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LOVE’S HYPOCRISY.
NECKLACES IN ALL AGES.
ANCIENT LAKES BONNEVILLE.
will?
Her lips saiil, “Go;" her shining eye said, “Stay;" i They One* Were Bodges of Slavery—Used nrent Kali ia.be the Ijtrire.t Survivor of
How tell which was her meaning, which her h y AH 1-eoples. °”“ WaTl Sea
I The advantages which the neck, both The largest of the ancient lakes at
| from its position and shape, (tosscsses as | presant k]lown ia Lake Bonneville, tho
a point for adornment were early seen by j second in sizo has been named Lake La-
thoi human race. amTthe necklace is ono | h on tan. Lake Bonneville was situated
1 or uio of human ornaments. From ' _
IIow read the riddle of her yea and nay.
And disentangle each, bewfttered still*
Hearing her chilling tone, all hope expired;
Seeing her glowing eyes, despair took heart;
Oue moment certain of the good^leslred;
One moment turning, hopeless, to depart.
Then, os she stood, with half averted face,
From head to feet veiled from his ardent eyes,
Sudden she changed, and with triumphant grace
Flung oif the mantle of her soul's disguise!
Sweet hypocrite! how false was all her feigning.
Turning for flight, yet, while she turned, remain
ing.
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Preparation for tlio Stage.
It is related of Lester Wallack that ho
always inquired of every female - appli
cant for entrance into the profession
whether she had lieen married, buried a
child, quarreled with her husband, and
suffered poverty. If not. he told her
these were requisites for tho portrayal of
tho cardinal emotions and for simulation
of experience with the stern realities of
life. Whether that is a mere tradition
of the stage or not, it* is certainly true
that nearly that standard is set up hy a
manager who lias made his botv to tho
public- as the business man of an English
star whom we all know. ‘-You must
have Is'i’n mayied,” lie always says to
women who apply to him; ‘-if unhappily
married or widowed all tho better.”—
New York Cor. Chicago Tribune.
DAINTY LITTLE MAIDEN.
Germany'* Aerostatic Corps.
At souio recent experiments made
under the auspices of tho aerostatic corps
of the Gorman army, good photographs
were taken of tlio surrounding region
while a balloon was jioised 2,500 motel's
—about a mile and a half—in air. It
will he remembered that, during previous
tests of this kind, so many difficulties
were met that the promise of any really
practicably valuable work seemed -it her
doubtful. Tireless German ctier.q and
study have ill last succeeded jn oven ■ •m-
ing these difficulties, if we may jiri.ro
from The Militnr Wocheiiblatt, but in
just what way we aronot told. I lie reason
for this la lag obvious.—Scientific Ameri
can.
airs»ii K o. for tlio. Wires.
Intelligent receiving clerks i:: the
larger telegraph offices have tie last
possible opportunities for the sta iy of
human nature. The half written
messages left at the close of each day’s
business often constitute a volume of
half finished romances. It is curious, for
example, how occasional messages, that
s. messages 'inspired by an occasion
likely to suggest the same general train
of thought in the average mind, will run
in verbal grooves. The time will come,
no doubt, when tho telegraph companies
will have printed blanks of condolence,
congratulation, inability to meet "that
note,” arrest for fugitive, elopers and the
like.—New York Press "Every Day
Talk.”
