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An Vtidian Prince's Hunting Camp, In the Century H. W. Seton-Karr tells of his experiences "After Big Game ir- Africa and India." In India the author -was the guest of an Indian prince, the Maharaja of Kueh Behar, and he thus describes the latter's hunt ing camp: As \re approached it between the patches of cultivation round the clus ter of grass huts which constituted the village of Simlagori, the fires, tents and lights in all directions and the dark figures of crowds of servants made it appear like a military encamp ment. A native sentry kept guard over the Maharaja's tent, which was placed somewhat at one side. In the middle of the camp rose a large diniug tent, and the tents which were in tended for the guests wore placed in a row on each side of the camp. Each of these tents -was a large double-roofed structure of about twenty feet by eighteen, internal measurement, sup ported on two massive bamboo up rights and a cross-bar; a space behind, between the inner and the outer wall, formed a bathroom, which was sup plied with a large tin bath and an elab orate wash-stand. The floor of my tent was covered with a thick carpet; the bedstead was of wood, with clean white pillows and sheets, colored blankets and mosquito-uct. There were convenient pockets in the gay lining of the tent, aud two arm-chairs, a table aud a large lamp completed the furniture. The tents of the other guests were equally comfortable, and the name of each of us was neatly printed on a placard hung outside in order to assist us in recognizing our respective tents, the external apj^ear ance being exactly the same. On tho carpet where a portion of the roof of the diuing-tent projected, so as to form a kind of open shelter, were a table with tea-servieo and some arm-chairs. During the three weeks that the camp continued dinner was usually at eight, as we generally returned on the ele phants from the jungle at five or six, in time for afternoon tea and a comforta ble warm bath. Dinner was neatly served by a crowd of the Maharaja's barefooted, white-robed attendants. In India it is considered a mark of re spect for a servant, on entering an apartment, to leave his sandals at tho door. He Pleads. Justice-You admit taking the wheel? Prisoner-Yes, your honor- but hut-it was the same make your honor rides. Justice-What has that to do with the case? Prisoner-Your honor will under-1 stand what a temptation it -was to a man who knows that it is the best make in the market.-Puck. A Fire-Act Tragedy. I. -Jones poisons his wife's cat. II. -He professes deep sorrow at its disappearance. III. -He offers a ?10 reward for its recovery. IV. -Numerous animals are brought for inspection. V. -Mrs. Jones identifies one. Pick-Me-Up. Use Gentleness. 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The black stemmed trees in which they make their homes ave thickly draped with gray beard moss or lichen, which reaches for several feet below the boughs. As the monkeys hang from the branches Dr. Gregory says that they so closely resemble the lichen that he found it impossible to recognize them even when only a short distance away. These monkeys ave known to the natives of certnin districts of East Africa by the name of guereza. They belong to the group of thumbless apes which ave restricted to the African continent, where they take the pl ace ol tho langurs, or sacred apes, of In dia and other Oriental countries. From the other thumbless apes the guerezas, or the species to winch that name properly applies, a"e distin guished by their long, silky, black and white coats, which are much sought after by the natives of Africa as arti cles of their Bcaniy costume and for purposes of decoration. In the typical Abyssinian guereza the greater part of the fur of the body and limbs is of a deep, shining black, but from the shoulders there depends a mantle of long, white, silky hair, ex tending down each side and meeting on the lower part of the back, so as to hang clown over the sides of the body as well as over the hips and thighs. The terminal third of thc tail is also clothed with long white hairs. Strik ingly handsome as is this species it is excelled in this respect by the East African guereza-the one met with by Dr. Gregory-in which the base of the tail alone is black, the whole of thc remainder of that appendage being developed into a magnificent white brush, which may be compared to an Indian chowri or fly whisk. Black and white is a type of colora tion so conspicuous and at the same time so rare among the larger mam mals, that whenever it occurs we may be sure it is developed for some special purpose, although, unless we have au opportunity of seeing the animals in their native haunts it is almost impos