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TRENTON, GEORGIA. Statistics of the cost of public educa tion in Prussia has just been published. They show that the cost is fifteen cents per head. A Kansas ranchman predicts that cheap beef and mutton of the future will come from the immense grassy plains ol Brazil and the Argentine Republic. The German colony in China is said to number about (500 members. The number of German mercantile firms is about sixty-five, larger than that of any other nationality excepting England. 1 - Competent authorities estimate the total area of land in British India ca pable of producing wheat at nearly 70,- 000,000 acres, less than one-third oi which has as yet been utilized for the purpose. The only recognized G. A. R. post outside of the United States is said to be in Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. It is called Post George W. De Long and al ways observes Memorial Day with fitting ceremonies. California now ranks sixteenth in the list of States arranged from a point ol railway mileage. Illinois leads with 0000 miles of road, closely followed by lowa, Texas and Kansas, while California ranks sixteenth with 3677. The California State Board of Horti culture offers prizes for essays on the best methods of crystalizing fruits. The insipid flavor of most crystalized fruit is the objection. AVhen this is over come, the sales will largely increase. During the last five years 433 lives have been lost at sea among the English herring fishermen. There are 49,231 fishermen and boys regularly employed. The number of boats is 15,135, and the capital invested in them and in their nets and lines exceeds SB, 560,000. '« ■■■«•■ , The school census of Chicago shows a total population of 802,651, an increase in the last two years of 98,834. The ‘average yearly increase of the city is 80,000. The total lor Cook county is 1,071,982, an increase in two years of 154,583, and in eight years of 464,461. Of this the Chicago suburbs contain about 150,000 people, raising Chicago really to near 1,000,000 souls. Indian hunting is, according to the Atlanta Constitution, tjae popular amuse ment in Brazil. On the frontiers it is a common thing for parties of white men to attack Indian villages and slaughter the inhabitants. When this is impossi ble they poison the wells with strych nine, and in this way murder helpless and innocent victims by wholesale. The matter will be brought to the notice of the government, ' Says the New York Sun: “Now there is another rush of invalids like that of the consumptives ’who go to the abat toirs to be cured. This time the rush is by rheumatics, who believe that they can be cured by standing near the dynamos in electric light establishments. This new fad grows out of the idea that men employed in the manufacture or use of electricity never have rheumatism or neuralgia. It is said to be a fact, and another statement is that if a rheumatic gets work that takes him constantly be- Bide dynamos, his disease quickly leaves him.” Port Huron, Mich., has a gas well that is six years old. The finders did not know what it was when they struck it. It was put down for oil, and, as the Times says, the objects for which the work was undertaken not having been reached, it was abandoned, and by some strange phase in this wide-awate com munity it is being forgotten. The site of the hole was originally a hollow basin. It is now a mound. The action of the gas through those years has forced over 500 tons of matter out of the bowels of the earth and is still at work. A power that might have been used in lighting and heating our city is thus running to waste in building a miniature hill. The practice of sub-irrigation by means of tiles, says the New York Times, is the exact reverse of tile drainage, water being supplied to the land through the tiles instead of being drained away from it. But ihere is no economy in the quantity of water used; the ground must be saturated anyhow, and it makes no matter how the water is supplied. Twenty thousand gallons would supply an acre of land with three-fourths of an inch of water, and this would be suffi c cut in Florida, if given once a week, so that a tank of this capacity filled every twenty-four hours would supply five acres. At first a much larger quantity of water is required until the soil i 6 filled, and then the quantity evaporated only needs to be restored. This quantity de pends, of course, upon the dryness of the weather and upon the nature of the soil, sandy land and porous subsoil using more water by percolation than heavier land with clay under it. Dr. Becker, an eminent German sta tistician, has been making careful in vestigations into the subject of immi gration as