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- A A i lWtfPll A FISHERMANS LUNCH fovr the True Antfler Broils Trout For HI Noonday Meal In the deep shade of the tree the bas kets are laid and now u lire Is started nearby one of Van Dykes little friendship fires which shall also cook a few trout Get two flat stones friend and theyll be hard to find In this bowlder country but they arc sometimes worn quite Hat while I gather some sufficient wood Into the lira the stones go and the wood Is heaped about them Soon the Intense glow of live wood embers indicates that the time has come The trout a sliver of bacon In each are placed on one stone first well dust ed of Its ashes and the other stone is laid upon them Now the hot embers are raked about and over the stones and the lunch Is spread on the big rock near the spring O ye epicures who think nothing good unless served by a Delmonlco or u Sherry go ye into the mountains fol low a brook for half a day get wet and tired and hungry sit down by an Ice cold spring and cat brook trout cooked on the spot and delicious bread and butter liberally spread with clover hon ey Not till then have ye dined Trout end Philosophy on a Vermont Stream In Outing A tot of Land A Ilnrtford lawyer is of the opinion that the term lot as applied to a par cel of land Is an American product not derived from any other uses of the word He says I have been reading up some of the old histories of my state of Long Island and other colo nial sections recently and I find that the term a lot of land was originated In the colonicsthat it is today consid ered an Americanism and stands apart from other uses of the word It origi nated from the custom of dividing grants for townships etc into parcels of land and then numbering each par cel putting the numbers into a hat or whatever was used and then having them drawn out by those who were to occupy the land Each man took the parcel corresponding to his number so his land came by lot literally and hence the use of the term This I pre sume is ancient history but perhaps ancient enough to have been forgotten by most real estate dealers and other people who deal in land and not lan guage Lightning and Watches An electrical storm seems to have a peculiar effect on some timepieces remarked the junior partner of a big downtown jewelry firm Every time lightning and thunder get active in this vicinity one of the results is that our watch repairing department is overworked for several days there after The damage wrought chiefly consists of broken mainsprings When business gets dull with us added the jeweler jokingly we re quire all our employees to pray for a thunderstorm Failure to comply with this order is considered sufficient cause for discharge I am unable to make clear the whys and wherefores but it is an established fact that after the lightning has frolicked awhile in come the watches with mainsprings wreck ed Washington Star Wanted Rainwater Boy bring me a large pitcher of rainwater and a small pitcher of well water said the woman from the coun try who just had been assigned to a room in one of the fashionable uptown hotels Yesm said the boy with an air of Now what kind of a drinks that Its a new one on me At the bar they turned him down Its no mineral waters she wants1 Just draw two pitchers of Croton from the faucets and pass em up to her Rainwater I aint heard of it since I was a boy and lived in the country said the bartender You couldnt use it if you could find it in New York New York Press Societys Right to Confiscate What shall become of a mans prop 1 crty after he is dead is a matter for so 1 ciety to determine If it seems inexpe dient to allow a rich man to leave a child reared in luxury without meana of support or to leave a quarrel on the hands of his heirs it is entirely within societys right to restrict his license in that particular The whims of testa tors are a good deal of a nuisance and are too much respected by law though not by courts Life Superstitions Ah out Bees The superstitions which connect bees -with the death or sickness of the mem bers of the particular family in which they are kept are interesting In Scot land and Ireland the entrance of a bee into a cottage more particularly if it be a bumblebee Is looked upon as a certain sign of the death of some one then residing there In other locali ties if bees in swarming settle upon dead wood it is regarded as equally ominous Gennine Surprise Tess I told that old beau of yours that you were married Jess Did you Did he seem sur prised Tess Yes Indeed He said How on earth did that happen Philadel phia Press Accustomed to Luxuries Mr Courting exhibiting penknife This handle is pure silver What do you think of that Little Girl Huh Thats nothing Sisters teeth is on a plate of pure gold A Subtle Distinction When a person of wealth indulges in unusual taste or hobbies he is de scribed as being eccentric If he Is a poor man he Is merely called a crank Exchange A BARGAIN IN HATS The Queen Bee