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- '-M.5 OP STRmENH Oiant Spaniards Who Could EasUy ES a Bul with Their F2sts. After the Spanish occupation o, bhe Grand Canary a certain enormous stone was for a long time pointed out as one of the instruments of the: Gaunche athletic courses. The na tives had been able to lift It, set it on their shoulders and even throw it over their heads. Their degenerate posterity and the Spaniards could no? raise it from the ground. Tradition has immcrtalized ont Adargoma of Grand Canary, who could wrestle for two consecutive hours, and, having been thrown un dermost in a certain contest, got his antagonist between his legs and arms and sqieezed him so that his bones began to crack. The native was sub iequently sent as a prisoner to Spain. irhere he astounded the people by his performances. One day in Seville he was visited by a brawny youth of La Mancha, who was anxious to try i bout with him. "My good friend," said Adargona "as we are going to wrestle together It is only reasonable that we should begin by drinking something." b,'A large bowl of wine having beer, brought, he took this in one hand md continued to address his chal %enger: L "If with both your arms you cat overpower one of mine so as to hinder me from drinking every drop of this wine we will try our 'strength to gether. If not, you may return to your home." -f ., The struggle took place, and AdaN zobla by degrees. drained the bowl io the coolest manner, without spilling a drop of the wine. His one hand was more than a match for twe. It was reckoned nothing out of the common for a man to take an un tethered ox by the horn with one hand and slay it with the other. A certain native born priest of Grand Canary, in the seventeenth century, showed that he inherited some of his ancestors' vigor, for one day, hearing that an enraged bull had broken loose and was in the street, he ran out and, grasping it by the leg, threw it down, and so held it until its owner was able to secure it. This doughty son of the church before his death chanced to have one of his legs amputated for a cancer. It was then found that his thigh bone was solid, with no trace of marrow. It must be confessed, however, that the relics of the Canarians now found in their bury. ing places do not bear out the infer ence that this was a national charac teristic, though their dimensions are certainly a testimony of the strength and size of their late proprietors. National Review. W The author of "Round the Couipas in Australia" had put up tor the night with the manager of a stock farm. It wasa time of drought, and the eve ning passed amid stories of frightful suffering arnd losses. The manager thought it would he hardly possible to hold out a week longer. "Shady ,Tack's well is done," he said, "and the Frenchman's tank is empty." His wife tried to encourage him. "Hope for the best," she said. "My oath!I" answered the manager, "but the best things never come off." "Yes. Dick,"' responded his wife, "but the worst things never come 5ff.-" Night after night this man ha( ffalked the room, alternating be tween prayers and- curses, as each day's record was another thousand sheep dead, another empty well, until at last he had come to this grim cour 1,ge of despair, "-I shouldn't care ro much," hb said to the traveler, "but then mi wife, my girls in there!" He drew his sleeve across his eyes and bcwed his head on the table. For ten minutes he sat there so. Then the visitor saw him raise his head, start, spring to his feet, and listen with strained attention, What was that? Something pmnged on the cor rugated root overhead. "Rain! rain! rain!" he shouted, as de rushed outside, and fell on his knees with his hands stretched out toward the clouded sky. "Thank God! Thank God! Wifej Sirls! Mary! Rain!" Even so. The flood-gates of the. sky were opened, and before morning the visitor was helping to put up a dyke on one side of the house. The march of destruction was stafed. Fancy Names or the Pansy. Though there are lovelier and more magnificent flowers than it, yet the pansy may be regarded as a general favorite. It is for this reason, per haps, that it has so many popular names. By some it has been called "heart's-ease," but this title right fully belongs to the walldfower because of its supposed virtues as a cordial. There is no doubt, however, that in various times and places the pansy has been styled by the following curi ous budget of epithets: "Herb Trinity" (from its three colorsi, -Love-and-Idle," "Kiss-meut-ere-I rise, " - JTump - up - anid - kiss -me' '-Three-faces-under-a-hood.". Spo.ken fromu Experience. "Whom do you find the most diff cult witness to report?" asked the writer or an old police-court reporter. ."Decidedly a woman with a griev ance," he readily replied. "A Pole in a passion is b'ad; an