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* SLEEVELESS JA Word Photoktaphs. Did it ever occur to you that the average person is quite unable to give a creditable word picture of any one be has seen? Because we under. stand the looks of a person when we meet him, it never occurs to the mind that other people do not g! asp a thorough idea of his appearance with a few passing phrases of de scription. Not long ago, on enter. Ing my offce, 1 was met by the in - formation that a man had called to le me. "What did he loolc like?" I asked. "Oh, he was a good-looking fellow -not very tall, rather heavy, but not too much so." "Wao be old or young?" "I should say about 20, perhaps 15." "What color oft hair?" "I don't remember now. Hows eve,, I don't think he had a mus tache." "How dressed?" "Oh, just an drdinary busineos.e mit" Have you ever heard such a descrip tion? If n .t, watch yourself next .time ycu tell of-some one's calL. You would be surprised to tind that your desorlptio~n would fit almost anyl member of the human race. The trouble is, we do Dot cultivate the habit of intelligent observation, ana are thus unable to describe anything r anybody adequately. 1UJAPPR(A&TJED TWItI 'Tie been insulted agin," saidMean wi5Mike as he sat down with his a tree. Sdon't say so!I" exclaimed Plo4 ' do, re'ly an' I say it loud, too. (s this here a free oountry, or is theq ps~' monopoly known as serciety gos-a keep en auisin' the limit, so's ber keep ns out of the game? That's whatI went ter know." ' "el't git excited. What's hap gened?" '~I aned awoman,~ whithehaught3 ppietress of tet farmhouse, ter -somethin' ter eat. She says: ry n om wod n'I il.'So 1 s'ent ter the woed pile, sa' by er law *' astmel ueleetioun, I tuk. the smalles' pioe~e hey was an' h'isted it ter my ihealder. I got ter the deor step, an' what de thikthait engrateful woman eyato'me?" "She looked at~ me saregatie, an' sht ys: "If there's anythin' I do hate ~tomesa man goin' round with a Iidp on~ *Is shoulder.' "--Washington Would 5e AppopIate. Wife.--What would you donate to the insane ward in the charity hos sital if you were in my placc? H as. 4aad-A crazy quilt. -Truth. Little Dot--I saw'uncle Toby in a~rch. Mad-Did you? What did he Nieto say? Little Dlot-Uie sa3%-Amen."-Good News. Zisle' freeh. .7 Aunt-ow, Elsie, let me see hon # uch French you have learned. Call the governess in French. Elsie-Psi, ast,--Flieuende Bleatter. SMALL TABLE WITH COVER I LEAF, AND OBLONG CU~ WORK OF CIG t t S t t t t r t t t c .KET WITH CAPE. PBI L zmI= "Before you go down town, Cyrus,'' mid his wife, " you must not forget to e leave the seventy cents. I've got toC buy something this morning." Ia "This abominable extravagance 01 I roars, Belinda," replied Mr. Kneer, Dpening his pocketbook with visible reluotanoe, "is what keeps us poor. %Vhere, I would like to know," he eon tinned, becoming excited, "is the sixty cnts I gave you a weekS? What t have you done with it? Fifty eents ina clean, cold eah, mad=m, gone in low banm six ays, and ae for no 'i I What have you gettshow forit c you think Im made of mnoney? de- I manded Mr. Kneer, taking out s eoin( ad slapping it down on the table.e 'Do you-" "Dn' 19%-s Ay -1 * anthn more, yrs 1"0c relaied Ms. Keer, ith earsi or eesand uttng hr hnd hr iedyovrtemoey "Ilntpn I nymr 7fitta m culy ii t bligd t spnd, nd thnk yu eer a muchI Witha molifed gant yru puthi orE WITH CrAPKEr ytems fai his wolel, had us giot fohet to20 oldaee sevntetof I'hal golat- t hiyasomTibne.smonn. "Ti oae exaactywhae 1 heofrst peia," frteple rsonhait1 opuen his puchketbelf wit onei eol relucimane I the kefph usentur. * bWaperswudlk to benoiganhe don-t ied holding seied "if sthixty ar ente. gavte yoteeh andhoar I baethdoewthI? it centsre h caihr, ina nthersi musisalamonstrofityotadnde Tothn eigheent eturoy. Abou i 711e Chr.ofl ofr taduinvnte a -u "Dopinot inti sadmo remin Cyone" exacame Mbox wheomre with tsen leganyts and puet tn er intrn ieodyv-rtLeouis. Repulic.tpe Mrs. Fanto lepend advrtsa yovr I mudvwnt ownt anwholn weekswthn e hil n.o Mrs. mo-el, traemlin ndt eadgtrty-, on ewa to tho heaft dy.