sible to divine what that purpose may be. It is met with elsewhere in the ze bras and also in thc remarkable parti colored bear of Thibet. Although the former animals are conspicuous enough in a stall at the Zoo, ov when stuffed in a museum, travellers tell us that when seen in the haze of an African desert their black and white stripes fade at a very short distance to an al most invisible gray. This may oven be observed in a hot summer when the' j grass is burned brown in some of the I private English parks where several of these beautiful animals are allowed to roam at will during the summer months. Dr. Gregory's observations have fully solved thc problem of the use of the remarkable coloration of the guer ezas, which has so long puzzled the brains of naturalists. Decisive evi dence is apparent that tho black and white coloration of these animals pro tects them by a close resemblance Lo j their inanimate surroundings. There ! are, however, certain smaller animals j with a similar tyjie of coloration in j which the startling contrast of black ' and white seems to be for the purpose ? of rendering them conspicuous, and as some at least of these creatures ave endowed with a most disgusting odor, theiv conspicuousness has been re garded as warning other animals from attacking them.-New York Herald. - Cila Monsters Venomous. Professor John Van Denbnrg deliv ered RH interesting lecture at the Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, recently, upon tho Gila monster. He says: "It has become a common supposi tion for years," said the lecturer, ! "that the bite of a Gila monster was as poisonous as thai of a rattlesnake, but many of the scientists denied this. Numerous eminent scientific men stated that from actual experience they had demonstrated that the bite was harmless. Om? of these (Dr. Schu i fevt) had himself been bilton by one ' of the reptiles, and, besides the pain i occasioned by the ordinary Idte of KI: animal, no iii results followed." The lecturer i hen stated, says thc San Francisco Call, that he had dem onstrated that the saliva of the Oila monster was poisonous. Its bite would in almost every case cause ; death, if the teeth of the lower jaw penetrated the skin, lt was the up per jaw of the reptile w indi sank into the llesh of Dr. Schilfert, and as thc secretion of thc glands of lae upper jaw was harmless, tho doctor lived. The speaker said that he had in jected the saliva of both thc upper and lower glands into pigeons, and in every case where that from the lower jaw was injected the victim had died in a short time. He showed why so many animals which ave bitten by tho poisonous reptilo live. The duels which leads from tho gland", to tho mouth open between the lower lip and thc gum. For the saliva to enter a wound it must bo forced up fvom tho lip to tho teeth, and thence into the wound. Thus it i* hard for tho poi sonous fluid to reach the blood, even if the victim is bitten by the lower teeth. Thc Question of the Hour. Lecturer-The entire history of the world has moved in circles. Sprocket-What make?-Philadel phia North American. lothes. good coat. The pill coat it protects the pill, en ts remedial value, and it r the palate. Some pill they will not dissolve in a pills they cover pass ts lmrmless aa a broad too light, and permit tho the pill. After 30 years r Coated Pillr have been just fresh from the labor with a good coat. Ask bartie Pills. A ycr's Curcbook. loo pages, .cr Co., Lowell, Mass. OUR BUDGET OF HUMOE. LAUCHTER-PROVOKINC STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. l?csponslMc For It-Transparent Thick ness-AI Fresco Privil?ge?-Time For Him to Go-The Only One-A Born Financier-A Man of Ills Word. Etc. Cook cracks our china, chips our glass, And I will bet a dime She is tho porsonago who mado Thc famous nick of Time. -Puck. Transparent Thickness. "They are not very thick, then?" "No; I faucv they see through each other." AI y rosco Privileges. "I like those street pianos." "Strange taste! Why?" "I ?'an run away from them."-Chi cago Record. Warding Him O.t. Tolliver-"Can yon let me have $10 for a week, old man?" Duero-"What weak old mau?" Harlem Life. Phenomenal. The Author (proudly)-"I wrote that dialect story in two months." Penelope-"That's nothing. I read it in six.'"-Truth. Time For H!-n io Go. Ho-"Do you have any trouble about sleeping?" She-"Not at all. I can scarcely keep awake now."-Detroit Free Press. Proof of Her Value. "Woman," said the lecturer, "is pure gold." "Yes," interrupted a thoughtful mau in a rear seat; "nioner talks." Puck. The Only One. "Is there an instance ou record where a circle has been squared?" "Oh, yes; I've heard of a mau get ting nu nll-roun<\ square meal at limes.1'-Cincinnati Commercial-Tri bune. Getting Ont of Danger. "Well-well-it is sad to see pedes trianism watling into a lost art." "Lost art! Not much; since the advent of wheels and trolley cars the human race is twice as nimble as it used to bc." Well Qualified. "What makes you think Smoothly is au experienced fisherman?" "Because he is one of the most natural and artistic liars I have ever had the pleasure of meeting."