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BY relating one Instance Of n mos
fortunate experience than the last. duo
70 the like force Of habit in animals.
On the nightof October Is, 1918, after
the Glasgow mail had changed horses
at Polmont, the guard and coachman
being both intoxicated, the latter
having dropped the reins in endeayor-
ing to recover them fell from his seat,
and, the coach going over his head, he
was killed on the spot. Meanwhile, the
horses being at full gallop, the guard
was SO perfectly incapacitated that he
could make no effort to stop them, and
they continued at full speed along Lin
lfthgow' bridge, till they came to the
post-ofiice in that town, where they
stopped without the slightest injury
Another curious incident of the, old
coaching days is the following: One day
In February, 1907, as the Liverpool mail
coach was changing horses at the inn at
Monks Heath, between Congleton, in
Cheshire, and Newcastle-under-Lym
the Horses which had performed the
stage from cong1eton having Just been
taken off and separated, hearing Sir
Peter Warburton's fox-hounds in full
cry Immediately started after them,
with their harness on, and followed the
chase until the last. One of them, q
blood-mare, kept the track with the
.whipper-in, and gallantly followed him
for about two hours over every leap he
took, until old reynard, who was a cow
ardly rogue, had led them round in a
ring-fence and ran 70 ground in n Mr.
Hibbert's plantation. These spirited
animals were led back to the inn at
Monks Heath and performed their stage
back to Congleton the same evening APP
parently in higher spirits for having
had a-brush after the fox. Chambers
journal
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NUN BIER Al.

now in the room the children had Just
loft and now on the stairs and how the
four little prisoners shuddercd as they
passed directly over their hcaasi Then
they could be heard coming down again.
Next match was struck. None but
Nelly heard that sound, the others boz
ing covered up. Tho next sound seemed
70 her the most joyful she had evek.
heard in her life, II was her father
blowingh his nose. The next moment she
was in his arms. bringing him 70 the.
closet and calling ont all tho way:
Its papa. boys; it's papas
Sure enough, the burglar from whom
they had been hiding was no one more
dreadful than Barr ajoriey who had
got through his business earlier than he
expected The sight he saw when he
held the light TO the closet door aston
ished him. The cover Of the apple bar
rel slowly rose, and first an elbow, then.
head appeared. The cover Of the
-four barrel shot up, two white heads
bounced out like Jaoks-in-the-box, and
four white arms stretched toward
him. needn't tell you how everjoyed
they were to see him, and how they all
hung about him, sneArinx him with
flour and mashed apples.
Biddy was not 80 glad TO see him when
she came back, for she had pretty
shrewd guess that she would be dis
missed next morning, s
To do Fred Justice, he was ever after
wards heartily ashamed Of the part he
had played in the little scene In the
closet that night, after ali. his morn-
ing's boasts. 1t cut him to the heart TO
think that he had looked out for NUM-
Der one, as he said, and left the sister
two years younger than he to take care
sof herself For i long time be couldn't
bear to look toward the corner whore
his fathers gun stood, and he didn't eat
another apple that winter. Margaret
Wilson, In American Agriculturist.
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The CROWN Of oak Trees..

In the parish of Winfarthing are two
magnificent oak trees, one of which Is
known as the "Winfarthing 0ak;p the
other is little inferior to it In magnitude.
but appears to have been generally
passed over in favor. of the celebrated
tree first mentioned These trees were
inspected by Robert Marsham, F. r. S.,
the friend and correspondent of Gilbert
White, and great agriculturist, In
f744, and he has left in his dairy accurate
measurements Of both. The largest tree
at that time measured 3S feet Z inches in
circumference, and the smaller just 80
feet In the year 1874, when these
trees were measured according to
Marsham's method, the larger tree was
Just 40 feet in circumference and the
smaller 80 feet. 1t will thus be seen
that one tree had increased II inches In
1870 years, whereas the other had re-
manned in statu quo.-London Standard.
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TEETH CONE CHEAP,

