Amblmd Wheelman.
mm
AflCor.HogloSwr.htry Herbert, the
United States orai»er Dolphin, built
by Jobs Boseh. steamed ovsx 10,000
miles daring 1808 without a mishap of
Japanese immigration to the United
States daring 1898 tree aery light, !
showing that the Jepe have disco vered j
that they can make an hustle mot. by
rnmafaing et boss* |
When brought into flontnet with
commerce the Armenian develop* «
subtlety end sharpness which pot into
the shade both Jew end Greek, acaerta
the Chicago Times-Herald. |
“Gaspbj xia” has been suggested as ■
the proper word to denote the fatal
temH of inhaling illuminating gas,;
Os eoarse, adds the New York Advcr-'
tieer, it is a Boston man who makes
the suggestion.
i &7T mmm^P"mmm^SZ!mTTE2SS
! The Virginia Coart of Appeals has
decided that the operation of as elec- i
trie railway upon a street of a city is)
not so additional harden thereon, for
which tbs abutting property owners
eco entitled to compensation.
At the beginning ot the present
century the Biblfl ooald bo etndied by
only ooe hith of the north's popnln-
Horn. Now it is tranlstod into lan
guages which otb it aneassiUo to
ntao tsaths of the world's inhobi-
The prsotiee of noqmttnd prisoner,
thanking the jury oogbt to be frowned
open, dedans tha New York San. &
is indecent and could be prerented by
heaping the ex-prisoner away from the
“Twelve gtod men end true.” If the
oßeewed is innocent, the jary hae con
ferred no favor, and only dose its
simple duty iu acquitting him or her
A lover of the bone in dealing with
the pending doom of that noble ant*
mol says that motor carriages are
likely to beeomo fashionable; that
they will reman so for some time,
meet of thooe who now keeps carriage
and horses using a motor carriage.
After a while, he think* there will be
o reaction, end carriage horses of the
highest sart witl be as much in demand
■flavor. The resalt woald be a great
iMNMt in the ooet of the best of then
•efaaaia. There ie a simple reason for
ftd* booaoM an than mm many failures
In breeding the highest olaes of horses
atoet or these failure* would be e dead
ten, owing to the fast that the motor
ear had superseded theeonveyanoes in
wfcteh these animals are now need,
the conolueioa is that ultimately
hones will be bred only so» boras
racing, for military parposo* for the
bolter sort of carriage nee, for boot*
lag and, to a email extent, tor pleasure
aiding.
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Nr, Samuel W. Abbott, Secretory of
Ifho Massachusetts Board of Hflnlth,
arrived o pretty theory to account for
the deelino in that State in the death
rate of women from pulmonary
troubles. Ho attributes the decline to
tho bm of the bicycle, and points out
Chat it begun five year* ago, when the
women began to am the bicycle. This
woe very oomforting to the bioyele
manufacturers, hut the Springfield
Republican rains this theory by pro
facing figures to show that, happily
let Massachusetts people, the decline
in the mortality from consumption be
gan ten yearn ago. During tbe decode
ending in 1880 the deaths in Mama
chasetts from consumption hod avur
ngtd 817 each year per 18,000 of pop
olation. In 1888 tho rate had fallen
t081.7,1n 1888 t 080.7, and 1889 to
88.7. Thfawas before tbe safety hi
: cycle bed oome into general use even
far men, and, no far a» noted, the de
eiine fat tho mortality rate from pul*
mooary fanm w as marked among
man ee it wan among woman. This
destine la mortality from one of the
worst eeoargee of Mow England has
eontlnaed ainoe 1889, Uio morUty|r
goto «a 1888 botagflhont 98 por 10,000,
wpreeeating o deetmee from tho sv
m oos tho decode to 1880 of nearly
.tdcmto the Wtefanteeueesi H
. with improved muffs
tfapifl relation thereto, Is portly to*
and to thir reey per naps he
3*4 the aeclimutlrstioo of immi-;
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DOX*X WOK BUTOBK BBS AKTAST.
I A bad custom is prevalent in many
families, especially among our farmers,
i writes J. Ia Bersey. It is the habit
{of working an hour or two before
breakfast, doing tho shores, hoeing,
cutting wood, etc. This is convenient
in many earns, but ia not oondnmve to
health. The common notion that Aha
morning air ie the purest and meet
1 healthful ia wrong, for at no boor ia
1 tho air more filled with dampness and
1 fog than about sunrise. Tho beat of
tho aan gradually dissipates three as
the day advances. An early meal
; braces up the system against them ex
-1 ternal influences. New England
Homestead.
mem vm tn bust stock.
