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M- ► <♦■♦♦♦♦♦♦ ■h-h»w<ii<i »i iii» ' JOAN'S INEXPERIENCE. ... J h* c a Hur ;t • mportant. I waal y »a__—■ from ;Ja« further side of ci> i *4 reaolretf ta devote the mom *±* to study. twit, mat her being on th< r - aetf. | felt a certain rewpoasibtl t> f®r my bteattfui youag r sister The "important decided me What la It?” I aahed. u she entered the mom T«ra*tl never gum. I>urd A\on tu at h has proposed " Bet iron haven't accepted hie*" I •*k*d, fearful that iaeaperiea<-ed Joan •hr ild trust her life to the naan with ' the wurat reputation in the county. Why not*" ‘ Ton don't know anythin* about hlWB9** ■ Don't I* He*• the moat charming **’■*• * **«r met and I certainly aaid •yea." ” Wha* will mother say*" I asked, a* Joan, not at all discom fifed at my mol reception of her new*, left the room, hamming the refrain of a fv~p1e**d with the situation that had suddenly arisen I »—at down »iai*a to And ont old friend and neigh bor. Jack VI liters of whose present •he r-aigennen of the diplomatic serv > e. to which he ielosgid. would soon deprive ns. I told him of my trouble. And ended by asking hi* advice, Teg minute* later he said: ’ This Is my Idea Juan Is impres •MdUa I have an old friend in town who has a rare knack of fascinating t rla. Ill get lam down for a week’s ; »h.jot. if he decot -» L:s tin.*- to Joan H may destroy her inclination for Jliua month," The plan see®, i feasible. I prayed ♦ J ma t iffe tum* would he divert ed front their objectionable object. Tt*» days later I received a note f rom Ja> k saying tkat bis friend had accepted the invitation and was com- ! tag today. Wnea I descended about luncheon time Jack and his friend were the *«sijr occupants of the drawing room. "Let me introduce you to my old friend. Claud Black wood." said Jack. 1 gave my ha a 1 m«-hamaly My thoughts were concerned with Joan s fstwt Later * not., d tha: he had fine eyes and there was plenty of him. but all * the aanre 1 was disaypotatel Pi rhapt 1 espec ted too much loos Lord A von mouth and Joan i •trolled in from the garden, and. after the usnai common places we went in to luncheon Before half an hour had passed 1 discovered that Cspt Black- j wood fascinated me. end u» such an i eaten* that I almost futgx my fears w. h regard to Joan. air. loo. seemed Interested. Her white muslin dress. d^-ortud with a red ruse at l*« r waist. tfejcH off to adustjco her nib. ;u U bsnwtjr. After !aar| while Joan and I wait ed the Ben la the roue aar1*n. I vn mraagely a. lent 1 had only thought for Jack's friea i V.’hra the m<-a had been with u* •cMWe few minute* Ja< k maneuvered m that Capt. Bia kwoul and Joan *troll ed iff to ta*pert aotne ruts* at the farther ewd of the park Weil coat need." whup*r-d Jack, a* they disappear** from our sight Well rwwtrirej*** 1 echoed absently The writ worn'*iff »'* w/ a • rkde previously arrang-d Jack again managed thit Capi Biadklruud ac naipeaMd Joan Though the knowledge that he left mr aide relwrtaatiy gave me interne secret pleasure 1 t'*tm4 my.eS.* *ur remdering to a d#»re tor lsolution and >irrn | BU akme with the softly win*, prnwg tree* Their aadnew. had n-ver itrrmrd mo attuned to my mood before H«n«* hoofs. a beating of my heart, aod Jark'a frtewd drew rein beside m The whispering of the tree* «n M beautiful I wondered I had not noticed It before Hr « id not spank I summon* j coor xs* to (Ua« at hia facu-onl> for a *1 ta.nl we had hefter And the uth m - | Mid. “1 want to spes* to Jar k ~ Have I off- n led you*“ He newer knew the effort it nm me to rwrb hia ardor when he reminded irdBi »e)f imposed doty to Juan Tew minute, later Jack was be»id« "fttn*kwowd aald yow wanted me. "I want him to ait* all hi* time to Jaaa Hate you forgotten our cutn part*" Hr *n so rinfuM-d tha* ! Mid to hia* "'What's the matterT" Then a* hr did mm answer. ' Hurely you can tell «ne " I said. 1 iowe Jama, hare always lored her. awd you know it # hOp*de*. hope e*.. f did mot root nit him A Week fmawrff. and Cap*. Blackwood happily was still among u» Our ** hetee. a# far aa Joan was concerned, had answered admirably She had Veen so distant to Lord Aronmmith tM! he had betake* himself to I*arH I tot I ,H uid Juan by comroauinK my life • happiness. 