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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1904)
Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. Are you following on the mat* tU Japanese maneuvers? It beats chess. None of the millionaires who want to die poor has developed a hobby for Living that way. The czar is reported to be holdiag his own. But the nurse does mat per* mit him to do it long. O. J. de Jong van Beek en Donk is rot a trunk falling down stairs, but ike governor of Curacao. Anything Miss Lillian Russell says about marriage and divorce will be regarded as expert evidence. Whatever else he may do, Mr. Kip ling will certainly never make a hit as a writer of campaign songs. J> — It must be inconvenient to have so many, jewels that you can forget what became of $200,000 worth of them. The stork will now have time to devote a little attention to the queen of Italy and young Queen Wilhelmina. Tobacco is now said to make the hair come out. In the form of cigar ettes it is liable to do almost any old thing. i — In Paris the women have taken to Panama hats. “Straws” evidently con tinue to show which way the wind blows. Mike Obuchowski has been put in jail at Pittsburg for highway robbery. He probably used his name to disable his victims. A Chicago man named Love has been ordered to pay his wife $50,00C alimony. But perhaps he loves money less than liberty. A Washington man advertises what he calls “bottled sunshine,” but bot tled moonshine will continue to hold its own io Kentucky. The Governor of Louisiana has eighty colonels on his staff. The con sumption of mint over there must be something tremendous. A fellow in Massachusetts has been discovered who wears a tin shirt. Must be next to impossible for a girl to touch that man’s heart. Count Kwanaura is known in history as the “father of the Japanese navy.” It might be said, also, that Commodore Perry was its grandfather. A Minnesota man has invented an automobile that is propelled by the wind. Eye-witnesses report that it goes—when the wind is right. It has been definitely decided that no one can collect the insurance on a man who has been hanged. It all de pends on your standing in society. One of the most noted horse fan ciers in the country has just been captured at Manchester, N. H. He is said to have stolen over 100 of them. “Always wash your hands after han dling money,” counsels a health au thority. Ah, yes—and if the stain still seems to linger, hand some of it back. The Philadelphia police recently “pinched” ninety-four citizens in a poolroom raid. Have to pinch a true Philadelphia to satisfy him he is really awake. The Japanese private soldier re ceives 70 cents a month. A poor math ematician can figure the value of a good quality of patriotism to a country on this basis. I The meaning of the term Lhassa, the chief city of Thibet, is “God’s ground.’’ This, however, does not de ter the British- from the effort to make it theirs. The Dowager Empress of China is reducing her household expenses. Many a professional man in this coun try would be glad to have her tell him tow she is doing it. Somebody has discovered that the Flemish word for automobile is paar deloossoonderspoorraegpetroolrijtuig. By any other name it would smell just as strongly of gasoline. Don’t be alarmed. The man who ae costs you without introduction or ap parent excuse and begins talking wild ly is not an escaped lunatic. He is canvassing for a straw vote. When his wife has gone to a sum mer resort, the husband, left alone In the midst of his housekeeping inca pacity, ceases to indulge in that cyn ical inquiry of “Why did I ever mar ry?” Are we to understand from Henry Labouchere’s new Idea that titles should be conferred only on those who are worthy of them by reason ot their big bank accounts that “Labby’ 'a at last willing to accept a title for himself? President Eliot’s suggestion that education should not cease with' youth, but should be prolonged Into adult life, is worthy of general attention. Doubtless President Eliot himself, al though he knows so much, still learns something every day. A floating paragraph asserts that a sign of politeness in Thibet on meet ing a person Is to hold up the clenched ' hand and stick out the tongue. That may be etiquette in Thibet, but any such demonstration in this town would precipitate something very like a riot. A Connecticut man jilted a lady at the altar the other day. She seemed to be much Trot out, but may comfort herself with the thought that he has saved her the trouble and expense of getting a divorce IU*r 1 Dainty blue bunch or forget-me-nots, GO WITH MY MESSAGE OF LOVES DECREE, Plead with your odorous, perfumed