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COLUMBUS, NEB, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1889.
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THE FUNNIEST THINa.
A FROG 16 TWICE AS FUNNY AS HE
LOOKS, IF YOU ONLY KNEW IT.
It fa nowhere of record timttks alle
gation, "The fuameet tttBgs m bog,?
has erer beem qgHiwl, tlihwafh there m
rw evidence thrt theaaam who Bade it
reellr knew how fanny frog actemlly
k. The probabflities are that he had
been iaaprwaeil with the frog'e mmir
pre-enuneace aimplj by obaerration of
his external architecture aa he poaaihi
adnk pictareaqneneai on a log- He
noticed, of coorse, that afrogie aobaalt
that all the neck he baa ia the top of his
heed. He comldn't hare failed to ob
aarre that the fwafa mtmkh hnyina wWw
his shoaldera leare oC If the obearrer
diSnt note that the frog has to watch
oat when he aits down or he may poke
his eye oat with his big toe, he failed to
enjoy one of his favorite's best low com
edy hits.
And when it dawned upon him, as it
it must have dawned, that the dram of
the frog's ear is worn on the outside of
his head, being attached to the gable end
of his upper jaw, he was of course
bed that no farther evidence was
sary, and he was ready to take the world
into his confidence and utter that famoas
declaration about the frog's incontest
able claim to be placed on record as the
funniest thing that is. Yet even the
halo of drollery that surrounds the frog
at this ripe period of its existence ia as
funereal gloom compared to the humor
of his younger days.
HIS KAJU.T DISGUISES.
Tliis observer, whose sententious com
mentary has passed into a proverb,
uhouldn't have been content with the
humor of which the mere physical con
tour of the completed frog is capable.
He should have gone back to the time
when the frog was but a protoplastic
atom, involuntarily cruising along the
border of some marshy pond, where the
musk-rat burrows among the logs and
the wild flag waves its lances to the pass
ing breeze, and whose presence is worth
at least $2.50 a day to the adjacent dis
penser of quinine.
He should have sought out that gluti
nous molecule. He never would have
suspected it a frog. He never would
have believed that one day that inert
globule would be humped up on a bog
snapping at flies and voicing basso pro
f undo serenades to the stilly night. He
would as soon have looked for the evo
lution of a thoroughbred racer from a
wooden saw horse. But that is just
what that globule is there for, and if this
insufficient observer had only gone back
and watched it grow up with the coun
try he would have seen how doubly for
tified against cavil he would have been
in .wIning that a frog's place is at the
head of all embodiment of humor, ani
mate or inanimate, conscious or uncon
scious. The frog's embryocic idea of fun hi to
do a number of fntprewting lightning
changes. His masterpiece as a molecular
comedian, and his last act in that line of
business, is to transform himself into the
living ljlrptmca and grannkr structure of
a mulberry. It is while making this hor
ticultural display of himself that the
whimsical creature is preparing for one
of his most droll surprises, and he next
appears in the lively and grotesque char
acter of a fish that has a mouth and rows
of teeth like sheephead's, two other
mouths like a sucker's, the tail of an eel,
nostrils three times as big as its mouth,
a pair of gills that branch from its head
like the antlers of a deer, and the diges
tive apparatus of a grasshopper! All
three of its mouths are in a row on the
under side of its chin, the one with the
teeth being in the middle.
A HOWLXSQ SUCCESS.
This screaming presentation is known
to the small boy as the polliwog and to
science as the tadpole. It is the frog's
first ambitious attempt at being really
funny. It is an instantaneous and cy
clonic success. But it is followed in
good time by other changes inthebul
First, the frog, in his character of polli
wog, calls in his antler like gills and
stows them away inside of his head
somewhere. Then he springs a pair of
legs on you. They sprout out on each
side of his body, just aft of the spot
where his gills soaked in, and the con
vulsed observer says:
"Hello! There's his fore legs!"
That is evidently just what the frog ia
his ludicrous character wants the ob
server to think, for it adds to the humor
ous surprise that be has in store for him
when be suddenly sprouts another pair
of legs, and the observer finds that, al
though the first ones had their roots
close behind the poUiwog's ears, they
were, nevertheless, its hind legs, and
that the new legs pop out ahead of them,
and, of course, are the fore legs them
selves. This joke of the frog's k so good
that he adds still another change to hie
makeup, so that he can enjoy it himself.
