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And now they say mat icniocnou is
only one word Well it isnt anything
to be sneezed at anyhow
Depend on the bargain instinct word
ing out in the sex A society leader
has marked down New Yorks 400 to
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Japan with its hat one side and its
eye cocked as natural as life is doing
all it can to give Russia a hint that its
loaded for bear
Whichever of the powers may par
ticularly advance in the East there is
more than a chance in any case of
China losing ground
The stomach may not be a vital or
gan as certain ambitious carvers de
clare but you must take good care of it
if you expect to live long and be happy
An attache of Barnums circus writes
from London that it costs 19 a day to
feed an elephant in England It prob
ably costs more than that to see one in
London however
The West and Northwest says the
Louisville Courier Journal are now
leading every other part of the United
States in real prosperity and there is
no one to grudge them their good for
tune
The New York customs inspectors ob
ject to kissing by relatives and lovers
on the piers before the baggage of in
coming passengers is examined on the
ground that it takes time Well kiss
ing ought to
A special dispatch from Tennessee
says that a young man who brained his
lather with an ax the other day can
not be made to take a serious view of
the affair Oh yes he can Durrant
had that same trouble for two years
The recent marriage of a titled En
glishwoman to an Indian prince should
prove a notice to American heiresses
that there are new worlds for them to
conquer or perhaps it would be more
correct to say old world titles for them
to win
England and the United States once
differed gravely as to the right of
search The gift of a vessel by an
Englishman for use in Mr Pearys ex
pedition shows that perfect harmony
now exists respecting the right if the
object of search is the north pole
It is humiliating to the national pride
to learn that for every United States
ship that passed through the Suez Ca
nal during the first six months of 1897
there were eighteen Japanese and two
Chinese ships The numbers were
Japan eighteen China two and the
United States one
The fact that a Swiss surgeon has
succeessfully removes the stomach of
one of his patients should not unduly
encourage others to try this experi
ment If some scheme could be devised
to lay aside the stomach for a few days
at a time however no one would se
riously object to it
Over 1G00 policemen in Chicago in
reply to civil service questions swore
that they never touched liquor One in
nocent bluecoat declared as to his
health that he had once had the
measles but didnt know how many of
them there were Seeing that the good
die young it is a marvel how these
innocent fellows manage to keep so
well preserved
There is nothing more disagreeable
In a young person than an attempt to
put on airs to order other people
about to speak with a half hidden im
pudence to older people to show no
deference no respect Such behavior
springs either from selfishness or van
ity and it would be ridiculous if it were
not sad to see a young person behaving
in so foolish a manner
A few persons have done a profitable
business in tree planting in this coun
try but this occupation will probably
not be followed by individuals as the
time required for trees to mature is too
long Governments do not die like in
dividuals and for this reason certain
economic industries are more suitable
for governments to control than for in
dividuals to undertake Tree planting
is one of the businesses which we be
lieve the government can prosecute
more successfully than can private
individual or corporation
Ah if more Americans could learn
how to fool to fool wisely that is hi
lariously Then fewer of them would
need to get drunk and smash plate
glass windows A lively caper in the
home is an electric wire that carries off
no end of care depression or ill temper
For depend upon it every nature will
have its fling and must have it The
only question is of what kind of a
fling There is the fling into bitteimess
of speech into despondency into sui
cide and there is the fling into merri
ment and emancipation from the strait
jacket of Mrs Grundy and all her
works
The war reminiscences of the late
Charles A Dana establish a fact that
every person to whom profanity is an
offence will be glad to hear Mr Dana
saw much of General Grant during the
most perplexing period of the civil war
ind he now asserts that he never heard
ihe great Union leader utter a profane
word Mr Dana himself was for many
years a tireless worker in a field in
which profanity is common Every
anan who enjoyed the privilege of
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working near him will testify that In
the midst of the exacting requirements
of his duties Mr Dana was guiltless of
the sin and vulgarity of profanity
What it means to a man to come home
at night to a cheerful wife no one but
he who has had to fight in the hard
battle of life knows If he is prosper
ous it is an added joy but it is in mis
fortune that it shines like a star in the
darkness A complaining wife can kill
the last bit of hope and courage in a
sorely troubled heart while a cheerful
one gives new courage to
fight over again
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As a general observation it may be
said a gentleman lounges and a loafer
