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Jg of the western; I once had a trainer, an old Irish-
the is |fl streanl8 and lakes inan, who had served In a British regl-
e in tUe . of immense size ; tncnt In India and who knew the wa"»
n^P.l ns food by the of tigers In every detail. He taug!
t.r.m-no rtf throo nf i limn tn /In »«<%»/> i.. n
d ns LUVU WJ «•'- “■ •“ '***’•■* w*«.«ia«. ue tuught
idoin aw To i-nve a honor of three of them to do more work In the
scem ' s The eels of ' show arena than I have ever seen done
tJite creat ^ ^ Cai . 0 i; ;le by tigers. 1 hav
StliUe of Ul0 Caroline uy tigers. I have seen him sitting i nn invitation 1
island- 0 i lflt they lilber- j down between two of them at rest j “ Tlli8 felloi
re pet' u!:ar j. fol . t j,elr place ; times during rehearsals and examining j working hard
„lorlV S ... . ..inv.no tsrlilpl: > tliolr olntrs tn Rnn iF nnv of Hwvtv- » 1 there NOOIlU'tl
?e seen him slttiu
L ’ r
An AtvfnI Dlaapjiotatmeat.
“The most disappointed man I ever
saw.'’ said a Baltimore financier, “was
a poor wr-3tch who was about to be
hanged in one of the northeastern
counties of Maryland. 1 happened to
be there about the time and accepted
! an Invitation to witness t ie execution.
-'.low's lawyers had been
to save lis iieek. ”ud
nrtiesi i<—- — a i *** “ “ u j tn tuum were seemed to be some possibility
..Ion tlie - j sore or split. Any one who has ever j *’ lat be might he reprieved. The time
find- imes will cr.mb tried that with even a house cat knows . * '*• fur tlu> psecutlon arrived, however,
erfs 6 °®® t m'gj, an< j select! that It strikes the feline nature as nn ! 11:1(1 tlu ’ sheriff made plans to caVry
IS .p’ace for their win- >-i„ r.. ...
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•id SOCU IUI IB.M i i • w v.v»»uu.i
oilarl)' aU ‘ .“niest plat-cs Wliiqk 1 their claws to see if any cf them w
1 .1 Gneo lit* enllf A m- i ..
there
or make a de-
ft moss covered soil
' 'mto it snugly, re
in tli
t!l0U1 nSnths‘at a time ubso
for
Sometimes
. i. s . nnd inert.
Ot '°»!worod with moss or vege-
- 11 ' "<111(1 at other times they
aris “L to view with their
"“tads cabled back upon
fiat he.'
After tlieir
season cf
odieS ' mountain tops the eels
• - to the vax-
tlie
unwarrantable faraillavlty. but they j out tlK ‘ execution. The march to the
never did more than show their teeth • R( ‘n ff o!d had begun, and the prisoner
was about to mount the steps when a
Tk( Reason.
A German professor who Is given to j
grant deliberation of speech and hus
never been known tc met,use its speed ;
under the most compelling circum-j
THE MAJOR’S VENGEANCE.
HcKInley anil the Reporter Who
Persistently Assailed Him.
under me most compelling circum- . During one of his congressional enro-
stauces had an amusing experience In palgns Major McKinley was followed
..... ... ..... i...» ...... am„i tr, hv ii n-iiiirtei* for a
and whine, and that in half playful
ness.
One day he got very drunk. I had
never known him to transgress before.
messenger arrived, waving a telegram
in his hand.
“The procession was at one? stopped.
Ruwnii liiui tu iruueKrcsK IKriOie. -
Before he was noticed on ids return to 11,1,1 the sheriff took the telegram, hut
^1. ... i • i . ... Uil tit tliui- It- .1 t.k ft... j./\n
n mwins iut0 the r,ve ™ and
•Jf W feed upon the craw
*£ c b crustacean they have a
, rtici. Is shared by the na-
i'4 C n. s are excellent eating.
; , vi n induce the natives to
'em! alive or (lead.
the cage he had gone in with his ti
gers a fid fallen In a heap on the floor.