It Is Hardly Worth While to Bother to
Keep Your Natural Set.
"There would be no use doing bust
ness if I couldn't sell forty sets week"
said the Newark inventor Of new way
of making false teeth 81 shall make q
hundred sets week inside of year or
I'll find something else to do"
Then the inventor took out his upper
jaw, and, cleansing it with his pocket
handkerchief, offered his latest inyen-
ton for inspection.
Pretty nearly every family in the
country has set of false teeth to smile
upon visitor, and the Sun man who
talked with the neighboring dentist was
told that the number is increasing all
the time. He didn't think human
teeth were any worse than they were
twenty-five years ago, but ascribed the
more general use of false teeth to the
Improvements made in the artificial sets
and>the use of laughing gas in extract
ing troublesome teeth. A man who
would stump along and live on spoon
victuals twenty-five years ago, will now
have artificial teeth. The decrease in
cost is also great inducement. There
are dentists who offer to make p set of
teeth for the upper jaw for IS. The.
average price paid is in the neighborhood
Of $50, and when an inventor discovers a
new method of constructing plates, his
first problem is how to produce them
for less than $40 to the dentist. These
are luxuries for. the rich, but no real ad-
vantage is obtained when the price ex-
ceeds $50, although many pay far greater
sums to fashionable dentists.
"How long does set last?" asked q
Sun man of the dentist.
Anywhere from one year to twenty
five years. 1t all depends on the treat
,ment the plate receives. After every
bathing season we get little rush Of
business. The number Of sets Of false
teeth lying at the bottom Of the ocean
is enough to supply the trade for year,
A big wave comes along In q crowd OF
bathers and away goes the artificial set
of teeth. Sets are lost in other ways, of
course, and good many are broken.
You see they are cleaned on marble
basin as a rule, and slip out Of the hand
and fall, SO that they get cracked. You
know the old chestnut OF losing watch
and finding ii inside the fish you catch7
Well, that has occurred with false teeth
and. I've got the affidavit OF brother
in-law Of the anwho saw it. The man
who recovered his teeth had to get new
set, however He complained that roast
beef, chicken and ice-cream all tasted
like fish.
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HABITS eF4FHEPoPE.


A Simple, Kindly, Intellectual andrG ra-
cious PontfM
Every morning before addressing
himself to the direction of affairs of this
planet, he offers the sacrifice of the
mass, and then gratiorum actio attends
q second mass, ats~which his chaplain is
tuned to Divine things, the Pope then
begins his working day. A single glass
OF coffee, tea or milk suffices to break his
fast. After going, through his papers
he begins to receive about six. From
that hour till one in the afternoon the
throng of visitors never slackens. Sec
retaries, Ambassadors, Cardinals form
the congregation; distinguished stran-
gers, Bishops from afar have audience
in turn. There are /, 200 Bishops in the
Catholic church, and with all Of them
the Pope is in more or less constant per-
sona1 relations. Nothing can be moro
gracious, more animated or more sympa-
thetic than the manner Of the Pope.
His eye, which when fixed in thought
is deep and piercing, beams with kindli-
ness, and the severely rigid lines Of his
intellectual features relax with the
-pleasantest of smiles as he talks, using,
as the case may be, either French,
Latin (which he speaks with great puri-
,ty and facility, or his own musical ma
tive tongue. After four or five hours
spent in this way he returns to his pa
pers and books until three, when he
Dimes His meal is frugal: little soup,
two courses of meat and vegetables
dessert of fruit, with one glass OF strong
wine, are sufficient for his wants. After
dinner he goes out for drive or walk
in the gardens Of the vatican. In the
evening he resumes his papers and at
night, between nine and ten, all the
members Of the Papal household as
semble for the rosary, after which they
retire for rest. But long after that hour
Cardinal State Secretary Rempolia, or
the under State Secretary, Mocenni, is,
often summoned to the Papal apart
meuts, where by the light Of the mid.
night lamp Leo watches and thinks and
prays for-the welfare Of the church. -
Contamnorarv Review.
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FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
THE JOLLY cNoME.

