HORROR OF AFRICAN NIGHT.
Traveler Describes Peculiar Condi
tions That Exist in Regions of
thi Dark Continent.
Caroline Kirkland. In her book on
"Sumo African Highways," writes of
night in the dark continent: "There Is
no. bins so Mark as an African night
aud I think that It Is because the
earth, being a deep red. offers no re
fiiction to the faint Mai-light, such as
c get. In other Instead it
wallows up what nliht f;!ow there
may be, and gives to the darkness a
dense, velvety quality not to be found
anywhere else. Overhead the stars
. hire more brilliantly than In north
'ti: latitudes, but they seem to cast
no lb;ht, ami the night is palpable
suffocating, appalling and filled with
a nameless horror which is quite iiv
descrlbablc."
In a single sente nce the same v-vrter
gives a forcible Idea of the sleeping
sickness: "While there is nothing
acutely distressing about this man
ner of dying, nothing to equal the tor
rois i;f other vital diseases like can
cer or tuberculosis, there is some
thing peculiarly sinister in the slow,
stealthy, irresistible approach ot
death, whose course no known remedy
can stay or alter."
Of African lions Miss Kirklaml
writes: "As a rule it is only old lions
who attack human beings. They grow
too decrepit to bo able to catch the
more agile antelopes who are their
lawful prey, so, goaded by a hunget
which age cannot wither or lessen,
they pounce on unwary mortals."
F:ret Use of Krosne."
"Kerosene" seen;.-, to haw b.'en first
m in l':ii!.'l i'tav patent N '.
12.1:12 of Match 2T. JS .'. granted, to
Abraham O sner of Williaiii.-diurs;. N.
Y., and assigned to the North Ameri
can lvn.ivr.o lias Light Company, la
the preamble to his specification lies
nor states that he has "Invented and
(:-.cove;ed a new and useful manu
facture or couipoiition of matter, be
ing a new lbjuld hyd.-ocarbon which I
.loneninato 'kirosv-iv. Coal oil"
was 'he tenii in general use before
"kcr sen.-" was iimi'tcd.
LESSON BROUGHT HOME TO Ml M. HANGMAN WAS ALSO SURGEON.
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A Wonderful Child Explains Other
People's Viewpoint to Father.
Until ICO Years Ago Executioners
Were Permitted to Practice.
Eaoy Enough to Reform.
Stop grumbling. C.e up two hours
earlier In the morning and do some
I'. iv.'A out of your regular profession.
Mind your own business and with all
your might let other people's alone.
Live within your means. (live away
or sell your dog. (5o to bed early.
Talk less of your own peculiar sifts
and virtues and more of those of your
friends and neighbors. I!o cheerful.
Fulfill your promises. Pay your debts,
lie yourself all you would see in
others. 1 to a Kood man and stop
grumbling. Sheffield (la.) Press.
Coming Down Easy.
Inquiries after the welfare of Pat
rick Conroy were answered by his
devoted friend, Terence Dolan, who
was at the Conroy's In the double ca
pacity of nurse and cook. "No. he'3
not dangerously hurt at all," was Mr.
Dolan's reply to a solemnly whis
pered question at the door.
"We heard he had a bad fall and
was all broke to pieces." whispered
the neighbor.
"'Tis a bis story you've heard."
said Mr. Dolan, in his cheerful roar.
"Tlirue, he fell off'n the roof ' the
Drady stables, where he was shingling
and he broke his lift lea;, knocked out
a couple of teeth and broka his collar
bane. "Mind ye, if ho'd have foil clear to
the ground It might have hurted him
bad, but sure there was a big pile of
shtones and old lumber that broke his
fall." Youth's Companion
, Hunger.
' Hunger is God's instrument in bring
ing the idlest to toil, and Hunger
waits to work her will on the idler
and the waster. J. R. Green.
Judged by Their Trousers.
A study of tht t rouse r legs, as seen
In the t'botographs of our most noted
men, bring the smile of contempt from
even the most disinterested; and one
wonders If anything could he uglier
than the concertina folds of the clum
sy elephantine outlines that are there
to be seen, llreeches, knickers and
kilts arc all far more artistic aud
healthy. London Tailor and Cutter.
Examination Fever.
Examination fever In a terribly
ncu'e form has been developed by a
learned doctor of Cambridge univer
sity. It Is nearly fifty years since he
matriculated, and he has degrees In
three faculties, but he still accumu
lates first (lasses In the special (or
pass) P.. A. degree examinations In
various subjects: last month he added
the ninth specimen to his collection.
London I'niverslty Correspondent.
He was a doctor, and not such a
young doctor cither. That is to Fay,
he had been practicing for nearly ten
ytars. An Interesting event happened
In his family and he found himself Hu
tu! her of a very tine girl, his first born,
A patient vho happened in about
three days after the event didn't have
a great deal of chance to talk abo:t
his particular ailments because the
father was very eager to tell all about
the child.
