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ft "THE AMERICAN MtPHISTO. THK rOX. UNCUT BOOKS. HOW TO ESCAPE LIOHTNINQ. JhI Vaa(aaaa TtM Waa MM aa- are com old alsphista almMlf! tok at him, grinning h trot along ad looming r.4 against ths whit of Ilk know, aayt Longman's Mln II U Rsynaxd. following la poor, old. traay Mr. Hara's tracks and tracing vary deviation mad by Uat amiably weaatrlo lodlTldual at a alow but JUady trot Thto will bring hlra cloas m ur ambuaa unless h detects our Eionca bar, lit certainly looka very dtomo. though extremely wicked vltbaL Thai grin of bla la a most dla Wlo grin. It aaya aa plain aa worda: 1 ahall have thla fool of a bar to-day. ha'l getting tut cracked aa they make 'am. and be la clone In front ot me at thla niomrnt and ahen I've got him I hall give him what-for, because be has led me many a dance for nothing. Ha, ha! Jut a little extra nip and a bit of worry won't he yell!" Now, I am going to ahoot this fox tor aeveral reasons. The first la, that I shall not be handed for It In this country; Indeed, no one will think the wora of m for th act, but rather the batter. Then be la the evil genlita of many worthy forest people besides th silly, old Mr. Hare. It la til ITU' ill t to believe aurh things of any one. but ' have It on the best of authority that thla miscreant la In the habit ot mur dering that heroic ludy, the Grey lien (wife of Lord Hlackcock) as she atta upon th neat which la shortly to be tiled with the litllo honorable. her soni and dauKhtera. She will not fly In order to escape hla fun, but pre . fsrs to stand by hr eggs until her liesh Is actually pierced, and when self preservation at length asserts Itself notaa the first but aa a subordinate law ot nature and s'i tries to escape it la too late. It la also true that this de testable ogre of the woods has fattened bis rod carcass upon the helpless.tooth Vmie little ones of the willow grouse, the wild duck and even (though I scarcely dare to breathe the dreadful words) upon the august little persons Of the young cnprrcallr.le princelings! Surely all thla la evidence enough for the death warrant of such an arch trait or and rogue! He ahall die In his alns and many Uvea shall be aaved thereby during thla coming springtime. Walt ft minute. Let him advance Just a lit tle nearer and then we will speak to aim In the voice of doom. Now then! wp with our guns and let them execute sntence upon the culprit! Dut the cul prit la an exceedingly wily culprit and th glint ot the sunlight upon .the bar Mis haa Informed him In an Instant ot fell danger. During that on Inatant he aa turned and Is now a streak ot flee ing, fleeting red pigment, dancing in and out among th pins trees an es caping convict! Ha Wa. lad.ad Abteat-Mladeil. Judge Hawley of ths United dtates circuit court related recently fror th tench a good atory at the expei e ot distinguished lawyer and United States senator, whose name was not mentioned. This prominent member I th bar waa very absent-minded at times. One morning he was on hla way to court In a great hurry, and fcappentng to overtake a friend, re marked: "I dressed in auch haste this morning that I forgot my watch. A little further on he said: "I wonder It I have time to go back and get it, and aa he spoke he pulled out hla watch from hla pocket. "No, I have not time," e concluded, after enotuiltlng the dial and he walked on. hearing the oourt bouse he hired a messenger to go for the watch, paying him a dollar for the aervlc. The messenger returned with the information that the timepiece eould not be found, whereupon the lawyer exclaimed, looking up from his books and papers: "That is very strange!" Then he took a swift glance at his watch and said: "It tuakea no difference, anyhow. I can do without It. The Judge is late and there Is plen ty of time." And he paid the messen ger another dollar. l.ichu at Kva. A commission appointed by the Ger man government to study the visibility f lighta at sea has concluded that a irhlte light of one candte power la visi ble at a distance of 2,800 yards on a , elear night, and at a distance of one mile only on a rainy night It waa fuitlier found that when a white light Ot one candle power was visible at a distance of one mile, one of three ct.n dl power was visible at two miles. Of ten