,. . , , on tho east border of tho Great Basin,
the very urst a broad distinction was p r j nc ipallv i„ Utah, and extended from
drawn Iwtweon the necklace which could a fcw m - ji e s north of the Utah-Idaho
to remov.sl and the coilar which could j boundary 350 . miles southward. It
not; tlie first being tho sign of the free, ! flooded all the valley of Great Salt lake,
the second of the slave. Collars of metal | together with the Sevier and Esdalante
were twisted or riveted upon the necks ; Uese rts in southern Utah. It was 125
captives or house horn slaves, and miles broad and 1,000 feet deep, where
fU tm ' lu l “° tfib owner or ■ Great Salt lake is now situated. The
conqueror was rudely cut. Tins usage ; site of tho t )1(J nt Sa]t Lake City was
survives today in the dog collars winch - thcn submerged 850 feet,
o placed upon household pets. Lake Bonneville overflowed northward
The necklace, however, could for many 'mid became tributary to Snake river,
years only lie worn by the freeman. In l which into j h e Columbia. At va-
piitimive states of society it was the j r j ous stagea j t3 waves and currents
>ai ge of the warrior and was often-made i formed terraces and gravel bars on tho
o distnu-. ive spoil of the chase or • mountain slopes which confined it. These
of war. To tins day one of tho most ; stiil remain as fresh and perfect as when
valuaule and coveted possessions of tlio ; tIl0V wero formec i t an d are in part tho
western Indian is the necklace of grizzly : records from which tho geologist has
cnrs ° sl i Xi V a * )IO °* ^at he has met and J been o.l»lo to determine the history of the
conquered the gray terror of the moult- ancient i al: We know that it rose with
“ Among tho Tartars of the tune of , manv fluctuations until it had a depth of
fn?,n tons Invention for Tlrngglitn.
Ill order to avoid errors in dispensing
poison*, an ingenious inventor a few
years ago constructed a patent shelf upon
which all tho bottles containing poisons
were to lie placed. It is made of two
metallic plates, held apart by a Bpring,
and so evenly balanced that when one
bottlo is taken off the equilibrium is
destroyed and the plates come together,
which creates an electric cu^-ent, and an
alarm licit is rung. Thus, if a clerk
should take down a bottlo of poison, the .
alarm would attract his attention and
\ warn him of tlio dnngerons drug. • This
was called the "poison bell." They were
! introduced iato drug stores all over the
Traits of tho 1'hffibo mm. f country, but iliey never became popular
Tlio plieebo bird with its cheery poo i ' K1 ,lccoun ‘ j? f a Efculiar trait in all cus-
i » • *i. i A- I tumors. W lion the alarm rnnir. tha nift-
Dalnty little maiden,
Trfppiot? forth each day,
Beariug weighty volumes
Ou your learned way;
This Is from the one that passes
Going to his dally classes—
He that looks with longing eye,
As you lightly pass him by.
Dainty littlo maiden.
With tho nut brown curls—
Would that I professor wero
In your school of girls;
Passion plants I*d botanize;
Lecture ou the heart, with sighs;
Or, just in a class of two.
Love’s sweet art I’d teach to you.
—II. A. Payne in New Orleans Picayune.
March lireeze, endure ice making
weather and havo no inoro relation to
farming than a pewter half dollar has to
trade. As nest builders they exhibit
tains Among the Tartars of the time of j ^fluctuations until it had a* dqith'of I tast ( ° in ™ ri «‘ io n of the stylo of their
the Genghis Khan the necklace wus often! aboa t 00 o feet, but did not overflow, j nf«ta and the furnishing material;.. The
t f eth ’ Btr ? nK "P 011 ^ I Then a change of climate caused it to j 10 ? of .. l ” rk "?****
form of ornament is | contract its borders, and i>06sibly to bo-
‘ 'in
frosts are over, and that tho farmer may
proceed with confidence to his planting, i —, , — , — —
Now it is known that they sail north on ( " -ou M feel rather chary about taking the
bell,” tlio innovation was never forgot
ten, and ever afterward tlio customer
This partienl
found in South America in the graves of
the India!
conio completely desiccated. In tho
. 1 lower stages of this desiccation it was
The earliest known form of necklace | broken into separate waterbodies, which
outside of such primitive types as shells , must , mva bee ‘ n more or les3 saline .
And .its of colored stone comes from Another great climatic change caused
the basin to bo refilled to a higher level
No
Antipode..
Tlio Chinese are not our antipodes. In
deed, we havo none. An antipode is ono
who lives on the opposite sido of the
globe, and whoso feet are, of course, di
rectly opposite to the feet of those who
live on this side, but directly opposito
our country is a wild waste of waters.
