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HE NEVER LOVED A LOUD.
But Hl* Fir* Girl* Married Title*. All
the Same.
It was evident that he was not inly
pretty well satisfied with himself but
that he didn’t care whi knew it
.“Five daughters,” he said, “and ev
ery one of them married to a title.
That’s a pretty good record for a man
Who wouldn’t be considered rich enough
to buy more than one high grade title. ”
“I don’t see how you did it ” sug
gested the man who knew nothing ex
cept that the husband with a title was
ordinarily quoted at a pretty stiff figure.
“Oh, it’s easy when you know how,’’
replied the self satisfied man. “So far
as I am concerned I would have prefer
red to marry the girls to enterprising
young Americans with no titles, but
their mother insisted upon getting them
something more fashionable, and when
their mother insists I have to hump
myself and see that things come the
way she wants them. I confess it was
something of a problem at first, but
when I got it figured out in my mind
and began playing the cards it was so
easy that I was inclined to be ashamed
of myself for not trying . something
harder. ”
The self satisfied man stopped long
enough for the listener to suggest that
he would be glad to hear tho story, and
then, in view of the fact that they were
all married and publicity could do no
harm, he told it
"I took, all my available assets, ” ho
explained, “and made them a-dowry
for my eldest daughter. Naturally there
was a rush for her, and she was able to
take her pick of five. 1 rushed matters
as much as possible, got her married,
gave up the dowry I had promised, and
then steered her titled husband against
the Stock Exchange, where 1 gave him
Borne bad tips, took his trades myself
through a broker and won back all the
dowry and part of his ancestral estates.
Then I gave the dowry to my second
daughter, got her married and played
the same game with her husband. I
worked the scheme right through the
family, until I finally married my
youngest to a baronet yesterday. I got
them to postpone their wedding trip sos
a few days, so as to give me a chance to
win back the dowry before they had
spent any of it, and by day after tomor
row 1 expect to be on Easy street again,
without a care in the world If girls
must have titles, why, 1 am in favor of
giving them to them, but I don’t believe
In contributing large fortunes to the
support of the tottering monarchies of
the old world, and, what’s more, f
don’t intend to do it. ’’ —Chicago Post .
ARMORED PLANTS.
Thorns 'and Spies That Protect Plant*
From Their Enemies.
“Plants and Their Enemies” is tha
title of an article by Thomas H. Kear
ney, Jr., in St. Nicholas. Mr Kearney
says:
There are a thousand things that
threaten the well being and even the
life of every tree and shrub and lowly
herb Too much heat or too little works
great harm to plants. Then there are
all manner of wasting diseases caused
by other tiny plants called fungi and
bacteria. Many large animals, as horsed
and cows and sheep, live by grazing the
herbage and grass or browsing the foli
age of trees and shrubs. Os course they
greatly injure the plants they feed upon
and therefore many plants are in one
way or another protected against such
attacks.
Did you ever stop to think why this
tles are so well armed with sharp prick
les or why the ugly roadside nettles aro
furnished with stinging hairs? Notice
cattle grazing in a field where thistles
or nettles grow. See how careful they
are to let those disagreeable plants
alone. That is the reason for the stings
and the spines. See this honey locust
tree bristling with its horrid array of
three pointed thorns. What animal is
brave enough to try to rob it of its
leaves or great pods? Hawthorns, too,
and rosebushes and blackberry briers
all have their sharp little swords and
daggers to defend themselves against
browsing animals.
Out on the wide, hot deserts of Ari
zona and New Mexico those odd plants,
the cactuses, grow in great numbers.
Some of them take strange shapes—tall,
fluted columns, branching candelabra or
mere round balls, like the melon cactus.
They are almost the only plants that grow
in some parts of that country, and there id
always plenty of sap inside their tough
skins. To the hungry and thirsty crea
tures that roam those dreary wastes in
search of food and water they are very
tempting. Were they not in some way
protected these cactuses would soon be
entirely destroyed, but nature has made
them to be like strong forts or great
armored battleships among plants. They
are guarded by all sorts of sharp spines
and prickles and fine hairs that burn
when they get into the flesh.
Negation.
