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TWO BRIDES.
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The Man who I.oved the Names of Things The Man who boved the Soul of Things
Went forth beneath the skies, Went forth serene and glad,
And named all things that ho behold, And mused upon the mighty world,
And people called him wise. And people called him mad.
An unseen presence walked with him An unseen presence walked with him
Forever by his side, Forever by tits side,
The wedded mistress of his soul— The wedded mistress of his soul—
For Knowledge was his bride; For Wisdom was tits bride.
Site named the (lowers, the weeds, the (roes, She showed him all this mighty frame,
And all the growths of all the seas. And bu to him feel- but named no name.
Sim told him all the rocks by name, She stood with him upon the hills
The winds and whence they blew; Hinged by the azure sky,
She told him how tiio seas were formed. And shamed his lowly thought with
And how the mountains grew; And bade it olirab as high.
She numbered all the stars for him; And alt the birds ho could not name,
And all the rounded skies The nameless stars that roll,
Were mapped and chartered for the gaze The unnamed blossoms at his feet
Of his devouring eves. ' Talked with him soul to soul;
Thus, taught by her. tic taught the crowd; Ho heard the Nameless Glory speak
They praised—and he was very proud, Iu silence—and was very meek.
— Sam Walter Foss, in the Independent.
OF NO PARTICULAR FAMILY.
By MI<S. M. CORBET SliA’MOUR.
Grange was a
large rambling old
house. And it had
need to he so, for
the Harriots were a
numerous family,
>, i and at Christmas or
r? in the holi
summer
day season, when
the married son s
brought their
wives, and the mar
ried daughters were
accoinpanied by
their husbands and
children, every room was filled.
At such times, Mr. Harriot appeared
to glance round him with mild aston¬
ishment tint so many children and
grandchildren really belonged to him.
For six generations there had been
Harriots at the Grange, eldest son
' regularly succeeding eldest sou. It
was the proudest boast <>f each in his
turn that the land had never decreased
by one acre; that no mortgage had
been raised upon it; and that none of
the Harriots—man and woman—had
ever oven remotely brought dishonor
ou tlio name.
One August the annual gathering
was not to be so numerous as usual.
The children of one of the married
daughters were ill with scarlet fever;
one,of the unmarried sons had gone to
sea.
So when Ursula Harriot, who had
been at school iu France by* way of
finishing her education, wrote for per¬
mission to bring a friend home with
her, it w’as decided that there would
he a room to put at the disposal of
this young lady.
A kindly letter of invitation was ac¬
cordingly written by Mrs. Harriot to
Miss Winifred Warre, aud enclosed iu
that which told Ursula that her school
comrade would be made very welcome
at .the Grange.
“I am sure yon will all be charmed
with Winnie,” the girl had written.
She was right; the Harriots were all
delighted with their guest as soon as
she stepped inside the grand old en¬
trance hall.
She was a tall, lovely creature, older
certainly by a year or two than Ursula,
who was just seventeen, She was
dressed iu sober brown, with a pink
knot of ribbon at the throat; and the
rose tint was in her cheek, and the
brown eyes matched by the coils of her
abundant hair.
Miss Warre was quite at her ease
among all these strangers; she laughed
and talked over the rough passage,
and over the little incidents of the
railway journey from Dover.
ft was impossible to he formal, with
such a girl as this. She was ‘ ‘Winnie”
even that first evening with the Mar*,
riots. • c Miss Winnie” with the ad
miring servants, who waited on her
assiduously.
After a quarter of an hour passed
over a merry afternoon tea, the guest
was taken to the pretty room prepared
for her. and the general verdict given
iu her absence was not only favorable,
but flattering.
Dinner time at the Grange was al¬
ways six o’clock, summer aud winter;
an unfashionably early hour, but Hr.
Harriot liked it. He said it left a
pleasantly long evening, during which
.his sons and daughters read, sang,
played ducts, or whatever else they
saw fit to do, in the large drawing
room. Their parents usually retired
to “the little drawing-room,” which
was separated from the other only by
velvet curtains of inoss green.
From the first evening Winnie
Warre became as a queen among the
younger party. And sometimes, when
by knowing her better they grew more
fond of her. Mr. aud Mrs. Harriot
would ask her to sit with them for a
half hour in “the sanctum,” as their
children called it.
