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PBBP?^JU8 ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY v CHAPLAIN CLARK. OF THE ' V NAVAL ACADEMY. & * AIurM TKe Ualaoked-Tor Increment Baltimore, Md.?The following brlltewt sermon was contributed to the Stmday Sim by the Rev. Fl. H. Clark. Dl P., chfttttaln of the United States Xavnl Acanetnjv At Annapolis. It is CBtitleti "The "UnlSoked-Uoiv. InrYf nmt " nnri wne nronpluwl frnm flip trcit: "Behold. I hnve done Recording to Thy words; Lo! I have giveu thee a wm and understanding heart. And I have also given thee that which thou iaa*t not asked."?II Kings, iii.. 12-13. Solomon's request is a surprise, fj-ft to the promptings of ambition it is not characteristic of men to ask for simple gifts or few. The natural rewould have been for the things the King did not ask?long life, riches, bono^. victory over enemies. Instead the request was simple and nnseltish. It was made with a most becoming humility. It was for a wise and nnder*ta?ding heart. This would be enough. Then came the Jehovah's answer: "I ha/re given thee a wise and understand* ?: heart. And I hnve also given thee that which thou hast not asked." This was Increment, increase, that Solomon hart not counted on. How much is involved in doing the tSijeht thing at the outset! Somehow Mrs* things take hold on lasA things. Tb*- energy of the first block ^e child pwfln over 111 tut* row is uui i-ak-huch tHl the Inst block is down. ThVttrst twsmehes you bend and tie into Skape mate way for cfce beauty and symmetry of the full srown tree. The shipbuilder can tell from the keel that iso fcvid the sort of ship that is going to be built. From the dimensions of growing columns the architect can cjairkly estimate the weight of arches or dome. So God sees in some simple,, bonest prayer we may offer the begnxMcg of all we may ever achieve of knowledge, go* dness. service; sees in sfcad? our life hall ever mean to our? sptvrs and otf *r fellow-men. Wonder'Jfltf Are the connections be .ween first things and last! It is, too, an immeasurable satisfaction that when we have done the right art, said the right word, offered the right prayer, put ourselves in the right stt3oade in anything our responsibility erases. Then the way of Divine Providence is opened in our lives. Solomon imlc just the right prayer; then God -gave'him what he had not asked. How this simplifies life! We have to do the right thing at the right the rest take* care of itself. In -nrffluary circumstances we all know wseil enough what the right thing is. Ba the Old Testament a well-known character said: "I, being is the way. An Lord led me." The secret of it was that Eliezer started on the right noad; then the Lord led him to the ayfl. The happy outcome we all know. When our prayer is: "Make me true this work, this demand, this oecawa. this duty," using the light we get, , ? - ^ *? ?ao n/\ f 11 ethnr ?t IKTU VUt OCI ? CO uw l u a vuvi itvuMe. Results are not in our hands. Die disciples all began their careers . fcjr the use of this method. Without Iksmght of what was to come, they sharply obeyed the Master's call. His camroaud was: "Follow Me!" and , straightway Simon and Andrew left tiae net they were casting into the . * lake, and James and John the net they were mending in the boat, and followed , Him. So with all the others. They .1 left what they were doing to do what , Christ told them to do. They had no : ? more conception of what was to follow Has the child Shakespeare or the child Milton had of what was to follow his ] learning of the alphabet. In the sini- , honestest manner the disciples ( i?ot themselves in right relations to Chrifct, and their act changed the tomirse of history. Admiral Farragut touched this truth wnother side. In the darkest days <nf the Civil War the President called lidm to Washington for consultation. The people were finding fault with this ' danral and that General, with the ( ^Skaaldent. with pretty much every- ( One evening in a large com- j iproy the Admiral sat listening to the , ? cwmpiaints of the hearthstone warriors. At length he said In quiet tones, but ( with the strength of moving fleets in flua: "I have one great advantage? 5 kare only to go where I am sent." ' TTbe thing In hand occupied blm ab iorbingly, wholly. What he sought wiast the wise and understanding heart '.tar itbe present duty: the rest was in 'taws Almighty's hands. Crest men for the most part have { Itecn as simpie-heartea as sojomon m liai f>nyer. They placed t^e emphasis r tra* on what.they wanted to do. but on cuflmt Shey wanted to be: not on dreams '?