M (MONIES: A BLE8SC0 TRINITY.
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T"aa oM ttaa mm of MnlbW:
M laaaaWlon Bwk It mb
WW!1 tbaa Hr (Kbar
lIMM KaWar MBortM
f WjjMiM cannot Ifliel ;
Caa mym laa It plae.
Tfc Fwali baa or im adiao.
far nhNUn noBnirar ;
Bat a aot anas the bm
Of im Baste to my mr.
Lffc Mm whel-nM phrM wtaieh grwt dm
ri par at aot bum to di.
Waaa I t-ka a comrade haad IB mina,
Aa4 hoar him ay. ' Good by I"
I rmthar Ilk th candor
Of old fnB ii whan Xhmy niaat ;
la tb outapokrn -God bias you r
Tbr I omi.hlD lr mora iwl ;
And in tfit. uiint old fnihtooad word
Mora mudc tami to dwell
Hun in any modern greeting, I
Or tndiwl, et firewall.
If any an tgad mother,
Wbu parting from her child.
Wbile Mara nuv dimmed ber ejrelht,
Hr. naurmuivd, a b anillod :
Tit . et atj'Crtfnri, tbuM lobav
Your tbi;dren eacu ca yon ;
And Lir that trinity of Mini :
Mittoerr "i.ood by!" -Ood bl-ai roar
Bot o Tru r lag.
SPEAKING TRUMPET.
My friends, did you ever know
Capt Karkho ir, who commanded the
hip Slntram of Boston, on several
voyages around the (.'ape of Good
Hoi eJ
You didn't Well, many people
did, and they knew him for a. tiling
shipmaster and a worth i man; hon
est, trustworthy, and kind to bis feu
low-men.
o his first voyage in the Slntram
be was favored with as One a crew to
handle the ship a ever era ked a
biscuit or handled a marlinsplke.
The men were prompt, obedient, ac
tive, and ever ready ror an emergency;
always in good spirits, and contented
with their lot .Such crews are not
always met with. Their good con
duct may, in part, have been owing
to the kind, considerate, yet Arm and
judicious bearing of CapU K ark horn,
who never found fault without cause,
or allowed bis o itcers to do so. lie
remembered that sailors were men,
and granted them a many indulg
ences as were compatible with a
proper state of discipline and subor
dination. However this may be, there was no
revolt, row, grumbling, or disorder of
any kind on board the Slntram that
voyage. The onlcers did their duty,
and the mm did theirs, and they
hell ed each other. It is not often, I
am s;.rry to says that a ship peforms
an liast India voyage with like re
sult Wntn the ship arrived In Boston,
after a successful voyage, and the
a lors were paid off tbey put their
loose heads together, and held a con
sultation, over which the loatswaln
p esided. in regard to the tiest method
of testifying tbelr grateful feelings
toward Capt Karkhorn for his kind
ness during the voyage, and their ap
preciation of the many noble qual
ities he possessed.
After a lengthy but somewhat
spicy discussion, it was resolved,
nem. con., that a handsome speak
ing trumpet should be procured and
presenteu to the Captain as a mark
of respect from the ship's company.
The speaking trumpet, qu.te a
showy one, brass, with silver rims,
and a magnificent mouthpiece, was
procured, every man contributing a
share of tbe expense. ( ne '.ay, when
the crew bad reason to believe that
Captain Karkhorn was at the counting-room
of Messrs. Gruebach
Gusto, the owners ot the Slntram,
the sailors who composed tbe ship's
company on her last voyag', with the
boatswain at their head, carrying in
his hand the speaking trumpet, like
a truncheon, and the cook, a stal
wart A ri an bringing up the rear,
marched In solemn procession to the
countlcg-rooin
Captain . arkLorr was In the
counting-room settling his accounts
With the owners, when the procession
ente cd the room, the boatswain
waiving the speaking trumpet, with
triumph In his looks. To say that
th - wonby captain was not only
astonished, hut alarmed, would con
vey but a limited idea of bis feelings.
