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THE HASTIN VOT,. L.-- NO. 15. AZETTE. HASTINGS. MINN.. SATUfDAY. JANUARY 4, 1908. HOME OF THE DOLL. Methods of the Ingenious Thuringian Toymakers. Dollmaking did not become conspic- uous as an Industry in the Thuringian mountains until the middle of the nine- teenth century, when a citizen of Son- neberg brought from London a doll which was regarded as a great curiosi- ty. It had come originally from China, and its head, legs and arms were mov- able. This furnished an inspiration to the ingenious Thuringian toymakers, who promptly improved upon it. Up to that time they had made dolls only of wood and leather, but soon they evolved the wax head -at first a crude article, the wax. being applied with a brush, but later brought to high per- fection, thanks, it is said, to an acci- dental discovery. A man engaged,Jn making the beads dropped a thimble into his pot of fluid wax and on taking It out found It covered with a smooth and beautiful coat of the substance. He was not slow to seize the idea, the result being the adoption of the dip- ping process, the final touches of color being put on with a camel's hair pen- cil. Later on the movable eyes and closing lids, to feign sleep, were added, and the fleece of the Anoint goat was substituted for human halt~ In the mak- ing of wigs, holding .its color and curl much better, the doll as it is known today thus assuming its final and highly artistic form. • ' Dressing. the dolls after they are made has become an industry in which numbers of women and girls are,em- ployed. For the small, • inexpensive dolls little chemises, finished with a futile of lace around the neck and arms, are made by hundreds and re- quire no skilled labor for their con- struction. -Rene Bache in Circle. LAND AND WATER DOATS. Queer Vesselsfhat..Are Used In Wild Timber Districts. Deep in the wilds of the Canadian timber lands and in a number of the northern lumber districts of the United States wonderful boats climb hills, creep through swamps and woods, traverse small streams from one lake to another and even climb upon freight cars if long transportation is neces- sary. Practically a steamboat and steam winch combined, the engine can be thrown in gear to drive the paddle wheels or twin screws, according to which of the two the boat is equipped with, or drive a cable drum which holds a Mile of five-elgbths inch steel cable used for warping and crossing portages. At the end of a water journey the cable is carried to a treesome distance inland and at one side of the path des- ignated forthe boat to pass over. Pass- ed through a pulley block, it Is carried back to the boat and run through a pulley block at the bow. Then, re- turned inland agate it 1s fastened to a tree on the other side of the path and just opposite the first tree, thus mak- ing it possible for the boat to travel a straight course without dodging the anchor trees. The engine is geared to tile cable drum, and the cumbersome but powerful craft commences its rock \strewn journey. No roadway is required, logs and skids being thrown a few feet apart across the pathway to keep the shoeing from grinding on the rocks. In this manner the boat can travel from one to two miles a day and take a grade of one foot in three when necessary.- \Poputar Mechanics. First Come, First Served. A minister who sets his face against bazaars once related an incident em- phasizing his feelings on the matter. "Once upon a time," he said, "a man was going along a dark street when a footpad suddenly appeared and, point- ing bis pistol, began to relieve his vic- tim of his money. "The thief, however, apparently suf- fered some pangs of remoase. 'It's pretty rough to be gone through like this, ain't it, sir?' he inquired. "'Oh, that's all right, my man,' the 'held up' one answered cheerfully. 'I was on my way to a bazaar. You're first, and there's an end of It!' "-Lon- don Telegraph. Modern Plays and Players. We no longer demand that a man or ' woman play a part. We insist that the - part fit the man or woman. This con- dition no doubt is largely the .fault of managers, who instead of requiring impersonation . pick performers for their likeness to the characters to be assumed. "Have you a father?" one can imagine them inquiring of a can- didate. "Yes." "Then you won't do. This man's father died twenty years before the beginning of the play." - Argonaut. Reformed. "Did she marry her husband to re- form him?" "I guess so. She reformed him, all right." "Why, he drinks like a fish." "I know it, but he didn't use to be- fore she married him" -Houston Post. Impossible Combination. "The time, the place and the girl! How seldom we find them together!" "Bah! The combination that we sel- dom find together is the man, the shower and the umbrella."