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i j'lie Search-Light. UA1NBRIDGE, FEB. 9, 1901, The Travels o» aa Eyelid. I *«' 0,t*r*ae*. Tim rami'- thousands of mllM which | Distressed by tier cook s frequent a rami unconsciously travels In Us life- complaints of toothache n mistress of time, ■ taking Into coailderailou the the upper west. side deckled n few his footsteps measure ns lie , days ago that It was time to recom- SPOILED BY WEALTH. e-pOdfeS j walks about"etch day. are enough to ! make him sit dowu to rest for the re- i mainder of his life. | But now a German scientist trait i come forward with some still mend heroic remedies. “Hannah, there Is no use putting It off any longer. There is Dr. .Tones over , :J „ there. He pronlses.fto extract teeth more 1 without pain. Why tcu’t you see him I which our eyelid undertakes every Hannah scarcely relished the sag- 1 time It winks, and It Is not possible for fe'cstjoa, but after another nlgbt ^sur- ub to see, ho says, unless we wink, i feriejf -sorrowfully announced, ’ Deed, Unconsciously we wink once a second, l kin Jess stand dis no longflb, asn yVtt pT7int<?» rtop dls worfdn; Vie «mrk«d Biy money“ ft how iTrta^tiety startling facts concerning the Journeys ■ and have It over with i ’ pays; ~ *’ ------ — J Idn suht In nor? an f'Otnt a crimson streak, Ite donr my bones' duty fob tlcuc nickdl *o dna (iiuns, An now PV; irrintrr scatter ’em life chaff. 8 yob eyes wide o^en, an yoU'U aea ««• litgh ole times, Vuti unde's get • dollar an a fcfitf. I'm foclin Jca* aa haughty as * Vanderbilt dis An in* 'loonn* haw to worry 'Mwt no rents; Ik- nebbi r r.topa to no'.ico, aa be »tep« alonf fall fern (.immon ejiohts wlf ton or fifteen cents. Iit‘r do pxitie o( Fofgy bolii/ia un a winner ot <bi Dear vouncstets, why. dey s«-.;ply mukca him loujifi. 6e, hit mn buk ft« d’*U do track watch im sot dc pay®*" , lult undo wit « dollar an a ha’f. —V/aahingtoa Star. TRICKS OF DAr.NSTORM.ER8. IIOVP They Are SometlaiM Compelled to Help One Another Ont. “One of the old slang phrases of the stage,” said Muggles. who used to he n good actor, “was ‘to pong.' This leans, or used to mean, using your own language—that Is. playing u part without cues of the proper lines, re- lylng only upon a knowledge of tho play to carry you through. Years ago m the road there used to he some high ly ludicrous situations Iti consequence cf a new play being produced In a hurry. The stage manager, however, had a wonderful genius for patching up n hitch. When circumstances were necessary, he would sometimes lower n front scene nml tell the low comedian it:.d chambermaid to go on and ‘keep It up.' and while they did so he would nr range how the play had to bo con tinued. “Of course, actors are expected to lulp one another out of a difficulty, but at times old grudges were paid off. For Instance. 1 remember on one oc casion a letter had to ho read In ono scene. Unfortunately tills letter could not he found, so ri 'dummy’—that la, a blank shoot—was sont on tho stngo. “'Say, dad,' said tho actor who had to rend the letter, seeing It blank, ‘here's n letter for you. You had hot ter read It yourself, as 1 am sure It contains good news.’ "But kind' tumbled to tho occasion nml replied: ‘No. Tom, you rend it. I’ve mislaid my spectacles.’ "’Bless me," said Tom, 'It Is written so badly 1 can’t make out a word of It Here. Nelly, you read It.’ "The unsuspecting Nelly takes the litter, and seeing It blank says: ’No, father had hotter read It. He will ho able to make it out better. I’ll go and fetch your spectacles. I know where they are.' And off she goes. “The old umn Is ngalu equal to tho oecnsiqu e.iv.l calls out to her: ’Never mind (bringing them, Nelly. I'll come oral get them.’ Then he walked off and the stage manager had to rearrange the scene. "Yes, sir, there's n lot In tho the atrical business you outsiders never diva in cf."—New York Times. Unconsciously so that for the time we are awake dur ing the day we voluntarily wink from 43,dOO to 00.000 times and In a year have moved our eyelids down and up ngaln no less than 1S.200.0C-0 times. The distance that the eyelid travels In Its great speed Is 'ensured from a sin gle Involuntary wink. Tills, the scientist snys. is a quarter of an Inch both ways, the eyelid ploy ing equally up and down, so that, tak ing the movement of both eyelids-into consideration, they cover some 50,000 Inches In a day. The eyelids of a man who has lived for GO years will lmve unconsciously traveled a third of the way around the earth, or about 7.200 miles, a calculation sufficient In Itself to cause the victim of Insomnia to fall Into a dreamless sleep as he reads It.