BREATH, &PEAK TO HER HEART OF MY HEART-AND ME! "Package for me? Right this way.my LAD! That is her writing with scrawl ► ANDGURL TUUPS! A BOUQUET IN LUSTROUS RED! Tulips! My answer! God bless WHEN THE BLIND SEE First Sensations Rather Those of Fear Than Joy. Prof. Latta of Glasgow tells of a man who, having suffered from cata ract from his birth, recovered his sight, at the age of 30. The patient before the operation was unable to distinguish objects, though he could tell daytime from night and could lo cate a Hght. “For about ten days after the operation the patient ap peared dazed and could not realize that he was seeing,” says Prof. Latta. “The size of everything in the ward seemed very much exaggerated, and on that account he had very great dif ficulty in interpreting what he saw. “The first thing he actually per ceived was the face of the house sur geon. At first he did not know what it was, but when the doctor asked him to look down the sense of hearing guided his eye straight to the point whence the sound came, and thence, recalling what he knew from having felt his own face, he realized that this must be a mouth and that he must be lookiag at a face.-'* He was entire ly ignorant of color, but learned to distinguish hues very quicker. As he looked out of a high window he felt as if he could touch the ground with a stick. He did not retain his faculty of moving easily about in the dark. Before, he could guide himself fearlessly through a ward, but now, says the physician, he has lost all that feeling of confidence, and when his eyes are shut he !s afraid to move, and is impelled to open them to ascer tain where he is going. In An Emergency. One bright woman whose gasoline stove “broke down” at breakfast pre pared a palatable dinner in the fur nace by roasting potatoes and onions for an hour on the ledge just inside the door, turning them several times, and broiling the steak over the coals. There was no odor through the house from either onions of steak. One who has tried it writes that beans baked in the base burner are’ delicious— I he covered crock being set in the pit where the ash pan is. But the palm surely wfll be given to the woman on a ranch in California whose gasoline stove broke down and she prepared a dinner of stewed chicken with rice and dumplings over a small one burn er oil heating stove. It took six hours for the dinner to cook, but there was nothing eatable within twelve miles and no neighbor nearer to borrow from. The Legion of Honor. There are only three women who have the Grand Cordon of the Legion •f Honor, namely, the Queen of Hol land; her mother. Queen Emma, and Queen Christina of Spain. The Ger man emperor, the King of Wurtem berg and the present King of Saxony are the only European sovereigns who have not been decorated with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Curiously enough, there is one of the Orleans princes, however, who pos sesses the distinction, namely. Prince Gaston of Bourbon, Comte d’Eu, who received the decoration when his fath erWn-law, the late Dora Pedro, was still Emperor of Brazil and his wife was heir apparent to the throne.— Baltimore American. Investigate Psychology. There is in Paris a new school of psychology to investigate such ques tions as mind reading, mental sug gestion at a distance, clairvoyance, presentiments, automatic writing, double personality, etc. This school un like most associations studying these subjects, has for its members medical men almost entirely, whose profes sional duties bring them in close con tact with these often curious phe nomena. The members are followers of Charcot. They claim that most of these societies of psychical research, especially in England, have produced no results, due to too much specula tion and mysterious Interventions, which have led people into error, which is more difficult to uproot than it Is to propagate the truth. Gasoline Lifeboat Engines. The Royal National Lifeboat insti tution of England is considering tbe advisiability of equipping all its life boats with gasoline engines. A series of experiments to determine the en gine best adapted to the purpose is row in progress. WIPED THE BISHOP’S MOUTH. inexperienced Servant Nearly Gavt Host Heart Disease. Marcel Prevost, the French novelist is a favorite in the American colon.> of Paris. ‘ Whenever I see an English bish op,” said M. Prevost, at an Americas dinner party, *‘I laugh a little to my self, for the good man's stately pres ence reminds me of a terrible mishaj that once befell me. ‘*i entertained a certain bishop last year at dinner. My butler, an elderl> man, had brought in from a friend’s house. an inexperienced lad to hels him in the dining room, and it seems that this lad, during the laying of the cloth, annoyed the butler beyond en durance with questions as to his du ties. “ ‘How shall I hold the plates?’ “*Do I serve the dishes on the right or on the left side of the guests?’ *' ‘Must the bishop be served first oi second?’ ‘‘So he continued interminably, and at lsist the "impatient butler said: *’ ‘All you will need to do will be tc stand behind the bishop's chair, and whenever his lordship puts down his glass, you must reach over and wipe his mouth with a napkin.’ * “That, as the butler expected, si lenced his assistant. But the young man actually took the butler’s ironical remark for a serious order. As soon as dinner began he stationed himself behind the bishop, waited till his-lord ship had drunk and put down his alass, and then, as deliberately as his nervousness would permit, he opened out a large napkin and wiped the dig rifled okl gentleman’s mouth. “Imagine my horror.” Military Circles Stirred. Col. Samuel E. Tilman, a professot of sciences at the West Point Milkary Academy, has started a warm discus sion in military circles over his sug gestion in the Journal of the Military Service Institution that there should be two academies for the education of army officers. He contends that the old academy is being overburdened with students and the curriculum overtaxed, and it is thereby losing its value for thorough training. Military authorities hold that the present serv ice schools for artillery, cavalry, sub marine defense, engineering, and so on, are sufficient to meet all demands, and that the West Point institution should be retained just where it is, where camaraderie and sefcool loyalty will be developed in all who enjoy its privileges. Lead All in Wealth. With 7 per cent of the world’* land area and 5 per cent ef its popu lation, the United States has 25 pei cent of the world’s wealth, says Les lie’s Weekly. The value of the United States property, real and personal, in 1900, was 194,000,000,000, as compared with $59,000,000,000 for Great Brit ain and Ireland, $48,000,000,000 foi France, $45,000,000,000 for Germany. $32,000,000,000 for Russia, $22,000,000 for Austria-Hangary, $15,000,000,000 for Italy and $12,000,000,000 for Spain. Morever, the United States’ lead ol all the other nations in wealth is in creasing foster than is her preponder i nee over them all (except Russia and China) in population. Bulbs for Winter Flowering. Ib August I order my bulbs for win ter flowering in the house and foi outdoor planting in beds. Get two oi three hundred different colored cro cuses this fall and make holes about three inches deep in the grass on the lawn and drop in a crocus bulb. Cov et each with fine earth and tamf! down. It will be a pleasure to sec the lawn studded with their bright faces in the early springtime. Of all the bulbs for winter flower ing, the sweetest and most satlsfac tory is the freesia. The yellow flow ers are beautiful, and this winter ) am going to revel in the white and yellow freesia.—National Magazine. Sailor Has Earned Retirement. Capt. Clay, commodore officer of the London &. Northwestern Railway com pany’B fleet of steamships running be tween Holyhead and Ireland, who has just retired, has crossed the Irish see upward of 20,000 times as command er and has navigated the railway com' pany’s vessels about 1,500,000 miles and carried upward of 1,250,000 pas wagers. HAT WAS FROLICSOME PERFORMED UNSEEMLY ANTICS IN STREET CAR. Result -Was a Series of Embarrassing Mishaps, in Which Many of the Passengers Figured—And Its Owner Lost a Ride. The young man seemed to be of a particularly mild disposition and the straw hat he wore was not out of the ordinary, but the combination was the cause of a series of mishaps on a Sev enth avenue car the other day. And it was a closed car at that. The young man and the hat took a seat well for ward and were soon in deep thought —at least the young man was. The hat was evidently cooking up mis chief. • The chance came at last. It was blowing a gale in the street and hats were flying in all directions. The sight probably fired the ambition of the hat on the young man’s head. At . Twenty-third street the car stopped. A stout woman climbed on the front platform and the motorman obligingly opened the door for her. With the woman came the tail end of a particularly fierce gust of wind which hit the car plumb center. The hat arose from the young man’s head, seemed to pause for a moment im raid-air as though selecting a victim, and then started on its aerial flight. It nipped off the eyeglasses of a choleric looking old man, caromed across the car and smacked a German woman