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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-4-5, Page 3x 1 °MIN' THRR' THE: RYE By %fi5L1'IN 13. M,ATREI s, a eont[LedlStt{oinrysquirespningtaabbahmrng writing epithets, and as tney aro all mare or less 'cone of. fun, , glees iartake somewhat of the humorous, The family consists often c,hild.ren; ail bright and bubbling over with misehaer. rho !15 known ypiOtt tV11 oeg illi g ntleMans. Fhgover- nor, i drew are very much in awe of bim. Ris will is law to them, and any infraction of the law as laid down by hint fa subjeet to severe punish- ment. (CONT1Nt IOD.) Piteous s ou whimpers pors and g r „ 'cans from the fire -place announce extensive and painful 'damages to the poor little maid who was riding aloft so triumphantly a minute ago. Bruises and tears are, however, alike merged in the all-absorbingquestion of how the table is to be joined together. •again, In the middle of the room its legs stand stark" and bare, like a thin man, from whom his ample and overflowing 'spousehas departed. Nt All this while they have not been aware of my presence on the scene, but now as I' remark, k,' "a very pretty -amusement, cer- tainly!" with all the gravity and weight ray thirteen years entitle me to display, they Bail me joyfully, and with my as- .sistance, and much puffing and strain- ing, the divorced parts are put together, and Dolly has time to bewail her miss fortune, and Alan to rub his unharmed 'shins responsive, Pursuing my prowl, I wander round the irregularly-built,three-sided court, and am shortly awakened ab- straction by hearing a door bang vi ent ly. Have you ever lived'in a house, reader, where the merest chance sound, the bang of a'door, the sound of a loud voice, or a 'distant noise, makes you startup, your nerves tin;ling, your heart beating, your body trembling, while an .instantaneous photograph of falling chairs, flying -crockery, broken bell -ropes and dancing 'china, with a dervish dancing in the midst of the confusion, presents itself vividly to yo cr eyes ? "News !" we all ery, starting from our seats, "surely he cannot—cannot be -- •going away?" those two delicate can an •otherrs in the whole edictionary contain such sweet music ? a�ruls- ing the valanche ofs female that threatens to overwhelm him, "I can't tell? you anything, can I, if you stifle "Go on! go on !" we all cry, withdraw- ing hastily from the oracle. "Well," says Jack, complacently sur- veying the row of open eyes, mouths and sears, "he is going away (shouts of de- light) ; ho is going to -morrow. (fresh re- joicings) ; and he is coming back again next day (howls of dissatisfaction). Nevertheless there is one assuaging car- ; •cumstance, he is going early, so we shall have one clear day in which to accomplish 'our deeds of darkness." "Hurrah ! I know what I shall do." "You take me with you," I say im- ploringly, "do." "Can't;" says. Jack, briefly. "I shall go out shooting." We all gasp ; Tack with a gun in his hands ! Oh, if the governor could but— "What are you going to shoot?" asks Alice with interest. 'crest. "Blackbirds." "Yourself you mean," I say, nodding anspiteful that I may not, feelinmuch hurtg n with him to see the fun. "Only if you do, you must •do it thoroughly; the governor hates sickness, you know; and, if you did have a bad accident, how you would catch it." "Funerals are expensive," says Alice. "On the whole, I thiukpapa would rather •he only crippled himself." "I shall take his new gun," says Jack, pursuing his own train of thought, and paying no heed to our cackle ('it's sure -not to burst•" ' "I shall make treacle tarts," I say, feeling my abasement very keenly, and wondering if Jack will relent. (I could make myself useful in picking the birds up.) "What are you going to do, Alice?" "I don't know," she says, turning a lovely, thoughtful face upon me, "there. is so little mischief girls can get into. I think I shall make Amberley take me into Pimpernel, and I will have my photo- graph taken ; it has never been clone et you know." yet, "Whatever do you want a likeness for ?" asks Jack, opening his eyes ; "can't you look at your face in the glass fifty times a day if you like ? And there's no- body to give it to, for we haven't a friend in the world, and you wouldn'tive one to us surely ?" g But Alice does