related to bis native country. He liuds that in fourteen years, from 1871 to 1885, 1,400,000 Germans left fatherland. Ot these, 1,300,000 came to the United States. King Alfonso XIII., the baby poten tatc of Spain, gives the Court of Madrid a great cfeal of trouble, declares the New York World. By law it is decreed that only a nurse and certain attendants shall lay hands on His Majesty. Not long ago His Highness attempted to climb out of a new cradle at the risk of his neck. A courtier, one not allowed legally to touch the King, saw his sovereign’s peril, and, defying the law, rescued the precious child in the nick of time, this rash act he lost his place at court. The Q-’cc" Regent, following the instincts of a mother, found the life-saver a place far removed from the baby-ruler. The Shah has caused a great stir in Persia by issuing an imperial edict tell ing his people that “they may engage ■with perfect confidence iu all industries aud enterprises which are the basis of civilization and the sources of happiness and prosperity;” that they “may with out fear or apprehension of any kind exercise all rights of ownership over their property,” and that they “may undertake any enterprise requiring the combination of capital or the formation of companies, such as the construction of public works, roads, etc.” The world may bo considered conquered, observes the Times-Democrat, when Persia opens her doors to civilization. Professor Monroe Smith tells us, in the Political Science (quarterly, some most astonishing facts. Of all the population of Massachusetts only 855,491 were born of native parents, while 919,866 had foreign parents and 119,741 were born of mixed parentage. That is, Massachu setts is in fact a foreign State, for 53.53 percent, of her blood is foreign. “There are sixty-eight cities aud towns in the commonwealth in which there is an ex cess of persons of foreign parentage. These towns have 58 per ceut. of the population, while tho remaining 280 towns, which contain a majority of native horn parentage, represent only 41 per cent of the whole.” That is, our foreign influx gravitates into towns and cities. ■mi 1 i■■ Kmmmmm—maammmmmm—mme* The annual loss to productive minis tries in the United Stales caused by in sects is estimated by the Prairie Farmer at $150,000,000. Here is a fair battle between man and afiother sort of earth occupiers. They are smaller, but if they can whip us, have undoubtedly as good a right to the world as we have. As civilization advances new insects make their appearance, marching sometimes eastward, but generally wAwnrd. There are few, if any, forms of vegeta tion that have no parasites fliat devour either foilage or fruit. The loss to the cotton crop is estimated at $t S,OJ£/'OO a year, while that to the apple crop i 9 not much less, and that to the potato crop one-half as much. But the estimate is not a fair one until into the loss is counted the time spent in fighting to secure the proportion that is saved. The Berlin Bureau of Statistics has been collecting some interesting data on the motive power of the world and its distribution. Four-fifths of the engines now running in the world have been built in the last twenty-five years. France possesses 40,590 stationary and portable boilers, 7000 locomotives and 1850 steamships; Germany, 59,000 boil ers, 10,000 locomotives and 1700 steam ships; Austria, 12,000 boilers and 28,000 locomotives. The total power of the steam engines in the United States is equivalent to 7,500,000 ho'rse power; in England 7,000,000 horse power; in Ger many, 4,500,000 horse power. In this account the power of 105,000 locomo tives is not included, which are capable of developing 3,000,000 horse power. This makes the total horse power equal to 40,000,000, equivalent to the work ol 1,000,000,000 men, or more than double the whole working population of the globe. English landlordism in Ireland occa sionally attracts the attention of Con gross, observes the New York Sun, but olficial documents sent to that body sug gest that English landlordism in the United States is worth keeping in view. Two English syndicates hold in Texes alone an aggregate of 7,500,000 acres. A third syndicate has 1,800,000 acres of American land. SirE. Reid, K.C. 8.. his 2,000,000 acres in Florida, and a Scotch syndicate 500,000 acres in that State. The London firm of Phillips, Marshall & Co., has 1,300,000 acres in this country; another London firm 1,750,000 acres. A German sydicate has 1,100,000 acres. An English company possesses 700,000 acres in Mississippi; another has 750,000 ®cres to its credit. A dozen other foreign companies or individuals have acres figuring in the hundred thousands. Sometimes these great trusts appear to