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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1899)
MOTBS OF THE DAY. boat half mm average orop of applw ad plume to expected la Iowa this 7MT. Tbm lifeboat around th British eeast daring tha laat year rescued CM people. Projectiles for modern big and rapid ftra guns require about halt their weight in powder to lira them. Thirty yaara ago than ware only two doaaa explosive compound known; now there are over 1,000. Of tha world'e annual yield of petro leum, amounting to (.000,000,000 rail one, the United Btatea produce half. In St. Paul recently a boy fell from a wall sixty feat to a railroad track be low, and eacaped without aerioua in jury. Baltimore haa the largest negro pop ulation of any city in Christendom, The census la expected to show at leaal 126,000. t tha Imperial court of Austria tha chef of Emperor Francis Joseph esti mates that of (250,000 expended on the table arery year, tha "unused" repre sent about 1100.000. India Imported 1,835,298 gallons of bear In 1897-88, and the product of the breweries In that country amounted to about 6,000,000 gallons. The coal production of Great Britain amounts to 190,000,000 tons a year; of Germany to 100,000,000 tone, and Prance to 28.000,000 tons. Telegraphic communication Is to be established between the Scottish Isl ands Rum, Egg, Canna and Muck, and ' they are all to be connected with the mainland through the Isle of Syke. The Oklahoma wheat harvest, which began last week, promises to yield 11,000.000 bushels. The territory will have Its greatest crop of corn this year. In alz of the largest cities of Switzer land foreigners make up 40 per cent of the population; but of these all but It par cent were born in Switzerland. It la calculated that during the Lon don season the average amount of money spent dally In flowers Is 125.000, most of which goes to foreign flower grower. The secretary of the Massachusetts board of health haa Issued the state ment that codfish Is aa nutritious as sirloin steak or oleomargarine. It Is plain that locality sometimes Influences even the scientific judgment Aa expert has arisen to explain that stage fright really comes from a disor dered stomach. He argues from this that persona meditating public appear ance should be careful of their diet and adhere to regular habits. The British army on January 1 num- j bered 233,560, of whom 107,000 were Sta- H..! - t. . . 1 1 FWl In Tnla Afl AAA ll the colonies, 1,800 In Crete. There are know her rank they would chaise ho. 18,000 cavalry. Last year the deser- x orbit ant prices for their goods. Ir tlons In round numbers were 4,000. 'this she Is mistaken, for In all respect Th. l.w f ma Wv has been an. !le shops the prices of goods are allk. plied by the Berlin courts to the verses "Me und Gott" recited by Captain Caghlan at New York recently, and the edition that had been published for sal In Germany has been confiscated. M. Secretan of Tarls, the owner of the famous Secretan college, which was dispersed some years ago, la dead. After . . . - ' naving maoe a large ionune in copper il lost his fortune, and his collection was sold. He was the owner of Mil let's "Angelua." which sold for 1110,000. At Astl, in California, last year, a cis tern 104 feet long by 84 feet wide and 24 feet deep was formed in a hillside for the storage of wine. The immense tank was lined with concrete two feet thick, and coated Inside with a glaze aa Impermeable as glass. The capacity of the tank Is 500.000 gallona An association of London women ducts the congenial business of caring for window boxes and growing flower for balconies and small gardens. It will take the contract for filling a bow window, a conservatory, little or big, or will look after the half dozen or mors drawing room plants that on may possess. Thomas Carleton of Watervllle, M., has a decided novelty for this secllonln the shape of a shamrock which ha raised himself. It is thought to be tha only one ever cultivated In the state ol Maine. He started to grow It last De cember, and his efforts had such suc cess that he now has a full-fledged shamrock. A dispatch to the London Graphic from Sevastopol says that a Cossack ex-o fllcer, who has Just returned from Teheran, Persia, declares that the Shah Is mentally and physically Inca pacitated and that he suffers hallucina tions. He finds bis chief amusement with the telephone, which Is elaborately Installed throughout tha palace. There is no part of the world whlct has such a black record for wreck as th narrow Black sea. The number In soma years baa average more than om a day, th greatest number of wreck! rooerded In on year being 425, and the smallest 114. About M per cant of these vessels become total wrecks, ail the crews being lost A Minnesota man captured a king fisher when th bird was quite young, end mad a pet of him and trained tb bird to capture flsh and lay them at nil master's feat. In summer th bird I taken to th river, wher fish an kaowB to abound, and set at liberty. Th bird poise high la th air, and suddenly dropping grasp bis victim and promptly delivers th flab to th