Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FALLING COCOANUTS. g)ew Makes MoH of Them Drop Fre*n tho Treee at Night "Ii. the tropics when the cocoanut la granted for planting. ' said an inipoi?er gjf the fruit "the nuts are picked u\ When they fall from tho tree where they hare bung for about fourteen months tn ripening It is a fact not generally knowu that a majority of the nuts drop st night which probably accounts for the small loss of life by cocoa a uts falling ttj*on the beads of the natives. **Tbe set Ion ef the heavy dew st gdgbt loosens the seal with which na furs has provided the nut and allocs It to fall. The nuts wsnted for plant tng are either gathered Into heaps or placed under sheds, where they arc allowed to sprout before plsntlug In order that good, healthy nuts may be selected, thus avoiding the possibility Of planting 'blind' nuts that will not gprout. In which cese much time would he lost In starting the cocosuut wslks, as the orchards sre called When boles are dug. sbont three feet deep and twenty feet spart the nnt Is csrefully placed therein and covered with about a foot of soli. The bole Is filled as the sprout grows until the Istter reaches the surf see. then It Is left to Itself, re? quiring no further attention Should tho place where tbe cocosnut Is plar.ted be any great distance from the sea? shore a quantity of fait Is placed In the bole. The plsnt will grow tu lux sjgtance. however. bUw s short distance from tbe shore, nearness to salt water being absolutely essential to Its wel? fare "-Washington Herald. MAKING STEAM WORK. Unfortunate Inventor* Who Antedated James Watt Jamea Watt took out a patent on his ?team engine In 1768. but as far back as 1543 there wss s captain In Spain who constructed a vessel of 200 tons and propelled It at Barcelona in tbe presence of the Emperor Charles V. and his court by an engine, tbe con? struction of which he kept a secret. Bot sn old document says that in it was a monster caldron of water and that there were two movable wheels on the outside of the vessel. Tbe em? peror wss satisfied wltb its operation, but tbe treasurer of the kingdom ob? jected to It gnd so no encouragement was given to the enterprise. The poor Inventor, wbose name was Blasco de Querere, wearied and disgusted at the want of patronage, took the engine out of tbe vessel, snd tbe secret of the machine wss burled In bis grave. The Incident was almost duplicated In France a century later. The fa? mous Marian de rorm*. a celebrated Frenchwoman, who I'red to be 134 years old, told In s letter to an admir? er dated 1641. of a man confined In a nudhouse of Paris for urging that anything could be done by the force of steam Tbe man's name was Solo goon de Coste, s native of Normandy, and It was because be had persistently followed Cardinal Richelieu. Imploring him to take sn Interest In his Inven? tion, that be was put behind bars ? Xsnsss City Star Browning s Great Talker. If Lord Iloughton talked more than saost people he certainly was eclipsed by Mr. Browning, who spoke louder and with greater persistency than any one I have ever com? across In my life. Although 1 bad knowu him as a girl, we did not reuew our acquaintance Until after my marriage, when I saw a great deal of blm. as be constantly came to our hottnn He dined with us Often snd used to cotne and see me generally every Sunday afternoon. He Wss very sgreeeble snd kind. and. gj. though I was never one of bis devoted followers snd often told him I had sever been sble to read a line of bis poetry, be still continued his friendship With me. I think most people feared rather than loved blm?certainly men did, but women adore poets, and they Worshiped Mr Browning.?From Lady St Heller's "Memories," Forgot His Own Tongue. A traveler In arctic Hll>erla. Mr. Van derllp. a gold hunter, told the follow tng of his return to civilization: "I found that half a dozen of the ottlcers and men of tbe steamer which my em ploy er* nad sent for me had come to hunt tue up The captain dismounted, and 1 tried to address him In Russian, hut he said. 'You forget that 1 speak English.' Now. it may seem scarcely credible, and yet It Is true, that for I few moments I was totally unable to Converse with hin? In my native tongue. 