— London Mail. A Dcfidl rnci* In i?te V/l'icSo^r. Crockford, the proprietor of a well known London gambling house, was made to play a queer role after he was dead. When one of Crockford’* horses Was poisoned Just before the Derby, the misfortune brought on nil attack of apoplexy, which proved fatal with in 48 hours. Now, mnny of Crock- ford’s friends had staked large sums on nnother of the gambler’s horses, which was n favorite for the Oaks and which wns disqualified by the death of the owner. Only the people In the gambling house knew of Crockford’s dentil, and It was resolved, to keep It a secret until after the race. The servants were bribed naJ sworn to secrecy, and the conspirators on the day after the night upon which Crockford died had the body placed in a chair at a window, so Unit people re turning from the track could see the gambler sitting (here. He wns fixed tip to look as lifelike ns possible nud through the window and partially con cealed from view by the curtains look ed so natural that no one of tho groat crowd which came cheering by the house when on their return from see- lug Crockford'* horse win the Oaks suspected the trick. The next day It was announced that Crockford wns dead, but It was years before the true story leaked out. She Declined. Few American youths have careers made for them. Those who deplore this fact and shun the stings of seif effort may find ionic In the reply of n western girl to tin" offer of marriage. A young man of more hook learn ing than fow of character lost the young wife who had tolled to support him. returned to his native town for consolation and found It. Some mouths later she. too, passed away, and the rad youth soon appealed to a well known dergymnu for assistance In finding a helpmate. The minister Introduced him to a western girl cf health and energy, who the next day received a plaintive note from the widower. He declared that the Lord had made great Inroads i:;tu Ids marital affections, and It uow r lined to he his will that she would repair the brvuchos of his life. The reply, which the dergymnu keeps today as cue of the choicest specimens of a varied collection, reads simply: "Mend your own breeches.”—Youth’s Companion. XVbiattrd us Sim Sung. The man who knew many things was Instructing the new anil verdaut stenographer us to tho use of the va rious office appliances, anil finally be Introduced her to the speaking tube. "Now, see." said the man, "you put cue tulic to your mr nud the other to jrur mouth, thou whistle." “Into which cue do 1 whistle?’ asked the guileless stenographer. “Heavens," cried the titan, "which one do you suppose you whistle In, tho cue at your car or the one at your me utli?" "That was what I wanted to know," mid the stenographer, “for I whistle u.t 1 sing, entirely by ear.”—Memphis Scimitar. If all the cubs In Loudon were pine* ed in n line there would he a total hngtll of 40 miles. I-'nlthfnl Shepherd Dcrti. A cold Rpell In Montana killed n sheep border In the Great Falls dis trict. Two feet of snow covered the range In places, and the thermometer Indlcnlofl 41) degrees below zero. The herder was frozen to death on the prairies while curing for the sheep, and It was three days before his fate was known to bis employers. Two shepherd dogs were with him when he died, nud one of these staid with Ills body while the other attended to the sheep, Just as though the herder had been with him The dog drove them out on the range In tho morning and back again at night guarding them from wolves and preventing them from straying off. Neither dog had any thing to eat during the three days’ vigil, so far ns could he ascertained, hilt the 2..V fi sheep thrived as well ap- psrently ns though directed by human agency. Tho singular fact about tho matter Is that these faithful creatures would have starved to death rather than harm one cf tho sheep left Id their charge.—.Portland Oregonian. asked pcrn>'j:Mcn to go to Dr. Jones. Her mistress t^ijolcoj la the thought, that the agony ft** at last to he end ed. When an hour later, however, sue beheld Hannah march flow a the area tray steps, the whites of her eyes flash Ing and ller head bobbing with a ve hcmenco born cf righteous fury, vision- net only of lost molars, but of a de parting cock came before her. She en tered with the dignity of. lnt**~~* African queen. “Anything wrong. Hapnah? Didn’t he get the right teeth ?* ventured the mistress “Got de right toef all right end a dol- lah an a half besides. Yas’m, ho did so.” “Well, did he hurt you?’ “No'm, can’t say he did.” “Then what’s the matter?” “lYell. Miss ’Liza, didn't you tell nte dnt man ober dore 'straoted teet Wld- out payln?”