not answer, she is won- dering what the sun will make of her face, -of which : Nature'sbeauty so vn truly t and cunning hand laid on," pro`mn ly l go with Alice," says Minya "And I," says Alan, the solemn-faoed, "shall look over papa's new edition of the 'Ingollsby Legends'; I've had one or two peeps at it already." What are you going to do, Dolly ?" I shall take two Seidlitz powders with ,,sugar, yoti know. They are so nice, and nurse says they make me thinner. I am rover able to take them when papa is at h me, because they make me look pale." "Bravo, Dolly !" eras Jack "happy 4 , a a hind that a little contents. Well, gi ls, you shall have a fine dish of blackbirds for supper, and Nell's treacle tarts, if they are eatable." "Will yon, ?" cries a terrible voice be- hind us, that galvanizes our recumbent forms into most intense and rigid upright- ness, while every soft hair on our miser- able young heads stands on end with freezing, curdling horror; "will you? 1'11 teach you, miss (with a fierce nod at Alice's pretty, trembling figure), to go galliv'anting off to Pimpernel, to simper at a low phoipgraplir, you miserable doll -faced, conceited puppet; (to Jack) I'll teach you, sir, to use my guns and bring rite a doctor's bill a yard long for mend- ing your wretched bones ; (to me) I'll teach you, you object, to waste my sub- stance with your filthy treacle tarts ; and you, sir (to Alan), to maul over my books, while as to you (to Dolly), although I eau t offer you Seidlitz powders, perhaps brimstone and treacle will do as well, 00 --oo—o0 OUh . You deceitful itfu 1 i v a a- n O sighs`; gotiTmilless pack, get out of my He need not tell us that .twice ; away we flea, every man for himself, and devil take ;the hindmost; along the passage, up the stairs, in at the n:ursoy, to which we always flee on these occasions, for mother its neatly always there. At . our heels • eoases the governor, and a t' lively y Mem fol- lows; we"memo a prose version of that deplozable story of tea little niggers, which we all know ; as rapidly as they dropped off, so do we: this one for a cane, that for a Bible, another one into space with boxed ears, until from beginning with a goodly number we end a forlorn. remnant. Over and above all our other bed,punishme and, all sent:to andtthith ts we r,irwhen he has stormed himself away, we retire, only too thank- ful to have that refuge to sneak. into. Anything i$ bearable while 'we are to• ggather; the only 'real misery he could in that upon us would be to commit us all to solitary confinement. Jack comes in by and by, and sits down on the edge of Aline and Milly's bed, while T perch my sell 0 ria chess ra h rd by. "What fools we were," he says, with a dark look in his blue eyes, "not to have set a scout to watch, the sneakiness of him ; why couldn't he have walked in bike a man, instead of hanging about out- side ?" His fives his shoulders, which are still tingling with the sharp lash of the governor's cane, an impatient shake. "I can't think what fathers were in- vented for," I say dolefully. 'I am sure we should have got on much better with- out ours. For my part, if I had been asked whether I would or would not come into the world, I should have said, 'Yes,. and thank you kindly, ,sir, if you can ar- range for me to have no papa !'" And yet he almost forgives our daring to exist, when he reflects on the number of -times we have afforded him the exquis- ite satisfaction of beating us," says Jack. next Christmas, tmas, if hwhen I come e back � tries tobeat he devil's tattoo on my back again he shall find he won't get it all his own way." tails,nd we will rohang lupon hisl, coat - fry harass hiinfore andaftt,in countless swarms." "Don't forget that he is going away," puts in ?