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A MAN'S THOUGHTS. tVcrk. there is work to be done, A whole day’s work in n day : From the rising sun to the setting sun Work for nil who may. And the prayer of the working hand Is the prayer of the working head — The clamorous prayer of a hungry land-* " Give our daily bread ! ” us l’ame, there is fame to be won, A name that stands for a name: The prize when the race shall lie run ; And the honors a victory may claim. Gold, and better than gold. Power, and tti** world’s good will And better than all a thousandfold, An honest eonseienee still. To suffer, and know no shame, To conquer, and leave no ban. To live as giving, through praise and blame, Assurance of a man. —George CoWerell, in Good Words. Living Beyond Their Means. UY HKLEX rORHEST ORAVKB. I\ , h pounds of grapes ! said old WA * . Ir ; . Mildmay, in MM • astonishment, “An- you quite sure that you un* derstoodyour mis trcss’s order, lies tor? Whito grapes arc sixty cents a ' pound, and surely ■ - for so small a dm lier party as this—” “There’sno mistake, ma’am,” said Hester, pertly, Servants will soon learn the spirit of their superiors, and Hester knew that young Mrs. Mildmay was not particularly partial toiler husband's stepmother. “I took the order myself, and it ain’t likely I should bo mistook.” “Hester is quite right," said Mrs. Rufus Mildmay, who came in at that moment, a handsome brunette, in a pink cashmere morning dress, trimmed with black velvet rather a contrast to Hie neat, calico gown whioli her mother-in-law wa- iieoustomed to wear about her morning avocations at home, ‘And do i wish, mamma, yon wouldn't interfere 1" The old lady’s serene brow flushed. “My dear," she remonstrated, “I do not wish to meddle with your con¬ cerns, but I really fear that Rufus'siii come— “Rufus’s income is his own, to spend as lie pleases!” interrupted the young lady. “And you soma to for¬ get, mamma, that people don’t live nowadays as they did when you wore a girl." said nothing Mrs. Mildmay more. It was not the first time, nor yet the second, that she had been given to un¬ derstand, by Mrs. Rufus, that her in¬ terposition iu household affairs was unwelcome. Tho stepson, whom she loved with bh fond a devotion ns if he had been her own child, had married a beauti¬ ful city girl, and settled iu New York. So far all was well, although Mrs. Mildmay had secretly hoped that he would love sweet Alice Aotou, tho clergyman's daughter, of Polo Hill, Yet, if Rufus was happy, she also would rejoice, sho assured herself, oven although ho preferred Rosamond Tbursby to Alice Acton, and a city’s bustle to the sweet pence of the vales aud glens. Tf Rufus was happy 1 Y’es, there was the question. And sometimes Mrs. Mildmay feared that ho was not, in spite of his smiles and assumed cheer¬ fulness. It hud been liin fondest hope that his mother might be one of his house¬ hold after his marriage. Mrs. Mild may had hoped so, too; but after this, her first visit, slu; felt that tho dream was in vain. “Oil and water will not mix," she said to herself, with a sigh; “aud I he long to a past generation." As sho left the store closet, where Rosamond and her cook were holding counsel ns to a proposed dinnerparty, sho went slowly and spiritlessly up the breakfast room, where Rufus was read¬ ing the morning paper before the fire. "Rufus,” she sai l, a little abruptly, “1 think 1 had better go back to The Hemlocks this week.” "Mother!” he remonstrated. * dcu t thmk that Rosamond wants me liere. Rufus Mildmay reddoned. J hope, mother, ho said, she has not Sind anything to it is not natural that she should need ray presence, said tlio old lady, gently. J might have known it; now 1 am certain of it. Home is the best place tor me. l nt remember one thing, dear Rufua, Do not outspend your income Rosamond is young nnd thoughtless. You yourself are 1U !*L erie .“ Oh, it s all right, mother, said the young man, carelessly. “But 1 did hope that youoould be happy here." Mrs. Mildmav shook her head. “I shall you sometimes, said she. “If ever yon are in trouble, Kufus—you or Rosamond, either-- you will know where to come." So the old lady went away from the prtdly biiuu of a house in 1’arabole Place, with its bay windows, RsTur 0OI11HU 1 >rtlores anti the boxes of Mvcfs in all the casements. “Rosamond,” said the young bus band, as be studied over tlio list of weekly bills a short time subsequently, “I believe my mother vras right. YVe are outrunning onr income." “Pshaw said Rosamond, who was sewing po ut moo ou n rose-colored satin reception-dress; “what » put that ridiculous idea into your hind. Rufus?” “Facts and f ure ” answered Rufus. “Just look here, Rosie. “But 1 don’t want to look!” said RosAtnond, patiently turning her head away, * ■ d 1 111 so there! Of course, c 5 1 v« without money, e; ne 3CS mt society. Rufus whistled under his lvj». ■at u. “But, Rosaa hi', “if a man s income is a hundred dollars a month, and he spends two hundred, how are the acconuts to balance at the year s evdf “I don’t know anything about bah ances and accounts,'’ said Rosamond, with a sweet, sportive laugh. *‘How do you like this dress, Rutua F* hold* ingup the gleaming folds of the pink 1 #Vfg!