candle power at four miles, and f nineteen candle power at five miles. A green light of one candle power la Ylalble at . of a mile, and the light lag powers o such lights to be seen at distances of one, two, three and tour miles must be two, fifteen, flfty,one and 10$ candle power respectively. The bast glass Is a clear blue green, while tor the red light a copper red la the beat. A Wall m Enr. Freeman Randall, of Riverside, Me., tell trom the top of a ventilator the other day, and after striking his head on the shingled roof bounced along to the eaves and then to the ground, 60 tt from where he started. He landed on his feet, and after feeling himself over to assure himself that he was all there, climbed back to his former perch and resumed his work. A Nataral Ml. take. Seaside Guest Why didn't you send aa attendant to help me out of that Turkish bath In which I spent all last might? Proprietor Turkish bath, sir! That "was your room. Philadelphia North American. Th hide of the hippopotamus, in cer tain parts, attains a thlskaess of two hs. Th Cfcaraa ef R.a.lla Tfclr aa.ty br DtfWi It Is clear, Uen, that thoae are bat rude spirit who have no reverence for all that pertains to a book. What could be coarser and more barbarous than the demand that the quivering edges of a volume, "with all the strag gling fibres that flutter on th verge of life," ahould be cut and backed to dead eveaneaa and stilted smoothness? Such butchers would trim the oak-leaf, tor ture the Illy and prune the luxuriance of the horse chestnut The plea of utility la the most bar ren of all. Is there any good thing In nature that dot's not demand labor In the aearch? Are we to grumble at the sting of th bee, or blind ourselves to Ita glossy beauty In our hast to steal Its honey? It Is but half ot reading to merely read. There la, ao to apeak, a courtship as well ss a marriage with our author'a text, a time for dalliance, for Indulgence, for emotion, for coy approach and wistful glance. And this to the true reader Is more than all the bare commercial seat In graHplng Its heart snd putting Its soul to usury, ss It suthors but worked for u aa slaves In the minea to make us rich. No moments sre so delicious as those In which the reader first approaches bib author, when the volume lies but halt revealed. The text Is coy and saucy aa a nynipn; now peering boldly at us from the ojien leaf, now lurking half concealed between the p:igcs, now burled beyond our sight. There necJa a swift pursuit. With knife In hand we gently lay her place of hiding bare, track her to dusky grotto, follow her through dismal cave; and in the end ho stands caught, revealed, her am bush clean cut off, and wo steal to her embrace victorious. That, after nil, la a very real pleasure. It In sweet to dis cover moment by moment the author's purpose; not hasty Jo seize it, but dip ping here and there as one cuts the pages, lighting on a piquant saying that whets our appetite, chnnclng on a pretty phrase or a noble sentence. Ixiudou Sun. SWIFT AND VANESSA. Rr Da. pair and I'awoiuaalr Uacrada tlno A llaiy Story. I do not think Swift ever cared for Vanessa and I much Incline to believe that he was neve.- married to Stella, says a writer In a recent Issue of the Contemporary Review. Cadenua had hla weak polnta; he did not disdain to be adored and Vaneaaa, poor thing, was vain and flighty. The wlldness which she betrayed In her lettera can scarcely be matched, except in that amazing French mediaeval Latin CorresnnniK ence of the Abbess Heloisa, not to be rendered by any translation I have ever seen. But. to use the Gallic phrase, she was at the expense of It herself. One Is reminded of the line, "Apollo flies and Daphne holds the chase." war It not that Apollo lingered a trifle too long to write verses which he had bet ter have left unwritten. The chase went on for how many years? And how did it end? In despair on the part of vaneaaa. In heartbreak and unwomanlv degradation. Yes, It is a sad atory; but one must not charge Swift with hav ing acted as a deceiver, unless ho was married long ago to another worn An- then, Indeed, It will be hard, though not absolutely Impossible to defend him. None can tell what passed between the deau and Vanessa during tbelr last interview. Scott haa given, but upon the merest hearsay, an