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Man In the Moon It was tho last day of the late gTeat frost, and, unmindful of my fifty odd years, I undertook to skate twenty miles or so along the frozen Lea. When I returned home I was tired, BO tired that scarcely was I seated in my armchair when I found 2nyself nodding, and undoubtedly I should have fallen asleep had hot an exceeding!} strange, circumstance happened. To bo brief, then, I was lifted -from my chair in my home in north London, whirled through space for a couple of hours and then deposit ed, gently, but firmly, on the moon. Scarcely had I recovered my breath when an aged man of ven erable aspect, whom I at once recog nized as the man in the moon, ap proached me and inquired my busi ness. I explained that I was an involuntary trespasser on his hos pitality, and then, thinking as I was there 1 might as well learn something about the history of our satellite and its inhabitants-sup posing there were any-i proceeded as respectfully as might bu to ques tion the old fellow. ''Yes, you are right !" he exclaim ed in answer to my query as he placed the load of fagots he was car rying on a projecting mass of gran ite and rested his back against the cone of an extinct volcano. "I have ?seen a lot of changes in my lime. How old am I? Well, I don't know -exactly, but it is some millions of years ago ?ince my first birthday. "Why, bless my heart, when I ;\vas a lad this old, dried up moon (was as bright and fresh as your earth is now. "Seas sparkled in the sunlight, Ibrooks gleamed and dashed through the valleys, and forests clothed with .verdure the mountains now dead and silent. Aye, these were glorious times. The birds sang in the woods from early dawn to nightfall, the fishes leapted and plashed and leaped and plashed again in every eddy and pool of our prehistoric rivers. Great mammals, some uncouth and some beautiful, but mostly the latter, roamed'at wil1 amid the glades of our mighty forests. Then, after a million years or so, man came." "Man?" I repeated incredulously. "Yes, man," he reiterated rather [testily. "Man, of course. Do you ?bink your earth alone has been the home of man ? I tell you he lived and flourished here while the earth was yet formless and void, a vast white hot mass of semifluid granite. At first he was weak for lack of knowledge, and fought-often un successfully-with the wild beasts of the forests for food and drink and raiment. Then as he grew older lie grew wiser and carved for him iself weapons of flint and wood, just as the earth man did a million or itwo years afterward. Our lunar men were very clever, too, very clever; not so large or so strong as terrestrial man, perhaps, but ^quicker to learn. Why, it did not take us more than 200,000 years to perfect our -civilization." "And what happened then?" was my next query. "Ah, there you have asked a question hard to answer," quoth the old man sadly. "All I know is that one year there came a blight over all things. It was not exactly a plague. It was rather a want, of .vitality in the atmosphere that re acted with terrible effect on all ani mate nature. Man, being the most highly organized of. all things liv ing, was the first to feel its%baneful effects, and he dwindled and pined and finally polished, and the places that had been wont to know him knew, him no more forever. "Th'-n as the sunny atmosphere grew more and more attenuated the mammals first and afterward every form of animal life grew cold and dead.. .The lowest forms of plant life lingered for a few thousand years longer, until the labt drop of water had evaporated into space, in if act, and .then they, too, vanished, and the moon was left as you seo it todav--a dead world, without heat, atmosphere or moisture." "A sad fate, surely, but you must have become resigned/' I said sooth ingly, for the old man wosvsighing heavily and gazing fixedly :mto I ?pace, as though ho saw again the lost visions. of lone livers j he had been describing. "No, 1 inri not resigned/' Anrl he shook his head slowly from 6ide to side. "Both myself and. my sis ter look forward to better times to come."- ' "Your sister ?" ? exclaimed woh [deringlyv "I was not aware" "That: I had a sister ?/* be inter* mpted. "Ohi yes, I have, but I for got! Of course you have never seen her. She lives on the side of e moon opposite to the earth,, lid mountains and valleys, upon I*hoBe bold outlines no earthly eve has ever gazed, -vii' ls by far the st side of the moon; toof but shs getting rather ttfed of living Jere and talks about ? changbj -*s with me. I expect you would rather surprised down bel re if some - fino?j^to#>r-nigh itheiw-you found ,a woman in tho loon instead of a man. Ha, ha, jjja!" And forgetful of bia recent ? of the bittes ,the old ; chap gav? 'eat to a hearty guffaw. .>.. r'&l "We should indeed," I repiie& toging in my turn, "althou?$|p J^cy/ju^ess ?your sister's appear? <... "*: .'.iV,..-. 