1 bsd not used a word of it In couver satlou for mouths, and my low physic Si ISSJ Utlon a? ting on my nor es eOS> fused my mind, and I spoke a Jumble Of lmglish. Uussiau SSd Korak. It was a Week before l could talk good. Straight Cugltsh ggjsls " Potato Scones. To l?nke potato gffSSJSg sift a cupful and a half of Hour With a half lag ?rtoonful of aalt and two Isaspoonfull Of baking SSWenM and rub In three taMespo.uifuls of ahortcning. Add one cupful of light, freshly mashed pot a toes, add one well tieateu egg and enough milk to make a soft dough. Roll out half an lach thick, fit and bake on a hot griddle or In a hot oven Serve very hot, with plenty of butter ?Suburban A Wise Guy. ??fluatav'M letter-* to me nre siCSSd Ingiy thin end eeessnssiplace." said one fair "girl "I>o:i't you know why?" rrsj , ltd the St sat ??No "Oustsv once served on the Jur\ | | j breach of promise case" ?Washlm ton Star Sjan II. A. Kno\, of MayeswIP was In the city r.whlle Monday. Foolhardy Snnk? Keeper. The only fatal eft**) ??f snake bite on record In the Londou zoological par dens was directly due to the foolish ness of the victim. He wns in charge of the snakes and. coming in one morning with some friends, began to boast of his |>ower over the creatures and the extent to which they would submit to be played with by one whom they knew. This led to practical ex? periments. The overconfident keeper took an Indian cobra from Its com fortsble sleeping place and, declaring he was a snake charmer, proceeded to swing It about his head and play other tricks with It. A native snake charm er would hnve known thero was no more certain way to rouse the snake's temper than this, for the race abhors t rough bundling or sudden movement I of any sort. The result of the exploit was that the keeper was bitten on the nose, lie was hurried off to the hos? pital, but died in a few hours.?London Globe. The Dreadful Looking Person. Rodin, the world famous French sculptor, has had a wonderful career, and, like most men who have risen from obscurity to fame, he still pre? serves much of the simplicity of bis esrly days. One day he was entertain? ing a few artists, amoug them a Ger? man who had never before visited the scnlptor. At dinner they were waited on by a particularly plain looking wo? man. "I'm surprised." remarked the Ger? man during one of the woman's ab? sences from the room, "that you should have such a very dreadful look? ing person about you. Why don't you get a nice, good looking young house? keeper r There was a sudden ghastly silence. Then Rodin smiled. "1 don't like to be waited on at meals by servants." he explained. "The dreadful looking person Is my wife." "The Texas of Europe." In the reminiscences of Mrs. T. P. O'Connor, "1 Myself," the author tells of her first meeting with Henry .lames, whom she calls "a sort of Massachu? setts Sir Galahad:" The first time 1 met him 1 sat next j him at a dinner. I had just come to j London, and be asked me If 1 liked It. ! I said I hadu't made up my mind, aud he said 1 would?that In London you i were allowed every independence of opinion and action, only you must con? tribute something socially?beauty (and he bowed very courteously to me. and I bo*ed very prettily to him) or wit or agreeableuess?and then Ixmdon ac? cepted you. I said: "History repeats Itself. In Texas, where I was born, they say a man is not asked bis na? tionality, his religion or his politics, bat only if he is a good fellow." "Ah." said Mr. James, "then Ixmdon is thu Texas of Europe." Jolted Mark Twain. "Mark Twain," said a magazine ed? itor, "brought out 'Joan of Arc' anony? mously. Before he acknowledged Its authorship he sometimes tished for compliments ubout it. One evenlug at a dinuerhesuid carelessly to a sen ator. " 'Are you a novel reader?' '' *Yes, a great novel reader,' was the reply. " '1 dou't suppose you re following that anonymous uew serial. "Joau of Arc?"' "'Indeed 1 am. though, every in? stallment.' "'What do you think of It? Is It good ?' " 'That's hardly a fair question to ask me,' the senator, who knew the book's real author, replied. 'You see. 1 wrote "Joau of Arc" myself.