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GOOD DOQ PEDRO. EATINQ ORANGES. Y Uw-j His KtiMrilMrjr Kwh W ileniy of New York pp! r tactnbor I'oL Ireland of loU ltolU hla charming litilo U!nJ rtUJcm tchroon lk and bi Newfoundland doft, Nero and l'lrix, " tnid rtxl deotofthe Adirondack counlrr to a New York Sua man. IV lro u tb most tnuUlicont nimul that I erer aw. and 1 rouieiuU-r or.o .rliou!ar lnUm-e of bU mnotfefUng it la a moat alriking manner. It t a rj oold day in lVjcembcr, and two of the col onel's tervanU had rowed over to Schroon village on an errand. It waf late In the afternoon when they atarted home. The cold had Increased and Ice wm form'.n,j on the lake faater than I ever taw it form before. The flrU forced their way through the Ice by breaking a paa,jo with an oar un til they wero about half way to the Island, when the In ten no cold and the Increasing thU-kne of the Ice were more than they could tight agalnut, and they were seen from the Inland to oeaae their efforts and huddle together in the boat The Ice was of insuf ficient thickness to hour the weight of any person, and there was no other boat at hand with which any one could force a passago and go to the rescue of the girls. The chances wero that by the time the loe had frozon s iron ir enough to boar a man the girls would be frozen to death. Some of the colonel's moo had been at work on tho shore of the lake that afternoon and had loft an ax on the ground. The dog 1'edro was among the spectators of tho servants' efforts to reach the snore. Ho ran icltodly up and down the shore sev. oral times, and then came forward, carrying In his mouth by the handle tho at the mon had loft noar by. He laid it at ( oL Ireland's foot and looked inquiringly up into h i master's face. Aa idoa instantly seized the colonel Take the at to thorn, Pedrof ho exclaimed. 'Take the ax to them! The dog took the ax in his mouth, balancing it nlcoly by the handle, and plunged into the lake. Tho ice broke under his weight and he beat a pass, age with his great paws and made his way with remarkable rapidity toward the boat lie fought on through tho Ice for '200 or 300 yards, when, to the delight of all on jhoro, the ice sui talned his weight and he drew him elf out of tho water and hurried for ward on the Ice, The girls said that they were so given over to despair that they did not see the dog until ho pushed bis head botwoon them into the boat with tho ax in his mouth. The sight of the dog and what they thought was his miraculous appear, ance to thorn with the ax put new life In them, and they went to woik with a will to chop their way through the ice to shore. Taking turns at the work they warmed themselves up, and in a comparatively short time had cut a passage through the thick ice and bad forced the boat ashore. They were badly frozen, and but for the human intelligence of the dog Pedro they would surely have perished be. tore aid could reach them, " at. Klark Kre, In the north of England a supersti tion still lingers to the effect that If a person watch in the church porch on St Mark's eve. April 34th. from 11 at night till 1 o'clock in the morning, he will see the apparition of all who are to be buriod in the churchyard dur ing the ensulug year; and in very many farmhouses on the border, till Within a recent date, ashes were sifted over the hearth on that night In the belief that the footprints of any one fated to die before the next St Mark's eve would be visible in the morning. How these superstitions came to be connected with St Mark la not clear, but the one last men tioned is evidently related to prac tices, much older than Christianity, which still prevail in some of the Islands that stud the Indian and Pacific oceans. These practices are based on the belief that spirits are sufficiently substantial to leave visible marks of their presence. The Philip pines expect the dead to return on the third day after interment "Where fore they set a vessel of water for him to wash himself clean from the grave mould and strew ashes to see foot-prints." JnTFOlle andor. A little six-year old. pretty as k picture and wonderfully bright was invited out with a few friends of her own age the other evening. It was at a Cass avenue residence that the little misses and masters were enter, tained. After an hour's romp, during which our heroine showed a preco cious dignity, dinner was served, the lady of the house giving the matter ber personal supervision. When she reached this particular little girl the matron said: -Are you well helped, my little dearP" Oh, I'm beautifully helped beau tifully. But what kind of a partner have you given me? He sits here just like a little dummy, and hasn't aid a word since we came to the table," The good lady laughed and the pretty little miss capped the climax by declaring that she would be so much obliged if she could be helped to another partner. St Louis Star Sayings. Engllah Settlers In Argentina. It is believed that fully 25 per cenv of the population of the Argentine Republic at the present time consists of European settler, most of whom now that the undesirablo ones have been compelled to leave are well es tablished and have all their interests Identical with the country. A mianomer. Guest: "Wbo is that man who acted so boorishly at the dinner table?" Host: "That's Mr. Plum leifh. the civil engineer." Brooklyn Eagle. .