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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1897)
HUM A r3 m Kiebf- iiihteinck. Tb assertion couie from fiermany that the majority of people are . not only right-handed. Imt also rlgbt-aigbted. By tbi is meant that most persons x better with tbe rijrht eye than with the left, and habitually, though unconsciously, employ It more. Some persons, bow ever, make greater use of tbe left eye than of the right, and accordingly are aaid to be "left-eyed." Photographing the Heaven. At a went meeting of aittroiiomers In Paris it was reported that nearly all of tbe 30.000 plate which, when com bined, will form a complete photo-' graphic representation of the beavena. and by tbe aid of which all ware down to the eleventh magniture are to be catalogued, have been made. The po sition of tbe star on each plate ha to be carefully measured, and although this work is being pushed as rapidly as Jt can be done wtth accuracy, years will elapse before It Is finished. On ome of the plates, however, the meas urements are nearly completed. It is expected that the catalogue will contain about 2,000,(00 stars, but the number remaining uneatalogued. because tbey are fainter than the elevenHj magni tude, will be far greater, perhaps as great aa 100,000,000, or even more. Glass to Keep kooin Cool. Ad Austrian Inventor, Richard Szig niondy, Is said to hare made a new kind of window-glaug whose chief peculiar ity la that It prevent tbe passage of about nine-tenths of tbe beat of tbe son's rays. It is well known that ordin ary window-glass allows nearly all of the beat derived from the sun to pass tbrongh, but on the other hand Inter cept nearly all heat coming from non lniriinou sources, such as a stove, or tbe heated ground. This Is tbe reason why heat accumulates under the glass roof of a hothouse. If covered with Szlgmotidy's glass a hot house would become most decidedly a cold house, since the beat could not get into it. One advantage claimed for the new glass Is that a house whose windows were fur nished with It would remain dellgbtful ly cool in summer. But In winter, per haps, the situation would not be so agreeable. Indeed, the panes would hare to be exchanged for others of or dinary glass, since otherwise no sun neat could enter tbe bouse. Australian odditita. Australia has furnished several sur prises In1 tbe peculiarities of its animal and plant inhabitants. One of these was dl.scussed at recent meeting of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, In Australia eucalyptus trees are In digenous, or native to the soil, while In many parts of the world they have been acclimated ou account "of their anti malarial properties. But. although else where injects appear to avoid these tram, the avoidance in some cases amounting to positive antipathy, yet la Australia Just the opssite condition of things prevails. There, it appears, insects of almost all kinds flock to the eucalyptus trees and eagerly feed upon them, so that in some localities the trees have been threatened with extinc tion. It has been suggested that tbe mason for the peculiar relation of in sula to the eucalyptus in Australia may be that originally the ancettors of tbe former were driven by necessity to adopt a food-plant containing sub stance naturally distasteful to them, and that in a long course of rime an hereditary liking for what was at first disliked has been developed. A Breathing Well. Id San Luis Obispo County, Califor nia, there Is a gas well whose strange sand net la described by a correspon 4mt of Science. The well ia six inches at diameter and three hundred and flr-ty-ntx- feet deep. During settled weath er It blows out gas for three hours, and thee rocks in air for an equal period of time, and this regular breathing cod taoes without interruption until a change of weather. Before a storm, wham tba barometer ia falling, the time nnrtac -which tbe well expires gas -Is naart' Increased, and sometimes the otbreathlng continues for twenty-four haaYt, After tbe passage of the storm, and with tbe barometer rising, tbe In baJntlon of air Is similarly prolonged. If tht air la shut off when an Inhalation to Abeat to take place, tbe gas after- ease to flow, so that the well be allowed to perform Its regular braMhlaf la order to continue Its yield ft m. An automatic valve Ims been fteetd at the month tf tbe well to per ft the lofreaa of air. and when the Batting la restricted the inward sue ttta; causes a load sound, as If tbe well nrsd. Tor nostrils to a subterranean nator aflUcted wftb snoring. Anecdote of Bismarck. ; Americans are familiar with the iatrsnjrer features of Prince Bismarck's lOmmem as shown iq hi political acts, tsfjuhoag his own people, anecdotes ajtjlca Wblch exhibit his keen wit In rrr"rte,'and lave of ran. qualities for wt ) r hare not perhaps given him CZ ewdlt.' ..