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Junausechie Lot Kven,
The followiigz incldent, which, oc
gurred In Washingilon some years ago.
instrates Mwme. Janauschek’s deter
tmination of chiuracter and winute sense
of justice.
she was staying at a hotel whose
runnae nt was noted for its small
wess, She «hnneed to broak o wash
powl and when her bill eame found
that sbe was charged with an entire
tollet set,
“1 only broke a washbowl,” she sald
to the manager,
“But it was a portion of the set,” was
tlic answer.
She made no further protest. Pres
cutly the occupauts of rooins looking
on an inner court were startled by a
crush. It wuas followed by another,
The manager rushed to Janauschek's
room, from whose windows chinaware
was belng thrown.
“What's all this?’ he asked.
“It I 8 my tollet set,” she answered as
ghe polsed the last plece on the win
dow slll. I purchased it, and I am
disposing of It according to my own
ideas.”
How Yennt Works,
The growth of the yeast plant 18 so
rapld that Ity Individual cells ean be
seen under the wicroscope to spring up
as buds upon the parent cell and to
grow to full size. These presently glve
off buds themselves that expand In
lke manner. In the case of the yeast
plant the cells remaln attached to each
other and thus form branches of elon
gated cells fixed end to end. In other
cases the buds drop off, so that the
plant never takes any deflnite shape,
but remains as a wass of free cells.
If a new cell be formed every minute
by each of the cells present you may
calenlate the number that will be pro
duced In an hour. Thus at the end of
the first minute there will be two, in
two minutes four, in three minutes
elght, and 8o on. In five minutes there
will be thirty-two, in ten minutes the
number will have increased to 1,024,
and in fifteen minutes there will be
32,705 cells.—~Hospltal.
Superstitions Hungarian Peasants,
A queer case of superstition which
roailted in the losgs of two lives 18 re
ported from Hungary, A peasant liv
ing in Nosztany died of heart disease
while attending market in Kurd., His
relatives started to take the body home,
but were foreibly prevented from car
rying the body throungh the village of
Iharos, whose inhabitants belleved that
the passage of a strange corpse through
thelr town would bring endless misfor
tune to it. The procession returned to |
Kurd, and the next day it set out again, ‘
this time with an escort of gendarmes.
When It reached Tharos it was met by
the whole population of the village,
armed with scythes, pitchforks, axes
and anything that could be used as a
weapon. The gendarmes were forced
to fire three volleys before they could
get through the place. Two of the vil
lagers were killed and many wounded.
Value of the Kangarco's Tail.
Bo lmportant is the kangaroo’s tall in
his rapid progress that experienced
hunters with guns are accustomed to
fire at the point where this appendage
Jolns the body, when, the tall being dis
abled so: its office of balaneing, the
animal 18 as effectually stopped as if
bamstrung. Hit elsewbhere, oxcept with
a rifle bullet or at point blank range,
the kangaroo is pretty likely to get off.
One pecullarity of the kangarco 1a
that, after belng started up, he very
rarely swerves from his course, through
which pecullarity be i 3 easily “potted”
by hugters, who couceal themselves
while 2 man on horseback drives the
berd toward them,
3 He Watehed the Cow.
When Sir Stafford Northcote, after
‘ward the Earl of Iddesleigh, was an
Officer in a yeomanry regiment in Dev
aabire one of the men who was Jead
g a small force across the country
was taking a mther circultous instead
of a strulgbt courve.
“Why don't you keep your eye on a
given point?™ asked his officer.
“1 do, sir.”
“Well, what point?*
“That old cow, sir,” replied the man.
The earl was often known to use this
anecdote when political leaders did not
go straight.—llustrated Bits,
The Devil's Kuell,
Among the famous bells of Dews
bury, Yorkshire, England, is one known
a» “Black Tom of Scothill,” which was
presented to the church in explation of
a murder. “Black Tom" is always rung
on Christmas eve. Its solemn tolling
a 8 it strikes the first tap at exactly
midnight is known all over Yorkshire
as the “devil's knell,” it being the no
tion that when Christ was born the
devil died.
Too Sell Possessed,
Mrs, Manykids—There is one thing
about our girls—they are always selt
posscssed.
