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A CHINESE WEDDING. my aterious importance, the next bridal color in vs lus being gold. At* be trothal the bridegroom elect sends bin sweetheart a pair of bracelets fastened together with a piece of red ribbon or cord. The bride and bridegroom drain two wine cups at the wedding, which are also connected by a red cord. ’ W northern China the attendants wear tall felt hats, and each hat has a red feather stuck upright in it The attend-, ants also carry the wedding presents. A sedan chair bears the bride herself. In south China a sedan most wonder appears at first sight to be brilliant in laid stones, but which are in reality the glossy feathers of the kingfithy A handsome cloth of glowing red with trimmed border is also thrown oyer the chair. In the case of the poorer classes red is also the prevailing bridal color, and a chair of ordinary carved wood, paint ed a bright red, is used. Above the door of the chair a kind of charm is placard ed or hung upon a red cloth. The chair itself is sent by the bridegroom, accom panied by what corresponds to cur beet man. Thia functionary brings with him a letter written in yellow or gold upon red paper, praying the lady to enter and take her place. Men dressed all in red and carrying red parcels containing the presents fall into the procession. Other bearers carry boards and banners, inscribed in golden letters upon a red ground. These ban ners tell the pedigree of both parties. Behind the bearers come the other at tendants! with long poles, on which are hung very handsome lanterns. JlThe ' bride’s veil is of bright crimson sane and her dress regal gold ahd Scarlet.— Wide World. .•Ww pa JACK HORNER. The Rleh Plum That He Extract** From That Chrietmaa Pie. For the benefit of those who are not quite little folks Agnes Carr Sage, in Lippincott’s Magazine, tells the origin and history of some famous nursery stories and rhymes, among them "The Pleasant History of Jack Horner,” con taining "His Witty Tricks and Pleas ant Pranks, ” for so it is set forth in a very old chapbook, carefully preserved in the Bodleian library. It appears that this worthy was stew ard to an abbot of Glastonbury. The good abbot learned that his majesty Henry VIII had seen fit to be indignant because the monks had built a kitchen which he could not burn down. Now, a king’s indignation was dangerous and must be appeased. Therefore the abbot sent bls steward. Jack Horner, to pre sent the sovezeign with a suitable peace offering. It took the form of a big and tempting looking pie, beneath the crust of which the transfer deeds of 12 man ors were hidden. But Master Jack had an eye for the profit of No. 1, and on the road he slyly lifted the crust and abstracted the deeds of the Manor of Wells. On his return, bringing the deeds, he plausibly explained that they had been given to him by the king; hence the rhyme: Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner (of the wagon), Eying his Christmas pie; He put in his thumb And pulled ont a plum (the title deed), Saying, "What a bravo boy am ll** Town Hames. The Cleveland Leader says that a man registered in a local hotel the other day; giving his place of residence as Sleepy Bye, Minn. Half an hour later another guest registered from Painted Post, la. The clerk paid no especial attention to this, but when the next man to regis ter boldly wrote "White Pigeon, Mich.,’* after his name, both the clerk and the bookkeeper began to get inter ested. While they were talking about the queer names that had been given to some of our western towns, a dignified • looking man stepped up to the office, whirled the register around, and scrawled “Horseheads, N. Y.” Superlatives. Dr. Johnson says in his "Grammar of the English Tongue:” "The com parison of adjectives is very uncertain, and, being much regulated by oommo diousness of utterance, is not easily re duced to rules. ” Then he quotes passages from "Para dise Lost, ” in which these words are found, "virtuouseet, ” “powerfullest, ” and a passage from "Samson Agonistes” Which contains the word "famousest.” Surely Milton had an ear.-—Notesand Queries. , , Municipal Jcaloualea. New Yorker—You are a stranger here, I presume? Chicago Man (haughtily)—l am from the’great city that New York is jealous of. New Yorker—Ah! And how are things in dear old Lunncal—New York Weekly. Mew Way to Get Rich. An Arkansas contemporary records a ..queer case of financial irregularity. It appears that a young man down there swallowed a copper oent by mistake and a doctor made him cough up $2. —Chi- cago Times-Herald. 1 '"*• She DM. "Sissy," said the fresh young man, "does your mother know you’re out?” "Ofc, yes, ” replied the fair one, "and she gave me a penny to buy a monkey. Are you for sale?”—Philadelphia North American. : v - -. Excel. That a s a Woman. We (reading the paper)—The gi raffe has a tongue 18 Inches long. Husband—-Aren’t you jealous?