loafs a shade of distinction however
not always observable as there is usu
ally a noticeable tendency on the part
of the lounger to become a mere loafer
Hence the need of discrimination on
the part of those who engage in either
of these pleasing but unprofitable avo
cations especially in the case of those
whose characteristics are in process of
formation The rector of the Universi
ty of Vienna at least seems to be duly
impressed with the importance of regu
lating even lounging as shown in ihe
following edict recently published fur
the benefit of the students in the Aus
trian capital For the university year
of 1897 8 the bummel or lounging will
be sanctioned under the following con
ditions It must be practiced on Sat
urdays only and between the hours of
11 and 12 a m in the Arcadenhof For
changing the hour or prolonging the
period of the aforesaid lounging a spe
cial permission must be obtained from
the rector Students not attached to
the university are not allowed to par
ticipate in it This permission is grant
ed on the understanding that all cor
porations of students taking part in the
same shall avoid any action tending to
create a disturbance or cause annoy
ance in public places To suppose that
the lounger whether student or other
wise would engage in actions tending
to disturbance or annoyance in public
places would be to do violence to the
time honored traditions of lounging
The students however may be sup
posed to be only amateurs in this ele
gant art and the rector of the Univer
sity of Vienna is wise therefore in
guarding against the first approaches
toward loafing But to lounge by rule
and on one specified hour of the week
that must be a peculiarly Austrian no
tion
A writer in the Arena makes the ven
erable Lafayette say in 1S25 from the
balcony of an old house still standing
at the corner of Park and Beacon
streets in Boston Where are your
poor Where are your poor In this
assembly I see them not Why have
they not come also Then some one
in the crowd replied We are all here
rich and poor together But with true
French gallantry the venerable French
man responded No the poor are not
here They are not anywhere in Amer
ica They are in Europe Upon the
basis of this little scene the writer re
marks And that makes the difference
between an assembly of free men in
1S25 and an assembly of inchoate pau
pers in 1S97 In a native tribe of bar
barians there are no poor and no rich
In the tribal stage of civilization mem
bers of the tribe all share alike hence
there is no poverty But it does not
quite follow that this is the most desir
able condition of existence There are
very few men living who can remember
how an average crowd on the street of
Boston looked in 1S25 That they look
ed better fed better dressed or carried
more change in their pockets few be
lieve That there was more equality
is due partly to the more elementary
character of trade and industry It is
always so from the original tribe up
to the most complex civilization But
it is these complex conditions that call
out the displays of philanthropy that
we see on Thanksgiving day and in the
holiday season In saying that there
were no poor in Boston in 1S25 if he
said it Lafayette was bound to be
polite but we all know better Ine
quality increases as society advances
from the elementary to the complex
And so does philanthropy But be
cause of this are we prepared to return
to the original tribal condition Ilard
ly It is in the effort to remove inequality-
and ameliorate its effects that
should engage every good citizen that
the whole moral nature of the com
munity is advanceu with the increase
of its material wealth
No Gymnastics in Norway
Walking climbing and ski run uug
they have in Christiania the capital of
Norway with skating and coasting
but gymnasium athletics are practical-
ly nonexistent There are probablv
not more than a half dozen pairs of
boxing gloves in Christiania There
are no running matches no jumping
few crews no wrestling no cricket
foot ball or tennis no teaching of the
manly art of self defense The boys
fight like little demons and one would
think they would aspire to do so scien
tifically At one of the large boys
school it is part of the unwritten law
of the pupils that the classes first out
of the building shall at time congregate
an one corner of the great brick walled
courtyard whence it shall be the duty
and pleasure of the remainder of the
school to whack them forth with stren
uous application of fists and heads
The best possible resistance is made
a great many eyes are blackened and
some few teeth dislodged but all casi
ualties are received amicably after
ward and all prowess duly accredited
Private quarrels are promptly settled
not in the school precincts but in the
recesses of the palace park where a
ring is formed seconds chosen and all
proceedings conducted in proper order
Boston Globe
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instead of a man otherwise it wouldnt
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N this sermon of Dr Talmage the
character of a wise sympathetic and
self denying sister is set forth as an
example and the story will set hundreds
of men to thinking over old times text
Exodus ii 4 And his sister stood afar
off to wit what would be done to him
Princess Thcrmutis laughter of Pha
raoh looking out through the lattice of
her bathing house on the banks of the
Nile saw a curious boat on the river It