1 v.:-V? ... ance differs i? a marked degree from your own, that we should scarcely bo able to distinguish the dii?erence. You must admit your self that one must possess good eyesight to tell a man from a wo man 240,000 mile3 away." "Oh, but," answered thc old man, with a touch of family pride, "ehe is a fine woman! Not bent and bowed with age liko mc. Indeed she is really 0,000,000 years young er than am I. Then, of course, she dresses in-in" "The habiliments suitable to her sex," I ventured to say. "Precisely, and, like all the wo men here, is fond of dress. Why, when I last visited her, some 25,000 years ago, almost her first question was, 'How do the women dress now on the earth?' Of course there wasn't much to tell her, because well, tho women of that day didn't trouble themselves much about dress, but 1 am thinking of paying her another visit soon, and then I shall have si different budget of news for her." "Mut tell mc," I interrupted, for I was not much interested in the old fellow's sister, "something about thc earth. You must have seen al most as great changes in the earth as in tho moon." "Almost," was tlie answer, ' jut not quite. My world is cold and dead. Yours is still alive, as was mine once, but your turn will come some da}', and then we shall both go circling through space, cold, silent and lifeless. But that," he contin ued, "will bo many millions of years from now, almost as many millions as it is since I. first set eyc3 on your planet. Then, as I said before, it was a mere mass of molten matter a vast white hot ball whirling round the sun and carrying me with it. I remember as though it were yes terday the first beginning of earth ly life. At first the seas covered everything, and beautiful specimens of marine flora floated everywhere upon the surface of the water, while in its translucent depths fishes of strange form and gloriou' coloring disported themselves. Then the dry land began to appear, and by slow degrees the great forests that shrouded as with a mantle all tho earth not covered by the waters. For millions of years what you are pleased to call the lower animals were the only denizens of their somber depths, and even after man came it wus hundreds of thousands of years before hq even partially dominated thc face of nature." "But was there not," I asked, "an ice age ?" "A what?" he exclaimed, with 0 puzzled expression of countenance. "An ice age," I repeated, "0 period of time when the ice, which, as you are r.ware, is always present at the poles, spread northward and southward until it enveloped almost the entire globe " "Oh, yes/' responded mine host, .with the air of a man trying to re call some long forgotten and alto gether trivial incident. "I believe something of the kind did happen, and not more than 100,000 or 150, 000 years ago either. But it only lasted about 20,000 years, and I had quite forgotten all about it until you mentioned it." This concluded the interview, for although I would have liked to have pursued my inquiries further tho old chap suddenly snatched up hi bundle, bent his back and resumed bis orthodox position, at the same time indicating by a gesture that ho was not inclined for any further conversation. "We are right over Greenwich observatory," he explain ed in answer to my look of surprise, "and I don't want the astronomers there to see me without my bundle . andi talking to a stranger too. It isn't respectable."--London Amus ing Journal. A Fatal Objection. s ? woman of newly acquired wealth went into a Fifth avenue art gallery and said she wanted a paint ing a certain size. "I have just what you want," the dealer assured her, and he snowed her a genuine Troyon of the size de sired, a beautiful animal painting. The woman looked at it for a few minutes and shook her head. "It won't do," she said. "I want this picture for my drawing room." "well?" questioned the dealer, who saw no reason for the rejection so far as the drawing room waa con cerned. "You couldn't have a cow in the drawing room, you know." And that ended it.-New York .Tribune. For Infants and Children. Tba Kiiid. You Have Always Bought -r To preserve the features of the dead il is proposed by a Kassian to embalm oorpses ' by casting around them a solid mass of gia?a. , The in ventor of tole process hopes that some dsy we will have a large museum - A yard of rain-to bo preuise, 36 52 inohec-io tba recorded down-' fall of tue last year in Lonies. It has been an exceptionally wet year even for tho British Islas. The record is five inches above tba hignett pre vious total, that of 1879. MEXICAN BEGGARS. K Tourist's Life In Dsnger Unless Ho Is Liberal With His Tipr ."The beggars in the City . Mexi co lay over any mendicant co bo found in any country under the 6un" paid tho representative of an English mining concern in that city. "I have been a citizen ^Mexi co's beautiful capital for about a year, and I am used to tho ways of its 'artful dodgers/ but it was a long time beforo I did becomo used to them. "On my arrival in the city I spent several days sightseeing, and tho City of Mexico is rich in beautiful places of public