-De troit Free Press. A Man of His Word. Student-"This time I shall have to owe you my rent." Landlady-"That is what you said the last time." Student-"Weil, didn't I keep my word:"-Fliegende Blaettcr. A Born Flnnnclcr. Dawkins-"If you had all the money, Bil!, you could possibly ever desire, what would 3'ou do with it?" Ki I sam-"Do with it? Why, I'd invest, it somewhere where it would double itself."-Boston Transcript. Grappling With Difficulties. Caddy-"Have you played much golf, ye! ?" . Liu ks-"Oh, dear, no! I expect to be ready to play in another year. This year I am giving to a study of the things yon use in the game."-Boston Transcript. Sufficient Reason. "I understand their engagement has beim broken." "Yes. She says she was deceived. Ho had only six century runs to his credit instead of sixteen, and as sho had fourteen herself he Avas clearly out of her class."-Chicago Post. TI?e Bet?rt. Sufficient. "Well, little chap," said the stranger in thc family, picking up one of tho children, "what arc you going to bc when you're a mau?" "Nuffin'," said the child. "Nothing? Why so?" ftsked tho stranger. "Because," said the child, "I'm a little girl."-Fun. A Lowering Trorcis. "You see, it was this way: They were all three so dead in love with her and all so eligiblo that to settle the matter she agreed lo marry the one who should guess nearest to her age." "And did she?" "I don't know. I know she married thc one who guessed the lowest." Pearson's Weekly. Badly Swindled. "I'll have the law on Jobbins, if there is any way to do so," said tho senior partner. "What has Jobbins done?" asked the placid janitor. "The infernal scoundrel has mixed so much sand with that last lot of clay that we can't make mustard of it at nil." -Indianapolis Journal. Too Offish. Bacon-"Have you seen Sprocket lately?" Egbert-"No." "He's a sight. Face all cut, arm in sling and walks larne." "How did he do it, on his bi cycle?" "Xo; if he could have stayed on the bicycle he'd have been all right." Yonkers Statesman. What Ho Was Good For. "Why do they keep that old man around here?" inquired tho porter's friend, superciliously, observing an aged individual in shirt sleeves, who r;ac scribbling at a desk. "What's he good for?" "Good for about $3,00", OOO, you chump," replied Dennis, scornfully. "That's the old mau." And such are the "eccentricities of our language that the friend under stood without more words.-Washing ton Times. Echo Used to Measure Distance. A most interesting method of em ploying the echo of a sound has been devised for the location of the carriers which sometimes lodge in the under ground pneumatic tubes. Knowing that sound travels at a speed of, rough ly, 1100 feet per second, and knowing the time r< ensured in thousandths ol' u second between the firing ot a pistol shot in tho conduit aud the arriving ol the echo at tho out bl of the tube, a simple calculation gives thc exact loca tion of the obstruction. The means of five experiments in the recent test gave 2793 seconds, and when the sound velocity was corrected for air temperature" the obstruction was locat ed at 1537 feet from tho instrument, which was thc exact location.-Science. "Slumming." "Slutmuing" in the Last End ol London has bren revivad as a fashion able amusemeut, and the arrangements for personally conducted trips are man aged by au agencv. . POPULAR SCIENCE. Electricity has been adopted as the motive power of the machinery con nected with the drainage system ol New Orleans. The normal temperature of man is about 98i degrees; of the snail, 70; oyster, 82; porpoise, 100; rat, cat and ox, 102; sheep, 101; hog, 105; chicken, 111. Dr. Lombroso found that the skulls of Italian criminals had ten per cent, less than the usual capacity. Dr. Bordier found the reverse condition in France. Our souses do not fall asleep simul taneously. Tho eyelids are'tirst af fected, and shut out sight; next fol lows the sense of taste, then smelling, hearing and touch, the last-named be ing the lightest sleeper, and most easily aroused. France has a dialect society, the so ci?t? des parlers do France, whose president ia M. Gaston Paris, of the Academio Francaise, which is collect ing legsnds and songs in all parts ol France by means of the phonograph. "The longest unsupported telegraph wire," says Cosmos, "is in Switzer land. It crosses in one span the Lake of Wallenstedt in the canton of St. Gall, and was put