Papa Manykids (grimly)—Yes; they're
too self possessed. 1 wish they'd get
SOIe ole else to possess them,
A Just Reward,
“Too bad about Dr, Killem falling in
to the well, wasn't it
“Serves him right. Ile should have
attended to the sick and left the well
alone"—Melbourne Australian,
Mer Long Dream,
Estelle—~Ah! His proposal was just
ke a dream!
Agnes—~Well, you ought to know,
Jear. You've been dreaming of that
proposal for years,
Theory and Practice,
Theory 18 almost always still busy
taking aim loug after practice has
aade the bullseye,
When you make one mistake Jden't
wake another by trylng to le out of It
! Antamony,
| That terrible polson, antimony. known
| #ost familiarly ia the compound called
| martar emetie, has a very interesting
! gistory. It was lntrodueed into medi
| dine gome centuries ago by Paracel
i tus, Its name signities that it Is
! “arainst monks,” as some on whom it
wag tried dispiayed the now familiar
| symptoms, Its use In modern medicine
| has been reduced to the vanishing point
!w!th other depressing measures, such
'as Dbleeding. In the table which ar
| ranges the elements In series and
| shows their connections—so that all are
| probably modifications of one universal
| substance—there I 8 a sequence, nltro
gen, phosphozus, arsenle, antimony, bis
muth. Slr Lauder Brunton has shown
l that these possess many common prop
,ertlm‘ in their action upon man and
| that these properties vary in relation
ito the place of each in the scale. In
| the days before chloroform antimony
| and tobacco were used to produce the
% partial unconsciousness which attends
| their actlon.
How to Warm Gold Plates.
Various departments of *“‘household
hints” have unaccountably neglected to
tell how solid gold plates may be
- warmed for the meat courses at din
; ner.
’ This may be done in the right or
the wrong way. The right way is ex
emplitied at Castle Kilkenny. This s
lone of the oldest inhabited dwellings
In the world, some of the :ooms being
| 800 years old. Among its ancient treas
ures 1s a service of gold plate,
| Besldes the ordinary plate service,
Castle Kilkenny has the whole series
of gold cups used at coronation ban
quets down to the time of George IV.
The gold of the service plates is almost
without alloy, consequently very soft
and easily marred. Hence the plates
are warmed and presumably also
washed after use by being dipped into
hot water held by a pair of tongs
whose tips have been mufiled in cham
ols leather,
Tickling the Debtors,
John DBarrett was only twenty-seven
years old when President Cleveland
appolnted him minlster to Siam. The
first fmportant task whieh confronted
the youthful envoy was to press a
claim against the Siames: government
for $1,000,000. Experienced ambassa
dors warned him against using threats
In obtaining the money. “Be cunning;
avold arrogance,” they said.
“That 18, responded Mr. Barrett,
“you favor tickling with a straw to
pricking with a bayonet.”
The statesmen nodded assent.
When the young minister had finally
succeeded in collecting the clalm the
ambassadors asked In astonishment,
“How did you accomplish it?” |
“By tlekling,” explained Barrett. “I
had to tickle them almost to death,
though, before they agreed to pay it.”
Coffee ¥For the Inebriate,
A traveler has made the observation
that coffee drinking people are very
seldom given to drunkenness. In Bra
zil, for instance, where coffee is grown
extensively and all the inhabitants
drink It many times a day, intoxication
is rarely seen. The effect is not only
noticeable among the natives, but the
foreigner who settles there, though
possessed of ever such a passion for
strong drink, gradually loses his liking
for alcohol as he acquires the coffee
drinking habit of the Brazilian.
FVeound a Farallel.
An English country vicar discovered
not Jong ago that one of his male
servants was in the habit of stealihg
bhis potatoes. He mentioned the fact
to his curate and asked advice.
“Well,” replied the curate, “of course
you must remember what the Bible
says, ‘lf any man take away thy coat
let him have thy cloak also.’”
“I see,” mused the viear. “Well, In
this chse, as the man takes my pota
toes I'd better give him the sack™
Animals In Alechel
M. Grobaut, professor of physiology
in Parls, in describing the effect of al
eobol upon anlmais says that the sue
cessive stages of intoxication through
which they pass are gayety, sadness,
solemnity and a supreme intoxication
which ends in death. Rabbits are very
curious when under the influence of
liguor, and a drunken kangaroo is bru
tally aggressive.