He gets rid of the little sheepshead
mouth and the two sucker mouths, and
takes on a new mouth that reaches clear
across his face, and he looks up and.
smiles an expansive smile.
During all the tune that the frog aaas
queradea as a polliwog he gorges hnaisrif
on a strictly vegetable diet, and if he had
been scooped out of the water and kept
out a few minutes death would have
debated him for its own. Bat when be
has got through with his leg'ahowhe
trades oft his g3k for a pair of may,
changes his lah heart for the heart of a
reptile, discards hk grasshopper intesti
nal arrangement for a regular set of ani
mal digesters, and hank himaslf oat of
the water on to a bog, or upon the shore
among the rashes, ana cocas ms
ere up at Ton in a
mf onnkwr toh that he wonld be
to know what yon think of hka as a fall
blown lizard. He hasn't got a thing
with him that he started hi with as -s
poUiwog except hkeerstafl. Hehaant
been long a land wbber before he begins
to haaap Tnimaslf oavthe back, and tods
veaopthe month that k to become the
great attraction of hk features when h
aiadimtas ae the fiakhrd frog. New
York San.
A CUAE FOR SUICIDE.
wily a proof that the world k growing
Kuhappy. On the contrary, at easy
that thenaeral state of society k
do
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the least grreB to
sUnce. the Irian, the
Italians. Suicide k vastly i
thai
we have
and
Bost given to suicide of aQ the peoples
of &rorje,whiksqnJidasribeBBgklsd
Spain has the lowest suicide aweammge.
If we compare the up i) whs of the werM.
weindthatinpneiii, asthedaysof the
glory of the republic and the empire,
suicide was asach more prevalent thank
wmm the darkness of the
Suicide k a malady of
chanctaraatkfenmybesal,of aa ad
vanced aad even pcosperomi state of so
ciety. Ia las) Haked States, whan, m
thelve years between 1861 aad 1887,
g,3t persons took their own kves,only
270 of these deaths were Itiihatahh to
It k to "end the
conditions, that people take their
andthk heartache or world
k quite aa distinctly traceable to the in
creased HcnajrivciMss of organisation on
the part of a cultivated tsnsrttion as k
the delight m progress, in society, in art,
in music and in literature, that k also
characteristic of thk epoch of the world.
The prevaknce of suicide k in many
ways lam witable; but there kno reason
why the world should alarm itself undu
ly about it, or, treating it aa if it were
due to some preventable cause, like an
epidemic of diphtheria, should call out:
"What k to be done? Nothing k to be
dboe, at least by society as a whole. Sui
cide k an inevitable ailment of a time,
which, on the whole, k the best time
that the world has ever had.
But though society can do nothing to
restrain suicide, the individual beinj su
preme in at least thk respect, something
may be done, aad effectively, too, by the
individual who finds the urging to self
destruction strong within him. If no
consideration of the hereafter gives such
a one pause, it k in hk power to put
himself in health harmony with nature,
if Jie will, by obeying the philosophical
injunction to "look outward and not in;"
to admit to hk life the light of nature
first comprehending that nature knot
a thing exterior to him, but that it k
himself and he k nature and not for
ever shut himself within the darkness of
a partial and selfish view of life; and,
examining in thk light hk condition, to
determine whether the lethargy and de
spair which impel him to suicide are not
of hk own making, and whether the
natural gifts of hope and health are not
still within recovery. Boston Tran
script. TalBakte MSB. at tft Ti
There are said to be in the library of
the Vatican 23,580 MSB., a large portion
of which are Greek and Oriental. The
famous MS. of the Greek Bible, the
"Cordex Vaticanus," has hitherto been
so jealously guarded that even professed
scholars have not been allowed really to
examine it. It k now, however, more
accessible. Looked at merely as a piece
of writing, the MS. k singularly finer
the letters are clear, distinct and well
formed, and there ia plenty of space be
tween the lines, so that the reading of it
becomes, with a little practice, by no
means difficult.
