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THE OOLL'S WOOING. SS3i® S.i ,V ffeft bill* French doll was * dear lit'ls doll WcM out to lb* »ww«n of i H-r «vw *»• of bun ,v 5>v A molt delfcato bine, ; ' And dark •• the night were her tresves. Herdsar little mouth was flutfd euad rod. And t.hi« Utile Ftench doll tii 10 very well bred flUt whenever accosted h»>r little mouth M|d: "Mattima! mamma!" while by turning II bee* airal %-bol© wouM IOTIMW0Ht^f The Stockinet doll, with one arm and ons lag, Bad once been a ha- d -omt young fellow, But now be appeared Rather irnwzy and bleired labia torn regimental* of yellow, . S*Ot l£s 'ftwir' s»v«* n onrions thumyMfcS l*y In the tittle toy curt near tba window-t>ne day And beard tli« street voice of that trench dolly BftV : "Mamma! mamma!" Bells ened so long end he listenedsohftrd That auon he grew ever so tender,"1" »• or it's everywhere known That I,lie fcmi iue tone ^ Gets awav wli h nil masculine gender. He up and he wooed be witb >-oi<iieriy M»sti, " Bnt all "ho a r> ply to the love he professed • 1 Were tnece plaintive words (which perhaps you have gnescea:) "Mamma' mamma!" HWBnther -R sweet, little lady of ? { Vouchsafed her pu en:al proi'octioO, ' | And alth ough stockinet ' Wasn't blueblooJe.l, yet f]'•' "j She reully could make no object otfV So s.ldier and dolly v ere wedded one day, | And a movit nt, jigo, as X jourueyrd mat way I'm sure that I heard a wee baby voice t^y» ! "Mamma! mamma 1" to the fesar. tbat Is be- ngera that WOKSE THAN BLRGLAliS i" K\ m •ttf Mr. Reuben Goldsmid was a pros­ perous man. He had a dingy little off.ee in Hatton harden, tb£ chief j furniture of which consisted of two j huge s^afes, which always contained j enough diamonds, polished and in | the rough, to adorn a court. He j was as well-known among the dia- j ruond-brokers of Amsterdam as he ' was in Hattoh Garden. He had a ! villa on the breezy Northern Heights of London, and Mrs. Goldsmid and J her two d&ugbters giomd in such an j array or sparkling brilliants as made most of their lady friends heartily dislike them, though, apart from this, they were very amiable people. Mr. Reuben Goldsmid had very lit­ tle to trouble him, but eveo the most peaceful lives have their periods of unrest, and trouble came to Mr. Goldsmid in the shape of a kindly circular from Scotland Yard. It warned him that the enterprising burglar was on the war path in the London suburbs, and that detached houses "standing in their own grounds" were especially liable to his attack. This completely spoiled Mr. Goldsmid's appetite for his break­ fast, and its cuect was not dimin­ ished by reading in the morning i a- pers that a gang of burglars had ap­ propriated the jewels of an am­ bassador's wife. As he went to town that day, his attention was attracted by the talk of two of his fellow travelers. One w&s a stout. comfortable-looKing city man: the other a tall, bony man, with a big black mustache. "Fearful business, this burglary at the Bulgarian Ambassador's," said the stout man; "where are the po­ lice?" iyt "That's just what I want to know," ftfcT ; said the tall man. "In my country, if a chap goes burgling in a city; why, the police run hiai to earth pretty quick: and if be tries that game on In the country, you tet he soon has the regulators on his track, and finds himself strung up to a telegraph pole. You take things a long sight too easy in this old country of yours." ^All very well talking," said the stout man, gruffly; "I've heard of American burglaries before, this." "See here," said the tall n»an; "an American burglar has a lot to do be­ fore he gets inside a house. Your idea here seems to be to have locks that you can pick with a crooked nail, and window catches you can open with a butter-knife. Why. you just encourage the burglars. 1 should like to rig up a house and make it safe, and see some of your clever burglars looling around tiyingto find a way in." Mr. Goldsmid could keep silence no longer. "I beg your pardon, sir," he said, "but 1 really should like to have a talk with you. To tell you the truth, I am very much disturbed in mind about this ep.deiui.* or barglary, a Vl if you can help me to put my bouse in something like a tolerable state of security, I shail be most grateful. I am ready to spend any amouut of money--any reasonaule amount--if this cau be done, and at once. You must pardon me, a., stranger, putting the tb ng in this way to you, but I am most anxious, I assure you. Here is my caid." j "And here is mine, sir. I*m happy ! to make your acquaintance, Mr. i Goldsmind, and I shall be glad to i help you." j Mr. Goldsmid took the card and i read: ••Cyrus F. Trotter, Mechanical j and Electrical Engineer, 251 West j Fifteenth Street, New York." ' ! Mr. Trotter went on to say that he ! was on a professional visit to Eng- j land, and that if Mr. Goldsmid i really wanted his pla.e "fixed up," he (Mr. trotter) was the man to do it; and finally agreed to lunch that ' day with Mr. Goldsmid, submit to | him a plan of defence, and take steps for carrying it out. After lunch Mr. Trotter took the diamond merchant t) half-a-dozen shops and offices, to show h.m var­ ious engines of destruction