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-A Washington physician baa,off rad
$100 “to any one producing a well
authenticated case of hydrophobia in
either man or dog."
The PtiihidelpUift North American
asks “if the theatre hat is to be legis¬
lated ftgamst, what is to bo done with
tho men who crowd out between the
acts?” ' _;_
McKinley is the first President to
have a “Mo" in his name, says the
Now York correspondent of tho Phil¬
adelphia Ledger. It is a singular fact,
considering the prominence of tho
Hootch and Iri-h blood amour the
Americuu people, that nut a single
“Me” has served ns President, Vice
President •»r ’ Sp-- 1 ‘„- r. Several
“Macs,” however, have served in the
Cabinet.
Suez canal trufle has been th. most
rem o-i at i vv ever experii need,anio-; n:
in;; io almost $16,01)0,0311. Great
Britain supplied two-thuds of this,
while not a single ship under the
t iiih d States .flag pa*Hed through the
canal. A total of 3107 steamers used
this great waterway licit year. In
vis w of the possibility if tho Niea
ratigua canal, relating.' to our own
commerce, these figures arc interest¬
ing. ___
During 18.16 the United Kingdom
puu-hasod on tins country 17,930
horses, compared with only 10,351 in
1H95. England-bought nearly 12,003
horses in Canada, or no increase over
a year previous, iy'Total imports of
horses into the Qpitod Kiugdom in
1896 were 40,677, an increase of
nearly 7300 compared with the pre¬
vious year. Tho average value of
horsuN shipped into the United King¬
dom last year innn tlm United States
wss about $TL>. All this goeo to show
reasons for encouragement iu tin
hwrse iiidus!ry, especially that part of
it devoted to raising serviceable uni
mala suitable for foreign trade.
A yquog widovr, ,u< 'Frnuee whoso
husbar t left lu« r
.:»■* ” ..... ho liiarned
«rUui< (tower, it she
agab-,* itied to ciontract a now
muriiitg , and prudently wont to tho
local conrt to see if there were any
escape. It upheld tiie will, but a
higher court to which tho question
whs taken then reversed the decision
on novel grounds. The judges there
said that celibacy, being contrary to
nature, was something which no man,
alive or dead, had a right to impose,
- and that such an act, particularly in a
country like France, where tho popu¬
lation is stationary or waning, was
contrary to public policy. Upon tin
the widow married, but it seems she
was too hasty after all, for relatives
carried the ca-e up to the supreme
court, which ungnllantly -reaffirmed.
the original opinion, This French
decision agree* with, the law in this
count! v, uinl, w.- believe, in England.
Conditions in restraint of nmarmga
aro generally held to be void, bat
there are exceptions to tho ride, and
ono of these exceptions is in the case
of a stq^Hid .marriage.
Very few; yeople have any ..lea ,,!
the magnitude of tile trade in gut le¬
mon's “iiecswe.tr." The quantity of
collars and neckties consumed in this
country, says the Sau Francisco
Cura mole, is fabulously large mid out
of all proportion to tho consumption
of other countries, because in the
cilios nod towns of tho United Slat o
all classes wear linen nnd'adoru their
throats with silk ties. The natural
effect of this great conaumpt ion is to
atimulatc the designing ol n.-w style-.
This art has reached such a lie;;re ■ cf
RUccess Hint the foreigners have agents
on the ground who imitate Aiu- in-w
modes in necktie’s as soon us they Iiji
pour. W" liilc the work of ta-liim.ing
collars and tics i- a!most , wholly
American;foreign materiais arc largely
'V<-d, the It hell being; chi, fly imported
fi.ini Ireland. But while I’tcuch aud
other silks are employed, it is gratify¬
ing lo note that American fabrics aro
gradually displacing them. That is
not strange, for J’ate Is on silks of fine
designs arc. made up .into ties which
are sold for fifty cents, while tho im¬
ported, no better iu shupn or quality,
cannot bo hail for less than SI to
$1.50. It is lieCilloss to say that with
•Hells dllTeri-nc ■ Ihe foreign Article
cannot, stay m tie- ra : long, and must
give way to the home made product.
