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Thi* most indispensable adjunct to e' mailed, postpaid, to any address, Address, ATLANTA PUBLISHING h A M?U?NAIRE BURRO. ' ?_' DISCOVERED A MINE WORTH FOUR MILLION DOLLARS* How Two Despairing Prosoectors Were Guided by a Friskv Pack Animal to the Scene of Enormous OM nonn??tc Unique Decision Made by . "The Millionaire Bui - made. He never had a yns born to toil amid . . df the mountains. Hi pect,' fend of-a drink, sel^, in their language, and just as gentle toward' the j?ack anlma?~?v* carried their burdens np steep hillsides^ and down gullies in. their search for hidden wealth. "In 18S3- Coeur d'Alene Moun tain's were known only as a' pictur esque range, wher* deer roamed al most unmolested by hunters, where trout leaped and multiplied In rushing streams, and where bears were com moner than men. But in the winter of 1883-34 the word flew abroad that these haunts of game were seamed with gold. The precious metal had been found on the north fork "bf the Qoeur d'Alene River, and thither rushed thousands. "It was in September, 1SS5, that Gooper & Peck, of Murray, Idaho, had grub-staked N. S. Kellogg, an old prospector, to look for gold. Part of the outfit was the burro. Kellogg found some samples of silver-lead ore, but an assayer told Cooper & Peck that this mineral was of insufficient value to be worth any trouble in that country and as a consequence the partnership was dissolved. "Kellogg, however, was not willing to give up. He showed his samples to Phil O'Rourke, an old Colorado miner, who recognized their value. The two immediately started out, labor iously packing their outfit on their backs. While entering the gulch at the mouth of Milo Creek, Kellogg des cried wandering in the solitude his companion of the last prospecting tour, the burro. When the partnership with Cooper & Peck had been dissolved thc donkey had been turned adrift. The animai had wandered for two weeks, and now joyfully rejoined his old friend, au? willingly carried the packs of the tired prospectors. "But the pair found only 'float.' or i surface ore. Their search for a lead brought no results. One disappointed | evening, they made their camp and j failed to tether the burro securely. In I the dead of night thc animal stole away. The next morning thc two set out to find him, strewing profanity as they searched. The tracks were plain, and wads of hair scraped off here and 'there agalnsi the rocks and fallen logs helped them keep the trail. It led along and down a steep precipice that they had difficulty in descending. "Finally, after entering a canyon and following it some distance, they saw the burro, standing immovable on the side of a hill and gazing abstract edly across the canyon. The men stole cautiously^forward, expecting a chase. "But the burro remained like a statue. "When the pair reached the animal's side, they found that he was standing on an out-cropping mineral vein, while he was gazing at the spot where short ly afterward was found another out cropping of glistening galena. "At the place where the burro stood, the Bunker Hill mine was located. Kellogg's name being signed as dis coverer and O'Rourke's as witness. After talking the matter over, the. two men concluded that if Kellogg was named as discoverer, Cooper & Peck might claim a share on the ground that their burro was part of the outfit, and that therefore Kellogg was still in grub-stake partnership with them. Consequently, the next morning the original notice was torn down and O'Rourke's name substituted as dis coverer. "Returning' to Murray the pros pectors showed their samples, and a stampede started-but nobody knew where the mine was. O'Rourke con m for inspection. 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Coop er & Peck sued for an interest in the mine, on the ground that the burro . ..-tu a nail ?rTter-. est inSthe Bunker Hill and a quarter interest iWhe Sullivan claims.' "The mines'^ate^Jiopc worth four million dollars."-Eugene B. Palmer,-in Ainslee's. UTILIZINC WATERMELONS. How to Convert Five Cents Into a Dollar- | A Yankee Device. j Nearly every year thousands of : watermelons are allowed to rot on the ground for lack of a market, while upon still larger numbers tho profit is so small as to scarcely pay mc farm er. Some ingenious and thrifty New j Englander has started a movement in j Georgia to put an end to the waste, and to utilize the melons upon a large j scale. He has given his system an ; experimental trial, and finds that it j works well upon a small scale. The j fruit is washed, cut open and the rind separated from the flesh within. This rind is broken into small pieces, and is either pickled; sweet pickled, pre served, or crystallized. It may also be dried or evaporated, when it produces a substance quite similar to pumpkin. The flesh is run through a separat or, and the seeds taken out and put to one side. These are dried, and may be used to plant the next crop or to be shipped to Chinese communities. : where they are a very popular deli- I caer. It is also possible to remove the bull of thc seed and convert the kernel j into a preparation similar to grape- j nuts or almond paste. It has a pleas