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The Spartan Law.Giver, Lycargus.

The history and legislation of Lycur-
gus are involved in considerable obscur-
ity /; indeed, to such an extent that many
of the leading scholars of modern times
have viewed them with no little sus-
picion. The generally accepted account
of the celebrated Spartan law-giver Is to
the effect that Lycurgus lived about $50
years before our era, or, according to
others, about the year HOO b. c., and
was descended from the Doric family of
the Proclidae. Polydectes, his brother,
King Of Sparta, died, and to his widow
was born a posthumous son. The widow
and mother proposed to Lycurgus to
destroy the unborn babe If he mar
| ried her. Lycurgus was shocked,
but pretended partially to consent
by saying it was as easy to make
way with an infant after as before it
came into the world. When the child
was born Lycurgus at once proclaimed
him King, and his uncle became his
guardian. Then it is recorded that Ly-
curgus travelled in many lands in Asia
Minor, Crete, Egypt, and even India, but
as to the latter it Is decidedly uncertain
and unlikely. He studied the coRstitu-
tions of the nations he travelled among,
aud finally, after many long journeyings,
he returned to Sparta. During his alb
sence affairs had become disordered IN
Sparta, and ON his arrival almost the en-
tire community requested him to draw
up constitution for them, to which he
consented. Then he induced them to
solemnly swear that they would make no
change in the laws till he came back,
and he left Sparta, and it was never
known exactly whittier he went or where
he died. BY his departure and failure to
| return he had hoped to make the Spartan
Constitution eternal and the people
saw he was god, and worshipped him.
Probably such a person as Lycurgus ex-
listed, who, at some remote time and
critical juncture in Spartan affairs, may
have been selected, perhaps, on account
OF his wisdom and reputation, to prepare
code of laws for the better govern
ment of the State. It can not be I'M
agined that the entire legislation OF
Sparta was first invented by Lycurgus
and imposed upon the people all at
once it is reasonable to suppose, how
ever, that he collected, modified, and en-
larged the previously existing institu-
tons of Sparta. 1t is related by Plu-
tarch that Lycurgus " commanded that
all gold and silver coin should be called
in, and that only a sort OF money made
of iron should be current, great weight
and quantity of which was OF but very
little worth SO that to lay up twenty or
thirty pounds there was required a
pretty large closet, and, to remove 1t,
nothing less than yoke of oxen. With
the diffusion of this money, at once
number of vices were banished from
Lacedmmon; for who would rob another
of such q coin? Who would unjustly
detain or take by force, or accept as a
bribe, thing which is not easy to hide
nor credit to have. nor, indeed, OF any
use to cut in pieces? For when 1t was
Just red hot, they quenched it in vinegar,
and by that means spoiled it, aud made
it almost incapable of being worked
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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younp Women Who Smoke.

A reporter strolled into cigar store
for the purpose of squandering half
dime. After some rambling discussion,
which Is a very frequent occurrence be-
tween the buyer and seller of cigars, the
reporter touched upon the sale of very
costly cigars and what class of people
bought them. The dealer was unaware
of his questioner's calling or he would
probably not have given the circumstan-
tial reply to the query which he did.
Said he f: "There are few gentlemen,
mostly speculative merchants, and two
or three of the well-recognized sporting
fraternity who smoke twenty and twenty
five cent cigars, but the most regular
and most profitable customers have
are the members of club of young Ia
dies occupying the very plnnacles OF
social emlnence here There are two
members of the club who came here two
or three times at first TO make the pur-
chases, but now / know what is wanted,
and the money is always brought and
the goods taken away by comely mu-
latto girl. These fastidious, genteel
smokers require the very finest quality
of tobacco, favored with the faintest
and mort delicate perfumes known to
the trade. OF course, the brand which
l send them is imported, as no domestic
article is made sufficiently good or costly
for their use. II was some time before
I could obtain a cigar which satisfied
them, but after sending them more than
a dozen different boxes as samples, the
two fair damsels came one day and told
me they were all delighted with the last
ones they tried, and since then have a
small stock on hand for their especial
use"
"How do these petted darlings," :"
asked the incredulous reporter of his in
formant, manage to avoid detection in
the indulgence of this habit, which is
considered sine qua non to the ideal
gentleman of the period, but the con-
temptation of which in con1esif
rosy-hpped, sweet q
woman is regarded with horror p
"I was curious about that myself, "
he replied, "and after my acquaintance
ship with my two young visitors had
acquired something of the nature of an
intimacy I asked them the question.
'Oh, that is quite easy one of them
said. we meet at each others house
of course not all the girls In the secret
at once. but in twos and threes-and,
locking the doors, proceed to enjoy
ourselves. BY carefully cleansing our
hands and mouths we remove all trace
of the habit. IF there are any left
which, perchance, might give rise to In
ouiry, they. can easily be accounted for
on the ground that all our young gen
tlemen friends smoke, and association
with them has left reminder of their
tastes behind. ."-LouisviLIe Courier
Journal
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AMomnn After Railroad Passes.

