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The Dogs Laugh.

The proprietor of Third avenue sa-
loon owns little black kitten that is a
curiosity. It.cultiyates habit of squat
ting on its launches, like bear or a
kangaroo, and then sparring with its
forepaws as If it had taken lessons from
pugilist. When in a playful mood it
never shows claw or attempts to
scratch, but parties and counters as
though familiar with every rule in the
Queensberry code.
A gentleman took into the saloon the
other evening an enormous black dog,
half Newfoundland, half collie, fat, good
natured and intelligent. The tiny black
kitten, instead of bolting at once for
shelter, retreated a few PAGES, sat erect
ON it's hind legs and ''put up its fists" in
an attitude OF defiance and challenge.
The contrast in size between the two
quadrupeds was intensely amusing. It
reminded one of Jack the Giant Killer
preparing to demolish Titan.
Slowly and without q Sign of excita-
bility the huge dog walked as far as his
chain would allow him and gazed in
tently at the kitten and its odd posture.
Then, as the comicality of the situation
struck him, he tnrned his head and
shoulders around to the spectators, and
II animal ever laughed in the world that
dog assuredly did so then and there. He
neither barked nor growled, but in
dulged in a low chuckle, while eyes and
mouth bearned with merriment. New
York Telegram.
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In domestic pursuit. That is to say,
he has gone to London to meet Mrs.
Florence, and the couple are to travel In
Europe for the summer.
Speaking Of ''play people. 1t is hard to
say when Bronson Howard Is at work
and when he Is taking a vacation, for
his study Is Of people more than books,
and 90, though he Is just beginning o
round Of the summer watering places,
nobody knows. excepting himself. wheth-
or ii is work or play.
Thomas A. Edison is probably as hard
working man as there Is in the United
States. It Is said of him that he ignores
the necessity of sleep for days together,
and would even fast until he dropped If
his assistants did not leave sandwiches
and pieces Of pie around the laboratory
where he sees them and eats without
realizing what he is doing. Even Edi-
son, however, cannot work always, and
he has taken cottage at Long Beach
for the season, and win enjoy some
periods Of rest there before the summer
Is over.
Chauncey Ne. Depew is one of those
who fnd 1t almost impossible to get rest
and perfect release from business cares
excepting on an ocean steamer. There
are many such, and not the least priced
enjoyment Of q European trip to them ia
the impossibility of receiving letters,
telegrams and callers on the way across.
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Columbia River salmon.

The catch of salmon is still light, but
is improving slightly, which is consid-
cred a very good indication that there
are plenty of fish outside. The fish be-
ing caught are unusually fine, averaging
thirty-fve pounds in weight, and run
ming nearly all of the same size. Fish
ermen say that as soon as the water in
the river begins to fall the fish will COM
mence to pour in, and there is chance
that heavy run may swell the pack to
at least somewhere near the usual pro-
portions.
MIR. James Hawthorn says he COM
menced fishing last year on May 10, and
this year he began on April 10, month
earlier, and now he has only eighty-five
cases more than he had at this time last
year. While the salmon are swarming
at the mouth of the river the sea lions
and seals are having picnic.
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His Natural characteristics Get Him
Into Numerous Difficulties.