ant flavor, ls rich in albuminoid ele- I monts, and contains a mucilage which j is of great advantage to a cook. The flesh or pub) proper may be treated ! in different ways. If taken from the I machine without any further propara- j rion, it may bo usod as a food for pigs, cattle, horses and poultry, which j seem to enjoy it greatly, or it may be : drained from its water, when it be- | comes a thick paste, like boiled squash The water itself may be ; evaporated, and the resulting liquor, which is sweet, may be converted into a fine fruit vinegar, or may be boiled further down and made into syrup or sugar. According to those who have given the matter thought, the watermelon, which can be pur chased for a few cents down In Georgia, may be converted into a .series of useful products worth at least one dollar.-New York Post. An Arbitrary Conductor. It is an established proposition that the ways of street-car conductors are past finding out. but a certain member of the guild showed himself in a new light the other day. The incident took place in a Sixth avenue electric car. A woman passen ger asked the conductor If he could give her a transfer to a 14th street ear. He murmured something unin telligible and passed on without giv ing the desired ticket. Another woman sitting near by in formed the first that transfers were given, whereupon the first replied that she knew it was so, only some conduct ors would not hand them out Three minutes later another woman asked toe same conductor for a transfer to 14th street and promptly received it. And the question naturally arose why he made the distinction.-New York Mall and Express. Clerks and the clergy are also great patrons of the wheel. t DESPERATE CA? Percival felt that the world was come to an end for him and he was trying to convince himself that he didn't care a continental If it was. He sat in a chair that seemed incompati ble with any sort of discomfort, his pipe was between his teeth and he had been notified of a raise in his salary that very week; nevertheless the the chair could not hold him in its padded embrace, and he got up and paced about the room in thcregulation style of the caged panther; his pipe had gone out long ago, f . as for the salary, what to him was salary. He felt in the breast pocket of his coat and drew out a letter, or rather a note, which he read with a scowl corrugating his brow. Then with a succession of angry jerks, he tore it across and across and dropped the pieces, fluttering on the hearth. A moment later he gathered the pieces in a heap, and, striking a match, set fire to them. As the flame gradually died out from the rustling tinder a thought seemed to strike him and he felt in his breast pocket again. This time he took out a pocket book and extracted a small package wrapped in tissue paper from a special compart ment; this also he laid on the hearth, and, with the same expression of an gry determination on his face, struck another match and held it to the paper. It did not burn as freely as the other for a minute, but suddenly it flared up so that he had to start back to avoid the flame. The next in stant there was nothing on the hearth but ashes and a particularly unpleas ant'smell permeated the room. Percival drew a deep breath and re mained staring moodily at the black ened fragments on the hearth for sev eral minutes. Then, Wvh what seemed to be an effort, he rose and began to whistle. What did it matter, after all? What did anything matter? No girl was worth a moment's worry. In accordance with this decision he sat down again and struck a third match with which he lighted his pipe. He puffed away with preternatural calm for a little while and then took the evening paper from the table and turned to the theatrical advertise ments, v MI might as well enjoy myself." he said. "That's probably what she's doing. I'll simply devote the^ rest of my existence to having" a good time. If she ever hears of mc at all it will *? ~ " ? ted man about town. Helena, r.:iu.u *?uu& uu uiu >. - in dissipate; that's what I'll do-All the cup that clears today of past regrets and future fears-whoop 'er up Eliza 'Jane. ! believe I'll drink a bottle of beer before I go to bed tonight, just as a starterT "They will go to her and tell her what I'm doing, and then may be she will be sorry. I don't know, though, why I should care whether she is sorry or not. I don't, suppose I really do. My mind is naturally dis turbed now. just as it would be if I suddenly broke myself of any other habit. In a week I shall be wonder ing what I ever saw in her and I shall be ahead so much experience. I sup pose every man has to go through it once, just as puppies get the distemp er, and I ought to bc thankful that I found out in time how callous and frivolous women can be. I've had all I want of them, that's one thing sure." He got up and walked about the room and then suddenly sat down again with an impatient exclamation. "I don't see why I can't simply dis miss the matter *from my mind and let lt go at that." he said. "I won't go out; that's one thing dead certain. It would be a confession of weakness to seek distraction. I wonder if she won't write and ask me to come again. I