lNoasens rtrse)
Once there lived little gnome,
Who had made hts little home
Right down in the middle OF the earth. earth,
earth.
He was full Of fun and frolic, -.
But his wife was melancholic, IN
And he never could divert her INTO mirth.
mirth, mirth.
He had tried her with monkey,
And parrot and donkey,
And pig that squealed whcnc'cr he pulled
Its tail, tail, tail.
But though he laughed himself
Into fits. the jolly elf
Still his WHEY 8 melancholy did not fail, fail,
fail.
81 will HE me- said the gnome,
From my worthy earthly home.
will go among the dwellings of the men.
men, men.
Somefhina funny there must be, that will
make her say 'He,her
1 will find 1t, and will bring u her again.
gain, gain.
So he travelled here and there,
And he saw the Blinking Bear,
And the Psttypol whose eyes are In his tail,
tail, tail.
And he saw the Linking Gloon,
Who was playing the bassoon,
And the Octopus waitxing with the whale,
whale, whale.
He saw the Chingo Chez,
And alovely sight was he,
with ringlct, and ribbon on his nose
nose, nose,
And the Baggle. and the Wogg,
And the Cantilunar Dog.
Who was throwing cotton flannel at his Toes
foes, foes.
All these the little gnone
Transported to his home,
And set them down before hts weeping wife,
wife, wife.
hut she only cried and cried,
And she sobbywobbed and sighed,
Till she really was In danger OF her life,
life, life.
Then the gnome was In despair,
And he tore his purple hair,
And he sent him down in SORROW On stone,
stone, stone
81, too" he said, twill cry,
Till tumble down and die,
For I've had enough Of laughing all alone,
lone, lone"
His tears they flowed away
Like a rivulet at play,
With a bubble, gubble, ubble, DER the
ground, ground, ground.
But when this his wiley saw,
She loudly cried: "Haw hawl
=Here.-at last. is something funny you have
found, found, found.
she laughed, .4fIo hoA hei he
And she chuckied loud with glee,
And she wiped away her little husbands
And since then, through wind and weather
They have said HE her together,
For several hundred thousand merry years
years, years.
Laura Z. Richards, in ST. Nicholas
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WHO SHALL SPEAK FIRsT7
A Troublesome Point OF Etiquette Set
tied in Sensible way, HI

A Troublesome Point OF Etiquette Set
tied in a Sensible Way.
Our title does not refer to the old
picture Of two little dogs looking ex-
pectantly at one lump Of sugar. 1t
points only to simple matter OF COM
mon politeness which is brought to mind
by street-car conversation.
Two well-dressed girls are talking;
says Number One: 81 saw your friend
Miss Brown at the Joneses' party the
other night, but she did not seem to re-
member me, SO did not speak,
Number Two: hats just
what she said about you"
Here were two persons probably mutu-
ally disposed for an acquaintance, both
meaning kindly enough, but both be
having with rudeness. And all for WHAT
From self-consciousness and from the
want Of a little common sense.
Genuine cordiality naturally advances
to meet the old friend with affection, OF
the new acquaintance with ready cour.
tesy; and common sense shows that this
cordiality is just as imperatively re.
quired of the one of the two persons
ulccUiuS do VI bu6 OUucT. IL uObu tuVaIlCe
the result is mutual pleasure; if but one
comes forward that one has the satisfac-
ton of having acted in accordance with
the dictates of true politeness, and per-
haps the other will have learned les
son. If both hang back the result is Q
Misunderstanding. In such cases we
have a simple, straightforward duty to
perform duty required by the laws OF
society and of all good=fellowship. OF
course where there is any difference II
is easier for the higher in social position
to make the first advances, but the duty
Is not less incumbent on the one in low
er place. One need never obtrude ones
self, but to slight the proffered hand or
to fail to offer the friendly greeting is
an offense against social laws which is
invariably punished in one way or in
another.
If one person really fails to recognize
the other it is thing of little conse-
quence. Though it may be notifying
to the one who forgets, 1t should not
matter to the one forgotten. Such lapses
of memory should never be imputed to
intentional rudeness; but If really due
to that. SO much the worse for the trans
'gressor.
The rule should be that the one who
sees first is the one to speak first. --Har-
per's Bazaar.
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N yONNS IN IN Ut2fi1S nuA OLA tt<u
teeth extracted as one Of her prepare
lions for marriage.
-Balfour. who is called ssthe best
hated man in England, " is still young
l He was born in 1S4S and went to ParIia-
ment II 1874.
The Prince Of Wales recently re-
marked that he liked the American
game Of poker but did mot possess sum-
cient nervous energy to play it with
skill.
Miss Elizabeth Oswald, Of Wabash,
Ind, who became famous in 1889 for her
enforced fast of seventy-five days, was
married lately. She is now strong and
healthy
Frederick Livingstone, aged eighty
eight years, and the oldest man in
Petersboro, n H., is president of the
First National Bank in that town, and
is found daily at his post Of duty.
An old man on the Vermont border,
/ says the New York Herald, died the
other day, and in his last hour he con-
fessed that he had been smuggler for
forty-seven straight years, and had
beaten the Government out OF tens of
thousands Of dollars.
Mrs. Kate Richmond, who is at the
head Of the Wisconsin Lead & Zinc
Company, is one of the most successful
mining operators in the country. The
company has paid-up capital Of $780,
900, and its entire business is personally
supervised by Mrs Richmond, whose
good judgment and shrewdness in min
ing transactions are admitted.
Miss Emily Florence Charities, Of
Manchester, Eng. is undoubtedly i'd
dler of great skill. She not only OBJ
tanned the gold medal for violin playing
In the Royal Academy of Music compe-
tition, but she has also been created a
licentiate Of the Royal Academy Of Mu-
sic, and also an associate Of Trinity Col
lege, London. This Is the first time
that either OF these honors has been OBJ
tained by woman for violin playing.
Mrs. Ann Journeay, who celebrated
her ninety-sixth birthday anniversary
recently at her home in Tottenville, s. l.,
is the widow of Major Journeay, who was
aveteran of the war Of 1879. She has re-
sided on Staten Island all her life, and
has not been to New York or on rail-
road train in over twenty-five years. She
Is still quite active, and is able to read
and write without using glasses.
Lord Fitzgerald, the law lord whose
death has just occurred in Dublin, was
really sacrificed his weli-known pc.
likeness. The immediate cause of death
was fever, which developed out of Sc
rious cold contracted by him in a rail-
way carriage while travelling from Dub
lin to Killiney. Two ladies, strangers,
were his fellow-travelers. They desired
to have both windows kept open, and
Lord Fitzgerald's politeness compelled
him to acquiesce. In the draught he
caught cold which FASTENED his end.
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One Hundred Miles an Hour.

