Trr"1" 12 THE COURIER. LITERARY NOTES. were going on normally and uninter- like. They knew they must let people ruptedly. When, however, the cat was of rank see me, and were afraid for irritated, it maybe by the sight of a . themselves." - Here I aaid' that the min dogl'these' pulsations "-instantly ceased. isters'were afraid -that if .-they4eft him Asl'Brvifl Osa friA OAllfa g9 vavafiAn waa Sn TCntvIa! lm ntAiiM aMMiiwi AuhZaa . .??2 iL.tT"" thepuiringof the animal ' the throne of France and wage another showed a contented frame of mind, the war against Ecgland. "Bah, bah !" Kipling's New Animal Stories. 'The beginning of the Armadillos' in the May Ladies' Home Journal - Of course, Mr. Kipling brings to bear an irreeistably funny, but withal a highly ingenious, philosophy in describing 4he peculiarities of the armadillo. He evi dently found enjoyment in writing these stories he oalls't hem "Just So" stories for he has interwoven more inimitable humor into his account of the way by which the armadillos came into being, and the others of the series, than in any thing else that has come frost his versa tile pen. stomach resumed its rhythmical move, tnents. The 'dependence of the diges tive apparatus on the state of the nerv ous system was thus clearly shown. The female cat was much more tractable under 4baa experiments than the male. Prom "Recent Developments with the X RayB, by Professor John Trowbridge, in Appleton's Popular Science Monthly for April. said he,, ''the times are changed; the time for that is over. I am old, and be sides, fifty years must elapse before France will be able to face England again. No, do; I know all that well; I know that that is all goner-vanished." Mr. W. K. Moody, who has in his possession all of his father's papers sd is preparing a very complete Hfe of the great preacher, has consented to write Napoleon on Suicide. In April Century Napoleon gives his views of suicide. "They perhaps think that I will put an sod to myself. No; there is greater courage in supporting it A gamstnr or .:ii . - -- - - :. .iu., wr - -"-"' barlDtmiyflnlBhthefflse1vee.but it Post a series of anecdotel papers pn his y not aman of character. True, I could'do it in an instant beyond father's life and work, profusely illus trated with hitherto unpublished photographs. The Same Effect. "It is very odd," remarked Mr. Hub. bub, "that in Africa there is a tribe which cannot wear clothes at all. Clothes make them sick. Isn't it strange, my dear?" "Not at all," replied Mrs. Hubbub. The same thing happens in this coun try aJso." '.'On, surely not. I never heard of such, a thing in civilized counties." 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