and me­ chanical devices which he must pur­ chase in order to "fix up" the house at Ifi£bgate. At the electrician's he explained to him & delicately-ar­ ranged system of bells, which would be put in action by a burglar's toot alighting on a board fitted as a treadle inside door or window; at a machine-gun company's omces the secretary of the campany, showed at k his^request, a neat little, ' 'domestic Galling," which could be mounted on a wind.w-sill, or at the nead of a staircase, and which was so simple that a baby in arms could work it. Finally, in a city warehouse, Mr. ^Trotter showed him what looked like a gigantic rao-trap. "We use that kind of thing out West, he said, "for trapping ^b'ars* And wolves, but I jreckou you have to be carerul how you set it. or you might be caught in it yourself, and have to stop there till the 'b'^r' comes and takes you out by instal­ ments. 1 reckon Mr. night, and yond the reach of afflict ordinary mortals. Next day he was called away to Amsterdam cn ^p^iortaat^r^usiness. He sent a telegivb xi> Mrs. Goldsmid telling her that, if he were nob back by 6 p. ni. on Tuesday, was not to expect him till the next day. Tuesday found b^monhia Waybome; but it. was fosygy" in the channel, and the boat was late, It was nijqnight when he arrive®. u... il There was & logon the land as welt |as at sea There was not a carriage ito meet him, no cab was to be had; iso he took his bag in bis hind and tramped off to his housfc life made .bis way up the foggy lane, glad when be found his bWii gate. He Could see that gas was burning dim in the h ill. •J4e would try ii be could/tet tti^aself In witb bis latchkey without disturb­ ing the household / ' , .. < He turned the key. He'pushed the door open, and there was a pleas­ ant feeling of being »e at home, when, as his foot crossed the fa^niliar threshold, he Jbeard scunewb^re the jingling sound of ari electric ' bell; then there was a whirring poise o* clockwork haif way Up the rftaVrs in front of him, and he had barely time to remember all that Mr. Cyrus F. Trotter had done before bis depart­ ure, when from the stair came a long bright flash, a ringing rebwrw and a whistling Gr--r--r! went the clgckwork; then, in another second:.'flash*? bang! whiz! crash! and a shower of splin­ ters flew from the £oor lie, ti&rl just opened; and poor Mr. Goldsmid real­ ized that the'xiomesticQaVinkg" had come into action. Ha hpdkstarted it as he pushed open the door. He dashed wildly fti&o.* cuass of shrubs. :*udden]y there w*s a sharp snap. He felt a stioke below hi$ knee which nearly broke his lejfr; he Was Safe in the iron grip of the bear-trap! He fell in a heap, with its jaws--luckily for him mutMen in leathern-clinging to and crippling him He could not see the house through the shrubs, and the fog, but the tire of the ma­ chine-gun had stopped, and an alarm- bell on the roof was clanging out its call for help. After what seemed an age, ha heard a police whistle, then; "Hallo, there," said a gruff voice, ' "what's the matter?" ' 'Burglars--a whole gang of them !•*" and he recognized the well-known voice of bis trusty man-servant Hig- gins. "But the An eritan bauter- matic happeratusses that master tit- ted upbefore he went Aw ay fright­ ened them all off." .. ; Mr. Goldsmid ventured to call out. "Higgins!" be sbosted, but he w%w short of breath. The two police­ men ~dr$w their staves, and dashed into the shrubbery." \ , Snap! went bear-trap Nix two. -"Hang it!" shouted policeman No 97:J. as he rolled over, feeling sure j that some device of tbe burglars had j brought him to tbe ground. It was j only when he tri^d to rise that he j found how fast he was heid: but he ! only said "Hang it " a little more j fiercely, and turned on his side to I look after his comrade. j That (omrade was stooping over I Mr. Goldsmid, bashing his bull's-eye in his face. "Help me up," said Mr. Goldsmid; "I'm caught in a tra . Call Higgins here. Get me wot of'tbi^. 1 nay." "Caught you are.* said the police­ man, "and neatly, py .Jove! Mate, there's a big rat-trap got him by the leg." "Blessed if some infernal machine of the same kind hasn't got me!" said No. "73, impatiently. By this time Higgins bad mus­ tered up courage to advance iftto the | shrubbery: apd to,tbe policeman's ' surprise, he recognised in tbe pros- ! trate burglar the master o( the house, i With some didi ulty the two can-, ! tives were liberated from the bear- i traps, and Mr. Goldsiuid was not t» ; be seen at Hatton Garden for two ! days after his adventure. Mr. Cyrus . Trotter called on him in high glee the very day he reappeared at his j office. ! "I reckon," he said, "my. fortune's made. Why, the apparatus fitted splendidly. It's got into all the pa­ pers, and I shall have no end of orders from your aristocracy and gen­ try. " . ,, "Well," said Mr. Goldsmid, "as soon as your first order eomos in, you may take all your fixings out of my place, and give them tb the man who wants them I would, sooner have the burglars any day. 1 don't blame you, but you nearly billed me at my own door, ' "Weil," said Mr. Trotter," solemn­ ly, „"one must never' eipfett mucn gratitude in this misiruWe'^brkl. If you ( on't like the