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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1904-08-04, Page 3tBWDOci _.,_LOO D fBmrER IS a purely vegetable System Renovator, .Bloodrife �'u er and Tonic, medicine that acts directly At tthe same time on the Stomach, Liver, Rowels and Blood, It cures Dyspepsia, Biliousness, lCont"stipation, Pimples, Boils, Dead - ache, Salt Rheum, Running Sores, indigestion, Erysipelas, Cancer, ;Shingles, Ringworm or any disease arising from an impoverished or impure condition of the blood. Far Gats by all DolOBIsts. The Shopper's Progress. I.W. D. Nesbit, in Ci>.iertgo Tribune:I She vowed she would economize; She said: "•T think it's finny tl A woman hardly ever tries To nave her busbaud's money." So she thiougliout that bargain day Among the shoppers fought. eked said when she bad Fume away: This Phtais ell T bought -- This lovely little color That cost just halt a dollar." !brut day it ebanceii she Paw a wane Dropstitcheti, and Tray pretty; ••jkrarked-down"' cant upon it placed NRadb her sigh; °" Whist u pity 1 `Though I've decidee not to spend More money, I declare $'il take lee See how it will blend Thu culots when I wear Teat luvely little collar Which cost a half a dollar." ..rind then a skirt was brought to view - It matched the vete •; she thought it Was empty dear, and lovely, too; The upshot was,, she bought it Soule gloves of quite the proper shade She goo, and after that A. special trip or two she made Before she found a, het To match the lovely collar That cost abate a dollar, Of course her costume would not be Complete(it would look shoilds ) Without new shoes. Why, you'll agree 'With that; and anybody Who knr,ws the rules of fashion knows eTo other feature will Set off the costume like the hose- * e e . . . * Ton ought to see the bill For that dear little collar Which cost ahulf a dollar! ABSOLUTE SECURITY, Cenuene Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of See Fac-Sitono Wrapper Below. Tam small and as easy So take as sugar. omornalMMIIP CARTERS R: R u NE$L mix FOR RILIOIISNES$. IVER FOR TORPID LIVER. PILLS. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW S!Wt. FOR TNECOMPLEXIOII CURE SICK HEADACHE. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN TIIE TIMES • glee Mentielerfeineeht Zatteekex►, Talking about the British acistoera- Ai* a woman wile 11a Met It on its na- tive heath tells me that the feminine section of it never stirs out without a 1Ateltkey. We curry latchkeys. over here, but we don't do it lu the British way, The Atnerlcuu• wonian ties ber key lu the corner of ler hundlceri 1e1 orl bides it muter nsto or put It ii, to . iter purse afoul, with cold Cream vee- ipes end ear tickets and tummies. The Luf;lisitwozutth parades hers. The wo-. tuutt who knows her telis the that she has seen latehkeys set with precious titmice and fastened to long cituine. She has seen them gilded tin 1. strtuag from belts; she bus seen theist with pins on the back of thein, morn us, brooches. She telie the that the Eng. lisliwannui would no sooner leave her• latehkey at home than ber husband would his bath. The thing is possibly new to the irngllshwoman and, being new, Is paraded. With us over here it Is an old story. Possessing tee re- ality, the symbol is of small nloniedt to us. We are content to leave the latchkey under the nat.- . Philosopher e. a Fisherman. Herbert Spencer once won a curious wager. He was staying for a fiehing holiday In the house of Sir Francis Powell, the prestOont •of the Scottish academy, and while angling fora trout be happened to drop his eyeglasses into a deep pool of the river. In the even- ing he related els misadventure to his boat and the guests, and said that he was prepared to bet that he would re- cover the pince-nez from the bottom of the pool. His friends declared that impossible a r ttriswusalt i P sst e fe t, but Her - bort Spencer still offered to make the bet, Ells 'challenge was accepted be one of the visitors. Upon the following evening Spencer returned to the house with the missing eyeglasses. Ile bald fastened a strong magnet on the end of his fishing line and fished for the glasses until it came into contact with their steel rims. Floating Targets of the Sea, , Even the French and L'ritish war- ships that patrol the Newfoundland coast during the fishery season do not escape the