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THE CHEERFUL TELEPHONE.
An Institution That Contributes
Much Toward the Enlivenmsnt
of Mankind.
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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
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evels of eate^c alcne.
The Digestion of a Solitary Diner Is
Always at a Disadvantage.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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