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U p ***** t ~ . . .l -kn «nM- hospital up town ana men sno k*jw»- “Now you may tell me how it happened if you will promise to be very quiet.’ *_ , -- » „ ,■■ ' wwWC ft WftPTtl and’toM thewm Iwanted to buy a StStaW bat. He plckedup one, put It on my head and he says, ‘That’, the hat you want,’ jras.’TLifit‘js-fii slated on my taking the one he had put on my head. I asked Mm If there was anything the matter with that hat, and he zaidno.'but It was the one he picked out for me as soon as he saw me come in. ‘lt’s Hobson’s choke,’ he said. ‘Whose?’ I aaya ‘Hobeon's,’he says. I said I didn’t know him. Then he said everybody was saying it. Said it was a fad or something ' like that, and if I wanted to be‘strictly in it’ I would take the hat and if anybody said anything to me about it I sb?did say It wm Hobson’s choice and th# drinks would be on the other fellow. So I paid him |1.50 and went away under the new hat “When I was going up the steps at Park place station, I met an acquaintance, who says, ‘Where did you get it?’ I wanted to be sure he meant the hat, and I says, ‘Where did I get what?’ ‘The shed,’he XThat threw me off. 1 asked him he meant, and be pointed to the headpiece and 'That. Ybu look like a odlf under a new shed,’he say a ‘That’s one of Hobson’s,’ I says. ‘Which isFhe says. ‘The hat Is,’ I says. ‘I didn’t know Hobson was in the hat business,’ he says. ‘Which one of them?’ I says. Then he laughed and poked me and says, ‘Which one are you ticking about?’ ‘Honest,’ I says, 'it’s Hobson’s.’ ‘lf irtr-Hobson’s,’ he says, ‘you’d better take it back to Min and tell him to give you your old one. ’ ‘You don't seem to know about it,’ I says, and then I told him about how everybody was talking about Hobson. ■ Ho looked at • me and says, ‘You’d better take some thing for it. ’ “And then X says, ‘All right, come on,’ and we went into the first place and we stood there quite awhile, and when we went out I found it had cost me about. (1, and he hadn't paid anything. “So X left him and came on up town, thinking all the way up. Two men were on the seat in front of me. I couldn't hear all they said, but one of them remarked as Ms station was called that he s'posed it was Hobson’s choice. ‘ ‘Then I looked as my hat to see if it ' was all right. It seemed as if it was too small, but I put it back and went on to Forty-second street, where .1 got off and went into a lunch place, where. I met an other acquaintance. Pretty soon he says, ‘That was a brave thing for Hobson to do.' I said‘Yes.’ ‘You heard about it?’ he says. ‘Yes,’ I says, ‘and it has cost me 13.50, and you will please sell your gold bricks to somebody else,’ I says. ‘Don’t take me for a fool all the time,’ I says. ‘You must be crazy,’ he says. ‘I got no gold brick,’ he jays. ‘l’m talking about the brave man who sunk his ship in the harbor.' ‘What’s Ms name?’l says. ‘Hob son,’ he says. Then I gbt up and took my hat from the peg and showed it to him and I says, ‘Do you seattie hat?’ He said ‘ ‘Yes.’ ‘Well,’ I says, ‘that’s Hobson’s.' He looked at it and says: ‘Why don’t you wear your own hat? What are you doing, ’ he says, ‘wearing Hobson’S hat?’ And then I hit him, and when I came to I was here. ” —New York Sun. The Question of Diet. An article by Sir Henry Thompson, en titled “Why Vegetarians?” in The Nine teenth Century is an exhaustive treatise on the subject of diet. He demolishes the theory of vegetarians that they are total abstainers from flesh products, as in their use of milk, butter and cheese they in dulge in highly concentrated proteid con taining food of animal origin, to say noth ing of eggs, wMoh contain the material of the developed chicken. There are few vegetarians who confine their diet abso lutely to productions of the vegetable king dom. To this practice Sir Henry Thompson opposes the argument that no form of vegetable nourishment has been discovered upon jvhlch it is possible to rear the young mammal, in which man is included. He wishes to be informed why an animal that is born into the world of carnivorous par ents, which is solely dependent for its ex istence upon animal food—milk—should suddenly adopt a vegetable diet, and at what age such a change should be made. In the matter of food Sir Henry Thomp son denies that there is any reason for ex clusive forms of diet Considerations of age, personal habits, occupation, climate and surroundings should be the determin ing factors in governing a choice of food. All fads that ignore this principle, wheth er they take the form of exclusive adher ence to a flesh or vegetable diet, are not conducive to the maintenance of health and physical activity. Not That Jefferson. A party from Philadelphia and other Pennsylvania towns was being escorted through the capital yesterday, by a guide who evinced an earnest effort to show the strangers all the points of interest They had passed through the rotunda and Stat uary hall and had made their way to the east corridor of the house. “Here/’ said the guide, “is perhaps the most perfect statue of Jefferson In the world’’— “Are you certain that is Jefferson?” in quired a blond of 20 as she gazed intently at the statue. “Yes, ma’am, that's Jeff emo n all right,” replied the guide. .. “ My, how he has changed since I saw him, ’ ’ the blond exclaimed. “Since you saw him,” ejaculated the amazed guide, turning to the girl of 20. “Why, yes. I saw Mm last winter at the Chestnut Street theater in -Rip Van Winkle/andhe didn’t lookrtt like this7 The girl did not smil a She seemed as serious as an undertaker. The guide felt embarrassed. The sileneathat prevailed for a moment was gently broken by the Philadelphia girl, who earnestly and with a low voice inquired: “When did he die?” But the guide had moved on and he made no reply.