Another treasure, also to be found In
the same cube, is the palimpsest copy,
discovered by Cardinal Mai, of Cicero's
"De Bepublica.' The most interesting
fragment k the complete snccem with
which the ancient underiyingwriting has
been recovered. Itk hardly possible to
beheve that the clear, well defined letters
before you have been covered up by other
writing for perhaps a thousand years.
Another treasury of valuable M3S.k that
on Mount Athoa. The total number of
MSS. in the twenty libraries on thk
nvwintn'" k 5,579. Professor Lambros
k cataloguing them, and expects to find
amnng them many thing of unique in
terest to the biblical student. New York
Telegram.
It k supposed to be unlucky to put
either shoe on the wrong foot, nor mast
one pat the left shoe on before the right,
unless one wished to bring about some
direful calamity. Augustas Cmmr, it k
said, put on hk left shoe first, and before
nightfall he narrowly escaped assassina
tion. Dr. Brewer says that plucking off
the shoe among the Jews, smoking the
pipe among the Indiana, thumb licking
among Scotch, breaking the straw to
gether among the Teutona aad shaking
hands among the Raglkh are all cere
monies to confirm a bargain. T4 e Jew
ish custom of plucking off the Sioe or
sandal k frequently referred to in the
Scriptures. In the story of Ruth it k re
corded that a compact which Boas made
was sealed by a shoe being drawn off.
One of the verses reads: "Now, thk was
the manner in former time in Israel con
cerning redeeming and concerning
changing, for to confirm all things a man
plucked off hk shoe and gave it to his
neighbor; and thk was a testimony in
Israel." Providence Telegram.
A to
George Bancroft k said to be particu
lar to remove hk gloves before sun king
hands. The point Is a good ooe. Jut
introduce the fashion of ungioving be
fore shaking, and shaking wUl soon sub
side. If there be one pre-emiamtlj dk
agreeabk and lisHissJug, fashion la
Anwwica. it k our aai versal aad eternal
head sharing, ba origin, we believsu
rune back to oar savage sarsatori. who
clasped hands ia sign of peace mstead of
war. Is there any reasoa for swearinga
treaty of peace with every Tom. Dick
and Harry of your anraakirsare whom
yoa chance to meat ia the street? The
custom k a terrible fagoa
Louis Globu-tAJBoerat.
It appears from aconunuaicarioa
to the Regii Lincei at Borne that
poiaoa smularto
that of vipers-
la them it k aot found
they have no organ for
k. So it
k nasally wishuut aay effect upon maa,
bacaaaem theeel eaten by him aa food
the poison k destroyed by the heat of
rooking, and also because, as k the case
with the venom of the viper, k has no ef
fect upon the digestive .ways. New Or
leans Picayune.
xo seep eggs for
dip them ivlien perfectly
water for n second.
bake(. ami mA m asset
the wnler k liifiagr hat
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ABODT PROVERBS,
obscure of origin, but accept
ed FROM INTRINSIC MERIT.
To begin at the beginning, what k a
proverb? Lord John SmssITs definition
was: "The wit of one, the wisdom of
many." In a quaint old book, "The
Worthies of EngkadVritten by Thosaae
Fuller, an Tgjiah divine and author,
published ia 1650, a proverb k denned to
be "Much matter decocted into few
words." Franck Bacon, the well
philosophic author and lawyer,
lord chancellor of England by James I,
aad dismissed, disgraced and fined for
ncsaviag bribes from suitors, was char
acterised m Pope's sstire m this couplet:
If parts aBara thee, think bow Bacon sUaed,
The aavif. brightaat. nunutaT oCwiasMarl
VARIOUS DEFINITIONS.
Bacon, however, went very near the
truth when he wrote: "The genius, wit
and spirit of a nation are discovered by
their proverbs.'
Fleming says: "Proverbs embody the
current and practical philosophy of an
age or a nation." Brando tells us that
"Proverbs are, for the most part, rules
of moral or still more properly of prudial
conduct." Dr. Johnson said that they
were "short sentences, frequently re
peated by the people." Cervantes, au
thor of "Don Quixote," who may be said
to have peppered the conversation of
Sancho Panza with proverbs, declares
them to be "short sentences drawn from
long experiences." In thk the immortal
peasant squire resembled Hudibras, of
whom Butler wrote:
For rhetoric, he could sot ope
Hk mouth but out there flew a trope.
