The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899, May 14, 1896, Image 2
THE SIOUX COUNTY JOURNAL. L J. SIM MUMS, HARRISON", 5EBBASKA- Brother Kroger, tf the Transvaal, seem to be quite an authority on the making of good Rhodes. Jaderewski has ortiinited confidence in the financial abWty of this coun try. He's coming back again next year. It la one of the peculiarities of our pol itic that not every man who would made a good President would also make a good candidate. Paderewski ie a thorough artist. Any one can tell that by the ease and nonchalance with which he strikes and holds on to the $2 note. A Toledo mail carrier has been ar rested for destroying a mass of election circulars. The people to whom they were addressed will rise as one man In his defense. Russia Is making less noise and gath ering In more fresh territory than any other nation, but one good thing about the Ciar Is that he never had any de signs on American soil. A New York scientist brings forward a claim that "life Is nothing more than a luminous effluvium." Life in New Tork may be nothing more than this, but the professor ought to see what It is oat here. The gold-bearing part of Forty-Mile Creek, In Alaska, has been discovered to be entirely In the United States. The dividing line Is the 141st meridian, and thus far the longitude of the earth has not been shoved around to suit British interests and pretensions. It is not a good thing to have ill heal rh; It is not a good thing to bare bodily ailments; but it is a great deal better to have bodily ailments that work out manhood than good health that works out iiubecllitv. It is impossible to estimate the value of tact In the household, even when ex ercised only by g single member, but. where all share in it and use it for the general good, there will be some of the most exquisite pleasures of home life. The English Government has ex plained at last that it proposes to go somewhere or most anywhere up the Nile to fight anylssly it meets and to stay at any point it reaches, which as an exposition of purpose is as clear as the Nile itself. Everything which takes the mind out of self, that comfortable corner where It loves to nestle, and forces It into the bracing air of the outside world, tends to develop within us that j faculty of realising which is the root of I all sympathy and the corner-stone of all social welfare. Reports from New Orleans are to the effect that the handicapping system has been applied to baseball with good re sults In equalizing clubs of different caliber. After this sucessful experi ment It is to be hoped New York and Loulsrille will be able to cut more of a figure In the National League race. The Armenians In America have dur ing the last two months sent $33,000 from their, glender resources to their suffering countrymen, through the Rev. M. G. Hitchcock, of Boston, besides what tbey have sent through other channels. Most of the Armenians In the United States are poor lalwrlug men. It Is not the indolent or the easily worked man that has the necessary amount of leisure for the attainment of some desirable local or general ob- iect It Is rather the busr man who toy the careful husbanding of fractions i of time which other less thoughtful i people would waste, can and does achieve Incomparably great and valua ble results. What an Inexhaustible source of pleasure and profit abounds in that borne wherein a tender mother dwells, and from whom may be derived the wisest maxims and rules of bappy life! In snob a borne ought to be found the dutiful daughter and the tender and affectionate son. In that borne may be acquired the beauties and knowledge of tbe world, without the danger of be ing infected by the bad example abroad. Ever since waralk began numerous predictions as to its results have been made by tbe military engineers of tbe dally press. All that we have read were interesting, but none seem to bare approached in scientific accuracy that of a New York man who writes to the evening Post. This engineer lays down the broad proposition that in a mod ern naval war, as every International conflict in these days Is bound to be, tbe nation baring tbe largest number f ships is certain to triumph. As En gland at present has nearly l v, ice as many ships as any other country in tbe world It is Impossible to lick her. This writer gives some facts to prove Ihnt In nine out of every ten naval engage ments between modern armored ves sel all tbe combatants on both fides are certain to be sunk. It may happen occasionally that two vessels will meet aader such circumstances that on.? mar cape, bat tbe chances are always In favor of each getting In one isx sbot Wtleb will sink tbe other. Certainly In l3 eotnbata where more than one ship O axjaged mow m both sides are lore to go to the botioin. This for iu rn ikii. I if rax, that lbs muJcrn Ironclad nh t.taud but little damme, and lu. a belter skelter fig!.:t aonie effect! .v allot are certain to lie made. Tlii writer, therefore, argues that if. a he aTtemnt to prove. modern naval liatth-s will be merely battle of extermination, the nation having the largest uu'nls-r of ghipa ia certain to