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Sir II. t Max — :i tctts K8. nt T a. in.,
rode t > a place fi > m'.l.s d!; .::nt, here
held a iv •: v i --1 v. •< at the
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U‘ i ci'.O 17 mile.! In two
hours from Frearda to C .ut'k’.d Rodrigo,
will'll' I: * d d. j-ave a 1:11 and sup-
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The white was exported from Chino
Is made by the curious method of using
i Insects In its production. These in-
! sects are roui.il In brown pea »hapeci
! excrescences or galls attached to an
loncd pencil ease. Is the tiniest watch ' 'vergroen ^'^Ucar-
Among the trensures'of a Swiss
seuni, Inserted in the top of an old fasb-
dol::;; li
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dinner wrote
It must he
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v. /i.ie tillitr.d uft-or
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e.s.-. io every general
i every ruin vim i; l eal
log n' her.;.;' lor.d of oxxi.as (.ar.lncss :o
he n g.lo.l : 1 t. N-i’ivh o:. :ia a llr.il
rate sic; per: so v.a.< I'itt: to was
r,r. hr'..; \;n» Ml. G!ad:;t;.uo; so
was Well'::
At ..’a!;::..area V.T’ilngtou. having
given hi; r;d •:• for the l.attle. raid to
bis o' i-d; - : ••Watch the rreneli
tbrot: tli ;. r u r.. I 'it..: Eey. I am
going t
that cop
v.’iihe tn .
flirt us'ci
of tlie crl
loo. IV 1
down. :
and to-.h
i;.:.e r;: t. When they rcai li
■ i a- the gap In the bill:;,
n he I. y down and was
:: 'nr:.'. In the midst
. mtietts 1 afore V.'rder-
•,;t fry. lie laid hlr.uvif
newspaper over bis laee
V.ir r V't-ch y V.'tiy Not xvr.r.: f
The h . i egsicise in the world Is
Walking.
A p.’s. n w' •> knows how ty walk In
telligently <■:::: ;; t ::1< ng without a
gymrass, m. II ; o'.her tom of exercise
bring:; tat: y muscle;; Into play nr.d
develops 11 - i t;u normally. The most
pnprdai' -a n:e those in which
wall: 1 ::.*: fo::: .a p; eminent part. <.'.,'.f.
croquet i:i a t ett.-'e cricket and even
bicycling mprely give'an exet:ro for
v,e I hilly.
Kvv y , r.o i uj'vfl luiw to writ; prop
erly. I: Is- i ■■■'.' of carol: v; that
so many v.: . i.s.diy. The b-.dy should
lie oareli d i r.:h.e chest we’l out. the
In ad I '.< I'. !:• the nemo r.houhl
swing freely ;.i tin.* sl hs. The pace
Should ho le. d to -si: sin t::-.h.
livi ry cue . ....Id. y.lili: fast e;;..,.:gh
and far < ; ,u to get li e body In n
comfertr.l
suit,i I'r-a
undivided
Wolds, he
of It nr !
■ \. '.',> gi i the !"est
I one should give his
ain't i) It. In other
i wa'k for the pleasure
.v. i .Ties wit li Idia.
Excessive vs.".II lug Is inlurio;:.:. Nev
er wall; Jr.: t :. ;t r iv lanvy meal or aft-
tor violent e else. Ami .-:f:i r a wall:
ll Is well to i: l fee Its or IN t.i";
before taking i p severe le -a al wo; is.
An Inte^estlnn
One tT.iuot'e. Incident In the siege tW
IbitinJ-.u may In* related. The day
Ul'ti-r tin*, • :;dt two Hp.ifilsii ladles,
the young"!' a l-oailtliul girl of 1 I. up-
lienled for help to two oilieers of the
rilles. who were passing through one
Of the Streets of the town Their dresses
were loin, iheir ears, from ifItleli mgs
bad been n uglily snatched. were bleed-
lug. and to escape outrage or deall.
teast timmsiives on the protection
Oi the Ill's! British oilieers they met.