She possesses the power of choosing which of her offspring shall be drones and which workers Some have thought that this was automatic and that the narrower worker cell touched the button so to speak that brought forth a fertilized egg But the queen will lay worker eggs in drone cells if she thinks fit so that settles that If the drone is male and the queen female what is the worker The new woman of Beedom She has given up her motherhood for a business career Sometimes though she lays eggs but they always hatch out drones of which It is strictly true to say they have a mother but no father If the queens wings are crippled so that she cannot make her marriage flight her children are all drones An Italian queen in a hive of black bees will beget work ers of mixed blood but her sons are pure Italians Drones are useful as fathers of workers but they cannot col lect the honey they eat Their tongues are too short Ainslees Clnddaeh RInfffl The old poesy rings are a much sweeter souvenir than more modern ones A friend has one which had be longed to her great grandmother such a narrow gold circlet The motto en graved inside in old lettering was as follows God above increase our love The Claddagh rings of Ire land are now very difficult to procure that is the genuine specimens of course There are many imitations These rings were heirlooms with the people of the Claddagh a distinct gyp sylike race of fishermen and were handed down from mother to daugh ter as a wedding ring a marriage be ing scarcely considered legal if an or dinary ring were substituted They were made of massive gold decorated with a heart bearing a crown sup ported by two clasped hands signify ing loyalty love friendship The Unattained The quickest way to make any man weary of his life is to give him all his hearts desire The struggle for the unattained is the secret of joy Here Is a man who has been giving his years to a reckless round of pleasure Now you see him waking up to find that the deepest needs of his soul are still un- A Family Combine Deacon Jones I know of three broth ers in a neighboring town that would afford excellent material for a sermon on the theme of brotherly love Deacon Brown Ill make a note of it Tell me more about them deacon Deacon Jones Well John the eld est is a physician Thomas the second brother is an undertaker and William the youngest is a marble cutter Chi cago News Better Than Wealth Employ your time by improving yourself by other mens documents so shall you come easily by what others have labored hard for Prefer knowl edge to wealth for the one is transi tory the other perpetual Let Them Romp It is a good thing to remember when the children are noisy that some day they will all be married and living far away and the house will be as quiet as a tomb Atchison Globe Perfect Bits Gladys How did you enjoy Mrs Up pertons reception Ethel Oh great It was the most complete failure I ever saw Puck HE GOT THE GOODS The ICciinou One Woman Rejoices A business Deal Between Totter While Another One Mourns Palmer und A T Stewart A Philadelphia woman moving ln At the time of the civil war said good society has been cured of a ma- an old merchant Potter Palmer was nia for attending rummage sales but in the dry goods business In Chicago It took a heroic treatment to effect the and Levi Z Leiter and Marshall Field cure The other day she went to a were working f him Palmer wasnt sale of the description named In aid of so well known but he hud a gcd rep- a worthy charity in which she j Inter ested and came away minus a cwenty Uve dollar hat It happened this way A feature of the sale was a counter filled with untrimmed hats advertised Your choice for 00 cents Now the North Thirty third street woman didnt want an untrimmed hat at 50 cents but there was one that caught her fancy by reason of its odd shape and she simply couldnt resist the tempta tion to try it on So she took off the utation in the trade and he dida t have to Introduce himself when he called on old A T Stewart to buy some goods After some dickering they agreed upon the price and Palmer calmly said that he would take about 100000 worth It was a little larger bill than Stewart exactly cared to sell young Palmer on credit but he concluded to make the deal and told him to come in the nest morning and arrange some final de tails That night some big war news handsome hat she was wearing placed came and it didnt require any It on the counter and picked up the un- ration by the government to inform ev trimmed one Then she looked around ery dry goods man in the country that for a mirror There was only one and the price of goods would take a big that was away at the other end of the spurt up Stewart recognized it as soon long room as he had the news and he immediate- She pushed her way through the iy thought of Palmer lie also thought crowd and in the meantime a fat 0f the big bill of goods Palmer had ored womans eyes were glued to the bought of him It didnt particularly hat she had left behind