finally wind up .is mistress of the seas. That ' to nay, England navy can maud the loss if more ships than any other countrv possesses, and still tie In good fighting condition. From the standpoint of this argument Germany could not bold out against Great Britain six mouths. The Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a decision which denies the claim made by Theodore F. Brown In a lower court when he re fwsed to answer In an Interstate com merce case, alleging that bis testimony might incriminate himself. The decis ion affirms the right of the court to comiel an answer by a witness to ques tions relating to Interstate commerce, but It was not unanimous, as Justices Field. Shiras. Grav and White held that the constitutional provision is suffii-ient to relieve Brown from the re quirement to answer. The decision is a highly important one, as under It the commission will be able to force wit nesses to testify In cases where other evidence would not be strong enough to convict of breaches of the interstate commerce law. Up to date It could uot do this, for which reason the law was practically a dead letter, railroad offi cials discriminating in favor of certain Jiersou and places ami laughing in their sleeves at the futile character of the efforts made to compel them to deal justly with the public. Some rail road officials are quoted as objecting to It; that It is a return to the barbar ous methods of the dark ages; that un der it a man may be compelled to go on the witness stand and then and there brand himself ,as a felon, incurring thereby the contempt of the commu nity, apart from any question of pun ishment by the court. They sny this is an abridgment of the constitutional privilege of the citizen, but if it be his constitutional privilege to commit fel ony it at least is a constitutional right of other citizens to know of such things and visit with contempt where the law may not formally punish. It will be well if the decision by the Supreme Court puts a stop to the commission of these felonies by common carriers, though It may be feared that it will not entirely abolish the favoritism to the few which is a rank Injustice to the mauy. Wafers of Gold and Silver. The rime-houored custom of shower ing rice upon the departing bride and groom has Its painful side. Many young couples have begun their honey moon in actual physical pain, thanks to the stony grains which have stung their eyes and ears and found their way. into their clothes and down their necks. Worse disasters tbau this are on record. Horses have taken fright at the reckless showering of these gralns, and this, In some cases, has led to the overturning of the carriage and severe Injury of its occupants. At tempts have occasionally been made to mend this state of affairs, but until lately nothing has taken the place of rice. The problem is at last solved, however. At a recent double wedding confetti was used as a substitute for the offending rice. For the benefit of such readers as are unacquainted with confetti, I may describe them as tiny paper wafers, principally gold and sil ver, with a few colored ones Intermix ed by way of adding t the effect. The progress of each bride down the staircase to the carriage on this par ticular occasion was made in a shower of gold and silver surely quite as good a omen for her future prosper ity as could possibly be afforded by the prowi ic grains of rice. The effect of the myriads of sparkling confetti was absolutely charming and fairy like as they fluttered to the ground, the sun catching them as they fell. Certainly they clung about the dresses ot the new,-v married couples, but they Gia " '""J. nJ were soon shaken off. In the bouse, as they fell on the floral decorations and sparsled among the roses and ferns, they produced a result that Is well worthy of note by those whose business It is to provide novelties for functions of this sort. I As for the horses, they were sublimely i unconscious of the tiny gold and silver pieces with which their hacks had been ; sprinkled by the time they started. Perpetual Sunshine. This occurs on the coast of Peru, where, although It may perhaps be misty occasionally, the blue sky Is always visible through this whitish veil. Perpetual sunshine, when the sun Is above tbe horizon, also exists In the Sahara, tbe great desert of Af rica, and In the other rainless regions of the earth namely, the high lands of Iran, various tracts of Turkestan and China, the plateau of Gobi. am. also in Australia, lietween the south ern colonies and tbe Gulf of Carpen tarla. Should clouds appear In any of these districts tbe beat of the sun Is so Intense that they are dispersed almost before they have formed. Bpanfca and Blows. Mother Ob, yon naughty loy. You hare been to dada's desk and upset all bis papers. What will he sny when lit comes home?" Ron (hopefully) I know what he'll say, but you'd spank me If I told yon. Ally Sloper. Mrs. Townsend Does your husband spend much of bis time at home? Mrs. Peabody No; he hasn't been able to in the past, but I expect that he will have a great deal of leisure after this He baa just been appointed to a pub lic