master. Russian Inventor utilise eoaJ dual by mixing It with a coars molaasas and a llttl reatn, and working th mixture Th artificial lumps burn well, ami are being mad la Increasing quaaO Utsv Th "briquette" Industry Is car ried on to bjm extent In western B rop also, tha cheapo ess of th dust Ming maker to U their pro- daet to ompUtloa with th HOW ROYALTY SHOPS. The queen doe not visit shop in Bar ton, as do many of tha princes and princesses. Bh haa bar command written and sent to the various estab lishment she patronise, and the pro prietor of these dispatch special mes senger with the good ah desire to ae. These messengers, aa a rule, wait while she Inspect the thing, but lometlmes goods are left for a time to await Inspection by her majesty. The couriers of various royal personages, from her majesty downward, are to be een dally In the West End executing commissions and giving orders for roods to be submitted on approval for their royal employers. As a rule It is the custom of shop keepers to dispatch the articles re quired by some trustworthy member of the firm. He visits the royal residence and sees a footman, to whom be ex plains his errand, and then Is passed on for the examination of several other footmen, till at length, by a series of itages, he Is brought into the presence of a lady-ln-waltlng, who takes his message as to prices and other details jt the goods ordered, and also takes the goods themselves to be examined by the Intending royal purchaser. While the goods are being leisurely sxamined the messenger waits the royal leclslon, be It a long or a short time, which Is notified by the second appear ance of the lady-ln-waltlng, who gives the necessary orders. The messenger then bows himself out, and is again pasBed through the hands of the differ ent grades of footmen, until he at last emerges Into the outer air of common place humanity, and wends his way back to the busy West End. Her majesty Is somewhat fastidious u to orders she gives for personal requisites. It Is a well known fact that should thi-y show these articles oi illow any description of them to ap pear In the press, her majesty would at jnce deprive them of her custom. There Is. one very rich princess who delights to go shopping, bit Is most particular that neither the proprietors f the shops she frequents nor theli employes shall ever, by word or deed, ilgnlfy that they recognize her as of royal blood or treat her In any way other than a lady of no particular Im portance who has been attracted by something displayed In the windows and come In to purchase. Should any one be so unwise as t recognize her and render her the spe cial respect due to royalty she prompt!) transfers her custom. One of her rea ions for this is said to be a theory sht has to the effect that did shopkeepert 'to royalty and ordinary people. The Princess of Wales Is said to bi the moRt fastidious of all royalties a 'regards her dress. Whatever Is maib 'for her In the way of dresses muc , , ,, . ,. , , . , .,,. I "ever look as though the fabrics haw .been In human fingers, or that needles I and cotton have been employed In the . . . ,. . . .. ii . ai in., ritiitriiniT rT f nm i'.nnirt-i m hi ml tkp e'ove, and there must be no unpick Ine of seams or alteration that will dhow the mark of a needle or a stitch. rr-i. t . ..... ...wla A.,. 1 - "-. -..... Ing thoroughly for did not she and hci listers make their own dresses In their early days In quiet little Denmark? and her generally placid temper Is very much ruffled should a dress bodice re quire alteration thae -vlll show, or its make display such outlines as seams, and not fit the figure of ho royal wearer like a glove. The Duchess of Edinburgh, the wife of her majesty's second son. Is as easy to please as the Princess of Wales Is difficult. Seldom does she send a dres? back to be altered, and she Is gracious an t r 'osaut as to her orders and the execution of the same. The Duchess of York Is very much liked by tradespeople. She gives little trouble to her modistes sod Is general ly pleased with her toilettes, and with the rnunner In which her orders have- been executed. She gained her ideas j from her lamented mother, the.Duches of Teck, who was Invariably pleasant, courteous and easily pleased. The Mistress' Touch. "Oh," sighed a weary woman, "most of the work that I do is like washing one's face! One receives no credit for doing It, and yet It shows and Is a disgrace If It is not done." She might have added that only the lady and house mother would thlnk or aoing just me mings sne aoes. n ftmpI)! teacn tne worl(J th, bleBanKs of Is the trained eye of the mistress that j self-government. notes the fingermarks on the edge of in an agricultural community, educa the door, where It, Instead of the tlon in technical agriculture and me i k !,,., .i.,i (, r,.M0,. , chanlc arts Is of the first Importance, knob, has been seized by Bridget or , nd w0 oun!elv to administer Norah's not over-clean hand. It Is j the Morrill land grant fund, the Morrill never Bridget or Norah who thinks to ; special fund for agricultural oolleges wash out the soap cups In the various I anl the Hatch experiment station fund, few days to scald out the water pitch ers, lest they acq' 'rn n musty odor. And It Is the mistrens who dusts the upper back rungs of the chair aftei Norah has given the drawing room "a thorough cleaning." Only the mistreat discerns these things and sets them right. It Is the lady housewife's touch and supervision that mark the dler ence between eye service and love ser vice and makes of an ordinary house a true home. Sine her llttl touches, that she feels do not show, bring about such results, may she not be satisfied 1 "What's the reason of your enmltj . 