Messrs. Gruebach .v Gusto hardly
knew what to make of this strange
advent of the pallors, and ga ed ad
miringly and expectantly on the
scene
"Boatswain," said Captain Kark
horn. "what Is the trouble? Why
are you all here? Have you anything
to complain oi?"
The boatswain, a tall, fine-look log
sailor, smiled benignly, took off his
hat with the band which was unin
cumbered, and dropped it on the
floor. Tbe men followed his example
In removing their tarpaulins. Tbe
boatswain threw himself Into an ora
torical attitude, drew from his
pocket a pa er, and proceeded to
lead with a clear voice and proper
emphasis tbe following address:
"( aptain ark horn- tnc men who
belonged to the ship Slntram on her
late oyatre to tbe Ka t Indies give
you their hearty th inks for the kind
and manlv treatment they, received
from you dur.ng the voyage, and beg
you to accept the trifling gift which
I now hold to my hand as a pledge of
oui re-pect and grat itude. 1 is our
wi-.li that it may scr e you lon and
weil, and be of signal use when g v
Ing orders from the )Uarter-deck,
We, your old crew, have all shipped
for a voyaire to K o Janeiro In the
ship . Fyramus which sails the day
after to-morrow, and have called to
express our leellngs and bldynu tare
well. " aptain Karkhorn, It Is our sin
cere wish that ou may meet with
oceans of good luck during the re
mainder of your voyage through life;
never lose your leckou ng, lie i ut on
short allowance, capsl.ed, swamped,
of delayed lu a huricane on a lee
shore. May you always steer cl -ar of
raliiis, fogs, typhoons, and thunder
'iiialla, en oylng steady breezes, a
Blear sky, and plenty of sea room, un
til yoa re:ich that port to which we
ate All liound, and brought safely to
anchor, there to remain until the
chief boatswain Gabr.el shall blow a
summons from his trumpet that shall
break your moorings and send you
away wing and wing to tbe mansions
of the blessed '
Tbe loaiKwain, having waded suc
cessfully through bis speech, made a
low, looking earnestly at tbe captain,
and thrust the speak. ng trumpet to
ward him.
Captain Karkhorn was a modest
man, and although never at a loss ou
the quarter-deck, he was shy and re
served In bis intecourse with the
world. He was completely taken
aback" by the boatswain's harangue,
lie blushed he stammered. He t ok
tbe sneaking truiupt in his band, and
attempted for the first time in bis
lite to make an oratori al display
but in van. All he could say was:
My good fellows. I am surprised
this is most unexjiected I am
eternally obliged to you 1 I
am"
Tbe boatswain, seeing the canlain
! "in irons." which he could not get
out of, and himself and companions
having well perfomed their duty,
bapi'ily and considerately concluded
that the bet thing to lie done was to
close the ceremony with a "round
turn and two halfhtches " He made
a sign to bis shipmates, and one and
all gave three rousing cheers, to tbe
great astonishment of Messrs. Grue
bach ,v Gusto and the group of idlers
'which bad collected, and marched
rapidly away.
I apt. K ark hern was prou I of his
trumpet lie showed It to admiring
friends, and declared he would not
part with it for Its weight in gold;
that it should be his companion on
every future voyage, and strengthen
his voice when putting theshipabouc,
or hailing the men aloft in a gale of
wind.
He was as good as his word and
even went beyond it. On his next
voyage the trumpet was seldom out
of bis band when he was on deck.
He got Into such a habit of using it,
to the great annoyance of the sailors
and the disguest of the o beers, that
it be wished to speak to a man a
couple of fatboms off, he would put
the trumpet to his mouth and bawl, as
If hailing the nying jib-boom or the
main sky-sail yard. Capt Karkhorn
was tbe only person on board who re
joiced in the sound of tbe braen in
strument all others heartily wished
it sunk In tbe bottom of the tea.