-Loulsvllle Courier -Journal. By Richt of Birth. Hunter -Are you an American citi- zen, Pat? Pat -Faith, an' I am that! 1 was born in Donegal, but 'twas on the Fourth iv July.-Harper's Weekly. HIS PAPERWEIGHT. Troves of a Botta of. Wine and Its Uititcr.t3 Fate. A paperweight consisting of a piece of thick glass with a tokay wine label fastened on the buck e:tttl aliowing through is a part of the desk turulture in the Iibrury 4f- a man who goes to Europe nearly every year. "People look at the thing," he said. "and won- der what the wipe label 1s doing there, and wheu I sass the question coming 1 always tell the story. "Some years ago I went to Raab. In Hungary, where I called on au old lady who in Vienna years before had shown much interest In and befriend- ed a young American student at the university. The poor student had grown to be a rich physician, and be wanted me to call and present his compliments. When I was about to leave after a pleasant visit the wo- man handed me a bottle of wine which had come from her estate and asked me to take it to our mutual friend. I carted that bottle all over Europe. paid duty on It several times and final- ly landed it safe and sound here In the house. A few days after my return we invited the doctor for dinner, and the bottle was brought In with much ceremony. .I made a little presenta- tion speech and then in handing it to the doctor dropped it on the floor where you see that stain. That's the label under the glass." - New York Tribufne. HORSE AND DOG. Contact With Civilization Lessens Their Cunning and Sagacity. The dog is no doubt the most intelli- gent of our domestic auimele, euu '1 yield to none in m.r affection for him. j n.a aiinost eat and sleep with a finq dog winter and summer. But I try not to deceive myself about his intelli- gence. It seems to me that if the dog had the least spark of wit akin to our own -that is, power of reason -his long association with man would have fanned it into a flame, however small. But after all these thousands of years of human companionship and love he has less wit in some respects than his wild brothers, the fox and the wolf. Having been spared the stfaggle to live that falls to their lot. his cunning and sagacity have deterio- rated. The same is true of the horse. which has less intelligence than the wild stallion of the plains and for the same reason. These anima do not grow wiser as they'grow 1 wild. They do not civi- lize or develo We train them into certain ways t make them service- able to us; we h anise them without adding to their mental capacity. In other words, we cannot cross our in- telligence upon theirs and make it fruitful in them. me germ will not tate.-John Burroughs in Outing Mag- azine. English House Names. House owners are sometimes rather unfortunate in their selection of names for their abodes, and in suburbia house naming is occasionally rather ludicrous. Thus "The Maples" has never a ma- ple near, "The Rosary" ouly exists In imagination, "Sunnyside" is the most depressing villa residence, and houses named after trEngllsh lakes no more suggest he lake district than Fleet street suggests the Bois de Boulogne. The Anglo-Saxon word "hyrst," sig- nifying a forest or wood, has become "hurst" in house naming, and "wood" and "holt" have the same meaning. All house names ending with these ter- minations are pretty and not unsafe to choose. It is curious to note that in Hastings and St. Leonards quite a number of houses have typically Saxon names, perhaps to commemorate the great Saxon tragedy of which the name Hastings is reminiscent. Pomp of English Meyers. Chichester arms its chief magistrate with a gold mounted malacca cane of office, while the mayor of Guildford carries the stick presented to the bor- ough by Queen Elizabeth. At York both the lord mayor and lady mayor- ess are equipped with the silver mount- ed oak saves which have marked their authority for centuries. Among the official retainers of the mayor of Ripon is the municipal horn blower, who every night at 9 o'clock winds three blasts upon this aged musical instru- ment before the mayor's residence and again at the marked cross. -London Standard. Hardened. "Listen to this, Marla," said Mr. Btubb as he unfolded his scientific pa- per. 