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TO.F TIRIeWEIBKLY EDITION. WNSO,-S CMY23 1 rt9ztb fIDiSPENSABLE. Oh, there is something nobler still J Than friendly feelings merely, For something sweeter heart and will Must have to hold more dearly. The rose is fair that greets our eyes, But lacks its full completeness, If in its dewy bosom lies No unveiled source of sweetness. So with the heart however bright. If love in it is wanting. Few beams will enter there of light s To banish spectres haunting. For without love this Ife's the rose That never hath completeness, But with it all its being glows With sunshine und with sweetness. S MY EXACT COUNTERPART. t Did it ever occur to you what strange things might happen to you, if you looked just like somebody else, and were liable to be taken by this other mortal's friends for their friend, and to receive treatment accordingly? A little awkward sometimes, though there are pleasant features about it, as au experience of mine last fall leads me to believe. Having nothing better to do, suppose I give it to you. "Smith, my boy," said old Harland ;o me one day-Harland was my eni- t employer, and I was head clerk in his great importing house-"how would r you like to go West, to Chicago, St. Paul and On'aha, as our agent? Im portant business relations in these lo- t calities will oblige some representative of the house to go, and Hendricks is down with the rheumatism, and I would as lief be shot as sleep in any '-ed but my own. What do you say?" t I was delighted, and told the old fel low so at once. I had been in New York five years, without taking any other holiday than the law prescribes, Fourth of July, Christmas, etc., and the pros pect of a journey made me as happy as the prospective first pair of trbusers askes a four-year-old boy. In a few dsys it was all settled. I packed my valise, received my instrue tions, and said good-by to my land 19Ay, who, as I always paid my bills promptly, shed a te:ir or two in the corner of her apron in honor of my ixodus. Everything went on swimming. The day was lovely, the car a new one, 1 nobody in it was scented with musk, r the conductor was a model, and there was such a pretty young lady a seat or two ahead of me, with a ravishing hat and feather, a bewildering mass of curling hair, and eyes as bright as Vlaska diamonds. And she had such a coquettish way of cutting the pages of her book, and presenting her ticket for destination to C the conductor, and asking him in a sweetly imploring voice, "if we were almost there," that she quite took :y far.cy; and I resolved that if one of those inevitable smashes took place, such as we are regaled with in first class novels, I would throw all per sonal considerations aside, and "go for 1er." We had nearly reached Rochester, when two strangers entered the car. They acted like men who were hunting for something. They took seats just be fore me, and turned round back to back, and read their newspapers and looked at me over the tops of them. Now, men generally do not look over the tops of their newvspapers at aiiy body but handsome women, and their persisten~ey made mec nervous. I char g edl my seat, but did not get out of range. I went to the smoking car, and my shadows suddenly developed a taste for smokiug. I returned to the car I had left, and they followed me, and as I was about taking my seat, one of them 'aid his hand on my shoulder., ''Mr. Smith,"' said he, ''you are my orisoner!" c I exhibited a specimen of the "clear grit"which the Rev. Mr. Collyer speaks f, and knocked him down.r Then the other one,and a half-dozen of the passengers, pounced upon me, I and I was handcuffed, and done for r generally. Then everybody flocked around me to remark on what a desperate looking I -:riminal I was. "Might have known by his face thatC he was a rascal!" said a short gentle- 1 man, with a bald head. "Got a regu lar hang-dog ex pression. W~as it mur-s -ler, sir?" to the ofilcer,i "No, it was embezzlement," said 'hat gentleman. "Got his employer's money, eh?" ] "Exactly! One of the most daring I cases we've had on our hands for a long time. But we've worked it up t successfully, and nowv we've got him." "Shocking!" said ani elderly woman,r in a pink bonnet. "Thank Heaven, I never wvas tied to a man. They're al- I ways turning out bad." "A sad thing," said a sleek-lookinge 'ndividual. "Will it be State orison?" asked a solemn-faced old lady, with a bundle of papers undsr her arm. "Because if it is, young man, I will give thee a tract 'o read and profit by."t And she handed me a lea f of paper1a with the somewhat stairtling title, ''The 'Road