work to the injury or inconvenience of neighboring actual settlers; and, at all events, as the country becomes developed ; around these enormous holdings, the ' Government should see that no law is broken by the S . igne*: having charge ' of them _ - —. THE LIGHT OF HOME. Across ti c sen waves, tossing in the gale, The beacon shines, a steadfast, guiding light, To where the harbor frees from straining sail, And weary sailors slumber through fche night Across the waves of life’s tempestuous sea A guiding light shines like a lustrous star; No distance hides it, and there cannot be A storm that will its brilliant glory mar. And as the sailor, when tho wind is loud, Sees the far beacon flash athwart the foam, So mail will sec amid life’s blackest cioud, The saving, tender glory light of home. ■ —Thomas S. Collier, in Poston Courier. CATChISG A KING, ~ Having safely landed at St. Louis, West coast of Africa, we soon bargained with the owner of a .suitable boat for a trip up the Senegal fttver in search of menagerie stock. For a certain sum he was to obey our orders for thirty days, besides furnishing all articles of food and drink. There were three white men of us, and each of us had two servants, while there were seven or eight men belonging to the boat. We had no cargo except the goods and cages belonging "to the menagerie expedition, and the boat was a craft somewhat resembling an American canal boat, but very light” and propelled by three oarsmen ou°a side. What we wanted was to capture some of the big lions at the great Sahara Desert, aud we had been shipped away from Gibraltar very quietly to try a new idea ! in animal hunting. Now, while I had long been in the em ploy ol a German house, and could rat tle off the language faster than any native born, I was still a Yankee from top to toe, and it did not take more than two words against my country to set me on edge. When we made our fourth camp up the river we were a good fifty miles above salt water and in the lion country. What was my disgust to find a large party ahead of us—not animal catchers, but animal killers. There were five or i six English army and naval officers, with I a large retinue of servants, two French officers, and three or four French civil ians. All the officers were on leave of absence and out for a grand liou hunt. \\ hen they found we were only menagerie men their welcome grew cold very ”'ast. They had come to meet the king of beasts in the open and give him a chance for his life. We had come to effect his cap ture and degradation by underhanded measures. 1 can see now why they should have felt contempt for our voca tion, albeit it was an honest one and one requiring courage, but; 1 couldn’t see it then. Therefore, certain remarks let fail that night in my heaiing nettled me, and aroused all my Yankee pride. My companions were likewise indignant, and as we turned in for the night, our boat at the bank in front of their camp, jt would not have taken much more to bring an open rupture. > Two of the hunting party were par- ■ ticularly offensive—an English paymas ter and a French civilian. The latter had a title of some sort, and was looked up to on account of it. The paymaster talked because he saw that it displeased us; the Frenchman because he was both ignorant and conceited, ff'he point they aimed to make was that it took a brave man to hunt a lion, while any coward could set a trap for him. Now, each one of us had not only downed our lion in a fair fight, but our tiger as well, aud we talked it over before going to sleep, and determined not to move on next (lay, as we had at first intended. We needed no assurance boatmen that we were in the lion country. To the north of us stretched.the great desert of sand and shrub, and before 10 o’clock the voices of several lions had been hoard oa the still night air. Next morning wc all moved about three miles up the stream to a more broken country grown i up to bushes, aud here, as most of the men were making ready to go out on a I hunt, the Frenchman took occasion to ! express his surprise to me that we had ; guns along. He supposed, he said, that 1 we hid ourselves in trees, and lassoed the j lions as they passed beneath, or that we set steel traps in his path and gave him no show to escape, it was meant for an insult, aud I was at a white heat, but I choked down my wrath and waited. We knew from the lay of the ground that no lion would be found within five miles of the stream, as the cover was not of the right sort, and none of us went out with the party. Of the five or six who did go all carqe back footsore, but full of brag. Like the boy who had “al most seen a bear,” they had discovered the spoors of lions, and were greatly ex cited and