* life, but on fitness for life. They the 8ame ship, so to Ray. in the twinning from which they disernlarked in the end. though ihey were as ignorant of the voyage before them as Salomon was of the coming events of .life reign. Tftoere are many things we desire 1 -about which we need not much concern ??rselves if we make use of this prin civile. Solomon, for example, did not for a long life: ye^long life was fennrived in a wise and understanding Itexrt. The man who sets out to do his -*Vxty in all respects should not trouble bxmself about the number of his days. him live the life, and, whether it Ibe long -or short, it is a life. But the <-feaaces are that it will be long. It has Itten noted in armies that the men who ats* fussiest about living are frequently tin* tnen who do not pull through. Xenophon noted this fact more than ' t?'AX) years ago. In the Anabasis, we uncollect. when Ciearchus and other leading (Jreek Generals had been slain I* the tent of Tissaphernes through the Tbrvd faith of the Persians the Greek *inny, in the heart of the enemy's i 'cwunlry, was greatly discouraged. 1 Then Xenophon addressed the army l ?a words like these: "I have observed this. O men. that as many as desire vt? live by all means in military af- 1 faJrs, these for the most part, die cow- ' atrJiy and disgraced. Bat as many as i ee?*gnize that death is common and i wioessnry to all men, and strive to die < . isaaorably, I see these, by some means i ?r other, arrive at ohl age, and while 1 o-y live live successfully." i The same truth applies to happiness. 1 CSwioters and shelves are crowded with i Jbcoks on happiness; "The Art of Hap- 1 V conntPwTiTIel^Tijrmg the changes on happiness. The pornrit of happiness Is the quest of the d*y. .Many people are pounding the drum of happiness so hard as to smafch the drum. The troth is, outy fitness tot* happiness brines it. A man never caught it by running after it. It is a rainbow, with its pot of gold, that ronst (joine Jo us. and come when we are noj-fcxpecting it. The happiness seekers are the happiness :osers. The man who achieves happiness is the man who has aimed for something higher. Think nothing about happiness: only put your best into each day of life. The same*thing holds true of reputation. One of the things Solomon did not ask war honor. It was enough for him to he wise and just. Wisdom and justice were the highest sources of his ' * ^ ?- * ? ? 11 o f * oa lin ic Honor, r or wimhmh .iuu ju.-in. ... reputed above all pl.se. if day by day we strive for the inward things from which reputation takes substance and shapeliness, we need give ourselves no further thought about the matter. What men think of us will take care of itself, Growing plants do urt irive themselves concern over smnmc: they are the sift of spring to summer, and summer will take care of them. So. living as we ouuht. we commit our reputation to God. whose presence and whose care are the real summer of all good things among men. If Solomon informed his courtiers of his request to Heaven they probably told him that he had missed a great opportunity. They might easily have said: "Why did you not ask for riches, for vastly extended power and dominion? How much better they would have been than wisdom? We could have furnished the wisdom." But tl^ prayer was of the right sort. JebovriK was pleased with its modesty: and the things that were not asked for were in due time given. The surprise of life often lies in the insignificance of the means to some great end. People in the navy know that the smallest thing connected with a great gun is the most indispensable?the tiring pin. That gone, and the gun. so to say. is on the shelf. In the army one of the smallest duties of the cavalryman is the caring for his horse. There Is an instance in history where cavalry that did this duty well and cavalry that did it ill, otherwlfic equally matched, fought a battle, in which those who neglected their horses were cut down almost to a man. Doors to great events swing outward on little hinges. Art and relior>/l won o hnn nr? j;iuil iiuu rutivnuuii niiu Mtu Iti'vut.v* with decisions and acts and incidents, small in themselves as mustard seeds, yet so growthful that {treat events and jrreat deeds have come and lodged in the branches thereof. Let us also treasure the words of the Master In direct line with the truth we have been