-ooHatres Baar ~aa Losakd nCoutale. bude Doinhie ---Ah, howgmch beer$20 I old piee itweacd oly hal thlae. j Obirageof Troun cncio. DeoI . :rosrods'Woudnt Pithu@ h 1Nd~a mde clan leacl hosade th irstean,e fork eesontha i srm s uhotatef asie ul cMr wrhsty (whhas merel arecelongd bos hdigterils)-of stri ar >ra.neddy triau-a foacoss s centr. thnobrdyebut ano four anther mual mosrosiyudge. - veloed romit, nd as sed ellup1 HoN da.t.ITHER BRepIc. R RTRTNGS JNABLE TO JUDGE DISTANCE L Painag Among Xlecticl Motorme Whisk frequently Cause Accidents. The general manager of the Jerse lity and Newark electric street ca Ines thinks that he has discoverei he cause of many of the collision nd other accidents on the roads )ne of his motormen ran into ragon not long ago and demolishe L The accounte of the acciden iven by his driver of the wagon an he motorman tallied except as b he distance between them when th, rarning gong was first sounded Vhile the motorman was telling hi tory the manager noticed somethinj , little out of the ordinary in the al earance of his eyes, and he que ioned him about his sight. Tn aan answered that it was good, or t least, that he had not discoveret ny defect in it. He was sent to ai culist for examination, and the lat er found that the motormon's judR aent of distances was very poor. Ob acts appeared to him to be farthe ,way than they really were. Sinc hen, says the St. Louis Rdublic he eyes of all the other inotormei n the two cities have been examine ,nd their judgment.in regard to dii ances tested. Quite a num ber c hem failed to pass the examination nd their places on the motors ar ow tilled by men with good vis.o nd with at least fair judgment as t istances. Near-sighted, far-sighted ross-eyed, and colorblind applicant r the position of motormen will t uled out in future without furthe xamination. The 'rule will exteni o other defects of vision. Evei rith people whose eyesight is gooi he estimating of distance correctl: a a difficult matter. If called upol o give a number of feet between th rails of a room, most of them wij iss it several feet. HOW HIGH WILL A KITI GO? ghteen Rundred Seet she Maaimum Al titude That a Single Kfte Can Boeh. It is one of the most difficult un rtakings imaginable to even ap roximately estimate the height of I :ite above the earth. This is on ac ount of the fact that objects float ag In the air seem to be farthe way than they really are. It ma e sately said, says the St. Louis Re ublic, that 1,800 feet is the max1 ium altitude that can possible b ttained by a single kite. A kite fli g at the height mentioned will aI ear even to a conservative observe o be nearly if not quite a half mil boy* the surface of the earth, but areful measurement of a string an ta angle will quickly prove that I ould not have been more than ourth of a mile above the ground )rdinarily a kite will go no higher ven if more string be paid out; tha i because the wind depresses th ord and causes the kite to really re ede when it appears to rise. It ha een said that it is possible to al ange several kites in iuch a manne hat they will reach a higher alu~ tde than It is possible to attali rith a single kite. in this manne rhere three, four, or even a dozei :tes have been used remarkab] eights have been reached. Where more than one kite is usei ely the main one is attached to th d of the string, the others beili *ttached along the main line (11 manner similar to the arrangemen f the hooks along a "trotline") a n average distance of about twent eet apart. Hinkleman, "who mad xperiments at Bada-Pesth, and irl on and Watson, whose investiga ions under the Russian Academy c ciences .were carried on at Edeena !ndland, report curious