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l'IEMBER 15,
.: , ; 'l I l'F. LY EDITION W INN . BOT)..
" A Thought.
What natters if thou doth forgive
if thou doth not forget,
The evil thou condoned will live
And be an evil yet!
Better to cheek the rising thought,
The fault may magnify;
And what was trival in the past,
Be grievous in thine eye!
The past is but an empty part!
The present wo slould live;
And each inscribe upon our heart,
The ample word forgivel
AMICE'S WATCH DOG.'
When the Armstrongs rode over to
ton that afternoon, and left Alice
in the house, they had no idea
could be anydauger for-her.
eir litl'e only daughter,
y not leave her in per
*prey would have stayed
,.olton forever.
. sure the house was a good
b away from any other house,
:as a very nice one of its kind. It
:;arge and well-kopt, with a broad
,za all around it, and two bay win
Jws, and bad a general air of prosper
4Ey. Any one seeing the huse here on
ithis country road, where nice houses
j were not plentiful, would have thought
that well-to-do people lived In it, and It
was probably well furnished with nice
things. However, no one had so far
thought so, to the detriment of either
house or people. Tramps and burglars
were seldom heard of in this peaceful
part. of the country, and the Ar&u
stronga had lived here twenty-five
years and never once. had been mo
lested. S they never thought of such
a thing. to-day. They did not even te.l
Alice to lock the doors, Once, years
before, a straggler had come along,
and Mrs. Armstrong had given him
something to eat; but he was quite in
offensive, and that was so long ago she
had nearly forgotten it. Such a thing
as a straggler never entered her mind
now, the chief topic of discussion,
when they came to start, was Alice's
luncheon.
It might have been a bad plan, but
the little girl had always had a plain
bread and butter lunch between meals.
To-day, however, she had an Idea that
she mer.ted something a little ex
tra to pay her for her lonely afternoon
and disappointment. . Alice herself
wanted very much to go to Bolton with
Sher father and mother, :.l i she had a
0Wunch?"''
"Why, at you always have," said
Mrs. A strong. "You can spread
} uvsu a slice of bread and butter."
'There was a. little of -that honey
left," murmured Alice blushing.
Her-mother laughed.
"I never saw such a child as you are
for honey,'" said she. "You ought to
turn into a bee yourself. "Yes. I
don't care. All is, if you have it this
afternoon, you won't have it for tea."
"I'd rather have it this afternoon,"
said Alice, joyfully.
She stood at the window and
saw her parents drive out of sight
down the road, She was a slender lit
tIe girl with a pretty, serious face and
smooth brown hair. When she finially
left the window and looked around the
yacant room, It seemed to her that
the clock ticked about twice as loud
*as she had ever heard it. However,
* she was not In the least afraid, only, of
course, a trifle lonesome. She got out
her Sunday School book, and sat down
in her little rocking chair and readi
awhile, then she got her box of wacter
O colors and painted. She had made up her
mind that she would not eat her lunch
until three o'clock, when her father and
mother would have been gone about two
hours. It was a quarter of three when
she got tired of her paints. Shie put,
them away and washed her hands, and
sat dowL at the window to wait until
the clock struck. She began to feel
quite hungry, and -thought pleasantly
of the honey.
-She had only about three minutes
*longer to wait, when she saw a main
coming down the road.
"Why, I wonder wvho that is?" said
6 she.
She wiatched himl interestedly as lona
as she could see him; then there was a
4shuffliing step in the drive, and a
shadow stretched passed the window;
the man had eome into the yard,
Re gave a quick glance at Atie in
the window, then lie stepped up on the
piazza and kcnocked at the door. Alice
Went promptly. When she opeAned the
door, there stood the man, shabby and
ragged., with a stubby white beard. It
was no one she had ever seen before.
."Nave you got an old coat you could
let me have?" said he. He looked past
her Into the house as he spoke.
''I don't know," said Alice. "I'mi
all alone thIs afternoon. Father and
mother have gone away. Maybe if you
coole again, when they're home,,
they'd give you one. I'm real sorry.'
