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All Unambitious Man.
Ed lot ambition, Wild and wan.
JPlrfkrxra my Dife iso fair,
Pd like to bo a selectman,
And have folks call me “squire,”
But I d not climb the topmost height,
The wind of Fame’s wild sport,
But yet ’twoul 1 be no more than right,
I went to General Courts
And so I’d live and die content
In modest, shy retirement.
’Tis true, I may move into town
Before my hair is grayer,
An then I hope to gam renown
And be elected mayor;
But I would not be grand and gTeat
To make the people stare,
But were I governor of the state,
I th nk I would not care,
Nor let Fame’s tempest-torn control,
Mur my sweet quietude of soul.
I’d live the most content of men,
Far from Fame’s maddening roar
And could I go to Congress then,
I th nk I’d ask no more.
Of course the President must be
The man the people choose,
And should the people turn to me,
I could not well refuse.
But still ambition would not harm
My soul’s serene, transcendent calm.
I wish no splendor when I die,
But all things neat and plain,
A catafalque of ebony,
A six mile funeral train;
And I would rest in peace content,
If my loved land should raise
A million-dolku' monument,
To speak to future days.
Let others toil and strain for fame,
1 am content without a name.
—[S. W. Foss in Yankee Blade.
HO W THEY MANAGED.
“Pack up your things as soon as you
please, my dear,” said Mr. Chesney.
“We’re going to move on Saturday.”
Mr. and Mrs. Chesney wero a matri
’ mocial firm—there was question
no
! about that. Mrs. Chesney had always
been a silent partner in the same.
“If ever I get married,” said Elms, a
bright-eyed girl of 17, “I won’t be put
upon as mamma is.”
it Whers, my dear?” said Mrs. Ches¬
ney, with a little start
a Into tho country,” said the family
autocrat. ‘ I’m tired of this city busi¬
ness. It costs a great deal more than it
comes to. I'm told that you can livo
at half tho expense in the country.
“But,” gasped his wife, “what is to
become af the children's education.”
“Thore’s a very good district school
in the neighborhood, not more than a
mile distant,” explained her husband,
“and exercise will do them good. i)
“And what are wo to do for socie
ty?
“Pshaw 1” said Chesney. “I wouldn’t
give a rap for people who can’t be so¬
ciety for themselves, There’ll be tho
housework to do, you know—nobody
keops a girl in the country—and plenty
of chorea about the place for Will and
Spencer. I shall keep a horse if I can
get one cheap, for the station is half
a mile from the place, and l’vo bar
gainod for a couple of cows and some
pigs. explained
s.‘ -anwhile Mr. Chesney
to hla wife the various advantages
which were to accrue from the promised
move.
“It’s unfortunate, said he, “that
Elma and Rosie aren’t boys. Such a
lot of women folks are enough to
swamp any family. Men, now, can
always earn their bread, But we must
try to make everybody useful in some
way or other, It’s so healthy, you
know,” added he. “And the rent
won’t be half of what we pay here."
“Are there any modern Conveniences
about the place?” timidly inquired Mrs.
Chosney. water
“Thore’s a spring of excellent
about a hundred yards from the houso,
said her husband.
Mrs. Chesney grew pale. yards
Have I got to walk a hundred
for every drop of water I want? ’ said
she. rain water hogshead
‘‘And a largo added
under the eaves of the house,”
Mr. Chesnoy. i i And I're already got a
bargain in kerosene lamp9. As for
candles, I am given to understand that
«ood housekeepers mako ’em tham
gelrei In tin moulds. There’s nothing
like economy. Now 1 do beg to know,
Abigail,” ho added, irritab.y, “what
you looking so lackadaisical about?
are and fold
Do you expect to sit still your
hands while Ido all the work? Give
woman for sheer natural laziness'.”
me a Muileinstalk Farm
The first sight of
extreme. ~ Be
was dispiriting in the
tween rock and swamp thore was
scaroely pasture for the two lean cows
Mr. Chesney had bought at a bar
that hnllow-backed horse
gain and the like
which stalkei about the premises
some phantom Bucephalus.