up by the Swiss telephone burean. Its extremities are fastened to two iron towers 2100 me tres (7872) feet apart. In the lowest part this conductor is forty metres (131 feet) above tho water level of thc lake. Tho line is of ? excellent steel and only two millimetres (one and one half inch) in diameter." Many spiders use their rope-niaking power in seizing their prey. They not only stab a:id poison their victim, but tie it. winjc and leg rapidly throwing over it coil after coil of sticky ligament which soon not only makes it helpless, but converts it into a mummy, thoroughly wrapped and not only easy to ca-ry, but put up for preservation should th3 spider not desirj an imme diate meal. The insect effects its breathing, not, as men and animals do, by the lungs, but through openings in all sides of the body. It has an intricate system of tubes running through all parts of its person, through which the air is brought in contact with the legs, wings, and so on. These tubes are each protected by delicate membranes. lu the fly there exist certain air pouches, in addition to the tubes, which serve as reservoirs of air. lu a paper on tho sailing flight of birds read in the British Association, Mr. G. H. Byan pointed out that the support of a bird indefinitely in the air without flapping its wings is ap parently contrary to the law of the conservation of energy, and must be due to either upward air currents, variation of wind velocity with alti tude, variation of wind velocity with time, or the presence of vortices in thc air. In the discussion of these the ories, each of which was considered, the author expressed the opinion that birds in flight ave often carried up by a si.te gust of wind, and that this is one of tho causes of the phenomena presented by the sailing bird. Chain ot Human Bone*. Cyrus O. Thornton, a farmer living a few miles out of Bolivar, has au odd watch chaim It is made of human bones. The chain consists of eight links, eauh a trifle more than an inch long, connected by plated rings. The chain is about ten inches long, and has been highly polished by years of wear and glistens like ivory. Thornton secured the chain at Peters burg, Va., in 1861. Ho was a mem ber of Company E, Fiftieth New York Engineers. A member of the Twenty first New York Infantry made two chaim while confined in Libby Prison, and on his release met Thornton and sold him the chain for S-JO in green backs. Thornton has forgotten the maker's name. The bones were taken from amputated anns and legs, and it required eighteeu months' time to carve out the chains. For many j'ears after h*j came home from the war Thornton wore tho chain every day, , but fur several years he has worn it only on Memorial Day and at Grand Army reunions. Some of his neigh bors once laughed at the idea of the bones being taken from human bodies, and ha se?it- the chain to a surgeon, who examined it and pronounced it to be of haman bones.-Full Biver (Mass.) News. One Cent l>uc Mr, Cleveland. There is a balance of one cent du? Grover Cleveland as President of the United States on the records of tho Treasury Department awaiting his signature for payment. "When thc outgoing President was paid his last month's salary there was still a frac tion due, and in the hurry and change of Administration the matter was over looked until too late to receive thc President's signature. If at the expiration of three years the amount has not been drawn, it will bo returned io the United States Treasury and become legally dead, or "covered in," according to tho term used in such instances, and can never be recovered, unless a special claim is instituted against the Government and tho wear and tear of a special appro priation gone through with, thc same as any other appropriation is passed. Under no consideration can thc amount be paid from an appropriation or sur plus already in existence. A special warrant is required for the payment of the salary of the Chief Ex ecutive, while.lesser officials and clerks are paid by check on the Treasury that can be cashed at any National bank. Washington dispatch to the Pittsburg Dispatch. Weeding a Cotton Field. It is told of a Florida farmer not far from Tallahassee that ho ha3 de vised an ingenious scheme by which he has relegated the hoe and the cot ton sweep to desuetude. The cotton planter it is said, know that geese will not touch the cotton plant, but like very much the tender grass that is the bane of the cotton patch. This farmer noticed that, his geese kept part of bis patch free from grass, but wouldn't go near other parts of it, and be found that they went only where there was drinking water. He hit upon the idea of equipping each goose with a gord, which 'he rilled with water and cut a slit in, so that any one goose might drink from this little trough susponded from tho neck of its fellow. Then bc turned the geese loo?o in bis eotion field, and they cleared it of ali grass. A I>o>; Wlli|IH lill Alligator. Thai a dog may best an alligator appears by the experience of tha Hon. D. B. Stuart, of Victoria, Fla. His ; dog was swimming in a lake there, i when Mr. Stuart, sec''- ; a 'gator com-1 ing, called to the dog l?