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ART OF CONVERSATION.
It Should Be Fostered and Studied
With Serioumness.
Caroline IHazard in h.r *'Education
of Women" s::ys. ".1ow few of us
study to put ph:n;;s ersuasively, to
reach a proper climax. to retire grace
fully from a subject." It is a commou
saying that the art :& conversation has
disappeared from :unong ius. :ndi yet it
Is an art held In honor by all men.
Telegraphic speech has taken the place
Df the more careiul :tud elaborate
forms et conferne. Fut it is an art
which should be presented to all young
people and which they should study
with seriousuess anad attention. Noth
Ing really inspires, not!:hing really cre
ates entausiasm but the perception of
an ultimate ideal, whether At be in art
or music or in any other of the realms
of spiritual thought.' This ideal of
beauty has to come to the aid of every
form of expression. lifting and raising
it Into its own kingdom. The student
who has even begun on such a course
of training, who can see beauty in ev
erything in the created world and in
the realm of thought, has certainly be
gun to be beautiful in himself. For
beauty most truly passes into the per
son who studies the beautiful. No one
can give out what he does not have to
give. He must first absorb beauty at
the great natural reservoirs and foun
tains of the beautiful before he himself
can'become truly beautiful in life and
charater and so able to transmit beau
ty to all around him.
_.__-ANCIENT BABYLON.
Its Great Wall Was One of the Won
ders of Those Days.
According to Herodotus, the ancient
city of Babylon stood on a broad. level
plain and was an exact square of four
teen miles each way, making the entire:
circuit of the city fifty-six miles. It
.was protected both by a wall and a
moat, the latter being broad and deep
and kept constantly filled with water.
But ttte wall was the wonder of won
ders. being 931-3 feet in width and an
ever 2V0 feet in height. This monster
barrier was provided with 100 gates,
all of solid brass. the lintels and side
pieces being in bronze. Cross walls
ran along the banks of the Euphrates,
each proVided with twe'nty-five gates.
which corresponded to the number of
streets running in each direction from
the river.
The most remarkable edifice inside
the wall was the temple of Bel, a pyra
mid of eight square stadia. On the
summit of this pyramid stood a pure
gold image of Bel forty feet high, two
other smaller figures of the same pre
eious metal and a golden table forty feet
long and fifteen feet wide. This won
derful city first came prominently into
the history of the world in the year 747
B. C.. but since the time of Alexander
the Great it has been a ruin, the site
having at one time been entirely lost.
THE GREAT CONDOR.
It Is the 3ost DiMeult Bird In the
World to Trap.
Probably the great condor is the most
difficult bird in the world to trap. One
of the great vultures, it inhabits lofty
peaks of the Andes, hardly accessible:
to man. It builds its nest among the
topmost crags, often on a ledge of some
precipice with an almost perpendicular:
drop of many hundred feet.
An extremely wary bird, It shares
with its congeners the proverbial "ea
gle eye" and is thus able to see .im
mense distances while yet unseen by
mian. Its wings have a spread of
twelve feet. and, though its flight is
heavy, it can sustain its.elf for long pe
rioas in the air.
To trap it men ascend to its haunts
axmd shoot some animal of considerable
size. This is skinned, and a man lies
down by the body under the skin and
waits, perhaps for hours. Soon con
dors come flocking round until one set
ties on the skin, when the man below
grips its legs, flings the skin over it
and stabs it to death.
The strength of these birds Is enor
mous, and the condor hunters often
have their arms broken by strokes
from their powerful wings.
The Ofrending Handkerchief.
Tt is in fact a grave sanitary ques
tion whether the handkerchief does not
do more harm than good as it is ordi
narily used. When we assume that the
nose does not need to be wiped, we face
a reasonably broad proposition as to
the danger of the handkerchief as a!
disease propagator. Most nasal ca
tarrhs are of an infectious character.
notably those of grip origin.
Contrary to a general law of asepsis.
the handkerchief saturated with dis
ease germs. instead of being promptly
washed, is stowed for hours in the
pocket, with a result that can be easily:
imagined. Is it any wonder then that
catarrh is constantly fostered by a sys
tem of auto infection?-Medical Record.
Twenty shot,. In His Head.
At the present time there is a keeper;
on a Hlertfordshire estate who has
about twenty shots in his head. Nearly
thirty years ago this man was acci
dentally shot by an under keeper, and
there were twenty-two holes in the hat
he wore, which is preserved to this
day. The injured man never had the.
shots extracted, was long between life:
and death and completely lost his hear
THE G(OUD ULD CLOCK.