The girl’s parents were dead, aud
she was quite without near relatives,
or indeed any relatives at all. She
possessed a guardian whom she had
only 3een twice iu her life, and who
did not interest himself in her nor
care to introduce her to liis family.
He advised, even after she came of
age, that she should make her
as a “lady boarder” in the foreign
school where she had been educated
from quite a little child.
Louis Harriot, the only grown-up
unmarried son, fell deeply in love with
this lively, charming friend of his sister
Ursula.
But neither iiis father nor his
mother liked the idea of such a mar
riage. They wanted for Louis the
daughter of a thoroughly English
home; some one whose family was
well known to him.
“You have not engaged yourself?”
said Mrs. Harriot anxiously, when
her son made his little confession
love for pretty Winnie Warre.
“l have uot said a word: nor hinted
to her what 1 feel for her,” exclaimed
Louis. “I would uot, until I
spoken to you and to my father.
if I may not marry Winnie—and
shall never marry without your con
sent—I shall go through life as a
single man.”
And then he asked them not to op
j pose his going away for awhile; at
! least until tlxo girl had finished her
; stay at the Grange,
“Do uot notice his departure, or
question him,” said Mrs. Harriot to
the rest of her family. “Louis is be
having manfully and houorably, just
as I should expect him to do.”
It was Christmas before lie came
hack again. A long absence this for a
home-loving Harriot. And he had
changed, too; changed into a grave
and thoughtful man.
He only referred to Winnie by beg¬
ging his mother to let that he a sealed
subject.
“But don’t allow it to interfere with
Ursula’s friendship,” he said. “Wini¬
fred is a very solitary girl. It will he
kind of you to ask her now and than
to the Grange, and at such times I
will always go away—unless you and
my father change your minds and tell
me you can welcome her as my wife.”
Several months passed by, during
which Ursula exchanged several let¬
ters with her friend. She generally
read Winnie’s news aloud, for the
benefit of the family, at the breakfast
table; the impression of everyone was
that the girl seemed less happy at the
French school after that one summer’s
stay in England.
“I know now what a home is like,”
she wrote once, “and I envy you,
Ursula.”
As August drew near it was evi¬
dent. that Louis grew* restless. He
wanted Winnie to be invited to the
Grange even though the invitation
would involve his own absence; hut
bin parents said they could not spare
him. They’ begged him, for their
sakes to remain for the family gath¬
erings usual during the holiday
months. By this time Mrs. Harriot
would gladly have yielded to Louis’
wisli; she could uot bear to see him so
unhappy; hut Mr. Harriot was im¬
movable. He would not countenance
an unequal marriage.
One day early in September a tele¬
graph hoy arrived at the Grange. He
brought a message from the lady di¬
rectress of the French school to the
effect that Miss Warre was dangerously
ill and not expected to live. But she
had so earnestly begged that some one
from the Grange would go over to her,
that it was thought better to communi¬
cate this wish. If complied with, uot
au hour must be lost should her friends
desire to see her in life.
“My poor boy!” said Mrs. Harriot,
reading the telegram; and then she
handed it to Louis, who turned white
to the lips as he glanced toward his
father.
“I must go,” he said.
“Certainly. We will go together,”
said Mr. Harriot, as he turned to a time¬
table which always had its place among
his papers, and began studying it.
“If oue of the girls can pack a port¬
manteau in ten miuutes,” he added,
“we shall be able to catch the next
boat from Dover.”
In a quarter of an hour father and
son jumped into the dog-cart which
waited to take them to the station.
Three days later, a letter bearing
the French postmark was received at
the Grange. It was from Hr. Har¬
riot, and only consisted of a few lines.
They had found Winifred extremely
ill, he said, but so pleased to see them
that he felt quite touched. She had
asked for some one from the Grange
because she had no other friends.
Louis was behaving admirably in his
calm self-control.
A second letter told rather more. It
seemed that influenza had made its
appearance in the school, and Winnie
was not only one of tlie first but one
of its worst victims. She had, how¬
ever, got over the attack; but instead
of becoming convalescent she grew
alarmingly weak, and the doctor spoke
frankly of her danger. Some mental
trouble was preying on the girl’s vi¬
tality, he decided, aud her state was
critical.