interest. The picas uro was spoiled, however, by tho horde of hungry beggars who flock ed around me. One's life is literally in danger unless one is willing to toss out his coppers with a liberal hand. "One afternoon while visiting ono of the handsomest and oldest cathe drals of tho city ? was persistently followed by a lean and hungry 'guide,' who insisted nt every turn upon pointing out to mo in Spanish things which I had already seen or didn't want to seo. "I ordered him oft several times, but ho simply wouldn't go. Ile was a typical Mexican beggar. Finally I left tho church and started to walk away. "When he saw mc about to slip from his grasp, he ran after me in tho street, shouting the only Eng lish words he knew, I 6U]>pose, 'Pay mel Pay mc!' accompanied by a flood of Spanish that might have meant anything so far as I knew then. "A crowd collected, and it could be seen that their sympathies were all with the mendicant. Finally, in desperation and fearing I would bo thrown into jail at the instigation of the centavos loving wretch, I took to my heels and ran. I have seen beggars in Spain and I have 6een them in Italy, but those in the City of Mexico are at tho head of the list/'-Washington Post. He Was Busy. A foppish young man who was a patron of a boarding house on Park avenue came into the parlor the other day, where the landlady was entertaining pome guests, and said, "Would you oblige me, madam, with a glass of water ?" His request was granted. In a few minutes the young man appeared again arid asked for another glass of water. The second request was granted. Then the young man came again and said, "Pardon me, madam, for troubling you again, but will you kindly let me have a pail of water thia time?" "Certainly, Mr. Jones," replied thc landlady. "I shall see that it is secured for you. Would you like to meet some of my friends ?" "I am very sorry, Mrs. Brown. I have not the time. The fact is, my room is on fire."-New York 'Times. Love and the Manicurist. 'Tve had all sorts of funny ex periences since I went into this business," said the pretty manicur ist, i(b\xt the order I got today cer tainly took the prize. A girl whose hands I was doing asked me to be particularly careful ap*1 give the nails an extra polish. " 'Going to a party?' I asked, be cause she seemed to want to talk. '"No/ she said, blushing pret tily,, 'but he is coming up tonight, and I think-well, I think he's go ing to-ask me to marry him, and I want my hand to look nico when he puts the ring on it/ "Maybe I'll hear all about it the next time she comes in." - New York Press. Sure to Be Disagreeable. "Hello, Gudgerl I've been look ing for you a week. Couldn't find you high or low. Met a friend of yours the other day. He's been talking about you, andi felt it my duty to tell you what he said." <?AhI Well,.I don't caro to hear what he said. I know it wai some thing disagreeable/' "How do you know that P' "Because you are so anxious to tell it. Good morning." He Turned. Wandering over Salisbury plain, a correspondent came across a large stone inscribed: "Turn me over." After much, difficulty he succeed ed in turning it over and found on the underside of the stone the words : . "Now turn me hack again, so that I can catch - some other idiot." . London Telegraph. Not at AU Conceited. . SwiveUer-Speaking of Small weed, I consider him.the most mod est, unassuming man I ever met in all my life. Quilip-Then he doesn't think too much of himself? Swiv i eller-Not at all; not a hit conceit ed, though he admits that any other man possessed of his abilities would be. ; . ? ' .; - ' . . ' - During the recent thunder show Schieb visited RathUnd, Vt., a bolt ?lightning entered the barn belong g to E. M. Peanoek, where three torses were standing in a row. lt killed %*o of them, then left the building arid jumped fifty feet to the cow bare, where it killed one cow, leaving the other eight standing be side her unharmed. . -- When trouble . calls it usu all r ands a man ct h ente. A HASTY TEMPER. The IFnrm It Dom Even TlionRli th? l'i?ly Fit lie Soon Over. It ls a remarkable tblng that there exists in people's minds a distinct so cial precedence among the vices. To own oueself ou Intimate termB with such a one as deceit or slnnder, for Instance, would be almost undreamt of, but bow often have we heard peoplo say, almost with pride, at any rate with no trace of shume, "I bave a very hasty temper?" And then as if to transfigure lt Into a very virtue they triumphantly add, "But lt ls soon over." 80 lt may be, but bow about its conse quences? Are they BOOU over? There are few moro dangerous ene mies to the peace aud comfort of every day life than tho people who speak hastily in the squalls of passing ill tem per, and then, when they aro restored to good humor, expect everything to be just as it v/n? before. There ls no such position possible as "Just ns lt was be fore" in this up and down bill human nature of ours. Every act or word Is a step l>3* which we mount upward or sink lower In the unhindered