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An Widian Prince's Hunting Camp, In the Century H. W. Seton-Karr tells of his experiences "After Big Game in Africa and India." In India the author -was the guest of an Indian prince, the Maharaja of Kuch Behar, and he thus describes the latter's hunt ing camp: As we 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 Avas 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 were 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-uet. There were convenient pockets in the gay lining of the teut, and 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 appear ance being exactly the same. On tho carpet where a portion of the roof of the dining-tent projected, so as to form a ind of open shelter, were a table with tea-service and some arm-chairs. Puring the three weeks that the camp continued dinner was usually at eight, as wc goberai ly 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 th? 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 the door. He Pleads. Justice-You admit taking the v.heel? Prisoner-Yes, your honor- but but-it was the same make your honor rides. Justice-What has that to do with the case? Prisoner-Your honor will under stand what a temptation it was to a man who knows that it is the best make in the market.-Puck. A Five-Act Tragedy. I. -Jones poisons his wife's cat. II. -He professes deep sorrow at its disappearance. UL-He offers a ?10 reward for its recovery. IV. -Numerous animals are brought for inspection. V. -Mrs. Jones identifies one. Pick-Me-Up. 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The black stemmed trees in which they make their homes ave thickly draped with gray board 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 are known to the i natives of certain districts of East ! Africa by the name of gnereza. They belong to the group of thumbless apes which are restricted to the African continent, where they take the place of the langurs, or sacred apes, of In dia and other Oriental countries. From the other thumbless apes the guerezas, or the species to which that name properly applies, are distin guished by their long, silky, black and j white coats, which are much sought after by the nativos of Africa as arti cles of their scanty costume and for purposes of decoration. In the typical Abyssinian guerer.a 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 sido and meeting on the lower part of the back, so as to hung down over the sidos 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 thc East African gnereza-the one met with by Dr. Gregory-in which the base of the tail alone is black, the whole of the remainder of that appendage beiug 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 timo 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 an 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 aud also in thc remarkable parti colored bear of Thibet. Although the former animals are conspicuous enough in a stall at the Zoo, or 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 ?hort distance to an al most invisible gray. This may even be observed in a hot summer when the j grass is burned brown in some of the ? 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 the black and white coloration of these animals pro tects them by a close resemblance to their inanimate surroundings. There >are, however, certain smaller animals j with a similar type of coloration in j which the startling contrast of black ! und white seems to he for the purpor.? j of rendering them conspicuous, and as some at least of these creatures are endowed with a most disgusting odor, their conspicuousness has been re garded as warning other animals from attacking them.-New York Herald. Cila Monsters Venomous. Professor John Yan Denbnrg deliv ered an interesting lecture at the Academy of Sciences, San Frnncisi-o. recently, upon tho Gila monster. Ile says : "It has become a common supposi tion for years," said the lecturer, i "that the bite of a Gila monster was j as poisonous as thai cf a rattlesnake, j but many ol' the scientists denied this. ! Numerous eminent scientific men stated that from actual experience they had demonstrated that the bite was harmless. Ono of these (Dr. Schil fert) had himself been bilton by one of the reptiles, and, besides the pain occasioned by the ordinary lute ol' an animal, no ill results followed." The lecturer then stated, says thc San Francisco Call, that lie had dem onstrated that Ihe saliva of thc Gila monster was poisonous. Its bite would in almost every case cause deal h. if the tooth of the lower jaw penetrated the skin. It was the up per jaw of the reptile which sank into the flesh of Dr. Schilfert, ?nd as thc secretion of the glands of tao. 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 caso where that from (ho lower jaw was injected the victim hud died in a short time. Ho showed why so many unimals which are bitten by tho poisonous reptile live. The. ducts which leads from tho glands to tho month open between tho lower lip and the gum. For the saliva to enter a wound it must bo forced up from the lip to the teeth, and thence into the wound. Thus it is hard for tho poi sonous fluid to reach thc blood, oven if the \ioiini is bitten by the lower teeth. _ Thc Question ol' the Hour. Lecturer-The entire history of the world has moved in circles. Sprocket-What make?-Philadel phia North American. OOOOOOOO iothes. ?ood coat. The pill coat .t protects the pill, en s remedial value, and it the palate. Some pill hey will not dissolve in pills they cover pass 5 harmless as G bread ;oo iight, and permit tho the pill. 