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A Kind Examinar. Sir John Staiuer u'iu dearly loved by the students when be was professor of niusie at Oxford. "As an examiner he was most considerate." said one who studied under him. "and would always do Ills best to pet you through.' I remember his asking me a poser in a viva vooe examination. He waited patiently for the answer: but. partly throng!) my nervousness no doubt. I could not think of it. At length he exclaimed testily. 'Dear me, how stuffy this room is. to be sure.' and be went and began tugging at the ventilator cord. It was quite two minutes before he got the thing open, and by the time be bad sat down again and rearranged his gown I had the answer ready. Comparing notes later in the day with a man who was examined quite soon after me, I told him how the ventilator had served me. "How remarkable,' he replied. 'Why, when X was stuck he said, "How extraordinary drafty this place la," and spent quite two minutes In shutting the ventilator.' "?Manchester Guardian. The Razor In Disrepute. "And be told her all bis heart, and at id unto her, there bath not come a raaor upon mine head, for I have been a Kaxarlte unto God from my mother's womb; If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak and be like other men." ?Judges xvl. IT. Hair on man or brute Is s sign of strength. He who desires to keep at a aafo dletrnoA from dentlsta. let him keep also at a treat distance from the knife of the barber. To shave la an act against nature. Provoke nature, and In return nature will provoke you. Bald Daniel Welister: 44? the razor! It has taught me to curse. It has cost me more time and more trouble than all my speeches." / Bufus Choate, the lawyer, called the raeor an Instrument Invented by Lucifer to fill up hell with barristers. Edward Everett never used profane language, but before shaving he would lnrariably give vent to all sorts of French barbarisms. f Jordan Water. There Is a general Impression that ! the Jordan water which Is used at royal baptisms Is token from the sacred stream, put Into a bottle, hermetically sealed and left untouched until the bottle Is opened by the officiating priest. As a ma* ier of fact, the water which flows out of the lake of Galilee and descends a rocky gorge to a level far below that of the Mediterranean Is full of organic substances. If a bottle Ih? filled with the water and kept tightly corked for a few days It turns perfectly black and of- j fers to the nostrils all the odors of the tropics. The precaution Is therefore taken of boiling the water and straining it oeiore u u acaieu up, auu this Is why the baptismal water always possesses the Crystal clearness which one notices on these ceremonial occasions.?Modern 8oclety. rw 5^~ Ths ynd?rtak?r'? Shop. The one thing in New York that I can't get used to," said the country visitor, "Is the manifold uses to which undertakers put their shops. I used to 1)e of the opinion that the only possible errand a person could have at an undertaker's was to purchase funeral applies, bat in this town I find that people go there for all sorts of pur.poses, They go to vote, to get married and to transact all the legal busit mess that a notary public is capable of transacting. Yesterday I even saw a party eating luncheon In an undertaker's establishment. They had come Into town apparently to attend a funeral end instead of patronizing a res taoraat thej calmly mooched their midday meal In the midst of those lugubrious surroundings.'* ? New York Globe. traeeible Carlyle. I A lady who lived near Thomas Carlyle kept Cochin China fowls, and their ; crowing was such a nuisance that the philosopher sent a complaint to her. The owner was indignant upon hearing the appeal. "Why." said she, "they crow only four times a day, and how can Mr. | Carlyle be seriously annoyed at that?" j Upon hearing of her attitude upon the subject Carlyle replied. "The lady forgets the pain I suffer In waiting for those four crows." Once Too Often. "What's all this excitement about?" "Nothing worth mentioning. Man got knocked down." "Accident?" "Not exactly. One of these men who always catch hold of you and push yon ' out of their way when you happen to meet them at a crowded corner grab-, bed the wrong man Just now. That's all."?Chicago Tribune. I Saving Time. I Father (to his son, early in the morning)?What is the meaning of this? Yon are lying at bed with your clothes on Son ia student)?Yes. father. I do that so that if I oversleep myself I shall cot be late at college.?Meggendorfer Blatter. Torture. A shrewd old doctor once said: "If I wanted to torture an enemy, I wonld tell him he had an Incurable disease. His life would be miserable, and he would be almost certain to die before his time." Miteed Vocation. Client?Didn't you make a mistake in going Into law instead of the army? Lawyer?Why? Client?By the way you charge there would be little left of the enemy.?London Tit-Bits. Rash presumption Is a ladder which -will break the mounter's neck.?German Proverb. I I A Mystery of Indo-China. The great mystery about Indo-Cblna and one which must ever be Insoluble > la the story of the lost race and the 1 vanished civilization of that strange 1 country. The mighty walls