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"liLirCES5FW"OKSn IP7 A Story of the Lmtm A. T. 8 toward. I wm a young lawyer at the tune, about us ioor as a Lome missionary. had to go to the late A. T. Stewart's to tako his ftiznaturo to an affidavit, lie signed and I swore him; then ho wished to know how much there wa to pay, In view of what took place afterward, I am justified, 1 think, in Baying that -what Mr. Stewart expected me to say when ho asked "How inuchr was "Oh. that's all right." Bat I didn't say that: I said, "Seventy five cents." "Whatr shouted Mr. Stewart. "Seventy-five cents, I answered again. "I won't ray it" Baid he. "You've no right to ask so much. The price is a shilling, and that's all 111 give you. "But, Mr. Stewart," I replied, "a shil ling is the price when you come to my office. I've come to your store and I've a right to charge for my car fare and a reasonable amount for my time. Seventy-five cents is really a very email charge. Mr. Stewart, a very small charge. "I won't pay it." he persisted. "If yoa want a shilling you may have it. but not one cent more." I got angry then. 1 gave him one look, with which 1 intended to convey the idea that I held him in contempt Then I said: "Mr. Stewart, you are a poor man and I m a nch one. Twenty five cents is nothing to me and seventy- five cents is a fortune to yon. I'll make yon a present of that seventy-five cents that yon owe me. Then I made my best dancing school bow and walked off. Interview in New York Times. The Effect I Ten esa of Modern Gu& The prominence given to a lecture by the German doctor, Dr. Billroth, on the wounded in war, has induced Mr. Archi bald Forbes to write on the subject. Dr. Billroth estimates that ol the cas ualties at Weissenburg and Worth dur ing the Franco-German war, 80 per cent, of all the wounded were caused by rifles, 15 per cent, by the large guns, and not quite 5 per cent, by the lance and sword. Mr. Forbes, however, says that the sta tistics for the whole of the war on the German side prove that over 90 per cent, were due to rifle fire, about 9 per cent. to artillery, and about 1 per cent, to cold steel. The smallness of the mortality from the French artillery is explained by the fact that their artillery was notoriously badly served. Dr. Billroth believes that the future will see a still greater pro portion of deaths resulting from rifle lire than from shell. Mr. Forbes points out that, in 'doing so, no account has been taken of the probable use of highly destructive explosives in the shells of the future. Army and Navy Gazette. The First Protestant In Japan. The first Protestant Christian in Ja pan was one Murata, a military retainer of the Lord of Saga, in the southern is land of Kiushiu. In 1SG0 he went to Nagasaki, by order of his chief, and one evening, as he was crossing the harbor in a boat, he picked up a book that was floating about in the water. The writing ran from side to side, "like the crawling of crabs," and upon sending it to one of the Dutch tneu settled at Nagasaki, he learned that it was the Christian Bible, then a proscribed book. Curiosity spur red him on, and he had one of his as sistants learn the language of the book and translate it for him. sentence by sentence. His 6tndy was continued in 6ecret, with a few friends, after his return home. When a difficult passage was found, a messenger was sent to Dr. Ver beck, a well known missionary then in Nagasaki, for its interpretation. Murata waa afterward baptized, and his name now stands first on the roll of Protes tant Christians in Japan. London Times. Women Taking the Places of Men. In Holland men can no longer be trusted to work the switches on the rail ways, and women now fill their places. This is a slap in the face indeed to the male sex, and a great triumph to the ad vocates of female labor. But we have yet to see how the thing works. The men say that there will now be looking glasses in the switch boxes, and that the women will never leave them till they have smoothed their last hair and settled the bow of their last ribbon, and that ir the meantime there will be collisions; that when left to themselves they never hare been in time for the train as pas sengers, and will not be more punctual as points women; and, finally, that if they hear their lover's whistle anywhere in the neighborhood they will pay very lit tle attention to that of the locomotive. If these objections are not valid, con clude the men, "we are not Dutchmen." London Queen. An Old Fashioned Phrase. There is an old fashioned phrase cf hospitality which consists of only two words, and I find it a parallel to the Greek 6alntation, and like it, a com mand, "bit by," says the comfortable New England farmer to his guest be neath his roof. Now compare this com manding phrase with the more modern polite question, "Will you partake of refreshments?" which is as empty and void as a Cliiaese invitation, and throws the choice of acceptance on the guest. One is the living soul of speech, tha other a mere dead formality. Detroit Free Press. -v The Delth of Christ. In a book e itled "The Physical Causes of Christ's Death." the writer states that Christ died from a broken heart, so tb?.t, when the 6oldier pierced his 6ide, blood and water flowed out, which whould have been an impossibility .if no rupture had taken place. The Wisdom of It. Cora Don't you think that law pre--venting one from marrying his deceased wife's sister was a very foolish one? Merritt On