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THE GHOST OF A GENTLEMAN BY OWtN OLIVER. Tho ghost of Sir (JSeoffrey Mallln koii had hi? fallings, but ho wan tho ghost of a gentleman, and he had not tho slight est Intention of annoy ing any one. When he found that the female portion of - lli? family lihrlokcd and fainted (it his appear ance, he decided ;i?*t to "walk" when ladle* vfor/i pfyhent. When Blr Charles, fourth of that name, shut up the picture gallery, after he had frightened the footman into a fit, ho Inferred that his presence was not wanted, and ceased to walk at all. Jfo wan both hurt and annoyed by the croldn'ewu <>f his family, and he sol emnly avowed that he would never "appenr" again until lie was invited by a nial-> representative of the fam ily. Tho glioma of gentlemen keep their word. " For some general Ions Sir (Jeoffrey took pc. lodlcal trips (in an Invisible form) to tho ancestral halls, to see If his company wan desired. After Koine few hundred years had gone by without any of the descendants pass ing him tin* compliment of an In vitation, h<* ceased to visit the foolish Utile place that the fooll-di people who 11 v <? call "the world." lie had not been there for 11 Fty years, when the ghost of bin friend. Sir Anthony liradham, hustled Into the Spectral <'1 ib, after a weekend excursion to < art h. ? I lf>I'i you :omethiiig would hap pe 11 if \?>u didn't look alter your peo ple," he said. "They're going to sell the east " "IMi?" cried Sir (JeolTrey. "What! Fell llr? castle? I knew Tom Hallin son was a fool; but I never thought he w.ia v.cound rc l! " I"'": Mr Anthony < rje<|, "there Jia\e !.- n half a dozen sine*} him! At ! ;? ?. I i:im ia the third tin? one i told you about I lie other yuiir." ((J I mi.-. (reckon 1?v year.* and centur 1<M.) Ill- iiiani.' l iy.' daitght r of j a i'"1' ''f 1 i"i:!c"iuruf, von I.now?a t?> mllc.-Me, I think, llicy .ailed him." "What did in" ]'<io| do it for, if! 'Iiu ill" i?yndicate- hadn't money?" Sir (!,%offrev snapped. had. hnt h'c'.s lost it at one of (heir new-fangled gaming clubs the Slock Kxehauge, they rail it. The I old man l< nt your- fellow money on ! Mi?> castle, mo they're going to take' it." "Take iL!" roared Sir Geoffrey. "Takrt It' Why doesn't he rail out the nnwi-at-arins?" "Yon can't nowadays." Sir An thony explained. "The County Conn ell won't let you fight. it's a sort of kins, and it has a lot of soldiers In hlue nil Worms and enormous hoots. They call (hem the police. You'll have to do something to stop It." "How the ?the Chaucer can I stop It?" Sir (leofTrey roared. "Wh> don't you go and see him?" Sir Anthony suggested. "They're rather nervous about apparitions in these days, and if you startled them, perhaps lhoy wouldn't do It." I low the deuce can 1 'appear* ^when ho hasn't invited mo?" Sir GeofTroy demanded. "You roniember iny vow?" "Ah!" said Sir Anthony. "Umph! Yes, 1 renii'inhov. 1 don't think he'll Invite j on. lie doesn't hellevo In us. Hut you might appear to her. She does." !)<> >on think a Mallinson Is going to appear to a tradesman's wench?" Sir Geoffrey thundered. "Hesldes, I said 1 won Id never appear to a woman again, after the fuss they made " Sir Anthony shook Ills head. li shows how careful a ghost oiu;ht in he before he speaks,'' he said, thoughtfully "It's a pity. She s a charming woman, and sin 's taken unite a tant y to your por trait " My portrait' Tliey haven't got one. It V. in the piet ore gallery." "Sh"'si made them open the gallery. She h:is rather a tn.te for ancestors, and all that so;l ,>t thing. They're a novel I v to her. yo:i see, because she's Anierlcan " "American" Where's that?" ' he placo that fellow Columbus found. Vou remember Columbus, don t you? Th?? bounder who went about with hard-boiled eggs In his pocket, and did conjuring tricks with them. 11's somewhere across the Channel. a savage sort of country, 1 be I lex e '' "Co.id heavens!" Sir CeoiTrev