in the face. Then, gathering fresh impetus from an open window, it sailed up to the roof of the car, tried to ring up a couple of fares on the register, and fell into the lap of a woman carrying a baby. From thence It dropped lightly to the floor, evidently satisfied with its work. The owner of the hat jumped after it at the first stage of the desertion, but was obliged to tack about the stout woman whose entrance to the car had caused the trouble. When he got by he failed to see the choleric old man, who was blindly groping for his glasses on the floor of the car and saying harsh things sotto voce. Therefore, the young man was hardly to blame when his knee came into violent contact with the choleric par ty’s ear, knocking off his hat. The young man, who was crimson with embarrassment, turned to apologize, and, plunging forward in his confu sion. stepped squarely upon the crown of his mischievous hat. which was re posing at the feet of the woman with the baby. The young man was still several blocks from his destination, and the rain had begun to fall; but somehow he felt that his presence in the car was rather embarrassing to the other passengers, so he got off. The chole ric man found his hat and glasseg, but not his temper. The German wo man quoted Wagnerian selections while she prospected about her face for possible scratches, and the wo man with the baby said, something that sounded like “chump.”—New York Press. The Cottager’s Child’s Portrait. Mr. Sheridan Knowles was painting in a country road, when a poor-look in? woman with a baby in her arms* who had stood watching him for some time, asked how much he would charge to paint a portrait of her child. Feeling that she would not believe him if he told her his usual charge, and at the same time making sure in his own mind that she could not af ford more than the price of a photo graph. he replied that he could not do it for less than a sovereign. She went off to a cottage a few yards away, but to his dismay returned shortly with the money and the child “got up” for the occasion. He told her that he could not leave the pic ture he was on, birt that he would do it at her cottage the first wet day. He did, and made the woman a presenl of it.—"M. A. P.” Trust in God. Life's bitter trials, earth's despair. The darkest sorrows, crush me not; To Thee my weight of woe I bear. Great God, Thou guardian of my lot; My bosom finds In Thee alone Its grandest strength, its sweetest balm; And. sheltered by Thy mighty throne, I conquer, 1 am brave and calm. I know Thy mercy changeth pain To joy and blessedness and peace; All worldly loss is wholly gain— A rapture that enn never cease. With thanks I taste Thy bounteous stere. Though oft my cross may heavy be; I. like a little child, adore. For Thou, my Father, leadcst me. Bright hope sustains and ooinforts all Who seek Thee. Lord, in faithfulness; Not cruel death can them appall. Nor make their mystic transports less. O Father. I shall ever praise Thy wisdom. Thy salvation groat; With voice eternal as Thy days Proclaim Thou art compassionate. —HJort: Hymns of Denmark. Forty-eight Ton* of Scriptures. The Bible society continues t© make record figures. During the month ol June the output of Scriptures from the warehouse in Queen Victoria street akrne exceeded all previous totals. Forty-eight tons of Scriptures were dispatched, in 440 cases and seventy shipments, to all parts of the world. This represented 116,370 book* in 114 different languages.—London Answers. Salutes Costa Rican Flag. An English warship recently arrived at Puerto Arenltas and saluted the flag of Costa Rica with twenty-one guns. It took the gunners of Costa Rica two hours to answer the salute. They had only one old muzzle-loader, which had been allowed to cool after each round. But the salute was got through In the course of the day. Indian Fishermen on Strike. Indian fishermen to the number of five hundred on the Skeena river, British Columbia, are on strike for ten cents a fish, the canneries refus ing to give more than eight and one half cents. Indian women have also refused to work in the canneries un less the demand of the strikers is met. Devoted to Russian Interests. A journal called the Revue Trans caspienne is being published in the Persian language at Ashkabad, hi Russian Turkestan, and distributed gratuitously in Meshed, with the ob ject of plaoing before Persian readers the Russian version of the news from the far East. "Wee tow-headed baby, r. Like a butter ball. \ Half inclined to laughter, . \ « Half inclined to squaH. ^ ' Dimples in your elbows, ', • Dimple in your chin; Looks like God had made yoa To put dimples in! Looks like God had made