—Washington Times. ▲ New Phrase. But speaking of people who are not as intelligent as the law allows, I heard an old colored woman use an expression the other day that was new to me and so pat that it would be interesting to know its origin. She had a young girl with her, and some especially stupid remark of the girl’s had annoyed her. She looked at her in disgust. “Well,” said she, “you certainly ought to be tapped for the simplos.”—Washing ton Port. •r"- THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. I —l I - , I Kt Costa aS Least •80,000 a Tear to Keep the Big Building In Bepair. It costs 183,000 a ear to maintain Un tie Sam’s 114,000,000 building on Capitol bill. That is the amount congress allows every year for mechanics and laborers, for brushes and hardware and lumber, for tiles and grata bars and all the other sup plies necessary to keep the capital in re pair. • For improvements congress has appro priated an average of 125,000 a year in the ten years just past, and much of that has been spent in the last 12 months. Fifty five thousand dollars has been used to transform the senate’s system of ventila tion and 145,000 to introduce electrio light in the building and grounds For the current year other changes are planned. There is always something unfinished about the capital. A few years ago the most noticeable incompleteness was in the ’ terrace on the west front of the building. That is completed now. But the painter’s ugly scaffold hanging in the rotunda draws attention to the still unfinished Brumidl frieze, and in the basement of the senate wing the abrupt termination of the brilliant tropical wall decoration is a constant source of surprise. . Chance is responsible for the incom pleteness of the wall paintings. They were Smany years ago by an artist of rare He grew tired of the work er he died—no one about the capital can say ac curately which. At all events he disap peared from the scene and the walls of the senate wing rema! beautiful in some spots and bare in oth a. The beautiful spots have been clean I and renewed re cently by W. H. Ducksteln. Mr. Duck stein has added also to the cleanliness of what is known to the irreverent as the chamber of horrors by cleaning the mar ble, statupa there. ’ The delay in completing the frieze is not a matter of chance. It is due to a dispute in the committee on library oVer the im portance of certain events in national his tory. This frieze, begun by Brumidl, an Italian artist, in 1878, was'only done at the time of his death in 1883. The hanging scaffold on whloh Brumidl did his last work remained in plpce a long time until another Italian, Costagglni, was employed to carry out Brumldl’s de signs. What is’ represented by the annual ap propriation of 130,000 and in the last year by the special appropriations of (55,000 and (45,000 is not all that it takes to run the capitol and grounds. Care of the grounds costs (19,000 a year, steam heat ing and machinery for the senate (4,600, the lighting of the building and grounds and of the botanic gardens opposite (86,- 798 and the operation of the engine house and stables (2,000. But for the building Itself the cost of maintenance is (80,000 a year, or, includ ing the improvements, (55,000. Some business men figure repairs and improve ments at 10 per cent of the value of the building, and the actual cost of the capitol to date has been (14,000,000.—Chicago Tribune. Robert Talton’s Torpedoes. Before he turned his attention to navi-, gation by steam Robert Fulton Invented a marine torpedo which he endeavored to dispose of to the United States govern ment. Succeeding in interesting James Madison, then secretary of state, in the matter, he obtained a small appropriation from the government for the purpose of conducting some public experiments. In the summer of 1806 he invited the high dignitaries and a number of prominent citizens of New York to Governor’s Island to see the torpedoes and machinery with whloh his experiments were to be made. While he was lecturing on Ms blank tor pedoes, which were large, empty copper cylinders, his numerous auditors crowded around him. After awhile he turned to a copper case of the same description whloh was placed under the gateway of old Cas tle William and to which was attached a clockwork lock. Drawing out a peg, Fulton set the dock in motion, and then he said in solemn tones to his attentive audience: “Gentle men, this is a charged torpedo, with whloh, precisely In its present state, I mean