* " Brides In Iceland. A quaint old superstition In Iceland is that every bride must Invite all her friends to a dinner In her own home and every artlele of food must be pre? pared by the bride herself, if she Is successful In pleasing her guests she not only receives praise for her own skill, but helps along her younger sis ters. who are then assumed to be ; equally good at cooking and conse? quently hnve a much better chance of gettlug married. Woolgathering. "F<?r one's wits to go woolgather lng" Is an allusion to a pitiful Indus try sometimes seen In older countries. In parts of Frauce. Germany and Spain very old people are sometimes employed In gathering wool from bushes in sheep pastures, where It has been plucked from the fleece as the animals pass too close to the branches. Kind Little Boy. "lias my hoy been a little defender snd been kind to dumb animals to day?" "Y?s. grandma, l let your canary out of the cage, ami when my cat caught it 1 set Towssf on her." ?.. . . A Change of Opinion. "I suppose, old fellow, your wife still thinks she Biarrted a treasure?" re? marked ? bachelor lu a ma tried friend. "No. - said tin* benedict; "I bat's :i distinct Impression that sbs ragarda me as a treasury!" 1 A Soft Answer. The wife of a man who cans home lat*' Insisted upon a reason. "Wien I go out Without you." he said. "' do nor enjoy myself h ilf as mm h, and tr t:tme twice as long." Mmt H.ivo Bean Poor. ( rifle- Where did yon gel the Idea for that piny 7 IMaywrlghl <?nt of my bead, of course IVh't do you saeanl i*riti<- fun mnsi \m glad that it is oof! Ambition la like lots Imnat ten ( both of delay snd rivals I ton ham. Mr. Colin McLaurln, of \\> \. Held, was In tin- oil) Monday. SHOES IN JAPAN. A Msn Will Wear Out From Eight to Ten Pairs a Yesr. The shops and booths of Japan are of unfailing Interest. Here the greengro? cer and fruit seller has arranged his wares till it seems as though one look? ed upon a great bouquet. There the flower shop blazes in brilliance and the lantern maker squats at his multi? colored task. At the next entrance we perhaps see a man severing chicken meat from the bone, and he performs the operation as skillfully as the stir- , geon with his dissecting knife. P.eef and chicken are commonly sold in this fashion. Two or three paces farther on one is confronted with a typical Japanese shoe store. All the footwear of the lit? tle brown man is here on view. The geta (wooden clogs) and straw sandals are indeed a fanciful exhibition. They line the benches, the floors, the Rhelves. They hang from above and seemingly are everywhere, allowing the seller Just about ?nough room to squat on his mat. The newcomer is at once star? tled at the immense quantity of this simpfe footwear and the many places where it is sold, but he soon finds a solution to his query when he hears that a Japanese man annually makes away with from eight to ten pairs.? Christian Herald. SIZE OF WHALES. Length of the Biggest Ones anH the Height They Can Spout. A government official who has made a special study of whales states that the average length of a full grown sulphur bottom whale is Just under eighty feet. Thl9 estimate disregards the exaggerated reports sometimes spread by sailors and is bused on actual measurements of many indi? vidual specimens. There seem to be creuible accounts of whales reaching a length of from eighty-live to ninety five feet, but the authority quoted has never seen any of that size. Whales appear to grow with great rapidity, the length of yearlings being estimated at from thirty to thirty five feet. How high can whales spout? Photo? graphs taken by the scientist referred to give a means of measuring with some accuracy the height to which the water is thrown. This appears to be much less than it has often been sup? posed to be. It is claimed that even the great sulphur bottom whale on the average spouts to a height of only fourteen feet, nit hough occasionally the height may he as much as twenty feet.?Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. A Just Beast. In the days when the late archbish? op of Canterbury. Dr. Frederick Tem? ple, was master of Rugby he sen? tenced to expulsion a boy who was in? nocent of the offense charged against him. but who could not clear himself without exposing the real offender. The lad made up his mind to bear the punishment and wrote to his father saying that he was sure his family would rather have him expelled than know him to he a sneak. Tho father promptly sent the letter to Dr. Tem? ple, calling attention to a postscript in which the boy said he wished the doc? tor to understand the matter and add? ed. "Temple is a boast, but he is a Just beast." It Is on record that Tem? ple did Understand, and the hoy was not expelled Dr. Temple, grim old man that he was. wsi always proud of the title "a Just boast." Good Shooting. Tho story below of certain Virginia mountaineers whose patriotism was only equaled by their marksmanship. Is one told by C? K. Bolton in the American Historical Reelew. In 177!? MX) recruits wore needed, but many more came forward, arid tho commanding officer decided on a shoot? ing match to determine their proficien? cy. A board one foot square, bearing a chalk outline of a nose, was nailed to a tree at a distance of ITH) yards. Those who came nearest the mark with a single bullet were to be enlist? ed. Tho first forty or fifty .men who shot cut tho nose entirely out of the board. Might Be Saved. A Kansas butcher was driving a cow to his slaughter house when a stranger stopped him and said: "What are you going to do with that cow7" "I'm go? ing to kill bar," said the butcher. The stranger looked tho cow over carefully. "(>h. 1 don't believe I'd do that. If you food bar up awhile 1 think she'll live."?Kansas Magazine. A Hit. "1 made a great hit at the banquet last night. Came off with a good deal of distinction, In fact." "I didn't know you over spoke at banquets." "1 don't 1 was the only one there who absolutely declined." ? Chicago Record-Herald. Modern Eccontricity. "What sn eccentric person young I nick worth is " "I've never noticed it. lie seems to me to be rather a sensible sort of chap." "Bui tie wants to name his baby daughter Sarah " Chicago Record Her aid Pathetic Proof. "My Jim Is dead, my Jim is dead!" waited mii old colored mammy, holding up a letter "I b re is a letter from him right from the dead letter offtcel" ? Woman's Hume Companion, Life, like a dome of many colored glass, stains Ihe w lilte radiance of eter? nity Shelley Mrs If, ityt ten berg has return <i to th ? city after a \ Islt to i talttnioi ? . Do'js In Harness In Belgium. Dogs that work In Belgium are bought and sold In the open market like horses, and it strong and well broken they bring from $20 to $25 each. In manufacturing towns there is the usual number of horses, but for ?very horse you will see two dogs in harness on the streets. Early in the morning cartel women drive them hitched to carts loaded down with veg? etables. The grocer, the expressman, the butcher and baker, all employ dogs to do the work of horses. They are much quicker than the horse, and size for size they can draw a heavier load. It is said the dog in harness will go twice as far as the horse with? in the same time. They are driven in wagons, single, double, treble and four in-hand. They are often kept in liv? ery barns like horses, are fed generally on black rread and horseflesh and cost in board from 5 to 6 cents per day. They are sleek and well kept and ap? pear to enjoy their work.?Louisville Courier-Journal. A Drop of Water. Figures are sometimes Impressive simply by being so stupendous that the human mind grasps them with difficulty. An instance in point is af? forded by the Illustration once offered to his hearers by an eminent scientist, who. In order to bring to their ccre? prehension the idea of ultimate parti? cles of water, stated that if he was to empty a tumbler containing half a pint of water, letting out each Recond a number equal to 1.CO0 times the population of the earth. It would re? quire somewhere between 7.000.000 and 47,000.00t) years to empty the tum? bler. Lord Kelvin has assured us that if a drop of water was magnified to the size of the earth the particles would be between the size of cricket balls and footballs. If that statement is correct the drops of water in all the oceans are not many times so numer? ous as the particles, or molecules, in a single drop.?St. Louis Republic. When Baronets Were Bold. ! It was in the reign of good King James that baronets first came into existence. Today you could hardly tell , a baronet from a banker. But In the ; year 1011. when .lames 1. needed ready ' money and created 200 "little barons" to supply him with cash, they swag ] gored about In their baldrics and sash? es and behaved in the courtliest of fashion. Fach baronet in order to justify his