office. frrnierrlVe Journal. Lii vvv r raw Kanny Spain. The duration of sunshine In the va rious countries of Europe was recent ly discussed at a scientific meeting in Berlin. It was shown that Spain stands at tbe bead of the list, having on the average 3,000 hours of sunshine ier year, while Italy has 2,3o hours Germany 1,7ki hours, and England 1.4 hours. Madrid has almost three timet, as much sunshine as ixmdon. Host-Covered Gold. According to a report of the U. S. Geo logical Survey the gold found In the Cripple Creek district occurs sometimes in particles too small to be seen with tbe naked eye, and at other times In plates and spongy masses, some of which are hs much as a quarter of an Inch In diameter. The gold Is generally coated with a rusty, yellow-brown film composed of some compound. The Beat Whip-Stock. The dogwood, which first adorns the woods with Its Is-autiful blossoms, and then splotches tbem with gorgeous dabs of red when its berries come. Is said to furnish the best material for whip- stocks. The wood is hard, tough and elastic, and Is beautifully marked with knots. The ornamental knobs of the dogwood are sometimes imitated In whlpskx-ks made from other kinds of wood, but no Imitation ever equals its original. Karnceat'a Bright Light. The lighthouse at Haruegut, New Jer sey, is to be furnished with one of th great German searchlights shown at the Chicago exposition. This, It Is assert ed, will be the most powerful light anywhere employed for such a purpose. At Chicago, when tbe light was ele vated to a height of 240 fet, its Illumi nation at a distance of eight miles Is said to have ls-en sufficient to render newspaper print legible at night. It Is hoped that the. light will js-netrate fog effectively enough to warn marin ers off the count In bad weather. Odd Facta About Patent. Tbe Patent Office at Washington has on record Ht patented beehives; 10,122 different models for plows; ,348 de vices and machines for the use of shoe' makers; 27H patented methods of mak Ing soda water and similar leverages; ll.! patented buttons, buckles and other contrivances for fastening cloth ing and harness, and more than 16.0(a) patents for electrical appliances. The greatest number of patents Under ong ueaa, tnat of carriages and vehicles. is 20.0SHJ. For velocipedes and bicycles alone, 2,388 patents have been Issued Sleeping Bee. At a recent meeting of the Entomoloz leal Society of Washington, a descrip tion was given of the sleeolne hablis of two species of bees in Southwestern Texas. Certain small dead bushes art selected by the bees as sleeping quar ters. The sleeping Insects erasn the thin twigs and thorns of the bushes with all six of their legs, and according to tbe reader of tbe communication describing them, Mr. Schwarz, they ob tain additional security against falling off by Inserting the tins of their wide ly separated mandibles firmly into the wood. -r Dlatortinir the Bon. Observations made at the Kharkoff Observatory last year Indicate that thp forces which produce the black spots on the sun may have a wonderful effect In heaping up the solar surface in the neighborhood where the spots exist. Some of the measurements showed that a line through the ceuter of tbe sun from a group of spots to the opposite side was as much as 200 miles longer than other adjacent diameters of the un. This seems to show that the sur face of the radiant globe Is swollen out at tbe points where great eruptions occur. Hell am in the Mara. In discussing thewonderful discovery of helium, an element of the sun, now known to exist lu certain rare miner als on the earth, Mr. Lockyer, the En glish astronomer, calls attention to the fact that some stars, or suns, are hot ter than others, and that the hottest of all stars have atmospheres consist ing almost entirely of hydrogen and hell urn. The earth, which was onoo Itself a little mud. has DiVntv of h gen but apparently very little helium. let, ir. Lockyer remarks, the earth "once had an atmosphere Just as glo rious In Its hydrogen and Its helium as any of tbe other stars are now glorious. What has become of that helium This question, be thinks, will hare to be very carefully considered by men of science In the next few years. Need of Permanent Arbitration. The Immediate duty before the con servative forces of England and Amer ica is to organize for tbe establishment of a high-class continuous board of In ternational arbitration. In this matter tbe lead may well be taken by tbe rep resentatives of that religion which Is "first pure, then peaceable." With the aid of the great educational Institutions and of the rast commercial interests of tbe two lands, and In the present re vived attention to tbe subject, It ought to be an easy matter to get Parlia ment's assent to the opinion already formally expressed by tbe Congress of tbe United States In favor of tbe prin ciple of arbitration. What Is needed la a permanent system, In place of tbe piet-emeal and haphazard examples (o which we are accustomed, admirable as their results have already proved Once established between England amt America, such a system would gradual ly spread among the nations