—New York World. T ; « . . _ • • « L jumm ' ’"W.'"’ 1 » GEN. SHAFTER’S LESSON. « Was on Thi. Oeeaaion That Ho Lear.e* to Deci*. Fc HLmIL Hare is a story that the Cleveland Leader proffers about General Shafts*. It centers about his salient trait of be ing pugnacious, just as all current end well invented anecdotes of "Fighting Bob” Evans revolve around some in candescent bit of profanity. But the story runs thus, as the general is made to tell it: "Once, when I was a boy s* school—l wasn’t more the time—our teacher called up the class in mental arithmetic and began putting beginning with the pupil at the head ot the row and going down toward the foot, until some one could give the correct answer. I stood W’Z.T.'VwMfiK years older and considerably ahead of me in the various studies that we had. f " ‘How ' much are 18 and 9 and 8?’ the teacher asked. "While one after another of the boys and girls ahead of me guessed and failed to get it right I figured out what I thought the answer ought to be. The question bad almost got to me when I heard the big boy just below me whis pering, apparently to himself, but loud enough for me to hear, *29, 29, 29.* "Finally the pupil above me failed to answer correctly, and then it was my turn. " ‘Well, Willie,’ said the teacher, ‘let’s see if you know the answer. Come, nqw, be prompt * "I cocked my bead up proudly on one side, cast a triumphant look at those who had ‘fallen down’ on the problem and said, so that everybody in the schoolroom could hear me: " ‘Twenty-nine!’ " ‘Next. How many are 18 and 9 and 8? “ ‘Aw J’ said the big boy below me, “That was what - I had figured it to be myself, and when the teacher said ‘correct’ I wanted to fight. "I didn’t assault him, but I made up my mind right there and then to depend on my own judgment In the future, and ever since theuttfien I have had any thing to do and had figured out what I considered the beat way to do it I have gone ahead, remembering, when people criticised or tried to throw me off the track, how that big boy made a fool of me fn the mental arithmetic class.” SETTLED THE BORE. An Abrupt Termination to n Restau rant Conversation. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, when on his first visit to this country several years ago. was taking a chop and a glass of ale in a Washington restaurant one afternoon, and a than around town who is somewhat noted'for his forward ness, not to say his freshness, was din ing in the same room, and he recognized the English parliamentarian. He walked over to Chamberlain’s table, and, quite uninvited, took the opposite seat. With in the space of five minutes he was toll ing Chamberlain what a third rate out fit he considered England to be. The man’s Mik, needless to say, was in very rank taste. Chamberlain adjusted hit monocle firmly and looked at the ob trusive chap amusedly. “Now, we’ll take England in the matter of great men, ’’ said Chamber lain’s uninvited table mate. "Where does England cut in in the matter of great men nowadays, anyhow? England has got Gladstone, of course, but he was born about 110 years ago, and he’s a back number. I’ll just ask you, Mr. Chamberlain, a fair question, What really great man, what noted character, has England produced, say, within the past 50 years? Answer me that, sir!** "With pleasure,” said Chamberlain, permitting his monocle to fall into his lap and taking his hat and cane from the rack. "Great man, me. Noted char acter, Jack the Ripper. I bid you good afternoon.”—Washington Post. Domestic Repartee. She had put on her hat and gloves and was moving toward the door, when he looked up from his newspaper and asked: “Where are you going?” "A husband with good sense never asks his wife where she is going.” "But I suppose a woman with good sense has the right to ask her husband where he is going?” "A woman with good sense never does anything of the kind, because if she has good sense she never marries, so she has no husband. Ta, tai” And it novar dawned on her that she had called herself an idiot—Pearson'i Weekly. His Enviable Lot. Mr. Pitt —Since your friend Blinkini married Miss Bonds he has been lead ing the life of a dog. Mr. Penn—l’m sorry for him. “I’m not.” “Don’t you sympathize with him?” “Nqt at ill. He has nothing to do but eat, sleep and amuse himself. It’r the life of a pet pug dog he leads.”— Pittaburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Once Too Often. this excitement about?” "Nothing worth mentioning. Man ‘‘Not exactly. One of these men who always catch hold of you and push you out of their way when you happen to meet them at a crowded corner grabbed the wrong man just now. That’s all. ” —Chicago Tribune. The Suspicious Mother. Admire a baby and the mother al ways looks pleased. Admire her dog and she glares at you. Maybe the reason for thia is that she ia quite sure you do not wish to steal the baby, but isn’t altogether certain regarding your atten tions where the ddg ia concerned.—Ex change. —»—n^ns—mwM—mamnanmuranaSMWSSn THE AMERICAN BAILOR. 1 W to th. N^?