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sfemvention Replying to the more or less popular theory tliat comets are simply swarm of meteoric stones, a Fellow of the Hoyal Astronomical Society recalls the brilliancy almost Increased of Arc turu as It wag seeu In 18."8 through thousands of miles of the very nucleus of Donatl's comet The mlHt from a frog- pond would have blotted out the star altogether. ("apt V. C, Ishoy, a Dane, has invent ed a new form of steamship, which he thinks will le IxMb speedier and stead ier than the existing type. He makes the hull considerably more flat thaD In the ordinary model, thus decreasing the draft. But his most novel device Is placing the screw under the bottom of the vessel Instead of at the stern. Not only will such a ship be particular ly seaworthy, says the Inventor, but, with the same speed. It will save 20 per cent In consumption of coal. A trouble of the artist Is the tendency of paints to mix or run together. This is especially annoying In portrait paint ing, on account of the delay for clean ing oil from palette and brushes, and has led to the limited use of the pastel. "Work with the latter, however, lacks durability. By bis plan of forming oil colors into crayon-like sticks, M. J. J. lUffaelll, the French genre painter, claims to have secured both durabil ity and freedom from Inconvenience, and have effected a genuine revolu tion. The fact that certain substances ad here so tenaciously to glass that on be ing detached they tear away scales was observed long ago by Professor Call letet For etching the glass he applies two coats of thin glue, and after twenty-four hours places the article on a kitchen range for a few hours at a tem perature not greater than 105 deg. F. The glue will detach Itself with num erous flakes of glass. The designs may be varied by adding various salts to the glue, and he gets his best results from glue with a little alum. Sir Harry Johnston, whose discovery of a new species of animal In the Uganda Protectorate has excited much Interest among naturalists, brought back to London and exhibited there a specimen of a gigantic species of earth worm which, when alive, was about three feet long and as thick as two fingers. Even larger species of earth worms than this exist. Ceylon has some giants, of a blue color, that at tain as great a size. In Cape Colony and Natal there Is a Hpecles, parti colored, green above and yellowish be neath, which, It Is averred, sometimes attains a length of six feet. Giant earthworms are also found in Austra lia and In South America. 8teel alloyed with 30 per cent of nickel Is said to have the smallest co efficient of expansion of any known metal, amounting to only one two-millionth for one degree Fahrenheit, For this reason nickel-steel has been large ly adopted for the material of pendulum-rods in high-grade clocks. The change of length with rise or full of temperature Is so nearly imperceptible that the counterbalancing change In the brass bob sufllces to compensate for It. Nlckdstecl also possesses a remarkable power of resisting rust. If nickel should ever be discovered In sufficient quantities greatly to reduce Its cost, says a writer in Machinery, It would have an Important Influence on future steel construction, for nickel steel would generally be used. It is an Interesting fact that nickel combined with Iron Is frequently found in mete orites. DROPPED A HUNDRED FEET. What Falling Man Thought During Mi TerrlHc Descent. John Anderson, the former naval Jackie, who, while painting ironwork beneath a high bridge a mouth ago, was severely Injured by a fall. Is rapidly re covering at the city hospital, says the St Paul Pioneer Press. Both his thigh bones were broken, his left leg was fractured near the ankle, a portion of bone was torn from bis right hip and he was wounded about the crown of his head. But he will not be permanently maimed or disfigured. On the afternoon of May 20 he was swinging happily, like a bird on a twig, within "sling" six feet below the road way of the high bridge and about 100 feet above the Mississippi river. The scat of the swing Is a short piece f plank. It Is attached at each end to ropes, which, passing through a block, return to the sling as a single rope. By lengthening or shortening this roie the man In the sling can lower or ele vate himself. "I was hanging close to one of the steel rods," suld he, the other day, "n rod that I was painting. My rope was good and fast. I had no warning of any danger, when the sky and the clouds and the bottom of the big bridge In the middle of It all dashed past my eyes and the air whistled In my ears like a typhoon on the China seas. I knew I was going down head first No, I wasn't frightened. I said to myself: 'Now, 111 strike the river before long, and If I keep going this way I'll hit tbe water bend first, which will be just good diving, and, being a good swimmer, 1 can easily get ashore. I wondered, too, If I'd beat my paint bmsh down. Funny what little things fellow will tblnk about at these times Instead of worrying about bis own Deck. Hoi about ality feet down I didn't nieasurt tbe distance then I struck one of the