It k calculated that there are now in
use, among European nations and the
English speaking people of the United
States, not fewer than 20,000 proverbs,
by far the largest proportion of which
are Spanish. They enter very exten
sively into the ordinary conversation of
Spaniards. Hence the propriety on Cer
vantes' part of making Sancho Panza
(ignorant and vulgar, as a peasant of the
time and place would have been, but also
shrewd and practical) speak very much
in pso verbs, the language of hk practical
good sense.
For the most part, though proverbs are
to be found in all languages and- in the
history of all nations, generally in their
early stages, there ia no record of their
birth nor of their paternity. They have
been accepted, not as resting on the au
thority of a revered name, but from their
inherent truth or semblance of truth. In
fullness of time, which means in or near
the last three or four centuries, men
made collections of them. The publica
tion in the year 1500 of a volume by
Erasmus, which he called "Adagia," first
set the learned men of Europe on the
track of proverb collecting. He was the
first in that line, at least the first who
had traveled far upon it. Since then the
publication of proverbs has been very
general, and a heavy harvest of thk sort
has been gathered in from the ordinary
speech as well as the written works of
Spain, Italy, France, Germany and Eng
land. There are now at least from
thirty to forty different collections of
English proverbs. It was in Asia, said
to have been the birthplace and cradle
of the human race, that proverbs found
their way into the popular speech of Pal
estine and Babylonia.
SOLOMON'S WISDOM.
In the book of Proverbs in the Bible,
there k wisdom in them, but not a parti
cle of wit. Its opening words, "The prov
erbs of Solomon, the son of David, the
king of Israel," give us its current He
brew title. It has also been called in the
Talmud, and by more than one very early
Christian writer, The Book of Wisdom."
Generally, by Jews and Christians, it k
designated "The Proverbs of Solomon,"
and, representing the wisdom of which
the Hebrews thought so much, stands at
the head of the whole class of books
known as the SapientaL The Bible cred
its Solomon with the authorship of 3,000
proverbs and 1,005 songs. Much of the
former remain; few of the latter. Most
probably Solomon collected short and
telling phrases then used in conversation,
adding many thoughts of his own. The
oldest proverb on record k, "Wickedness
proceedeth from the wicked," which (in
I Samnel xxiv, 12) David declared to be
"the proverb of the ancients" conse
quently much older than any composed
byhkson Solomon.
Those of the east aregraveand simple;
of Greece, intellectual; of Borne, more
worldly; of Spain, stately and thought
ful; of Italy, poetic yet gross; of Ger
many, subtle and shrewd; of Fngian
very practical. Many of these last,
which are our own, indeed, are taken
from the poets. Chaucer, the father of
English poetry, who k supposed to have
been born early in the reiga of Edward
m the date on hk tombstone is 1328
and who died about the year 1400, wrote
much of thk proverbial philosophy. In
the prologue to the "Testament of Love"
he has, "Habit maketh no monk, nor
wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight."
Henry Scogan, a contemporary of Chau
cer, thought so well of thk idea that he
pat into hk own poem, "A Moral Balade,"
words:
EaBgeade; though as rtah aeon,
Elyot put the same idea in
"TheGovemor," prthlkhml inl53L "We
have ia thk realm coins which he called
nobles. As long as they seem to be gold,
they be so called; butif they be counter
feited, and toadein brass, copper or oder
vile metaL who, for the print only, call
eth them nobles? Whereby it appeareth
that theeatimsfinnk the metal and not
m the print or figure." Itk most prob
able that Robert Bums never read Chau
cer, aever heard of Scogaa or Eryot; yet
the intuition of hk geaiua seized their
thought and so condensed it that we saw
have:
Xaa rank is hat the swBMMVa ataaa.
ThMMaaatha (aid tor' that
Thomas J. Bowditch ia Troy Times.