to Perdition!" I remarked that I had no wish to leartn anything in regardl to that route, S and that brought tup a clerical gentle -nan in a white choker, who inqtuired: f "Young friend, hast thou a miotha-t "I hast!" said I-likewise a grand mother, two aunts, sixteen ecusins and b t father-in-law!" "Beware!" said he, "of sitting in the v~ seat of the scornful!" l He was just going to read me his last sermon on total depravity, when we arrived at Rochester, and I was I +aken to the lock-up. I did not like my quarters. It was I impossible for any decent white muan I to like them. birty and ill-smellhng, I and I would have been glad to chmange ' it seemed that I was charged with ppropriating the funds of one Mr. unius B. Streeter, of Syracuse, who ras represented as my confiding em loyer;.but I had never heard of him efore, and certainly had not the leasure of being possessed cf an: of is funds. I tried to impress this fact u*on my aptors, but they only laughed, and as ured me that Mr. Pelham and Mr. all, the detectives who had seized me, ad a very accurate description of the ascally clerk, from Mr. Streeter him elf, and my appearance tallied with it erfectly. I was to have my examination next aorning, and then, if I could prove bat I was anybody but John Smith, I as at liberty to do so. Just as I had finished my breakfast text morning, the keeper came in to ay that a young lady desired to see ae. A young lady! I was horrified, for had neither comb, brush, nor clean ollar. I smoothed down my refrac ory locks with my fingers, flirted the irty towel across my face, rubbed my >oots with my handkerchief, and my oilet being thus completed, was ready o receive my visitor. Shades of Hebe and Venus! The normng star itself was no comparison o her! Blue dress, blue ribbons, blue yes, blonde tresses,and a voice sweeter han a fifty.dollar music-box! She rushed toward me, flung her rms arouni my neck, put her soft heek against mine, hunted under my nustache for my lips, and plated here such a regiment of kisses as to ake my breath away, and did not care . iLcaytUnC if she kept up this sort of hng till Christmas. "IDearest Cousin John!" cried she, 'ils such a shame for you to be ere! But it is just like those blunder ng oflicers! They fancy themselves .(onderful in the detective business! Chey'd arrest their own grandmother f they had one, darling." 'Yes," said I, seeing that she paused f.r breath, "I have no doubt of it." -1 read about your arrest in the >aper last night. It gave your name s Mr. J. Smith, but J. stands for John nd I knew it wasyou. I told papaso, >ut he said 'pshaw!' yet I always have ny way, and so 1 came down to see -ou without even stopping to dress. )ear me! I expect I am ju.st horrid in his old wrapper!" "Horrid!" said I; "why, I thought our dress was divine!" She laughed and kissed me again. I oped she would keep on doing.so. It eemed to me the nicest thing she ould do. "Papa is corning down in an hour r two to bail you out, for .of course ou are innocent, and old Streeter is aistaken about you taking his dirty oney!" -Of course he is," said I. "And you'll come up with papa to mnner, dear John?" "Yes, darling." "Then, good-by," said she; "I must o home and order your favorite roast uck, with oyster sauce," and she ;isted me again and vanished. Of course, I knew that I was playing he miserable part of a hypocrite, but I ould not resist the temptation of keep ng still and letting destiny work for e, especially when such a lovely girl epresented dlesti ny. Papa came down, as she had told me te would, and how he managedl I (do ot know, but the thing was settled in he course of a couj'de of hours, and he nd shaken hands with me, and I was iding with him ina handsome carriage, trawn by a pa.ir of high-stepping bays, oing to dinner. Alice-that " a what her father aled her-received us cordially. She las d(ressed'' now, and I suppose~d all hese flounces and puffs would not ad nit of her kissing ine, smece she not do t. My heart sank. I wished myself lack in prison, if pretty Alice were so nuch more affectionate in prison than >ut of it. But Alice had mec sit near her at the able, and she sweetened my coffee .ud dished out my ..oast duck, with ster sauce, herself. And I adored mer, and was very near telling her so. We had just got to pudding when a ervant opened the door, and, ushering n a gentleman, announced: "Mr. John Smith!" I turned, and confronted the visitor. :t was like looking in a glass. He was ny exact counterpart in every partic ilar. Our own mothers could not have old us apart. Consternation was on his face-I eckon it was also on mine. Alice was vhite with horror. Papa stood rub ing his gtmsses and tryin~g to convince imself that the trouble was in his ves. 