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fr.'iJ Fatal Measles and Miapi It Is reported that a terrible epidemic of measles and muni Is raging In Costa Rica. One writer says that an many as ten thousand children died of these diseases in a period of three week. The government suppresses he farts. It is well known that measles is a much more dangerous dis ease in countries where It has never oeen known than in Europe and Amer ica. It probably becomes milder by be- ng filtered through the bodies of suc cessive generations. When measles first gained a foothold In Fiji it was a Tlrulent and as fatal as cholera. Brain and Min'l. Great size of head and brain Is ln d cative of extraordinary mental power cnly when "other things are equal. that is to say, when the quality of brain Is fine and the vital functions 4,-pnerally are of a superior order. Pro portion to the size and weight of the entire body Is also to be taken into ac count. An illustration of the fact that the size of the head is not a direct and rnvarylng measure of intellectual greatness Is suggested by the remark In recent biography of Ixrois Agassis hat while Cuvier and Agasslz both possessed "enormous heads and largely developed brains, neither Lamarck nor Parwln was abnormal as regards the ize and development of the head." A Big Chunk of silver. In a popular history of America pub lished many years ago an account Is given of the discovery of a silver mine Id Teru by an Indian, who, while chas ing game In the mountains, seized a hrub for support, and the shrub, com ing loose In his hands, revealed glitter ing masses of silver clinging to its roots. This story la recalled by the recent dls- fufi. iu i mai v.ounry, Arizona, of a nugget of nutive silver which had been washed -and worn by water no one knows how long, but which still weighs 448 troy ounces. It is of an oval form, and Its surface is so marked as to in dicate that It consists of crystals of silver formed in strings, and afterward compacted into a mass. The nugget has been placed In the National Mu seum in Washington. The l arlh'i Animals. A recent computation places the en tire number of species of animals which up to the present time have been tieseribed by naturalists at 300,000. Many new species are added at , vy year ft previously unexplored lnn Sjfrre in vaded by students eager to gat J Is tine lion by adding valuable eonmitlons to the lists of science. The number of species already known is so great that even naturalists are sometimes troubled to keep truck of them, and a project has Just Iweti set on foot In tier many to publish a work in which the entire animal population of the globe shall be arranged and described on a uniform system. The publication Is -to be begun next year, and a quarter of a century Is assigned as the probable period needed for Its completion. Not only German, but English, French and American naturalists will have a hand in the work. Tlic 1 cicnoe of Yjits. A translation into English of the work of the great Gemma authority on fermentation, Prof. B. C. Hansen, tails attention to the important ser vices which science has recently ren dered to the brewers of the "Father land." About ten years ago Prof. Hansen experienced much difficulty a)d opposition in obtaining admission to the Old Carlslierg brewery for the purpose of carrying on researches ln.;. the origin and nature of the yeasts on which the production of beer depends. The brewers were practically familiar with the culture of yeast, and did not believe that a scientific professor conld tell them anything new or useful about the subject, although the yeast ofteu behaved In a manner which they could pot explain and which caused them much disappointment and kiss. But within a few years the professor had discovered facts they had never dream ed of. had taught them a better systeta of cultivating yenst, and had made their brewery famous throughout the scientific world, on account of his ex periments. ' Various kinds of yeast cause "disease" in beer, and Hansen pas discovered the means of. guarding gainst tt. He has also devised meth od of preserving "stock" yeast so thnt It can be kept pure for years, and transported safely thousands of miles. Selecting a Vocation. The young man who says, '1 have fiven my heart to the Lord, and, there fore, I am going to study for me i. i hrtry,' mis the entire point," says P. Parkhurst to an article on "Relett ing a Career," In the Indies' Home foarna). "There Is no therefore' about t, That la a pettifogging way of meet lag p grcavt situation. I