iixing<s. why, l'H shift them; but don't b)a#e tne next time you'ie burgled, thaft's all"-- Tid-bits. WHAT QUEER THINGS WE ARE. Bmoltt of Self-Kx«mtnation on tbo l*srt of the MM with the Topcoat. Two men were riding down-town »ne morning recently in an elevated train. The man with the silk bat had made a discovery, and he ques­ tioned his friend thus: ^ "Are you right-handed?" "Yes," said the man in tba, Jjp>p- coat. ^"'0 "Right-legged, also?" "Right-legged. naM ', r "Sure?" . '"'c "Why, of course, I'm sure. I have more power and dexterity in my right arm and hand than in my left arm and hand. But as for my legs, I can and do use one the same as ,tbe other." "How about your ears?" , "Same as legs." ^ > "Eyes?" 4 'Each equal to the other iti (Ul re­ s p e c t s . " - . ' J • "Sides to your jaws?"- "Why are you asking merecb ijtjes- tions? It tthere's a joke in prosoeict, les s have the laugh no^ " "No joke. All sincerity. Wanted to know how well you knew yourself. See you're very slightly acquainted. Just watch yourself for a few days. The proper study for mankind is-- good-by, here's my station. You'll be the most surprised man--" • &tep lively, please," called the guard--"in the world." And the inquisitor just managed to get out upon the station platform as the iron gates banged behind him. "You're right." said the man with the topcoat a couple of mornings later. . "Told you " • '0 "Dead right I've kept ta# bh myself. Noticed when I used the j telephone I always put the teceiver [ to my right ear. Tried my left ear and got all mixed up "Found 1 always put toy left foot lirst into an elevator and always took the first step with it when I went up or down stairs. Started to go down some steps with my right foot lead­ ing and nearly had a tumble. Then 1 am right-jawed. I always chew my food on the right side ot my mouth. •Never thought of it before, but things do not taste as good on the left side. They do not taste so much, either. Queer, isn't it, how the sense of taste will bepome more highly developed in one part of the mouth than in another by the use and force or habit? "l-'m left-eyed. You know, I'm interested in botany and use a mi­ croscope a great deal. Weil, 1 in­ variably look through the instrument with my left <jye. For ordinary pur­ poses my right eye seems to be as Keen as the left one, but I found that it was not at all satisfactory when I applied it to the microscope "I'm right-banrled, left eyed, right- jawed, left-legged, and right-eared, i suppose I'm right or left in a good many more things, but i haven't had time to discover them yet." ,(What queer things we are!" said tbe man with the silk hat MYSTERY OF A SMOKING TREE. &nl11 may wpwiy folppjis % a fatal termination. M tboruugh attention to claanlinew ttuv untoward consequences ofa#<M[ liable to become in ected can be ef­ fectually p.evented. On the other hand, when the septicjemic attack has declared itself, as a rule, llttlfe cam be done by the surgeon to stem the virulence with which it develops. It should, therefore, be borne in ipind that so long as wohnds, how­ ever small, remain unhealed, the risk of cop tract! ng blood-poisoning ^w&i always be present. ; ^tealthy Tiger. 1 "' Most wiM-janimals are specialists; that is to say, they are highly de­ veloped io one particular direction. The tigeV is great as a stalker. His leet seem to be "shod with silence," *Mr. R. H. Elliot, for many 3ears a resident of India, cites an experience one of his neighbors illustrative of this point He bad been much annoyed by tigers, and at last tied a bullock out in a clearing and took up his own positipn in a tree, to wait till the tiger should come after the bait. The ground was covered with dried leaves, which in hot weather are so brittle that even the walking of a bird over them can be heard for a good distance. In no very long time a large tiger slipped out of the forest, a.nd slowly edged toward the ^bullock. His method was so elaborate and careful that the man who saw it used to de­ clare that it'would ..have been worth a thousand rupees to any young sportsman t > have witnessed it So carefully did he put down each paw, and so gradually did he crush the leaves under it, that not a sound was to be heard. Between him and tbe bullock was a stump, abojt tour feet high, with long-projecting sur­ face roots. Tbis, plainly, the tiger looked upon as a godsend. He got upon one of the roots, bal­ anced himself carefully, and so was able* to walk quickly and silently as far as the stump. He approached so gradsally and noiselessly, and his color against the brown leaves was so invisible, that he was close upon the bullock before he was perceived. Then instantly the bullock charged. The tiger eluded him, and in a mo­ ment more bad his paws on the bul­ lock's neck ready to drag him down. Then, like a flash, he caught sight of • theijope by which the bullock was tied, and turned and sprang into the forest, all so quickly that the man in the tree had no opportunity to fire. A Model Village* The village of Koobeb, four miles northeast of Cairo, is in the neigh­ borhood of a favorite residence of the Khedive, and is a portion of his per­ sonal estate. The Khedive hah of late been giving close attention to the improvement of this village, and doing what he can to amend the con­ ditions of domestic life amoug the fellaheen or peasantry there. Each of the doors gives entrance to a small, square yard and a two- roomed house, uhe whole being built of well-formed, sun-dried mud bricks, and with complete cooking and wash­ ing arrangements. These buildings, though very different from the cot- tiges required by the English work­ ing classes ipiour climate, are neat and comfortable: they must have a LEATHER AND WIND. &h Inquisitive Revenue Officer** Curious Find in North Carolina. It was reported a year ago in Ashe- ville, N. C., that a large chestnut, tree in the Pisgah j-ange that was wholesom^ influence upon the farni- . .