The other keepers tried to take him
out of the cage, but to have done so
would have meant a bitter and bloody
fight with the three striped ones. They
gunrded him nil night In his drunken
slumber. The next time he put them
to work, however, they balked, and he
could neither persuade nor drive them.
They had ceased to trust him, or some
thing of that sort, and his usefulness
with them was at an end completely.—
F. Bostock tn Frank Leslie’s.
Relieved.
. „ tong ride through a desolate
"“ B country, and the pollti-
Z ht t0 relieve the monotony by
L e nmsings on his, recent vic-
•j embarrassments that even
lii'i;
saw that It was addressed to the con
demned man. lie bunded it to the, fel
low. who, trembling with' hope, tore
open the envelope. lie cast his eager
glance at the message, puled and let it
drop from ills hand. The sheriff picked
up the paper, read it. and the march
to tile scaffold was resumed. In a few
minutes the man Who had hoped for a
reprieve was in eternity.
“The message was from some minis
ter who had become Interested in Ills
case. It told him to trust in the Lord
| and he would be suved.”—Washington
Post
a restaurant not long ago.
The waiter had brought him raw oys
ters. and. to his dismay, he saw that
the professor had apparently no inten
tion of tasting them.-
“I cannot cat these oysters.” said the
German slowly, without raising his
eyes to the anxious waiter. The man
seized the plate and bore it out of
sight In an Instant. Ho was a new
waiter, and it was with much trepida
tion that he laid the second supply cf
oysters before this discriminating pa
tron.
“I cannot eat these oysters.” said the
from place to place by a reporter for a
paper of opposite political faith, who la
described as being one of those
“shrewd, persistent fellows who are al
ways at work, quick to see un oppor
tunity and skilled In making the most
of It!" While Mr. McKinley was an
noyed by the misrepresentation to
which he was almost dally subjected,
he could not help admiring the skill and
persistency with which he was assail
ed. His admiration, too. was nut uu-
mlxed with compassion, fo- the re
porter was 111, poorly clad and had an
annoying cough. One night Mr. Me
1 cannot eat tnese oysters, eaiu ue uhuu.viuk w *" .
professor after one glance at the plate . Klnley took a closed carriage fora near-
which had been set before him. | by town at which h- was announced to
“I—I think you'd find them all right. ! speak. The weather was wretchedly
sir," faltered the - waiter. “1 don’t | rftw and cold, and what followed is
think there’s anything wrong about ' thus described: .
them, sir.” lie looked miserable, hav- | He hml not gone far when he heard
Ing been told that the German was a [ that cough and knew that the repottet
frequent and valued patron of the res- j was-riding with the driver on the ox-
taurant and must he well and quickly posed sent. The major called to t it
m voar hands!”
‘ jeoiu-h gave a lurch and
The ray of light that shot iu-
rchide turned the spattering
, tnvrlnds of evanescent gems.
- fa you want?” asked the pol-
w jth a firmness that showed
had faced danger before,
money."
It Is.”
watch and diamond ring.
are yours.”
st say you're good natured any-
uiil one of the highwaymen,
r.t all. Are you sure that's all
lire?"
t In thunder did you think we
s afraid"-and the politician’s
•1-mhlcd a little—“you \ wanted
»!"—Philadelphia North Amcrt-
nser-t Testa tn Brazil.
Id take a small- gang of prac-
fee planters from Ceylon with
r-st'.ous to bo not afraid of
ticks and Berne flies, to say
of the dear little mosquito,
ter had extracted during four
, Brazil no less than 200 cliig-
-a underneath every ■ toe nail
feet.
the vile insects on enrth the
!y is the worst. She lays her
:side your flesh and hntclies
cry ugly insects an inch long
ree rings cf bristles round the
ad with sharp nippers. They
.out six weeks to develop uu-
Trouble For the Tnnrlata.