|iCr aatin. I \ UY it Thursday i “Do von think, Rosie,” said wise the j young man, gently, “that it is j for us to go so much into society on onr slender income?” • • That arrow came from your moth er’s quiver, Rufus!” said Rosamond, with another laugh. “She wasalways preaching about your ‘income.’” “And, after all,” said Rufus, “what do we care for the fashionable people to whose houses we go, aud whom we , parties? They wouldn’t ' invite to onr one of them regret if we were to go to the Rocky Mountains to-morrow.” “I would as soon die at once as live without society!” said Rosamond, “Do leave off lecturing me, Rufus? Society is all that makes life worth having for me.” And, with a deep sigh, Rufus held his peace. That was a long, lonely winter for Mrs. Mildmay, senior, at The Hem¬ locks. Hnow set iu early ; the river froze over, as if it were sheeted wufi iron, except in the one dismal place down in the ravine, where a restless pool of ink-black water boiled and bubbled at the foot of a perpendicular shadow of mass gloomy of Krfty rock, under the evergreens; the sunshine glittered with frozen brightness over the hills, and the old lady was often aecrectly Bil( ] at heart as she sat all alone in the crimson parlor, by the big where the logs blazed in the twilight. And as the New Year passed, and the bitter cold of January took posses H j,m 0 f the frozen world, a vague ap pr , Pension crept into her heart. “Something is going to happen, she said. “I am not superstitions, but there are times when the shadow of coming events stretches darkly across the heart. Something is going to hap I’” 11 ' And afternoon, as the , amber , one sunset blazed behind the leafless trees, turning the snowy fields into masses of molten pearl, sho put on her fur lined hood and cloak. “i will go and take a walk,” said she. “I shall certainly become a hypochondriac if I sit all the time by the fire and nurse my morbid fancies like tins.” She took a long, brisk walk down by tlio ruins of the old mill, through the oedar woods, across tho frozen swamp, aud then she paused. tho Black “I will come back by Pool,” sho thought, “It is a wild and picturesque spot in winter, with icioles hanging to the tree boughs, and weird ion-effects over tho face of tho old gray rook.” It, was a dark and gloomy place, funereally shaded by the hemlocks, which grow there to a giant “size ; aud when Mrs. Mildmay got beneath their houghs, sho started back. Was it the illusive glimmering of the darkening twilight? or was it really a man who stood close to the edge of tho Black Pool? “Rufus! oh, Rufus, my son 1” Sho was barely in time to catch him iu her arms and drag him back from tho awful death to which he was hurl¬ ing himself. When they reached the cedar wains ooated parlor, where the blazing logs cast a ruddy reflection on the rod Moreen, curtains, Mrs fftC Mildmay wilt looked lovinjj ini^fajr M , 1 SnSl now. Rufus,” sRid she, “tell me all about it. The Lord has very good to you in mving you from terrible crime.” “Mother, why did you stop mo? ’ he said, recklessly. 's am a ruined man. 1 shall be dishonored in the sight of the world 1 Death would bo preferable, a thousand times, to dis grace!” “Rufus, said the oi l lady, tender ly, “do you remember when you used to get into boyish scrapes at school? Do you remember how you used to confide your troubles to mo? Let us forget all the years that have passed, Let us be child and mother ouoo again. So lie told her all -of tho reckless expenditure ou Rosamond’s part—his own, also, lie confessed which had woven itself like a fatal web about his feet -of the unpaid bills, the clamor ing tradesfolk, the threats of publio exposure, which had driven him at last to the forgery of his employer’s signature, iu order to free himself from one or two of the most pressing of these demands. “And if my investment in l.rio bonds had proved a success, ho said, eagerly, "1 could havo takeu up every one of tho notes before they came due. But there was a change iu tho market, and now—now the bills will he pro sen ted nextweek, and my villainy will be patent to all the world! Ob, mother, mother 1 why did you not let me fling myself into the Black Pool?” “Rufus," said his stepmother, “what is tho amount, of these--these forged