'This article states that in some of the old Roman prisons that have been unearthed they found the petri- fied remains of the prisoners." "Gracious, John!" replied Mrs. Stubb, with a smile. "I suppose you would call them hardened criminals." Truthful. Mark Twattf once missed the train which should have taken him to his work. He did not wire any excuse. His telegram to his employer took this form: "My train left at 7:20. I arrived at the station at 7.35 and could not catch it." Persuasion. "i can't marry you," she said. "Yo BURIED IN CEMENT. The Story of an Arab Soy Who Re- nounced Mohammedanism. According to history, there was born about the year 1520 an Arab boy named Geroulmo. He was captured In infancy by the Spanish garrison at Oran, and when about eight years old be escaped from his captors and went back to his family, living as a Moham- medan until the age of twenty-five. He then volutarily returned to Oran and resumed the Christian life which he had adopted previously when In the hands of the Spanish authorities. A few- years later he went on a coast- ing raid with a party of Spaniards, but the raiders were themselves cap- tured by a Moorish corsair and brought to Algiers. Here the attempt waff tnatle ^M convert bins to Moha n- medanism, but he persistently refused to embrace that faith, so that he was tried' and condemned to die. His Rands were tied behind his back, and he was cast alive, titre downward, Into a block of concrete then being prepared for the Fort des Vingt' Quatro Hearns, then building. Careful note was taken of the spot by Ratio, a Spanish Bene- dictine missionary to Algiers, who prayed the time might come when the Lord would pave the way for his ex- humation and Christian burial. In 1858 the French found It necessary to destroy the fort, and the data lett by Haido were found to be correct, for the designated block of concrete on being cat open disclosed the bones ot Geron- Imo and the cavity left by his body. The bones were removed Dec. 27, 1888, and' given Christian burial, and they- 1101V heynow rest In a masaf•c stone sarcopha- gus re- tea cathedral. A plaster cast was sr- de of the cavity and afterward photographed. -Cement Age. AN UNCONQUERED PEAK. Lizard Head on Mount Wilson Has De- fied the Climbers. The mountains and peaks of the San Juan In northwestern Coloratio pre- sent a different appearance from any of the northern Rockies. They are grander, more precipitous, with sharper pinnacles and more jag- ged 1n outline. In height Mounts Mass- ive, Elbert and Blanca slightly out- rank those of the San Juan, but no- where else can be found whole groups of •mounta>ins rearing their beads to and above 14,000 feet. Mount Wilson -14,260 feet -the dom- inant peak, is one of the most massive in the -entire Rocky mountain range. Just 'east of this mountain is the re- markable trachyte obelisk called Liz- ard head. The vivid imagination of an early pioneer who had been "seeing things" is said to be responsible for the.nante. The summit is 14,100 feet above the sea. From a ponderous base the pin- nacle rises 290 feet, with a diameter at the foot of only about sixty feet, grad- ually tapering to less than half that at th^ top. Lizard head has defied all attempts of mountain climbers to reach its sum- mit. The foot of the pinnacle is easily accomplished, but thus far the steep sides of the 290 foot shaft have proved insurmountable. No doubt the time will come when the venturesome mountain climber will find a way, but many a failure is the record of the past. Trains circle this mountain for miles on the way from Telluride to Rico. - New York Poet are old enough to be my father." "Don't hesitate on that account. Ten years from now nobody will suspect It." --Chicago Record -Herald. • There Is always reason in the man fee his good or bad fortune Em n Two NW., Tales. An Albanian who had been in an eastern` state' while freshets were in fnll swing told the following about a horse which had been attached to a footbridge crossing a brook to keep the structure from going adrift. The flood finally swept horse and bridge down stream. Later the bridge was discovered lodged against the bank, with the horse sitting quietly on the former, - A bystander who had listened intent- ly to this tale remarked quietly: "I see suthin' stmilyar caret." "Indeed? What was It?" asked the story teller. "Ye sec," was the reply, "arter the boss I see was took down stream no. buddy ever 'spected to see him alive ag'in. But he was a pow'fnl sort o' brute, an' 'bout a hour afterward we see him a-comtn' up stream a-puMn' the blame old bridge arter himr-Al- bany Journal. Mortar Tossers. There is no hod carrying to Japes. The native builders have a method of transporting mortar which makes It seem more like play than work -to the onlooker. The mortar Is mined to a pile in the street. One man makes this up into balls of about six pounds weight, which he tosses to a man' who stands on a ladder midway between the roof and the ground. TbIs man deftly catches the ball and tosses It rap to a man who stands on the roof. - San Francisco Chronicle. Assommendsdk leading physique laid shoalsts 11 per Thu In Aleamee. Iia pee Year U stet la Advaeee. RIVE EASON• WHY OAUIMET BAKING POWDER has obtained the -confidence of the public, I. It complies with the Pure Food Laws of all states. 