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THE FLY-AWAY BIRD. ‘,
There’s a Flyaway-bird in Lullaby
town
Whose, feathers are fine to see;
They’re pink and purple and yeliow
and brown, |
And it lives in the lollipop-tree.
So clese up those two little twinkling
stars, -
And shut them up tight in your
head;
Put your thoughts in your night-cap,
jump on the cars,
And find Lullaby-town in your bed.
All good little dollies who go to their
rest :
With brows free from wrinkles or
frown,
Catch Flyaway-birds from a pretty
red nest
Way off in sweet Lullaby-town.
So close up those two little twinkling
stars, :
And shut them up tight in your
head:
Put your thoughts in your night-cap,
jump on the cars,
And find Laullaby-town in yocur bed.
—Katherine Young.
WITH LOVE FROM LIBBY.
One cold morning, a number of
girls and boys were gathered around
the stove in a country school-room.
They talked and laughed among
themselves, but did not seem to see
a new pupil who stood apart from
the rest. Now and then they turned
to stare rudely; but nobody spoke
to her.
The little girl had never been in
school before, and she began to feel
shy and homesick. She wished she
could run home to mother, and have
a goed cry in her loving arms. One
little teardrop trembled in her eye and
was ready to fall; but it never did,
for just then something happened.
Suddenly the outer dood flew opean,
and a very bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked
girl rushed in. She brought plenty of
the clear, frosty air with her, and a
cheer to the schoolroom that it had
not had beiore. After saying good
morning to everybody, her eyes fell
upon the mew girl.
“Good-morning!” she said, sweetly,
across the stove-pipe. |
The liitle girl on the other =side
brightened up at once, though she an
swered somewhat timidly ‘
*Cold, isn’'t 1t?2” sthe new-scomer
went on, pulling off her mittens andi
holding her red hands over the stove.
Then she sent one of the plump hands
down the depths of her pockets, and
when it came out, it held a fine red
apple. With her strong fingers she
split it in two, and, with a smile, she
she gave it to the new scholar.
“Do you like apples?” she asked.
The little girl did like apples very
much, and she thought none had ever
tasted so 'mice as this.
“My name is Libby,” said the owner
of the bright eyes; “what is yours?”
“My name is Hetty,” replied the
other little girl.
“Well,” said Libby, “do you want
to sit with me? There is a vacant
seat beside mine, and I know the
teacher will let you.”
Heity thought she should like that
very much, so the two little girls went
to find Libby’s seat where they chat-‘
‘ted. happily till the bell rang. |
“Where is Hetty Rowe?” asked the
tteacher; and then, before aanybody
[had time to answer, she espied her
seated neft to merryfaced Libby.
The teacher smiled saying:— |
“I see you are in good hands,” and
Hetty was allowed to keep her seat
for many a day. ‘
When Libby had grown up to be a
woman, she told me this story her
self, and she used to say that it wasi
her gift of half an apple that won
for her so dear a friend as Hetty‘
Rowe.
But I think that something besides
the apple comforted that little lone-i
some heart on that cold morning, do
not you think 30?—O0Our Dumb An-l
imals. |
THE LION. |
There is in the appearance of the
lion something both noble and im
’posing. Nature has given his wonder- ‘
ful strength and beauty. His body,
when full grown, is only about seven
feet long and less than four feet
high; but his iarge and shapely head,
with flowing mane, give him an air
of majesty that shows him worthy
of the name, “king of beasts.” Yet
we are told that a lion will not will
ingly attack a man, unless first at
tacked himself. On meeting man
isuddenly he will turn, retreat slowly
for a short distance and then run
away. The lion belongs to the cat
family, and his teeth and claws are
| similar in form and action to those of
' the house cat.
! His food is the flesh of animals, and
;so great is his appetite that it must
irequire several thousand other ani
mals to supply one lion with food dur
'ing his lifetime. His strength is so
ienormous tsat he can crush the skull
(of an ox with a single blow of his
powerful paw and then grasp it in his |
’jaw and bound away. |
Unless driven by hunger to bolder
measures, he will hide in the bushes
or in the tall reeds along the banks
of rivers and spring suddealy upon the j
’unlucxy animal that chances to come
‘nean him—-W. 4. T., Jr. In The
}Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
: —————
i A BRAVE ACT.