title had to maintain a small army of thirty soldiers for three years, lu this way the erafty king not only Increased his revenue, but actually lightened his expenses. It is not generally known that the title of "baronetoss" has twice been bestowed on women. One of these was the mother of n Dutch gcueral. The other was a Nottingham lady named Dame Maria Bolles, who won her way into the good graces of Charles 1. and received the title from his hands London Tit-Kits. When He Wss Bad. It has been said that you never know a man till you travel with him, and certainly traveling has a tendency to bring out all the depravity innate in human nature. Out of this test, how? ever, Benjamin Disraeli emerged with flying colors. This is what was said of him by Mrs. Austen, who with her husband traveled with him when he was quite a young man. as* related in Mr. Monypenny's biography: "Your brother." she says ?the letter was addressed to Disraeli's sisten. "is so easily pleased, so accommodating, so amusing and so actively kind that I shall always reflect upon the domes? tic part of our journey with the great? est pleasure. Your brother hay be? haved excellently, except when there is u button, or. rather, buttons, to be put on his shirt; then he is violently bad. aud this happens almost dally." Whales In Nets. Just south of the Bay of Islands. New Zealand, where in a landlocked harbor beautiful YYangaiuumu nestles In the shadow of Cape Brett, there Is established a whaling station, and here is carried on the unique business of catching whales by means of nets ret In a narrow channel between rugged rocks. The cetaceans frequent this passage, It is said, to rub off the ac? cumulation of sea growing parasites gained in long journeys through deep water. The Ward Vaudeville. The word "vaudeville" sprang from Vaux de Vlre, the name of a hamlet in the picturesque town of Vlre, in Switzerland. In the fifteenth century this town svas the home of Oliver Basseliu. the author of witty drinking songs. One of the best known of these songs was a merry dissertation on the author's red nose. He Didn't. The wife of a clergyman warned him as he weid off to officiate at a funeral one rainy day: "Now, John, don't stand with your bare head on the damp ground; you'll catch cold " The Reason. "Why is that man always grunting so about his business?" "1 don't know, unless |( Is the force of association. Von sec. he deals in pig Iron."-Baltimore American. Hf Was Immune. Morrow?11 makes me very uneasy if I owe a dollar to un\ one. Borrow ? Croat Scott! If 1 telt thai way about It I'd have st Vims' dance.? Boston Transcript. Tin? great soul that <its on the throne of the universe is not. never was and never will be In a hurry.?Timothy Til comb I .\i r. I !i M< I .;? urln, of w. dg Held, wus in llic i 11> Monday. Was Good Once. A certain well known composer now In the full vigor of his established rep? utation was at one time when be was comparatively unknown engaged in writing the music for a production fa? thered by two managers who knew exactly what they wanted, in addition to knowing next to nothing of the i . sical classic?*. After having bur . 1 much midnight oil and worked bimse into a state of semlcol lapse in a rain endeavor to produce a Onale wh.c.i Would please them the composer t nu tip page after page of rejected manu script and in despair took to the the? ater an entire section of "Faust"' to which he had somehow managed to fit the words assigned to him. lie played it ver, and one of the mana? gers said quite unfeelingly, "Well, Qua, the others were pretty bad, but this one is the rottenest of them all." "So?" remarked the weary musician dr>ly. "It was considered good when Gounod wrote it!"?Metropolitan Magazine. One Story Eclipsed. "Hot In Brazil?" said the young man who had just returned from a trip to South America. "Well, I should say so. Do you know, for days at a time we couldn't take our after dinner siesta on account of the peculiar noises." "What noises?" asked the blond ste? nographer innocently. "Why, the coffee popping on the trees. You see. the sun was so hot the grains just roasted before they were picked." The old traveler yawned. "Rather warm down there, bub." he j rejoined laconically, "but when I was I down there you couldn't sleep at night, j Every once In awhile tbere would i sound the most extraordinary crack j ling nolso that ever fell upon the hu I man ear." j "What were the sounds. Mr. Bings?" j And Mr. Bings yawned again and I replied. "The rubber trees stretching j themselves."