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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