> come ushoi'e. | Thc dog started, but the alligator was gaining, when tho d?.}g turned and seized it. Both wont down, but the dog came up unbanned, and thc alli* j salor with a lacerated lower iaw, WORDS OF WISDOM. He that takes no holiday hastens a :>ng rest. No sin is so little that it may not be ome the soul's master. Language fails to paint a woman as he eyes of a lover sees her. If you want to know the value of aoney go try to borrow some. A sack of flour unceremoniously lumped in the cheerless house of a >oor and needy family, will carry more olid oomfort to a hungry stomach than i lot of eloquent sermons. No quality will ever get a man more riends than a sincere admiration of he qualities of others. It indicates generosity of nature, frankness, cor Iiality and cheerful recognition of nerits. . I cannot praise a fugitive and clois ;ered virtue, unexercised anti un oreathed, that never sallies out and jees her adversary, but slinks out of :he race* .when that immortal garland s to be run for, not without dust and beat. Finish every day aud be clone with it. You have done what yon could. Some blunders and absurdities, no loubt, crept in; forget them as soon is you eau. To-morrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, and with too high a'spirit to be cumbered with pour old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste i moment on tho yesterdays.-The South-West. ltcraarkahle Telegraphic Feat. "I think the public has not thor oughly appreciated the fact that the telegraphic work done in connection with, the international chess contest between members of Congress and the British Parliament was iu a number of respects the most remark.il>le feat of skill ever accomplished in the history of telegraphing, "'said Mr. 31. Marean, Manager of the Western Union Tele graph Company, to a Star reporter to day. "It took on an average only fif teen seconds to transmit the moves between Washington aud London. During the two days of the game not a single telegraphic mistake was made, and the overland and cable service was without other thau momentary inter ruption. The line ran from Washing ton to Heart's Content, Nova Scotia, over the Western Union system, thence by the Western Union and Anglo American Cable Company to Valencia, Ireland'; thence to the House of Parlia ment. Six operators were engaged in the work, one at each end of the three lines. When preparation was being made for the match it was questioned whether moves could be telegraphed as rapidly as fifteen per hour. The Bervice given demonstrated that there might have been 100 moves au hour, so far as their transmission over the ocean was concerned. Of course, abbrevia tions were used, and no timo was lost in sending either addresses or signa tures."-Washington Star. Lord Nelson's Human I Vi lou -Iii ?>. Captain Malian, in his "Life of Nelson," just pttblished, claims the following as an original story showing the inherent kindness of the great sailor. The fleet letters had just been sent off, when Nelson saw a midship man come up and speak to Lieutenant Pasco, the signal officer, who, upon hearing what was saul, stamped his foot in evident vexation and uttered an exclamation.. The Admiral, of whose nearness Pasoo wr.s unaware, called him and asked what was the matter. "Nothing that need trouble your lordship, " was the reply, "You are not the man to lose your temper for nothing," rejoined Nelson. "What was it?'* ? "Well,, if you must know, my lord, I will tell you. You see that coxswain?" poiuting to one of the most exacting of the petty officers, "We have not a better man on board the Victoria, and tho message which put me out was this. I.was told that he was so busy receiving and getting oft' the mailbags that he forgot to drop his own letter into one of them, and he has just dis covered it in his pocket!" "Hoist the signal to bring her back," was Nelson's instant commaud. "Who knows that he may not fall in action to-morrow? His letter shall go with the rest." And the dispatch vessel was brought back for that alone. A Call for "Smith's Onion Report." "I wanted greatly," said Congress man Williams, of Mississippi, "to find a certain Government publication for a constituent of mine, who wrote me an especially urgent request to get lt for him. He said ho had long wanted a copy of a pamphlet called 'Smith's Onion Report,' but had not