It is very difficult for a farmer who
fa jnst beginning in thin business, and
who finds all aorta ofexpenses soenmti-
I fating, to make up bis mind to
I secure only tho beat stock, no matter
what it ooet. Yet if ho really under
stands hie business this ia what bo will
do it hit purchase haa to be restricted
to a single animal. Breeding from
this ho eaa soon stock up to the extent
that his farm requires, and hie profits
on his live stock increase will be gen
erally greater than from tho growing
and mla of erepet It is tho advantage
of the live stock on tho farm that it
managed as it should be that it wfl
make the fafm pay while it is being
all the time made richer, and that
thus it will make the growing of crops
ultimately profitable. —Boston Culti
vator.
acinus as cum.
We have tramped tbe prsrim of 1111*
noi« many a day back in tho ’6u's in
search of prairie chickens, writes H.
B. Geer. We have shot them from the
few trees is the scattering groves that
bordered the ereeks shout Delaveu
Prairie in Logan County. That was
when tbe whole country was up in
arms snd tbs tramp of the soldiers was
heard in tho land, and shot and shell
abounded everywhere.
Thru Spain, when in Missouri, right
niter ‘-Price’e raid,” ia the southeast
ern part of tbe Bt«te, we hooted
pheasants in the heavy woods of the
bottom Jamie of Parry and St. Gen
evieve Con sties.
Those were stirring times, lively
times, sod good times lor the woods
men snd hunter.
. But all that is past now, and the
country that then abounded in prairie
chickens, pheasants, eto., is now given
over to fields and lanes. Partridges
still abound, and are proteoted by I**,
and sflbrd good sport and a full game
bag in lbs fall of the year. They
seem to thrivo under tbe conditions of
ehMisstton, sad there Is another spe
cies of fowl, or bird, that prospers
and multiplies while surrounded by
fields, pastures and orchards. We
1 refer to the guinea fowl, a bird that
cane to a* originally from Africa
Plainly Mia of tbeMima family as tbs
groan, pheasant and prairie ehiofcen,
and it in superior to them iaoimncb
aa it takes kindly to domestication.
Go Beal might In railed by the
dozen or even by the bandied, where
only a few are railed to day. They
take naturally to range, will forage
for a living, make their neata oat in
the brash, and batch and raise their
yonng without any care to apeak of on
the part of tbeir owners.
It wovld taka bnt little effort on the
pact of tbe farmers of any community
to stock tbeir outlaying premises with
gniosiw, a Species of Mrd fatly as
good for tbe table aethcpreirfo chick
ens that they banted so vigorously in
the earlier days of tbe country.
The flesh of the guinea is dark it ia
true, bnt so is the ficsb of any other
wild bird derk, and the guinea ia just
aa well suited to the tablo as the wild
ohieken of tbe prairie.
It occurs to ne that tbe enltivntion
of tbe guinea as game to some extent
would be profitable and satisfactory.
—Farm, Field aad Fireside.
rams imo oajumn aoaa.
The asparagus fern In oon of the beat
plants for decorative once, being as*
tremaly graoefei end very lasting.
The sheep should have a good dip*
pfng before winter oats in; it will save
trouble, suffering end death daring
that letfOD.
Oae of the beet fertilisers for the
window garden la the eoCee left ever
from breakfast. It should he applied
©old. Coffee grounds are often reoom
mended, hat 1 have found that they
have a tendency to mold.
Tbe petunia ia a very natia'aetory
plant sere window box. It ia well to
fill a window with them, aa (hey re*
quire a eooiar room than some window
plants end plenty of sea. Then, toot
tbe messed offset of them is good.
The bestjmlom for heme growth are
tbe etardy India rubber tree, tbe per
i lor palm or Aspidistra lnrida, aod the
• ntn palm liltlK ‘ffhece aea
and are easily kept clean, and will
stand the beat of too living room.
Nasturtiums oan be readily grown
in water, the same as tbe '.hyacinth or
Chinese lily. The jar should be half
filled with ebarooal before the water Is
poured in. The plant is started from
slips and soon presents a beantUnl ap
pear smoe.