'Jupiter!" said the new-coiner; 'who are you?" "Johnm Smith, sir," said I. "Who .re on?" "John Smith, sir," said he; and hen he saw how ludicrous it all was, .d burst out laughing. 'What have I done?" cried Alice. 'Oh, what have I done?" "Don't cry, cousin," said John mith, the nephew; "I'll have an ax lanation at once." Then he turned eretly to me and demanded one. I ~du him I should be very happy to ac omodate him, and I (lid so. Ppa Gordon-that was his name iughed heartily. But Alice crept out f the room, and I was sume her eyes ere runnmng over with tears, and I felt ke a malefactor-yes, indeed! like'a air of them. But John Smith, the nephew, gave s very good news, after all. Mr. treeter, who was the said John's em ,her, had been mistaken in his sus ~icions regarding his clerk, and it had en clearly established that Streeter's wn son was the guilty one. congratulaUng ourselves-John and I -and Mr. Gordon rubbed his glasses, and seemed highly delighted over the episode. It was a long time before Alice came back to the room where we were sit ting, and then I managed to draw hei aside for a moment to ask her pardon for not having undeceived her at once. "Really," said I, "It was all so de. lightful that I could not speak the words which would drive you away from me." And what more I said would not in terest anybody. I went about my business next day, but on my return I called at the Gor don Mansion, and two months ago I prevailed on Alice Gordon to accept the name of Smith; and I own the sweetest wife in the world to the factoJ having a counterpart. WILY FOES OF THE RANCHER; Wolves Not to Be Tricked Into Eatina Poisoned Parts of a Carcass. The extraordinary sagacity of wolvet ias been very powerfully Instanced in a recent event on the Upper Waldron Range, says the Meleod, N. W. T., Ga. cette. A colt died, and Mr. Warnock took ten strychnine tablets and insert ed them carefully in various parts of the body. He did not go near that vi. cinity for a couple of days, and when he di'. he went expecting to see some results from the bait. There was, however, no sign of a wolf, living or dead, in sight; he hunted around within a radius of a mile or two, but found nothing, and finally he went over and examined what remained of the dead colt. There was not much; the skin appeared to have been neatly and com pletely flayed from the body; nearly every particle of flesh was gone, aq were also the rib bones and anything smaller; the fore and hind lega had been Wrenched off from the knee joint dowgj and carried off some distance, wherq everything mashable on them had beer properly mashed. The skull was al most intact, and spreading It out, haih side down, Mr. Warnock casually exI amined it, when he noticed with some surprise a small bunch of flesh that had been untouched, and which was adher ing to the hide, and inclosed in which was the strychnine tablet. A close examination revealed the extraordi nary fact that every single one of the ten strychnine pellets that had beeni Inserted had been left similarly. Every shred of flesh had. been eaten all around them, and not a single one touched. No wonder it is a difficult matter to catch wolves when they are endowed with a cunning like this. The explanation is that on this one occa sion Mr. Warnock had picked up thq pellets before inserting them into the bait with his fingers Instead of, as was his usual custom, with a pair of for. ceps. But the fact illustrates the kind 'f foes t'k. ranchers have to deal with Proper Care of a Piano. A musical instrument may be regard. ed in the light of an exotic, costly and requiring constant and careful atter ion. It is also like a race-horse; the bette. its treatment the more it responds tC the hand, and even in the evening o1 its old age is a thing of beauty with * past record of' great things accom -lished. Frequently, though, a costly and beautiful piano grows worthless an{1 'uneless because it has been neglected1 Like a race-horse, also, it needs tr he kept covered after use. In frosty weather, especially, alway\ lose it when not in use, and if possi ble throw a cover over it. Keep in * moderately warm roomn not too neal the source of heat, and let the temperao ture be even. Not cold one day and hot the next, but warm all the time vay (60 or 70 degrees the year round. Always place the piano against ai inside wall, and a little out from it. Shun the itinerant tuner who comiet unrecommended and of whom you have no previous knowledge. As soon in trust your own ills to a quack as