Tho apple trees in the orchard were
three- quarters dead, and leaned sorrow
fully from the cast winds until
away ground;
their boughs touched the very
had all gone to ruin, and tho
fences with a hemp
front gate was tied up
string. home?” said Elmer, with an
“Is this
’indescribable intonation in her T0lCe ‘
••We’ll W ' get things all straightened up
after a id Mr. a~«T.
drive away the pigs, which had
ling to their pen and were squeal
broken'out of
ing dismally un dor the window.
Chesney cried herself to sleep that
Mrs.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA,
night, and awakened the next morning
with every bone instinct with shooting
pains.
‘And no wonder, said Spencer,
there’ a a foot of water in the cellar.
“We must havs U drained, said Mr.
Chesney, with an uneasy look; “but
here’s plenty of things to do first.
And now began a reign of the strictest
economy. Ms. Chesney himself paid for
everything with checks, and not an ar¬
ticle came into the house or went out of
it, without his cognizance. New dresses
were frowned upon; spring bonnets were
strictly interdicted ; orders were issued
that old carpets should be reversed, and
broken dishes repaired with cement and
quicklime.
‘ 8ave, save, save! That is the chief
thing, he kept repeating briskly.
‘‘Women folks can’t earn; they should
try their best to save.”
t 1 Boys,” fluttered Rosie, “I’ve an idea.
Mary Penn, who lives on the next farm,
you know, came over to see Elma and
me ycsteiday. Papa is earning his liv¬
ing; we’ll earn something, too.”
“I should like to know how, mut
tered Bpencer. I might hire out some¬
where if it wasn’t for that wretched old
horse and the pigs and the wood chop¬
ping and”-
“Oh, but there is something that
won't interfere with the chores, nor
with school,” said cheerful little Rosie.
“Just listen—all I ask of you is to lis¬
ten,”
And the weeks grew into months, and
the red leaves eddied down into little
swirls from the maple trees, and “pig
killing time” came, and, with tho aid of
a lame, one-eyed man, Mr. Chesney laid
down his own stock of pork and saus¬
ages, with the sense of being triumph¬
antly economical.
The family had left off complaining
now. Apparently, they were resigned
to their doom. But thero wero some
things that Mr. Chesney could not ex¬
plain at all.
A new rug brightened up the dismal
hues of the parlor carpet; Rosie had a
crimson merino dress, trimmed with
black velvet bars. Elma’s fall jacket
was edged with substantial black fur;
and—grand climax of extravagance—
Mrs. Chesney had a new shawl in place
of the old garment which had been her
mother’s before her.
lie looked at the housekeeping books
with renewed vigilaace; he consulted
the stubs of his check book with a
glance that nothing could escape,
. • I—don’t—know—how—they—man¬
age it,” said he, scratching his no3e
with a lead pencil that ho always car¬
ried. <« I hate mysteries, and I mean
to be at the bottom of this before I am
an hour older.”
“Abigail, >> said he, “how is this?
I’vo given you no money, You’ve long
left off asking for money, How havo
you managed to smarten yourself and
the children up so? I won’t be cheated
by my own wife.”
Elma sot down tha pitcher which
sho was wiping, and cime and stood be¬
fore her father with glittering eyes and
cheeks stained with crimson, liko a flag
of battle.
“Papa,” she said, “you must not
speak to mamma so. Mamma would
not cheat you nor anybody else. It’s
money we’ve earned ourselves.”
Mr. Chesney stared at the girl with
incredulous eyes.
« • And if you don’t believe it, come
and see how,” said Elmer, flinging
down her towel. ti Miry Ponn showed
113 She told us everything, and gave
.
us tho first swarm of bees. Thero are
fourteen swarms down under the south
wall. Spencer sold the honey for us.
