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The Art of Pre < NO'SEt&tOJt SHOULD EXCEE^Hf. JHk MOV. ft ADVICE TO By BUhop WaUdon. T Iflfcaching, difficult aa it Is In Itself. Is made still more aim cult by the unbroken silence In which congrega preachers most of nil, ^rould sometimes be, thankful if their 'senfo^ evoke at least some sign ilk 'stmpathy, W even of lAnltl They could not. Indeed, or would not. ?W the interruption as political orators use. for Quick rejolsder or repartee, but It would suggest something that they ought to say* tout had not thought of saying;' It would help them to sake their meaning more lucid and m ore persuasive ; at all events. It would give th ear time to take breath. Life ia short; but many things In It, and sermons among them, are apt to be too long. Life Is busy, too. nowadays; I do not think any religious service i " .SfcoeM exceed an lw pad a tilt, or any sermon should exceed half an hour. As a rule, sermons gsln point and power by compression. Extempore preaching Is apt to be, like long preaching, a form of conceit, ft ia essential that the preacher should say what he means to say and not something else. It Is better to preach too little than too much. There can hardly be too much pains spent upon the composition of a scr If * clergyman preaches easily, he may feel sure that he preaches bad ly. Rather should be spend a quarter of an hour In elaborating his sermon for every minute that h>j takes to deliver It. The preacher of today will be wise If he keeps his pulpit, as far as possi ble, dear of controversy. There Is as much good sense as ever In Mr. Sim ?ott's saying that "The servant of the Lord must not strive," even In the pul pit. For then Christian men and women will find In church a tranquil spirit ual atmosphere which csnnot be equally found elsewhere, and the effect of It will be edifying and sanctifying. The need. then, of the day is that preaching, at least, to cultivated congre* gallons, ahould become not perhaps less intellectual, but more spiritual. ttnick" Girt "Stasfi St The o NE of the natural and moat important qualifications for stage success? and 1 might add the most essential ? is that the as pirant should have temperament. By temperament I mean that something within us which causes us to feel that we are undergoing the very emotions the author has Imposed upon up with his lines. Unless we possess this to a marked degree no hope can be held out for ultimate success In this profession. It can be developed to a certain extent by study and work, but not sufficiently for the needs and purposes of the theatrical calling. There la one thing, however, which, if we do not pos sess It, can never be attained, nor can It be taught or assumed ? and that is personal magnetism. Without this no young woman can ever hope for great ? ecoss in the profeHslon she has elected for her life's work. The average stage-struck girl who manifestly has not enough talent to else above a speaking-part not only wrongs herself by persisting in this ambi tion, but wrongs others who might, if they had equal opportunities, surmount the barrier and attain success. The pay of the third or fourth class actress la so amall that when the expenses of living are deducted a beggarly pittance fa all that remains ? scarcely sufficient to tide one over the long period be tween seaaons. Seventy-flvo percent of the girls who go on the stage end in none traveling road-company, playing small parts, and enduring that most fearful of hardahlpa, playing one-night stands. The aw/ul rigors consequent npon bad hotels, ill-kept and ill-ventilated theatres, the jar of railroad travel, and the loss of sleep, rob a woman of her beauty, undermine her health and hasten her years. It were well for the young girl to think long and seriously before trying her fortunes in the dramatic profession. There Is no royal road to stage success. It is embodied in one word ? "work." Mrs. Leslie Carter has studied Shakespearean roles for eight years, and though the public has voted her a successful actress, yet at this writing ahe does not deem herself sufficiently versed in theso parts to essay them. Salvlnl. the elder, studied "King Lear" six years before he evfen attempted to commit the part to memory. I have in mind a score of actresses who have given their roles a year's hard study before attempting even to announce a public presentation. 