„v xies Wh0 dwell in ^ucb houses. green and in perfect health emitted smoke, as if it were on fire at its base or inside, Globe-Democrat. the top of the tree Several parties dug around tbe tree, but there ap­ peared to be no hollow under it, and it was firmly rooted. The smoke was generally at night and early in tbe Tbe village is nbout a mile and a quarter says the St. Louis j from the Koobeh palace, and for its The vent was at | own protection and that of the palace the Khedive has established a fire station replete with all the best and most modern European appliances. The water for the model village at Koobeh is supplied frotn the adjoin- mo. ning. No explanation was found | ing canals by a large pumping plant ' Tni vt'jti-fni Granome Work. • The most gruesome modern calling, beyond ali question, is that of a J deep-sea diver, employed in examin- I ing and clearing aW^y sunken j wrecks. Puling aside,the fact that j his life is in constant danger from | the assaults of submarine enemies or | accident to his divinv qress and ap- j oaratus the sights tbat he is called I up n to see, and 'o see moreover • amidst thd liiOst borrible surround- ; ingN exceed in gbastiiuess even those which the hospital or the army sur- ; geon is called upon to confront. No- i where else on land or sea are so many i accumulated, HPMIIIS IA> Uer'^ound as in tbe hull of a shlb which has sunk wit.h crew and passemrera The hid­ eous condition in wbich tbe diver finds the victims of the wreck, some half-devoured by tlsh, some standing upright and tdating to and fro with a ghastly ppjrody of living mot on, some still locked together, as though yet in J<he iast ugony of the death struggle, each fifeftiting for some real or fancied chance of escape, and some swooleu to twice their natural size, l'.oating^bout the itfterior of a ship, and knocking and rubbing up for the phenomenon, and it passed as a nine day's wonder. Last week A. H. Vanderford, special revenue agent, went there on business, and, or course, was told of the smoking tree Next day be returnerl and car­ ried a long, pointed iron sound. He circled around the tree, at each round extending the circle and prod­ ding every foot of ground. After a hard day's work he returned here News, without solving the mystery. Ho went out a third time and did as be­ fore, and when about luu yards from the tree thought he detected some­ thing in the ground that was not natural. He then left for Hender­ son ville. The next night he was again at the smoking tree with six revenue officers. They drew a cor­ don around the tree in a circle about 100 ya.ds from its base. As soon as it became light the smoke was in full blast* Vanderford then began to prod at the place he left oft in a straight direction from the tree, and when he came to hard grouqd he stopped. His men then bezan to dig with picks and shovels and soon came to a tunnel. Gathering their carbines they entered the tunnel and proceeded cautiously toward the tree. They found a large excavation in which there was a blockade still run­ ning at full capacity. Old Amo9 Owens, the most incorrigible revenue violator in the state, and who bad been convicted and sent to the Al­ bany penitentiary several times for ! blockading, was sitting down asleep. | Vanderford touched him on the j shoulder and Amos awoke, and teeing . who it was,,for be knew Vanderford well, said: "I supposed you would find me 1 out. I knew you were prospecting around here." I wbich lifts the water to the highest level necessary for the irrigation of the estate. Some of this water falU* again to a lower level, close to the village, and particulars of this little water-powci were taken under tbe Khedive's instructions, with a view to applying the power now wasted in charging tbe storage batteries or an electric lauueh.