danger of icebergs, crowded with men and carefully navigated though the vessels are. The ice masses serve a novel purpose for the fleets all the summer through. being used as targets for big gun practice, When a specially formidable one drifts along past St, John's a cruiser slips her moor- ings and runs to sea after it, pelting it with projectiles until she fires away her allowance. It is one of the sights of St. John's, the endless procession of icebergs of every size and shape that drift by day after day, charm- ing the eye and cooling the summer atmosphere Sometimes they ground in the harbor mouth and prevent ships entering or leaving. -P. T. McGrath in McClure's. Palestine. When one thinks of the great events that have taken place in the Holy Land, the multitude of cities, villages and V ' towns, the countless millions ti h0 hap) been born there and whose bones now lie in its rock ribbed bilis, the small dimensions of Palestine are almost startling. West of the Jordan, where most of the historic events took place, there are only 3,800 square miles, in- cluding ail the geographical divisions now called Palestine. Including the land both east and west of the Jordan, the total area is 9,840 square miles. The Length of Palestine from north to south is about 150 miles. It varies in breadth from twenty-three to eighty miles. Wanted None of 1lib Asst. At a dinner in London, Theodore Watts -Bunton said: "It isn't generaI- ly known that Turner, the painter, and Dr. Augustus Pritchard once lived to- gether for a year in Cheyne row. The painter and tate physician had a fine garden, and they took a good deal of pride in their floevers. But the garden gate did not work well, and one day Turner, because it wouldn't open, pet• testily gave orders that it be nailed up, It was thought that this odd act would enrage Augustus Pritchard, but, On be- im; told of it, nil be saki was, 'Oh, well, 1 don't care what Turner does to the gate, so long as he doesn't paint it'" Colds. Every one knows when he contracts a cold an the chest. Not so with cold in the kidneys and bowels. The kid- neys, however, are the weak point in many men and women nowadays, and they may be well protected by °wearing a Coll of white flannel, which should be about a foot wide and go twice around the waist for Winter and once toe sump mer. Try it, reader, If son have any tendency to bladder or kidtrey trouble.- Exehange. A Mena Bank. '"Madam, you've already overdrawn your account." "Whit's that?" "You haven't any more motley in the Wink," "The idea: A fine bank, I think, to be out of money because of the little I've drawn! Well, I11 go somewvhete else." A 1Philokopherr. itiVera--What do you do when you wake np in the night `With jumping toothache? Ilroeks-I try to be thank-, fat It ferr't galloping eonsumptlon. Trying to Forge* it, lifting -Hello, old ]rant What do you think of that elgitr t gate yon last night? Bifklnb- Don"t tisk hie be think. tett trying 10 forget it, Let tioee rrho Ohne** ofbatingt� ter Work Undertake to do nothing, If tsiw kill ndt o b'iithere nettling 4rl1 k nig l 'ING HA M IMES, OUST 4, 1904 A e*n saW.. j t SERVANTS RUSSIA,. mg a good deal lately end feel in oCeasional win f pain toundy ou,rhert? Ars you short of breath, nerves ces unhinged, $ n a. i tan of i s pin and needtes going through your ;anis and. fingers? Better take a box or two! of Milburn's Hart and Nerve Pills and get cured before things become toe serioui, AS a specific for ad heart and verse troublestheycan- not be excelled, A true heart tonic, blood enricher and nerve re- newer, they cure nervousness, aleepless. ness, nervous prostration, smoker's beam, palpitation of the heart, after effects of la grippe, etc. Price inc. per box or 3 boxes for $1,as st all druggists, or will be sent on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co,, Toronto, Ont. THE WHiTE HOUSE. Prresident IIiidisou's Part fa Thur Naming the Exeegttye Mansion. Just how the White ,!louse came to be so designated is a questloe on which historians differ. A local historian in Washington thinks that the burden of proof tends to give credit tor the name to President Madison, out Mud sora, The structure was made of Potomac river free,stoue, and the capitol proper was built of the same stone, At the tune the British burned the executive mansion they did a lot of other dam- age, and the