'In these days more work is necessary, because the pul> lie la a keen judge of acting. ? Woman's Home Companion Extent of the Universe By Prof. Simon Afetvcomb. ? T OAstermlne a single position of any siife star involves a good deal of computation, and if we reflect that in order to at tack the problem !n Question In a satisfactory way we should have observations of a million of these bodies made at Intervals of at least a considerable fraction of a century, we see what an enormous task the astronomers dealing with this problem hare before them, and bow imperfect must b^ any determination of the distance of the stars baaed oa our motion through 'space. So far as an estimate can be made. It seems to agree fairly well with the results obtained by the other methods. Speaking roughly, we have reason, from the data so far avail able, to believe that the stars of tbe Milky Way are situated at a distance be tween 100,000,000 and 200,000,000 times the distance from tbe sun. At dis tances less than this it seems likely that the stars are distributed through space with soma approach to uniformity. We may state as a general conclu aioa, indicated by several methods of making the estimate, that nearly all the etarf which we can see with our telescopes are contained within a sphere not likely to be mush more than 200,000,000 times the distance of the sun. The Inquiring reader may here ask another question. Granting tk at all the stars we can see are contained within this limit, may there not be any Bomber of stars without the limit which are invisible only because they are too ?ir away to be seen?? Harper's Magazine. The Merit of Resistance By The Ilea. Thomas Gregory . N O one Is born "heroic," or "good," or "depraved." When the "cynic" talks about the "goodness" which is "a matter of inheritance" he talks nonsense. There never was such a thing as inherited goodness, there never will be such a thing. Goodness ? or, perhaps, we had better say character ? Is something that a person must acquire by his own personal endeavor. The carpenter can build my house, but my char acter must bo built by myself alone, if It is built at *u hue is a battle between animal impulse and reason ? the doslre to live the life of the brute and the desire to llvo tho life of the man; and wc aro sue censes, as human beings, in proportion as we subordinate the impulse to the reason ? the principle of the man to the passion of the beast. We are born, as a rule, with both tendencies, the animal and the spiritual, the tendency to gravitate downward, and the tendency tp strive upward; and tlMB only question Is: Which tendency shall triumph? In other words, goodness, or virtue, or character. Is a something that ono baa to fight for. It Is something that comes to one by and through the fight ing, Just as muscles comes by and through exercise, Just as skill comes by an J through practice. To be tempted by tho lower nature, to resist that temptation, and to keep on resisting It until It is conquered ? that is goodness, that Is character. Tbe trouble with too many is they do not try to resist, or if they resist at ?If, they soon get tired and give In, laying the blame, likely enough, to inherit ed tendency. But the plea is a cowardly one, and hollow as It is cowardly. Stop talking about the curse of heredity and do a little more thinking about the curse of your own moral laziness or cowardice Fight! Keep on lighting! In that way is temptation downed arrt goodness won.? New York tnerican. News of the Day. One South Carolina paper, the Oaff i?ey Ledger, haa nominated a ticket for 1908. It says: "Our ticket for 1908: Ttouglass and Aycock. And wo will bet dollara to doughnuts the Republi cans will not havo auch a walkover." Miaa Tessle Morgan la acting a? lamp-lighter for Centrovlile, Ind., no the result of an Indignation meeting held by women, In the hope of sham ing the town board into finding money available for the purpose of hiring lamp-lighters. 8harpa and Flats. "Jim" Healy, a taciturn bachelor mil lionaire and cattleman of New Mexico, is ono of the most Interesting person >ge? In tlint Territory. Although his t:et Income must bo at least $100,000 a year, he hardly spends fr>00 In that time. Not that ho Is miserly In any v/ay. for each Christmas he make*? handsome presents to his cowboys and other employees. It Is nothing uncom* mon for him to go for several days without speaking more than half a doz en words. Im| ktn w tofl'd k doty city ways, / Town the fljinc ton? that will not tarn ! A a _ _ ? - m *- -a. ? Ami MM* V, Ml Mlltf. H N1IOM (Hjfi; ?kSs^>k?p We did not lno^TwS.1 Uppr dr^nSW Then, 'twist a ^ The mcm'ry haunting fcousic of tbe years. * ? I t THE BRIDGE. RS. PONTIFF ltred in a | land of dreams ? that beau tiful Isle of anjwbere. Her lines were cast In places j that admitted of an almost I total exemption from the sordid af fairs of domesticity. When, as It oc casionally chanced, plain, practical Mr. Pontiff requested from her some serv ice demanding sctlon, the look of gen tle, surprised reproach she turned up on him, made him feel that he was a thing of clay. Her eyes, like old folks' memories, excelled In sights at long rsnge. With ears, eyes and thoughts for away she was a combination of amiability, absent mlndedness and vis ionary abstraction. One morning Mr. Pontiff received a telegram from an en route sister. "81ie will have to be met, Helen.'