youm delicate high-strung instrument to at ignoramus who had much better bi shoeing horses or sawing wood thar -eddling with pianos.I Do not allow children to drum on it True, Prof. Baughard may expend a like amount of strength upon its key. board-I doubt if it thoroughly enjoyal either treatment. But if the right key* are struck it will not affect it nor you. so seriously as where children,amuse themselves and wreck the Christias tempers of all listeners, but those of their fond mammas, by their soul-dis' racting s;ounds. lResolutely avoid littering the topL with bric-a-brac, for it unquestionabl3 iffects the tone. A well-known maker recommends fre .lunt wiping off of the case with cha mois skin wrung out of tepid water, and where the case Is very highly pol, ished and dark, this Is not only neces, sary but productive of good results and little else will answer to remove the I dust that settles resolutely in the right, y named fret work. But if you are afraid to try this an( you want to remove finger marks and blue mold, take salad oil and vinegar-d two tablespoonfuls of oil to one of vin, egar-and rub on a very little of thig mixture with a soft rag and with vast perseverance, mighty muscle and a sotq woolen rag; rub until your arm threat. ens to drop from the socket; then sur. vey your work with a critic's eye, and you will doubtless pronounce the resul ~ood. Yery Absentiliinde.. "I mnailed a postal card to-day ana forgot toadres it I'm very absent. minded." "So am I. Yesterday ] (mie olumbian stamp without HISTORIC HOUSEI. elacee Associated with the Great Drama of the Revolution. There are many historic houses It putchess County, New York, sone o0 tvhich are intimately connected with the great drama of the revolutionary war. The oldest is the Brett homestead, 4,hich was erected in 1709 by the son pi-law of Francis Rombout, who with ,ulian Ver Planek purchased from the. Indians a large territory lyiag between Fishkill and Wappinger's Creek long EWLAND HOMESTEAD, TIWOhoDA; BUI 1740. )eforg the county of Dutches was or ;anized. On the organization of the ;ounty the title of Rombout and Vei Planck was recognized. The first set ter of the county was Roger Brett, who married a daughter of Rombout. rhe house Brett built still stands, seem ingly defying the attacks of time and torms. Another old homestead is the Newlin rhich was built in 1740 and still stand& an Its original site at the -mouth of the Fishkill. Until about twenty-five years go It remained In posession of the amily and was then purchased by a .ailroad company. The Direk Brinckerhoff homestead1 tanding near Wappinger's creek, wat built early in the eighteenth century, &nd with some changes remains until to-day. It sheltered Washington and John Adams, and Lafayette during a sickness of six weeks made it his home. Brinckerhoff was a strong patriot and was instrumental in rtising several iompanies of militia. Another interesting house is thaI suilt by James Swart*out In 1730. During the revolutionary war he did good service for the colonies and rose to the rank of General. Abraham Swartwout, a revolutionary soldier, and his son Robert, a brigadier general In the war of 1812. were members of this family. Samuel, a nephew of Rob ?rt, was a naval offcer of distinction. As commander of the Grampus, ho put own piracy in the West Indies in 1836 S7, and during the civil war command: FE DIRCKR BRINCKERHOFF HOMEsTEAD d the Portsmouth in the blockade of :he lower Mississippi. The Swartwout homestead is still standing in the vil age of Swartwoutville on the Fishkill. At one time during the revolutionary war Baron Steuben had his headquar 'rs in it BOOMERS AS LAWMAKERS. txcting Scenes at the First Sessioi. of the Oklahoma Legislature. The first Oklahoma Legislature was Smarvel of conglomerated humanity. Lt was made up of men who had been :odging soldiers and Indian police all their lives and who, suddenly finding themselves the owners of a small farn1 DEMANDING EcoGNITION. or a town lot, naturally drifted into politics. Men who could not spell their own na mes, and who had not had a bath fr six years, were taken from the bos m of their covered wagons and trans planted to a hail to make laws. Among his number was Ira N. Terrill, now a fugitive from justice, with a death sen tence hanging over his head. Bill Glass was still another. Bill was a "terror" from Bitter Creek. Ira was a quietappearing fellow, with a full set f wheels buzzing and singing in his head. Both carried big guns and neith er one had taken a bath for a mor'th \t least. The first day was a stormy one fo. .e House and the Speaker. Terrill wanted the