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We got out of the way Just In time and then out came the door. "The inside door, quick," said Jim, but the explosion had made that fall inside and we just could lift it out. "Have the bag ready," s&id Jim, as 1ie leaned forward to haul out the great piles of bank notes and silver we could see by the light of the lanterns. "Hands off, or you are a dead man." It was a voice that would most have waked the dead. I dropped my bag and Jim drew back his hand and caught hold of me with a grip like iron, and we began to go slowly back to the lad­ der. "The combination is all right; we have them now; they can't escape us." We were half way up the ladder when we heart! the click, click of the lock, and as we drew the ladder after us we could hear the rasping of the hinges of the iron door. "Fly, fly for your lives; we are dis­ covered," said Jim, as he went around to warn the men; and in the darkness and the wind and the rain they went away and l ain't never seen none of 'em since. I heard, though, as when they found there warn't no one there and the bank people didn't know nothin' 'bout it till the next morning, they just believed the bank was haunted, sure. Do I know what it was, judge? There ain't no one else as does know, that's sure. 'Taln't much, after all. Yer see, playin' 'round with my little ones, I found as I could make 'em hear all kinds of noises anywhere I wanted, and people cryin' and laughin'. It was fun fur them and I often done it; ven- triioquizlttV I believe you call it; but that night's the last time. Yer see, none of the gang didn't know.'bout that, and I don't keer ever to have 'em know it now. It saved the bank without my in- formin', and that's all I care for. Oh, no, judge, the bank don't owe me notliin'. You'll take care of the pa­ pers? Thank you. I'm obliged to you for listening, too. It kind of. makes me feel easier. , No, no, thank you, I won't stay and take no more of your time. Don't get up; I can find my way out. > i What's that you say, judge? You honor and respect me--me-- V And the bank--land, judge, 'twarn't me; 'twas my wife and children saved the bank, and I'm proud of 'em--proud of 'em,; judge. Good night.--Philadelphia Times. WESTERN POWER SCHEME. wAn authority says that to manage trumps is "the most difficult feature of whist" Some expert players have found that managing a partner Is a good deal more difficult. The night-blooming cereus ought to be a good plant for the average little girl to work with. It dpesn't need to be watered Oftener than once a week. There is nothing on record to show that Samson was a foot-ball player. Any misconception that exists may have arisen from the fact that his strength lay in his hair. Sometimes a man is mean enough to bet: on the election, with the idea that if he loses he will make his wife econo­ mize. Why is it that the boy who has pleu- ty of grapes at home that he might pick always prefers to climb the fence and rob his neighbor's vines? It is about the time now for the man whose daughter has decorated the snow shovel and hung it for an orna­ ment on the parlor wall to go and take it down. Why doesn't Inventor Edison stop fooling with electricity and things long enough to win the gratitude of woman­ kind by inventing some device which will let her know, without asking, if her hat Is on straight? Nothing flatters a man more than to tell him that the receipt, he. gave you cured your cold, whether, as a matter of fact, you really tried $ie dose or- not-^Somerville Journal. Service a la Bowery. A waiter from "de Bowery" drifted into town the other day and got a job, jn a Royal street restaurant. He was dressed in a Check'suit, walked stiff- kneed, with his chin out, and yelled out his orders like a Mississippi mate. His first customer was a gentleman of delicate appetite. -The waiter struck a prize fighter attitude, leaned his head slightly down toward the guest, and said: > "Well?" The guest looked up in surprise. The waiter glanced down at him. "Well, what can We do for yer, sport?" . ' ' y. . Regaining his control, the diner Ssaid: "Ah, I'd like something light, waiter.*' "Sumtin' light? How would a fedder do yer?" "A what?" "A fedder. Maybe you might get- your whiskers trou a lamp, or p'r'aps a cup of barber's ladder might fit yer mug/ ' • v - . * Having delivered himself of these pleasantries, the waiter smiled broad­ ly, and tapped his customer lightly on the chest. "Dere, whiskers, don't get yer pep­ pers on. Dat's a josh to git up yer ap­ petite, see? No stringin', wouldn't an omelet sufllay tickle de cove in yer bread baskey? Say^ I can rush it into yer face before yer finish goin' up against de pickles, see?" The delicate gentleman nearly faint­ ed, and was rescued by the head wait- ex*, who gave him another attendant, and put the Ganymede from wicked New York on the dishwashing list- New Orleans Times-Democrat. Second-hand Materials. , Standing in the yard of a dealer In second-hand building materials is a big filtering appartus of wrought iron, looking