SLEER ON-A COLD SMOKE. Pnffingaa Empty Pipe Hxtid to Be an Insomnia Cere. After giving a fair and patient trial to each of many alleged cures for sleeplessness the writer stumbled across a simple* method-of inducing somno lence that has the merit of being harm less and inexpensive. To smokers the remedy involves no cost whatever, but of nonsmokers the capital outlay of the price of a pipe is required. It must be a wooden pipe and curved, not straight Having retired for the night, the suf ferer should lie perfectly fiat on his back, discarding pillow rests, and puff . steadily at an empty pipe until he feels thoroughly drowsy. The desired result usually is achieved- after from about sixty to a hundred puffs have been made. The puffing should be done slowly, with a deep inhaling movement The expelling motions 'must be made deliberately with narrowed mouth. During the entire operation the pipe should not be removed, as each displac ing and replacing movement tends to wakefulness. Those capable of great concentration of thought should, if smokers, imagine they see volumes of smoke, and those who eschew the burning weed will be helped by counting the puffs. As sleep is often successfully wooed while -yet the pipe is in the mouth, "bowls of meerschaum or clay are not , recommended, since these are liable to be broken when the coming of slumber allows the, pipe to slide from the mouth. Nervous people may be reas sured that there is no danger in falling asleep with the stem edge of. a curved ; pipe caught between one's teeth. Sleep always occasions the grip to be "re moved. That may hold also of straight pipes, but for other and obvious re? k sons these are less suitable than those ^With curved stems.?New York Mail 3ikI Express. <*t : LONDON'S LORD MAYOR. ? Bis Power as Well as the Area He Rales la Limited. The lord mayor of London is not the all powerful official he is thought.to be on the continent He is not the mayor of all London, but only of the city of ^London, and the City is but a frac tion of the whole. Greater London has, roughly, a population of 6,000,000, but in the 650 acres that comprise the City there is a resident population at night of only 38,000 and by day of little over 300,000. And even within this area the powers of the, lord mayor and of the twenty-six aldermen and the two hun dred odd common councilors are by no means autocratic. Much of what used to lie within his and their province has been taken over by the London county council. In fact the average Londoner never thinks of the lord mayor as an edict making, law giving official. He stands altogeth er apart in the popular mind from ques tions of rates and assessments, schools and police. Very few people could say what legislative functions, if any, he fulfils. They may have heard that he is the chief. magistrate of the courts, but beyond that their knowledge of ..his precise duties does not stray. It is the social and decorative side of his posi tion that impresses the public. The lord mayor is never without his badge and rarely without his robes and chains of office. Ke rides abroad in a magnif icently gilded coach, with powdered coachmen and footmen in cocked hats' and silk knee breeches, sending a gleam of gold through the dirty drab of Lon don. The lord mayor's show on Nov. 9 is one of England's few annual pageants and, uncouth as it is, has a warm place in the hearts of the populace, and, be sides all this, he has some rights and provileges of 400 years' standing. No troops may pass the City boundaries without his leave. The sovereign him self has to ask permission to enter the city walls, just as he has to ask for permission to enter the house of com mons.?Harper's Weekly. Her Trick. A cantankerous old farmer, who liardly ever agreed with anything his wife said to him, came home one wet