One pleasant day on the homeward
bound passage, when approaching the
edge of tbe wuir Stream, to the south
ward of Hatteras, about 5 o'clock in
afternoon, a c y was raised that a
grampus had come up to blow ou tbe
lee i.uarler. This caused quite a
commotion, as is always tbe case at
sea when a iisn makes his appearance,
a strange sail heaves In sight, or any
other out-of-the- way event breaks tbe
monotony of a long passage.
The graniDus was a young and in
experienced fish, of small sisse com
parat vely, being not more than ten
j i r twelve feet In length. He bad
' pronably never seen a ship before,
and manifested a laudable curiosity
by sailing round and closely examin
lug tb: huge wooden monster, which,
without Hipper or fins, was plunging
so steadily along through the water.
Indeed, be once came so near that
Captain narkhorn thought be would
be able to reach him with the har
poon, ami as the dab again ame up
on the weather quarter to blow, the
captain laid bis trumpet on the tatf
rail, sei ed the harpoon and threw it
towaids him with surprising force
and ene gy.
The harpoon fell short of tho mark,
and tbe grampus dls ,p pea red. I'.ut
Joe Halkins, who bad noun ted the
taftrail during tbe hubi.ub and ex
citement, anxious to lend a band in
the capture of the list), on getting
down to tbe quarter-deck accidentally
struck his foot against the speaking
trumpet, and k Locked It overboard.
At least this was the story, but some
ventured to say there was no acci
dent in the case; that Joe merely
seized a good opportunity to rid the
ship of an intolerable nuisance.
Deep was the regret of tbe captain
at tbe loss or the speaking trumpet.
His urbane temper was ruH'.ed, and
the careless sailor was reprimanded
in language which was neither pious
nor polite, an unusual proceeding on
tbe part of tbe woitby skip, er, and a
useless one, too, for every greenhorn
knows that any substance that bas
been sunk to the bottom of the sea
cannot be recoered by an outbreak
of temper and Intern pei ate language.
The speaking trumpet was lost.
Sad and sorrowful, Captain Karkhorn
retired at a late hour that night to
bis stateroom, anxious to sleep in re
membrance of bis misfortune. Hut
this solace was of short duration.
Toward morning he was aroused by
the second mate, and hastening on
deck, was astounded by the Informa
tion that strange and unnatural
sounds had been heard at Intervals
on the water not far from the ship;
sometl i es a bellowing, as if the
bulls of Has ha ii nad been let loo-e.
These sounds, which sometimes
seemed to I e ahead, sometimes
astern, sometimes on the bow, and
sometimes on the quarter, were inex
plicable. They could not be ac
counted for on any rational or philo
sophical principles, and spread terror
among the ci ew, who ascribed tuein
to the p esen e of disembodied
spirits, making e.'orU to give warn
ing of an Impending disaster.
When daylight appeared the dis
cussion relating to the caue or thcxe
alarming sounds was Interrupted by
Joe Halkins, whonung nut from the
fore-yard that a grampus was prowl
ing about on the weather Ihiw,
not a cable's length from the shin.
The attention or all i ands was
now turned toward the big lish,
which was acting strangely, playing
various antics, as If- crazy or practis
ing maritime gymnastics for a wugcr,
and every now and then amusing
hiinsei, aiiU friglacoUig honest peo
ple by giving vent to those diabolical
tlaltitsaod wails an yells, like an
alligator a i.icted with the quinsy
taking lessons In church music.
Capu nark born for the moment
fn h!vT.!!L.B...B,"t - "
"111 have that fellow now," said
he; "'tis the same rascal that was
swimming around us last night. He I
bas met with trouble, and complains
of bard treatment, and wants tbe
world to know it Hand along the
harpoon.'' i
As if w lllng to gratify tbe cap-
Iain's wishes, tbe jjrairjpus "put i
aroint'1 an4 iIaam at. -a Info t IaitinI i
th-Vhi . ,IZ
ruw 0asi. i- 1 u UIGW UOal af W l
llalkios shouted, rrom his post on the j
foreyaid: "I'll be hanged if that
fish has not got a big gold-fish in bis ;
mouth."