like a steam boiler standing on end. Next to itis an< upright show­ case so big that it wa$ more convenient to build a shelter around it in the yard than to take it indoors. Near by is a great wrought-iron gate, from a pier shed that was torn down on the North River front These are samples of the wonderful variety of the dealer's stock., Somebody starting a hotel in .the coun­ try will come along some day and want the filter. The giant show case is cer-, tain to find a buyer sooner or later, and the great iron gate is a sure sale. Some­ body will buy that for the driveway of a country residence. There is a sale for everything that the dealer gets. Second­ hand pulpits and pews are bought by new churches that are practicing econ­ omy in fitting up, and there are cus­ tomers for the hot-air registers, sky­ lights, water meters, iron pipes, bath tubs, and the thousand and one other articles that the dealer gets besides the actual building materials that form the staple of the stock. Fbr some .things there Is a sale at prices equal to or perhaps greater than their original cost; these are usually fine, old;fashloned interior house fit­ tings. A dealer has set up in his own office a simple mantel of black Irish marble, which might be mistaken for ebony; for this mantel more than one offer exceeding its original cost has been made. .There are ready, buyers for fine old mahogany doors of generous size'and proportions, hung on solid, heavy hinges, and for other interior fit­ tings of like character.--N. Y. Sun. Dawn of Modern Geography. What should be an interesting book is In preparation in England%y Ray­ mond Beazley--a history of travel and; geographical science from the time of the conversion of the Roman Empire to the eleventh century. The first volume, which has fac similes and maps, at­ tempts to give an account of the more important geographical movements of the early Middle Ages, the purpose be­ ing to Illustrate the course of the plon eer enterprise which preceded the dis­ coveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The title of the book will be "The Dawn of Modern Geography," and the publisher John Murray. A Qlieen's Devicc. All official cablegrams for Her Ma­ jesty are addressed "Queen, London." and are invariably couched in secret language. The (frueen usually signs her private family messages "V. R. I." She seldom telegraphs in plain language, but uses one of her word or cipher codes, compiled so as to defy detection. Her Majesty has private ciphers with her principal ambassadors, the viceroy of India, the governor general of Can­ ada and with any general abroad .on ac­ tive service. ____________ ^ . Too Many Begging Letters. The Emperor of Germany has receiv­ ed recently so many letters from chil­ dren begging for presents of various kinds that he has issued through the Minister of Instruction ah order to the public school teachers to discourage the writing of such letters by pupils, except In cases of necessity. Give a man under thirty a railroad pass, aud he can no morekeep the fact to himself than a woman can. DEAD TO THE WORLD. They Looked Like'Snlcldes, but They,. Knew Their Easiness. Suicides have oeen so numerous. of late that a Star reporter was hot very much surprised (the other night when he almost stumbled over a man who lay on the flat .of his back at full length on the pavement at the corner of Massa­ chusetts Avenue and 16th Street. He lay In the shade of a tree, but the moon- light falling through the branches not <yily clearly defined the form, but save a weird and uncanny effect. The Star man, startled for a moment, stopped to examine, and when he saw five or more silent outstretched forms .near the curbstone* although they, looked like so many ghosts, and made the locality look like a miniature bat­ tlefield, the whole thing was easy. They were only sleeping, and although their beds were hard, some of them were lying on their coats and several lay in the gutter with the curbstone for a pillow. Three or four of the familiar" street-sweeping' carts stood like senti­ nels near by under the shadow of the trees, and the horsey In the shafts were sleeping, too. Just .then a street sweeper came along dragging his big broom, and The Star man asked, pointing to the silent forms, "What are they doing, uncle?" "W'y, boss, dey is jes' sleepin'." "Tired out?" "No, indeedy. It's too early ter git tiahea. But yo' see no 'mount er day­ light sleepin'is as good as er little night sleep, an' so w'en de boys gits a chance 'tween sweeps, dey jes' draps right down an' take a nap. Mebbe dis is de onlieat one dey'll git till tomorrer. It 'happens, dis yer way. De machines tons 'come down 16th and gone up one side er Massachusetts and jes' now dey is up around Dupon'. Now we done sweep 16th and we has to wait till dey come back. Den de sweepers will get in line and de cyarts will foller along jes' like jer percession." "But .these carts won't hold much more.. One of them is full to overflow­ ing already," said the Star man. "Dat's all right, boss, dey all belongs to de