you, Roly poly boy. With your mouth a-pucker Eye* a-dance with joy, Just to carry dimples. Wbat—have you a pain? Dear, such twisty faces • V Are a sign of rain. '( Half a laugh, half crying, Don’t know what to do. Gulping, sobbing, sighing. Tell you, baby: You Stick like that to mother * Always when in doubt— All the years of all your life, And you can’t lose out. —Houston Post. Parlor Magic. To fill with smoke twa apparently empty bottles—Rinse out one bottle with hartshorn and another bottle with spirits of salts; next, bring the bottles together, mouth to mouth; both will at once be filled with wThke vapors. The vapors in question are composed of sal ammoniac—a solid body, generated by the union of two invisible gases. To obtain fire from water—Throw a small quantity of potassium on the surface of a little water in a basin. Immediately a ro6e-colored flame will be produced. Any chemist will supply the quantity for several of these ex periments for a very small sum. To give a party a ghostly appear ance—Take half a pint of spirits and, having warmed it, put a handful of salt with it into a basin; then set it on fire, and it will have the effect of making every person look hideous. This feat must be performed in a room. To make a card jump out of the pack—Take a pack of cards and let any one draw any card that he may choose and afterward put it in the pack, but so that you may know where to find it at pleasure; then take a piece of wax and put it under the thumb nail of your hand and fasten a hair to your thumb and the other end of the hair to the card; then spread the pack of cards upon on the table and say “Come forth!” and the card will jump out of the pack. Magic breath—Half fill a glass tum bler with lime water; breathe into it frequently, at the same time stirring It with a piece of glass. The fluid, which before was perfectly transpa rent, will presently become quite white, and. if allowed to remain at rest, real chalk will be deposited. • To produce instantaneous light up pn ice—Throw upon ice a small piece of potassium, and it will burst into a bright flame. To light a lamp with a piece of ice —Attach a piece of potassium of the size of a small shot to the wick of a lamp; have also ready a piece of ice, with which, when you touch the po tassium, the lamp will blaze immedi ately. To perform the experiment, place the lamp upon the table before the audience. Question the ladies as to what means they generally employ to light their lamps. If they answer in the usual way, you may respond that you know a much better plan. Raise the lamp, that they may per ceive that it is not lighted; then take the ice and touch the potassium, which will blaze instantaneously. Ad vise the ladies to try the experiment at home whed they wish to light their lamps. Diamond. A Pin and Coin Trick. Here is a very simple little trick, which looks not at all easy and quite as if the performer must be very skillful indeed. Take a silver coin, a quarter or a half dollar, and pick It up by placing the points of two pins, on* on either side of the coin’s edge. You may hold the coin securely in this position if you press firmly with both pins. Now, blow smartly against the up How to Hold the Coins, per edge of the com, and it will fly around and around, revolving with great rapidity between the pins. Pretty Parior Game. From red or pink tissue paper cut large, medium and small rose leaves until yon have enough to make an im mense, full-blown rose that will fit in a large salad bowl. Arrange these to make the tower as perfect as possible. To as many of the leaves as there are guests tie green baby ribbon, which must hang over the ontside of the bowl. At the bottom of each leaf thus prepared fasten a slip of paper on which is written a prophecy of some kind. For instance, on one write “You will have a long, happy life;” on an other, “You will soon go on a journey across water.” A pretty fancy is to have a ring fattened to one of them which will fall to the one who receives the slip of paper fn which is written “All things that are good fall to you.” ' When these are all arranged each guest takes one of the tiny ribbons hanging at the side of the bowl and they give a quick puli all together, which scatters the leaves in all direc tions, leaving them dangling In the hands of those who hold the ribbon at the other end. The mottoes may be comic or senti mental. In either case they afford plenty of fun, as they must be read aloud. Feeding Captive Birds. The secret of feeding birds in cap tivity is to give them as great a va liety cf wholesome food as you can. For seed, they should have a mixture of canary, rape, flax or linseed, small groats