And we planted all the nice flowers that
grow down in the meadow, that you
said was too stoncy and barron even for
the sheep to pasture upon, and Will
dug and hoed around them after the
chores were all done, and we sent boxes
and bouquets of lilies and verbenas to
the city every day by Mr. Penn’s
wagon. And we gathered wild straw
berries before the sun was up, and got
cherries out of the old lane. And tho
money is all ours—every cent of it.”
‘•noncy, eh?” said'Mr. Chesney, star¬
ing at the row of hives, for Elma had
dragged him out into the November
moonlight to tho scene of action. “Well,
I've seen these many a time, but I al¬
ways supposed they belonged to Squire
Penn’s folks, And flowers and wild
berries 1 Didn’t think thero was so
much money in ’em. Guess HI try the
business myself next year, Queer that
tho women folks should have got the
start of me."
After that he regarded his family
with more respect The mere fact that
they could earn money had elevated
them immensely in his sight.
But when spring came he lost his able
co-ad jutor. Miss Elma incidentally an¬
nounced to him one day that she was
going to be married to Walter Penn the
next week.
it And mamma is coming to live with
u=,” added Elma. “She can’t stand the
damp houso and this hard work any
longer. •I
But Mrs. Chesney did not go to the
Penn farm, Mr. Chesney hired a stout
serving maid and laid drain pipes under
the kitchen stoop, If his wife really
understood her business so wsil it was
worth while to keep her well and active,
he aenaidored.
“I couldn't leave >»pa, y« u know,’*
said Mrs; “? ~ 3
we ; now Rebecca BecL. went
coining here, and na kitchen is from
we shall get along nicely. I woul heart
go back to the city for anything no in
“Nor I either, »» -aid Elma. “And
oh,'mamma, I shall always love those
bee hives under the hollyhocks, for it
was there that Walter asked mo to be
his wife. ”
Mrs. Chesney tenriully kissed her
daughter. She, too, nad been happy
once, and had he dreams. It waa
to be hoped that Walter Penn was
made of different metal from George
Chesney.—[Woman’e Magazine.
The Shy Coreans.
The Coreans are the shyest nation on
the face of the earth. Until quite lately
they have abstained as much as possible
from all intercourse with strangers,
holding studiously aloof not only from
Europeans, who have sought their hos¬
pitality, but also from contact with the
Chinese and Japanese. Within the last
few years, however, their reserve has
shown signs of thawing, and wo are at
least able to form some opinion as to tho
reason of their shyness and to judge
whether a closer acquaintance will re¬
veal anything worth knowing. As to
the first point, this shyness seem3 con
stitutionaL There is a limit to it, for,
like most shy people, the Corean9 are
not incurious.
The seclusion of women in thisjland
of the shamefaced is carried to the ut¬
most limit. Ladies out of doors wear a
green mantle, which covers the whole
countenance except the cye3. Nor do
they willingly let their eye3 bo seen.
“It seemed odd,” said Mr. Carles,
“that each woman we met should have
arrived at that moment at her home;
but, as we learned later on, women have
a right of entree everywhere, and to
avoid us they turned into tho nearest
house at hand.” O her travelers re¬
count that tho women are taught to
shun the opposite sex from their earliest
girlhood. They are even exhorted to
talk as little as may be to their own
husbands. What is still more extra¬
ordinary is the innate modesty of tho
men. This sentiment impels them to
work in jacket and trousers in the hot¬
test weather, while the richer classes
use a kind of bamboo framework to
keep the clothes, otherwise unbearable,
from contact with their skin.—[St.
James Gazette.
General Crook and the Bear.
