TOPICS OF THE TIMES,
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER- j
ESTING ITEMS.
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Have tou ever noticed when you
want to write a letter around Louie,
that the ink is half water?
If you want to avoid disappoint
ment, set our heart on something
that other people don't want.
Giving peo; le money rarely helps
them. True he p lies in the matter
of putting them In the way of earn
ing money. i
Rumr fools do not know what to do
with an education, hut a man natur
ally smart ;s always smarter for bav
in good edu ational t ols to wort
with.
The citizens of Indianapolis did
cot have U' h a dead cinch on those
Colin brothers after all It looks
now as though their iases would be
buried.
A novf.i, table decoration consists
of a transparent jelly In which is lm
bedded an incandescent light, and
It is said to look the. way it feels
during the night after one has par
taken of it.
Tub e is a storm In the sun
is bist enough to wrap itself
times around the earth and
11,000 miles left to belt the
that
three
have
pal id
moon. Inhabitants of this sphere
ought not to fret about an occasional
cyclone.
M ax v ( iklahoma farmers con nectcd
with a desperate gang of horse
thieves have b en arrested. The
news that they hue deserted the
gang permanently and become con
nected with a convert ent tree may
be expected uy any mail.
8 u what you will about the de
v lopment of speed hv horse racing
(and there Is much to be said on tiiat
side , the fact remains that so far as
the people at la ge are concerned
horse gambling, for that is the Kn
giisti ot horse racing, does more harm
than good.
A w i i.D man of gigantic stature,
bewhiskered, unkempt, and fero ious
has been capt red in Claremont
l'ark, on Iho outskirts of New York
C ity. It is believed that he is a mem
ber of the Grant monument fund
committee who took to the woods in
shame and despair several years ago.
fi'i-MK funny incidents happened in
the run on the St. Joe banks. One
woman scratched everybody with he
elbows in her rush to the front of the
crowd, and all she had on deposit
was 1 4". Another man drew )
he had deported, and said
triumphantly when he got out of the
ciowd: "No one is goiug to get
ahead of me. You lt I got my
money." He put his hand in his
vest pocket to show It, and found he
had been robbed of It In the cr wd.
It chanced that a man arretted
for helping to loot a bank that
would have been successfully looted
without any assistance from him,
met at court a young burglar whose
crime had been that ot preying upon
the property or this banker in the
hope of warding oil starvation. The
burglar pleaded guilty, but the
banker, backed with money and an
array of lawyers, and with ball In
plenty was as innocent as a lamU
And Justice, had any one peered be
neath the bandage around her eyes,
might have been observed to w nk.
An alliance of the Knights of
Later and American Hallway Union
will make an organization of almost
Irresistible strength for Iho p Tposes
ofself-p:ote lion. The Knights are
still Rtrong in the Fast, the Ameri
can hailway 1 nion Is a new but pow
erful society In the West. Each has
been crippled by lack of ailian cs
outside of its own territory; this new
union remedies that defeeu i-ome
credit must be allowed to Grand
Master Sovereign, who found his
order In so badly shnken a condition
and lias been able, against great
odds, so e.'ectually to rehabilitate it.
He has chosen his time iippropi lately
for this new coa ition.
Method for the repression of Chi
cago bicycle s appear to bo increas ng
In severity. Not long ago persons
who oh ected to the wheelmen found
Objurgations and shaking of fists a
lurilclent relief to their feelings.
Then came Mr. Yan Cleave, who ex
pressed his disapproval of i ycling by
projecting brl.kbats at the cyclers.
Mr. Hurt I Hush street came next
with a scheme to exterminate the
trloe by follinK trees upon them, and
oow we have Messrs. Kelly and
Welah, who empty revolvers at the
foUrlea of the whirring wheel. This
Mttt to be carrying the tain pawn a
iltU too far. OaplUl puolsbmeot U
v p"p"!OUR RURAL READERS.
a bicycle over the pavement
- :
Chicago Tme: 'Chicago," ob
serve too Cleaveiand Leader in an
unaccountable truculent article on
the population of the largest two
cities in America, "is not in New
York's clas at all. In fact, the
boastful III nols city, put to a fair
test, was smaller at the time of the
lat census than Philadelphia, and
hardly as large as liostou." "Hoast
ful!" there vou go a.:a n. with the
revival of that tuolisb, wicked old
charge again-t the shyest of Ameri
can cities, tiles- your silly old West
e n ) eserve heait! I h cago never
boasts of anything except of her
ni'niesty. For all you ever hear a
Ch cagoan say this town may l no
larger in in Cleveland and not haif
so dirty.