The Chinese, who dwell on the other side
of the globe, but in tho same latitude as
we, are our ]>eriecians. Tlio-. who live
on tlio same meridian, but in the south
ern hemisphere, are our miticiaus. Our
antipodes must oppose us liotli in latitude
and longitude.—Christian Advocate.
Taking tho royal fa:
found that the present ;
Queen Victoria, with !
numerous progeny, li:
nation £35,00.V ') I. or
hood of $l?5,0u0.l)t!t>.
of their national life,
present admiei-traiioi
..r llujiilty.
til
together, it is
ivereign, the good
■ r aunts and Iter
s cost the r.iilisli
iu the neighlsir-
Iti tin- inn years
closing with 1I9
, ilui American
people have paid their presidents as sala
ries $2,1)00.000. —New Orleans Times-
Democrat.
prinntivo types
of colored stone comes from
Egypt. They were of two kinds—orna
mental and what may bo called, for t’.io
lack of a better word, superstitious. Tlio
former were composed of small stones, of
which blue was apparently tho favorite
color, set in silver or gold and joined to
gether in a chain. The latter, the amu
lets, were made of figures of gods, from
three to seven inches long. Three or
four of 'these were hung in a chain of
beads.
Tho sacred imagC3 were lielieved to
ward off danger of infection, misfortune'
or had luck. Sometimes these amulets
bad no gods on them. Imt were composed
of cowries or hits of stone arranged in
tiie forms of locked horns, fish Or cres
cents, emblematic of their supposed
powers. This superstitious power of the
necklace is widely spread today among
people who are not very high ill civiliza
tion. In South America there are found
necklaces of a peculiarly marked seed
which belongs to a plant growing only on
the mountains, alO>g the snow line.
These seeds when first gathered are blue
iu color, and are strung oil strings. They
are highly valued, not only for '.lair
beauty hut because of the great difficulty
in obtaining them. I11 the <-ld graves,
which are. found now and t.,cii, tlrings
of these seeds aro often discovered, and
they are supposed to bring tin- greatest
possible luck, especially to children.
But one does not have to goamong the
peons of South America or the negroes
of Africa with their gee geo necklaces to
find evidence of superstition. Thousands
of people place necklaces of coral bocals
around ilie nocks of babies with tho be
lief that they will assist the children in
teething, and there are many persons
who wear necklaces all tlio time, think
ing that they bring luck. Tlio southern
negroes constantly wear their bead neck
laces, 1,siking u j mu them as genuino
charms, and they aro very particular
about keeping them intact, holding that
than Imforo and to overflow. The water
found an outlet at tlio north end of
Caclio valley, Idaho, and, as wo havo
said, became tributary to the Columbia.
Tho lake continued to overflow until the
waters had cut down tlicir outlet 370
feet. During this period, unless there
wero some peculiar conditions near tlio
point of discharge, the lake must have
been , fresh. The discharge of tho lake
was finally stopped by a climatic cliango
which lowered its surface below tho bot
tom of the ontliw. and again tlio basin
became partly if not wholly desiccated.'
This second low water period lias con
tinued to the present day, and Great Salt
and Sevier lakes aro tlio representatives
of aii' ient Bonneville. '
The largest of these representatives of
tho ancient sea is Great Salt lake. In
1850 i; covered 1,750 and’in 1800 2,100
square miles. Its maximum depth is
about fifty feet and its mean depth ap
proximately fifteen feet. These recent
changes in area are duo to small varia
tions in climate, similar in character to
the changes which produced the great
exjian ions and contractions of tho lako
i;i a:,e.,mt times. - With change in vol
ume i a ge is change in density; that is,
;ii of the brine increases with
to line their nests with, others use moss,
hair or wool, and one is recorded to have
built a nest entirely of corn silk. Tlieso
birds have greatly improved their nests
within the memory of man, which sug
gests that they nro guided by reason in
stead of the stupid instinct which is so
often attributed to them. — Norwich
(Conn.) Bulletin.
the str
decree,
lake e
1 area, and decreases wlutn tlio
'ijnds. Ill 1850 its wntoTH con
tain • I about twenty-two parts, by weight,
of saline matter in solution to 100 parts
of water. In ISO!) the saline matter
had ,d* creased to a littlo less than 15 and
in 1373 to a little moro than 14 per cent.