rroM rods a slanting blow with any head. But my lego, sort ' huddled up as I fell, probabfy came down full force against the rod. I could bear the bones crack. They made quite loud noise like a percussion cap. Still It was the blow on the head that hurt the most Then, and not before, I thought to myself, 'Well, It's your last cruise for sure,' and things got black before me. I guess I fainted. "But the cold water brought me to. I bobbed up as natural as a harbor buoy. I soon opened my eyes and I suppose I smiled. I thought just as If I was somebody else, 'Say, mate, you didn't die this watch, did you?' I know I felt awful good about It But soon as I made my first kick, or, rather, tried to make it, I found that both my legs w:ere hanging as heavy and dead as shot In a canvas bag. They didn't pain me, though. And when I found I couldn't swim I felt my gun was spiked for sure. But Just then I heard the crew up aloft on the bridge hollering 'Good boy, Sailor! You're all rightl Keep It up! Boat's coming! Keep a-paddling, Jackie.' It did sound fine and hearty, let me tell you. And so I kept a-pjaddlln' until a man reached me In a loat fifteen minutes after I dropped down. "I was pretty nearly done up. I knew how my legs would hurt if he tried to pull me over the gunwale of the boat, and I tried to make blm tow me along side. But he couldn't manage that, and he did haul me In, though It was a mighty tough experience. I didn't faint again, and after I was once In the hos pital began to feel quite comfortable." IN MANDALAY. The Thousand Pa sod a Bella Bine at the Betting of the Ban. Mandalay has Its own sky, soft and gray and Incurving like a tent, with white cloud-lines that seem meant for scrolls if one could read. It Is the Very Sacred City, the city of contem plation, the city of all the monks. A thousand pagoda bells give tongue to the wind there when the sun goes down; a crumbling thousand more give up to time the testimony of outworn things. It lies In a curved arm of blue hills, and something broods over it with sol icitude. This you suspect from the air of the pluce and the way the shrill talk of the parrots and the complaint of the goats and the laughter of the people come to you wherever you are sitting. Afterward you go out, as I did that morning with the commis sioner, and see under the very zenith where the low gray sky is caught up, the square of the dark-red crenellated walls of the old royal city, three miles each wuy, and outside the walls the parallel clear moat thinking back at the sky; and then you are sure that over and above the government of In dia some spirit Is in possession here, some spirit that bends In affection over finished and forgotten things. Seven-roofed kiosks stond at Inter vals over the gntes In the wall they are called pyathat, but they strike the eye like peaceful conclusions and low white stone bridges raised In the mid dle span the moat The buttresses of the gates are painted deep gray and white, and the bank that slants steep ly from the wall to the water has here and there a low, twisted, spreading tree on It, purely for decoration. You may stop at a corner and look two ways along the reflecting water with bridge after bridge receding across, and pyathat after pyathut diminishing above, and each red and gray and white vista, so picked out and fin ished under the quiet light, slipping adorably Into the near blue of the hills. Mandalay seemed aware with bunt ing that day, flags and arches o? wc. come everywhere and crowds flocking aware and almost awake; but you look nualn and saw that she only turned in her sleep and smiled, as of a dream. A Worthy Monument. There are several homes for spinsters In Sweden and Norway. One of these is as attractive as it Is unique. It is the monument to the memory of an exceedingly wealthy old man, who, dy ing more than two hundred years aeo. left the major part of his fortune to the old maids among his descendants. A, superb home was built, furnished and managed by salaried trustees. It flour ished and has continued. Any unmar ried woman who can Drove blood re lationship to the founder of the Insti tution Is entitled to admission In the home. She is given a suite of rooms, n servant private meals, and is subject to no rules save such as ordinary good behaviour demands. Lived Through an Antarctlo Winter. Undoubtedly the penguins live on the edge of the Ice-pack In winter time. A curious proof of this is that during a heavy gale In the bay near Cape Adair, the ice field broke up suddenly and the floes drifted northwards Into the ocean, carrying off one of my sledge dogs. Wo naturally looked upon the dog as lost, but a week later the sea was frozen as far as the eye could reach, and three months afterwards that dog returned to camp from over the Ice, and he was fat! Now. three dogs can kill a seal, but one dog can not; and this dog had evidently been living on penguins out at sea at the edge of the Ice-pack. Prof. O. K. Borchgrevlnk, In Leslie's Monthly. The Ntherian Railway. Foreigners will not be permitted to travel over the Siberian railway with out special Itusslan authorisation. This has Imm'H olllclally iiniimififcd by the