Tiik I'ostoTce Department is still
furnishing Columbian stamps of the
huge denominations to those who
wish to complete their collections.
, Couinara lively few o the two three,
. four, an rlve-dollarstamps were used
j in mailing. The great pr ortioti of
them were bought to preserve. But
the colle tors make complaint tlia.
the issue since Columbian year went
out of date aie not properly per
, forated, and are therefore not so val
' liable to reerve. The Department
; wi:l not exchange stamps when they
have once lieen purchased, holding
; that so long as the stamps wll pay
postage other delects do not matte .
It is helie ed that the Columbian
issue has added a million dollars to
the postal revenues of that sum
being paid by collectors to purchase
Stamps that the Government pever
was re juired to perform any service
for.
Tiik Sue. Canal Company has given
a pension of 1:2.0 o per year to the
family of a dinand Do Lesscps the
great engineer. It can well alToid to
do so, as its revenues for lh .1 were
7H.51h.hh2 francs. this leaves a
prolltof a little less than -',ooo,f;00
a vear. These shares in the Suez
Canal are the most profitable invest
ment Knglisli capitalists have made.
At one time a great part of them be
longed to the khed.ve o Kg.vpt, but
'he was frightened into selling them
at much less than th ir real value.
All he received was .:n,00U,00u, but
the shares to-day are wo th J5,00(i,.
000 and pay an interest of 1H per
share. Sometime when the Nicar
agua Canal Is finished It will bo found
a more profitable entcrpr.se than the
Zue. Canal Is. There ought not to
be any delay in beginning work on
this, and Keeping the Nicaragua
Canal wholly under American coa
trul. English cap taints would lie
only too g ad to get hold of this high
way of commeice, as they have se
cured that through Egypt.
Prof. Bell Is very sanguine of the
earlv success of his experiments in
the transmission of light waves by
wire in a manner similar to that in
which the telephone now transmits
sound waves. The problem will pre
sent no insurmountable dilliculty if
a diaphragm can be con-t ucted that
shall prove as sensitive to the vibra
tions of l ght as are the diaphragms
in the transmitter and receiver of the
telephone to the vibrations of s und.
Inasmuch as the undulations of light
waves are enormously swifter than
those of sound waves, however, the
difficulty of finding asu!i:clentlysen
sltive material Is not a small one.
Hut the inventor expects very soon to
nerfect an instrument whi-h will
transmit Images over greatdistances
The transmitting wire will receive
the v ibratlons of light communicated
to It by the rec Iving diaphragm at
the other end of the line, where they
will produce the effect necessary to
convey the Impressions of the human
vision. The ability to "see through
a millstone" was once upon a time
considered a remarkable accomplish
tin nt; but It will be reckoned as of
small account when in addition to
hearing and writing by wire, as we
now do by the 'phone and the elec
tric telegraph, wi shall also lie able
to see by wire thro gh acres of
houses.
HiihiliviHioii or Labor.
How unfi tted many Southern slaves
were Ui earn their own living after
emancipation is comically illustrated
by a story printed in the houthern
Hivouac It was related by a lady
living In a vilago to whom two negro
trl Is eighteen and twenty years old,
armlicd for work. Th y had formed
part of the establishment of a large
Mantnt on.
Can vou cook?" asked tne lauy oi
one of them.
"No'm. wo alnt never been cook
none, l'hll alius cook."
"Can you wash?"
"No'm, wo alnt been wash none,
neither. Aunt Sally, she wash."
"t an you clean bouse, then?"
No'm; least we alnt never been
clean none. "
The lady asked question after ques
tions, w.th like negative results
Weil," she said at last, what have
you been accustomed to do. "
LuclndA's dusky face brightened.
