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% Earnest and Eloquent , He Has Made
a Great'lr \ presalon.
The boy preacher 18 creating a great
impression , says an English paper.
He occupies n tent pitched on n piece
of waste land just without Honowa :
Station , London , amidst broken bottles
I' ' and rusty Undo Lawrence Dennis Is
. ' . a handsome , olive . skinned all ] , with
long ringlets ] , born of an American
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command of languages His address
Is no parrot.lIke repetition of phrases
learnt from others , and his self , pos '
session Is entirely distinct from "Bide , "
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He preached on Sunday on charity. I
What struck the observer most was
the fact that amongst those who somewhat .
. I what nervously "held up their hands"
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. ' . . , . ' glance to Christ , were many lads of
"I 'I twelve or fourteen years of age They
may have meant It or not , but the impression .
pression left was good.
Starting : a Race In Missouri.
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- Joplin Is a big black negro He has
created much amusement ! In getting
the horses off.
A half dozen or more attempts were
made when the negro's patience be.
came exhausted Most of the jockeys
were negroes , and as a final warning
to one who persisted in snapping the
rubber before the others were ready
he said : "Nigger It you does dat
again I'll come out dar and knock you
off dat boss , " and he exhibited a good
sized stick attached to the end of a
. . rope which he commenced to unwnd !
4 , J 4' ' The exhibit of the sUck hall Its effect. '
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, Smoke Surprise.
In the top of a shallow pasteboard
box cut two holes each about an Inch
In diameter , and place over each an
arranged lamp chlmnoy. Stand In one
bole a candle cut long enough to pro.
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jecl haIr an Inch above box. Light
: candle and then hold over other lamp
chimney some burning "touch paper "
dipped In a solution of saltpeter. The
smoke Instead of rising , will go down
one chimney and , after It has filled
the box , will rise through the other.
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Japanese birds build their nests In .
the city houses : wild fowl , geese and.
' . .J ducks alight In the public parks and
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EASY TO SHARPEN PENCIL.
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Simple Contrivance of Englishman
Does Work Well.
As simple as It seems , the task of
properly sharpening a pencil Is by no
means a universally understood one.
Few persons who have not given
time and pains to the matter can
really acompllsli this In a perfect
manner. An Englishman has patented .
ed In his own country anti more lately
In this land a unique contrivance
wlllch should render the sharpening
process extremely simple. But an
American has gone him one better
and lJy applying practically the same
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principle with the addition of an en.
tlrely new Idea hopes to solve once
and for all the wi.ole problem of
sharpening pencils , be they hard or
soft , long or short. The above iutis-
tratlon shows the operation of the
uffalr. The pencil Is Inserted Into a
shank , which allows the to.he-sharp.
ed end to protrude on an Inclined
plane , tapering from the exposed lead
to the periphery of the wooden casing
at such an angle as will best serve
the needs of the user. An ordinary
knife is then used to shave off wood
and lend along the plane. The : . > s
and lead dust fall In a receptacle
which Insures a tidy performance of
the sharpening proces3. _
Real Meaning of "Boodle. . "
Late American dictionaries acknowl
edge "I.1Oodle" as a word. Dr. Murray
quotes from an American paper of
1884 : " 'Sinews of war , ' 'soap , ' and
other synonyms for campaign boodle
arc familiar. " There , however ,
"boodle" Is xplalned as meaning only
"stock . in . tratle , " kinship with the
Dutch "boedel " a man's stock of busi
ness or household goods , being highly
probalJlo Perhaps "boodlo , " meaning
a crowd or pack as In the phrase , "the
whole boodle ( or caboodle ) of them , "
is the same word In that sense "bud.
dIe" Is found In the early seventeenth
century. No doubt It Is only a coinci
deuce that there Is an old Scotch word
" oddle" or "bodle , " meaning a two-
penny piece and derived from the
name of the mlnt.master Bothwell.
Loose Wire Does Much Damage.
A trolley cable three.quarters of an
inch In diameter became slack and
sagged across the railroad track at
Hudson , N. H. It caught an engine
moving at full speed just under the
headlight. Strange to say It did not
break hut instead tore up telegraph
poles for some distance and finally
knocked a house off Its foundations
The train waR hated : with Its driving
wheels still revoh'lng
Invalid's Teacup.
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All In val hi's teacup has n. depression
In the saucer In which a small cube
of lighted charcoal may be placed. By
this means the contents of the cup
can be kept warm for some time. The
cup Is raised on feet to secure a ell"
culatlon of air
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CURIOSITIES Oil' THE lEA.