One of the oilieers was Captain Harry
Smith of ilie rules Two years inter
lie married the girl he had saved in n
Beene so wiki. Captain Harry Smith
In after ytarn nerved at the Cal ' as
Sir Harry, and this Spanish girl, as
I.aily Smith, gave tier name to the his
toric town which SIi George White de
fended with siieli stubborn valor.—
“Wellington's Men."
ever constructed. It is only three-six
teenths of an fcxr’« In diameter, aw 1 Its
littlo dial not oml? indicates hours, min
utes and sccon&;, hut also the days of
the month. So perfectly farmed is this
lilllputlnn v. alch ti;at U keeps excal-
leat time and is a marvelous piece *f
luce ban ical workmannUip.
Two of the most elaborately Bd curi
ous watches which tl»* worlu has ever
seen belonged to (Jueea Elizabeth au4
her unfortunate coutempcrary. Mary,
queen of Scots. Good Qr.wii T.'vs had
a watch made for her in tlye I of a
duck, with beautifully chased 1 ulhers.
Hie lower pr.it of which opemd. The
face was «,f silver, with a-a ejaliorate
g«t design, and the whole kept in
a ease of brass, covered With Iihiok
leather thickly studded with big silver
knobs.
The 111 fated Mary was the possessor
of a watch In the form of a skull. I !>«
dial was introduced where the paint*
should have been, and the works occu
pied tin* place of brains in the crani
um. In the hollow of the skull, more
over, was a bell which had works of Its
own and by means of which a hammer
struck out the bunts upon it.
One of the choicest rarities of tin
Bernal collection was a book shaped
watch. This curious time iiid’cator wua
made by order of Bogislaus XtV. Uuke
of Pomerania, lu the time of Gustnvus
Adolphus. On the face of the book,
where the dial of tlie watch Is. ret,
there is an engraved Inscription of tlie
iluke and Ills titles and armorial bear
ings. together with the date. 1 '• I—7. On
the hack the engravings are also very
finely ami skill! tilly executed, among
them being the portraits of two gentle
men of the seventeenth century. Tlie
dial plate Is of silver, duped in relief,
while the insides are beautifully chased
with ilgnren of birds mid foliage. I its
watch lias iwo separate movements anil
u large, sweet tolled bell. At the bark-
over tills hdl. the metal Is ornamental
ly pierced In a circle, with a dragon and
other devices, while the sides are pierc
ed and engraved with a complicated
design of beautiful scroll work.—Lon
don Tit-Bits.
ried in headlong (light to the market
towns by bearers, who travel at- Uigat
so that the heat may not force the in
sects to emerge during the Journey.
They are then placed on the “wax
tree," which b a stump varying front
3 to 12 feet in height, v.-'.th numerous
branches rising from the top. similar
to tlie pollard willow.
The wit:; Insects are made into small
packets of 20 of 30 galls, which are in
closed in a leaf of the wood oil tree:
fastened together with rite «*'
•These packets are suspunded close .o
tlie branches under which they bang.
Ou emerging from the galls the inaee-s
creep rapidly up the brunches, to which
they attach themselves and begin lam
ing a coating of was that In about
three months attains a tliicljpess of al
most a quarter of an inch.
The branches are then cut off. and
after removing as much of the was as
possible by baud they ore put in a ket
tle of hot water, when the remain.ng
wax floats on the surface and the -a
Sects finish ilielr term of usefulne ss by
going to the bottom
yormntion of Dew.
