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ROYALTY SEES WEBBING
OauKhter of Ainbuniiiiclor Held
Marrle Before Kliitf and Qneen.
MJsa Jean Kcld, duughter ot Wbite
Vw Reid, proprietor of the New York
Tribune and ambussador of the Uult
d States to the Court of St. James,
was married recently iu the Chapel
Royal, St James Palace, Lpudon, to
John Hubert Ward, brother of the
Earl of Dudley and Equerry-ln-walt-ing
to King Edward. Die ambassa
dor gave away his daughter.
Ills majesty aud the queen and
Other members of the royal family
were among those present iu the an
cient chapel, one of the few remains
f the old palace of the Tudms, la
Which Queen Victoria uud several of
tier daughters were married. The roy-
tl party also attendod the reception
ubsequently hold at Dorchester House,
the residence of Mr. Keld.
The bride wore but three pieces of
Jewelry, and these were old-fashioned
Clasp bracelets, the wedding presents
of King Edward, Queen Alexandra and
Ir. Ward. President Roosevelt's gift
was a raro old Dutch book treating of
America.
LORD'S PRAYEB ON PIN HEAD.
Vera ii k New York Enitravcr Accom
plishes Clerer Piece of Work.
The Lord's Prnyer engraved In per
fectly legible letters on the head of a
common, ordinary pin It doesu't eeem
possible, yet this Is a feat that has
keen performed by William Stuart, a
young photo-engraver at No. 23 City
Pall place New York. Mr. Stuart
ucceded In putting the entire Lord's
JPrayer on the head of the pin, together
With his name and the year, making a
jtotal of 207 letters, Even then Mr.
JJtuart did not "stretch" himself, but
was content to stop when he had fin
ished with the prayer and his name.
By crowding and filling up small gaps
e could hare cut in many more let
ters. The pin, looked at with the naked
tjy, seems merely to have a slightly
toughened head. The letters can be
ad only with a magnifying glass. The
Work was done at odd times during a
regular week's work. It would be sup
posed that sueh a feat required spe
cially prepared tools of a very fine
and expensive make. On the contrary,
l was done with a common wood ea
craver's tool, known as a "No. 1 ellip
tical picture tint" and costing x 10
rents, and an ordinary Under magnify
ing glass such as Is used in examining
linen cloth, and which costs 25 cents.
Mr. Stuart does not consider the Lord's
prayer engraving a remarkable feat,
e he once succeeded In putting 07
rf.aarnvcir tn for
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PBOUUl.'riO.Y JS KNL&MUtU "Si T1MK8.
letters ou a ribbon plu, which is one
ihlrty-secoud of an Inch In diameter.
Severul years hjjo it was (ulu a
fad to wwr us watch charms gold dol
lars on which wero engraved the
Lord's Prayer. This was considered
remarkably fine work at the time, but
pe pin used by Mr. Stuart measured
nly one-sixteenth of uu inch In dlatn
fr. The above engraving of the pin
Jad has been enlarged atout 7S4
time and Is from the New York
Tress.
Swordameu of (be tea.
The swordsmen of the sea are the
fawflahea, spearfishes, salltlsbes, sword
Ashv and the narwhal, with its sHral
fy twlitod straight tusks. The saw
xlshes Inhabit the warmer seas, wldle
xne narwnai is a creature of the arctic.
be tusk of the narwhal is hollow
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nearly to the point and is spirally
grooved. It uses Its tusk as a weapon
of defense and to plunge through tha
ice to breath, the narwhal being a
cetacean. Sometimes when a boat has
been caught In the Ice great dnmaga
has been Inflicted by the Inquisitive-
aoss or blundering of this great 'creai
ture, that sometimes reaches a lengtl1
of fifteen feet, with a tusk of from si?
to ten feet In length. As a rule, how
ever, the narwhal uses its tusk for tha
purpose of killing fish for food. In the
custlo of Rosenberg the kings of Den
mark have long possessed a magnifi
cent throne made of tusks of this.
cetacean. These tusks are harder and
ivhlter than ivory.
THE "WHITE HOUSE BRIDE."
Mn. Frances Polaem Cleveland,
Widow of the Late Ex-Prealdent.
Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland, the
"White House Bride," who is left to
mourn the death of Former President
MRS. GOOVEB CLEVELAND.