This was overheard on the Bangor
boat:
First Woman—ls I married a man
what drinked and I knowed he drinked
when I married him I wouldn’t never
say nothing about it
Socqnd Woman—l wouldn’t neither.
He’s got so bad now that she don’t
never expect nothing different—Shoe
and Leather Reporter.
There are more ants to the square
mile in Florida than in any other coun
try in the world. There are ants that
measure more than half an inch in
length, and then there are ants so small
that they can scarcely be seen to move
Svith tho unaided eye.
Raw eggs, milk and plenty of fruit
are recommended for brain workers.
The fruit corrects the bilious tendency
of the milk and eggs.
In some portions of Abyssinia the
men mark the ears of their women as
if they were so many bogs.
RARE WEST INDIAN SEALS.
I T*'o Interesting Specimen* Now at th*
Washington Zoo.
r Os the many hundred visitors to the
fc Zoological park who werp entertained last
Sunday by the antics of the new pair of
■ seals, probably very few were aware that
they viewed an animal of unusual interest.
I A largo card at the front of their tank
l bore the following legend:
“West Indian seal, Monaohus tropi
calis; gray; habitat, gulf of Mexico and
Caribbean tea, from tho Bahama islands
i to the coast of Yucatan and Honduras.”
The label did not say, as it might have
done, that tills seal was the first large ani
mal of the American continent that was
known by Europeans. During Columbus’
voyage to the West Indias in 1494, he
anchored off tho southern coast of His-
I paniola, near a little island which he called
, Altg Vela. Several seamen were ordered
to climb to the top of the island, and on
' their return they killed eight “sea wolves,”
which were sleeping on the sands. At
that time the seals must have been very
abundant in all the region between the
1 Bahama islands and the Central Amerl
i can coast, f<T Dampier, writing in 1675 of
i the Alacran islands near Yucatan, says:
, “Here are many seals. They come up to
sun themselves only on two or three of the
islands.”
In 1707 Sir Hans Sloane, writing on the
natural history of Jamaica, says: “The
Bahama islands aro filled with Seals;
sometimes Fishers will catch 100 in a
night. They try or melt them, and bring
off their Oyl for Lamps to the Islands.”
This oil industry seems to have nearly
exterminated the seal, for the animal has
been almost unknown since that time.
The single individuals secured at long in
tervals have been among the most prized
treasures of the great museums, and it
was not until very recently that a com
plete specimen could be obtained upon
which to base a scientific description of
the animal. This specimen was received
at the National museum from Professor
Felipe Poey of Havana and was described
by Professors True and Lucas of that in
stitution.
The only places now known to be in
habitoted by these seals are a few little
coral Islands off the north coast of Yuca
tan. Here, free from molestation, lives a
little remnant which survived the first
fierce persecution. Now the oil is no
longer wanted, and as their coats are
valueless man has no Incentive to hunt
them down. Fishermen go to these Islands
but rarely, anti then only out of curiosity.
It is to one of these visits that the Zoo
logical park owes its pair of seals. The
fishermen who obtained them report the
animals as utterly devoid of fear, not
moving when approached and allowing
themselves to be handled with no sign of
alarm.
The park is fortunate in having secured
both male and female of this rare species.
The two animals are of about equal size,
5 feet long or a little less, and would
weigh in the neighborhood of 150 pounds.
Both are of a dark, leaden brown above,
with underparts somewhat lighter. The
male has a conspicuous white muzzle and
breast, which at once distinguish him
from his mate. Both sexes when adult are
said to attain a length of from 7 to 8 feet
and a weight of 400 or 500 pounds. When
out of the water, they progress by a series
of quick hitches, making no use of the
flippers. This is evidently a serious exer
tion, as they will go but a few feet before
stopping to rest. In the water, however,
they are models of ease and agility, glid
ing back and forth, diving and rolling or
standing with head and shoulders out of
the water to look about. The valvelike
nostrils are tightly shut as the animal goes
under and open with a puff as it comes to
the surface. The female has a penchant
for swimming on her back and in circling
the tank invariably makes the return in
that manner to her starting point.
