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X piney Based upon these ore: he Siatement can confidently be de "the climate is essentially same now as it was any years or hundred years ago. This is .goutrary to popular belief. faking one year with a ly the ah thus been sub tuted for 'the normal. These ptate- meuts ave also due to the fact that the attitude toward life, the amoupt of en- ergy, the daily occupations Mind per- haps the place of residence df the old- er people are very differeit now than when they were younge In discussing the pgstible changes in climate during the ference must be dfs'wn from such re- corded facts as the dates of harvest, the kind and amount of crops raised, the kind of clothing worn by tbe peo- ple, the habits of life of the people, the existence of certain wild animals #ind forest trees, the size of the rivers, the height of lakes and inclosed seas, ete. From evidence -of this kind the Conclusion' bas been drawn that there fidve been no marked changes in cli- mate during historic times.--From Wil- Ms I. Miiham's Book on Meteorology. Storms and tho Wind. It is a curious fact that what is gen- erally known in some of the eastern states us a northeastern storm is In rea'g'y, says Popular Mechaufes, of +|quite a contrary origin. Because a strong wind which frequently carries heavy rain is apparently driven from- a northeasterly direction it is popular- ly assumed in a specific area that the' storm originates somewhere in a north- eastern scne, while in truth its real source is in the west or southwest. The. explanation is that such a disturb- ance is mereiy an Indraft of a baro- metric depression in the opposite direc- tion. The storm js known as a "flare- back™ and 18 one of the conditions which cause a weather forecaster difii- culty. . One Reason. "Do: yon know why money is so brothers?" the soap box orator demanded, and a fair sized section of thie backbone of the nation waited fn Jeisurely. patience for the answer, A tired looking woman had paused for a moment on the edge of the crowd. She spoke shortly: "Its becuuse 80 many of you men Wend your time telling each other why 'stead of hustiing tu sce thai It n't" : i "aad The Oldest Libraries. } The oldest libraries of which 'we liave any certain knowledge are those 'brought to light by excavations among the ruins of the east. Among these are Babylonish books fuscribed on clay Dlets, supposed to have been pre red for public: instruction ahout G30 C. It is said by Aristotle that Strabo was the, first known collector of books and manuscripts. This was about the year 330 B. C. i Skeptical. i Over the Phone--Hello! Is that you, Blink? Why, there's a report around town that you're dead. at 80? Well, call me up again confirmed, will you? pn A Downpour, "What do you do when your wife {s to cry, Jibway?" AS ay wife is a head taller than 1 'am and she cries copiously, my first | Raat 1s to 'stand from under" "fool of myself, yon 4 dear, but you have tried all St 7,000 years in- ws. be pen shown by careful scien that in the act of ing, unless a band- other object is held in front | ) mouth, microscopic and nasal secretion are discharged into the afr in which, even dn a quiet room, may be carried n distance of from ton 15 By yards from the 'place where they were ex pelled. 'Many of these droplets can be | a mirror or window pane. "however, are too small such a person literally 8 and people, perbaps on #"distanée of from ten to I swallows { stone aw: . the bird cannot an a | bolds to his bift.. H | to" wipe 1t off, oy ving | sticking to the a Thar on | which be is sitting at the time, ~~ | oo This seed sprouts after 8 time, and pot Onding earth-- which; deed, ! ancestral' habit has" wanting--it sinks 4 roots f8 i of the tree and I ithe naked eye. Ome | throw its leaves away, @s do most | ee hp ft Yiu ' diseasg « the germs of aeamonta and diphtheria * { and 'other contagious in thelr | mouths and throats, It becomes pec essary. that not only recognizably sick people shall desist from careless spit- ting. but that the apparently well, who may be "germ carriers," should alo be careful in expectorating. | Towns and cities' should make heir anti-spitting Jaws more than