* he said, 'impressively. "We will meet but we will miss her," murmured Sonny Pontiff. "Her train arrives at 12.50, don't for get, Helen." "She can remember that, because it'll be ten to one if she catches it." argued Sonny. "I'll telephone up to you when It is time to start," said the head of the family, ignoring the interpolations of his offspring. "It's such a beautiful day, I think I will walk to the station," said Mrs. Pontiff sweetly. "I fear you will forget your destina tion," said her husband anxiously. "Oh, Henry, I urn not quite as bad as that!" faintly protested Mrs. Pon tiff. "You really exaggerate my fall ing." "Helen," replied Mr. Pontiff earnest ly, "I couldn't do that. When I recall the time you alighted from the street car and left little Sonny to take five "round trips before you remembered his existence, 1 do not feel as If there was anything you could fasten in your memory." Mrs. Pontiff sighed. "That was some years ago. There are times now when I wish I could forget Sonny for that length of time." "Her forgetting me wasn't half so remarkablo as her squandering eight cold dollars on a pair of slippers to wear to the charity ball and then for getting to take off her rubbers," chimed in Sonny. "Now, who Is it, Helen, you are go ing to meet?" asked Mr. Pontiff warn Ingly. as he started for the office. "Your sister," she replied trium phantly. "And what time does her train ar rive?" "One-ten." she said, hesitatingly, while Sonny laughed in his delight. "Ob, Helen, 12.50," prompted Mr. Pontiff. "Now. Sonny surely Mid one-ten." "Never pay the slightest Attention to what Sonny says." "She had better tbis time, If she is going to walk to the station. Now, mother, don't try to swim across the river or look for a ferry. You know they tore up, the bridge six months ago to build a new one, and people Are us ing n little foot bridge." "Why, I didn't know they were build ing a new bridge," exclaimed Mrs. Pontiff In surprise, "but then, I haven't been on the street In a year." "Why, mother! It's the widest bridge In the United States!" "How perfectly foolish to build the widest bridge In the country across the narrowest river In the world!" "Well, 'then, don't you see," laughed Sonny, "that It Is then the shortest bridge in the world, so it is as broad as It is long." "You are getting Into deep waters, Sonny," Interposed Mr. Pontiff. "You remind me of a man who was Presi dent of a street car lino that was only a mile long. He was posing at a na tional meeting of the Street Car As sociation as a magnate. He mAde a speech, And In one of his most Impreft sive pauses some one sneered: 'Sit down! Your road's only a mile long!' ?True,' ho said, 'trne, my road Is only a mile long, but it Is just as wide as any road In the world.' " The day was one of those Indescrib able links between late spring and ear ly summer. There were delightful promises In the air of coming beauties, and Mr*. Pontiff, as she made her way statlonward, felt at pence with all man kind, even unto her coming sisler-ln Inv. She walked on in dreamy forgetful ness of all about her save the liquid sky, the soft air and the delicate brcexe until she came to the river. Must she cross on that single narrow beam extending from shore to shore? She looked helplessly about her. It was the noon hour and no one was in speaking distance save a solitary la borer on the opposite bank. She could never get brr courage to walk that plank. Then she recalled what Sonny had said about people using this tem porary foot bridge. "I ouuht to be ashamed," she rea soned, "to be afraid to do what prob ably thousands of people do dally. I suppose every man, woman and child ill Ulktown have tripped across this river on this plank. I am always tlie last one In town to do anything." Encouraged * by these self-sugges tions. she pot one slender, unsteady foot on the beaaa. Then another trem ulous step and she poised on the brink. "Oh, I can'tf ahe wailed. Then she remembered Henry's tales of bow his pioneer mother, in her ear ly days, went to a Western wilderness to live and used to cross the river on stringers. Reinforced by this colonial recollec tion. she took a few steps. Then the effect of the stimulating reflections passed awsy and left her weak, help less and scared dbnway across the sluggish, mild stream, which now seemed to her * roaring cataract. "How could I have ever said it was the nar rowest river In the world?" she thought. She was now utterly paralyzed from terror and unable to take another step. There was only one thing she could do, and she did it strenuously. She screamed. The lone laborer working on the opposite side turned and saw her. "Well, wouldn't that get you!" he ejaculated, and theu called out: "Hold on there! I'm a-comlng." and he hastened toward her. Never in the world had anything looked more beautiful to her than the sight of this stoggy, red-faced, blue overalled. black-piped laborer ap proaching her with a step of ease and air of security. When he reached her he turned about. "Put your arms around me," he said, "shut your eyes and hang on tight." She obeyed these instructions so im plicitly that the laborer felt as