Cleveland, was the youngest mistress
the White House ever had, as well as
the most favored by diplomatic socie
ty. Her grief Is 6hared sincerely by a
host of fronds, muuy unknown person
ally to her, who were made in every
State while she was In the public eyo
as wire of the Tresldent.
Mrs. Cleveland is the daughter of
Oscar and Enmm C. Folsom, and her
father was the law partner of Mr.
Cleveland in Ruffalo, whero she was
born July 21, 1804.
Miss Folsom became the wife of
President Cleveland on June 2, 1885,
the wedding ceremony being performed
In the lilue Room ut the White Housa
In the midst of a brilliant assemblage
,
The tVldovr'a Doner.
It is certain that "dower," the ontuU
for life which the widow acquires at
her husbands death, was not known
among the early Saxons. In the laws
of King Edmund the widow Is directed
to be supported wholly nut of tile po;
sonal estate. Dower Is g"nrnl!y as
cribed to the Normans, but it was first
Introduced into the feudal system by
Knilteror Frederick II., who 'whs con
temporary with the KnglUh Henry III.
about 1'J.K).
Had Iu lleur It Klrat.,
"Mrs. Skd"dell was telling me a
Htory to-ilui about that odious Mr
Galley." began Mrs. JIgley.
Seo here!" luterrupted lar hus
band. "I thought you hated gossip."
"Why-erso I do, but, of course, i
can't hate it thoroughly until I know
JURt exactly what It is." Philadelphia
Press.
Tlit.it It la Muiderrd.
. "How long Is the life of the average
so-called popular song?"
Till the girl who lives next door to
us gets hold of It." Houston, Tex,
Post
There U nothing ulutoaic about a
man's love for
Ail TMl
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
THE NOISELESS MAXIM
GREAT and terrible responsibility rests
I upon the boulders of Hiram Percy Maxim,
A" I son of the inventor of the machine guns,
iii-Wi uuj iu a ii-vciii vtintn, n uu ruj,t
He has patented gun which will kill a
man with no nioro noise than the hissing
of a sua lie. Armed with this silent weap
on, a murderer could shoot down his victim without at
tracting the least attention, and only on examination
would the cause of death be revealed.
On the other hand, a single policeman using the rJolse
less gun could disable every member of a gang or bur
glars before they recovered from their surprise- It is
an Invention which may lead to the re-equipment of the
finned forces of the world and the revolutionising of
modern methods of warfara will perhaps even haston
the hnppy day when thero will be no war, for the very
best safeguard against war la the invention of weapons
of such terrible power that armies will never dare to
tand against each other. "War," said Bismarck, "Is
the greatest enemy of war and will eventually be put
out of existence."
In the next great war SKlrmlshers may use noiseless
rifles, enabling them to creep along an enemy's front
and shoot down the unsuspecting pickets one after an'
other, and not until their bodies were discovered would
the alarm bo given. The extended front of a wholo
nny, concealed in the underbrush or behind rocks, could
work terrible havoc among the opposing forces before
its position could be located. To the big game hunter
the silent firearm will open new horizons. Utlca Globe.
MENACE OF THE RED
HE red flag of anarchistic revolution is not
native. It Is of foreign birth and the nroo-
8 I aganda has been Imported with our mll-
nulla VI xiiiiuiji nuiik i v uaif uvi vuij
Imported the agitators, but we have lm
ported the masses for them to work on.
In America tho movement is almost entire
ly confined to the cities, because there are clustered the
working people. Each has Its alien branch or branches,
end aliens coming from portions of Europe where enor
nous military establlrbments alone repress revolt against
notorious oppression, both political and economic, are
ripe foe rBnertt They know but vaguely what their
changed conditions are. They are bewildered by the dis
play of wealth, predatory or fairly earned, that they see
bout them, not realizing that here, as never in Europe,
any one of their who has the ability can become a rich
man. The local center of each dispersion of the leaven
of revolt will thus be found among the aliens or among
people who have caught It from the aliens, save as it
hos begun to permeate our colleges and universities, and
even there foreign professors and translations of foreign
books have been the cause of inception.