2. It is the only bigbgrade Powder sold at a moderate price. 3. It is not made br a Baking Powder Trust. 4. Food prepared with it is tree from Rocbelle Salts or Alam. 3. It lathe strongest Baking Powder on the market. 01.000.00 glveh for any subetanoe InJuriuleto health found In Calumet 0ali sset le so carefully and scientiacaliy Iwowed that the rllsn of the fngredldeb b sten tefig tect fon Calomel leavca ta0 Rochette Salta or Alun in tbo food. It Is Chemically cornet. All Greoers ars Astborized l Guarantee ibis Calasset Baking Powder coats tittle. Costs a Mitts more than the ,heap, Iolurious powders now oo the mar: et, but it Is • nig saving over tun trust powders. Try Calumet yc. He Approved That Plan. It was said In the Norton family that Uncle Hiram had nu ear Tor music, as he failed to apprecte the vocal ef- forts of his niece rgaret. But 1f his ears were defectirl!e'his pocketbook lett nothing to be detred. "We've been taltlgg"over Margaret's voice," said a dauntless and tactful relative who had been delegated to ap- proach Uncle Hiram on the sabject. "It really seems tie if she ought to take lessons end practice regularly. Her mother talks of belling s tittle of her mining stock for Margaret's sake." Uncle Hiram's keeu old face wore n mutinous expression. "Have to practice two, three hours a day, I suppose?" he said dully. "Ob, yes," said the venturesome rel- ative. Then she had i sudden inspira- tion. '• • "It would be best 11 if she could go abroad for two . , ree years," she murmured thoughtft "bot of eourat that is out of the pence" - "Never you robs pence!" broke in fully. "If she can long ways abroad -t her lesson and do her practlefoot the ex pense."-Youth's Co n. Fran eft s n+1Yss The quality of the secular instruc- tion in the French schools seemed to me extraordinarily high. It happened, for example, that 1 was taken Into a classroom where a lesson In English was being given to some French boys of sixteen, mostly the sons of opera. fives. The exercise was conducted in excellent English, which the pupils seemed to speak almost as readily as the teacher, end the point under dis- cussion when I visited the class was one which would have puzzled Her yard freshmen. It was the distinction in meaning between the words priest- s Catholic ecclesiastic; clergyman - an Anglican, and mit later -a dime!' ter. In American schools, or. rather, In the results of the Instruction there afford. ed, I have never conte nrroes the teaching of any foreign Inngung. which compared in efficiency with the teaching of English fn secondary schools throughout Prance. .Sed to an appearances this was only one exaii pie of the thoroughness and the vita!! ty of French teachleg in all its branch ea, -Barrett Wendell In "Free* of To. Slang of the Army. "the army there are expressions peculiar to itself. Iteard for the Amit Itme by outsiders, they need Interpre- tation. Among the most common are "hike" for "march." "striker" for a soldier serving es budyaerrsnt or house man for an officer, "C. 0." for "com- manding officer" and "O. D." for "of- ficer of the day," "hop" and "hoproom" for "deuce" and "danclog room," "cite clothes" for "civilian dress,' "commissaries" for "groceries," "cof- fee cooler" for an officer who is al- ways looking for an easy job in somo staff position, "found" when an otBcer fails to pans his examinations and "shavetall" for a youngster just out of West Point. Among the soldiers the expressions have multiplied until quite a vocabulary of strange words bas been established. "Bobtail" is a dis honorable discharge. "Orderly bucker" is a soldier who, when toing on guard duty, strives by extra neatness of ap- pearance to be appointed orderly to "Dog robber" is e egtlMalon day." Chinese Sarcasm. Once to awhile you tweet a common Chinaman who has some of the native wit of his country. One such has a laundry In Lexington avenue. not fir from Twenty-third street. The other day I heard him ytli at s recalcitrant customer: "You no tiny, Then you p per tiger!" i asked what he meant by a "paper tiger" and be replied. "Oh. In China a paper tlg,r is a blackguard who blows much, but Is harmless!" He added: "When 4 man is very proud of hlmaelf, what Americans call 'stuck rap; we compare