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Not Up to Hi* Name.
George Peabody, the philanthropist
and John Bright often went to Ireland
together to fish. One day they went a
couple of miles up the Shannon be
tween Castleeonnel! and Killaloe.
They had engaged the services of two
boatmen, and as Bright and Peabody
were keen anglers they made a long
day of It On returning In the evening
Bright, noticing a policeman on the
river bank, asked what sum the boat
men were entitled to for their time.
The constable said anything from
seven and sixpence to 10 shillings.
Bright turned to his companion, say
ing: “I have no change, Peabody.
Have you three half crowns?” The
millionaire produced the coins and
gave them to one of the boatmen, who
said, “And Is that all ye’re givln’ me?”
“That Is all,” replied Peabody. "Well,
that hates all I iver heard,’’ observed
the boatman, adding, ns he scratched
his bead: “An' they call ye Paybody.
Faith, I should call ye Paynobody!”—
London Standard.
Chop 8uey Beet of AIL
“I have trl<-d them ail in their na
tive haunts, and I like them,” said the
traveler, according to the Baltimore
Sun.
“Tried what?" asked the bystander.
“Kallronds?”
“No; national dishes,” answered the
traveler. “The hot tamale of the Mex
ican, the goulash of the Hungarian, the
chop suey of the Chink, are all known
to me and many others.
“The liest of them all is chop suey.
The hot tamale Is too hot and has very
little nourishment to it, and goulash Is
too heavy. It tastes pretty good, but it
Is not a food to recommend to a man
with a weak stomach. Chop suey, how
ever, is appetizing, easily digested and
very nourishing. It Is the great contri
bution of the orient to the Occident In
my opinion. It is made of rice, sprout
ed beans, celery and chicken’s blood,
all mixed together in the form of soup
and nicely seasoned.”
8ome Wive* Are Different
“Most men,” said the man of experi
ence, “think it must be awfully nice to
have a wife who takes tilings ns cool
ly as Dave Potter's wife takes them,
but others, more discriminating, prefer
a good honest row to her style of quiet
cynicism. The way she behaved the
other day when she found a letter In
Dave’s pocket from n girl In Brooklyn
Is an example of her method.
“ ’I don’t see,' wrote this girl, ‘how
on earth I can ever live without you.'
“Dave’s wife read that gush and a
lot more Just like it without ever turn
ing a hair.
n • Well,’ she said quietly, ’that girl
is a fool. If she knew you ns well as
I do she would be wondering how on
earth she could ever live with you.’
“And that In the opinion of the dis
criminating few, cuts a whole lot deep
er than a common, everyday rumpus.”
—New York Globe.
The Axial Rotation of Venn*.
For over two centuries It was gener
ally accepted that, like the earth, the
planet Venus rotated on its axis In a
little less than twenty-four hours, but
since Schiaparelli after long aud care
ful observation of the planet suggest
ed that the actual rotation period was
between six nnd nine months astron
omers bu.ve devoted much attention to
tills matter. In the Observatory Mr.
Denning sums up the available evi
dence on tlie point and can only con
clude that this particular problem still
defies solution. Life on Venus would
be very different from life on the earth
should the planet’s avial rotation be,
as Schiaparelli asserted, Identical with
the period of Its revolution round the
sun, as In that case the same hemi
sphere would always he turned to the
sun nnd enjoy perpetual day, while the
opposite hemisphere would be doomed
to eternal night
A Plant of All Work.
The fields ns well as the broad roads
of Ecuador are inclosed by adobe walls
surmounted by the broad leaved Amer
ican aloe. The aloe, sometimes called
the century plant. Is one of the most
useful aud important plants in the
country. The Indians thatch thc.lr huts
with its leaves. The leaves when tap
ped yield sirup. They can also be used
as soap nnd the spines ns pins. The
fil>er is woven into sacks, and from it
are made the coarse sandals worn by
the common people. The tall flower
stalks are used for beans and ladders.