90 want to show you this" said the
Coleado Railroad Superintendent. "It's
q red curiosity as a sample of feminine
chez. 1t is from q woman in Ohio.
Real il"
''hy dear Mr.. -, 1t began, In
stiff corset-like style of writing, 1 am
orgaizng party to go to Colorado this
sprag. and l write to you for favor
whih. 1 feel assured, you will grant
without hesitation. The party will num-
berseventy-fve people, most of whom
WILDE ladies. 1 have already found
sixy-eight who have expressed a will
in@ess to 90. What desire is passes
fortbe party. Many of them are real
nio young ladies, and perhaps they viii
remain in Colorado if they like the coun-
tryreal well. Most of them are from
VEN rich families, and they are very in
teIfoent and well educated. We will
trsyel in conventional tourist fashion,
and intend to have a perfectly-lovely
tine of it if the country suits us, and we
think il will. Please make our passes
god for six months. l never had the
pkasure of meeting you, but / under
stnd from a gentleman friend who
kDoas you that you are very kind to la
dies. He told me that you would not
hesitate in giving me passes for the par
'ts / am not much acquainted with
Colorado, and hear that it is very wild
al dangerous country for ladies to trav-
elm without protection. When you send
the passes please also write me full par
tiallars concerning the country, the peo-
pie, how they act, and which is the
mest comfortable attire for ladies out
there: Some people say it is very cold
inColorado. By the time L hear from
you l shall have made all my other ar
rangements."
aImmense, isn't it?" queried the Off
cid, as the reporter looked up from the
scrswl.
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Asking for Money:

One of the very best wives and mothers
/ hsFe ever known, whose husband was
of amOst generous disposition and de-
niedher nothing, once said to me that
whenever her daughters should be mar
Tied she should stipulate in their behalf
with their husbands for regular sum of
money to be paid them at certain inter
walls for their expenditures. L suppose
no man." she said, "can possibly under
stand how sensitive woman shrinks
from asking for money. If 1 can pre-
vent it, my daughters shall never have
to ask for it. If they do their duty as
wivessnd mothers they have a right to
their share of the joint income within
reasonable limits; for certainlYno money
could buy the services they render
4. W. Hiq1irlSoIa.
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Female soldiers.

Female soldiers have been more nu-
merous In foreign armies than iu the
English service. In the French army,
for instance, there were (among others)
Louise Houssaye de Bannes, who served
from 1892 to 1895, and was at Quiberon;
Angelique Brulon (nee Duchem1n, for
she was married), Sous Lieutenant of
infantry and decoree with the Legion OF
Honor, who was born in 1772, and died,
I believe, in the Invalides about 1859 ::
Therese Figueur, who served as dra-
goon for fourteen years, from 1798 to
1872, and had four horses killed under
her; she died in 1862, at the age OF 81,
In the Hospice des Petits Menages at
PARIS; Virginie Chesmeres, who served
during the Peninsular war as a Sergeant
In the Twenty-seventh regiment, and
died IN 1873. Louisa Scanagatti was a
Lieutenant of infantry in the Austrian
or Sandman army during the Napoleon
wars Marietta Giulisni and Herminia
Manelii fought under Garibaldi
in 1855, Herminia was at the battle of
Custozza Augusta Kruger fought IN
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The Woeing of SIeep.