bills?” “Ten thousand dollars!" lie an swered, staring gloomily into the tire, “Exactly tho amount of the Govern meut bonds which your father loft me,” said Mrs. Mildmay. “They would have been yours at my death, They are yours now, Rufus!” “Mother, you don't mean “Take them," said Mrs. Mildmav, tenderly pre-sing her lips to his fore head. “Go to Now Y’ork the first thing to-morrow morning aud wipe this olam from your hfo ai you would, wipe a few blurred tigures from a slate, And thou begin tiio record of existence anew. And up in the littli room whioh h had occupied us a child, Rufus Mild mav slop the first peaceful slumbers which bad descended upon his weary eyelids for many aud many a night. In the miduiuht train from Ne Y ork came Rosamond Mildmay to i’i Hemlocks, with a and haggard eve-. “Ob. mi her, mother!” sh sobbed ; “where i is he—tuv husband* He left me. and tho letter ou the dr >sm table declar. that i never r. - turn aliv, Oh, tn< - mv faut! I have ru d him com* for! i tx V. t 1 M \r , it law s little lsl lav sweetly sobbiu n cl her ] lanvi in praver at t sight, II„ _ _ dl»dv:“donot wake him. wer: i o.it, both ui mind and kfnl that God 1 almost e srnr in th* tv* It by the blazzing logs in the crimson parlor, Mrs. Mildmay tol l Rosamond t ho whole story of the meeting at the Black Pool. “Mother, said Rosamond, , with ... a quivering lip, “it is my doing You warned me of this long ago. Oil, why did I give no heed to your words' 1 deserve it all!” “You will do better for the future, my dear,’’.said the old lady, kindly, “Only be brave and steadfast, Ho the young commenced people went the back world to Sew Y’ork and anew, withdrawing from the mat! strom of “society, ” and living within themselves. Mrs. Mildmay, senior, came with them, and Rosamond is learning the art of housekeeping un¬ der her direction. “Mamma is an angel!” says the young wife, enthusiastically. “And if I could only be just like her, I should have no higher ambition.”— Bftturday Night. Bruins and (fold Weather, Extr( . ra0 cold, as is well known, ex ertfj ft benumbing influence upon the mnntal facu ]tj es . Almost every one W , K) hM beeu expOBO d for a longer or a Bhortcr perio d, to a very low tern . )( , rft t ure has noted a diminution in ' ] often temporary wiU an( a weak( , ain „ of t)l0 memory. Perhaps ingest scale upon which this ftC ti 0 n has ever been studied was ilur . th( , r ,, tn>at () f the French from Moh( .„ w Tho troops suffered ex¬ trernely from hunger, fatigue and cold from the latter perhaps most of all. a German physician who accompanied detachment of his countrymen has Joft ftn j nt( . r0Ht ing account of thoiv trja ] 8 during tliin retreat. From an allHtract of this paper by Dr. Rose, iu tho “Medicinisohe Monatsehrift,” we find that of the earliest symptoms re¬ ferable to the cold was a loss of mem ory. Tbis was noted in tho strong as well as those who were already suffer¬ ing from the effects of the hardships to which they had been exposed. With the first appearance of a moder¬ ately low temperature (about five de¬ grees above zero Fahrenheit), many of the soldiers were found to have for¬ gotten the names of the most ordinary things about them, as well as those of tho articles of food for which they wero perishing. Many forgot their own names, and those of their eorn rades. Olliers show, pronounced symptoms of mental disturban so, and not a few became incurable insane, tho type of their insanit resembling very closely senile dementia, The cold was probably not alone responsi bio for them * (Toots, for a zero tem¬ perature is rath> stimulating than paralyzing in it action upon tho well fed and healthy. These men were half starved, poorly clad, worn out with long marching, many already weakened by dysentery and other dis¬ oases, and nil mentally depressed, ns an army ju defeat always is. It needed, therefore, no very unusual degree of oi Id to proiluco the psychic effects observed under other circum¬ stances onl.' as a consequence of ex¬ posure to pu extreme low temperature. —New York Advertiser. An Indian Baby. '“‘lifllu "■lUcfilffi AnienciflrlWffti 'r carefully guards her baby against the cold aud gives it a daily bath in per¬ fumed water, could follow a Mojave Indian child through its infancy she W ould moro than once ho horror¬ stricken at what sho saw. Occasionally i n hot weather the mothers bathe their children. Tho manner in which they (lo it ; M most ftmH8 i n g. They go to a body of water, strip tho child, and, j j |,| a( .iiiq a strip of cloth under its arms, hold tho ends iu hand and swing the j j child over tho wntor, sousing it vigor OU8 ] v for two or three minutes. Of ‘ strangles, coughs, j ooar BO the child j ] c 10 ] tM au d struggles to get its