"I've helped to bring a lot of chil
dren into the world," said the doctor,
"and I know 11 lot about them. Hut I
want to tell you that this Is about the
llncsl I've ever seen. Now that may
seem to you merely to be the enthusi
asm of u father, but really 1 know it's
so." And he went on for some tinio
telling about the merits of his off
spring, how she wits a finely formed
child and embraced all the perfections.
He had turned over the duties of at
tending to his wife and child to an
other doctor, as the custom is more or
less among physicians. This was tho
reason for one thing the doctor said.
"One afternoon when the baby was
only three days old she sneezed. Some,
way or another that made me nervous
and so 1 decided to call up the doctor.
"It happened he wasn't at homo ami
nothing would do but I must tell his
wife all about It over the telephone.
She Just laughed at me aud that
sobered my excitement.
"Afterward I thought how angry I
might have been had some one of my penalty of the
Fetorson, who
patients called me up on a foolish mat
ter like that. It just goes to show
that this sort of thing is done right
along by folks w ho ought to know better."
Two or three centuries ago execu-1
tloiiers not infrequently performed
Buruic.il operations, says the lijitlsh
Medic;. I .lottrual. This seems to have
been particularly the case in lVnniark.
July 21, l."7'.i, a license was Issued by
Frederick 11. to Anders Fivlmut, exe
cutioner of Copenhagen, granting him
the t'iht to sit bones aud treat old
Wounds; ht was 1 xpressly forbidden
to meddle with recent wounds. In 10W
it. is lecorded In the municipal
archives of Copenhagen that Caspar,
the hatutnan, had received four llgs
dalers for the cure of two sick children
in the Infirmary. In ICS Christian IV.
suinnioiud the executioner of Cluck
stadt in llolstein to examine the dis
eased toot of the crown prince. In a
letter addressed to Die Worm, a lead
ing Danish physician of the day, Henry
Hosier, phy sician lu-onllnary to the
king, complains bitterly of the slight
thus put upon him. He says that for
two whole months the hangman, "who
Is as tit to treat the case as an ass
Is to play the lyre," had the case In
hand and the doctor was not asked
his advice Vgain, In H581,
Christian V. gave a fee of 200 rigs
dalers to the Copenhagen hangman
for curing the leg of u page. In 1732,
Hergen. an executioner In Norway, was
authorized by royal decree to practice
surgery.
K vi it up to the early years of the
nineteenth century this extraordinary
association of surgery with tho last
law continued. Krik
was appointed public
Daylight and Twilight.
A sad nature sheds forth twilight. A
merry and mirthful nature brings day- !
light. A suspicious nature insensibly
Imparts Its chill to every generous
soul within its reach. A bold and !
frank nature overcomes meanness in
men. Firmness nnV-'s them fine.
Taste directs, stimulates and develops
taste. Henry Ward Ucchor.
Drilling for "the Ssventcenth."
Drill Instructor Casey Now. mln,
yrz will take one stip to tho rare, thin
one to the front, thin one to the rare
agin, an' yez'll be as yoz were before
yt7. were as yez are now! Judge.
Getting Into Practice.
It Is often 1 leasanter to theorize
than to perforin. A young law student.
Hays a writer In tho Philadelphia in
quirer, was making a study of rertain
processes of his future profession. He
showed an iiKiinati ui to is!! in the
house and speculate Idly, Instead of
doing so::;e of the domestic laskj
which stood waiting.
"Deduction la nn Interesting proc
ess," declared the youth to his fa
th.M "For example, them Is a heap,
c f ashes In the yard. That is evi
dence that the family litis recently had
lires."
"Well. John," Interrupted his fa
ther, "suppose yo:i pursue your stud
ies a little father by 'f!ng out nr.?
.vf:lng that pile of ashes." Youth
Cu;. pauio!!.
W0W3 Up with a Thirst.
Queen K!izab( th of F.r.ghnd la
pitted to have drunk a quart of
every day with her breakfast.
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A
executioner at Trondhjem In lTKil,
served as surgeon to an infantry regi
ment In the war with Sweden, and re
tired In ISll with the rank of surgeon
major. Frederick I. of Prussia chose
his faorlte hangman, Coblonz, to be
his physiclan-in-ordlnary. It might be
(inspected that this peculiar combina
tion of functions bad its origin In a
satirical view of the art of healing;
but In iho records we have quoted wo
ran trace nolhlng of the kind. Per
haps the executioner drove a trade In
human fat anil other thin us supposed
to possess marvelous healing proper
ties; he may thus have come to he
credited with skill in healing, though
the association surely represents tho
lowest degree lo which the surgeon
has ever fallen in public esteem nnd
social position.
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Choosing a Vocation.