[illy "I was turning that sweet thought over in my mind the whole time he was making that row." "Ho will look us all up," I say, with conviction. -"He will never go away and leave us free to do the things he heard us arranging to -night." "You Y u little silly !" says Jack, crushing- ly all dummies and youknothat he thinks us w more believes us capable of daring to do anything that he has made oi of green cheese ? than a Isha'n''tt shoot to -morrow ; 'I mean to do• something worse. OIIAPTER VL Breakfast is over, and the monotonous burden of our sins sung into our ears, from the saying of amen at prayers to the last drop of the governor's coffee -cup is over. It has been very bad, but in listening to his fulminations we have been ;t the off active a d onhe whole, misery or we eof conver- sationare very hardened sinners, we almost prefer thest dins in the hfast to all now, busual rushing hies. He s hat, and the- sound sends a thrill of de- light through our bodies ; we know the full import of it so well, though we hear it so much, much too rarely. tJp the horse's heals carriage -drive it iscome the dog-cas the rt that ttrot f is going to take him to the station. Simp- kins carries out his travelling bag (the old valet is as pleased in hie heart as we are, he too, will get a little holiday), and we all go into the hall and make a frosty peck, one by one, at the governor's face, occasionally hitting his nose or eyebrow by mistake. He eyes us keenly to see if detecthe ean y indecent on our faces, but they are perfectljoy blank and stolid, to such abhorred hyposcrisy have we already brought our innocent inde- terminate, pink•and-white features. He kisses mother (how droll it seems to see him making a. peck at anybody !) and now hes gi ving a sharp dog-cart, at our assemblhe is ed countenances, he is off, and has turned the corner of the broken silence ; then, as theree. Still as the last sound of the wheels dies away in the distance, the delight that has been running riot with- in us, breaks forth in exclamation, laugh- ter, leaps, dances, whoops, and (on my part at least) rolls of bliss. When they have subsided a little—"Children," says mamma, I have something to tell you." "Won't it Alice,"tillsomkeep, day when weaare not quite so happy? We don't get many treats ; had we 'not better have them one at asoma ?" - "It will keep," says mamma, smiling; but I shall tell you now. We are going away." Going away t We know the sound of those words well enough as applied to the governor, but as applied to ourselves they have a strange, unusal flavor—a ro- mantic freshness that breaths of distant' lands, georgeous cities, and unknown, everrayst been away f om home one if us have n all our lives, save Jack. " When mamma?" we ask, after a pause ; it takes a little while to get used to the idea that we are going a way with- out requiring any further knowledge on the subject. "To the sea !" The answer strikes us dumb again. Have we not longed our- selves sick for the sight of it? Have not splashed ourselves porn head to foot over a dirty pond in drying to make real waves with stout sticks ? "When, mamma, when ?" "Early next week. Your papa has beard of a house that will suit us." So soon!' it takes our breath away. "`And is he coming, too ?" I ask anxi- ously. "Not for a fortnight." We draw a deep sigh of satislation. "What strolls we will have !" says Alice. And donkey -rides ! " " and shrimps !" "and peace P' "and cuttle-fish tooth-powdr !" "No walks!" "or pun- ishments !" "No one to call us dam- mies !" "or make us talk !" "or send us to bed !" "Come along, Dolby' says Alan the solemn -faced. ''I'm going to begin pack- ing up." Jack and I go out into the garden and discuss our plans --what beasts are to go with us, what to be left behind. Paul Pry must comp, of course, and the raven, and the canaries, and Pepper, the tailless, Dorley must take care of the rabbits ; and as to the fowls, they have lately misbe- haved themselved so perseveringly that it would cause us no great sorrow if, on our return, we found papa had made a holocaust of the'awholo lot. Possibly the a' a mai .in news puts eout of pour heads ad so_ several ' oar Im intentions nti ons c fo. vii -do" in g, at any tate we get into no mischief to -day, and merely walk • about, laugh, talk and stretch', not only in the schoolroom, but about the house, just as if we wore used to doing it every day of our lives. The governor 8013105 back a trine sweet-, er:than he went. Pot once business docs not seem to have rubbed him the wrong way; and somehow the ,few away, and the golden morning parture arrives,. 