1 lored Captain Mack wood, and t feared with a great fear the day oa which be would tak* his iaasaiaew* departure Wbfic he was near i could be limr-M ha; yf. Bat i knew the blackaom I would supervene whoa he had Cose. At last the moment of the dreaded day arrived when we were to say good by. He stood before ne. I could not look at him. “Ruth!” ’•UooJ-b/!” I whispered. “Not good-by. Never good-by.” “Why?” I timidly whispered. “I love you. I love you.” Then, after a pause. “Have you no word for me?” Ihity to Joan alone restrained me fr» in throwing my arm-* about his neck. “Have you no word for me?” 1 1*0 -I«l not speak. 1 only shook my head. W hen 1 n.xt had a consciousness of ttol:^ he was gone. ”Where’s Ruth?" cried a voice. It wj* Joan's. I dried my eyes and Minim >aed the ghost of a smile. H* re she is’" «ri**it Jack's voice. Tb»v entered together. "Why didn't you come with us to the *ta*i«>»? Capt. Blackwood was in s i, fa i bad temper we left him before the train started." said Joan. "A good job. too." from Jack. “Jack!” from Joan. “It is. Joan and I are engaged. 1 should never have asked if we hadn’t found our senes alone on the way—” “What?” I gasped. For answer Joan took Jack s hand in hers. "What about laud Avonmouth?” I i-k 1 »hen a few moments later Joan and I were alone together. “I bat- him. 1 always loved Jack, and 1 knew he loved me. but he would n't sp- »k. I pretended to care for Lord Av •nmouth. as Ja. k was going away, and—what is the matter, Ruth?” 1 had no time and less inclination to captain. I seized a hat and hurried toward the station. Half way there 1 paused for breath. T warning whistle of a train seem ed to stab my heart. "Come hack, come back, my love!” I cried. For answer a cloud of white smoke that told me of the departura of the mac 1 loved All the same I pressed on Arrived at the station I almost feii into the arm* of the statlonmas r»*r who prided himself on the flowers that decorated his station. “What's happened, miss?” “I want a gentleman, but he's gone.” ‘There’s a lunatic here, if that's him miss.” My attention wa« drawn to a knot of of o!fi iai* who were watching a tall, well-built man who was viciously striking the heads from the flowers with a walking cane. “A lunatic,” I gasped. * Well. miss. h« drove for a certain train, but didn't go by it. Ever since he'* bc»*n spoiling my flower*, wra! he Tooked so savage none of us liked to Interfere At that moment the lunatic caught my eyes. He approached. It was the man I loved “You'” "Yea. dear.” Our eye* said all that was left un spoken.—Mainly About People. SPEAKER REED'S RETORT I »W a %%*»t*ru*r H<>« ||<- Would limy An tnrrtlofi. UrovinK tired of his chair one after noon Sjwaker Reed surrendered it to another member and sat down beside a western democrat. **M v. what a large hand you have!" remarked Mr. K*-**i looking Intently at the enor moua paw of his Democratic friend who was writing a letter. "Yes. sir." *4 d Lie member, ‘ and 1 am proud of it I worked on a farm for so many >*-ar!« that my hands grew' large, as you tee them " The speaker held up hi« small and shapely right hand, smooth and white as a woman's, and said Well. I thank the Lord I never wotked on a farm ' The member re plied You are probably going to r^a for the presidency some time, Mr. Reed. and if you do I'll placard that •taiement all over the country—and ■ ha* could you do about it?” The big fellow mused a while and said: "Noth ing —egrept to brand you as an infer nal liar?" < altar* of liaskel Willows. The !wug tbln stems of the basket ■nilow are railed osiers, and the osier willow Is the same as the basket wil low Really there are two kinds of nm'wr willows, but there is so little diflereji-e between them that only a iartaniut could discover it. Generally th*«*e willows are grown on damp ground on the banks of streams or ponds bin they wilt grow as easily on <i’u krr growth and stronger twigs. Ti.e .‘wait locality for growing them as a farm crop is near a large town or • it> where many baskets or other wil low gcrsia are made lairge quantities of osiers are need for making chairs. • bildren's carriage* and other work bei-.d* s baskets There is a constantly m< rearing demand for them. lira* Slay at lluini Now. K» • <11 i correspondence Chicago Inter b><hi An Klgin man who was greatly annoyed by his neightMir's hens and *1.silked to kill the fowls, which scratched his garden, hit upon a novel and efti acicua remedy. He took a (.