His Natural characteristics Get Him
Into Numerous Difficulties.
Ialways make it rule to get along
with my neighbors without engaging in
any belittling quarrels or disputes with
them. will put up with great deal
before will descend to the vulgarity of
quarrel with any one. and don't in
tend having row with any one now,
but If my neighbor's boy should disap-
pear suddenly and never be heard of any
more, or IL he should be found with his
neck broken, viii perhaps have been
at the bottom Of 1t all, and no honest
jury in the land viii do anything with
me for 1t.
This boy is ten years old. His name
is Horace Walpole Gladstone Smith, but
they call him Teddy He has taken
to getting up at o'clock these fine morn
ings, and his parents encourage him in
such idiocy by Dragging around chow
smart our little Teddy isl'
Ten minutes after Teddy is up he is
racing along in front of my house draw
ing stick over the palings of the fence
under my bedroom window. Then he
walks up and down singing 81 want to
be an angel" He knows but one line
of 1t, and he screeches that out over and
over again until-well, you know what
wish as / lie In bed gnashing my
teeth, with no hope of getting my be-
loved morning snooze.
BY and by, at about half past 3, he
brings out wagon made ont of a wood
en- box and four creaking, wobbling,
solid wooden wheels, and he races up
and down the wooden pavement drag
ging that noisy, loathsome thing after
him. Then he gets under my open bed
room window and begins screeching to
boy who lives half block away:
"Jimmyi O-o-o-h, Jiml S-a-a-y, Jim
Jones, I'm up and you a-i-i-i-n'tw
Then he goes through series of yells,
cat calls and dog barks, ending with
frightful singing of 'Annie Rooney. "
This is followed by another wildly
screeched out taunt to Jimmy Jones.
'S-a-a-y, Jim! Beat ye upi I've beat
ye up, sleepy headi O-oo-o-h, Jimr
You thrust your head out Of window
| and say coidly:
"Stop that noisef"
He looks up at you placidiy and says:
II guess can make all the noise
want to in my fathers own yard, 90 ]
can," and he makes moro noise than be
fore, while you bounce back to bed feel
ing pretty sure that the command te
'1ove thy neighbor as thyself" did no,
include thy neighbor's boy.-Detroii
Free Press.
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20 called by his friends. The Rev. w.
a. Rainsford, who is known all over the
United States as q prominent Episcopal
clergyman. also goes to the Rockies"
each summer for his recreation, and is
not less successful than Mr.. Claflin.
Tt Ia noticeable that while Americans
cannot be saidsto be so devoted to the.
killing of the lower animals in the way
of sport as Englishmen Of the higher
classes are, yet goodly number of them
spend their vacations either shooting or,
fishing. President Harrison's recent
duck hunting trip was one Of his genuine
vacations, and no newspaper reader need
be reminded that he enjoyed 1t His
summer sojourns at Cape May cannot be
called vacations, since he establishes his
Office in his cottage and works as hard
there as he would If he stayed in Wash
ington.
Ex-President Cleveland has never at
tanned fame as an expert with a shotgun,
but with rod and reel he Is said to be
able to hold his own in any crowd Of
fishermen. For many years it has been
his habit to seek his recreation in this
pursuit This summer, however, it is
not recorded that he has fshed. He Is
busily experimenting the fitting up Of
his new country house at Tudor Haven,
N. j., and is to spend his leisure time
there when the house Ia ready.
Mrs. Cleveland, pending the prepara-
ton, has been visiting Mrs. Joseph JEFF
ferson at Buzzard's Bay, where the great
and only Rip Van Winkle has spent his
idle days for many years. He expects
to entertain Henry sIrving there this
summer,
Edwin Booth Is at his country home
at Narragansett Pier, where he says he
intends to stay all summer. He calls II
Rosalind Cottage.
No vacation story would be complete
without a statement Of the whereabouts
Of Billy Florence, whose life seems to be
mainly made up Of vacations, but who
accumulates great amounts OF money
when he does work. He is either catch
Ing salmon in the Restigouche, eating
terrapin In Philadelphia, ordering ex-
quisite breakfasts in Paris, or chasing
the extinct buffalo over the prairies most
OF the time, hut just now he is engaged
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The Little Soldier.

Ashort soldier is not to be held In
efficient because OF lack of, sfature. The
standard In the French army Is, and
was, indeed, in the days OF the old pro-
fessicnal army, lower than ours Is now.
The piou-piou who stormed the Mala-
koff were little grigs Of men, averaging
about feet inches. But they were
wiry, tough, sinewy fellows genuine
men, although low Of stature The
French nation runs small.
The British people, as whole, are Of
larger frame, and the undersized men
among Us are more apt to be weaklings.
How much more likely to be weakiings
are the undersized 1sdregs"--to use MI.
Bright's expression who scramble by D
strain into our ranks under the present
low standard of admission.
The old notion was that big soldier
was needed to furnish weight and thrust
ing power in bayonet charge. There
are no bayonet charges now. During
the whole Franco German war i saw
bleody bayonets but once, and that in a
street fight. Man for man, the moderate
sized, sturdy recruit perhaps even the
sturdy little recruit, is likely to make a
better all around soldier than the big
fellow. He has more endurance, he
seems to carry his burden more easily,
having less of himself to carry, and he is
generally healthier.
But your narrow chested. stherring
bodied" understood gutter weed is pure
trash on campaign; You cannot make de-
cent cannon fodder" Of a creature Of
this sort, and it is of creatures Of this
sort that our ranks today ara full
Archibald Forbes in Fortnightly Re
view.
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Mr.. Coon.s warm priye.