journey Inge onward of all the conditions of Ufo, and the people who give utterance to the incriminations of passionate tem pers unfailingly drop down In the estl- ! mation of others,, from which it ls ti stiff climb up again. Moreover, words once uttered, wheth er true or false, are usually undying and lire on In hearts ami memories long after the careless bow that shot such poisoned nrrovra forth In unstrung. And though the utterer may plead that to feed his passion he said not what ho really bellevod, but what ho thought nt the time would hurt most, lt is al most impossible for the hearer to un derstand that the expression was not that of a living though latent opinion and to feel it accordingly. The cou'e ot fashion in the moral realms has deo ved how much better a passionate temper is than a sulky one, but there Is something to be said lu favor of the latter in that it only hurts itself. Like the little girl who when onnoy.?d always ate her apple tart with out sugar, the guilty person may suffer most individually, but that ls surely better than the suffering to the inno cent caused by tho random shots of tho fierce though short onslaughts of a hasty temper. And slleneo Is much less generally disturbing than violence, though perhaps quito as unbecoming. Edith H. Fowler in London Mail. DOES AN EDUCATION PAY? Does it pay an acorn to become an oak? Does it pay to escape being a rich ignoramus? Docs it pny to fit oneself for a su perior position? Does it poy to open a little wider the door of a narrow life? I Does lt pay to learn to moke life a glory instead of a grind? j Does it pay to add power to the lens of the microscope or telescope? Docs it pay to taste the exhilaration of feeling one's powers unfold? Docs it pay to know how to take the dry, dreary drudgery out of life? Does it pay a rosebud to open its petals and liing out its beauty to the world? ! Does it pay to push one s horizon farther out In order to get a wider out look, a clearer* vision? Does it pay to learn how to center thought with power, how to marshal one's mental force effectively?-Suc cess. I - Be Steady For the Emergency. Good luck is desirable even when you have done your best to succeed, but remember that the most favorable cir cumstances or strokes of fortuno are of little value unless you have pre pared yourself to take advantage of them. Of what advantage would Hayne's fiery speech have been to Daniel Webster if he bad not, with the Instinct of genius, long before equipped himself for the assault which he repelled with euch crushing energy? Had ho not previously weighed and refuted in bis own mind tbe charges of his opponent bis reply, instead of ranking among the greatest master pieces of oratory, might have only re vealed bis own weakness. Thousands of men bad seen the prints of a horse's hoofs in the soil, before Faust dis covered by them the art of printing. Woeful Lack of Confidence. A prominent actor tells about a Chi cago theatrical woman about to wed who was one day amusing herself by going over the marriage service. To a friend who discovered her, prayer book in band, she said: "I always make it a point to. do this, for no matter how well you may have known a part in the past lt should al ways be rehearsed before the piece is revived." Then, rather playfully, she read the words, "Till death do us part" Whereupon ber friend Interrupted: "How foolish that ls, isn't lt, j|ear? Bounds like one hasn't, any confldenco In the courts!" The Doctor Elad Nothing to Say. A certain physician told some of his patients thnt os long ns they kept their feet dry they would be safo from tho attack of the grip: He was surprised to receive a letter from one of bis pa tients In which the latter said that ho had two wooden legs and yet he had the grip for five consecutive years. The letter waa unanswered.-Albany Jour nal. ? Sara Bait. ''How did you manage to sell that place of goods that's all out of date to Mrs. Hlflir' Clerk-I told her it was a great bar gain, but I thought Mrs. rtlchcoln bad bod it laid aside for one of ber daugh ters. Theo abe took lt right off. ? - Evon the most sensible cf men o?s?aio?ial?y act as if thev think their wives should be very proud wo men to be married to such husbands. - Whens girl is io love with a maa abo oan forgive and understand his being jealous, but when she isn't she thinks bim silly wheo he gives evidence of suoh feeling. - There, is one good thing about swearing off; the. oftener you do it tb? oftener you can swear on again. . ^ IN THE ROUNDHOUSE THE ATTENTION THAT IS BESTOWED UPON THE LOCOMOTIVES. Constant and Carcfnl Groonilng He? ?aired b>- (lie firent Iron Horses of ?tie Rall-How the Tires ot the Dis Driving Wheels Are Tightened. Any one nt nil familiar with rail roads has eeeu the engineer dismount from tho cab, oil can in hand, ns soon na tbo train bas come to a stop nt some way station; soon bim walk slowly about the ponderous machine, feeling of each bearing with his free bund as he Ailed tho caps with oil; seen bim per haps tap 4. ralve