The following fa recommended whoa
the sheep's feet seem tender: One pert
vaseline or lard to one part aoetate of
copper well ground and mixed with it, i
This will oounterant whatever poison
that may affect the feet tnrongh tho
effects of impnro matter in ground.
Triumphs and Vicissitudes of a Tenor.
Italn Gampanini, the ouee famous
tenor, who died on Nov. 23, at Parma,
Italy, had a varied and highly inter
esting experience of the triumphs and
vicissitudes of life. He sang at one
time for eighty cents a night, and at
another for a thousand dollars, la
one soason (with Henry K. Abbey) he
la said to have been paid 930,000, but 1
he died poor, as well as voieolssa Bo
was a blacksmith's son, borni n Parma
! ia 1888, and was brought up to his
father's trade, which be first left when
. fourteen years old to go soldiering
! under Garibaldi Bn wept hack to bio
! anvil after tho war, bnt his vooal abili
t ea were soon discovered by a musi
cian, Who happened to hear him sing,
and set him to a coarse of study as a
free pupil in tho Parma conservatory.
, At about tho ago of twenty one he be
gan as an opera singer. Ho had some
socoeio, and made an engagement to
travel in Bosnia at about 828 a month,
but returned presently to Milan, end
studied further with Lamperti. After
i a year’s application he appeared in La
Scats in “Faust,” and was greatly suc
cessful. Ho sang coder Colonel Maple
son in London in 1872, and the next
i year came to thta eonntrr, where ho
t was a highly important member of the
notable company which included
Nilsson, Annin Louise Cary, Oapuul,
and Muurel. At that time bis voice
was at its beat, and be was the greatest
tenor of tbs day. His repertoire, too,
was remarkable, and iootuded eighty
opera* In 187 fbe came book bere,
and for.six years was very pops’ar snd
succwefal as the leading tenor in tbe
old Academy of Music. He was a
powerful actor, too, having profiled
by the instruction ot Salviai. After
that his voice began to fail, for he took
> bad cars of himself, snd the rest of his
i story fa tbe record of uusr.eceasrnl snd
costly efforts to go on after hie career
was finished.
Personalty he was simple and nnaf
> fcoted, much liked by many friend*
and exceedingly popular on ample
’ grounds with Ihfl public. He booght
an estate near Parma when money was
i plenty with him, and though bis later
losses ate into it, part or It was still
i lea to him when he died.—Harper'#
Weakly.
This Cat la a True Spwt.
Possibly tha moit remarkable eat in
Vermont lives in Poaltney on tbe
shores of Lake St. Gatheriua. The oat
ia tbe special pride and pet of Mrs.
Henry Hastings. As a banter the an-*
itnal baa manifested extraordinary sa
gacity. It has actually captured more
game than any hunter in tbe county.
Not long ago tbe oat entered tbs
bones with a tins mink between bet
sharp teeth. She walked ap to Mrs.
Hastings, arched her back mis wish
ing to be robbed, and then dropped
tha mink at her feet
It was not the first time, however,
that tbe eat Had eaught a mink. It
has caught no less than half a dozen.
All were in fine condition and exceed •
iogly valuable for tbeir for. Bnt it ie
as a rabbit banter that tbe est ranks
pre-eminent Sinee the beginning of
1896 she bee oanght and taken to her
mistress’s house nearly 100 rabbits.
Many of these rabbits wets as largs aa
henelf, and aa a rabbit isn't mock of e
fighter, the shy little aelmala warn no
doubt captured without any great
trouble.
Mrs. Hastings is never surprised to
«tea dead rabbit lying about the
house, la fact, she weeldaot be much
surprised if the eat brought home a
fox or other larger game. Ilia a re
markable foot that the eat never takes
poor game heme with her. The mink
are always the finest, the rabbits tbe
plnmpeat eed the birds the teaderenk
-Fit Fork Frees.
Gothaab Breathing Spots.
A complete list has been mtdeo!
the park lands owned by the eily of
hew York. They aggregate 4998 aura*
divided into sixty-one Different park*,
ranging ia nine from .018 of aa aere to
17M sores, which is tbe area of Pel
ham Bay Park. Tbe parn lends com
prise nearly one-fifth of the total area
of the city. The ooneolidaltoa with
Brooklyn will add 1405 term to thin
total, besides twenty-two miles si
parkways.
BUDGET OF EUN.
mnORODS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOUROKS.