1 1 . 1 I 1 A AW. Mil,-, to mai i.mn.w - .... romantic young woman. Did your path early In your careerf' No.- answered Senator Sorghum. "He dldn'l .uM j, ftppia th writing tha mu cross my Pth. W were after tb eilag becomes moist and th line run, same oftlc and b ra ovsr dm behind." THE THREE DEMOCRATIC The following Is the plat f a m, the reading of which was punctuated with repeated rhers: We, the democrats of the state of Nebraska, In convention assembled. In dorse and emphasis each and every plank of the national platform adopted at Chicago In 18M. "Our confidence In the principles set forth In that platform haa been In creased as those principle have been vindicated by events. The gold stand ard Is less defensible now than It was In 18S6. sine the Dresldent ha con fessed its failure by sending a com mission to Europe to secure foreign aid Is added proof that the people of the United States must act alone if they expect relief. The present legal ratio or is to l is the natural and necessary ratio, and the opponents of that ratio have nothing to offer in its place tut the evasion and ambiguous phraseology which for years furnished to the gold tandard advocates a mask behind which to hide while they secretly la bored to make gold monometallism per manent. Any improvement in business conditions due to the increased produc tion of gold or to a favorable balance Df trade, instead of supporting the Bold standard doctrine, shows that more money makes better times and points the way to bimetallism as the means of lecuiing a permanent increase In the volume of standard money throughout the world. The republican scheme to lessen the volume of standard money by making Bold the only legal tender money has it last become apparent to all and must be rescinded by the debt paying and wealth producing classes of the coun try. The plan to retire the greenbacks In the Interest of national bank notes, denounced by the democrats In 1836, but then defended by the republicans, has ooldly stalked forth from Its hiding place and threatens the formation of a gigantic paper money trust Arbitration grows more necessary ev ery year and government by injunction rrows more dangerous to the liberties of the people. "The Industrial trusts, springing up on every hand, testify to the admin istration's Indifference to monopoly, or to Its Inability to cope with it. We denounce the failure of the ad ministration to enforce the present law against trusts, or to recommend new laws, if the present law is deemed in sufficient. We are opposed to the principle of monopoly wherever it manifests itself. We demand the enforcement of the present federal law, the enactment of tuch new legislation as may be nec essary and a constitutional amendment, If the present constitution is construed to protect trusts, to the end that the monopolization of Industry by private corporations may be absolutely pre sented. Every trust rests upon a cor poration and every corporation is a feature of law and laws, state and na tional, ust place upon the corpora tions such limits and restrictions as will protect the public from Injury. We heartily commend Hon. C. J. Smyth, attorney general of Nebraska, for his efforts to enforce the state law against trusts. We are In favor of an amendment to the federal constitution speclflclally au thorizing an Income tax; we also favor a constitutional amendment providing tor the election of United States sena tors by the popular vote. We believe In a government of the people, by the people and for the peo ple, and to the end that the people may exert a more direct and potent Influence j upm legislation we favor the use of the Initiative and referendum as far as the prlnc,ple can be aped. j We point with pride to the prompt , enlistment of Nebraska's quota of vol- iunipfr nn , braska soldiers upon their faithful per formance of every duty that fell to their lot. While the Second and Third regiments were not called upon to LI .field, the members of the First Nebras- have won for themselves and for the state imperishable renown We cordially commend the successful efforts of Governor Poynter to furnish to the members of the First Nebraska free transportation from San Francisco to their homes, and we favor an appro priation to cover the expense. But While we commend the soldiers for obedience to all orders emanating from the chief executive, we condemn the administra tive policy which has converted a war for humanity Into a wnr of conquest. We believe that the Filipinos should have received