Itusslan OonsiU at Shanghai. A very mean man died a uuuiber of years. go, and every time people see but happy widow they rejoice again. A visiting sumovr girl In town calls the remoTuig of the busk of tbe corn "taking Its corset off." UCEER NIGHT THEFT. WEALTHY BANKER WA8 ROBBED WHILE HE SLEPT. rhroaa-h the Efforts of a Detective the Mystery of the Losses Waa Solved in a Manner Most Unex pected All Around. "Shortly after I was put on the 'fly ,'oree,' " said the old detective, "the :hief sent for me. On entering his office I found there a man 1 recognized as a hanker of repute. Since then he has oovotne famouB. The chief told me to listen to the story, for it was my case. The story was brief. The banker kept lome personal securities In a safe at his own home and some were missing. They had disappeared one by one at ir regular intervals. The one singular thing wus that on one occasion he had let out to watch the safe all night, and between 3 and 4 had dropped asleep 'or half au hour. In that half hour mother had disappeared. The lock was i combination, tbe secret of which, so Tar as he knew, was wholly bis own. "I went up to his bouse and made a careful examination without bitting on lny theory that would seem to unravel be mystery. So I said to the banker that tie must go right along In bis mode of llvng, do nothing to let any Inmate in .be bouse suppose they were under sus picion or observation, and that I would .'onceal myself and watch the safe. For was satisfied that tbe thief was one it the family, and I fancied It was tbe ion, who was a high roller. "This the banker agreed to, and Helped me rig up a place where I could conceal myself. I began the watching ;hat night, but nothing came of It for ive nights. On tbe sixth the banker went out to a dinner party, but he was back home shortly after midnight, and the house quletetd down by 1 o'clock, An hour and a half later I beard a )ft step In tbe room adjoining the li brary and presently a form stole Into the room, and going to the safe, swift ly unlocked It and abstracted a single lecurlty, closing the safe again. "The room was so dark that I could llstlnguisb only the outlines of the ,'orin, but the darkness enabled me to 'ollow the thief as be turned from the iafe. I did so, and with a step as -itealtby as his own. He led me through the adjoining room, out into the hall, lown the basement steps and Into a i umber-room, where there was an old xx for firewood. To this box the thief .vent, and, lifting the cover, put the se curity in It. "Then he turned, and so quickly that he nearly struck me, and hurried up the stairs. I was close behind him and at his heels when he climbed up to tbe second story, where there was a night lamp In the hull, giving sufficient light .'or me to recognize the features of the man who hud taken tbe security. From here he turned Into a room, closing the door after him. I went down Into the ibrary and found the easiest chair for i nap. "The next morning as the banker ap peared for breakfast I took him down stairs, saying to blm: 'Kxamine that kx and see what you find.' "To his amazement he found every me of the missing securities and some ;upers besides which he had not nlssed. He was dumfouuded. After u moment's hesitation he turned to me -vlth a severe and most stern air and tsked: " 'Who is the thief?' " 'You are,' I replied, complacently. "lie started violently, and for a uio nent I thought he would strike me. But je asked, instead, ferociously: " 'What do you ineun by that?' " 'Only that you are a sleepwalker,' l replied. 'That's all. I followed and iaw you tuke the paper and pluce it here.' "He stood still, as one paralyzed. Then he said: " 'Keep my counsel. Say nothing.' "A week later he sent for me to his )fflce to tell me that his physician had old him It was a case of dyspepsia, tnd that when he bad come to look Dack he found that It was only ufter a ate-coursc dinner that a paper had been nlssed. Then be added: , " 'You've been discreet so far. Con ilnue to be, and you will see that you will not lose by It' "I continued to be, and that's the rea lon why I have retired so early, can lrlve down the road Just as fast a stepping pair as anyone does, and can have an automobile If I want one." Brooklyn Eagle. EFFORT OF MAPPING A BRAIN, Scientific Tests to Discover Control of Limbs and Muscles. Eminent surgeons have long endeav ored to find out precisely what parts of the brain control the various muscles ind limbs of the body, with a view to iscertalnlng therefrom new ways of Seating diseases of the nervous sys iem. Sufferers from such complaints, especially such as cause Interruption f the muscular action, may have rca ion to bless the memory of certain great apes who have co-oiKToted un selfishly w'th and without being con sulted by some British scientists and surgeons In a series of privately con Jucted experiments to demonstrate new facts about the brain, says the London Leader. Though the scientific partnership was fatal to tho apes, they lived ad mired and died universally respected, tnd their photographs will be handed lown In medical history. Studies of the brains of the higher apes have ibowu that