- C . Starr told by a German diploma nt toli to be antheatic.- At the close Traneo-IVitsalaa war 'a-i. : f'yi. .. . j .... conference was held by the 7erman Jeaders to divide upoa the amount of indemnity which should be exacted from France. P.ismarck. differing from Von Moltke, telegraphed to Ber- lln for a financier in whom be bad un- bounded confidence. Tbe man was t Hebrew, and was, for some reason, disliked by tbe great I'rusian general. When, therefore, he gave bis opinion that ths amount demanded should be so many thousand million francs. Von Moltke exclaimed impatieutly: "Absurd! It i too much."' "I know the resources of tbe French people," said the financier They can pay it. "It is a monstrous demand! repeat ed Von Moltke, angrily. "If a man had begun when the world was created to count, he would not bave reached that etim now. "And that is the reason." interrupted Kismarck quickly, bin ere twinkling, "that I got a man who counts from 1 Moses. j Von Moltke and the Hebrew tried to : look grave, but both laughed, and the j storm was averted. ' The sequel to the anecdote ha a ' deeper meaning. Tbe financier, when j be received the summons to the confer- j ence, was undergoing treatment for ; some affection of the eyes which re- j quired confinement in a dark ehamlier. His oculist warned bim that if he oliey- i ed the tsummous. the exposure and de- lay would almost inevltablv result In i loss of fc!"ht j He'wasil'ent a moment, and then I said, "I think that I am needed. I have' no right to consider my sight. I will I TO. IT- a th, -.Kiw oculist bad feared ensued. He became blind for life. Von Mnltke, when the story was told him. said briefly, "I wronged the man. He has served his country as truly as any soldier on the field." Another Kind of Cattle. Iriving the cows home is sometimes an exciting business down in Maine, to judge from a story found In our ex changes. Such things are very pleas antafterward. "Jack" Clark Is a stout boy of 14 years, living at Sherman. Maine. He grwtt after the cows every night and drive them home to the tie-up. always In the greatest safety, but the other night he had an adventure which has led to tbe substitution of his older brother In the gathering of the kiue. Last Saturday night Jack went down after the cattle. The animals were in the pasture, and It was almost dark be fore be got to tbem. He started them homeward with some speed, but one lagged in the shadow under the trees. Jack threw a stone at the supposed cow, and got a very large surprise in return. He heard the stone strike the animal with a hollow thump on its r11, apd expected to see the cow come from under the tree on a swinging run. In stead a big moose bounded out into tbe opening and made for tbe youngster. Jack knew the animal a once. Boys and girls when tbey get big enough to walk tbe streets of Sherman In boot and stockings, know wild animals when tbey see them. So Jack knew tbe moose. He made for the nearest tree and got into It with small delay. The moose was close t the bov's beels when he climbed Into the lower ! branch anit mnrtMl arnunri ttm fwit 1 of the trunk in a way that made tbe boy shiver and grab the limbs furious ly. After aliout an hour the big brute went off in rod-long Jumps. Jack came down, ran for home, and told the story. Naval and Military Capital Offenses. Fnder the military code of tbe United States twenty-five offense are capital. Among these are striking or disobeying a superior officer, mutiny, sleeping on post, causing a false alarm In camp cowardice before theenemy, disclosing a watchword, relieving a foe with money or food, desertion, or persuading an other to desert, and doing violence to any person bringing provisions into camp while In "foreign parts.' Under the navai code twenty-two crime are punishable by death, including absence from post, wilful injury