The poor Saxon "towrlst”—what he
may suffer in the Emerald Isle! There
Is a story on record of three Irishmen
rushing away from the race meeting at
Punchestown to catch a train back to
Dublin. At the moment a train from a
long distance pulled up at the station,
and the three men scrambled In. In
the carriage was seated one other pas
senger. As soon as they had regained
their breath one said:
“Pat, have you got th’ tickets?”
, “What‘tickets? I’ve got me loife! 1
thought I'd have lost that gettin’ in
th’ thrnin. Have you got ’em. Molke?"
“01? Begorrah, I haven’t!”
“Oh, we’re all done for. thin!” said
the third. “They’ll charge us roight
from th' other soide of Oireland.”
The old gentleman looked over his
newspaper and said:
“You are quite safe, glntlemen. Walt
till we get to th' next station.”
As soon as the train palled up the
little gentleman Jumped out and came
hack with three first class tickets.
Handing them to the astonished stran
gers, he said: "Whist, I'll tell you how
I dkl it: I wilit along th’ thrnin. ‘Tick
ets. plaze: tickets, plazel’ l called, and
those belong to three Saxon to wrists In
another carriage.”—Harry Furulss in
Strand.
An Evenlncr Cull.
“I called on Perkins last evening.”
remarked Mr. Brown.
"Did you have a pleasant time?” in
quired Mrs. Brown.
"Very. Perkins was beating bis
wife when 1 went In.”
“What?"
“1 say rerkltis was heating his wife,
but of course he stopped when I came
In.”
"Well, I should hope so.”
“1 bogged him to go on, but ho said
some other time would do just as
well.”
“Ycu bogged him to go on?"
“Why. yes. 1 didn’t want to spoil
the fuu. you know.”
served.
“I cannot eat these oysters." an
nounced the professor for t’ae third
time, with the calmness of chorus In a
tragedy, "because ns yet you have fur
nished mo no fork.”—Youth's Compan
ion.
Tl»«* Public Timte.
driver to stop and alighted. "Get down
off that sent, young man." he said. The
reporter obeyed, thinking the time for
the major's vehgeance had come.
"Here." said Mr. McKinley, taking off
bis overcoat, “yon put on this overcoat
and get Into tlint carriage."
-But. Major McKinley." said the re
porter, “l guess you don't know who I
1 v jiuuri, • !»>■• «’ . .
Several kind Workers pooled their; nm . | m-ve been with you the whole
Efforts to Insure the Waifs a happy j campaign, giving It to you every time
Holiday. They rounded up the little j y 0l] spoke, nud 1 am going over tonight
Hickeys nt a Mission and gave them a j to rip you to pieces If l can."
Free Show. Every Swipes in the j »i Know." said Mr. McKinley, "hut
Place was a Monday Night Gallery | vott put on this coat and get inside and
God, so the Church Talent was going ,; et warm so that you can do a good
against a knowing Proposition.
A pnle young Man with amber Flro
Escapes sprang a Hue of Parlor Mngic
that would have queered even a Sup
per Show. The Bunch advised him
to hack off the Dump. When a Young
Lady with Glasses tackled "Stnbut
job.”—Clinutauquan.
THF MAGIC NUMBER.
A liiKKMtlon ‘>y the Cyiilo Tbn« Set
the'Others TlilnUlnst.
„ lv „ - , "j often hear of the magic number/’
Mater” oh the Violin they broke her; „ n |d someone. "What number Is .t.
le run. you unow.” i up with Cnt Calls anil told her to! -why. nine, of course,” replied some
"Oh. you brute! Do you mean to any tear off some Bag Time. They bleated 1 0 ne else. "There are nine muses, j
that you could have looked calmly on at the Amateur Elocutionist and acted know, and you talk of a nine any
Howdy when a Stout Woman got up wonder. Then you howl at ninepins,
to read a Fairy Tale from Hans Chrlfs- j and a eat has nine lives.”
tian Andersen. Then they began to, “Nonsense!” broke In another. ' bov-
yell for Mulligan and Hicks to come] en is the magic number. Seventh
on nud save the Show. Whereupon heaven, don’t yon know, and all that:
two pug faced Kids came forward and given colors in the rainbow, seven
did a Hottentot Song nnd Dance with days in the week, seventh son ol a
a Buck nud Wing finish that killed , seventh son—great fellow—and —
them dead. I "Tush, tush!" remarked a third.