• king case, covered the bottom with straw cut a hole large enough to admit a ben. and placed the case in a quiet part of his garden. In a few morning the neighbor complained that *ome one wa* steal!tig eggs, but when the case owner showed 13 eggs as a r» stilt of one morning's harvest bj t«K»k the hint and the fowls were kept at home. MlaUlter Malr-ht-tl Him. A Colorado millionaire, who is get ting up an art gallery, went to Whist ler’s studio, in the Rue du Bar. He glanced casually at the pictures on the wall*— "syinvhtbiles" in rose and gold, in blue and gray, ir brown and green “How much for the lot?’’ he afked, with the confidence of one who owns gold minea. "Four millions.” said Whistler. * What*" "My post humous price.*." And the painter added, "Good morning."—Paris letter la Saturday Evening Post. FOODS OF OTHER DAYS EVOLUTION OF DINING AN IN TERESTING ONE. Sumptuous Banquets of the Orwki—A (irrat DlupUy of 1*1** In One of Which Four Living Mini* Were Con Mnt'il. It would be a hopeless matter to attempt to trace the origin of cook ing. There is strong evidence that fruit, nuts and flesh composed man's first foods. The latter he could not cook until he learned of the exist ence and use of fire. Then he dried the meat before using It and cooked 't by placing it upon hot embers. This method was not at all satisfac tory, for the smoke did much injury to the flavor. Man’s inventive power was soon brought into play. He skrwered the meat and laid it across piles cf stone, under which wan a fire, thus protecting it from ^he smoke. The gridiron thus derived its origin. The early process of cooking was one long series of experiments. It still retains the experimental feature, de spite the cook books and rooking schools, to this day. The early Greeks were in the habit of giving wonderful banquets. For instance a dish was served composed of the brains of 500 peacocks. Course din ners were in vogue among the people. At the first course, as an appetizer, were eaten radishes, olives, skirrert. eggs, turnips and fish. etc. The sec ond course contained thrush, guinea fowl, Ionian pheasants, parrot, flesh of young asses, and dogs. The third contained fruit. Ancona cakes, pastry, cheese, and wines. Fortunately the Greeks ate but once a day, this meal taking place in the evening. They deliberated long over their food, eat ing and drinking many hours. An old Saxon custom provided that those guests who were together about the board must take their seats accord ing to their rank. Should a guest make a mistake and seat himself above his station, he was at once pelted with bones and other refuse. The lady of the house always occu pied an exalted position at the end of the table, where she cut and dis pensed the bread. It was considered a great honor to wait upon the table. To be lord or lady in waiting to the king or quepn is a high position to this day. The men and women occu pied opposite sides of the table. Each guest carved for himself, using his own knife, a short, double-edged one which he carried for the purpose. Another curious early custom made a nost responsible if a guest who had been entertained three days com mitted a crime while under his roof. He was compelled either to bring his guest to justice or to answer to the law himself. It was considered a crime to lack hospitality. Even the church frowned upon the offeree and called^ it sin. It was believed luck would surely desert one who would turn the stranger from his door. A horn was always blown before meals, so all wayfarers might come in and partake. Sitting at the table began about the time of Charlemagne. This they did in imitation of the Romans, who took their meals lying upon lounges. The dining table appeared about the middle ages. Breakfast was first spoken of in 1463. The din ner hour occurred about 3 o’clock and supper before bed time. Later the quality folk changed the hour for din ner »o 11 and supper at 5 o’clock. The greatest pie display ever known to history was in 1509. Fu neral feasts were in vogue at the time. This pie exhibit occurred at a dinner given after the funeral of Albrecht IV.. king of Bavaria, at the royal palace in Munich. Seven mon ster pies represented the seven