to blow up a vessel It contains 170 pounds of gunpowder, and if I were to suffer the clockwork to run 15 minuses I have no doubt that it would blow this fortiflctrflon to atoms.” The-circle of humanity whloh had closed around the Inventor began to spread out and grow thinner, and before five of the 15 minutes bad passed there were but two or three persons remaining under the gate way. Some, indeed, loot no time in get ting at the greatest possible distance from the torpedo, and they did not again appear on the ground until they were assured that the engine of destruction was safely lodged In the magazine whence it had been taken. —Sacramento Record Union. Glad Be Was Not Like These. “I haventt any sympathy for the peo ple who are always complaining and whin ing,” remarked the man with the troubled frown upon his forehead. “In fact, I be lieve that the men and women, who are al ways fancying themselves ill used and grumbling at other people ought to be confined just as muoh as if they had hy drophobia or got drunk; but there are some troubles a man really can’t help mentioning. “Now, for instance,” he continued fret fully, “1 don’t suppose any man in Chi cago baa more real worries than X have. My wife tells me every night that she's tired of hearing me talk of them, and the other men in the office begin to tell funny stories just as soon as X come around out of sheer aggravation, I believe. My. chil dren run out of the room whenever I get ready for a nice, long, confidential chat with one of them, and even the dog howls when I get ready to talk, I’m nearly al ways so sad. But do Xgo round telling people what a martyr to fate and other people I am? Well, I guess not, my friend. I haven’t a particle of use for a chronic com plainer. Chicago Times-Herald. Grewiome Birthday Celebration. M. de Paris, otherwise Delbler, the pub lic executioner of France, has just Cele brated his seventieth birthday in a rtew some fashion by executing at Bastia, in Corsica, the murderer Fazzini. The scaf foldings of the guillotines remain in the prisons throughout France where execu tions may take place, but the knife is never out of M. Deltrter’s possession. He carries it in a long leather satahel, not unlike an elongated dress suit ease. When he leaves Paris with his grim Instrument of justice, a small army «f newspaper men usually accompany him in the hope that something may happen. His trip to Cor sica was hardly noticed, however, on ae-{ count of the Dreyfus excitement. Dotlw has probably killed more men thanfbyt other living person. Fazzini broughThte record up to 545.—San FraaeMe Argo naut. —— - " ' • * A D EVOTEP PIGEON. (he Broke Through a Well to awoor Mot Wonttlng. In the animal kingdom there are many strong examples of mother love, and the birds are particularly noted for displaying it. A remarkable instance at this maternal instinct was recently no ticed near Elwood, Ind. A mother pi geon whose young one had mysteriously disappeared searched unceasingly for weeks for the little one, and one day* last December she was seen flying vio lently against the side of aframe build ing in the city. Each time she oame in contact with the house she chipped off a small Mt of wood with her bill. For nearly two days the old bird kept this practice up, often during that time failing exhausted from the repeated shocks and fatigue. In the afternoon of the second day she had pecked a hole in the wall, the wood of which was old and soft from tire weather. This hole was large enough to admit a man’s head, and through this the mother bird went and came. Every time she entered she carried grain or seeds or grass. Some curious people investigated the hole while she was absent, and there they found tire little lost pigeon, just below the hole, wedged in between the weatherboards. For two days more the bird continued to bring the little one food, and would stay fluttering near the hole, chirruping and trying to cheer the little prisoner up. Many times it entered and seemed to be trying to extricate Its young one, but it could not succeed i» doing so, try as it would. The prisoner had flown in to the building, which was empty, and managed to get between the weather boarding, near the top of the inside. Falling a considerable distance, it lodg ed in the narrow space, which did not permit it to use its Wings in rising again. Its plaints had reached the mother, and she, not beingable to reach it from the inside, had cut through from the out. An admiring man thrust his hand through the hole and brought out the fluttering young thing, to the great delight of the anxious mamma bird.