their composition was suf ficiently like that of man to justify the belief that Investigations made on these irate would furnish knowledge about ibt human brain. To understand the experiments thoroughly it Is well to re member that the brain may be roughly divided into two great portions the frontal and the occipital which are separated by the fissure of Itolundo, This fissure extends across tbe top of the human bead and down on each side at about tbe region of tbe temples. AU that part of the brain which lies in the front of it that Is, the brain that is over the eyes and tills out the frontal region of the head is known as the frontal lobe. This frontal lobe, It lias been found, does almost all the work of ordering and controlling the motion of the body and tbe exercise of Its various physical functions. It is the great central telephone exchange, or, to use another electric term, the great power house where the subtle, in tangible fluid of thought is converted Into a tangible working force and thence transmitted at varying pressures along the feed wires of nerves to the various engines of the heart, arms, legs, eyes, mouth, nose and other organs. C O O D PbofiStoriei aapsa asft s bhss ii ii ii ii slifi i" ii il sasas( On one occasion at a dinner at Balliol the master's guests discussed the ca reers of two Balliol men, one of whom had Just been made a Judge and the other a bishop. "Oh," said one, "I think the bishop Is the greater man. A Judge, at the most, can only say, 'You be hanged,' but a bishop can say, 'You be damned.' " "Yes," tersely remarked the master, "but If the Judge says 'You be banged,' you are hanged." Sir Henry Irving declares that once, when he was playing "Othello" In a small town in the then Washington Ter ritory, his audience was composed foi the most part of miners. "When we came to the handkerchief scene, where Othello demands the handkerchief of Desdeinona many times," he says, "I noticed that the audience was becom ingly exceedingly nervous. About the third time the demand for the handker chief was repeated a large Irishman In the rear of the house shouted: 'Wipe your nose on your slalve, you nayger. and let the play go on.' " Frank Rellly, a track-walker, was the victim of a peculiar accident at Port Costu recently. He was standing neat a switch to a siding on which freight trains generully wait for the passeugei trains to pass. He saw a young ladj walking on the siding, and, believing her to be in danger, gesticulated ve hemently to cause her to step from be tween the rails. She, in her turn, see ing the oncoming freight train, mo tioned back to him that he was in dan ger. As the train came nearer both became the more earnest ia their shout lug and gesticulating, while nelthet thought of stepping off the tracks. Rellly proved to be In the wrong. The freight, instead of taking the siding, went straight through. While he wai still trying to cause the young lady to get out of the wuy of supposed dan ger, the train struck him from behind, hurling him from the track and break ing his right arm In two places, badlj cutting his head and bruising his side. He will recover. Apropos of the death of John W, Mackay, the New York Herald remarks that one of the notable episodes of the residence of the Mackays in Paris waj that which connected them with Meis- sonler. The gTeat French artist was commissioned by Mr. Mackay to paint a portrait of his wife for the sum of seventy-five thousand francs. When it was delivered the Mackays decided that it was entirely unworthy of the sub ject and of ttie painter. "I -wanted a Meissonler," he said, "not Mclssonlct painting a slovenly imitation of Ca bancl." This criticism wus indorsed by some artists who had seen the picture. It was suld that the French artist, deeming anything to be good enough for Nevada, to0.t no pains with the work, that he had produced It after an insufficient number of sittings, and had hastily painted in tbe hands from one of his models. Furthermore, the por trait showed a Woman ten years oldet than Its subject. Many French artists, however, Indorsed the work. Ills friends gave Meissonler n dinner as n vindication, and the French press and public were for a time clamorously In diguant. The Indignation rose to a cli max when It was reported that Mrs. Mackuy bud thrown the picture Into the tire. This was not true. It wm hung In a small room, with its face to the wall. To-day It has an abiding place In Carlton House, Mrs. Mackay's London mansion. Many I'ses of a Banana. Immense fortunes have been mad out of the bununa business. Revenues do not accrue alone from the sale of the fruit, for the leaves arc used for packing; the juice, being strong lu tannin, makes au Indelible Ink and shoe blacking; the wax found on the under side of the leaves is a valuable article of commerce; niunllu hemp Is made from the steins, and of this hemp art made mats, plaited work aad lace handkerchiefs of the finest texture; moreover, the bamimi Is ground Into banana flour. The fruit Is to be sold for dessert Is ripened by the dry warmth of flaring gas Jet In the stor age place In which It Is kept, and care has to be taken to prevent soften ing