of Eurojie. the more rapidly because of the general conviction that another continental war would show a climax of horror. Sooner or later arbitration would be followed by disarmament, w inch is the logical sequence of no other premise, and yet will lie the'tui uiiig-poiut of the continent toward true democracy and progress. However near or far the iiltimae acceptance of the idea, it woubl, as Is-tween us and our English cousins, take the sting out of the vljier of war. to which, like the Lusliaudman lu the fable, nations too carelessly give the warmth and nourishment of the hearthstone. In the knowledge that disputes would l-e automatically set tled by an i in partial tribunal, it would no longer be jsissible to play a Isiister ous tune upon a eople by pulling out the stop of "patriotism." And It Is not tis much to hoje that in the spread of this idea the whole earth would at last realize the great laureate's noble vis ion of The Parliament of man. the Federation of tbe world. Herein lies a groat oprtunity for the English-speaking race--to lead mankind to the glorious destiny of peace. It is a mission to kindle the Imagination and the heart. The Century. Use of Charcoal. Now that the so-calh-d waste of tbe woods is utilized by the kindling wood Industry, and small fagots may be bought for two or three cents at the grocer's, charcoal Is no longer used in city houses for starting tires in the morning. If one wished to buy a small quantity of charcoal to-day he would lie puzzled where to get it. The gro cers no longer keep It. and t lie char coal wagons are so scarce thai it Is a rarity to see one. liiii.-bcrs usually keep a supply on hand, mid they will sell a few cents' worth to tlieir custo mers. Otherwise one mtiM depend up ou the wagons which hac certain routes that they take every week. In first-class hotels niiil restnurniiis, hard wood charcoal is used for broiling and cooking. A charcoal fire gives a brown, crispy bsik to meat that cannot be ol talned by any other fuel. Coal will smoke and taint the incut and a wood fire will burn it. Charcoal gives a steady, even heat, and does not burn. The licgt cooks insist on charcoal fires for all their cooking. Those who can afford French cooks in their private homes are gisid customers for the char coal wagons also. In I 'claw are County there are a number of chemical factor ies where the hard woods are used for wikmI alcohol and acetate of lime, and the chan-oal thus made would be a waste if It could not Is- used in the city hotels. Prepared or granulated chnr clal for filtering purposes Is now used I hulte generally, and the trade lu it for lice manufacturing is rapidly Increas iVwg. In the South this is more particu larly true than In the North. New Or leans Is a great ceuter of the eharcoul Industry In the South, and many canal boat loads are brought to the city ev ery week to supply the retail demand. This is then granulated or pulverized for filtering water that Is to lie manu factured Into Ice. Great quantities arc put tip In small packages ami sold at the drug store.for various punises. The liicycle in .Ixpan. The Japanese were Infected with the bicycle craze several years ago. say Theodore Wores, the artls;, and it broki out in peculiar ways. I took my safety wheel with me to Japan, and I found it of great assistance. It was not much of a novelty except In the country. 1 arranged a sketching outfit that 1 could pack on my machine, and In this way'l made a number of long trips Into the country, where a bicycle attracted at tention. One day I was Jogging along on my wheel wheu I saw something coming toward me which 1 could not size up. As it drew nearer I saw thai It was a Japanese riding one of the old-fashioned high wheels. Probably the machine had done service in the United States, and had been sent with a lot of other seeoud-haiid, out-of-date machines to Japan. The rider was an exert, and evidently perfectly happy with bis wheel. He was dressed In Japanese costume, which is not the best adapted for bicycle riding, and he rode without using the handle bar. In one hand he held a gayly colored parasol, and In the other a fan that he worked vigorously, for the day was warm. He managed his wheel easily with his feet, and he was apparently enjoying the Im pression that he was sure to make on the natives. Of course In the large cit ies of Japan there are many up-lo-date wheels, but they were mostly owned by foreigners. A Poser. Professor Zanker, the famous Ori entalist, one day received the copy of an Inscription which a friend and ad mirer of bis declared be had found in a mediaeval tome. The sender promising to forward the valuable manuscript as soon as be got It from Its owner, a relative of his. The In scription ran as follows: "l.'oy era woh rosseforp gnlnroui dKg." For three days the professor puzzled his brains without making any sense of It Then his little son, a fourth form boy, came to his father's study and spied the strange writing on the desk. After looking at It for a while he asked his father since when h had taken to writing backward. "What do you mean?" said the as tonished professor. "Why," replied the