When she heard that hope for her
Wil8 very small she seemed rather glad
than otherwise, and begged that some
one from the Grange might be sum¬
moned by telegram. In this letter
Hr. Harriot said that her life was still
trembling in the balance. The mere
surviving long slightly ....
fact of so was a
hopeful sign, lmt he could speak with
more confidence in a few (lays.
The next letter told that the corner
was turned; Winnie would live unless
relapse occurred.
| |“We cannot leave her unti her re
covery is quite certain, said Louis s
father this time. “It seems such a
comfort to her to know that we are near,
And in a private enclosure to his wife
he added: “The poor child love*
Louis as devotedly as lie loves her.
She does not dream I surprised her
secret, ^lie, like our brave boy, has
made a bravo fight. But there is a
language of the eyes which is not to
be mistaken.”
The fourth letter made a profound
sensation at the Grange. It begged
Mrs. Harriot to have everything
ready to receive Winnie Warro as
soon as she was able to travel—it
might be a fortnight’s time, or at
longest, three weeks.
“We cannot leave her in a place of
which she seems weary when the
doctor declares that change of scene
and a little cheerful society will do
more now than medicine,” wrote Mr.
Harriot. “Communications have passed
between the girl's guardian and my¬
self, and as I have assured him that
we shall treat her as one of our own
daughters, he willingly consents to
her leaving France."
“Can your father lmvo consultation yielded?”
said Hrs. Harriot, in a
with some of her children. “But no 1
never on that point of marriage with
those wo know, those who come of a
thoroughly English home; and poor,
dear Winnie, in spite of her sweet
face and charming ways, holongs to
no one, as T may say. Yet this is ex¬
posing Louis to a severe ordeal. I
cannot understand it. However, all
will he explained when the travelers
arrive.”
“We will soon make her strong at
the Grange,” cried Ursula, and she
at once scribbled off’ a note to her
friend, begging her to get well enough
to travel as soon as possible.
But it was the last day of February
when that party of three reached
England.
Louis sprang joyfully out of the
hired closed carriage which conveyed
them f" m the station to the Grange.
How very glad and bright he looked.
How changed from the grave, de¬
pressed man he had been for more
than a year. At the sight of him Mrs.
Harriot asked herself again if her hus¬
band had yielded; but her knowledge
of his character compelled her to de¬
cide no.
It was hut a very white and feeble
girl, looking like a bundle of shawls,
who was helped into the hall and then
from the liall to the drawing-room—
the “little sanctum” she remembered
so well.
Nothing hut the brown eyes re¬
mained of the once brilliant and lovely
Winifred Warre, and yet her face was
sweeter.
Mrs. Harriot was an'af. omplished
nurse, and the invalid was forced to
rest on a couch and take some re¬
freshment before she attempted to go
up-stairs to the room made ready for
her.
Then Louis, standing behind her
with a certain air of proprietorship
which told everything laid his hand on
her shoulder.
“Father has given in!” cried
Ursula.
“Yes,” said Mr. Harriot, with a
smile. “Triumph over me us you
will; I have been convinced of my
error, Ursie. Louis has deserved this
happy i ending to i his • i love-story, i and ,
now all we have to do is to get ready
for the we.hlimr j°’ ”
By R dint r , of care and i nursing • Wim- ,, r . .
fred got well hut she was a long time
about it—so long, that there was no
marriage e festivity until after midsum
mer.
Aud then the young couple settled
down in the west wing of the roomy
old Grange, and Winnie became one
of the best loved of the numerous
daughters-in-law, even though the
neighbors always alluded to her as of
“no particular family.”—Waverlej
Magazine.
Showing Off to Royalty.
The late George von Bunsen, the
accomplished and delightful son of the
Baroness whose “Life and Letters”
are well known in America, once told
me an anecdote of fhe late Princess
Mary of Teck and the celebrated Bant¬
ing. The Princess became, in her
middle life, enormously stout, and
finding her weight a burden, tried sev¬
eral methods of reducing it. At last,
having heard much of Banting, she
sent for him. She was surprised to
see that he was still extremely bulky,
and after a few civil preparatory re¬
marks, she said: “But your system
has not made you very thin, Mr. Bant¬
ing.”