2'he coach stands at the door, ing to take us all the way -packed within it as dos as happy as lord net inside and where a body is pier or parcel is, got out again is s We have smuggle belongings in safel •. moats lurk the birds an. with the sense of a Christi, a sound, raps out not a large basket of quarantine hide est head , under mother s legs; the voung ones firmly grasp spades and buckets as though they expected to find the sea upon the road; Amberley emb , tinct bundles, bandb. ve dis- tinct babies, set bolt up the 'chirps of satisfa le stands the go ve just said good affability that as much as t once in his come honesty him, and a love And now th e handed in, the a - 'ten parasol e l is with many a creak to her place ant has ion the roof; the coachman cracks his whip. Chirrup, chirrup, o the canaries. ` "Hip, hip, hur-rah !"goes Paul Pry. Bow -wow !" goes Pepper, wiggling her head out between Jaek's les. " with a deep . Ba my !" I ejaculate, pushing mgy hat to the back of my head; and away we go, nodding and smiling, and saying good - by! good -by! to the little gentleman on. the doorsteps, who somehow looks quite insignificant and a little forlorn now that he is not the center of a dozen duteous white slaves. "We are off !" says Aliee. "We are dreadfully hungry !" sigh Dolly and Alan, pointing their prophetic noses at a bulging hamper that obtrudes its portly body in an uncomfortable way between nurse and Salaam's Ass, the under nursemaid. It is only eighto'elock, and we had breakfast at seven, and it Is rather early to be setting out ; but when everybody is so anxious, to start, so ready to go, why should there be any unneces- sary tarrying ? Yoicks ! away we go along the dewy, bloomy lanes, between the fresh, green hedgerows, with the early breath of the morning blowing coolly in our happy, eager faces; past the staring, silent cows, and the dull laborers who, poor souls ! are going about their work just as on any other. day, who are not tasting our first delicti-' ous, strange draught of "going away !" We feel like pilgrims setting out for an unknown land ; we do not know what is before us, whether of sweet or sour, but that it will be something very different from we have ever known be- fore, we anything ireperfectlycertain, and that is enough for us. Jack pooh-poohs our transports and pretends to have seen everything that we observe before, which is not right of him, for I know he goes to school in quite an oppositedirection, and by coach i a by ery different and far mortrain whereas e knowledge- able thing. elx, Id al- o heath queer dis. Amps and drab ; also a lirupet," hf its dw n not; also, that ab shave a remark - feet, co:. g away from, our usmore rapid than elegant. o turnsomersaults for and find delicate shells, curious rose -hued freaks of Neptune, and we muse over them, marveling in what sea -palace the carver lurks . who casts up to us oh dainty and mysterious shapes. e hold the bigger ones to our fan ass CONTINUED. We keep our eyes widely open all the way, and observe with interest how the country changes as we near the coast, and how blue the cottage children's eyes are, as though a bit of the sea had got into them and stayed there. Happy folks are always hungry, and by ten o'clock we are clamoring to attack the hamper; at two we are dying of want, and finish it up ; at four we pounce upon the quar- antines (which are to last us a week, Dor- ley said), and eat them all up, every one. We get rather fagged the latter part of the way; our bodies are stiff and tired, and we cannot stretch them. By degrees one voice ceases, then another ; one of the babies cries ; Paul Pry makes re- marks that he should not before the chil- dren. We look very different from the noisy, bustling, smiling people who start- ed a few hours ago. By and by we are startled out of our apathy by a shout without of "The sea! the sea !" and we leap up to the sight of a broad, boundless expanse of deepest, darkest d through, awl tholds hat hspellbound rills through zthna breathlessdelight and strong awe. How our souls seem drawn toward it, though our bodies remain in the coach ! Pres- ently (I do not know how it happens), we are standing before it, gazing almost de- liriously at the glittering, belted -in trea- sure. When the first shock is over, how we stretch out our we would clasp itsa beautyrras to inas our em- brace ! How we stoop and dabble our fingers in:the strange, salt liquid ! How we stand watching the waves lapping softly over each other with no fuss, or hurry, or effort, rather as though they were in play, not earnest, but, as we quickly find, impelled