**"** aCI ' I Jacky, who used to be more sailor than gunner, is now more gunner than , sailor. Just in proportion as he has ceased to be a part of tbe great aagina on which he lives, so he has come more and more into tbe control of it, and as the cardinal purpose of a warship is to hit things with her projectiles Jacky has become a specialist in getting that work out of her. He does it in two places—at the guns and at the engines, Correctly pointed guns are of no use unless the platform on which they rest is put in proper relation to the thing to be hit and kept there. Equally it is use less to get the ship into proper place unless the guns are correctly pointed. Men who can do either of these things must have natural capacities and be sus ceptible to education, and only men ot this sort are eligible for our navy. Accordingly tbe "beach comber,” or the “rock scorpion,** or any other va riety of that ruck of marine refuse which drifts around the great maritime porta and ships in any craft where “grub” is plenty and work light, no longer slings his hammock Uncle Sam’s berth deck, as he used to do, to the. shame of the service, In years gone by. Nor can the tramp nor the jailbird nor even the incorrigible black sheep ot the family thus be provided for, to the relief of constables and long suffering relatives. No man or boy can now pass a United States naval recruiting officer unless. he is clean, healthy, honest, young, strong and intelligent, nor can he afterward get that advancement, which is certainly open to him without fear or favor, unless he continues to show aptitude and ability.—Baric Ben jamin in Independent ARMY AND NAVY GUNS. A Vast Dlflbrsneo la th. Number of Man Required to Handle Them. The number of men required to man naval guns of the British, French, Ger man and American navies is about the same, although the French are under stood to have more men as a rule for some of the larger guns. - For the 4 inch and 6 inchall services require four men to work each piece; for the 6 inch, six men are heeded, and tor the 10, 12 and 13 inch the same cumber. As nearly all our 8, 10, 12 and 18 inch guns are used in pairs and mount ed in turrets the 12 men working them are protected by heavy plates of steel. For-the little 1 pounders three men are necessary to work them rapidly, and for the 8 pounders and fl pounders four three Tel^ 83 ’ Hotchkiss Treble the number of men seem to be required to wprif thp, same caliber of guns in our coast defense system, al though there is no special reason for this,' unless it be due to the fact that thearmy"guns are mounted on disap pearing carriages and are not provided with turrets, which naturally limits the space of the operaton. An army 8 inch gun takes 15 men to work it; a 10 inch gun requires 18 men, and a 12 inch gun, the largest now constructed by the army, calls for 21 men. It will be seen, therefore, that a 18 inch naval gun is operated by six men, while an army gun of one inch less cali ber calls for 21 men. The navy gun can be fired jpst as rapidly with its six men as the army gun can be fired with its larger number.—Boston Herald. At Im on Masks*. A funny scene occurred many yean ago in congress. A present of Arabian horses, a sword, etc., arrived from the imam of Maskat for President Adam* A western member with some heat moved that the gift should be sent back, with a letter from congress, in forming, the rule* of Maakat that the president of the United States was no king, but the servant of the people, and was not permitted to give or receive presents. Another member rose. “Such a let ter, Mr. Speaker," he said, "can easily. be written. But where is it to be sent? Where ia Maskat?” There was no response. Apparently not a memberof the house was prepared to answer, nor could Maskat then be found in any atlas published in this country. It was found at last on a Ger man map. A civil answer was returned, I and the geographers made haste to in sert Maskat in the next edition of their maps.—Exchange. i' "" ' ' Th. Otter Way Around. The loyalty of tbe Scottish highlander i to his kilt is a picturesque thing. Ha will never admit that it makes him cold, and highlanders who were suffer ing from cold in the ordinary dress of civilization have been known to substi tute the kilt for it in order to get warm, though this would be much like removing one’s coat and waistcoat and rolling up one’s shirt sleeve* for tbe same purpose. It is said that a stranger, seeing a 1 soldier in full highlander uniform ahiv -1 ering in a cold wind, asked him: "Sandy, are you sold with the kilt?” "Na, na, mon/’ tbe soldier answered indignantly, "but I’m nigh kilt with the canid I"—Exchonre. Harrah! W. J. Spratley, the Egyptologist, tbinku that "there can be ne doubt that 1 the Egyptian soldiers in ancient times i went into the battle to the inspiring i cheer of the‘Hooßal Hooßal Hooßal’ I and if tbe average questioning man ’ asks why he replies with this, ‘Because Hoo Ra (in the tongue of the Barneses) means ‘the king, the king, the king!* ” Tarnlnc the Stock. > A writer in The Dry Goods Chronicle • says: "A good point for tbe retail mer i chant to remember is that it is not how I large a business he does, but how many times bis stock is turned in the course of the year, thatrmlly indicators .. . .J./ I .MU S Cartel. KM* la tn— T ate ia ha one whom name stands pre-eminent ia America a* the typical hero of the dreaded blade flag. The name of this man will instantly come to tbe mind of In fact, however, Captain Kidd was not a typical pirate, for in many ways Ito was different from the ordinary ma rine freebooter, especially when we con sider him in relation to our own coun try. All other pirates who made them selves notorious on our coast were known as robbers, pillagers and ruth lam destroyers of life and property, but Captain Kidd*# tame w of and her kind. We do not think of hlmaar pirate who came to cany away the property of American citizens, for