Tins change in salinity was accompanied
by-increased area.
Tin- vri-rs of tlio ocean contain 3-10
percent, of total salts in solution. Great
Salt lake, therefore, in 1850, was six
times ns saline as tho ocean. Liko tho
ocean, too, it holds many substances in
solution; the principal ones aro common
,, , - . . , ., ... 1 salt, or sodium chloride, and sodium sul-
. . 1 phate; In-sides these there aro small per
positions of the beads should be altered
when wear makes a new string neces
sary. ,
Among men who have worn the neck
lace mti: 1 lie ranked the warriors of an
cient times. The gold torques of tlio
felts, the massive gold necklaces of the
Modes, Etruscans and Egyptians, wire'll
llrtt llcncci tif Hones.
An English chemist has shown that tho
brittleness of the bones of the uged is not
due, as is generally supposed, to an in
crease of the proportions of mineral
salts with advancing years. From a sec
tion of the femur of fifty subjects of dif
ferent ages 110 difference ill the propor
tion of ash could lie determined.—Ar-
kansaw Traveler.
fonnur
tin. nigh
the arm
selves
.tie.
of V.llol
tio
the
Concornlnu I’lnuro-Fnoiinioiiiu.
Professor James Law, chief of the
bureau of animal industry of New York,
in answer to an inquiry about tlio infec
tion of human beings from cattle sick
with pleuro-pncumonia, says! that the
disease of the ox is not, under any known
conditions, communicablo to man.—De
troit Free Press.
A Meteor’s Velocity.
Some of the heavenly Isxlies aro in
clined to bo fast. Meteorites sometimes
attain a velocity of 180,000 feet per
second. When (Kissing through the air
at this rate the friction is so great tliaff
the air is heated up to n temperature of
10,800 degs. F.—New York Mail and
Express.
Sioux Names for Money,
Tlie names for money in tlio languago
of the Ognilalla Sioux are interesting.
Gold is masc.vska-zi, literally, -yellow
white iron;” silver is mases-ska-ska, or
‘•white iron,” and greenbacks are miiine- ,
'huapimases-ska. or “pa|>er that talks' Tlie choirs of the Church of England
white iron.”—New York Evening World. | Include 154.000 voluntary and 18.000
* ! paid male singers, ami 57,000 voluntary
It is a curious fact tliat while Queen ■ and 2,100 paid female singers.
Victoria speaks German iu her homo I
circle, the present German empress dis- A philanthropist in London lias estab-
regards it in hers nml uses English ns fished a speetacle mission where poor
much ns possible. English is the fireside people can have tlicir eyes tried and get
tongue of the Greek. Danish and Russian spectacles,
royal families.—Chicago Herald.
old
lac •
n::d !
Tin-
chains
mu. t valued insignia of the
•s. have come down to us
.pV'-i.-'S in the 101 nils :>,*id
1.1 1:... . i:i the tombs tliem-
•c . f i.i.s.i were el it ,rnlt U:ilV
V »■.< ' lie. lowed as rewards
! i 1....l ies of civic distinc-
l.iiter survive today in the
■f office worn bv the mayors
10 old world.
of knighthood had tli“ neck-
;..i a principal itisignium,
01a of decoration with the
r.c ■ , back at least as far as the
til:-.'of “.h. tor as a mark • f his an-
tli" . ... Egypt, pharaoh "pul a gold
cii.. 1 i.i ml Ins neck." The women of
ant. pi.tv rarely wore them except as
brides, when to mark the respect in
which they were held necklaces were
placed upon them. Tlio necklace, how
ever. was a prominent adornment of the
statues of tie* gods.
