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CONDENSED STORIES. Frederick the Great's Encounter With a Young Officer. Mention of Bismarck recalls a •tory he used to tell of an incident which his grandfather witnessed when serving under Frederick the Great. It afTords good reading in APPLES FOR BREAKFAST. | The true, not the new, should be the motto of those who write or speak about the apple, the fruit longest In use by our branch of the human race. There are certain simple principles' that must be given. Hue upon line, pro- A LITTLE NONSENSE. Why th. Gneering R.mark. Did No i Both.r th. Cl.rgym.n. A clergyman who was traveling •topped at a hotel much frequented by wage anil jokers. The host, not being used to hav- tbe in ti a t • a ° i <*Pt u|wa precept, to every fresh sener- the present-time in view of mistakes atlou of men or rather ihoold ^ gi r , n and rumors of mistakes, degrade- ‘ Just about thnt time that the genera tions and equivocal promotions, of tlon Is tvglnnlug to lose Its freshness which tales come through from St. *° cuU on th. doctor for remedies Petersburg. During some maneu- ■ E J';’ ry we !!„ t0 d ° “““ ° f s«xl<llge.tian "... . s ” , , ami appetite tend! to eat too much J. ers •*} ensign made a mistake, and meat every day after bis twenty-drib the old king, in a naming passion, birthday, aud one of the value, of pursued him with a stick, intending fruit, the apple above others, Is the to publicly chastise him. The en- ease with which It may tie made an sign lit out for all he waa worth and | “antlmont for breakfast" article. With nimbly leaped a ditch which the b *k« 1 «PP*« “»G cream and good king could not negotiate, but waa left fuming on the wrong side. Later , . . ..... to e the'k ?e ! tha 1 ! 1 th Cgim - nt ibSuh’™- Meuef for:,."lb"' to the king thnt the ensign had ten- | ererv „ f „.., ,, „ dered his resignation. “I am sorry, have iu-.iiiir.il ibe rich: u> si sire, for he is a really fine soldier,” | adrl.-e. at least to himaclf. said the colonel. “Send him to me,” j tb.-lr various wonderful dia.-' replied Frederick. The ensign came remarkable self cures Just i-- in, expecting to be beaten or per- I • ,v ' n “P 11,1 imp*. end In gen haps sent to prison. “Here, sir, is ! roduw fheinselve. to this: -I ste less * ■ • • t. . • .. - - * moot lull I .11.1 unS b Hunt ||||ll | took especially np- LEARNED SOMETHINCL “Have you any—aw—idea,” in quired the tourist with the steamet cap, side whiskers, cheek suit and guttural voice, “what the circula tion of the Daily Bread is?” “Xo,” said the native, “but it’s way up in the tens of thousands and | ing a clergyman at hia table, looked probably rno.-e.” at him with surprise. The guests “Thanks. Will you—aw—please used all their raillery of wit upon tell me what a ‘cheap skate’ is ? The him without eliciting a remark, term is new to me, don’t you know." | The clergyman cte hia dinner “A cheap skate may he a tight quietly, apparently without obeerv- wad or a geezer that’s merely on his mg the gibes and sneer* of his uppers, but in cither case lie’s a— neighbors', well, he’s o cheep skate.” “1 am not sure I quite compre hend you, hut he is an ubjectionablf person, is he not?” “Sure." “That was my inference. A lad accosted menu the street a few min utes ago and awsked me to buy a copy of tlie Daily Bread. ‘Xo, my bov,‘ i said. 'I d ut’t wish it.’ ‘Aw,’ he said, •tmi’n- . l? your captaincy,” said the king. “I mMt bu ‘ 1 ,•*“ «• “ u t a Jneeni L eie. is *w. L:— • 8™”* deal more fruit, eapecla plea. 1 meant to give it you this morning, but you ran so hard I could no catch you,”—St. James* Gazette. , .He Had the Craekere. “In my younger days,” remarked a New Yc cently, “I was directing the~ desti nies of a small troupe of trained amateurs through tne west, and Baked apples for breakfast tend to reduce the amount of meat eaten If we are inclined to eat too much and to supply the system with mineral foods , _ _ _ . and. the digestive tract with acids, ork theatrical manager re- People wnu eat too much food are not * ** *’ “ ' to bo advlaed to eat baked applet as a mere addition to the breakfast* and those who need a substantial meal must not let the baked apple Interfere with the taking of solid food. At a rule, thoso who eat three meals per diem will wisely have the nicest dish of bnked apples obtainable for break- >• Y ,8 0 p,Pce of B,m P ,e w,8dom ^ T )/> ul/Sfli, worth pages of ordinary medical lltera- ture. The digestion of milk la some what delayed by sour fruits, but pure, rich cream is not milk, and taken with a Juicy baked applo what dish can be more tempting and wholesome? If you nr© twenty-eight or tbirty-flve, Inclined to ring the doctor's bell and talk with yobr druggist, try this pre scription. You may put sugar on the apples, but we shall not sugar coat the remedy with any mystery or any claim to novelty. We merely turn to your good wife or your housekeeper and aak whether she la careful to give you nice roast apples and cream and to make the breakfast meat dlshea as little tempting as may be.—American Gar den. Disraeli and Gladatoae. A abort timo before his death Dis raeli sat for his portrait to Millais. In his studio hung a proof sngravlng of Gladstone, with his hands hanging down before him lightly clasped and an almost beatific expression on bis face. MUlala observed that Disraeli’s eyes were frequently bent upon the portrait At length he asked him If he would accept a copy. "I waa rather shy of offering It to yon," be apologet ically added. "I should be Relighted to have It” said Disraeli, with what for him was an almost eager manner. "People think that more or less through our political Uvea I have disliked Mr. Gladstone, to tell the truth, my only difficulty In respect to him has been that studying bliu from day to day and year to year I could never understand Illustrated Phrase. "BURK THINO," 8AID T&B BTOBXXZXFUL when I say west I do not mean Ohio, r&ean I was so far west that Den ver >was regarded as an effete east ern city. “The stores out thero are more versatile than any comedian who ever played Hamlet at a matinee, Uncle Tom at night and 'doubled in, brass* in’an intervening parade. You » could not feaze the proprie- a store by asking for unex- implemeni 4 si nts, toilet articli 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 tny crackers?’ “The pu'orietor of the store an swered:‘S 3 thing! What kind do you want—whip, fire or soup ?* ” tlad. Him Low Spirit.,. Near to where we live in Scotland there la a farmer wbo haa bad conald- erable experience In wives. IIo baa married and burled four. After tbe dentil of tho last wlfo a friend of oura walked over one Sunday afternoon to aco and condole wltb tbe poor man, wbo, report said, bad been an exceed ingly kind and Indulgent busband to all Ida wives. He found tbe farmer wnlklng listlessly about bis deserted garden, and. aympatby having un chained bis tongue, bo exclaimed: "Aye, aye! What wltb bringing tbe wives home and plttcm them nwa I am snlr hndilen doon” (low spirited).— no of them at last, in despair of his forbearance, said to him: “Well, I wonder at your patience! Have you not heard all that has been said fo you ?” “Oh, yes; but I am uaed to it. Do you know who I am ?” “Xo, air.” “Well, I will inform you. I am chaplain of'a lunatic aaylum. Such up skate.’ So remarks have no effect upon me.”— lontempi uoui. '- is !.:s tone that 1 Short Stories, felt compelled ’o buy ilia paper, though I hud no use for it."