of AngkorWat. rising in the midst of sparsely 1 ' settled Jungles, remain as the memo- 1 rial of a g eat empire which has ut- < terly dl- tppenred and Is altogether lost ! to history. No one will ever know ? who planned this gigantic temple or 1 what tyrant hounded on his myriads I j of people to build up those immense 1 ' | blocks of stone and cover them vntb , ' the most elaborate of sculptures. Ang- j I kor-Wat was one of the most aston- | * fshing monnments In the world, and . < I this forgotten temple waa built so as i1 to endure as long as the earth itself 1 were It not for the Irresistibly de- 1 structlve effect of plant life on the < strongest walls that man can raise. Only a highly civilised and very 1 wealthy people could have erected A nnr(rA?.U7af a rnsr r\ I f TWm I ? : the Anamlte of modern days. The { whole nation has disappeared as utteri ly as the busy myriads who once popj u la ted the wastes and solitudes of Memphis.?Singapore Free Press. He Get the Treut. story dealing with a large trout that was rising regularly and frequently Is told in "How to Fish: A Treatise on Trout and Trout Fishers." This Is , the story: "He was going up and down, up and 1 down, up and down; not as the Insects 1 offered themselves, bat as it suited his 1 composure thrt be should take a midge 1 from the abundance. One youth was c casting at the trout; another was look- * lng on. Said the angler. Til have that fish whether be takes It or not' 1 'Howr his friend asked. 'I'll throw 1 the fly Into his month.' The trout r went on rising; the angler went on s casting. I perceived the angler's no- * tlon. It was that If be kept casting accurately and the trout continued to c rise In the regular manner mentioned, r the fly would ere long fall at the very h moment when a midge was being 8 taken. This reckoning was justified. d The large trout waa hooked and land- 0 ed by a fly that had been cast Into bis month." 1 Old Fashionsd Oratory. 8 "we aon't nave no aicn rorensic ore- * tory as we used to bare," said tbe old 0 settler. "Lawyers nowadays don't orate. They only Just talk. "Take old Bill K. Simmons of Eau Clair. If Bill was defendln' a lowly a chicken thief he'd speak with the tongue of augela. I'll never forgit the * peroration of his Impassioned philippic P In the Clay Bull case about the poison- 11 ed cat. It runs like this here." The little, thin old man rose, reared ? back In a defiant attitude and shouted a In the cracked treble of age: b " 'Restln' upon the couch of republican liberty as I do, covered with the f< blanket of constitutional panoply as I am and protected by the aegis of -V American equality as I feel myself to t! be. I despise tbe buzsln' of tbe profes- tl slonal ineeek who has just sot down * and defy his attempt to penetrate with puny sting the interstices of me im- fi pervious cover! n'.' "?New York Press, tr E The Log Driver. si The life of a river log.driver is a life that seems to get bold of one after a year or two. You are generally wet through for twelve hours ont of the n twenty-four. Ten of you sleep In a n 12 by 15 foot shanty; you live y on fried everything, "black strap," * treacle and stewed tea. Yon go to bed n at 10 and get up at 3. You are ever- It lastingly cursed and never praised by the foreman. Your life la In danger E more or less all day long, and you tl never get more than $85 a month for * work that la worth $100. "Then why tl stick at Itr you say. and all I can 1 answer is, juii give u b iiu uiw for a year, and then you'll know.**? A Wide World Magazine. * It Superlative*. s; Dr Johnson says in his "Grammar of the English Tongue," "The comparison of adjectives Is very uncertain and, being much regulated by commodious- '' ness of utterance, is not easily re- a duced to rules." ^ Then he quotes passages from 'Tara- f dlse Lost" In which the word# "virtu- c ousest" and "powerfullest" are found * and a passage from "Samson Agon- J1 istes" which contains the word "fa- I1 mousest." * Surely Milton had an ear.?Notes and 1 Queries. J Tough Far*. e la a New Zealand town one of the ' municipal candidates, a pronounced t Scotsman, had received a present of a 8 huge Scotch thistle, which at the moment happened to be lying on the table of his committee room. A friend, entering, withdrew suddenly, with the 8 remark: "I beg your pardon. I didn't * know you were at luncheon." ? r Too, Too Much. 1 "Thank you, son," said old Tlghtflst | 1 to the boy who had run several blocks 1 on an errand for him. "Here's a penny * fur ye." f "Don't tempt me. guv'ner," said the 1 bright boy. "If I was ter take all dat 1 money I might buy a auto wld It an' 1 git pinched for scorchln'."?Philadelphia Press. Ingenious. 1 Sen-ant (to artist returning from a holiday*?There have been so many callers since you left that I have been obliged to wash the names from the { slate twice to make room for others.? 1 Pearson's Weekly. 1 What Is ths Answer? She?That Is a woman whom I envy, and, curious as It may seem, she envies me. He?How can that be? She ?We were both after the same maaand I married you.?Illustrated Bits. Dodged the Mustard Pot. Durln,' the rehearsals of a pnnt< mime i.i a Scottish town (Glasgow, think; Glasgow has always !>oon a eventful place t.? u:e.'