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He-"Do you have auy trouble about sleeping?" She-"-Not at all. I can scarcely keep awake now."-Detroit Free Press. Proof or Her Value. "Woman," said the lecturer, "is pure gold." "Yes," interrupted a thoughtful man in a rear seat; "money talks." Puck. The Only One. "is there an instance on record where a circle has been squared?" "Oh, yes; I've heard of a mau get ting nu all-round, square meal at 1 hues. "-Cincinnati Commercial-Tri bune. Geliinp: Out of Hanger. "Well-well-it is sad to see pedes trianism waning iuto a lost art." "Lost art! Not much; since the advent of wheels and trolley cars the hnman race is twice as nimble as it used to be.' Well Qualified. "What makes you think Smoothly is PU experienced fisherman?" "Because he is one of the most natural aud 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." Laudlady-"That is what you said the last time." Student-"Well, didn't I keep my word?"-Fliegende Blaelter. A Horn Financier. Dawkins-"If you had all the money, Bil!, you could possibly ever desire, what would you do with it?" Eilsam- "Do with it? Why, I'd invest it somewhere where it would double itself."-Boston Transcript. Grappling With Difficulties. Caddy-"Have you played much Soli', yet?" . Links-"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 Benson. ' T anderstand their engagement has beon broken." "Yes. She says she was deceived. He had only six century runs to his credit instead of sixteen, and as she had fourteen herself he was clearly out of hov class."-Chicago Post. The Bet?rt Sufficient. "Well, little chap," said the stranger in thc family, picking up one of the children, "what aro you going to be when you're a man?" "Nnffin*," said the child. "Nothing? Why so?" asked tho stranger. "Because," said the child, "I'm a little girl."-Fun. A Lowering Process. "You soo, it was this way: They were all three so dead in love with her and all so eligible that to settle the matter she agreed to 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 all. " -Indianapolis Journal. Too Offish. Bacon-"Have you seen Sprocket lately?" Egbert-"No." "He's a sight. Face all cut, arm in sling and walks lame." "How did he do it, on his bi cycle?" "No; 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 sat scribbling at a desk. "What's he good for?" "Good for about $3,000,000, 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 cm 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 tho time meusured tu thousandths ol' a second between th'.; firing of a pistol shot in tho conduit aud tho arriving ot Ibu ocho at the outlet of the tube, a simple calculation gives the 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 tho exact location.-Science. "Slumming." "S?uiiuru?ig" in the East End or London has )>*:en revivsd as a fashion able amusemout, and the arrangements for personally conducted trips arc man aged by an agencv. . POPULAR SCIENCE. Electricity has been adopted as the motive power of the machinery con nected with the drainage system o? New Orleans. The normal temperature of man is about 9Si degrees; of the snail, 70; oyster, 82; porpoise, 100; rat, ^at and ox, 102; sheep, 101; hog, 105; chicken, Ul. 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 senses do not fall asleep simul taneously. Tho eyelids are'lirst 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 parlors do France, whose president is M. Gaston Paris, of the Academic Francaise, which is collect ing leg2uds 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 Wallenstadt in the canton of St. Gall, and was put up by the Swiss telephone bureau. Its extremities are fastened to two iron towers 2100 me tres (7872) feet apart. In the lowest part this conductor i* forty metres (131 feet) above tho water level of thc lake. Tho line is of - excellent steel and only tv;o millimetres (one and one half inch) in diameter." Many spiders use their rope-making power in seizing their prey. They not only stab and poison their victim, but tie it, wing 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 carry, but put np for preservation should th3 spider not desire an imme diate meah 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 tabes running through all parts of its jwson, 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 Hy there exist certain air pouches, in addition to thc tubes, which serve as reservoirs of air. In a paper on tho sailing flight of birds rea I in the British Association, Mr. G. H. Byan pointed out that the support of a bird indefinitely in the air withottt flappiug 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 the air. In the discussion of these the ories, each of which was co'.ifiderecl, the author expressed the opinion that birds i:i flight, ave often carried up by a side gust of wind, and that this is one of the causes of thc phenomena presented by the sailing bird. Chain ot Human Bone*. Cyrus O. Thornton, a farmer living a few miles out of Bulivav, has au odd watch chain; It is made of human bones. The chain consists of eight links, eash a trifle move than an inch long, connected by plated rings. The chain ?3 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 18GJL He was a mem ber of Company E, Fiftieth New York En-iinaers. A member of the Twenty first New York Infantry made two chnin -i while confined in Libby Prison, and on his release met Thornton and sold him tho chain for ?$50 in green backs. Thornton has forgotten the maker's name. Thc bones were taken from amputated arms and legs, aud it required eighteen months' time to carve out the chains. For many years after he carno home from the war Thornton wove tho chain every day, but for 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 ho sent the chain to a surgeon, who examined "it and pronounced it to be of human bones.