It Is very covtaln that no man U fit
for evi'iythliiR; but It Is almost cer
tain, too, thai thovo is Hrai'ccly nny
one man who Is not lit. for Honn-thlnR,
whirh sonu'thliiR nntiiro plainly points
otit to him by kIvIiik him tondency nnil
propensity to It. 1 look upon com
mon sense to be to the mlml what
consclenre Is to the heart the faith
ful nnd constant monitor of what. Is
tisht or wioiik. And I am convinced
that no man commits ellhor a crime or
a folly but against the manifest and
sensible representations of the one or
the other. Kvry man finds In himself,
either from nature or education for
they are hard to distinguish a pe.
ruliar bent and disposition to soino
particular character; nnd his struK
Kilns against It I tho fruitless and
endless labor of Sisyphus. Let him
follow and cultivate that vocation; ho
will succo'-d in it, and be considerable
In one way at least; whereas, If ho
departs from It, bo will, at best, be In
considerable, probably ridiculous.
Lord Chesterfield.
Dickens' Method of Speaking.
Itelnro making a speech Charles
Dickens won! I decide on his various
heads and then in his mind's eye ilk
en the whole subj"ft to the tire of a
cart wheel ho bei:i the hub. From
the hub to tho tire he would run as
many spokes as there were subjects
lo be treated ami during the progress
of tho speech he would deal with each
spoke separately, cliihoratini? them as
he went round the wh ol; and when
all the spokes dropped out one by one
and nothing but. the tire and space re
mained lie would know that he had
accomplished his t.tnk and that his
Bp!!ch was at an end.
Voices Good and They Sing in Tune,
According to Traveler in Regions
of the North.
Music Is one of the chief pleasures
and accomplishments of the Ksklmos.
At the Labrador missions violins are
used by them In the church choir, and
brass hands are organized. In "Aloiu?
the Labrador Coast" Dr. Townsend
tells of an evenltiK's entertainment
with the Ksklmos at Naln.
"For over an hour these natives sing
to us," he says, "familiar music with
F.skimo words 'Hock of Ages," 'Holy
NlKht,' Interspersed with what. I tako
to bo secular songs. Their volceaare
harmonious and tho singing Is of a
supeilor order. We return tho compli
ment In the only way wo can with a
prai hophone. It. Is Indeed a terrible
come-down to 'Tho Old Apple Tree" and
'Everybody Works I tut Fiither,' but the
Ksklmos seem to enjoy It, and greet
the hoikjs and their explanation by
the Interpreter with peals of laughter.
"A song in which a man beats I1I3
wife seems especially to amuse them.
A Motuvian brother told mo that they
unable to win the Eskimo
wlfe-beatlnK hublt. Uvea
resent any Interference on,
hod been
from the
the wives
this score.
"An Irish Jig makes them shako with
oy, und I am sure they would donee
wero there room 10 stir."
Terrra for Inebriety.
According to Molten, some of the
terms denoting Inebriety are as fol
lows; I leery, bemused, boozy, bosky,
corned, foggy, fou, fresh, hazy, ele
vated, klsky, lushy, moony, muggy,
muzzy, on, screwed, stewed, tight and
winy. In an intermediate class Btand
podgy, beargered, blued, cut, primed,
lumpy, plowed, muddled, obfuscated,
Bwipoy, three sheets In the wind and
tophe.ivy, "Hut the acme," says tho
same authority, "Is only obtained
when the disguised Individual 'can't
see n hole In the ladder,' or when he
Is 'all mops and brooms, or 'off bis
nut,' or 'with his maln-brnco woll
spliced,' or 'with the sun In his cyea,'
or when he has 'lapped the gutter and
'got the gravel rash,' or 'op the ran
tan,' or 'on the re-raw,' or when he la
'sewed up,' or 'regularly scammered."
American Clrla Responsible.
Probably the American woman Is
answerable frr a s?ood deal of the
unrest among the daughters of Franco
for r.he comes among them with all
Kirts of daring proj 'tis and perfectly
lovely clothes. Rise marries the;r
brothers, she studies art tniuio and
literature in ihe'r country and she
walks serenely on a'ong the path of
liberty, to the nmax'T.if nt of mi n
angels atid the Parisian. The Cu.'eu.
Simulation Winr.
Some pretty long-liaded pl.lloro-
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pliers hold that. If you are not Ji
of your wife you must make l:er
you are. Detroit Free Press.
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Great Britain Far Behind.
Within a circle of 0.1 mil. -a In diam
eter, with its center In NVw York,
there are more telephones than lu all
Great llritalo.
Duty on Imported Negroes.
In 1052 a luty was Imposed on ne
groes Imported "Into New Netherland
to work on their Hotiwerlea."
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Russia's Rata of Growth.
Thu population of Russia Is Increas
ing at tho rate of 2,51)0,00') a year.
Sustaining Power,
W.'ro It not for hope the
would break. Irish I'rovr'j.
heart
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