—Chicago Chronicle. BREEDS SNAKES TO SELL. Tho Peculiar Discovery Made* by an Eng- Hihmtn Tn India. The bounty given by the Indian gov ernment for snakes* heads in order to exterminate these reptiles has led to a few of the dishonest natives breeding them for a living. An Englishman recently traveling through central India made a peculiar discovery. In the heart of a dense jungle he came across a rude hut, and close at hand was a large pit covered with a tight fitting wooden cover. He found the occupants of the hut, two disreputa ble looking natives, and asked them the meaning of the peculiar pit. They informed him that they were breeders of snakes and put them In toe pit, the bottom of which was covered over with dried grass and leaves. They kept the snakes there some six months, feeding them on all kinds of small animals and birds. They then filled a large earthen pot with poisonous herts, < lighted-dt, low ered it into the pit and secured the tight fitting wooden cover, and thus smothered the reptiles. The cover was allowed to remain on for a few days. It was then removed and the snakes were taken ont by means of a long pole with a spike at the end of it Their heads were then cut off, and one of the rogues set out for the nearest government agenoy to obtain the boun ty, while the other one caught fresh snakes for the pit. The snakes very often devoured one another, but the mothers generally man aged to bring up their young, though it was a marvel they bred at all in such a place, it. being, one would think, con trary to'their nature.—London Corre spondence. The Shah’s Turkish Embotaadcr. • His excellency Mirza Mahmoud Khan, the shah’s embassador at Constantino ple, holds his distinguished office upon conditions which are quite without prec edent in the diplomatic world. The Lord of the Lion and the Sun does not devote a penny of his revenue to main taining a representative at Stamboul. He has in that city about 16,000 sub jects, and these are duly taxed for the purpose. Mina Mahmoud has no reason to complain of the arrangement, for by the help of half a dozen ablebodied col lectors he secures an income of about £30,000. True, he is compelled to hand over £4,000 yearly to his colleague at Vienna, but the balance enables him to live very comfortably. The contribu tors, however, insist upon his.spending a certain amount on hospitality, and whenever be gives a dinner party to the corps diplomatique a committee of tax payers is posted in an anteroom, whence they can satisfy themselves that their embassador does the thing in propel style and keeps up the dignity of the nation.—London Chronicle. A Division rt .Boorention. Mrs. Chugwater—Josiah, it seems to me you are very stingy In taking that new novel yourself before anybody else in the family has had a chance even to look at it. Mr. Chug waters What are you kick ing about? There’s the second volume. Can’t ypu read that while I’m going through the first?—Chicago Tribune. Distinctions, It is not pretty to say of a woman that she talks too much, but she looks complimented when you tell her that she is a fine conversationalist—Somer ville (Mass.) Journal. There are parts of the Ganges valley in India where the population averager 1,200 to the square mile. Since 1870 Victoria, Australia, has voted mere than (500,000 for the de struction of rabbits. INTELLECTUAL ANTS. THEY ARE SAID TO’BB THE MOST IN -lEU.IGENT OF INSECTS. They Have Political and Social Organlxa tiooa That May Ba Ukuaed to Thoee ot Maa-Some Work, Whßa Other* Do No Tabor, bat Live Samptaoasly. “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; con sider her ways and be wise,’* said Bolo nwttrover 8,000 years ago, and the re searches of modern naturalists have only confirmed the excellence of the wise man’s advice in holding up the ant as an example for mao, for among in vertebrate animals tho ant holds the same position that man does among the vertebrate. The ant is the most intel lectual of all inserts. •, Ants are truly wonderful Insects. They build bouses, train soldiers, en slave ante and other insects inferior to themselves; they are capable agricul turists, for they keep a species of milk kine, clear the ground, sow grain, reap and gather into barns. They are social insects, and in many respects are exam ple* In miniature of man. They have their monarchs, pride themselves on their aristocracy, and also indulge to excess in intoxicating liquor* Ants are divided into three classes males, females (or queens) and neuters (workers). The two former are winged, and their sole duty in life is to multiply their species. Immediately after pairing the male anta die, and the queens, re nouncing the pomps and vanities of this world, henceforward devote themselves to the duties of maternity. To the lot of the neuters falls all the work. Some of them are told off to wait on the queens, whom they feed and care for’ with the greatest attention. Each batch of eggs, as soon as they are laid, are carried away and deposited in the hatch ing chambers open to the rays of the sun. The workers nurse the ant babies when they appear, putting them in the warm upper galleries by day and re moving them at night into the snuggest lower chambers. After several months’ careful nursing and feeding, the larva passes into the pupa stage, and spins itself into a co coon, from which it emerges a full grown ant. It is these cocoons that are sold as “ants’ eggs;’’ the real eggs are so minute that even the ants themselves could not pick them up in their mandi bles were not several fastened together by a natural gum. Queen ants, accord ing to Sir John Lubbock, live as long as ten years, while Dr. Dallinger states that worker