or overripciilng. The Island of Jamaica yields great crops of this use ful and motivy-niiikliig fruit. Whjr They Don't Hpeak. Stella-Yes, my age Is In tho family Bible. Bella Then, I presume, It must be la Revelations. A recent number of the New York Independent contained a poem by Whittier entitled "Eternity," which is not included in the poet's complete works. "Why, man, I'd be tickled half to death if I could write well enough to really Interest little children. That would be a big thing a wonderfully big thing." Kipling. George W. Cable's new book, "By low Hill," is rather severely bandied by many critics. He Is somewhat out of his "sphere" In dealing with New England character and conditions. Marlon Crawford does most of his work In America, and takes his vaca tions with bis family at bis Italian home In Sorrento. He has, however, a work den of a curious sort in Italy. An Intimate friend of the late Frank R. Stockton has written of him: "Mr. Stockton's work was all wholesome, not so much because be willed It to be so as because be could not help It He was himself clean and wholesome in bis mind and soul. He looked at life with honest eyes, and it looked back at him In precisely tbe game way. His writings were altogether good and for good." Mrs. Eugene Field once asked ber husband to watcb some pies for her a minute. On returning, she was sur prised to find tbe oven door wide open, and the meringue flat. "They're ruin ed!" she exclaimed in dismay. "Why didn't you keep tbe door shut?" "Keep the door shut!" Mr. Field repeated in very genuine amazement. "Why, you told me to watch them every instant; and I'd like to know how I could do that with tbe oven door shut" A correspondent writes to the New York Times as follows: I doubt If lit erature contains more healthy, whole some books than those of Mrs. Wlggin and Miss Jewett. Their writings as a whole are safe and elevating to put into the hands of young and old. To my mind, Miss Jewett excels in the short story, although "Deephaveu" is a flaw less gem, equaled in perfection, in Its own way, by Mrs. Wiggln'g "Timothy's Quest." My advice would be to read everything both of them have written, and be thankful that they are ours. It has long seemed fitting that a sculptured memorial to the poet Whit tier should be erected In Amesbury, Mass. About a year ago the ladies of the Whittier Home Association of Amesbury began an organized work for the collection of funds to place a statue In the plot of ground In front of the Friends' Meetinghouse, where he wor shipped all his life. To this associa tion is due the preservation of the Whittier house, the faithful care with which it Is maintained and the celebra tion of the birthday anniversaries of the poet of freedom, of religious char ity, of patriotism, of the virtue and tenderness of the American home. It is desired that the expense should be defrayed by those who hold Whlttier's memory dear, cither as a reformer or as a poet. The memorial will be a de sign by some sculptor of established reputation, and will cost not less than $10,000. Whittier loved his own town and his meetinghouse. He once Raid, pleasantly, alluding to the Friends' Meetinghouse: "I expect they'll put a graven Image of me there some day." FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND. They Tell a British Hunter Things Hidden from the Ordinary Mortal. For a long series of years Mr. Lacy, the famous English hunter, has made such a close study of the footprints of the denizens of the forest in many lands that he can tell those of twenty- five species of lions, of the same num ber of different members of the ante lope family, of panthers, hyenas, croco diles, baboons and many other animals. The spoor of the fore feet of the fe male elephant Is practically a perfect circle, while that of the male is slight ly oval, the hind feet of both uexes leaving oval marks. The fore feet show four toe marks, the hind feet only three, and the outline of the hind feet is more strongly marked and the pad behind the toes leaves a deeper imprint. A large spoor measures about fifteen Inches In diameter. These peculiarities you can only dis cover by examining the footprints of the animals at rest. When the elephant moves In a leisurely manner his four feet leave a track of tho width of a single foot only. The elephant lu mov ing swings one foot across the other, beating a path the width of the front foot, the hind feet following In the same way. Thus he makes a continu ous track, not a succession of foot prints. Tho rhinoceros is more difficult to fol low. In spite of his weight the un trained eye will lose his trail at once on stony ground. His spoor Is not un like that of the elephant, though of course much smaller. There Is the same kind of pad with the foe marks In front, but there are only three marks, and the spoor of the bind feet, like t lie elephant's, Is elongated. When the lion discovers that a hunt er Is on his trail he sometimes leads round In a circle, and on reaching his own track again continues following It up until he sees his hunter In front, when he promptly makes away. The leopard follows his hunter In the lame manner sometimes