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
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