of a ship, set ting fire to property not in possession of an enemy or pirate, striking tbe flag to a foe wlthont proper authority, shouting for quarter through cow ardice, failing to inform a superior offleer of tbe receipt of a letter from an enemy and failure to encourage in ferior officers In a sea fight. - Tbe Blacksmith's Noie. The sound old proverb about the shoe maker sticking to his last receives new confirmation In a story from the (reen Bag. An honest old blacksmith down In Texas, despairing of erer getting cash out of a delinquent debtor, agreed to take bis note for tbe amount. Tbe debtor wished to go to a lawyer and have tbe document drawn np, but tbe knight of tha anvil, who had been a sheriff In days gone by, felt fully com petent to draw it np himself. This he proceeded to do, with the following re sult: : ' "On the first day of June I promise to pay Jeems Mte tbe sum of elerlng dollars, and if said note be not paid on the date aforesaid, than this Instru meul is to be null sod void, and of no effect. Witness my band, etc." Anenltias of tha 'stars. CaHer--Present my compliments to Miss Ariadne and as bar If It will be convenient for her to be my wife. Kervsnt (a moment later) Miss Ari adne sends her regards and regrets to My that she will be engafed until S Vi'.ock. Detroit Tribune. Ualass. . "Hubly, what In tbe dabce did yon mean by letting that not I Indorsed for yon to to protest r "Why. man. tbera was no other way unless I paid tha thing."-trrntt ria ' A RACE FOR A GIRDLE. j Th" ' Overland I Telegraph and the A.l.atic Cabin. 1 Th" race-course was between the Old ! WorlJ auJ the Nw- Tne r,('en' wre ! 'Srapb compames. One was called The UijKMian Overland tbe other was the "Atlantic Cable." The track of the "Russian" lay l- twecn New Westminster in Itrrtish Columbia, and Moscow in Russia. I'p j through the uuexplored Fraser Itiver Valley it was to run. then on through ' the uniracked wilderness of Alaska, calmlv 1 "cross inTiug Mrait, over me timocr loss st-pM of Antic Sll-ria. and along tiie dreary ,.. of the Okhotsk Sea to the month of the A moor. There tbe America n racers, called "Western Tniou." were to give over the race to the Russian telegraph department, which was to make its ls-st time in reaching Moscow. Western I'nion said it would cover the ground in about two years. The cost would l alHiut five millions of dollars; Imt what wa five millions of dollars if the prize could 1" won aa electric girdle of the earth"; The path of the "Atlantic" cable was to be on a tableland some two miles deep in the ocean, reaching from Ireland to Newfoundland. The summer of IMS found the world watching this race with great inter est. It opened when the fleet of the a r ranclwo. northward Ismud. The "-'" I""I''- ! "J ',,,wln1,f awa-v iK'".tic .-oils of r"W" '"I0 tb" P-L,u bold of tbe i mi ' n i j riim ' I ii B urn i fi itt" lwiiis i --,"H' "iles lol,. The Western I'nion directors w -re shrewd buslni-ss men. Five millions of dollars was little In comparison with the benelit they could receive --ould tbey get telegraphic communication with Kurote, and they then bcllevi-d that the only way was by land. The public agreed with them nearly unani mously. And so the two projects -the overland and the submarine-were pitted against each other. A very mi'Hjual race it seemed at l be outset. The Overland was strong nnd vigorous. The Atlantic was broken by former failures. The Overland wai popular, and had plenty of money back of It; the Atlantic was derided, and "only fools," I was said, "would Invest In It." The fleet of the Russian eiediti n which sailed from San Francisco in tbe summer of IMlfi was quite a navy. There were cean steamers, sailing vessels, const and river boats, and Russian and American shim of ;)ie line, with a promise of a vessel from her Majesty's navy. The expedition was well officered, and about 120 men were enlistedmen of superior ability In every department. The supplies embraced everything that could be needed. Thousands of tons of wlr?, some 300 miles of cable, insulator., wagons, etc. August 20. l.Sii, the Great Km a tern landed its cable at Trinity Bay and the whole world was electrified by the news that it worked perfectly that the victory had been won. More than that. The tJreat Kastern not long afterward picked up the cable lost tbe year before, and that, too, was soon