guess it's too soon for a letter, but she might send a messenger. Then I could coldly express my regret that I was' unable to see her and suggest that it. would perhaps be better that our correspondence should cease. That would settle the matter and it would be a satisfaction to know that it was actually settled. I guess it's settled, anyway. "I wonder how that trial balance is coming out. Mosier is going to get fooled on this guess. They want to get some ink that won't clog on the pens the way the last did. I don't believe in the economy of buying cheap ink. There's going to be plenty for us to do between this and Christ mas with the annuals and the holiday, shipments, and it won't let up with the new year. Well, I shall be glad to have plenty of work to take my mind off this business. Work! That's what there is before me now. Good, honest, hard work and no fooling. Not that I wouldn't have worked just as hard for her. There was our home to work for then. Now it will be just money grubbing. Well, I'll grub to beat the band." He laughed a harsh, sardonic and dissyllable laugh, the sound of which reminded him of a villain in a black cloak whom in happier days he had guyed from a gallery seat. He felt that he had misjudged that villain's art, but at the same time he ceased his soliloquy and Ht his pipe again. It was easier to stop talking than to keep from thinking,"nd his thoughts, went wandering off to the little home they two had planned. There prob ably never had been a house built just exactly like it. and there prob ably never would have been, but it had grown very familiar to him in the first half-waking hours of morning -particularly the room where they would sit together. Her face-! Castles in Spain! Money grubbing now; a deadening of human feeling, a self-contained, self-sufficing existence that would harden his heart and s?t his face in lines that would scare chil dren. He took a savage satisfaction In the contemplation of his future self, ?E . . ? iE OF PERCI?AL. j but caught himself softening' at the picture of this adamantine millionaire, yielding to the appeal of the love of his youth and raising her from, pover ty to affluence; so he/picked up the newspaper again and tried tQ interest himself in the partition/of China.-, The door bell below suddenly rang and Perciyal started to his feet. Could it be the messenger? He half opened his door and listened. He heaid his landlady say, "I think he's upstairs in his room now. You can go up and see; it's right at the head of the stairs." and then he retreated to his chair, choked with emotion. lt was the laundryman with his weekly bill. Would she have written that note, after all? Suppose she could have ex plained. And would it not be better to give her the opportunity to explain? .Of course she could. She could make: him look like a fool in one sentence,, but he vas not the man to allow any girl to twist him around her little finger. He would show her that. A.; trivial cause, perhaps, as some people might look at it. but what could there be trivial in their intercourse. Look--, lng back he could remember other in-; stances, slight in themselves, but.' were they not as floating straws show ing the ebbing tide of love? But to return to the Chinese ques tion. Oh. hang the Chinese question! ' Yet it should be a matter )f human In terest Great nations were playing a great game there; armies were gather-j ing. How would it be to enlist. Here was a subject worthy of serious cor?l sideration. What could life offer him" here but the prospect of a dreary slav ing over account books. Was that a; career for a man with blood-in his veins and strength in his sinews? On the other hand, strenuous activity, the joy of conflict, the thrill of danger and then a glorious death. She would hear of it and perhaps her blinding tears would fall fast upon the printed.' page where his name would appear1 in capital letters In the Hst of the'^; slain. They might perhaps bring his: mortal remains back in a metal cas ket. They have done that for the;* boys who fell in Cuba, and while Per>| cival thought at the time it was a.? piece of idiotic sentimental extraya?| gan ce, now it seemed only the propef"? and decent thing to do. The service^ would he held at the church, of course^ and there would#be pathetic ???.-r^-SfT to the yonnsr -*?~ _Ai ucart.' __iuob uuueiataTic: that though Fat?- ' i had spoken and an eternal separation must be-that lt was his unalterable determination that lt should be-yet he would be faithful to her memory. He would release her formally from her engagement-very formally. She 3hou?cT'' uT?t?^rs?CTic?r'^'c?