The actual lenren nf revolt when
"I don't sny It reproachfully at all,
because I know you cant help It and
it's something that you are overcoming
all the time," said the cashier. "You're
not in the least to blame, my boy, but
you are very young. You can't deny
it"
"I'm not going to." said the bill
clerk. "It's far from my Intention.
What's more, I'm glad that I am
very young and I'd like to keep that
way if I could. If you think I'm ach
ing for a bold spot and a pair of nose
glasses you've got another guess."
"Tut, tutP' said the cashier. "Why
this heat?"
"Oh, I'm not hot," said the bill clerk.
"But I'll tell yon, my venerable friend,
some of you back numbers need calling
down good and hard. Most of you are
useful only as horrible examples."
"Precisely," agreed the cashier.
"That is our unselfish aim. We wish
to warn the rising generation to avoid
the errors Into which we fell during our
own unreflecting oge. We point out the
pitfalls and the snares that beset your
path and wherein we left more or less
cuticle. We confess our youthful fol
lies and vices, even."
"You brag of 'em," said the bill clerk.
"If you didn't have any you invent
'em. You haven't got the snap to get
into any particular trouble now and
so you try to make out that it's be
cause you know better. I'm wise to
you stiffs, all gUt. i don't have to
be a hundred years old to know you,
either."
"I'm surprised at you, Johnny," said
the cashier.
"You don't need to be," said the bill
clerk. "You may have known some
thing one time, but you've forgotten it.
You think you're alive, don't you? Well,
you ain't I'm living, myself. I'm
right out iimoiig 'em with my eyes oin,
stirring around. You're covered with
moss and all you can do Is to look back
and try to remember. Then you come
around and give me good advice. I
like your nerve."
"'Young folks think ohl folks aro
fools, but old folks know young folks
are fools,' " quoted tls- cashier.
"It's all right nbout that," unld the
bill clerk. "If that's so the young folks
have got the serine to keep their opin
ions to themselves. That's what makes
me sore. When a man's head Ix-gins
to push through his hair and he takes
a fifty-two Inch licit he looks st n young
fellow as If -It was o shame to allow
him to run loose. If he hasn't got any
thing fresh to sny about a chap he
looks It. If a fellow's Just holding
down a salaried Job the man with the
Whiskers thinks lie's n dull that won't
never amount to shucks. If he goes up
to the house, papa glares ut him Uke
he'd Just broke out of Jail. Why? IW--causo
a guy has all his t-eth and
doesn't have to go to sleep after din
ner. It's ronu'thlng fierce the rind I've
got, walking around without a cane
and reading a paper without putting
on two pairs of sjiectaeles to do It
ain't it? Think of my nerve being able
to play tennis for a whole afternoon
at a stretch! And what do you think
of me wearing a red M-cktl and keep
ing my shoes polished? Isu't that the
saur
GUN.
tho Unitod States found lodgment in St Louis and Mil
waukee among the brewery colonies. In Cincinnati and
Chicago among the stock yard employes, and In New"
York among the brewery men and dock laborers. This
particular bit of leaven has never ceased to ferment,
though many thousands of men whom It then affected,
as they got Jobs and homes and began, to prosper, forgot
it and would now be ashamed of tha Ideas they ones
held. Cor. Broadway Magazine. ,
a N New
ill
what he thought was the truth.
We should say that ha was not Aside froet the ques
tion how much truth physicians really know, tha power
of suggestion, which only of lata rears has come to be
understood, must be taken into account Its force was
shown by the patient's suicide ; but, even tf ha had not
violently killed himself, the probability Is that he would
have dlel A fixed idea In the mind of a sick man has
eaormous strength. If the physician had told tho patient
that he would get well, the power of suggestion might
have enabled him to throw off his disease. Chris tlsn
Science docs such things every day. But, tree tf this
had not been so, tha patient's last days would have been
mads happier.
The phyBklaja's duty Is not to teil all tha truth, aa hs
understands It, bat to cheer as well as to heaLOea
Moines News.
FLAG.
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successful In farm work that promises- aa Independent
livelihood.
Why leave the farm? Stick to 13m farm. Drerer lose
sight of the fact that, with brain and brawn back of yon,
the best investment on earth for you to raaka is in the
earth lUell
The shores of tho commercial stream are strewn with
wrecks of bright men who sought to get rich quick In
the cities and wear a boiled shirt and kid gloves while
doing it If they had remained on the farm and later
engaged Iu farming, soring and living within their means,
their life would have been marked with svocesa, with a
competency for old age. Again we repeat: Stick to the
farm. The Successful Farmer.
first imported ' Into
"I certainly think that a less obtru
sive color In a necktie would bo prefer
able," sold the cashier.