ants live from four to six years. The queen ants are treated with the utmost reverence, and while the corpse of a worker ant is usually imme diately disposed of the body of a queen is often preserved as long as 18 months after its death. The ant has three simple and two compound eyes, the latter consisting of from 250 to 1,300 lenses each. In pass ing, it may be mentioned that the ordi nary house fly has 4,000 lenses, the gad fly 11,000 and the dragon fly 20,000 lenses to each eye. Physically, as well as intellectually, ants are the giants of the insect world; they can easily carry even ten times their own weight The ant houses are most marvelous examples of construction. Part of the neat is above the ground and part below it These houses are often 40 stories in height and are built of stones, leaves, sticks and earth. The subterranean part is honeycombed into passages and cells and all the tunnels and galleries run into one common center—the public ball of the ant colony. The government is a republic, and various colonies have been known to mass together for the purpose of defense. A Swiss scientist has discovered a regular empire of ants, covering an area of 200 square yards, and containing 200 colonies or republics with a population of 40,000,000 ante. There are many species of ants which are incapable of managing their own nests or of rearing their young, and these in consequence impress into their service tho .workers of other species of anta and leave all the rough work to their captives. Periodically the master ants set off on a slave hunting expedi tion. They find outthe nest of a special ant whose aid they need. They raid it and, overcoming its defenders, enter and bear off triumphantly the pup®. These are carried to the masters’ nest, where they are speedily hatched, and knowing no other home and forced by instinct to work they toil industriously for their masters. So lazy and dependent upon their willing slaves do the master ants become that at length they* are unable to feed themselves. Food has been placed before these lords of the ant cre ation, and they would not even take the trouble to eat. Then some slave ante were introduced. They tidied up the place and fed their masters. The ants have some method of know ing members of their own tribe. If an aht is put into a strange colony, it is in stantly killed as an intruder, while if one is taken from its home and restored to it after a long lapse of time It is im mediately welcomed and recognized. Sir John Lubbock took 12 ants, 6 from each of two different colonies, and made them drunk. Then they were all put book into one of the colonies. The ants inspected them, carried away their com panions and took care of them until they recovered, while the foreigners were dropped into the water. A large dead fly was put on the table, and one ant immediately went over and pulled at it, but found himself unable to move it. He then went away, and speedily returned with three compan ions, and by their united efforts the fly was curled away. It has long been known that some species of anta are in the habit of acting in exactly the same manner as man in keeping insect cows far the sake of the • milk they supply. The ordinary green fly, or aphis, is to the ant what the cowls to man. This green fly is capable i of exuding from two nipplelike projec tions a sort of liquid gum, of which anta are extremely fond. What is f fa i Wff mm f f B fmm ■ Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription far and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. .Its guarantee is thirty years* nse by Millions of Mothers. Castorin destroys Worms and d allays Feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. C:istorla relieves Teething troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. Castoria assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach ' and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. CaMoria is the Children’s Panacea—the Mother’s Friend. s Castoria. A Castoria. "Cmlotl* is ZU excellent medicine for “Castoria is so well adapted In cHMrea children. Mothers have repeatedly told me that I recommend it as superior to say < te rt its good effect upon their children.” scrlption know! to me." ’■ 5 Dr. G. C. Oaoooo, Ixrwell, Mass. • 11. A. Ancnza. M.D, Brooklyn. N. V. “ The use rt Castoria is so universal and its “For several yiars I have recommended « merits so well known that it seems a work Castoria, and shall always continue to dp 1 of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the so as it has invaricbly produced beue&nsl "fa intelligent families who do not keep Castoria results." ' within easy reach." Edwin F. Faamtn, M. D., New York Chy. Caxixm Martyn, D.D., New York City. —r— » “We have three children and they‘Cry for , " I prescribe Castoria every day for children Pitcher's Castoria.’ When we give one a done. Who are suffering from constipation, with the others cry for one too. I shall always better effect than I receive from any other take pleasure in recommending this best combination rt drugs." child's medicine” Dr. L. O. 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