Every Moslem Wlieres devoutly hi a
aa overruling Provi-
and BurackaoC
akh,mthe duty of prayer, and
of the soul, m a future state of
BBMBts, and ia the ia-
of the Bible. Aa educated
if asked why he does aot be-
mav aot imnrobahrr
wary taasv accordmg to
eft New T
BsCBBttaaaGivHi mt Ta ay Tli .
oaaaireaay. imvat
reserved from oae of my
stjks himself "a Miriam aada Chrk-
Thougha most pious aad sincere Mo
hammedan, he chums to be one of those
"who profess and call themselves Chrk
tkas," for whom we pray every Sunday
that they may be led into the way of
truth. They hold that Islam was the lat
est revelation, perfectiag the Chrktiaa
revelation, just aa Chrktiaaity supple
aaaated the revelation given to the Jews.
Mwhammed maybe considered as a re
former of Chrktiaai--; like Luther he
denounced certain sMaaajtitions that had
grownup.
The Koran says that God gave the
Gospel to Jesus to proclaim, and that He
v put kindness and compassion into the
beans of those that rouoweu Him; oat
aa for the monastif life, they invented
It themselves." "In the time of Mo
hammed,'' says one of my friends,
"Christianity had become corrupt, aa
many of your own writers admit, aad k
was .these uaiaptfcae thatk was Mb
haauned's aikninn to reform. We reject
the corruptions of Christianity. But we
claim to have a final re velar ion, predicted
by your own prophets, just aa the com
ing of the Messiah was foretold to the
Jews, who nevertlielem blindly rejected
him as you reject Mohammed." Leaves
from an Egyptian Note Book.
TeaUasj Was
In attendance at one of the Indianapo
lis ward schools k a little colored girl t
years old. She k miserable, indeed, for
at home she k ill treated and the shoes
she wears, and often the clothes, are sup
plied by the teachers or some of her
classmates. There k a tender poetic vein
in her make up and it found vent in a
composition. The teacher took a little
pansy plant to school one day and told
the pupils of the flower. Two days
after she asked them to write a poem of
it and gave them the privilege of having
the pansy talk and tell the story, and
thk k what the little colored girl wrote,
the word pansy in the copy being the
only one dignified with a capital:
"I am only a Pansy. My home kin a
little brown bouse. I sleep in my little
brown house all winter, and I am now
going to open my eyes and look about.
'Give me some rain, sky, I want to look
out of my window and see what k going
on,' I asked, so the sky gave me some
water and I began to climb" to the win
dow, at last I got up there and open my
eyes, oh what a wonderful world I seen
when birds sang songs to me, and grass
hoppers kissed me, and dance with me,
and creakets smiled at me. and I had a
pretty green dress, there was trees that
grow over me and the wind faned me.
the sun smiled at me, and little children
smelled me one bright morning me and
the grasshoppers had a party he wood
play with me and a naughty boy pick me
up and tore me up and I died and that
was the last of Pansy." Indianapolk
Journal.
We are in danger of something worse
thaatheLibby prison speculation. Itk
.now proposed by aspeculative northerner
to purchase all the battlefields of the late
war, fence them in, turn them into
parks, and show them to visitors at
twenty-five cents a head.
It will strike those who are acquainted
with the situation that the great Ameri
can showman will have a big job on
hand when he comes to the cluster or
bouquet of battlefields around Atlanta.
Our old red hills have good cause to be
redder than any other hilk that ever
trembled through the thunder storm of
war.
Nowhere on American soil can there
be found a spot that was ever so pounded
and mangled and harried and scorched as
thk same Gate City of ours. 'All over the
world there are men now living whose
proudest boast k to my that they went
through our forty days' baptism of fire
or were in one of the many battles
fought under our city's walls.
We are not yet ready to sell 02?
blood stained fields of glory to the gun
strangers whose only interest in them k
to coin money out of them. If we can
do nothing better, let us level the grim for
tresses and the frowning ramparts, and
fill up the silent trenches once so full of
heroic life. Let us cover these scan of
war with the blooming industries of
peace! Atlanta Constitution.
A XwUI Dag Story.
A remarkable case of animal intelli
gence and fidelity has developed in thk
city. Every one knows the late D.
Watson's little dog Zolla, that used to
follow him everywhere and often ride
beside him in hk buggy seat. He would
come every morning to hk master's
office, and if he did not find him there
would run over to the livery stable to see
if the doctor's buggy was gone, and if it
was he would follow the track until he
had found him. When hk master was
in the coffin little Bolla was held up so
he could see hk face, and showed signs
of intense grief.