She was honestly sorry. She thought
to herself that the poor old man needed
a coat dreadfully, the sleeves of le
hupg in threads, and there was a real
frneof rags around the bottom.
"On; you give me something tc
eat?" said the man.
"h, yes, sir,'! said she eagerly. "1
cali get you 3mething to cat."
oogi, and placed a chair for him with *
he greatest politeness,
"lease sit down," said Sie, sweetly, g
'and I'll get something for you."
There was. a pretty black walnut
Ideboard in the dining-room, and
ipon it stood the spoon-holder, full of
liver spoons. As soon as Alice had left
he room, the stranger rose and tiptoed
oftly over to the spoons. However, t
e was In his chair, where she left him, n
when she returned. She had in one
eand a plate, with three slices of very
sicely spread bread and butter, and in
the other a little tumbler, with perhaps
rour spoonfuls of honey in it. She
looked hesitatingly at the man, and
then at the honey.
"I've got some bread and butter for
you," said she, in her. gentle, little
voice, "but I don't'know-do you like
honey?"
"Yes," said the man, with a kind of
grunt. It hardly sounded like yes,
but it was evidently Intended for that.
Alice went up to the dinning-table,
and spread the honey daiatily on the
slices of bread and butter. Then she
handed the plate to the man, and he
fell to eating.
She sat down in a chaie opposite,
and watched him a little wistfully. She
was as her mother said. very fond of
honey, and she did not have it every
day, and this was the last there was in
the house. It seemed a little self-de
nial; but then she was a little girl and
dealt only in small treasures.
The man munched his bread and
butter and honey, and seemed to enjoy
it she thought. bhe wanted to ask him
if lie did, but did not quite get up her
courage. Tbe man was rather rough
and queer looking.
"Won't you have some more bread
and butter?" said she, when he got up
finally and set the empty plate on the
table. "That was all the honey, but
there's more bread and butter,"
"No, thank ye," said the man.
He stood a moment, looking at h( v
curiously. Then he put his hand in his
pocket, and drew out a bundle wrapped
in an old newspaper. le laid it care
fully on the table.
"There's somethin t for you," said
he. "You musn't open it for an hour,
thougii, mu.. i's to pay you for the
bread and honey, % 4'u can tell your
folks. 'Cause, yb' u irn'L give me a
crust, and unt the do'r in my face,
the way tl y generally do."
"T Tr.0 11 I
7 , , ng
d c id hardly wait until the
hour was up. When it was, she opened
the p:ackage with trembling fingers.
Theie were -all their own silver spoons.
There was no doubt about it--there
was her mother's monogram on every
one. She studied them over and over,
and then turned and looked at the
spoonholder on the sideboard. It was
empty.
When Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong re.
turned they found Alice sitting at the
table, staring at the spoons in a brown
study.
"Oh. motherl" she cried. "Oh,
father! what do you suppose lie meant
by giving me our spoons for the bread
and bu'tter and honey?"
"What?" cried her father and
mother, together.
Then Alice told her story. When it
was finished, Mrs. Armstrong caught
her up in her lap anti hugged her tight.
"I guess I'll never leave you alone
again, if I know it," said she. "We'll
have somebody--we'll get a watch
dlog." To Alice's groat ato. 'iment,
her mother was crying, I
Her father looked pale himself, but
he laughed and spoke lightly to re
assure Alice.
"I am not so sure but the bread and
butter and honey, with a good little
heart to set it on, was the very best
kind of a watch dog that she could
have had(." said he.
Locomiotive Signals in England.
The, blasts of a trumpet on railroads
as a moans of giving signals to engine
runners swvitchmen and others engaged
in iwitchuingc and drilling operations,
are now extensively used in the large
yar ds of the Caledonian railway in and
around( Glas,fow, and are about to be
introdulced on some of the great rail
way s3ystems haiving their termini in
Lonidon According to the code of
trumpet signals for shunting, in oper
ation at St. Riollox freight yard, Gias.
gow, the various signals are represent
ed by long blasts, short biasts, and
"crows'' of the trumpet, the repetition
of each varying the directioras. For
instance, one long blast of the trumpet
means "move forward," and two long
blasts are a signal to "move back."
iCach shunter, and in some cases the
signalman, is furnished with a horn
trumpet, which Is eleven inches in
length, having a reed inside the mouth
piece, the whole being a very light con
struction. The trumpet is carried by
the shunter, slung over his left shoulder
with a piece of cord, and hangs across
the right hip.