encouraged. A general hunt would be made ou the morrow. While the liou generally shakes off sleep at sundown, and indulges in a roar, he seldom leaves his cover until an hour or two later. On this night we had a full moon early in the evening, and we knew that '.he lions would be heard from by i) o’clock. The three of us had left the boat, and were under shelter on the bank below the other party. We had fully canvassed what was to be done,and had drawn lots to see who should be se lected. I was the lucky winner. It was not more than a quarter after nine when a lion roared, and greatly to our satis faction we found that he was directly north of us. For a space of fiOO feet the ground was as level as a floor. Then it ascended slightly for a hundred feet further to a ridge, beyond which was rocky and broken ground. As we sprang up we made out two lions on this ridge. The moon was clear, and we could see them almost as plainly as by day. They were male and female of large size, and the fact of their exposing themselves so boldly proved the ; r courage. I was all ready, and after a hand shake with my companions I walked over to the other party, which had been thrown into a state of great excitement. Some had their guns, and some were bringing them out, and I raised my voice and com manded attention, and said: “Gentlemen, the lions are here! Do not open a fusillade and scare them off, but wait until they come;nearer.” “Would you wait until they are in the camp?” shouted the paymaster. “Not exactly, but they must have a fair show, you know Even our cow ardly natives here can fire off guns and raise a great row. Why don’t a couple of you go forward with your rifies?” “’Ear him talk!” growled an English man. “Yon and I will advance upon tho beasts alone,” I said to the French sprig of nobility, who stood with gun in hand. “No! no! no !”he replied as he backed off. “Rut I thought you gave tho lUn a fair show? Is there a man in this crowd who dares go with me?” I stepped out, revolver in hand, and for half a minute there was a deep silence. Then two or three of them urged me not to be foolhardy, while two or three oth ers growled out that it w r as only Y ankee bluff and bluster. The lions roared again, making the very earth tremble, i aud I saw that neither had changed position. “Some of you have seen fit to slur the nerve required by men in our vocation,” I said when the roarings died away. “I am going to drive those lions off the ridge. I slionld like company. Who will come with me?” Not a man moved. “Very well, I will go alone. This, as all can see, is my only weapon.” I struck out at a moderate pace, face to the lions and the revolver in hand. I was going to bluff the beasts or lose my life. I believed they could be bluffed. They stood about four feet apart, heads elevated aud tails up, aud I had uot advanced forty feet when they both uttered a deep growl. Before I hud gone a hundred feet the men were beg ging me to return. Had I faltered or halted or looked back my power would have vanished iu a second. I had my eyes on the lions, and I went steadily forward. They growled again aud switched their tails. When I had ad vanced one third of the distance the fe male crouched as if for a run at me, while the male was evidently uneasy. At half the distance the male advanced a step or two, with a low roar, and the female changed her place to the other side of him. Behind me every man held his breath, believing I was going to cer tain death. I am uot going to deny that I was in a tremble, and that I would have given ten years of my life to be out of the segape, but I had been insulted and slurred as a Yankee, and I was either to die like a Y’ankee or come off with Hying colors. When I had come within fifty feet of the lions I fully expected they would rush upon me. Both were excited and angry, and both ready. Here was where nerve came into play. It was a game of bluff, but it takes nerve to bluff. I kept straight on for the male, and he let me come within thirty feet —twenty—ten— indeed, I got the full strength of his of fensive breath before he sprang aside with a snarl and trotted away. His mate followed his movements, and I was saved. Every man who has hunted the lion knows that, if you can upset him he becomes cowardly. To upset him you have got to work on his other nature. He is as easily mystified and just a 3 super stitious as an old woman. The idea of my daring to come stra’ght at them, alone and apparently unarmed, was too much for their equanimity. Once they were on the run they became more frightened with every rod, and this per mitted me to carry out the second part of the programme. I shouted after them, calling them jackals and cowards, and ch ised the