For animals that have been in captivity
but a few days they are surprisingly tame,
and they certainly bear out the character
given them by the fishermen. They come
up promptly to inspect a fish that is held
out to them, but refuse it until dropped
into the water. Then it is seized and put
through a long process of biting and shak
ing through the water till fairly macerat
ed before it is finally eaten. Altogether
these seals are most interesting animals,
and the Zoological park is fortunate in se
curing tho first specimens ever exhibited
in a zoological garden.—Washington Star.
Mount Washington Forest.
The recent transfer of forest properties
in the White mountain region, by which
the trustees under the will of David Pin
gree parted with the possession of the
Presidential peaks, which they have held
for 80 years, does not, as we understand
the situation, entail any threat of denud
ing the forests in that particular locality.
If wo are correctly informed —and our in
formation comes from the parties to the
transaction—the new owners of the prop
erty have no intention of destroying the
forests for which they have paid so much
money. It is their intention to Institute a
system of forest management there by
means of which they will be enabled to se
cure a constant revenue from their forest
lands and at the same time perpetuate the
growth of trees for timber. In other
words, the new owners of the Mount
Washington forests intend to apply volun
tarily and for their own permanent finan
cial benefit the restrictions which the for
estry commission wished the legislature
to impose, for the public benefit upon ev
ery landowner.—Concord Monitor.
The Oldest Graduate*.
Dartmouth's <ndest living graduate is
Mark Wentworth Fletcher of Wayne, Ills.,
class of ’25. Emllius Kitchell Sayre of
Monticello, Mo., who is in feeble health
In his eighty-eighth year, is Amherst’s
oldest. He was in the class of ’2B, of
which he is the sole survivor. The oldest
Williams graduates of the class of ’2B
are Joseph Lyman Partridge of Brook
lyn, 03 years old, and the Kev. Kbenezer
Harrison Stratton of Branch port, N. Y.
The oldest for Bowdoin college is Freder
ick Waite Burke of New York city, 81
years old, of the class of '24. Wesleyan’s
oldest, and indeed her very first graduate,
is Daniel H. Chase, who lives in Middle
town. Mellen Fitch of West Newton and
tho class of ’26, now 02 years old, heads
the list for tho University of Vermont.
Lawyer Albert Ware Paine of Bangor, Me.,
is the oldest graduate of Colby university
at Waterville, Me. Dr. Benjamin D.Silli
man of Brooklyn holds the seniority for
Yale.—Boston Journal.
Wall Paper.
A plain wall paper is far from a long
enduring thing of beauty, lovely as ,it of
ten is at the first. There is nothing much
more hopeless in the list of housekeeping
endeavors than the effort to remove from
it the marks that are left by fingers or by
a broom. Even dry applications usually
make things worse rather than better.
TURKISH CUSTOM HOUSE.
the Troubles Travelers Ha e. Especially
With Books and .Tape*
1 Many amusing stories a i told of the
i trouble American travele s bare had
with the custom house a ithoritiee in
i Turkey, especially with books and
maps. In the old days one’s baggage''
would be dumped down on the landing
place at Constantinople, and a turbaned
old Turk, tchibouk in hand, would go
through a pantomime of examining
one’s effects, which would be abruptly
brought to an end by the application of
an appropriate coin to the palm of his
baud. But the political troubles that
began some years ago in the Ottoman
empire caused the government to insti
tute a more stringent system, and there
is now at Constantinople a custom
house more after the American style,
where a number of effendis, in fezes
and Stambouli coats of the regular offi
cial cut, pry into one’s luggage with
particular care in search of papers and
books and maps of a revolutionary tend
ency or in which words forbidden to
be printed in Turkey may be found.
During the height of the Armenian
agitation especially close search was al
ways made for anything with the word
“Armenia” in it, and whatever it was
found in was summarily confiscated.
On the occasion of my last visit to Con
stantinople I happened to have a map
of Asia Minor among my papers, the
discovery of which greatly agitated the
examining effendi, who spoke in a lan
guage he thought was French. “Ah,
Azeea Meenoor!” he exclaimed as he
spread it out, continuing in his Turko-.
French, “Show me Erzerum. ” Having
pointed out to him the spot where that
city was to be found, he began running
his finger over the map until he struck
upon the letter A. This seemed almost
to take his breath away, but when a
short distance to the right of it he
found the letter R he fairly gasped.