Ground a little below the surface is
always warmer'than the air above it
So long as the surface of the ground ts
, above the (lew point vapor mast rise
and pass from the earth into the
Tlie moist air so formed wi.l tiling*--
| with the ah' above it. and its moisture
will be condensed, forming dew wker-
! ever it comes in contact with a surface
| cooled below the dew point, in fact.
dew rises from the ground,
i Rut how is the dew formed cn bodiexi
, high up in the nirV
i Dew does not rise 1a particles, an it
was once considered to fail in particles
like tine rain, it l'ista in vapor. Pome
is caught by what is o:i the surface of.
the earth, hut the rcsi ascend-; in vapor
Greeley I*o»l Hi*
A very distinguished assemblage hon
ored Grant's ball, which was held
in the newly completed north wing of
tlx* treasury building. Elaborate prep
arations wire made for dancing, tne-
manager, by telegraphic communica
tions. keeping tlie dance moving si
multaneously oti three floors. But tue
man who preferred eating to dancing
and could net get even within the sight
of food was not well pleased. Re
freshments were served in the base
ment. in a room too small to accom
modate the O.OCO guests, but, large
enough to contain the provisions,
which were scarce indeed. In the
cloakrooms the committee in chaigt-
lost their heads, visiters lost their
hats, and it is stated ou good authori
ty that the sulphurous vapors wkic..
.rise in the vicinity of the place where
Horace Greeley searched for his hat
during two hours were stifling.
' it is recorded that one gentleman
walked to Capitol kill, two miles dis
tant. in dancing pumps, and barehead
ed and that many frightened, women
still cowered in the corners of tin
dressing rooms at dawn tb“ next morn
ing. So. la preparing Grant's second
bail, the committee made elaborate
arrangements in order that these t.n-
ploasnntnc.'ses should not again oe
cur.—National MagaaUte.
Quick Cntc-ra.
“Have you nay idea." remarked thr
cashier of one of the largest lunch res
tan rants In New York, “how many
minutes the average down town bus:
ness man devotes to his midday mealf
"At a venture," answered the report
er, watching the hurried pia.v of knive*
and forks about him, ”1 should any 1.
minutes.” ,
••You set about the time usually est!
mated." returned the cashier, "but in
reality half that time .watthl hi* licarei
right. The average time consumed fot
’ lunch by the patrons of this establish
ment is Just eight minutes. The fact
is.” continued the cashier after the re
porter- had ventured a foreboding fm
New York digestion, "people find li
such a trilling i: :.i unobtrusive mam :
■ just to get 'a kite of lunch’ that few
g'gr.utie business it Is
merely to supply hungry people down
V/eJtmmca tfc e ,
Howard Paul told an
Of his first Italian tom-
of 30 were pilotod abonn* 5 '
Cook, the founder of f ly ’
“We ascertained
that k,
ranged at Pisa for „
carriages to take tts frZT^
station to the lcanin- t w , ^ r
July object of interest *
see in that a whale place H 5
eel to ths mayor of p| s ', JfN
circus from. England v , ■
■through the town imJ Vy '"f
him to announce it by huii'ti
Mairie and any poiuta W i,„!r
lie would see the uotiee'n.'M
might extend to the troane™
welcome. ° I>,? a •
"Not suspecting n jok» tv
did as I suggested, and vrtJi
r!"ed, entered the coaebrs *
in procession through the"
streets were thronged with ,
who. now and then
cheers and shcui-nl ‘vlvasfV
strative fashion. Mr. Cook (|
bis curriagci was astoundva]
enthusiasm of the inhabitants
puzzled to know how they
English tourists were coming
had only communicated with"
tioa master regarding the v
, “Of course, as the author of
comedy. 1 could not enlighten
when my American friend am
on the mayor to thank u !n
courteous attention to ray
gently inquired where the
as the inhabitants would
have seen us mounted. My
partner In tlie 'sell' wua eq
occasion; and. as he spoke u
Ian. he .Informed the oiiieial
horses were sa r.ttdit*rsu» they
come on by a later train.
•;The secret was well kept.
Mr. Cook and none of the
linguists and as we caly
I’isa three.hours, they nil
wonderment as to why their
had earned such
citcutent.”— Argonaut.
form until it comes fii cuntaet with |
much colder surface to eoadcuse it into ( reali..e w hat
moisture. i 10 sl: ,
Tht* vapor does now (low upward In , town at norn, Leenmu- l;»\\ nr*t !um
a uniform stream, bu; Is mixed 111 the ; lunches wilii them, and from the for
DR. BYLES STOOD GUARD.