considering: "Seek ye first the kingdom of Cod and His righteousness. and all these things shall be added unto you." II The Poverty . feChriat. Is a man poor! Let him remember Christ's knowledge of his poverty. It is no light thing to be poverty-stricken in the midst of wealth. To see lovef oneR denied comforts :?nd even necessities merely through lack of a few pieces of glittering metal: to have growing sons and daughters deprived of an education: to see suffering ones unrelieved; to have no opportunities to increase one's usefulness: to expose one's family to moral degradation because of Inek of a competence?these are but a few of the evils of poverty. To men in such circumstances. ChriRt said, "I know thy poverty." Who better could understand? Had He not as an eldest son seen something of sordid economies'in that carpenter's Knmn Yo?orr.(llV llllll Tin lint US II uuiur ui uouitvu . <?v a>vt, ?? widow's main support suffered in the harsh limitations of a Galilean peasant's lot? Hail He not at times been deprived of a place to lay His head? It was for your sake He became poor. ?Pacific Baptist. "Je Shall Know Hereafter." What is approved by God?honor* Him, resembles Him?must be made successful, triumphant and predominant, in His empire. He will not forever suffer the enemy's camp on His grand field. The awful mystery, why this trumphant ascendancy is so slowly achieved, so long delayed in this world, will, it is reasonable to believe, be one Df the subjects for illumination in a higher state of existence, where enlarging facilities will have endless duration for their exercise. It may then be seen that the whole course of this world, from the beginning to the end, was "a day of small things," as compared with the sequel?only as n brief introduction to an immense and endless economy.?John Foster. How l'rayer Help*. TVe all know that a good life and a humble testimony to the goodness and faithfulness of God have u very groat influence for good on the minds of all who see and hear; but now does prayer help? In the first place, prayer, if it be true prayer?an earnest and confident appeal to God for the blessing sought? has a wonderful effect upon the character of the person who offers it. Such prayer brings the petitioner into close fellowship with God and opens his whole nature to the influence of the Spirit of God; and by so doing fits him to become a zealous and effective witness for God. In On* Single Hour. In that single hour when he brought Peter to Christ. Andrew accomplished more for the world than In all his life besides. It may easily be so with us. Business men are satistied to get ten, live, or even two per cent, returns from the capital, but no investment equals in returns the investment of a little time and courage In soul-saving. The Interest is literally millions per cent. Indeed, If you remember the endless reaches of eternity, the Interest is infinite. Cm Positive Arguments. It is necessary to lay stress up' e fallacy of the negative attitude tig truth, because that attlnu' .e of the chief obstacles in the . winning souls for Christ. juld be soul-winners we nv jf all get rid of any tenden' ,,.ay have to look upon " '-gs <-ly and to present thei .--. to others, and then we n .xeip those we would save to devel ? a desire for positive truth. / : ' - . :y* >?' t P i SOUTHERN < f, <?E>?? % TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PL ANTE I '1\l' mm Kxperlcnc* la i>?xllnc Milk. A writer iu the Southern Planter recommends feeding milk to the poultry. For young growing chickens and , tor lnying.hens its value can hardly be overestimated. The great benefit to be derived from the feeding of milk to fowls seems to oe almost entirely ignored by the nia; lority of poultry keepers. When corn is the principal ration, as is the case on the majority of farms, a liberal sup- , ply of milk to balance up this ration 1 will be found most profitable In the re; turn of eggs. If hens arc fed all the aiilk they can be induced to drink along with a com ration, great gains can be expected in the egg production. Last year we fed our fowls largely on corn, especially our laying hens, and for a balanced ration we supplied all the milk we could spare, and the result was a better production of eggs than in any previous winter. On farms wbere there Is a good supply of milk there should be no reason for not receiving a large number of eggs. Wbere milk fc supplied liberally, animal food in the Dprm of cut green bone can be