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r.i / "1 1 ? THE CHEERFUL TELEPHONE. An Institution That Contributes Much Toward the Enlivenmsnt of Mankind. i In a general summing up of the numerous mechanical 'inventions which contribute largely to the i gayetv of nations, the telephone, if appears, does not fall behind, Kays the Indianapolis .Journal. "It just occurred' to me the other day,'' said a woman in a little group of eltib loiterers who were having a social chat after the Hub had adjourned,"that wido not give 1 he telephone its just due of praise as a cheer distrib utor. One hears a good deal, now then, about the useful telethe wonderful telephone, the convenient telephone, tint really I have never heard any one call i? tlie 'cheerful telephone.' Perhaps, however, one needs to be a suburban dweller to realize what an entertaining and agree able companion the telephone is. In trite* phrase, words ran hardly tell what a valuable affair the telephone is in the country. In the dull winter flays, when iny husband was in town and t he children at school, my spirits would sometimes flag. Instead of flying to a quinine pill or a dose of cut-rate tonic. I would simply fly to the telephone, call np some one of my treasured relatives or intimate friends, Vither in town or in the country, get a little pleasant sparkle of talk or harmless gossip over the wire, and go back to my sewing or work refreshed and braced in mind and body. " 'Unbeknownst,' too, as good old Rairey Onmp would say, I often administered the telephonecure to my husband and children. If Henry yawned a pood dual in tin* evening and didn't seem to cart* to road, or to talk, 1 would say, earelessly: " 'Henry, call upGeorge Rlankc, and ask how they all are, over there; we haven't heard from them for several days; or, Henry, eall up your mother and ask how all the folks are; tell her we want to know.' These little telephone symposiums would brighten dear old Henry up amazingly. When the children were at home from school with colds ton flie ti.ln. phone wna our great comfort. Indeed, I think the world at large is ungenerously silent concerning t he countless glorious messages of golden cheer which, dnv by day, in every direction, flit along the telephone wires." Antarctic Cold. Though the temperature fell more than t>0 degrees below zero several times at the place where observations were made, these records cannot be regarded as representing the extreme cold in the antarctic regions. (Jreelvand IVrrv saw nothing worse than C?o or Go degrees below zero, but. like C'apt. Scott, they were close to the sea except during the summer months. The most severe cold on record is that observed in northern Silx'rin. well inland, says the "New York Tribune. A temperature of Ob below was registered a few years ago at Workjohnnsk. For well known astronomical reasons the winter of the southern hemisphere is colder than that of the northern. If a midwinter observation could be made several hundred miles from the ocean in that part of the globe, therefore, it is not unlikely that a temperature of fullv 100 degrees below aero would he encountered. Intoxicated Wasps. Wasps have a great fondness for overripe fruit, especially pears, plums and sweet apples. The sugar of these fruits has a tendency to pass into a kind of at cohol in the ordinary process of 'rotting, and after imbibing large /mil tif if iiiu 4\f t liio I ?|?(Miiin u n wi i inn lilt" Vt?l*|IN become outrageously intoxicated. Th'\v crawl away in tin* grass in a semi-somnolent condition and re main till the effects have passed off, when they will go at it again. It is while in this condition that they do their worst stinging. A person receiving a sting front one of those intoxicated wasps will suffer severely from nerve poisoning for days.- Nature. Aftermath. "Why are you soipiiet thiseven ing, dear?" she asked. "Arc you thinking about liow we became engaped last night?" "Yea." he answered, with a deep sigh. "You see, I'm perfectly so "ber to night." ? Chicago '|>aily ?ew?. fl'' ' " - p ? i evels of eate^c alcne. The Digestion of a Solitary Diner Is Always at a Disadvantage. i There are some lew happily dis' posed individuals, says the Lon don Lancet, who ean dine alone, and not eat too last, nor too nnteh. nor too little. With the majority it is dilTerent. The average man puts his novel or ids paper before h'.m and t hinks. ! hat lie will lengt hen out the meal wit h due deliherntion by reading;a j litt le with, and more bet ween, t he ; courses. He will just employ his mind enough to help, and too lit t le to interfere with indigestion. In faet. he will provide that gentle mental aeeomjdislunent whirh with happier jn*o*.de eouversatinn gives to a meal. This is your solitary's exeellent idea. In reality he become engrossed in what he is reading till, suddenly, finding his food cold, ho demolishes it in a few mouthfnls; or else lie finds that he is hungry, and paving no attention to the hook, which h?* i Ilings aside, lie rushes through his ' food as fast as possible, to plunge into his arm chair and literature afterward. In either case the lonely man must digest at a disadvantage. For due and easy nutrition. food should he slowly taken j and the mind should not lie intensely excited during the process. Every one knows that violent bodily exercise is bad just after a meal, and mental exertion is equally so. "Wise people do not even argue during or just after dinner, and observation of after: dinner speakers neither endure themselves nor excite in their 1 hearers any severe intellectual effort. In fact, the experience of I countless generations, from the J red Indian of the woods to the white-shifted diners of a modern I party, has perpetuated tlie lesson ! that a man should not eat alone, nor think much at this time, loif should talk and bo talkod to whilo ho foods. Most people do not think liuicli wlioii t hoy talk, and talking I is a natural a oooni pan intent ofoat itp; and drinking. I low doos it faro with tho many solitary women of to day? No bettor wo know than with tho men, but differently. Alone or not, a man may generally bo trusted at any time to tako food enough. BUYING RUBIES IN BURMA. A Transaction Which Is Entered Into with the Greatest Precaution. The peeulinr business methods of oriental merehants are illustrated by the manner of buying rubies in Iturhia. In t lie examina tion of rubies artitieial light is not. IWOfl t i 1> lllopotl !l I? f lllfclilitwr 1 In f full sunlight alone ran bring out , i lt<> color and brilliancy of the gems. Sales must therefore take place between nine a. in and three p. ni., and the sky must he clear, says the Jewelers' Weekly. The purchaser, placed near a window, has before him a large copper plate. The sellers come to him one by one, and each empties I upon this plate his lit t lc bag of rn hies. The purchaser proceeds to arrange them for valuation in a , number of small heaps. The tirst division is into three grades, ac i m um}; ui Hi7.c; ?