--Illustrated London An Enalishwoman Who Kept Her Pet. According to the Journal de Rouen *aa amusing scene was Witnessed re* cently atr the Dieppe railway station, in which a fellow countrywoman of ours took^part. The lady, who spoke in broken French, had a dog wbich she was taking, into a compartment with her, wheb a guatd informed her that it must be placed in a proper receptacle and paid lor. The follow­ ing conversation took place; ' 4Dogs nAist be paicl for." "Not mine." "--^ no The Mental Faculties Regulated to mil ' Extent by Atmoephorte Changes. A writer in the American Journal of Psychology for this year discusses the subject from the view of com­ mons experience and presents some facts that are interesting as well as leading IQ their di.ectness. He says: "The head of a factory employing ?,0OO workmen said: 'We reckoh that a disagreeable day yields about 10 p?r cent. lc°s work than a delight­ ful day, and we thus have to count this as a factor in our profit and loss account. Accidents are more num­ erous in factories on bad days. A railroad man never proposes changes to his superior if tne weather is not propitious. Fair days make men ac­ cessible and generous, and open to coQsider new problems favorably. Some say tbat opinions reached in best weather states are safest to in­ vest on." - Other facts are mentioned in tbe psychical and physiological re­ lation, as "Weather often affects logic, and many men's most syiiogy?- ticconclusions are varied by heat and cold. * * * The knee-jerk seems proved to have another factor. It is not strange if the eye, e. g., which wants the normal stitnulous in long, dark weather, causes other changes." Temperament is a fundamental factor in sensitiveness to atmospheric changes, that type ot It called the mental being the more intensely af­ fected, while the bilious type may exhibit by comparison the more Ca­ pricious or morbid impressions says tbe Phrenological Journal. The mental manifestations, as a rule, however, depend upon the organism primarily. If the culture is good, i. e., tbe faculties have been trained to co-ordinate, bamonious a t'on, and tbe elements that contribute to serenity and self control have been well developed, weather conditions will but operate like other part; of the environment, and self-training will show adaption and self-repres­ sion, Tbe "nervous," excitable, irastible person is he who bas not learned to control feeling and ex­ pression and it is be who finds fault with his surroundings and imputes uncanny conduct to them. That there are functional states of the body that predispose one to mental depression or exhilaration we are ready to admit A torpid Liver, a chronic catarrh, a rheumatic joints and even an old corn may render one susceptible to weather changes, the pbysii al ailment producing a nerve reaction that is keenly felt at the spin 1 centers and may test the spirit. Mind, however, is superior to matter, or rather constituted lor superiority. Fairly organized, care­ fully, developed and trained, it will exhibit tbat superiority by its pose and calmness in circumstances that are disag:eeable or painful , to the physical sense. Cooper's fiackwood'i Trainittfr* Professor grander Matthews bas a sketch of James Fenimore Cooper in St. Nicholas. Of Cooper's early life, he says: Born at Burlington, New Jersey, on Septemb?r 15, 17»9, Cooper was taken in infancy to Osego Lake in the interior of New York, and here, at the point where the Susquehana streams forth on its way to ioin the distant Chesapeake, Cooper's father built the stately mansion called Ot­ sego Hall. The elder Cooper was the owner of many^thousa.nd acres along the head waters of tbe Susquehanna, and in this wilderness, centering around the fieshiy founded village of Cooperstown, the son grew into boy- hood. He could pass his days on tbe beautiful banks of the lake, shut up by the untouched forest, or in the woods themselves as they rosd with the hills and fell away into the val­ leys. He slept at night amid the solemn silence of the lit le settle­ ment, 100 miles beyond the advanc­ ing line of civilization, • Hard as it may now be for us to realize it a century ago "the back­ woods' were in the State of ivew York. It was only during the Revo­ lution that the people of our stock begun to push their way across the Alleghanies. For years after the nineteenth century begun, the only white men who sped down the Mis. sissippi, or toile I slowly up against its broad current, spoke another tongue than oufs. Although Cooper live I in New York, it was in the backwoods that lie spent his child­ hood, and to Cooperstown he re­ turned at intervals thn ughout his lira Backwoo s scenes and hack- woods characters he couid always re­ call at will from his earliest recol­ lections. The craft of the woodsman, the tricks of the trapper, all the del- v jte&te art of the forest, wen; familiar exceptions can^^j^j- to Cooper from his youth up, just as the eery legends of North Britain and sti ring ballads of the Border had. been absorlcd by Waitei Scott. "Madame, made." "I will put it in mv bag." "You cannot." (>1 always do in England." "In France you must give up the dog and pay." "I will not pay. Can I leave the dog?" •^If you like. Hand it over." Tbe lady held out the dog and the guard took it, when, to his surprise, he found it was not alive. It was a pet dog tbat had been stuffed. There were roars of laughter from tbe by­ standers, and the zealous employe re­ tired, looking extremely foolish.-- London Daily News. I:?, we can set two or _ _ __ three traps in your shrubbery, and i ness that is utterat Vy 1^?