latter, "If you read this from right to left it runs this way, 'Good morning, professor, how- are you?" " Every woman gives the idea hat er social obligations run her to deat. Better Koada. A correiindcnt of the Youths' Com panion sends a suggestive clipping from a local paper. The Idea Is ad vanced that one reason why the farm ers of the country cannot have free postal delivery is that roads are so hard to travel. If the roads were g'xsl, postuieu on cycles might deliver the mails every w here. Tbe thought is one which dwellers In tbe country will do well to ismiler. The Increasing liitcrest in the sub ject Is attested by the space given to the discussion of the question In the dally newspapers and other MTlodi cals. Iu a m-ent Issue of the New York ludejicndeiit Professor Shaler of Harvard University and several other experts fill eight pages with their con tributions respecting the need of let ter common roads, the liest methods of construction, and the obvious value of highways convenient for travel. Massachusetts sets the example for the rest of the country, and Professor Shaler, who is a member of the highway commission, gives an account of the method adopted by that commonwealth to promote the building of good roads. Under this system three-fourths of the expense Is met by the State, and the rest of the cost by the counties In which the work Is done. The Mas sachusetts plan of State aid has been tried-two years without showing ser ious defects, and Professor Shaler re gards it as a practical method of deal ing with the road-bulldlng problem. An Important suggestion In these arti cles concerns the proper technical training of civil engineers who wish to make highway construction a special ty. The highest skill In engineering is required to exemplify the best meth ods In highway work. The study of materials to be used and of their proper disposition is a necessary preparation for expert treatment of the road ques tion. The old theory in rural districts, that any one who could order workmen nlsiut vigorously and make animals do their best was fit to be a highway con structor, is giving place to the sensible conclusion that careful training Is need ed for work which Is designed to In crease the convenience and prosperity of the community. Oot of the Rota. "Neglcce" is the only thing that makes most bad roads. Adam was the first man. but Macad am stands first as a road-maker. If lietter roads would be of no ad vantage would worse ones ! a disad vantage? Good drainage, top and bottom, will do much toward making a road gwnl ami keeping it so. The spring rains are near at hand, when farmers will again climb fences to town and back. Every farmer should take a "half day off" and plant trees along the high way. And then look after theui. Fix the road leading past your farm. If It is too much for you to do alone, in sist on having the nelghlKirs, the town ship, or the county assist you. Street Crowds in Caracas. One of the features of the city of Caracas. Venezuela, that most strong ly Impresses a foreigner Is the rapid ity with which a crowd gathers In the streets. This is best exemplified when some of tbe many wandering mu sicians. In whom Caracas abounds, pre pare to give an Impromptu open-air concert. Their first notes no sooner echo through the neighborhood than there gathers to listen a rast throng that almost blocks up the thorough fare. The cobblers and all the other tenants of the entries, baring no doors to open nor stairs to descend, are on the spot almost Instanter. Tbey eager ly drink in the music, but at the same time bear a wary eye upon tbe hats of the musicians, and no sooner do they observe the slightest Indication that one is about to be taken off for the purpose of taking up a collection by passing it around among the crowd than tbey disappear even more quickly than tbey came. Phenomenal Memories. Centuries of training have made the Japanese memory a phenomenal one. It Is the custom to number the houses on a street In what you might call their chronological order Instead of their sequence; that is, in the order of their erection, so that number eleven may adjoin nine hundred and ninety-nine on one side, and number seventy on the other. 'Number one may be three miles from number two. and number ten may lie midway lietween them. In the city of Toklo there are nearly fourteen hun dred streets. When a street passes through more than one ward, the bouses are numbered Independently; so there may Iks five or six numliered twenty and eight or ten numbered two -perhaps miles apart. Therefore, when a stranger sets out to find a certain number In a certain street, his task If a formidable one. After hunting for three or four hours and finding seven or eight bouses with tbe same nnm bar o the street tlx or eight mil. a apart, be J"a in the nearest tea bouw and rry or , ,,rse a the case may I, until be geia ended off. Then he will hire a Jlnt klsha man. write the address on a pl-- of imi-cr. and go whirling up ami down streets and alleys until he la lauded at the proier place without the slight physical, mental, or moral damage. The Jiiirikisha men are coolies without