Irishman de nouancing an enemy is equally so; a Germian speaking broken English is a terror; a Frenchmnan rendering mean in'ta. !.is w..nis by ejaculations is suit more deplorable; but none of these c'an hold a candle to a womn with a grievanc.e. If Sam Weller had ever ha ppened to have been a reporter hewould ihave overlooked the widow wnd warned his t riendls to heware of a womuan with a grievance. lBy the wamy. I (-an always tell the profession ofa m m Ly the wanner in which he gives his testimiony. The actor, the commeiurcial traveler, the docor-a! -carry their profession with themi into -.iie witnes box." Tumr. is a man in Hlartfor who h worke~d at forty-six different traes.He orm a ortof a trade union all by himselk . aeo c. uclrdceo n bak.Smllfode issee arhet strpes Skrti ie ihbaktfe The ronthas orethe ppeaanceof leteseded y piseesandtrmme w S-9yadsof reon WAKIG Th nesitslndwt li-b shown i th iue ih he oso iscvee b yk f ihtbuesl Z~VGA back Smel led rissie are the t] sihpes. 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Bth le the nurlmbers n siner on acount of he ripar con tinue to incrams witho peainrease In yars simn th bthieg o cane the reiservtte ikeqlibrum tandh nuber ofmakeson.tfcill wilhe wod mhinoyer.oo Teng ligher and20 stongf thisow lrpen sall any ofhormtving diored iswor orasees andd iter uta "tiben toeas"o untndaved wnto teproe legs. iscvee wt Tahe scinceo enaking oodtengthen and afinis int. et er a s Wtha haeibecnl Tremsn amos aman onaccun hold ai fokriv~ed ose, eend te itimade pibladen meimedimen horimThorn is gait. r WAKNGDES O ime wt bak ul, lckiseto amns and~ ar"u.ni fu os and ha uli na aot1 ice los.I th rntadattebakj -'ii - ide sikmsi.Sotblonsevs ire. of atite trme with lae. 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Bal!oon sleeves. Epau k ribbon with tucked lace. Material, Wi CHECKED). red and turned up at either side, as th visible hooks. The front of the waist sc< ps at the back. Loops also at either a : 1G to 18 yards of taffeta, 2 yards of " to ce in of poppies. At either side a loop of it, an e tucked at either end; cuffs trimmed be av on ag UCestai Space. t Sir Robert Ball, the English as- do ~ronomer, has been giving a popular s eries of lcctures in London, in he ~vhich he has endeavored to bring . ~vithin the comprehension of his ~earers some practical idea of enorm uls space. Referring to the fact ~hat the stars that we see, apart from the planets of our solar system, re sums, ne said that the nearest itar to the earth was Alpha Centauri, hich was only visible in the South rn heavens. Now, to say that this as 2, 000,.000, 000, 000, 000 miles away fives nuily a con fused idea of distance, s half or a quarter of this sum would ~em quite as great in the aggregatej s this appears, because the unit of istance is too small to easily popu arize the broad conception. To say hat the star in question is quite: 0000 tines as far away frm the ~ar th as the sun is equally incompre-, ensible. Some other and larger yard stick must he used when these remendous sp~aces are measured otf. ir Robert Ball takes as the unit the istanee that electricity can travel in secontt of time, that is, 180,u00 iles, or seven times around the. ath. WVhile the electric current ner proper conditions could reach he moon in a little more than a sec ndi and could arrive at the sun in Lbout eiight minutes, it wou.d re uire fully three yeais of time to raverse the distance between the arth and the nearest of th~e stars. 3ut beyond thcse are other stars or: uns so far off that the distan e he ween the earth and Alpha Cen.' auri seems insignificant in compari n. Sir Rlolert Ball said: There r stars so remote that if t he tid.I g's of that tirst Christmas ini IBet. hem, nineteen centuries ago. haft en d issemuin atedi th rough the un i. ers-- by telegraphic messages. speed n2 at the rate of 180),000i miles a se - nd the time that has elapsed sinlce e event would not have been sunli ient to enable the miessagre to reac-h em. Some idea of the immen -ty the universe can be formed by re-j lizing that a speed that would carry e fromi the earth to the m~'oon in :a ~cond would need to be maintaine 1 r thousands of years to reach some: the stars that we sce ceb~i clearhs Ight above our heads.