the same treatment as the Cubans, and that, as the Cubans were assured of ultimate Independence and protection, so the Filipinos should have been assured In the beginning of our nation's Intention to give them In dependence as soon as a stable govern ment could be established and protec tion from outside Interference, such as surance should be given now. If the Cubans, ns stated In the resolution of Intervention, are and of right ought to be free, the pame can be said of the Filipinos, and this nation would suffer no humiliation In acknowledging "ad herenre to the doctrine that govern ments derive their Just powers from the consent of the governed. We are opposed to militarism snd congratulate the democrats, populists nnd sliver republicans In the United i States senate upon their successful re slstnnce of the attempt of the admin lstratlon to raise the standing army to 100.000. We are opposed to entangling alli ances with England or any other Euro pean nation, and contend for an Amerl- can civilization which will recognize tne ngnts or men, ana, oy a nonie ex Wllii:il nave mcttii cull u.icu uj mo iru- eral government to th state of Ne braska for education In agriculture and mechanic arts, and for original re search tn agriculture, strictly In the spirit of the various United States laws creating the same, and we shall use all other reasonable means to bring agri cultural education In Nebraska up to th highest standard. A well known miniature artist has produced a paper for checks which makes It Impossible to remov figures 1 and writing for the purpose of alter ing th amount Th check Is mad of I two sheets of paper. On th upper surfac of th under Mlp somes lines ' ar ruled with Ink composed of any permanent coloring matter wlxed with mMr iol(bl lines do Bct vnUm yott hoW tn, ohck M Aa soon set any forming biota that ar visible on both PLATFORMS. POPULIST. Th leao'utlon and platform adapted by th populist committee ar as fol lows. Th people's Independent party of Nebraska In Its tenth annual stat con vention assembled adopts the lidlew Ing declaration of principles: First W affirm our devotion to Iks national platform of 1881 aad to every plank therein contained. Second We declare th Monro doc trine t be the doctrine of national self- preservation and that safety la to be found alone la avoiding th quicksands of Imperialism and dangerous waters of militarism, JnA we oppose all foreign political alliui.ee and all interference in European and Asiatic politics. Third "We hold these truths to t self-evident: That all men are created equal and thai they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; among these are life, lib my, and the pursuit of happiness." And "that to sect, re these rights govern ments are ii etltuted among men de riving their just powers from the con sent of the governed." Fourth We condemn the administra tive policy which has converted a war for humanity into a war of conquest. We believe that the Filipinos should have received the same treatment a the Cubans, and that as the Cubans were assured of ultimate Independence and protection, so the Filipinos should have been assured In the beginning of our nation's Intention to give them in dependence as soon as a stabl govern ment could be established and protec tion from outside Interference. Such assurance should be given now. Fifth We condemn the republican national administration for Its complic ity with unlawful combinations which have Increased nearly a hundred per cent within the last three year as a result of Its failure to enact and en force laws In the Interests of th peo ple. Sixth In dealing with trusts and corporations having a monopoly of pub llo necessaries we claim that th law of the land requires that they shall serve the public for reasonable com pensation and In the absence of any legislation upon the question of what is reasonable the Judiciary may determine the question. The trust danger of this country Is so appalling that th evils thereof must be combatted by every branch of the government We demand Judges who will obey the law that vests the Judiciary with Jurisdiction t pro tect the people from unreasonable and oppressive prices for the necessaries of llf. Seventh We declare that th repub lican party has needlessly Increased the rate of taxation :that It Is guilty of needlessly causing an annual deficit In current revenues of the government by useless and prodigal expenditures of the people's money to be made good by additional taxation, or the isauanc of additional Interest-bearing bondsj and that Its attempt to retire tn greenbacks and turn over the Issuing power of paper money to private cor poration is a shameless ana inexcu able surrender to the money power. Eighth We heartily endora all ef forts of organized labor to better Its condition, and we believe that all classes of citizens and all legitimate enterprises should recelv the protec tion of the laws and that ail attempts to coerce honest labor by Injunction or by the use of the military Is a violation of the constitution and the established rights of American citizens. Ninth Municipal ownership