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|n* Itm **4 Stripes at tot*. good American bad been making tie sttul stirring remarks about the rlons star spangled banner when an |gllskruun who Is pretty well Ameri- lized told a little story apropos: •a ember once to hare seen the stirs stripes applauded uproariously on culiar occasion. it happened many i ago when the British flag wasn’t [popular In the United States as it la and a party of us Englishmen > at a theater In New York constd- [bly farther down town than thea- i are now to be found on Broadway. i play was 'Richard I,’ and. If you re- iber there Is a krone In the play ere Richard, after putting his foes [flight in terrific style, founts the |lls of Acre and plants the British ors there. Evident^ the manage- Qt knew the temper of the andlence felt that even under such clrcum- (nccs the British flog would not be a thing, so what did they do but [e Richard the star spangled banner, by all the gods, be took It with In the charge and planted It on t*s walls. It was ridiculous, of erse. and we Englishmen laughed, the nudlcnce took It quite as the ect thing, and the way the people tinned and shouted and clapped was ;h to have made Richard turn In bis grave: Historically It was hay off. dramatically it wns open to Itietsm. but patriotically It was a vling success.**—'Washington Star. » Trigonometry In X Sty Work, f*Fow people know,** said Dr. Jf. C. Lston while performing an opera- bu at the City hospital, “that It takes pgonometry to locate a bullet In the 3y. But In every X ray operation which the bullet or foreign enh ance is deeply Imbedded a inathemat- computatiou Is necessary to show how deep the bullet Is. The X |ys make the flesh transparent, leav- only the bones and foreign sub ance visible, so that you see just here the bullet Is, and yet you don’t low where It Is. You know Its latl-. kde and longitude, so to speak, bat lose measurements are surface mean- aents. and you don’t known how; tin* object Is lioncnth the surface, he point on the surface of the body ueath which the bullet Is can be idily located, but how far beneath; »t point is the bullet? - rpls Is the question that trigonous ■ has to answer, and by knowing the bswer a great deal of unnecessary pulug may be saved, and what might henvlse be A difficult and dangerous ration may lie rendered compara bly safe and easy. If the bullet en» one side of the body, for Instance, lodges within an Inch or two of |ic skin on the other side, the other Jo of the body would be the, one from hlcb to operate.’*—Ivannas City Jour- The Chinese Cnlslne, Though cninese cSlslne has been itetl with some utterly tebulou* lies, such os white mice served ive., which add piquancy by their uenk as they dive down the gullet, iirtosities In the edible line do form considerable list. Bird s nest soup, for instance; a ear soup made from tbe refined uteu with which a certain species swallow fasten their nests beneath e rocks; stewed “sea slugs,” another sty sounding dish, but transcending flavor tbe alderraanic green turtle t There may be, too, on first Intro- uctlon. some prejudice against fried shoppers. But courage in this In? ance is rewarded by a deliciously top. in-own mouthful, of a delicate tty flavor. It is a fallacy to suppose that pork rms a constant article of diet In bum. As a matter of fact, it Is too xpensive and Is only eaten on high lays and holidays or at restaurants. either do milk, beef or game enter much into Chinese cookery, the first "wo heiug tabooed on religious grounds. ~)og flesh la eaten In the south but rarely and only by tbe poorest of the ►oor.—Blackwood. rrv HtamUk WimssrCsUtss Brsts. Thera to la F street real estate man whose pretty home Is In one of tbe pleasantest streets In tbe older part of town. Be to just on ordinary man, with no particular sympathy for tbs fears of nervous women; he hoe been married IB yuan, and his wife to one of those women who fairly revel in all torts of painful Imaginings and fright ful forebodings. She always makes her win when she starts on a journey, and she never tells to forgive all her enemies before she trusts herself be hind any kind of a horse. There has not been a night In all the -IB years of her married Ufe that she hasn't either smelled smoke or heard burglars. Last week. In'the middle of one night, the husband felt the temlUar pinch which for 18 years has calloused his arm. He beard the familiar voice 6ay the same old Words: “Oh, Chariest Do get upt I smell smoker As usual, for after 18 years of that sort of thing even an ordinary man learns not to argue with a woman, be climbed obediently out of bed and went to the window. The street below was full of people, and a fire engine was puffing away at the corner. *3Dh, Charles!** called the wife. "Is the house on Are 7" Fifteen years bare made Charles' feelings as callous as bis arm. “Yes,” said be brutally: ‘thank good ness the house Is on fire at last Now perhaps you’ll stop worrying.'