to a rat falling into scale and welghbrr itself. When a Chinaman orerdoesi a thing we say be le a bunchback mtiking a bow. The rich son who quickly spends bis fa ther's money we gait a rocket which goes of at once. We say of you rich Americans who send money to the heathens by missionaries and neglect their family at home, They bang their lantern on a pole, which 1s seen from afar, but Oyes no light below.' "-New York Prew Women Ind the Theater. The first aim ot the modern play- wright is to please the women to the audience. The second thought its to the female characters in the play. It a play ends favor with the women ft Is bound to be a success. The men J will go if only because she is there or to act as her escort. -Theater Maga- zine. The Relief et It. "Well, I Anally summed up the our- age ftage to speak to her father last eight. I tell you, it was a great Mkt" "Gee! What did be say?" "Oh, you misunderstand An Arab Honeymoon. For seven days after the wedding the Arab bride aid bridegroom are supposed not to leave their room. The bride may see none of her own family and only the women folk of ber hus- band's, wbo welt on her. She remains to all her wedding finery and paint and does absolutely nothing. The bride- groom generally slips out at night aft- er three days and sees a few friends privately, but he • persistently bides from his wife's fadittyy, and should be Il/ accident meet bis father-in-law be- fore the seven days are over be tarns hte Daae and draws his burnous. or . • over his face. This is their view of a honeymoon. and they grow as weary of it as any hlluvopean couple do at their enforced continental tour.- Wide World Magaat.. When a' saa wears lag chis whisk- ers ft may be because his wife in - Obi span .bobs his tills - teller. 1 young married man '.of extremely jealous disposition rbcently vintted one at the mouttttilpptpll mediums In Lon- ddh ,ging far -trim home, he want- ed to know what his wife was doing. "She is looking out of the window. evidently expecting some one." "That Is strange," said Benedict. "Whom can she expect?" "Some one enters the door, and she caresses him fondly," went on the medium. "It can't be!" cried the excited hus- band. "My wife is true to me." "Now be lays his head on her lap and looks tenderly In her eyes." "It's false! I'll make you pay dear- ly - for this!" yelled the jealous hus- band. "Now he wags his tail." said the me- dium. The green eyed monster subsided, and the young husband cheerfully paid over his consulting fee. - London Scraps. A CLOCK IN A BOTTLE. The Way This Marvel et Mechanism Was Construeted. A German clockmaker living in the Utile village of Gommer, near Magde- burg, built a clock in a bottle. The maker, H. Rosin, secured a strong movement with a cylinder escapement measuring forty-five millimeters and began by sawing the plate into halves. The opening in the neck of the bottle measures fifteen millimeters, and in order to get these halves into the bot- tle he cut another segment off each of the halves of the plate. He bunt a sort of tripod as a resting place for the movement. This tripod was assembled after he had introduced its parts into the bottle separately. The tripod is so constricted that it cannot turn whets the movement b being wound. The four pieces of the plate were fastened side `y side by means of screws to the platform attached to the tripod, a long screwdriver and otber tools tope. daily constructed for the purpose hav- ing been used for this operation. When the plate was put together, the clock - maker proceeded to put all the parts of the movement in their original places with the motion wines for the hands. A ring of white metal was placed around the neck of the bottle, and upon this dug was soldered a round plate, thus closing the opealsg, On this cover were fastened in an in- clined position the armi whkh serge u a support for the dal. 1 The dial L made of a ground gnus plate, which hu a diameter of twenty centimeters. The black numbers ea the dial are cut 'skeleton fashion and ce- mented to the shies. At nlOt ons can tell the time by placing a Int behind the dial. -Technical World. A Peer and His Patent. After it is once issued the patent for the creation of a new peerage cannot be altered. Otherwise Lord Glerawly would be written Lord Glenawley, as Gierawly was written by a clerk In mistake for this word. Another in- teresting case of a similar nature is that of Charles Pawlet, afterward third Duke of Bolton, wise died In 1754. In 1717, while his father, the second duke, was still alive, Pawlet was made a peer as Lord Pawlet of Basing, although the intention of the king add his advisers was to summon him to the house of lords under one of bit father's junior title. -that of Baron St. John of Basing. However, the writ of summons had been made out to Lord Pawlet of Basing, and Pawlet bore this title until he became Duke of Bolton In 1722.