He was at the funeral at Woodbine
cemetery and was the last one to linger
at the new made grave. Since that time
he has visited the grave night and morn
ing and k seen sitting upon it keeping
watch, as though he expected hk kind
friend and master. He often wandered
alone on the streets at night, and a gen
tleman whose profile and beard some
what resemble Dr. Watson's has told us
that little Zolla has often walked in front
of him and gazed into hk face and even
followed him home and sat for hours in
front of hk door waiting for him to come
out that he might get one more look at
thk face ao much like the one treasured
in hk memory.-Jefferjon (Ga.) Herald.
In Philadelphia, if a fashionable tea or
dancing party k to be given, paintings or
other works of art may be leased for the
occasion from several firms. They will
pat the pictures up in the evening before
the entertainment and take them away
the next morning. In exchange their
charges are quite moderate. Any dam
age to the paintMga must be of course
paid for, and as much rental m to bring
the importeragood percentage on the
capital mvested. In the cam of the
wmmcr hotels, the best castomcra of the
picture dealers, the hotel keepers insure
the picture and pay for its use during
the season about 8 per cent, of its cost
price New York Telegram.
The British naval programme for the
fatnre k colossal In addition- to the
thirty-eight war ships of one land or an
other bow ia construction, seventy more
are to be laid down at a cost of twenty
two miflkm pounds sterling, making five
haadred aad oaa war ships by ISM.
TENDING THE BABY.
HOW THE ROSES PALE AND DIE
UPON THE MOTHER'S CHEEK.
after eariag for thk pink aad white tyr-
aaay, so helpless aad yet
I Our homea are aot aQ
cook, nursemaid aad hniawmsiit Not
I to ilkmks the fact, a majority of the
littkoneaareBurtared by the
i who combines all thms nalrm in
If the
because the hoasa awther k the pivot
upoa which swiag ao maay acttritka.
Itk of these hnmsa without wealth, yet
mi fa additrrtaaiidaaUiailiisi. awiailj
subtractioa. maat be dona every week.
It k here the babies gather. The storks
seem to be fond of them humble homea
for they sever forget them. The hero
isms of life are largely by the firesides.
Theaagekof the children see aad tell
the Father oa high. These mothers who
have ao much to do and bear, with a
at their disposal, need
our sympathy.
joss's dat or soud res.
I belkve the majority of men think
the care of a baby k child's play. They
coma home from shop and office and see
the rosebud fresh, in its damty white,
and think what aa easy time Kate has,
with such a cherub to play with. It
surely cannot be work to torn and rock
and sing to thk little man, with shining
eyes. And yet the house mother looks
tired. The tears are almost at the eyes,
the mouth trembles, and John, stupidly
kind, wonders what it k all about.
But hk eyes are opened at last. He
baa the influenza and must stay at home
from the office What jolly fun it will
be to play with that son and ueuv Kate
shall go to her cousin's for the day. Leo
can see to the kitchen, And ao the good
wife departs, with many cautions and
warnings to John, aa to colic, food and
naps, the baby meanwhile crowing lus
tily as the mother gives it a good-by
: caress. John wonders why Kate grows
; old so fast, she k really fading. Poor
woman, she has not been out on a jaunt
like thk for months.
The baby for the first half hour k an
angel What fun it k to dandle him
about Now he drops off in a nap and
John will read the paper. But juntas
he is deep in the leading article, oblivi
ous to babies, there k a moan, then a
cry and John comes to hk senses. How
he cries, how red in the face he gets!
What does possess the child? He takes
him on hk knee, he rocks him, be tum
bles him, and now at last he walks with
him, but still he cries, hk little lips look
ing so grieved. Leo comes in and in
quires about dinner. Mistress always
sees to that. By thk time John k in a
profuse perspiration. The "sweat" the
doctor ordered k hk, in the order of na
ture. He k finally summoned to a
"picked up" dinner. What a contrast it
k to the inviting board of Kate. How
does she get time to attend to it? be asks
himself. But how that baby cries! In
fact he yelk lustily at last. Leo puts her
head into the door to inquire if he baa
hadhk milk. Zounds! John had for
gotten it entirely. Kate had charged
him to warm it at 1L The baby was
hungry; the poor little fellow was suffer
ing from any empty stomach. He got
hk milk and now k asleep, with a little
shadow on hk bright face.
