Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 22, 1907, Page 4

Musical Saturday Evening. Saturday evening a number of the pupils of Mrs. R. B. Foster gave a recital at her home. A number of friends of the puyi's had been invited for the occasion and an enjoyable evening was spent. At the close of the recital a vote was taken by those present and a silver medal was awarded to Olive Miller, she re- ceiving the highest mumber of votes. At the next recital another vote will be taken and this medal will then be awarded by vote to some one else. The program was as follows: Polonaise. .. Emil Engel, Mrs. Foster Chopin Morning Prayer. . ......Landon Louise Pryor Santa Claus Guards...................Krogman Celia Hild Through the Forest. .. Frederick Williams Beatrice Gould Tramp Through the Wood: Kathryn Be Contentment Waltz. Fire Balls Mazurka Laur: Dance Among the Leaves, . Frederick Williams Sara Goldberg Blue Bird l'olkgi . Homer Norris on .Fordyce Hunter ....Franz Behr Russel Effie Robinson ..Max Werner Joyous Return. Heartsease—Ma Lucene Mc The Pixies on the Water.......Arthur Brown Lizzie Erickson Second Waltz. Godard After the Sho Pagoda March—2 pianos. Margaret Anderson, .Lena Goldberg ..G. F. Danlels va Foster Pure as Snow +vereen. Lange Waltz—Piano Duet.... .......Carl Bohm Myrle Methoen, e Bunker Dreamland .. .... Engelmann Bubbling Spring.............. ...... Rive King June Bugs Dance- vis Robe Mrs. F Edward Holst Miller, ster, Eva Foster. Essler Reappointed Agent. .John F. Essler has been appointed as the local agent for the Minneapolis Brewing com- pany, succeeding Charles Kunopke, resigned. William Muenze, auditor for the Minne- apolis company, has been in the city for seseral days, checking up the affairs of the local agency and getting the affairs in condi- tion to turn over to Mr. Essler. Mr. Muenze and Mr. Kuopke leave this evening for points along the north line of the M. & I, where they will also check in the new agent for those places. Mr. Essler was agent for the company prior to the acceptance o’ the position by Mr. Knopke, and thoroughly understands the business. Mr. Kuopke has not announced whether he will en- gage actively in business in this city or not. Foster Case Continued. The cases against William Foster, Frank Bogenrief and William Wellcome, charged with cutting and removing timber from land belonging to C. F. Ruggles, were taken up. by Justice Skinvik yesterday. The cases against Bogenreif and Wellcome were dismissed aud considerable testimony was taken in the case against Foster, when the latter case was ad- journed until the 29th inst., Fos- ter being released on bail. Joint Installation. The members of the local Woodman and Royal Neighbor lodges will hold a joint install- ation of officers this eyen- ing, at the Odd Fellow hall. It is the intention of the lodges to serve an elegant oyster sup- per and have a general good time. All members of either order are requested to attend. ‘rne poss. “There’s a man at the door, pa,” call- ed little Willle from the lower hall, “who wants to see the boss of the house!” “Tell your mother,” called pa. “Tell the cook,” promptly called his mother.—Philadelphia Press. Not Bira Built. “There was a strange man here to see you today, papa,” sald little Ethel, who met her father in the hall as he came home. “Did he have a bill?” “No, papa. He had just a plaln nose.” As a Starter. Doctor—Madam, your husband must have absolute rest. Madam — Well, doctor, he won't listen to me— Doc- tor—A very good beginning, madam— .Bl hvery good beginning. — Illustrated 4 He Was the Limit. We—Do you think It would be foollsh of me to marry a girl who was my In- ferior Intellectually? She—More than foolish—impossible.