Showing How ! . , Oysters . t.tach. Them. .
selves to Foreign Objects.
The facility with whIch oysters at
t.ach themselves to leather Is shown
by the picture of a chlld's shoo very
well covered. The oyster growing out
of the bowl or an old clay pipe has
the appearance of a purr of smoke
just Issuing and Is a veritable till of
nature's sculpture accompllshelt beneath .
neath the soa. These arc but a few
or many interesting specimens of
oyster . attacllment dredged up from
oyster beds , yet they give a complete
demonstration of the realllness of this
bivalve to attach Itself to anything ,
A Child's Shoe Covered With Oysters.
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Oyster Fastened to a Pipe . Bowl.
and show , besides , some of the curl-
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osltles that are to he found beneath
the surface of the water.-Montreal
Herald.
OF ALL AGES AND NATIONS.
Philadelphia Man Has Vase Covered
With Valuable Coins.
Edward Huusch of Pholadelphla , has
just completed , after twent.three
years of toll , what Is from many
standpoints the most remarkable vase
In the country. The now completed
piece Is covered with four thousand
coins of all nations and ages andrP ? '
resents in actual money $7G,000.
There are Spanish coins ot Pizarro's
time rubbing edges with American
coppers ; crude African money , bolts
and bars , that might have been used
hy savages as weapons with good ef.
feet , soldered besIde the fat silver
coins of ancient Greece.
Other African coins there are In
the shape of Horseshoes , fashioned
as If the more handily to permit
physical strife for their possession ,
which experience had proved unavoid-
able. Sicilian spoon money and Javanese .
nese oblong coins , the Nuremberg
tiny speck of gold , the smallest coin
In the world , only an eighth of an
Inch In diameter : the Japanese bars
and forks that passed as bullion when
the world was younger : Roman money
that tke Caesars may have touched ,
shell money of untutored seashore
t.rlbes-not one space or history has
been left unrepresented on this unprecedented .
pl'ecedented vase.-New York Herald.
Century Old Cartoon.
A cartoon from a papyrus In the
British museum represents a lion and
an ass playing at draughts the "war
gamo" of the period This Idea Is con-
tLnually used by cartoonists , and It Is
surprising to find It to be 3,000 years
old. It has been suggested that there
are only five hundred humorous
stf' , : es , upon which all other stories
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The War Game
are based. It would ueem as If the
I Ideas for cartoons were also strictly
: limited , and that the cartoonists ot the
. days of the Pharaohs had much the
same Ideas as those who today are
dealing with modern warfare and
modern political sltuatlonfJ.
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AN OLD SMOKEn" DREAM"
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In His Sleop. 1 i
"It bas been eighteen yeArs since 1 :
was told to break loose from tobacco ,
as over . indulgence In smoking wall ,
about to knock me oU'l ' , " said a. J. .
Manson of Chicago. "From that day ,
though so dear a lover of the weed ,
I haven't put a cigar or pipe between
my lips , and yet , strange as It may
sound , on numerous occasions I find
myself puffing out huge clouds of
smoke drawn from the most fragrant
Havanas that ever were given to sol
ace mankind
"Theso smokes , let It bo umlorstoOlI ,
come In my dmems , but the enjoyment
they confer Is as solid and substantial
as In the old days , when the indulg
ence was a reality. Curiously enough ,
too , the visions always present a
group of friends. I can sec thom puffing .
fing away vigorously. I catch the
aroma ttcy blow forth : I hear their
conversation as In the old days , and a .
the whole utmosphere Is of tobacco.
Yet despite these vivid pictures , awak .
cuing brings no desire to resume the
ancient habit , and so I expect to cotl-
tlnue dreaming of smoking to the end
of the chapter without ever butting It
In practice "
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The Persian pearl diver fills ears
and nose with cotton and compresses
his nostrils tightly with wooden pinch.
ers. Between his teeth ho carries a
long knife as a means of defense
against sharlts. The : basket for the
oysters hangs about his neck lie
does not dive at all lie Is let down
Into the water and pulled up again
The Church Cats of Naples.
There exist In Naples cats which
live entirely ! In churches. They are
kept and fed by the authorities on
purpose to cat the mice which Infest
all old buildings there. 'l'he animals
may often be seen walking about
among the congregation or sitting !
gravely before the attar during time
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These companion coins bearing the
laces at Antony and Cleopatra recall
that statement of Pascal's that the 1113-
tory of the whole world would have
I been changed had Cloopatra's nasa
: been longer.
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