'its Mellow, FriendIy Tick an Anti
dote For Lone%omeness.
"Give me the clock for company."
mId the observant man. "and you may
iave all the balance of the inaniwate
things under the sun, or over it. and I
will throw a few of the animals in for
good measure. I can conceive of noth
ing more friendly, more unspeakably
comforting, than the mellow tick of the
old family clock which towers high on
the old fashioned mantel, above the
good old open faced fireplace where the
embers are dying down and deepening
into a bluish melancholy gray late of
winter nights. One never feels quite
alone as long as one may hear the mel
low tick tack of the old family clock.
the same sweet mellow cadences which
have ri, in one's ear from earliest
infancy, through a!l the changes and
upheavals of time, down to the present.
Other sounds may fall and deepen into
the sadder silence of the night's heavy
stillness, but the old clock continues to
mark the flight of time, and no second
may escape without hearing its passing
called out dreamily by the faithful
clock whose hands have measured al
ready so many days-some bright and
full of light and life and promise and
sweet bodings of the future and others
echoing back sepulchrally from the
years already counted. Ab, the clock!
But give me the clock with Its ticking
all through the night, and its silvery
chiming on the hour. and you may have
the other things. and the dog to boot.
I'll take the clock in mine every time
when it comes to keeping off that feel
ing of lonesomeness which creeps upon
us now and then." - New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
NUMBER ON PAPER MONEY.
How to Tell Without Seeinx the Fig
ures if It Is Odd or Even.
"If any one comes up to you and
wants to bet you that he can tell
whether the number of any of Uncle
Sam's paper money is odd or even by
looking at that part of the bill on which
the number dues not appear. shun him
as you would the plague," said a guest
at the Hotel M(Kay the other night.
"Why? What is the joke?" asked
another guest.
"Only this." replied the first: "I was
out this afternoon with a number of
men with whom I have business deal
Ings. We ate lunch, and then one man
wanted to bet me that he could call
the even or odd on the number of any
bill I had. the loser to pay for the
lunch. I took a bill from my pocket,
folded it so that the number did not
show, and after he had looked at it he
said. 'Even.'
"It was even. Soon afterward I got
stuck for the cigars the same way.
After I had been done four or five times
they explained to me that all of the
bills marked 'A' and 'C' were odd, while
those marked 'B' and 'D' were even.
It cost about $6 to find it out, but I
guess it was a good investment at that.
It is the same on all bills. Be careful
when attempting to do the work not to
take the series letter in front of the
number, but hunt for a small letter on
the left hand side of the bill."-Duluth
Herald.
Poet Riley on Him Native Heath.
Several years ago James Whitcomb
Riley returned to his native town,
Greenfield, ind., for the purpose of giv
ing a reading, the proceeds of which
were for somec charitable purpose. It
had been muany years since he had vis
ited the old town, and as the affair had
been well advertised people poured in
from all sec'tions of the county. Riley
arrived on an evening train. The "old
band" wvas at the station to meet him.
The poet was put in a low necked car
riage with a reception committee, and,
headed by tie band, a procession was
formed of citizens, and they paraded
the business streets. A very old man
leaued up against the Gymond House,
a hotel of Riley's day, and as the car
rige passed he squinted one eye and
out of the opposite corner of his mouth
said, "I've seen the time in this here
burg when they would have got a
brass band to git Jimmie Riley out of
town."-Cleveland Leader.
An Arithmetical Wonder.
If twelve persons were to agree to
dine together every day, but never sit
exactly in tihe satme order around the
table, it would take them 13.000,000
years at the rate of one dinner a day,
and they would have to eat more than*
479.000000 dinners before they could
get through all the possible arrange
ments in which they could place them
selves. A has only 1 change; A. B. 2;
A, B. C, 6: four letters, 24; five, 120;
six. 720: seven. 5.040: eight, 40,2;
nine. i3i2.800: ten. 3.628,800; eleven,
39.91I.00: twelve, 479.001,600.
Condensed For Four Days.
"There was a good old lawyer of the
good old southern type." si a judge.
"who had a most eloqueL. way of
pleading. iiis brief for three days had
been a mnarve'l of classical allusion and
legal erud it ion.
"The jud.r", however, became a trifle
impati'nt and, ats gently as lhe could.
intiiaed! t!.t tihe doecket was somr.'
wha::1t emwa-di '. :ad it mi;:ht be to the
client's interest if the lawyer co-J:
contrive to end his plea. And, do yoi.
know, the .id barrister declared that.
the last four days of' his argument were!
a marvel of cnnndensntion."