Another ancIent and pastoral imple
ment, the shepherd's crook, ls also
used for facilitating switching oper
ations across the water. Each yard
man carries a sort of shepherd's crook,
by which he lifts the chain coupling.
ft Is stated on good authority that since
this method of coupling, and coupling
freight cars has been adopted on the
Caledonian, that not a single man baa
been injured in coupling cars. This
can be readily under3tood. as the shep
herd's crook obviates the necessity of
ur.ining between the a.a
VIWSliES OP CONSTANTINOPLE. I
cenos Whteh Are Likely to Aifcot the
Nerves or the Spectator.
These dervishes hold their "sorviees"
a a sort of square hall around which is
wooden gallery provided with a few
enphes. for vlsitors. The dervishes
hemsolves sat first in a row on the
nor at one end of the hall, opposite
hem the emir or, high priest. They
vere clothed in long cloaks and wore
eavy felt turbans on their heads. At
rst both their gestures and voices are
noderate. They simply away toward
he ground, Intoning a specious of
itany. Now and then the voices rise
nto a shout, and the call upon Allah
nd the word "Bismillah" are disting
jished among the unfamiliar Turkish
ounds. Thislasts some time, and one
a beginning to wonder if this is all
Nhen it stops. However, they all rise,
md now, as the Germans say, "es geht
os." Each man contorts his. body as
best pleases him, some throwing it
violently backward and forward, some
wsting it from side to side, some
turning their heads withsuch avolocity
,hat the eyes almost start out of their
3ocketa.
Soon the perspiration begins to stream
from their faces; an attendant goes
about and relieves first one aild then
another of his turban, which he kisses
as he receives it, supplying in its place
a white cotton skull cap, which the
dervish draws on without desisting
from his frantic motions, accompanied
by Incessant measured stamping on the
Door, violent cries or almost unearthly
groans like a sound from some pursued
and exhausted animal. 4he nerves of
the spectator become so affected at last
that it seems as if his own head must
begin to bob and his limbs to contort
themselves. Every minute you think
that the "ecstasy" into which these
men have worked themselves must
hurl one or the other of them in a fit
upon the ground; you actually desire
that something awful and worth so
much effort may occur, and you feel
disappointed when, at a given signal,
they stop short and stand there perfect
lp quiet, wiping their faces as if it
were merely a warm day. In former
times, when a certain pitch of frenzy
was attained they used to cut themselves
with knives. This h a-. t; .
The emir himself took pari "In the
latter part of the performances, and it
is not necessary to ha a dervish to par
ticipate in them. Vairlons laymen
howled and twisted with the others,
and a certain Turkish officer has made
himself quite famous with his strength
of voice and suppleness of limb. I for
got to say that they are continually in.
cited to fresh efforts by a professional
"singer"-a Turkish youth who sat
upon the floor and screamed at the top
of his lungs. At the close of the per
formance persons afflicted with rheuma
tism or other similar diseases lie do%n
and let the emir walk over them.
Children are also laid upon the ground
thaLt they maylV kstep on themf; one0 (f
these was a little girl not more than 3
years old. This tread is, supposed to
Impart both healing and holiness. Very
different fromn the howlers are their
brothers, the dancing dervishes. These
simply form themselves into two or
three circles, and, with outstret,hed
arms and air filled shirts, turn and
turn, like so many tops, concluding
with the same graceful composure with
which they began.