~^he-wooM place an icy barrier before her-and then he would bid her farewell for ever. Perhaps a letter would be the best way. No. Letters were only letters, lia ble to misconstruction, and there should be no mistaking his firm in tention. Yet it might be put better In writ ing. But then there was always the dan ger of a letter falling into the hands of a third party. The old man might open it. Just as well to call tomor row evening. Where was the sense of putting it off? If it had to be done lt might just as well be done at once. Percival put on his coat and went out. Perhaps ten minutes had elapsed since the eternal farewell had been spoken and the young man and the girl were seated on the sofa talking it over. They were not. yet separated -far from it. "You might just as well have given me another," he said, plaintively. "Then ail this misery would have been avoided." "I had given you enough-more than enough," she answered. "Enough for you. perhaps." "Now don't begin again, Percival. You know papa was getting awfully impatient. And one wouldn't have sat isfied you anyway. I don't want to give you so many that you won't care for them." "Try. Give me one now." She gave it to him. Presently he said: "And you'll give me another lock of your hair?" "You don't deserve lt." she replied, "but I suppose I'll have too."-Chicago Record. People Who Never See Their Own Facet. "What!" exclaims the astonished reader, "is it possible that there are any civilized persons on the face o? the earth who are not in the habit of beholding their visages reflected from time to time in a mirror of some kind? Surely this cannot be so." Wrong, quite wrong, gentle reader, for at the present time, strange as it may appear, there are hundreds of men and women in thc United Kingdom who have not gazed into a mirror br years. The convicts confined in her Maj esty's prisons form members of this community. From the moment of a convict's entrance to a jail to the mo ment of his exit he is not permitted to have tfie use of a mirror of any kind, the smallest piece of glass being rigid ly denied to him. To the women con victs this absence of a mirror forms one of the chief hardships of confine ment, and many a female warder can j tell piteous tales of women who have actually fallen upon their kneeB and sobbed out entreaties for the loan of a morsel of mirror-"just for a second." All these entreaties have perforce to be' disregarded-and lt therefore comes about that many a female convict passes three or four years without be iug permitted to gaze upon her own features.-Tit Bit.??. y ! A PSYCHIC PHENOMENON. In Thia Case No Heed Wai Paid to th? Warnings. "Speaking of superstitions and strange warnings that eenie to people," said a veteran Washington correspondent, "I had an experience once that I hardly know how to ac count for. I may say in advance that 4 don't believe in any of the business that cannot be demonstrated scienti fically. One day, not a great while after the present elevator to the house press gallery had been put ir/, my mother sent for me to stop r.t her house on my way down town, as she had something particular to see me about. I went, and she asked me if there wasn't a new elevator to the press gallery. I told her one had been put in three or four months be fore that. She said that, was it, and that I must not ride in it. for she had dreamed the night before that I had been crushed to death in it. I laughed at her, cf course, and went on my way. Down on F street I met an aunt who told me she had some thing odd to tell mo. She said she had been the day before, with a niece of her husband, to see a fortune tell er, as the niece had taken a fancy to see one of those fakirs. The fortune teller, however, instead of telling the niece anything, had directed her re marks to her (my aunt) and had told her that she had a relative, a young man, whom she should warn, as he would be crushed to death in au ele vator. That was rather a jar to me, as I was her only young man relative, and as I had so shortly before been warned by my mother. However. I laughed at her also and wmt on my way to the Capitol. "I went about the committee rooms awhile, and at last, quite forgetful of my late warnings, went to the ele vator to go up to the gallery. Tho elevator man, an old fellow whom I had known for some time, was in thc j cage when I got there, and before opening it he talked to mo through the bars. . " 'I don't know,' said he. 'whether I ought to let you come in hero or j not' " 'Why not?' I Inquired, laughing. " 'Because,' said he. as serious as could be, 'I dreamed last night that I had run the elevator up too high and that as you started to get in you slipped some way under it. and when I got doWn to you at the bottom of the shaft you were smashed to death.' . "This looked like the 't&t&V three warnings,' and ? confess I had a few doubts myself, but I had some nerve left; and I jollied him on his notion and got In. On my way up I told rf- mother and my aunt was pleu I supnuo?. ... *who wouldn't ride in that elevan, all kinds of money, and still thev may fall down stairs ct any moment and break their necks."-Washington Star. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The highest spot inhabited by hu man beings on this globe is the Bud dhist cloister of Hanle. Tibet, where 21 monks live at an altitude of 16,000 feet Three miles from the village cf Krisuvik. in the great volcanic district of Iceland, there is a whole mountain composed of eruptive clay and pure white sulphur. A beautiful grotto pen etrates the western slope to an un known depth. In the western part of British Col umbia is a novel railway, two miles in length. The rails are made of trees from which the bark has been stripped, and these are bolted together. Upon them runs a car with grooved wheals ten inches wide. Bug eccentricities are being brought into a special collection by the British museum, lt has now motns with male wings on one side and female wings on the other; butterflies with no fore wings, and insects with an abnormal number of antennae or of legs. Ed. Geoghegan of West Point, Ky., has the most remarkable horse in that state, if not in the United States. This horse has as keen a scent for a par tridge as any setter or pointer in the country. He can scent them from 75 to 100 feet and never makes a mis take. He pays no attention to rab bits or to any bird but the partridge. One would think that 12 was more entitled to be considered an "even" number than 10, for its half is an. "even," whereas the half of ten is "odd." Yet on the Stock Exchange 12 is an "odd" number. The house takes five shares as the basis >A dealing, remarks Commerce, and all multiples of five are considered "even" numbers. Any intermediate numbers are "odd," and parcels of shares not divisible by five are difficult to sell, except at a reduced price. She Thought It Waa Heal Sunshine. It is thought and attention bestowed upon details which give some houses the indescribable charm that others, however superior in decorations and furnishings, can never hope to attain. This was happily illustrated thc other day at an informal luncheon party. The day was dark and rainy, but as one the guests stepped into the dining-room she ejaculated, "Why! I didn't know the sun had come out!" Then when she saw her mistake there was a pleas ant laugh at her expense. The bright effect had been produced by placing a large bunch of brilliant yellow foliage plants on the sill of the broad Eng lish window, and the silken pillows lying on the window seat had caught and held the sunlight in the various .golden shades. A large vase of nas turtium vines and flowers served as a centrepiece for the table.-Pittsburg Dispatch. In Japan it is customary for the bride to give all her wedding pres ents to her parents. Jjjnec?ptes and 1 Reminiscences i^bout Victoria. S t tm S Queen Victoria reigned longer than any other womau occupant of a throne. She reigned for a great T number of years ihau any other European sov ereign, if the regency in thc reign of Louis XIV. is excepted. Her reign lasted sixty-three years and seven mouths.cxccedingfour years three months aud twenty-eight days the reign of George HI., which was the longest in England before she came to the throne. She was Empress of India for twen WflERE QUEEN VICTORIA WAS BORN. ty-flve years, having received the title by proclamation on April 28. 1876. She outlived all the members of the House of Lords, who were peers of the realm at the time of her accession, except Earl Nelson, and all the peers who'were then c had been members of the House of Commons. She survived all the members of her origiual Privy Council and of her first House of Commous. Mr. Gladstone having been one of the oldest former members of the latter. She saw every episcopal see vacated aud refilled at least twice during her reign. She saw her judicial bench recruited twice at least from end to end. She was a widow for forty years. Shi- saw five Archbishops of Cantcr . bury aird -ix of York and nve ?MMH<P? of London. She saw eleven Lord Chancellors, ten Prime Ministers and six Speakers of the House of Commons. The Queen learned from her German mother the excellent habit of early rising, which stood her iu good stead during a busy and laborious life. Not latr than 7 was the hour. Her dressers were not literary women, like Fanny Burney, nor did they add to their other duties that of reading to SE QUEEN AND THE PRINCE OF WALES. (An etching made hy Queen Victoriii.) the Queen herself or to the court cir cle. Like thc women of her suite in a higher rank-ladies in walting, bed ? chamber women, etc.-many of the j -Queeu's dressers grew gray in her ser vice. j She always breakfasted privately. From the commencement of her reign, and notably after her marriage with the Prince Consort, it is a well-accred ited fact that Victoria would sign no paper which was not a mere certificate of an appointment or a commission un I . THE CORONATIO I-, J?=s siie made herself acquainted with 1 the conteuts by liaviug them read and I discussed in her hearing. As a 'Umax to the ordinary business of evei./ lawful day at intervals the Queen received lier Ministers an J held her Cabinet Councils. Here, as at her first council, she sat at the bend of the council board, the only woman pres ent. She was the oldest member of her Cabinet, and presided over every Gov ernment, Liberal or Conservative, dur ing her reign of upward of sixty years. If the real business of the Queen's day-her household duties and her official work-was dispatched quickly THE WEDDING. FEB! enough, she went out for a donkey drive in the grounds. Luncheon was a less private meal than breakfast, when the Queen, if so disposed, met the members of her household, the guests staying at the palace, or the privileged visitors who arrived for luncheon. Queen Victoria disliked cold meat, suede gloves, artificial flowers and the THE QUEEN IX HEB DONKEY CARRIAGE. odor of furs. Her alias, when she found it advisable to-use an incognito, was either the Countess of Balmoral or the Duchess of Lancaster-the lat ter was one of her numerous titles. When members of the Queen's family or any German relatives visited Lon don and occupied Buckingham Pal ace, "by invitation," they paid their board just like common folks in a ish ColumDia, uouu?ww* - .