on the pile tickle Stewart that thought didnt marked Your choice for 50 cents It was a golden opportunity not to be missed Counting out 50 cents in dimes nickels and pennies she shoved them at the innocent young attendant and made good her escape with the fash ionable womans hat Exchange But it required only a few scratches of his red head to fix things to his sat isfaction He would simply tell Pal mer that he was sorry but that he didnt feel that he could sell such a big bill on credit and as he knew that Palmer couldnt raise the cash imme diately why that would end It and the sale would be off Weil young Palmer called early and Stewart greeted him in his very abruptest man ner telling him how sorry he was etc but really he didnt think it wise busi ness to extend credit for such an amount Just how much does the biii come to said young Palmer seemingly sorrowful-like Just 110000 Stewart replied and then he straightway gulped for breath as young Palmer drew an immense pocketbook from his inside vest pocket and opening it counted out 110 thou sand dollar bills and lajing them quiet ly on Stewarts desk said If you will kindly count them and give me a re ceipt Ill be obliged as I must take the next train home Ship the goods soon as you can and when youre out our way drop in Always glad to see our friends New York Times AROUND THE HOUSE If marks and stains are on papered walls try French chalk on a piece of dry bread gently rubbed in To keep hardwood floors smooth and clean rub them with waste and warm paraffin oil and polish with dry waste Muslin curtains may be rendered less inflammable by rinsing them in alum water two ounces of alum to one gal lon of water To clean mirrors dip a cloth in methy lated spirits and rub on the mirror Allow it to dry on before polishing with a soft duster Galvanized iron pails for drinking water should not be used The zinc coating is rapidly acted upon by the water forming a poisonous oxide of zinc Make a splendid furniture polish by taking a wineglassful of olive oil one of vinegar and two tablespoonfuls of alcohol apply with a soft cloth and polish with flannel Rugs mats or carpets can be cleaned thoroughly by generously sprinkling on them yellow cornmeal that has been well dampened in clean soapsuds or weak ammonia water Sweep off in a few minutes Sensatory Transmission It has been found that sensation is not absolutely instantaneous but that toucueu ur tnereis anotner man wno i a very minute time elapses as it travels has given twenty five years to the ac- j aiong the nerves Therefore if a per cumulation of knowledge and at last j son put njs finger to a heated iron or we see him like Dr Casaubon in Mid 1 in the blaze of a candle there is a cer dlemarch dying with the stores of tain almost inconceivably small space knowledge all around him which he does not know how to use Didnt Care to Try A woman in a railroad station the other day had a great deal of trouble with one of her children a boy of sev en or eight and a man who sat near her stood It as long as possible and then observed Madam that boy of yours needs the strong hand of a father Yes I know it she replied but he cant help it His father died when he was six years of age and Ive done my best to get another and failed ne cant have what I cant get Would you care to try yourself The listener had fled of time say the one thousandth part of a second before the brain knows of the burn Now suppose a man with an arm long enough to reach the sun From the known rate of sensatory transmission that man would have to live more than 100 years after touching the great luminary before he would know that his fingers had been scorched Showed It Clearly A man who was called on to address a Sunday school in a Pennsylvania town took the familiar theme of the children who mocked Elijah on his journey to Bethel how the youngsters taunted the poor old prophet and bow they were punished when the two she bears came out of the wood and ate forty two of them And now chil dren said the speaker wishing to learn if his talk had produced any moral effect what does this story show Please sir came from a little girl well down in front it shows how many children two she bears can hold A Difficult Case First Lawyer How did you come out in settling up old Gotroxs estate Second Lawyer It was a hard strug gle No Yes I had hard work to keep the heirs from getting part of the estate Ohio State Journal Just the Word Youngwed on bridal tour I would like rooms for myself and wife Hotel Clerk Suite I suppose Youngwed Thats what Shes the greatest thing that ever happened Chicago News Paying the Teacher He There is nothing like experience after all She is our greatest teacher She And there is no holding back her salary either Brooklyn Life FASCINATING DANGER The Perils That Beset the BuilderK of Bljr Bridges The design of a long bridge span is one of the most elaborate mathemat ical problems that arise in constructive work The stresses produced by Its own weight by the