of publlo utilities Is a public necessity. Tenth The history of the three splen did military organizations furnished by Nebraska In the Spanish-American war Is the Just pride and glory of every citizen, and for their bravery, valor and devotion to duty we offer them the heartfelt gratitude of the patriotic peo nlA of the state. Eleventh We most heartily commend the able, patriotic and conservative ad. ministration of Governor Poynter and his official associates and we congratu late the people of the state on his suc cess In securing free transportation for the gallant First Nebraska to their respective homes. SILVER REPUBLICANS. The platform of the convention de clared for the free, Independent and un limited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1; for the control of corporations and combinations of cap ital b the people; against militarism aa In the Interests of the trusts and a men ace to the welfare of the people; against three years of Hanna republicanism as showing the difference between It and the republicanism of Lincoln Grant, and Blaine; demanding that the course of action for the country outlined by the resolution of congress authorizing Intervention in Cuba be carried out In Its true spirit also with reference to Porto Rico and the Phllllpplnes; oppoaei an alliance with England for any pur pose or an any pretext; advocated mu nicipal ownership of all public utilities; charged the republican administration with the grossest mismanagement oi the war department as showing the en tire unfitness of the republican party to administer government for the people of the United States; condemned th president for removing from the oper ation of the civil service laws 4,000 clerkships, offices and situations aa an act in the Interest of politicians and aaalnet the interests of the people; commended the valor and achievements j of the Nebraska regiments In the war with Spain, and the World-Herald and State Journal and all other papers and Mr. D. E. Thompson and all other per sons. Including the governor, who mad it possible for the First regiment to come from San Francisco with free transportation; pledged the party to further the purposes for which the ag ricultural funds of the state were pro vided and declared in favor of an In come tax. Besides the platform, the convention adopted a resolution condemning any candidate who should receive or use, either during the campaign or In office, If elected, any railroad passes or free railroad transportation. The conven tion received notice that this resolution 1 had also been adopted by th populist convention. A few years ago an eminent London physician, on my mentioning to him to matoes as an article of diet for myself, said: "Why do you eat tomatoes?" X said, "Why notr H said, "Well, I think that there are grave reasons for thinking It possible that eating toma toes Increases, If It does not produce, the liability to cancer. I do not say positively that It does so." It strikes a layman as a fact, that th consump tion of tomatoes has Increased aa much In England of late year as has enoss, Fall Mall Qasette. Teu think you know all about wo men, don't youT' askd th newly mar ried heard sr. "lto," 'replied the Savage Bachelor, -ana rm mighty don' t" IndlanapoUs Journal. HAD A HOSE. "We've got one of the stupidest ser vants you ever laid eyes on," said the man on the back platform, aa he pulled out the end of his flowing neckscarf. "She isn't to be trusted with anything she can do mischief with. She's Just like an Infant in this respect. Good girl, too. About a week ago I was sprinkling the lawn early in the even ing when Nora came out. " 'Mr. Jimson,' she said, 'I lak to do dot.' "So In a fit of temporary insanity I yielded the hose to her and went up on the porch where my wife was sit ting. "Inside of five minutes the girl had soaked a passing popcorn cart and put out the poplar's lamp, had showered a slightly intoxicated man who swore blue vengeance, had doused a small boy in a ruffled collar, who ran home bellowing; had sprayed a young wo man in a pink shirt waist, and placed at least two gallons of water under her own chin. CARRY OFF HUMAN PRET. News has been received in Lucknow of the depredations of a pack of wolves in a village a few miles out. Among other acts, one of them carried off a little baby, but on being chased the beast dropped the infant, which, un fortunately, died. A party of sahibs arrived with their guns, and when they heard of what had happened they sug gested that the child should be left where it lay in hopes that its destroy er might return and be awarded a Just penalty for his misdeed. The parents, who were bitterly grieved and anx ious for revenge on the vulpine beast, consented to the arrangement, and the sahibs sat up over their novel "kill." The wolf actually did return, and a well-aimed shot hurried him off to that bourne from which no wolf retnrns. MISS WABASH AMAZED. "What is that old proverb about the moss and the rolling stone?" queried the Chicago girl. "A revolving fragment of the pale ozoic age collects no cryptogamous veg etation," replied her cousin from Bos