reduced, inilk furnishes largely the elements found ip bone. Milk and com make a much better combination than milk, wheat and oats. Feed the layers milk and corn, alternately with green food in the shape of cabbage or prepared clover, and you have a most ideal food for egg-produetion. Milk can be given In almost unlimited quantities witbout any serious results following. It very I often happens that feeding meat too ireeiy prouuces uiuimura, nuivu i checks the supply of eggs, but In feeding milk we do not experience such unfavorable results. On the contrary, where it is not convenient for the farmer to get bone from the butcher, be can supply milk instead, which is almost or quite as good as bone. We ; know a lady who feeds corn and milk I the year round to both young and old, with very satisfactory results, using the sour milk (after boiling it) in mash , with decided benetits, especially with | the young growing 6tock. Next season we shall use boiled sour milk, wheat i bran and cornmeal, sprinkled with pul- | verfted charcoal for our young chick- j ens, believing we have a food that will be wholesome, palatable and inexpen- j sivc compared to some of the prepared chick foads now on the market. At 1 the same time we shall provide skimmed milk as we have previously doue for the fowls to drink, believing we can realize more from the produce < in feeding in this way than any other | waf we could feed it, realizing that it i %? ?!? I\a nrootl/.nllr imnndalhlD tA <vpt "ill UC |/4 ULUVUUJ *UJ|/woV*w<v ?? , too much milk before our fowls. If a patch of wheat or rye is sown close i to the poultry run to supply green stuff j naturally for the fowls during the i winter months, and they are constantly ; supplied with milk, we stake our all, j on it that eggs will be plentiful, stock ] healthy and vigorous, with the assur- ] once of strong fertility In eggs when the breeding season opens up. For Better Firming In the Sooth. ( The Southern farmer has had heavy j burdens to carry for a number of years, | and the situation, while much improved, needs to be carefully consld- ( ered. There is a vast differencei between bad farming, fairly good farm- , ing and tirst-rate farming. No farmer ought to be satistied with anything less than tirst-rate farming. Now, tirst-rate farming begins with J the soil. All soils are not alike. One , lacks one ingredient, on another. Some , soil is too wet, some not moist enough, j but within certain lines the condition of tbe soil depends upon tbe man who tills it. If there is too much moisture it must be drained and lime must be added. Then there must be plowing that will pulverise the soil, break up tbe clods, release those imprisoned chemical agents that \work for the life of the plant. Starting with better drainage and with better plowing, you come to the, crops. It is weil recognized now that certain crops enrich the soil through the elements they draw from the atmosphere. Clover was long recognized j as a good fertilizer without knowing Just why. We know why now, and In j the South, especially, we know that the j cowpea is just as good, in many soils better, nud in the West we know that ( alfalfa is the great regenerator of the soil. There are many places in the , South where alfalfa can be used bene- 5 liclally, and it ought to be experimented -ith much more frequently than it has been. ! Home and Farm, looking back over ( a career of twenty-live years, congrat- i ulatcs itself in that it has proclaimed ear'- and late, in season and out, the 1 v to the Southern farmer of the ] S .ern cowpea. A quej^ of a centu ago, Mr. A. F ^rd, of South C: ina, wrote ;ries of articles, ; ri ig ** ? number of years, i e .ue merits and setting ! alue to Southern agriculture i outhern cowpea. 1 New* of the Day. It has been calculated that, taking the population of the whole world, there is one newspaper to every 82,600 persons. The United States supports 12,500 newspapers, of which 1,000 are dailies, these being round figures. Germany has 5,500 journals, of which 800 are daily. England takes second place in the European record with 3,000 newspapers, of which 809 are daily. Frtfrce has nearly the same number. w v Wv i ? .'