"Suky. here, the hunt for maaaa'a
.1,1 T fa u vt A fllaa tff nm mlaa"
WILL
ilanf Objwtlmi tu Surface IratBa?e
Making Hull-r la a "mull Way Milk
f'rr.rd bv Oxjgeu f alula in May
Making Ot-tKTat Farm Note.
Making Hu ; li-r in a Small Way 1
Nowadays there is so much said
and wriiten aoout creameiy butter
tuat one is apt to forget that in
hundreds of homes wouici are mak
ing butter in a small way just as
their giamimothers dni. Last Jaou
ary I was visiting at a farm home,
and my hostess i hurried in the most
primitive lashion otirr ng the cream
in a tin pa I with a ladle. As she j
has Jersey cows it does not take her j
long to bring the butter, aud she '
tnh.ks it much easier to stir the
cream lhan to t.other with a churn.
Tins churning produced ten pounds.
My Irieud lias ',wo fresh cows and
one that has l en milked for some
tune. Irom these soe tuade irom m
teen to twenty po uds of butler per
week, a.ter using what luilic and
cieam a lamily of lour or five grown
people need. The method of making
this outier is as .oilows
Toe milk is strained into four and
six quart pans, the latter tilled quite
as lull as will be convenient lor
carrying. It is set on the stove and
heate.i quite hot, but not scalding.
To insure this healing whbout
scoichiug the milk the grate from
the oven is tlrst placi d on the stove.
Imriug cold weaiher tnere were
about live mi kins standing all the
time. lo warmer weather the mllK
is skimmed much closer. The churn
ing is done twice a week. The but
ter is worked out twice, tne sait
aoout a leacupiui to e'gbt pounds
being put in at the llrst working.
MilK i'rHnrvil by Onyg-Mi.
The New York Herald's European
edition report-, a new method of keep
ing milk Py means of oxygen wh.ch
has Pceii adopted in France with
verv marked success. It lias been
found thai when taken fresh from
the cow and placed m a receptacle
Willi compressed ox gen. and finally i
stored in i weuiy-tl ve gallon cans at
a pressure 01 iwoaunospneres, iu wm
travel lor mouths in per ect condi
tion. It is said that milk thus
treated and sent from L.vous to Lou-'
don dev elopes neither germ-, nor fer
ments, while it will stand a teui-
peiature almost up to the boiling
point without coaguiat ug. It is
claimed b, l. Yiilou, who has ex
perimented in this way with milk on
a large sca.e, that when so treated it
is need irom genus of tuberculosis.
hut this ha-. . et to be conclusively
proved. It is probable that oxvgen
will destroy all i.acteriai germs; Put
will it not also immediately sour the
milk to which it is e posed? The
souring of nink is due to chem.cal
changes caused by the p esence of
ox gen In the air. Yet this
oxygen
must be diluted lo i roduce these ef
fects, l ure oxygen burns, and thus
destro.s wi.at it is applied to, es
pecially ir it be injurious. As the
compressed oxygen must necessarily
i e kept irom contact with common
air, It may wen Keep milk in uie
same vemol with itself, free from ail
ciianges.
Weil-Treated lioraen.
Horses many times are abused un
consciously by tneir owners. mere
are more ways of be ng cruel to a
horse than overloading or beating
him Are. the hordes always watered
in town before starting back over the
,ot, dusty road? houbtless the
driver never fails to quench his
thirst. Are the feet cleaued out
everyday.- Is It too much to goto
the blacksmith's about every three
weeks to have the shoe ; reset? When
your horses are very warm do you
stand them i-i a draft and not cover
them w th a light blanket to prevent
chilling by absorbing the perspira
tion? Fo you use the overhead
check? If you do, throw it away.
If things do not go to suit you when
o;i the road, do you jerk your horse?
Do the collars always tit? Is the
stablo cleaned regularly and otienf
Not once, a month, whethor it needs
it oi not, but every day. Ir the har
ness chaffs, Is It attended to at once,
or is it put oil till some other day?
Arc the horses always blanketed
when left standing on a coll day?
If you have to leave your team
hitched in a storm, do you always see
that It Is not obi ged to face it? hy
answering these questions to yourself
you can see whether or not your
horses are well treated.