?Chicago News. Where One's Breath Falls as Snow. Verkboiansk, a small village in the , northeast of Siberia, is the coldest ' place in the world. It is a convict ; station. No precautions against es i cape are needed, for Verkboiansk is j guarded by the wind. Though the average temperature of the three , worst winter months is 85 degrees of frost, Intense cold like this Is easy to bear in calm weather. But a strong breeze at that temperature or within 20 degrees of it will kill every living thing not under shelter. In the icy cold of Verkhoiansk an iron ax head dropped on the ground smashes like glass. A board of unseasoned wood, on the other hand, freezes as hard as steel. Frozen nlcotiue blocks the ; stem of tobacco pipes, while one's breath falls at one's feet in a fine white powder. Going Too Far. Along a country road walked a man j and woman. The latter, a gaunt, stern faced female, was bullying the meek little fellow, who trudged Just in front of ber with downcast head. Suddenly the woman, turning, saw a bull racing down the road behind them. She quickly took refuge in the hedge, but her companion, unconscious of aught but his woes, kept on his way. The bull caught up to him and sent him spinning into a muddy ditch, then con? tinued on its wild career. As the woe begone figure crawled out of the mire he saw his better half coming toward him. Plucking up a little spirit, he whimpered. "MM-Maria. If you hit me like that a-g-g-galn you'll really get my I temper up, so I warn you." More and More. The gravedigger in "Hamlet" was ? a very witty man. wittier far than many of the epitaph makers who have ! adorned headstones with their jingles. ' A sample of the punning rhymes j which are cut on tombs follows. It . comes from the grave of William \ More, at Stepney, near London: Here lies one More, and no more than he. ! The More and no more?how can that be? Why, one More and no more may He here alone, But here lies one More, and that's more thun one. Curiosities of Etymology. It Is extraordinary how words for the same thing differ in even so small 1 a country as England. Take "left 1 handed," for example. In Gloucester shire such a person is described as I "scrammy," in Staffordshire he be? comes "craggy," the phrase for a left banded Torkshtreman is "gawkrod ' ger" or "callick handed." and in the next county. Durham, he is "cuddy ? paw."?London Telegraph. Experience Teaches. "I worder what has happened to Mr. Green?" said Mrs. Brown to a lady ; friend. "He seems so dismal now. and he used to be a practical Joker!" j "Ah." was the response, "he pro posed as a joke to his present wife. She accepted him. and he says he will j never indulge In a Joke again." I - A Prank of the Types. A sentimental novelist, describing his heroine as one who -always kept mod estly in the background." was borrl tied to*find it recorded in print that she , "always kept modesty in the back? ground." As Usual. "So your Shakespeare club Is a great success?" "Yes. We have accumulated enough tines for noitattendance to take us ah to a musical comedy."?Washington Herald Naturally. A -iri feels fluttered when told si e looks well in any thing, hut a wife thinks such a compliment onlj a plot to gel her to w ear old ' lot hes. Time ripens ail thin horn wise,? ?'< r\ anb ^. man It Worked the Visitor. "Speaking about visitinc. English men," said a hotel manager recently who had been reading about one in the newspapers, "reminds me of one that came to the Palmer House in Chicago some yearn ago when I was room clerk out there. He and another had been paying a visit to the Bockies, and their last stopping place had been Cheyenne. Coming east they had fallen in with some Americans who made themselves agreeable, with this result: "After they had put their names on the register one of the Englishmen leaned over the desk. " 'I say.' he w hispered, 'I am expect? ing President Cleveland's son to call this evening to return ?50 which I lent him on the train. Will you please put the money lu the saU for me if 1 do not happen to be in?' "I promised, for 1 had not the heart to shatter his confidence In human na? ture. President Cleveland didn't hap? pen to have such a thing as a son at that time."