..ft. \ ...,. V ARM : ^0r?S. ff. STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER, The resources ef the Southern farmer have been greatly increased. They will be wasted if they cultivate cotton and nothing else. Let them diversify their crops, let them spend some of their money for improvements around the house, for improved farm implements, let us go to work on every line by which we can reduce the cost ot crops. Then we can face either short crops and high prices or abundant crops and low prices with something like satisfaction. And let us keep In mind this fact?that there is more in the man than in the land.?Ilome and Farm. Makinp a Busines*. One who has had experience and thoroughly understands the business can make the poultry business prolitable almost anywhere. One who has had 110 experience should be very careful. The following from the Southern Agriculturist is very good advice: A reader who is much interested in building up a poultry farm Id the South says that be has eighty acres of land located on a main line of railroad between two cities of 20,000 and 40,000 inhabitants. He says the nature of the soil is dead and red, but that clover will grow rankly on it. There are a few springs on the hillside that may be used to advantage. Tbis man wants to start into the egg business and asks how many incubators and how many hundred head of good pullets he should buy to start with. He has one of the essential points Df success, for he wants nothing bnt pure-bred stock to work with. White Leghorns are the fowls he wants to use in this egg business. He should not start with incubators, but with one incubator and a pen of ten or twelve pullets and a cockerel. His incubator and brooder can be bought this winter and he can prolltably put in some time trying to hatch "store eggs" or those he can buy up among the farmers near his small so* burban home. He does not live on the farm now, but in a small place in the outskirts of town. Here be can put In two good years of work while hanging on to his otilce work. The pen of pullets will lay enough eggs to keep an Incubator busy all season. As he becomes proficient he can spread out until he will have to move to his farm. On his small place he can learn how to mate, raise and select his best fowls. He can learn hew to tight lice and produce early spring eggs for his incubators. These and a thousand other things will keep him so busy while out of office that the time will go in a hurry. If he undertakes too much before he has had experience, the chances are that we will hear of his quitting in disgust. It will take two years for him to acquire a good working knowledge, and in eaeb year thereafter he will learn twice as much. Let him read largely, 'but sift the chaff from the wheat; stick'to the business, and make it win, if you can. Ask questions, and study for yourself, (jet to the bottom of. tb$ troubles you meet, but never let them twice get you down. Remember that health and size are the two things to keep right lu the parent stock, then ills with cmcKS win not oe too hard to conquer. After getting things going, then begin to hunt the best markets. Try to arrange to supply swell hotels and restaurants with your brand of table eggs. When you prove that yours are best the price will not cut any tlgure?the demand will not be easy to till if the reputation holds good. CiiHTa.1 Every little -while some one has diecovered a new plant that Is a wonder, ar some old plant is rejuvenated and paraded for special favor. Possibly It amy be of some value upon certain grades of soil, but Is totally on tit ted tor general use. Just now there Is an attempt to Impress the public with cassava, the plant from which tapioca is made. It is a moderately nutritious, starchy root, that thrives on very poor soil. Six tons of roots per acre Is an exceedingly good crop. Found for pound It is not equal to green alfalfa. \lfalfa costs less per pound, yields four times as many pounds per acre, and is perennial. More pounds of sweet potatoes can be grown to the acre and they are fully ?qual. Fortunately cassava Is not very well adapted to rice land.?Rice Journal. Eight of the fifteen European iKrAnao will none frAm fnthor tfk SAn if all goes well. The Sultan will probably be succeeded by bis brother and the King of Spain by his sister, while there is no direct lielr to Queen Wilbelmina. John F. Boyd and his wife have given to the city of San Itafael one of the beauty spots around San Francisco Bay, finely laid out grounds of twenty acres, with a large and handsome building, in memory of their dead ones. Odds and Ends. It Is understood that Denver will be selected as the site for the army and navy hospital which the Federal Govrheerful lrdlu rdlu dl dl dlu dlu dludl and for which an appropriation of $50,000 has been set aside. The majority of the commission in charge favors Denver, although two members advocated some site in Arizona. The West Virginia Legislature adopted a resolution declaring against any change in the tariff laws. W > 7 v; / ' yfKh^'.P' .A ' > x %** 'in i Reviewer The mare Magazines the I Indispensable is The Rc\ " Indispensable." ** The one magazine 1 world under a ficld-^lass." "An educa 3 current literature,"? those are seme of the people who read the Review or Review*. lb I nvore necessary is the Review of Reviews, becaus H is ia ail the moA important monthlies of the B periodical literature that nowadays people say B with it is to read the Review of Rcvmws. Entii 9 iag section, it has more original matter and illuAi I the most timely and important articles printed in Eg Probably the raofl useful section of all is Dr. i I ress of thcNVorld," where public events and issu I expired in every issue. Manv a subscriber wi B worth more than the price of the magazine. B depicting current history in caricature, is anod B flcriev/s covers five continents, and yet is N Men in public life, the members of Congress, 3 of industry who must keep " up with I women all over America, have decided that it is | % TH^REVIEW OF REVIEW a 13 Ajtor Place, Nc LABOR WORLD The number of laborers in the Indus- I tries of France is about 5,500,000. T The ateel employes of the Illinois flsl Steel Company have decided/to accept J lower wages and a twelve-hour worklug day. ' 3 One of the most Interesting develop- me ments' in the trade union world in ; j France ia the development of the so? - t ft" cancu lauoi excuuuijtr. An official of the Schenectady (If. j Y.) plant of the American Locomotive Company anys that the plant will aoon tw be running with its fall force. It Is asserted that the United Typo- j0 rhetae of America ia at present area- w mulating a defense fund in orderibat the eight-hour day enforcement may be 1 combated. hc g^] A report of the United State* Com- jj_ miss!oner of Labor show* that in 192 ? occupation* where labor was organized i there was for the most part a steady increase In wages. jjjj Resolutions have been adopted by the National Industrial Association ad- _J vocatlng the establishment of artisan I a schools throughout the country by boards of education. *** Mr. J. Weir. J. P.. secretary of th& ^ Fife (Scotland) Miners' Association, was elected to the secretaryship of the Miners' Association in 1880. and has held the office without interruption ? since that time. The buildipg trades in San Francisco. ! * which inclttde sixty unions ahd 21.000 men, intend to erect a, "temple" which will accommodate all the unions and ?" the general officer*. It ia expected to *t0 cost about $100,000. t0E A canvass of the anthraefte mining 3 region discloses a new feature in ihe on industrial outlook. It is the undoubted CZ! insistence of the miners upon an eight- on hour workday at nine hours' wages ? when the present agreem'-ut.wltji the j1. operators expires. "i8 a u NEWSY GLEANINGS. New Jersey has a $3,000,000 cash balance. There were 1G00 postofflce robberies . last year. An arc lamp In New York now costs b $145 a year, while In Baltimore It costs $91 a year. * Pennsylvania last year led the Union In the number of legal executions? ( nineteen. a lino Roman oavement of mosaic work has been unearthed at Reggio dl Calabria, Italy. Jh A woman wag one of the competitors In a plowing contest lately held in Der- 1 byshtre. England. .ha 1 Cfl' Before being granted a license St Petersburg drosky drivers hare to take ' an oath to be civil and not to over- ' Tl charge. 101 The PIttsbnrg orchestra has Issued a stern decree against the "encore fiend," v? and hereafter no encore numbers aro c" to be given. 1 Andrew Carnegie has ordered $1,000,- jn' 000 of Ills money to be held to the ,jri credit of St. Louis for a city library tp be built there. Yc The United States has the only gen- Pi( nine horse marines. Twelve marines to have been mounted at the Navy Yard, 1 Mare Island, Cal. th< A jury at Independence. Iowa, has Jnst awarded $500 damages to Priscilla Odell for being "whitecapped" by three < men and three women, who whipped tei ? ' w< ner in puuut. For the first time in Ireland a mornIng newspaper was issued on January 1 2 for a half-penny (one cent). It is the M< Irish Independent and had formerly Yc told for a penny. Yc There are to he 2o0 Republicans and < 13G Democrats in the Fifty-ninth Con- na gress after March 4. In the next Uni- mi ted $tates Senate there are to be fifty- H< eight Republicans and thirty-two Dens- of ocrata. Lobster Would Make Many Meals. A fourteeh-pound lobster was re- re cently secured by G. B. Hunt of East- wl port, Me. The lobster measured nine- it: teen inches from head to tail, the two pr feelers from tne head measuring hi eighteen inches and the claws each di seventeen inches in length, and the er largest six inches In width. su EVIEWS re are, the mote | . rjcxv of Reviews | I feel I mu?t take.