ages of the world. The first was an apple pie, symbolic of Adam and Eve. the tree of knowledge, the snake, and the apple. I'pon the crust was the tra dition told in figures made from oon fer-tioners’ sugar and almonds. The second pie was made of doves, in the center of which was the ark. Fig ures of all animals known were also upon it. Upon the crust of each pie were figures containing their mean ing. There was Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac, and David slaying Goliath, the ravens feeding Elijah, and Samson tearing open the lion’s jaws, probably trying to impress upon it the necessity of having a large mouth for pie. Then the last pie was opened, and that contained four living birds, that began to sing. Muttplcftit I mtia. In spite of British rule India Is still virtually a soapless country. Through out the villages of Hindustan soap is indeed regarded as a natural curiosity, and it Is rarely, if ever, kept in stock by the native shopkeeper. In the towns it is now sold to a certain ex tent. but how small this is may be gathered from the fact that the total yearly consumption of soap in India is about 100.000 hundredweight—that is to say. every 2,500 persons use on the average only 112 pounds of soap among them. or. in other words, con -iderably less than an ounce is the average consumption per person. Wlr*l«t« Telegraphy. The government seems to have aban doned experiments in wireless teleg raphy. A few months ago, when the idea "as new. several of the depart ments actively competed for the honor of developing a practical system c-f communication without the use of connecting wires. The signal corps of the army, the weather bureau of the agricultural department, the navy and other bureaus in which scientists are employed launched experiments, but the enthusiasm has apparently died out.—Washington Letter. An Klantlc Currency. He was trying to make the money question clear to his wife, and when he said that we need a more elastic currency, the very practical woman an swered: “Then why doesn’t the gov ernment print banknotes on thin sheets of rubber?” And when he saw that she was in dead earnest, he slow ly got up and went out of the room. ' THEY DIDN’T JUMP. Crowd NcMflmtly Alarmed hj » C upl« on th« llrooklin Bridge. Ab a corollary to the bridge-jumping feat of Marie Dinse on Friday there waa a little stir on the bridge yester day afternoon, says the New York Sun. Some trifling accident on a trolley car on the south roadway about half past 5 caused a blockade, and a man and a woman, becoming weary of sitting still in their car, which was stalled near the Brooklyn tower, stepped ofT and walked over to the railing. Nothing more sensational was in the man’s mind than to point out the spot in the river where Miss Dinse wfent In. but this fact was not appreciated by several excitable per sons. who arose and shouted in wild chorus: “Don’t let him jump!” “Hold her!” “They're both going!” Police!” “Who jumped?” “There they are!" “Is he drowned?” Straight way a few hundred people got off the long line of cars and, rushing to the rail, stared at the water. Most of them were of the opinion that at least two persons hail Jumped. A few of the more imaginative hoped that it might be the sea serpent. Down be low, two tugs, attracted by the at tention of the crowd, hovered about. Bridge Policeman Bohn, who ivas not far away, came up at the double quick and demanded to know who had jumped or was jumping or meditated jumping. Nobody could tell because the couple who had innocently started the excitement had returned to their car. Then Sergeant Hayes came up with a dozen men. having heard the report. The sergeant is a man of ex perience in bridge matters and knows that for every bridge jumper there are a dozen fakes, so he was not vast ly amazed on learning that nothing had happened. He suggested that the passengers return to the cars. They did so and the cars moved on. After waiting half an hour down below for the prospective jumpers to arrive, the two tugs hooted derisively and alsc moved on. LEFT BOOK IN THE CAR. It Wan the Nature of the Volume Mailt the 1‘eople Smile. He was very stout and dignified. His glistening broadcloth frock coat, nar row white tie and high hat were ail immaculate. He boarded a Clark street cable car at the