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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. 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