—Answers. ‘Want of care does us more harm than want of knowledze—Franklin. k Books, Ledgers, Journals, Etc., Statio ogal Blanks, Copy Holders, Calendar Pads, The Stale Bread of Hungary. In Hungary they do not eat fresk bread. Whether it is because the Hun- garians believe in hygiene more than thelr Amerlcan or European brothers and sisters or not has never been told, but the Magyar is partial to stale bread, and the staler the better. His “rozskenyer,” or ordinary black bread, as it Is eaten by the very large ma- jority of the Magyar population, Is carefully laid away on a shelf and dug out for consumption months and months after it has come out of the great ovens. If the huge loaf, weigh- ing something like five pounds and for which the Hungarian pays 6 or 7 kreutzer, equivalent to about 3 or 4 cents in American money, has careful- 1y been hidden away for two years, it Is considered all the better. The Hun- garian never thinks of where the bread is to come from tomorrow. He thinks of where It Is to come from next year, for he has at least a year's supply on the shelves. The Hunga- rian bakes her bread 365 days ahead of time. Her Wednesday baking is for the Wednesday of a year to come; Ber Thursday baking for the Thursday-of a year to come. To Cut the Night In Two. Professor Victor Hallopeau, member of the Paris Academy of Medicine, says: The true secret of long continued, valuable brain work is to cut the night In two. The scholar, the Inventor, the financler, the literary creator, ehould be asleep every night by 10 o'clock, to wake again at, say, 2 In the morning. Three hours’ work, from 2 to 5, in the absolute tranquillity of the silent hours should mean the revealing of new pow- ers, new possibilities, a wealth of ideas undreamed of under the prevailing sys- tem. From b to 8 or 8:30 sleep again. Tak- ing up then the day’s work, the brain ‘will be still saturated with the mental frults of the midnight vigll; there will be no effort in putting Into practice or carrying further what was planned or begun those few hours before. The habit may be hard to acquire, but mechanical means of waking at first will Induce the predisposition.— New York World. k The Military Death Sentence. “You know how. a soldler traitor Is put to death,” said the ‘colonel. “The traitor stands blindfolded, and half a dozen privates shoot at him simul- taneously.. But perhaps you don’t know that each of those privates, though he take the most careful aim, may afterward say without fear of contradiction -that the traitor's blood does not stain his hands. This is the reason: Two of the rifies for this ghast- ly shooting are always loaded with blank cartridges. Then they are shuf- fled, and no one knows which the barmless ones are. The executioners draw, and each Is aé like as not to draw a harmless gun: So when they shoot they can solacé themselves with the thought that maybe they are only shooting a blank cartridge at the poor blindfolded wretch before them.” Hans Breithann’s Philosophy. I have found. that if we resolve to be vigorous of body and mind, calm, col-. lected, cheerful, etc., we can effect marvels, for it is certainly true that after awhile the spirit or will does haunt us unconsclously and marvel- ously. I have, I believe, half changed my nature under this discipline. I will continually to be free from folly, envy, irritability and vanity, to forgive and forget, and I have found, by willing and often recurring to it, that, while far from being exempt from fault, I have eliminated a vast mass of it from my mind. It is certainly true, as Kant wrote to Hufeland, many diseases can be cured by resolving them away. He thought the gout could be.—Letters of Charles Godfrey Leland. Time to Change. It was at a table d’hote dinner at a hill station in India that a very young officer just up from the plains found himself seated next to a lady whom he took for one of the grass widows common in those parts. He made him- self agreeable, but his neighbor seem- ed a good desal out of spirits, so he sald sympathetically: “I suppose you can’t help thinking of your poor husband grilling down be- low?” But the lady was a real widow, and when he learned that he changed his seat.—London Answers. Sparing the Smasher. “I told you,” said the merchant, “to mark this box ‘Handle With Care.’ ‘What's this nonsense you've painted here?” “That,” sald the college graduate, “is the Latin for ‘Handle With Care.’” “How do you expect a baggageman to understand that?” “He won’t and therefore he won’t get mad and smash the box.”—Philadel- phia Press. For Feminine Jurors. In breach of promise cases the pres- ence of female jurors among the male Jurors would certainly benefit the men, as they would at once see through the wiles of thelr own sex, disconnect the plcture hat and the pretty gown and disclose the hussy at heart in the plead- ing, innocent betrsyed one.