weight of traffic by locomotive drivers by the hammer ing of flattened wheels by the action of brakes on an express train by the high speed on a curved track by the wind and by the expansion and con traction of the steel in summer and winter are all accurately calculated The deflection of the loaded and un loaded bridge is determined and com plete drawings are made of every mem ber of It The bars of steel are tested in machines which will pull in two a horsehair or a steel bar strong enough to lift half a score of the heaviest lo comotives at once and which will crush an eggshell or a steel column and accurately measure the stress In each case The different kinds of mem bers are forged riveted bored or planed in perhaps half a dozen remote shops and although usually not fitted together there are examined and meas ured by specialists to see that they are correct and are then shipped by scores of carloads to the site of the proposed structure where steam derricks unload them and pile them many feet high in stacks covering acres of ground The bridge piers may rise above the water hundreds of feet apart It re mains to place them on a thousand ton structure high above a savage chasm over an impassable current or roaring tide where the water is deep the bot tom of jagged rocks or treacherous quicksand or where an old bridge must be removed and the new one built in its place without interrupting traffic on the bridge To accomplish this the engineer has timber bolts and ropes hoisting engines derricks and a band of intrepid builders who have perhaps followed him for years through more hardship and danger than fail to the lot of almost any other calling The complicated framework of a great span is a skeleton with many accurate joints and thousands of steel sinews and bones each of which must go in exactly the right place in exact ly the right order The builder must weave into the trusses pieces larger heavier and far more inflexible than whole tree trunks swiftly hoist and swing them to place hundreds of feet high fit together the massive girders and huge forged bars watchmak ers accuracy support the unwieldy masses until they are keyed together and self sustaining and under mil lions of pounds of stress must adjust them at dizzy heights to mathematical lines This he may need to do not de liberately but in dangerous emergen cies at utmost speed putting forth his whole strength on narrow springing planks in a furious tempest in bitter cold or in blazing heat He may be in the heart of an African desert men aced by bloodthirsty fanatics or in a gorge of the Andes hundreds of miles from tools or supplies where there is absolutely no supplement to his own resources Under such conditions bridge building is one of the most fas cinating and difficult of engineering problems and requires a different so lution for almost every case Frank W Skinner in Century Bells It was long a fixed idea that silver mixed with the bell metal improved the tone but this is now considered in correct The Acton Nightingale and Silver Bell two singularly sweet bells at St Johns college Cambridge are said to have a mixture of silver but if true this is not believed by compe tent authorities to be the cause of their beautiful tone This idea led to the story of the monk Tandio concealing the silver given him by Charlemagne and casting the bell in the monastery of St Paul of inferior metal where upon he was struck by the clapper and killed In the ninth century bells were made in France of iron They have been cast in steel and the tone has been found nearly equal in fineness to that of the bell metal but having less vibration was deficient in length and thick glass bells have been made which give a beautiful sound but are too brit tle to long withstand the strokes of the clapper Gentlemans Magazine The Inventor of the Match The first match was the product of the ingenuity of John Frederick Kom erer who early in the nineteenth cen tury was imprisoned in the peniten tiary at Hohenasperg in Germany He Invented the lucifer match while in his gloomy dungeon The German govern ment forbade the manufacture of matches on the ground of public policy because some children playing with them had caused a fire Komerer was ruined by Viennese competition when he was released from prison and died a pauper Dp to 1S62 the Vienna man ufacturers controlled the match busi ness of the entire world From Real Life Teacher Evil communications cor rupt good manners Now Johnny can you understand what that means Johnny Yesm For instance pa got a communication from mas dressmak er this morning that made him swear Philadelphia Press A Pert Reminder Little Bertie had been taught not to ask for anything at meals One day poor Bertie had been forgotten when he pathetically inquired Do little boys get to heaven when they are starved to death London Tit Bits The gravedigger rises to remark that every man finds himself in a hole soon er or later Philadelphia Record The next hardest thing to getting up