“Allow me, madam,” said Banting
—and proceeding to unbutton his coat,
he disclosed a large wire structure
over which the garment fitted. Inside
was the real Banting, incased in an¬
other coat.
“This, madam,” said he, pointing
with pardonable satisfaction to his
cage, “was my size before I com¬
menced dieting.” He then nimbly
disembarrassed himself of his frame
work, and stood before the royal lady
exhibiting his elegant figure!
Apparently the interview led to
nothing hut amusement, for the good
Duchess of Teck remained very stout
to the end of her days.
Women’s Pockets.
Ladies fifty years ago, when going
on a journey by stage; coach, car*
ried their cash in their under pockets.
There were no railways opened iD
Wales then, and people who had not
a close carriage either went in the
mail coach or in a post chaise. Far¬
mers’ wives and market women wore
these large under pockets. I remem¬
ber my Welsh nurse had one wherein, |
if she took me out cowslip picking,
or nutting, or blackberry gathering,
she carried a bottle of milk and a lot
of biscuits or a parcel of sandwiches,
often a clean pinafore as well. Her
pocket on those occasions was like a j
big hag. I was ver y proud when she
stitched up a wee pocket for me tc
wear under my frock out of some stufi
like bedticking, similar to that of which
she made her own big packets.—Notei
and (Queries.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The most easily digested meats are
cold mutton, mutton chops, venison,
sirloin, roast beef and chicken.
Green vegetables and good fruit
contain certain salts and acids which
may bo called nature’s medicine.
A. boon for vegetarians is peanut
butter, which surpasses tin* best dairy
butter in purity, and is found to Ire
especially and well adapted for use in
gravies demand for shortening. An ex¬
tensive is expected.
Street lamps can be mounted on a
now reach telescopic-poet- to make them easy
to for trimming and filling, a
sot-screw engaging the central shaft
to hold it in position with pulleys and
weights set in the post to counter¬
balance the lamp.
The aurora borealis, according to
the theory of Herr Gustav Wendt,
may be regarded as an electrical
phenomena arising when oxygen and
other paramagnetic matter—or matte r
assuming polarity under the influence
of the earth’s magnetism—is continu¬
ously drawn down from the higher re¬
gions of the atmosphere, thus setting
up electric currents.
Medical authorities appear to be
becoming convinced of the efficacy of
alcohol, in the treatment of cancer.
It is ltsea in hypodermic injections,
and its strength has been gradually
increased from a ten per cent, solution
until the pure alcohol is often used.
The injections are repeated after five
to seven days. The cancer cells are
destroyed, the growth giadually be¬
coming smaller, and finally leaving a
hard mass that may he ignored or cut
out.
A floating scientific station was the
novel suggestion made to the inter¬
national geological congress by Pro¬
fessor Audrussow. It would consist
of a ship fitted with apparatus and
iaboratrmes for geological and biological
study of the ocean bottom, and would
lie kept constantly exploring the dif¬
ferent parts of the world, the expense
to be met by international contribu¬
tions. The scheme was warmly ap¬
proved by Dr. John Murray and other
scientific leaders.
During the Zulu war Dr. George
Stoker observed that wounded natives
quickly recovered in mountainside carried.
places to which they were
This led him, on his return to Eng¬
land, to experiment with oxygen as a
dressing for wounds, the result being
the establishment of a home where
the oxygen treatment is carried out.
The application is made by enclosing
the injured limb in a suitable case,
which is kept charged that the gas.
The dressing irritates less than others,
is stimulating and oxidizes bacterial
poisons.
Uai(l8 by Wild Horses.
