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So Good That N-rm.l.oa Pet. rrr.~u,~d
Him With Bi. Buckeye.
ErI,rn nA.rr.nst

80 GOOD That N.rnsl.oa Pete Presented
Him With His Buckey~.
Prom the Dvtruis fres Tres
Have you got any ncrveY" asked INV friend
Simpson. a. We halted before a saloon in Tough
vile. Mont
What II haren'ty" answered. evasiyely.
81 asked for information You're a stranger
here. you know. and you dent tuck your pants
in your boots, or talk about your private grave
yard. or anything like that. ana as I've 60, 10
20 In here and interview the proprietor / won't
take you along unless your nerve will stand IT,"
Go in" Unanswered laccrically.
We entered q long. low-ceiied room with q
bar az one end. Several card tables were scat
tered about. at which gentlemen Of rather UNI
playing.
Whine my friend was trsnsactine his business
sith the proprietor drew a chair into a corner
sh9 Tied 70 appear perfectly at home.
Taxing cigar from NV pocket calmly
shk Was knocked clear out OF my mouth
by pistol ball
never 90 much winked nv evei did
not even turn 60 see who had done the firing
out, WITH the greatest Goodness. 1 drew another
cigar from nv pocket and lighted il Ilesned
back in nv chair and smoked With extreme
nonchsiance-l don think have ever. before
OF since, been SO utterly and So hopelessly nom
chaiant ~ upon the occasion got forth
AS smoked the ashes naturally accumulated
upon the end OF mt weed. and VAS lust think
ing OF knocking them Of when that unknown
friend OF mine with has convenient pistol mar
formed the service for me.
Every one in the saloon was looking in NV
direction, but did not show the barest tip Of
white feather. I pulled away with head
thrown back and a dreamy. contented exprcs-
sion on my face that would have tried in vain
10 produce under ordinary circ amstauces.
=. AGAIN the ashes accumulated aud again that
Timely bullet removed them
AT tins stage I found myself wondering how
! was going TO keep my nerve when that cigar
nao burned down a mere stump a nd INV friends
Workmanship would be required 20 pick IL out
from between my teeth.
but was equal TO the emergency, and when
my eheroot was two-thirds gone held il out
between my thumb and fore finger. while the
unAhosn shot II ont with a skill that was re-
nafkable. Then busted NV hands brushed
the ashes from my clothes aud Joined NV friend
NJ the door. Before We could leave the room.
however, man IN blue shirt and buckskin
eggings, carrying a sIN-shooter in his hand an
preached and embraced me.
Say, pard. dern my picture IL I hain't clean
gone on yere nerve. Here's a buckeve that I've
carried ever since broke jail IN Ohio en- come
oyer; lake u en- wear il in yer pants 10, ket
for the sake of yermiiion Pete, the All round
"MelI?"
Say, l want yer TO stand up there in the cor
ner en- let me shoot a dime of Yer nose *"
Come on here" said my friend Siprl.son. 30
ne yanked me through the door by the tail of
my coat, without giving me time to frame q re-
ply.
But was glad he did il. A dime ism, very
thick, and then Vermilion Pete might have
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An occasional reaction against the accepted
student on paper has resulted in an equally
false representation of him as drunken.
bTawliug, big-paunched. stupid rufiian. with
no other ambition than to MI his thick san with
leer. The prevailing American conception OF
this urioue figure in continental life makes him.
consequently n bedizened QuixOte or an exotic
Bower thug. OF crazy quilt combination OF
both Now the truth of the whole matter Is
that the German student is merely an unrsu-
ally we!!-educatei. sensitive and honorable
young man. quite abreast Of the general line of
modern German civilization and partaking OF
all the pe culiarities OF that civilization. He Is
more picturesque than the American student.
but ONLY because be lives among a more pic
turesgue people ard on more Pictnr-
esuue continent. When he enters the uni
versitv the German student is about
eighteen or twenty years old. He has
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The Speed of Electricity,

From the Philadelphia Record.