floor. So did Bill Gliass. Al afternoon the Spea3ker ignored their shouts, wails and curses for recogni tion. So Ira went over to Bill's corner nd consulted with him. They hit up on a scheme to attract attention to themselves and their bills. TerriU went back to his seat and Bill Glass carelessly played with the hammers of iis six-shooter. "Mr. Speaker," yelled 'terrill, hop gng up and down like a chicken with Its head cut off. The Speaker paid no attention to the man with wheels. Ml will be heard. Mrs Speaker," agaih vociferated Terrill. Still no attentlot was paid to his demand. "Let 'er go, Ira," yelled Bill Glass. V Terrill carefully pulled two small bowitzers from a belt and Ared twq shots through the roof and one througbh the floor at the Speaker's feet. Beforq the smoko had cleared away Mr. Terrill had been recognized by the Chair, Ever after that the Speaker kept hi4 eye in Terrill and Glass' direction, and if either one showed a disposition ti get upon his feet he was recognized instanter. A MEASURING STOPPER. Now and Convenient Device for House hold or Laboratory, pu The accompanying cut shows whs. rel the inventor calls an "autometric stop per," that is to say, a "self-measuring bh stopper," which is sure to come into general use, Its many advantages are apparent. It is at once a perma nent stopper, which will nevet break nor get "stuck," and a graduated meas- fo ure, always ready for use. Besides, i is reserved for the one fluid in whicb he: Itis used I The stopper is composed of a rubbe, si bulb attached to a graduated glass I measure. When it Is desired to get to the fluid out of the bottle, the stopper I is loosened, the bulb Is slightly com pressed and the fluid rises instantly in. to the glass tube. The quantity of fluid brought up into the tube depends L 0 C i'pon the amount of pressure upon the ' bulb; it may be filled, or only partly so, r qs may be desired. To use the stopper as a measure, thi bulb is entirely compressed and the pressure Is then relaxed, when the fluid immediately fills the tube. Then by lightly pressing the small bulb between S the thumb and the finger, an air-valve is opened, which permits as much of .4th( - -~, 'le lu rel "h Itr 4, - .. T=E AUTOMETEIC STOPPER, the fluid to flow out of the tube as you may desire, In using the autometric stopper therk is no pouting out of the fluid and con sequently no spilling or wasting of it. di It is clean, safe, economical and con, %D 'venient. j No Wonder the Fire Burnt. A chemist, who had spent all I1uW leisure in trying to discover effective means for the speedy extinction of he fires, at last invented a grenade which, he was persuaded, was the very thing ' that was needed everywhere. ho lie arranged for a public exhibitlor 1 of its incomparable virtues, and built E outside the town a wooden structure, tin which, on a given night, would be ued, wi to demonstrate the fire extinguishing capabilities of the "Modern Wonder t Hand Grenade." On the evening in question, as soo. as the darkenes came, a great crowd t assembled, and the man of scientific skill appeared with specimens of his ~ wonderful invention. After haranguing the mob on th( to~ merits of his grenade, he proceeded to Ea set fire-to the temporary building, and 'J as the flames leapt up he threw off thi his coat and let the bottles fly. But, vir to the chagrin of the chemist, as each 3 missile struck the boards the flames go leaped higher, and the fire burned with wi i fiercer glow. Faster flew the grenades, but large, grew the fire, and soon the stock ot grenades and the patience of the thrower were alike exhausted. The structure was reduced to ashes, and ~ the discomfited inventor rapidly re, r lired amid shonts of derision. Up to the present he has failed to as. ' certain who extracted the corks of his 9 grenades, and, pouring out the con, the tents, filled them up with paraffin? thi Linguistic Whimesicalities. The Germans call a thimble a "fit th' ger-hat," which it certainly is, and a ha: grasshopper a "hay-horse." A glove ',h: with themi is a "hand-shoe," showing evidently that they wore shoes before gloves. Poultry is "feather-cattle," while the names for the well-known me substances, oxygen and hydrogen are th4 In their language "sour stuff" and "was ~er stuff." [a! The French, strange to say, have no ne verb, "to stand," nor can a Frenchman ti speak of "kicking" any one. The near- th4 est approach he makes to it in his po lteness is to threaten to "give a blow with his foot"-the same thing prob- sa ably to the recipient in either case-but In It seems to want the directness, the en- t ergy of our "kick." Neither