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Madras Is next door to q large distillery.
Congressman Springer invariably APP
pears with q yellow roso In the lapel OF
his coat
Tho thawing breeze that follows tho
blizzard is known in tho northwest rs n
"chinook.
The death rate from chloroform is,
according to recent estimate, ono in
ono thousand. g.,
Tho average age Of those who enter
college In this country is seventeen; q
century ago it was fourteen.
Miss Sweet says she is happier out of
the Chicago pension Office than she
was in it, and is "making more money;
too
Ouida says if the Venus de Medici
could be animated into life, women
would only remark that her waist was
large.
Tho late Joshua B. Lippincott was
probably the richest of American pub.
fishers. He was q shrewd investor in
railroad securities. .
T. here are still public lands open to
settlement III nineteen states and eight
territories at prices ranging from 1925
to $3.50 per aero. .. ~,
Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, sister OF
Gon. Grant, is lccturing in Massachti.
sotts under tho auspices of tho Wom-
ems Christian Temperance Union.
Haller, the scientist, has kept papers
pcrfumed with single grain of am
bergis for forty years, and there was no
apprcciablo diminution in the strength
of the odor
Tho car of Weber, the composer. is
said to have been so sensitive that no
could tell the difference of thousandth
part, OF ono vibration moro or less in
tho thousand.
Billy Cook, who is ninety years old
and lives ut Spottsylvania, Va, has
taken for his third wife Nellie jackson,
a colored woman, twenty-five years old.
Mr.. Cook is also colorcd.
Crowfoot, chief of the Blackfeet, has
accepted with thanks q perpetual pass
over the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and
Chief Kahkewaquonaby threatens tho
Toronto Globe with n libol suit.
As an evidence of tho wano of roller
skating an exchange cites that lockwood,
of which the rollers arc mado, is much
cheaper now than at this time year
ago, and it is likely to 60 lower.
Some of the money made in the
Northern c:' by electric Lulu Hurst
went to bl.,' Jersey cattle for Father
Hurst's farm, and now hc is selling
Gcorgians an excellent quality of butter.
DR.. Saliva, an Italian surgeon, says IL
is always possible to transplant por-
ton of muscular tissue from one animal
to another, differences of species having
no effect upon the definite result of tho
operation.
Edson's patents hayo now become so
numerous that they have special series
of index or reference numbers in the
patent oilicc-thc only case in which
such separation from the general index
has been thought necessary.
An order for II farm in Washington
County, Ind, WAS received by local
real estate agent there from an Ohio
man, who wanted, also, if possible, "a
wife between the ages of twcnty,nnd
forty7tive years,Nto go with the far,e
When u fair maid was we'd by ColSsno
other day, his tioor' -eiool, hearty II
will" made the bride jump so notice.
ably that everybody smiled. Flo was u
man of Mars who talked in tones of
thunder.
Junius Henri Clcmmons, who claims
to have been the first clectric-tclcoraph
inventor, is now 72 years old, with
abundant white hair aud beard and
bushy eyebrows, STOPPING shoulders, and
slow step; but his sight is good, his
voice firm, and his hand steady. Ho is
clerk Of congressional committee.
John B. Cough was never ostenta-
tious in his gifts, but his private chari-
ties were almost innumerable. For
years he supported tho widow and fami-
ly OF his old friend Stratton, who in
duccd him to take the pledge and en-
couraged him to keep it, and he has cd
ucated and supported many of his rcla-
tivcs.
The people of tho Congo have no con-
ccption of God of any kind, and wor.
ship nothing. They believe in charms
to keep off all evils. They do not be-
lieve in sickness or death rs natural,
and seek out the cause when any ono
dies or is taken i'll. Many persons aro
thus killed in punishment, and were it
not for this tho populace would increase
very rapidly.
Mime. Adam is rich and generous, but
dslikcs TO be disturbed when ut work.
1t is told that one day visitor entered
her sanctum soliciting aid for girls
school. "Put nc down for 20 francs"
($D, she said, without looking up.
"But, madame" said the other, "think!
1t is for the higher education of girls!"
'Twcnty frnncs," repeated she, "and
now excuse me; must 90 on with my
work." The canvasser left III despair;
but the next day received from Nine.
Adam check for $1,000.
The question is often asked as to the
tho significance of the displayed flags of
tho Government Signal Service. A
rhyming otlicor of tho service has form
ulated its entire flag code as follows:
a sun OF red Is weather warm,
sun Of blue is general storm,
A GrcsCcnt red Is weather cold,
a crescent blue Is fair forotold,
a star OF red no change implioS, -
4 blue star local stormy skles, - ....
y squire of black on flng Of white,
~ cold wave coming In all its might.
"Lord Justice Clerk Braxfeld," says
Chambers JonrNal, "was q man of few
words and of strong business habits.
and, consequently, whom he courtcd his
second wife he said to hcr: Lizzie, Pm
looking out for wife, and thought