by an on -coming strength that maks the babyish ripples resistless as fate, inexorable as death ! We gather trails of brown seaweed, and, when our hands are full, cast them away for others. We are distracted by the abundant riches of the feast set out be- fore us ; something new unimagined, and wonderful meets our eyes at every step. Into my heart comes a dim ache that is not keen pleasure or satiety, but a pas- sionate regret that my soul is not bigger, grander, capable of holding more of • the great tide of rapture that sweeps through me in such a mighty flood. When Am- berley comes for us I turn away as one in a dream; from a long way off I seem to he'ar her exclamation though indeed I am well aware that wour condition © are as forlorn, dirty, dripping little wretches as any to be found in the king- dom, all save Alice, over whom untidiness and dirt held no power. As we go inland aizy senses seem to come back to me, and I hail with delight the jolly, red -brick face of our new abode Which appears to smie jovially upon us and bid us kindly welcome. Inside it is a most immoral, delicious state of topsy_ turvydom—luggage, servants, children and animals, all mixed up in the most admired disorder ; babies crying, small fry falling downstairs, servants rifling half-filled boxes, canaries shrieking for water and groundsei, Paul Pry cursing his fate with peculiar bitterness and in- tensity from his perch on Minerva's head to which he has evidently betaken him- self for safety. It is a fine hurly-burly, Y. and,, if papa could only .vel Y k in and it all, his appearanec would put the fin- ishing stroke to the scene and make it Bedlam, We sit down w to ' n deers ptmoal, but can scarcely eatfor talking. A thousand tongues would not express the half that we feel ; and oh, how bald the provides gwords that lair ua a for gra �' p expressing a great- delaght! Deeply impressed asJaok is, he can find no words whereby to eon. Breakfast Table Talk. "We suppose many if not deed that the anti -cigarette been brought up at the s meetings, and we would like you have got to say about i man in the Palmer Hous other evening. Ho didn't have to wait v two. or three started to voice meats at once. The first one be a man opposed to the use o any form. Ho said : "You that I am down on pipes and of course, I would be, oppose tes, but I am more than th two boys, one fifteen and the teen years of age, and wh grieve me much to see eit a pipe or cigar in his mon raththane puffing a ofr see him mthose mise health -destroying cigarettes." ``Well, said the next one recognized, "I smoke occasionally myself, and my son, who is nearly thirty years old, and, of course, his own boss, smokes, but I am heartily zn favor of the anti -cigarette movement." "The things are an abomination any- way," said another, "and I get a dose f it nearly every time I go to the opera house. It is bad enough for men to be afflicted with the sickening odor, to say nothing of the ladies passing slowly through the lobby. Of course boys or men who will light cigarettes or even cigars before they reach the street display very little manners, to say the least. And thus one after another expressed his views, and it was found that all were down on the cigarette. T good goes to hisyBible forman consolation. Just now portions of the clergy are miserable over the railroad's failure to give them any more half -fare passes. The Boston Herald finds these Biblical texts in sup- port of the railroads' attitude : "Thou shalt not pass"—Numbers 20:18; "Suffer- ed not a man to pass"—Judges 3:28 ; None shall pass" --Isaiah 34:10; "This generation shall not pass" --Mark 13:30; "Though they roar, yet can they not pass'—Jeremiah 5:22; "So he paid the fare thereof and went"—Jonah 1:3. all have no - matter has ehool board to hear what t," so said a e lobby the cry long, for heir send.. chanced to f tobacco in are all aware cigars, and, d to cigaret- at I have other seven i1e it would ther of them the, I would th at once rable little Here is a telephone story that some may be disposed to doubt, but it is abso- lutely true, nevertheless : One of the ladies referred to is well known here, and the other lives in Hamilton. They had been called to two long-distance 'phones in their respective cities that they might overappreciate how easily many milesof