quote ri i lattsr that I received recently from a jvung lawyer In Ohio: 'In my dally life ftfaoot tha criminal court I have seen stay a tad scans, and at last It baa bom) to that point that I am almost de Jd to east aaids my bright future In trw, and tstar the service of the Lord.' I anawafin bin that be was writing f rata What be meant by the aer C af tha Lord was the Christian mla tT, mi thnt la a mora a service of the Lord than any other reputable call ing. It Is not what a man does that makes his service Christian; it is pat ting his career under contribution to the public weal, instead of mortgaging It to his own preferment, that makes his service Christian. There is a great lot of small thinking about these mat ters and well meaning Imbecility that works damagingly all around. Mv .-or-respondent furthermore wrote that he had 'learned to distrust the law.' AU the more reason, then, why he should stay in the law. We cannot fmpr n f a thing by standing off and Mistrusting' it, but by Jumping in and converting it. If all the conw-cration is put Into the ministry and all the brains Into the other professions neither the pulpit nor the world will profit. The sum and substance of ell of which is that. when a young man hs come out on to the dis tinct Christian ground of putting him self under contribution to the public weal, the selection of a career, best suit ed to himself and to the needs of hu manity, is simply a matter of studying adaptations, and deciding by what art, trade, business or profession he can subserve tb'it weal the best." Field's Fondness for Chil.lreo. Eugene Field was a man of generous, tender spirit and boundless sympathy. He gained and held the love of little children and of men and women; for In his writings he appealed to young and old, and every gentle nature re sponded to the magic of hin honest verse. He was a great lover of animals, and was constantly making pets of them. He was very fond of birds, but, as he disliked to see them caged, he looked forward to the time when he could add to hi? new home a good conservatory, where the birds might find a home and fly In and out among the plants. After he had once.beeome attached to a et of ny kind it was exceedingly hard for h!m to give It up. For several years he paid the boarrPof two old dogs at a lann. Some of his friends thought this a foolish expense: but he said he would not have the dugs killed, as they h:td been faithful to him In their younger days, and he did not believe in deserting old friends. Several years ago a Jeru salem donkey was given to the Field loys. and they named it Dou Caear de Buena. After they became too old tf drive with him, it was a serious ques tion what to do with "Don." For some fime he "was boarded at a livery stable. His board bill soon liecame quite a se rious, matter. But Sir. Field would not jave him sold, for fear that the chil- dren'e old comrade might fall Into un kind hands. At last a friend In Ken tucky offered a home for the donkey. and there he Is now, spending his last days In luxurious ease on a blue-grans farm. SI. Nicholas. A Poet's Gifts to His Mttle Friends. As we all know, Mr. Field was ever gentle and tender to the little ones. If they were in any way weak or afflicted, they appealed all the more strongly to Ihe love of which his heart was so full. His nature was as simple an a child's. and he loved the children's toys as much as they did. His sympathetic en joyment of their pleasure In any new toy was a revelation to the every-dny man or woman. One day I went with him into a toy store to get some little things for the babies, as he rarely went home empty-handed. After he Iptd pur- ctum.d several things, he ordered a doz en medium-sized bisque dolls. I won dered what he was going to do with so manv, and put the question to him. He answered: "Oh, I like to have them. ftnd when little girls come to see me I can give them a dolly to take home." Som.? time after his death, the family found the box that had contained the lolls. There was only one left, and that one in some way had been broken. It was only a few weeks before his life ended that be bought these dull so he must have had many visits from his .ittle friends. St. Nicholas. Got Ahr-a'I of Them. A writer in the Springfield Republi can tells a story of the boyhood of Judge C. 15. Andrews, of the Connecti cut Supreme Court. The story shows how lie, when a freshman at Amherst, got ahead of some hazing collegians. It was the custom then to smoke out the freshmen. A party of a dozen or more of the fellows would