The detection of the letter M following
it was lika an electric shock, and a
bomb explosion could not have startled
him more than the discovery of the let
ter E. By the time he had deciphered
the remaining letters, NIA, I saw that
the game was up, and as he folded up
my precious map and in stern and
measured syllables announced to me
that it was “de-fon-dew, con-fis-kay,”
I knew that it was lost to me forever.
A Review with an article alluding to
the disturbed condition of affairs in the
Turkish empire followed the map, along
with some foreign newspapers.—Har
per’s Round Table.
A SMALL MAN’S REVENGE.
He Ruffles the Dignity of Two Women In
a Cable Car.
The small sized, unobtrusive man
gets revenge now and then, as was ex
emplified yesterday in a Broadway
cable car bound down town. He got on
at Twenty-third street and saw only
one vacant seat Other passengers who
stood up were clinging to the straps in
a semihypnotic condition and did not
observe the vacant place. Two women,
strangers to each other, richly clad and
wearing diamond earrings, were the
guardians of the vacant space, which
was hardly wide enough to even admit
the small man to a comfortable seat.
Either of the women, by moving a lit
tle, could have made a larger space,
but they chose to sit as impassive as
statues while the diminutive man
crowded into the place. He exhibited
all the signs of being uncomfortable,
but these implacable cosmopolitans
moved not. At Tenth street a large
woman, weighing about 200 pounds,
boarded the car. With the air of a
Chesterfield the small man lifted his
hat and said:
“Pray, take my seat.”
“Thank you, sir,” she replied as she
started to sit down. Consternation was
depicted upon the faces of the two rich
ly clad women as they tried to edge
away to make the space wider. It was
too late, for the heavy woman crushed
into the seat and came in contact with
the other women. There were the noise
of crumpling cloth and the swish of
skirts as the two women tried to move
from the weight pinning part of their
dresses down. It was a scramble to give
the heavy woman enough room, and all
dignity was lost. The passengers smiled,
and none more so than the small man,
who had had his revenge.—New York
Commercial.
Marie Antoinette’* Book*.
The unhappy Queen Marie Antoinette
possessed an important library of 4,712
volumes, consisting of plays and ro
mances, little books a la mode, the
works of Pascal, Bossuet, Fenelon,
Bourdaloue, Massillon, Boileau, Cous
seau, Corneille, Moliere, Voltaire and
many others. She loved music passion
ately and had a large collection of
operas in 89 numbers. The bindings
were by Blaizot and were uniform in
red moroceo, with the arms of France
and Austria stamped upon them. The
execution of the work was poor, and
the decadence in the art of binding evi •
dent. The glories of the art of Padeloup
and the Deromes had passed away, and
the revolution effectually killed what
ever knowledge remained of the ancient
skill of the bookbinders. Half a century
later saw its revival in France, and the
art has since flourished both there and on
English soil.—Gentleman’s Magazine.
Couldn’t Fool Mamma.
Mrs. Younglove—Oh, I am sure that
my husband has never told me a lie in
his life.
Her Mother—My poor child! You
are married to a hypnotist —Cleveland
Leader.
The air is so clear in the arctic re
gions that conversation can be curried
on easily by persons two miles apart It
has also been asserted on good authori
ty that at Gibraltar the human voice
has been distinctly heard at a distance
of ten miles.
Cleverness is serviceable for every
thing, sufficient for nothing.—AmieL
BARNATO IN THE COMMUNE.
Bow the Dburond Kin* Saved th* Bank
of Franca. -
A writer of stories about Barney
Barnato says in the Philadelphia Bul
letin, that there is a circumstantially
definite account of his presence in Paris
during the commune of 187 L In the
utter break up of all social fabric he
found his capacities of a paying order.
For there is little doubt that his was
the craft that enabled the shrewder
communards to realize the money need
ed to supply the sinews of war.