Great Britain incoming more and
more to the opinion ibat llutmii'a oc¬
cupation of Coustautinople is inevi¬
table
N« branka in -t-b6* least illiterate State |
jf the Union, the State in which the
percentage ot persons bf school age
who cannot reat} or write is the small
oat..
d.-xico evidently sens the *• : 1 h
which may accrue to the <•
through tho destruction of the ti
A commission of five has just hoc if
pointed by President Diaz to ri-por
ou tho best means of preserving tin
timber throughout the republic.
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain of Eng
.land says that ho dots not believe ii
cheap education. Nobody .-hoiil
Hilda tho 1 iidcpemi ut. “It d' s u
pay to economize on wits and i
Money spent ou education
spent, provided the training gi\
moral an well nsuuntut.” -
Tho pure food laws pass, ,i ijy *
many western states two years ago n
bearing fruit. Not only is the sale ^
bogus dairy products restricted, Z
tho inquiry for pure biilter has sti ttl! '
ily increased. Iu Missouri tho >lf , ' B V
lias been very noticeable, L'pss th.
30,000 pounds of bntterino a inp»
are now sold in Sr. Liuis, where » ir '
m-rly it took 300,000 pounds to “"I"
ply the demand.
A novel point in that part, oT j ‘
national lew h Is with the’ ,lxU ‘ r '
ritoriality has
just been o no Berlin sher
ilTs court. • rot elongiug to tin
Japanese er ■ i. - - y pod from its
cage ■ I t*>o fit " *v>n a high tree
iu a d , next. door. To get it dow n
.
SCI, 4 th -l*as»y servants p ay- d
ou 1 , garden hose. d
dren, at , «uuo who happened time the o«| t,‘ **»
of 11 ae t -ard j, «
sitti ,ng nndCi tfi* tree, t He
suit for trespass ap^ robcived t'
marl s danagei o rdjuiy-ii.
perpctratorslhad fins *,4, Jsf».
.no not ieft
ese territory, t
Tho clever forgery of notes ol the
Bank of England, w hich recently c^me
to light quite by accident, has crewed
a sensation from the fact, that he
bank’s own paper, with the proper
watermark was reproduced, Tits
had never before been done, Th.
forged notes were absolutely pi rfc.t,
excepting that the secret cipher marls
were lacking. Tho discovery that tie
notes wore not genuine was made by a
cashier, who happened to have roa -
formally to cheek the validity of tic
notes by 1 etefence to t,lie eqdnt
books. A’liont £10,000 of the torgei
liot.'s have tnrued up so tar, and it ha
been diseovtred that they were all pul
in eii eolation ni one day by benu
change I simultaneously at twenty-five
different exchanges in Paris, The
gang is known to be a dirge one, but
no fur the police have been tumble t"
trace its members.
Ou, English conk-rap,’,ran. Indio
tries und Iron, presents tin, following
pKiriiug list of inventions which it
says art claimed by America!,*. W,
oil!selves have never heard of any of
them, but then one must go abroad
to get the - news, it says’: “Oue has
heard less lately of those of Mr. 1, i i
son’s inventions which are to be em
plovcd in case of war. more especially
of his ‘sniggling chains’ and ‘electric
water,’but still oue docs occasionally
hear of some tall ’inventions’ of our
conaina in t),e United States. It has
been gravely announced m some, of
the American j oirn.ds that a native
inventor has periect.-d ‘a deep-sea lo
comotivo.and train, capable of mov
mg on the sur.'aeo or’ beneath the
water, or at t he liottouv of the mu,’
Another inventor has designed n ttiis
p.-do, carrying in its bows a powerful
electro-magn8t,w inch will be attiuoted
by the steel hull of a vessel, and- aflix
itself thereuntil explosion takes place.
A submarine bout is also spoken of,
w hich can bo separated in parts, each
part remaining *aim>’ and intact. A
leading feature of the last ‘invention’ is
that when destruction is imminent (wo
are surprised to learn they ato'not iu
vulnBrable) the crew escape through
water-tight doors. Having done this,
the escaped ereW will*propably take a
seat in the Pullman cars of the 'dec
sen locomotive train.'”