cried ' You don't me.iu that she's black ?" M'niek? No,1 She's as while as ? the (link est white \ou ever saw. You really ought to go and have a look at her. old chap." Pshaw said Sir Geoffrey. \\ nal s a pinkish-white wench to me? I'm not running after syndi cates' daughters, or whatever you like to call them, at my time of life. If a man hasn't finished sowing hln wild oats by tho time lie's three or four hundred he ought to be ashaniei! of himself. Aro you going to have a rubber?" One of (ho w.knderlng ghosts had brought a game called bridge to Spoc treland. and it was very popular just then. "Very v/eil," sa.d Sir Anthony. "If you tlon't care about the treasure I <ton'ti but I thought??. Well, I iiover ,'XV_ At tho word "treasure" Sir Geoff rey vanished like a-nghost. No re spectable spirit ovar Allows a burled traasare to pass out of ths family. *** why ho wtlkM, of cosfft. ? Ho caught a shooting star expies? and arrived at tho castle In a feW hours. He spent tho night looking round the picture nailery, The jor tralts had been restored and the old furniture renovated by appreciative hands, and he felt quite at homo there. It waH several hours after daybreak, and ho was still looking at the old faces, when he heard the rustle of a dress and stood still In front of bis portrait. Jle was, of course, Invisible. The lady wan shapely and comely and dressed In a new-fangled w*y that, was yet becoming. Shu was about eight and twenty, and she was more plnklflh than white, h^ause she had been crying. She walked i.p to .Sir Geoffrey^ picture and nodded at It through bfm, as If they were old friends. Hc bowed an Invisible bow. If this ww a syndicate's daughter he thought, a syndicate must be a' very superior sort of tradesman. 1 he Intruder in your noble fam ily is going, Sir Geoffrey," she said "tie bad a singularly sweet voice, though Uer modern accent sounded foreign to him. "If you ?vnlk. as ' y I suppose you are glad' >ut I think I should have made sou me If you had been alive " Bhe am lied. Si, Geoffrey thought for a moment Hint a sunbeam ha.I Klragylrd in through one of the high arched windows. I was only ?money,' I know " <?(?, ('??!(IIInod. "I'm not even that now but I have guarded the traditions of your house, and I i,.a,h them to mv ' sons. Dear Sir (leoffiw, w>u uouldnt want them to y ? > Wont von shovv your treasure to me? | shouidu'i be frightened of von Sn Geoffrey. because I like you. ' That, true, you know." Who touched the piclure li?|,tlv er hand weni through the gho<? ot ??!?? tifoffrry. He took It in hi:.; t? MS be lingers and lowered his in viable ?l? to it, and sighed an in sigh. So one else in the family had spoken aff.-cl lonrifelv t,, him lor hundreds of years. Xo els., had seemed to pi ix?? the tamih name and traditions. He rll,sed tho foolish vow that prevented his ap pearance to this charming desiwnd ant-at-lnw, and tried to explain that she iniiKt advise her husband to sum mon him; but he could make no sound louder than the buzzing of ? y. She waved her handkerchief to drive It away. Then she heard a man s step and turned toward the door; and Sir Charles, eighth of the name, appeared?a big. well featured, heavy-looking mau of about thirty five. Saying good by to your ancestors, mother? ' he asked in a careless voice Sir Geoffrey noted the testimonial of the name. 'Your ancestors." she corrected How you must feel about it!" Sir Charles laughed and shrugged his broad shoulders. 1 d sell the lot of my worthy an cestors for a sovereign," he declared. 1 he ghost of Sir Geoffrey shook his fist at him. "It's my descendants that I don t like 'selling'-?*poor little beggars! 