*—Wash ington Poet A Cortona Receipt. Hanover's registrar discovered a very furious document some time ago as be ivas looking through a bundle of pa- •ors that date bock to the eighteenth entury. The document to a receipt— irohably tlie only one of Its kind In ex istence—which was given to a Hano- eriau captain by a canon of Duisburg luring the Seven Years' war. “1. the undersigned.” It reads, “here- >.v acknowledge that I have received 60 flows of a stick, which were Inflicted ipoa me by a Ueuten&nt of Captain i-'s regiment os a punishment for the .uptd and frivolous calumnies which have uttered In regard to the regi ment of chasseurs. For my lmpru- ent words I now admit that I am pro- onndly sorry. I received my punish- aent lying on a heap of straw and eld by two men, and I bear testimony 0 the fact that the officer struck me as lgorously as be could with a stick bat was as thick as my finger. “In proper form and with due gratl ude l sign this receipt and arrow that II therein,is true.” ■Queensland to being converted Into 1 large orange orchard. The Anstra- lan orange ripens <*t a time when other countries cannot provide the fruit. Daniel O’Connell’* Fee*. In ti e National Library of Ireland to the fee book of Daniel O’Connell. Tbit volume. In Its 100 pages or so of paral lel columns, laboriously prepared by tbe band of tbe liberator himself, shows In pounds, .shillings and pence his early struggles. O'Connell was called to the Irish bar In 1708—the year of the rebellion- and seven days later bo got his first brief, from a brother-in- law. who retained him to draft n dec laration on a promissory note. The only other business he got that year was also given him by a kinsman—a cousin—and it was of tbe same kind. The fee on each occasion was £1 2s. 9d- It was In one of bis earliest cases that O'Connell made tbe retort that attract ed attention to him. He was cross ex amining an awkward witness, who de clared that be had drunk nothing but bto share of a pint of whisky. “On your oath, now," thundered, tbe young counsel, “was not your share all but the pewter?” O’Connell's fee book to an Interesting record of bis rapid rise in the profes sion. For the first year, as we have seen, bis Income amounted to only £2 6s. Gd. Next year be earned over £50, and the year after ho made over £400. According to memoranda made in his own handwriting bis Income In 18Q3 was £403. and In the following years, £775. £810, £1.077, £1,713. £2.108, £2,730, £2.051, £3.047 and I3£08 re spectively. Anticipated. He was a Scotch minister In a small country parish, nnd be was sometimes put to It for fresh pasture wherewith to feed his flock. One day, however, be betboagbt himself that be had never thoroughly exhausted the sub ject of Jouab. and bto heart rejoiced. Jonah and tbe whale was a sort of thing whereby you could easily drag out a sermon Its allotted two hours. He was in full career and had reached triumphantly the anatomical peculiari ties of the case. “An whnt feesb do ye think H wad boV be cried In stentorian tones. “Aiblins ye think It wad be a huddle? No. ua. It could one be a huddle for to tnk a big tnon like you In bto belly. Aw eel. alldins ye think It wad.be a salmon, but I tell ye na. na. It wad na bo a salmon, for deed I donbt If they ever see salmon yonder. A tv eel, aiblins ye're thinking It wad be a big cod"— Hero an aged and weary voice piped up from the body of the church: “Aiblins it was a whaleV*’ “An the deil boo ye, Maggie Mac- teriane, for takln tbe word oot o' tbe month o’ God's mecnlsterr*—Llppln- cott’s Magazine. Will Mitchell pad Whltaaa, In Dr. Weir Mitchell's book a pleas ant story or two to told or Walt Whit man, the Writer, to whom some would deny the name of poet, while others re gard him as one of tbe greatest of all poets. One of the characters in the story of “Dr. North and Hto Friends” says thgt Whitman was eaten up by hto own vanity, regarding everything be did as of such supreme value that he had lost all power of self criticism nnd could uot tell good from bod or In different Once he wns flaked If be thought Shakespeare as great a poet as-' himself. He replied that be had often thought of that but had never been able to come to a decision. He went to a physician upon an oc casion, thinking himself seriously out of health. When he learned that hto ailment whatever It was, could lie treated best by living as much as pos sible oot of doors without dosing with medicine, he was leaving In all good humor whan be bethought himself of tbe physician's fee. “How much will It be?” he Inquired. “The debt was paid long ago." said the doctor, who knew and liked hto writings. “It to you who are still the creditor.” Whit man thanked biur-and went ont An other patient a Indg, had taken bis place when be returned, put hto two great hands on the table opposite his medical ndvtoer—be bad not stopped to knock or announce himself—and said. “Thnt, sir. 1 call poetry." The lady was scandalized by hto