The Way to Itest,
Hlamerton urges his readers to let
their lives be like the summer wind,
which has times of noble energy and
times of perfect peace. There is a sug
gestion here for the tens of thousands
to whom the month of August brings a
brief respite from the turmoil of the
city. The rest of the year witnesses
their more or less energy, and the mid
summer holidays ought to be,to a great
majority of them, a time of perfect
peace. Men who have the leisure and
the inclination to keep themselves in
some sort of training all the time may
find their greatest pleasure and benefit
in the hard labor of long walks and
bicycle trips, in persistent tennis or
amid the exactions of camp life. BIuL
the clerk and the professional man who
depart for rural scenes with soft mus
cles and short breath ought to remem
ber that they will find it very easy to
exhaust their feeble powers and come
back the worse for their outing. Hie is
wise who has ascertained what sort and
degree of rest his systenit stands in need
of, and doesn't waste a day of his vaca
tion in beginning to supply it,. The
man who lies on the sand and listens to
the breakers is often a better rester
than the man who has a tussle with the
surf. One of the men whose capacity
for work is not more extraordinary
than the ease and gayety and vital
force iWith which they seize their daily
tasks from youth to old age accounted
for his powers by saying that he was
"a magnificent loafer," He knew the
recuperative value of perfect peace.
The man who is recognisspd as a mag
nificent worker in town can well afford
to be e magrniOcent loafer in the coun
try.
A not less essentIal a ihaps an
even more ap*o.h
ioliday.maker is a +i ana plentr
f it. Too insy ie victims of
he delusion thAtji ure and I
xhilarating it 4o uh dif
erence wha' tiey woreto
sk a competent would
e11 them that the oitSzeas, t
>f New York do rov their t
;uiaer wanderia deterior- e
~ted In body 'solel ti of
unwholesom; foo good appe- t
Iites have enab dispose of.
rmoh food they t Jvaht, but of t
healthful food t Ctod in absolute
need, and they- d et it. ;lush.
Ing sunget, a clot i tiountain, a i
storm-tossed du'nthmpled lake t
are delightful a Otf, but they are
less important ,Oary men ond wo
men who hope t "plonh their sto1k'
of vital energy .' a good dinner.
They might. po y. have made Dr.
Johnson's ill to kiled, ill dressed
and ill cooko. le utton more pal
atAble, but they 't have made It
more digestible. rapturous but
untutored ipalde exclaimed: "Oh,
I just adore s ; it adds sol"
stated a great tr without " meaning
to. The beauti nature, redirded
from. the point o w which we occu
py for the mome d inmensely,but
they can't su . t. Fortunately,
there is not the necessity for get
ting along with t. m. They are to
be found on eve d in close priox
imity to tab) u ntly supplied (not
"groaning"-- av forbid that a
table . should o' rj roan) with good I
food skillfully ed tp tempt and
satisfy the inn in .
A Si ui r Story.
"American and Queries"
gives the follow urlous story as the
probable found i fo.r Hawthorne's
tale "Wakefe .' It' was originally
told in Dr. Kin 's needotes Personal
and Political.
"About the 1706 I knew one
Mr, Howe, a le,. well natured
man, possessed a estate of ?700 or
?800 a year, matr O:a Miss Mallet,
agreeable in her a d manners,
who proved to *f.Atte~
seven or eight y he,
one morning ro 'tbld
his wife that I
"-aTower o
IA ng he Nlas unc r the nibeessnIy
going to Iollandt and would be absent
about a month. lHe remained away
seventeen years, and in that time she
neither heard fr6m nor of him. The
evening befote his return, while she
was supping with some friends, a note
was handed to her, without any signa
ture, asking her to meet the writer
next evening in the Birdcage walk, In
St. James' Park. She tossed the note
to her brother-in-law, Dr. Rose, laugh
ing: You Eee, brother, as old as I am,
I have a gallant.' Rose declared it was
Howe's writing, which amazed the
company, and Mrs. Howe fainted.
However, next evening, the whole
company repaired to the appointed
spot, and in a few momnents Howe ap'.
t eared, greeta.l his friends, embraced
blze wife, and wvent home with them.
They lived happily togithier until the
end of their union. Ween Howe left
hais wife they were living in Jermyn
street, and he took lodgings not far off,
in a small street near WVestminster,
disguising himself in a black wig.
Wbeu his wife removed, he made the
acquaIntance of one Salt, a corn hand
ler, whose house was very near hers,
anid usually (lined with him once or
twice a week, when he could look into
the dining room and see where she sat
and received her friends. He had
also the singular satisfaction or having
his own wife recommended to hIm as a
suitable person, Salt thinking him a
bachelor. The last seven years he at
tended St. James' Church, when from
Salt's pew lie could watch his wife.