--Doston H1cr- but THE JONES DICTIONARlY, Lira and Jeptha Indulge In a ESItle Learning. "Jeptha," asked Mrs. Jones, "are going to the World's Fair?" --aria," said Mr. Jones with a nle that was spoony and idiotic, he world's fair is here and now." -What do you know?" inquired 7s. Jones shortly, for she had an !a that Jones was poking fun at r. "Oh, it's a joke. You see I'm get ig to be a humorist," cackled nes. "Yes, an ill-humor-ist," snapped ; wife; "why don't you answer me out the world's fair?" "I'm not contradicting you. I ink the world's fair myself. Now, iria, try something harder. I Lily don't care a picayune about a World's or any other fair, except ur own self." Maria's lips curled and she stopped wing and it looked stormy for ptha, but another idea had entered a good woman's head and crowded t all others. After thinking a fll she asked: "Jeptha, what is a picayune?' "A picayune?" echoed Jones trtled, "why, it's a-a-why, Maria, y child can tell you what a pica ne is. ' "Yes, I suppose so, but i'm asking a now, Jeptha." "Well, a picayune is a piece of )ney." "But how much is that, and why - people always saying they don't re a picayune, the way you (lid just w. I like to know something [ut what I do know, so that I'm r-e I know it." "Exactly. It's a very good plan, t now if I should tell you what a :ayune is. and gife you its history, I'd forget it by to-morrow nigiht. t if you look it up in the dictionary ill never forget it-see?" "Well, there's one thing." retorted -s. Jones, "I may not Let to the )rld's Fair, but you'll never hear , using words that I don't know the ise of-not much." rhe next morning at breakfast -s. Jones informed Jeptha that she ln't care a six-and-a-quarter cents iether she went to the World's Fair not, and he said she was right. he'd lk Spanish if he cared a picayune her, He had bt-en at the dictionary Slummingi I'he other day, two Chine.e dam s invaded the San Francisco Chroi. , building. They rode up and n the elevator, visiting the dir ent floors, opening the doors of eral oflices, apparently for no ier purpose than to see what was ide, meanwhile all the time jab ing and laughing, as if they were -y much amused. When askea om they were looking for, one of sn answers: "We no look for any Iy-we all the same slumming." Out-Generalled. Scottish shrewdness is occasionally ermatched by Irish wit. The hand of peop~le who inhabit Tory island, little spot in the Atlantic, oif the sh coast, en joy so much health and little wealth that there is no ctor on the island. In rare cases emergency a physician is brought a boat from the nearest village onl e mainland. On one occasion, some islanders 1o were obliged to summon the etor found that he had gone to iblin on business. As the case was gent, they invoked the services of e only other practitioner within a re of miles. This gentleman was Scotchman, with the proverbial anniness-' of his race, and declined undertake the voyage unless he re ved his fee-a golden sovereign advance. There was no help for and the money was paid. The physician went to Tory Island d attended to the case. But when inquired for a boat to take him ray, he found that not a boatm:in the island would ferry him back ai for any less consideration than o pounds. paid in advance. The tor had to part with the two ereigns, and to arlmit that he had en beaten at his own game. tihtfttnglnig n i l/a Il tos.Gieto pinpineA siko . k . he st HOC SELIOLD APRON FOR YOUNG GIRLS. Made of dotted Creton and goes rdlt around the skirt. Therefore it mus be at least 2 yards wide and gored like a skirt. The small waist bodice ucked all around, is made in the fro in the same manner as at the back losed backwards by battons. by a plain buis strip3. The man be mada separat- ly. Gath epaulette ruffles. A Japanese custom. The following details with re o the hair-d ressing of Japanese I uay be of interest in these days, may help to elucidate much o rystery which always surroun eaning of a Japanese pictur Japan a girl at the age of 9 W h.ir tied up in a red scarf, aroud the back ot the the forehead is left bare, wit ception of a eouple of locks, each side. When she is of able age she combs h and makes it up in fan or a butterfly, time decorates it ails of varied co everything, and is by the young widow who wishe band puts a Nort ontally at the b. twists her ha' nconsola short and goe of any sort. rare. By these sim onfusion is av round a ball-room ge and statues o place, and a gre" for the introdu om into this An Instan The vendor of pat bound to sell his war or foul. A clever tric short time ago on board The sea was rough. A yo apparently ill with se groaned until a gentlema seemed to be a stranger, approached and asked if she would take a lozenge, which he had often tried on people with marvellous results. The young lady finally accepted the offer. The cre was instantaneous. Hardly bad she swa lowea the lozenge when she was sitting up all smiles. and order ig ham sandwiches and bottled ale. Some passengers, struck with the in cident, inquired what the wonderful remedy was, and the gentleman, whe proclaimed himse-f the agent for the sa'e of the lozenges, disposed of a considerable number of boxes at $2 each. What was the surprise of the buyers when they saw the lady and nd her preserver go off arm in arm wnen the boat arrived at its destina tion. The pair had worked in con -rn!t byv thwe:' bi.. nearl. or tort~