limits and sat down near the door. After adjusting a heavy pair of gold spec tacles he took a paper book from his capacious pocket and quickly became absorbed in it. Soon an almost audible smile passed across the faces of the other passengers, but the old gentleman neither saw nor heard. Never once from the car barns to Monroe street were the gold spectacles raised from the pages before them. People enter ed and left the car, grinning broadly, but not a' smile fticlcered across the reader’s face. Evidently the matter before him was worthy of his most serious consideration. When the ca ble car Jerked around the corner o( Dearborn street he started up in Bud den excitement. "Stop, stop.” he call ed to the conductor. "Where am I?" He got his bearings in a minute and catching sight of a clock in a drug store window, he said, half aloud: "Tut, tut. 11 o'clock and I should have been at the conference at that hour." He got off and started toward the Auditorium, forgetting his book, in a brilliant green and yellow’ cover, or which in large black letters was print ed: "Black Jack Duncan; or. a Round l'p in the Rockies."—Chicago Chron icle. t'oal Ashen as a Fertiliser. Coal ashes are never used as a fer tilizer. but they are often spread on land to get rid of them as a waste product. They make excellent hard, firm, dry paths around a house or in a garden, and when so used they have been found to greatly encourage the growth of grass and weeds, so that this experience seems to have encouraged the belief that they are useful. But as the ashes of soft coal are worth only forty cents a ton, and those of hard coal sixteen cents, it is evidently not a profitable business to gather them from a distance. The home-made ashes may be used, to get rid of them and if spread on grass land they have showed that they possess some value beyond what their actual analysis seems to indicate. Ashes certainly do not create weeds for this word means to make something of nothing. They do not encourage them any more than other plants. What will make weeds grow will make useful plants grow equally. I’oWou In Potatoes. “Potatoes contain a poison known as soianin.” says the Sanitary Home Fargo, N. D. “New potatoes contalr. comparatively little of this poison un less they grow about the surface of the ground and have a green skin, when they are generally known to be poisonous. It is not, however, gener ally known that old potatoes contain much more of this poisonous principle —soianin—and many cases of serious poisoning have occurred in late sum mer, when old potatoes are used. In 1892 and 1893, there was almost whole sale poisoning among the troops of the German army. The symptoms were frontal headache, colic.diarrhoea. vomiting, weakness, and slight stupor, and in some cases dilatation of the pupils. Meyer investigated the case and found in old potatoes, kept in a damp place, and beginning to sprout, twenty-four times as much soianin as in new potatoes. When using old po tatoes in June and July, it will be well to keep this fact in mind.” A Progressive Hishop. Bishop Romero of the Catholic church, who is one of the most influ ential and patriotic men in Argentina, is now advocating the plan of send ing divinity students from that coun try to the United States to be educated in a North American atmosphere and in North American ideas. Hitherto all of the Argentina priests have had a European education. Most of them come from Spain and Italy, where the church is the least progressive. WAR MAKES TROUBLE EOR CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS. _4- « iVl A A mnrinn n PflTltiTl* Hot Work Trying to Find Accommodations for American Delegates. London Letter. At present it looks as if two ex tremely powerful forces. Providence and the British government, were dead against the first world's convention of the Young People’s Society of Chris tian Endeavor, arranged to open here on July 10. This convention promises to be the greatest on record; 10,000 Americans, the largest delegation that ever crossed the sea in a body, are ex pected to be present, and with the Endeavorers in the United Kingdom and those from the continent and oth er foreign countries, the total number here will probably reach 60,000, rep resenting 4,000,000 members. Naturally, the thought of gathering