in working order. Two electric j Kirf"w l'5 n ' '""I" rond the esnn. The success of the "Atlantic" waa defeat for the 'Russian." An overland telegraph line could never compete with the submarine cables. The first triumphant "click, click T" at Trinity Hay was therefore the death blow of the Russian scheme, and nil work -neclcd with that project was at one abandoned. But the workers the brave men fee ing famine among the wild ('hook. checs buried In their lonely but wait ing for some news from their com rades, or straining every nerve to com plete their share of the great worli bow pathetic that so many of them did not bear what had happened. In some cases for more than a year after the success of the cable! Jane Marsh Parker in St. Nicholas. A HclentiHr Opinion. "Science," says a distinguished schol ar, "mnst be candid, even at the ex pense of the essential probability of lt own doductlons." What this somewhat learned sentence means may be gath ered from an Instance of scientific can dor. A gentleman had lxiuglil a decorated rase which bad been represented aa as antique. After It had come into bit possession be submitted it to an archaeologist to obtain his judgment as to Its authenticity. The archaeolo gist examined It with great care, and made the following report: "The painting of this vase hears ev ery evidence of being very ancient whereas the rase Itself Is nndoubtedl; modern." Hardens by Klactrlcltj. A process of hardening steel by meant of aa electric current traversing the red hot metal baa been Invented In Prance. Experiments made with tools thna bar dened are said to hare given surprising results. A sharpened table-knife cut a one-eighth Inch Iron wire, aa If It had , been, a string, iron bars were easily cut with a circular aaw. Drills pierced cast -at eel plates with twica tba speed and ease of ordinary drills; and In alt tbe experiment . Wals snowed no In Jury.. - ;.,;., "Do you suppose that Miss Dashon, tba young actress, will ever become a starr "A star! Why. she'll go high er; After she's a star a tvbOe she'll graduate Into tbe continuous perform ance branch of tbe profession; see If aba donV-Roxbury1 Oasette. "De wori may awe ma a llbbin ," aaid Epbmlm Jefsraoa, 'bat I flada dat I totter wo k Ilka do debbil tot collect It" Baltimore .law " v - WITH HOOK AND LINE. The Kscltabla Frenchman Can F.ih'iMt j a Lot of Patieacc. It Is one of the curio! ties of human aature that tbe moat nervous atid ex ri table people are often the most a tienl bslo-rmi-n w ith hook ami line. This ia Inn- as to nations as well as itidivid ll.ils. The French, who are of all peo ple, M-riiaps, I lit mom mercurial or "tindery," are alo of all races the mot extra vagautly devoted to angling; and Paris, their excitable and revolutionary capital, is a -ty of fishermen. A recent Parisian writer d'-clarc that the ama teur fishermen are more numerous now tiian ever. j "They form a double wreath of hu manity on liotb sides of the Seine," he di-clare, "reaching from Charenton Hear to Maison I.afitie. For them were r rested the fortunate Isles of Saint I Cloud and CroLssy and the verdurous .khores of Port .Marly and Chatou. " I sola t i-d there in the midst of tu- j mult, calm in the very Isisom of agita jtioii. the passers-by smile at their as Jpcct sud gile at their attitude and their Immobility. Tiny never catch a thing.' the passing skeptii-s s.iy. W but a nns lakf! The vulgar laity know naught of what these tlsiiermt u atch lM'Mdin fish; for fish are not ahiiie the things they go far." This means that the contemplation which is In a manner enforced ou thone who (ixh with book and line, especially when- no tisii are to be fotttid. often results in the apprehension of Import tut tilings which would never have come If the fishermen had remained among the ditnn ;ing wenc of Paris Ian life. A distinguished French academician Is accisstoincil to declare thai he fished hi1- academical chair out of the Seine ulih a hook and line; for. the txiems which really won for him his literary crown came to hiin while he was -otirt-Ing the wary gudgeon on the banks of the river. He is far from being the only author who has worked In this way. Then' are three hundred and more living dramatists whose works have, in some sh:ie. lecn brought out on the board of the Paris theatera; and out of these, thiny have declared that they