1 never thought things would turn out like this when 1 lur ried you." She gave a sharp cry. and sank on an old settle with her face in her hands. Tho ghost laid an invisible hand on hers, and a hot tear dropped ili^lit through bib lingers. "You needn't have said if." she sobbed. ' You needn't have said it " Sir Charles looked at her In .sm prise, and pulled his heavv n,u-< turtle. I ue\er was clover enough ?o un derstand you. Alii isle," he remark-1 "I give it up. Tell me what ' s, done." "Nothing." she said, wiping |.r eves and drawing herself up. "oulv married me." Sir Charles shook Ium head and tugged his mustache again "Don't see It yet." he protested If that 8 all I've done upon ui\ word. I believe I'd do it again." He put his great baud on liei fair hair, but she pushed it off. "If I had money, you meant'' !? said. Sir Charles stared at her f ? ? moment. Then he sudd.nlv linked and said a bad word se\... ,| o-d words. Then he laughed and pfeked her up in his arms. ? x,,- ? hl. sU(| "1 didn't. You little what shall I call you?" "Idiot!" she said, and dung to him and laughed ami cried of rou.se you didn't. , What did \on mean, you ?you great bear?" Sir Charles tugged his mustache again. .. h? Rail1, 1 8?PPose i meant that I ve been rather a useless sort of chap, don't you know; a drone like my idle ancestors. i tell you what it Is, Matnie, ancestors are a millstone around a fellow s neck I'm going to cut tho string and tak'j an other name and go Into trade and get on." Sir Geoffrey fairly danced with rage. It was obviously Impossible to appear to a man who called him an idler and a millstone, and was pre pared to drop the family name and become a huckster and get on! He "" "r"'ht u> Spectfc laad when tho chaining "ayndlcate a daughivr'* spoke. ' /'#Ir Geo&rey waeo't' an' idler. Charlie," she suid firmly. "He w** a bravo man, and he ii 1*1 a uian'tr work in Ms days. You're going to do a man's work In jour days. So he ne< dn't be ashamed of you, and you^ lUM-dn t in- ashamed of him or of his name. We're going Into trade, 8Ir Geoff re\ ' And I'm not afraid to tell you." She < urUeyed to iho portrait und wi ni out hanging on her hus banu ? arm. The eyes of Sir Geoff rey followed her. "Odd Hodikim.!" he said. "There's the spirit of a mn/i In the wench, I'll ask my solicitors If I can't regard her an a gentleman and appear to her." He communicated with his solicit ors hj' spectogram, hut they advUed hint thul he hail no right to alter the ternia of hi* vow In the manner pro poned. lie had distinctly undertaken to appear only on the explicit invita tion of a gentleman connected with the family, and nolhlQ^ could make a man of a woman ? noKjJSien an act of Parliament or rational Costume, Sir Geoffrey was a law-abiding ghost, and he accepted the decision without a murmur; but he hoped against hope that his unworthy de scendant might drop some expression wliii'h he could construe a* an Invita tion. Ho he followed him all the morning as he went over the old place, arm in arm \yith bin wife and with th.jl^wo little boys clinging to her skirt:-. She kept smiling at them over her shoulder, and if ?he wiped her eyes it was when her Vusband was not looking. Sir Geoff rcV came to tht; conclusion that Sir Charles was not a bad fellow, only a fool. And he thought the syndicate's daughter as line a woman aa Lady Alice Mallinsou, who held the castle for King John at the time of the French invasion, and ever so much sweeter. She told t he story of (he siege to her boys when six put thorn to bed. l Shu had an old-fashioned idea of the privileges of mothers, and Sir Charles sometimes called her the ? lii'f inn s maid. I Also she told them about Sir Geoffrey himself, and the vow that he made, and thu lourna iii' nt that he won. and the treasure that he was said i<> have burled. Sir Geollres a gho.-t. of a heart almost b u! M t his ghost ?>! a body as lie watched the boys listening with kind linK ey< s. Huie|\, he thought, they Vvoiild e \ [i |e ; ; a wish to se<.' h'lTl'l, these baby gentlemen of the family? I lull i^ the story of a brave gen tleman," si-..