Sir Edwin Watkins has, on behalf of
the Metropolitan Railway Company,
offered the manager of the Water rail.
way piecs Of ground near London, on
which to lay down line two miles in
length. We shall, therefore, soon have
an opportunity to try what, If the &C.
counts are true, must be the very poetry
Of motion. The carriages run on skates
or slides, but between the slide and the
rail is forced a film Of water, which pre-
vents all jolting, humping and shaking,
and, in fact, makes the carriages skim
along as boat does on the sea. Then,
too, the pace is hundred miles an hour.
II the new railroad is really practicable
for long distances all England will be a
suburb of London, and Surrey will be
saved from becoming chess-board,
covered with what the auctioneers call
villa residences standing in their own
three acres and half of park-like
grounds" A hundred miles an hour
would make Bath as accessible as Bright
on is now, while Manchester could be
reached in an hour and fifty minutes
Spectator ia
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have felt temporary relief by rem0v-
ing the teeth, and imagination has dona
the rest Many old people remove their
teeth on retiring, but when young
person wears 4 set he doesn't bother,
and he is much better on in consequence.
The thing to do when you find your own
teeth going fast is to get an artificial
set lately Don't wait until the
gums have shrunken irregularly. Be-
sides, it saves lots OF pain. IN. Y. Eyen-j
ing Sun
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I Facts About thunderstorm.

An investigative European journal
gives statistics concerning the FREE
quency Of thunder-storms in different
parts of the earth. Java has thunder
storms on the average of o. days in the
year; Sumatra, So; Hindoostan, SO;
Borneo, 81; the Gold Coast. 50; Rio de
Janeiro, 81; Italy, SO; West Indies, SO;
south Guinea, 80; Buenos Ayres,
Canada and Austria, %; Baden.
Wurtemberg and Hungary, 70; Silesia,
Bavaria and Belgium, 81; Holland, is;
Saxony and Brandenburg, II; France,
Austria and South Russia, 10; Spain and
Portugal. Is; Sweden and Finland, 3;
England and the high Swiss mountains,
Z; Norway, 4; Cairo, B East Turkestan
has scarcely any thunder-storms, and
none are found north OF Cape Ogle, Ice-
land, Novaja Semelja and the Siberian
sea- Science. M W w q
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FACTS ABOUT HORSES.
II an Animal Is Intelligent 1t VIII Hur
Nobody.


Unless horse has brains you cant
teach him. See that tall bay there, a
fine-looking animal, fifteen hands high
You can't teach that horse any thing.
vhvo Wal, ~, show -, +. a;Haranca
~ Saoas M have csra ~ bis heels
7 col ~ tha hrnta,s baad tha+ ronnaino
nosa that t.rar;nn foraha.d thathroed
tr,s+ III, That,s - avn, ,ood ,nare
~ :. 80 *,naast ~ So W, 80, e. h,aa d,,,
and f,,llness betwaar The cars and ewes
W, a,,,sr,t h,na ~. -, NJ ,,,oa,,
- ~ ma anrhodr The avas should ha
an. and havel q : nooa color lilo =
ell thin az end want horsa ~
$780,. ;4s COWS na1,. for.,arJ T.nn, az, 4,
80 ~ 800 49, ,rauts - I;sta,, - al
~ ~ aonnarsat;nn rn;n@ ~ hahina h;,,
mn nv sr~s .,. = T. - al,
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Emperor William has much smaller
head than his father and grandsire, and
the Imperial crown, therefore, does not
fit him. Al new one was ordered several
months ago. This new emblem Of SOW
ereignty weighs less than three pounds,
although made of massive gold; there's
fore the head beneath will not be 70 un-
easy after all. II is ornamented with
100 diamonds, the ball which surmounts
it consisting Of simple polished sap
phire. The EmpresS is-also to have anew
crown as we'll Is her lord and master.
There will be less gold about it and
more stones, 1900 diamonds Of different
sizes mixed with few pearls. N. X.
Tribune.
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T.
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