ton. "Land's sake!" ejaculated the Chica go girl, and let it go at that. A NEW DOG. Lady (to dog fancier) What kind of dogs have you for salet Dog Fancier Scotch terriers, Chinese pugs, French podles and .English set ters. Lady Have you any of those ocean greyhounds that I have read about? HE KNEW NOTHING. "Har, har!" laughed the Kansas farmer; "then Eastern fellers don't know nothin'." "What's the matter now?" asked his wife. "Why, I got ter quarrelin' with one of 'em, an' he said as how he'd knock the socks off'n me." DISPENSING WITH LUXUART. "Mrs. Flighty," said the gossip, "has gone down town to see a lawyer. She wants t oget rid of her husband." "Dear me," sighed the debutant of five or six years' standing. "Some peo ple don't know their luck, do they?" PROUD OF IT. Mrs. De Tanque You horrid wretch! Aren't you ashamed of coming home in this condition? Ue Tanque No, shir; I'm (hie) proud of it. Aain't many fellers'h can fin' the way home when they're fullsh this. "When I yelled to her to drop it, she turned the nozzle square on the porch, and we had to run for our lives. Hut we got one good thing out of it. She had an idiotic beau who used to come to see her and Btay till nearly morning. When she saw him corning that partic ular evening she was so frustrated that she at once put the hose on him and soaked his nice pink negligee shirt and his baby-blue neckscarf and knocked his dainty red ribbon straw hat into the swimming gutter. And say, by George, he never came back," liBTNO A LADY. "Frances," said that little girl's mam ma, who was entertaining callers In the I parlor, "you came down stairs so nois- ily that you could be heard all over j the house. You know how to do It i better than that. Now go back and come down the stairs like a lady." I Frances retired, and after the lapse of ' a few minutes re-entered the parlor. I "Did you hear me come down stairs I this time, mamma?"' I "No, dear. I am glad you came down quietly. Now don't let me ever have t to tell you ngaln not to come down i noisily, for 11 see that you can come quietly If you wil. Now tell these la-i dies how you managed to come down like a lady the second time, while the first time you made so much noise." "The last time I slid down the ban isters," explained Frances. London has 1,380 miles of streets; Paris, 600. A large orphan asylum in St. Peters burg Is supported by the tax on play ing cards. The Chinese tael Is a coin which has never existed. It is simply a unit used for convenience. Foreigners in China buy nearly ev erything on credit, giving signed "chits" for every purchase, the reason lx-lng their unwillingness to load themselves down with silver' or native coin, while paer money fluctuates too much. Salt and pepper can be shaken Inde pendently from a newly-designed box, ! a partition being placed In the center, with the sifting cap formed of two j layers of metal, with the perforations so arranged that they will register with but one chamber at once. "What man dare, I dare," he quoted. IVi II. vol) haven't as vet." she replied. "W, II. you haven't as yet." she replied. . regretfully, for It was her first season I at the seashore. Chicago Post. "I wonder If any of the bride's rela- lives are present." "Oh, yes. I saw some people In the next room counting the presents." Life. Now," said the border photograph- er, pulling his gun and levelling It across the camera at the man In the chair, "will you have the kindness to look pleasant?" Much amused by the cheek and the cool nerve of the request thus convey ed, the bold cowboy smiled broadly; j anil at that Instant the border photo- grHpner presneo me uuikjii. The Deacon Brother, do you think we ought to accept that gift from Helghweln, the distiller? The Pastor I think we might. We accepted one from a cornet manufacturer, you know. Green rests the eye, the resting of th eye often means to rest the nerves, and the refreshment of the eyes as as necessary to comfortable life as the renewal of the other bodily forces by food . CHICAGO NEWS PROVERBS. It's a short street that has no saloon. Some great minds have some small thoughts. One-half the world wonders why the other half lives. The mule doesn't admire the short ears of the horBe. The silent watches of the night are those we forget to wind. After the field is plowed then comes the harrowing details. Better kiss the girl before you pro pose she may refuse you. Some men stop traveling afoot aa soon as they begin to get ahead. A man is indeed ignorant if ignorant of the fact that he Is Ignorant. A baggagemaster checks your trunk and a physician checks your grippe. Baseball is the one business in which an occasional strike is necessary. Nothing takes the conceit out of a man like being beat at his own game. The clergyman doesn't object to a young man's ringing a bicycle belle In church. An old bachelor says that love is the sugar-coating on the bitter pill of mat rimony. Experience is such a costly teacher that it keeps a man hustling to pay the tuition fees. You can sometimes Judge a man's ability by the number of relatives he has to support. The man who can accurately describe