- concluded He never cried when lie hurt himself, or when his nurse v. anted him to lake his medicine, and he never told stories. You must be brave an I good like that, and then perhaps some (j^ty his ghost will come and show you whore he put all his gold.-n pennies. You wtMildn l be atraid of him, would \ mi "MO'O," said Harold, who was sit; "not 't'wald, mummy; hut I don't like ghosties. I don't titik 1 want him to come ." "DonT.^. want nasty ghosties," echoed Kudolf. who was four. The ghost of Sir Geoffrey turned and glided slowly away. lio had been prepared to like these toddling! descendants of his. and he felt more hurt than he owned to himself that they did not like him. He would go hack to Hpectreland that very night, he thought. There was no longer a gentleman in the family. He waited in the picture gallery till the neXt morning, however, to take, his invis ible leave of the syndicate's daughter, and give her an old ghost's blessing, ? He whs an re she would come to look at him in the faded portrait on the wall. ' She came, hanging upon the arm of a square-faocMl, white-haired man. Sir Geoffrey hoped at lirst that he might be a gentleman of the family, but he found that he was only the huckster whom people called a syn dicate. lie was a blunt-spoken old man, and he made the ghosts of Sir ('.eoffre>'s hairs stand on their ghost j l> ends by the way he spoke of him. So i his is your precious spook, i Mulsh-"" he .said. "A truculent old j rascal. 1>\ the look of him. Looks as ? it he had grit. though. To my mind ' hese old knights were a set of pirates land thieves, it they lived nowadays I we should < lap them in pr|son." ' Kasral! Thief! Prison!" The ! uii<>^( <>f Sir Geoffrey laid his hand upon Ins ghostly sword and uttered some inaudible expressions not found in modern glossaries of ancient net rh M>?, popper!" Lady Malllnson pro- | tested. "They were Charlie's ances tors. you know." Ile'il he hotter If he'hadn't any," the oM man prowled. "Ho might have learned an honest trade, then, instead of being the sort of waster that people eall a gentleman. An cestors, indeed! Now, look here, Malsie. What is the use of ances tors?" v" Lady Malllnson squeezed his arm j and looked np in his nigged face. "What is the use of bravo men?" she asked softly, "and the memory of them? You ought not to ask, pop per. They faced the hard thlnpjs of their times, like you face them." The old man smiled slowly. "Right, Manuel'7 he said. "Rijiiity child. They faced the music like l'ip going face it; got driven in a cor ner. and beaten down, and fought on their knees. Good old knights! Sir Geoffrey, I apologize to you. You were a man. sir, from all that 1 hear." The syndicate took off an imag inary hat, and Sir Geoffrey bowed an Invisible bow. "Man to man meant more than 'gentleman and gentle man;'" and Sir Geoffrey recogntaa* that this rough old person la trade was a man. Lady Malllnson laughed touched the hands of th?,-:port?vJV and the hands of bar tether. ' "Wr taaotfrajr *slllaao??Vr, fat atfcan JPorkare," aha ?Ud. "To#?: &***?* ?rttle th? mile matWf about you. Vou eaid you wanted to bo aloue for * DHnPOr'f Y?tt *9nt !, i"'J ?nl,. ? wll*at ghost, will yoir.'" Delighted to Br-e him." i?" ol<1 man said. She laughed aKUlt>. Don t forget to h?1 hint about (!.<? treasure." she e?i(j -Hoodby; W??hy ^.? much' deai one kissed th? old man '.-in away. He ?tgh?d oiict- Then he tiirned sharply to the portrait They've beat4n mo to the wall," ?, "Sir Geoffrey. Ten >o one ,m,6, SK? bent yoii to the didn't they? Ami you went on gW** Wen, I'm going on, sir. He stopped iflth his mouth half open. 8Jr Ojfoffrey had walked promptly upon bit invitation, and ad vanced toward Ufa with outstretched hand. Mr. Po%rc grasped noth ing, and Bbook.lt steadily up and down. Pleased to |m you, nir," h<- said briskly. "Heat* of you from iuy daughter. ? Yo? muni have been a bit of a rip inday." Sir Geof frey looked puttied. ''Seen ? hit of service, I understand?" Sir Geoffrey bowed, '^id a little in way of business, too, leather?" Sir Geof frey shook his h?ad enu>h?,U:aUy- 1 meant burled treasure, and all that sort of thing?" gir Geoffrey nodded. "Just so, just so. there's nothing like mitting by for a rainy day. Take a chair, sir." \$ir GeofTroy wavi il the chair aside with his hand. "Ah-h! No use for it, of course. J?ir,i so, s<> Just. May I a?k you if > ou have called about tbe treasure?" Sir Geoffrey signified absent. "Want to make it over to sir rimi-h's"'" sir (Jeoffrey shook' his head furiously. "To the children?