—Lady Vio- let Greville in London Opinion. Supertmposed. In the hall of a philharmonic soclety the following notice was posted: “The seats in this hall are for the | use of the ladies. Gentlemen are re- . quested to make use of them only aft- er the former are seated.”—I1 Riso. ‘We love to expect, and when expec- tation is elther disappointed or. grati- fled we want fo be agaln expecting.— Johnson. : Torbidden Gamens. Almost every one of England’s pop- ular games has at one time or another been' made lllegal. Scotland is the home of golf, yet in 1457 the Scottish parliament passed an act entalling se- vere penalties on any one caught play- ing the game. Edward IIL, Henry IV. and Henry VIIL all strongly objected to football, and Queen Elizabeth made it an of- fense punishable by imprisonment to play football. There is a record of six- teen people being imprisoned at once for breaking this law. Football is still under a ban in some parts of the world. Two of the Swiss cantons refuse to allow it, and in Tur- key It is absolutely illegal, and those ‘who dare to play it are punished. Among oddities of laws about games must be mentioned a French decree of the thirteenth century. By the king's command the gallants of the court were forbidden to play tennis “in their shirts.” Whether his majesty of France insisted upon coats only or ‘whether the unfortunate players were doomed to practice In complete suits of armor does not appear.— London Graphic. Agriculture In Africa. Excepting perhaps some Malayan tribes the African negroes are said to be the finest agriculturists of all the natural races. The Bongos are sald to have a greater varlety of garden plants around their huts than are found in the flelds and gardens of a German vil- lage. irrigation is practiced. The An- golas, In the Kongo districit, have prac- tical irrigation. The Wachangu show wonderful skill in irrigating. thelr ter- raced hillsides by tunnels of water di- verted from the main stream. “They bave a clear mode of irrigating equally a given surface. As the little canals of water are always elevated above the cultivated plants, they will tap them at a convenlent spot above the beds to be watered and then turn the stream into a rough conduit made of the hol- low stems of bananas cut in half, the end of each stem overlapping the next. Thern as the water enters the last joint it is freely turned right and left, dis- tributing the vivifying stream in all directions.”—Southern Workman. Too Cold For Overcoats. “You do not find .any one wearing overcoats in Alaska, even in the win- ter,” sald a man from that territory. “The principal thing to be careful about is’ keeping the head, hands and feet warm. In that part of Alaska ‘where I have been the only land trans- portation is by dog sleds, and to fol- low them one has to drop into a dog- trot beside the sled. An ordinary suit 18 plenty thick enough to keep you ‘warm, and an overcoat is dangerous in that temperature. Trotting alongside a sled wearlng an overcoat would make you perspire, and the bitter cold would freeze the perspiration. The men there wear a fur cap that covers every part of the head and face except the eyes, and there is only a little peep- hole for them. Wool lined mitts are ‘worn on the hands and moccasins with woolen stockings on the feet.”—Baltl- more Sun. Tragedy of a Wooden Leg. A man who travels on a wooden leg says: “About the worst accident we ever heard of befalling a wooden leg- ged man {s the time one such unfor- tunate was going home after being to a late supper, along about 8 o’clock in the morning, when his peg leg went through an auger hole in the grub plank sidewalk, and he kept circling about that hole all night.thinking he was going home. The editor of this paper wants it distinctly understood that we cannot vouch for the truth- fulness of this story.”—Kansas City Journal. All the Same. At one of the large north country churches recently a fashionably dress- ed lady happened to go into one of the private pews. The verger, who Is known to be a very stern old chap, im- mediately bustled up to her and sald: “I'm afraid, miss, you'll ha’e to cum out o’ that. This is a pald pew.” “Sir,” sald -the young lady, turning sharply round, “do you know who I am? I'm one of the Fifes.” “I dinna care,” said the old man, “if you are the big drum. You'll ha'e to cum out.”