gang and dey all sticks togedder, kase dey all goes to de 19th street .dump. I?ojv dat full cyaht belongs to de leader; and de heaviest sweepin's was on his side of 16th, and he filled fust. But dey all keeps togedder. "Heah comes de machines now," he exclaimed, a^d the famifiar swish of the horse sweepers could be heard com­ ing nearer. They were preceded by the inspector in a light buggy. His quick eye detected the sidewalk sleepers, and Ihis method of calling them to duty was to drive his horse on to the curbstone among them. The men arose one after another and picked up their coats and brooms. One called out familiarly: "Say, fling us a half so's we kin git a pint." After the horse sweepers had passed they fell into line in the gutter and be­ gan sweeping the dirt into little piles. Then the carts came along and the night's work was continued. As The. Star reporter stood watching, a driver stopped his horse at the first little pile of sweepings. He bent down and picked up a piece of paper and carefully wiped off his big shovel, which already shone like burnished steel in the moonlight. •Then with one swoop he shoveled the entire pile into his cart. "Do you ever find anything, worth - keeping?" asked The Star man. "Deed I ain't nebber foun' nothin' on dis job. Some of de gang does. One of de boys picked up $85 one night. What did he do with it? 'Deed you'll too hard fer me. I doan' know what he done wif It, cep'n ter keep it G'long! whoa!" • After every "whoa" and before every "g'long" came that metallic ring of the shovel as it came in contact with the as­ phalt. These are the familiar sounds that strike the ear of the pedestrian every night as he passes through the streets of the national capital, and just such unique scenes as the one described are enacted nightly, but they are pe­ culiar to Washington and cannot be found in every large city. A Letter from Dr. Holmes. Isabella Graham Murdoch contrib­ utes .to St. Nicholas an experience of her school-day life, in which she quotes the following interesting letter that she received from Oliver Wendell Holmes: Boston, March 15th, 1880. My Dear Miss Isabella: Here is one little incident of my life which I have never told i"n print: When I was a little boj-I got upon a raft one day--a few boards laid to­ gether--which floated about in a pond --a very small pond, but rather bigger round than a dinner, table. It wal big enough, anyhow, to drown a little boy, and came pretty near doing it; for,' while I was stooping over the edge of •the raft, I. slipped and went souse into the water. I remember a great Sound in my ears --"guggle, guggle," I said It was, when they asked me about it--and a desper­ ate struggle, feeling that I was going to be drowned, just as little Sam Chiids had been; and then--all at once my whole past life seemed to flash before me as a train of cars going a .thousand miles an hour, if such a speed were pos­ sible, would pass in one long crowded streak before the eyes of a person standing by the railroad. I had never heard that this was a common experience with persons who are near drowning, but I have since heard of many cases where the same flash of their past lives has come before drowning people who have been res­ cued and have told about it You may put this story in your essay, if you like. I gert a great many letters from young persons, and it takes a great deal of my tkne to answer, them--so I think I am quite good-natured this evening to tell you all this--don't you think so, dear Miss Isabella? Very truly yours, OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. ) Glue. To make an impermeable glue soak ordinary glue In water, until it softens, and remove it before it has lost its form. After this, dissolve it in lin­ seed oil over a slight fire until it Is brought to the consistence of a jelly. This glass may be used for joining any kinds of , material. In addition to strength and hardness, It has the advantage of resisting the action of water. A man who comes to the front as a man is ah^ys a little to the front as a boy. BLOODHOUND TRACED A BABY. After Searchers Had Failedlcthe Ani­ mal Led Them to Its Eistovery. A few days ago Bertha, the pretty; 4-year-old daughter of John C. Putnam, of the little settlement of Mill Village, Yt., disappeared. All the neighbors joined in the search for her. Night and day the hunt was continued, but not a trace of the little one could be discov­ ered. The parents were-iri despair. It was feared that the child had been jkld- naped. Finally the father, In despera­ tion, suggested that the State blood­ hound Pilot could find some trace. Anx­ ious to do anything that would in the least relieve the father's mind, the of­ ficials took the dog to Mill village. The dog was, then given tiny shoe that had been worn by the child the day before she disappeared. This he held in his mouth for a minute. Then •he dropped it and sniffed the air. He seemed puzzled, and the knowing ones were beginning to remark that they knew the hound would not be of any, use. It really seemed as If me animal