should never have had a single success If they bad not elaborated their dramatic schemes while angling. Ore of these dramatists once came biick, radiant with glee, from n session of seven steady hours on the hanks of the Seine, (in his way home he met a friend VcH.Hd you catch anything?" ask ed the friend. "f'Htch anything! Well. 1 should think I did! I caught a fifth set in three tallies 11 x and a denouement that will draw all Paris!" Rut he had not one fish. A somewhat amusing story is told of a minister of the Interior, Monsieur Ie Corbiere, who was accustomed to gel up every morning very early and go out with a hook and line to quiet his nerves on the banks of the Seine. There came to Paris a man from the provinces who bad made application for a certain of fice a Hoist-prefecture In the country. The oftlce-soekor had no Influence with the minister, but in some way he learn ed where the pot was to which the minister always went to fish. Providing himself with "tackle," be rose still earlier than the minister, snd when Monsieur De Corbiere went to bis favorite place he found a stranger installed there, paying no attention to the minister, and apparently quite Ig norant of his identity. The minister went somewhere else, and got up earlier the next morning: bin on arriving i the place be found the same man installed there. Again and' sgaiu this happened. II was use lens to try to forestall the man. He was at the spot itefore I lie sliKhN-st break of dawn. At last liie minister approached she man anil said imlitcly. "Von seem to Im very fond of fishing, sir?" "I am. sir." answered the other: "and for the present 1 employ it ax a means of passing the time while I am awaiting a reonse to an application which I have made to the minister of I he in ferior," "You arejooking for an onVe?" "A small prefecture, sir. In the conn-try- I have waited a long lime, and may have to wait still longer; but we fishermen, sir, know bow to be pa tient." "Will you kindly give me your name and address, air? I have a little Influ ence, perhaps, at the department, and I shall be glad to mention your ease. Between fishermen, sir ' ' "Ah, I thank you! Here Is my card." That evening the office weker receiv ed bis appointment and went do more to tbe banks of the Keltic, and tbe min ister (hereafter fished In pence in his accustomed spot. Adaptable Stomachs. It la well known that North Ameri can Indiana ran go an extraordinary time without food, and on the other hand can eat enormously when tbe op port unity serves them. Tbe natives of Africa display the name adaptability, Mr. Gregory, speaking of his porters, says: Their reek leanness shout their food is t trying characteristic. At the com atencement of a new stage In the jotir y we had to serve out ten days' ra tlona, and aome of the men would eat so much la the first few days thai by tbe end of the week they hsd none left. But they can go on for great distance an what appears tn he the mt Insuf ficient fond. Home of my men carried loads of one hundred and ten pounds from i dawn to dusk, with only sn hour's real '.n tha middle of the day, on a pound and a baUf of beans or Indian eon. and sometimes tons than that T bonce their 'foot -pounds" nf energy war drtrd pooiled ma, fill 1 noticed Ihat tbey became thinner and thinner. Tbey Illustrate tbe law of comiM-nna-tion; for the amount of food they can sat. when tbey tiane it, is phenomenal. When we reached tbe Kikuyu eojn try on the return Journey, I owed all the men arrearj of food, amounting with one group of men to seven days' rations. 1 offered them bead or Ire instead of the excess of food, that they might buy for themselves any little delicarie. stu b as chickens or ripe bar-anas; but they refiD-ed my offer. "You owe us seven days' food," they replied; "seven da.vs' food we will hare, or nothing." Of coutve it was given them-, but in tne evening one of them came as a delegate from the rest to ask for medi cine. He complained of severe Internal pains, and seemed very uncomfortable. I asked bim what he had l-en doing, and what he had esten. He calmly replied that he had done nothing, and had only eaten the food that bad bwn given him. Kacb of the men, baviug received hi si-ven days' rations, had borrowed a big cooking Kit. made a great fin', and had iirtikcd and eaten the whole of the J ten ami a half pounds of Ix-.