The ornament of the necklace was so
valu.nl that when the Saxon dynasty was
overt n:-o-., a i.y the Normans ail persons
below a certain rank were foconlden to
wear tbei.i tinder heavy (lenalues. In
the reign of Henry VIII, that king cele
brate. 1 Isrtli for bis wives nml his revolt
against Dome, any ono who bad not £200
per year income could not wear a .neck
lace,
In England amlx-r has always been
ono of tho favorite materials for tho
necklace. Even m the Uirrows of the
early Hritains ahtls-r Is-ads are found,
and the specimens of necklaces from the
reign of Charles l have amber set in gold.
The Puritans abolished them as they
aboltsliisl everything they laid their hands
on which savored of ornament, hut the
necklace was revived again under the
merry monarch more extravageiitly then
before.—New York Press.
centages of potassium, magnesium, etc,
The influence of temperature on tho
solubility of certain salmo substances is
well illustrated by this dead sea of Utah,
lit Glimmer s its waters are clear ami
transparent, but as cold weather comes
011 it becoutfc' milky or opalescent,
owing to the 'precipitation of sodium
sulphate ill an extremely lino condition.
In the depth of winter, when tho temper
ature of the atmosphere alxivo tho lako
falls far below freezing, an immense
quantity of sodium sulphate is precipi
tated and i< thrown ash.no In. the waves
until thotiiiinds of tons accumulate on
the h.*:;rh. When the temp-taturo rises,
the salt thus precipitati d is again dis-
folve i. This nataral pro . «< of frac
tal .1! ec . -tnilircitioii produo- d , y a lower
ing of temperniure, is instiiieiiv.', and
;h u’d suggist to those who are nttenipt-
i; . to nriiiiifa.-tmv salt in Utah a prac-
ti- ;il 1:i<-tii<«I of treating the natural
biv c-.s . r I r to obtain common salt
fi-.-v from s.).|iunt sulphate. Lako Sevier
b also hi ably sniffle, mid during the arid
len.-ion so.,i -tiiii s evaporates to dryness.
—Isra. 1 1 Russell in Overland Monthly.
Sei.i.t,.i- sl!oir..rit-« G100.000 Tnuib.
Tin- arcliit-ct who plamuHl the mag-
nifir, >1: v. iusoleiim of Senator Stamford
»; ;..o, . aiieise.) says that it will be’the
Bio.-t i.lalxirate rejxwitory for tlie dead
ever bttili iu this country. In stylo of
architecture tho simple but effoctivo
methods of the ancient Egyptians will be
followed. Massive imjierisbable granite,
Of a light shade of gray, with an interior
fining of the finest Italian marble, will
be employed. The item of cX|H>nso lias
■ot been considered, the designers being
given carte blanche as to cost and di
rected to secure the best of material ami
Workmanship to bo bad.
The total outlay necessary to complete
{he tomb and prepare tlio surroundings
will reach 8100.000, and may considera
bly exceed that amount. The item of
transportation alone will lie a largo ono,
as tie* granite will all lie shipped from
Veinc- t nml tho marble from Italy.
7be site selected is a beautiful four acre
j lot m t .in senator’s grounds, just out
side e: ,' .o: Francisco. It already con
tains li iii.isomo shrubbery, and (jecttpies
on alti'.udr commanding a magnificent
view of the liay. A driveway sixty feet
wide will lie made, circling around a
slight elevation, on the brow of which
will Is- tin- tomb. The art of the land
scape gardener will lie employed to beau
tify the approaches and render even moro
effective the vistas of tbo park. ’’ •*
A Well Merited Itetmtoe.
First Actress—T! o impudence of those
men is simply insulting. What do
suppose that front row baldbead sent mo
this morning?
’ Second Actress—Oh, what was il? Do
tell r.ie.6|hiel:.
"Agrta lug floral heart with a lovo
letter iu the top and a diamond pin in tlio
center. ’ ’
"IIow rich ho must bo 1 What did
you do?” t
"I summoned a messengtr boy in
stantly, i,1 il. alter tearing tho letter into
hits, I leaUered the pieces over tin' flow
ers and seat it hack to the fellow. I
didn't want to quite break his heart,
though, bo I retained tlio pin.”—Omaha
World.