- No? Thai's rather a pity. Isn't It? They'ro nice boys, you know, and Uft treasure is no us" to you, 1 suppose? Then why ? Do you mean D?jr daughter?" The ghost bowed; with his hand on his heart. "Sir, you do me proud. She's a good girl?a rattling Rood girl." The ghost slgnlfled assent. and the | syndicate rubbed'his hands. "May I ua/t fpere it is?" lie in quired. The ghost moved hi.* mouth, but no sound came. Then ii - pointed to the north end'of the gallery, "in the corridor up there, do you mean? . No? *<?!,. Can you take nw to it? . . .??No? I'mph! Can you write? If 1 bring an al phabet from tbe aursery, can you point to the letters,and spell it out? . . . Can't spell, eh? No ulomeiu ary schools in your day, of course. Fewer scoundrels If there weren't nowadays. " J-?et me see. . . . [ know. Just dr%w the place on ibis paper with I'll follow It with a jioncll. Y011 mean It for the brokeruu^BKway in the North Tower, dnli^^km? How many steps irjpflB Sev enteen? . . .^JlJBi^Bthe step, do you mean? Fifteenth see to the [do anything Find able where to hear it. of a gentle red to have In the wall, eh? brick? Very good matter at once.. elite for you, si yourself prelty you are? . . . . You're a man, sir, and I'm met you. Good-<Ia! - The ghost arid 0 rj^flkdicate shook hands warmly.'/ A end of t ho handshake the- foi gV-faded away, and the latter ti*eheH*the door with the sketch i|?v? ,They fou\ldTthe tlMjfcre in the hol low of the waij'oflfwiiNorth Tower steps?tarnished JflBts of silver, and mildewed banl Jpiat dissolved "When they touched tvem into heaps of mildewed gold; nip here and there a noble gem that a lioble lady of for gotten days had 4roru. They laughed and hugged one another with delight, and the ghost of^fU <|<4offrey felt a little lonely as. In unseen be side them. Bo lu WlBaway to the picture gallery to rfjfiBtill they re membered him. I fMiot very long before Lady Mailt ttoAnic, and she touched the stern BW* the portrait with her own swcm 'Tray Cod," sh<B8|K'I ???>' never forget that my 1 0$B?ns are the heirs of a geutlem So she wont bac dear living oues with smiles I: MHeyes, and Sir Geoffrey returned >4S place of the honored dead with wi?8 iu "The old spirit jjRj^vet," he said, "among the Hons ( and it will live so long as ; (??' *3 a ?ood woman."?The Ski And Hog in to KBMPtoiiiHliiiig. Hy raising tho 'MSB line," or age limit to entrance iAolflp employment, from thirty-five M|ijM0rty-flvo, the Pennsylvania RnilSnldoes a mighty sensible and encouBwbc thing. Tho infant phenomeBpdP* marvellous boys and young ('?W|nK ?' industry have becomo a wtfljKeas. If lift' is growing longer It more foolish to put men on thKB?cklist just as they have really pMjP their milk ,teeth.? New Yorl:j A Bluff at|l?|Naillt s. Louis XIV had jBBt remarked: "I ***** tJit: State." ^ "Then, slra* - X*pT*?d a oonrtlcr, "If you don*t 4* y??P duty an Exalted Personage choice but to iateifere." {*'? Chagrined,. 1? ?aw his blunder, but ft wm already print.?New York Sun. ConvCIWllOWl Powers. - Once coftVfffcg* i young men and maidens. ?^jtaoTAnd -let us say, JMtrons?-tlNkl conversational power* have a very high* standard, tm? fonoelvable discover that l' *?al Bora in fpetted.?Lon Forthe Younger Children 111DK-AND-8BJ3K VEK8E8. MV.