GERMAN WORK PEOPLE.
g'j%eir Amulementx Are Few and
31otly Confined to Sunday.
Amusements play a comparatively
s::iuall iart i:i the lives of Ger:nan work
pwople. :nd sneh as thvy have are most
ly contid P) sundoy. Games have
not ta. n hoid of them; they go to no
football or criveet matches. although
"re are matches, and other classes in
GeLIany sw a growing taste for
games and :-ports. I went to see a
football match between Dusseldorf and
a neigliboriti manufacturing town. A
similar match anywhere in maiiufac
turing En,hi,dnd would have attracted
from 10.ooo to 20.000 sons of toil, who
would have shouted tbemselves hoarse
from beginning to end. At the Ger
man match not one put in an appear
ance. When I left the field toward the
close of the game the spectators, who
had slowly increased during the after
n,on. numbered exactly sixty-five. They
were not workingmen. and they show
ed no excitenent whatever. They
played the association game, not very
weil. The national game in Germany
is kecel. a kind of skittles. and it is
played at public houses. but not by
workingmen or seldom by them. They
play cards sometimes, but not a great
deal. In short. games may be ruled
out as an item In industrial life. Thea
ters and music halls count for more.
but for nothing like so much as in Eng
land and in America. They are less
numerous in :'roportion to population
and are only .sited by the working
classes to a lim. 'd extent on Saturday
and Sunday.-Dy'roit News and Trib
une.
HERBERT SPENCER.
He Was a Great P1hrame Maker and
Had Some Odd Ways.
Herbert Spencer was no linguist.
Because of eye strain which affected
his health he did not even know Ger
man. His pamphlet on education was,
however. translated into fifteen lan
guages, including Japanese.
Spencer was a great phrase maker.
It was he who popularized the word
"evolution" and explained one of the
phases of the Darwinian doctrine as
"the survival of the fittest." He also
introduced Comte's coined word "so
eiology."
He was a bachelor and long lived in
boarding houses. Finally he set up
an establishment of his own. where he
could have about him people of his
own choosing. A favorite relaxation
In his later years was to sit in the
open doorway of his house and listen
to a piano played in a distant apart
ment He had the player trained. A
thump of his stick was the si-nal for
her to stop, another thump for the mu
sic to proceed where it broke off.
Spencer was fond of playing billiards.
Once at Brighton he invited a smart
youth io a game. The philosopher had
four strokes and scored two while the
youth ran out. Mr. Spencer put away
his cue with deliberation and said to
his opponent: "A moderate degree of
expertness in a game of skill is agree
able and even creditable. Such dexter
ity as you show is evidence of a mis
spent youth. Good afternoon."
Drinking Healths.
This was a Roman custom. The
drinking was accompanied by some
such words as "Here's to myself,"
"Here's to you" and "Here's to I shan't
say who." The ancient Greeks also
drank healths. When Theramnerus was
condemned to drink hemlock he said.
"Hoc pule-ro Critim."'
The ancient Saxons also had the same
custom. Hengist invited King Vorti
gern to a banquet to see the new levies.
After the dishes were removed Rowe
na, the beautiful daughter of Hengist,
appeared before the scene holding in
her hand a golden cup full of wine.
She then madle obeisance and said.
which in modern English means. "Lord
king, your health." The king drank
and replied. "Here's to you."
The Greeks handed the cups to the
person they toasted and said. "This to
thee." Our custom of holding out the
cup comes to us from ancient Greece.
American Queen.
Thistle.
In the fourteenth century thistles
were used as food for cattle, and they
were c-onsidered as a crop. In the old
p-iory of Lindisfarne there is a note
in the archives of 1344-45 of thick
le:ther glzove's requirecd for the harvest
er'a of i:w thistl'ecn. It is curious
i:: t th::ih thiie thistla is the emblem
of Sc0oth::d. :: cot never seems able
w a wh:- !h:d of thistle is the
l: :Sn e-:'.h'm. It is said that a
thi'nk. wlh-:m :-esmnbles Carduus mari
anfls w::s surm -d on the old coinage of
the d::y of' Jianws V.. who was first in
'ut :hi,!:0s In thle Scotch money. The
.orn poons sold! in Edinburgh some
times hav'.e little silver thistles on the
enu of the hanle-s.
C--itica.
A party of compositors and printers
from the country. up for a day's out
ing In London. visit the National gal-.
lery and pause in front of Turner's:
"Ulysses."
Foreman (to his companions, both*
lost in admiration)-It's marvelous!
All done by hand too!
Second Compositor and Printer (en
thusiastically)-Why, it's every bit as
godas oorm p-inineg.Punnh.
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