Mornl.—Tbe Waifs canuot be expected , “Five's the number you mean, a
to lift themselves many Notches above i mnu lias tlve tltigers on bis hand nut
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While he beat his wife?
“Certainly. Why not?”
"1 thought you had at least n spark
of manhood left. I suppose you will
be heating me next."
"Yes; 1 think 1 could if you would
play cribbage with me.”
"Play cribbage?"
“Yes; that is what Perkins nnd his
wife werl- doing.”—London Telegraph.
St. Pnul's.
“Tt is curious.” says the London
Chronicle, “how St. Paul’s, although
the first cathedral church In England
that was built actually for the observ
ance of the Anglican ritual, manages
nevertheless to retain something of a
foreign and a Catholic nature in the
way it off ers shelter to the tired pas
serby. Apart from the restless groups
... of sightseers, there are always plenty
skin, then commence to turn j 0 f people there who have gone In sole-
fits just when you want to j i y for the sake of its wonderful peace
ep after a hard day’s work in j an j quiet.
-They would have found neither, by
hives of Brazil adopt a novel j t^e way. in old St. Paul's of the fif-
jztrn.cting the brute when full. teenth century, for while mass was
They tie on a piece of raw pork | pein- said in one chapel, a funeral serv-
■ino comes out of your skin j | oe ( n another, nud so on, all sorts of
commerce was carried on in the middle
aisle, from the hiring of servants to
the transaction of legal business.
“We have altered nil that nowadays,
nnd St. Paul's is the quietest spot in
the noisiest city in the world.”
as a header into the piece of
-Ceylon Observer.
IClmaw'H “Souvenir."
Li Him- Chang was In Paris,
t to visit the Credit Lyounais
aved lively Interest in its halls,
rs. Its safes and the room where
ais of the Inst city of Paris loan
it. lie was first, shown bonds
frnncsar.d l.tlDfl francs nnd then
0 fumes. Taking them In his
he scrutinized them, exclaiming
ady. Moli. joli!" Then he finally
tbom in his pocket, saying,
'air dt* Paris!” The governor of
Lyonnais went to the tnln-
1 iarelgn affairs with a list of the
and asked what he was to do.
- agreed tlint It would not do to
111 Rb-e them up. and the foreign
(•funded his "souvenir de Par's!”
Got Hln Price.
“Away over on the cast side of the
city.” said n New Yorker, "lies the
shop of a well known butcher, who
rejoices In the euphonious nnd sug
gestive name cf ’Four Cent Miller.’
He sells meat In smallest quantity to
his customers, and, as the coin of the
realm In that locality Is principally
conspicuous by Its absence, there is
a constant effort to heat him down In
price. The other day Miller and a
would be customer all but came to
blows over a pound or so of pork chops,
and the discussion finally culminated
in Miller irately demanding:
*• -Well, why don't you go to Smith
(a rival butchen if you can get them
cheaper?’
"‘Because/ explained the customer.
•Smith hasn't got any.'
‘Oil.” said Miller. ‘Is that so? Weil,
when I haven't got any m.v price will
lie 4 cents, too. lmt while 1 have they
cost T cents. See?’
-The customer saw nud purchased.
—New York Tribune.
the Public Taste.—New York Herald.
five toes on his foot, aud lie has Uvia
senses; nud"—
-Three is undoubtedly the tangle
number.” interrupted another, "because
people give three cheers, nud Jonah
was Inside a" whale three days and
A Testimonial Worth Huvinsr.
An Inventor, having produced a won
derful hair Invigorating fluid, sent a
case of buttles to u bald ollltor, with a wan lusiut- u ........ — —.
request for a testimonial. He got It In ; three nights, nnd If at first you don
these terms: ! succeed, try, try aguin-three times.