)ne hundred square miles of desola-
ticr Millions Of acres of burned tim
Der sana, ," Is how @. FL. Coon, of New
York, briefly describes the burned dis
trict Of Wisconsin. Mr.. Coon has just
returned from the district recently de-
vastated by fire, and he says a person
who has not visited that part of the
country since the flames swept over it
can form no conception of the desola-
tion there. Mr.. Coon was at Eagle river
when the fires started with fishing
party, and remained in the country un-
til last week. He tells Of a narrow es-
cape he had from perishing in the flames
when near Lake Content:
I'VE became SO used to the fires and
smoke that not much attention was
paid to the situation" said he. 1--WE
went about our business just as if moth
ing unusual were going on. | was re-
turning from the lake one day with a
fine string of walleyed pike when !
found myself with my two ponies and
cart between two fires. The wind was
blowing a hurricane, and I thought my
time had come. could not get back to
the lake, as escape that way was cut off.
Ny only chance was to get to the wide
creek, but in order to reach 1t I would
have to drive through burning timber a
distance Of 100 yards. / did not have
much time to debate the matter, and
was soon dashing through the flames,
applying the whip freely to the ponies.
sUnlike most horses they did not hest
tate when the burning underbrush was
reached, but dashed madly on. Iheld my
handkerchief over my mouth and nos
trils, not daring to inhale the smoke and
heat. Finally the creek was reached
and the ponies plunged into the stream,
and as was minus eyebrows, hair and
whiskers, and my clothing being on fire
I, too, threw myself into the water. Fol
two hours the ponies and / remained II
the creek before it was safe to venture
out. During that time we were almost
suffocated with smoke and heat. Nearly
all the hair was burned off the horses
and was kept busy while in the creel
putting out charred cinders that fel
upon the bodies Of the ponies and intt
the wagon. Chicago Tribune.
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Mr.. Depew put of his vacation twice
this year for reasons that have excited
many good natured smiles among his
friends; first, because he had to stand
trial on criminal charge, and second,
because his mother-in-law was Ill He
was acquitted and she Is better.
q Editors nre suppo8ed % Be among the
hardest worked men on earth, and some
OF them no doubt are, but when they
get near the top OF the ladder they take
plenty Of vacationa James Gordon Ben
nett, for example, probably allows him
self many weeks year OF almost unin-
terrupted vacation. The Pulitzars seem
OF late to be emulating him In this re-
spect, though The World proprietor has
the excellent reason OF impaired health
TO serve as an excuse for laying business
aside All'three are In Europe.
Z Charles A. Dana is an exception 70
most rules that govern ordinary hu-
manity. He is at all times an enormous
worker and an enthusiastic devotee Of
rational enjoyment. Somebody said Of
him lately that his idea of fun was to be
finding ont ell about something that he
didn't know before. He has a town house
and country place. for he Is very rich,
and his summer vacations are spent on
his own island In Long Island sound,
which, however, Is not far enough of to
prevent him from making frequent
sometimes daily-trips to The Sum Office.
Or the people Of less fame II would be
easy to write many columns. describing
their haunts and their pursuits during
the time when nature, at least In this
climate, seems to be suggesting the
necessity for period Of relaxation. But
nobody, probably, outside Of their own
particular circles would care to read it.
It is enough to say that all over the
country people are laying aside their
everyday pursuits and going away from
home in search of. health and pleasure;
that many millions Of dollars win be
spent In way to make Gradgrind weep,
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workers require an occasional vacation
. period Of days or weeks given to some
pursuit that shall rest the tired brain or
body by reason Of change.
Not all OF MS can take vacations, or we
think we can't. The machinery Is kept
running, at the risk Of breaking down,
In order to meet constant calls upon us.
Wise men. however, who value long life
and look forward to years Of usefulness,
take their play times with tolerable reg
ularity, and the harder they work the
more heartily they are apt to play.
For example, John Clafin, who was
left by the death Of his father, Horace
B. C1ahin, at the head of one of the
largest dry goods firms In New York, is
q very busy man. He was carefully
trained In business habits from the time
he was graduated at college, and when
hardly more than boy was his fathers
main reliance Now he personally super
intends the entire business, of which he
is the principal owner. But every year
be goes away Cor month or so and
ravela It Is no conventional trip over
beaten routes that he takes He has
been almost all over the world, visiting
rnanY places where no white men ever
Fenf before. For instance, he was the
6rst TO cross South America from the
Pacific TO the Atlantic. For several
years past he has gone to the Rocky
mountains each summer, and has made
1t point to stay there each time until
he has killed at least one grizzly bear.
Dry goods merchants, especially Of the
mild spoken, gentle hammered kind,
such as Mr.. Clafiin Is, who by his ap-
pearance might be taken for Sunday
school superintendent, are hardly the
kind OF people who would beexpected to
hunt grizzly bears New York, how
ever. boasts OF ssbear hunting parson.~
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A Danoinr Girl,s Request.