Ho never would Confess why lie left
his home, and was probably ashamed of
the act. His two children died during
his absence." Dr. Rose said that he
did not belie.ve that lhe would over have
returned, had not his money, ?1i)00 or
?2000, been exhausted, but King de
clared that lie frequently saw him, and
always heard hire utter the most lover
like sentiments, and behave in the
most devoted manner to his wife.
A l.esson F1rom the Wasps.
An English gentleman lately took a
small wasp's nrest, about the size of an
apple, and, after stupefying its indmates,
placed it in a large case inside of his
house, ieaving an opening for egress
through the walli. Here the nest was
enlarged to a foot in diameter, holding
thousands of Wasps, and he was able to
watch their movements, and noted one
new fact-:.amely, their systematic
attention to ventilation. In hot
weather, from four to six wasps
were continually stationed at the hole
of egress, and, while leaving space for
entrance or exit, created a steady cur
rent of fresh air by the exceedingly
rapid motion of their wings. After a
long course of this vigorous exercise,
tihe ventilators were relieved by other
wasps. During cool weather only two
wasps at a time we\ usually thus en..
gaged. ,
- -There are flfteen6emale prisoners
in Naow nok Jailsfo em.r
A STIRANGI LOVE STOIW.
Low a White Girl Died fbr a Youut
and Iandsome Savage.
In Australia several attempts have
een made to educate the blacks out of
heir nomadic habits and into a civil
fe, but in almost every case the phil
nthropio effort has failed to eradicate
lie instincts of barbarism. Mr. Ballou,
i "Under the Southern Cross," telle
be romantic story of one of these fall.
rcs. A young native, a lad of 1C
car, was taken from his wild life and
rought to Brisbane to be educated and
o grow up in the home of a white
atpily. Those engaged in the experl.
eriment secured the consent of the
oy, of his parents and of the tribe,
Chey did their best to make him com.
ortable and happy. During nine yeari
verything promised success.
At school he proved to be an apt
oholar and became a favorite with the
1upils and teachers. He was dressed
ike his associates and seemed so satis
led with a civilized life that many good
nen and women looked forward to the
lay when he would exert a strong and
)eneficial influence upon his own people.
)no day, sLortly after he had passed
i:s nineteenth birthday, he was missing
rom ISrisbane. No one knew what
mad become of him save one young lady,
md she kept her knowledge to herself.
Alter months of search he was found
it his former home living the nomadic
ie of a native savage. No inducement
.ould prevail upon him to ret urn and
live among his friends. At last there
same out the romance which revealed
the secret of the young black's nine
rears' sojourn among the whites of
Brisbane. He had fallen In love with
Jhe lovely daughter of the white famil3
with which ne made his home. She
reciprocated his attachment, for he was
i fine specImen of his race, and her in.
luence made him studious and a so
lourner at her lather's house. When
ils hereditary feelings begat a longing
'or the bush and a nomadid life she re
itrained him from returning to his
ribe.
At last he frankly told her that he
oved her too sincerely to suggest that
ile should go.with him to his savage
buit that he was unhappy and
d$ sihieativewrlds.,
Accepting the inevita
lie to live as a savage and she so die.
Tobocoo.Smoko.