)bjx tlonn to Open Iiltcliet.
Draining on the surface Is, we are
glad to say, going out or fashion. It
unfits land for the profitable using or
tho best harvesting machinery, most
of tho breakages coming Irom going
through tho depressions left to re
move surulus water, If there lie a
retentive subsoil the surrace drain
docs very little good, for water w.ll
bo stagnant up to the lsimt where
the ditch carries it away. Tho sur
face draining washes away.part cles of
the soil which are always the richest
In the Hold. Henco tho open aitch
is always filling up with the richest
kind ot mud, and when cleaned out
this deposit makes the best possible
top dressing. Hut in the underdrain
all this lalwr Is saved. The water as
It Oilers through the soil en.ichcs It
with all the particles of fert llty that
it contains. Warm air follows as the
water sinks to tho underdrain, and
this still further increases the effect
of all the fertility that the drained
oil posaaases.
ratata la Hay Making.
it Is poor economy of time to keep
teams and tb man who loada the
hay walMoir while one on the ground
olwly gather it up. Practically
SOMETHING HERE THAT
INTEREST THEM.
th whole work of putting the fcay
Into cock has to oe dooe any way. It
t-huu.d always be doneceveral hours,
! and t etter a who e dav. before the
j hay is ready to lie drawn into the
baia This is especially true of
, c over hay, which has heavy btems
1 and will not dry out thorough
ly by exp sure to the air. When
green clover is put in cock the pres
: sure of so much green herbage in a
I small spare gets up teimentatiuu and
J raises the temperature higher than
' June sunshine will da It brings
the moisture out of the stems, and
when Uie cock is ojned to air
it will seem quite damn hut atter
once heating so mu h of the nio.s
ture has come from the stems and
has evaporated that sucii hay may be
put in slack or mow and be entirely
sale fiom further heating.
t.ren Manure Kouring- Land.
There is a belief that prevails
among many farmers that many green
ni uuies are sometimes injur. ous to
crops, causing the soil to turn sour
instead o making it mellow and
light. This an only happen wtien
the soil is full of stagnant water. If
there ae unde. drains the surplus
water will tiller through the soil and
warm air from the surface will fol
low, which will stimulate fermenta
tion of the green manure still more,
."omethiiig depends on the kind of
green herbage plowed under. A
growth or clover has a large propor
tion of nitrogen iu it, ca.ismg it to
give olf inu.th heat when it decays,
while a growth of sorrel rots more
slowiv. and may Iks said to sour the
laud, not because it is Itself sour, but
because it has too little nitrogen to
get ud much heat. A d essing o.
t uicklime sown on the field after any
green manure has been plowed under
greatly adds to its etle ;tiveness.
Build nc Up a Flork ol Slienp.
On a farm one of the cheapest ps
well as on : of the best ways of build
ing up a llock o sheep Is lo select the
best or the ewes and breed to a full
blood ram of a good breed oue that
is best adapted to your locality and
the purpose tor which vou are keep
1 g sheep. Keep on selecting the
ewes, selecting a new ram every two
year in order to infuse new blood.
There is five times as much profit in
muttou as in fleece. A sheep may
be fed one-seventh or the food that
an ox requires and will make a
growth ot nea ly three-quarters of a
pound a day for the first -nO days of
its life, when it becomes excellent
mutton. For wiO days It will make
nearly half a pound at the farm, but
-uch sheep, too, having a large car
cass, will have a large fleece in pro
portion. Coluiau's uural World.
Odrln nnd Kndd.
Chemical dehorning Is the better
way of getting rid of the superfluous
horns. It is less painful than the
saw, and with young stock is quick
and su e in its ejects.
hARi.Ev requires stronger soil than
wheat for its i est development, and
1 where there is room for choice pref
erence should ne given to ciay son.
In proper conditions a heavier yield
an acre than of wheat may be ex
pected Ik you let young stock shift for it
self you will of course, save the ex
pen e of providing shelter. This is
cheap at the outset, but pretty dear
in the final reckoning. It makes the
production of beef, butter, milk,
wool, etc., pretty expensive.