The flowers, boiled and soaked iu vine
gar, make an agreeable pickle.—Nation
al Geographic Magazine. - —
GO—FLY keeps flics off Hors
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– Son.
FOHYSKIDNIYCBRE Bight
Make* Kidney* and Bladder
Witches Still Believed In.
Neglected by the powers, witches
ceased to be so notorious, but the be
lief continued to exist, and does exist
now, in rural parts of Scotland and
England, and In England and France,
even In the lew**, fortuno tellers,
whether they charge a guinea or a
shilling for tbelr advice, are witches
under the terms of the old statutes
and flourish abundantly, but as they
are not burned they are supposed by
superficial observers to have been ex
terminated by school boards and elec
tric lighting. The blacker sort of witch
who “overlooks” and casts spells on
man and beast may be found In many
rural regions north aud south. One of
them was brought before a squire and
Justice of the peace of toy acquaint
ance as a dangerous nuisance. He
said to her solemnly, “You know, Bet
ty, the Bible says Thou shalt not suf
fer witch to live In the parish. # »»
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And she migrated, under certain condi
tions of compensation, to another par
ish.— London Post.
W»» Thi* a Trained Mad Dog?
Not long agg a telephone call was
received at the Flora avenue police
station requesting that an officer be
sent to a house to kill a dog supposed
ly mad. When the officer arrived he
met a negro.
“There’s a dog under them steps, an'
he’s shore mad,” the negro said excit
edly.
Hie officer fired one shot without hit
ting the dog. The animal started to
run away.
“Gimme that gun quick. I’ll kill
him,” the negro shouted.
Saying which he reached for the of
ficer’s revolver and got It. He then
pursued the dog, aiming the revolver
at it as It ran yelping down the street.
The policeman waited, expecting the
negro to shoot at any moment The
negro and dog—and the revolver—went
round a corner and never came back.
The officer has bought another revolv
er. He says he thinks the dog was
trained.—Kansns City Star.
Changing Hi* Color*.
Every Sunday a young bootblack iu
New York attended a mission school.
This school, through its well meaning
teachers, decided to have a Christmas
tree. The gifts for the pupils were
provided for them by the teachers and
some patrons of the school.
Jimmy, the bootblack, was there
Christmas eve, but was much disap
pointed when his present proved to be
a copy of Browning's poems. Ho fold
ed It carefully la the paper In which
he received It nnd took it home.
The next Sunday the superintendent
of the mission school announced that
any child who was disappointed with
his or her gift could exchange it
Jimmy marched boldly to the front
with his.
“What have you there, Jimmy?"
“Browning, sir."
“And what do you want In ex
change?”
“Blacking, sir.”
Quadrupeds That Lay Eggs.
The salesman as he wrapped up the
eggs conversed politely.
“There are quadrupeds thnt lay,
ma’am,” he said.
“That lay eggs?"
“Yes. They are mammals, ma’am,
too. Their home Is In South America,
their names are the ornlthorhynchus,
or duck billed platypus, and the echid
na, or porcupine ant eater. They are
the lowest mammals known.”
“Really?”
“Oh, yes! The duck billed platypus
lays two eggs at a time. But the
echidna lays but one egg, which It car
ries in a natural pouch beneath its
stomach—there's an Idea for the hen
there—until the Uhl echidna, so to
speak, is hatched out.”—Los Angeles
Times.
Her Ambition.
This Incident was told by nu ac
tress who was once playing Rosa
lind. and playing It, as she fancied,
rather acceptably. As she entered her
dressing room at the theater one night
a note from a woman was handed to
her which read In this wise:
“Dere lady I work for a dentist but
I have spoiled so many of his teeth j
saying over your part In the play that j
W)W j cau say lt Just a8 w( , u as you ,
do, nnd I want you to let me try It
tonight and see If I can’t for the den
tist says he cannot have me any more
and I must pay for his teeth, and so I
must go on the stage and I will be
here at 7 o’clock.”