un­ derstood their words, for he suddenly put his nose to the ground and was off like a shot, dagging his keepers after him. On he went, crossing roafls, fields and timber stretches, until be reached •'Devil's Camp," a point about a mile below Rutland, where there is a small mill stream. Here the animal suddenly, brought up at the* edge of the water, gave One lotig bark, and refused to go further. Then the men got to work. They pro­ cured hooks and poles, and the bed of the stream was., thoroughly searched. All ,this time Pilot stood by the water side, though attempts were made to drag him away. For the first time since he had been in the State he refused to obey the voice of his keeper. Toward night the,body of the missing child was found. As it was drawn to the shore Pilot sprang forward, took the slimy dress in his mouth and, raising the child as tenderly as though it had been in its mother's arms, trotted back to the house, the long line of searchers follow­ ing.--New York Herald, Plant in Utah that Pnpplies Electric Light to QatVfcLake City. Among the enterprises of recent years fn Utah and the We§t few are of great­ er magnitude and far-reaching import­ ance than that of the Big Cottonwood Power Company which supplies Salt Lake City with electrical Illumination, writes Col. Pat Don&p to the Blooming- ton (111.), Eye. . .via The plant is immense in its achieve­ ments and capacities now, and is al­ most illimitable in its future possibili­ ties of usefulness agd profit. Among all such mighty projects in the United States; it is second,rjonly to the vast, work at Niagara Fffils. It speaks vol­ umes for Utah nejrv^, courage, energy and public spirit that so gigantic an undertaking should l^ave been planned and pushed to sucj^ss in the hardest times this country b^s ever«known. The scheme originated J^ith R. M. Jones, Who has been its engineer and manager from the start. He located the site for the works in September, 1891--and generous nature eouid hardly have fur­ nished a more perfect ideal of a place. The reservoir antf plant are on Big Cottonwood Creek!' about fourteen miles southeast of J&lt Lake City. The stream rises in the lofty mountains of the Wasatch range:'* It is fed by sever­ al beautiful lakes i$ng at from 9,000 to 11,000 feet above tile level of the sea. Silver Lake, the largest and lowest, is 9,000 feet above the' sea, and the fall from It to the mouth" of the canyon is about 4,000 feet. The creek is fed by many tributaries, and by the melting snow on the mountains, so that, during eight months of the £ear, it is really, a river of no small proportions. About three miles above yflows a waterway thirty feet wide, and five-feet below the top of the dam, cut through solid stone. Just east of it is a drain tunnel to carry off the surplus flow of the stream; it is i80 feet long, and six and a half .feet Square, through salC:and quartzite. At the entrance to theiltunnel is a pen­ stock to regulate thoilevel of the water in the reservoir. Between the reservoir and the power­ house it was necessary to tunnel 430 feet through slate j^pd quartzite, and the tunnel is seveiixJfeet wide by seven, and a half feet higtj. To take water from the stream as,\well as from the reservoir, a pipe waylaid from the bed of the creek above -,tjje east end of the reservoir to a regulating receiver or in­ take near the lower.end of the reser­ voir. The pipe is 1,420 feet long, with an inside diameter of' fifty inches, and is made of Oregon -Sr staves, banded with heavy steel. From the receiver the water is conducted to the power­ house through 2,300' feet of steel pipe, fifty inches in diameter. The power-house is located some dis­ tance below "The Stairs." The total cost under this close, careful manage­ ment has been something under $400,- 060, where ordinarily $1,000,000 livould have been spent; arid'the aggregate an­ nual operating expenses are but $18,- 000. It insures theVlpromoters an in­ come of at least $100,000 per annum. - 1 Stars and Distances. ----- In all the heavens,, with the exception of passing meteors, or meteorites, not one body occupies apposition closer to earth than the moon, which is some 240,000 miles away.'Very far, of course, but a mere fraction- side by side with other astronomical distances. Next'to the moon, our nearest'occasional neigh­ bor is. Venus, and then Mars. Both Ve­ nus and Mars, however, are often fur­ ther away from us than the sun, which remains always at'Somewhere about the same distance, rotighly at from 90,- 000,000 to 93,000,000' miles. The dividing spac&^between sun and earth is of great importance in thinking about the stars, and'it should be clearly impressed upon tlie i&lnd. Next to the sun in point of nearhess come the more distant planets--Jupiffer, which is about five times as far from the sun as our earth is; Saturn, nearly twice as far as Jupiter; Uranus, nearly twice as far as Saturn, and Neptune,Nearly three times as far as Saturn. '-'All these planets belong to our sun, MF are members of his family, all are part of the sol.i r sys­ tem. The size of thg solar systi i :i us a »liole,' consisting ttiiii of the suii and his planets, including our earth, may be fairly well grasped b'£ any one taking the trouble to master two Simple facts. They are these: That^ur earth is rough­ ly about 92,000,000 mji&s away from the sun, and that Neptune, the outermost planet of the solar System, is nearly three times as far distant from the sun as our earth is.