The grampus came slowly along,
swimming on the to of the water,
and evidently exhausted. Indeed, he
could hardly keep pace with tbe ship,
which was going at the rate of only
four or flvekn.it. Suddenly he raised
his head, and casting an imploring
look toward the ship, electrified all
bands by a hideous yell, bowl, or snort,
which burst abruptly on their ears
louder and quite as musical as tbe
bravinif, in chorus, of a troop of
donkeys, and then died away like
tbe rumbling of distant thunder.
Capt Karkhorn was startled at the
unearthly sound, but soon recovered
his presence of mind, and springing
to the deck from tbe gunwale, on
which be was seated, be clapped bis
hands as a new idea entered his
bead.
'May I be sunk thirty fatl oms in
tbe big pond," be shouted, "if that
villanous grampus has not stolen my
speaking trumpet, and, confound his
impudence, be is now hailing the ship
with it!" .
Tbe captain then, move I by just
indignation as well as by a wish to
capture a big fish, right manfully
giasped tbe harpoon, and the next
minute It was deeply burled between
tbe shoulders of the unhappy fish.
After a severe str. gle the grampus
was haulnd on board, and on Inves
tigation it was demonstrated as
clea ly as any case in Bowdltch's
Navigator, that when Joe Halkins
knocked the speaking trumpet over
board, tbe hungry fish, taking it for
a choice morsel of food, bad seized It
while It was sinking, and, attempt
ing to boit it the no.zle, or mouth
piece, bad stuck in bis throat and
could not Vie got up or down, and In
his great agony the fish bad uttered
or spouted through that highly prized
instrument tbe hoarse and hnrrtd
screams and yells which bad so ter
ribly affrighted the crew on board the
good ship Slntram. liosto. True
J-'lag.
Htill in Doubt.
The cabin stood a short distance
from the mountain road, and as I
pulled my horse up in front of it a
woman banging out clothes In the
yard turned to see what 1 wanted.
"You don't remember me," 1 said,
after saluting ber.
'I eckon not" she answered in a
puzzled tone as she came down to
tbe fence.
"1 was here la t year to see your
husband about some limber, and took
dinner witn you"
Her face brlgbtene l immediately.
"Oh, yes," she exclaimed, ' I re
collect now. Won't you git down an'
come In?"
"Thank you, no, but I'd like to
see your husband."
The smile went out of her face in
stantly. "He's gone," she said.
' And you a e a widow. " I asked,
th nklng, of course, the man was
dead.
"Well, 1 reckon I'm a sort uv a
one," she ex lained; "but 1 ain't
shore whether it's a grass widder er
a bay widder."
I didn't un lerstand, and told ber
so.
"It's this way," she continued.
day oe'ore yistiaay Mil run away,
with Sam Aleddcrses' wife, and Pap
and am an' my brother i im has gone
after him. Ef they ketch hi ,., I'm i
a hay widder; ef they don't, I reckon
I'll be a grass widder, anyway, till
somebody comes along to take Bill's!
place" j
As I left that neighborhood before ;
the gunning party returned, I don't j
know to this day whether It is grass
or hay. i
A Town of Hones.
Some forty or fifty years ago the
catacombs were the object of daily
visits, and the sight was one which
every visitor to i'aris felt called upon
to see. accidents, however, f re-1
quetit'v took place, and at p esent no
one enter the catacombs except at
certain periods of the year, when the
engineers have to make a formal re
port as to their condition The
ventilation Is effected by numerous
holes communicating with the upper
air. The catacombs may tie entered j
from var ous points. At the period J
of the dally vMts. which were too :
otien accompanied by accidents, the
descent was made from the south
near the Luxemburg Gardens. Tbe
names of v sitors arc called over - e
fore thev go down, and again when
they come up.
The genera aspect of the place Is
not so solemn as might lie imagined.
It suggests rather a vast wine cellar,
In which the cases enclose bones in
stead or Unties. The remains of
4,000,000 persons now repose thnre.