- A Im Mu fcMl4 Xmi tM It la tk I'rwra ml III Nitllwut A young lady said the other day to a Ilttiburg Dispatch man that she bated oranges because one had come between ber and her lover, lie had called on her one evening, and. after silting awhile, had produced a couple of bright Florida oranges out of bis pocket and suggested that each eat one, She now says that she can not drive out of ber mind the slrbt of his noae, cheeka and chin dripping with juice, and he has Ix-cn whUpering something horribly similar about her. Evidently you cannot love a girl and a citrus auranlium at the same time. One of the best remedies for an orange a sort of whipping the devil around a stump is to use a spoon. The directions advise you to out the orange carefully into halves, taking care to do so across the grain, so that a spoon can slip in readily. A gentleman who has lived for years in the American countries in which the orange grows is waging a war against the slovenly manner of cutting the orange up and serving it on the table. In such a case he recommends that a very shatp knife, one as keen as a raor, be used, and the fruit cut into slices Infinites mally thin, and built layer about with pul verized sugar. Since the spoon has been relegated out of modorn dinner civilization almost a fork is used to eat it with. In Southern Europe the peasants always eat fruit In its natural shape, and never think of treating it to doses of sugar, salt or other sea soning. Around Naples and in Ma laga the people bite a hole in the orange, suck out the juice and then throw the orange away. Small Amer ican people often do the same, but of course the American must try his hand at Improving nature, so he puts a lump of sugar in it An orange planter thinks such a thing desecration. On board ship a unique way is al ways a popular way to do anything. There they take an orange, and, with a very sharp knife, cut off a slice of skin across the top. This is placed below the orange and skewered by a fork into position. Holding the fork in the left hand, the knife outs down the peeling, which Indifferently falls off or hangs down. Then the same knife cuts the juicy meat thus left ex posed into small portions, which are conveyed on the point of the blade to the mouth one of the cases on reoord where a knife enters the mouth by common consent of the fashionable world. The small quantity of juice that f ows down falls on the false bot tom of the orange, and thus the band is protected. The orange never eats better than In this way, and it is also, as may be observed, freed from all un tidiness. The trlok with the orange called the 'ea-slck passenger" is played the first thing on the voyager whose stomach is suspected of uncertainty. Tho eyes, nose and mouth of a man are cut on the side of the orange the eyes and nose being made by a slight removal of the skin, while the mouth is a deep Incision. The orange is then put on top of a strong tumbler and pressing on its edge Is rolled about to Imitate the heaving of a vessel. The juice is thus iorced out of the mouth incision and a very miserable passenger portrayed. If this sight doesn't at the same time force a good many people to seek their cabins hur riedly the result Is considered to be very disappointing. PRESENCE OF MIND. Aa Incident in the Lire of Julia Ward Howe's Iluiband. This presence of mind, this power of acting on the instant was one of our father's great qualities, writes Laura E. Richards in the St Nicholas. It was this that made him, when the wounded Greek sank down before him, "fling him from his saddle And place the stranger there." It was thia when arrested and im prisoned by the Prussian government on suspicion of befriending unhappy Poland, that taught him what to do with the important papers he carried. In the minute during which he was left alone, before the officials came to search him, he thrust the documents up Into the hollow head of the king of Prussia which stood on a shelf; then tore some unimportant papers into the smallest possible fragments and threw them into a basin of water which stood close at hand. Next day the fragments carefully pasted together were shown to him, hours having been spent In the la borious task; but nobody thought of looking for more papers in the head of the King Frledrich Wilhelm. Our father, though nothing could be proved against him, might have languished long in that Prussian prison, bad it not been for the exer tions of a fellow-co'intryman. This gentleman had met him in the street the day before, had asked his address, and promised to call on him. 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