ire.e The name could aof the lady at the Toronto end might have been Hattie, and her friend, Jennie, though these are not their correct names. A potion of the conversation that ensued is given : "Hello, Jennie !" "Hello, Hattie!" "My, Jennie, how easy I can hoar you. Why, I should know it was you from your voice ! bay, Jennie. how many yards have you got in your sleeves?" The question, put in a very earnest tone of laugh from the young lady'ssfriends whd a o had invited her to try the 'phone, and their laughter so disconcerted her that she dropped the receiver without waiting for a reply. "Say, Withers," said Smithers, "you claim that Swiggles is a very even-tem- pered man because he is always mad. That may appear all right at first blush, and perhaps it may go as a sort of joke. I thought you were a little off, but con- cluded to make myself certain before I said anything to that effect. In even tempered, ven if used in theee s word of smooth, and the Century dictionary gives as the definition ' having a placid temper,' and placid is defined as mild. So you see that an even-tempered man is one who is just the opposite of ' always mad,' " "Your definition applies when com- parisons are made, as between two arti- cles of the same or even weight, eta." "Yes, and didn't I compare one time with another, and find his temper pre- cisely the same ? I don't care whether it is ( always shad ' or ' always mild,' and I don't see notwi hsta dingl whatre t ;ou oes r even what the Century dictionary says." Withers is not yet convinced that he was right. • "That is a'good story, and the question was not an unnatural one, considering the extent to which the prevailing fashion in sleeves is carried," said a listener. "It re- minds me of something I observed in the opera house the other evening. The audi- ence was not large, and vacant seats were many. Two ladies entered and .at first took seats adjoining as indicated by the usher. They were the only parties in the row. A. few minutes later they separa- ted, placing avacan, seat between them. The object of this move was quickly ap- parent, for each immediately began wid- ening out her sleeves to the greatest ex- tent, thus nearly or quite covering the intervening space above and between the two seats. Then they gave each other a look of supreme satzsfaetjon and t ere ready to enjoy the stage performance." It is a cenrinon oeeurr'ence for a 8 Geta- for at the p z0 court house to go to sloop and' disturb surrounding d in �' g-ittors by snaring,.. The head falls back, the larynx is twist- ed andbreath rasps back and forth Ilia litre the winter wind through a .knot -hole in a summer cottage. Oceasiionall. the nisei of the Snore awakens the sleeper, but if the sleep ie bot'n of the soothing effects of an overdose of tangle -foot sins t is h, 1�wwfoa�.o i. a Ca,storia is Dr. tar_ie;.el Fite/her', res- and Children. contains prescription for IIt3id's:t3 tell. I., ontai a za-incr °pitaaaa, Illorphisse nor- @thein Ida reoale sratastanee. fa* le . lauestlloe w ao iia. I''urceorle, .l;iyye;.,:i, iooalaiy Laser izs, and C.slsstitiz V is lea wast. 4....'-7 - A i at use Oat. AP' .xrtzratoo h thirty yc ars` arse ipd"rii tG a" o alo4healo Castor/a Cie •t`r , s o3Tta'C'�crms aricl,^1?!f,ty� feverealtnesss C-.;,tcvria sir :vents :ge illi ng' Sour Cur . �c,rres Dtarr;�cwa, sa6, ki , , . Y e �l,�l„1Cl �Gl.e. a3L©£1tL relieves acaetlalizsg troubles, cure coostipa.tiion, ward t flatulency.. Castor's:L a ssisaallaaesi �..ca coca % I'eestelatl,:,y C'y. and f90Cy'..'.'_.3q t:,+.e.% -,••• l - ,�, li0 stomach e ital . , aut5, n.'taasu,l sleep. Casa torla i; the Childr•op'.a Panacea—rise B otherts Fried -CaStOTIZL 47.3c�oelloutra, ie.., f c iL '2ren. Mothers. have rep :sic.,:!. told.nwof its good effect upon their oh.ldren." C. 0raoon, notch, ;Bass.. n Castaria is the best remedy for c:r;ldrez ci which 1 am acquair sed. It oro tho C.:.y is trot t'rr distant when mothers wi;l consider tao real interest of t:icir children, and uco Cau:eria, wired of t.hevariousqutwit nostrums which aro destroying their loved ones, by foreia g epi; : r, morphine, soothing z•r:p and ot.rt ' li r, uj agents corn their throats, tht rob:- sending them to premature graves." Da. J. F.Ktscat•Lo, Conrvay, Caotorja. " Cc,tor:a. 01 so well adapted to children the@ I recent:tat:id 1st