This subterranean city contains
streets and passages like tho city
above, and each thoroughfare, num
bered as though it consisted of
bouses, corresponds closely enough to
the street, with its numbers, of the;
metropolis overhead The object of '
this care ully piauned correspondence '
is to he able, in case of acculeut to
lurnlsh assistance as soon as possible
at the spot indicated.
.
Ka'iillle In Hie I'nlteil t tin:
The United States had at the last
census K'.ti H,0.' fainlLea In IbbO
lb number was 0,i4u,iu.
THE MAN FROM MONTANA.
tuu Up M Hoard th. city of Pan la
j tw.mio iiaBiar -
London Correspondence of the New
vnrlr h-.-m. -A,.
'iTult't ' J!0?..
muty nuv u4b aiuuuuucu a carciuuj
elaborated plan of feeding its passe n
gers in course dinners instead of-al
lowing them to order what tbey
choose from the bill of fare and get
ting it nee n the last eastward
trip of the steamer 1'aris the e.peri.
ment was tried but only twice. Pas-
lingers who wanted asliceo. chicken
and then a frantic scramble to tbe
deck with a look at the sea, all in
ten seconds had to wait unt 1 the
: rest had eaten their way throueb
j strata of bors d'.iuvre soup, fish,
entree, etc., before they could get
j their chicken.
The first meal served in this fash
ion was vcr well put on, and would
have been voted a dist net success on
land, but it took two nou s to eat
and tbe ves el wouldn't keep still
while it was being eaten. It was
a splendid thing for those of the sea
sick, who only wanted soup, and they
were delighted. But tbe others
weren't
Next day those of tbe i assenuers
who had recovered talked it over and
decided that the new plan was not
brilliant. The question arose, how
ever, of who should bell tbe cat and
bead tbe protest After some search
a Montana man, with a voice like a
foghorn playing an accompani
ment to an unoiled buzz saw, was
stimulated up to tbe sticking po nt
and primed with a speech and a reso
lution to offer at the dinner table.
They had got as far as tbe entrees
on the second night when tbe Mon
tana man suddenly arose. His sten
torian "Ladles and gentlemen" was
beard not only all over the ship but
in the next world and other places.
Murmurs of approbation greeted him.
In sad terms he enumerated tbe woes
and trials of the seasick, who tr.ed
to bore all the way through a course
dinner, and he demanded an imme
diate return of eating tbe pudding
first if you so selected.
'out in Montana," said he, "we
bare everything put on tbe table at
once, and each fellow starts where
he has a mind to. Some folks like
to begin with the coffee and end
with tbe soup Freedom is the base
of the American Hag."
As he went on he became more en
thusiastic and magnetic than this.
He worked every one up to a condi
tion of wild enthusiasm, and when
he perorated by reading bis esolu
tlon it was carried almost unanimous
ly, even the stewaids, forgetting all
sense of nuty toward the line, voted
in the affirmative '
Next night the dinner was served
in the old way, "every fellow start
ing where he had a mind to"
Breathing Through the Nose.
It is all-important In order to pre
serve the system from shock and tbe
danger of contaminat on by foreign
substances, that before the air enters
tbe lungs it should be made as nearly
as possible ot the sama temperature
as the blood, aod should tie deprived
of ail particles i f dust which might
bd a h.ndrance to tbe bodily func
tions. The entire course of the tortuous
nasal canals Is lined with mucous
me nbrane, and this memi.rane is of
a highly vas ular structure That Is
to say, the whole tissue is flushed
with blood by a perfect network of
vessels, over which the air we breathe
passes, and fro u which it borrows
f hA rAnlliait.A hfnt. 'Tha miipna wrMrh
Is secreted bv t'he membranes Is also
advantageous In rendering tbe at
mosphere suitably moist
In tbe light of these considerations,
the difference between air breathed
In through tbe nose and that taken
in bv the mouth I ecomes at once ap
parent. In the first case it is gerftly
drawn In through the winding canals,
and is tempered and puritled on the
way; while the air which reaches the
lungs by way of the mouth comes
upon them all at once, and is identi
(al iu nature with the surrounding
atmosphere, whether that be warm
or old, dry or moist, fuil of dust or
free from It.