-. ferlng for the ?5000 he received for tlie 60,000 Ash he had caught and sold. The Queen acknowledged the gift by THE BRITISH CROWN. letter, accompanied by an engraving of herself and two pl*ats of sheep's wool. The "Queen's Jewels," exhibited to curious Americans in the Tower of London, are largely "paste." The Koh-I-Noor there is artificial, the real stone being kept at the Quoin's bank ers. Then there is the -'Imperial Crown," no longer used, blazing with gems, but the gems are all artificial. It seems that it used to be the custom to have the crowns of Queen consorts, and their sceptres, too, made of baser metal than those of the King and set with paste jewels. Therefore, when one Icoks rt the beautiful "Queen's Crown" (made for Mary of Modena, and used to crown Queen consorts) he gazes at a crown shining with cut crystals, set in silver, aud the other jewels in it are imitation pearl. So, too, the sceptre made for Mary of Modena is set down in the jewel book as having cost about $300, N, JUNE 28TH, 1S38. though it blazes with gems. The "Queen's Orb" also is set with imita tion stones and bordered with Imita tion pearls. Thc famous "Old Scep tre, n which was found in the wains coting of the jewel house in 1814, ia also set with imitation stones. Queen Victoria's private fortnne has been estimated at between $20,000,000 and $25,000,000, but the exact amount is known probably to but two persons besides herself-Lord Cross and Lord Rowton, who for years had entire charge of her financial affairs. Lord Rowton was secretary' to Lord Bea consfield during the lifetime of the lat ter. iUARY 10TH, 1810. The queen had at least half a dozen thrones. The Queen's fortune is invested mostly in English real estate, although she is credited with the ownership of many American railroad securities. Her collection of plate-the finest in the world-is said to be worth several millions. Her bankers are Coutts's, of London. The imperial state crown was made in the year 1838, with jewels taken from old crowns and others furnished by command of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. It consists of diamonds. *? pearls, rubies, sapphires aud emer alds, set in silver and gold. It has a crimson velvet cap with ermine bor der, and is lined with white silk. The Queen was always f?nd of dogs, and the royal kennels near "Wind sor are among the finest in the world. She was never known to visit Windsor without^ going to see these favorite animals.' Often her first visit after also, sometimes, her last before depar ture. A Carious Superstition This. . Ever since the assassination of King Humbert hundreds of Italians have been trying to win prizes in the nation al lottery by playing those numbers which correspond with bis age. These numbers are 56, 10 and 49, the King having lived for 56 years. 10 hours and 49 minutes. If these three numbers should win the player would receive 4250 times the amount of his stake. Some unusually optimistic gamblers have tried to win even more than this by playing a fourth number (73), which is the symbol of a regicide. If this combination, 56, 10, 49 and 73, were to win the Government would have to pay 60,000 times the amount of the , stake. The last drawing was held in Milan a few days ago. and, singularly enough, the winning numbers were 55,' 10, 48. and 72. These came pretty close to the mark, and as a result Ital ian gamblers are more determined than ever to keep on playing their fa vorite combination until lt brings them good fortune.-New York Herald. French Hygienic "Window. The accompanying figures show a new hygienic window pane being in troduced in France. It is the Inven tion of Dr. Legrand, and is a perfect -.--- ? x 4 VENTILATION WITHOUT DRAUGHT. ventilator. As will be seen from the illustrations it is perforated and pro vided with channels, of which there are two-one outside and one insider The former opens at the bottom, the latter at the top. The fresh air enters as is shown by the arrow, and replaces the warm air, which escapes in the op posite direction. This window pane Is put in exactly like an ordinary one, In the upper part of a window sash, and does not interfere with the light. Salted to His Job. A nobleman once* insisted on his head gardener taking as an apprentice a young lad in whom he was Inter ested. The lad was very lazy, and the gardener was not at all pleased at having 3uch a youth thrust upon him. Some time after his lordship, walk ing in the garden, came upon his gar dener and said: "Well, John, how is my young friend getting on with you?" "Oh, he's doin' fine!" replied the gar dener, with a smile. "He's working away there at the very job that suits him! He's a-chasin' of the snails ofiTn, the walks!"-London Answers. Most spiders are possessed of poison j fangs, but very few are dangerous to jfcuman beings.