General Crook ha3 of late lost (
years
his interest in deer-hunting, says the
Omaha Bee, but it is said of him that he ]
will go a thousand miles for the clianco !
of a shot at a bear, and when ho goes
ho generally gets tho bear. Once,
several years ago, he was on a bear-hunt
in tho Big Horn country with two or j
three gentlemen. They had tracked
tho boar into a big tulo or «at-tail
swamp, and had just entered in pursuit
when the tules parted and a monstrous
bear appeared and charged for General
Crook, who was nearest to him. One
of the gentlemen, in describing the in¬
cident, said: “The animal was not
more than twenty-five feet from Crook,
who stood still without moving a
muscle. The outline of his figure and
face stood against the background of
the sky as clear as a cameo. Tho bear
came rushing with jaws openod wide,
and in a moment more would have
seized Crook. Just at the right instant
his rifle was brought to his shoulder
like a flash and a bullet sped straight
into the bear’s mouth and went crash¬
ing through his head. The bear fell
forward dead, and Gen. Crook was spat¬
tered with his blood. It was the most
signal instance of iron nerve in the time
of danger I ever saw,” said the eye¬ ^
witness.
A Hornet’s Nest In a Clock.
C. F. Kleine, a jeweler in San An¬
tonio, Texas, has a very great curiosity
in the shape of a small rofind clock, such
as are sold generally for about $3, con
A taming . . a x hornet’s a* nest. __i. A a ___ young . man ;
Z. ,
brought , it to him saying t,;. bis _„.v, mother _ v had a
had it fixed only a few weeks before and :
it wouldn’t work. When Mr. Kleine j
came to open tho clock, what was his !
astonishment to find a beautifully con¬
structed wasp’s nest, or mud-throwers,
as they are called thereabouts. So
pleased was ha with the novel sight that
he gave the young man a new clock for
the old one and had the curiosity photo¬
graphed. The industrious little animals
entered through the hole in tho top of
the clock, where tho hammer of tho
alarm works, and proceeded to make
themselves at home.—[New York
Graphic. ____
Fasted Six Weeks.
From Seattle, Washington Territory,
comes the tale of a man who can evi¬
dently give long odds to Dr. Tanner
and sti.l win in a contest. He is John
Leary, a» Irishman, who, while in
search of work, was stricken with par¬
alysis of the lower limbs out in the
woods, yet managed to reach a deserted
cabin, where he lay for six weeks en- j
tirely without food or fire, and with no
water until it rained, which was some
two weeks after the attack,
PLUCKY GIRLS.
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Western Damsels Who Manage
to re g a i n the tomb of our blessed Savioi
the hands of the infidels, he carried the
of Bruce in a golden casket, and when
midst of battle and being hotly presses of
the Idaho “Horse Queem »»
The girls of the Northwest are pecul¬
iarly self-independent and solf-reliant,
declares a correspondent of the New
Orleans Times, writing from Fort Ke¬
ogh, Montana. There may or may not
be something in tho atmosphero that
produces the chango in them, but cer¬
tain it is that soon after their arrival
from the states, from timiJ, frightened
and half-scared croatures, they soon
blossom out into self-supporting land¬
holders and farmers, and even go so far
as to run for political offices. Oae girl
not far from hero cams to Montana
from a Chicago dry-goods store, where
sho was getting a miserable pittance as
salesgirl for sixteen hours’ work a day,
and working six days out of the seven.
She first went (o Bozeman as a school
teacher. From school teacher she came
boldly out as a candidate for county
school superintendent, for which office
a “brute of a man” was her only op¬
ponent. Beauty and cheek won the
race, however, and tho man was awfully
snowed under, and has not been seen or
heard of sinco. Another girl came
West about four years ago and took up
a homestead claim oa Middle Creek.
Matters progressed so favorably that
she proved up on time the limit allowed
by law, 640 acres, and then started iu
to raise sheep. In thi3 venture the
gods favored her, until the young and
enterprising damsel was compelled to
have an overseer for her flocks and
herds. Thereupon sho sat down and
wroto to her lazy brother in tho East,
who was out of a job, paid his fare out
and made him overseer.