been able to secure one. Of course it must be an Agricultural Depart meut publica tion and I tried to secure it by writing to the department. I found there were plenty of documents prepared by Smith, but nothing relating to onions. I sent him a sackful of literature at Uncle Sam's expenre, but there was no treatise on the succulent and teur compelling onion. I was sad, for this was a friend that I really wanted to Eavor. "Well, in due course of time I gota thankful letter. It was all right about the work on onions. In fact, it was all a mistake on the part of my con stituent. What he had written for was a 'Smithsonian report, ' but he had failed to divide the word properly, putting tho first five letters at the end of a lino and the last five at tbe begin ning of another."-Washington Path finder. An E?lclont Salesman. Imagine a clerk trying to sell au article to his own ''boss" and actually accomplishiug it and winning au in oreaseof salary as a reward! Tbat is what happened recently in one of the branch stores of Lipton, the great English grocer and provision dealer. He h??. so niauy clerks that some of them do not know him by sight. It was one of tb.ese lattor who called Mr. Lipton's attention to a fine specimen of poultry as he was walking through ono of his stores, and the clerk was so earnest and adroit iu extolling his wares that finally the customer ordered it to be sent to his residence. When the address was given the energetio clerk, and he found that he had been pressing the goods upon his own employer, he nearly had a fit, but soon recovered upon being in formed that his assiduity had earned him an increase of poy.-Merchauts' Review. Harvard'- lCndowtlltnt*. During the last twenty-eight years Harvard University has received cash gifts amounting to 87,839,703.38. Add ing to this the value of land gifts and buildings, the whole foots up to $9, .209,703.38, or an average ol' ?5328,918 a year. Ii tho benefactions of Har vard continuo in thc samo proportion during thc next twenty-five years, thc institution will hold property in excess of ?20,000,000:-Harvard Gradu?tes ' Magazine. / '** AS YE METE. "Hit 'im a welt, Jim. There! that's right. Git there, lazy-bones! Here we go! Thought ye could sna?e it up if yo tried, If the hill is a leetle bare o' snow. What d'ye s'pose I keep ye fur? Pretty pulr!-a solderSn' me. Put on tho whip, Jim, good an' thick. What do ye lag fur? Git there! Geo!" Bright little Jim on the toppling load, Catches his lessons, quickly, too; Swings his lash with a childish vim, Brings it down with ft loud halloo. "Git up, 'azy bones! Git dare, now!" Lashing and slashing with nil his might, "Learning to drive," and his father stands. Laughing aloud ut tho funny sight. 1 ;^ Years roll away, as the years all do, Father is "grandpa," old and pray, Pottering round the house at Jim's," Made to feel ho is in the way. Working hard with his fecblo'hands, Toiling at burdens beyond his strength. "Work if you eat. No laggards here,"' Is what ho hears from Jim at length. "As ye measure, so unto you Shall bo measured tho ?ame again; Eye for an eye, and tooth for a tooth," Pieadetli the law in accents plain. Mills of tho gods, that grind each day. May grind slowly; they grind full sure. Yo who oppress a sulTerin<; life. Must the oppressor's fate endure. -Mary Morrison, In Our Animal Friends. PITH AND POINT. Bingers-"And were you married on time?" Giugers-"Oh, no; I had to pay the parson cash."-Yonkers Statesman. "I hear she is so reduced in circum stances that she has gone out to work." "What a cruel falsehood! She har. gone out as a domestic."-Detroit Journal. Dr. Pray-"If they smite thee on one cheek, turn the other." Aller mode-"That's out of date. You mean if they pull one leg extend the other."-Truth. Bass-"Was that baby talk your wife was talking as I came in?'" Fogg -"That was mother talk. No baby I ever saw indulged in such gibberish."" -Boston Transcript. Old Gent-"If I am not mistaken, sir, I saw you kiss my daughter iu the parlor last night." Freddy Flyppe "That's all right, sir; I'll forgive you this time."-Standard. "Your hair is alwa3's so handsomely dressed, fraulein. You must devote a great deal of attention to it." "Yes, I must confess my head is my chief weakness. "-Tit-Bits. Brother Tom-"Cheer up, Bobbie; I'se got good news fer yer. De doc tor told mom it wos noomonia wot yer sick wid an' dat she dasn't give yer a bath fer a month."-Judge. Miss Yellowleaf-"Yes, I have ha l my picture taken once a year every year of my life." Miss Youugbud "How did you manage before photog raphy was invented?"-Puck. Ethel-"I saw Count Hardupski last evening." Cousin Tom-"Does he talk as brokenly as ever?" Ethel "My! yes. I beard him ask pa to loan him $10 before he left."