the contrary, I've alway-3 considered it a wise one, because there's seldom more than one pretty girl in a family. New York Epoch. ROSAMOND. In Uer moire see her sit Uowd of antique sheen. Great blurred ruuea over it Sunk In motwy green. A roue her dainty corsage holds, A rose within her hair. And an the stirs her silken folds A rse Hcent in the air. O'er her antique, roue blurred grown 8ee hi-r Ii liners flit. While 1 envy, looking down. Every rose of it. I would I were a silken thread. That they might weave of me. Upon an antique moire bod, A goodly rose to aee. Wonld I were a rose, art born. Sunk in a fern green frond. That, 'mong the rest. I might adorn A gown for Itosamond. Kay. would I were a living rose Ehe'd be more soft and fond That I might kisa ber bosom close. Then die for Rosamond. --Lulah Kagsdale in Detroit Free Press. DRAFTY ENGLISH HOUSES. In England Homes Are "Devoid of Mod ern Comforts or Conveniences. ice average awening nouse in any class upper, middle or lower built within a year is constructed almost pre cisely en the lines In vogue at the begun rung of the century. In England there has been in ninety years no such ad vance in domestic architecture, with re gard to both convenience and style, as we have noted in 'the United States in the last decade. The Englishman may explain this by alleging that he built better in 1800 than we did in 1882. In this he will not be altogether wrong, but he will be supported by fewer facts than he imagines. The British carpenter has not yet mas tered the art of making a window. There is always a gale blowing in around the sashes during the winter, whether the outside air be calm or raging. The more heat you get in a room and by lamps and gas yon can contrive to raise the temperature the greater is the rush of cold air from without. It forces its way around the window sashes and the doors in obedience to a natural law. An English house is draf ty, whether it be the dwelling of a peer or a peasant, The doors are hung even worse than the windows. In the first place there are no thresholds, and there is a gaping space between the floor and the bottom of the door. The room in which 1 am now writing has an admirable specimen of an English door. I have just measured the yawning crevices around it. Between the floor and the bottom of the door there is a space one-half an inch wide, extending across the entire breadth of the door. Around the other three sides of the door there is a space one-quarter of an inch wide. All the doors in the place (which is not the work of a "jerry builder," but is what the British call "a high class" and expensive structure) are hung in the same fashion. Imagine, then, the number of portieres and thick rugs necessary to exclude the drafts. The halls of an English house are un- heated. Drafts are accordingly increas ed, for the cold air will always rush from the chilly halls into the apart ments of high temperature. Screens, portieres, rugs, heavy window hangings are essential in every room. Of course these things darken an apartment. Thus you can only break the currents of air in a London dwelling by adding to the depressing gloom of the almost sunless London winter. An American housekeener setting up an establisnment nere iiies tne nu merous and capacious closets of the Yankee domicile. Closet making is an unknown art to the Nineteenth century British builder. I know of any number of new and expensive dwellings both flats and houses in which there is not a hanging closet. The most you can do is to provide a few cupboards in the "chimney jogs. " For clothing you must have wardrobes set up in your rooms, monopolizing space and being as cheer ful to gaze upon as sarcophagi. Odd3 and ends you must stow away as best you can. Cellars, in the American sense, are unheard of. A small dungeon for coals or a penitential cell for wines ful fills the British housekeeper's notion of a cellar. "Set tubs" are usually reserved for the "mansions of the great." The bathroom is the latest innova tion in English houses of the better class, but it is still an innovation. The clumsy tin tub, a yard and a half in width and six inches in depth, continues to be the Briton's favorite instrument for the matutinal ablution. In this un wieldy contrivance, brought into his chamber in the morning, John Bull takes his frigid splash. His aversion to bathrooms is akin to his horror of gas "above the drawing room." J. B. pre fers to go to bed by candle light. He has a notion that gas will suffocate him in his sleep. Perhaps he cannot trust himself to shut off the illuminant by turning the "tap." London Cor. Boston Herald. Several Common Phrases. Some of our idiomatic phrases are amusing rather than didactic Take, for instance, the very common remark mad'j when some one of the company has told a harmless secret "You have let the cat out of the bag." It is at once a figure of speech and a picture, but a veritable bugbear to a foreigner not versed in the mysteries of our language. The same idea is expressed in another idiom, 'You've tipped up the apple cart." A phrase that has an expressive meaning is one which epitomizes whole volumes of advice "Keep a stiff upper lip." Detroit Free Press. Ills Chances. "If I had half a chance I'd marry," re marked a handsome millionaire bachelor to a good looking girl. 