country was pressed for money to repair the same. The walls of the mansion were only slightly dam- aged, other than being blackened by (smoke. Money was scarce, and con- gress made an appropriation to have the outside of the house painted. White was selected as the best color, Madison in it letter to a personal friend wrote: "Come In and see me at any time. You will always find me in at the White Ilouse." The executive mansion may breve been called the White House before that time, but this Investigator says that he bus never been able to find any record of it. If Madison did not oft - date at the christening It has been emphatically stated by the historian that be took a prominent part In pub - hailing the fact that the White House was to be the name of the mansion. Up to the time of President Madison the executive mansion, which is the legal name for it, was generally spo- ken of as the president's house, but since then it has been known by its permanent name of White House. Nothing but Praise. "Mr. Itichley had nothing but praise for your work for him before the citi- zens' committee," said the friend. "Yes," replied the Lobb ist gloomily, $ g Y, "nothing but, praise." Perfection. Husband-H'm--er-what's the mat- ter with this cake? Wife -There can't be anything the matter. The cookery book says it is the most delicious cake that can be made. The Truth. "Mr. Hardup must have used a great deal of flattery to win the heiress." "No; he simply told her the truth." "Indeed?" "Yes; he said be couldn't live with- out her." settefal. Miss Oldgiel-1 don't like the color of my hair. Miss Youngthing-Don't let that bother you, fay dear. It can't be long now before It turns gray. DIARRHOEA, DYSENTERY, COLIC, CRAMPS, PAIN IN THE STOMACH, AND ALL SOMMER COMPLAINTS. ITf 11001#oTs A*I $ARV*LLDU S. !t ASTI LINE A *HARM. N*Lit*V ALMOST INITAN rANEOUN. ?leash, Rapid, Reliable, Iffeatual, EVkhtf Hatter exlcith.b HiAVa IT. Milt lieu* ►Iiuk0tkt 0.0 It. altar No *Tata 01141, w 35th Tit, 2.0{tt illxeitttleM"'iihe,a *e Witness.. es Against Their Employers. Tile liusslau servant is billet for one year ate" ie told exactly what lite par tiettlar duty is to be. Ito then sticks. to that one duty. As long as oath ser ant fa41fu11y perroruzs the special duties o is o t t is f h p t#i loft al well, but the neglectful butter or hook or coach, man is sent by the employer with: a written note to the pollee judge, whe after earefully investigatiug the corn. plaints lige u right to order bodily Mien- islzntent or to write a bad murk in the, i book kept for this purpose. In great Russell) households oftea }frow twenty to ffty se rva nts are ke pt , end e�en the middle class futiii es I have two 10 four. The pay of these servauts varies accordiug to the line of work. While the "chiefs" in the kitchens of wealthy families often re- eeive 4300 a year, a eook in an Ordinary citizen's ernpfey gets no more than 412 a year, and a rnuid of all work never sets more than 45 a year. At Easter every servant gets a present, iteueraily a suit or dress. Every other Sunday the servants la a ',Weston household are ent!>reiy free. Their work stops Saturday night after supper, when the servants Ieave the house not to return until the next Mon- day morning. Tile employers never ask where or Low the free time 1 spent. Russian servants will pilfer, Since Russian ladies leave everything to the care of the servants the latter do as they please. The menservants smoke cigars be - 1 louging to their mestere and pay fre- u n wine e t visits y it to the o zv ne Cebars of the house, but a gentleman wouldconsider ' it "demeaning" himself to prosecute a servant for this. IThe Russian servants will talk about i fellow servants, but never about their employers. Eveu when they iuit one place and take service in another : family they would never mention any- ' thing, about their former masters. : This discretion goes so far that even the law considers It. In Russia the law excludes servants as witnesses against their former or present employers so long, at least, as these servants are not suspected of baying taken part in the crime.-Londou Mall. SHORT TALKS. Pewee , 9 #if# ua-t � Other.e !. A good story ak4ut Browl! ng end: i '1'ennYteau is to be found in the diary. 