male along the ridge for forty rods ot more. I also emptied my re volver at the pair, taking care not to aim too carefully, and the result was that both ran off into the desert, with their tails dragging. I returned to camp to receive an ovation, and Yankee stock went above par at a single bound. I, of course, tried to make light of the ad venture, but I was really in a cold sweat, and my knees did not get over iheir we lkness for hours. Next day we separated from the party and pushed on up the stream for twenty miles, where we halted and made a per manent camp. The left-hand bank was here timbered and broken, offering good cover for lions, and our first night satis fied us that we had them in plenty around us. Ou the next night our new idea in lion catching was put to the test. As it was in one.sense a failure, and as it is no longer practised,! can give it away without injury to any one. A German I chemist had compounded for us an ! opiate. As we could not give it direct | to the lion, it was poured down the throat of a calf. 1 neve'- kuew what the stuff was, but we forced a yearling calf to imbibe about a pint of it, and for the following ten minutes he acted as if drunk. Then he got sleepy, and lay down and closed his eyes while we were switching him. We removed him to a ravine about half a mile from camp, and 1 soon after dark a pair of lions came down and killed and ate him. We were | astir at early uawn, and we found both auimals within a quarter of a mile of the spot. They were lying fiat on the earth, helpless as old drunkards, and we had had them caged for hours before they threw off the stupor. We waited a week to discover what effect the stuff would have. ‘Neither one recovered from the i dose, one dying on the sixth and the : other on the seventh day. They acted I languid, had no appetite, and it was ; plain that they had been thoroughly knocked out by the drug. We were thinking of trying it again and using a less quantity, when the two jugs hold ing the stuff were broken by accident, and that Was the end of our scheme. Others have tried it, but no animal caught that way lived to reach Amster | dam. On the ninth day. having discovered a runway down which the lions came to drink at the river, we prepared a trap by digging a deep pit. This was the work of natives, and their skill was something to wonder at. When they had finished their work, the keenest white man would have kept the path without suspicion of danger. A few branches* and reeds held up a layer of earth, and thi3 earth was so pat-ed down that it seemed to have beeu trodden for weeks. When all was ready the natives broke a branch off a bush beside the path in a peculiar way. This they told us would present hyenas or jackals from following the path. Then a rag was hung on a limb over the path to keep hoofed beasts from walking into our pit, and ah was ready. When night came we heard lions all around us, and one came so close to camp as to alarm us. but if they went to the river they did not follow the path we had meddled with. The next day was very close, and we were sanguine of what the night would bring forth. I was in hopes we might capture the big male lion which had disturbed camp the night previous. He was a monster, had a very heavy mane, and, as we coilld see by the spoor left behind, his right I foot had been hurt at some time. When j niirhc came two lions began investigating I our environment, but neither was full grown. I p to eleven o’clock the big lellow had not appeared, and the natives argued from this that he was lying be side some game he had killed, and would be certain to go after water before visit ing us. Such was probably the case. It waa a little after midnight when we heard a sound between a scream and 8 roar, and the natives began to shout and explain that the noise was uttered by the lion as he felt the earth giving way un der him. Daylight had hardly come when scouts went out to the pit to investigate, 'lffiey speedily returned with the news that we had trapped one of the biggest lions in Africa. We had to take ropes and a cage over, and when I reached the pit the lion was sitting on end and looking up at the crowd as if greatly puzzled. He had made a great fuss and tired him self out, the pit being so deep and nar row that he had no chance to use his pow erful muscle in a leap. Having placed the cage, we ran one end of the ropes through the bars made slip nooses at the other. For a full hour the old fellow fought the nooses off whenever they touched him, but by and by we got one over his head and another under a hind leg, aud up he came in a heap, choking, biting, striking and gasping. We hauled him into the cage and released the ropes, aud when he got his