—New York‘Sun. ■tx F's-Jjrhteoeil Lions, Aa Incident at the Forte St. Martin thetiter In Pails has become part of the annals of the show business. The chief feature of the exhibition was a “turn” eousdsffng of the casting of a young woman securely hound into a cage of lions heralded as being tho fiercest and most bloodthirsty of man eaters. The woman who had the part of the. victim was taken III, and a substitute- was found in tln> wife of one of the trainers, herself a trainer of some ex perience, hut without, auy acquaintance with these particular six Hems. As she was somewhat nervous she carried a small club ready for use should oeca bIou arise. Amid the breathless silence of th<- spectators the ringmaster explained the ferocious nature of the lions and the terrible risk of the woman, and she was thrust In at the cage dour, lu the excitement of tlm occasion the 3^jr- wii.-T not securely shut after her. No sooner was she fairly Inside than the sis monarch* of the Jungle, seeing that a strange person had been forced upon them, raised a chorus of shudder ing terror, bolted for the cage door, clawed It open and with dragging tails and cringing flanks fled out through a roar entrance and found refuge In a cellar, whence they were dislodged on ly after great difficulty. It was a week before the “ferocious man enters” were sufficiently recover ed from their terrors to reappear lb public.—McClure’s Magazine, Fnn Has a Valuable Side. “Show me a man who does not appreciate humor,” said John Kendrick Dangs to me, "and 1 will show you a man who la morbid, cynical, un responsive to every call nt nature. Such a man Is worse than a pessimist and more to he pitied. Take some of the greatest and most successful men In the world. Humor has always play ed an important part In theJr lives. Often a funny Incident has marked the turning point of a great man’s career. Often some ridiculous con dition bus been the Impetus of a new start In life." Mr. Bungs Is right. Did not Colum bus’ apparently hopeless task of stand ing un egg on end make thinkers of the wise men who snt mound him? Was not George Washington credited with being a master of the truth be cause ho once saw a hoy punished for trying to Jest with his father and Anal ly became, as Mr. Bangs facetiously remarks, so "ho couldn't tell a lie even if he saw one?" And didn’t Johann Gutenberg Invent tlic printing press by working out a 1 hcory which found Its origin while he was playing leap frog with some boys on damp ground? The Impression made In the soli by the hoys’ feet Is said lo have given Guten berg his first Idea of the Impression that could bo made* by typos.—Robert Mackuy la Success, Re Forirovo Trmln. Many years ago the Montana club In Helena entertained Mark Twain after a lecture. Uo met many old friends there and one old enemy. The latter had come all tbo way from Virginia City. New. on purpose to settle an old score. When the glasses were filled and Mark’s health proposed, this mao Interrupted the proceedings by saying: “Hold on a minute. Before we go fur ther l want to say to you, Sam Clem ens, that yon did me a dirty trick over there In Silver City, and I’ve come here to have a settlement with you.” There wns n deathly silence for a moment, when Mark said In bis delib erate drawl: “Let’s see. That—was— before—I—reformed, wasn’t-It?" Bcuutor Sanders suggested that Inas much as the other fellow had never re formed Clemens am! nil the others present forgive him and drink together, which all did. Trying to Stake Forty Dollars, Here Is a haul luck story apropos of efforts to make a little sum In Wnll street: A young man started with 5100 and rau It up to $i),S)tK), or 540 less than an even S10.C00. The desire to round out the 510,000 goaded him on. He an Id to his broker, “If I can make that additional $10 on a quick turn I will draw out my $10,000 and Invest It in real estate.” It'was a strong bull mar ket, but things appeared sky high, and ho picked out an active stock to sell short. I think he lauded on T. C. and I., which had a phenomenal rise and was duo to drop anywhere from 10 to 50 points, lie sold u:-0 shares at par. fntemliug to close it out at 90. But Instead of going down the blannd thing soured to 120. At every lbr points’ gain ho sold auother 100 until he was currying all be could tote.* Iu 2-1 hours he lost nearly every cent K had taken him three mouths to make With what little he laid left ho bought T. I. on tho recession to 11(1, friends of the Hanover National bauk assuring him that It was going to 150. Then came the fireworks and the funeral The bottom fell out of the specialty and young Dr. Known 11 found himself $15,000 lu debt He hasn’t been lu Wall street since.