In the Arizona papers of late there
have been frequent complaints of
serious injury, both to crops and to
pasturt s, caused by the raids of wild
Something like 20,000 of
these creatures, it is estimated, are
P 1 * 1 ? 8 that tern
tol 7’ 11,1,1 llftve beBOme Heno UH
nuisances. There im some cause lor f
1 { { tbe {aci that at this late
dft , y, «ven in • Arizona, , • an animal , alien
to tlxe country / can resume tlie habits
of w alm st nlime asurabiy ,tipl/raoidly remote
ances( ’ nnd can mu L f
without -w . care or protection * ,* oi ____ any
kimL The horse ^ <lom e 8 t ic ation is a
rather delicate creature, subject to
many ills, and often hard to keep in
health, though watched with close
attention and allowed to want for
nothing whatever. When forced to
rely on his own resources however,
he shows a marked capacity for re¬
suming the wild state and for guard¬
ing himself against enemies of all
sorts. Ever since the days of the
Spanish explorers the horse at every
opportunity has demonstrated his lik¬
ing for freedom and his adaptability
for meoting without aid the condi¬
tions of life iu the West and South.
Large herds were often seen years
ago, but that they should still find
room in the United States is really
notable, as proving that the country
is not nearly so well settled as the
opponents of immigration would have
us believe.—New York Times.
Use For Hot Water.
A strip of flannel or a soft napkin,
folded lengthwise and dipped in hot
water and wrung out,and then applied
around the neck of a child that has the
croup, will usually bring relief in a few
minutes.
A proper towel folded several times
and dipped in hot water,quickly wrung
and applied over the site of toothache
or neuralgia, will generally afford
prompt relief.
This treatment for colic lias beefi
found to vt'ork like magic.
Nothing so promptly cuts short a
congestion of the lungs, sore throat,
or rheumatism as hot water, when ap¬
plied early in the case and thoroughly.
Hot water taken freely half an hour
before bedtime is an excellent cathartic
in the case of constipation,while it has
a soothing effect upon the stomach and
bowels.
The treatment, continued a few
mouths, with the addition of a cup of
hot water slowly sipped half an hour
before each meal, with proper atten¬
tion to diet, will cure most cases of
dyspepsia. headaches almost always
Ordinary
yield to the simultaneous application
of hot water to the feet and back of the
neck.—Phrenological Journal.
I A If uim Woman Physician.
Li Hung Chang has appointed as
first physician in his private house
hold a Chinese woman, Hiss Hu King
Eng, M. D., who was graduated from
an American medical college. Previous
to this appointment she was an attend
ing physician at tlie Women’s Hospi
tal iu her native city of Foo Chow,aud
also a practising missionary physician,
for early in life she adopted the Chris¬
tian religion.
VETERAN AMONC BRIDGES.
It* I'erultnrltle. of Construction Make
it (irrat Curiosity.
The triangular bridge at Croyland,
iu Lincolnshire, is probably not only
the most ancient bridge in England,
lmt, on account of its peculiar con
slriietion, oue of the greatest curiosi
ties in Europe. It is built in the
middle of the town at the confluence
of the Welland and the None. The
plan of the bridge is formed by throe
squares and an equilateral plaoed. triangle,
about which they are It has
three fronts, three thoroughfares over
and three under it. There are tlio
same number of abutments at equal
distances, from which rise three half
arches, each composed of three ribs
meeting in the center at the top. -Seen
from any point of view a pointed arch
appears in front.
Antiquaries—often fanciful writers
—have suggested that the piece of
masonry was built as an emblem of
the Holy Trinity; for, though the
bridge possesses three arches, it yet
properly has hut one groined arch.
Here matter-of-fact archaeological
authors hold the structure to have
been designed as a starting place for
measuring ecclesiastical boundaries,
with the additional utility of forming
a support for a market cross.
An exceptionally interesting feature
of the bridge is a much-weather-worn
elligy, traditionally said to he a
representation of KiugEthelbald. The
rudeness of the design, the uncouth¬
ness of the headdress and drapery,
lead to the conclusion of the effigy
being a genuine Saxon sculpture.
Placed in a sitting posture at the end
of the southwest, wall, the figure is
embellished with a crown. Iu one of
Eldred’s charters the triangular bridge
at Croyland was mentioned, but that
now existing is supposed to he, from
its style of architecture, of the time of
Edward I. The statue must he of
much greater antiquity. Croyland,
ten miles sou'th of Spalding and eight
and a half north of Peterborough,
should greatly interest artists and
lovers of antique associations.—
Lloyd’s Newspaper.
Tlio Clir.ysa 11 1 hern u m.
