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CONDENSED STORIES.
Frederick the Greet'e Encounter With
a Young Officer.
Mention of Bismarck recalls a
story he used to tell of an incident
which his grandfather witnessed
when serving under Frederick the
Great. It affords good reading in
the present time in view of mistakes
and rumors of mistakes, degrada
tions and equivocal promotions, of
which tales come through from St.
Petersburg. During some maneu
vers an ensign made a mistake, and
the old king, in a flaming passion,
pursued him with a stick, intending
lo publicly chastise him. The en
sign lit out for oil he was worth and
nimbly leaped a ditch which the
king could not negotiate, but was
left fuming on the wrong side. Later
the colonel of the regiment reported
to the king that the ensign had ten
dered his resignation. “I am sorry,
sire, for he is a really fine soldier,”
said the colonel. “Send him to me,”
replied Frederick. The ensign came
in, expecting to be beaten or per
haps sent to prison. “Here, sir, is
your captaincy,” said the king. “I
meant to give it vou this morning,
but you ran so hard I could not
catch you;”—St. James’ Gazettes
He Had the Crackere.
“In my younger days,” remarked
a New Tork theatrical manager re
cently, “I was directing the desti
nies of a small troupe of trained
amateurs through the west, and
DIAMONDS AND JOCKEYS.
Diamond Joe Costen is one of the
most familiar figures all over the
southern circuit, lie carries a num
ber of tine jewels with him, which
he sells to jockeys, trainers, plun
gers and other followers of the for
tunes of the turf.
“I have been following this busi
ness for about forty years,” he said,
“and have handled some fine gems.
I only sell to people I know, and one
of my regulations is to enter into
an agreement with the purchaser to
buy the stone back if he wishes
within five years from the date ol
purchase at 5 per cent less than he
paid me for it. Jockeys love jewelry
more than ary other class of men.
Some young rider will win a race,
make n killing, and will get lo feel,
ing pretty r-od. One of the first
things he does is to buy a lot of
jewelry, end 1 have made a study
of being cn hand to furnish him
with just what he wants. One day
not many months ago I sold a
jockey SI,'.“CO worth of diamonds.”
—Louisville Herald.
“■Uni THING," Uia TIT* STOnEKKZFEB.
when I say west I do not mean Ohio.
I mean I was so far west that Den
ver waa regarded as an effete east
ern city.
"The stores out there are more
versatile than any comedian who
erer played Hamlet at a matinee,
Uncle Tom at night and 'doubled in
brass’ in an intervening purade. You
•imply could not fenze the proprie
tor of a store by asking for unex
pected articles. Hardware, grocer
ies, ammunition, patent medicines,
boots and shoes, dry goods, mining
implements, toilet articles—all
these were the stock in trade of the
merchants.
“In one little Arizona town I was
in*the leading store when a solemn
man entered and said, ‘Have you got
any crackers?’
“The proprietor of the storo an
swered : ‘Sure thing! What kind do
you want—whip, fire or soup?’ ”
No Tlmo tp Wasto on Fools.
When George Wcstinghousc as a
young inventor was trying to inter
est capitalists in his automatic
brake, he wrote a letter do Commo
dore Cornelius Vanderbilt, carefully
explaining the details of the inven
tion. Very promptly his letter came
hack to him indorsed in big, scrawl
ing letters imthe hand of Commo
dore Vanderbilt, “I have no time to
waste on fools.”
Afterward, when the Pennsylva
nia railroad had taken up the auto
matic brake and it was proving very
successful, Commodore Vanderbilt
lent young Mr. Westinghouse a re
quest to call on-him. The inventor
returned the letter, indorsed on the
bottom as follows: “I have no time
to waste on fools.”—Success.
How Bacon Settled Him.
A story that is told of Leonard
Bacon, who was one of the best
known theologians in New Enjihmd
a quarter of a ceiftury ago, illus
trates-the absuAity of a popular
kind of argument. Dr. Bacon was
attending a conference in one of the
New England cities, and some as
sertions neunade in his address were
vehemently objected to by a member
of the opposition.
“Why, he expostulated, “I never
heard of such a thirfg Jn all my
life!”
“Mr. Moderator,” rejoined Bacon
calmly, “I cannot allow my op
ponent’s ignorance, however vast, to
offset my knowledge, however
imalL”—Harper’s Weekly.
Artificial Cultivation of Sponges.