Averting the Evil,
Mildred (very superstitious) — Oh,
dear, I would never have accepted you,
Jack, if 1 had remembered it was Fri
day evening!
Jack—There's only one way to avert
the evil omen, darling. We must very
carefully kiss each other seven times
at least every seven minutes during
the first seventy minutes of our en
gagement.
Jenkins Was Ignored,
Willlam Pitt's last words are sald to
have been, “My country, oh, how I love
my country!™ Pitt's butler afterward
sald that the statesman's dylng wonds
were, “1 hope the country will do some
thing for Jenkins.” The butler was
Jenkins, but nobody accepted his testi.
mony and the country certainly aid
nothing for Jenkins,
Not an Authority,
There are some persons who can't
take a joke, but Fogg is not one of
them. One of the boys, acquainted with
Fogg's frequent changes of abode, ask
ed him which he thought was the
cheaper, to move or to pay rent.
“l can't tell you, my dear boy,” re
plied Fogg. “I have always moved.”
Economical.
Friend (to amateur artist)—l suppose
you'll give up painting when you mar
!
Amateur—Oh, no! It'll be so conven
fent and economical when we Dave to
make wedding presents. ;
THE MONTICELLO NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER ¢, 1903.
Opening “Bucking” Safes,
- Every big coucern dealing in strong
boxes employs a professional safe
breaker against those frequent and of
ten costly occaslons when the safe sold
to sowe consumer “gets out of whaek,”
says a New York paper. The work of
opening a bucking safe is usually a
matter of minutes with the profes
slonal, but occasionally he is obliged to
‘send for a half ton of tools before he
i 3 enabled to procure the magic ses
ame. Often a half hundred clerks are
kept idle for hours and business mana
;'(-rs spin around like tops while the
safe breaker leisurely pothers about
with the combination. When the safe
or vault Is finally opened it i 3 usually
discovered that some one connected
with the fimn 18 to blame for altering
the combination and then keeping tlie
m:@er to himself. The professional
safe opener frequently has calls from
out of town, and on these oceaslons he
usually finds that some merchant who
has just bought his first safe changed
the combination and then forgot it.
Cold and the Unlverse.
Heat can exist only where there is an
atmosphere, and then it must be con
stantly supplied with fuel to overcome
the law of constant repulsion and dif
fusion. Cold is the absence of heat and
exists everywhere, It overcomnes disin
tegration and preserves the unlverse.
It enforces the universal law of the
electric attraction and cohesion of at
oms aud worlds.
Cold must predominate to preserve
the universe. There is a billlon times
a billion more cold in the universe than
heat. There always has been and there
always will be. The heat of the st
compared with the cold that surrounds
it is as a mustard seed to Jupiter. The
eartl’s heat in comparison to the cold
that surrounds it is as an orange to the
solar system.
Then what folly to talk of the uni
verse having begun in white heat and
the earth kaving been a molten world
and the sun’s great burning spheres!—
Booklover's Magazine.
Servants In Sweden,
In Stockholm there is an Old Serv
ants' home, occupying a row of build
ings upon a pleasant street, where
servants who are too old to work are
glven shelter and care. The institu
tion is supported by publi¢ subscrip
tion and by the interest derived from
a large endowment. When a house
hold servant has been engaged for a
long time in the same family and has
become too old to work and the family
i 8 not In circumstances to support her,
application can be made to the trus
tees, who Investigate the case, and if it
is found that the servant is deserving
and her former employers are not able
to provide for her properly she is ad
mitted to the home. The institution is
always full, and there is generally a
long waliting list of applicants.
Raising the Ship.
“Yes,” sald the yarn spinning old
mariner in the corner of the rallway
carriage, “for three days and nights
we worked at the pumps, and still the
water gained on us. At last we gave
up the hopeless struggle. There we
was—sinkin’, sinkin’, expectin’ to per
ish every ’'arf a minute. It was a
bhorful time, belleve me. Suddenlike
we feels the wessel a-risin’ up through
the water. She riz till her keel was
a'most out o' water, and we rides into
port light on top o' the waves. We
was saved! 'Ow it happened was, we
had a cargo o yeast on board, and
when the water reached it it rose and
rose till it fairly lifted up the ship!”