enter the room of an unsuspecting boy, light their pipes and smoke until the victim gave In and offered a treat. When they enme Into Andrew's room they were without their pljes and had no tobacco nlsmt them, but with a stern volen one fellow handed Charles a dollar and ordered hfm to go and procure pIjwm and tobac co for the crowd. Charles went out, and soon returned with ninety nine pipes and one cent's worth of tobacco. What the buys did to him for his audacious act is not re lated, but it la a fart that they did not smoke him out that night. Size of an Karthriauke Wave. Seismologists say that every great earthquake causes pulsations which ex tend for thousands of miles in all df rectlons on the globe, and Prof. Milne likens such pulsations to the long, low swells that sweep across the ocean. Recently Prof. Charles Davison has at tempted to measure the height and length of the waves of an earthquake that occurred In Greece on April 27, 1HIM, the pulsations cf which v ert per ceived ly the aid of a specially con structed pendulum at Birmingham In England. The pulsations, or waves. passed through the rocky crust of the tarth with a velocity of about two miles n second, and each of the largest of them, according to Prof. Davison, must have been about twenty-eight miles In length, but only half an Inch In height! Meat, according to experienced cooks, should never be washed. It may be cleansed' by rubbing It with wet cloth. Meat lose flavor If placed In direct contact with Ice. d MVk vvi CHAPTER VII. "What bear your Mr. Boldero U. after all," Elbe said that night at dinner. "Juat think, Jenifer, he baa actually re fused my Invitation for to-morrow, with out having the courtesy to assign any reason for doing so! If I were you. Hu bert, I should take my affairs out of hi hands immediately." "That'a more easily aaid than done," Mr. Kay aaid, indifferent" "the b-isiiiess management of a big proiierty i not so easily transferred as you think. F.fiie." Then the conversation drifted a usual into the theatrical channel, and from divers remarks Jenifer learned to her horror that Captain Kilgecutnb had de clined the part of Charles the Second in the tableau, and that Jack had been per- aunded to nil it. "Jack, you promised me you wouldn't act," hia aimer cried. "It isu't acting, you goose," Mra. Ray aaid, hilariously; "he'll have to do the re verse of act; he will have to remain mo tionless and inactive, and merely look adoration of Neil Gwynn's charms." "I hope poor Minnie's head won't be turned," old Mra. Kay said; and tlicy all laughed, with the exception of Jenifer and Jack. A little stage had been adroitly con trived and furnished at the end of tbp long library, and on this the performers had a fnll-dresa rehearsal this night after din ner. Captain Edgecumb came in rather late; but as he was not wanted till the farce which brought the entertainment to a close, this was a matter of minor mo ment Meantime he stayed in the draw ing room with old Mrs. Kay and Jenifer. "You take no part in the entertain ment to-morrow night, I understand, Miss Kay?" he aaid. "Did you exect that I should tell you I didT "Indeed, no; I knew that it wa due to the genius of those two restless spirits that this affair wag coming off at Moor Royal, and if I could have got out of having any hand in it I should have been glad; but Mrs. Jervoise and her sinter are old acquaintances of mine, and a man finds it difficult sometimes to resist any claim made upon him by such fair old u-quaintauces as they are." "I don't wish to interfere with any one's arrangements or amusements, hut I wish you had kept your promise, and taken the part in the tableau which they have now persuaded Jack to fill," Jenifer said. "Captain Edgeeumh, you've al ways professed willingness desire to ilease me. Will you do It now?" m She had spoken much more vehemently than was usual with well-balanced, self possessed Jenifer, and now she rose and retreated to a place behind the piano which was out of ear-shot of her mother. For a moment Captain Edgecumb could not believe bis senses; they were surely leading him a will-o'-the-wisp dance, and would beguile him into a quagmire of discomfiture, if he presumed on this ap parent desire of Jenifer's to establish a private understanding with him. "Dear Miss Kay, the hojs? that is dear est to me in the world is to please you," the handsome young officer said, earnest ly. And really he more than half meant what be said. "Oh, don't talk nonsense!" Jenifer said, eutreatingly. "Don't think of me as a girl, please; just