Of not less im porta n e than the
bene llts a: ruing in the whole system
from propely breathing through the
nose, are those which result to the
nasal membranes themselves, intne
pro ess of Imparting heat and mols-
ttire to the air as it passes over them, I
the tissues are prevented from a - f
umulatlng an oversupplying of mu
cus, and any ex ess of blood-pressure
In the parts Is relieved by tbe contact
of tbe ool air whl h is (instantly
breathed in. One investigator has
even gone so tar as to assert that
maty forms of . olds mavl e greatly
benefited by a correct breathing ex
ercise taken every few hours.
Howevr r that may be, it is certain
that tho d sad vantages of mou lb
breath ing are too numerous and glar
ing to be llg.itly passed over. Youth's
Companion.
Worth or Your DigitM.
What Is a 1 nger. a hand, or an arm
worth Of course few people would
be willing to accept mutilation at
any price; but sometimes ii becomes
necessary to figure ut what the arms
and limbs are worth Obviously the
only true criterion Is not a price in
dolla s and cents, bu'u the ability to
earn a livelihood, taken as 100 per
cent, and tbe loss Incurred by the
ni .illation figured ou that bas s.
Thus the loss of b tb hands is pi ac
tually e ,uivalent to a total loss of ,
working ability. In Germany one of j
the worklnginen's accident insurance
com aoies figures that the loss
of the right hand depreciates the
ability oi the worker ;ro 7 to -j ,
per cent, While the led hand .epro
seuts from no to u per cent of the
earnings of both hands This is a
miner's company's estimate Th '
loss of the thumb Is reckoned with
Su to M per ent, and the lo or i hn
first linger ef the right band at about
15 per cent., and that of the left
hand at from 8 to M.- per cent. The
third finger is figured ag the least
valuable, being worth only 7 to it jer
cent Of course tbe value of i ngers,
bands, arms, and legs dej ends large
ly on the occupation. In some tbe
loss is more of the nature of a per
sonal inconvenience than an inter
ference with working ability.
Fiddled tor r-nakes to Dance.
"L'ncle" Henry Harrison of Union
County, Tenn., tells tbe following
story, which is vouched for by all bis
neighbors: Several years ago an
Italian, Joe 1 e Novo by name,
bought a small tract of mountain
land about thirty miles from Cary.
ville. Without i epair ng the cabin he
and bis wife moved into it Tbe man
went once a month to tbe country
store that was near by u make neces
sary purchasers Things went on
this way until some hunters, over
taken by a storm iate one afternoon,
were lorced to seek reruge in bis
cabin. The rain continuing un
abated, they were forced to remain
into the night After s-upper the
Ital.an got down bis tl die and began
to play low and plaintively. In a
short while a huge rattlesnake ap
peared upon tbe hea th, then another
and another, until no less than seven
wriggling serpents were' in sight
Tbe bunters were terribly alarmed,
but De Novo bade them be quiet and
watch. Tbe snakes seemed filled
with tbe wildest ecstacy. If tbe
music was low and soft they would
move in grace. ul curves like the
mazes of tbe wait.; if it was loud and
quick their movements were quick;
at ail times tbey kept most perfect
time. If . the music ceased tbey
would rush from sight, but would
return immediately upon its resump
tion. Numbers have visited the
Italian to witness this sight Last
year i Novo died. After the burial
the woman sold out and returned to
her native country, the cabin was
torn down and tbe rattles dis
appeared forever. Louisville Courier-Journal,
Cork.
The application of cork as a bottle
' stopper for liquid vessels is said to he
or (.real antiquity. The earliest
record extant of its use in Europe is
that mentioned by Horace, who as
; serts that the Komans bad cork as
i stoppers for their wine amphora,.