} As little Jimmy Smith was walk
ing along the street he suddenly heard |
a cry of. “Fire! Fire!” and, looking |
toward the east he perceived a largoi
building in flames. The engines |
came rushing around the corner, but
the building was too far gone to be
saved. The hose was playing on the
burning side of the building aand alli
the people were supposed to be out, |
when Jimmy espied a liitie girl look
ing out of one of the top windows.
She was in imminent danger of being |
fkilled by the flames and the pieces
of constantly falling roof, but she
‘seemed unconscious of it. Jimmy |
saw one of the firemen’s ladders ly-'
ing against the building and he im- |
'mediately began climbing up. When
' he reached the child he took her in
Ihis arms and climbed down, but when
' he reached the bottem he was almost '
exhausted, but the little girl was all
}right. |
Jimmy was heartily thanked and re- |
warded for his brave act by the glad
iparents of the little girl, who had |
thought they had lost her forever.—
Marguerite Pressprich, in The Brook
lyn Daily Eagle.
GAME OF BOUQUET.
This is a jolly game for a number
of children to play. Sit dmyn in a cir-:
cle around your leader. Let the lead-!
er give each one a flower for his name E
—violet, daisy, sweet William, black
eyed Susan, ete. Then let her tell |
you a story “made up out of her own |
head,” in which she briags in every |
one of the flowers names. |
Whenever a child hears his flower |
name mentioned he must get up, turn!
around and sit down. l
Whenever the leader uses the word |
“bouquet” all the children must jumpi
up and change places, at which time
the leader tries to capture a seat.
Whoever gets “left” must then Dbe
come leader.
| UNSAFE PLACE FOR BABY.
The story is told of four men in
India, who, after having returned
from an unsuccessful hunting expedi
tion decided to while away an hour
} shooting at a mark. A large earthern
jar, such as the Hindoos use for car‘-l
’rying water, was standing in a field
'a hundred yards away, near where
some natives were working. This jar
}was agreed upon as the mark. All
‘of the men were crack shots, yec the
bullets only grazed the jar. Just af
‘ter the fourth shot, which struck the
earth beneath the jar and covered i:‘
- with dust, screams began (o issue from |
the vessel, and upon examination a
baby was fcund in the jar, His par-l
ents, who were working in the fiel‘dsl
had place tim there for safe keep
ing, and he slept scuadly until the
last shot disturbed his slumber and
’gave him a fright. !
; Water Storing Cactus. 1
. Mr. F. V. Colviile, in the National!
\Geographic Magazin2 for April gives
an interesting acccunt of how the
Indians of the desert obtain drinking
water from the barrel cactus. It was
among the desert hills wes: cf Tor
res, Mexico. The Indian cut tne top
from a plant about five fest high,
and with a blunt stake of palo verde
pounded into a pulp the upp:r six or
eight inches of white flesh in the
standing trunk. From this, handful
by handful, he squeez:d the v ater in
lto a bowl he had mace in the ‘top
of the trunk, throwing the discarded
pulp on the ground. By this process |
' he secured two or three quarts of
clear water, slightly salty and slizht:
Iy bitter to the taste, but of far Let- ’
ter quality than some of the waler |
a desert traveler is occasionally com- |
pelled to use. The Papago, dipping
this water up in his hands, drank it
with evident pleasure and szaid that
his people were accustomed not only
to secure their drinking water in this .
way in times of extreme drought, bu:
that they ussd it also to mix thelr
meal preparatory to cooking it into
bread. ,
The Number Ten. ,
In arithmetic everyihiny goes by
tens. Sociologists trace the human
liking for that number to the “[){’v?n-l
tadigitate” or five fingered limb,
which 18 & cnaract?flé feature of
the entire vertebrate family., A frog
would -plump for the decimal system
for just the reasons that impel hu
man beings. Even a horse, which
now has only one finger and toe on
each foot, has hints in his anatomy |
which show that his ancestors had /
the pentadigitate arrangement. Bi
ologsits are much interested to com
sider. how the number evolved was
five., Why no four fingers or six or
more? Somehow, more than five
would appear to be rather more than
one brain could give independent at
tention to, while five are more usefu’
than four.