-Policeman-.sDoy you have to take care
of the dog% Nurse girl--''No. The missus
says Pm too young and inexperienced.
/ only look after the children. Life.
Lawyer = "The ante-mortem state.
ment says" Judge-"Hold on, now
We don't care any thing about what
Aunty Mortem or Uncle Mortem says.
What did the deceased say himself9n
Miss Salina = Eyes, admit Mr.,
Plumpley is rather plain, but it's sort
Of face that grows upon you" The
jor-eIndade! Well, Pm sure 'tisnot
the sort av face OF want to grow upon
mep-Funn y Folks.
Mr.. Benchow-"I have the most
wonderful pointer in the world. Why,
that dog will point a picture, and he is
so intelligent that he will put on his
own blanket. Jones-ssWell, that Is
bright, but I've got one who will beat
him. Why, my dog will point moral
and adorn tail. Time.
Mrs. Growler-- "There was a tramp
around here this afternoon and he scared
me nearly to death" Mr.. Growler-.
what did you do to get him to GO
away?a Mrs. Growler-"I gave him ono
Of my apple pies and saw him eating ii
as he went down the road. He didn't
come back" Mr.. Growler--"Poor fel
lowi"
Frog Ito elephant) - "How far can
you jump, you big lummix?" Elephant
81 can't jump at all, froggy woggy.r
Frog (hoisting his shoulders) YOU'RE
unlucly. When see an enemy APP
preaching, with few jumps I'm out Of
danger" Elephant-"When / see an
enemy approaching / don't have to
jump. "-Harper's Bazaar.
-"Pat, you must be an early riser.
always find you at work the first thing
in the morning. "Indade, an Oh am,
sor. It's family thrait, Dido be think
in" Then your father is an early
riser, too, eh?" "Me feyther, is it?
Fax, an he roises that early that ef
he'd 60 to bed little later he'd mate him
self gettin' up in the mornin' p Rich
mond Dispatch.
els this the road to Camden?" asked
q gentleman Of boy sitting on the
doorstep Of q little house by tho way
side. "What3" asked the boy. wom-
an hastily appeared at the door and
said, in tone of sharp reproof: There
you go again with your what Irai
Why didn't you say 'ma'am, to the
gentleman, as I've told you time and
agina never can learn you mannersip
Exchange.
--''John, wake up! I hear noise in
the kitchen. There's somebody in the
houseln dumping out Of bed. Don't
be afraid, Maria; I'll drive him Quit Be
calm, darling Don't go down that
steep stairway with your revolver cooked,
John. 1t might go of before you are
ready Crawling back into bed MRS.
Billus, II you haven't any confidence in
my management of burglars you can take
the revolver and go down yourself."-
Chicago Tribune.
Druggist James, / wish you would
be particularly careful about your pre-
scriptions this week. James--ssY Yes,
sir; I'm always as careful as possible,
sir" Druggist-"Be especially particu-
lar not to use arsenic BY mistake whom
you are putting up quinine pills. I"
James--'T trust that my regard for
human life would prevent me making
such stupid blunder.r Druggist
"That's all very well as far as It goes,
but see by this mornings paper that
arsenic is way up, and we don't want to
waste any. "-America.
-Wiggins-.Do you believe in fe-
- - AN
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they Arc Bii1sd That way.

Mrs. Beaumonde Phew, what .
charged Why, Mrs.. Jaw, the famous
human canary charges me fifty dollars
for whistling atsmy reception.
Mr.. Beaumonde Oh, well, you can't
expect to have a canary without q bill.
-Mnnsey's Weekly.
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IN weli-lnown gad,blinx hoVle -
New York two hands ~ nailed ~ over
the mantels They az TIE ~, HeYens
eight. nine and ten Of diAmonds -
the same n spades These fWo ten11
came together and cenae1 the a xisloa
of : small fortune between ~ hol42r1
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Whom the,schoolmaster whips one OF
tho girls he hits : miss When the
girl lodges shemtzsss hit.