^' ̂ C!r8 f VCe Wil! be able > -these «>me of to make sohie arrests, for the burg- tors won't have the start of them." •.Mr. Trotter was busy for nearly lltree days putting his appliances In _ position. Then he dined at Higbgate,, and showed Mr. Gold­ smid how, by merely turning a but­ ton behind tbe hall door, all-his ap­ paratus wa$put in lull working order, in agaiust him with a hideous .lifgilikc- inclc^rtbalble tbe (horrible sights which deep-sea divers have to work amidst wiuui they are employed on sunken wrecks Whett- to all these are aftdeg^be awful gloom add silence amidst which tbe work has to be performed, there WHi not seem to be much ctoubv thai all-modern callings, that of d.e6ft£ea diver is tbe mostgruis2 i if*- Danger of Trivial Woantte* . A medical paper commits itself to the statement that many lives are lost each year in consequence of tbe lack of a little common sense respect- | ing simple cuts or wounds on tbe hands or.other parts. Several cases ; have been recorded of inquests relat-! ing to persons who have died froiu 1 blood-poisoning arising from small ' cuts on tbe hands. The history in | all of these cases varies but little, j and is practically the same. A man, j for example* while working at his | trade, or ev^n while carrying out the simple detail of cutting a piece of ; bread, receives a small cut on the • hand. The injury is so trivial that ' anything is considered good enough; with which to stop the bleeding, and this end having been attained, nn more is thought of it Tbe small wcund is left to take care ot itself, and is exposed to all sorts of fllthi- ness and sources of infection. By good luck, noting may .happen; hut tbe public will do well to bear in mind tbat from tbe most trivial in- i««rw to the skip te septicceinU At the Circus. The elephantj,winked bis great,soft, |pizel eye seven times and reaching around with his trunk he bit the bars of tba Royal Bengal tiger's cage a thwack that sounded like a man failing off a four-story house and lighting pn a grating on theisidewalk. The tiger jumped clean out of his nap in tbe far corner and lit up against the inside of the bars with a frightful snarl. The elephant blew a trunkful ot dust into the cage, and fhe tiger rubbed his eyes. He Stooi the Preacher Off.. Up in one of Michigan's thriving counties lives a man who is about as legardful ot a dollar or two as a man can well be and be ceccnt. He is a farmer in comfortable circumstances, and beiug thrifty, honest, indus- trious, and a bachelor, he was consid- ere 1 quite the citch ot the neighbor­ hood, notwithstanding his painful exactness in money matters. He finally married a widow worth in her own right $I0,0U0, and shortly after­ wards a friend met him. • Allow me." he said, ^to congrat­ ulate you. That marriag^.was worth u clean $10,000 to you " "No," be replied, 'not quite so much." 1 "Indeed? I thought there was every cent of $1G,0U0 in it." "Oh, no," and he' sighed a little; "I bad to pay a dollar for the mar­ riage license." Good Both Ways. Bishop Wilson, of Calcutta, whose speeches aie often quoted, had the UMD OF INFIDELS. ? 1 BALLOONS FOR ARCTIC TRI*|. What in thunder do you mean by* happy faculty or saying the right banging on the bars » f my cage that thing at all times. way?" growled the Royal Bengal. "I beg your pardon," murmured the elephant contritely,); "Did it wake you?" fe. » I "Yes, it did," snaljfd the tiger. I "Well, that's wbatl meant by it," said the elephant, once more resum-1 ng bis foreleg seesaw and the laying on of dust as to his back, and every, body sailed except tbe Royal Bengal Tiger. V THERB is no other tbigg tbat Y^U ean get so much ot notblug as, gratulatad advl.'A ' * 1 father." On one occasion two young people, whose fathers were famous for their diverse and peculiar views on Blblcal subjects, came to see the bishop "Ah," said he as he greeted one, "your father wrote a great work dn the Apocalypse. 1 cong;atulate you on being the daughter of such a man." *• Then turning to the other guest, ne said: "And your father forbr>re 10 write i^bout the Apocalypse--a wise forbearance! You are tp be con- 00 having up wise a ! gJ:<r/i/: iptff • mil * saw » '.mmA tWVfc-4 4>&*' 0:? S-TV' • ObMrratloas of an Ea*il»* ltapl<>r«riia tfco C.rmnfM-y of th« ttaaris, * At a meeting of tbe Royal Geo­ graphical Society recently. Dr. G. SL Robertson read a paper oh "iKatirl- stan"--a cauntry wbich up to a few years ago was enti.ely unknown and unexplored, and still lemainsone of those few inhabited regions of the world which are only partially under­ stood. The whole district, be said, was known by the name of Kaflri stan, which literally meant "the land of the infidel," just as Hindu­ stan meant "the land of tbe Hindu" and Afghanistan "the land of the Afghan." Before his own visit to Kafiristan,vwith one single exception, no European bas ever penetrated in­ to those remote valleys. . The excep­ tion was Lock hart's mission, which in September, 188.", crossed from Cbttral into the upper part of • the Bashgul Valley, remained there a few days, and then withdrew into Chit- ral by another rnad. The actual amount of country Dr. Robertson wasable to explore was not of any great extent Tribal jealousies were so great and his position was often times so dithcult tbat it was fre­ quently a question, not of bis being able to get on, but of his being able to maintain bimself in the Kafir country at