Hard Road to Travel—A Funny Man
—Our BeantUnl Uaugnogn— ttm
Rusher—Civil Servian
Questions, Ktc.
———
Bow doth the busy farmer
Market his gstdss truuk.
Rhea both his mules snd wagon
Witbin Dm mad hw steak?
—L. X. W. Bulletin,
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erra. KHBYIOB QUESTIONS.
“What part of ipoeoh fa egg?”
“Naan, sir.”
“What fa its gender 7”
•‘Don't know till its hatohed.” *
no unman.
Hustle- “ Why, man, you’re behind
the age!”
! Fogey—“Wall, that has helped me
, to save a good many years of my own,”
A wvmx HSU.
She—•• Mr. Pyefaca is such a witty
man.”
Ha—“To be sore. His mouth iteelf
Is a fanny crack.”—Cinuinanti Bn
quirer.
ottb nuAtmroz. lawotacb.
“This ie a great country.“
“Yes, with a great language. I
heard one men say to soother that the
only way to make blun dry up was to
•oak him.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
an bart AzauxomoKT.
“What in the world have yon been
marrying lor?” asked Callow's stern
father; “you can't support a wife.”
“Nobody oabl I could. But f got a
wife that oan rapport me."—Detroit
Free Praam
SOUXDAX.
lira. Cobwigger—“Everybody says
the charity ball was a failure.”
“Mrs. Dorcas—“do it was. The
committee oat down the expenses so
that there would be something fait for
charity.”—Jfudge.
a mctuad rnixm.
Bobby—“ Popper, what fa a mutual
friend?”
Mr, Ferry—"He fa generally one
who makes it hie businem to eee that
you don’t mlw hearing tho mean
things your friends say about you.”—
Oineiaoati Enquirer.
mm ns omx on ths onnm.
“O Jack, dear I” nobbed Mrs. Mo-
Brirle, as she fe.ll on her husban’a neek
on his return from tbe office^
“What fa it now, love? Trouble
with tbe hired airi?”
“Y-y-y-e-e-st”
“What’s tbe matter? Has ebe quit,
• or does she refuse to be discharged?”
—ldle.
A LAST HXSOOHCB.
Aretie Explorer—“lf my. lecturing
tour proves financially saocesxfal, I
shall make another attempt to find the
Pole in the spring.”
Friend—“ And if it doesn't?”
Arctic Explorer—“ Then I suppose
I shall have to content myself with
going in search of some other ex
plorer. "—Truth.
jtnrx shot rooter.
“Where,” said the suctione«r, ad
dressing an audience ot possible pur
chaser* “whets else on the face of the
globe will you find in one plane cop
per, tin, iron, cotton, hemp, grain,
Mme—”
And a voiee from the erowd replied:
“In the pocket of ray youngest ran.”
—Pearson’s Weekly.
nornm, A la cooking school.
“This fa pretty stoat batter,” de*
clsrged Mr. Newly, with a frown that
was deep Tor a man who had been mar
ried but a month.
“Don’t sooid, dearie,” urged his
pretty little wife. “It’ll not occur
again. 1 have bought a ohnrn and
or fared buttermilk to be delivered
regularly. Hereafter well have sweet,
fresh butter."—Detroit Free Pres*
BBS wnranra wan.
“Oh, Henry,” exclaimed bis UUfa
wife se ebe threw her artna rapturous
i ly around hie neek. “I do love you
so I Don’t forget to leave me 820 when
• you go In town this morning; will you,
1 dear r
“And this,” muttered Henry, softly
disengaging himself from bar food
embrace, “this fa what you might call
1 being hard pressed for money.”—
Somerville Journal.
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no naKXAXxg,
“Is Mr* Johnson home?” ached
little Flora Giogglus* at Mr* Jack
son’* where her mother had seat her
i ob std errand*
I "*** *" »*d Mr* Jaokson.
“Way. wha* do you mean, ehild? I’m
Utere'fl no Mrs.
, Johneou here.”
2 ppo “ 7° m ’ r * fady,"
■md little FI. ra, *‘bnl papa says
I »*J Jtok. Wfl moat alwayV say I
i John.
i 111
a OABroii mnin.
He went slowly and with great do
liberation into tbe drug store, and but
eyes wandered around ths room ae II
in search ot something, while theolerk
watted babind the eoonter for him to
make known hta withes.