—Edinburgh Scotsman. Dainty it Not Substantial. The wife of a farmer had a sister come from Chicago to make a visit. One day the thrashers came, and the guest Insisted on doing the work alone and sent her sister away to rest. When twenty-seven thrashers filed in to sup- per that night they found a sandwich ; Hed with ribbon, one chicken croquette, * one' cheese ball the size of a marble , and a buttonhole bouquet at each plate—~Emporia (Kan.,) Gazette, Long Sight. The longest distance ever compassed by human vision Is 183 miles, being the distance between the Uncompahgre park, in Colorado, and Mount Ellen, in Utah. This feat was accomplished by the surveyors of the United States coast and geodetic survey, who were engaged, in conjunction with repre- sentatives of other natlons, in making 8 new measurement of the earth. Cheertulnens. The . cheerful man’s thought sculp- tures his face Into one of kindliness, touches his manner with grace and his business life with friendliness toward humanity.—Jacksboro (Tex.) Gazette. Both Are There. Teacher — Is there any connecting link between the animal and the veg- etable kingdom? Bright Pupil—Yes, mum; there’s hash.—Philadelphia In- quirer. , Pens, Holders, Ink Wells, Etc. Rubber Stamps and Pads, Fountain Pens, Letter Copy Books, ocument Files, Note Books, Time Books, Scale Report Books, Trial Balance Books, Rulers, Erasers, Kneaded Rubber Squares, Township Plats in book form, Vite, Not Death. There is much difference in the psy- chological effect of the two ldeas “life” and “death.” This was illus- trated, says the writer of “Letters From a Surgeon,” in the case of Gen- eral Frank Bartlett, who was wounded on the Fredericksburg pike In 1864. General Bartlett was brought to the surgeon bleeding profusely from a wound in his head. He was uncon- clous and white as death. The sur- geon called his name, but could not rouse him. Passing his finger into the ‘wound, he found the ball had not pene- trated the bone, but had slmply cut an artery in the scalp. This the surgeon bound with a ligature. He lald the general on the ground and completed dressing the wound. “No harm done, old boy!” he shout- ed. “This Is only a flesh wound. You will be all right when I take a stitch or two.” The good news secmed to bring Gen- eral Bartlett to consclousness. He rallied completely. “I thought I was done for,” he safd. ““‘Well, if I'm all right, here goes.” Before- the surgeon could stop him he was in the saddle and riding at the best gait of his horse back to the front again, The Ways of the Moonshiner, The ways of the mooushiner are pret- ty much the same everywhere. A suit- able location consists of a secluded spot with water in abundance. It is important, should he ever be called upon to defend a case in court, for the question of the ownership of the land upon which the still is located, to be involved in doubt; hence the moonshin- er gets as near the line of his own land or the land he controls as possible. The stills are primitive affairs and are often made complete in the neighbor- bood in which they are operated. With two or three square yards of sheet cop- per the still maker requires but a few hours to make the “b’ller” Home- made hogsheads are usually used as fermenters, and the only thing that the illicit distiller has to send “off yander arter” is the worm. Being difficult to secure, the moonshiner prizes his “worm” highly, and that part of the distillery Is usually taken away when the operator leaves.—David A. Gates in Metropolitan Magazine. Origin of “Bluestockings.” Burke, apropos of “Evelina,” pald Fanny Burney this high compliment: “We have had an age for statesmen, an age for heroes, an age for poets, an age for artists, but this”—with a gal- lant .bow to Fanny—“is the age for women.,” The name *“bluestockings,” glven to these distinguished women, arose, according to Fanny Burney in her “Memoirs of Her Father,” from an apology made by Mr. Stillingfleet in declining an invitation of Mrs. Vesey’s fo a'literary meeting at her house, “I am not properly dressed for such a party,” he pleaded. “Pho, pho,” she cried, taking him and his dress all in at a glance, “don’t mind dress! Come in your blue stockings.” This he did, and. ‘those words ever after were fixed in playful stigma upon Mrs. Ve- sey’s. assoclations.” —T. P’s London ‘Weekly. ‘What We Stand On. The density of the earth as a whole has been estimated, with close agree- ment among the sclentists who have made. the determination by