One day, during the gloom and stress
Os the government siege, the president
of the Bank of France was confronted
by an unkempt mob. The demand was
explicit They wanted all the gold in
the bank’s vaults. The spokesman
flourished a bloody saber and the mob
accentuated the demand by all sorts of
ferocious threats. It was in the height
of this melee that a man who had been
counseling the financial deputy of the
commune rode up, adorned by a red sash
and other insignia of the terrorists. He
made his way through the vociferous
throng and handed the governor of the
bank a large envelope While the official
was reading it the besashed emissary
turned to the clamoring nomads and, in
a tongue unknown to the officials and
probably to many of the mob, addressed
them a few sentences. A singular event
followed. A dozen of the ringleaders at
once began haranguing the rioters. In
a few minutes every one of them with
drew. The besashed personage remained
in consultation with the governor and
• when it was ended withdrew. An hour
later six covered wagons came to the
bank and were laden with bags such as
the bank always makes use of in trans
porting specie.
When Barnato appeared as the dia
mond king in South Africa, a score of
the communards, who had fled from
France, were in exile in the region
where Barnato had cornered the mines.
One day in the plenitude of his afflu
ence he was waylaid, riding in the
Rand, by a company of miners. One of
them, by a few words, succeeded in
gaining his private ear. This man was '
known as the most ferocious of the blood
thirsty gang who had taken part in the
killing of the hostages in La Roquette.
He recognized Barnato as the emissary
sent by the commune to the Bank of
France, and the knowledge enabled him
to get in on the ground floor of the dia
mond deal. The tale goes on to tell that
Barnato, who figured as Felix Barnette,
had fallen desperately in love with a
figurante in the Folies Bergeres just as
the war of 1870 broke out; that he had
lingered in Paris, became a member of
one of the “Red” societies, exploited
the ardent patriotism of his coworkers
and succeeded in getting several mil
lions of the cash he had forced from the
Bank of France. The tale, whether
true or not, is by no means so improb
able as the actual facts known in the
man’s mastery of the African diamond
yields, for to do that he was forced to
put himself against such schemers as
Cecil Rhodes and to contend with
the “dour” shiftiness of the Boers, and
particularly with that astute old fox
Uncle Kruger
ARMY LIFE.
It* Social Informality Constitute* One of
It* Great Charm*.
"Army life is informal to a degree, ”
said Mrs. Custer, during a recent inter
view. ‘ ‘The custom of using cards when
calling is only of very recent date
among officers’ wives. When I lived in
garrison, we should never have dreamed
of such a thing. It is only at a few of
the larger posts, near the cities, where
there is anything like the formality of
civic life. The people in a garrison are.
like one great family. Nothing that
deeply concerns any member is a matter
of indifference to the others, and the
spirit of good fellowship is universal.
In time of sickness the friendly helpful
ness of the women for each other is
shown strongly. Many a time I have
known a number of women to detail
themselves, in regular military fashion,
to duty in the house of sickness at cer
tain hours, relieving one another
through the day and night with abso
lute precision, so that the sick person
should never be left without an attend
ant.
“ With all this close intimacy there
is surprisingly little friction or ill feel
ing. There are, of course, at every post
a few people who are disagreeable or
hard to get along with, but they cause
no more trouble in general than they
do in their own households. They be
long, we feel, to our army family, and
their shortcomings must be overlooked
just as we should overlook the faults of
a husband or brother or sister. No dis
tinctions between rich and poor are
ever observed. There is occasionally a
question about calling upon new ar
rivals, but it is solely on account of
reputation and honor. If there has been
anything discreditable to the good
name of an officer or his wife, the cir
cumstances must be investigated before
other families of the poet will call ”
—Philadelphia Times.
0-
Where Prince* Are Sacred.
When a young prince of Japan wishes
to learn the mysteries of chirography,
young maidens bring paper, others make
the ink and prepare the paint brush.
The master expresses admiration by
gesture and face, for no words must be
spoken by him to the prince, his mouth
even being bandaged that his breath .
may not blow upon the face of the
prince. The teacher must move about
in the quietest manner and give com
mendation only.
Bow Dead Soldier* Look.
A British army surgeon is authority
for the statement that the cause of death
is clearly shown in the expression of the
face of a corpse on the field of battle.
He states that those who have been ;
killed by sword throats have a look of 1
repose, while those killed by bullets
usually have pain of am intense nature
clearly depleted.
■
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA ” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” as our trade Mark.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA." the same
that has borne and does now &n ev€ry
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original " PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
years. ' LOOK CAREFULLY ai the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought , on
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No One has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. j >
March 8,1897. ‘
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo”
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gradients of which even he does not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE Or |
. Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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