One of the incidental events <
tobacco using is its tendency to dead(
the finer moral sense, and to make or
oblivious to the rights and to the pr,
ference of others. The more attractha
aroma of the best tobacco is secured 1
the smoker himself at the time of h
smoking. The more offensive odo
from it are puffed out from his moul
and nostrils after he has absorbed tl
bette'r portion; and vilest of all is tl
stench of the residuum which chlngs i
his beard and clothincg, or which is le
in the hangings of the room wvhere I
lias been enjoying his tobacco-smokini
Dadies are continually making protes
of the disregard of thleir comfort I
smokers on the decks of ocean steamer
Many a steamboat stateroom, or a rool
in a first-class hotel, isi found to 1
almost unbearable for a person whol
sense of smell Is undefled, because 4
the stench of stale tobacco remainir
in it. It has aotually become necessau
for some of the larger city banks I
l)0sL a notice at the desks or the pa:
ing or receiving tellers, requestir
gentlemen to abstain from puflRng o1
their tobacco-smoke whIle doing bus
ness at those desks. So, also, theci
are similar notices posted in othe
places of business frequented by genti
men. Yet these notices are often dl
regarded, not willfully, but thiroug
the sodden Indifference to the feellnj
of others which comes of the sem
stupor of the finer senses in tobact
using. And there is never a day wh1(
inl the lines of passengers at the ticke
windows or at the gateways of oi
principal railway stations, there are ni
to be0 soon those who would resent i
Idea that they are not gentieme;
pufling tobacco-smoke in the faces <
ladles and gentlemen who are unab
to protect themselves from this anne
ance. A termagant woman was recen
-ly arrested In PhiladelpThia for throwh
dirty water from her window upon son
of her inoffensive neighbors. Yet h
misdemeanor was less objectionali
than that of the man who puffs b
offensive tobacco-smoke in the face
an Inoffensive neighbor at a railwi
.station or in a place of business. Th
It Is possible to retain the habits of
gentleman while in the habit of tobact
using is not to be denied; butit sea so:
tax on a man,-a tax which mo;
smokers are unwIlling to submit to.
-The centractors who undertooki
bore a serIes of artesian wells to supp
the Galveston Water Works f<
which he is to receive $80,000 il sul
cessful, recently struck lis first well
a,depth of 747 feet. Boring was
once suspended, and preparations a1
now in progress to sink a ten-inc
strainer the entire depth of the wate
bearing strata of sand. It Is given o1
that when this is done, and the we
thoroughly developed. it will probab)
yield from 400,000 to 500,000 gallo,
daily.
driving a Herd of Seals.
The driving of the fur seal inland is
not uninteresting, says Frederick
Sohwatka. A number of Aleuts having
got between the animals on the shore
most of them probably asleep-and the
water's edge, the latter, awakening
and finding their retreat to the surf out
off, scramble further up on the land.
The Aleuts, probably a dozen in num
ber, from a sort of funnel-shaped skirm
ish line and approach the animals, that
keep retiring before them. To prevent
their being overheated by exertion,
which might affect the skin if not Im
mediately strippld -from the slain
animal, they are seldom driven much
faster than half a mile an hour, and
often allowed to rest. As far as possi
ble the selection is made from male
animals about three or four years old,
when the fur is in the prime; but as the
maximum of strength and belligerency
is not reached for a few years af ter this,
it is easy to see why the best animals
for fur have not the best places on the
rookeries, but are found skulking of
by themselves. So numerous are they,
and so easy to drive to the killing
grounds, that the Aleuts have no
trouble in securing the whole one
hundred thousand in a week or ten days
over a mouth's time, There is an ob
ject in hurrying the work, as the skins
are better earlier in the season, but Ii
there betoo much warm weather during
this time the driving is slower and all
other work is correspondingly retarded.
The seals having cooled off for twc
or three hours, they are killed in herd,
of about one hundred and fifty strong,
by striking them on the heads with
peculiarly-shaped clubs made particu
larly for the purpose. If the day if
warm they skin the animals rapidly,
killing but a few at a time, but if cold
they can kill oven one thousand or sc
before beginning work in taking the
skins. It takes about five minutes tc
skin a seal, a work that is very severe
although in some cases it has been don(
by very active men in a minute and i
balf.
Prices Received by Authors.
