined
the Count- His tones were indicative
of polite surprise:
"A dot?" repeated her father.
"Shucks!" he asseverated indignatly.
"A dot!" he snorted disdainfully.
"Harriet will have au extra big-sized
smudge, you bet!" he continued.
"Why, man alive," he howled in scath.
ing accents, "what "do you mean by
this parsimonious talk about dots?"?
New York Sun. f
Now Explosive Trials.
A' commission of experts, appolpteo
by the German Minister or war, is
conducting a series of experiments to
test the practical value of a new explosive
named sophrait, and a riew gun
constructed to discharge it So far
the results of the trials are highly
satisfactory. Sophrait is described
as far more destructive than dynamite,
and all other existing explosives.
It has been invented by two Bavarians,
an engineer and a ohyaiciap
THE ACE FOR MARRlAjSfc fl
Blghwt in lv?d?k, Loweit in Raghal
OWily .BUins H?e,
The ?r?rage marriage ?pr men\4fl
hot differ materially in thbse countnH
.which keep accurate marriage recorB
It io highest,^ thirty-one years, B
Sweden, and lowest in. the Unifl
States, twenty-sis and one-half. Amtfl
women it is also highest in SwedB
twenty-eight years and lowest in rH
sia, twenty-two.
Some countries fix a minimum ,ml
riage age, below which a marriage cfl
not be lawfully performed. In ml
parts of Germany it is fixed at -twH
ty-one for the bridegroom and eiH
teen for the hpide. In England itfl
sixteen and fifteen, respectively.
France it is eighteen and fifteen H
spectively. In the United,' Sta?
where fixed, it is usual. i?jSeuty-<M
for the men, the exceptlons;*elng cfl
fornia, Tennessee, ^-Utah and Idafl
and for women, usually eighteen, B
pent .in Marvland. California and Tfl
nessee. The different State stata
however, make it possible for two r
dents of a State to be married in.
other State, {he laws of which
more lax. .>
In European counties generally
marriage laws are i5ade excluslv,
for. the benefit of actual residents,^
a rfioice of foreign oonSt^r fcf n
pt_?^se is, therefore, so unntaal
to become an exception.
There is only one record in hist
of-a law which fixed a maximum i
for marriage and under which the m
riafre of men over slity'"alid won
over fifty was probiblte#>'4t did
last l<w>g<
The fBuropean coantry^in which th
is the lar&estuumjbe&c marriages
men under the agetwenty-one
Rufcsla,l-and jthe lax^t proportion
number of brideS under the age
twenty-one Is. lnR^^Iso. Generj
speaking, th^ m^^a^ble age is J<
est Ixl iiiral dist$c?s ,and in couriti
chiefly devoted v^:'^^ieulture, i
highest in tu
In respect to m.artf&iges- tH^de late
life Prga?, ai|<B^^!a^gfe co
gium first as :^^o^^^>enma
minimum marria^ a^e, haa very i
marriages of very yo'ung persons,
the United Stages the average a
riage age is steadily rising.
, WORDS OF WISDOM. ; ,
A wise nun forgets old grudges
One lash to a good horse; on<*:?rar<
a* wise man. ^
Riches come better afterpove
than poverty ftjter riches.. * r. .
Dig a well ItftSftre yon are tblr
(be'prepared for;donUngencies).
Borrowed money makes time sb<H
working for others makes it longfl
The gem cannot be polished wlthH
friction, nor the man perfected withH
Murmur at nothing; if oar Ills are H
parable, it Is ungrateful; if remedllJH
it-Is vain. H
He who wishes, to.rise, in the wcH
should veil his ambition with t&e foflj
sof humility.
Large fowls will not eat small gtfl
(great mandarina are not content: vfl
little bribes). fl
There is onjy one rule to obaerv^H
you want to lire long, and thatiaO
let the other fellow do the worrying?
The best thing is to be respected M
the ftpxt isM tofl
hated,-but worse-still to be despise?
Practical wisdom consists in sayH
the obvtour thing at the right tiH
True courage consists In doing theH
vloue tiling to an emergency. ?
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XewspRper Names. H
' "t make a stady of the namesfl
newspapers," said an eccentric nfl
"Rare names I bail with Joy.' Comifl
ones I despise. The commonest n^B
of ali is, probably, Times; what ttfl
hasn't it Tlmas? Other comJ|
names are Chronicle, Express, vj
oune, Post Star, Sun, Republtfl
Dem^qratv.-Ke^ Press, Herajd, H
verdser, TelegHph and so on.
odd liame la The Epitaph flt Tofl
s&nej; Arj\z. Other odd names are B
Punxsutawney Spirit, The Rakaselfl
Pittsburg, The Jean-Baptlste of Pi
tucket, the Greenville Cotton
' The Dixie MIHetf of Nashville, tbe iH
tin Firm- Foundation. The
Glass of Galveston, the Norfolk
nucopla, The Packages of Milwau^J
and The Grit of Wilttftmsport TlH
are papers with names of impoJH
virtue?with such names as ReveO
Monitor, Guardian and WatchnB
The town of fli Dorado, in Texas, H
- ?ao-Ho. {faalf Tho
O. pttjHHr iuai cauo r
Philadelphia. Record, .
The Life of XoiqaltoM. H
William Lyman Underwood, wrl^fl
in the Popular Science Monthly
regard to the length of life of the
quito', jsays that It is not known
how Ioflg mosquitoes can live, but t|H
average life is much longer than 1^|
dinarily supposed. Thousands of t^J
live through the winter, hibernating?
dark places in barns or house cellSH
In sparsely settled localities, wl^B
they cannot find such places for
ter, they live through the winte^H
hollow trees, in eaves and holes uJH
upturned tree?. Even though the
perature may fall below freezing
are not winter killed, but on the^fl
proach of warm weather become^H
tire again. Mosquitoes are freque^H
seen flying about in the woods be^H
the snow has wholly left the groun^H
Over Eighteen.
A Kansas City girl, the other
in order to obtain a marriage lice^V
wrote the figure eighteen on a p^Jj
of paper and put it in her sho^H
that she might swear to being
eighteen." The deception hud
been practised in Kansas, but-?or^H
other purpose. "There are hund^
of quarter sections of land in wes^H
Kansas," a paper says, "that
proved up by girls who were no^H
legal^age who played the same trlc^E
the instance of lawyers. It is a sch^H
as old as Kansas almost."?Ka^H
City Star.
War's Grim VUage. 99
On June 30 last there were flfty^M
en warship* of 319,700 toes disp^M
ment la the course of constractio^B
Englaod. Of this number twelre^H
sels were being built la royal
yarfla and forty-five in orivate jur^B
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