"Of course you' do," said the bill
clerk. "And if I made a remark on
any subject you'd .stare at mo as if
you didn't know whether to kick me or
laugh at me, I haven't got any busi
ness to have any opinion about any
thing when there's anybody around
with white whiskers and a big bay
Mndow."
"Tell me Just one thlna" said tho
cashier.
"Well, what is Itr asked the bill
clerk.
"Has he got anything against you be
sides the fact that you're, calling
around to see his daughter?"
"Sure," replied the bill clerk. "Alnt
I telling you? I'm very young, conse
quently I haven't got a grain of sense
and I ain't worth my salt and never
will be. You think you're awful foxy,
don't you?" Chicago Dally News.
THEATER BUILT BY A PIRATE.
Havana's Great Plaraouae Founded
Seventy Tear a Ago hr Marty.
The history of the Tacou theater of
Havana is very Interesting. Iu the year
185 Francisco Marry, who was then
the leader of a band of pirates which
Infested the Island of Cuba, and who
bad a price of $10,000 ou his head, was
captured and ordered to bo put to death.
Seeing there was no hope for him, he
asked leave to see General Tacon, who
was then governor general of Havana,
and told him If bis llfo was spared he
would denounce his entire band and
assist him In ridding the Island of the
number of pirates which Infested It at
that period. Accordingly General Tacon
gave him two weeks' perolo and lnalde
of a week Marty bad denounced his fel
low pirates and turned them over to
the government For this service he
was parrtoned.
In 1830 Marty asked for tho conces
sion to build a national theater on the
site of Parque Central. It was granted
to him. General Tacon went further
and allowed hlra the privilege of the
utte of forty convicts who were then
confined In Morro cast he to assist hi in
In tho work, eoch convict receljring the
sum of 20 cents a la. In 18SS the
theater wns finished and Marty, as
proof of the gratitude ho felt toward
General Tacon for bj airing his life,
named It Kl Teatro Tueon.
1 hiring the Insurrection In Csba many
exciting Incidents took place hero. In
one Instance a regiment of Cuban ia
Nurtents barricaded themselves in the
-theater ami held It against the Span
iards for three days. Finally they
were starved out, and ns they were
tusking their escape all were shot.
The theater is built of white stone
with decorations of marble, and facing
Central Park, being In tho center of
the fashionable district of Havana. It
Is one of the largest theaters In the
world, seating over Jl.OiK) iwrsous.
Cuban Itevlew.
THRIFT IN ONE HONEYMOON.
Ilualtnud and Wife Do Kurooe and
Male a llandaouie Profit.
Early In the winter a young Aineri
van couple decided to take their honey
moon trip with u tourist excursion par
ty txxikcd for a rather extenslvo trip
through southern Europe and the orl
ent nt a cost of $PM) each. Including all
expense except iwrsonal tips. The
bridegroom provided himself with two
good cunnrns aud an unlimited quun
SHOULD DOCTORS TELL TUB TBTJTHf
York tho other day a physician told
his patlant that death was sure within a
few hours, whereupon the patient cut his
throat This uaexpocted action brought
the case to public notice and awakened
much discussion as to whether the phy
sician waa justified In telling tha patient
OFFERS OTTOKTUNTTT.
ELA.T la needed among our farm boys is a
better knowledgo of the posntbtlrUes that
lie at their very door. Raised as the farm
boy is, with a chance to become a keen ob
server in a business that speaks success. If
Industry is applied and economy followed,
there Is a wonderful opportunity to become
tlty of films, intending to make enough
photographs of out-of-the-way scenes tq
cover part of his traveling expenses,
The bride had a very different scheme
In view. She had managed when en
gaging her passage to secure promise ot
accommodations at the best hotels on,
the itinerary, such aa the Cecil In Loni
don, the Grand In Paris, Shepard's lq
Cairo, and she saw to It that those
promises were rigidly fulfilled later on.