a woman's dress made a mistake in not being born a dressmaker. When a grass widow selects a seat in tle park she always gets as far away from a keep-olT-the-grass sign aa pos sible. TERSELY TOLD. Germany has established three post offices on the Chinese coast. The average duration of a silver coin in circulation is twenty-seven years. In Morocco when the sultan marries every subject is expected to contribute a wedding present. An establishment has been opened in Paris for the sale of water of the river Jordan for baptism, when the pa rents desire it, and can afford to pur chase it. There has Just died at Vaslui, Molda Georghi Moldoveanu, who is said to have lived 128 years. He leaves two via, a Greco-Roumanian priest, named children, one of whim is aged SO years. Bad weather may be predicted from the rise and fall of wells. Curiously enough, however, small and rapid changes of barometer are more certain to affect wells than large changes. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. The main difference between lunatics and other people is that lunatics have no fads. When you get close enough, most of the deepest footprints on the sands of time look pigeon-toed. If the men ran things for three weeks the human race would be eating oft wooden dishes that they could put Into the fire after each meal. In his heart, every man thinks about once a week that his wife was a fool for marrying him, and the rest of the time that he was a fool for marrying her. A woman may sometimes admit that she did wrong, but she will never admit that there wasn't a good excuse for it. New York Press. CLAMS TRAVEL. " 'They do all the same and I'll show you,' he said, and backed water with his oars, stopping the boat, j 'There's one now right under you.' "I looked down into the water, and there, at the very end of a furrow, waa a clam resting upright on one end, head down as I discovered by dipping him up with my landing net. By look ing carefully we discovered other claims. If they were moving, it waa too slowly for me to detect their pro gress, but in every ease the clam was at the end of a furrow, which he plain ly had made, standing on end, head down. " 'They alius travel on their heads,' the boy said. 'They can work along tol'able fast when've a mind to. I've known one to go the length of this boat in a day.' " 'What's their idea in all this bal ancing on their heads?' I asked. 'And where are they going, anyway?' " 'Dunno. But I guess they's brows in' round for something to eat,' the boy answered, and so far as I have an opin in in the matter I thing he guessed right. "It had nlways been my belief that the clam, like the oyster, was a home stayer, growing contentedly to matur ity in the olace where he was born, and never moving from the spot of his own accord," says a New York man, fond of sports with rod and gun, "but this belief was changed during my last ! summer's vacation in Maine. I spent ' several days at Sebec lake, usually starting on my day's fishing excur I slon from Greeley's Landing, on the I south shore. Here for a long distance l out the water Is shallow, with a sandy bottom. All over this bottom '-xtending i out to where it was too deep to be seen were queer little furrows, such as a man might make in the Band with the tip of a walking stick. I knew that they could not have been made by eels, which would have left sinuous tracks, while these were straight, and I was puzzled to explain them. At last I asked my boatman, a country boy, bred on the shores of the lake, what caused these furrows. " 'Clams,' he said, briefly, with a slight tone of wonder in his voice at my Ignorance." PAVEMENT OF GLASS. Yet another street pavement! Not satisfied with cobblestones and wood, tha city of Lynn has been experiment ing with glass as a substitute. This new product is obtained from broken glass healed to a temperature of 1,250 degrees, and compressed In matrices by hydraulic force. The glass pavement Is laid In the form of blocks, eighteen inches square, says the Ixmdon News, f nhT" .,"1 on.k Klnilr nnnlalnlnw DlvloAn napla In so closely fitted together that water cannot pass between them, and the whole tiavement looks like one triuantic draught board. As a pavement 1 tls eeLd to nave Krenter resistance than tone; It Is a poor conductor of cold ! and Ice will not form on it readily, dirt ! rlrio not nccnm 11 tn t A imnn It AM pamIIv as upon stone, and It will not retain microbes. It is more durable than stone and Just as cheap. Two men were standing outside a Jeweler's window, admiring the gorge ous display of glittering gems that lay before them. Presently one of them, pointing to an object In a red plush tray, said: "Just look at that scarf-pin repre senting a fly. Any one can tell that's not real." "Well, I should think so," answered his friend. "Whoever saw a common fly with such a bright appearance? If I saw that on a man's scarf I could tell directly that It waa an enameled Imi tation." At that moment the object of their condemnation moved across the tray, flew In the air and vanished. Ihe two men looked at each other, gasped and moved away without a word.