3 of the Right Han, Sir Monutstuart ..Grtrnt Duff. Browning referred readily to the .charge of obseurity .in his poetry, 1 "Be once told me," says Sir Mount, Stuart Grant Duff, "after repeating a story Wordsworth had told. him illus. itrathg his cvA Strange wont of humor x and wit, that Wordsworth, utter all,. j was unjust to himself, for that on hear, Ing of Brownhfg's engagement to Miss i Barrett be had said, 'Well, I suppose 1 they understauc each other, although nobody understands theta."" ITennyson's opinion of Browning (and, incidentally, of himself) is shown in his remark that "Browning is devoted to. Music and knows a great deal .about it, but there Is no music in, his verse. I know nothing about music end don't care for it in the least, but my verse Is full of musle" In reading Milton's Lyeldas aloud, says Sir: htountstuart Grant Deft, Ten- nyson would stop at the lupe, And, oh, ye dolphins, waft the #�napiess youth, with the comment that this was "the only bad line Milton ever wrote." A terrible lot of love is wasted on cats, dogs and uuntarrled men. So inlay people waste time! Do you do it? Do you talk, and talk about nothing? How we all dislike the child that has its own way and Is impudent! All of us need a great deal of training. A good many people are like pie- plant --their good quhlities are not known because no ole bandies them When a woman's daughter marries a I right. preacher she Is more lirmiy convinced than ever that her clildrett have ad- vantages she did notyeeenjoy. If a woman truly loves her husband, when she is asked how he is she will say, "Well. he does not complain, but I do not think he is very well." If you have a little hard sense it has probably been beaten into you; very few have It naturally. So that, after all, adversity and criticism are useful. --Atchison Globe. The Bear Re Missed, Telling in his book of sorfte hunting experiences near the north pole, Cap- tain Sverdrup wrote: "Walruses and seals were harpooned and shot and also the large arctic hare, which seems to have contracted the peculiar habit of frequently running .long distances on its hind legs. Hunting was not always easy, the atmosphere playing strange tricks with the eyesight, as witness the following account of the stalking of a bear: 'With the utmost caution, with his gun ready and his eye fixed inex- orably on the bear, Sehlei advanced to the spot. Meanwhile the bear sat wag- ging its head, but keeping a good look- out, it appeared, for when Sohlei had come some twenty steps nearer it rose and flew away. It dew as well as any bird, which, after all, was not remark - Able, for it was a glaucous gull.' An Intportant Diierenee. Not long after a series of losses at sea on a certain steamship line two travelers were discussing transatlantic liners. One of the men preferred the C— line, the other the T— line, the one on Which the repeated wrecks had twine—ed. "There's one important difference," said the first, "that you don't seem to have considered, but which weighs strongly with me." "What is that?" "Wee, the C- . line guarantees to take you across, but the T— line guarantees to 'eke you only as far as it goes." lie 5'onnd It. "Always," said the astute news edi. tor to the neer reporter -"always be on the lookout for any little touch of hie mor that may brighten up our eel- tunns!" That evening the new reporter band- ed in an trrcottnt of a burglary in a butcher's slurp which cotntneneed, "Mr. Jeremiah ('leaver. the well knotvtl buteher, has been losing 'flesh rapidly of late.' �lartdrtn1 Hiversioin, "I expeeted to- find that suit alone,"' Stormed the customer. "Oh, well. here's the other snit dun," *old the tailor, who was n low Wag, And who had a bill in his band. they ittnuoite to aware. :rou think that men Isle smarter than S efi do or, e. Some men, but notal i, t, 1§lie--\Pelt, what men are smarter/ tie• -i lsl ' htlr;ders z-ilirtstratt d *151,. ,., .... -.. . Tho island of Jersey. The police court of St, Heiler, the principal town of the island of Jersey, is remarkable in several respects. First, the proceedings are always opened with prayer; second, it frequently happens that after prayer there is no more business, and every one goes home. There is so little crime committed in the island that the police force (twenty strong) iskePt up only for visitors. The beautiful curving in cult which forms the rostrum of this court is the woz'k of a lady named Coxedge, a resident of the island. The dock is remarkable