had neither oar nor helm and they would
have been useless anyhow There was
only one passenger and that a baby boy
But the Mayflower that brought the pil
grim fathers to America carried not so
precious a load The boat was made of
the broad leaves of papyrus tightened to
gether by bitumen Boats were sometimes
made of that material as we learn from
Pliny and Herodotus and Theophrastus
Kill all the Hebrew children born had
been Pharaohs order To save her boy
Jochehed the mother of little Moses had
put him in that queer boat and launched
him His sister Miriam stood on the
bank watching that precious craft She
was far enough off not to draw attention
to the boat but near enough to offer pro
tection There she stands on the bank
Miriam the poetess Miriam the quick
witted Miriam the faithful though very
human for in after time she demon
strated it
Miriam was a splendid sister but had
her faults like all the rest of us How
carefully she watched the boat containing
her brother A strong wind might upset
it The buffaloes often found there might
in a sudden plunge of thirst sink it Some
ravenous water fowl might swoop and
pick his eyes out with iron beak Some
crocodile or hippopotamus crawling
through the rushes might crunch the babe
Miriam watched and watched until Prin
cess Thermutis a maiden on each side of
her holding palm leaves over her head to
shelter her from the sun came down and
entered her bathing house When from
the lattice she saw that boat she ordered
it brought and when the leaves were pull
ed back from the face of the child and
the boy looked up he cried aloud for he
was hungry and frightened and would
not even let the princess take him The
infant would rather stay hungry than
acknowledge any one of the court as moth
er Now Miriam the sister incognito
no one suspecting her relation to the child
leaps from the bank and rushes down and
offers to get a nurse to pacify the child
Consent is given and she brings Joche
hed the babys mother incognito none
of the court knowing that she was the
mother and when Joehebed arrived the
child stopped crying for its fright was
calmed and its hunger appeased You
may admire Joehebed the mother and
all the ages may admire Moses but I
clap my hands in applause at the behavior
of Miriam the faithful brilliant and
strategic sister
A Nonsuch in History
Go home some one might have said
to Miriam Why risk yourself out there
alone on the banks of the Nile breathing
the miasma and in danger of being at
tacked of wild beast or ruffian Go
home No Miriam the sister more
lovingly watched and bravely defended
Moses the brother Is he worthy her
care and courage Oh yes the sixty cen
turies of the worlds history have never
had so much involved in the arrival of
any ship at any port as in the landing of
that papyrus boat calked with bitumen
Its one passenger Avas to be a nonsuch in
history lawyer statesman politician leg
islator organizer conqueror deliverer
He had such remarkable beauty in child
hood that Josephus says when he was
carried along the road people stopped to
gaze at him and workmen would leave
their work to admire him When the
king playfully put his crown upon this
boy he threw it off indignantly and put
this foot on it
The king fearing that this might be a
sign that the child might ypt take down
his crown applied another test Accord
ing to the Jewish legend the king ordered
two howls to be put before the child one
containing rubies and the other burning
coals and if he took the coals he was to
live and if he took the rubies he was to
die For some reason the child took one
of the coals and put it in his mouth so
that his life was spared although it burn
ed the tongue till he was indistinct of ut
terance ever after Having come to man
hood he spread open the palms of his
hands in prayer and the Red Sea parted
to let 25000110 ppuple escape And he put
the palms of his hands together in prayer
and the Red Sea closed on a strangu
lated host
Miriam the Faithful
Oil was not Miriam the sister of
Moses doing a good thing an important
thing a glorious thing when she watched
the boat woven of river plants and made
water tight with asphaltum carrying its
one passenger Did she not put all the
ages of time and of a coming eternity un
der obligation when she defended her help
less brother from the perils aquatic rep
tilian and ravenous She it was that
brought that wonderful babe and his
mother together so that lie was reared to
be the deliverer of his nation when other
wise if saved at all from the rushes of
the Nile he would have been only one
more of the God defying pharaohs for
Princess Thermutis of the bathing house
would have inherited the crown of Egypt
and as she had no child of her own this
adopted child would have come to corona
tion Had there been no Miriam there
would liave been no Moses What a gar
land for faithful sisterhood For how
many a lawgiver and how many a hero
and how many a deliverer and how many
a saint are the world and the church in
debted to a watchful loving faithful god
ly sister Come up out of the farm
houses come up out of the inconspicuous
homes come up from the banks of the
Hudson nnd Penobscot and the Savannah
and the Mobile and the Mississippi and all
the Other Niles of America and let us see
you the Miriams who watched and pro
tected the leaders in law and medicine
and merchandise and art and agriculture
and mechanics and religion If I should