-ius. I was somewhat annoyed and de lined to give medicine, telling the emis sary that the only ex pedietit I could think of to prevent fatal consequences was a Imiid of hoop Iron. This we bad not got, so be must tie himself together with my climbing-rope. Hi-rlsTt Spencer's new work, the third volume of "The Principles of So ciology," is nearly through the press. F. C. Scions, the mighty hunter of big African game, has written a his tory of recent events In Matabelehtnd, Isiib Itefore and after the Insurrec tion. . Krnest K. Rtit.c)l. editor of Public Opinion, is about lo publish a radical purpose novel with the enigmatical ti tle, "The Reason Why; A Story of Fact antl Fiction." The Kindergarten Magazine gives thirty page to an Illustrated article on the Chicago Normal School, erstwhile the Normal School belonging to Cook t'ounty and Col. F. W. Parker. Mrs. William Morris write from KcliuscoM Home In the suburbs of Ixiti- j don asking for the loan of all letter written by her husband, to be used In the compilation of a life of the artist author, j The Critic state that Ferdinand Hru the French critic and editor of the Revue des Ilcui-Mondc, is to de liver a course of lecture on French poetry at the Johns Hopkins Univer sity next March. The MncMIHan company announce "Cuesses at the Kiddle of Kxlsteni-e," by Prof, fluid win Smith, the talented f 'fl ml ,ttii n ...ui-LI an,t mihlletul THa . ., ' , , .. . i a rare youth who prefers the Richard question treated In the volume are . , , of plain history to the splendid being ethical and religious. , , . .7. . ? ' with a battle-axe who ride throafh The Indies' Home Journal gives its j 1 ,.j VBnK, readers some more heart lo-heart talks -not on pillow shams, but on mar- onlcker tb.n Lightning. ri,g,. Mrs. A. I. T. Whitney and Dr. ! A- ,.hUll - , , rurkhurst treat the subject from their .loltlll,n , x,(rw, ,h, ,,. res,H-c.lve stand,,!,,!. mm f rVMy. But according to a fiver thirty colored men and one col well-known scientist, electricity Itself la ored woman have been regularly ad ; ,uwtr1pi.ed by that old fashioned ma mlttcd to the Illinois bar ami are now i ebine. the human body, by wb1 It practicing law In Chicago. Judge .las. J al,,Hr JKwers can. so to speak, be R. Mradwell print an Interesting bio- ,.,.,,, !n ,h(. ,ranj,mltud graphical article on Ihe subject In the ( trough the nerves, and developed In Chicago Icgal News. ! K ,,.!,.,, in fln infinitesimal frartkm Kxit Aubrey Reardsley from his sec- of a second. otid magazine venture. The Savoy Is to be discontinued after the Issue of the eighth numlier. In December. The Aubrey Heardsley art Is not Ihe fad it oiu-e was, in the hrl"f days when Ihe Yellow Hook flared Into conspicuity. William T. Adams, known as Oliver frplie to Isiylsh romance lovers, and lo others as tiif father-lii-la w of Sol Smith Russell, bus written more Ixsik for boys than any other man living, but at the age of SO he has Just returned to his Boston home from a trip around the ' world, laden with fresh literary mater- ill. The prominence of Oen. I,ew Wallace in the St. Ixmcs convention adds Inter est to the rumor that he has begun a new piece (f literary work on the line of his "Ken Hnr" and hi "Prince of lmlia."a But as Ceiu Wallace is a slow and painstaking worker, and very Wme-moulhed regarding hi unfinished writings. It will probably ite some lime "fore the public knows even the field in which he haa laid his new plot. In the Harvard firaduaie' Magazine Kdward Kveretl Hale write entertain ingly of a group of live Harvard presi dent who were photographed togeth er at the same table In Ifail. They were Josiah Quincy, Kdward Kver ett, Jared Spark. James Walker and C. C. Feltos. -The old Harvard stat ute were such that no man in hi senses could remain prcsldeut of liar- ' vard College for many successive year. Tlu-se slat me were changed when President Kltot was elecrSd." 