Worth Wlafl-A.
.
o be pliMiwmt,
I vv * 'oog like a aon&:
•
. i it white is the one who will
1 Wh
thing%o©» dead wrong ;
.wi of the heart is trouble,
t always coin«*s with thtf years, I’ 1 1
a smile that is worth the pra
srth
to smile that comes through tears.
By the e.ynie, the su i, tin* fallen,
Who had ri" i tr>ugth for the strife,
Thu world s highway is cumbered,todays
They make up the item of life.
But the virtue that -conquers passion**
And tie--(-rr> av t list hi.h's in a SiiVil ■
It tin...... that itr<‘ wortli the iiomuge
earth, .
Jwe Hint them but <me*« in a while
IB la Wheejor Wiltux in the ’onulist.
Daisies for Remembr& 5
jf- „ were walking slowly side by
o through the fields on a line after
.... •' He was tall and dark, with a
grave, dekiriuiued fac*v.n 11 d his e very
look and gesture showed Ins strength.
Sim was slim aud fair, her eyes were
blue and eager, and somehow the sun¬
shine of the summer day seemed to
nave gotten into her face.
J “.So you are going to Newport to
oorrow?" the man asked, turning
toward the girl abruptly.
Die wind had.blown the loose ends
of her wavy hair about her face und
the dimples came into her cheeks as
she tumilcd up at him. She’ was very
pretty.
“Yes, tomorrow,” sho answered,
“Yon must confess it is rather dull
here, 1 is it not? And Newport is gay.
Mamma says it is the gayest place she
was ivor in, bo 1 persuaded her to take
me Shore.”
She stooped as see spoke and pulled
off m daisy head, pinching it in her
ting vs.
“Don’t,*” said tho man sharply,
«»**’ Uiug out. and almost roughly mi
',g her lingers from the crushed
dower- f “I beg your pardon. 1
)*?“' -*a 1 *" ’•’*• atnl
you care for Newport and balls
things and I care for tho meadow here,
anil the flowers, aud--” He paused,
having the sentence unfinished.
Bnt sho laughed brightly. “Ob, of
course, I euro for the meadows, too,”
!■ he said. “But I could never-live her.;
a# you do. L must, be where there arc
people and dinners aud dances—-soci¬
ety* you know. 1 do love to wall/.,
don’t you? Atut 1 adore line clothes,
and—aud admiration,i must, confess^
Hoe spoke half shamo-fi.eedly,- and
glanced almost unconsciously at the
ii au’s shabby gray coat an 1 grave, in
different face.
“I don't,think I was ever so happy
in my life as I've been those last throe
months since I camo out.”
4H«," he answered, slowly. “IV.
heard you say that before. But I’ve
only known you two weeks, und it
seems to me yon suit the Held - and
thwflowers far la-iter than the op. ra
and the ballroom, Miss Davis.”
His voice aud manner made the-lit
tie speech a compliment, and the girl
laughed again guyly. lie thought
sbmCt,...... that she laughed too often.
“There is,something more in life,”
ho wont on, hi.' eyoa fitted on the d,»s.
iesio their path, “than just society, I
thok. 1 bavo to get aloi.'g without
pirties and lino clothes,” mid this
tine it waa ho who glance I at the worn
ciut, “but there nro things broader
aid better and nobler than a good
.me, are there Hot, Miss Davis?’
She looked at him iu surprise, .piite
iucompraheuding and somehow dis
W'dated.
“I don’t know‘ ’ she begun slowly.
H like the good time best of all, 1
Dink. Anyhow,Mr. will - leav,
Paul, 1
tie other things for yon. You must
n , gay society,
aid I won’t hurt von-r flowers j h j( a
bir*".i ?’ And bho picked a daisy
■atefully this tiinu and luste-nct
it n iii4 buttonhole, laughing.