—New York Press. On* of Her Warn. "The ways of the female shopper -.re beyond the ordinary salesman’s 4en." said a disgusted optician who Is a business In the shopping sect’on of 'he city. “A woman cam** in here the -flier day and asked the prices of nil Inds and styles of spectacles and eye lasses known to those in the trade. Iiiaily. after a half hour’s quizzing, he rustled out with the remnrk: Thank you, I expect to get a pair of •hisses for a birthday present, and I ‘nst wnuted to know about the prices of them. - “—Fhiladijluhla Record- A Rbnpiiody of Loto. Only we two alone, engaged In bring ing about for ourselves the still great er solitude of two Into oue. Cb, bo- loved. what a company that will bei Take uie lu your arms, fasten me to your heart, breathe oil. me. Deny me either breath or the light of day. I am yours equally, to live cr die at your word. 1 shut my eyes to feel your kisses falling on me like rain, or still more Uko sunshine—yet most of all like kisses, my own dearest an*! best beloved! — From an "English Woman's Lovo Letters.” Things WnahtnKton Never Saw. It Is hard to make It seem true that Washington. Jefferson, Franklin and the fathers of the republic never saw a railroad or a telegraph line or a sewiti; machine or a photograph or a typewlt er or a rubber baud or shoe or a plan or a stem winding watch or a cyclope dia or a dictionary or a cliromo or a steel engraving or a friction match or a beating stove cr a furnace cr a gas cr or an electric light cr a tire engine or a thousand and one other things com mon to every one today.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph, . A Splendid Bluff. Sir Walter Ilesnnt Is said to bare once settled n disputed cnb fare In a novel mitnnor. He drove from Plcea dllly to so tic- place In the suburbs out side the radius. On getting down he tendered <o the driver three shilling! and sixpence, which was a little over the proper fare. The man, however, wanted five shillings. Bosact refused ‘I’d Ulce to fight you for it," said the driver. \ “The very thing.” said Be sunt, who had never In his life put on a boxing glove nud was almost as ignorant a> Pickwick even of the fighting attitude The very tiling! "Capital! We’ll have the fight In the -Gjek garden, My brother will look on. hold the stakes and see fair!” The cabman got down slowly, as If he did not quite care aliout it after all. He followed Into the garden, where there wns a lovely hit of green turf. Resant placed the flvo shillings In his friend’s hands, took off his coat nnd waistcoat and roiled np his sleeves— all with an air of cheerful alacrity. “Now, my friend.’’ said he, *’I am ready ns soon as you are." His anxiety wns great, but It decreased as he watched the cabman's face express uccesalvely all the emotions of bounce, surprise, doubt, hesitation and abject cowardice. No, no.” he said at Inst. “Gimme the three and six. I know your tricks, both of you. I've been done this way before.” Broken at tho Wheel, In the diary of that remarkable man. G* acral Patrick Gordon, who left Scot land In HS51 a poor, uufrieuded wau- derer and when tie died in 1099 had his eyes closed by the affectionate bands of Ids sorrowing master, the czar Peter the Great, the following eniry Is to be found, under date of Hamburg. Maycb 22. 108(1: “This day, a man nnd a woman, a burger, of the towns being the womans master, for murthering. were carted from the pristine to thp house where the murder was committed; and there before this house, with botle plnsers, the flesh was torreu out of their aruies. and front thence were carted to the place of justice without the towne, and there broken and tnyed on wheels." An Instance 50 years later.than those quoted at the last reference Is record ed In the "Correspondence of Mr. Jo seph .Tekyll” (Murray, ISIM). iu April. 1775, from the balcony of his lodgings at Orleans, Jekyll saw a criminal bro ken on the wheel. Iu a letter to his father (p. 13) he enters minutely Into the sickening details, adding that “the crime of the unfortunate creature was burglary, as we learnt from Ids sen tence. which Is posted up at every cor ner of the streets.’’—Notes aud Queries. Be Stnnned the Porter. , J • On one occasion Sims iteema, tb® famous tenor, was stranded at a coun try Junction Waiting for a train, it wux'coW and miserable, and the singer was naturally hot la the best of tem pers. While chewing the cud of disap. polntment an old railway porter who recognized hitn from like published por traits entered the waiting room., Good evening, Mr. Sims Reeves," he said. Good evening, toy man," replied tbs vocalist, getting ready the necessary tip. But the man »;iUBbt for Informa tion rather limn Ups. “They toll tuc you cam a heap of money,” he remarked. •Chr’. murmured Mr. Re-eves. •And-yet,” pursued the porter, "you don’t work hard. Not so hat-0 as I do > tor Instance.