Jokes, As a matter of fact, they should not pass such an grdinance until they are ready to enforce it. From a health point of view anti-spitting ordinances are not to be lightly regarded. They should be serious laws, and the viold- tion of them should be made more than a joke. ENGLISH WORDS. | They Are, Asserts a Critic, Both Ugly and Unmusical, "On the whole, ewing partly to the | énormous proportion of monosyllabiles, partly to the prevalence of sibilant and ! dental sounds, the words of the Eng- lish language are overwhelmingly ugly and unmusical." sertion, arles Leonard Moore ad- duces in "incense and Iconoclasm" a long list of commonly used names of i things that in our language are rather bad than good "Ocean" is grandly mouth filling and pictorial, but "sea" is ignoble, "air" at least questionable, "sky" weak and thin. The clipped dissyllable "heaven" | in decidedly poor. "Firmament." how- | ever, is magnificent and "paradise" fine. | "Earth," "sun," "stars" are three low, | plebeian symbols for the total splen- | dors of the visible world. Turn to the words describing man's own person. "Face," "eyes," "nose," "legs," Mr. Moore thinks a simple commodjty of vile names. As As proof of this as- | The collection was accomianied by a characteristic note. from Ruskin, ia | which be said: "I have given my best attention dus. ing upward of tem years to: train a copyist to perfect fidelity in rendering the works of Tuffier and have now succeeded' iu enabling him to produce | facsimiles 80 close gs to lvok like rep- licas--facsimiles which | must sign with my own uate to preveut thelr being sold for real Turners." ts Same Thing. "Pa, 18 an uvidry where the aviators | stay? "No, son; it is a place where they keep bird "Well alv't aviators bird mea? 4 . . Squaring Hinself, Mrs. Henpecke--What do you mean, sir, by telllug Mrs, Torker's husband: you never ask my advice about any- thing? Henpecke -- Well," Maria, 1 donut. You don't walt tv be usked.-- | Exchange. Lost. First Married Wowman--Did' your hus band really lose his beart over you be- fore you married? Second Ditto (feel fngly)--1 fancy le must have done so. At all events, 1 haven't seen anything of it siuce.--Exchange. She Didn't Mind, "Sarah, I wish you would be more careful. 1 do net like to hear your mistress scolding you so often," said the master of the house to the maid. "Oh, don't mind me, sir," | for man's possessions, it is to be hoped {that Adam had better taste than to call {his cate a "house." "Mansion" or "palace" might du. "Garden," "valley," "forest" are good. "Metropolitan" is fine and gave Keats an excellent Hne-- "Upon the gold clouds metropolitan" -- but "city" is affected and "town" in- "~ hig, aon of Tmoomg, &f_ OUT verbs Nr. Moove bas a criticism as harsh, and "it 48 only our adjectives that he praises, ~and then cautiously. "Au- gust," "splendid," "noble," "gorgeous," magnificent," "graceful" "indomita- ble" --these be thinks really patrician among: the vulgar rabble of our other rords. A Rabelais Hoax. Rabelais, being out of money, once tricked the police into taking him from Marseilles to Paris on a charge of treason. Ie made up some packages of brick-dust and labeled them "Polson for the royal family." The officers took Rabelats 700° miles, only to be told at the ebd of thelr journey that it was April § and the affair was a hoax. Of course, as Rabelais was the privileged wit of the royal family, be was for elven. "An Old Proverb. The familiar. proverb "jue feathers make fine. birds" has been traced away back to the time of the pyramid bulld- ers. It is found In lieroglypbics as early as the reign of King Cheops. It has also. been found in very carly Chi tese documents. It fs almost as old as the human race. + Ainseamly Haste. 