It Wait a Tlir.n!:ny.l*
nnil Gie
Tti-:*r Were Aftent'vc*
A cleigyman preaelmig in a country
chni'eli tor the first time was delighted
to find the congregation very uitiii-
live and told the verger so utter the
tervice.
The verger replied. "Lof bless you,
sir. we was all looking lor you to iiln-
appenr!"
"Why. wlint do you tnean'f" said the
clergyumn.
"Well. sir. you see. the pulpit Is rot-
tea nml liasn'l been preached In this
ten year or more. — I’em son a Weekly.
ng B
l.niiHi- Wish Lrweat.
Oue of tlti* most famous of the old
Puritan divines was l)r. Mai her By lea,
who was bora In Be'-taa in 17110 and
who was the first pastor of the Hollis .
Street Congregation.-)I church, to which ;
he ministered for more than to years, j
Dr. Lyles was famous us a humorist
and wit, and innumerable anecdotes
are related of Ids clever quips un.d re
torts. He was a zealous Tory had
warmly advocated the cause of "the
mother country" against the colon lea.
In No ember. 1777. be was arrested as
it. Tory, tried, convicted and sentenced
l.o lie ei alined cm bunrd a guard skip
and sent to England with his family
within -In days. The sentence was aft
erward commuted by the board of war
to confinement In bis own house, a
guard being placed over him with in
structions not to permit him to leave
his residence* for a moment under any
eii'i'litiistiinees.
On Thanksgiving morning, observing
that the sentinel, who. I Hie many of tlie
colonial soldiers, was a simple rustic,
bad disappeared and that Dr. Bytes
himself was pacing up and down lie-
fore ills own door with a musket on ids
shoulder, the neighbors crossed the
street to Inquire the cause of this sin
gular specu.cle.
"You see." said Dr. Bylos. “I begged
tuy glint'd to let me go out to procure
some eider with which myself nnil
family might celebrate Thanksgiving
day. but lie would not permit me to
stir. I argued the point with him. and
lie lias now gone to get the elder for me
on condition that l keep guard over
myself during his absence.”
air by eddies and wind currents aui*
carried to bodies far from where i:
rose In fait, dew may be deposited,
even though the country far many
miles all around be dry and incapable
of yielding any vapor. In such eases
the supply of vapor io foem that dew
would depend on the evaporation of
the dew and on what was wafted ove*
by the winds.
Clocks V'ltli "V.
“Clocks are certainly queer things,”
said the n:an who was tinkering at. the
hall clock in a suburban house the oth
er day. “They get creaky spells just
like people. Sometimes they ready net I BC heme is' proved by
though they were bewitched,
friend of mint* l:r.:l a little clock that
had behaved Itself and- kept gr .1 time
for years. Cue day it took a notion to
lay off for awhile, and they couldn't
get It started again. My friend's wifr
was cleaning the roam several days
afterward, and she teak the clock and
laid it down flat on its lyn-U <m a chair.
It started to go at once and ticked
away nt a great rate, but as soon a?
she placed it cn end it stepped again
Well, they set it. ami for a time it act
ed all right an tong as it remained on
its hack. But it soon got cranky again
and refused to go. The other day. just
for fun. they turned it upside (lo rn,
and. would you believe it. that era::;;
clock started off again. Now it on'y
runs'when it is standing on its head,
and they are Wondering what new f-ol-
isliuess it will develop next.”—Boston
Record.
motion of the city none can go home
“This establishment feeds 3,030 peo
pie a day. and the amount of food re
qulred to care for that patronage is
enormous. For example, when we put
hash on the 'special:;' enough is made
up actually to ill! a wagon. We an
not the largest lunchroom, however.”
Ocor.vt WaahinKtnn’n L-.tiery.