ask all physicians and attorneys and mer
chants and ministers of religion and suc
cessful men of all professions and trades
who are indebted to an elder sister for
good influences and perhaps for an educa
tion or a prosperous start to let it be
known hundreds would testify God
knows how many of onr Greek lexicons
and how much of our schoolings were
paid for by money that would otherwise
have gone for the replenishing of a sis
ters wardrobe While the brother sailed
off for a resounding sphere the sister
watched him from the banks of self-denial
The Elder Sisters Guiding Hand
Miriam was the eldest of the family
Moses and Aaron her brothers were
younger Oh the power of the elder sis
ter to help decide the brothers character
for usefulness and for heaven She can
keep off from her brother more eyils than
Miriam could have driven back water
fowl or crocodile from the ark of bul
rushes The older sister decides the di
rection in which the cradle boat shall sail
By gentleness by good sense by Chris
tian principle she can turn it toward the
palace not of a wicked Pharaoh but of
a holy God and a brighter princess than
Thermutis should lift him out of peril
even religion whose ways are ways of
pleasantness and all her paths are peace
The older sister how much the world
owes her Born while yet the family was
in limited circumstances she had to hold
and take care of her younger brothers
And if there is anything that excites my
sympathy it is a little girl lugging round
a great fat child and getting her ears box
ed because she cannot keep him quiet By
the time she gets to young womanhood
she is pale and worn out and her attrac
tiveness has been sacrificed on the altar
of sisterly fidelity and she is consigned
to celibacy and society calls her by an un
fair name but in heaven they call her
Miriam In most families the two most
undesirable places in the record of births
are the first and the last the first be
cause she is worn out with the cares of a
home that cannot afford to hire help and
the last because she is spoiled as a pet
Among the grandest equipages that sweep
through the streets of heaven will be those
occupied by sisters who sacrificed them
selves for brothers They will have the
finest of the Apocalyptic white horses
and many who on earth looked down up
on them will have to turn out to let them
pass the charioteer crying Clear the
way A queen is coming
Blessing or Curse
Let sisters not begrudge the time and
care bestowed on a brother It is hard to
believe that any boy that you know so
well as your brother can ever turn out
anything very useful Well he may not
be a Moses There is only one of that
kind needed for 6000 years But I tell
you what your brother will be either a
blessing or a curse to society and a can
didate for happiness or wretchedness He
will like Moses have the choice between
rubies and living coals and your influence
will have much to do with his decision
He may not like Moses be the deliverer
of a nation but he may after your father
and mother are gone be the deliverer of
a household What thousands of homes
to day are piloted by brothers There are
properties now well invested and yielding
income for the support of sisters and
younger brother because the older broth
er rose to the leadership from the day the
father lay down to die Whatever you
do for your brothers will come back to you
again If you set him an ill natured cen
sorious unaccommodating example it will
recoil upon you from his own irritated and
despoiled nature If you by patience with
his infirmities and by nobility of charac
ter dwell with him in the few years of
your companionship you will have your
counsels reflected back upon you some day
by his splendor of behavior in some crisis
where he would have failed but for you
Dont snub him Dont depreciate his
ability Dont talk discouragingly about
his future Dont let Miriam get down
off the bank of the Nile and wade out and
npset the ark of bulrushes Dont tease
him Brothers and sisters do not consider
it any harm to tease That spirit abroad
in the family is one of the meanest and
most devilish There is a teasing that is
pleasurable and is only another form of
innocent raillery but that which provokes
and irritates and makes the eye flash with
anger is to be reprehended It would be
less blameworthy to take a bunch of
thorns and draw them across your sisters
cheek or to take a knife and draw its
sharp edge across your brothers hand till
the blood spurts for that would damage
only the body but teasing is the thorn and
the knife scratching and lacerating the
disposition and the soul It is the curse
of innumerable households that the broth
ers tease the sisters and the sisters the
brothers Sometimes it is the color of
the hair or the shape of the features or an
affair of the heart Sometimes it is by
revealing a secret or by a suggestive look
or a guffaw or an Ahem Tease Tease
Tease Tease For mercys sake quit it
Christ says He that hateth his brother
is a murderer Now when you by teas
ing make your brother or sister hate you
turn him or her into a murderer or mur
deress
Beware of Jealousy
Dont let jealousy ever touch a sisters
soul as it so often does because her broth
er gets more honor or more means
Even Miriam the heroine of the text
was struck by that evil passion of jeal
ousy She had possessed unlimited influ
ence over Moses and now he marries and
not only so but marries a black woman
from Ethiopia and Miriam is so disgusted