treat me as you'd trent Jack. The favor I want you to do me is this that you'll claim your original part In the Nell Owyun tableau, and make Jack resign it." "I will," be said, gallantly, without asking a question or offering a remark. "Thank you," she said, simply, holding out her hand to him as she passed out of ber secluded uook back to her place at a work tak-le. His young hostess stood in the ball when, in ols-dicnce to her summons, be was crossing it. "Well!" she said. And though she said nothing more, he felt himself challenged. "Mrs. Kay, 1 fwl as much honored as a man can feci in being Invited by yon to yotir house. Be still more gracious to me; let me piny the passive part you nslicd ine to fill first let (me be Charles the Second. I shall do your taste and discrimination more credit than Jack Kay will." "As if I didn't know that this dramatic ardor has been put into you by my guile less aister-in-lnw," she answered, mock bigly. "Jenifer hates Minnie Tlmrtle, nd is awfully afraid of Minnie's getting Anything like local recognition. Now I have no small feeling of thnt kind. If I owned serfs or slaves I should like my serfs or slaves to distinguish themselves because they'd rcdouad to my credit. But Jenifer has no broad feeling of that sort. 8he hates Minnie Thurtle because Minnie la pretty and Is the keeper's daughter." Eflie suokt 'ry effectively; bat the days were dead in which ber effective renifpring of wrong ideas could impress him. "If you really Isdieve Miss Kay to lie actuated by anything like petty jealousy, s'loir yourself so much nobler by not try ing to thwart her," he said, politely. Ktiie laughed at him and told him he had "grown strangely humble." "Will you make one tiny admission to me?" she asked, as they walked along to the library, which bad Ix-en transformed into a theater; "it wou't involve any loss of your dignity in fact, if any one will lie humbled by it I shall tie that person. Weren't you very much relieved when you heard I hail married Hubert Ray?" "I was delighted to know- that you had such a fair prosiect of happiness." "That's an evasion. Were yon not re lieved? Didn't you feel I had saved yon a great deal of trouble?" "I thought you had acted very sensi bly. Your husband is one of the liest fel lows I have erer known. Jack," he con tinued, as they went liebind the scene, "Mrs. Kay has kindly ermittcd me to take my original part of Charles the Sec ind. You won't object? Y'ou thought it a bore, you know." "All right," Jack said, but he said it grimly; ami Captain Edgecumb saw lightning glances interchanged ts-tween Jack and a handsome, dark-eyed girl who stood a little apart from the ladies and gentlemen assembled on the stage. "Jenifer doesn't mind putting me into a situation which she feel ti lie fraught with danger to her brother,1 be thought, discontentedly; but the ncxi instant the lietter thought, "She knows too well what 1 feel shout her to dread a low rival." "The change is Mis Jenifer's work," Minnie Thurtle took an opportunity of whissring to Jack, when stage business drove him into her vicinity. As much as he could he avoided Seaking to her he fore people. Not that be was "ashamed of bis admiration for ber," he told him self, but becausp he feared being forced into a premature declaration of love ami wnr. The majority of those who bad received Invitations to these festivities at Moor Royal came, though they bad declared themselves to be shocked ftnd disgusted when they first heard of them. Young Mrs. Kay and her sister were born man agers on a munificent scale, and no more perfect display of hospitality, well within, the borders of good taste, had been wit nessed in that neighborhood. But when they came to count the cost of it all, which was not for some months after. they found the bills so heavy that Elbe broadly advised that no effort should lie made to meet them. "It will curtail our income quite too shockingly if these wretched people are paid now," she said. And lliert she added that Hubert really should consider what exhaustive calls were made upon her housekeeping purse. "I have to provide for two families, you must remcmls-r, Hn liert. It would 1k very different if your mother and sister were not here." CHAPTER VIII. Jack made Moor Royal his "headquar ters," as be termed it, until March. If he used the words in the sense of meaning that he honored Moor Royal with his presence more frequently thsn he did any other place, or that, when he did so honor it, he gave bis fullest head-power to the forwarding of anything like