-?Four Hidden Forms of \N'*vt<*r ) ' If I m ever a fairy queen," Said little Jo A?u, "I'll reign in the aicent way A faii'y queen can! "I'll wave my magical wand Whenever there m need - Th? Mick I'll make hearty and hale, And the hungry 1-11 feed. "And wherever sadnw* is now, Thern gladness ?ha|l he; And th? poor$?t and pluinest poor child .Shall 1>? lovely to ?ee. "Kvery good little girl I'll make A jirinceau of joy, And * prince of joy I will make LK erery good boy!" ?C. o. P., in Little l'olka. A HOY'S STRENGTH TESTER. The construction of the tester shown in the dr.Ywing is very simple, tho only roaterialB needed being Homo odd pieces of scantling and boards, load for tho flying weight, an old boll, and a heavy mallet. It can be made any size desired, but tlx; one shown will give tho best results. First, procure a plank nine feet long, six inches wide and three inches thick. (A Fig. J.) Then cut two bide strips (HO) the same lengths, hut live inches wide and oif inch thick. Nail the side strips in the Fie 1 position shown on the scantling, a ml then cut tho two front strips (('('>: those must be each tho lejigth of the beam and must he one imh thick by two inches wide. Nail in position shown, and now you will leave a Inn;; groove partly open down the. front. The flying weight l:\ to slide in 'his groove. Set i he grooved beam upright againet the side of a wall or house, and then construct the supports of which Fig. will give you a better idea than any description. He sure to get a piece of very hard wood for the lever which sends up tho weight The lover should be ntpi-i-rxl ;:f .?> miinr if 10. M. about two-flttbs from its outer pro jecting end, and nn iron bar inserted through the hole .to servo as an axle. This bar should have screw threads at each end, and the ends should pro ject half an inch from each of its supports so that it could be bolted securely in place. Screw two flat blocks to end of the lever so as to present a better strik ing surface for the mallet, and then wind about with wire to strengthen as shown. The measurements of the groove for the sliding weight wiil be siv inches wide in*lde, two inches thick Inside and four inches across Ui ' opening in front. The "slider" i Klg. 2 A), to which the weight must be attached, is to be constructed now. Cut a piece of smooth board eight Inches long,one and live-eighth inches thick and five and five-eighth inches 1 wide. Tl^is section is the part of the "slider" which is to run inside the J groove. Then cut another section 1 eight inches long, on ? and three-eighth inches thick anil t'.u . ,'aud livc- M-'hth inches wide?this is tho part that runs In tho groove. Tho third piece should he eight inches long, one inch thick and six inches wide?this is on I I he outside of the groove and to It I ,\re nailed the two pounds of lead (Fig. 2 Fl) which make the weight. Nail the hell to the top of the up ?inht groove, and then prepare the numbered tcale shown in Fig. 3 by cutting a board the same length of the groove and dividing it into 150 spaces. You are now ready to find out how strong you and your frionds are, to assemble all the boys and invite them to see how high they can send the flying weight. Carefully note each result by marking the height* at the edgo of the grooYi, By tills method you can gauge th* average height the weight 1b sent as well an the average number of times the bell will be rung, but you can find this out only by a num ber of tent#. 'I hese touts will give you "a line" on how Ktroitg your chums are, and you will be Htirprisei! to And in Home canes that it itm't al ways the big, beefy chap who rlu^s the bell ax often as the lightweight who its all wire ami sinew. 