An endeavor to go to sleep Is mis-
take. For example. when the viii makes
an effort to dull the ear, the mental
sense behind the sense organ is thrown
into condition of listening and tension.
The power of hearing is not diminished,
but, as it were, restricted in its range
and In its heightened sensibility-as the
vibratile capacity of musical reed may
be raised by reducing the length of the
/ fiber along which its vibrations are prop
agated. Noises that would not pre-
viously have been noticed are perceived,
! and become sources of annoyance.
This intensifying of the sensations in
/ the attempt to go TO sleep of which most
persons are conscious, is doubtless partly
due to the quiet that prevails in. the
house and bed-chamber; but there is
also an increase of the susceptibility of
the perceptive faculty, frequently to
such an extent that the ticking of q
watch or the tapping of an insect behind
the wallpaper Will not only be heard.
but be actually painful. SO it is with
sight; when the eyelids are closed the
mner-mental sense of vision becomes
increasingly acute, and tine field of sight
Is soon crowded with grotesque and
rapidly changing images. The Worrying
effect of this phantasmagoria is too
familiar experience of the sleep waiter.
All the mental senses are in like manner
stimulated and their acuteness intensified
by the endeavor to lower the sensibility
of the sense organs. The mental sense
OF smell may be rendered so keen that
the scarcely perceptible odor of bed
linen VIII prove offensive Taste may
be so stimulated that the natural mois-
ture of the mouth becomes loathsome.
General sensation may be so intensified
that a rough thread in a sheet. or a little
stream of cold air finding its way under
the coverlet will occasion the most
irritating experience In short, the
whole process of attempted sense-sub-
dung is unnatural and opposed to the
dictates of reason. No such effort ought
to be made. External quiet should be
secured, If quiet be personally agreeable.
and whether light or darkness be prefer
able must depend on the idiosyncrasy
No control ought to be exercised over
the senses. The eyelids should not be
closed, but allowed to droop when weary. /
There should be no resolutions to disre- |
gard sounds, or to suppress sensations /
of any kind. The surroundings being /
propitious and consonant with the feel /
lngs, or, still better, disregard, mind
and body should be left to take their
chance Of sleep, without the striving
which, in truth, is the principal cause Of
This is why it often hap
pens that persons who can not sleep IN
bed by night will drop off to sleep readily
in chair by day. 1t is the effort to
sleep that keeps off slumber, and when
there is no effort sleep comes naturally.
If the endeavor to sleep is made, as soon
as 1T commences expectancy begins, and,
paradoxIcal as 1t may seem, the con-
sciousness is Sctuall ~ We to-
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

~
The function of yeast is to change
MULLER assertstthat certain butterflies
will only visit ~bloss6ins Of primitive
tints. FT~ - Z - q
THERE are several thousand volcanoes
known, and the number Of active ones
may be set down as 323.
CAST non is said to be permeable to
certain gases at high temperatures, and
to hydrogen gas even when cold.
M. PAsTEUR has succeeded in COM
municating rabies by inoculation from
the brain of dog dead with the disease.
CORDS stretched in a network near the
ceiling have been satisfactorily tried for
destroying echoes in churches and public
In HAS been estimated that one square
foot OF soil will evaporate six times as
much moisture as the same amount of
leaf surface. sae Eaksg~
IT is about settled in the minds of ex-
perimenters that plants absorb very lit
tie moisture through their leaves, by no
means enough to keep the plant alive
without the aid of moisture at the roots
BooKBINDNGs of Russia, calf or sheep
absorb sulphuric acid when exposed to
the products of the combustion of IL
Eliminating gas; as they are in nearly
all Libraries, and are liable to suffer great
injury.
TEETH do not belong to the bony skel-
eton, but are developed by the living
membrane of the mouth, which is only
continuation of the skin. Hence the
teeth are classed with other skin ap-
pendages, as the hair and nails.
PRoF. ScHLAGER of Vienna has been
experimenting for three years on the in
fiuence of blue light in the treatment of
the insane, and records n sQuieting and
soothing influence in cases of an abb
normally excitable temperament.
A SHOWER of fine dust which fell in
France In 1916 was found by analysis to
be composed of the fine sands of Guiana
and to contain the characteristic micro
scopic shells of South America. Such
showers originate In volcanic eruptions.
A SCIENTIST who has been experiment.
tions of plants admits that he has gradu-
ally lost the idea of species, inclining to
the opinion that variation takes place In
definite directions, and that its cause is
internal a
No REMAINS of the bison have been
found among. the bones In the she'll
Is no evidence, among the early lists of
the natural products of the country, of
its occurrence anywhere on the seaboard
for long period before the discovery of
the continent
THE average height of the Japanese is
five feet three inches. Climate can
scarcely account for their smallness.
since that is temperate, though subject
to violent changes. The use of charcoal
braziers fGSu heating may affect. their
THE respiration of cold-blooded /
creature may be increased by artificial
heat. In extremely bad weather frogs
may have to leave the water entirely,
and fishes come to the surface for air.
Reversely, frogs can be kept for years in
a state of suspended animation and re-
vived by warming
ALMOST all volcanoes are found in
proximity to large bodies of water The
greater number are situated on islands,
and the rest, with very few EXCEPTIONS,
near the borders of the sea or ON lacus-
trine basins. This gives rise to the opin-
ion that pressure of steam is the force
which expels the lava torrents
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AMONG the plans proposed to the Brit
ish Balloon Society is that of balloon
to be kept under control by means of
compressed gas. The gas would be
stored in suitable tank under pressure,
and the balloon would be reduced in size
or enlarged at pleasure by admitting or
Withdrawing gas--which might be eff
fected by simply turning a crank. The
balloon would of course fall when re-
duced in size and rise as it became, ex-
panded, so that ballast and waste of gas
would be rendered unnecessary. I'm
provement in another direction is still
sought by aeronauts who are striving to
travel considerable distances In prede-
termined courses. Little success has at
tended these efforts. a-
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Two Tenors and a High c.