near ly all th* stories about him relate to his arrival at different points on our shores for the sole purpose ot hiding the rich treasures which he had collected in oth er parts of the world. This could not fail to make Captain Kidd a most interesting personage, end the result has been that be has been lifted Into the region of legendary ro mance. There are two Captain Kidds— tbe Kidd of song and story, and the other the Kidd of fact—Frank R. Stockton in St Nicholas. In March, 1798, the sheriffs of the territory which is now Tennessee took a census of thrir own, and as there were 80,000 citizens of proper age the terri tory declared itself a state, proceeded to choose a governor, a congressmen and a legislature, which selected two United States senators. Congress, then in ses sion in Philadelphia, had received no information regarding the action in the territory until congressmen and sena tors walked in uninvited and announced that a state had been born, had elected its officers, made its laws and was run ning on scheduled tima- Oongrem was disconcerted and noti fied the applicants that the sheriff’s census was irregular and they must wait at least for an invitation before they proceeded to sit at the federal ta ble. Upon second thought congress de cided to be courteous, and on June 1 admitted Tennessee,nearly three months after she had become a state by be* own setion. This state, whom coming into the Union was a little previous; was the third state in the Union to provide a president for the Union and the first outside the original 18, and with one exception the only state south of the Ohio and the James ever to furnish a president; and she has provided three, more than any other state except New York, Virginia and Ohio. Boston Transcript. SmMrt TMs* "Father," asked Tommy, the other day, "why is it that the boy is said to be the father of the man?” Mr. Tompkins had never given this subject any thought, and was hardly prepared to answer offhand. "Why—why," he mid stumblingly, "it’s so because it 1% I suppose." "Well, pop, since I’m your father, I’m going to give yon a ticket to tbe oircus and half a crown besides. X al ways said that if I was a father I wouldn’t be so stingy as the rest of them are. Go in, pop, and have a good time while you’re young. I never had any chance myself I" Mr. Tompkins gazed In blank aston ishment at Tommy. Slowly the signifi cance of the hint dawned upon him. Producing a half sovereign, he said: “Take it, Thomas. When you really do become a father, I hope it won’t be your misfortune to have a son who is smarter than yourself." London Graphic. ' •on and Wsatter. On the Ist of July the earth receiver 8 par oent lem heat from the ran than it does during a corresponding period in the month of January. But winter does not ocour then ih the northern hemisphere, because tbe sun runs high in the sky and its rays tall upon the earth more nearly vertically than six months later, and, too, the day is much longer than the night, so that while the ran sands us a little lem heat in to tal amount we get a much large* pro portion of what it does give us than we do in January, when the total heat for the whole earth is greater.—New York Times. ’ tom torsm She torsnsh. A boulevardle* is at once surprised and enchanted to meet an old time com panion whore suieidehad been reported. "H’s true,” said the latter. "I did want to kill myself, simply from dis taste eflifeL And then eame along the doctors and discovered that I had a grate disorder. Since then, you under tomd, I takeoare of myself I’’—Figaro. Barot* Hs WroStaX "XX I were only a man,” she arid, "we could”— "Ptoribly weooald,”he arid, "but thaetanom are we wouldn’t If yon wereaman, X wouldn’t be here. I’d be aaylng nice things to aotoebody who waan’taaren." Wtwnsffmss it la worth while to think of aooh facta aa theae.—Chicago Poet The resq ■». Tbeloogue la divided into three re gions at taato otah at whieh faasite own special function. The tip of the tongue is chiefly sensible to pungent and arid taatoa the middle portion to sweets or bittera, while the back is con fined entirely to the flavors of roast ri <* and fatty Whs ItMbl Agent-I think I can sell this place for you, but I can’t get the |5,000 you aA. Yea’ll have to take »4, »8- Owner—That’s queer. Why should the extra $3 stand in the vnjl Agent—My eustomsr is a wnsna> x CASfORIA The Kind You Have Always and which hu been in use for over 30 years* has borne the slgpnataire of has been made reader hfat per* /J* . tonal suservfsfcm ahum Its faslhncy m saru Jtaoaaa dan *w sum dBSaOS w dWJfIVW ■■<> <>ll<9 to IV<5 you in MHWs All Counterfeits, Isritations and Mbatttntss aav hurt Ex porimenta that trifle with and endgngw tbe heaMfe of In f anta and Children—Evpesrtenca agldnst EvporhnsmA - What is CASTOWA Caatorta la a substitute for Castor OH* Ptaregurte, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is HdnStoas arid Ptsgssat. It contains neither Opium* HorFhlno nmr ether Nareotlc subbtanco. Its a*e ta its gtobraated/ It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles* cures Constipation and Flatulency. It swsbnilaCtea tike Food* regulates the Stomach and Bowels* giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea The Mother’s Priced. 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