At every one of the twenty-threa
hotels that she rtarted she .procured,
hotel labels for her trunks or hand,
baggage in aa great quantities as pos
sible. In some Instances she obtained
as ninny as twenty through judicious
tipping, In others only six or eight. No
matter if she stayed only one day she
saw to It that her hand baggage was
labeled, and meanwhile she sought
and found her opiortTinlry to add to
her collection.
At Monre Carlo and other fashionable
resorts sho made shift to secure labels
from hotels which sho Btmply visltod
for thut purpose. All told, she accu
mulated 220 by the end of the trip.
Also she bought $T0 worth of Maltese
lace at the moment of the ship's de
parture foom that port; when the vender
sold his entire stock at a rulnoua reduc
tion rather than hold It over for the
next uncertainty.
Meanwhile her husband, who had
lost no opportunity In the photograph
ing lines, had gathered together a val
uable collection of Sonne, which he
displayed among the pnssengera on his
return trip, with the frank explanation
that he had mado them for the pur
pose of selling them st home.
Mai ot UK oaasencers wha were
without photographs offered good prices
for certain favorite scenes cover less
than $1 a picture and sometimes $2,
By the time tho photographer arrived
Lu New York he had sold a little over
300 pictures for C400. He disposed of
the remaining scenoa to a magaatne
writer at $1 a picture. AO told, he
cleared 21, deducting the cost of his
materials.
The bride sold ber MaHeso lace for
exactly four time the amount she paid
for It Then she sot a boat the disposal
of her hotel checks by advertising to
the effect that she bad a few of the
above for sole axnoug people who liked
to give tholr baggage a much-traveled'
apiearance. Sho received numerous
answers, and so eager were her cus
tomers to buy her odd wares that she
had no dlfllculty In obtaining SI apiece
for flie la-bels. Her profits amounted
to fT170, wtille hnr husband's reachod
$121. Their four months' honeymoon
trip cost thcin oxai-tly $220. New York
Tlllieg.
If There Waa a Poetal Truat.
"If the malbj, rrke tho railroads, like
nwat, like oil, were in trust hands,"
anl a socialist, "you couldn't send a
postal card serosa the world for 2 cents.
"Thero la In the Gorman postal mu
seum u letter thtt wsh aeut from Phil
adelphia to Moaifenburg tn 1789. This
letter shows us what we would be get
ting to-lay if tho governments of tho
world had not taken the malls out of
private hands.
"The letter bears the postmarks of
Philadelphia, Umflon, Calais, Brussels,
The Hague, Amsterdam and Hamburg.
That waa Its Une of route. The post
age on it, though. Is the main thing.
The I'Mtage waa Just $4.70."
There are times iu a man's life when
nothlug will satisfy him but a look at
the deyhaa" ' ,
Old Favorites
Worth Wall.-.
T.t la easy enough to be pleoaont,
i 'When life flow by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will
smile
When everything goes dosd wrong ;
For tb tent of ths heart Is trouble,
And It always comes with the years,
And Itoa mille that is worth the praises of
earth
Is the smile, that shines through tears.
It I easy enough to be prudent
When nothing tempts you to stray.
When without or within no voice of sin
Is luring your soul away ;
But it's only a negative virtue
Until It Is tried by fire,
And the life that is worth the honor on
en-tii
Is the one that resists desire.
By the cynic, tlx seal, the fallen,
Who had no strength for tho strife,
The world's highway is cumbered to-day,
They make up the sum of life.
But the virtue that conquers passion,
And the sorrow that hides in a smile;
It is these that are worth the homage on
earth,
Vor we find them but once In a while.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Jane.
And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, If ever, come per foot days,
Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in
tune,
And over It softly her warm ear lays ;
Whether we look or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur or see It glisten;
Bvery clod feels a stir of might,
An instinct within It tfliat reaches and
towers,
And, grasping blindly above It f light,
Ollmbs to a soul for grass and flowers ;
The flush of life may well be seen
Thrilling back over hills and valleys;
The cowslh) startles in meadow green,
The buttercup catches the sun In Its
chance.
And there's never a leaf nor a blade too
mean
To be some happy creature's palace.
James Russell Lowell.
WHEN MSN ARB SHIPWRECKED.
rnat'a tho Tinae Tfcey lUellr
Hat Their Boats.