if he had an electric rheumatic belt about his waist. Mrs. Pontiff had always been con scious of an instictive shriuking from the "comintra people," but she followed this plebeian coarse-garbed toller blind ly and willingly. "Here we be!" he announced cheer fully. and Mrs. Pontiff opened her frightened eyes to And herself once more on the beloved terra firma. With a hysterical laugh ah*- sank down on a | pile of lumber. "Say, was you doing It on a bet?" asked her rescuer, curiously. "Whatl" she exclaimed, 6taring at him. "Well, I heard Kit Dooligan and one or two women say how they were a golng to be the first to walk the plank, and the fellows about town have been giving them dares and putting up money on them, and I though maybe you society folks was doing the same. You're a winner, though. The flrst but me to cross that ere nlsnk." Mrs. Pontiff shuddered. "What do you mean? Isn't that the bridge peo ple use right along? How do they cross Y* It was his turn for a shock now. "Great Scott!" ho ejaculated. "Didn't you see that bridge over there!" ? She followed his Index finger. On the other side of the piers of the pro posed bridge were terraced steps lead* ing down to the water's edge, where was constructed a snug littlo bridge securely railed. 1 She was silent a moment. Then she turned to him. "I was getting dltzy when you came to my be:.\ nnd in another moment I should hire fallen in and drowned. I wish you would take tills; It's all I have -wltli me," and she put a ten-dol lar bill Into his surprised hand. "Yes," flic said, lu reply to his faint protestation*, "it's little enough, nnd please never tell any one." As she hurried on to the station, she thought: "I wouldn't have Henry nnd 8onny know about It for the world!" At the station she encountered her husband pacing tho platform. "Why, right on time!" he said In a pleased, surprised tone. "1 telephoned to the house, but you bad left. I got another telegram from Carrie, and she can't come to-day." Mrs. Pontiff made no response. 'Til tide up home with you," he said, halllnc a carriage. Whe i the cabman had closed the door, Mrs. Pontiff burst into tears. "Wh . Helen," remonstrated her bus* I hand, you can't be disappointed at I C'nri\: non-appearance, or are those I tears of relief?" "Maybe she will come to morrow," sobbed Mr. Pontiff. "Well, never mind! Don't cross bridges until you come to them!" At this Injuctlon his wife, to his sur prise, changed her tears to laughter. "Helen's nature Is even more delicate and sensitive than I thought," he re flected. "1 must be moro careful of her." | That evening Mr. Pontiff picked up I tho Evening Journal and Honny did likewise the Herald. Then there Issued from each an exclamation of surprise. With dread forebodings, Mrs. Pon tiff hastened to look ov.t her lord nnd master's shoulder. Then she fell Into his arms moro ter. rlQed tliau she had been during her trial mm tte to Between her aobe and laughs the re* lated her experience. "It's an my fault. Helen." he raid U itake better care "I<HL^*.dJB2rj.frlt than Klt? exult ed Sonny. side and threatened him with po^jftv n^ent dire If he ever by look, ttytgut or deed afluded to the htktth r" to his ^hiuUM or totor one. > * ?? There were times when Sonny Sore ly longed to sing "There's One Met* Hirer to Ooes,*** hot he for* bore.? Belle Manlatee. In the ' New Orleans Times- Democrat. Tkiw Scotch BUriw. 4 shoemaker came to the minister asking his advice because "that sweep, his landlord, had given him notice to quit and he would have nowhere to lay his head." The minister could only ad rise him to lsy his case before the Lord. A week later the minister re turned snd found the shoemaker busy sad merry. "That was gran' advice ye gled me*- minister." ssld the man. "I laid my case before the Lord, as ye tell't me, an* noo the sweep's deld." At a funeral In Glasgow a stranger, who had taken his seat In one of the mourning coaches, excited the curios ity ef one of the other three occupsnts, one of whom at last addressed him: "Ye'll be a brither o' the corp?" "No, I'm not a brither o' the corp," wss the prompt reply. "Weel, then, ye'li be his cousin?" "No, I'm not that." "No! then ys'll be at least a frien' o* the corp?" "Not that either. To tell the truth, I've not keen weel myself," and as my doctor bus ordered nte soiuo carriage exercise, I thocht this wad be the cheapest way to tak' it." A clergyman was rebuked by one of the ruling elders for sauntering on tlio Sunday along the hillside above the manse. The clergyman took the rebuko in good part, but tried to show the re monstrant that the actlou of which ho complained was innocent aiul lawful, and he was about to cite the famous example of a Sabbath walk, with the plucking of the ears of corn, as sot forth In the Gospels, when ho was in terrupted with the remark, "On ay, sir. 1 ken weel what you lueau to say, but for my pairt INhae nefer thocht the better o' them for breakin' the Sawbbath."