in the world Is to keep from getting down TItc Turk and Life Insurance One man wab complaining that he had insured twenty years before In a mutual benefit company which prom ised all sorts of things and now the time was up he received less than he would have done if he had invested his money elsewhere A wise Turk who was sitting close by said it reminded him of a camel belonging to a ft end of his It was a most intelligent brute and the owner was convinced that If he found a really good teacher it could be taught to talk Presently a Hodga appeared who said he was of the same opinion and would teach It but It would take a long time probably thirty years The owner was delighted and agreed to pay the Hodga a fixed sum per annum and a big bonus when the animal talked the Hodga promising to pay a heavy fine if It did not A friend afterward went to the Hodga and said What on earth induced you to make that agreement You know you can never teach the camel to talk Oh said the Hodga I know that but dur ing the thirty years either I shall die or the owner will or the camel Anyhow I am all right as I have my fixed income New York Commercial Advertiser Odd Wedding Cnstoms In Switzerland the bride on her wed ding day will permit no one not even her parents to kiss her upon the lips J In many of the provinces the cook pours hot water over the threshold aft er the bridal couple have gone in order to keep it warm for another bride A favorite wedding day in Scotland Is Dec 31 so that the young couple can leave their old life witli the old year and begin their married life with the new one surely a pretty idea The Italians permit ho wedding gifts that are sharp or pointed from which prac tice emanates our superstition that the gift of a knife severs friendship One of the most beautiful of ail marriage customs is that of the bride immedi ately after the ceremony dinging her bouquet among her maiden friends She who catches it is supposed to be the next bride Word Blindness Some curious instances of the physic al defects of word blindness are giv en in the Lancet The disease is for tunately uncommon In one case the sufferer an Englisman thirty four years of age who knew Greek Latin and French well suddenly lost all knowledge of English though he could read and understand Greek perfectly and Latin and French in a rather smaller degree Another and almost more curious case was that of a man who lost the power of reading at sight j This patient was able to write accu rately from dictation but was com pletely unaule to read what he had written Word blindness is apparently akin to color blindness but is certainly attended by much more inconvenient consequences Odd Plants What an inquiring mind Miss Light ly has exclaimed the cynic We were at an Italian table dhote last evening and she said with a very kit tenish air Oh did you ever see maca roni growing I should think a whole field of those lovely white stalks would be too awfully pretty What did you say old man said his partner Oh I just said no that I had never come nearer to it than seeing a bread tree in flower Then the partner stepped to the tele phone and they carried the cynic home in the ambulance New Orleans Times Democrat A Bit ot John Brishts Sarcasm A noble lord once said on the occa sion of Mr Brights illness that Provi dence was punishing him for misuse of talents by inflicting a disease of the brain The following was Mr Brights sarcastic rejoinder when he resumed his seat It may be so but in any case it will be some consolation to the friends and family of the noble lord to j know that the disease is one which even Providence could not inflict upon him Spinach Spinach derives its name from the Spanish monks who first used it dur ing fast days It belongs to the beet famiy and is generally served as a vegetable although it makes a delicate and appetizing salad- In the spring when mint is fresh and green a few leaves added to the spinach will im prove the flavor whether it is served as a vegetable or a salad Couldnt Be Guilty of That Never said the person of good ad vice to the delicately nurtured Boston youth never say I cant Indeed sir responded the intel lectual lad I trust that my diction is not so open to criticism If you will but be attentive to my conversation you will observe that I say cawnt Baltimore American The Wife Suppose I were an absolutely per fect woman she remarked sharply Do you know what youd do then No answered her husband What Youd growl because you had noth ing to growl about Chicago Post He Didnt Do you believe in signs No A dentists sign reading Teeth Extracted Without Pain fell the other day just as I went under It and knock ed out two teeth of mine Cincinnati Commercial Tribune Thouprht He Was Smart Wife Do you mean to insinuate that your judgment is superior to mine Husband Certainly not my dear Our choice of life partners proves It isnt m rvfr 3afcr n m Mm j if The Doe and the Jackdaw In Savertiaio forest I once witnessed n very pretty little scene I