'But you never will have, 6he as serted. "Why not?" he asked, somewhat taken aback. . . "Because," and she smiled in a way that fascinated him, "every chance in your case is a whole one." It was the merest chance she took, but it netted her a million and a man. Detroit Free Press. BALDNESS HEREDITARY. So Says Hairdresser In a Learned Dis course on the Subject. "About bald heads, now," said a hair dresser who professed to know all about hirsute deficiency and its causes, "they are as much due to heredity as are red heads, black heads, curly heads or heads that are not curly. And why are men so commonly bald and women bald so uncommonly? There are doctors and men of science who point to that fact to strengthen their well known high' hat theory of bald ness. They affect to believe, and in sist on their belief, that the high silk hat and the hard felt hat are resionsible for most of the baldheaded men, the un yielding pressure of such headgear con stricting the blood vessels which nour ish the hair bulbs, and thus destroying their vital properties, the result being death of the roots and unavoidable capillary scantiness. Women, say thes scientific speculators, do not injure th vitals of their hair by such means, and thus are rarely chronically bald. "Maybe they are right, but I don't be lieve it. Everybody knows that man, as the head of the family, has to go to the front and stay there in the capacity of the breadwinner. The strain of life comes the most Bevere on the man in that respect. He it is who suffers th anxieties and battles against the disap pointmenta of business, speaking of life in general. , What makes men prema turely old? Just these anxieties and struggles. If prematurely old, why not prematurely bald, which is a natural ac companiment of .untimely age? Woman has less brain stress. Her sympathies with the man in . his struggle may be great, and usually aie, but they do not make the demands on her organization that tell so severely on the system of the man. "I account for much baldness among men by this theory of nervous exhaus tion, but then what will explain its prev alence among men whose circumstances do not require them either to indulge in business anxieties or undergo business disappointments? Thus we see the easy going man about town, not yet in his prime as to years, with no haunting thought of tomorrow, yet as bald as his grandfather was at seventy. We see the pampered child of fortune, son of a mil lionaire father, who toils not, neither doth he spin, yet Elijah, whom the bad boys mocked, at the same time the she bears came out of the wilderness and dined upon them, was not arrayed in less hair than one of these. Some might explain this by the sweeping charge of dissipation. Sut it will not do. I have among my patrons youth of this kind who are models of sobriety, propriety and Bimple living, and yet they are as bald as doorknobs. "Heredity is the only explanation that can be made of this mysterious depar ture of the hair in early life, although Professor Eaton, an English scientific person who has made investigation on the subject a specialty for years, does not believe it, and stoutly declares that the cause of baldness is no nearer discovery than it was a hundred years ago. "But whether I am right or wrong in my theories I know I am right in this, and that is when a man is once bald he is always bald, unless his hair has f allea out from the effects of fever. In thai case it will generally return in time cf its own accord. But a head that has gradually lost its hair while the ownei of it is in good physical condition has lost it for good. If it wasn't so do you suppose there would be so many bald headed doctors and barbers':'" New York Sun. How an Elephant Eats. An elephant's digestive functions are very rapid, and the animal thereiore requires daily a large amount of fodder COO pounds at least. In its wild state the elephant feeds heartily, but waste fully. It is careful in selecting the few forest trees which it likes for their bark or tonage. nut it will tear down branches and leave half of them un touched. It will strip off the bark from other trees and throw away a large por tion. As it is a noc -.rnal animal, it selects its trees by tne senses of touch and smell. Its sense of smell is 60 delicate that a wild elephant can scent an enemy at a distance of 1,000 yards, and the nerves of its trunk are so sensitive that the smallest substance can be dis covered and picked up by its tiny pro boscis. An elephant's palate is very delicate, and the animal is whimsical in selecting or rejecting morsels of food. Youth's Companion. Diarrhea and Digestive Troubles. The connection between teething and diarrhea has been considered until of recent years as beyond question. But even this is very doubtful. For our selves, we should have no difficulty the oretically in supposing that painful teeth ing might upset the digestion, just as in nervous older children and adults we see excitement and mental anxiety produce like results. But actually, the more the cases are examined the less certain is the relation of the bowel trouble to the supposed cause. Here again develop ments in the digestive organs may have an influence, and the effect of heat, either directly upon the nervous system of the child or by injuring food, is shown by the prevalence of these diseases in sum mer. Dr. Ilenry D. Chapin in Baby hood. Weepinjj The literature of enormous, much of mythical, but there is Trees. 'weeping trees" is it being plainly a large basis of fact upon which most of these marvel ous stories rest. 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