Boston, Dec. —
!v bar Mmh Davis—You will -be
am prised at a letter froth the, 1 know,
and 1 fear more than surprised at what
I hnvo to tell yon. I shall not eh
largfi upon the subject, and 1 can only
saj Very simply, “Ilovo you.”
never expected to share my secret
wi’ ’ you, for l am nwaro that it cun
ha ily be oliu moment’s, interest
But my Midden departure o n
o Xml in on Friday, aud a re
Tt fa easy enough to be prudent,
When nothing tempts yc*|i to .stray ;
W,b’«»n without or within no voit?& of in .
is alurmg your suiil away ;
Ibit it'rt oniy n n«*Kativ<5 virtue
i niil it istrir.l by~llr*>,
V ini the life iha$ is worth the bo nor of
«*arth
Is the one that r jtisis desire.
mark of yours mm igo, that a
“man owed it to a O let her
know ho loved hut caused me
to write to you tom
Perhaps, too, 1 “< > you to
toll you that my lev- •u began
with the two weeks i together
lust summer at L— i then I
have met you but ra 1 have
watched from a dial! ..or social
successes and have been truly glad
for the happiness I am sure they have
brought you.
I can only’ hope that this society
which ybu enjoy ho well may never
disappoint yon, and that you will Jet
me say In word of''farewell' to you at
the bail on Thursday, ns your devoted
friend,/ Paiu, Moshiek.
It Was the night of the charity ball.
The great hall was ablaze with light ;
the orchestra, in a bower of palms at
the far end of tho room, played bril¬
liantly • every where t here were men in
their ugly conventional blaok suits,
and beautiful women,dressed in satins
and silks of every color, and gay with
jewels and flowers.
The dancing had begun »u hour
ago, but still J. Paul Mushier was stand
l'Og " in I/,a • ~ ■ , 1 mow , ‘-/ways ,
to be found about the d6or. lie ^./s
waiting for Miss Davis. He did not
think Ibat he would say “good-by” to
her after all—ho did not kjiow as ho
ever meant she should see him. Bui
he must get a little glimpse of her be¬
fore he went nivay to India.
To toll the truth, Paul was hurt and
angry at Miss Davis. He had sent lus
letter to her three days ago and ho
had liml no word from her since. He
thought, to himself that she was rude
— a huly should 'make some acknowl¬
edgement, however slight, of a letter
like that. But,she was spoiled by much
; society had turned her
head.
Nevertheless, be had come to the
ch,,ril .T ball in hi, shabby dress suit
,ml his best glows, simply to see Miss
■»*>"•* and to *u*y “good-by" to her
111 own heart,
He waited patiently at the door,
craning Ins neck to catch aightof each
,IBW Uai '' * living no heed io the
j l >ndiaucy of the hall. Head reds of
' Vom,n , “ 1 ' 1
lllm - thc duice music ao.tnded
'» hi* ear*, the tights blazed into ho
«<*«•«: •*** ^ n-v,-r iur,u,h
,lls 11 '‘ ll ‘"
.
*Ouee a.omeoua HpoKe tua name, hut
he did not answer, and many times
11 “ s i ust!eJ " !,li ,| " 1 ' uot ,,!0 * lle
j moved.
1 ho minutes dragged by slowly,
Nearly everyone had come, and tho
great dock on Hie wall behind the
matron-, struck 1‘2 : ontly through, the
music. Still he waited «ilently»though
" ,ls thinking now that perhaps
she did not mean to come at all. Per
haps that was to be her answer to th,
hitter,
Fifteen, twenty miinii-es, half ini
hour w ent by—siie had not come.
Then suddenly the crow 1 about the
,1n ''' v 1,! * ck ‘-’Hhcr side and
Paul, stepping hastily out of .sight be
mod tin- other door, saw that sire was
mntng, .
Ho watched her with narrow,intense
yes us she rut rue in ou her. father’s
■ arm. She wore a jilain white dreas,
cut low, and fin is he 1 about the ueek
with lino old lace ; lur gloves did not
quite reach to tho puli’of her sleeve
angj showed part of her white arm :
one of le-r little vtlin slippers had lost
ns ribbon rosette. Pun I noticed nil
i h.-se details of her e-i-f.iiui-i nnei.-i.
ciouslv ; it was not nil later that he
knew .hrisaw them. It was the sweet
ness of bar pale,* fair face and the
light in her eyes that made him start.