A story is told by Music, TO the effect
that Provost, on the afternoon before he
was to appear as Arnoldo in s. William
Tell, went into beer saloon for a mo-
ment and was seen by Campanini, who
rushed after him, and, patting him on
should be no jealousy between us. Let
Us be friends" Provost was delighted,
Campanlni took beer, and then treated
Provost six times In rapid succession,
complimenting him generously. That
evening Provost cracked on hie high G,
and Campanini was In the lobby, grin
ming like a Cheshire cat. The beer had
done its work.
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GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
Dams Wife.


" IN early morning light,
2~seping, busting, /" setting right
Lung all the household springs,
Ssntng buttons, tying strings,
shng Bridget what to do,
genulng rips in Johnny's shoe;
nnennmg up and down the stair,
y,ng baby in chair:
sung meat, spreading bread,
fhng out 30 much per head;
wing as she can by chance,
leng husband kindly glance;
olling, working, busy life,
Smart woman.
Dams wife.
Dan comes home at fall Of night
noLne SO cheerful, neat and bright,
- lriidren met him At the door,
2-t him IN and look him DER.
81 ~ = asks, . How the work has gomez
- times with us at homeiv
= II rps r. one, pa1t relus NTH esse.
spy oeo, but one to please
Children ruuss be put to bed
All the little prayers are said,
little shoes paced all iIArowE,
Bedciothes tucked 9'er little toes;
Busy, noisy, weary Efe.
Tired woman,
Dans wife.
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sssfRIisTiie 1ntluenee. 4

Ye.--," he said "my grandfather
was very peculiar man. He was ex-
tremely sensitive to influences that do
not generally affect other men. His pc
culiarity was that his temperament
changed according to the hat he wore.
And he wore all kinds of hats.
He must have been good many va
rieties of one man." said the listener.
"He was. Now, for instance, when
he wore Derby hat ne was merely COM
monplace. He behaved himself like an
ordinary man, and had no special char
Notwithstanding calculated to attract
the attention of bulldog, if may SO
express it.
"Well, there's nothing peculiar about
that"
"No; but just listen: When he put
on a slouch hat, his character changed
entirely. He became rufianly and des-
perate, and staggered around like a
hired bravo or an advance agent out OF a
Job. His best friends were afraid OF
him, and he had only to put his som-
brero on to keep away the most energetic
bill collector"
eff were like that, I'd have felt
hat riveted to my head" said the other
man.
sThen when he put on a cap, with .
vizor, he became simply low He used
to hang around bar-rooms, although he
was strict temperance man, and ne
! consorted with car conductors and states
men, and that class of people"
$50 long as he didn't associate with
poets, it was all right.
"He never got so low as that. But
YOU ought have seen him when he put a
/ silk hat on. The moment he appeared
ON the street in beaver, he looked SO
respectable that people used to come up
| to him and ask him TO accept the chair
manship of mass meetings or to serve as
director of charitable associations, and
on one occasion he was actually arrested
on suspicion of being bank president. .
ssHow is it, I" inquired the other man,
doubtfully, "thst we have never heard
of your grandfather ?"
sHe died young. The way 1t hap
pened was this !: He once went out IN
- hat, and man came along who ms.
T H0k him for tie receiver OF savings
bank who had received all that was left
of the unfortunate depositors' money
after the smashsup. This man struck
| him ON the head and broke down the
hat. 1t then ressmbled the discouraged
looking tile alwaTs worn by the lneDrl'
ates on the stage. True to his peculiar
ity. nv grandfather at once became pro-
foundiy intoxicaed. although, as I have
said. he never bad drunk drop in bis
life. and he died In fifteen minutes oi
delirium tremenS
"I,et us adiorrn to the nearest bak.
cry said the dher man sc and l will
purchase the establishment for you. y
/ Puck
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Jane Grey SwissheIm on Tight
LacinR.