-Judge. Teacher (angrily) - "Wby didn't you answer my question, Bobby?" His Brother Tommy (answering for him)-"Please, sir, he's got a peper mint in his speech."-London Tit Bits. Bill-"And what did the old mau say when you asked for his daughter?" .Till-"Ordered me to leave the house." "And what did yon say?" "I asked him if he took me for a house-mover. " -Yonkers Statesman. Teacher (conducting review in geography)-"How is the surface of the earth divided?" Smart Boy "Into one-fourth land and three fourths water-'ceptiu' the Chicago River, which is about half au' half." Chicago Tribune. "That brute," said the iudignaut buyer, "balked for three hours tho first time I took him out." "Well," said the seller, as he chewed a straw, "I told you he was a horse of wonder ful staying ability, didn't I?"-In dianapolis Journal. "George Pugsley called on me last evening." "That little fellow who stutters? Why, he's stupid." "Not a bit of it. He entertained us for more than an hour."' "How?" Try ing to name the Sandwich Islands." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Victoria Christened From a Golden Font. James Cassidy writes of thc "Girl hood Days cf England's Queen" for St. Nicholas. Mr. Cassidy says of Queen Victoria: When the child was a few months old she was christened; and the chris? iug was a very grand affair. No com mon marble or stone font was used; a gold font was thought necessary. And so a gold font was brought from tho Tower of London, where it had been kept for safety. One of the sponsors was Czar Alex ander of Russia; ?"".il hence it was that tho name choseu for the baby was Alexandrina Victoria, the second name being that of her mother. A liuo, healthy, lively child, with blue eyes and fair hair, was tho Princess, aud it seems she suffered little from the trials of infancy. Red Eaplo and Iii? Salvation Lassie. Red Eagle, the Indian who became well known as the leader of the Salva tion Army in several Kansas towns, and who lectured in this city last Sat urday night, has deserted to the Vol unteers, tho rival organization. Ho fell in love with ono of the Salvation Army lasses, and, as the members of the organization could not or would not reconcile the marriage of ono of their number to thc Indian, the said parties of the first and second part took their doll rags and their affec tions and went into thc Volunteers' yard, where the course of (rue love is supposed to run smooth. - Topeka State Journal. Thc Jubilee of Barneses. A jubilee for a long reign is not new in the world's history. When in the year B. C. 1333 Barneses II. had reigned for sixty-seven years a mag nificent general rejoicing took place with great pomp on tho banks of the Nile. On the rocks at Silsilis there is a full account of these festivities which were on a very grand scale, and it is recorded that certain high state offi cials traversed the country from north to south iu order to make the necessary preparations. Burial for Ten Cents. Kansas City, Mo., recently asked for bids for burying the pauper dead. This week the bids were opened, und it was lound thal au undertaker, C. .T. Car roll, had bid the surprisingly small sum of ten cents for each burial. The next higher was ninety-seven cents. Carroll says that the collapse ol' the Coffin Trust will enable him to carry out his agreement. Deep Boring. The deepest hole yet bored ia the earth runs 6571 feet below tho surface ol' the soil. This ts al Rybrick, in upper Silesia. An interesting feature was tho record of temperature taken. At the surface it was G3.G degrees. At 0571 feet it reached 157 degrecs.Fahr. Couldn't Tie a Knot. In Long Island Sound a sho~t time ago, says the Marine Journal, a schooner bound to this city from Maine was attracted by frantic signals from the deck of a yacht manned only i?y a lot of Yale students who were in the last throes of seasickness. The captain flung them a line, which they dallied with in an aimless fashion and then lost overboard. This was thrice repeated. "Take a turn around the mast and make it fast!" shouted Cap tain Greeley. The students wound the line about the mast and held the loose end in their hands. "Make it fast!" cried the captain. "What do you mean?" piped back the students. "Tie it, you gashfluinmuxed idiots!" roared tho captain, adding some fur ther language that is always found ef ficacious at sea. The boys finally got the rope tied, and the schooner towed them into Bridgeport, but when he ar rived in New York the captain got a parcel from New Haven, whicn on be ing opened disclosed a handsome sil ver loving cup, gold lined, and bear ing this inscription: Presented to CAPTAIN A. N. GREELEY, By the Landlubbers who could not tie a knot. May 7, 1897. Somewhat One-Sided. 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