Every year, when autumn approaches,
Queen Victoria has her trunks packed
and goes a pilgrimage to the shrine Of
the late John Brown at Balmoral. The
quiet life which her majesty Is generally
leading becomes then absolutely dull and
greatly exasperates her suite. From the
windows Of her royal apartments the
queen can glance at the white marble
monument on dear Johns tomb, and all
her time Is devoted either to the men,
ory Of the lever lamented" or the faithful
sesvAnt who managed to crawl up to
such high place in her royal affections.
Once In q while, however, the dullest
of all the crowned heads In Europe feels
dull herself. Last year the parson Of
Balmoral, who Is daily guest at the
royal table. seeing her majesty so bored,
and knowing her weakness for every
thing Scotch, spoke to her Of one Of her
tenants daughters, who could dance the
reel better than any girl in Scotland.
The young lady was ordered to appear
before her majesty the following day.
When ushered into the queens presence
her majesty said, 81 hear you can dance
the reel well; dance"
There was nothing left for the young
lady to do but to dance and she did it so
gracefully that her majesty's severe face
almost took pleasant expression.
After the performance was over she
asked the girl if the queen could do any
thing for her.
The young lady first hesitated. but
suddenly replied. Indeed, your majesty,
you can."
"What is it?"
"Give me Mr.. Gladstone's head on a
charger"
Casting severe glance at the girl the
queen turned round and said: 'sDear
child, will willingly give you the
charger, but Mr.. Gladstone's head l can
not. 1t is long time ago he lost it,
New York World.
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T is given to few
persons that they
shall be able to
la Dor continu-
ously with o Mt
breaking down
prenaturely.' Not
only are certain
hours for sleep
daily and a break
in the routine
once a W eek
necessary to the
preservation Of
health, but hard
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ALL WORK AND NO PLAY.
THAT SORT or LIFE IS WEARING
AND USUALLY DOESN'T PAY.

People OF Prominence Who Take Annual
vacations-some Seek to slay Ferocious
GrizzIy Bears and Others Sail the Deep
blue Sea.
tCopyright, 1891. by American Press Associa-
tfay, I
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the headquarters of the territorial Cath
olic see.
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HARRISON A. A DUCK HUNTER
and that the whole world viii be the
better for it.. "An work and no play"
may do for Gradgrind, but 1t does not
answer the requirements of most people.
Evening journal., 1891-12-04
Telling Tlme BY the sage Brush,

Marcus p. Hayne has returned from a
three weeks trip through the Koontenai
country.
THE vegetation in the Koontenai coun.
try is very sparse, said he, land you can
travel for miles without finding wster.
The sage brush, which is the only living
thing In the country whose growth is not
stunted, grows to an enormous height in a
single day, and dies in just thirtysix
hours. 1t is nourished by thealkali springs
which flow beneath the surface OF the
ground, but il is fed so abnormally that it
dies in an incomparably short time. Well,
the natives in that district have got the
thing down so fine that they can tell by
looking at piece OF sage brush just what
time OF day it is, so If you pull watch on
'em they'll know that you're tenderfoot. =
"Well, how can they tell the time by
looking at the saye2n
well, you see, they know that the sage
lives but thirty-six hours, and they are SO
accustomed TO it that they can tell at a
glance to a minute just how far growth
has advanced
Eyes, but they don't know what time OF
day or night the sage began to grow, Sc
how can they estimate the timeY
"Oh, they tell that by the number OF
branches, and the branches never sproui
till sundown, aud then one sprouts every
six hours. minneapolis Journal
Evening journal., 1891-12-04
ANIeMArA