gently with a wrench or examine critically som?.? ill working ?lr pump. To nny man nil tlds ls Interesting, but how many uro there In all the vast crowd that enter the city dally nt *Jie great terminals who can tell offhand what becomes of the train when once thc cars are emptied of tho passengers? To bi? sure, they have scon tho curs on a siding but lu {LA yard. They know perhaps that y ?uundhouse is n piuco where engines are kept when not In actual us??. Rut beyond tills the Ideas of tlio ordinary man aro a bit hazy. As soon as the passengers have loft a train that bas just como i:i noni :i long' dusty run it is back od out Into the yard, and tho oars aro sot off ou a sido track. Mon go upon t ! n ? ! : i nt MUCO and beglu to put them in readiness for the next trip. Thc windows uro wash ed, cars fivod from nil tilth :ii#? flirt, scats cleaned, water tanks cured for ?ind thc lighting apparatus put in order. Tho locomotivo, after leaving tho cars, proceeds nt once to *ift> round house, where tho ponderous machino also receives n proper overhauling. First of all, the tanks aro filled with water and the fuel supply is replenish ed. Then n few puffs bring the fire box above the ash pit, whore tho tires are cleaned and dumped altogether. Tho next thing ls to stable tho great Iron horse. The roundhouse Itself Is a most unin viting place, with its soot begrimed wulls and smoky interior. These build ings are all coi.structed on the came general lines, low, one story structures, generally built of brick and semicircu lar in shape. The center of the circle ls the center of the turntable. Ar ranged along the lnuer side of the building is a line of doors, each exactly like its neighbor. Under each runs a track of standard guur~. giving tho whole an appearance not unlike a spider's web, the center of which ls the turntable. The turntable Itself consists of a pit walled with stone, across which is a bridge free at tho ends, but balanced nt the center on n spindle. Rails are laid across this, as if it were a part of the roadbed. When tho fires of tho locomotive have boen oared for tho engiueer runs his machine upon the table. With deft band at the throttle, bo brings it to a stop at the precise point where the hundred tons of stool balance on the spindle that supports the bridge. Thon tho ponderous mass is slowly revolved until tho required track is reached and tho eugine is backed into the round house. Once within the house the engineer's duty is done, ile bas but to go to the office and report in a book prepared for tho purpose any repairs that are need ed, and be can go home, assured that his machine will be ready for him when he starts on the next run. The engine is now turned over to the roundhouse crew, who go to work on it at once. The attention that a locomo tive receives on arrival nt the rounds house ls about the same that ono would expect to see bestowed upon a race horse. Wipers go over every Inch of the surface carefully, removing dust and oil. Others drop into the pit beneath the machine and wipe the run ning gear. The headlight is carefully cared for and the brass polished. In fact, the whole machine ls put in first class shape in every way. Throughout this work keen watch ls kept for any signs of broken parts, and any found ure repaired. The hundred or more fides are cleaned by steam pressure. An engine seldom comes to the house that does not need repairs of somo sort. The delicate mechanism ls con stantly becoming broken, and unceas ing attention is required. One of the most Interesting of all the repairs that are made in tho round house ls the tightening of the tires on the drive wheels. Each wheel is sur rounded with a heavy steel tire. These occasionally work loose, and it be comes necessary that they be tightened without sending the locomotive to the shops. To do this a stream of oil ls fed au tomatically upon the tire and allowed to burn ns lt runs down. The result ls that the whole rim ls soon a circle of flame. This ls kept up for a long time, and the tire, being heated faster than the wheel itself on account of the prox imity of the fire, expands until Oe thin pieces of sheet Iron cnn bo inserted be tween the wheel and the tire. When the tire has again become cold lt contracts und clutches' the wheel hard and fast The cumbersome repairs, such as turning down worn drive wheels and replacing boilers, go to the shops, where lathes, cranes and forges are to be bad. But all the minor troubles are remedied at the "stables," and tho fore man of tho roundhouse is responsible for the condition of the engines. He Is the man to whom all look in an emer gency, and it is he who must look for ward and plan for the repairs in such a way as not to interfere with the,regu lar operation of the trains.-Boston Globe. ,-._ When man speak ill of thee, lira so that nobody WHIT ?neve them.-Plato. i- ? mm* - A ami,ll boy has an idea that in the inquisition tho chief instrument of torture ?MIS the tooth brush. 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