*nrn 01 t iiese groups is divided into three piles, according to color, and each of these piles, in turn, is a pain divided into three groups, according to i shape. The bright copjier plate j lias a curious use. The sunlight reflected from it through the stones brings out, with true ru ; hies, a color effect different from that with red spinels and tour i inalines, which are thus easily I separated. The buyer and seller then go through a very peculiar method of bargaining bv signs, or, rather. . 7 i gri|?s, in perfect silence. After | agreeing upon the fairness of the classification, they join their right hands, covered with a handkerchief or the (lap of a garment, and by grips and pressures nutt uallv understood among all these ( dealers, they make, modify and accept proposals of purchase and sale. The hands are then uncovered and the prices are recorded. Problem in Millinery. "Why, oh, why," remarked the observer of events and things, "will a woman smile with delight when she sees a hat in a milliner's window and frown when she sees the same hat on her neighbor's head?"?Yon kern Statesman. .. ' N r.| v" ' ' ONE OF LONDON'S BRIDGES. When the Southwark Span Was Constructed There Was Something of a Turmoil. At first sight there appears not hing romantic about the South waik bridge, whose reconstruction is liow 1 m inix debated, i>ut there is a wonderful little story behind it. aftor all, says St. -lames' (iay.otte. There was inoineviia , ble light over its construction. Street tralVm and the necessities I iii |it-iicm i ri;i iii.^iu miji u i ;;u n.i 11 g s? ? :is t he t ra Hie of t he river was ' not interfered with: ami it was to get ?fver tin* opposition of the corporation and conservators that the Kennies had to make such I enormous spans the largest c\er attempted in t la* history of on V n? ering up to fliat .period. This necessitated t ho uso of blocks of granite greater in extent tiian liad ever tieen ?juarried since the days of the ancients. It could not be done, masons declared. Sir John Ronnie on his part swore that it could and should. He went to Aberdeen. and at Peterhead found a block of granite weighingi!fi tons. That he would have whole, he said. lJy excessive wages and unprecedented largesse of the native wine, men were got to cut and detach the mass from its moorings. Rut then it had to he taken four miles along the road to port. Such a thing had never been heard of. Sir John managed to fake up u carriage, and after a journey or a day and a half, part of which wan spent in digging the monster out of collapsed roadways, 1 li or 11 horses got it to the vessel which., after extraordinary dittirultics. the engineer had succeeded in chartering. There were no erar to lift such a weight. They list i to huild a scaffolding in the bed of the harbor to get the block a board. Kvent tially the thing was aecomplished, ami although every mariner save tIn- oae who lin<l undertaken the commission believed that I lie enterprise would send 1 he vessel to t he hottorn, 1 lie gran ilo was safely brought to London, and a new era in engineering inaugurated. One various feat a-e in the history of South work bridge is that it was ojiened at dead of night. As the eloek of St. Paul's ehiraed ipolne t it was de elared free to the public. LONDON'S SOCIETY SPIES. They Are Employed to Keep Tab on the Wealthy and Post the Tradesmen. The out-of-work man in the smart sot, who formerly lent him self, for a consideration, as a "guinea pig" director, "toted" for tradesmen on commission, or sold furniture, eouutrx houses, or motorcars, has found a new profession. It is that of "society spy.'' According to a correspondent of trillion Truth iwiio sens !nm self "A Shopkeeper and a ( ienthman"), the "society spy" is invaluable. If a Wast end man is in difficulties, or liis wiTe has overrated his patience, the "society spy" informs t he I rude at once. If a West end man w ho has been for years on the brink of bank ruptey wins a lar?re sum at the card table there are intimate friends who protit by makini; tic eood fortune known. At a tine when tin-re are so many who are rich, or appear to be rich, whose names are unfamiliar the shop keeper iniirht make serious mis takes were it not for tho informa iiiiii ^iiicii :f? >o gTven. The trailesman is only too hap I?y to pay for infomation wliieh enables 1 it11 to avoid a severe lo s Tradesmen in former days s doin ventured to ask stub ques tious; and their eustoiuers, as a rule, supported each other. Now, says Truth's informant, the difllenlty shopkeepers have to contend against is that most of their customers, especially if they are intimate friends, have not a good word to say for each other. Modern English so riety is to-day an "association of enemies who profess to be friends." Kite-Flying Animals. Animal loeomotion sometimes shows itself in forms not unlike kiteHying and parachuting. The "paraehnting animals" are mam nials?living squirrels of various kinds?birds (the pigeon), rep tiles. Hying fishes. Among the "kite livers ' are spiders and Hies. ?Natural History of AniuiaU. , ' When in the Market VOH GOOD "WHISKIES, W ] N ES, BRANDIES, ETC., OALI, ON OK WRITJ'', ~ToTnL"n Moyle. SALISHURY. - N. 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