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INSTRUCTED THE JUDGE. Who Wa* So Well Pleased That He <*•*• Him Seven Month*. “Nathaniel Patrick Henry Schofield Berry!” called the police court clerk in stentorian tones, and a hearty laugh was heard from the lawyers, bailiffs and general hangers on around the room. A very black negro of about 40 step ped to the bar the remark, “Yea **h, dat’s my cognomen title. ” “Well, Nat, what have you got to say about this charge of—of—what’s the name of that thing anyhow, Mr. Bailiff?” “Shootin craps, your honor. ” “Shootin craps, ”• repeated the judge. “Now look "here! I have sent enough of you fellows down on this charge, but I confess I know nothing about the game, if such it might be called. I’ve listened to the pigeon English of Chinamen in telling of their fantan arrangement, and now you, Nat, there, tell me what this game of craps is like?” "Well, judge, it’s just like dis: You see you take de bones”— “The what?” "W’y, de bones, yo’ honah. Them’s de things you throw.” “The dice,” suggested the police offi cer making the complaint. “Oh, I see,” answered bis honor. “It’s played with dice, eh?” “You take de bones,” continued Na thaniel Berry, looking with supreme contempt on the surrounding crowd anxious to learn the ins and outs of a famous but badly misunderstood game. “De first man he t’rows de bones out like dis and pops his fingers. ’Come seven-eleven,’ ‘got you faded,’ ‘cut his throat eleven, * ‘railroad, ’ ‘nat’ral crap, ’ ‘gimme de bones,’‘baby’s got to hav' dem noo shoes,’ ‘take my gal to Balti more,’ ‘Big- Dick’s my point,’ ‘all de way from Boston, ’ ‘come on, Joe, you must be mine’ ” “Hold on there!” shouted the judge before the enthusiastic Nathaniel could be headed in his enthusiastic disserta tion. “I’m still in the dark about that game, but from what I have heard you get seven months. ” "Thankee, judge, ” said Nat, as he was led grinning from the bar of jus tice.—Washington Post. A CLEVER FIRE HORSE. The Clear Headed Animal That Chief Webber if Boston Used to Drive. The rule in the Boston department is io reach the fire as soon as it can be done with safety. When an alarm comes in, the firemen have that rule in mind. They are not thinking about posing for the public, but what they are likely to find at the end of their ride, and when accidents occur in nine cases out of ten they are more likely to be due to the carelessness or fright of the public than to the recklessness of the firemen them selves. There are approximately 2,000 alarms a year in this city, to each of which from one to eight pieces respond. Compare the activity and momentum thus let loose, but skillfully controlled, with the total resulting casualties of a year, and the showing will justify the department as a whole every time. The horses themselves share not only the spirit but the knowledge of the sit uation, and to their training and intel ligence is due to no small degree the comparative exemption from serious accidents which the department enjoys. A few years ago Chief Webber drove as his fire horse an animal which well ex emplified these characteristics. He bad a head like a wedge, and he could run for a deer. His fire gait was a run. Ho was famous for economizing his oppor tunities. Even in a thickly crowded street, if he saw a hundred feet clear in front of him, he made it on the run. If an obstruction suddenly appeared, he would brace himself and skate over the pavement until his momentum was overcome. Then with the next opening I the feat was repeated, while ho writhed in and out like a snake among inter cepting teams and usually was among the first arrivals at the scene of the fire. On one occasion he took himself and the buggy to a fire some distance from quarters without a driver and arrived safely and at the right box. The un initiated who saw his movements might have called them reckless, but during his five or six years of service he at tended more fires than any other horse in the department, and no serious acci dent to himself or others resulted. Boston Transcript. A Sermon on Money. A colored exhorter said recently, in the course of a sermon on “Money, the Great Evil:” “My brotherin, money cause mo’ trouble in dis worl’ dan anyt’ing I knows on. Fac’ is, de devil is in de dol lar. When I see a man wid a pocket full er money, I say ter myself, ‘Dar’s a man what needs a guardeen, ’ an I feels des like takin him home an lockin up dat money ter him. Es any er you in de bearin er my voice is got money on yo’ pusson, bring it right heah, an lay it on de altar an go yo’ ways an lemmo pray over it till a blessin come ter it. Doan wait ter count it; des come for ward an unload!”—Atlanta Constitu tion. Insect Steeds Ridden by Insects. At a recent meeting of the Entomo logical society of Washington some specimens of phrysopa, a species of golden eyed fly, which had been collect ed in the White mountains, were exhib ited as curiosities, because each carried on its back one or more minute cecido myiid flies. The opinion was expressed that • this was a true case of smaller species of insect using a larger species for the purposes of locomotion from place to place.