Philadelphia scientists are preparing to find
out how fast an electric current travels. An
experiment will be made, probably from the
Franklin Institute, by connections over the At
lantic cable to Liverpool and return.
A recent test appeared to show that an cleo
trio current is a slow coach as compared to
light. being only able to get over to Europe
and back in something like a second, or ut the
rate of only some 400, 900 miles q minute, while
light ambles along at u million miles a -minute
gait. The Philadelphia scientists who are pro-
posing to make further investigation are not
satisfied to give up the record to sunlight and
hope to prove that the electrical current, il not
handicapped, is the swifter element.
The most recent experiment was tried at
McGill College, Montreal. The current was
transmitted in Montreal. was transferred to
the cable at the Newfoundland cable
ror galvenometer, sent across to the station at
Liverpool, and returned to Montreal by the
same method. The distance trsversed, partly
by overhead wire and partly by cable, was
5000 miles. From the time the current left
the key in Montreal until ii returned to the re-
cever in the same office, Just one second and
one-twentieth Of second had elapsed, but
the conditions were not as good as they might
have been, hence the further experiment to be
made here.
The rapidly with which the current travels
over short wires with no delay indicated un-
limited possibilities in the direction Of practi-
cal tests. Prof. Marks of the Edison Electric
Light Company is authority for the assertion
that il the globe was encircled with q con-
tinuous cable q current would travel the entire
distance in trife over three seconds. At this
rate a current would travel to the SUM- cover.
ing the distance of So 600 900 miles in three and
half minutes Cor twice as fast as light.
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the subject. Fifth term is failure and with
little or no new qualifications for the final
agony. the critical sixth term is at hand. 1t il
the beginning of the end and proper obsequies
mark the mourufulress of the situation. Herr
Studiosus has become a cand. phil. that is. a
candidate for philosophical honors ana indi-
Gated the faithful change by mailing on his
room door a new card with the eight signif-
cant letters following his name.
The candidate pays his cigar bill and takes
down his big pipe. He tells his landlady what
this means, and she puts away the bizarre
relics of his former frivolity. To strengthen
his courage no hastily writes a very humble
and elaborate application for the honor of be-
ing allowed to come before the most revered
philosophical faculty, &C.. to try his examina-
ton and files IL with the dekaa Of his faculty.
In few days he gets answer that this appli-
cation has been accepted, and that on a certain
evening near the end of the term he must pre-
sent himself before the three professors in the
three studies which he has chosen for subjects
OF his examination
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Besides dueling and drinking the German
student finds amusement in billiards., bowling
and skat. the last very mild gambling game
which rarely costs the player more than a few
glasses of beer. The American custom of haz-
ing. putting saw-horses and COWS in the lee
ture rooms. shaking up professors and the
like. are not practiced. They would be re-
garded as childish and inane and altogether
Indecent. as the professors are men of brains.
and are supposed to merit the respect which
brains usually get in the civilized world.
With the fourth term the specter of the final
examination appears in the distance. He shlv-
ers little and goes to lecture. which causes
him to fear that he does not fully comprehend
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From the New York Press.
A charming girl had . fine pair Of solitaire
diamond earrings, and she lost one Of them, -
her infinite sorrow. She could not find il any,
where. and after months OF grief and spasmodis
search she resigned herself 10 doing without
diamond earrings
Having lost the mate Of IL she did not know
what TO do with single stone. but she IVES full
of womanly invention. She wss engaged 70 Q
struggling young man without money, except
what he earned, and unable to bestow diamonds
upon his fancee.
One day she was walking with her sweetheart,
and, suddenly pausing, she pointed 20 . point
of light in the street and said:
what ID that, q diamondY'
He stopped and picked it up with delight and
surprise.
Il suppose whoever lost such . gem will Cd
vertise il, !" he said
well, you keep it," said shs. "until il is I'D
vertised for. and II ii is not you have il ret
in q ring for ms."