Mew Sea Birds Quesch Thelr Thirvet.
The means by which sea birds quench
thelr thirst when far out at sea is de
scribed by an ol skipper, who tells
bow he has seen birds at sea, far from
any land that could furnish them wa
ter, hovering around and under a storm
eloud, clattering like ducks om a hot
day at a pond and drinking in the
frops of rain as they fell They will
smeil a raln squall a hundred miles
distant or even farther off and scud
for it with almost inconcetvable swift-
Deßs.
An Ominous Symptom.
“A good wife is heaven's greatest gift
to man and the rarest gem the earth
holds,” remarked Mr. Jarphly the other
morning. “She is his joy, his inspira
tion and his very soul. Through her he
learns to reach the pure and true, and
her loving hands lead him softly over
the rough places. She is"—
“Jeremiah,” sald Mrs, Jarphly sol
emnly, “Jeremiah, what wickedness
have you been up to now?*
Chivairy.
The essence of chivalry s to look out
for the little ones. Wherever a child
can be helped, wherever a stranger can
be guided or a friend who is shy set
at ease, wherever a weak brother can
be saved from falling and shame, wher
ever an old man's step can be made
easy, wherever a servant’s position can
be dignified in his eyes, is the chance
for chivalry to show itself.
A Thrilling Novel,
“Ligette,” sald Mrs. Goldrich to her
maid, “I wish you would run up to
my room, get the novel on my writing
desk, cut the pages, take it back to
Miss Bookhides, present my compli
ments and thanks and tell her the
story aroused my most profound in
terest.”
Books,
There are many books in the world
and few years in which to read them;
why should I spend even an hour in
reading one that gives me less pleasure
and does me less good when I can be
reading one from which 1 get more
pleasure and profit?—Apon,
Be true to yourself, and you do not
need to worry about what the neigh
et e ¥
t Mr. Frith's Portrait of Dickens.
| It was early In the fifties that John
Forster asked rae to paint a portrait of
| Dickens for him. 1 gladly consented
and was about to prepose a day for the
tirst sitting when IForster stopped uie
by mentioning what he called a most
‘unfortunate propensity which Dickens
had developed—Lic was actually grow
ing a mustache! *’Tis just a fancy of
| the moment,” sald Forster, “and we
must walit till the craze has passed
away.” A very few months convinced
| us that the mustache, so far from pass
| lng away, was rapidly growing into
| what threatened to be a forwmidabie
| beard, so, unless one-half of the face
| was to be lost to us, no more time
| should be lost. My idea was to paint
{ him 4in his working clothes, but when
R found that he always wore a light
| bright blue silk coat with big red enffs
| every morning when he took pen in
hand I remonstrated so successfuily
| taat after a little hesitation he con
| sented to wear the black jacket in
;which he now appears at South Ken
| sington.—W. P. Frith, R, A., in King,
é His Navy and Army.
l Audubon and His Hair,
| Audubon, the great naturalist, early
'ln his career wore his hair \'Q{‘y long.
|He wrote in his dlary omne &y: “I
| wear my hair as long as usual. I be
| lleve it does as much for me as my
ipnlntingl." However, in 1827 Luis
|trlends succeeded in persuading him
| to get his hair cut according to the pre
| vailing fashion. On March 19 of that
| year he wrote In his diary: “This day
| my hair sacrificed and the will of God
| usurped by the wishes of man. As the
| barber ‘clipped my locks rapidly it re
‘mlnded me of the horrible times of
| the French revolution when the same
?npcrullon was performed upon all the
victims murdered by the guillotine, My
;henrt sank low.” I‘urther to express
! his grief the margin of the page on
| which this entry was made he painted
;black about three-quarters of an inch
| deep ail around.
| Bagles lin the Tennessee Mountnins,
| There are many cagles in the Ten
| nessee mountains, and consequently
there are many mountaineers who are
| expert catchers of the young eagles.