These are some of the prices that
authors have received for works nov
famoue:. Goldsmith, ?20 for "'hi
~ ?60. for "The Vicar o1
f r 'Tho Desertec
Johnson,
aulay, ?20,000 for the "Iister
England;" Boswell, ?1,000 for I
"Life of Johnson;" Dryden, ?1,200
his translation of Virgil; George Eli
?2,000 for "Romola," and never i
e than ?1,600 for any novel, it is sa
Walter Scott, ?700 for the first Wav
leys and large sums for later ones, w
?8,000 for "Woodstock" and ?18.(
for the "Life of Napoleon;" Zola, $
h for his first story and $30 000 1
h "I'Atammoir;" Wilkie Collins, ?
e 000 for "Armadale;" Milton, ?15 I
o "Paradise Lost;" Byron, ?3,000 i
S"Don Juan" and ?4,000 for "Cii
rtHarold;" Moore, 3,000 guineas
ie "Laila Rookh" and ?15,000 for "Ilrl
Melodies;" Campbell, ?20 for "I'lea
utes of Hope;" Burns, ?20 for
first edition of lis wvorks and ?700
the last; P'oe, $20 for "The Raver
Longfellow, $4,000 ($20 a line) for j
0 "Hanging of the Crane," the highi
eprice - ever paid for a poem; W iiitti
5500 for the copyright of his worl
gwhich he afterward bought btuck
y$1,200, Tennyson, $10 a line for ' 1
venge."
g The Cow and the Cat ish.
e On the farm of Jacob Grnff, w
r lives near Zoduac Springs, Mo., Is
3- large plondI where cows are in the hal
i- of standing during the day. One
h the cows acted so strangely when
te the pond that she attracted the attc
I- tion of Mr. Groff and the farm hai(
lo She would go into the water an hc
*n or so before the other cows, and af1
t- wading out a certain depth would at
ir and commenco lowmug; as though ci
>t ing to a call'. Immediately afterwi
te she would remain perfectly quiet a
u, seem contented. No cause could
>f assIgned for her strange conduct,
ke though on several occasions she y
r- closely watched. 1Recently the wal
b- in the pond became low.scarcely reai
IR ing to the cow's knees. She wade I
le usual daily trip, however, and took
ai her old position. One (lay recently
h was watched very closely, and it y
ii discovered that when she ceased ci
i ing a large catfIsh 'would come toi
e surface of the water and suck milk i
Mw til its appetite was satisfled. The I
u. was caught by Mr. Groff in the 8
mc river a year ago and was thrown Ii
et the pond.
i
JONES-Miss Arabelia, do you li
cabbage?
, Arabea-What,'a strange questic
,a Mr. Jones.
n "I know it is a strange question, I:
please answer It."
at "Yes, Mr. Jones, 1 am very fond
ID cabbage."
S "Ah, I am glad to hoar that."
F "Why?"
r. "Your liking cabbage ges to i
u, that we were born for each other.
11 dote on corn beef. Why should wo:
y unite our fortunes?"
is ,"0, Mr. Jonesl"
TPheai beh maratried ne. week.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
--The loss In transporting cattle
acros the ocean was in 1887, 87 per
cent. It has been reduced- to 11 per
cent.
--One of the richest men of St.
Paul, who owns block after bloek of
real estate, lives on less than $800 a
year.
-Gold plate to the value of $12,000,
is stored away in the gold room of
Windsor Castle. One piece, a salver,
is worth $50,000.
-"loodlum" comes from the Ger
tman hudler, meaning a loafer, or idler;
so "bummer," from the German
bummler, a word of similar import.
-The preat furniture manufacturing
centre or the United States is at Grand
Rapids, Mich., where there are forty
two fictories, employing 12,000 men.
-Sunday-schools are increasing rap
idly in this country. Last year the
American Sunday-school Union organ
Ized 1,502, with 0,826 teachers and 54,.
129 scholars.
-Excavations made in Tzintzunt
z'.n, in Yacatas, Mexico, in search of
treasure, are satd to have revealed a
magnificent palace, which is an archae
ological wonder.
-Davls Strait takes Its name from
its discoverer, John Davis, who Au
gust 11, 15S5, reached that Northern
latitude on his voyage in search of a
northwest passage.
-Glass wan in use among the Ro
mans at the time of Tiberius, andathe
ruins of Pompeii show that it was in
usa for windows during the first cen
tury of the Christian era.
--Tne Knights of Columbtug, in
ildgeport, Conn., have voted to take
part in a movement of their order for
celebrating the four hundredth anni.
vorsary of the discovory of America.