--Chambers' Journal. THE TIVERTON RANKjngTERYj Jenny Lind's American Debut, - Hon. A. Oakey Hall writes of "When Jenny Lind sang in Castle Garden," for the Ladies' Home Journal--the first' of a series of "Great Personal Events" described by eyewitnesses for that mag­ azine. Of her first appearance--her first song--in America, and the unprecedent­ ed enthusiasm she aroused, Mr. Hall en­ tertainingly and graphically writes; "Hark to the voice! It is beginning the first bar of 'Casta. Diva/ from 'Norma.' The silence in the audlance is intense. She has sung only a few bars of the matchless cavatlna before all music lovers recognize that while otlier ar­ tists have endeavored to make some­ thing out of 'Casta Diva,' Jenny Lind is embodying it. There is the gradual growth of sostenuto; then rhythmic "un­ dulating, now high notes, as triumphs of pure expression and not of merely, physical marvel, and finally bird-like ecstasy of trills. Before her is an abyss of hush, into which she pours that voice, the very soul of song. She • ceases, and timidly--not proudly-- boWs, and is retiring when the audi­ ence, not content with making the usual American demand for an encore, arises en masse, and repeats with four­ fold'energy'afidrspWit the alffi'dfeYlfrah- VHr tic demonstration with which it greeted Jenny Lind 'upon her entrance. The audience is literally wild. Never has a singer so stirred her listeners before. The thunderous applause keeps up for many minutes, until the audience seems exhausted. *" * * Trained musicians are praising the fluency and precision of Jenny's chromatic scales. One is emphasizing what he terms 'the In­ spired vitality of Lind's voice,' and tlie unanimous verdict seems to be that never were heard in concert-room sweeter tones. Even white-haired vet­ erans, who have listened to Malibran and her sister Viardot, or to Grisi, or to Adelaide Kemble, all pronounce Jenny Lind the superior of those old-time song angels in realms consecrated by St Cecilia." , Cured Her Carelessness. The following story is told in the memoirs of Lord Blachford, recently published in England: Mrs. 's rela­ tions with her maids are rich.' She was describing one who was a breaker of china. "At last she broke three things in one day. So I said to her: 'You are ill, Jane, you want some castor* oil.' The maid stared and was aston­ ished. 'Your hand shakes, you want some castor oil, Jane.' The maid took it as a joke and grinned. But, when bed-time came, the upper maid was duly summoned. 'Jane is ill and wants •some castor oil; come with me, and I will get it out for her.'" Mrs. appeared at the bedside with a quite in­ flexible determination, explained that Jane was ill aud did want castor oil and must take it. She did take it, and no further breakage occurred. Balloons Sji'fto from Bullets. Balloon experiments were made re­ cently by the Austrian Government to test whether serviceable observations could be made at a safe distance from the enemy's fire., A balloon thirty-three feet in horizontal and forty-six feet in vertical diameter was sent up from a point 5,500 yards away from a battery, and was kept at a height of 2,(500 feet. Eighty shells, containing oyer 10,000 bullets, were fired at it, but only three small holes, which did not affect its working, were found when the balloon came down. The inference is drawn that in actual warfare balloons can be used to advantage at that distance. FASHIONS OF LONG AGO. The Style of Clothes Worn by loans Women Early in the Century. "A Group $ American Girls Early in the Century" is the .title of an article by Helen Evertson Smith in the Cen­ tury. After describing the visit of two cousins of Chancellor Livingston to New York, the writer says: In general all was rose-colored to the two young country girls launched into society with every advantage which youth, cultivation, beauty, and high connections could bestow. Riches they did not possess, but they were too hap­ py to care for that Their wardrobe strikes one as having been decidedly limited, but at that time it was held that simplicity should rule the attire of all young girls, so they did not feel abashed in .the fresh, sheer white In­ dia-muslin gowns, relieved with broad sashes, which were their only evening wear. These were made with low, square-cut necks and full sleeves gath­ ered into a puff a little above the elbow. The so-called Empire styles were then prevalent, and probably in an exagger­ ated form, as is apt to be the case when fashions have to be copied at a dis­ tance not only of thousands of miles, but also of a year or more of time. The skirts were short, showing not only the thin