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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. 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