"KATK MAS THIS EVERY OAT."
John's conscience troubles him. lie
k always cress when he k hungry. No
wonder the little colt cried, Now be
takes up that article again, feeling a lit
tle tnkused with hk dinner of "scraps."
He has forgotten all about the blessed
heir when he hears a little moan. The
dinner came too late, and a forenoon of
crying, with no nourishment, will have
its effect. And now the cherub criea.
Mercy, what a voice! He has the colic.
He twists aad wriggles and roUe John
gives htm catnip tea, and lie k easy for a
minute, then be begins again, and finally
betakes him up and marches up and
down the bouse, singing at the top of bk
voice, "My heavenly borne k bright and
fatr." Hk back aches, man as he k; hk
arms are tired and hk bead buzzes like a
machine. What does possess the child!
He certainly will cry hiraarlf to death.
After an hour and a half of thk ptoy the
baby drops into an exhausted sleep, and
John lays him down, He does not read
the paper aa be sits down. He has it
wjong side up. but be says to himself.
"Kate baa thk every day," and then be
doea a good deal of thinking He k a
sensible man. He has found out how
much pky there k in minding a baby
When Kate comes home rested and
looking younger than she baa for years,
with news and chat of her visit, a very
humble man receives her. There k pity
and admiration mingled in hk gw
The baby receives bk attention every
day after thk; at odd momenta, when at
home, he takes hka and becomes quite
expert in tending hk son and lieir
Such k the mother's experience with
her baby. Let us not allow, because of
her great love to her child, the roses to
pale aad dk upon her cheek. "A Coun
try Pareoa" in Good Housekeeping
The subject of poisonous paper haag
mgs has lately been discussed, in the
light of some new facts, by the Boston
Society for Medical Improvement
Some of the Imported papers stQlcoa
tain arsenic in quite dangerous amounts,
and even American manufacturers,
though they use km arsenic than for
merly, are aot yet wholly wkhm the Mas
ks of safety. It k found that one-third
of agraiato a square yard k decidedly
deleterious; bat papers are ia aae that
analysis shows to contaia tea, ifteea,
and evea twenty grains!
The following are important facts ia
the ease:
1. The harm varies, aa would natur
ally be supposed, taversery with the m
dividuaTa power of rlhninirion Thk
power may ha fuDy adequate ia some
persons, and ote inadequate mothers.
2. Thesymptomaof two persona in ju
rioaary affected by the same exposure
aad the results may be quite different.
Inffammatioa of the kidneys, for in
stance, may be induced ia the one, aad
not at aD ia the other.
t Arseaie amy aot give rise to the
of
y attr uj
How the asothera arms aad back ache
from tae true
4. While oae third of
square yard k Massy to
a young child amy be m jured by a
trace, aad the caaae of the trouble
be wholly unsuspected.
5. While arseaie k aotacaamlative
pokoa, like lead, yet it k very slowly
elksmatedfrom the body. It requires
weeks, aad sometimes evea aaoathStto
effect its complete
moval from aa
it
day aad aigat, amy cause a
of the pokoa in the
Thk accumulation will be very
rapid if the organs of elimination, one
or more of them, are feeble.
f. A aw and coaciueive method of de
tectrng the presence of arseaie ia the
system has been discovered, which leaves
ao room for doubt Thk test has besa
applied m many esses, aad has led to the
removal of the paper from the wall, or
of the patient from the room, followed
7. The covering of arsenicat'paperlry
non-arsenical k not sufficient io remove
danger, for though thk expedient may
prevent the arsenical dust from impreg
nating the air, yet it k surmised that
moktnre develops a volatile araenious
compound, which readily finds its way
into the air of the room. Youth's Com
panion. When Professor Morse was in Wash
ington, preparing to test the telegraph
line which had been erected at govern
ment expense between Washington and
Baltimore, he was attended by several
gentlemen friends, among whom was
Congressman John P. Wetherill, of
Maryland. Professor Morse rang up the
Baltimore office, then located in a room
over the postomce at Fayette and North
streets, and having received an answer
ing signal he announced that he was
ready to transmit a message to Balti
more. At thk juncture Congressman
Wetherill suggested that a3 communica
tion by electricity was a great event in
the world's history, the honor of sending
the first message should bo bestowed upon
some one identified with the nation's
progress. Thk suggestion met with ap
proval, but none could think of a person
whom thk honor would conspicuously
befit Suddenly Wetherill cried out: "I
have it! Mrs. Madison k in Washing
ton, and she k just the person."