? Gclkle's "Scottish Kcinln iscences. Tbe Dm or th? Tootliplclc. Commenting on a controversy that Is progressing in its columns ou tin* use of the toothpick in public, the New York Herald says: "One writer this morning defends the use of the tooth pick lu public restaurants, which was vigorously denounced by u correspond ent In Wednesday's paper. The author of this morning's letter contends that Its use. If sufficiently inobtruslve, is a duty to cleaullnes8 and hygiene. Care of ode's linger nails is a similar duty, but a person of refinement confines its performanco to the 'mauicurc par lor' or the privacy of his chamber. Oth ers may be seen performing that 'duty to cleanliness and hygiene' in street cars and other public places. Surgical operations with toothpicks in public places are usually offensive in these days of advanced tasto and sensitive ness. The grande dames of Queen Elisabeth's time considered it the cor rect thing to carry their silver-handled scratch-backs with them to the play, but tbe sight of a woman plying *uch an implement in a box at the Metropol itan Opera House would be startling. The conspicuous wielding and chewing of a toothpick in public places belongs to an era of toleration that has passed away." A Pet r*rr?t. Warren Sheley, a young son of Dr. O. C. Sheley, of Independence, it* the possessor of a full grown ferret, a present from sonic placo out in Kan sas. The animal has the appearance of an elongated white rat with a kitten's tall, and is not only thoroughly domes ticated, but is about the most enter* tabling houfc* pet imaginable. It plays with a string like n kitten and is very fond of music, dancing in a kangaroo sort of fashion when Its young master whistles a lively tune. It seems specially fond of a zither owned by Master Sheley, and never seems quite so well satisfied as when resting Its long, pinkish body across this instrument and 'scratching the strings with Its claws. In addition to being a rare pet, the ferret is sure death to rats and mice, not to mention chickens. It Is said to be able to kill any dog that attacks It, Its method of protecting itself being to fasten its needle-like teeth in the dog's throat and then to cling there until r. has sucked away the animal's life blood. Master Sbeley's pet, however, seems friendly enough to his big shepherd dog, the two playing together in per fect comradeships? Kansas City Jour nal. A Potion. A new poison, many times more pow erful than prusslc arid, has been dls- I covered by an Kngllnlir chemist, who has named It cyanld of cacodyl. It Is a white powder, melting at thirty-three degrees and boiling at 140 degrees, and when exposed to the air gives forth a slight vapor, the Inhalation of which Is Instant death. A combination of potassium acetate with white arsenic, producing a fuming liquid called caco dyl was made a number of years ago by a French experimenter, and this tho English chemist has further combined with cyanogen, a radical of prusslc acid, producing the dealy substance named, tho most potent so far lu the rccords of chemistry. A Criticism. Rosa Bonbeur had Just finished the "Horse Fair." "Fine," cried the critics, "but why don't you paint the dark horse who will get tho nomination?" Perceiving a lack of artistic tem perament, she was fain to disdain tho criticism.? Saturday Evening Post, SHU38ffl$a DEPARlM0?n * 1 Jj rrom a Douse and barn to cakes, Would keep, I think, her family ?U their Once she said she'd make a pie? Or, al least, she'd like to try ? So up she straightway Tolled eaek tiny sleeve; For her plums she used some stones. Made a nre of cedar cones ? Not a real tire, you know, but make-be lieve. N'rst nhc baked some buna and bread, ''Fur her dollies," so she said, " 'Cause, you see, they like my cooking best of all;" Though her Hour wis only rand, IJoIle. she knew, would understand, And excuse her if her batch of dough should fall. Sometimes cook will mis* a pan, Or a bowl, or spoon, or can; But I think she's very sure where they'll be found; For she knows it's just such tiling* Baby uses when she brings 'All her dollies to her nand-pile on the ground. - F. C. M., is St. Nicholas. * A FUNNEL FOUNTAIN. 1 never knew a boy who did not love to fuss with water or to watch a foun tain piny. Now here is a sort of foun tain and pump combined which is so simple that it would be a pity If any boy should be deprived through ignor ance of the pleasure of seeing it work. The apparatus needed ir, only a com mon tin funnel, the bigger the better. wimjw p And the things she thinks she makes ?c oth?rs sheet "dead turtle^* ant peep on, tlelr unfortunate, companies in .the background* , The rales of the came demand that he wait there until the 11 ret successful! racer reaches him on his Tray back,4! and touches him with his elbow, l?jj: which he is supposed to instill neW life into the poor dead turtle. Tile latter immediately starts out again,', and finishes in the best style he can.' As there are always several deail tur tles, he is never lonely In