1.:. Too Ambit!. -oh. ii,, young man in all right." said Cohang. "He I Just sowing hi ' 'The trouble wltb bin,. .... I Id f .rjnie. "Is that be Is trying lo raise two crop im the same land," Truth. In a Gals. She-1 thought you said you were go ing to stop swearing? He- Bo I am as soon a I gt 11,1 um brella down. Truth. How soon after marriage a woman 1 gets reconciled to having her husband see her In her old clolhe! ' A RELUCTANT READER. Hemit f-rotl's Faarlnatlns Talcs aa If . .'In a Ureaia. It is a very-old proverb tliat you may lead a horse to water, but yon can't make him driuk. It might ls added that if you could make bim drink, you certainly could not make him enjoy tha draught. A recent writer in Kkack wood's Magazine gives an amusing ac count, which yet Is-ars the Impress of truth, of his experience witli an honest, hearty. Jolly Ilrittsh sehoollw.y, appar ently of gisid general intelligence and a good student, wbie family began to worry aliout bis aversion to hooka. Ha regarded them as something to lie duti fully studied when necessary, but to be avoided like the plague out of school hours. At last a promise was extracted from him to read one of Ncott s novels. He gave tbe promise reluctantly in a hoarse and melaneholy whisper, as ho tood dej-ctelly staring around a pleas ant library, but lie kept It wfth entlrs fidelity. The volume given him was " Ivauhoe," which he volunteered gra ciously to call a "funny name," and this slight olmervation was regarded hopefully ns a forerunner of Interest. For a w hole month tbe lad had devot ed himself to "Ivanhoe." Sucb was his 1 conscientiousness that he uever skip- pod a word, and so great his sense of the Injury which tbe intellectual effort was inflicting on his leisure that ha never took a single word in. "Well, old fellow, bow is 'Ivanhoe' getting onT' "Pretty well, thank you." "How far have yoti got?" "Oh, I've nearly read" and h eon suits the top of the page "one hun dred and twenty pages." "And whom do yon like lientf A hasty glance at the page to nee what name came handiest. "Oh, Wamha." (Wamba is the Jiter, or fool.) He looked so extremely woebegone over the eroa-q nest ionlng that tb questioner made a feeble attempt at a Joke. "A little fellow-fi-eling, eh, my hoyT' Plank gaze. "You don't know what I mean, 1 siip- I poser ..j "Well, you know what Wamba was?" "Y'es," rather dubiously. "Well, wbatr "One of the chaps In the book." Now- the unwilling reader stood well at school In history, so a week brter they tried htm again on a different tack. "Have you found any old friends hi 'I vauhoeT' " "No." "Well, you know King Richard." "King Richard?" "Ye. Richard the Fliwt. "Oh, yes: he was king 1 ISA to 1101." "Well, you came aero him in tha ; tournament." "I didn't know It was the same rhap." He was a sincere boy, but be will nuns a great deal of pleasure with a mind so ImpcrvloiM) to the charms of lltoratnm. With most young readers the Richard Coetir-de-I.Ion of the tournament sson tisurji the throne of the matter-of-fact Richard of history; and it Is certainly It ix sta'i-d that a pianist. In playing a presto of Mendelssohn, played Tfie notes In four minutes and three second. The striking of each of th--. It ha Im-cii estimated, Involved to move ment of the Auger and possibly more. Again, the movements of pie wrist, el bow and Mrms can -arccy be lea than one movement for each note. A twenty-four notes were played each second, and each, tnrolves three move ments, we would have seventy-two vol untary movements per second. , Again, Ihe place, the force, the time ; and the duration of each of these mov- i."1"0' controlled. All these mo-. lor reaction were conditioned upon a knowledge of the position of each Anger of each hand Iwfore It ,wan moved, while moving it, aa well a of the audi tory effect to force and pilch, all of which involve equally rapid sensory transm few lor,. If we add lo thi tbe work of Ihe memory In placing the notes In their proper position, a well as the fact that Ihe performer at tbe same time psrtld iwtte In ihe emotion the selection de "TiUw and feci the strength and weaknon of the performance, we ar rive at a truly bewildering network of Impubws, coursing along at Inconceiva bly rapid rates. Such estimate bow, too. that we ar capable of doing many thing at once. The mind Is not a unit, but Is compos ed of higher and lower renters, 0 available fund of attention being dl trlhuted among (hem. I I VI' w Cuaninai. Ile-Marry me, dear, and you shall ,,, 'for sns-,Brr: i always heard it said ,h , mjlrTl. .., . . - s" ' iv m wvrrifaj m) happiness! -Yonkcra Ktatewman. A man' appearance as a bridegroom I his last appearance for tbe balance of hla life in underwear lbs I I not i patc hed. Ted-Hbe still loves me. Ned-How Aa vn bnnwt -w ed my preaents she prepaid the express reav-Hsrlenj l.lrvT P"i i