and outraged at Moses first because he
had married at all and next because he
had practiced miscegenation that she is
drawn into a frenzy and then begins to
turn white and gets white as a corpse and
then whiter than a corpse Her com
plexion is like chalk the fact is she has
the Egyptian leprosy And now the
brother whom she had defended on the
Nile comes to her rescue in a prayer that
brings her restoration Let there be no
room in all your house for jealousy either
to sit or stand It is a leprous abomina
tion Your brothers success O sisters
is vour success His victories will be
your victories For while Moses the
brother led the vocal music af terthe cross
ing of the Bed Sea Miriam the sister
with two sheets of shining brass uplifted
and glittering in the sun led the instru
mental music clapping the cymbals till
the last frightened neigh of pursuing cav
alry horse was smothered in the wave
and the last Egyptian helmet went under
Do Your Part
If you only knew it your interests are
identical Of all the families of the earth
that ever stood together perhaps the most
conspicuous is the family of the Roths
childs As Mayer Anselni Rothschild was
about to die in 1812 he gathered his chil
dren about him Anselm Solomon Na
than Charles and James and made them
promise that they would always be united
on Change Obeying that injunction they
have been the mightiest commercial pow
er on earth and at the raising or lowering
of their scepter nations have risen or fall
en That illustrates how much on a large
scale and for selfish purposes a united
family may achieve But suppose that
instead of a magnitude of dollars as the
object it be doing good and making salu
tary impression and raising this sunken
world how much more ennobling Sister
you do your part and brotller will do his
part If Miriam will lovingly watch the
boat on the Nile Moses will help her when
leprous disasters strike
When father and mother are gone and
they soon will be if they have not al
ready made exit the sisterly and frater
nal bond will be the only ligament that
will hold the family together How many
reasons for your deep and unfaltering af
fection for each other Rocked in the
same cradle bent over by the same moth
erly tenderness toiled for by the same
fathers arm and aching brow
with common inheritance of all the family
secrets and with names given you by par
ents who started you with the highest
hopes for your happiness and prosperity
I charge you be loving and kind and for
giving If the sister see that the brother
never wants a sympathizer the brother
will see that the sister never wants an es
cort Oh if the sisters of a household
knew through what terrific and damning
temptations their brother goes in city life
they would hardly sleep nights in anxiety
for his salvation And if you would make
a holy conspiracy of kind words and gen
tle attentions and earnest prayers that
would save his soul from death and hide
a multitude of sins But let the sister
dash off in one direction in discipleship of
the world and the brother flee off in an
other direction and dissipation and it will
not be long before they will meet again
at the iron gate of despair their blistered
feet in the hot ashes of a consumed life
time Alas that brothers and sisters
though living together for years very
often do not know each other and that
they see only the imperfections and none
of the virtues
Know Thy Brother
General Bauer of the Russian cavalry
had in early life wandered off with the ar
my and the family supposed he was dead
After he gained a fortune he encamped
one day in Husain his native place and
made a banquet and among the great
military men who were to dine he invited
a plain miller and his wife who lived near
by and who affrighted came fearing
some harm would be done them The
miller and his wife were placed one on
each side of the general at the table The
general asked the miller all about his fam
ily and the miller said that he had twe
brothers and a sister No other broth
ers My younger brother went off with
the army many years ago and no doubt
was long ago killed Then the general
said Soldiers I am this mans younger
brother whom he thought was dead
And how loud was the cheer and how
warm was the embrace
Brotlier and sister you need as much of
an introduction to each other as they did
You do not know each other You think
your brother is grouty and cross and
queer and he thinks you are selfish and
proud and unlovely Both wrong That
brother will be a prince in some womans
eyes and that sister a queen in the esti
mation of some man That brother is a
magnificent fellow and that sister is a
morning in June Come let me introduce
you Moses this is Miriam Miriam
this is Moses Add 75 per cent to your
present appreciation of each other and
when you kiss good morning do not stick
up your cold cheek wet from the recent
washing as though you hated to touch
each others lips in affectionate caress
Let it have all the fondness and cordiality
of a loving sisters kiss
To Part No More
Make yourself as agreeable and helpful
to each other as possible remembering
that soon you part The few years of
boyhood and girlhood will soon slip by
and you will go out to homes of your own
and into the battle with the world and
amid ever changing vicissitudes and on
paths crossed with graves and up steeps
hard to climb and through shadowy ra
vines But O my God and Saviour may
the terminus of the journey be the same