- But I dessuy you earn- p’rnps ten times what I do—eh?’ What' do yoa earn?’ asked the | singer. Eighteen shillings a week all the] year round," said the porter. Sims Reeves opened his chest. “Do, | re, ml—do," he sung, the last cote be-1 lug a ringing top one. “There, nay J man; there’s your year's salary gone.” The amazed railway man gazed won-l dcrtngly at the singer for a full min-1 ute. Then, as though his thoughts I were "far too deep for words," ho si-1 lently resumed his prosaic occupation I —Golden Fenny. 1 Sot Strong Enor.ah. At one of the clubs the other day two members were arguing about wlll| power. The conceited man. who was in thel habit of boring all present with lilsl pointless tales, said that bis will wnsf stronger than his friend’s. "You are wrong there," said the qctetl man, "and I will prove It in this way:) You go and stand lu that corner, awf 1 will will you to come out of It Yoil will agalast tne. nnd 1 bet you that ll will have you from that corner before) 1 have eommnuded you a second time.’ 1 The smart one took the bet nnd pu) himself lu the corner. The quiet said In a commanding voice: . “Come out of that eorperl” T The other grinned and shc|c!i hll head. The quiet man sat down aatl looked at him steadily. Five minute! passed, and the man of will snIJ, vrliM a sneer: "Hadn’t you better give It up| I don't feel any Influence at nil, and | can’t stnnd here all the evening “There Is no hurry,” said the qulol man, “and I have a very coim'onnbll seat. There is no time limit exeepl that you are to come ont before I asa you twice, anr] ns 1 don’t inter.l ro as/ you again until this day week 1 ibinl you will feel the Influence beforf then.” The smart one came cut looking vc foolish.—london King. Enutlutiraen In America. Among Englishmen who come to America a British author, Mr. Vachell. enumerates "the parson’s soil, the for tune hunter, the moral Idiot, the re mlrtnnce man nud the sportsman.” I* Is a clever and comprehensive rittaloirne, but It omits one of the types most Interesting to Americans - the Ir responsible "younger son" sent to “the States’’ to seek a fortune he has never been nblo to find at home or to avoid a maturing crop of wild oats.—New York Herald. She Wotted. Even a Scotchman cannot always I humorous, if he would. gdJki’ otbi! people, however, he i^ souet!in(| fuui»y without mefinlngSLto k< ? ! dotfish-.'.merlcan thinks--.flint ill message sent by a young man I Peeblesshire to his watting bride have kept her from worrying over! nonappr-aratiee, but that she must ;t| all have received It with mixed lags. The bride elect lived In a village si distance from the home' of William.i bridegroom. The wedding was 10 li) her h*me. On the eventful day young man started for the station. | on the way met the village grocer.' talked so entertainingly that Will; missed bts train. Naturally he was in what Is kwj as a "state of mind.” Something it be done and done nt cure*. So be t the following telegram: Don’t marry till I H>me. Wjuu^ If the bride elect knew her Tllliaj she probably knew how he fel* wlieaf sent tho message and forgave the u) l l tul confusion which resulted >n she must have looked upon us a less request. Cards. Harry—Unde George, at the end of thts marriage notice of Cousin Tom’s It says, “No cards.” VThut does that mean? Uncle George—It doesn’t mean any thing, Harry. That la to say. It Is only a blind. It Is a promise that Tom will give up cards, but. bless you. he won’t be a month married before he’ll be back to the poker table again.—Ex change. Wh»n Stic La an Iw O. In his vohime on Ellen Terry Cll ent Scott tolls of a soutewhai self f isCed, vainglorious and grumpy who complained that the uoled lish actress continually laughed k)| of his most "Important scenes. Ur J not the courage to tell her bis oi| tions. so he wrote her a letter ot la broken complaint. In which hr ”1 am extremely sorry to tell you i It Is Impossible, for me to make aajl feet iu such and such a scene If r persist In laughing at me on the dl and so spoiling the situation •'*"! ask you to change your attitude] the scene Is a most trying oar)"’ Miss Torry’it answer was very dly aud to the point, for she wrote: are quitu mistaken. 1 uevfr tsuij you on tho stage. 1 wait uk <| hoiriH.” A Fated Spot. About a mile south of the MW stare line nnd near Cedar lakr- la*] Is a small spot of land upon vegetation al-soigtelj refur' t t' The surrounding afPI ly the same,. Is’very product!'”] spot Is lees than 20 feet ,u ' and. Is located in a grove difion declares to have I ture ground Jf the Fan’be”*"