breath, but it never ones. When tho mother . ls satisfied that tho condition of the child is sufficiently improved sho drops q on the ground aud allows it to run around in the siiu until its skin is drv. pins treatment is given the child more w ith the view of keeping it oomforta ply cool than respectably olean. The babies before they are able to walk are ,, arrit)( i aronn d iu their mother’s arms, jyiu{g on boards, These boards are a bout three feet long aud eighteen inches wide at the broad end. They tnper to a narrow width at tlio other ,, n q Over these boards are loops of leather that are there for the purpose of holding tho child ou the board r i K j,Uy. Wrapped in thin cloth, the ,-hild is laid on its back aud thrust.un¬ , lor t b 0S( , j 00 ps. Another loop or >tra p is fastened across its chest. Thus strap ..Lst ped down it sloops, and lies for , ho of the time when awake. It nevor n n owo j to lie Hat on tho floor or Kroun d when out of tho mother’s r m 8 . Tho cradles are left standing at a sUarp augle aga j ust tlio side of a bouse or a rook or tree.—Kate Field’s Washington The Suiirksto'ttiuT. One of the novel ideas for transpor¬ tation over snow and ice which is to be introduced this year istticsparks toetting or Norwegian sled The sled consists of two ten-foot long runners of seasoned pine, whioh are about an inch thick aud four inches wide, tui tied up at tho e'ud like an old fash ioued pair of skates. Near ‘he center of the runuer. a little to tee front of the exact center, there are fixed two light uprights, three feet high, fitted in some cases with a light crossbar, aud these uprights arc guyed to the turned-up ends by light but strong pieces of wood, so that they will re ain ncid. the two runners are also guyed across tho ends at the front to keop them the right distance apart, >l’tst behind each of the uprights there 3 a fix •thole made on each of the run- 5 rs by tiny blocks of wood, which r •ep the foot from slipping off aud s. vos it a front brace. f’.irrent I. tera tar Effect he Scheme tor Catching Rats. O ae th lies! and, at the most effective schemes for : rats has been devised by J. ne, of Garmon's. He has t * tw usnet wash Dot which was half i tilled with water and cotton seed A j board was placed to Yun from the floor j to the top of the pot for t M rats to | walk up on and dive off. Ihe largest i uuuiLx'r caught in one night was ton*- , eu AE sale \v i Wnr i INSECT PESTS. THEIR SPREAD «Y COMMERCE INTO THE UNITED STATES. Grain and Rice-Eating Weevils Brought by Ships From Foreign Shores — Distribution of Other Injurious “Bugs.” F UNNY how little it takes to get up a scarp,” said United States Entomologist L. O. Howard to a Washington Star writer. “Here is a great alarm about the arrival at San Francisco of a rice-laden vessel from Rangoon, Burmah, with her hold swarming with insects. It was stated that when the hatches were removed the ‘bugs’ flew out in such numbers that the sailors could not descend for fear of suffoca tion. Letters addressed to the De partment of Agriculture express fears lest these winged immigrants will start a plague in the United States. “The fact is that the insect in ques¬ tion, specimens of itfiich have reached me, are grain-eating weevils, already sufficiently commojj. in this country. We have quite a number of species of such feeders on s*pred grain, and knowledge respecting them has been small hitherto. Recently, nowever, the Division of EntBnology j,f has been given a good leal study to them, and the results will|k e Bet fortu before long -n a special ulletin. Every housewife is interes M in this subject, because her flour, rnmeal, etc., are quickly attacked b these enemies if kept unsealed. “During |iar two little beetles, popular^ ffvni as ‘flour weevils,’ have occa pd a good deal of alarm amonjk* grp, dealers in feed, grocers tA >8ers in patent foods. They afl ready to attack such patented af diet as con tain flour imU wraceous ftbi stuff, The eggs the floor, and those and tlaWsg HPlie are so minute and pale iiU^ sealed not to be in noticed. After bang up boxes and barrels f i while the adult in cts me deveh and the mer chaudisit is soon® | * Aside from the t’muble i manufacturer, de-.Fi' and pun these beetles ure highly objeM L l^jrive a few speci mens boingwn a dis agreeabl<K-®S^^® Jj ■aitc 1 uia terial. “Ari'iH * B is quite miniito^ It llgt^Kinn color. seemsm,^^ . any other laud oatmeal, a, woking wheat, flour, B Tyen peanuts, it has been p feed upon snuff, orris-roc (powder, rice chaff, graham if red pepper, During the Iasi lis beetle has been very des fils in Massaohu setts. “Tho insect portantly rep* resented in t of rice from Rangoon was I' ;s the common lioo weevil, been/ wlJp ’•atedjin India, and has ' ; >y commerce, grain-gr until now J® a^nearly nt all in occurs every jj p? iu the Union, i s Can a da a iM kth or u r this weevil is ' iirives at least equnll| Jul cultivated maize, It also breeds, ee varieties of si®, Md in barley, rye, hulled iekwheat and chickpeas. houses and sioM V£#ife|gjijdant Tie adult in beetles store invadc boxes ot m :ers, cakes, yeast oaken, barrels an as of flour and meal, and can sv for months on sugar. They a! ' ■' a known to bur row into peachd s and mulber Ties. hJpd “Commerce ■ everywhere S the inseots whie! stored grain, until nearly nlk features have beeome praetiffl ^*6 ’ ;*opolitan. It is the pier (instructive ‘bugs.’ | States we have about onS Poies imber/probably ou scale in sects, and forty havo from other countries. T! ’ in¬ os j moreover, clude nearly all worst species. Introduced sp- come far more injurious liert ai . than in their original homes, ’flu red scale of the orange in Florida is an importation from the West Indies or South Amer¬ ica ; tho red scale of the orange in California was from the scale l’acitio of islands^SHKOM: tho^^^^^^B^as ous imported ‘fluted’ which from Austriilit®J||Hp?n of late lilWPR making Jose scale, most a destructive onslaught on many Eastern orchards, is also, probably, an Aus¬ tralian species. “The codling na^i h is European, and so is the pniow currant worm. The grapeberry 'TpoTif originally in habited the region of the Mediterran¬ ean. The European gipsy moth, one of tho most ravenous defoliators of fruit and shade trees known to ento¬ mologists, has for he last ten years made itself so conspicuous in parts of ! Massachusetts that tho State Govern meat has expoudedyiver §300,000 in trying to stamp it out. The European leopard moth, now confined to the vicini.y of New ' ur 1 1 ^ v ’ au j n6,ect which m the larval stage bore into the twigs of many trees. It threatens to spread and do great damage. A new j pear borer, imported iu nursery stock i from Europe, has begun to spread in the State of New Jersey. It is capa¬ ble of killing a vigorous pear tree out¬ right in two seasons. “I have recently made an effort to learn something of the injurious in¬ sects of Mexico, anticipating building that the new activity in railway from the United States into that country cannot but result in carrying danger¬ ous insects across onr bora.-rs. Al¬ ready a most serious enemy to the cot¬ ton crop has mossed from Mexico into Texas and threatens great dam age. “Meanwhile tne harlequin cabbage bug is steadily advancing from the South; the potato tuber moth bids fair to continue its eastward progress from Colorado, into whitfh State it has been brought from California, and the sweet-potato root borer is working up through oar Scuikera States from Florida and Texas. The clover-root borer and the clover-leaf weevil are working westward through Indiana Michigan, and the hop-plant louse aad the pear-blister mite, well-known Eastern insects, have recently made t st appearance ou the Pacific * The mt*4rd -ptxad of Colorado CU otato bug from the plains of the West, at first slow, and accom¬ plished only by the flight of the per¬ fect insect, but afterwards carried on in great jumps assisted by the rail¬ roads, is a startling case within the recollection of every one.” The Present Czars Peril. It will be remembered that the Czar Nicholas II. has already had an at¬ tempt made on his life. The incident occurred, however, not in Russia, but in Japan, during the Czarevitch’s tour round the world three years ago. On that occasion ho was accompanied by Prince George, of Greece. The Princes reached Kioto on May 9,1891, and a few days later they made an ex¬ enrsion to the classic Lake Biwa. After seeing the lake they paid a short visit to the Prefect of Shiga at Ossu, and then prepared to see the outskirts of the town in a jinrikisha. lined The streets of Ossu were well with police, and as the Princes were being drawn along, one of the officers drew his saber and directed a power¬ ful blow at the Czarewitch’s neck. Fortunately, however, the danger was averted by the presence of mind of Prince George of Greece, who partly warded off the blow with his cane, and at once threw himself on the would be murderer. With the aid of the “jinrikisha” runners and the police, the assailant of the Czarewitch was finally secured. mysterious Although the most regard rumors gained currency with to tho incident, there is little reason to doubt that tho outrage was simply the result of sectarian fanaticism with regard to foreigners. Iu any ease, the Grand Duke Nicholas very luckily got off with only a couple of slight cuts. The Mikado traveled over 203 miles to visit the wounded Prince. The Czarewitch shortened his stay in Japan and returned to St. Petersburg by way of Siberia, and this portion of his travels is believed to have had no small influence on the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway.—West¬ minster Gazette. The Telegraph Pole. In the north Atlantic States just at election time last year a bad ice storrn sot in, with the result that at a criti¬ cal moment no returns were obtaina¬ ble by telegraph from large and im¬ portant sections of New England. Tho damage was remarkably severe aud extensive. For example, in a single stretch of country between New Y’ork and Boston no fewer than 8000 poles were borno down by the winds and the weight of ice and snow. There has been muoh angry discus¬ sion about this, but the truth is that tho poles instead of being rotten are in reality overloaded with wires, and hence become the victims of .every unusual climatic disturbance in win¬ ter. In view of the facilities for bury¬ ing wires along railroad tracks and of the large turns of money spent an¬ nually in wire repairs, it is extraor¬ dinary that tho bulk of the wires do not And their way into trenches. Indeed, one of the best experts in the country expresses his growing conviction that in the long run it would be cheaper to put all the wires ■tuns' nn!iergroualiffiieivvee11 *iVciv 1 and Boston. If this is true of those two cities, it is equally true and im¬ portant in regard to others, not for¬ getting the National Capital. One of the first movements with the revival of business will, it is said, be the wholesale burial of wires which run across country and now go down ai most every year, hindering and par¬ alyzing business by the stoppage of the means of immediate communica¬ tion. —Pittsburg Dispatch. Telegraphy in the Mountains. One of the most elevated telegraph lines iu the world is that reported from India. On the Gilgit line two passes have to be crossed, one 11,600 feet high and the other 13,500. The snow often lies at a depth of from ten to eighteen feet and the poles used nro thirty feet long. Yet this necessary length is a danger, as it means moro leverage in a galo and if struts and braces are put up they afford a chance for the snow to accumulate and bring greater pressure to boar. Strong deodar poles are used and the tele¬ graph lines consist of a solid homo¬ geneous steel wire of the greatest strength made. One break was, how¬ ever, caused by tho heavy suow made wet by moisture from a lake not far away, but in the other pass the snow is dry and slips from the wires easily. The poles are planted close together. Offices of observation are close by, iu each of which two Europeans are stationed, leading a life in comparison with which that spent at sub-marine cable stations is riotous and crowded. For many months the passes are cut off from mankind by the snow block¬ ade, but the empire must be main¬ tained aud commerce go on. So the exiles, with their suowshoes, rations, nnd instruments, held the telegraph fort.—Chicago Times, A Great Aid to Digestion. A Chicago paper says that a smooth stranger t recentlv Lchines placed a number of moke ia . th e- S lot in the town of Evanston. The machines bore the following inscription: “The greatest known aid to diges¬ tion. Drop a nickel in the slot. Push, then pull.” At the top of the machine was a handle to be pushed, theu pulled, and many townspeople who conld not re¬ sist the temptation of trying some new device, for the same reason that Timothv took the wine—“for his stomach’s sake”—dropped in their nickels and took a push and a pull out of the machine. But that was all. No result followed and there was some talk of blowing open the hoarded treasure. At the end of the week the ; a f eut reappeare ' i ’ unloc %, tj9 ma ’ chines, garnered the . wealth and , re tlred > a ' tcr explaining tmit exercise 3 the S r ^«st dkmg for digestion m * he 1 T orld * Toe crowd wa* so para f tue * g€lit took trau * - wlt “° har m * 1-11 A Leaniea . t0U Ie P * At Berne recently a husband and wife, both Russians, took their de grees oi Joct r of philosophy at the same time. They were examined in adjoining rooms, the examining pro feseorv Mi»tR» going 0oa*tituU*a, from one to the other, ** BUDGET OF FUN.j HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Attached—And gay Nothing—Proba¬ bly Doubly Touched—A Mystery —Wayside Proof-Reading— Unabashed, Etc. He loved the ground she walked on, Nor was content to let it Go at that. The ground was hers And he married her to get it. —Detroit Tribune. A MYSTERY. Ada—“I can’t imagine how that secret leaked out?” Ida— “Nor I; I’m sure everyone {to whom I told it promised to say noth¬ ing about it.”