-Fall Biver (Mass.) News. One Cent Hm: Mr. Clor eland. There is a balance of one cent due Grover Cleveland as President of the United States on thc records of tho Treasury Department awaiting his signature for payment. When the outgoing President was paid his last month's salary there was still a frac tion due, and in the hurry and chango of Administration the matter was over looked until too late to receivo the President's signature. If at the expiration of three years the amount has not been drawn, it will bo returned to 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 tho Government and thc wear and tear of a special appro priation gone through with, the samo as any other appropriation is passed. Under no consideration can the 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 official sand 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 has 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 cotto: ~atch. This farmer noticed that his geese kept part of his patch free from grass, but wouldn't go near other parts of it, aud he found that they went only where there was drinking water. He hit upon the idea of equipping each goose with a gord, which he filled with water and cut a slit in, so that any one goose might drink from this little trough suspended from tho neck of its fellow. Thou he turned the goose loose in his cotton field, and they cleared it of all grass. A Hog Whips an Alligator. Thai a dog may best an alligator appears by the experience of the Hon. D. B. Stuart, of Victoria, Fla. His dog was swimming in a lake there, j when Mr. Stuart., seeing a 'gator com- j iug, called to thc dog t<> come ashore, j Thc dog started, but the alligator was gaining, when thu d-!g turned and seized it. Both wont down, but thc dog carno up unharmed, and thc alli? j sator with a hiceruted lower iawi WORDS OF WISDOM. He that takes no holiday hastens a long rest. No sin is so little that it may not be come the soul's master. Language fails to paint a -woman as the eyes ot a lover sees her. If you want to know the value of money go try to borrow some. A sack of flour unceremoniously dumped in the cheerless house of a poor and needy family, will carry more solid comfort to a hungry stomach than a lot of eloquent sermons. ; No quality will ever get a man more friends than a sincere admiration of the qualities of others. It indicates generosity of nature, frankness, cor diality and cheerful recognition of merits. . I cannot praise a fugitive and clois tered virtue, unexercised and un breathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race? .when that immortal garlaud is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Finish every day aud be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt, crept in; forget them as soon as you can. To-morrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, and with too high a'spirit to be cumbered with your old nonseuse. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on tho yesterdays.-The South-West. 1 llcroarkablo 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 in a number of respects the most remarkable feat of skill ever accomplished in the history of telegraphing, "'said Mr. Sf. Marean, Manager of the Western Union Tele graph Companj', 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, aud 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 service 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 time was lost in sending either addresses or signa tures."-Washington Star. Lovel Nelson'* Human Fellowship. Captain Mahan, in his "Life of Nelson," just published, claims the following as an original story showing tho, inherent kindness of the great Bailor. 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 said, stamped his foot in evident vexation and uttered an exclamation.. The Admiral, of whose nearness Pasco was 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?" 1 "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. "Wo have not a better man on board the Victoria, and tho message which put me ont was this. I.was told that he was so busy receiving and getting off 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 command. "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 bini. He said he had long wanted a copy of a pamphlet called 'Smith's Onion Beport,' but had not been able to secure one. Of course it must be an Agricultural Department 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 expense, but there was no treatise on the succulent and tear compelling onion. I was sad, for this ivas a friend that I really wanted to Eavor. "Well, in due course of time I got a 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 the begin ning of another."-Washington Path finder. An EAlciont Salesman. Imagine a clerk trying to sell an article to his own *'boss" and actually accomplishing it and winning au in crease of salary as a reward! That is what happened recently in one of the branch stores of Lipton, the great English grocer and provision dealer. He h?? so many clerks that some of tbem do not know him by sight. It was one of these latter who called Mr. Lipton's attention to a lino specimen of poultry as he was walking through one of his stores, and the clerk was so earnest and adroit in 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 pay.-Merchants' Review. I larva ni'- Knclotrinent*. During the last twenty-eight years Harvard University has received cash gifts amounting to $7,839,703.38. Add ing to this the value of land gifts and buildings, the whole foots up to $9. 