?New York Sun. Royal Perquisites. The king has many privileges which he never exercises. He enjoys an im? memorial right to all gold and silver mines, not only on his own land, but npon any of his subjects' lands within his dominions. So sbarehOiders in Rand and Westralian mines would have to forego their dividends if the king felt avariciously disposed. The king is also entitled to a yearly tribute from bis tailor, consisting of a pair of white doves, a pound of cummin seed, a pair of Rcarlet hose anc a silver needle. All sturceons and whales caught in British waters are royal perquisites. The whale has a split liability. Its tail belongs to the queen, while its head goes to the king. It is generally assumed that the partition was deeid I ed upon in order that the queen should always be supplied with whalebone, but if so the founder of this act of beneficence committed the mistake of giving the queen the wrong half.? London Chronicle. Witty Ann Pitt. Bollngbroke called England's great statesman. William Pitt (Lord Chat bam). "Sublimity Pitt." and he dubbed bis sister Ann "Divinity Pitt." But that must have been long after there were written and received the delight? ful letters addressed to Pitt's "Dearest Nanny." his "little Nan." his "little Jug." "Oh. for the restless tongue of dear little Jug!" he exclaims in a letter writ? ten by him from Northampton when, a lad of twenty-three, be had but lately joined his regiment. Ann Pitt's restless tongue was never stilled, for when Chesterfield, calling on her in his later life, complained of decay with the words. "1 fear that 1 am growing an old woman," Ann brisk? ly replied: "I am glad of it. I was afraid you were growing an old man. which, as you know, is a much worse thing." Branding Loafers. The brand of "S" figures in an ex? traordinary act passed by parliament In 1547. An ablebodied man or wom? an found loitering and uot seeking work fur the space of three days could be seized and brought before two justices of the peace, who, upon confession or on the proof of two wit? nesses, "shall immediately cause the said laborer |o be marked with a hot iron on the breast the mark of 'V and adjudge the said person living so idly to his presentor, to be his slave for two years. The said slave shall be made to work by beating, chaining or otherwise." If convicted of run? ning away during this period the jus? tices could cause him to be branded on the forehead or tb.3 cheek with the letter "S" and then adjudged to his master as a slave forever. For run? ning away a second time the penalty was death.?London Standard. Illustrated His System. It was a habit of the wise French? man Arago to look during his lectures at the young man who appeared the dullest of the students, and when he perceived that this one understood he knew all the others did. Once in a drawing room he had just explained this habit of his to some friends when a young man entered and saluted him familiarly. "But to whom have I the honor of speaking?" asked the scientist. "Why. l'p)fessor Arago. you do not know me? 1 always attend your lec? tures, and yon never take your eyes off nie the whole time." Kaffir English. As a sample of Kaffir English here is a love letter sent by a (."ape Colony boy to his dusky inamorata: Dear If las?I have great confidence in thundering the width of my opinion that 1 shall thank for kindness if you will give me the pri\ liege of lettering with you con? cerning love, as your most winning face has drawn my serious attention to you. and that 1 shall appreciate vou In antici? pation of an early icply and also termi? nating this with eupn ma of high enuncia? tion. NED. Taken at His Word. "Since you are so busy today." snid the urbane journalist, "will you kindly tell me when and where 1 can meet you for an interview ':" "Co to biases!" exclaimed the Ivate politician. "Thanks I'll consider it an appoint? ment." Washington Star. Desperately III. .Mrs Paike Your husband has been ill. hnsn'1 he? Mrs. Lane 1 never saw blm so .:i Why, t"t two weeks he never spoke a cross word to me. Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear mid understand. ltov< e. j Bmotor Lorimer should turn Btate'a evidence. Chocago Tribune,