—Youth’s Companion. The greater part of the cast off uni forms of British soldiers find their way into the shops of dealers in secondhand clothing. The coats are then either cut up, sold to theatrical managers or ex ported to Africa and elsewhere for trad ing purposes with the Kaffirs and other tncivilized people. A BACHELOR’S QUARTERS. Jt■ - ■ Nothing Homelike About Them, Accord ing to the Married Man’s Story. They hadn’t met since the old college days, ten years before, and of course the benedict insisted that the bachelor should come home to dinner with him. “Married the year after I left col lege, ” he said, “and I have the nicest little home and the finest lot of young sters that you ever saw. I want you to come out and see how nicely I’m fixed. I tell you a man doesn’t know what life is until he’s married.” ‘ No?” “Well, I should say not.” .. And so it happened that the bachelor went with the benedict and met the latter’s wife and played with his chil dren and made himself generally useful and popular until they were all' seated at the dinner table. It was over the coffee and cigars, aft er the benedict’s wife had left the table, that the benedict finally suggested: “Pretty comfortably fixed, ain’t I, old man? Children, why don’t you go into the other room?” , "Very nicely, indeed,” answered the bachelor, replying to tho first question and ignoring the second. “Oh, there’s nothing like home life,” went on the “Willie, stop trying to climb on Mr. Brown’s knee. He wants to smoke. Do you know, old man, I langh when I think of my fool ish idea that I knew in those old days what happiness was. Why, a man doesn’t begin to live until— Maggie, put that nutpick back on the table. You’ll jab it in your eye the first thing you know. Yes, sir. I actually have to laugh when I think of it. Our idea of contentment in those days was to get a pipe and a book and a bottle of Scotch and lock the door and lie down and— Would you mind moving your coffee cup a little farther back on the table, old man? Tommie’s trying to reach it, and my wife would raise my scalp if I should let him break one of her very best cups. That’s it. Thank you. As I was saying, we didn’t know what ease and contentment was in those days. No single man does. A man has to have a big armchair and his slippers all ready for him and everything sort of restful and quiet before— Now, don’t cry, Ma bel. If you didn’t want to get hurt, why did you grab the end of my cigar? Tommie, take her in to her mother. There, Willie, I told you you’d stick that nutpick into your hand if you didn’t look out.. Run into the other room and ask your mother to put a bandage on it. Let’s see, where was I, old man? Oh, yes, I remember now. I was about to say that there’s nothing homelike about a bachelor’s quarters’ ’ — “No, ” interrupted the bachelor, with considerable emphasis/“there isn’t.” The benedict couldn’t quite see the reason for such an emphatic assertion, but he wisely changed the subject, just the same.—Chicago Post. Feeding * Baby Elephant. In St Nicholas F. Fitz Roy Dixon tells of a baby elephant that was cap tured by friends of his in Ceylon, after the death of its mother. Mr. Dixon says: When Sidney was first brought over, virtually in order that she might be fed, the question naturally arose as to how she would take her nourishment. Os course the proper way for an adult elephant to take in water is by means of the trunk, which is furnished with two tubes running its whole length. But when a bowl of milk was placed before the baby elephant she did not know what to do with it. She dipped the tip of her trunk into it-, and the lookers on thought that there would be no difficulty about her drinking at all, since she recognized the scent of the nourishment she had been accustomed to. But she was quite at a loss and set up a roar which seemed quite natural under the circumstances. Then some one suggested pouring it down her throat from a bottle, and this was ac cordingly tried, and after one or two in effectual attempts she understood. She was half starved when this was done, for she had had nothing to eat since the death of her mother, and her delight at being fed was most amusing. Tho only trouble was that it was diffi cult to satisfy her, and it was feared that the change of diet would disagree with her, but fortunately it had no ill effect. Orange*. The very sweetest ojango and richest is the black or rusty coated fruit. Pick out the dingiest oranges in the box, and you will get the best. Another way to choose oranges is by weight. The heav iest are the best, because they have the thinnest skin and more weight of juice. Thick skinned oranges are apt to be dry. They either weigh less because of hav ing so much skin or because of the pov erty of the juice in these particular specimens. A slight freezing on the tree causes this condition in otherwise fine fruit. The “kid glove” oranges are the two varieties of small fruit grown in Florida from stocks respectively brought from China and from Tangier. They are called mandarin and tanger ine. They, may be eaten without soiling a kid glove, because the skin is loose and the little “gores, ” or pockets of juice, come apart very cleanly and with out breaking. All the above applies to Florida oranges. The Jamaica and Ha vana oranges are much paler yellow, and their juice is usually of more acid quality than the home grown oranges. The Rascal Won. “What’s tho price of these gloves?” she asked. “A dollar and seventy-five cents,” said the clerk; “but I’m afraid we haven’t any small enough for yon. We can order an extra small size, however. ” “Oh, these will do. I’ll take three pairs. ” —Chicago News. Two Useful Half a lemon makaa very good sub stitute for a bar of toilet soap, and an orange, cut in half and rubbed on a sooty kettle, makes very good shoe blacking, which takes a fine polish. RARE WEST INDIAN SEALS*. Ito Interesting Specimen* Now nt th* Waahlngton Zoo. Os the many hundred visitors to tbs Zoological park who were entertained last Sunday by the antics of tho new pair of seals, probably very few were aware that they viewed an animal of unusual interest. A large card at the front of their tank bore the following legend: “West Indian seal, Monachus tropi calls; gray; habitat, gulf of.Mexico and Caribbean sea, from the Bahama islands to the coast of Yucatan and Honduras." Tho label did not say, as it might have done, that this seal was the first large ani mal of the American continent that was known by Europeans. During Columbus' voyage to the West Indies in 1494, he anchored off the southern coast of His paniola, near a little island which he called Alta Vein. 