resuita ihere single kites could be forces .p into the atmosphere to a heigh f 1,500 feet, a pair could be mad o ascend to a height of from 2,00 o 2,100 feet, and a tanden easil eached the high-water mark of 2,50 Bet The three experimenters al ided to believe that with a prope rrangement of the Eites, and wit, scientific adjustment of both th ll and string, a height of two mile rll eventually be reached. Are Pfttees' sons the Worst? It has become a popular sayini hat sons of clergymen are wore han other men's son's, and that a rule, they turn out badly. Witi egard to the first statement, it ma se said that so much more is expeoted ministers' sons, and unjustly ei ected, too. Like other young men hey are of the earth earthy. Con erning the. second statement, tigure ill speak plainer than wortds. Fc stance, Zion's Herald say -ther ,re 205 sons of Methodis uinister n Toronto, Canada hese son iave turned out follows: "On udge, one bish~ two county crowl rleys, Qublic school inspecto: ,ne !?'three Queen's counsels our graduates in dentistry, twelv n mediine, forty in a ts and law bree bankers, five insurance agents ix clergymen, three organists, on ibrarian, one Government employ d sixty students at the variou ducational institutions." A Sertous Faul#k "Po y~u thin k my son will' eve nake an artibt?" asked a fond paren f the painting-master. "Well, sir, eplied the teacher, cautiously, bnk there would not be the slight st doubt of his becoming a great art t if he were not unfortunatel; olor-blind."____ H. Bad Bad Experience. Crank-You don't know how I els to be ostracised andfloeked upoj s a pariah." Jollyboy-Oh, yes . I have traveled on a suburbal rain when 1 was the only man 01 oard who was not a commuter. Estimating a Play. Theodore-How did Iyou like th lay last night, Dolly? Adolphus )h, awfully jolly play. Five act n long waits. emnoked a whole bo r cigarettes between acts. Don :now when I have so enjoyed myseli lest play I've seen for a long tim4 -Boston Transcript. More Itapoteant. First Drummer-Hang the luci ['he frm has sent me only one of im wo necks this weeg. Second Drum er-Whch one did they forget rour salary? First Drummer-NC onfound it! Tihey left out th beck for my expense account.--Son r11i'Ten Junl - WRPFRMSSS RS ITH REERNDWLKNGCOTUE AR tW.MI /11// Mr. t M sEM64ziamismriim~sipmn~litimoks mNN~romD aoriME~mWRI~srKN//rmul/1/ TIH-ITIGJCE WT ET I. / nn eo nmtrmornTrnp AR TRa w nuq WTH CNTRSTIG.JArrrW ATET (11, FROM P1Ms the CQvetrng of M enhAMe h Ete Comme6rdwearoe . Few people are aware of the In, portant uses to which nonf4dible fishes can be puts From them i prepared a useful oil, while th waste material serves as a splendid fertilizer. Although dsh as a -ferti izer was known to the Indians and was used by them and the early col onists, It was not until about twenty years ago that a scientific beginning was made in' utilizing non-edible fishes. The factories now in oper tion conine themselves chiefly to the production of oil and guane from menhaden, and owiDg to restrictive legislation in the States of Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and .Vir ginia, along whose shores menhaden and other non-edible fshes chiefy abound, the production Is greatly limited. The total quantity of menhaden "scraP or waste turned out as a fertilizer from 1874 to 1892 Inclusive, amounted to 912,467 tons, dry and acrid. The amount made from other non-edible Ashes and waste fish is es timated at 150,000 tons, the whole amounting to $31-000,000 worth. During the same time the quantity of oil expressed was 46,000,000 gal lons-about 165,000 tons-valued at 013,800,000, or 30 cents a gallon. The oil has been used Isrgely in tanning leather, and as the basis for many oil paints an4 varnishes, while a great deal of it is consumed for lighting purposes in our mines and elsewhere. The quantity of oil an nually exported is also very large agd the demand