even track ing tbe hunter to his camp, In tbe hop of finding sheep or goats. His spoor and that of the panther are similar to a lion's, but much smaller and more elon gated. Among carnivora the hyena Is re markable, having four toes on all Iti feet The hind feet are narrow and turn more outward than the fore feet, and tbe claws show, or, being a dog, be cannot draw them In as tbe lion does. The hunting da? and the jackal may easily be distinguished from the hyena, each having five toes on its front feet. The bear leaves a track like the marks of a man walking in his socks. The track of a full-grown grizzly meas ures as much as eighteen inches in length. The trail of the American mus quaw bear is easily seen by the prac ticed eye, as he continually treads In the same path, beating out defined1 roads for himself. BIG GAME IN MEXICO. Exciting Hunting- Tales Told by Civil Engineer of Life in Coahaila. A civil engineer recently returned from the hacienda of Jimulco In Ooa buila, an Immense property containing over 2,000 square kilometers, tells some stirring tales of shooting wild game. Antelopes abound, but great care la necessary in approaching these wily creatures, owing to their habit of al ways placing one or two on guard while the rest of the herd is feeding. The sentinels, faithful to their dnty. remain with head erect, peering and sniffing to the four points of the com pass, and give a swift alarm tbe mo ment an enemy appears In sight Not long since a party of young men were hunting the Javall, or wild hog, and, coming up with a number, one of tbe hunters succeeded In killing one and dismounted to secure It, writes a correspondent of the Mexican Herald. As be approached bis prey a dozen or more Javall that were hiding tn the tall grass attacked blm ferociously, and one fastened his tusks in the huntera heel, banging on like grim death. The others came to their companion's assist ance and the brute was killed, but the tusks were sunk so deep Into the heel that the hog's Jaws had to be pried apart with a gunbarrel before the man was freed. Strange as It may seem, the wound closed quickly, and with no serious results. On this same hacienda are both wild dogs and wild burros, the latter be ing remarkably swift and hard to take. Some time ago a pup was caught and tamed, developing into a fine watch-' dog, but though every effort was made to secure a mate for him It has not been possible. It is not generally realized that the mountain lions of Mexico will attack a man, but several recent encounters show them to be as dangerous for men as for beasts. One of the mozos in a recent hunting party had but one hand, the stump of his left arm bearing wit ness to a terrible struggle with a Hon he had shot and then approached, thinking the brute waa dead. A gen tleman who has bunted in the State of Sonora tells of a certain spring where two men have been killed by lions while camping there for the night These brutes follow a man for mile like the panther, lured on by the hu man scent and hopes of finding au op portunity to spring on the traveler. A mountain lion was recently killed in Mlchoacan that measured three meters from tip to tip. SHE WAS TOO PRUDENT. That Was the Reason Why Old Ann! Mary Died. Mr. Davis hnd been out in an easterly storm without his rubbers, and Mrs. Davis was both anxious and Injured. "James," she said, dolorously, "yon know that a lack of prudence has cuused the death of many people." "Too much prudence caused the death of Aunt Mary Davis," said her husband, promptly, "my father's aunt Haven't I ever told you about her?". "Don't be flippant," said Mrs. Davis, severely, "and do change your shoes at once." "Flippant! I should say not," and Mr. Davis took his turn at looking In jured. "My father's aunt wasn't a per son to encourage flippancy even when she was alive. And surely now that she's gone but I'll say no more, my dear, except that your suggestion sur prises me. 'Aunt Mary's husband was a drug gist, and he invented some medicines that were supposed by him to cure all the Ills that flesh Is heir to. But un fortunately the public didn't see tt In that light, and when Uncle Mary for that was what he was always called died at the age of sixty-five he left alwut ten dozen large bottles of what he had named 'X 4,' which tho man who bought most of his stock refused to take. 'Aunt Mary had never been sick in her life, but she knew X 4 had been considered by her husband a most nour ishing medicine, and she couldn't bear to see It wasted. So she began to take It, morning and night till she had emptied three dozen bottles, and then nil of a sudden she died. So yon see in her case 'twas prudence that killed her. If she hadn't wanted to save that medicine she might " "Will you go and change your shoes?" Inquired Mrs. Davis, In her coldest tone. Youth's Companion. Women at German Universities. The number of women students at the German universities Is Increasing. At Berlin 305 Inscribed their names for the summer. The number of male students Is always higher during the winter In Berlin, and so tt Is with the women. Last wlnter there were 611 of them tbe highest flgnre ai yet attained.