different methods, to be about 5.5, or five and a half times as heavy as an equivalent sphere of water. On the other hand, the average density of the materials form- Ing the accessible parts of the earth’s crust Is between 2.5 and 8, so that the mean density of the whole globe I8 about twice that of its outer part. This indicates that the central part of the earth is composed of heavier mate- rials and may even be metallic, which condition, says the Engineering and Mining Journal, would accord perfect- Iy with the nebular hypothesis. Nature and Broken Hones. In the splicing of broken bones na- ture can give the best surgeon pointers. » When a bone is broken the splintered ends are surrounded with cartilage un- til they, are firmly held in position. Then gradually a layer of bone is placed between them and soldered to- gether. All the physician has to do 18 to bring the two ends of the bones together so that the point will be smooth . and even. = Nature’s little agents do the rest.—New York Tribune. Taste Governs Spelling. Shakespeare spelled his own name in sixteen different ways which have survived, and it is evident that Eliza- bethan spelling ‘“depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller.” It s the printing press which made spelling by stereotyping It, and It is, after all, on the printer’s reader more than on | the professor that the spelling of the future depends.—London Star. Napoleon’s Name. The name Napoleon written in Greek characters will form seven different words by dropping the final ‘letter of each In succession. When read, these words form a complete sentence, mean- ing, “Napoleon, the destroyer of whole cities, was the lion of his people.” Wrong. “There is-a word of one syllable in the English language that is always spelled wrong, even by the most edu- cated people.” | “What is that?” | “The word ‘wrong.’” Obviously. “Let me see,” mused the sporting editor. “What is an incubator?” “An incubator,” replied; tural editor, “is an egg it Discouragement is but disenchanted | egotism.—Mazzini. —_——— | e} e agricul- | Birds and Kites. No bird, so far as known records show, has ever alighted on a kite or attacked one. While a sclentist was flying a train of five kites some years ago a large silver tipped eagle came suddenly out of the higher air and 8wooped round and round the first kite, looking against the sunset sky like a huge silver ball. “As the train of kites 'was pulled in the eagle followed, visit- ing one kite ‘and then another, seem- Ing uncertain just what.to do. In a few minutes, when he seemed to have declded that they were not: good to eat and he knew nothing about them, anyway, he indignantly flew off and was lost to view, While the scientist's kites were high in the alr one March Bocks of geese flying in the wedge flew over. They Invariably stopped, broke up, hovered above the queer object and at last slowly reformed and flew away. While the larger birds all come from heights above the kite, the small birds of the air will alight on the string holding the kite and sway to and fro. Mysterfous Glass Balls, According to a forelgn correspondent of the geological survey at Washing- ton, among the most Interesting fea- tures of the small island of Billiton, between Sumatra and Borneo, an is- land long famous for its rich tin mines, controlled by the Dutch government, are the “glass balls of Billiton,” found among the tin ore deposits. These nat- ural glass balls are round, with grooved surfaces. Similar phenomena are oc- casfonally found in Borneo and Java as well as ‘In Australla. The corre- spondent quoted thinks they cannot be artificlal, and there are no volcanoes near enough to support the theory that they are volcanic bombs. Besides, it Is cldimed, the glassy rocks produced by the nearest volcanoes are quite dif- ferent In thelr nature from the mate- rial of the balls. It Is suspected that the mysterious objects were ejected ages ago from the volcanoes of the moon and afterward fell upon the earth, “Caracul”~Its Etymology. 