She wears the ring now and he does not know
vet why that diamond was not sdvertised for or
that his sweetheart dropped it in the street for
him 10 find and have set into the ring she knev
he was not able TO buy.
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Scientists on Pleasure Trips.

most Interesting series Of scientific meet
lngs Is to be held in Washington this summer,
beginning August II, which will extend over a
period of somewhat more than two weeks. On
the 18th of that month the important organiza-
ton known as the American Association for the
Advancement of Science will convene at the
capital and through the fortnight will be
strung along conventions OF the international
Congress of Biologists. the Geological Society
OF America, the American chronological Club.
the American Association of BotanisIs. the As
s0clatiOn of Agriculturists and others. Incl
dentaiiy. the League of American Chemists
will be organized.
On the I'd day of September most Of the
scientists will start OF excursions to various
parts of the country. The geoloSists will visit
the oil fields of Pennsylyania and Virginia. the
caves III the Shenandoah valley for the purpose
OF looking up the developing iron industries OF
lhat section, AMI also Lake Champlalp. the
Green mountains. the Adirnndacks aud the
Lake superior region. where the iron and cop
per mines will D. an especial object tor investi-
CATION.
special western excursion will leave Wash
ington on the same day for st. Paul. MINI. 1t
will visit Salt Lake CITY and observe what is to
be seen at glance of the Mormons and of
Things geological in that part OF the country.
Thence to Denver and the Rio Grande; TO
Leadviiie and Canon City, stopping overnight
at these places in order to travel by daylight
and enjoy the beautiful scenery. On the way
back stops viii be made at Chicago and at Nj
agara Falls Each person who participates in
tie trip will pay Sz6O for his share OF the ex-
penses.
There will be branch excursion to the Grand
Canon of the Colorado. the travellers content
ing themselves with going to the edge and
looking over. At all points where stops are
made ior purposes Of geological study geolo-
gists In the party who are familiar with the
localities will be present to explain whatever Is
interesting.
This great assemblage of scientific men will
be managed, so far az is possible with view
to making things amusing well as instruc-
tive, and the excursions referred to are only q
few OF the enjoy nents planned.
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Did you ever watch q man who consider
himself irresistible by the gentler sex? What a
study-what an exhibition he is sure to MAKE.
You will See him on the elevated, at the theater,
in the park and in the streets. . He stares at
every woman, twirls his mustachs, primps biz
scarf and keeps adjusting his coat He ogles,
stares, glances over his newspaper and ventures
a meaning smile or tilt of the eyes. It is NOT
once in a hundred times that woman returns
his glanees; in fact, nost of the women are
afraid Of him, or are disgusted. But when q
victim who 10 in the same line Of business a.
himself does give him full equivalent for his
efforts what conquest he makes of it! What q
wonderful eouqussor hs thinks himself
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fully protected against vital injuries. Each
wears a big buckskin pad in front and massive
iron goggles, which render him about az at
tractive to the ewes as the average base ball
catcher His neck is heavily baudaged well
his right arm. The left arm is held behind
the back. In position. the principal holds his
right arm curved above and in front OF his
head. The sword appears 70 be moved almost
entirely by the wrist and has qack. whip
ping motion. The object of each principal is
TO slash the others scalp. forehead or checks.
The duel usually lasts fifteen minutes or till
one of the principals receives a severe wound.
as wounds in these duels go. The entanging
of the swords or the inilicting Of a wound ter
inmates a round
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ORIGIN OF THE BANANA,
Some Interesting Facts About This Delight
full Tropical Fruit.

From Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine.
The banana goes back to the earliest DAYS
Alexander's soldiers, as Pliny says, joined
the sages of India seated in its shades and
partaking of the delicious fruits. Hence the
name ''sapientum," given the plant, which
likewise bears the name Of Jupiter's far
daughter, Musa. Now it has been shown
that the banana is of Malayan origin. How
did it get to India and to South America and
Mexico? The feet of birds have borne seed
full 1O. 600 miles, while the cocoanut foated
well-nigh the world around in the great ocean
currents.