Tlireo Ciaino.t of Americans.
"In your travels through the coun
try,’' says an Englishman, in speaking of
the United States, "you nro constantly
running across two classes of [icople, tho
hifalutin' I * .asters who think they can
whip nil creation, and the apish imitators
of European ways, who spend their tinio
in apologizing fur their country. l!ut it
is only fair to tiay that thu vast majority
of the people belong to neither of theso
classes. Unfortunately, however, a vis
iting Englishman is much moro likely to
meet the two classes spoken of than tho
larger class of self respecting Americans
who really represent tho genius of tbo
country. And so he goes homo with a
false impression of tho people."—New
York Tribune.
Tlio Kuppiy of Quinine.
It is a curious fact that while tho
annual supply of quinine for the wholo
world is about 3.000,000 ounces, the con
sumption of this drug in the United
States is more than 3,100,000 ounces, or
nearly one-half the entire product. Tlio
price of quinine In. • been so Jow for the
lnot three or four • ..rs that large planta
tions of the ci:;,
rooted in Ceylou
substituted. Co
large share of all
prescription when he heard the warning
tones of tho‘‘poison bell.” In this way
it would not bo a great while until nearly
all tbo customers found out tho meaning
of tho alarm.
As many people havo a superstitious
fear about taking medicino with poison
In it, they would imagine that possibly
tho doctor or tho prescription clerk was
making a mistake, and they would hesi
tate in accepting the medicine. . Poisons
aro used in small amounts in a vast num
ber of prescriptions, and tlio ‘‘poison
bell" was kept busy in attracting the
painful attention of the customers. Why,
a nervous lady would como in with a
harmless prescription, but tlie moment
tho "poison bell" rung she would bo as
disconcerted as if its tones wero Iter
death knell. Hence, tlio “poison bell”
fell into di*uso, as it was continually
arousing tlio apprehension of customers.
Ono other superstition, I might say, that
customers havo is tho prevailing idea.that,
medicines of n green color aro poison.
Several harmless compounds will pro
duce a green color, but customers aro in
variably auspicious of them.—C. Falk in
Globo-Democrat.
Success in Uternry Work.
No man can tell whether a book will
tako or not. Tho criticism of tho press
ceems to have littlo effect upon tlio po;>
ularity of e. look. Somo books owe their,
success to singular combinations of cir
cumstances. A book that h id the phe
nomenal salo of 25,000 copies owed its
success vary largely to tlie auspices un
(ler which it was brought out. A 4:00k
that otherv. - would fall lla: ini„h: hap
pen to com just iu tho nick of time
to strike a m.r chord. It .' il: that
most Euccesaiu. authors soon ti l l that
they inako moro nt other literary work
than writing books. Sotno go into tho
business of getting evou for tlicir wounds
at the bands of tlitrroviewers and critics
by becoming critics themselves on news
papers and magazines, and thus cam
mucli bettor pay than they could nt puro
authorship. Olliers go into the llcld of
editing copy in the big publishing bouses,
where familiarity witli tlie current works
of fiction is tlio thing demanded. Oth
ers again go into journalism, puro and
simple, nnd aro heard of no moro in tho
ranks of writers of fiction.—Boston
Herald.
of the Cobra,
II. M. Phipson, secretary of tho Bom
bay Natural History society, says that
tho cobra lays from twelve to twenty
eggs once a year during tho rains, nnd tiio
young show signs of venomous powebt at
have U ni up- I an early age. Tlio cobra is timid, and is
! the tea plant is about tho only poisonous snako used by
produces • a very “snako charmers," being tlio only ono
U.tIi that is 111:11"- that can be easily handled. You havo
keted, and tlie c:... from that ishn d only to attract its attention with ono
declined more ti’i-n enu-tliird between , hand, lie cays, scizo it with the other in .