“A little applied to the Inkstand has j y0 u see!”
given it a coat of bristles, making n , Tills was received with some con-
splemlld penwiper nt a small cost. Wo | tempt by the company, nnd a soulful
youth gushed out:
••Two. oh. two is the magic num
ber—-oneself nnd one other, the adored'
one—just two!”
A hard featured Individual, who Imd
been listening to the conversation lilth-
Absurdly
did you
asked,
they were
he replied.
L'nrticTilar.
resign from
your
so absurdly partie-
Hls Half.
An old Maryland, colored man was .
summoned to court by the coutiovcisy j
over the ownership of a mule. I
“Who bought the mule?” demanded
the judge. ■ . ....
“Clem Sin if and Ah each bought half
ob him. sail.” responded the old man.
, “Where Is Smith now?”
! “He ain't neither cum down yit. salt.
! He went to curvy ins huff .when ns
half was in a bad humor. N°" ®
cliillnn wants to get deb b'tiii'li s ia
away from my half, en deb half am
^“Stop!” roared the Judge. “Dismiss
the case.”—Chicago News.
Alaska'* Inliom.ltOlil* Interior.
In the vast aud almost unknown In
terior of Alaska the climate Is arctic.
The winter Is of eight luoiltla* dura
tion. drv and. excepting certain re
stricted localities, entirely free front
wind The temperature descends ns
low as 80 degrees, with a mean of per
haps 40 degrees. Ice forms in the
rivers and lakes to a thickness of
ei-lit feet nnd more. Summer extends
over four mouths. During Its earliest
month high winds prevail.
unco of lids short season is mild nnfl
the'temperature pleasant, rarely ex
ceeding sc, degrees. The snow and rain
annually precipitated la about 1AJ
indies.—Era.
applied the lather to a twopenny nail,
and the nail Is now the handsomest
shaving brush you ever Saw. with
beautiful, soft hnlr growing from the
end of it some live or six Inches in
length. i uwu HBicimih v»# v... — -
“Applied to doorsteps, it does away | erto unmoved, here remarked in
with the use of tt mat: applied to the bur&h voice:
floor. It tv HI cause to grow therefrom j
hair sufficient for a ht-ussels carpet. A
little weak lather sprinkled over a shed
makes It Impervious to the wind, rain j
or cold. It Is good to put Inside dill- 1
Aren's cradles, sprinkle on the road
side or anywhere that luxurious grass
Is wanted for use or drnament. It pro
duces the effect In ten minutes.”—Col-
llef’s Weekly.
rwu 'uiLf,
'The magic number Is number one
In tills world, and If you want ta suc
ceed never forget It."
An Interval of deep thought on the
pnrt of all followed, after which they
went in silently to suppcr.-IVarson’s.
No Word For l-ove.
In comparison with the English
tongue foreign tongues seem parsimo
nious In some ways of expression nnd
wasteful In others. 1
For Instance. It Is Impossible to “kick
n man In Ffench. You'must give him
u “blow with the foot.” The I’ovtu-
Afrtcnns tVnnJi. bet Never Wtjic.
Great attention Is given in mod of
the African tribes to the care of the
body. The teeth are cleansed With u
a stick which lias been chewed into gueac- do not "wink” at one; they c osa
a kind of brash. The bunds are nnd open the eyes.”
washed frequently, not by turning and In the languages of the American ln-
twistlng aud rubbing them together dlniis there Is no wold with whidi
one within the other, as with us. hut convey the Idea of "stealing. I*e*£ a P
bv a straight up and down rubbing, because the Idea of property Is so
such as is given to the other limbs, fcaguo.! It Is related of one of the eatly
Tiffs manner of washing Is so charne- missionaries that In attempting t
urns l» Cliuriiv UilBBIUliai two
teristic that an African might be din-' translate the Bible Into Algonquin he
a European with- could find no word to express lovt
• die chairman wouldn’t tet me
st because some one else was
~ r - s if that made any dlffcr-
Ckleago Post.
WP8 °f Modern Education.
Mother—0!i. 1 am so glad you
I don’t know what on earth
1 baby.
-Shall I run for the doctor.