together such a host in I^ondon made the Christian Endeavor leaders In as they can make by the required time. All this ought to have been enough trouble. But there was more yet in store for the Christian Endeavorers. Every year there is in England a great shooting match at Bisley, the winner of which receives a prize, supposedly given by Her Majesty, and becomes known thereafter as the Queen’s prize man for that year. Thi3. of course, necessitates an encampment at Bisley. and the date set for this encampment was the week upon which the Chris tian Endeavor people had pitched for their convention. Of course that meant still more trouble, for about half the little tentmakers that the En deavorers approached were busy mak ing ready for Bisley. In consequence gent at the Mansion House. Fur thermore, it is expected that the bish op of London will make an address of welcome at the Albert hall the day be fore the convention. many see the^fishes. I-arge Attendant-* at the New York PU eatorial Show. When Colonel James Jones was ask ed for information about the new ar rivals at the Aquarium he called at tention to the annual report he had just made to President Clausen of the Park department, and some of the de tails are interesting. The total at tendance during the year reached the astonishing figure of 1,841,330, giving an average of more than 5,000 for every day of the year. During the previous year the attendance was 1,670,085. and almost everybody thought high water mark had been reached, and that the public, tiring cf the novelty, would gradually leave off coming. The greatest attendance V. J ALEXANDRIA PALACE, WHERE T HE ENDEAVORS WILL MEET. England uncommonly proud, and they went to work light-heartedly, but so far, despite the religious nature ot ' their task, particularly annoying diffi culties have cropped up on every hand, an<! The last of them, the biggest, is qjj, solved yet. The convention is to be held in the' Alexandra Palace, a great Madison Square Garden sort of a piace, just out of London proper, and here it is in tended to lodge and board 5,000 of the Endeavorites. There was no other way to do, for hotels, boarding houses and the private homes of Endeavorers had been canvassed and every Ded in them engaged for the eventful week, and still 5.000 expected guests would have nowhere to lay their heads, to say nothing of filling their stomachs. But the Alexandra Palace has a great banqueting hall, and this large room will be divided off into dormitories, enough of them to hold 1.200 young women. That loft 3,SOD young men to oe snif tered, and for this army the managers planned to erect a mighty encampment under canvas, like any other amy s. They decided to put five men in each tent—soldiers squeeze eleven in, but as the Rev. Knight Chaplin, secre tary of the society’s British council, remarked to me, "you can’t pack Christians away like soldiers”—and they reckoned upon about 800 tents. Feeding the "campers” would be easy enough, for the Alexandra Palace has a huge kitchen in its basement, and 2,500 people can sit down in its dining room and be served at once. So Mr. Chaplin went to the largest tent manufacturer in England ana said he'd like 1,000 tents, please, as soon as they could be got ready. The man ager of the company listened to this request, which would have been a mere flea bite at any ordinary time, and t»ld the clergyman that he couldn't have them—not from his company, at any rate—and added that he didn’t believe any other company could sup ply the Christian Endeavorers with any tents at all, let alone 1,000. He explained to Jrfr. Chaplin that one “Oora Paul” was to hlame for this ex traordinary state of things. As everybody knows, when Mr. Kruger thought he was about ready to go to war with England, England wasn't ready at all. She needed a lot of things that she hadn’t on hand, and one of the things was unlimited tents to house the braves of Buller, Meth uen, White, et al. The first thing she —or rather the war office—did was to ransack every armory, barracks,etc., in the United Kingdom and "command eer" every solitary tent that was ly ing around loose: the second thing was to place orders for tents galore with nearly every tent man in the country, and the third to tell these tent men that after they got through making