209,703.38, or au average of ?328,918 a year. If tho benefactions of Har vard continue in the samo proportion during the next twenty-five years, the institution will hold property in execst. of ?20,000,000:- Harvard Graduates' Magazine. AS YE METE. "Hit'i'm a welt, Jim. There! that's right. Git there, lazy-bones! Here we go! Thought ye could snaice lt up if ye tried, If the hill is a leetle bare o' snow. What d'ye s'posel keep ye fur? Pretty pair!-a soldcrin' me. Put on tho whip, Jim, good an* thick. What do ye lag fur? Git there! Gee!" Bright little Jim on the toppling load, Catches his lessons, quickly, too; Swings his lash with a childish vim, Brings it down with a loud halloo. "Git up, 'azy bones! Git dare, now!" Lashing and slashing with all his might. "Learning to drive," and his father stands. Laughing aloud at tho funny sight, jj^/ Years roll away, as the years all do, Father is "grandpa," old and gray, Totteriug round the house at Jim's," Made to feel ho is in the way. Working hard with his fecble'hands, Toiling nt burdens beyond his strength. "Work if you eat. No laggards here." Is what ho hears from Jim nt length. "As yo measure, so unto you Shall bo measured the same again; Eye for an oye, and tooth for a tooth," ricadcth the law in accents plain. Mills of tho gods, that grind each day. May grind slowly; they grind fullsiire. Yo who oppress a suffering life. Must the oppressor's fate endure -Mary Morrison, In Our Animal Friends. PITH AND POINT. Bingera-"And were you married on time?" Gingers-"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 \\ork." "What a cruel falsehood! She has gone out as a domestic."-Detroit Journal. Dr. Pray-"If they smite thee on one cheek, turn the other." Aller mode- "Thai'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?"* ?'ogg -"That was mother talk. No baby l ever saw indulged in such gibberish." -Boston Transcript. Old Gent-"If I am not mistaken, sir, I saw you kiss my daughter in the parlor last night. " Freddy Flyppe "That's all right, sir; I'll forgive you this time."-Staudard. "Your hair is always 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 y er. 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 Ycllowleaf-"Yes, I have had 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 heard him ask pa to loan him ?10 before he left."-Judge. Teacher (angrily) - "Why didn't you answer my question, Bobby?" His Brother Tommy (answering for him)-"Please, sir, he's got a peper miut in his speech."-London Tit Bits. Bill-"And what did the oldman say when you asked for his daughter?" Jill-"Ordered me to leave the house." "And what did you say?" "I asked him if he look me for a house-mover." -Yonkers Statcsmau. Teacher (conducting review in geography)-"How is the surface of the earth divided?" Smart Boy "Into one-fourth land aud three fourths water-'ceptiu' the Chicago Biver, which is about half an' half." Chicago Tribune. "That brute," said the indignant 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 mc 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 of England's Queen" for St. Nicholas. Mr. Cassidy says of Queen Victoria: When tho child was a few months old she was christened; and the chris ing 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; ?nuil hence it was that tho name chosen for tho baby was Alexandrina Victoria, the second name being that of her mother. A hue, healthy, lively child, with blue eyes and fair hair, was tho Princess, aud it seems she suffered little from thc trials of infancy. lied Eagle and Ills Salvation Lassie. Red Eagle, the Indian who became well known ns the leader of the Salva tion Army in several Kansas towns, and who lectured in this city last Sat ur night, has deserted to the Vol 11* i's, tho rival organization. Ho fi i love with ono of the Salvation / lasses, and, as thc members of tl rganization could not or would m oconcile the marriage of ono of th number to thc Indian, thc said pa ties of the first aud second part took their doll rags and their affec tions and went into thc Volunteers' yard, where the course of true love is supposed to run smooth. - Topeka State Journal. Tho Jubilee of Kaineses. 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 placo with great pomp on the 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 Cent?. Kansas City, Mo., recently asked for bids for burying thc pauper dead. This week the bids were oi>enod, ?Mid it was fonnd that au undertaker, C. J. Car roll, had bid the surprisingly small sum of ten cents for each burial. The next higher was ninety-seven cents. Carroll says that tho collapse of the Coffin Trust will enable him to carry out his agreement. Deep H?ring. The deepest hole yet bured in the : earth runs 6571 feet below the surface j of thc soil. This is at Rybrick, iii i upper Silesia. An interesting feature was thc record of temperature taken. At the surface it was 53.0 degrees. At i 6571 feet it reached 157 degrees.fahr; j Couldn't Tie a Knot. In Long Island Sound a short 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 by a lot of Yale students who were in thc 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 L..nds. "Make it fast!" cried the captain. "What do you mean?" piped back the students. "Tie it, you gashfluinrauxed 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 scho ner towed them into Bridgeport, bu ?-hen he ar rived in New York the captain got a parcel from New Haven, which 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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