Certain of tbe uses of cork were
! known to tbe ancient Greeks and
i Egyptians, but whether tbey used
' cork for stopping tbe mouths of their
liquid vessels history does not say. It
was not howeve, until the year 1700
i that the Spaniards first commenced
to work their cork woods with some
degree of regularity for tbe making
o "corks." Although perhaps corks
were more or less in use from the
time glass bottles were first invented,
which Beekman asserts to have been
in the fifteenth century, yet it was
not until (two and a half centuries
later that the Spaniards began to
prepare cork for bottle stoppers,
which they did in a forest at tbe
northeast of tbe Ttgueras, on the
Muire. The cor: industry has since
gradually risen to be one ot tbe first
magnitude its chief center in Spain
being in Catalonia, which at present
has a population of persons em
ployed, wh i In the course of each
year turn out about 188,000 hundred
weight of cork grown in the province,
144,000 hundred weight of cork
grown In othe provinces, besides 47, -uou
hundred weight of cork ex orted
f om Algeria The revenue from the
! cork industry of Spain amounts to
AUi.1,500 per annum. unamners
.Journal.
All the llaare.
The recent death of Louis Kossuth
revives the remembrance of an inci
dent which at this t me is interest
ing. It will be remembered how
Kossuth was received with boundless
enthusiasm when be visited this
country in 1851. Among the thou
sands going down to the Battery to
welcome tbe great orator and patriot
was a member of a firm largely in
terested in the hat manufacturing
business. Noticing Kossuth's pecu
liar headgear, adorned w th a feath
er, he conceived tbe idea of manu
facturing a new style of soft hats,
and to placn them upon the market
under the name "Kossuth hat" The
new style made a tremendous hit.
Kossuth hats were all the rage,
Frem this little incident dates the
fashion of all sorts of soft hats un
known heretofore In tbe American
hat business.
A Word for Parents.
Some parents compel their chil
dren to eatagainst their will, as whep
they con e to the breakfast table
without an appetite or have lost it
in prosper of a visit or a ride, or for
the sake of "eating their plates clean"
in discouragement of wasteful habits.
Unless we are thirsty we
cannot drink the purest water with
out aversion, and, as for eating when
there is no appetite, it Is revolting,
as anyone may p ove to himself by
attempting to take a second meal
in twenty mi lutes after having eaten
a regular dinner. Tbe appetite the
hunger, Is excited by the presence of
gastric juice about the stomach, but
if there is no gastric juice there can i
be no hunger, no appetite, and to
comiiel a child to swallow food when
it Is distastetul is an absurdity and a i
cruelty. !
Tim I'minl t'onr-c. I
Burglar Hill I say, Sam, wouldn't I
it In- a Icii-nm an' comfortable )
thing I t.hi ie wasn't any laws agin I
rouiiin'. " i
Ni e Cracker Sam thoiiichtfully:
Le's ga elected to the Legislature.
.I.e.
Win; a woman gets
she has to give it to her
hire them to do th ng.
any money,
children to
WASHING ROYAL LINEN-
Tha lataaary Wort mt taw latawrial aattt
Royal Faailliaa mt gar a a.
Tbe imperial family at Berlin navsj
all tbeir washing done at the ardv
nary metropolitan , laundries a asaV
ter which is a source of much an any
ance to tbe Empress, for when sbs
' visited tbe Augusta Hospital th
I other day she was entbuslastie in bear
j admiration of the laundry depart
in. nt and remarked that she wool)
give anything to have something of
the same kind fitted op at tbe paiaea.
and, on seeing the astonished looks
of all those around ber, she coaV
tinued; "Yes, it is so; I am obliges!
to send all tbe washing, even that of
j tbe children, to be laundered in tb
1 city, which causes no end ot lncoa.
I ven ence"- the io'erence bein that
' tbe supply of linen at tbe Court of
Berlin is limited,
j The members of the English royal
family have all tbeir linen laundered
at a special establishment maintained
' for the purpose in tbe outskirts of
! London, near Hounslow, and, no
1 matter where they happen to be,
' whether at Balmoral or Osborne, the
; royal linen is dispatched thither.