It in not generally known that tint
great Father of Ills Country was on
*t least cue occasion the originator of
a lottery, the like of which at the pres
ent day would be forbidden to send its
tickets through the mails. That George
Washington was Interested in such a
number of tick
ets still In existence which bear hit;
august name. It was the Mountain
Road lottery of which George was the
promoter, ami it its, of course, unnec
essary to #tat(> tl;:it Washington him-
wlf did not financially profit from it.,
All the fund:; raised by the lottery
vim spent in building, the rilnd
through Cumberland gup. near Fred
ericksburg. Ya. Originally tbe lottery
tickets which Washington signed were
worth .’rH each. Now. because they bear I
Ids signature, they art* easily sold for !
$30 apiece, though it is certain that i
not oue of them will ever draw a prize
T’jo J'OKttiiaiilrr lit Hip i
The lawyer* who eviilcmly i
life oue huge, coatimiutw Jota \
the clerk's oilier at the city
an expression of extreme;
ep;tailing bis counteaun
and others having hud ness in j
at the time ceased their
suits. Experience Imd
that the aforesaid h.iwy
something of an entci'tiiiniii^
ter.
“GatIter round, hoys." be
have a dandy far yen thist
The speaker paused The i
lcnti.v waited for what v.t
"Now llslcii carefully."
lawyer, "and vote the t
connection between the 1 brej>M
of this little conundrum, llmj
'If the postmaster should visjnl
nul while there be
animals, wlint o'clock would)
There was another
the clerk in charge of tbe ;
turned the answer. "It tvmilah
with the [lostmaster.”
"Wrong, entirely
ed tlie lawyer "1 didn't asky.-ksl
1 asked what o'clock would It I*]
A third pause. Then by g)'B
sent the answer was
lawyer gjiyly announced, ".j
Before tin* gathering
the lawyer had flitted
and was headed for the
peals to try Hie postmaster)
ininis couutidrttni on the
nab—Washington siar.
Some Odd IttKlnli*'*.
An urban eln*ia it advertised In tils
td:np window: "Artificml eyes. Open
nil night." Away down south In front
i l the pns:, :.lee In an Inland town
. my tinie n-eii seen ibis legend. "Post
here letters ton lute for tlie next
li■•'!." la a pa tine of the departure
i Hie pi.grans from HePtlinven tlie
artist pl a i .1 a large steamer in the
di-tance leaving t’.,e tiailiur under lull
steam.
a:i o.7.
Toni-3o your engagement with May
Is broken, i i.nought sin- tairiy doted
n:i you
Dn-t. t o she did. hut her father was
u power:u! jtntl-iioie.- Pi. Louis Repub
lic.
IT In Slip.
Fie—Often when I look up at the
stars In the tlrmament 1 enuttet help
thinking how small, how Instgnilleuut.
I atn after nil.
She—Gim-iousi Doesn’t that thought
aver strike you except when you look
in the stars lu the fir in a moih 7-Ex-
Actor" Who KS-atte*.
It would seem that the stage Is nat
only the last profession that would lie
chosen by a person aiilii-teil by stutter
ing. lint Hint a stutterer would never
ilrcatn of selecting that profession.
Yet It is a fact that some well known
actors and singers labor under this dis
advantage.
Tliv strangest thing about it is that
the sad Impediment which Is so pain
fully evident in private life seems to
vanish entirely when they are on tlie
boards.
It is curious that appearance on the
stage or lu the pulpit should have this
beneficial effects for stutterers in other
walks of life do not lose tk-dr impedi
ment when nt work, however enthusi
astic their iove for their profession.—
Loudon Answers.
Otliewivtao Discreetly Silent.
Mc.Tigger- B.rngg tells me he gut mix
ed up in a scrap last night.
Thingumbob—Did lie get the best of
it?
Mc.Tigger- Of course. If he hadn't lie
wouldn't have said anything about It.—
l.'r> rii the Air.
“What sort of a fellow is Swelldup?’ ;
“Well, lie's oae of those fellows that
yon can never convince that there's
plenty of room at the top.”
“Pessimistic, eh?”
"Not at all. but he thinks lie's thorn
already, and that he occupies a'i tin?
space."—Philadelphia Proas.