-Westminater Gazette. Simple Rules of Health. Never pick your teeth with any hard substance. Bar the pick unless It 1s made of soft white pine. Repeated use of a hard pick drives the gums away from the teeth, and pretty soon you are a victim of Riggs disease. Afar the meal pick your teeth gently, then rinse out your buccal cavity with an antiseptic solution of tepid water. Aft- er rinsing use a gargle to clean out the, throat -a solution of salt in wa Wash off your tongue as far back you can reach and scrape the root of It once in awhile with an instrument of silver made for the purpose. And, above all, never put anything into your mouth that does not *gree perfectly with your stomach, if it is expected to descend Mow the throatlateh.-New York Prue. e Made It Complete, When Lablache, the famous operatic singer, was presented to Queen Vic- toria her majesty. who had heard of the artist's bobby, asked 1f it was true that he had a large collection of snuff- boxes. He replied that it was correct. Re had one to every day In the year -- "Nevertheless, your collodion is not gnke complete," was the q esn's re- sp0nse. "Here M another to Map ysst,"-Pwlrson's Weekly, The beylaubor ta the hand. THE HUMAN TONGUE. tloquent Even When It Does Net Ar - Coulee a Word. It is never necessary for the tours* to talk in order to tell that you are UI or the nature of your illness The tongue of the dumb is quite as elo- quent when viewed by an experienced physician as the tongue of the most talkative person. It is a wonderful organ and should be studied by all parents, not only oe their own account, but on account of their olbpring. It aids In nlastka- tioa ot-tood, In drinking, In sueltdng, In articulation, andcolitaUta : lar Aad cow membrane the pertptiilllll. of taste There are doetotet illi spend 'taif•:uti: lane, pulse and listening to your heart beets: There are others who command. "Stick out your tongue." One glance at your tongue will to them tell the tale. Tremulousness of the tongue when it is protruded is a poeltive sign of various nervous diseases. -But by tar the commonest cause of this tremu- lousness is an excessive indulgence In alcohol. There is an old rale about looking into a man's eye to tell if be be a habitual lusher. It often fails. Drink in some men excites the lachry- mal glands, causing the eye to appear watery. But all of us know men who have watery eyes, yet never touch liquor. But the best and final test is the tongue. It is the only sign that cannot be concealed. It a man seek - Ing employment swears on a stack of Bibles that be does not drink, make him stick out his tongue. If it trem- bles he is a liar. -New York Press. The Huntsman's Mass. "Once every year, on St. Hubert's day, one may see hundreds of dogs in the Cathedral of Notre Dane at Brus- sels. At the huntsman's mass on that day the owners of hunting dogs take the animals to church with them, and for a short time the sacred edifice becomes a dog sbow place," says a writer in a Berlin paper. To heighten the effect all the worshipers attend in h eating costume and the bugle plays an important part in the musical serv- ice. When the last celebration took place a stranger In the city, who was saytng at one of the large hotels near the place, strolled toward the cathedral and took with him a pet spaniel. "Ev- ery dog has his day," he said, "and this is it." At the church entrance two pointers growled at the little dog and did It so fiercely that the little fel- low turned and ran. He was coaxed back, but again driven away by anoth- er large dog. "The owner took .the bint," says the writer, "and returned to the hotel with his little pet, con- vtaced that the big dogs looked upon the spaniel as an intruder, that he had no part in the St. Hubert's mass and tiat the day was not every dog's." Combs Mid. of Ofd Shoes. A mountain of old boots and shoes, indescribably ugly, indescribably filthy, lay In the factory yard. "We'll make combs out of them," said the chemist, "combs that will pass through the perfumed and lustrous locks of the most beautiful girls. Seems strange, doesn't It?" "Very." "Yet It's a tact That is what be- comes of all the world's old shoes. They are turned into combs. The leather is first cut into small pieces and immersed two days In a chloride of sulphur bath; then it L washed, dried and ground to powder; then it is mixed with glue or gum and pressed into comb molds "It makes good enough combs, but I prefer the rubber ones myself." -Ex- change. The Overcoat. Probably in no other department sar- tortai U there exhibited so much in- difference to hygienic considerations as in the overcoat. The greatest fal- lacy of all perhaps in regard to the choke of an overcoat V that the terms "weight" and "warmth" are synony- mous. As a matter of fact, they are nearly always diametrically opposed. Moreover, the heavy overcoat lea tax on the resources of the organism and destroys the economy which - a good Insulating cloth is Intended to secure. -London Lancet What a Woman Says. Singleton -I want to ask you a Ques- tion, old man. Wedderiy--Coma on with It. Singleton -Does a woman al- ways mean what she says? Wedder- ly-During mutably she doesn't, bot after marriage you bet ate doaa.-Chl- cage News. World's Finset Fruits. An interesting discussion in the Brit- ish Royal Horticultural society a few years ago as to what was the finest fruit in the world ended by giving the palm to a certain yellow nectarine raised from a peach by the late Fran- cis Rivers. Nert to this perhaps comae a properly ripened greengage, one of the best varieties of the plum. The greengage came into Europe by way of Italy and from Italy was brought to France early in the sixteenth cen- tury by the wife of Francis I., in "boss honor It received the name of Heins Claude; by which it is still wide- ly known. Boon afterward it was in- troduced into England from Italy un- der the old Italian name Verdocb and about the same time from France. The hitter importation, however, mime with lout labels to a family of promi- nent Engiish amateur horticulturists of tbat day named Gage, from wbom the fruit received Its present name. - Loudon Chronicle. ▪ Sounds Peselbte, but Net Likely. thought of a novel effect for ray new melodrama." "What 1s it!" 'The villain lights a dpr dories the snowstorm, thus settles the snowstorm afro." -Was sten Herald. Suicide Wkiteut Pain. "Yes," admitted the man who had hie feet on the table, "It 1s true that I did oboe attempt to commit suicide. "I was dlsoonsolate, out of work, out et health, and I brooded over my un - lot until r— 1 sdad what drove you : to at - All that 1aht+lats de - lit "I eat hardly account for it myself even now. 1 fired a pistol straight at my heart." "Blank cartridge?" "Toy pistol?" "Had chain armor on?" "Bullet hit a rib and glanced osr "No," said the man, looking scorn- fully at the scoffers about him. 'The bullet bit the looking glass in front of which I was standing and broke it in- to a thousand pleces"-Strand Maga. sine. Lockjaw. The fearful tetanus, or lockjaw, was ascribed in all the books when I was a student to puncture or irritation of a nerve, and both bands and Leet were sometimes cut off to stop the irritation g oing up the nerve to the spine. Now we know that it is due to a faai poison in the blood which acts like strychnis, though more painfully, and which U produced by a bacillus lodged In a punctured wound made by some stick, nail or pistol wad on which this evil bacillus happened to be. It is a soil bacillus and swarms in rich gar- den earth, particularly wbere guano oe deb manure is used. All wounds, therefore, into which earth has enter- ed should be promptly cauterized. -Dr. William Hanna Thomson In Every- body's Magazine. _ • His Dano.. Aa organ grinder bad been playing before the house of an irascible old gentleman, who furiously and amid wild gesticulations ordered him to move on. The Italian stolidly stood his ground and played on and at last was arrested for causing a disturb - ams At the court the magistrate asked him why be did not leave when he was requested. "Me no undersan' mooch Ingleee,' was the reply. "Well, but you must have under- stood by bb motions that he wanted you to go," said t'be magistrate. "I think be come to dance," was the rejoinder. -London Tatter. Progress. "My wife karat' nothing of house- keeping to begin with, but she's learn- ing fast" "That's eaccaraging." "Oh, she's a bright little woman, if I do say its It has taken only two cooks is teach her to keep away from the kitchen, and I suppose that's at teat fall the battle." -Puck. Mow She Said 14, Indignant Mother -And s0 he kissed yea three theist • Now, what did you ally to him? Artless Daughter -Why, I said: "Mall Strop!" fns did, tidy it sounded like, "Don't Nor Net a Spendthrift Andean Mollber-I hope you ar* net Illbttlls at Harrying young Clarkson.. 8e spends emery ant be earns, Pret- ty Deasbter-Ob, well, had ' earn t'r'y audi.--LhIcaps News r111t1r11� . and t Boot aim GRIMM bs,ItMae Me. -dl * hila ♦ esweed wrerllni ave; It, Is MIS ,mow 11 1