the first hatch, to turn in and make another to replenish the stock of the various armories, barracks and storehouses that had been despoiled. Naturally, the tentmakers set to work tooth and nail. The big factory that Mr. Chap lin visited was working overtime, and so great was the pressure that the bus iness offices of the company had been deserted by the regular clerk* and "oc cupied" by the stitchers and hinders. So. as if the reverend gentleman of the Christian Endeavor Society hadn’t already had trouble enough In reserv ing 25.000 beds In the city of London, they had upon their shoulders the ad ditional Job of scraping up l.ooo tents, literally from nowhere. They are do ing It by the burdensome means of lo cating little tentmaker*. too small to be pounced upon by the governmont, and ordering from them ivs many tent* of which the C. E. managers don't yet know where their tents are coming from, or if they really are coming at all. But they do know’ that not one of their guests will be left out in the cbld^ i ^ £>■ From letters from America it is be- ! ginning to look as if by no means the whole American contingent could get across to occupy the tents that as yet are not. In the blame for this the British government again figures largely, but has a partner in the shape of the Paris exhibition. Ordinarily every American delegation could do what one from Boston has done—that is. charter a ship and come across re joicing and in Christian unity, but the British government has gobbled about half the passenger steamers to ship a lot of prosaic soldiers dow’n to Africa and bring back again some that the Boers have disabled. Then, most of the American Endeavorites are not rich. Some of them, in fact, have been saving up for a year to come across the Atlantic to be present at this convention. But now along comes the exhibition, thousands of people who are well-to-do are fighting to book their passage aboard such steam ers as the English government has been good enough to leave on the northern ocean, rates have mounted up to the skies, and in many cases that sum that the American Endeavor ite has been able to scrape together 1 on any single day during the year just passed, was that of September 29. when 37.248 persons thronged the building. “The only way I can ex l/ain the increase,” said the Colonel, “is that the show is better than it ever was before^. Our fishes are all in ^9 best of good health, ?'nd, recognizing1 our good work, the fish commissioners of various states have sent us magni ficent specimens. “Why.” said the Colonel, waxing eloquent, “no aquari um in the world can approach us in an exhibition of the fishes of the deep sea and its fresh water tributaries. And I am not alone in this opinion, either.” —New York Herald. Ancient Weapon* t'neartlied. In excavating the old Roman camp of Carnuntum. near Haimburg. on the Danube, between Vienna and Press burg, the explorers have come upon an armory and provision house containing 1.037 weapons and pieces of armor and stores of barley, peas. etc. A great many inscriptions were found as well, and the means by which the camp was supplied with water. The Professor and the Hat. A college professor went into a crowded restaurant in New York city for luncheon one hot day last sum mer. The negro in charge of the big corridor took the professor's hat and LOVE A-WHEEL. wouldn't begin to take him across, to say nothing of getting back. At least that la the atory told by the letters which I he British committeemen have received from the would-be voyagers themselves. Those committeemen say, however, that the minimum number of Ameri cana who will come cannot fall to reach 4,000 anyway. Preparations are being made to give them a famous greeting, too. In fact, the British committee has gone so far as to re quest that the lord mayor himself gtve KWWWWS/VWWWWWVS>WWW pave no cheek for it in return. An hour later, when the professor came out of the dining-room, the negro glanced at him and handed him his hat. The negro's ability to remember to whom each article of clothing be longed struck the professor as being something very wonderful. “How did you know this was my hat?” he asked. “I didn't know it. sah.” was the reply. “Then why did you give it to me?” the professor persisted. “Because you gave It to me. sah,*