T:ée year p?omises to be a landmark
in time, so far as this work is coa
cerned and the hopeful sign is in
the earnest way the problem is being
approached
; POWER IN FLYING.
‘Less Required Than in Any Other
- Method of Progression,
- Flying, from the figures available,
may be considered the easiest of all’
methods of progression, calling for
less horse power than any other, says
'the Secientific American. “As a proof
iof this take, for example, the case
of the storks, which, in their annual
l.nigratgns, make a flight between
Budapest in Hungary and Lahore in
andia. This, in airline, is perhaps
D,300 to 2,400 miles, and the disiancs:
Fs accomplished in about twen.y-four
hours, without a rest. A horse driven
in a sulky 100 miles in a long sum.
meyr day is not far from the limit of
endurance. Bix hundred miles in a
igweek is near the limit of man in heel
f'»and toe walking. One thousand two
Hhundred miles is approaching the
record of the “go as you please gait.”
‘Among wild animeals 100 miles is
‘about as much as can be found in the
:I‘ecords for twenty-four hours, but
the bird weighing anywherg perhaps
up to twenty pounds makes the 2,600
‘nil‘es in tweaty-four hours with ease
'hnd certainly twice in a year. If the
|fweight is put at ten pounds this
\equals twenty-five ton miles. On the
i)esrt and meost level railroad and with
carriages operating with the least
kriction, a ten-pcund animal wou:d
find it difficult to haul twenty-five
tons one mile in twenty-four hours.
’;._‘hese birds fly at great heights, un
lfdoub‘;edly to reduce the resistance of
the air.. There are many other ex
l?amples that might be given of long
i‘distanc:s covered by heavy birds,
ll;howing the small amount of power
E tequired in flight. The immense speed
'bf many of cur birds, when in ordi
%hary flight, is another proof of the
'pmall aMount of power required.
!3 No animal, whatever its wgight, a
| bird only texcepted, can make any
'luch speed as nintey to one hundrad
tailes an hour. Among the birds
‘there is a long list of those whose
L,peads are from eighty miles an hour,
» pward, their weights all being under
, fifteen pounds. Parenthetically, it
;"may be remarked that mnaturalisis
(will give dimensicns of birds to an
!‘eighth of an inch, carefully spreading
| their wings and arranging the feath
’ers, but it never occurs to them to
| Bive weights. The cagle may weigh
ive to fifty paunds,-so far as the rec
'prds show. Hunters rar:ly speak of
the weight -of birds, though the
weight of game is coften ‘cstimated,
!"and the weight of fish given to the
nearest ounce.
’ The facts just given, when taken
;together, show pratty coaclusively
that the power necessary for animal
flight is extremely small rather than
:v:ary great, It also seems to be proved
jt‘nat to fly succezsfully the speed
‘must be high. :
The Porte and the Post Card.
" The Sublime Porte has officially
warned the Ambassadors and Minis
(zr3 who represent the na ionsg of
tne ‘world in Constantinople that it
will no longer sanction the dispatch
of post cards embellished with views
cf the Sultan’s palaces or mosqus2s, or
with portraits of Turkish Deautes.
Burely, says the Pall Mali Gazette,
this is a case for the personal re
fmonstrance of the Kaiser with his.
friend, in consideration of the devo
tion of the German tourist above all
mankind to the Ansichtskarte.
An Ambitious Woman.
“My grandmother was an awful am
i‘uitious woman,” said a native of a
well known island off the coast of
Maine, “and when she was dying and
khe doctor had told her she had crly
‘about an hour to live, she asked her
daughter to bring her some green ap
ples. She sat up in bed and pared
two panfuls of them, and then lay
‘back with a satisfied sigh, “Welil,”
xsaid she, “I determained that the fo'ks
Ehat come to my funeral shall hzuv/e
enough applesass for once in thair
lives.”—A. V. Spencer, in Decemier
Lippincott’s