for its spaciousness and comfort. The authorities are very lenient with their prisoners, who are rept bere, for court and station are under one roof. In the words of the genial old turnkey, "When we gets 'ern brought in drunk during the day, if tbey behave well we lets 'em out at night." Every "bobby" is obliged to know the Psalms. It's all he has to do. Billiard Balls. Billiard balls are made of Zanzibar ivory, the other ivory, known as the Bombay ivory, being too liable to crack or chip. The Zanzibar ivory is soft and therefore lasts better. The regu- lation ball is two and three-eighths inches in diameter, and a set of four hosts about $30. They are rough turn- ed -that is, turned a little larger than the balls are to be when finished -and are stored away in open crates for from sixteen to twenty-two months to season the ivory after being turned and to allow any shrinkage to take piace before the balls are finished, If the bails were not seasoned in this way they would be liable to shrink after they were teethed, and, as they only shrink in the direction of the grain, they would become oval instead of remaining round, ashey should be, and it would be necessa y to have them turned again. Many John Smiths. in Latin, John Smith is Johanus Smithies; in Italian, Giovanni Smiths or leabbroni; in Spanish. Juan Smithas; in Dutch, Huns Schntitlts or Schmidt or Sehmitzes; in French, Jean Sweets; in Greek, Ioit Skmlton; in Polish, Ivan Schmittiweiski; in Welsh, Iihon Scbmidd; in Scotch, Jean Gowans; in • Russian, Jouloff Skmittowski; in Chi. hese, Jahon Shimmit; in Icelandic, inline Smithson; in Mexican, Jontii b'Smith; in Tuscarora, Ton Qu Smit- . ria. heroic War Measurer. Make, a great African native chief, I trained a powerful army which was famous in war, If a regiment was beaten it was slaughtered on its re - j turn to the king's palace. If any man lost his weapon in war he was killed tor cowardice. If the chief wanted to see what kind of weapons were most successful he would order a sham fight With them, in which real lives would be lost. Editor Versus Lawyer. A lawyer In a courtroom may call a man a liar, scoundrel, villain or thief, and no one makes a complaint when court has adjourned. If a newspaper prints such reflections on a man's char - oder there is a libel suit or a dead edi- tor. .A.nd this is owing to the fact that people believe what an editor says; What a lawyer says cuts no figure. The Place For ra Puyil. "Acid there is one thing about the pupil of the eye that I can't say About lots of other pupils," remarked the teacher. "What is that?" asked the scholars in chorus. "11 is always found up around the head." Making Stire. Mr. Totteriy-Could you marry a very old hien with n good deal of money if he told you frankly how old he Svgs and ho'tv much he was worth? Miss Timely -Hose much Is he worth? Then He Went. Urittelcoine Suitor -,•-•That's a lovely song. It alw'nys carries me away, She 1 --If I had known how initch pleasure it could give us both I would have sung. it earlier it the evening. That taunt 'Fernald*. It ntakest no dltlerenctt lzovt' sinali 1 boy lo, when his mother ecoids hint the al'way's says, "You ought to be asham- ed of yourself, 'a big boy like you!" 1 Ale whoa _n In u s oannaits tiee Is eves j e made rierb wretched thanhe Who *111, Marr %..- Astor! - ........ , ......... { Tim Muerte* et #fettsrtt#ss. After till, the chief charm of this race of wingee f2Awere doefi not Ile in their varied and brilliant Wonky, nor yet in their wonderful series of trunsfornut- tione, lit their long end.sordiel eaterltil- • Inc Iife, their long slumber in the ebrysalls or the very brief period which comprises their beauty, their lo ventek- ing, their parentage and their death, Nor does it lie In the fact that we do not yet certainly know whether they leave in. the Caterpillar shape the facul- ty of sight or not, and do not even know the precise use of their most eon spicuous organ in maturity, the anted - nue, Nor does it consist in this --that they of all created things have fue nlshed luau with the symbol of lits own immortality, It rather lies in the feet that, with all their varied life end activity, they represent an absolutely silent world, * * * A11 the vast array of modern knowledge bus found no butterfly which mttrmur•s with an audi- ' bee voice and only n very few speeies