has he any word for "-baby" or fur "home" or "comn- of fort" The terms "upstairs" an'i 1e0 "downstairs" are also unknown inP Trench.. The Hindoos have no word foi tr~ 'friend." The Italians have no equir' na alent for "humanity."W An Exoepiore Eftr. Sportifello-There is talk ot hatving a regular Spanii bull-thaht al the World's Fair. Miss Tendermiss That would be terrible, horrible, dis gusting, wicked-that isi, unless the n bull is to be the one that chased ne lst Fummer. -New York Weekly. RAM'S HORN BLAS T. uing Notes Caming the Wicked to Do pentance. EVERY life Is g prayer of some kind. A temptation r sisted is a step ta ken with God. The man who loves whisky al ways hates Christ. God speaks to us most in the voice to which we will best liten. No gift can be t on God's altar unless the blood of igious life has been put there first. he man who cheats another robs nself. Vhen the heart gives, the gift is al ys great he man who plows deep has God his friend. 'he hands grow heavy when the irt is weak. Inbellef is the egg out of which all s are hatched. t is easier to give God all than it is give him a part. he pedestal means nothing until statue Is in place. hose who borrow trouble never get hance to pay it back. 'he moderate drinker is helping to vel the road that leads to the pit 'here isn't a millionaire alive to-day om an angel would consider rich. f the road to the pit didn't begin in pectability it couldn't end in ruin. t may be that God made the Diad i to show a stingy man how he looks. t is always safe for right to count on help of God when it goes into bat 'he devil will promise to pay any d of interest, if we only take his te. esus wrote the woman's sins in the st. Our names 'are written on his ads. .he only thing the matter with the Igion of some people is that it has no rist. 'he paths of righteousness lead aght into the valley of the shatow death. 'od is not an alarmist, but when re is danger ahead he wants us to aw it. 'he devil sometimes gets the most t of it when a collection is taken up church. Vhen we go to church without pray for the preacher, the devil walks ne with us. Mhrist went about doing good. He n't sit down in a comfortable place I talk about it. Ls long as the devil can handle our ney he don't care how much noise make in church. f God answered all prayers, the tvens would always be raining fire somebody's head. ,be man who is not religious at ne, often wants to be considered :ra pious in church. ome people waste a good deal of e in prayIng for joy, who are not lng to become unselfish. here are too many people who claim love the Lord, who put rotten applee the bottom of the basket. t takes some people a whole lifetime find out that no dollar is big enough ive an hour's happiness. Vhen the convicted sinner says, "Not night," the devil feels that it will be e for him to sleep a week. he man who looks at everything ough money Is more than half con iced that the devil Is a gentleman. to matter what appearances may be, d is always on the side of the man *o does right and has to suffer for it !any~ a man falls to have access to d in private because he has been do too much trumpet blowing in pub 'hat man is not needed as a mission. rin heathen lands who has beec rried for years and never talks re ion with his wife. 'he devil is standing very close to Christian who persuades himself t his work is more important to God n that of somebody else. Let not thy left hand know what right hand doeth." The Christian's ads should be kept so busy for God tt they will have no time for gossip, rhe Church and the Young Man. [ow hard and faithfully many clergy n are spending themselves to gather Syoung men to Christ, and in great asure spending in vain, because they 'or amIss. As long as. the home is ative, fruits will continue compara ely small. On the reformation of home in this respect we should ng steady effort to bear. 'If there is to a parent one duty more ,red than anyother, for faithfulne~ss which more strict account will be ten, and which will more seriously ect a parent's eternal hope, it is this raising children religiously. Its neg t not only robs God of 'a seed to ise Him,' thwarts Ils glory In the trId, and Christ's reward for 'thu .vail of his soul,' but is a most un. tural crime against the child itself, .11 not God requite for the deep hurt icted?"-Rev. W. H. Laird. A Surmleo. 