all. Kafiristan consisted of an irregular series of "main valleys, for the most part deep, narrow, and torturous, into which a varying num­ ber of still more difficult, narrower, and deeper valleys, ravines, and glens poured their torrent water. The physique of the Kafirs was magnificent of it? kind. They were light-built men, who almost always seemed to he in hard training. The most striking mental peculiarities of Kafirs was their extreme cupidity, their extraoidinary Jealousy of one auotber, and the intensity of their intertribal hatred. They were bv no means simple ID character; they could intrigue, concoct secret plots, and they carry them out with the secrecy and subtlety of the avernge Oriental. The religion of the Kafirs was idolatry, wijbh traces also of an- cestor-worshipt There was nothing in the shape of payers; the substi­ tutes were religous dancing, sacred songs and sacrifices. "The Kafirs were a brave, independent people, who had maintained themselves for cen­ turies against hordes of enemies, not only by reason of the extraord nary difficulties thdir country presented, but by valor aud magnificent fighting powers. They were entitled to the respect every one must feel for real men, who would fight to the death before they would accept tbe yoke of the stranger. A Queer Custom. A queer custom which prevails at no other court than that of Great Britain, is the announcement at the beginning of each course, of the name of the cook who has prepared the dishes served. The announcement is made in an audible tone by one of tbe clerks of the kitchen. The origin of this custom dates back to the rein of Ki>ng George Ii., who made ag.eat favorite of one ot his marmitons, pro­ moting him to the rank of chief cook over the heads of all his seniors. This,of course, created great jealousy, and every effort was made to oust him from loyal favor by rendering him responsible tor the failures that appeared upon the King's table. Greatly distressed, and fearing to lose his post, he complained to the King in person, who immediate y gave orders that henceforth, vth:n- ever a dish was placed before nim the name of the cojk responsible for its success or failure should be All" nouqeed in a loud tone 0T voice. Regenerati Think of tbe youug n^an who bas a noble mother, devoted father, affec­ tionate sisters, who goes to a distant city, spends his all in riotous living, and sinks so low that he washes out a spittoon for a drink. Some one ap­ proaches him and speaks of the love his mother bears him. He doesn't want her love, be wants whisky. They speak of his broken-hearted father. He doesn't eare for him, he cares for whisky. He cares nothing for home, character, reputation, soul, but will sacrifice 'everything for whisky. There's no salvation for a man like that; but take the man of the world, fond of its carnal pleas­ ures, who IS touched suddenly by a determination to change his ways, and does it That's reformation; that's regeneration; that's what it is to be borne again of the spirit equipped to make a simple A Newspaper SsjcgcMton for V«» fcy Ik* N«xt Kxpionai Partr. - : When the shortness of the arctic summer is considered, tbe perils pt the floating ice taken into the reck­ oning ard the value of time is esti­ mated, it seems strange, says tbe Pittsburgh Dispatch, that none of the polar expeditions are with balloons from which observations. It would be matter in clear and favoring weatber to send up an observer in a captive vessel for this purpose to an altitude of a thousand feet, who, with a good glass, could readily report the situa­ tion for many leagues around. It is a matter of the utmost importance to know the condition as much in ad­ vance as possible, and to this lacic of Knowledge most of the perils are due in arctic navigation, and these are grave enough in any case. Many of" the navigators, after beating about for days in the hope of being in tbe Polar Sea found themSelve; land­ locked in Wide bays; most valuable time had been lost.and more bad to be added tq it in making the return journey. Trust has often beed placed in openings between the ice fields which proved treacherous, which might all have been averted by ob­ servation from a higher point than the "crow's nest" in the shipfs rig­ ging. It mil'st be borne in mind that days and even hours are of the utmost im­ portance where time is limited and navigation uncertain and perilous. There arje weeks when the mere,try is above the freezing point--times when it*reaches b0 and 70 decrees,' and when the sky is clear and the sun. as if an hour above the horizon, thjis rema.ns for montbrs and now, if, by taking all advantages, some crew should succeed in making a higher latitude than any previous explorers* what would it not be worth to survey that mysterious region for fifty miles around? Send an observer up 1,000, 000, or su h number of feet as a re­ taining rope may stand, give him a powerful glass and let him telephone results down to the ship. When done, let him be reeled down with proper mechanis 11 and such further action be taken as the situation may seem to warrant It is distressing to read the recjrd of blind blundering of the men that persist in going' pole