' Public attention was drawn to this
fact a few years ago by a strike of
the employes, who complained of be
ing underpaid. Tbe work is. it mi st
be confessed, most perfectly accom
plished, and the bleaching Is done in
tbe open air only instead of artifi
cially, which is impossible in Lon.
don, owing to the sooty character of
the atmosphere.
Empress Eugenie remains on record
as the only crowned bead parsimoni
ous enough to have torn lines
mended, and no less than fifteen
seamstresses were kept In the perma
nent establishment of tbe Tuilerlea
household for this purpose. At tho
Knglish. Berlin, Viennese, Spanish,
and Kusslan courts all torn linen Is
at once withdrawn from use. stored
away, and distributed in immense
t ales to tbe various hospitals and
charitable institutions irom time to
time.
At the Vatican tbe linen and cloth
ing of tbe holy lather a e kept in a
state of proper repair by a ploua
order of Sisters of Mercy, all of whom
are of noble birtb and known as the
"Ladies of Itepiration." It is they
who make for him bis white cassocks,
and embroider h s slippers and adorn
his altar and table covers with price
less old lace. Their costume differs
slightly from that of other Sisters of
Mercy in that their dresses are blue
with long trains
Early Men and I.lona. ,
There have recently been discover
ed in a cave on the French side ot
the Pyrenees, the cave of Herm,
some more remains of prehistoric
man, such as arrowheads and other
implements made of flint mingled
with tbe bones of animals, which,
like the men of those ancient days,
have disappeared. Among these re
mains are tbe jaw of the celebrated
cave-lion, an animal which must
have been a most formidable enemy
te his human contemporaries.
The study of th s jaw has thrown
some new light upon tbe character
istics of the cave-lion, indicstina?
that it was intermediate in its bodily
structure between tbe lion- and tho
tigar.
The Imagination is strangely
moved by tbe suggestions which such
discoveries offer as to the kind of life
that was led by theea ly representa
tives of our race upon the ea th;
forced to battle even for tbe posses
sion of the caves in which they
dwelt, with Her e and powerful
beasts, and that, two, at a time,
when only the i udest weapons had
been Invented, and when bodily
strength and agility must have been
their main dependence in such coo
t sts.
Who would not wish that it were
possible to d scover, recorded in som(
of those ancient caves, a cjntempor.
ary and translatable account of a
battle between men and lions?
Saving Postage.
Patrick lived in New York, and
his parents still lived in the old coun
try. Patr ick earned very little and
had no money to spate, but be do
sired to be a dutiful and generous
son. One day a letter came to nim
from his father, in wh ch the old
man said:
"Me dear by, the times is hard in
Ireland, it's mesilf that am rejuced,
when I have occasion to appear In
full dress, to the necisslty or goln'
w dout a coat"
This pathetic appeal was too n.uch
for Patrick. He at once took off his
own coat and prepared to send it to
Ireland. When he had got it all
ready he mailed it and at the same
time sent this letter:
"Me dear fayther: 1 send you by
the parcels post me own coat the day;
but to make it weigh the less for the
post, I've cut off tbe brass buttons.
"Your dutiful son, Patrick.
"Post Script Ye'll find the tut
tons in the inside brist pocket of tho
coat ?at '
Not a Care-All
The powers of certain miraculous
curative places apparently do not ex
tend to all diseases W. R. Le Fanu,
In his Seventy Years of Irish Life,
gives the following testimony of. nn
invalid, who had sought the benefits
of the Knock Chapel: "Indeed, sir,
1 took all the rounds and said all t he
piayers, but It was of n iuse: not but
what it's a grand place; It would as.
loulsh you to see all tbe sticks and
crutches hanging up there, left be
hind by poor cripples who went homo
cured. It's my opinion, sir, that for
rheumatism, and the like of that
It's a grand place entirely; but as for
the liver, It's not worth ad n.
Popular Science Monthly.
A i-o in si a man discovers that h
cannot reform himself, he begins om
the world.