welch can even ,audibly click or rustle with their wings. -T. W. Higginson in Atlantic, Material Vsed In Making Note ranee. It is itot a pieusuzit thought that -the brilliant white note paper whielx your band rests upon may have in it the fibers from the filthy garment of some Egyptian fetlah after it has passed through all the stages of decay until it ' is saved by a rugpicker from the gut- ter utter of an Egyptian town, and yet it is a fact that hundreds of tons of Eat). - 1 tain gyp-1tain rags are exported every year lute Americo to supply our paper mills. At Mannheim, on the Ititine, the American importers bave their rngptcking houses weere ragsare collected from all over Europe, tee disease infected Levant not excepted, and where women and chil- dren, too poor to earn a better living, i work day after day, with wet sponges , tied over their mouths, sorting these ' filthy scraps for shipment to New York. I Our best papers are made of these rags and our common ones of wood pulp, which is obtained by grinding and I macerating huge blocks from some of j our soft wooded forest trees. --National Geographic Magazine. A Gypsy Prophecy. An English magazine relates a cure ohs instance of gypsy prophecy. The third Earl Of Malmesbury, as Lord Fltzhnrris, was riling to n yeomanry review ewer Christchurch, when his or- derIy, some distance in front, ordered a gypsy woman to open a gate. The , gypsy woman quietly waited till Lord Fitzharris and his staff rode up, when she addressed them, saying, "05, you think you are a lot of fine fellows now, but I can tell you that one day your bones will whiten in that field." Lord Fitzhurris laughed and asked her whether she thought they were going to have a battle, adding it was not very likely in that case they would choose such a spot. More than forty years later the field was turned into a ceme- tery. A Country of Linguists.. 1 Almost every native of Icelauti, even the peasants and fishermen. can speak at !vast one foreign language besides his leen! Danish Willett. Some years ngo it became a fad to study languages. and now a person speaking only one ' tongue is looked down upon ns ex- tremely ignorant. English leads; then come German and French. Papers in these three languages are rend exten- sively in Iceland and may be found in , all the village reading rooms. I The ]lead and Feet. The connection between the bead. and ! feet i. 9 well known. A hot head is or- dinarily relieved by a hot footbath. So cold feet tend to congest the brain and other internal organs. Sometimes ' cold feet are caused by tight lacing or ' tight fitting shoes. .fiut it is as much a suieidal act to basten death by com- pressing the lungs or the feet as by compressing the neck with a rope. A Serious Decision. Beatriz (aged six, after remaining in deep thought for quite two minutes, ad- dressing her mother, who has been choosing frocks for her) - Mummy, dear, before you buy the frocks, I've thought it all over, and I think I'd rath- er be a boy. -London Tit -Bits. Confined to His Room. Benefactor -flow Is your bueband now, my dear woman? Poor Woman - I am sorry to say, sir. he is confined to his room, Benefactor -Could I see him? Poor Woman -Possibly, sir, If you applied at the county jail. 'THAT'S THE SPOT! Might in the *mail of the. hack, Do you ever got a pain there? 11 so, do you know what it tineans/ It is a Bacckache. A sure sign of Kidney Trouble, Don't neglect it. Stop it in time. If you don't, serious Kidney Troubles are aura to follow. DOhN`S KIDNEY PILLS tare Backache, Line Back, Diabetes, Dropsy and all Kidney and !!ladder Troubles. P6triekOs. a bo# err3 tat 31.23.441 deailet ik Db.t$ KIDNEY' PILL CO., Tetrsytk. OM. 1 The #lord•* linea at Wit. it tl English lady reformer of tutu age who visited India to deliver'>!i lecture told the audience that ab; would be happy to allover any itrlseN tion, upon which a fat balm cause to the front with. ""Bow' old sre YOUrt "Oh, no," she replied; "1 don't mein questloue of that sort; only once ONG " uevSe4 with the subject of the lacttz�, + ";ire yon forty?" -continued the bebee, nowise abashed. "Nu, I won't *newer such a question." was the reply. "are you fifty?" vontinued her tormentor, "Olt,. 