1 have often been asked for the ety- mology of “caracul,” which is a term now largely used by furriers to denote a varlety of the fur called astrakhan. The new English dictionary does not contain caracul, but it has caracal, which is liable to be confused with it, though really quite a different word. The caracal {s an animal, but caracul, like the nearly synonymous term, as- trakhan, s the name of a place—Kara Kul—i. e., the Black lake, near Bok- bara, which has long been celebrated for its output of furs. The earliest reference I can find to it in English is In Matthew Arnold’s “Sohrab and Rustum:”. And on his head he set his sheepskin cap, Black, glossy, curled, the fleece of Kara Kul. —London Notes and Queries. Living In the Electrio Light. ‘Writing to a friend in the country, a New York merchant says: “I live In the electric light. I leave my home at 7 o'clock, after dressing and taking my breakfast by electric light. Then I go to the subway, one block distant, and ride to within a block of my. office. There 1 work all day by electric light and go home again by the subway and spend the evening in the glare of the Incandescent lamp. The weather conditions make no difference, because my flat and my office belong to the semidark kind. Sometimes I wonder what I would do without electric light, and sometimes I ask myself when I yearn for a little sunlight, Is the new light really a blessing?’—New York Tribune. John Stuart ML The genius of this great Englishman was such that before he was twenty he was recognized as the champion and future leader of a powerful schoel of philosophy and politics. John Stu- art Mill is said to have studied Greek at the age of three and at fourteen bad begun logic and political economy. The writings and doctrines of this master mind were and are still read and preached not only in this country, but throughout the world. John Stuart Mill stands’ out prominently among nineteenth century thinkers.—London Mail. Hardened. “Listen to this, Maria,” sald Mr. Stubb as he unfolded his scientific pa- per. “This article states that in some of the old Roman prisons that have been unearthed they found the petri- fled remains of the prisoners.” “Gra- clous, John!” replied Mrs, Stubb, with a smile. “I suppose you would call them hardened criminals.” — Chicago News. But He Was Cured. “1 think I’ll have to take treatment for the forgetting habit. From whom did you take your treatment that was Bo satisfactory and successful in im- proving your memory 7’ “From—ah, from—ah—oh, I forget his name, but wait a minute, and I'll get one of his cards out of my desk.”— Bxchange. Supremely Exasperating. “Don’t you think Mrs. Spurrell has an awful temper?”’ “She has, but can-you blame the paor woman? She has a husband who just absolutely. won't get mad at all.” Dear, Indeed! “The dear, dear girls!” exclaimed Mrs. Pawkins, looking at her fashion- 'able daughters enthusiastically. “Yes; the dear, dear girls!” muttered Mr. Pawkins despondently. Man yields to custom as he bows to fate—in all things ruled, mind, body Ilnd estate.—~Crabbe. e A S Get Your Office Supplies at the Befnidii Pioneer Office Most Complete Stock West of Duluth jes, Typewriter Paper, Scrap Books, Lead Penci % Paper Clips and Fasteners, Rubber Bands, Letter Files, Invoices, Typewriter Supplies, Postal Scales, aper Baskets, Rubber Type Outfits, Staplers, Paper Knives, &c l Fine quality colored Blotters, Letier Copy Presses, Waste P: England’s Historio Miser. Jobn Camden Nelld, whose magnifi- cent bequest to Queen Victoria sup- plied the funds out of which the prince consort built the present Balmoral castle, deserves a place among the great misers and was as remarkable a man as any of them. He was educat- ed at Eton and Trinity college, Cam- bridge, and was a barrister at Lin- eoln’s Inn. At the age of. thirty-four Ms father's death placed him in pos- sesslon of a fortune of £250,000, and from that moment he became a con- | frmed miser. Nelld lived at 5 Cheyne walk, Chelsea. His big house was so meanly furnished that it did not even boast of a bed. Two old women, who 4id his chores, and a black cat were bis sole companions. When he visited his large estates in the Mldlands, which he did frequently, he generally walked unless he could get“a lift for nothing, and he was not even above taking .a gratuitous seat on a dung cart. Sometimes he was compelled by the weather to take a seat on the stagecoach, and there he would sit outside, shivering and dripping, for he never wore a greatcoat, an object of commiseration to his fellow passen- gers. Lincoln’s Rebuke, The saying that there are few hon- est lawyers did not hold true in the case of Lincoln. A man once called