When the plant was introduced,about
1840, it was only the small daisy-like
flower, now only seen as a rule in cot¬
tage gardens, which was highly prized
as a novelty. The taste for growing
and showing it began early, and be¬
fore 181)0 there were many chrysan¬
themum societies in existence, among
them the Stoke Newington, which
formed the nucleus of the National
Society. Yet it was not until 1859,
when the plants suffered severely from
early frosts, that there was any idea
of growing them under glass. The
Japanese variety was noticed in 1804
as a novelty, “very curious and in¬
teresting, but scarcely ornamental.”
How little did the author of these re¬
marks suspect what a future was
before the plant he so summarily set
aside! Three years later,' however,
we find Japanese varieties recom¬
mended with pompom aud incurved,
and since then they, have ever in¬
creased in favor.
The gorgeously colored mop-like
blooms now exhibited every autumn
would certainly astonish that writer
of thirty years ago. The golden and
bronze shades of the chrysanthemum
suited the taste of the promoters of
the “high art” {esthetic movement of
a few years ago, which, if it had no
other merit, helped to bring this
flower more forward and revived the
culture of sunflowers, which were fast
becoming extinct in our gardens.—
Longman’s Magazine.
Hi* First Cent.
Mr. H. A Sylvester, of RoaKport,
offers to match pennies—not for gam¬
bling purposes, though—with any
man in Maine. His treasure is the
first cent ever given him and it has re¬
posed iu his pockets for years. He
withstood all the candy temptations
of his childhood, and kept his pocket
piece unspent. When he. grew up be
went to sea for fourteen years and
never lost his cent. At one time lie
was wrecked and was taken from a
water-logged and dismasted vessel in
so exhausted a condition that his res¬
cuers had to remove Ids clothing; but
he had strength enough to beg them
to look out and not lose Ins cent. He
carried it to California, where lie was
engaged in mining for lour years, and
on a trip through the wild country in
Idaho and Montana, li is worn
smooth, but lie wouldn’t exchange (Me.) it
for a gold t eagle.—Lewiston
Journal.
The Smallest City.
John De Salme bears the unique
distinction of being Mayor of the
smallest city in the world. He is the
chief executive of Fenton, a beautiful
little hamlet on the picturesque Mera
mec River, fifteeu miles to the south
and west of St. Louis. There are less
than 100 people in Fenton, yet it has
been an incorporated city for more,
than twenty years, and during that
time it has grown considerably. When
it was first incorporated there were
less than forty-five inhabitants iu the
place. It is the only city of its size,
in all probability, in the world that is
incorporated and has a Mayor and a
full quota of city officials.—St. Louis
Republic.
A Curioud Forest.
The most extraordinary forest in
the world is one discovered by Dr.
Welwitsch, which occupies a tableland
some six miles broad, at a height of
300 feet or 400 feet above the sea, near
the west coast of Africa. The trunks
of the trees of this peculiar forest are
four feet in diameter, aud yet they
only attain a height of one foot, giv¬
ing the tree the appearance of around
table. There are never more than
two leaves, which attain a length of
six feet and a breadth of two feet,
Ihe flowers forming crimson clusters.
—Tit-Bits.
MIDWINTER.
The wind has lied,
The oold, gray tight lies heavy dowi tlta
glen;
Silent the [lines, scarce nodding, jdumo .n
^kc plume, *
>W nR 0 " L a warrior
. doad
nurlmn the hills, shadows iniam.-drying tlm
j Cast somber down on h. 1 tint
j r, ‘ n *
i With startliu tread
g
Tim bare leaps thr-mgh I'm* !;■•,•»••• d - op¬
Halts ing low,
for a-glaneo, and with large, guile¬
less eyes
j Blinks Of dreamless at the Ignorance, light, and o’oreast then with with d read,
movo
inont slow
Ltuips dies. noiselessly away where twilight
— .Tohn Preston Trun.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
‘There is only one thing I ever do
for policy’s sake.” 'What’s that?”
» ( Pay my premium.”—Truth.
“A finedog, that, of yours. What.’s
his name?” “Has none, nor needs
one; he doesn’t obey anyway.” —
Fliegeude Blatter.