Jane Grey SwissheIm on Tight
Lacing.
Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, speaking
of gymnasiums for ladies, in winch she
has seen girls in gymnasium suits with
high-heeled boots buttoned so tightly
around the ankle that the play of the
muscle and even circulation of blood
seemed impossible, and when under the
loose blouse there was retained one or
dinary garment, with its ordinary sup
porting band, says: Leaye out those
women who have crossed the, ocean as
steerage passengers within five years,
and there is not one woman In America
for every thousand who has room to
breathe freely inside her clothes. Not
one in a thousand the walls of whose
chest are not habby from outside sup
ports which deprive them of the exercise
of their proper functions. When a
woman, to prove that she does not lace,
puts her hands on her sides and presses
them in like a parlor rubber ball she
proves that the walls of her chest have
been SO enfeebled by corsets that they
can no longer guard their vital contents
from even SO slight force as her puny
hands. The use of chest walls seems to
have been lost sight of In the modern
female costume. They are degraded
from their post as walls and converted
INTO sack, and this sack is forced into
any form which suits the mantuainaker's
idea of symmetry.
.. 1t has been decided that the Creator,
who made the woman after whom the
Venus di Milos was modelled, did not
understand the lines of beauty, but, this
having been discovered by French cor
set makers, we have it on display in
thousands of shop windows on every
city street, in all public and private
places. Not until the chest as well as
the limbs of woman are clothed in loose
folds or bodices, terminate on instead of
below the ribs, can woman have room to
breathe; SO long as fashion requires a
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wOmen's Tears Not n Sign eff Weak.

Women give way to tears more readily
than men Granted. Is their sex any
the weaker for it? Not a bit. 1t is
simply a difference of temperament,
that is all. 1t involves no inferiority.
Ii you think that this habit necessarily
means weakness, wait and see. Who has
not seen women break down in tears
during some domestic calamity, while
" the stronger sex We're calm and who
has not seen those same women rise up
and dry their eyes, and be henceforth
the support and stay of their households,
and perhaps bear up the " stronger sex 4"
as a stream bears up a ship? once said
to a physician watching such a woman,
" That woman is really great" "Of
coarse she Is, he answered ;" " did you
ever see a woman who was not great
when the emergency required PIT
W. HiggiylsOn.
How Japanese widows Wear Their
Hair.
Nv Dayv friap1 tba faacIo, moe n III
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Comnosition on am Egg.

In the hen's|egg the composition Of
the albumen tile white of the egg) is !:
was waser s8 ps al salTs PGTs nasasa nisame0 os Il
Guiding soda via traces of sulphur or,
;a1Ibume1, all l5.5 nucus, 40; & ash, = e-a75. 40
stitusnts Was ns 4gS fO1% @aasarne oa als
and oleine, 2l94; choiesterine, inc Q. .4ss |;
oleic and mareric acids, 7.226; phos-
phoglyceric ac2. L.. muriate OF am,
monia, O.034; hlorides OF sodium and
potassium ani snlphate of potassa,
0.277; phosphses of lime and magnesia,
1.O22 animal extracts, o. and 0.553
of coloring mater, traces OF iron, lactre
acid, etc.