Shlpva-eCked persons have been kept
alive on the most repugnant and un
wholesome of foods. Probably the hard
est fare that six strong men and a boy
of 15 ever kept alive on was the dally
rnenu of the Wlndovers survivors, who
were cast up on tho Irish coast near
KJlsegg. They lived sixteen days on
stewed rope yarn.
When they took the ship's small boat
Jhey had water enough for a month, but
puiy a small amount ol proviaiuun.
These lasted four days. After having
hothlng at all to eat for the following
aayg they tried boiling lengths of
tarred hemp rope into pulp and wal
lowing it
They had a keg of paraffin wax
which they boiled to add to the nourish
ment The sickness they experienced
as a result of the dlot, says What to
Eat, was only temporary, and they land
ed In comparatively good health.
Capt Maboly of the foundered steam
rr Gwallor and his second officer cre
ated a record by living for seventeen
days on boot leather and a pint of
water a day each.
Of course, no teeth can tear cowhide
boota; they have to be cut up and
Shredded with a knife and the shreds
Chewed and swallowed. Boiling, even
when possible, It Is said, does no good,
but takes from the nourishment of the
boots. A few ounces of leather, being
rery hadd to dlkest, stays in the stom
ch for fifteen or twenty hours.
A diet of boota and shoes ia one of
the commonest of laBt resource foods,
and though it is hard for a well-fed
person to Imagine that any one could
masticate and digest tbs leather, a pair
of long sea boots will keep a man alive
for a fortnight If he has a little water.
Two men who went to a small island
off the Irish coast not long ago kept
themselves going for ten days on a diet
probably worse than this. They landed
pi a boat which was smashed by a wave
on their trying to relaunch her, and
they were kept on the bare, rocky Island
without food.
Fortunately there was a spring on
the island, but nothing in the way of
sea gulls which they could catch, and
nothing with which to make a fire as a
distress signal, xnere were not even
any shellfish, as there was no beach,
and the pair bad to subsist for ten days
on cold, raw seaweed washed up by the
tide.
The best known and most useful of
ptaravtlon diets for wrecked or cast
away people, however, is that of barna
cles. Threo bngfisnmcn and a crew
of Lascars who bad been forced to
abandon the sailing vessel North Star
a few months ago kept themselves go
ing for more thou a week on barnacles.
and only two of the crew died.
The worst of this diet Is that the
barnacles give one Internal crumps and
cause an insufferable thirst, but they
do nourish the frame. You have to
reach under the vessel's side and pull
them off, taking enro not to leave tho
best half of them sticking to the
planks.
WHAT MAN SHOULD EAT.
A Stadr of Anatomy Soaueata a
Fruit Dlel.
In discussing this subject, the Lou
don Lancet says that thoso who do not
want to rank as extremists will do well
to eschew the glandular organs, Much
as Bweetbreads and liver; to pin their
faith to mutton and one or two kinds
of fish; to give up coffee and drink
weak China tea.1 Those who w ish to go
further should reflect, first, that man Is
neither carnivorous nor herbivorous.
For long scientists have obscured the
view by useless arguments as to wheth
er or not a man was meant to live like
a cow.
There are other sj)ecle8 than the flesh
and grass-eating animals; all students
of comparative anatomy know now
that the teeth of humun beluga are
Identical with those of the fruglvorous
apes who live ou fruits and nuts, Not
only so, but the proportion of bowel
length to body length, in man eorre
sponds exactly with that In the same
species, In marked contrast to what
obtains in all carnivorous animals.
where tho bowel is proportionally short
A study of anatomy, therefore, sug
gests a fruit diet as the most suitable!
further confirmation Is afforded by tha
obvious predilection of nearly all chil
dren for such food. The best fruits for
food are apples, bananas, grapes, nuts,
dates, raisins and figs.
Nuts aro especially valuable, owing
to the large amount of fat they con-.
tain ; the old-faMiIoned idea that they
are Indigestible is due partly to the
error lu taking them at the end of an
olrendy more than ample meat meal,
and partly to Insufficient mastication.
Chestnuts are the easiest to digest and
make nu excellent food. Many other
fruits may be taken, always remember
ing that stone fruils sometimes, dis
agree, nd that acid fruits should ba
taken In moderation. Strawberries con
tain a considerable amount of purlns,
and should be avoided by all with it
gouty or rheumatic tendency. Among
fruits, we Include those of the cereals,
such as wheat and rice. White bread
Is free from purln, but brown coutoins
a varying amount derived from the
husk. The most wholesome form of
bread la unleavened.