education or mental training. Mt of them can read and write the names of streets ami uieu and merchants and factories. Tbey know tbe location and the numls-r of every one of the three hundred and eighteen thousand and some o.ld bouses in Tokio. and the name of almost every one of the one million live hundred thousand Inhab itants. Even when an address Is given imi.rre. tlv they are at no loss to find It. and If you will tell them ac curately where you wsut to go. tbey will take you without the slightest de lay or hesitation. The same phenom enal memory appears In other c1iikk- of the people, and you have to Ik- care ful alH.ut telling a Japanese gentleman the same story tw ice. Mooalc Work. The mosaic manufacture in Homo Is one of the most extensive and profitable of the tine arts, and the trade is car ried on entirely ut the cost of the gov ernment. Workmen are ciiMatitly em ployed in copying paintings for altar-plei-CM. Seven or eight years are re quired to finish a mosaic opy of a painting of the ordinary historical size, two men liclng constantly occupied lu the work It generally costs from eight to ten thousand crowns; but the time and exwi se ar of course, r-gu-lated by the intricacy of the subject and quality of the work. The "smalls" of which the mosaic picture is formed are a mixed species of opaque, vitrified glass, partaking of the nature of sfoue ami glass, anil comiscd of a variety of minerals and materials, colored, for the most part, with different metallic oxides. Of these, no fewer than seven teen hundred different shades an- in use. They are manufactured in Rome, In the form of long, slender rods lll;e wires, of various degrees of thickness, ami are cut Into pieces of the requisite size, from the pin point to an Itu-h. When the picture Is coinplen d. finished, and the cement thoroughly dried, it Is highly polished. The art of mosaic was greatly Improved with time. The ltotnniis only used colored marbles nt first, or natural stones, in Its composi tion, whl-li admitted to little variety; but the Invention of smalts" has given it n wider rat'ge. ami made the Imita tion of painting far doner. Outside of tli" government establishment there are hundreds of men who carry on tb niaiinfacii.re of mosaics on a small scale. Snuff boxes, rings, necklaces, Imsiehes, ear-rings, are produced In Immense quantities; and since the Americans have flocked in such utiiit-Ix-rs to Home, all the streets leading ! the Piazza dl Spagtva are lined with shops of these artisan. . Will IMaplay Their Products. , It is proposed In Utah to organize in cooperation with neighboring Stales nu "Arid Keglou Kxsltion." to Is. held successively in the principal cities of the East, for the purMisc of show Ing the products and resources of thi arid region and of trying to dispel the notion that still exists In some quar ters that the country lietween the Itock les and the Sierras Is a hopeless des ert, given up to sage brush and coy otes. The exposition would be some thing on the line of the exposition soon to lie held in San Francisco. Specimens of products from the fields and or chards would be shown, with sample of tlie mineral tre.iMiires of the region. The exhibits would be displayed In the chief cities first, and then divided up for exhibition in smaller cities and throughout the F.astern Stated. The main Idea Is. of course, that such an exhibition would attract Immigration anil capital to the arid West. Mnrria'ge of tbe Itead. A strange custom prevails among a certain tribe in the Caucasus. When a single young man dies, some one calls upon the bereaved parents who has carried to the grave a marriage able daughter In the course of the year, and says: "Your son Is sure to want a wife; I'll give you my daughter and you shall deliver to me the marriage por tion in return." A friendly offer of this description Is never rejected, and the two parties sflt.,n come to terms as to the amount of the dowry, which varies according to the advantages possessed ny the girl In her lifetime. Cases have been known where the young man's father has given as much as thirty cows to sM-ure a dead wlf for his dead son. What Are Lake Dwellings. In various parts of the world-ln New Guinea and In certain parts of South America and Africa, for In- siance-ttie natives live In houses built upon piles of wood driven Into tbe lied of lakes. They use this kind of dwell ing either for safety's sake, since tbey cannot be attacked without due knowledge, or because, the country be ing marshy, dry land Is not easily to be had for building pursues it curious that our remote forefathers Id this savage state-before even the records of history began-bullt unto themselves similar houses. In Uielr case it was doubtless defence against enemies that led to the construction of such dwellings. Husband-Here they bare brought me an account for a ball costume; bow I. that? Wlfe0bl don't you remem lier? It Is for tbe green dress I wore last year at the ball where we first met. Huband-B-M)! and now I am eipoeted to pay for the net with which I was caughL-L'AnnBMJatort. Nature Is rery kind; by"tbi time a man la shelved socially, be I glad of It