These reap rich rewards in return for
their perilous risks and adventures,
| and some of them receive as much as
$2,000 for a single year's cateh. The
| keen eyed hunters watch the ncsts un
| til the young are hatched and then.
| patiently waiting for the mother bird
; to leave in search for food, make short
‘ work of the capture, while the mother
|bh‘d is invariably shot to death upon
her return to the nest and in her fren
zied search for her young. Bolder
hunters than these make attacks at
night, while the less experienced use
| snares and nets, a method, however,
I in a majority of cases, unsuccessful.
Cast Iron.
By altering the rate of cooling the
strength of iron can be greatly changed,
and the test bars are often run sepa
rately from the casting and cooled
quicker, so that they usually have
greater strength, sometimes more than
twice as much. Separately cast test
bars are always stronger than those
cast on the castings itself, and of the
latter the one nearest the heaviest part
of the casting is always the weakest.
The remedy, as above indicated, is
simple when the false witness has
once been pointed out.
Amn Apt Headlime.
An English weekly, speaking of head
lines, tells of an excellent one which
appeared over a story of the Pigott
forgery. In that case one of the de
vices by which Sir Charles Russell
brought the unfortunate forger to bay
was by getting him to write the word
“hesitancy.” In the forged letter the
word was misspelled “hesitency.” The
day the flight of Pigott was announced
an editor suggested the headlne, “The
Man Who 'Hesttetes’ Is Lost,” and-it
was so excellent that it was lmmedi
ately put in Gpe.
Smell and Taete.
The sense of smell is most nearly al
lled to that of taste. Hearing and see
ing depend upon nerve responses to
v®rations in the air and in the ether.
In order to taste a substance it has to
be wholly or partially dissolved; In or
der to smell a substance it must en
counter the olfactory organs as a va
por, an emanation, a cloud of particles
arising from odoriferous matter.
Durial,
“How much better I llke the word
‘burial’ than ‘funeral’ The Dburlal i 3
Just the fulfillment of our latest pray
ers. ‘None of self and all of thee.,! The
poor pettiness of that which is not liv
ing and loving and so glorified in him,
all burlied away, and nothing precious
in his sight, and so in ours, can be
buried there!"—"Letters of Emelle Rus
sell Gurney.”
Sporting Rlood.
Blizzer —1 bheard that Bilgewater
jumped ocut of his yacht and was
drowned.
Buzzer—Shocking! Did he do it with
sulcidal intent?
Blizzer—Ob, no! He was racing and
did it to lighten his boat and thereby
win the race.
A Mean Trick.
“That's the meanest man I ever ran
across,” said the book agent.
“What has he done?”
“Kept me calling day after day, and
finally said he didn't care anything
about reading, but he enjoyed hearing
me talk.”
The legal duration of a patent In
Germany (s fifteen years from the
date of application, and additional pat
ents expire at the same time as the
main patent. Inventions which apper
taln to articles of food or medicine
cannot be patented In Germany.
RNew Guinen Jaustice,
A cnaical vindication of the rights of
property amcng the savages of New
Guinea was witnessed by a missicnary,
the Rev. James Chalmers. Service was
just beginning in the litile church when
a native boy ecame in dressed with
what he considered great magnificence,
in a shirt. A 8 the savages were accus
tomed to go nearly naked, tiis garment
made the boy very cousp:vreus.
The shirt had ence beion®d to some
white man, and the importance it gave
the present wearer was tremendous.
But when his glory was at its height a
bigger boy appeared, bot with rage and
carrying a jacket. He fell upon the
first lad and begnn stripping off the
shirt. The rest of the congregation, un
derstanding at once that the rightful
owner had arrived, gave him not only
sympathy, but practical aid. They rose
to their feet, and those who were near
by took part in the stripping process.
Presently the true owner was invested
in shirt and jacket, the congregation
cooled, and the service went on.
Her Last Dreath,
I heard a story the other day which
is probably as old as the hills, though
I never had the luck to hear it before.