hi* effort to succeed. The winner is. of course, the oue who returns to the starting place llrst. A TASK FOR NIMBI. E FINGERS. Here Is a bridge, and a pretty si rone one, considering its material, whicta COMPI.KTKD MATCH BDIDOr. is made of matches without usltiK rivets, glue, string or any other fasten ing except friction. <1 It is quite a trick to put It together, and the bridge bulkier must have pa tience and a steady hand, but the re suit is worth a little trouble. If you go about it iu a haphazard, hit or miss fashion, even with the aid of the illus tration, you will be pretty sure to PICTURE PUZZLE. .WHERE IS HER YOUNG LOVER? ? Brooklyn Englp. It is worked by plunging it. with the mouth rtlowi), in n bathtub or washtub half full of water. If jou press the funnel flown rapidly nnd forcibly the water under it, not being able to get out of the way quickly enough, will be pressed up into the funnel, and, because of the tapering form of the latter, a jet of water will be forced out of the small end of the funuel and will rise to a height that will surprise you. With a funnel which has a wide mouth and a small tube you enn make a fountain ten feet high. Of course, you understand that, the fountain docs not play nil the time, MAKING THE FOUNTAIN PLAT. but tlwit a Jot shoots up each time you force the funnel down. You nee, also, that tills la not a parlor ?ntortainment. The trick should be done out of doors if possible. If not, you might try h In the bathroom or the laundry. If you remember that It in neither necessary nor desirable to forre the Jet quite to the celling, nor yet to make it shoot across tte room. CAME OF TURTLE. Here's a game for hoy* and glris who have good, strong muscles. It is called "Turtle." Any number may play, and no one player Is "It," for all are "It" together. The game begins by each choosing the kind of turtle he intends to be. One perhaps is a land tortoise, another a snapper, another a mud turtle, and so on. Then they all sit In a row rest ing their chins on their knees, and eaeh holding his left ankle with Ills rltfht band, and his right ankle with his left hand. This is a very dlfllcult po sition to keep. At a given signal the turtles start for a goal a short distance away. I It Is the object of the game for the turtles to waddle to the goal and back to the starting point without re moving their hands from their feet. Many let go before the proper moment, fail, and will soon vote the whole thing stupid and give it up, but the task is not so very difficult if you go Lay n match on the tabic, nnd upon it, near the ends, lay the heads of t two other matches, the other ends oC which rest on the table. These two matches must lie at right angles to the one first mentioned. They are the ones which start from the ground at < the near end of the bridge in the pic ture, and the match on which their beads rest Is the second cross piece. 1 Now, across thene two parallel matches lay a fourth match? the lirst cross piece in the picture. 'i Next, lift up the match you laitl down first, raising the others with it,' and slip two more matches under it and over the one you laid down last i (the first cross piece In the picture).4 Lay the heads of these last two matches on another (the fourth erosH picce), and across them fay still an other (the third cross plcce). Now you have two links of the bridge done? Lift up the cross piece, slip in turn more matches under it and lay over the third, add the next pair of cros* pieces and go on In this way, link by;! link, until you have live or six links,' which will make a strong bridge o6( graceful shape. More than this makes the arch too high, less makes it too flat. /; The matches should be long, strong and either square or quite rough, so' that they will neither roll nor slip. As lu all such tricks, it Is advisable to use safety matches aud to handle, them carefully. | It is still better to use burnt matches / If you can get them long enough and of equal length. Toothpick* or any. other little sticks of uniform length, and thickness may be used instead of matches. * . A West Indian sea captain was asked by his wife to look at some piano* ' while he was In New York, with a view, to buying lier oue. lie wrote home as "I saw one that I thought would suit you? black walnut hull, strong bulkheads, strengthened fore and aft with Iron frame, lined with white wood and maple. Rigging steel wire --doublo on the ratlines and whipped wire on the lower stays and heavlef cordage. Belaying pins of steel ami well driven home. Length of tnffi-ait over all, six feet one Inch; breadth of beam, thirty-eight Inches; depth off hold, fourteen Inches. Hatches can brf battened down against ten-year-old 4 boys, or can be clewed up and sheeted home for a (lrst-ela?s Instrumental cy/? clone.''? New York 1'ress. ,i ? Old Calabar, the headquarters of th<| Southern Nigeria flovernment, ban Just been conuected by telegraph wittt England. to work in the right way. V A Shlp'Shtp* 1'mno, follows