An interesting investigation now
being carried on in Florida by the
bureau of fisheries has for its ob
ject the discovery and development
of methods by which the valuable
sheep wool sponge may be cultivat
ed artificially.
The method which promises the
most satisfactory results is that of
using cuttings. Large sheep wool
sponges are -cut into Btnall pieces,
which arc fastened to an insulated
wire fixed in the water, so that the
sponges arc supported a few inches
above the bottom. These small bits,
placed at close intervals along the
wire, soon heal and form an organic
attachment lo it, And very soon be
gin to grow. It is too soon to pre
dict just what the results will be,
but the indications are, so far, very
encouraging,' and it is believed that
the time is not far distant when the
sponge fisheries of Florida will bo
vastly increased in productiveness
and value. — National Geographic
Magazine.
Ths Cost of Gov.rnm.nU-
A table has been prepared and is
sued by the department of com
merce and labor, indicating that, do-
spite the great size of the appropria
tions, this country is per capita
more cheaply maintained than any
other in the world, with the' excep
tion of China and India, and pos
sibly Russia. It coats, according to
this, just $7.97 a year for each man,
woman and child in the United
States to run the government, as
against $9.30 for Canada, $9.46 for
tno German empire, $9.54 for Swe
den, $10.09 for Spain, $11,45 for
Portugal, $11.40 for the Nether
lands, $12.40 for Cuba, $12.68 for
'Argentina, $14.27 for Austria-Hun
gary, $17.30 for Paraguay, $17.40
for Belgium, $17.84 for France,
$21.39 for the United Kingdom,
$37.69 for Australia and $38.3$ for
New Zealand. Russia's per capita-ex-
penditure is approximately the aama
as that of the United States.
Preparing For Emergency.
Perhaps, as the following anec-
doto would seem to indicate, not all
authors belong to the mutual ad
miration society said by a recent
writer to exist among the members
of the craft.
At a dinner given some time ago
in honor of Hall Caine, Thomas
Nelson Pago was invited to intro
duce the English novelist. , One of
the guests next to Mr. Page, just
before the toasts began, passed his
menu card around the tabic with
the request that Mr. Caine put his
signature on it.
“That’s a good idea,” said Page.
“I must do that, too. I’vo got to in
troduce Caine in a few minutes, and
I want to bo able to say that I have
read something he has written.”
A Roscato Vlsw of Panama.
Among the official as well as nnn-
ofiiciul members of the American
colony of Paris you may hear pre
dictions to this effect: “In about
ten .years, two years after the-in-,
augural procession of the world’s
navies through the Panama canal,
the trippers of the United States
will bo changing the West Indian
islands, many of which are the
loveliest spots on earth, into a new
‘Riviera’ ,and attracting thither .
trippors'from Europe.”—Paris Let
ter to London News.
A Bad Island.
The island of Sachalin, north of
Japuu which passed into the hands
of Russia in 1875, is peopled by
nearly 30,000 Russian criminals of
tl^e worst types. Great'poverty pre- j
vails among them and there is a ;
saying that “in Sachalin a man will
be murdered for 10 cents." Before ■
the outbreak of the present war, j
over 13,000 Japanese visited this is
land every year with nearly 300
empty steamers and sailing vessels,
which wen loaded with nth that
were nsed to manure the Jajwness
rice fields.
CONDENSED STORIES.
The Suez cuuul is usually consid-
j ered the most important example of
Chinese Secretary's Quickly Lsantett ihip canals, though the number of
Lesson In American Humor. ! vessels passing through it annually
“Have you ever been natural- j does not equal that passing through
Izcd?” i I the eiiiuiU connecting Luke Superior
“Yes, but it didn’t take.” I the chain of great lakes at the
“Now, that is what we Ameri- ! ,ou |h- l* 1 length, however, it ex-
«n. call a joke,” explained tfie ^
Washingtonian to the brand new
secretary of the Chinese legation,
who had indicated his desire to be
come conversant with the custonu
of this country.
In spite of the alleged humor,
however, ho failed to laugh, and his
informant considered a further cx-
canals, its total length being ninety
miles, of which about two-thirds is
through shallow lakes.