account nf tt which. I suppose, we could all repeat tr called upon, by heart. Yes; but would either of these proud persona have torn down the acreen that hid their misery, In such a ease? Not Swift, we may be sure. And it Vanessa was thunder struck with the news of a marriage fa tal to her, why did she not publish that as well aa the poem she held In her possession? The scene is a fine piece of tragedy snd will always be told. But, like many another legend. It fades, un der close scrutiny. Into cloudland. T'l t 0115 a found. It is the pickings of the first tips ot the blossoms. The greatest care must be taken in the picking and nothing but the bright, golden-hued tip taken off the blossoms. AH the picking of this grcde is carefully done by hand. The process of drying these tips is cs delicate as the picking. The annual output Is 12.0DO pounds, valued at $2,100,000. But five pounds of this tea have ever been known to have reached the United States, excepting a few pound placed 0n exhibition at the world's fair. A rich lady residing at New York wrote to Mr. Marr, the agent ot the Ceylon tea growers for Amer ica at Chicago, and asked him to try to procure for her, if possible, five pounds of this remarkable and expen sive tea, Mr. Marr was successful In securing six pounds of the precious article. The New York lady gave a check for 11.000 for her five pounds. New York Letter. Th Katort Dttcaorteoas. "If there is anything that I covet," said Mr. Spickles' wife, "it is a good Tolce. I know that it is very wrong to be envious but I can't help it when I hear another woman singing." And as Mr. Spickles la a notoriously mean man no.ody waa surprised to hear him reply: "That is perfectly natural. If you could sing you'd be sitting up there with the choir, where you could see what every woman in church had on without turning your head." Wash ington Star. Bla Caak. Faddy Ther ear that Boldeton ku married his cook."Duddy Tousaean, a suppose, usi sne IS nig COOK BOW." Boston Transcript. aa. fraallaal "Uea'U" far the Traaaal tarajr Sanaa. Here are some aeaaotiable "dun'ts" for use In thunderstorms. Remember thst the dangers from Ilg-htning are baaed on well-known physical causes. Lightning Is merely electricity In a late of explosion. Its freaks, so call ed, while they are seemingly unex plalnable, are really founded on physi cal Isws and conditions. These laws and conditions are simple, but for this very raaoo, probably, few persons pay ny hw d to them when the beavena ourst forth In a Titanic upheaval and fcrked arrows of Jove shoot overhead at the nimble pace of 238.000 miles a second. Ttie following rules, based on lightning's probable course, are worth parting In your bat or stowing away somewhere In a mental pigeon bole: Don't crawl Into a feather bed; beds have often been atruck by lightning. Don't stand In a crowd; crowds at tract electricity. Don't lean against an elevated rail road pillar, confident that the Manhat tan system Is too slow to be struck by anything so rapid as electricity. Light ning has an affinity for Iron. Don't go into a high building; high buildings act aa targets for the bolts ot Jupiter. Loo t sit by an open window; light ning comes In at windows. Do".'t wear corsets; corset steels have an affinity for lightning. Don't sit in front of an open fire place; lightning has a great attraction for fireplaces. Don't sit under a chandelier. Don't go Into a cellar; lightning al ways follows the pipes leading to the ground. Don't stand In the street. The winds whirling past the big buildings make a path for thunderbolts. Don't wear cheap Jewe'ry brass la an easy conductor ot electricity. In fact, it is safest to wear no uietallls ap pendages. Well-attested facts go to show that certain dress materials have some in fluence In augmenting or decreasing the dangers of lightning. The Romans wore sealskin as a precaution, and were so positive In their belief that seal skin tents were built where timid peo ple could take refuge during storms. Silk is also claimed to be a non-con ductor. When lightning struck the church of Chauteau-neuf-les-Moutlers three prieats were officiating. Two who wore cotton vestments were killed out right, while the third, whose robe wan silk, was uninjured. 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