But the banana has no seeds. nor has 1t a
casing like the globular cocoanut to float it
around over the waters. Then it must have
been carried by man. 1t is significant that the
Aztecs had traditions Of visits by people from
over the seas. while there was, to confirm it, an
admixture of the religion of the Brahmins in
their own theology. Would you think that the
despised banana would actually step forward to
prove that. before Columbus was. or Lief
Ericsson even had an existence, some swarthy
denizens OF the old world had migrated across
the watersI
Manila rope is made in the Philippine Islands
Of the stem Of the banana. This stalk which
usually grows to be six inches in diameter and
from fifteen 10 twenty feet high, has a very
valuable fiber. from which are woven beauti-
lui aeA..e ICE i%ny ~ 'h LII e. i,ala
AVIS anu - tt;s Vi ."Sni'h
"iS me-. .nN a., 80 axoa,ia,,, ar,;n,a -
from it. But are no varieties Of bananas wild?
T res. SUM '5 ~ ph;I;,n;nas rhnsa ~ ,'ln
hlii' ",,,' lie. ~ lra ;far;a " 1
',,;.,eG ,ar;a,;ns m. hana W liz no.s;
~ l., ID; o"ai. IN, :. !,
plant perpetuates itself indefinitely. In CEN
trail Africa you may find thousands and thou
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is the speetre's touch.
He erawls humbly through two hours Of oral
examination. He accumulates O little conf
dsnse when the professors smile in approval,
and drops il all with q thud when he hears the
fatal: ''Na-a. you doa't seem quite to compre-
bend what mean"
When the time is up he retires, almost, il
not quite, weeping, to the ante room. and on q
hard bottomed chair waits ten minutes in pain
and silence under the sympathetic stare of the
beadle, who expects subsequently to get Is for
his comnisseration.
Finally the door opens, the professors call
him In, address him e Herr Doctor, and shaks
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TIVE GERMAN STUDENT AS HE Is NOT

rJ,HE GERMAN STUDENT AS HE Is MOI
Il has been the subject OF faneiful descrip-
lions ever since travel on the continent became
Popular. SAYS the New York sun. He has been
represented as a belligerent young man with a
slished and SCARED face. hideously eolored
little cap on the back of his head and an ire
sistible desire to turn every one and everything
upside down. He has been described as
us fling fOaming Leakers" at wild midnight
revals" under the shadow Of the walls Of ruined
Castles and as ''striding' 81 the meusur with
and unquenchable thirst for scars and glory
permeating his whole beiIg.
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Figure shows a tab sewed on to cover the
buttonhole and a guard for tender flesh
against the button. 1t is a German idea, but
few minutes labor in applying it to the neck
bands will serve to dispel many OF the Sunday
morning amenities Of home life and convert
men to the use of the ever ready collar button.
Apropos of neck dressing, here will be found
hint for housewives. Many men object to
the use Of collar buttons, and they undoubt-
eddy are a source Of great discomfort il the
band is tight The friction on tender flesh is
often cause of swellings that are not only
troublesome while they last, but dangerous.
Hence men insist on a sewed on button.
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POINTERS on COLLARS.
Time and Trouble Saving Devices for shirt
and Collar wenrers.

and Collar wenrers.
From the New York Herald
Millions Of good linen collars are ruined an
nuaily by the handling they receive in laundries.
The acids used in washing are baneful enough.
but the greatest harm occurs in the ironing.
Perhaps the most popular of collars just a,
present is the familiar bent edge" style. This
is the one that suffers most at the hands Of the
iaundress. The points are turned over and the
hot iron presses down on the seam. stretching
the hber at that point so that the collar rarely
is presentabie after two or three washings.
Here is shown a little device that will effec, q
great saving if put into practice, while being
simple in operation.
First instructions should be given that vour
collars are TO be returned "ironed aAt." the
ENDS not bent in any wise. Then take the col
lar In hand, as shown in Fig. L
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his hand He leaves them with a weakening
Joy in his knees which no one who has not
been addressed as Herr Doctor by his old pro-
fessor can ever hope to feel. His chums meet
him in the corridor and embrace him and
shout and question him. He says nothing, but
hurries on ahead to the drinking room.