308 Rider. (stopped by rural consta- { ble)--Haxen't we got any rights left In this eoter) 1oesn't the constitution Surely. Not. ent) To > You caunof test piper, as¥on would string, by stretching it. Jt has been stretched 80 much in the. pr or mananfacture that it won't Stand uel more. ~The 'way to Tost 1b 18 to Fab it in the Lands. poor paper is full of holes ra ek: Good paper simply takes whe appear- ence of leather. If muck white dust Is produced we know hele 'are earth- ly impurities: If it crack§ Af i bleached wo much: --Loudd principal when you went "Why, yes. I guess 1" di "He seewed to remel dey. He told me what i waa, aud then Le sald, '16 possible that you win daughter." Mariner (relating some of his active |: service adventures)--An' me an' my | mates was lost in the virgin forest-- virgin, so to speak, because the hand of man had never before set foot there. "Exchange. mm ptt Look Up. r-- We dig and toll, we worry and frek | and all the while close over us bends the infinite wonder and beauty of ns ture, saying: "Look up, my chnidl 'Feel my smile and be glad!"--G. 8; Mer riam. Labeuchere's Sarcasm. Of Gladstone Ewpnry Labouchere once remarked, "I do not object to Mr, Gladstone occasionally aving an ace up his sleeve, but [ do wish he would not always say that Providence put' it there." Economical. | Wife (who bas been out shopping all day)--Oh, dear, how tired and bungry 1 am!" Husband--Didn't you have any lunch fn town? Wife--A plate of gonp | only; 1 didn't feel that I could afford to bave more. Husband<-Did" "Fou find the hat you wanted? Wife--~Oh, yes; it is a perfect dres, John and it cost only $28}~>*2~ yet 1 don't Iike to go around in society 8s a prude." "No need to ~ay a thing, ny dest, Just elevate yuar. eyebrows st the | proper point, aug you'll get along?™ tously)--Oh, 1 hope Dot. took such pains witht sprinkled them with fore 1 put them oil away the uvpleasy Mail. . Fiain They had orde waited for a half "1 wonder In this place 50 fog?" she remarks "1 suppose it i sit dow to eat the other waite enough to tell raking up all thes who proposed to fused? She (swe Afrer such treajment "sh, but Wretched. Frederick Albert, 'the third Krupp, - berate the richest maw in the German i emperor's dominjons. When he died, in 1602, his estute. was vilued at nearly $200.000,C00. Pertuips the inabilty of wealth to bestow happiness was never more strikingly exemplified than ln his case. He was a dyspeptic, forbidden all the delights of the fable and to smoke. Of lute years a physician never left his side... A fearful melancholy claimed him, and his life was overshadowed by a pervous depression. All the world was wrong.--Penrson's Weekly, ©" "Tower of London. / \ Of the many prisoners with which the bloody tower 'of London, i8 es: sociated the most: Illustrious vas Bir. Walter Raleigh, who was Sonfined there in the reign of James I. From: an upper window Raleigh had #ccess: ~to the 'coustable's garden, where he. wag permitted to 'exercise, and indeed a¢ one. time, beforgidt acquired evil! + reputation, a' he prisoner. + +~imunured "in the . -- Aowers . Thistlewood, a Caty street conspirator. Among the "inscriptions cot into ite walls'ls the signature of the Blixabeth« an bishop. of Ross. who appended a Latin quotation, vow aalf obliterated. pr bn Mount Etna. Etng, the "burning mountain," is the mightiest volcano in Europe: It lg 10, 800 feet high: If you wished to 'walk ® round its base you would have to walk piuety miles, It slopes steadily on all sldes up to the highest crater, which is Realy 8 wile broad. Current Bushes, In Porto Rico, where the air ls moist and balmy, sir plants grow. on the tele The lusu-- plants tak plants are called. "current bushes" or "glectric light plants." Same Voice % "Before |] married my wife | could listen to her volee for hofirs and J And now?' | Honor is not won until some Honors: ble deed be done.--Alariow "Now I have | wore of Bot wi about 'news, 1 Duh en ising' fined my The above map illustrates. 'the development of' the Bell Telcpie System i in district of which Port Periy J is the centre. 'The dots represen fagniors' telephon soft and. i markulile , traordinary u ! unk A single 9,000,000 ORES. Sharks lay exes are large tu #i and are deposit ed singly lostead of pi masses. These eggs cupsist of a dark colored Jeath envelope and ara with frills. tiornd of ages serve: the. purpose of keeping: the: egg case supported among the brandhes. of seaweeds, thus preserving the 'Precept ahd Example. *Colonel, that was an admirable speech you made at the club the evening on the obligations. of ship. Tye nee 1 Ritending to . Slt Jon 50 hp bedied "it.