Now it happened that tho adjoining
claim was owned by a young bachelor
who also had a great many young lambs,
&c., in his own right. The two minded
their flocks in company lor some time,
and finally agreed to join fortunes. In¬
stead of two farms of 640 acres each
these happy wool-growers now control
1280 acres of the richest land in tho
northwest, and their flocks roam in
company as they used to do, only now
they bear ono brand instead of two, as
of yore.
As a matter of fact, thoro aro botween
1500 and 2000 ladies in tho northwest
today who are interested in one way or
another in ranch and stock property.
Many of them come right out and ac
kcowloige their brands over their
own names, while many others again
are interested in stock running under
other names, and in which they aro vir
tually silent partners. Tho history of
their success, too, is not so very
strange. Beginning years ago with a
few milch cows, living within their in¬
come and attending strictly to business,
a decade of time, with no particular or
special drawbacks to speak of, is bound
to make sooner or later, wealthy women
of them all.
One of the most remarkable instance
of this kind is the experience: of Miss
Catherine Wilkins, of Owyhee County,
Idaho, popularly known as tho “Idaho
Horse Queen.” When sho was a baby
her father invested $40 for her in a
filly, and from this simple beginning
all her subsequent wealth has come.
Now that “Kitty” is of age, she finds
her time pretty well occupied in looking
after her large band of Percherons,
Morgans, Hambletonians and Normans,
700 or 800 all told, besides a largo
herd of cattle, which also belongs to
her ia her own right. Still her taste
runs to horses, as there is more money
in it, and the wild, free life connected
with the ranching of them has some¬
thing decidedly fascinating about it.
Again, a fine, fat steor on the range is
worth about $20, whilo on the other
hand “ * ood horsC is Worth ’ at tho /^
least ’ $100 ’ an 1 a ’ an anima1 , ’ so far as
range aad feed aad carc are C ° nCerued ’
ono horse, \ successfully raised, repre- J
sents five . head , of . . beef stock, , and all
’
for one-filth , the , trouble ,, of handling five
steers. Miss Wilkins employs about
thirty-five herders and cowboys to
round up and look after her stock.
Girls of all ages, from twelve years
to sixty aro rustlors in this latitude.
Ia Valley Creek is the ranch of W. N.
Miller, who semi-annually rounds up
and cuts out from his herd cattle suita¬
ble for beef.
Oa all of those trips the thrifty ranch¬
man is accompanied by his twelve-year
old daughter, who assists generally in
rounding up the herd and ia keeping
her father company. Sho is a fearless
rider, this twelve-year-old child, and
can go scampering across the prarie on
the back of her beautiful cayuso pony
at a rate of speed that would .astonish
some of our modern paper fox-hunters
in the East.
On the other hand, a sturdy matron
of some fifty summers, whose husband
was away in she mountains prospecting,
came riding into Livingstone a short
time ago bound oa a mission of impor
tant business. From her saddle bow
hung a Winchester rifle, while tho sad
(f [q pockets were filled with ammuni-
VOL. XIV. NO. 35.
tion. Evidently this lady was eminent
ly able to care for herself under all cir
cumstanecs.
The journey in and out was over 100
miles, which she performed successfully
alone and unaided, without company of
any kind save her horse.
Chinese Secret Chambers.
Work will be commenced in E! Paso,
Texas, in a short time on a Federal
building for a postoflico and custom
house, for which an appropriation of
$150,000 has been mado by Congress.
The site selected for .the building is
near the centro of the city, on St. Louis
and Oregon streets, and i3 still occu¬
pied at present by an extensive old
adobe structure one story high, cover¬
ing an entire block, into which are
crowded together seveial hundred
Chinese and where all their peculiar in¬
dustries are pursued.