** "The H tion is public aft'aira and fi phrases one bears from noted e more cw?ozmes there are. the I e it brings together the best tbtf I world. Such is the flood of I that the only wry to keep cp 8 c!y over sad above this review- fl ations than moft magazines, and 8 any monthly. - 8 Mbert Shaw's illustrated44 Prog- fl >cs are authoritatively and lucidly I rites, 44 This department alone a I rhc unique cartoon department, fl ler fayorite. The Review el I American, firft and foremoA. fl professional men. and the great fl the times,44 iaiel^gcnt men and fl 44 indispensable." fl V^OMPAN^^^l w York J r j PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. v < Slbert Hnbbard i? now a Socialist, "be King of Portugal ia a devoted *. tier man. , v<j I. Pierpont Morgan baa Jo*t paid )00 for the oldest pWnoin existence. ilicbael Jenkins baa given to Baltlire a site for the Maryland Institute. Fohn Hay. Secretary of State, !* A iduate of Brown University, claw ? 1858. lose Ecbegaray. the celebrated Span i writer, has published more than enty dramas. ?ount Cassini, the Russian Ambassa-"" r. has just completed bis fiftieth ar in the Russian diplomatic service. .. V. pension has been granted by the 7" ivcrnment of Sweden to Pierre Ibi. brother of the dramatist, lie la a hthouse keeper. former Judge Alton B. Parker has t the first case argned by hiin before ? Court of Appeals after returning to i practice of law. ilme. Le Bargy, who IS regarded in ris as the natural successor of Mme. rah Bernhardt, has been on the iye only three years. The late ex-Governor CTaflin, of .Mas.'busetts. was one of seven ex-Goriors of that State who were born in 18. These were Bontweil. Ciaflin. drew, Gardner, Rice, Talbot and> tier. obi) Mackintosh, LL.IX, the leading rhority on Scottish history, wrote bis Jsiory of Civilisation in Scotland" the counter of his tiny stationery re in the early morniug before casaers came. . larconi's thirtieth birthday Is do# April 25. The Inventor began bis leriments with wireless telegrapby his father's estate near Bologna irly twenty years ago. He was stilt !>oy when he succeeded in sending first wireless signals a distance *f alio. U w? SPouilMG bUi.t,AilESL r* tfest Point defeated Colgate at ba?? tball by a score of 10 to 8. Mncton defeated Brown University a hockey game, G goals to 0. Princeton defeated Pennsylvania at sketball by a score of 37 to 35. Jrs. Edward Bramlage, of Brooke. Mass., paid $500 for a prise cat. Jeorge Lauder, Jr., was re-elected 3i mod ore of the Indian Harbor Yacht ub. Terrace City asd Yonkers curlinglbs won matches at Van. Cortlnndt ke, N. Y. ilection of a football captain at Tale s been Indefinitely postponed heuse of divided opinion. iJtica carter* were defeated by the ilsties, of Yonkers, i\. Y.. In the first and for the Dewar Cup. II. Lucien Meiignac and Signor Pnsi are likely to cross swords for the ainpionship In Washington. D. C. Harold See. a competitor in the skat; races at the Clermont BInk. Broot1, N. Y? was injured through a fall. The Crescent A. C. defeated the New irk A. C. in an amateur league chaminship hockey game by a score of S 2. Hany bigh priced cars were sold at s Importers' Automobile Salon la ?rald Square Exhibition Hall, New rk City. Captain Flynn, of the Yale hockey mi, bad a leg injured in the game xi by bis team from Columbia, by a >re of 0 to 3. BEockey players representing the jntreal A. A. A. defeated an all-Newt rk seven at tbe Clermo.it Rink (Newi >rk City) by 4 goals to 3. [)nt on the Coast there Is a Chinaman med Ah Wing who is showing re? irkable proficiency with the gloves. , > has beaten a number of good men his weight alreadyKilled Two Foxes With One 8hoL Newell Hodgklns of Lamoine, Mejc cently killed two foxes at one shtft tiile cruising the woods in the vielnof his home. That two young owlers were standing erect on their nd legs in a wrestling attitude when scovered and the crafty young huntlost no time in taking advantage ot ,ch a rare opportunity.