A!e«Mt!rin« Vunr Stan.
Put this in yom pipe umi smoke it:
There is always some chap smarter
than the chap you think Is.the-smartest
on earth meaning yourself. You are
a wonderful judge of huuinfi nature.
In" con't measure yom man too eoafl-
>..*ntly, for fill times i:i 100. you'll fled
><ie suit doesn't lit Never play favor-
“es. Tlie lightweight today. In your
h.i’adureniet'L will he the heavyweight
tomorrow Old friends, like oid wine,
will in the end prove host. Never tre
back on tin old friend uniess you have
plenty of money well invest 1 i'us-
sessed of a big hank in-*mint and
flushed wttli sm-t-ess the mischief take
friends, old and new!-New York
Press.
Playing II Oaw-i l.o-vr.
“I haven't mnrh use tor tin:hersley,"
said in- proud papa
"Why
“I Ms;
virile ii
: I sg
asked the proud niamiii:
AYtmt Tliey Made.
A certain father is possessed of
pair of, exceedingly bright girl cjiil- \
dreh. The other day his eldest "datigh- I
ter, Alice, was putting her younger
sister, surname Gretchen. through
some arithmetical paces, and t'r.'u :
father was an amused listener, i
"Gretchen, how much do 12 and lil I
make?" was the form of one query, ;
an 1. being correctly answered, other |
cad similar questions followed each
other in quick succession.
h he father believing the younger 1
daughter was doing too much of the !
work thought he would put his fi*st- '
born tip a tree, and so he broke in with
a problem of his own invention.
"Alice," he-queried solemnly, "how
much do you and Gretchen make?" ■
Without an Instant's hesitation i-.nuf
the reply: * •
"Gretchen and I. pop. make you a
proud^and happy father.”—Exchange.
The Jlan and (tie Dope.
A Chiuninan who had been condemn
ed to wear the eangtte. or wooden col
lar. was seen by some of his friends.
“What have yea been doing.” they
asked, "to deserve this?" '
“Ch. nothing." he replied. *'! only
picked up an old piece of rape."
‘‘And are you to be punish <1 ‘hus se
verely.'' they asked, "for merely pick
ing up an and of rope?"
"Weil." answered the matt “the fact
is there was a hriiock tied to t!: > ijthe-
end. II. A. Giles' "Ili. Huy of Chines-.
Literature.”
il :o n
for ' 'i Io
It is easy enough to smile when you
treed upon rose haves, bat try it when
each sup leaves blood prints upon the
thorns. Some of the lines in your fac*
rna.. curve downward then.
(Dlonjnlns- Ear.
in Syracuse Is a cave sfnldt»j|
been constructed by tlie l.t
sins, probably used ns n |ih >lin
made In the shape of u
man ear. and its m-ousis
most remarkable. Max"' 1 ' 11
vllie. the author of "Samisn!
visited it and had its |ii(i|ieit'-es
Ited to him by the
there.
The man took a sheet <)■
and. standing within the P°! ,a
ear. struck the edge of t- 11 ’ p*,]
the forefinger of his rh"' 11
twice, thrice. Each Ilglu 18 |\
peated through the deep
stone eaf as if ii had l, ee:»-i
a heavy s.'edge haanaer mt t*
an Iron hottsi Ke
per slightly, and that fcp"';
augfiietitcl a mfikoai; 1 - 1 '- ri '
through the vaults, ahe-" p ^
like the err-sli end roll of "
whistled, spoke and
of stentorian volets t' 1 ';”'' 1
sound. Turning to oiy
said: „. v
"We must not loDger
embark. Now we sflai) - u
on our way to the deseit uj ^
Myriad lungs of stone •■it , »
last word of each phrase aa ^
aloud." I any any '^ "„.^j
byfia- bytla S.-iliiita h--■■■
1 pfei'ious to the llietl of Y 1 ' |
ker's and Mitchell's rJ
g;'!)u::d at Gettysliarg , ;5
I’ieki'tt's brigades." - L“' 1 '
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