and a little hemp and millet. In cold weather more hemp and some maw seed, and a little lettuce seed occasionally, particularly if there is any diarrhoea about. For green stuff, lettuce, watercress, groundsel, chick weed and nearly any sort of fruit, but it should not be given to them wet. Once or twice a week, for a treat, a mixture of hartfr-boiled eggs, chopped small, and powdered biscuit will be greatly appreciated. In feeding them don’t make things too easy. Remem ber that birds dearly love occupation ol any kind. I knew a lad once who used to chop up the watercress, ‘‘to save the poor dear things the trouble of biting it off!” But it is scarcely necessary to say that this is a great mistake. Matang a Cork Walk. I.ots and lots of boys and gins rave seen a match box, a horse fly, a stone fence, and even a board walk, but we are pretty sure that very few of you have ever seen a cork walk. Still, under certain circumstances, a Cork Wafting Down the Board. cui k. vau w«tUK, anu mis is me way to bring about that unusual spectacle. Get as large a cork as you can find, and stick side by side in one end a pair of flat-headed nails. Then get rwo fork3 and insert them, one in each side, near the other end of the oork, as shown in the picture. Now get a strip of wood four or five feet long and about two inches v iae, and make an inclined plane of it by piling books or boxes under one end. Place the cork on this, standing iT on its nail legs, with one fork hang ing down on either side of the strip of wood. Start the fork swinging from side to side, and you will see the cork walk jerkily down the board, taking ridiculous stiff-legged little steps on its nail legs. Can You Spin the Egg Shell? Here is a trick which will surprise the whole family. The next time you eat a boiled egg moisten the rim—not merely the edge, but all the raised part—of your plate and place the empty egg shell on the wet surface. The shell should be broken off evenly all the way around, so as to form a little cup. Now, if you hold the plate up and tip R slightly, the egg will not mere ly slide, but spin, along the rim. and ly continually altering the incliaation angle of the plate you can make the shell spin all the way around it. I do not mean that it will spin rapidly, like a top. but that as it goes around the plate it also revolves slowly about its own axis in the same direction. Now this, you know, is just what ihe earth does in traveling around the sun, so here you have an easy and pretty lesson in astronomy at the breakfast table. It is not exactly nice to muss with one’s food, but in this case it may be allowable to make a daub of egg yolk ir the center of the plate, with rays streaming out all around, to repre sent the sun. A Cat Angler. Cats can be trained as easily as dogs, and form the same habit of fol lowing one about, says a writer. My big black Tom has gone everywhere with me since his kitten days, long t'amps in the woods, coaching tours, picnics—no journey proves too hard for him. 0nce when we were start ing on a fishing trip, I locked him up, quite securely as I thought, suppos ing, of course, that he would not en joy the uncertain motion of the boat or the inevitable wetness of the sur roundings. But at the last moment he came bounding down the wharf and serenely established himself on the cushions in the stern, evidently prepared to take fisherman's luck with the rest of us. He showed no sign of fear as long as we were around. He enjoyed the minnows that fell to his share, and since then the collection of rods and tackle is a sign for him to trot off happily to where the boats are moored. He has now become quite an experi enced sport, watching the water keen ly for the ripples that tell of a “bite,” and cocking bis shiny black head ex citedly on this side and that as the line grows taut and the rod ourves in the struggle. His joy knows no bounds when the victim is landed at last, and he runs from one end to an other, purring and rubbing his back 1 against any projecting hand or foot, i apparently in an ecstasy of congratu- ' lation. Some one frivolously sug- ] gested that In my black beauty re- < lived the soul of a complete angler, 1 and since then he has been “Ike” to 1 his numerous friends and acquaint- I ances. A Bird Trafledy. “I was sitting on the back veranda, sewing, one bright moraing last 1 week*”, said a lady living in a second- 1 glory flat, “when something flew l swiftly past me, almost within reach, i Startled. I glanced up just in time i tc see a beautiful robin alight under c :te eaves of the bouse opposite. A t long straw in his mouth showed ma be was busily at work building a nest. As I sat watching, his mate