Thkee years of experimenting at
the Vermont station have shown the
superiority of sour milk over sweet
milk for p g feeding in every case,
but pig feeding on skim milk, as
an adjunct to the dairy, is pretty
sure to be profitable, whether you
feed sweet or sour.
Tiikkk is no other plan by which
pork can be made so cheaply as by
making It mainly from clover and
i 0f,ner KOod
oasture, reeding some
grain in connection toward tho close
ot tho season, and then tinlshing
quickly with grain before carrying it
verv deenly Into the severely cold
weather or midwinter.
Cut natf when tn the milk if you
want them to feed in the dairy or for
wintering horses. Hy permitting
them to ripen and then separating
the grali from the straw you add to
the expense, but not at all to the
value. Only by cutting and curing
as hay can vou procure anything i ke
the lull feeding value or the straw.
A successful cultivator ot goose
berries says that he had a row of
twenty-five bushes that had clean
culture for a number of years; they
mildewed badly. He then quit tho
clean culture and the grass grew, and
to his surprise he had no more mil
dew. The yield was at the rate of
(,UOO quarts to the a-Te, tho hushes
being set five feet apart each way.
The variety was the Downing.
l'oi'iritv is nutritious and easily
digested, ;:nd for these reasons the'
farmer who grows it should reserve a
g od supoly for his own table. He
can a .ord tho best as well as any
body. If ho goes wholly on the
principle of saving by cotilioing his
meat died to salt pork, it is ten to
one that ho loses more through in
activity of his mind because of this
indigestible d et than he saves by its
decreasod cost.
The Tall of a I'eaeocli.
As a matter of fact, the tall proper
of tho peacock has no beauty, being
merely an a d to It. The feathers
which form the part we thus name
are not really t,a II -feathers, but an
swer to the much smaller ones that
cover tbe base of tbe ordinary tail
feathers In most birds. They are
what are technically callel "tall
covert" Tbe real tall eathers of a
peacock are the abort and strong ones
that atand ud and support the mag
nldcent plumea of tbe "peaco k In
hla pride."
TEN THOUSAND TONS A
DAY, i
i
Tha Eoormoua Quantity of Paper Turned j
Out by Jtmrni-H Mill. j
It is a curious ami rather startling
fact that next to the articles entering
into food and ciothing paper is the
most universally used , commodity iu
the world. It wouid be an almost
impossible task to And in any civil
ized community a person or business
concern that does not to a greater or
less degree make use of paper in some
of its various forms. borne philoso
pher has sa d that the civilization
and prosperity of a country may be
measured by its consumption of
paper. If th s is as fair an index as
seems upon refle lion to be reason
able, savs the Philadelphia Times,
statistics rove the L n.ted Htatas to
have distanced ail the other nations
of the wond in Hie lace of true de
velop i.eiiL Perhaps no line of busi
ness lias had a more remarkable
growth in the I nited states the past
ten years than the pajer making In
dustry. This is true iu all branches,
but especially so in tbe ine of book
and news print papers. Tne Ameri
can people are a oat. on ot readers,
and the rapdly decreasing prices of
oooks and newspapers have greatly
increased the consumption ot paper
in these two lines One or two cents
will purchase a mass of reading matte.-
n tiie lorm of our tireat dailies,
consisting of irom eight to sixteen
pages, while z to 'M cents wdl pur
chase handsomely Imuud and attrac
tive books oi standard and popular
authors. The daily output of news
print paper in tbe United States is
about 1,00 to 1. 00 tons. Just think
of Mo or ITiO car loads of newsuapers
mentally devoured each day in this
country: The production of news
print Is larger than any other grade.
Uhat oi book" paper is probably as
much as i.ocO tons and of writing
s5o tons each daily.
It will be Interesting here to quote
some oi' the figures of tiie paper in
dustry in the United States as com
piled by The Pajier Trade Journal.
The gross daily capacity or the paper
mills of the United Mates in opera
tion during i 2-1 or all kinds and
grades o. paper was est mated at
about lO.UOu tons. Of this amount
nearly a.fiOO tons represented news
print and book paper, i, oO tons of
wrapping paper, ,.j0 tonsstrawboard,
4oo tons writing paper and almost
:',400 tons of the various other kinds
and grades. The States which rank
tlr-t in the production of taper are
New York. Maine, Massachusetts.