That distinguished lady was sent for,
and in half an hour she arrived, duly
excited, but with the heavenly, obliging
smile she always wore. Professor Morse
asked her to write out a brief message to
some friend in Baltimore, and Mrs. Mad
ison accordingly wrote a line to the wife
of the congressman, simply the words:
"Mrs. James Madison's compliments to
Mrs. Wetherill. " This first message was
ticked off and shortly thereafter reached
Mrs. Wetherill at her country home in
the suburbs of Baltimore, liaving been
dispatched from the Baltimore office by
a courier on horseback.
Several other preliminary messages,
such aa "How are you?" etc., were sent,
and then came the formal communica
tion: "What hath God wrought." These
facts were narrated to me by Congress
man Wetherill in 1S47. Cliicago News.
A Sea of Fire.
A sea of phosphorescent fire, extend
ing as far as the eye could reach, was
passed 185 miles cast by north of Cape
Eenlopen by the Allan line steamer 3Ian
itoban from Glasgow. Capt Dunlop,
master of the Manitoban, said:
"Early on Tuesday night tho heavens
suddenly became overcast and intensely
.dark, and I left the bridge temporarily.
leaving second Officer Johnson in
charge. I had hardly reached the cliart
room when the cry of fire was announced
on the starboard bow, and I rubhed on
the bridge and found the sea to be like a
mass of flame, presenting a scene of sub
lime grandeur.
"Whenever a sea broke over the bow
of the vessel the drops of fire spread
over the rigging and decks like the fly
ing embers of a genuine conflagration,
where sparks were driven by a strong
wind. Everywhere on the decks were
found tiny sparkling phosphorescent
beads, which did not disappear until the
next morning. For two hours the ship
was steaming through thk sea of fire,
causing considerable alarm to many of
the superstitious sailors and passengers.
In the distance the sea appeared to be
breaking on a strand, but a dip of the
log without finding bottom indicated
that shoal water was not near .at hand."
Philadelphia Record.
ou
The olive k one of the oldest trees men
tioned in history. The ancients bad al
most a religious regard rorit, and its
branches early became the emblems of
peace and good wilL In thk age it u
valued chiefly for its oiL In Southern
Europe, where it k extensively grown,
the fruit, which k a small green oval, is
gathered when rare ripe and spread for
several days to dry and ferment It k
then crushed in a mill, the stones being
so adjusted as to avoid breaking the
stone of the fruit Itk then put into
coarse bags and the oil Lj expressed by a
screw press. The crashed nuisa in ground
a second and sometimes a third time, to
obtain lower grades of oiL Besides its
very extensive use as food, the oil k val
uable for its medicinal qualities and for
cutaneous application. The refuse, after
the oil k extracted, is used to fatten hogs,
and as a fertilizer. The green fruit
pickled in salt water and spiced, k
esteemed by many as a relish. Good
Housekeeping.
Caaae to Sit Oowa at
He had bought an admission ticket,
and with true rural independence,
swooped down on the best empty seat in
the theatre. He sat placidly there for a
few minutes, and then the usher came
aad told him he'd have to get out He
moved into another seat and presently
the usher came and fired him out of
that. He took another vacant seat and
presently the gentlemanly usher came
along and bounced him out of that
Thea he got mad. He stuck hk hat on
the hack of hk head and marched out
As ha passed the doorkeeper he stepped
up ami shook hk finger in bk face.
"Sea here, my man, I'm going back to
Sew Hampshire. I own 'ground there
and I can sit down." San Francisco
Chroaicle.
"Pa aint turninar out the sort of
I expected," said a little 8-vear-old W
Eader as he returned, rubbing hk legs,
from a woodshed seance wkh hk father,
"aad. ma, the next time he whips aa
kfs get a divorce." Washington Post.
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