110: 1 told you 1 won't answer such queatlone." "Are you. sixty Y" "05, no, no, 90; I'm not sixty," the lady responded precipitately. A shikarri out purtrldge shooting was►; even in tits of laughter, slnpp!ag 551 thighs in the ecstasy of his glee, -On Inquiring the cause of his hilarity, be hurriedly said: "bush, sahib! That cooly," indicating ,one of the beaters, "has just been bitten by a green snake, but be thinks it is only a thorn! Don't tell him or bell be frightened and stop beating." -From General Gerard's "Leaves From the Mary . of a Soldier and Sportsman." The .lade Jokai hovel, Of one phase of his life Jokal, the Rungarlan novelist, wrote in disgust: "Web, confess it 1 must. I have a sweetheart, for whose sake I Kase been faithless not only to my wife, but to my muse also -a sweetheart who has appropriated' my best idetie and wbose Slave I was and still ant. Often 'Iwo I wasted half my fortune upon her and rushed blindly into misfortune to please her. For her sake 1 have pa, neatly endured insult, ridicule and rep. robation• for bee salie I have stake d life and liberty. Now, if she bad been a pretty young damsel there Welt have been some excuse for ate, but she was a nasty, old, painted figurehead. of a beldame, a flirting, faithless, fie, kle, foul mouthed, scandalmongering old liar, whom the whole world courts, who makes fools of all her wooers and changes her lovers as often as she changes leer dress, Her name is Poll. tics, and may the plague take her!" Customs of the KaSirs. The author of a book on the Kaflirs of South .Africa says: "The women are, on the whole, in favor of polygamy. Sometimes a woman who Inas a dozen other 'sisters,' as they call fellow wives, will go to a woman who is the solitary wife of a man and ask her if she does not feel lonely. No one can visit a large kraal -such, for example, as the king's kraal in Swaziland-wbere there are hundreds of buts, and not feel that there is a certain charm in the soca'l life of the place. It is a sort of college life, and frequently my thoughts have reverted to my old varsity days, and it has struck me that if one could im- agine a set of men living in the old court of Trinity surrounded by wives and children, with a social circle in which every one was related to every one else, one might get some idea of the sheer joy of life amid 1,000 rela- tions." Swallows and Microbes. Swallowsndother i it . a migratory d3 b invariably shun those places whicb are in the slightest degree infected by noxious microbes. Thus they are never to be found in districts where cholera, yellow fever, the plague and other epi- demic diseases prevail. The districts which they select as their temporary homes are in all respects the most healthy that can be found. It is evi- dent from this tent persons who are afraid of catching cholera or other in- fectious diseases ought not to live in places which are shunned by these birds. A Useless 'Verdict. "res," said the old traveler, "1 was on a jury in Ca1!fernla once. It was a murder trial. I didn't want the fellow hanged and so stnnk out against the other eleven for nine days, locked up in the jury room. when they gave in, and we brought in a verdict of 'Not guilty,' and then I was ready to stab myself with spite." "What about?" "'Cause the mob had banged the prix• over on the very first day we were locked up." Enloy What You Can. To be soured by poverty or to ba. hardened by it •is a tnistake-an erreg of thought. Instead of enjoying etre ilea' we are cramping ourselves. It le es if.. we were set at a feast and sulkily re- fused to enjoy a few dishes because Svc could not reach everything on the table and make ourselves sick, like fooltse. children that we are. A, Telling Stroke. The hare easily caught up with the tortoise, "Web, old man, you're not much of n runner," he sneered, "No," admitted the tortoise, "I'm not. I think I'll try for the crew. You ace, I'm quite at home in the shell." A fir,ttnetlon. "Can a man patent n scientific oils• eorery?" asked the eotnniereial person. "It isn't usually done." answered the scientist. "But some of then ought to be eoyprighted as literary produc- ticns. " 1`0 !rrifl1,tg Dc'tnl1. Miss Truesoe--Am 1 to understand, Ma, that everything Is settled in re- gard to my wedding? Mr. Truesoe- Yee, my dear, everything -but the bills! Explaieied, .i*iker-'•-i' by did they ea!) the tile. diaecal period the "dark ogee?" Pro. feasor--liecnuso It 'WAS knight tittle. When e a real meek limn fke.,i good ttzl$ mad, be comes nighty near hating