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
Illinois. From these seven States
come nearly three-fourths of the en
tire supply oi the co .n try. Hy far
the greater part of the ast output
is consumed iu tiie United Mates, the
greatest paper uslnir country in the
world. In foreign markets, however.
Ameiican paper is gaining a firm
footing. The greatest consumption
of printing paper is iu the Sunday
editions of the metropolitan dail.es,
which often re ;uire from sixtv to
10U tons for a single Issue. With the
rapidly increasing output prices have
as rapidly decl.ned, until t.i-day a
grade of news D int paper worth
twenty-live years ago, 13 cents or 14
cents per pound is now sold at t
cents to :i cent''. a decline in price
unequaled in the history of any other
lnd.ibtry. This enormous decrease
in the cost of paper is due especially
to the introduction of wood as paper
stock. To day it is the principal
mate ial used in the manufactu.e ot
pape t'o ' ail but the highest grades
of book aud writ ng. Aews print
and not only ord nary but even very
attractive qualities of book pape.'
are made entirely of wood. Another
means conducive to this phenominal
reduction of cost has been the im
provement iu methods of making
wood puip. The perfection and
greater ediciency attained in paper
making machinery, rendering much
larger production easily possible in a
given time, have added materially in
this downward trend of price.
lietter Writing.
As a mle, women are better letter
writers than men perhaps because
they can give more time to the dis
charge oi social obligations. When a
man goes to his ofiice he tlnds a pack
age of letters on his desk. There
wiil not, in all likelihood, be a single
one that Is purely a personal letter.
Yet, while he was at the breakfast
tablc.his wife and daughters received
a nuuii er of letters, and everyone of
them was a personal letter, a visit
aud a chat on paper. If, by chance
the man has to wriie a polite note at
home, in ail probability he has to
borrow a piece oi note paper from his
wile. So seldom does he write notes
at home that he keeps none of the
necessaries ior doing so about him.
There are certain formalities to be
observed in the writing of a social
note. It used to be proper to address
everybody as "dear sir," but now tne
social note usually begins: "My
dear Mr. Hlank." Similarly, our
grand fathers signed themselves "Your
obedient servant," or " our most
obedient humble servant," but we of
tbe present generation sign. "ery
sincerely." or " , ery truly yours." or
something of that sort. In official
correspondence, of coarse, people
"have the honor, " but here it is
strange how often a man makes the
mistake of saying, "I have the honor
to bo, John Smith." Is it an honor
to him to be himself? Then be, at
any rat, is not the man who ought
to say so. What he really means Is
that he has the honor to bo your
iibedlent servant, John Smith. In
answering a note, it Is well to follow
the form your correspondent uses If
he wants to keep you at a distance
by beginning, "My dear sir," you had
better reply In the same way, and
conversely, if he addresses you famil
larly without any prefix to your name,
as "My dear Blank," don't reply by
calling him "Mr. Dash," unless ha
is a man much older lhan yourself. Id
which case you would Dot show him
respect If you omitted the
I tact nc on 8 k 1.
Ski are Norwegian snow-shoes
strips of plank, turned upwart at the
toes, eight or nine feet long, four and
a half inches wi e, and in the thictc
est pait an inch thick. Mrs. Tweedle,
author of ,-A Winter Jaunt to Nor
way," was in Chr.stiania at the time .
of the annua! ski races, and of course
went to see them. It seemed to her
as if n ariy all the one hundred and
fifty thousand inhabitants of the
city must have gone out for tbe same
purpose. About a hundred coin Deb
itors entered for the race.
Theourse began with an ascent
of about lour hundred eetupa steep
hill, mostl. through the forest, where
the men had to cross clefts, ravines,
hillocks and mouuds. The ro.id had
been chosen for its obstacles, aud was
marked here aud the e by a i iece or
red stuff tied to a snowy pine tree
Afte:' the climb came a longer de
sent about a thousand feet, some of
it "almost perpendicular."
Oo a flat surface the skilobers, as
they are called, shu.lle along, accom
pl ohing a d. stance of several feet at
each step, i own hill they nimpiy fly,
keepiug their eet as uear together
as possible, aud benuing their nees.