as the start namely at the fathers
and mothers knee if they have inherited
the kingdom Then as in boyhood and
girlhood days we rushed in after the
days absence with much to tell of excit
ing adventure and father and mother en
joyed the recital as much as we who made
it shall on the hillside
so we of heaven re
hearse to them all the scenes of our earth
ly expedition and they shall welcome us
home as we say Father and mother
we have come and brought our children
with us The old revival hymn describ
ed it with glorious repetition
Brothers and sisters there will meet
Brothers and sisters there will meet
Brothers and sisters there will meet
Will meet to part no more
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Short Sermons
Take Away the Pain Let us take
away the pain from the heart of God
by removing it from the souls and bod
ies of men Let us remember thar ro
lift the burden of humanity is to lift
the burden of God Rev C W Will
iams Baptist Denver Colo
The Truth of Christ Christ is the
living truth not a string of formulas
intellectually perfect however venera
ble He is embodied truth the knowl
edge of whom is better than the dis
cipline of sacred metaphysics Rev
Dr Barrowe Presbyterian Chicago
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A Vast Problem Every generation
of the worlds history is confronted by
some important problem to the solution
of which the best minds and the truest
hearts must lend their every energy
Our time has a vast problem Key
Father Duccy Roman Catholic Xerw
York City
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William Shields the Best Acrobatic
Wheelman in This Country
A man who prefers to ride on the
handle bars of his bicycle rather tbant
in the saddle and who is happier when
suspended over the front wheel of his
machine than when properly balanced
over the pedals is something of a de
generate among wheelmen but a de
generate whose example is not likely tff
be followed too extensively This ec
centric rider is William Shields better
known as Rube He is a profession
al cyclist and a trick rider but he
doesnt confine his performances to in
door audiences
Shields is doubtless the best acrobat
wheelman in this country March 31
1S97 he rode down the steps of th
west front of the capitol building at
Washington D C Dozens have rid
den down the east steps but Shields is
the only wheelman who has success
fully made the descent of the wesl
flight which has seventy four stepi
and three landings He made the de
scent in fifteen seconds and did not
touch one of the last sixteen steps In
Cincinnati last July he electrified a
crowd of spectators by riding out of a
PREFEKS THIS POSITION OXATVIIEIX
second story window on a ladder The
crowd expected to see him dashed
senseless If not dead at its foot He
shot down the rungs however and
landed safely in the street
THE FIRST LIFEBOAT
Very Different from the Complicated
Vessel of To Day
The story of the lifeboat remains to
be written To do so now would be
premature inasmuch as notwithstand
ing the large amount of ingenuity
which has been lavished on the de
signing of a vessel which shall prove -satisfactory
the thing desired yet re
mains to be achieved The first life
boat was curiously enough devised by
a landsman one Lionel Lukin a coach
builder of Dunmow in Essex En
gland This man had lost some rela
tives in the foundering of a vessel at
sea and he set about designing a
sel which should be unsinkable Among
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those who took up the problem where
Lukin left it was one Henry Great
head a boatbuilder of South Shields
who worked continuously at the sub
ject and an order for the construction
of what is practically the first specially
constructed lifeboat was given to
Greathead in 1S03
The first lifeboat was 30 feet long
and possessed a beam of 10 feet It
was rowed by 10 oars double banked
and It was the first vessel built in
which the main features of all life
boats were found Thus the stem and
stern were alike it had a curved keel
snd it bulged greatly amidships
The Kins Came
At the Brussels exposition a few
days ago King Leopold of Belgium
wishing to examine more closely a cer
tain American machine left his suite
and stepped into the booth where ths
machine was installed He requested
the man in charge to explain its mech
anism to him Not noticing the royal
escort a few yards away the attend
ant took his Majesty for some high of
ficial He explained in dPtnii Via
working of his machine and dwelt
upon its points of excellence And
sir he added the King himself ii
coming to see it before long With
out betraying his identity King Leo
pold smilingly thanked the American
and withdrew He
seemed much amus
ed when relating the incident to those
who accompanied him at the idea or
an exhibitor who was expecting ths
King at the very moment when thei
King was leaving him
Bargains
Did you hear what Whimptons lit
tle boy said when they showed him the
twins r
No what was it
He said There Mammas beext
gettin bargains again Collier -
Weekly
Youns Widows in India
There are in India 200000 widows
iged between 10 and 14 years ana
30000 less than 9 yeare old
Every time we see a woman we
cnank the Lord
that
we are not com
pelled to wear a ribbon collar
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u xuuu wants a cigar he never
wants it very bad
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