The canal connecting the bay of
Crousiadt with St. Petersburg is a
work, of great strategic and commer
cial importance to Russia. The
ninal and sailing course in the bay
arc Jihotit sixteen miles long, the
planution proper. I canal proper being about six miles
1 ou see, he continued, the j 9UI | Ibay channel about ten
word naturalized has been confused i mile*, ami they together extend
with vaccinate.” j f rilu , Uronstudt, on the gulf of Fin-
The meaning of the two words I bunl, to St. Petersburg,
was then defined, together with the The next of the great ship canals
phrase “didn t take.’ I connecting bodies of salt water in
The conversation was continued t h e or j er of date of construction is
in a general way until the wise rcsi j t h e Cortnth cunal, which connects
dent of Washington suddenly fan- the gulf of Corinth with the gulf of
cied it would he humorous to relieve I The canal reduces tho dis-
himsclf of a joke ut the expense of j tance from sErintic ports about 175
the Celestial. VV itli a patronizing j miles and from Mediterranean ports
air, he put a query to the attache ; a | )()Ul too miles. Its length is about
m jaw breaking words and then f our miles.—Harper’s Weekly,
laughed at his own brilliancy. Tlle propert ic9 - of rad f um are cx .
The secretary stared blandly at i j rellll ,j y curious. This body emits
him for a moment, utterly bewilder- ; „ uh ^ eat in t c nsity all of the dif-
ed by the question. His face was fercnt b rav9 that a / e prod uced in a
expressionless, but he gave a faint j , aeuum t ' ubo . The ra d in tion, mesa-
smtlc when the American explained j urcd by B(8an9 of an electroscope, is
. , )00n J°king. at ] ea st a , n j)iion times more power-
“A joke-yes; but it dtdu t take, ful than t . at from an equa f quan .
he replied, with a naive smile.- tity of unuiuln . A charged eloc
Washington limes, , t r09C0pe placed at a distanco of acv-
; oral meters can be discharged by a
Anxinu.- .Ncigntmr—oijas, .hxt'few centigrams of u radium salt,
th’ doose i- tli’ matter of that hoy j 0 de cun also discharge an electro-
o’ you re; I'.'v'ry day he seems 9C opc through a screen of glass or
lead five or six centimeters thick.
Photographic plates placed in the
. vicinity of radium are almost iu-
He’B keeptn track o them stantlv nffcctcd if no screen inter
file
takes
. place through very thick ones if the
gits over it a httle I m gom t put exposure is sufficiently long. Itadi-
im t’ plow’ in th hillside lot, where : um can therefore he used in the prq-
th’ broom sedge is thickest. That ’ll auction of radiographs.—Mm*. Cu-
givc ’im a chanst t’ find out what a (Ynturv
Fool he’s been.—Baltimore Amerj 3
ican.
The Game of Buzz.
Heaven Via California. j A number of children stand up in
It is noted'that many of the mi -j , row _ anJ the iir8t one begins to
migrants who are now seeking i (. ou „( onc> then the next one says
homes in the west travel in Pullman | an j 90 on _ When the person
cars. That is a stmt of American g ct3 ( 0 9Cven instead of saying sev-
t’ have « -nange o’ plans and ocky
pation.
FatLui Hornihund—Nothin’ eery-
ous.
uoosponcr articklcs on how t’ suck- 1 ccpts * t | lc ra j- s . with screens I
ceed. Ev’ry one tells a difl-’rcnt way,. acti „ n is 9 ] mver> but it still tal
an’ lie’s tryin’ ’em all. Soon .id b«| pin— through very thick ones if 1
progress. From the Atlantic to
Ohio the travel was in wagons;
from Ohio to Kansas it was in im
migrant cars; from Kansas to this
point they come in Pullmans. When
tho time comes for migration from
California the people will take
wings and go to heaven.—San Fran
cisco Call. ,
Marked Down.
Mrs. Stiggins—Well, you are the
greatest dunderhead I ever did tee
yet. The idea of buying an excel
aior mattress for goose feathers 1
Mr. Stiggins—It isn’t my fault, i-
It, that the dealer is a cheat? Th.
bed was marked down, you know.-
Boston Transcript.
According to recent- investiga
tions, it appears probable that hyp
notism can atop tho action of a per
son’s .heart and thus cause death.
A. Journot, a Frenchman, reports
that he has increased and diminish
ed the number Of pulse beats at
will aud as far as he could venture
with safety. It is said to bo alsoj
proved that circulation is seriously
affected, even if it is not quite cer
tain that the heart can be silenced. I
en lie is to buzz, and so on every
seventh number or number having
in it a seven instead of saying ths
number must buzz.
Just as soon ns any one misses h-
must get out of the game, and th-
one that stands up tho longest win-
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