The exchange was not made.
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- Tss Flippant.
The specialist surgeon, hot with to*
fllgnatlon, exclaimed, "No, I will not
take her case. There must be a limit
to even a woman's flippancy."
"Why, Dr.-, what do you mean?”
asked the family doctor mildly. “I
have always found Sirs. Jones a lady
in every way.”
“Perhaps,” answered the specialist
surgeon, more calmly, but with dry
severity. “She asked me why a sur
geon was like a hen. And when I gave
It up, what do you think she said!"
“I give It up, too,” said the family
doctor.
"Because his motto Is always 'Cut
cut-cut, ah, cut.’ Wasn’t that the
limit?”
“And that woman has been under
the knife three times,” reflected the
family doctor. “I’ll take her to Dr.
Smith. He has a sense of humor.”
Aud now there Is a marked coolness
between the specialist surgeon and the
family doctor.—Brooklyn Eagle.
A Bit Too Realistic.
Some nmateurs In a provincial town
gave a theatrical performance. Just
before the curtain went up the star
actor took the manager aside and said
to him:
“Now, look here! I don’t propose to
drink water Instead of wine in the
drinking scene In the second act. I
want wine—genuine wine. The uni
ties must be preserved. We want to
make this play as realistic ns possi
ble.”
“Oh, you want champagne at 15 shil
lings a bottle, do you?”
“Yes, sir. Everything must be re
alistic.”
“All right Iu the second act you
shall have real wine, and when you
take poison in the last act you shall
have some real poison. I’ll see that
you don’t complain of the play not be
ing realistic enough. How does prus
sic acid strike you?”—London Tit-Bits.
Writing as a Fine Art
In n letter written by the late Lafea
dlo Hearn to his friend, the musical
critic, II. E. Krehbtel, the author says:
“Let me dwell upon an art principle.
Both you and I have a trade—Journal
ism. We have also un art—authorship.
The same system of labor cannot be
applied to the one ns to the other with
out unfortunate results. Let the trade
be performed as mechanically as Is
consistent with preservation of one’s
reputation as a good workmon. But
when It comes to writing a durable
thing—a book or a brochure—every Hue
ought to be written at least twice, if
possible, three times. Iu the very act
of copying new ido.as of grace, force
and harmony will make themselves
manifest Without this, I will venture
to say, fine literary execution Is Im
possible.”
The “Book of Sports.”
The “Book of Sports” was a procla
mation by James I., who in this publi
cation in 1018 signified to his people
the royal pleasure with regard to what
sports, games and amusements might
be practiced on Sunday. The king Inti
mated that “no lawful recreation should
be barred on that day to his good peo
ple.” The sports forbidden on Sundays
were bear ami bull lighting, bowling
and Interludes. Those who did not at
tend church were not allowed to Join
iu the sports, and no one could go out
of his parish. The amusements allowed
were dancing, archery, leaping, vault
ing. May games, Whitsun ales and the
setting up of May poles.
Striking a Fish.
The secret of striking a fish, espe
cially a trout, which bites quickly,
whether In brook, river or lake, is to
give a sharp upturn of the wrist This
will move the rod or bait only two or
three inches and will not jerk It from
the water. If you miss the fish will
follow the few inches, not being fright
ened, and In the majority of cases will
be hooked at once. The quick jerking
of the bait from the water almost in
variably scares a trout—result, a dark
streak disappearing down the stream.
If Glasses Get Stuck.
When two glasses get stuck, one in
side the other, an unfailing remedy for
separating them is to plunge them up
right Into sotue hot water for a quarter
of a minute or thereabouts. Care must
be taken that no water gets into
glass. The explanation Is that the heat
expands the outer glass before it has
time to penetrate and expand the one
inside.
Dropped.
“Why does Miss Eider always dr .
her eyes when she meets you?”
“If yon will never give it away I
will tell you. She drops her eyes be
cause I saw her drop her teeth one
day.”
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