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 tho Bahama islands and tho Central Ameri can coast, for Dampier, writing in 1675 of the Alacran islands near Yucatan, says: “Hero are many seals. They come up to sun themselves only on two or three of tho 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 musoums, 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 wus described by Professors True ami Lucas of that in stitution. The only places now known to bo in habitated by these seals are a few little coral islands off tho north coast of Yuca tan. Here, free from molestation, lives a little remnant which survived tho first fierce persecution. Now the oil is no longer wanted/ and as their coats are valueless wan has no incentive to hunt them down. Fishermen go to these islands but rarely, and 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. Tho 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 aro 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 aro 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 tho Zoological park is fortunate in se curing the first specimens ever exhibited in a zoological garden.—Washington Star. Mount Washington Forest. The recent transfer of forest properties in tho 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 30 years, does not, as we understand the situation, entail any tbreat-of denud ing the forests in that particular locality. If we 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 tho restrictions which the for estry commission wished tho legislature to impose, for the public benefit upon ev ery landowner.—Concord Monitor. The Oldest Graduate*. Dartmouth's oldest living graduate is Mark Wentworth Fletcher of Wayne, Ills., class of '25. Emilius Kite hell Sayre of Monticello, Mo., whois in feeble health in his eighty-eighth year, is Amherst's oldest. He was in the class of '2B, of which he is tho sole survivor. The oldest Williams graduates of the class of '2B are Joseph Lyman Partridge of Brook lyn, 93 years old, and the Rev. Kbenezer Harrison Stratton of Branch port, N. Y. The oldest for Bowdoin college is Freder ick Waite Burke of New York city, 91 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 the class of ’26, now 92 years old, heads the list for the University of Vermont. Lawyer Albert Ware Paine of Bangor, Me., is the oldest graduate of Colby university at Waterville, Me. Dr. Benjamin D. Still man of Brooklyn bolds the seniority for Yale.—Boston Journal. Q' Wall Paper. A plain wall paper is far from a long enduring thing of beauty, lovely as it of ten is at tho 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 bream. Even dry applications usually wake things worse rather than better. TURKISH CUSTOM HOUSE. Tho Trouble* Traveler* Have, Especially With Book* and Map*. Many amusing stories are told of the trouble American travelers have had with the custom house authorities in Turkey, especially with books and maps. lu 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 hand. But the political troubles that began some years ago in the Ottoman empire caused the government to insti tute a more stringent system, and theFo 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 i% 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- Freneh, “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 like an electrio shock, and a bomb explosion could not have startled him more than the discovery of the let ter E. By the time he had deoiphered 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-fls-kay,” I knew that it was lost to me forever. A Review with an article alludiftg 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. Be Raffles the Dignity of Two Women In a Cable Car. The small sized, unobtrusive man gets revenge now and then, as wks 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, apd none more so than the small man, who had had his revenge.—New York Commercial. Marie Antoinette** Hooka. 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, Bogsuet, 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 Blaiiot and were uniform in red morpcco, 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 FooloMamma. 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 carried on easily by persons two miles apart. It has also begn asserted on good authori ty that at Gibraltar the human voice has been distinctly beard at a distance of ten miles.. Cleverness is serviceable for every thing, sufficient for nothing.— AmieL AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. . ’ WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD ” Q ASTORIA,” AMD “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” tAe same that has borne and does now on evcry 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 at the wrapper and see that it is mr&msgQaZrfass; X' per. Ho one has author&y*Jwm£w dse W/ cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher, is President. a March 8,1897. Do Not Bo Deceived. Do riot endanger the life ehHd by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo” (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in gredients of which even he docs not know. < “The Kind You Have Always Bought" \ BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE CF r.i.u /'"‘of Insist on Having The Kind That Never Jailed I oil CCNT4M4M •MWUBV* FT MVMAV fTMMT. aHTW -2JfiL!..»9B±gSg»4 . I.IAI?. urn J • —GET YOUH — _ -.LAUa* JOB PRINTING DONE _ The Morning CaD Office. 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