“C wta looking for yonr dlulomn,”
he said at length. 4 -Some drnggiate
display the sheepskin they receive on
graduating from the College of Phar
macy. You are a graduate, I sup
pose?”
“Yea, sir.”
"Ton aro duly licensed to dfapansa
medicines and eompouad prescrip
tions?”
“Oh yea, «r.”
“I ask because one cannot be too
particular when making pnrebasee in
a drug store. Tbe newspapers apeak
frequently of griovous mistake* made
by careless dispensers ot drags. Os
course if you had ever pnt morphine
in a prescription instead of quinine
you wonld not admit It, I suppose?”
“I have never made that mistake,
air."
“1 have beard ot some very carious
results following the careless substitu
tion of poisons tor soma harmless
drug similar in appearance. For that
reason I always make it a point to
satisfy myaelt upon tbe qualifloationn
of the man who serves mo when l have
oceaaion to make a purobstte in a atora
where I am not acquainted with ths
dealer.”
“Yon need hnvs no fear here, sir,”
•aid the elerk. • 'None bnt ex perienoed
pharmacists arc employed here. What
oan I do for you?”
“I think I«m trust yon. You may
give me a two-cent postage stamp. ”
Harper’s Bazar.
rurULAB BCIKSCE.
A rotary gas engine fa on*
Os British birds the cnokoo fay* ths
smallest egg in proportion to its nine.
The spider’s eyes 'are not in his
head, bnt in the upper part of his
thorax.
Deafnssa ie more oomaou in cold
countries than in warm climate* the
ear being very sensitive to atmospheric
changes.
A new hypnotic bae probably been
found in Jamvios dogwood. The
llnid extract haa bssn’found efficacious
in dentistry.
Tbe proetns has no aotinv eyes and
ia prsetieaily colorless, living in the
mail, dome of them placed in light
for two or three years, developed pig.
moot in the ocular region.
Experiments on war balloons are bo-
ing carried on in tbie country nt Fort
Logan, 001., by authority of tha War
Department, wb«eb will aeon urge
Congress lot #IO,OOO appropriation.
A French experimenter, Qamille
Dureste. says that tbe germ in the
hen’s egg is not destroyed by an oteo
trio current that would kill an adult
fowl, bat that tbe germ ie so modified
in most cases that a monstrosity will
be hatched.
A Berlin scientist has ascertained
by experiment that a number of per
sons who nee the tetepbono habitually
hear better with tbe left ear than with
the right To educate the right ear
I®..™* P? lat ha recommends
holding tho j antra meat in the right
hand half the time.
iosnote, like tbe opossum,
(?f RB to escape an enemy.
The fever worm”—larva of oueofonr
commonest botterfliee—w U pretend
deeth if touched by the finger. The
tamble beg, jf touched white rolling
hie precious bar,lnn toward hie storn
honse, will roil over aad feign -With
till lie thinks the intruder has fort.
Bachelors Punished a Diserter. i
The Old BaoUelors’ Club, of El wood
lad.,was oat ia force on a recent eight!
and the latest member of that organi
zation to desert its ranks for tha mar
riage state was punished by the beys,
as is tbeir custom when a member
breaks tbe raise.
Walter Becord, a young business
man, was the viotim, aod the fan
eterted at nooa, ween he arrived in
the dly with hie bride. He wen Vat
at the train by a delegation of his foj.
mer follow members, who
double lino from the train ti the cab*
At algbt they dressed ■„ s. .u
clothes and got a hay wag„n ”
woekery crate and drove oak Ie the
home of the victim, who was oonfioed
wbieh tod been arranged for hie bene
fit. Aljmj was impaneled end the
viotim was granted a lawyer to W
after hia interests. When the vS
neem were oil examined tha fall
fonad him guilty of bracking tito2
cred rale, of the erd S St to
wneatonoo taken to the crate JTa
tjwu fonowe.l a,proee«ton around tto
fXI foVia JSr boß * «3
hia room.—Chinago Tyaee-
Cftueeralng the IlgUfogp,
The aightnpe almost uoivsnally
sir “ si: M eD u^r^^
Th!rJCr-V* °“ i »«»aHy discarded.
fif?..** . w »dom of tbie change.
MS- tate ffMft took there
I o**o** 0 **
"!!?• olhi » declare, with equal
forvmr. that neuralgia and eatorrh an
■•eh more eommea since the night
«P was banished item the wardrobe!