for it is so great that markets could readily be obtained for ten times the quantity. The origin of the present menha den industry was the discovery o Mrs John Bartlet, of Blue Hill, Me., who In 1850, when boiling some fish for her chickens, observed a thin scum of oil upon the surface of the water. Some of this she bottled, and when on a visit to Boston soon after carried samples to one of the leading merchants of that city, who eneouraged her to bring mo-e. The following year the Bartlett family industriously plied their gill nets and sent to market thirteen -barrels of oil, for which they were paid at the rate of $11 per barrel. In the fol. lowing year this family made 100 barrels, Then, the value of men hadan oil having become recognized, many oil presses-of a more or less imperfect construction-were estab lished along the coast and the Indus try developed to its present propor tions. That it would increase ten-fold, were it not for the rep:essive legis. lation in the States already namad, is certain, as the sea offers an almost inexhaustible supply of material and the profits derived from the businesw Ire large. The reasons for the restrictive legislation are: That fishing for menhaden, mackerel, or any other fish with a purse seine (the appliance now used) depletes the supply of these fishes; second, that menbaden is the food of many of the food fishes, and the depletion or "driving away of the shoals" of this species by sein ing, forces the food fsahes-mackerel, striped bass, bluefish, etc., to seek other waters; and, third, that the enormous captures of mnehaden for the purpose of makIng oil and guano prevent the proeuring of bait for our cod and other fisheries. Hey Revenge. "Got a boat?" she brusquely de manded of a Detroit photographer as 'she walked in the other day. "And a fish-pole?" -'And a painted ocean for a backs ground." "Yess'm." 'Look like Cape May?" "It does." "Can you get a good-looking young man to sit on th~e boat with me?" "I can.". "Then I want six photos." "Yess'm. Do you want to go to the seashore this summer?" "Iqawi Dad's busted In business and we've got to take cheap board on a farm. I want the photos just the same, you know. Want 'em to send - to a girl friend who is sick and can't get anywhere this summer. She'DJ iaink I'm down there all right." "Sort of an illusion elh?" "Sort o' revenge, raither. We were down there last season and she stole my summer young -man away. I want to make her believe l've got him back. Hurry up with the feller, and tell him he can sit with one arm around me and his moustache touch ing my ear."-Free Press. The Dog Ans~iiii 15 Satase. A dog owned by Capt. Orcutt,~ keeper of the Wood Island light, hau become famous thir weeg. It is cus tomary for passing steamers to salute the light and the keeper returns it by ringing the bell. The other day a tug whistled three times. 'iTe captain did not hear it, but the dog did. He ran to the door and tried to attract the captain's attention by howling. Failing to do this he ran away and then came a second time with no better result, Then he do. cided to attend to the matter him self, so he seized the rope, which bangs outside, between his teeth and began to ring the bell. -Lewiston Juurnal. xmportant IoftrmaSuou. Tommy-Paw, I have found out - where the little birds go to when they leave. Mr. Figg-Well, where? Tommy -To Wingiand. -Indian, apolis JournaL____ "Doctor, wny is it that some peo ple who are perfect wrecks live longes than others who are strong and well?" "Er-well--you see, the cthers die first."-Life. The Dear Gils Etta-l saw your ID tended to-dap Mfau-Whom do you refer to? Etta -Why, Jack IBrown, of course. Mlaud-Oh, dear, no. He is not my intended, Hie is only iy engaged. whom Tim.e ainig SVImar. Teacher--James what is the short. sst day in the year. James ifrema er. perience)-The day your father prom. semt i e yon a lickin' afore you Ep