l wanted the sweep OF the wild wet weather,
The winds long lash aud the rains free fan,
Tho toss OF the trees as they swayed together.
The measureless gray that was over them all;
Whose roar speaks more than language
spoken;
Wordless and wonderful, cry on cry
Tho sob Of an earth that is vexed and broken.
The answering sob Of broken sky.
What could they tell us7 We see them ever
The trees and tho sky and the stretch Of the
land
Bnt they give us a word Of their secret never:
They tell no story we understand.
Yet hapy the ghostlike birch out yonder
Knows much in placid and silent way
The rain might tell what the gray clouds pom
der,
The winds repeat what the vlolots say.
Why weeps the rain2 DO you know its sorrow?
Do you know why the wind is 80 sad-so sad?
Have you stood ia the rift 'twixt a day and a
morrow,
Seen their hands meet and their eyes grow
glad2
Is the trees pride stung no its tops abasement2
Is the white rose more OF saint than the
red2
What thinks tho star as It sees through the
easement
A young girl lying, beautiful. dead2
Barry Pain in Speaker.
Evening journal., 1891-12-04
CABLE eREWTiEs.


The Belgium chamber OF deputies has
passed bill prohibiting any public expert
ments in hypnotism.
The condition Of Dom Pedro has 80 much
improved that his physicians now believe
him 70 De out Of danger.
The czar has urged vigorous action against
the Stundists, a Protestant sect Of about
1,0OO. 600 members
Michael Davitt IS expected TO stand for
Waterford, a Palnellite stronghold.
A financial panic prevails at Melbourne,
Australia, Tive banks and three building
societies have suspended payment.
The captain Of the American ship Henry
j. Smith, from Brunswick, Ga, has been
fined at Liverpool for carrying a deck cargo
Of pine wood, in violation Of the English
merchant shipping act. The case will be
referred to Washington.
-Four miners were killed by choke damp in
the Agecroft colliery, near Manchester, Eng
land
Careful estimates Of the results Of the re
cent Japanese earthquake now place the
number Of dead at 1860; injured, 10, l20
with So,6S0 buildings wholly and q, Cps part
ly destroyed. Over 400 people have beer
rendered homeless.
Evening journal., 1891-12-04
ONE CENTPOSTAGE NEAR
Ms. Wanamaker Says 1t May
h Come in 1894.
sTnL URGING POSTAL TELEGRAPH.

he Declares That His Plan VIII Some
Dag BE Carried Oot-The Mail Service
Can he Made SELF Supporting Next
Year. in His Opinion.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-The annual report
If Postmaster General wanamal5er for the
rear ending June 80, 1891, states that the
leficit in the department is gradually dis
appearing and that the revenue for the year
has been over S5,O0O,Ooo greater thaH ever
before II congress thinks it advisable the
department. may begin bs be self sustaising
On July /, 1898. The report refers to the
benefit derived from the creation Of the
office Of fourth assistant postmaster general
and the extension OF the system OF promo
lions for merit to the laTger postofiices and
railway mail service.
The Anti-Lotte~y Crusade.
The successful enforcement OF the anti
lottery bin and the recent arrests Of lottery
officials are commented upon, and the estab-
hshment Of sea postofdoes, and the conse-
quent gain in the rapid distribution over
the country Of incoming foreign mail are
menttsned The employment Of steam
tug IN New York harbor for the foreign
mail service is recommended
Free Delivery for small Towns.
The insurance Of registered mail matter
Is recommended. Mr.. wanamalSer recon-
mends the abolition Of personal suretyships
OF postnasters, as too many of them are ull-
der obligations which prevent the perform
anee Of their best work He proposes 70 do
away with the renting Of boxes in post
offices served by free delivery, and fayors
the bin emitting towns Of 5000 inhabitants
10 a free delivery systen.
The Postal Telegraph.
The application Of the telegraph and tele-
phone 10 postal service is earnestly recon-
mended Mr. Wanamaker says ethe postal
telegraph and the postal telephone cannot,
IN logical event, be kept away from the
post Zone cent postage he says, 'oan
be made possible by Jan. /, 1894 It will
come the easier il we let the reduction OF
the foreign rate wait awhile; If we simpli
fed inland postage rate; il we consolidat,
third and fourth class matter, and il w
secure credit for the government mails ant
other losing business, which the department
under the present law, n obliged to do