—Puck. SORRY FOR BOBBY. First Boy—“I feel sorry for Bobby Blinkers. He’s got a stepmother.” Second Boy—“Is she strict?” First Boy—“Awful! She makes him wear rubbers every time it rains. Good News. WAYSIDE PROOF-READING. Frazzles—“This yere paper sez yer ortn’t never eat w’en yer tired.” Eagsy—“Oh, rats! Some fake uv a printer stuck that back’ards; it means, yer ortn’t never git tired w’en yer a-eatin’. ” —Puck. —AND SAY NOTHING. Tramp-“Mad»m, will please , yer S™ . a hungry man something to eat? Madam-^Will vou 8aw wood? Tramp-“Yes mum; non men tion i to a living soul, ponme bonor - -Brooklyn Life. UNABASHED. Barber—“Wouldn’t you like a bot¬ tle of our hair restorer?” Customer—“No, thank you; I pre¬ fer to remain bald-headed.” Barber—“Then our hair restorer is just the thing you want, sir.”—South Boston News. HERESY. Crosse—“I hear that Mrs. Frye’ great cook book, “Art in the Cuisine, lias not been a success in her native town, Boston.” Blackwell—“Yes; she says that it is not absolutely neoessary to serve brown bread with baked beans.” USURPED FASHIONS. “If there’s any thing I dislike,” said one citizen, “it’s to see a man effem¬ inate in his attire.” “Itis unpleasant,” was the reply; “and yet about the only way for him to keop from being so these days is to put on petticoats.’’—Life. A COMPREHENSIVE CHARACTER. Landlady—“You are an optimist, Mr. Smith.” Boarder—“Am I?” Landlady—“Yes. You always ex¬ pect the best- in the house." Boarder—“Well, I’m prepared for the worst.”- Philadelphia Life. _____ night?” I Carrie—“Just horrid! feel real blue.” Mabel—“So do I. I do wish some¬ thing would happen that we could have areal good cry over.”—Puck. PROBABLY DOUBLY TOUCHED. “Jabworth is most ridiculously sen timental. When that fellow at the minstrels sang ‘My Sweetheart of Long Ago’ the other night, Jabworth actually shed tears.” “Yes, his breach of promise suit comes to trial next week.”—Indianap¬ olis Journal. MUST BE CONSISTENT. Mother—“Johnny, go down to the grocer’s and get a pound of black tea. ” Johnny—“I heard pa say he didn’t like black tea.” Mother—“It makes no difference what your father says, Johnny. This family is in mourning just now. ”-- Berliner Tageblatt. NEWS FROM ABROAD. Mamma—“I received a letter from Grace to-day.” Fapa—“How is the Earl doing, now?” Mamma—“Nicely; he’s been sober for two weeks, and Grace has prom¬ ised him a steam yacht if he behaves himself until summer.”—Puck. NO OBJECTION WHATEVER. “Dear me,” said Mr. Meekins; “it seems so absurd for men to be con¬ stantly talking about their wives hav¬ ing the last word. I never object to my wife having the last word.” “You don’t?” “Not a bit. I always feel thankful when she gets to it.”—Washington Star. THE FUNEBAL BAKED MEATS. The proprietor of the only hotel in the village was also the undertaker. The guests were gathered around the table one day, and the solemn man looked up, sighed heavily, and then let his gaze fall on his plate. 1 „ . he said, , in . measured , tones, . see, “that there has been another funeral. Every one looked up inquiringly. ‘‘How d° yon know, asked the orisk little widow “Because, and me ^ so.emn malJ signea again “there are flowers on the table and ice on the butter. Hotel Reporter. KNEW TOO MUCH FOR HIS OWN GOOD. “Mr. Sznarte,” said the head of the firm, “I happened to overhear your criticisms this morning of the manner in which business is carried on here. You appear to be laboring under a m i 3 taken idea. As a matter of fact, we are not running this house to make m0 nev. Not at all. We carry on this business simply as a school tor the instruction of young men. But J oa seem to know so much more about business than we do, it would be only wasting your time to keep yon kere. The cashier will settle with you. is our loss is your gain. Boc t° a Transcript. — ratio op aiss to niKS ‘‘You floa t *sai ikei #'s8 fe»t, Mary,” said Mr. Muggins, who was with his wife in the milliner’s store. "It’s too big, anyhow. Now, if the milliner could only take off four or five feathers it would be all right. ” j “That’s easy,” interposed the mil¬ liner, sweetly, suiting the action to the word. I take them off so—see? And there you have a love of a little bonnet.” And then, as Mr. Muggins felt for his pocketbook smilingly, thinking of the economy he had effected, she added: “Now it’s only §50.”—Chicago Record. HEK UNDERSTANDING OF IT. A woman living in one of the fash¬ ionable avv^ues had a bit of statuary bearing the 'nscription “Kismet.’ The housemaid was dusting the room one day, when the mistress appeared. “Shure, mam, “what’s the manin of the ’ritin’ on the bottom of this? asked the maid, referring to the in¬ scription on the statuary. “ ‘Kismet’ means ‘Fate, J 5 J replied the mistress. Bridget was limping painfully when she was walking with “Pat” not long afterward, and he asked : “Phwat’s the matter, Bridget?” “Faith,” was her answer, “I have the mostiirrible korns on my kismet!” —New Y’ork Herald. Japanese Athletics. Athletics hold an important but subordinate position in the schools of Japan. Once a year there is a gather¬ ing of all the students in a district to engage in athletic contests. In those seen by Mr. Hearn, and described in “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan,” six thousand boys and girls from all the schools within a distance of twenty five miles were entered to take part. A circular race track, roomy enough for an army, allowed four different kinds of games to be performed at the same time. There were races between tho best runners of different schools, and races in which the runners were tied to¬ gether in pairs, the left leg of one to the right leg of the other. Little girls—as pretty a3 butterflies in their sky blue kakama and many colored robes—contested in races in which eaoh one had to pick up as she ran three balls out of a number scat¬ tered over the turf. The most wonderful spectacle thousand; was the dumb-bell exercise. Six boys and girls, massed in ranks about five hundred deep ; six thousand pairs of arms rising and falling exactly to¬ gether ; six thousand pairs of sandaled feet advancing or retreating together at the signal of the masters of gym¬ nastics, directing all from the tops of little wooden towers; six thousand voices chanting at once the “One, two, three,” at the dumb-bell drill: “Iohi, ni—san, shi—go, roku—skichi, hachi." The games began at 8 o’clock in the morning and ended at 5 iu the even¬ ing. Then, at a signal, fully six thousand voices pealed out the Na¬ tional anthem, and concluded it with' three cheers for the Emperor and Em¬ press of Japan. The Japanese, in¬ stead of shouting when they cheer, chant with a long cry, “A-a-a-a-a-a 1”, * ican ’ The Fall ol Leaves. According to Professor Trelease, three more or less distinct periods are observed in tho fall of leaves. The first period, which precedes the prin¬ cipal tall by about a week, is marked by the loss of the leaves of the small branches; during the second, the tree loses ths majority of its leaves and preserves but a few isolated ones, situated in most cases upon branches that are protected during summer and gradually disappear in the course of the third period. A writer in the Gardener’s Magazine offers the following explanation as to the fall of leaves: It seems strange that the fall of leaves sometimes occurs at the ap¬ proach of cold and sometimes at a rise in temperature; but the heat and cold are merely secondary causes—the principal cause being the clanger that the continuation of transpiration offers the plant. In autumn, the absorbing activity of the roots is so reduced by the low temperature of the earth that the water lost in consequence of the transpiration is compensated for with difficulty. leaves is The fall of the prepared for by the formation of a special layer of what is called separating cells, whioh consist of parencliymous tissue, and the walls of which are so constructed as to permit of being easily destroyed under the influence of chemical or mechanical agents. A3 soon ns the restriction of transpira¬ tion becomes necesary, these walls are dissolved by organic acids, and the continuity is destroyed ; so that the least breath of air suffices to produce a separation and cause the leaves to fall.—Scientific American. Gruesome Dinner Table Decoration. The use of the human skeleton is the latest development in the way of dinner table decoration in England. The Table, of London, gives, in a re¬ cent issue, two instances of the em plovment of this grim device as an adjunct to English gastronomic hilarity. One was at a country house a{ a dianer o{ thirty covers. The centre of the t able for its entire length wafi a of frozen snow, bordered by lycopodium growing in tins, a belt p f bright red blossoms separating the gnow from tLe table cloth . Qa tlie crisp white surface were many white human skeletons in every attitude; leafless trees covered with snow, miniature fur trees, with an open um¬ brella beside them, while red gnomes capered on the snow, a large red cap 0 f Follv lying on the ground, bon bons pouring from it in lavish pro¬ fusion. The second occasion on which this mortuary scheme of decoration W2S emploved was a sapper. This time it was the design of an artist of distinction. It portrayed skeletons skating on a pond, with a churchyard and illuminated church at the side iu a set sc €Il e for the centre of the table, To have carried this weird decorative sc heae to the full limit the guests, at conclusion of the supper, should have been induced to accept for the balance of the night ths use of hare jsoeks awuoa in a ffwtltfp •'At?