It was of a somewhat lengthy railway
Journey in very warm weather. An
elderly lady, seated In one corner of
the carriage, was provided with an in
dia rubber cushion for lrer greater com
fort, but unfortunately, owing to the
heat and continued pressure, the cush
ion suddenly exploded. The old lady
was in despalr, even to tears, over the
misfortune to the wind bag, and again
and again reverted to her misfortune.
“Tut, woman,” said a commercinl
traveler in another corner of the car
riage, “it's not worth making a fuss
about. You will gat it repaired in town
for about 18 pence.” “It's no’ that I'm
vexed aboot—it's no' the price. That's
easy sorted. But the last time that bag
was blawn up it wis by Aunty Jean,
almaist wi' her very last breath, an’
that canna be restored!’—Glasgow
Times.
Animals and Rain,
It secems strange that no animal, un
less it be the squirrel, seems to build
itself a shelter with the express object
of keeping off the rain, which they all
#0 much @islike. DNMonkeys are miser
able in wet and could easily build shel
ters if they had the sense to do so.
“As the creatures hop disconsolately
along in the rain,” writes Mr. Kipling
in his “Beast and Man In India,” “or
crouch on branches, with dripping
backs set against the tree trunk as
shelter from the driving storm, they
have the air of being very sorry for
themselves.” But even the orang ou
tang, which builds a small platform in
the trees on which to sleep at night,
never seems to think of a roof, though
the Dyaks say that when it is very
wet it covers itself with the leaves of
the pandanus, a large fern.
Crushing.
He was an awful swell, and if there
was one thing more than another that
he prided himself on it was the fit of
his clothes. 2
“I can never get a dress coat really
to fit,” he sald to his partner as he
glanced down at a perfectly made gar
ment, with a hope, of course, that she
would at once disclaim the insinuation.
“Look at this thing.”
“Well, it is atroctous,” she said cool
ly. *“But why not save your money
and buy one? It is so much cheaper in
the long run than hiring.”
His Other Name.
The candidate for the place of coach
man had been weighed and was not
wanting, according to his new mis
tress’ lights. Then the question of hig
name, which was Patrick, came up.
The mistress objected to it in Der
beart, se she explained that it was her
custom always to enll her coachman
by his family name. Had he any ob-
Jections? b} ; A
*“Not the slightest, ma'am.”
“What is your last name, Patrick?”
“Fitzpatrick, ma’am.”
A Threat That Was Heeded.
In 1866 the Prussian government de
manded an indemnity of $25,000,000
from the city of Frankfurt. The head
of the house of Rothschild there sent
word to Bismarck that if an attempt
were made to enforce the levy the
Rothschilds would break every bank in
Berlin. Knowing the power behind the
threat, the man of blood and iron yield
ed. - X
Slippery Elm Poultiee.
Take a sufficlent quantity of pulver
ized slippery elm bark, stir it in hot or
warm milk or water to the consistence
of a poultice. This is a most efficacious
poultice, 1s of almost universal applica
tlon and removes inflammation sooner
than any other. If tincture of myrrh
be added it is valuable in boils, ulcers,
carbuncles, ete. — Dick's Encyclopedia
of Practical Recipes.
Anxious to Hear It,
Mr. Sampson (tremulously)—Miss
Lydia, I want to tell you—er—the old,
old story—
Then his agitation got the better of
him, and he paused.
Lydia—Go on, Mr. Sampson. Never
mind if it is a chestnut. Perhaps I've
never heard it before.
Low Church—and Salary.
“It must be understood,” said the
vestryman, who was extremely “low
church,” to the new rector, “that the
rector here shall have no surplice”—
“Graclous!” exclaimed the Rev. Mr.
Newcome. “How could one have a sur
plus on the salary you offer?”—Phila
delphia Press.
Needs Prodding.
“It is a great mistake, Mabel, to trifle
with the affections of a man who loves
you by encouraging some one else.”
“Well, he's a little slow, auntie. I
think be needs a pacemaker.
The Robber Crab,
In Central America there lives the
robber crab, of almost incredible size
and somewhat resemnbling a huge spi
der. The distance between its extend
ed claws is sometimes as great as
twelve feet. It spends the greater part
of its life on land and climbs the cocoa
nut trecs, on the fruit of which it iives
almost entirely, It digs in the ground
deep tunnels and lines them with co
coanut fiber,
When engaged the robber crab can
break a man's llmb with its powertul
claws., Animals approaching it too
closely often recelve an ugly pinch
which they do not soon forget, and it
Is on record that one of these crabs has
captured and tried to diag off a goat.