1885 and 1887.—American Agriculturist. I the middloof tlio body, nnd tho snake is
j yours v It strikes ;;t moving tilings, but
.... .. ... .. . - unlike other snakes, it never turns and
T1 .' ‘ ’. ‘. ' .. I bites tlio hand that is holding it. Snakes
Jlcnien-mtieo >« net always compli- ., uo eternal cars, and it isconsid-
lyjrivca l , ...
A 111!'
win
was sadly giv
Mlddenly. Dm>*|]
. a comrade took j
audibly:
"Is lot
.jered doubtful whether tlio cobra beam
tlie music of the charmers at all. It is
... , , * attract'd hy tho movements of the mull-
e is "ot ung his t. €a [ iiiatniment. They feed freely on
t mortal e a>. young rata, birds cad toads.—Now York
,f the ,.eoplo Mas,! -
iu '.ill man grumliled out .
I Fed him more as dreohun-
. dlnu
There hat
tint. 111 ?7,-xtco.
xisted on tiie'Gila river,
dredt toll;;.", 11111I 'Ion d ket pack VHn f r0 m timo i .linerorial, a wliito IioiMC, the
cendt. Youth s Companion. I origin of wiiiclt is unknown, much dilap-
■ idated by tho wear and tear of time.
A r-ntlifttc inrtiiont. | Also, the remains of a largo aqueduct
One of the pathetic tilings nUmt tho j and fragments of fino iiorcelain, all of
last days of Emperor William was his which prove tho existence of a civilized
separation from the alllietcl crown , raco in these regions at somo remote pe-
pi'ince. lli-j piivsi.'i.in went into hit riod of antiquity. These Indians all raiso
room :.t •! o'el.x-k in I he morning nnd I ebrn, Ix-atts, melons and gourds of good
found the iiionatfliyitiiu ; up, in l.etl and ■ flavor, some of which grow to an enor-
erying like a child. He exclaimed: j mous size. Tho smaller ones ore polished
“Doctor, I eanaot eleeji for thinking of or painted and decorated in geometrical
Fritz. For Heaven's sake, hurry and j designs and used for domestic'purposes,
make preparations to let me go to San j Wo brought away a basketful of them.
Remo to be with him.”—New Orleans ' some painted red, with designs outlined
Tiines-Denioerat. 1 in black, while others wero done in
* white. They make pretty ornaments for
11. hri.itx ttinn ,.f i’l/.nrii. tlio toilet table, and aro unique souvenirs
Stifdioi on the cro«s fertilization'and of our visit.—Laura B. Starr in Cleve-
liybiidlzathm of plants havo shown that ; land Leader.
in the cross fertilization of our common j
vegetables the tendency is toward eta'.'- . A Gian: Nataral Ilrmmrtrr.
ism, or a reversion to some primitive an- j No need of tho weather bureau at
rostral form, rather than toward tlio ; Naples, for the huge volcano, Mount
production of a plant possessing qualities 'Vesuvius, serves as a giant barometer
common to n number of present existing raid thermometer of the city. The direc-
species.—Globe-Democrat. j flon iu which the smoke from tlio crater
blows announces unerringly a coining
An Ancient HctTum*. change of weather twenty-four hours
Haffron. or the dried stigmas of a car- beforehand. The direction of the smoke
tain purple crocus, was valued among also ittdi "iites the coming of tho hot and
tin; ancients for its p, rttime. The floors doprescing sirocco, when the perfect re
ef their lie.Is mid man: ions, and even of pose of the populace is almost imnera-
tlieir theatres, were strewn with it. Its tive. Also when tho neigh Ik.ring island
flavor was greatly 'appivciated, and it of Capri is of a dark blue color, and long,
was mucli employed in seasoning dishes. ' low regular wave* roll in from tho Bocea
—Chicago Herald. Piccola, these are sure premonitory
— symptoms of the coming sirocco.—Troy
11 you uaie a man, let .him live.— Budget.
Japanese Proverb. 1