? a child wa wanted for the Spirit of the Mustar E'ot. What more natural than that u: rather should offer my services? I ha 11 shock of pale yellow hair, I wa jn:all enough to be put Into the p;vj ?rty mustard put, and the Olasc-n stage manager would easily assi;:;i that I had Inherited talent My fathe lad acted with Macready In the ?6oc reasons both at Edinburgh and Gla.? pow and bore a very high repUtatlo rttb Scottish audiences. Bat the stag manager and father alike reckon* rlthouf their actress! When they tMe ? pat me Into the mustard pot I yelle ustlly and showed more long powe haa aptitude for the stage. "Put your child into the mustard po Mr. Terry," said the stage manager. "Hang you and your mustard pol dr," said my mortified father. "I won' "lighten my child for you or any on >lee." But, all the same, be was bitterly dli ippolnted at my first dramatic failure tnd when we reached home he put m n the corner to chasten me. "Tou'l tever make an actress!" he said, shak ng a reproachful finger at me.?El lei Terry In Mcdure's Magazine. Preferred the Baby's Voice. New York scientist, the father o t large and growing family, has hli roubles. One evening his younges ras holding forth In her best style [he mother could do nothing with tb< hi id. so the man of science went t< he rescue. '1 think I can quiet Httle Flora," h< aid. ' There's no use humming to Iicj n that allly way. What she wants fi sal music. The fact that I used t< lug In the glee club st Yale and slii* veil, too. may make a difference." Accordingly, the professor took tin hlld and, striding up and down th< oom, sang in his best manner. H< ad not finished the second verse of bh ong when a ring was beard. Tb< oor was opened, and there stood a glr f fourteen, who aaid: "I'm one of the family thafs Jnsl aoved into the fiat next to yours "here's a sick person with us, and b< ays, If It's all the same to you, would ou mm a leiuug uiv unuj v.i/ iu?mv f singing to It?"?Success. A Considerate Musician. Many stories are told of the Jealousy nd 111 feeling among musicians, so it i refreshing to note that at least out enius did not fail In good natured ap reciation of a fellow artist. It is re ited how Kossini. walking one day ot le boulevard with the musician Br* a. was greeted by Meyerbeer, whx nxlously inquired after the health of Is dear Kossini. "Bad." answered the latter. "Fright j1 headaches. legs a.'I wrong." After a few minutes' conversation leyerbeer passed on. and Braga asked >e great composer how It happened ist he had suddenly become so un ea Smilingly Rossfnl reassured bit rlend. "Oh. I couldn't be better. I >erely wanted to please Meyerbeer, ie would so Ifke to see me go to mash!"?St. Louis Republic. Why They're Trams Abroad. "Abroad," uld a tourist agent, "yon tost caD street ears trams and street diwaye you most call tramwaya. II ou speak of trolleys orer there, yon oc't be understood. The word tram mat p exile the average etymologist t derives from a man's name?Outrun -Thomas Ootram. Ootram lived is Derbyshire, and in the begtniddf of ie last century be invented a peculiar art of track that diminished the frlcon between wheels and roadbeds t?e*e tracks of Outram'a, though nothlg like a trolley track, were called mt outramwavs. then tramways, tad rben street lines and street cars canM lto existence they were dabbed re pectlvely tramways and trams." A Crocodile to a Tree. An African hunter once found a lrge crocodile hanging In the fork ol tree about ten feet from the ground lS the place was fhlly half a mil? rom any water, ft was difficult to ac ount for the crocodile's strange post Ion. When questioned upon the sub ect. the natives explained that It wat >ut there by an elephant. It seeim bat when the elephants wade Into tin ,ake Ngaml to bathe tbe crocodiles an a the habit of worrying them and bit ng their legs. Sometimes when ai lephant Is annoyed beyond endurance t picks up Its tormentor in Its trunk uts It among the branches of a tre< ind leaves It there.?London Graphic. Traas and tha Air. According to a reliable computation l single tree is able through Its leavei o purify the air from the carbonic acl< irlslng from the respiration of a con ilderable number of men, as many w t dozen or a score. The volume o arbonlc acid exhaled by a human be ng In the course of twenty-four hour s estimated at 100 gallons, and a sin fie square yard of leaf surface, count ** ? ? ./* im/liip aMaq n Hg DOLQ UJK auu UUUV. . :he leaves, can decompose about i jallon of carbonic add In a day. A Legacy. "What's your fare?" asked old Fllni ikln of bis cabby the other day am was met with the stereotyped reply: "Well, air, I will leare that to you." "Thank yon, yon are very kind," sal old Fltntakln, buttoning op his pocket and walking off. "You're the first pei son who ever left me anything yet"~ London Mall. Hard Luck. Mrs. Dash?Mother says that sh wants to be cremated. Dash?Just m lnck! I haven't a match with mfcBmart Set ?????? I The Cough of j Consumption t Your doctor will tell you that v fresh air and good food are * the real cures for consumption. ? But often the cough is very hard. Hence, we suggest that a you ask your doctor about e your taking Ayer's Cherry J Pectoral. 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