-Jesse D. Carr, the rich raucliman
of Fresno county, Cal., has been or
dered by a Government agent to re
move a stone fence which he has built
around 40,000 acres of Government
land.
-It is estim'.ted at the . reasury
Department that there has been a de
crease of $3,500,000 in the public debt
during the month of July. Over $14,
000,000 were paid out during the
month for pensions.
-A tombstone weighing sixteen
tons, and cut in the form of a tree,
with birds ani squirrels lodted in its
branches, and forns, flowers, an open
book and a scroll of music at the base,
is a curiosity at Menosha, Ohio.
-Lincoln used to say that it al
ways did him good to look at the God
dess of Liberty on the dome of the
capitol at Washington, for it satisfied
him that there was one woman in
Washington who was not approachable.
--The average yearly incoiie of the
Syorking woman of Boston is $200.07,
erage . exp *'Neigenad
ite
ments and books.
?o -There are twenty-two crematories
, in Europe, of which ten have been
ss built within the past year. There have
id; been 600 incinerations In Germany and
ar- 800 in Italy. There are seven crema
th tories in the United States, and six in
00 orocees of construction.
8) --r-The origin of the rose jars now so
fashionable is quite romantic. They
or started in Turkey centuries ago, and
5,- no harem is complete without them.
or They are'also much used in India. The
or rose jars of to day are in hundreds of
de styles and cost from 50 cents to M100
orapiece.
or-The finest theatre in the world is
sh the La Scala at- Milan. The stage is
is. 150 feet deep, and there are six tiers of
lie bo.xes. The largest edillce in the~
rworld is the Colosseum at Rome. It
., oo 0000 Jews ten years to build it,
Sin honor of Titus. Its seating capacity
lie was 87,000.
ist -A Georgia girl aroused the whole
3r, houEehiold, creaming and declaring
, t.hat some one had kissed her while she
orwas asleep. Her father rushed in, with
a Pistol in one hand and a candle in the
le other, whenm the intrudier was discov
ured in the shape of the damsel's pet
kitten, nestling behind her pillow.
--Whlin 1'hii Armour, the great
Chicago poriC packer,goes on a journey
lie greases his way as no oter million..
io aire in the country does, Hie goes to
a New York by the Vanderbilt roads on
one of the vestibule trains, and gives
ofthe engineer, . conductor and WVagner
oconductor each a' $5 note. Then lie
[it gives the brakemen, waiters and hac
ni- ber each $2. And yet lie does not
s, travel a whit more comfortable tan
ur any one else.
er -The output of the Birmingham
(Englanid) pin mills is 30,000,000 a day.
Other factories in that country have a
11l- capacity of 17,000.000 pins per (lay.
rdl France turns out about 20,300.000 a
nd dlay and! IIoiland and Germiany 10,000,
je 000 each. The pin machinea cut the
,wire to piun size, head, point, polish,
ssort and sU,ck them in t.hepapers.
erQueen" is a very much dhtipnted mat
h-. ter. It would seem, hOwever, that
mer bothi the air und wards were comnponecd
up with very little alarat,ion as they now
he now stanl, for the marriage of Kinit
Henry ViiJ. w4hti Eliza''eh of York.
ras The composer was a singer of St.
dil- PaulPs Cathedral, The tune~ is very
ho sImilar to that of te~c English national
n. tune there.
lih . -Professor Rludoiph Virchiow, upon
ac whom Emperor Frederick itwently
1t9i the possessor of eleven deco,ratins
including the Iron Cross anid t,wo mem-~
artal crosses of the war of 1670-71.
ke is learned colleague, Professor The.
odor Mommsen, wvears seveni decoira
n, tions, among them the Order of the
Crown,.
at LA country girl has devised a new
means of gaininig money. She gives
of her time for twenty-five' cents an hour
to muothers of families anid house..
keepersi who need extra help. . Sihe
(dees rot hire herself out as a washier.
>w womw.n or oeamstress, but takes upi
1 bits of Work for an hour or twou, accorn.
mot panies children 'for walks, bees to t,be
serving up of a dinner or oversees ~ .
house cleaning. Iler time Is as fdilhy./
.occupied as her strength will permit,