The up-hitl wo.k is the hardest The
ski have a strong tendeucy to slide
l.at kwaid. The men tu u thei.- toes
out, and stamp the snow to get a
b te.
in toeing out, the legs have to be
kept well apart, else the long shoes
overlap at the heel and trip the
wearer. "To see a man go up-hill,"
writes Mrs. Twedie, "his legs apart
and stamping the snow at each step,
is most amusing from behind, the
movement so closely rose m hies that
; of a frog with h.s little bent legs."
On the day in question - in spite
1 of every obstacle, iu spite of the
sieepness, in spite of the sudden
j turns and twists oT the road, in spite
j or everything, the twelve hnglish
! miles were accompi shed in one hour,
j lorty-six minutes, thirty-six seconds.
! . nly two of the racers gave out,
1 and there were no accidents.
I A lieKijiua Imposter.
A beggar accosted a gentleman,
and whined, 'T'm paralyzed in both
me 'ands. mister, an' can't worii, lor
1 can't grasp anything with 'em.
Could you spare me a trule, mister?"
I'm deaf," replied the gentleman;
"you had better write down what
you ha e to say. Here's a pencil and
a piece ot pape ."
I neaf, is 'e.-" thought the Deguar;
1 "then he didn't hear the paralysis."
,'ohe wr. te down
! "I've got a wife and six children
starving at 'ome, uihter. I've been
out o' work for six mouths, au' I am
iu a drenul state ot desiertushun."
! He handed the paper to the uentle
! man, who read it, and said
i "1 thought you said you were pa a-
lyzed in both hands aud couldn't
! grasp, anything, aud yet you can
write."
i 'Did d id n't yer say yer was deaf?"
; stammered the beggar, who now really
i did feel paralyzed.
" i es, just to find out it you were
an iuiposter, which you are, as 1 sus
pected," replied the gentleman.
"Well, of all the blossom' frauds,
yer the biggest:" exclaimed the beg
gar; "the hidea of yer sayin' yer was
deaf an' tryin' to impoge on a poo
lelier."
And he shullled off, snitllng the air
with righteous ind gnation.
Kerned? for I lump Walls.
The process consists in using two
washes or sol tions to coveting the
surface of the walls one composed
of castile soap and water, and one oi
alum and water. The proportions
are th ee-quarters of a pound of soap
to one gallon of water, and half a
pound of alum to four gallons ot
water, both substances to be per.
fectly clean and dry, and the tem
perature of the air not above 25 de
grees i ahrenheit when the composi
tions are applied.
The first, or soap wash should be
laid on when boiling hot with a flat
brush, taking care to form a froth
on the brickwork. This wash should
re i ain twenty-four hours, so as to
become dry and hard before the sec
ond or ah m wash is applied, which
should be done in the samo manner
as the tlrst. The temperature of
this wash when applied may be (iO or
70 degrees Fahrenheit, and this also
should remain twenty-four hours be
fore a second coat of soap wash is put
on. These coats are to be applied
alte nately until the walls are made
impervious 10 water. The alum and
soap thus combined lorm an insoluble
compound, filling th,' pores of the
masonry and entirely prevenllng the
water from entering the wall. Ar
chitect and Huilder.
A Had Time lop Students.
It is 'a good thing for some of the
clever boys in our schools to-day that
they did not live in the seventeenth
century, when profici ncv in one's
studies was, if history sp nks truly, a
dangerous thing. It is said that in
(iermany in h li . a student was sen
tenced to death tor witchcraft be
cause of his rapid progress in Lati ,
(ireek, and Hebrew, his beautiful
handwriting and tho readiness with
which one of his pupils became pro
ficient in Latin The unhappy
young man wou d have been led to
the stake without fail had not a
certain influential noblemen, who
knew and liked him, secured the
commutation of his sentence. As I
was, the unfortunate student waa
compelled to endure a long term of
Imprisonment. Harper's "oung
People.
Ir this world ever becomes tit to
live In, there will be a law against
the man who Is trying to raise money
to pay a church debt
A hoy's Idea o. ff lory Is to play base
ball Id ault"
proper
prefix.