2LEPHANTSATTACK A GRANARY A traveler, who wan making a our la India some years back, tellw i8 that In hi? wanderings he arrived it a village on thq worth border of Lhe British dominant;. Ne;ir thin itood a granary, in ivhieh whs stored i large quantity of rice. Tho people )t the place described to him how the granary had been attacked by a [tarty of elephants which bad somehow found out that thla granary was; full r>f rice. Early in the morning an elephant appeared at the granary, acting ;?h a scout or spy. When lie found that, the place was unprotected, ho re turned to the herd, which was wait ing no great distance off. Two men happened to be close by, and tiiey watched the herd approach in almost military order. (letting near i!? ? granary, the elephant i stopped is amine it. J is walls wore of solid brickwork. The entry was i:i I he (-k**ii !v? of the terraced roof. which could only no mounto<l by a ladder. To climb tills was iiUi. ::o (Ivy stoo:l to ionsider. The alarmed spectator* speedily c 1 i in' )'d a banyan-tree, li i < I - In jy themselves among its leafy branvh thus being out of view while il;<?y could watch (ho doing-** of the elephants. These animals sur veyed the building all around: i'* thick will's wove formidable, be.i tli" strength and sagacity of tin- ele phants defied t he obstacles. Ore of the larse:;' of the herd too': up a posi tion at a corner of the granary, and pov.iu'ed upon ;he wall with its tusks. When ho be.run to feel tired, anoiher toAk turn at lhe work, then another, till several of the bricks save way. An opening made was soon en larged. Space being made for an ele phant to enter, tlie herd divided into parties of three or four, since o.ilv a few couid find room inside. When one party had eaten all they could, their place was taken by another. One of the elephants stood at a dis tance as sentinel. After all had eaten enough, by a shrill note'.* he gave the signal to retire, and the herd, flourishing their trunks, rushed off to the jungle.?Chatterbox. LIVINO BY THE PEN. The fountain pen has proved its usefulness in a way hitherto un known to ilie general public and un dreamed of by the inventor, accord ing to a writer in the Detroit News Tribune. Two pareutleus squirrels, but a few days old, hungry and dis consolate, were recently discovered in ihe hollow of a tree in the suburbs of Detroit. They were rescued and given to a sympathetic man who Uvea near, and who willingly assumed the duty of foster-parent. After the orphans were sandy es tablished In a roomy wire cage, the problem of feeding them presented itself. They were loo young to. crack nuts for themselves, and their little teeth were too sharp to permit tho use of a rubber tube for liquid re freshment. In ibis emergency their protector had an inspiration. ife filled tho reservoir of his fountain-pen with milk, and inserted the point in each small mouth alternately. The or phans drank eagerly. Succeeding ex periments have been equally success ful, and. vhen last heard from, the pets were thriving vigorously. SOMR QI'rail TllEES. Anions the cariosities of irfo liny is the sofar, or whistling-tree, of Nu lla. Win-n tho winds blow over this* tree, it fives out ilute-liko sound;-, playing away to tno wilderness ior hours rt a time strange, weird melo dies. It is the spirits of the dead sinking among the brano'nes, tin* na tives say; but the scientific whito man says that the sounds are due ti> :i myriad of small holes which an insect bores in the spines of the branches. The weeping-tree of the Canary I Islands is another arboreal freak. I Thin tree in the driest weathrr will rain down showers from its leaves, and the natives gather up the water from the pool formed at the foot of. the trunk and find it pure and fresh. The tree exudes the water from in numerable pores, situated at the base of the leaves. THERE ALL THE TIME. It told oi Dr. Thoroid that* he was onco aakod to give away tho prizes at a school belonging to the London School Board. In tho course of his opening ad dreRs he gravely asked the children, 'Which was the largest Island In tha world before Australia was discov ered?" When the youngsters gave It up, he told them. Id the dame gravo way, which made them laugh all tho more, "Why, Australia, of courno; It wai there all the time!"?Chatterbox. , Indiana produced la 190$ St.90S,.. Til pound* of *?<W.