hunting, and if this thing must be kept up. there iDustbe iniprovcuient in looking ahead. Hhould there be an Arcadia in that weird and un­ known realm, a place of such beioti- tude that mortals could wish no more, who would blame the aerial observer should be cut the cable and fly to fame and carnal immortality? ALL ABOUT HOW WE WALK. Had Change. ^ An occasional wise old n is found who does not remember tL. be is not as young as he was oqce* Many others are painfully conscious of this fact ' ' In London, in the time of George IV., there Was au athletic and dash­ ing military man, Major Bcace bridge by name and title, who, when he found his powers waning, retired to bis country house and seldom showed himself in society. Many years later he had occasion to go up to London, and there met a lady who bad known him in bis younger years. "Dear m^!" she exclaimed* "ai$n't you Major Brace bridges" , . "No madam," he answered, "but 1 w4s once!" ; In Japan. - Ten acres of land is considered a large farm in Japan, and the major­ ity ot farms are much smaller. Tbe system of cultivation is such, how­ ever, tbat the land is made to pro-V duce to itj« fullest capacity, and a .small area supports an average fam­ ily. The possibilities of the produc­ tion of one acre cannot be estimated, as abundant labor and high cultiva­ tion in the future may exceed any­ thing that has yet been accom- IN China a man who father was executed, and along with him his bchoolmaster for not having taught him better. THE United States has a greater railroad mileage than any other country in the world. Muscles Used and the Mechanical Wotlt They Do. | The chief muscles concerned in - walking are those of tbe calf aha back of the leg, which, by pulling up the heel, also pull up the hones ot the foot connected with it and then the whole body, the weight of which is passed on through the bones of the leg. When walking tbe trunk is thrown forward, so tbat it would fall down prostrate were not the right foot planted in time to support It Tbe calf muscles are helped in this action by those on tbe front of tbe trunk aud legs, which contract and pull tbe body loi'ward, and the trunk slanting forward when the heel is raised by the calf muscles, the whole body will be raised and pushed for­ ward and upward. This advancement of each leg is effected partly by muscular action, the muscles used being (1) those on the lront of the thigh, bending it forward on the peivis; (z) tbe ham­ string muscles, which slightly bend the leg on the thigh; (3) the muscles on the front of tbe leg, which raise the front of the foot and toes, pre­ venting the latter in swinging for­ ward from hitching in the ground. \ When one fpot. has reached the ground the act on of tbe other bas not ceased. . , There is another prfint in walking. The body is constantly supported and balanced on each leg alternately, and, therefore on only one at once. Hence the.e must be some means for throw­ ing the center of gravity over t 1 line of support formed by the bones of each leg as it supports tbe weight of the body. This is done in various ways and hence the difference in the walk of different people. There may be slight rotation at the hip joint, bringing the center of gravity of the body over the foot of this side. This "locking" motion of the trunk and thigh is accompanied by a movement of' the whole trunk and leg over tbe foot planted on the ground, and is accompanied by a compensating outward movement at the hipi The body rises and swings alter­ nately from one side to the other a* its center of gravity comes alternately over one or the other leg, and the curvature of the spinal bones is al­ tered with tbe varying position of tbe weight--London Hospital. ? /< j Good Tea and Bad Tea* Shortly before Christmas the holi­ day shoppers in a large city grocery witnessed a little transaction Which set them to thinking. A sleigh came jingling up to the door, drawn by a pair of handsome horses, and with a coachman and footman on the box. A lady buried in warm furs was handed out, and entered the store humming witb Christmas activity. > Going to the tea counter, she called for a pound of cheap tea. The lerk looked up doubtfully, as if to ask whether he had Understood ber cor­ rectly. -It's for a poor person in the coun­ try," the lady answered. "She would plished. killed ,bi6\never notice any difference." .1 .... Hardly had the little parcel been A LIBERAT. supply of ear trumpets should go-with ail great truths. A VISIT to the hath tub costs tban one to tbe doctor. less life VOLUTIONS do notrlpQu in a day. ~ • , ; > ' . .' " ' Lirrtx meaning uses many words. tied when a rather shabbily dressed man, with his coat-collar up and his hands blue with cold, stepped up to the same clerk. "I want a pound of tbe best tea in this establishment," he said. "It'a for a poor thing down in the COUL- try.* She probably never tasted any­ thing real nice in all her life;" but i want her to have some this Chriit mas." The clerk said nothing as he dived into the tea-canister, and the woman said nothing as $he passed out of the door, but it is to be hoped that tbe unconsciously given lesson took effect \ ' • ! -'tVJr ' * -.A< OA v.-