intellectual life there, the designation was certainly a misnomer. These first three months of the first new year which had witnessed the dethrone ment of old Mrs. Ray were unquestion ably not happy ones to either the widow or her children. Did Mrs. Ray and Jeni fer lived apart to themselves a great deal, and this not through any sulky desire to hold aloof from or seem to disapprove of Elbe and her doings, but really because Erne made it practically impossible that their daily life should harmonize. Jenifer had made up her mind very lovingly and carefully to make onp appeal on behalf of her brother Jack to Mr. Bnl dero, and she knew that she could do this easily it a lawn meet at Hallowmorc. ' "Jenny, yoa're going out with an ob ject; oh, and your brothers quote yon as being so guileless and superior! Jenifer, take the advice of a woman of the w or lit. A hunting woman, especially one wnc has to make an effort to be one, won't attract Captain Edgecumb." Eflie said this with a little spiteful sarcastic Is ugh, and an Indescribaule as sumption of being more conversant with Captain Edgecumb' motives than any one else, that would have been funny bad it not been Insulting. "Be quite sure that, when I want to at tract Csptain Edgecumb, I will come to yon for Instruction; to-day I won't tag either yottr patience or good nature," Jenifer aaid, temperately; bat Sirs. Ray knew from ber sister-in-law's averted face and measured tones that ber shot bail gone borne. "I've no time to argue the question now. the horse will be round in a minute or two," Eflie said, walking round Jenifer iu order to get a straight look into the girl's eyes; "hot I'll just offer you one hint though you re aure to take it ungrace fully, and misunderstand my motive in giving it. Don't think to win Captain Edgecumb by any pretense of indiffer ence; be'i very honest and straightfor ward himself, and has a horror of any thing like finesse In a giri." "Here are the horse," was the only re ply Jenifer vouchsafed to Mrs. Ray. Jack had come up from the home farm to join the Moor Royal party; and, as Jenifer came out, both ber brothers greet ed her cordially. "Glad to see you out with us again, Jenny, dear," Jack cried, heartily, and Jenifer relt self reproachful for a mo ment, as she thought of how she was go ing to try and upset what Jack was fool isii enough to fancy was bis happiness. "It will Is like old times to see you In the field again, dear," Huls-rt said, kind ly, for this w as the first time that Jenifer had attempted to bunt since ber father's death. "I don't think I shall follow." Jenifer said as they rode through the lodge gates Into the grounds of Hallow more, and Mrs. Kay was soon surrounded by the members of the bunt who bad the honor of being on sgM-aking terms with its most distinguished wearer of a habit. Jenifer bad ridden on with Jack, and they had been joined by Mr. Boldero. Jack, Jenifer said, hastily, it s so long since I've ridden to hounds that I'd rather take it quietly to-day. Don't let me stop you. I'll stay quite couteutedly with Mr. Boldero." "Bat you mustn't keep Mr. Boldero out of it, Jenny; he won't thank you for doing that, the young brother said; and he rode off, leaving bor alone with Mr. Boldero. "Y'ou know why I want to see you she began, w ithout any idle preface. "He- is going to ruin. Once more 1 ask you to sjH-ak to him, to stop him." "I cannot. This is final. With all my heart would I add my entreaties and warnings to yours, but the power to do so has Is'cii taken out of my hands. I know that be has licen offered good aje poititmc ills at high sulnries. I know (but an agency to large estates a post for which he is exactly filti-d is open to him now, but I can't press him to accept it. "Mr. Boldero, what is the secret tower which holds you back? You surely don't want to see us Rays ruined?" she asked, leaning forward to gain a clearer view of his face. "Heaven forbid!" "But it is evident that man or woman has constrained you to stand by supinely ami see one of us go down. Oh, do, do! if you cared for my father, as we all be lieve you did, save his son!" "If the sacrifice of all my worldly good would do it, I would do it," he said, fer vently. "You say that; It's easy; but you won't speak the won that might do it. I wish I bad not come out; you have disappoint ed me this time more cruelly than before; for you must have felt that I was in extremity lief ore I wrote to yon." She turned her horse's bead and rode shandy away, to the wonderment of so much of the field as had leisure to observe