Mother—No. for an Interpreter.
Pen*. Paper and Royalty.
Whenever the signature of an
lisli king or queen is requited
S’a hook or elsewhere It J 8 — ;
otiKW gurats
thick white paper, on one side only
An Owl’s Too*.
It is alleged that taxidermists are
careless in the mounting of owls. In
museurtts and elsewhere our wise eyed
friends are «■» up ^!tl. three >oes In
front of and one behind ,|1C I" 11
Which they are seated. One who has
tlnguished liy It from a mirw™* , . , - 1 M
out reference to the color. The sun Is and was compelled to Invent It
their only towel.
1 ^ Spelling Bcc.
Some of you who think you are well
up in i spoiling juKt try to spell the
Mother—No. for an Interpreter. n f the require-
ach nurse left suddenly today. Wife—YV bat arc a BUC cessful
°'Jy can understand what he meats necessary to
mv (tear:
UB-Uto - j
poker player, my t-Mf; Well , „ man
.Tbe Earliest Ctitiirs.
The earliest mention of cigars In
English occurs In a hook dated 1711"). words jin this little sentence:
A traveler In Spanish America named “it Ik agreeable to witness the nn-
Cockburn, whose narrative was pub- paralleled ecstasy of two harassed pe -
lished In that year, describes how he diers tjndcAvorlng to gauge tue sj
met three friars at Nicaragua, who, he n ,etry bf two peeled pears- -
:a \e us some seegArs to smoke; Bead) It over to your friends and see
these are Leaves of Tobacco bow tiany of them can spell
rolled up In such Manner that they word (jorroetly. The sentence contain*
servo both for a Pipe and Tobacco it- many }>f Che real puzzlers of the Spell
E(1 j». * * *. they know no other way ing book.—London Tit-Bits,
i here, for there Is no such Thing ns a j j - ———r .
As an MO' - {WWjWi Tabacc-o Pip, «■*“•" i «* «a
everything is watched ia Iloss.a.t^ej voice TrnreBUK. ; 1 be swSls up and claims to tie proud of
their system of ri-gisterlng h.iarms. E1(?bteeJ , n ,jtes Is said to be the lot* ftiire U no'way of knowing if the
When a weapon ot any -md ■" P distance on record at which a * avor ,.A BpM reciprocates the fettling.—
chased a permit must be secured from ^ ^ hrtj| ^ bear<t This oc* W Bp ? ...Jl, 7
” ' | mot illlVV uiuis ui
niwe r ved tile habits of the hooters j Bnya .. ga ve Os some scegArs to smoke:
maintains that this Is incom-et and
that no living owl ever places three
tm . s tn front of h’-* perch- Low la
this?—New York Press.
. « mat distance on record at
he secured *rom y^iee has been heard,
the local authorities- Till* name of the cn ., i( , a , a tllc Grand canyon C »he Col
man who makes the purchase, v.’-h the , . ■— th«
number of th.e weapon, is recorded, if
the purchaser ever wants to dispose
3 I Wife (shoci.eu * ,
would care to pla.Y with wc*i V*
.-r.rdon me. I for- 1 : Hushaud—Oh. I neatly a T
•^Piy choosing tny brides- Chicago Record-Herald.
foe to lio my wife.
Ntoiyn—Ob, P .
of me weapon he must notify the au
thorities nnd cause the transfer to be
recorded on the books of the firm
svhicli sold It.
orado. where one man shoutltis the
name Bel? nt one end his voice » as
plainly heard nt the other end. wilicb
Is el"htpe;i miles nwny. Or. Yonng re
cords that at Gibraltar the Amuan
voice
Ban Frhnclswo Bulletin-
ten relies.
| Pulnfnl AM Arthn.1.
Dumlfelgb—If was an nwfu> trial for
me to make that fpeech tonight,
Mildmay—Don’t mention it. old hoy-
that ut Gibraltar the bnraan ttinlc what the'rest of qa *uf-
has been V.eard ut a distance of | ere ^ ? ■ . *
-Brooklyn Life.