“Miss Davis looks more stunning
than i vi r tonight," said a roan stand¬
ing Hi I lie crowd.
'fint Paul did uot hear him. He had
pi wiled the men hastily aside, and
st.-iitii-ig proudly, his.hea l held high
mid his face shining with happiness
be had gY'ue to meet her.
For ui flic belt of her white muslin
gown there was a great, bunch - ot
daisies. —Boston Post. i
Burrow ins His Own' Capital.
“I have an old college friend who
has been on his uppers here,” said a
LaSalle street business man. “.Vbuut
a year ago he began dropping iu -to
borrow §,') or $10 at a time from me.
Ho would always repay me and he
effusive in his thanks. He never owed
m,- more tiinu $10 at a time.’ Oue day
he came in to pay me, aud when he
offered me 1 asked him if the
amount Was uot $10. v ’.
“ *1 thought it was$5,’ he answered,
but. your recollection is bettoj than
mine ;’ so he paid mo the $10, although .
i protested against it.
“Later on inv stenographer, who
remembered the sireutnstances, told
me that he borrowed oiHy/f$5.
“I laid a $5 hill out on tho desk for
him. He camo iu during ray absence
and borrowed if, and left mi I. O U.
A day or two after, while I was out,
ho came in and left the money for me.
I put it back on the desk, tuider a
paper weigh), and within a Week -lie
came in again, while I wus out, nud
borrowed it. *That has been going on
for three monibs. Ho has borrowed
and paid back his $3 bill ut least six
times, but ho never comps iu the office
while I am there, I’m waiting to
catch him and let him know that he is
borrowing hits owu capital. "—Chicago
Record.
A Remarkable Book.
Tho most curious book in the wo- .
is neitlyor written nor printed
thcBt ^^‘-‘s Globe-Demo -
it/ . ,> of s aro vellun\, cor V posed of the ie. 1
^ t h -
(
with infinite pains and'VronbTe ctYt out
of the material pith a sharp-poiuted
kuifo or pair of delicate scissors. It
is interleaved with blue jniper, and the
letters can, therefore,be read as easily
as any ■print. It formerly belonged
to the 1’rince de L gne, and is now in
the library of a noble Freueb family.
The title ol the book is “Liber Pus
sionis Domini \ostn Jesn Christi.ctim
Cbaraoteribns Nulla Materia Compos¬
itin' 1 ; iu English, “The Book of the
Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, iu
Characters, Without Materials of
Composition.” The matter ia a hom¬
ily probably composed by some uiott
iistir- preacher of the Middle Ages. A
remarkable circumstance connected
with this book is. the fact that, al¬
though it bears the royal arms of Eng¬
land, no mention of it can bo found
iu any English writing. The book ia
believed to have been made some-time
in the thirteenth or fourteenth c
ry. In 1640 tin- Emperor Rude
offered for it 11,000 ducats, whi , in
the money of mu' time would equal
about $66,000, mid the offer was re
lus?d.
t^ucen Victoria's I’avorite Apple.
in Montgomery ciiliuty, Virginia,
on au extensive plateau of a spur of
Ihe Bine Ridge, an apple is raised that
in size, symmetry, and flavor can only
lie surpassed, if surpassed at all, by
tho genuine Albemarle pippin. Uu
fortuiiately, it would seem that the
real home of this last most delicious
Iruit is limited to a small a in and
nrotin’d Kockftsh .Gao, partly iu Albe¬
marle aud partly m Nelsou county.
But a pippin much resembling it.uveif
though not, in all respects so excel!
I nt, may lie advantageously cnlUvati
through a stryteh of-a hundred a
fifty miles along the slope of the Bj ‘
Bulge. More than forty years sg
barrel or two of the Albemarle pip])
were sent as a present to Queen ,1.
toria, and from that day to thjs i
tho favorite tipple at her court.—
Lynchburg (Va. ) Nows.
Inconsiderate I'a I her.
Hattie—What’s tho matter with
(1 list a v us? lie never cal Is any more?
Hoitense— Why,one night when he
was nt. the Iiouko I callod him the
“light of my life,” and papa cams iu
and said it was about, inie the light
whs put out, — Yonkers Statesman.