•’Shameful about those two Ken¬
tucky girls quarreling over that battle¬
ship. ” “Yes, they act as if it was a
man.”—Chicago Record.
Walker—“Did you say your wife’s
a member of a secret society?”
Talker—“It was secret before she
joined.”—Norristown Herald.
i i We have cornbread all the time
now. ” “Why?” “My husband lost
so much on wheat that it makes him
weep to see a biscuit.” — Chicago
Record.
Friend—“Then it is not a play of
the present day, is it?” Playwright—
“Oh, no! The scene is laid in Har¬
lem at the beginning of the rapid
transit movement.”—Puck.
Revised: He had been busy
adapting things. “I cave not.' tie
said at last, “who writes the songs of
a country so long as I draw the royal •
ties.”—Chicago Evening Post.
Employment Agent—“See here!
How is this? ' You stayed two weeks
in your last place. How did that
happen?” Domestic—“Sure, overshlept Oi
dunno. Oi rnusht av me
self.”—New .York Weekly.
Dulby (would-be novelist)—“I’ve
just, finished a new novel. If you
have a moment to spare I’ll show you
the proofs.” Wilby—“Oh, never
mind about the proofs. I’ll take
your word for it.”—Chicago Record.
“Speaking of the vogue of the
wheel,” remarked the observer of men
and things, “a good healthy constitu¬
tion and the canned beef industry
doubtless go far to keep the horse
from being oaten up by envy.”—De¬
troit Journal.
“Of course,” observed Xerxes, the
King, “my will is law.” “Doubtless,”
answered the wise man of the court,
after consulting a few authorities.
“That is to say, if your Majesty
doesn’t leave too large an estate.” —
Chicago Record.
“No,” said Nero, while Rome was
burning, as he turned indignantly to
one of his advisers, “this is amuse¬
ment enough. I shall not sanction
any six-days’bicycle race. lam not al¬
together a monster.” And he fiddled
away. —Chicago Tribune.
First Klondike Miner—“I hear that
our neighbor, Spudkins, has married
rich!” Second Klonkike Miner—
(enviously)—“Yes; they say his bride fifty
has an independent fortune of
cans of boneless ham and twenty-fire
cans of condensed milk.”—Puck.
Art—“I have beard,” said the
young woman who is improving her
mind, “that sometimes it requires a
great deal of art to succeed in not do¬
ing things.” “It does,” replied Sen¬
ator Sorghum; “unquestionably;
especially if you are being paid for
them."—Washington Star.
“The parcel postman has just called
at the Twickenhams’, next door, and
left a’football, a bicycle, two cricket
bats, a package of sweaters, a pair of
spoon oars, and a bundle of golf
sticks.” “Then their daughter must
be home from college and her educa¬
tion finished.”—London Figaro.
Young Hicks—“You needn’t laugh
at my moustache, Maud; your mother
said it was becoming, didn’t you,
madame?” Mrs. Bailey—“Oh. no,
Harry! You misunderstood me. I
said it was coming.” Hicks—“Now
Mrs. Bailey, don’t cut a moustache
when it is in down.”—Boston Tran¬
script,
Pollution UpHtreaw.
A farmer of Connecticut has just
recovered damages from the town of
New Brighton, in that State, because
the sewage of that town so polluted a
stream flowing through hie farm that
his cows would not drink the water.
He was damaged, of course, and ought
to recover. stream So is, and every depending one living
on or near a on
it for a water supply damaged by the
pollution of the stream higher up in
its course. When it is made more
costly to turn sewage into a stream of
running water than to treat it and
render it harmless on the land, living
streams will cease to be polluted, their and
present double function of sewer
water supply will be abandoned and
the. original purity of streams will
be jealously guarded.—Philadelphia
Press.
Poultry Schools in France. •
England imports eggs and poultrj
to the value of $23,000,000, whil$
France exports $70,000,000 worth of
the same. Frauce has a number of
poultry schools, where pupils are
regularly trained in rearing fowls,
managing incubators, curing,’diseases,
etc., 30,000 chickens being hatched
each season at the Gambais School.
The pupils pay for their instruction
aud work from 0 a. m. to 8 p. oa.,
three of the hours being devoted to
study. Scholarships are founded for
the benefit of those unable to afford
the tuition fee.