abrupt appenrsnee and demeanor and asked as soon as the writer had gone for tbe second time, “Is the gentleman Insane?” bat learning bis identity, she wished be had asked for bto autograph. Weigh* bjr Inches. “Forty and u half," sung o*ut the cut ter of a Chestnut street tailoring firm as he passed the tape across a custom er’s chest. Thirty-eight was registered when the measure girded tbe custom- dF■ waist and then tbe cutter stepped back nnd.sized ,up the patron's height as compared with that of the salesman who was recording the measurements. “Your weight to 1C5 pounds,’’ hr said. “One sixty-seven," spoke up the man who was being measured for a coat. “How did you guess U7“ “No guesswork about It I simply compared your height with that of the salesman heffe, who to 6 feet 8 Inches tall You are about two. Inches taller, or, say. 5 feet 10 Inches’. With chest and waist measurements nnd a man's height figured out I can come within it poand or two of hto weight every time, as my close estimate of your avoirdu pois proves. Of course there are ex ceptlons, notably the man with tlu- very slim wqtot and wide shoulders, who to Invariably much lighter In build than his-appearance and measurements indicate. In that case 1 drof) about .ten pounds from my figures and rnnuage to come pretty near the mark.”— 1'hiludel- phla Record. — Condensed Reproof. Occasionally there is to be found a proprietor of a secondhand bookstore who to something more than the nature of his business would seem to Indicate. He regards hto old and rare volumes rather as a collection than a stock of goods and experiences a pang when be parts with one A flippant young man dropped Into a secondhand bookstore kept by a man of this kind. * Taking down several choice old books from tbe shelves, be fingered them carelessly and replaced them. They happened to treat of abstruse subjects and did not appeal to blm. “Are any of these books for hire?" be asked carelessly. “No, yonng man,” sharply answered the proprietor. “They are for lore.’’— 8t Louto > Republic. The average silk hat, size 7%, weighs 5 ounces; the average stiff derby bat of tbe some size weighs 4)4 ounces; the average straw hat of tbs same slM weighs 2)4 ounces. They Worked on flenches. Tbe dignified dame wns not really English, but she bad mastered tbe dia lect to sonic extent. “My nevvew ’Erbort,” she snld, “wants to marry a schoolteacher! Fnwncy! A person who works for a living'. To be sure, now that 1 think ol it that to not always a disgrace. You. my dear, write for the press now nnJ then, I am told, but you don’t 'avo to. you know. Thnt to different” “Yes,” replied tbe young person to whom sbe was speaking, “but I may be said to have Inherited a tendency tj work. My father and grandfather both worked for a living, and they were not allowed even tbe luxury of n chair to sit ou. They worked on benches.” "Dear mot” exclaimed the dignified dame, greatly shocked. “What did they —ah—work at?” “Welt my father was a Judge of the superior court and my grandfather wns one of tbe Justices of the United States supreme court”—Chicago Trib une* ■ Worth th* Difference. In 8. I>. Powers’ story at the Middle sex Bar association dinner tbe lawyer tried tbe case for tbo complainant Sue s tied'a middle aged gentleman for breach’-of’promise. He married an other-gfrL Tbe jury retired, and the de fendant also went his way. Tbe jury returned, the defendant did not Tbe Jury fbuud for the plaintiff In 1600 damages. The-lawyer met tbe middle aged gen tleman a few minutes later In tbe lob by off on adjacent hoteL “Squire.” said the latter, “how did the Jury decide?" “Against yon.” was tbe answer. ”t didn’t think they would do that” said the middle aged gentleman mus ingly. “What’s tbe damages?" “That ain’t so bad!" he exclaimed, on heing told. “Squire, there’s that much difference between tbe two women.”— Boston Herald. A Wide Gulf. Briggs—I bear you have been operat ing In Wall street Griggs—A great mistake. I’ve been operated upon.—Harper’s Bazar. Lncidlty at Slang. “Sq you floored your opponent?* “Yes, Indeed; I knocked him, sky high.”—Chicago Record. NO BUSINESS Can be properly run without beings Advertised, And no advertising pajs better than newspaper advertising. Tbe news? paper goes into, the homes of the people and is read through. If bar gains are offered, they make a note of it. TIE SEARCH-LIGHT a first-class advertising medium, As it is read by the people very generally in this county and by many in adjoining counties. PUT AN. AD. IN And work up your business to a payin point Job Work Our book and job office is busy turn ing ont Brit-class job work all the time, and we. propose to give sitis- factiou at reasonable prices. If yon need anything in the job printing line, write to us or see us before placing your order. It will pay you. Y p. HSSFSCT TXTti,t THE SEARCH-LIGHT. / ■nami>- U H-dt t i . • n.tma Hi# i, .'inJA Ml.,: • W .3tt..ri»wei St.V) l-tl.-H (I •>/ *d: ,4 ■„,<! h b- •<. >t dUi'. A .-