THE POINT OF VIEW.
The prevalence of tigers in Korea
and also the method of governmental
control over their capture and over the
sale of their skins Is well illustrated
by this story given by Frof. G. T. Ladd
In his book, "In Korea with Marquis
Ito." A foreigner who was fond of
hunting big game was negotiating with
two tiger-hunters for a trip to the re
gion of Mokpo.
Knowing well the Korean character
as respects veracity, It was necessary
for the inquirer to discover whether
the men were really courageous and
skillful hunters, ss well as whether
tigers were really to be met In the re
gion over which it was proposed to
hunt Something like the following
conversation then took place:
"You claim to be brave tiger-hunters
but have you ever aotually killed a ti
ger?" "Yes, of coarse, many of them."
"But what are you hunting at the
present time?"
"Just now we are hunting ducks."
"now much Is a tiger worth to you
when you succeed In getting one?"
"Well, if we can have all there is of
hlra, the skin, the bones and all the
rest, we should rsake at least one
hundred and ten yen."
"Why, then, do you hunt ducks,
which bring you so little, when you
might kill tigers, which, are worth so
much?"
"Yes, but If I kill a tiger the magis
trate hears of It and sends for me;
and he says: '
'You are a brave man, for you have
killed a tiger. You deserve a reward
for your courage. Here are five yen;
but the tiger, you know, belongs to the
crown, and I will tale that in the
name of his majesty.'
"Now do you thlak I am going to
risk my life to earn one hundred and
twenty yen for the magistrate, and get
only five yen for myself?"
But, tell me truly, are there really
tigers to be found in that neighbor
hood?" "Yes, Indeed there are."
"How do you know that?
"Why, Just recently two men of the.
neighborhood were eaten by tigers."
Indeed, that Is certainly encourag
ing."
"It may be encouraging for the for
eign gentlenian who wishes to hunt the
tiger, but it was not very encouraging
for the Korean gentlemen who were
eaten by tigers."
Pelltlclaaa' aad Other Bibles.
'You bibliophiles talk about tht
'breeches Bible, the 'bug' Bible, and so
on what do those names mean?"
'I'll tell you," the collector answer
ed. 'Take, first, the 'breeches' Bible.
It la so called because a typographical
error In it causes tho garments made
by Adam and Eve out of fig leaves to
be termed breeches instead of aprons.
"In the 'vinegar' Bible of 1807 the
word "vineyard' Is misprinted "vinegar.
"The prlnters' Bible, 1702, makes the
psalmist say : 'Printers have persecuted
me without a cause.'
"The 'religious' Bible, which waa
printed in 1637, put "religious' for "re
bellious' in the fourth chapter, seven
teenth verse of Jeremiah 'Because she
hath been religious salth the
Lord.
v "The 'politician' Bible was published
at Geneva In 1302. It makes the fam
ous verse, 'Blessed are the peacemak
ers,' read "Blessed are the placemak
ers.' " i
Flexible Stone.
The stone looked llko a piece of dark
gray granite. It was a foot long and
several Inches thick. Lifted, It beut
this way and that, like rubber.
"It is ltaooluuilte, or flexible sand
stone," said the owner. "It la found in
California, Qeorgla and several other
States. Hi-sides bending, It will stretch.
"Look at it closely, and you will see
that It Is formed of a uumber of small
pieces of stone, of various tints, all
dove-tailed together loosely, so as to
allow of a slight movement.
"This movement Is what causes the
stone to bend. See how It bends! Like
rubber precisely, eh? But If I bent It .
too far, It will break."
A Widow.
Landlord You say you are a widow?
Applicant for Flat Yes. And by the
way, do you mind If I pay my rent
regularly ou the 10th of the mouth,
Instead of the 1st? You see, I get my
check for allumuy then. Somervllle
Journal.
A IHflereuce.
"I suppose you did lose a little
money. Forget It! You ought to take
things philosophically "
"I always do, but it's hard to part
with things philosophically," Phlladttl.
phla Press.
Every man' who has tasted Joy m
finally admlf thut It has a bitter taste.