her; and Mr. Boldero did not venture to follow her. Meantime old Mrs. Ray, having nothing else to do in Jenifer's absence, bad gone dowu to the home farm to see what ar rangements had lieen made iu the house for Jin k's comfort. She was quite alive now to the right which was hers of taking away any furni ture that she desired from Moor Royal. And she was quite resolved that If she found the farm house rooms inadequately furnished, she would exert that right, and have her son's new home fitted up with some of his customary surroundings. "Poor, dear boy! 1 dare say it's all bare and ugly enough, after what he has ls-en accustomed to at Moor Royal," the moth er thought, as she walked down to in spect her son's house for the first time since he bad occupied it. It pleased her well, as she approached the house, to see the old-fashioned look ing garden neater and trimmer than It had ever lieen even under the Cowley rule. Long Isirders of primroses, cow slips mid snow drops wound ribbon-like round every lied. And all the windows were bright with hyacinths of every shade, from creamy white to darkest bine and red, and with gaudy but Iteautiful double tulips in pots. "Dear Jenny bus taken care that be shall have (lowers to remind him of home," the mother thought, tenderly, a she marked with pleasure that the flow ers were softly framed by white muslin curtains, as well as by the heavy dark ones that she herself bad sent down from Moor Royal. Then site opened the hall door and went into the wide red brick passage, calling, as she entered, for Elsie, the girl who bud been scullery maid for some time at Moor Royal, and who had now come "to do" for Mr. Jack, as she herself expressed It. The kitchen door stood open, and a fine appetizing odor of bread making stream ed forth. Something else streamed forth, also, and that was a dialogue carried on by two highly pitched female voices. The first words that fell on Mrs. Ray's as tounded ears were, spoken by Elsie: - "I don't can; nor know what you're a-goin' to be, Minnie Thurtle; you knows lst about that yourself, I s'pose; but I know you're not a-goin' to come here now and order me altout as If you was my missus. I'll take orders from none but master and the ladies up to Moor Royal; and if you choose to come a-poking, and prying, and ordering in my kitchen, you'll bare to bear what I've got to say there!" "You'll find yourself walked out of this house before you're many days older, Miss Impudence!" wpre the next words that quivered forth in accents of fury; and then both speakers became aware of old Mrs. Kay's pretence, and silence reigned. CHAPTER IX. For a moment or two . Elsie looked crestfallen; for she could not help feeling a little shocked that her jeremiad against the bold Invader, Minnie Thurtle, should have been overheard by her former mis tress. But after a moment or two this feeling of shock passed off, and she felt grimly exultant that her burst of elo quence In aid of the proprieties had fallen upon ears that sorely would be sympa thetic. But If Elsie deemed that her former play and school fellow, Minnie Thurtle, would now without fail meet with well deserved punishment and downfall, she ai bitterly mistaken. Minnie r.i.?lt have failed to extricate ht" rself fruu. :e dithcult situation had Jenifer' evi Is-en upon her; but und.T old Mr. It .y af frighted and perplexed sw she s-edi!y recovered from the severe but momentary bock. "I've Just come up with a message from father to Mr. Jack, mum," site a:d, glib ly, dropping an almost iuipcri-eptilile courtesy is she ssike; "father's mad, al most, he's so vexed about it, and be thought Mr. Jack ought to know of it at once." "What is it. Minuter old Mrs. Kay asked, accepting Minnie's insinuating ex planation of ber presence in the farm house kitchen with a readiness that made Elsie morally grind her teeth. "It's those poaching Mitchells; father is always coming across them and their lurchers in the woods, and lie say they're a bad lot, and the sooner they're out of the parish the better." "Y'ou weren't so ready to tell on them when you and Bill Mitchell kept com pany," Elsie said, savagely, for she saw that justice was being averted from the offender, on whom she did virtuously de-, sire o see condign punishment fall. "Hush. Elsie!" old Mrs. Ray said gen tly; "how often bave I asked you not to indulge in a quarrelsome spirit? Well, Minnie, I will tell Mr. Jack what your father says, though I am very sorry to hear it. I always thought the Miicl'.elli such a nice, well-conducted family." "They're