to retain hith on a suit. “State your case,” sald honest Abe. The man did, and then Lincoln sald: “I cannot represent you, for you are wrong, and the other party is right.” “That s none of your business iIf I employ you,” said the client. “Pardon me,” sald the man who aft- erward became president; “my busi- ness 18 never to defend wrong. I nev- or take a case that is manifestly wrong.” “Well, but you can make trouble for the other fellow.” “Yes,” sald Lincoln, “I can set a ‘whole community at loggerheads, I ean make trouble for this widow and her fatherless children and by so doing get you $600 that rightfully belongs to her, but I won’t do 1t.” 5 “Not if T pay you well?” “Not for all the money you are worth,” was the reply. v A Warrior Too. The wooden boards that had marked the graves in a certain rural cemetery rotted off and were raked up in the spring | cleaning. Consequently on Memortal day when the delegation from the G. A. R. arrived with flags and appropriate floral decorations for their departed comrades the decorat- Ing committee found itself somewhat In doubt as to which grave belonged to Captain Blodgett and which to Hannah Ericson. The mistaken dele- gates heaped their offerings upon Han- nah’s last resting place and departed. That afternoon Ericson, the widower, drifted, with the rest of his world, to the cemetery. When he saw the flag and the flowers above .Hannah the astonished Swede fell to chuckling Joyously. “Vell,” he exclaimed delightedly, “dose faller bane pooty smart too! Ay tank dat vor all right and som gude yoke on Hannah—he vor pooty gude fighter herselluf.”—Youth’s Companion. Devonshire Terrace. Dickens was twenty-seven years old when, in 1889, he moved from Doughty street to Devonshire terrace. George du Maurier lived for some years in 1 Devonshire terrace. In this celebrated house Dickens wrote mo fewer: than ten of his books—“The Old Curlosity Shop,” “Barnaby Rudge,” “The Christ- mas Carol,” “American Notes” ‘Mar- tin Chuzzlewit” “The Haunted Man,” “The Battle of Life” "Dombey and Bon,” “The Cricket on the Hearth” and “David Copperfleld.” Devonshire ter- race was situated at the corner of the Marylebone road and used to be called the smallest terrace in London. It Varied. ' The late Judge Saunders of North Carolina was noted as an angler, but he had a'poor memory as to the weight of the fish ho had taken. On one oc- casion a friend, trying to entrap bim, said, “Say, judge, what was the welght of that big catfish you caught the other e “%h. judge turned to his waiter and sald, “Bob, what did I say that catfish welighed?” “What time yesterday, boss—in de mawnin’, at dinner or after suppah?”, 7 The Moon. ; Astronomers long since came to the conclusion that the moon’s surface is very hot during the height of the lunar day, which, as will be remembered, lasts two weeks, and very cold during | the lunar night, which is equally long. These extremes of- temperature reach their height at the lunar noon and midnight and are greater than any natural temperatures on the earth. The Golfer, 5 Bertle (to cdddle, searching for lost bal)—What are you looking there' for? ‘Why, I must have driven it fifty yards farther! Diplomatic Caddie—But some times they hit a stone, sir, and bounce back a terrible distance. Willing to 8 Mrs: Enpeck—The philosophers tell us that blessings often come to us in disgulse. - Mr. Enpeck (with a sudden show of spirit)—Maria, when are you golng to unmask? = . The Pale. Little Margle (reading)—What is the “pale of civilization,” Tommy? Small Tommy—Oh, some new brand of face powder, I suppose. The root of all discontent I8 self love. »Clarke. ‘ French Economy. France in her system of finance and in her whole scheme of economy alds and encourages saving among the peo- ple. The government conducts a vast banking Institution Whereby every ' postoffice has its savings bank depart- ! ment—its “calsse d’epargne.” Here ! any one may make a deposit as low as 1 franc (20 cents), which deposit s re- corded in one's “livret de la calsse @’epargne” (savings bank book). A eonvenient feature of this system tend- Ing to make saving easy is that one may make ‘his deposits In any post- ofice anywhere in France and may withdraw any part or all his savings at any postoffice, without regard to where the deposits have been made. I have never had a servant In France who had not her “livret de la caisse d&’epargne,” and yet the girl or woman, it she had no family of her own to support, almost invariably contributed to the support of her father's family. I bave had one middle aged “femme @e chambre” on whose face each day I could read pretty well how the bourse was golng.