Thore are plenty of laundrios in this
rambling old building, a number of
groceries, joss houses, Chinese physi
cians’ headquarters, while] it was gen¬
erally known that opium smoking and
lantan playing was being carried on at
a colossal rate, but the latter unlawful
pursuit could never be traced to the
building. The last few dny3 orders
have been given by tho former owners
of tho land that tho buildiug must bo
vacated so that the property could be
turned over to the United States. This
order has created tht) greatest conster¬
nation among the Chinese inhabitants,
and they aro in a9 terrible an uproar as
a beehive is when a foreign animal in¬
trudes into it.
Tho cause of this scare has just leaked
out. The whole of the region has been
undermined by secret tunnels and ex¬
cavated rooms, in which not only opium
smoking and gambling has b:en carried
on, but other dark deeds perpetrated,
without the white population of the
cities, and even the owners of tho real
estate, having suspicion of what was go
mg on. It is said that the Chinese
have been in tho habit of keeping tho
bodies of those of their countrymen who
died in these subterranean chambers,
and boiled tho skeletons clean of flesh,
and then sending them carefully packed
in trunks to Sin Francisco, as occasion
offered, for transhipment to China for
permanent burial.
When in a few days from now the
buildings aro torn down and the ground
excavated for tho foundations of tho
massive structure that is to stand thore,
developments will be made that will as¬
tonish this community. Last year a
Chinese laundry standing near tho track
at the Southern Pacific Railroad depot
burned down at night, and when the
next morning persons repaired to the
spot they saw underneath what had
been tho floor of tho dwelling avast ex¬
cavation, in which the charred remains
of tho mass of gambling paraphernalia
were visible. The owner of the lot from
whom the Chinese rented the building
had not been awaro of the secret cham¬
ber which his tenants had constructed.
- -[Gl obe De mocrat.
Tea Drinking and tho Teeth.
Some years since, when on duty at
recruiting stations in tho north of Eng¬
land, I took observation on the great
amount of disease and loss of tho teeth
existing among tho class of men offering
themselves. It becamo a cause of re¬
jection of itself in great numbers. As
far as inquiries went I was led to trace
it to Iho excessive tea drinking indulged
in by the working classes in tho manu¬
facturing towns, and this went on all
through the day, whether with food or
not. In fact, instead of 5 o’clock tea
being the invention of the upper classes,
it was found to exist to an injurious ex¬
tent in the working classes long before
that time. Tea seems to have a pe¬
culiar tendency to cause hypermmia in
the tooth sacs, leading to inflammation
and, eventually, abscess of the fang,
with, of course, dentralgia at every
stage. Whether this special tendency
was due to theine or tannin having an
elective affinity for dentine it is not
possible for me to say. It would be
curious to know if medical men,
practicing ia such manufacturing dis¬
tricts, had observed the deterioration of
teeth to be coincident with tea drink¬
ing.—[British Medical Journal.
Buried in a Gold Mine.
A very remarkable incident occurred
at tho burial of James Robinson, who
died at Matthews’ station, North Caro¬
lina. He had been engaged in gold
mining all his life, and had for a long
time managed tho Baltimore and North
Carolina mine, in Mecklinburg county,
North Carolina. He was buried in
| Pleasant Grove church. The gravedig
S crs had just completed the grave when
their picks uncovered a vein of rich gold
ore - The old miner wa3 literally laid
at rest in a gold mine.—[Atlanta Con
Face to Face.
“You wouldn.tthmk,” he said, in
dicatiag a gentleman across the street,
“that that ordinary, commonplace look
ing person has many times stared death
urflinchingly in the face.”
“Why, no, is he a desperate charac
ter?”
“Not very; he’s an undertaker.”—
[Now York Sun.
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Her Letter.
“So here I am writing at home, dear.
And you so far away.
And when you read the letter,
I wonder what you will say.
The green leaves whisper around me,
The nightingales sing above,
Just as they did that day, dear,
When you told me all your love!”