wind he was so mad and disgusted that he slumped down on the floor and shut his eyes and cried. AY hen we had time to look him over, we found one of his forefeet crippled. He must have cut it open on a sharp rock a long time before, for it was fully healed up, though it bothered him to walk, lie was the identical chap who had almost leaped into our camp, and his weight, as recorded at Amsterdam, was fourteen pourrds heavier than any lion had shown lor three years. Iu the course of the mouth we got two others, both full grown, and all were sent off from the coast in good condition. —New York San. WISE WORDS. Love laughs at fate. Give a loaf and beg a shive. Look not mournfully into the past. The frugal father has the spendthrift son. Wc long most for the things we have missed. » Good management beats luck in the long run. We are apt to blame luck for our own mistakes. A wink is not as good as a nod to an auctioneer. Leisure for men of business, and busi ness for men of leisure, would cure many complaints. Do not ask another to do what you would be glad to do under similar cir cumstances. ‘ Never needlessly wound the vanity of another or dilate unnecessarily upon dis agreeable subjects. Do not make witticisms at the expense of others which you would not wish to have made upon yourselves. The art of exalting lowliness and giv ing greatness to little things is one of the noblest functions of genius. As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool; but nobody could find it out iu his prosperity. The faculty of always seeing the bright side, or, if the matter has no bright side, of shining up the dark one, is a very im portant one. No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either the will must be broken in childhood, or the heart in old age. In judging others, a man labors to no purpose, commonly errs, and easily sins; but in examining aud judg ng himself, he is always wisely and usefully em ployed. Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial; it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon.the other side of in dulgence. Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented oi; spend it in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act. Precarious Livelihoods. • In a great metropolis like New York, the methods by which people earn a live lihood are immensely varied. An old man who goes about from house to hoase begging for old tin cans says he makes a very good living by rolling out the sheets and then painting small signs on them. A New 5 orker makes an income of SIO,OOO to $15,000 a year as a broker of manufacturing buildings and sites. Perhaps the oldest trade is that ot the man whft goes around to the ragpickers and buys from them all the perfect paper bags which they gather. Paper bags are so cheap when new that it would seem impossible that any one could make a living from buying and sell ng second hand ones. The demand for them, how ever, is very great among the small fruit stands which are to be found in all of the principal streets. These fruit dealers, by the way, generally have a secret ar rangement with the employes in the bag stores, by which they get a generous supply of paper bage in exchange foi fruit. This accounts for the fact that on almost every fruit stand can be seen an assortment of bags bearing the im print of drygoods, grocery and other houses. —Netc York Tribune. Wasted Sunbeams. A paper on ‘ Wasted Sunbeams,” by Dr. G. M. Smith, of New York, printed in the Medical Record, embodies some good suggestions. The author’s aim is to show that great advantages to health might be secured by a rearrangement ol the upper stories of private uwellings. “Cannot architectural ingenuity,” he asks, “coached by sanitary science, con trive fome method of using the thou sands of acres of housetops, so that roofs, now so useful in affording protection from cold, sleet and rain, can be made additionally useful, at certain seasons, by affording outdoor recreation and protec tion from invalidism? Caunot the same skill contrive new designs for the upper and most salutary stories of our dwell i ings—playing-rooms and suuning-rooma, especially adapted for the winter season, I but so cleverly fashioned that too in ! tense torrid beams can be excluded in ! summer. „ VACATION. • weary with thy work,. Wo-a- with the daily strife, AY ho knoweth that success is va: \ That dreams fade out of life. Go to thy mother's heart for rest Deep as thy childhood’s sleep Her tired children safe and closl* Thy mother yet can keep. For still ’tis true, as in those days Long past, of mirth and song, Calm Nature great all-mother is, With love and memory long. Find dien, thou canst, on Nature's heaik, This solace for thy pain— The joy that blossoms with the grass. The gladness of the grains The happy breaking into song Of brook, and bird, and l ee, And on the wind that lifts the wave And bends the willing tree. On silent pools beneath the hills. Where quiet shadows lie, On waters swift, and changing liua Let fall thy line and fly. Let thy heart dance with dancing leaves And with the pattering rain— Bo shalt thou find, though day decline, childhood's rest again. —Edward Carlton. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Glucose is a sugar beat. A hand-spring—The pump. The moose has a great head. An ink-convenience—A pen. A sin of commission—More than ten per cent. Milk that is absolutely pure, must be milk of the first water. Lite. The lighthouse keeper ought to bo well posted in light housekeeping. It is not surprising that an alma mater should give her students a diplo-ma.— Time. Newl'orkcan stand the rag and tag, but it can’t endure the bobtu.i car.— Lowell Court-r. AY'heu a man sits down and reflects, it does not always prove that he is brilliant. —Judge. A manse, little iriend, is a house, and a, romance ought to be a boat bourn, but it is not. — Harper's Bazar. Au Exchange says: “The buttermilk habit is spreading.” So is the butter habit, for that matter. — Picayune. Bill collectors sometimes imitate the promoters of a colonization scheme and offer special inducements to settlers. A Pittsburg man has a parrot which can say “Polly wants a cracker!” in three different languages. She is a Polly glot. It is hardly fair to sueer at a carpentei because you kee him driving every day. Driving nails is not a luxurious pastime. Harper's Bazar. “Mamma,” said little AA'illie, inspect ing a porous pilaster, “are them holes where the piaiu comes through?”—• Drake's Magazine. • One of the parachute jumpers has been killed out West iu falling from his balloon. He took a drop too much.— Philadelphia Press. A Boston weighing machine has this inscription over it: “Insert a half-dime in the aperture aud ascertain your avoirdupois. — Bazar. “I hear jou have had au addition to your family, Mr. Brown.” Mr. Brown (sadly): “.Multiplication, my dear Madam—tw : ns!” — Life. Guest —“Isn’t my dinner ready yet?” New AY T aitcr—“O, certainly: it was ready yesterday. It is just being warmed over a little.” — Siftings. The recent act which prevents the sending of dunning postal caids through the mails should have been entitled: “Post No Bills”— New York News. Eastern people are discussing the question: “Who is the greatest living novelist?” The correct answer is that there isn’t any. —Detroit Free Press. “She’s the evenest temper ever you saw”— He said as he saw me wince— “ She got mad once at seven years old, An’ she’s stayed mad ever since.” Time. De Smith—“Hellof Travis! A'ou look awfully cut up about something.” Travis —“Y'es; shaved myself for the first time this morning.— Burlington Free Press. “These are hard times,” sighed the young collector of bills. “Every place I went to-day 1 was reqyested to call again, but one, and that was when I dropped in to see my girl.”— siftings. A young Philadelphian perceives the disadvantage of living in the “Quaker City,” when he gets a letter from his best giri, addressing him as •••Friend Charles. ” Life. • “That’s it!” exclaimed Mrs. Bascom at the concert, as the singers came out again in iesponse to an en.ore. “Make ’em do it over again until they get the thing right.” —Burlington Free Press. A cynical man says that there are two occasions when he would like to bo present. One is when the gas company pays its water bill; the other is when the water company pays its gas bill.—Sift ings. Says Willie to Clara: “You blush, maiden meek; ’Twas my glance that planted the rose in your cheek. Let me pluck it!” Her lashes the blush-roses sweep. Says she: " ’Til but right where you sow you should reap.” — Judge. Prosecuting Attorney (selecting a jury)—“lsn’t the prisoner a relative of yours?” Juror—“No, sir; he is a rela tive of my wife's.” Prosecuting Attor ney— “Your Honor, the prosecution ac cepts this gentleman.”— New York Sun. i.eadcr of Street Band (looking into the sky with extreme disgust, and speak ing in stentorian voice) —• ‘Half an hour’s playing and only thirteen cents! We will try one of Wagner’s grand com positions.” Shower of silver coin from neighboring window and fifty voices in agonized entreaty—Mo\e on!— Chicago Tribune. “Why, sir.” said the fireman, “the ingratitude of some people is way be yond understanding. At the Skyhi (’at* last week I saved a stock-broker’s daughter —carried her down a spliced ladder seventy feet long, and now” —th* honest fellow gasped for breath— “l’n» blowed if he doesn't want me to marry her.” — Fete York Neu> <. .-