hopped in sight from under the hidden roof, and seemed most interested in the building process, to which in the mean time the builder had aided bits of wool and straw. Much pleased with his progress, my little friend hopped upon a branch of a maple tree close by and poured forth a hort strain. “Suddenly a small boy strollf i along and. espying the bird, stepped into the road and gathered a few p« b bles. Advancing stealthily, he crept closer to the little songster and a breathless anxiety I watched hi: fling the stone. O, happy chance! A breath of air at that moment lifted the branch, and the stone went w ric o- its mark. The little nest builder, startled by the missile, flew off into the distance; but, aftc^r sailing m mid-air for a moment or two, he re turned and lit upon a neighboring roof. “Again the boy took aim ar.d again I awaited in breathless suspense; but this time the aim proved too true! There was a fluttering of wings and all was still. “Alas! thought I. for the snug 1.:tie half-built nest under the eaves wl • was never to be completed, and. a)as! for the mother bird that would wa.t in vain for her mate's return.'' An Autograph Calendar. The home made calendar is Just now one of the holiday gif-s which is in course of manufacture, and cer tainly there is no gift which is war ranted to keep new all the year in the same way that the hand inscribed calendar is. To make this calendar it is first essential that 3*>5—no. 3f»*i (for 1904 Is leap year)—slips of pa rer be cut of a uniform size—three inches wide by four inches long is a fair measurement—and then, after having an inked line drawn across one S9*h from the top edge, they are <3 inscribe. A line in red ink is k^_^Kted. The space above the line is reserved for the date, and may be added last, ^ust before the sHps are mounted into a block and cement ed at both sides so that the owner may not anticipate the coneents of the various leaves. The leaves are nowr sent about tc the various friends of the one fot whom the calendar is intended, and each is invited to inscribe a leaf with an appropriate sentiment, either orig Inal or quoted, but in the person'* own handwriting. As may be seen, there are daily surprises all during the year for the recipient. One of these autograph calendars is now in process of construction for a young fellow at college, and it is be ing made by the young girls of hi? social set at home. On some of thp slips he will find a tiny photograph of the sender. On another a sketch of some significant subject; on an other an allusion to some event in the past, a reminder of an occssinr to cause hkn amusement. There u fine opportunity here for the <(isplay * of originality, and by the time ea< girl has done her best, the calendai is sure to be filled. This same calendar idea works uj beautifuHv for a birthday gift, wher it may begin with the birthday, nt matter when it comes, ami extend through the following year to the nex* birthday. If it is preferred, the slipi of paper, instead of being mountec oa a block and cemented, may be per forated with two round holes at the top and then mounted on the wooder back with wire hooks, the same tha< finds favor on many desks, enablin# the owner to examine all at any time A Tripod on a Tea Table. Some time, w’hen tea is late and the family is all about the table waiting. The Tripod Complete. you may surprise all by a very clevei and at the same time simple and easy trick. Take a napkin ring and through it pass three forks with the points upi ward and rest their handles on the table. Spread the tops of the forki apart and inside them place a piaU or any round dish which will fit with in the space they afford. This will surely lock the whole thing, and a heavy dish may be placed upon the plate without fear of its being broken. Boys Should Learn. To laugh; to run; to swim; to be neat; to make a Are; to be punctual; to do an errand; to cut kindlings; to sing, if they can; to help their moth ers; to hang up their hats; to respect their teachers; to hold their heads erect; to sew on their own buttons; to wipe their boots on the mat; to speak pleasantly to older persons; to put every garment in its proper place: to remove their hats upon entering a house; to attend strictly to their own business; to be as kind and helpful to their sisters as to other boys’ sisters. —Philadelphia Inquirer. Found Ancient Document. While Mr. Randall of the Marble place in Amherst, N. H., was removing paper from the walls he found a por tion of a newspaper, and on it was & notice of a sale of land signed by Da vid Paige, county collector. It was dated Aug. 1, 1773, and was printed in the old-fashioned lettering of the day.