—Flora McDonald Thomp- son in Harper's Bazar, Shopping. Bhopping is a form of cruelty in- fulged by married ladles toward their hushands. It 1s inciplent in young girls, reaches an active condition in brides and arrlves at its most yirulent stage between the tenth and the twen- ty-fitth year of married life. A small, dellcate, slight, nervous, sensitive wo- man who would faint away at an empty mouse trap will go through the shopping district in from two to seven hours and come out refreshed and sus- talned by an unfaltering trust if her husband’s credit 18 good, while that gentleman at the end of forty-five min- utes has to be carried home on & stretcher. Some women are born shop- pers, others achleve it, but not one of them has it thrust upon her. Shopping 18 extensively practiced on week days, beginning on Monday with a rush and ending on Saturday-in time for the opera. It promotes.industry. Without It married mes would bhave time to rest—Dellneator. * Shooting a Rabbit, In Sulliven county there is a man ‘who spent a whole ‘day hunting, and at nightfall he was returning homeward empty handed when he found a rab- bit In a snare and still kicking. He released it and was about to dispatch it with the back of his hand when it occurred to him that he could not say he shot it, as no shot marks would be found to corroborate his story. 8o he tied a string to one of the hind legs of the rabbit, tled the other end to the fence, backed away twenty yards and fired.- The shot cut the string and bunny ran away. Such a good joke on himself was too good to keep, and he told it at the village grocery, little thinking that it would be handed about, until now. if you want to anger him the mere mention of the yarn opens the’old soré.—Forest and Stream. Practicing by Ear. ‘When Grover Cleveland was practie- Ing law at Buffalo among’his associ- ates was a young lawyer who, though a bright fellow, was rather inclined to laziness. He was forever bothering Cleveland -about points of law rather than Jook them up himeelf. Cleveland became tired of it, and the next time the young man sauntered in Cleveland knew what he wanted and, getting up, pointed to his bookease and said: “There are my books. You are welcome to thém. You can read up your own case.” The fellow was caught, but he rose to the occasion. “BSee here, Grover Cleveland,” he sald, “I want you to understand I don’t read law. I practice entirely by ear, and you and your books can go to thunder!” Women Rule as Babies Do. The ordinary man would still much rather glorify women and set them on a2 mock throne, whence he can depose them at will, than have to acknowl- edge in them a real title to regard. It 1s difficult for a man to overcome his essential self importance. Most of us perhaps prefer to have inferiors i| round us—an abject trait of character, but natural. And only very slowly have we men been getting to prefer our womankind as friends and equals rather than as queens and pets, ruling us as & baby or a spoiled dog does.— London Saturday Review. A Clever Hint. “You are so- popular,” sighs the swain, “You have 8o many suitors!” “The ideal” smiles the fair young thing.' “Why, I can count them all on the fingers of my left hand.- 8ee. The index finger is Mr. Smugforth, the sec- ond finger is Mr. Balder, and the third fnger—the third finger of my left hand ~—the third finger is:you.” Next day he got the ring for Iit.— Chicago Post. News to:Him. “The beauty of this great and glorl- ous republic’ said the American proudly, “is that any boy born here may become president.” X “Fawncy!” . excaimed - the :*British tourist. “I was under the impression ‘that the president had to be at least forty years of age.”—Catholic-Stand- urd and Times.. SR A Philosopher. A philosopher is a man who when * he has hard luck, due to his own care- lessness and idiocy and other short- eomings, can blame it all on- fate.— Somerville Journal. - 5 Nobody Else to:Look Like. - She—Mr. Dudleigh is looking more like himself, don’t you think? Chappie —Ya-as. His twin brother is dead.— ‘Ruck. A At last .