bad, root and braniU, mum, father says," Minnie answered, with suave spleen; for Elsie was generally un derstood to have tender yearnings to ward that very Bill Mitchell whom Min nie bad thrown over. Then, fcol.ng that she no longer had any fair eensj f ir staying, Minnie picked up a little brisket which always accompanied her, and took a self-possessed, resjiectful leave of Mr. Jack's mother. ' When she reached home, after briefly relating to ber mother what h.id passed up at the borne farm house, she began carefully pinking up rather extensive new wardrols-. "My dresses will be as bardsome hi any Mrs, Kay has," she observed, with much satisfaction, to her mo lier, "and 1 shall look quite as well in them lit she does in hers. There's no nonsense about her; she and I shrill get on wed ennngh, and I don't cure about lb-" old woman and Jenifer; there's nothing to get from them, as I shall tell Jack if they cut us and he makes a silly of himself alvut it." "I shall never feel happy about it till I sec you conic out of the uurrh with the ring on your 1 tiger," Mrs. Thitrtl" said, anxiously. She w.is nattirallv proud of her handsome daughter, and Hiih'v gratified at the prospect of seeing bet "made a lady of." "The truth shall be known as soon a ever Jack comes back from hunting to day," Minnie told herself, resolutely. "I'm not going to have it said of me that I'm over-bold ill going to a bachelor's house. Elsie'll bp sorry enough slip let ber saucy tongue run on as it did to-day when the truth is known." Jack had fallen in with his brother and sister-in-law as they jogged borne, and Eflie, with unusual suavity and eiiipressp. nienf, had invited him back to Moor Royal to dinner. He went home to dress, and from Elsie learned of the explosion of the day. ' (To be continued.) When the Hair Is Growing Thin. Here Is a recipe for a pomade to check the falling out of hair; Five parts of tincture of jnitornndi, three parts of lanoiltie, twenty purts of glycerin; mixed with the help of a little soft snap; the scalp to be rubbed every night with a little of this pomade on the end of your linger. Another simple lotion Is composed of a teitspootiful of salt and one scruple of quinine, added to a pint of brandy; shake the mixture well mid apply every nlgbt for a few weeks. Ammonia takes the color out of the hair. Therefore If you use It In your bath take care not to wet the hnlr. For cleaning hair brushes, however, ammonia Is Invaluable far better than soda or soap. A teaspoonful to a quart of warm water will be sufficient; dip the bristles Into this, but not the han dles of the brushes. Dry the brushes In the open air, but not In the sun. Only s Trick. Tha so-called gliiss stitike docs not break to pieces at the sight of an enemy, us Is commonly supposed, but, like some lizard, throws c.ff Its tall Iu nn effort to escape. There are several lizards which, when attacked, for Instance, by a bird or animal, will throw off their tails, uud the tall flopping up and down on th. ground diverts the enemy and thus gives the lizard time to get away. The glass snake adopts the same trick, and thus frequently saves Itself. It Is true, however, thnt the Joints of this Klngul.ir creature are so loosely con nected that the Minke will be broken to pieces by a blow of a stick, though tho Itlea of a reunion of the broken parts Is n superstitious absurdity. The broken Joints do not unite, though a new tall will 'row In a few months If the reptllo has received no other Injury. Heavy Hotel Charges. At this early day rooms and vantage ground for seeing the coronation nro- cesslotis In Moscow this spring are held at exorbitant rntes. Nearly every Inch of room In the public hos'tclries has al ready been engngefl beforehand and 13, 500 is asked for a suite of five rooms for three, weeks, with n cook and a lackey. while a single room In private houses costs f l"o for fifteen days. Couldn't fie- Worse. Apropos of the celebration of Iloa. elnl s birthday on Feb. 20. It Is recalled that Prince Ponlntowskl came to Ros sini with two operas to ask which of them rbotild be produced at the. Theater Italleu. The Prince played thronch one work. "Choose the other for perform ance," advised Hosalnl, with a sigh of fatlgun. Hlsmog "Xlhley, your face Is a sight Dlil you cut yourself while shaving?" Zlbley "Not exactly. Perhaps It would be lietter to say that I shaved mystjf while cutting." Box bury Gazette, 'Mamma, why do they call It tha weather bureau r "Because the ton drawer Is generally In such a frightful mesa, I suppose,"-Chicago Bnoofd.