noticed a doe lying down by herself in a grassy hollow and as I passed her at a dis tance of about fifty yards it struck mo as singular that she kept her head so low down that I could only see the top of it on a level with her buck Walk ing round to get a better sight I saw a Jackdaw standing on the tun before her very busily pecking at her face With my glass I was able to watch her movements very closely lie pecked round her eyes then her nostrils her throat and in act every part of her face and Just as a man when being shaved turns his face this way and that under the gentle guiding touch of the barbers fingers and lifts up his chin to allow the razor to pass beneath it so did the doe raise and lower and turn her face about to enable the bird to examine and reach every part with his bill Finally the daw left the face and moving round jumped on the deers shoulders and began a minute search in that part Having finished this he jumped on to the head and pecked at the forehead and round the bases of the ears The pecking done he remained for some seconds sitting perfectly still looking very pretty with the graceful red head for a stand the does long ears thrust out on either side cf him Birds and Man Amazon Ant Cnrdens Dr E Ule contributes to Englcrs Jahrbuch supplement 10 some inter esting observations on ant gardens In the Amazon region where they abound on a largo number of good plants They are generally spherical in form and about the size of a walnut They are formed by several species of ant which appear to collect the seeds of many different plants and to sow them in these nests covering up the seedlings with humus when they begin to germinate In the structure of these ant epiphytes the foliage and the roots display characters which espe cially adapt them for the situation In which they grow and promote also the protection of the ants themselves In their nest Quite a number of the epiphytes were found as denizens of the ant gardensand nowhere else The ElffKcst Not the Best A New York dealer who has han dled shiploads of fruit said recently It is often amusing to see men wom en and children picking out as they be lieve the choicest fruit at the market stands If there are a half a dozen large oranges within sight they will have them even if it is necessary to overturn all the rest in the box or bar rel and this is true with most all other varieties that are sold by the piece or dozen They invariably get the poorest specimens of the whole crop and yet are not aware of it Very rarely you will find a person who is a good judge who will at once size up the heaviest oranges lemons or bananas regardless of size and they capture the choicest fruit Why Two Ears Are Necessary Sound travels by waves radiating from a central point of disturbance just as waves radiate when a stone is dropped into still water So far as tho hearing of each individual is concerned these waves move in a direct line from the cause of the sound to his ear the impact being the greatest in the ear nearest to the source This being the case a person who has totally lost the sense of hearing in one ear although he may imagine that the defect Is of little consequence cannot locate the di rection of a sound to save his life even when the center of disturbance is quite near him A Literary Usht A short time ago a well known writ er of London remembering that he had never read the noncanonical books went out in search of a copy and in one bookshop after another drew blank At last he went to his own par ticular newspaper shop which also dealt in Bibles and light literature Have you the Apocrypha he asked For a moment the young woman be hind the counter was puzzled then brightening she said Is it a weekly or a monthly When the Eyes Stick Inflammation of the conjunctiva or membrane which shields the front of the eyeball from the air and takes the rub of the eyelids is indicated by the glued state of the eyes in the morning and more especially by their bloodshot condition the vessels being bright red in color and winding about in great ir regularity with no discernible order or plan Wormy Shopkeeper to small child who has brought back a recent purchase Whats the matter with the cheese my dear Small Child Please father say3 when he wants any bait for fishing he can dig em up In our back garden London King What Port Your nelm Means In this country the helm Is put to the port side of the ship or left hand side looking forward at the order Port your helm The rudder of course goes to starboard and the ships head moves to starboard This is the rule of most nations but in Sweden the reverse is the rule The Girl From the Scientific School Our daughter has at last met her fate my dear How do you know She received several letters from her admirers this morning but his was the only one she didnt fumigate and sterilize In the Tyrolean parishes of Mieming and Rietz th3 members of nearly every household are engaged in the making of rosaries by stringing beads together k tel m n