—Chica go Tribune. Facts About Colombia. Colombia, not counting Panama, la as large as California and Texas combined and has over ten timei the population of Panama. An esti mate made in 1881 puts the figures at 3,GOO,000, exclusive of the people of Panuina. Bogota, its capital, has been called “the Athens of South America.” Its population is 125,- 000. The national university is lo cated there, and the city has an ex cellent library of 50,000 volumes, a picture gallery, an observatory and a number of learned institutions. Twelve days are required to get from the coast to the capital. One lands at Barranquilla, at the mouth of the Magdalena river, goes up the river by steamer to Honda, 592Yt miles from tho coast; then by rail for twenty-two miles to La Dorado, by mule journey for forty # -five miles Facatativa, and from there by rail again to Bogota, twenty-four miles.—Harper’s Weekly. The Two Poets. Ella Wheeler Wilcox and James .Whitcomb Riley met recently at a hotel in New York city. . “I never will forget what you ■aid about me, Mr. Riley,” said the poetess of passion, “when I first at tempted to writo poetry." “Nothing unpleasant, I hope,” exclaimed the Iloosicr poet. “You |aid,” continued the poet ess, “that I was too homely ever to write poetry.” “Did I ever say that?” “Yes, you did, or at least it was published as coming from you. It mndo a deep impression on me. About that time I was making a rag doll for a little niece of-, mine, ana I not only made it, but I painted its face. And I made that face just as ujflr aa I knew how and called the doll James Whitcomb Riley.” A Subtle Reproef. Mias Helen I-acknye, sister of the actor, Wilton Lackaye, has the fam ily gift of repartee fully developed. Recently a young society man who prides himself on his popularity with female acquaintances begged from her s few of tho violets ibe No Tims to Wests oh Fools. When George Westinghouso as a tonilon Gentlewomen, young inventor was trying to inter est capitalists in his automatic brake, he wrote a lotter to Commo dore Cornelius Vanderbilt, carefully | A tVrnna Idea. A certain officious person once blus tered Into tbo oftlee of W. J. Bender* ... , .... .... - . son. tbe music crllle, and began to tell explaining the details of the tnven- m w bat was tbe matter wltb Jean tion. Very promptly his letter came ao iu.«ke’s Interpretation of Wi back to him indofsed in big, scrawl- j ner’s "Tristan.' ing letters in the hand of Coramo- "In tho first place," said tbe caller, in dore Vanderbilt, “I have no tinfe to confident tones, "he’s got tbo wrong waste on fools.” Afterward, when the Pennsylva* nia railroad had taken up the auto matic brake .and it was proving very auccessful, Commodore Vanderbilt lent young Sir. Westinghouso a re quest to call on him. The inventor Wblitltns Women. a peculiar fact," remarked the returned the letter, indorsed on the ! observing youth, "that only one wo- Idea.' Mr. Henderson looked at him n mo ment. "Well," he remarked, "ho got bis Idea from Wagner. Where did you get yours?" bottom as follows: “I have no time I man In a thousand can whistle. to waste on fools.”—Success. "Nothing peculiar about that," re- |' Joined the man with the absent hair. : "As long as a woman can talk she doesn't care to whistle."—Illustrated wore at her corsage. He placed the flowers inside the case of his watch, vowing that as long as he lived they should repose there. A few day* later the two met again, and Mis, Lackaye asked about the flowers. The young man was visibly embar-, , , „ rassod, but explained that he had! “Hugntcr plays very well, opened the watch while in the Btrcet! and lias quito a tale: and thnt a gust of wind had blown away the violets. “And you kept the watch,after thnt?” said Miss Lackaye, with sweet incredulity. Congressman Hepburn's Goat. Congressman Hepburn of Iowa is nearly always unlucky in drawing * “Dropping into verso.” Hor Memory. Qayley—You haven’t had occa sion to accuse me of playing poker for two years now. Mrs. Cayley — Three years, my dear. Cayley—How do you know it’» three years? i Mrs. Cayley—Bccauso Ft, worn this dress that long, and I got it the last time I caught you.