“I can see her,” he fondly whispered
As he sat by the far camp-fire,
And read and read her letter
With heart that could never tir*
“I can see her true eyes shining
As she leans on her little hand,
And gazes and dreams about me
Here in this distant landl”
The bngle rang out at midnight,
The fight was lost ere morn,
He fell, with his old battalion,
Leading a hope forlorn;
While at home the sun is shining,
And the roses of Juno unfold,
But the maiden is quietly weeping
As she dreams her dream of old.
—[Cassell’s Magazine
HUMOROUS.
Tho road to ruin—Tho side door
A soar spot—An eagle’s nest.
High license—A balloonist’s permit to
navigate the air.
To make a long story short, send it to
tho editor of a newspaper.
Tho tin can does not point a moral,
but it very frequently adorns a taiL
It was the lady who thought aha wai
going to swoon who had a faint sus¬
picion.
There is something peculiar about
gravity—in the earth it attracts, whiU
in men it repels.
“How did you leava Kansas? 1 “By
rail—I was tho only passenger, and
thero was only one rail.” .
Many men with plenty of money in
their pockets find themselves “strap¬
ped” in a crowded horse car.
“Well,” said an undertaker, “Pm
not much of a fighter, but when it
comes to boxing I can easily lay out any
man.”
“Papa, give me a quarter to buy
some perfume,” pleaded a little girl.
“Not a scent,” replied the gruff and
cruel daddy.
A boarding houso keeper announces
in on£ of the papers that he has “s
cottage to let containing eight rooms
and an acre of land. ' >
Dude (bad pay)—That stripe looks
well—so docs this. What would you
prefer for yourself if you wero choos¬
ing? Long suffering tailor—A check.
Youngster—“Papa, what is a revenue
cutter?” Fond parent (a hard-working
clerk)—“The individual who employs
me, my child. He has just reduced my
salary."
Smallest Screws iu the World.
The smallest screw; in tho world are
made in a watch factory. There can be
no doubting that assertion on any
score. They are cut from steel wire by
machine, but as tho chips fall down
from tho knife it looks a3 if the
operative was simply cutting up the
wiro for fun. One thing is certain, no
screws can be seen, and yet a screw is
made every third operation.
Tho fourth jewel-wheel screw is the
next thing to being invisible, and to
tho naked eye it looks like dust. With
a glass, however, it h seen to bo a small
screw, with 260 threads to tho inch,
and with a very lino glass tho threads
may be seen very clearly. These little
screws are 4-1000th of an inch in diame¬
ter, and tho heads are double ths size.
It u estimated that an ordinary lady's
thimblo would hold 100,000 of these
tiny little screws, About 1,000,000
of them are made a month, but
no attempt is ever made to count
them. In determining the number 100 of
them aro placed on a very delicate bal¬
ance, and the number of the whole
amount is determined by the weight of
these. AU of the small parts of the
watch aro counted in this wav, probab¬
ly fifty out of the 120.
After being cut the screws are hard¬
ened and put in frames, about one hun¬
dred to the frame, heads up. Thii is
dono very rapidly, but entirely by sense
of touch instead of sight, so that a
blind man could do it just as well as
the owner of the sharpest eyes, The
heads are then polished in an automatic
machine, 10,000 at a time. The plate
on which they aro polished is covered
with oil and a grinding compound, and
on this the machine moves them rapidly
by reversing motion, until they are fully
polished.—[New York Telegram.
Her Other Face.
A Sixteenth street lady was calling
on a K street lady the other day, and
the small daughter of the house kept
walking around her and studying her
head intently. Finally the caller be
came so nervous she took tha child in
her lap. . • Well, Fannie,” she said,
“what is it? You seem to be looking
for something. “My wy,’ hesi
tated the child, “I was looking for
y our other face. M hat do you
.
“ onn? I don’t understand,” said the
P u * zled vidtor - 0b - mamma said ? ou
were two-faced, but I don’t sea only
one. You haven’t got two faces, have
you? ’—[Washington Critic.