'Bill Doolan's band has been cap' -ed in Oklahoma," remarked th( wspaper reader. Tou don't say so," replied the man o pretends to keep posted but does L "What was Bill's band doing1 News in Brief -Icebergs in the Atlantic sometimes lat for 200 years. -The river Rhine flows at threP tines the rate of the Thames. -A ton of good coal is said to yield about 8,000 feet of purified gas. -The world's populationimcreases at the rate of one per cent per annum. - -Lack of physical exercise has a ten 3ency to irake Echool children short sighted. -The engine of an express train con sumes twelve gallons of water tor each mile traveled. -Authorities declare that the growth of children takes place entirely wher they are asleep. -The H1indoos have no word for friend, because they use the word brother instead. -Germany reports 280 instances o1 suicide among school children during the last Eix years. -Genuine antique hourglasses are heirlooms that may now be fashionably brought to the fore. -Pigs have a real affection for people they know, and in severaIrecent cases have acted as watchdogs. At a recent auction sale of stampt in London, rare specimens fetched sums as high as $200 and $7). -The climatic limit to the cultivatioi of wheat is not so much the cold of winter as the heat of summer. -The oldest National flag in the world is that ot Denmark which has been in me since the year 1219. -Among the eighty six plana sent i. for the -ew Egyptian Museum, at Cairo, are several from America. -Norway is more properly Nore& meaning "North isle.' It is called by the natives "the North Kingdom. - Friendly societies in England have Agreed to pay indemnity, to all. men bers who may be injured at football. -The bones of an average male skele. ton weigh twenty pounds. Those of a female are probably six pounds lighter. -The Siamese have great horror oi. old numbers, and were never known to put 5, 7, 9 or 11 windows in a house or temple. -A number o London streets ar. more popular on one side than on the other, and the rates of rent differ Proportionately. -The city Architect of Boston ad. vises that his office should be abolished and its work done by a public compe tition ot architects. -Mcund CL ty, Mo., has a thirteen year old boy who weighs 242 pounds, and Casco, Me , a twelve year old girl who weighs 225 pounds. - All ancient music was in the minn ' key, without harmony *or counter point, and entirely vocal and rhyth mical, like our recitative. In parts of Maine the inhabitantt secure the crop- of march gras by waiting until the marshes freeze over and cutting it on the ice. -The grand international wooden leg race at Nogent-sir-larne, in France, was won by Monsieur Bouhin, a veteran of the Crimean War. -A copy of the Aitken Bible, the drst Bible in the English language printed in America was sold in Bostoa by auction a few days ago for $300.. -The time required by the stomacL. to digest turkey is two hours and thirty minutes. Chickens require four hours and ducks four hours and a half. -Forty-eight pounds of pickered caught while fishing through the ice in three hours is the record made by a Norway (Me.) fisherman a few days ago. -In Cuba, 20C; to 500 colonies of - bees can be kept in one location; one man can manage 700 to 800 colonies by having an assistant during extracting time. -When a portion of the brain is re, mioved it seems to be renewed; but whether the substanoe is tre brain tissue or not appears to be undJeter. mnined. .ains, . eb. -T. R1. -HieAbbott,Ne. claims to be the raiser of the largest tomato-three pounds three and one half onces and eight and one halt inches in diameter. -Lansinig, M~ich., has a matrimomial club whose members at intervals choose . one of their number whose duty it is to get married within a year. And he always doe3 it. It is calculated that some 10,000,00t colored photographs of the Queen of England, the Prince and Princess of Wales are produced annually, and find ready sale all over the world. -The roar of a waterfall:!s explaineC in the constant explosion of hundreds of tBiousands of bubbles. The' im~pact of *nter agauist water it believed to be a comparatively subordinate cause. -A Zurich -paper comments- on the regularity of the mnigrations~ of :storks. - They always arrive between February 26 and March .2; no matter what the temperature, antl leave between 6 and 31. --The asbes of coal from the mninesor Transvaal Coat Trust and other comn Ipanies in South Africa have been ana lyzed recently and found to contamn over nine pennyweight of gold to the sucstoohnhwigotoffoe -Electric heat has been applied with water pipes in England. A wire is run into the pipe until it meets the obstruction and then the current is turned on. -The taxes on a piece of property owned by a lady in Columbus, .,. are considered so high that she has brought sunit against her husbard, the County Treasurer, to compel bim to reduc them.