To open a cocounut the robber crab
removes the bark from the end con
taining the three eyes, one only of
which Is easily penetrated, and, having
found this, it revolves the nut against
the point of one of its spindle legs un
til the opening is large enough for it
to insert its great claw., With this it
breaks the shell, grinds the contents
into small pieces and carries themn to
its mouth.
Morality Versus Intellectunlity,
As a man grows older he perceives
that the moral qualities are worth a
good deal more in friendship than the
intellectual qualities and that no bril
llancy of mind, no charm of conversa
tion, can make up for lack of loyalty,
charity and generosity in social inters
course. Young men of brains are dis
posed to- value mainly wmental power
in other people, and it is a human
quality to forgive much in men and
women of genius, This is a false ap
preciation of the respective values of
mentality and the moral qualities. The
time comes when a man learns that
unselfishness and affection are better
in wife or friend than intellectual pow
er accompanied by intense self love.
Fortunate the man who does not come
to this knowledge too late.—San Fran
¢isco Bulletin,
The Foam on Soda Wanter,
Foam is a natural product, being
caused by the escape of air or gas from
a viscid liquid. In the case of soda
water it is the escape of the carbonic
acid gas from the sweetened beverage
that causes the attractive sparkling
appearance, but the sweetened water
alone would give rise to but a small
quantity of foam, as the gas would
too easily escape. In order to prevent
this some mucilaginous substance is
usually added to the sirup, which ren
ders the mass more viscous, so prevent
ing the guas from escaping and produc
ing the attractive head of foam so
familiar to all.
The Nose,
Use the nose to breathe through and
not the mouth. In winter and spring
particularly must this care be taken.
If the mouth is kept open large drafts
of cold air rush directly in upon the
lungs, chilling the body almost in
stantly. If the mouth is kept shut the
air can reach the lungs only by the
crecuit of the nose and head, and it be
comes warmed before reaching the
Jungs. It is asserted that the reason
the American nose is becoming more
and more narrow is owing to the repre
hensive babit of breathing through the
mouth rather than following the inten
tion of nature. ;
Ruseians as Linguists.
Every educated Russian knows three
langusges besides his own and many
of them four. Knowledge of the Eng
lish, French and German languages is
considered necessary to culture. A fam
ily having small children employs two
to four governesses, from whom the
children learn foreign tongues before
they are taught the more dificult Rus
sian. This command of language makes
possible the fact that Russians have »
better knowledge of the world’s affaire
than ‘sny ‘othér people. -
The Serpeant’'s Yemeom.
A physician while talking with &
group of friends remarked: “It is com
mon to hear people speak about poison
ous serpents. Serpents are never poison
ous; they are venomous. A poiscn ean
not be taken internally without bad
effects; a venom can. Venoms to be
effective have to be injected directly
into the circulation, and this is the
manner in which the snakes kill,
Their venom taken internally 18 innoc
uous.”
Diet and Alcohol.
Careful observations have shown
again and again that there is an inti
mate relation between diet and alco
holism, especially that tea, coffee and
condiments lead to the use of alcohol.
It has also been demonstrated that
flesh eating creates a thirst for alco
holie beverages and an appetite for to
bacco, the use of which almost invari
ably leads, sooner or later, to the use
of alcobol in one form or another,
Introspection,
One can accomplish but little when
all is said, for, make no mistake about
it, however much we pose and strut in
the world, in the solitude of our own
studies there are few of us but know
how the faults and blemishes of our
craft stand out and stare us in the
face to remind us that we are small
enough and halting enough to be al
ways learning, never quite gloriously
achieving.
Anchored,
A little chap four years of age met
with the misfortune to have his hat
blown into the river. When he reached
home his father sald to him:
“It's a wonder you didn't blow over
board too.”
“I couldn’t,”” was the quick response,
“I was fastened to my feet!”—Presby.
terian.
Praise undeserved is satire in dis
guise.—Broadburst. i iiodiint O