slipper, but the clocked silk stock­ ings well above the ankle, and were so very scant that it required skill to dance in them without rending the slight fabric. Neither of the sisters had a silk dress. Gowns of that material were hardly considered suitable for un­ married women under 25 years of age. Gowns of pretty flowered chintz were worn at home, except in extremely cold weather, when a heavy but soft mater­ ial known as "stuff" was permitted. For driving or walking each sister had a gown of dark crimson broadcloth. These were made with close sleeves coming a little below the elbow, where, as well as around the neck and the bot­ tom of the skirt, was an edging of swansdown, changed later in the sea­ son for a border of marten fur. Long pelisses of crimson cloth, lined and trimmed with the marten fur, and great muffs and tippets of the same were worn in all suitable weather. The crimson velvet bonnets were large and scoop-like things, adorned with an abundance of white ostrich plumes, but not by any means as exaggerated in size as those worn a few years later. Powerless to Combat Sin. "Men seek to make excuse for sin." writes Dwight L. MoOdy in the Initial discourse to "Mr. Modkly's Bible Class" in the Ladies' Home 'Journal. "They call it by other namei and try to ex­ plain away its power or cover up its hideousness. They fell us that it is merely ignorance, vfhicli culture will eradicate; that in eacji and every man there is good, and - that with culture and education this wfll be developed. * * * Antiquity has-proved that edu­ cation and culture ^ape powerless to combat natural sin. -They seem to have but multiplied the ingenuities and'de- vices of man's evil passions. The cor­ rupt and degenerate days of cultured Rome, even during h*2>r proud 'Golden Age' of wealth, of litety^ture, of beauty and philosophy, hav%ijeft to us monu­ ments of her obscenity and vice. The wisdom of Greece and the learning of Egypt never saved thflir subjects from the corruption of sin.s0The Epistles of Saint Paul to the churches of Asia Minor are a sufficient commentary up­ on the efficacy of their boasted refine­ ment in the development of noble and pure lives. Nor have«we to go into an­ cient history for a vindication of the awful truth of a falle^nature. Do our times offer no illustration of inherent sin? Does not the presence of sin, of­ ten the most vile and'ttftrk In its offices, reveal Itself in lives which from earli­ est infancy have beetif-surrounded by only that which waif 'flare and gOodV Are our convicts madfe vilely from those who have not had adviltttages?" --; : --_ Pensive Penciling**. When you read In a 3ocal paper that a man and his wife caught 300 pounds of bass recently whil$im7a; fls}iTng trip, you can't always be sure-that the man caught 275 pounds anHebis wife 25. The average woman- «an't help wish­ ing that she knew jusfefXphat the men were saying when a dead silence falls 1 as she comes Into the room. i<5» Storks. The chief places to which the storks, 30 numerous in Belgium and Holland, migrate for the severe winter generally experienced in those countries, has been discovered by a Belgian nobleman. He lyieceeded in catching two hundred of uie birds and attached to each, either round the neck or on one of its legs, a label upon which was written his own address, together with a request that anyone who caught or killed the bird during the winter season would send the label back to him, indicating the locality in which it was found. The next spring, one of the labels arrived from Western Algeria, and two years later another came from the mouth of the Senegal river. More labels have been received by the experimenter, all coming from the northern parts of the African continent, which clearly shows that storks follow the course of the swallows when the leaves begin to fall in Europe. Impeachment in England. The House of Commons, when It passes resolutions or articles of im­ peachment, does 60 as a grand Jury or inquest of the whole nation. The honse of peers cannot try a commoner for a capital offense, but a peer can be. tried by his peers or equals according to magna charta, whether for misde­ meanor or any higher crime. An Old Tavern Sign. At Lucon, France, an ancient inn has for -its sign "The Four Things'to Be Feared," which Is the legend under a painting representing a cat a monkey, a woman and a -judge. i1 Egypt's smelling festival is 1 a legal and commercial holiday. Onions and other odorous articles are In great de­ mand on the occasion. Kissing. Japanese girls do not kiss each other, not do parents ever kiss or embrace their children. They bow, kneel, smile, and utter polite phrases with downcast or averted eyes and bent heads, dtad are content with this sort of conventional expression of affection. Our idea of something awful would be to become a great .musician with long hair, and then get bald. ' . __s When women oppose a candidate. It is usually because of some grudge they feel against the women folks. Swedes believe that the devil has power over a child until U is baptized.