—-Philadel- phia Press. Fore* of Habit. “Your church organist ii fin,, bnt the effect of his execution li marred somewhat by the words h* mumbles to himself during th, mu sic. Why don’t ho quit itr* “He can’t, old man. He was a passenger brokeman in hia youth and haraever quito recovered from the habit of calling out the itopet” —New Orleans Times-Democrat. A Praetloal Girl. He—I know my income Is imall, but don’t you think we could get along? She—I’m afraid not. He—You told me that you want To a cooking school. She—Yes, but they did not teach mo how to make wind pudding.—! Now York Weekly. Matter of Rolatloeahlp. Iler—I can only 1 be s sister to you. Him—Oh, that won’t do. You’ll have to be a daughter to me otnoth- ing. Her—Bccauso why? Him—Because I’vo been a “pop per” to you.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Rare Talent. Social Settlement Visitor—Your I Mrs. talent for music. Mrs. Smith — Sure, she inherits that. Her grandfather was killed with a blow of n cornet at t picnic. —Lippincott’s Magazine. Unlucky. Publisher—Your book is fino up a scat, but of late years ho haa been : J? seventeenth chapter. After ... ... i that it ia morn flrirnl How Bacon Settled Him. ^ A story that is told of Leonard j JJjJJ Bacon, who was one of the best I known theologians in New England a quarter of u century ago, illus trates the absurdity of a popular ! wne. Do you think he haa the making kind of argument. Dr. Bacon was ! fi V nn ^! er «r* c , , . . ° - -..I “Undoubtedly. Several of them. And I’d like to be om» of the bunch."—New York World. attending a conference in one of the New England cities, ahd f.omc as sertions he made in his address were .vehemently objected to by a member oi the opposition. “Why/ 5 he expostulated, “I never .... ~ heard of such a thing in all my ! en, air. I sm a veritable reservoir of life!” R««rTf Fore*. Billyuna— Young man. you acem 'to lack energy. Mopely—You are mlatak ~ “Mr. Moderator,” rejoined Bacon j Time** “I cannot allow my op- :, to I energy awaiting a crlola.—New York calmly, „ /ponent’s ignorance, however vast, offset .■JE knowledge, neper’s Weekly. Prosperity Is ■ great teicber; adver sity Is ■ greater. Possession pampers however j t t, a m |nd; privation trains and strength* able to retain his old seat, the mem* her drawing it always exchanging with him. When lie first entered the house lie drew about the worst scat in the lot. As lie sat down there he was grumbling irwnrdly over his had luck, when he looked across the hall and saw tho discon solate face of the man whom he had beaten for the nomination and whom he succeeded in congress. Then he thought, “I’ll bet tlmt fel low would be satisfied with 'even this seat,” and nt once ceased to feel bad about his luck. ^In Leap Year. “Something bothering you, Miss Weaver ?” “Why, yes, Mr. Ragmore. It’s only a trifle, of course, but our lives are made up of trifles, you know. Mamma and Aunt Miriam have been E ’ving me such a lot of nic«,lincn toly, and I was just wondering, how I would have it marked.” “Why not with your name?” “Yes, of course, b-but if I wanted to change it?” “But you don’t want to change it, do you?’’ . “Oh, Mr. Ragmore, this is so sud den!”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. that it is mcro drivel. Author—Sir, it is my misfortune, not my fault. Just as I was begin* ning the seventeenth chapter I dis covered, quito accidentally, what I was driving at.—Puck. Something New. Young Writer—My heroine has golden hair, but I don’t like it Golden hair is eo old. I wish I had something new. His Friend—Why not make it ra dium hair, my boy ?-—Pittsburg I Post. He Isn't tho Last. “I tfibught you said once you wouldn’t be seen with him if he were tho last man on earth?” “Oh, but he has.the swiftest auto mobile! in town.”—Chicago Record- ffcrald. Whsrf Summsr Tims Is Hsre. When the flies firs In ths butter Ani) th« milk curds Into cheese. 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