rssupei•ior teeny. prescription l:newri to x.tc " R. A. ARCIISR, M. D., 111 So. Qxfard 13:. Drnaklyu, N. V". "our rhyslcinhs iu the cltildren'sdepart- of their experi• he with Cas Coria, Ong •u,r 'et',triar the the meat le.,o spoken taco in their outside ;std although we iuedlcai supplies wh products; yet we are free niers of CascorIa has favor upca it." "Minim °apt Irian 0. $MIS T.he Ceuta:nes Compart7, 7? :Murray Street, barroom soup, attendants usually have to restore "silence in court" by a digni- fied dig in the ribs with one of the awe- inspiring poles with which they are equip- ped. The other day, however, a disciple of Tired Tolliver stumped into court and took a seat on the extreme end of ono of the benches. In three minutes he was fast aeep and snoring. It was no a snore, however, as one would natll expect ne ofould h s tribforth It was anthe bosom amateur sort of snore—a cross between the puffing. of a fat mt.n playing golf and the whinny of ar- est him `was either deaf or colt. The attendant oo interested in the case on trial to hear, for he did not disturb the man with the broken breath. The man seemed to dream. His head and then his frame began to drop slowly to- ward the aisle end of the bench, and he gave utterance to a series of gutteral hanged Suddenlys. n he went into this centre of he aisle with a thud and a startled " ow -wow " that disturbed the court. Apprehending the wrath of the attendants which would descend upon him he scrambled to his feet, and, casting a look of injured inno- cence at the spot upon which he fell, shuffled out of the way of danger. only six cigars a d equal to $136.50 per an per cent, interest for s amounts to the small fort... ,. 924,26. This has afforded means education of my children, with an ap. priate allowance for benevolent obje Thin .nom t such tented octogenarian began sa g his eigarr money by depositing it rurally the Seamen's Bank for Saving In HEAR THE ANTS TALKING. An Ingenious Method of Listening to Their Conversation. That ants are capable of producing sounds intelligible to their fellows and even audible to our ears seems to be proved by the experiments of Sir John ofu Bombay, o Janet,bPorei,Wroughton,. to be determined that the sounds are pothers. It also roduced by the rubbing together of superficial portions the e. A rble et nious contrivance described for en- abling an huelstssthese soundobserver to sfunnse small end down, in the middle of a square of window glass of five or six inches wide, fitting closely enough to prevent the in- sects crawling out under it. A bunch of aunts about as large as a chestnut and free from any foreign substance is dropped through the funnel, and that is lifstil1aconfused,up at nce. While and before tany e oft thts em m can reach the edge of the glass, it is cov- ered which has been urroundeda ,a shortheike adistanee from its edge, by a pad of putty, This confines the ants and prevents their be- ing crushed, The two plates of glass are pressed together to within about the thickness of an ant's body, but closer on oxte sometight and leae than on ve other, hs eerso as to hold free to take such positions as please them. On aps plying this box of ants to the ear as one would a watch a regular buzzing may be heard like that of water boiling in an open vessel, and with it some very clear stridulations. The ants may be kepb alive several hours and even days in this prison if it is not air -tight: and when- ever the ants are excited the stridulations maense.bBhearThe stridulverati nsiare uppo edito be produced by rubbing the rough' scaly surface of the chitinous covering is described as looking, when seen which in one direction under the microscope, Iike the teeth of a saw. A Venerable New Yorker Tette go' Ho Bought a Koine. Mr. Chauncey M. Depew once remarked that he regarded his success in life as due, is a great measure, to his firmness in breaking off the habit of smoking. Ile enjoyed his cigars as much as did an ardent lover of the weed, but when he found that smoking interfrred with his thinkingapparatus he promptly stopped it. Mr, Luther Prescott Hubbard is an- other New Yorker who attributes not only his financial enc' zttl success, but his Ions and contented rated life to his total abstinence from the tobaceo habit. 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