Then there is a final embracing, o final
health all around, a final Godspeed and the
workingman ON his early way hears the full
swinging strains OF that stout and true old Ger
man song:
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elaborate halo has been woven round the head
Of each student on the mensur, and such an
sneisut and approved glamour has been
gathered round the subject Of student duels
that most huTrying tourists in Germany
proceed 20 nouri-h the time-worn tradi-
uous without having ever seen the hilt of .
schlager, aud most American students in Ger
many, who have stood on the mensur or have
sea Others stand there, have not the hardi-
hood to raise their voices against the romantic
stories OF the summer correspondent The
truth is. however. that the students duel is not
half 50 dangerous or exciting as a good round
OF d-tieGfis. IL l. merely an imitation O.
. gentlemsns way Of setttling an affair OF
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The Horse That L0soe.
From the New York Press.
"And Jones 10 ruincd?"
HE ia"
"Betting on fast horses, I suppose?"
mo; betting on slow ones.
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So LANCE wir ihn kennen.
Violin wir, Inn Bruder nennen.
Is lebe auch dieser Bruder hocbt

That is all. With this last, sudden fame the
IRE OF university days has burned out from the
young mans life. Who cannot feel with him
the painful, absorbing sorrow Of his whole
neart as he sees from the window of a depart
ing tram few days later the waving caps and
eoiors OF his student friends and hears again:
So lange wiz inn kennen!
=, And they? They turn homeward sadly as
the last car vanishes and the most intima te
comrade OF the new Herr Doctor in his hall
uozen student sorrows and his thousands OF
student joys speaks for the rest.
100 bad! Too bad! He should have been
plucked, he should have been q twenty
termcr'; he was such a TANK
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seen even less Of the world than the American
OF the same age. In the gymnasium he has
worked with tremendous energy and persist
ence, and has crowded his head with more
Latin. Greek and history than the average
American alupnnus gets together in his whole
life. He has got &c explode. He has got to
smoke. drink. play billiards. hirt with women
and fight. and he has got 10 do all Of them
violently and Immediately.
There Is time for lectures or books. The
freshman subscribes for some seven courses. at
an expense Of about $50 for the whole first
term. but he does not hear many of them. He
has lear ned the art OF beer drinking. This is
the first Of the fine arts of corps life. IL is de-
scribed in little text book which is exposed
among university text books IN the windows of
university boOkshops- 1t is properly para
sraphed. and contains exact information TO
the appropriate time and manner for drinking
pint. a half pint or two pint- of beer. Its
quintesst nee of corps wisdom Is included in its
famous paragraph Il: us wird weiter getrun-
KEN" or keep on drinking"
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THE IDEAL AND REAL.
German Students as They Have Been
Described and as They Are.
THEIR CUSTOMS AND HABITS.

How They Learn TO Drink Eeer. to Fence and
to Indulge in Other Amusements-Then
They study and are Anxious Over Their
Final Examination.
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beer duel is an all around and ever timely
excise for drinking more. student chal-
Ienges another. The glasses are filed and an
umpire = appointed. "Ein-. swell drei," and
the cla-se- are upside down and the beer flows
down the thruai-. The student who first saws
tisrjuugs beer boyJ after having swallowed
his pint : victorious The knack OF winning
consists largely in the ability to bring the
bierjanee up while the las; of the beer is gong
down
To certain extent the president has 1T in
his power - regulate the amount a student
must drink. lie has jI.lIciaI rs well as admin
i-trItIve functions and Is won't 70 inflIct penal
ties galore on men guiity Of any infringement OF
the code ~ drinking etiquette in general A
student i1terruptlns a speech or salsmander
once j. condemned 10 drink one pro pOena.
that j. one part Of beer withou; once removing
tn. mug from hi- lips. For II second intern up
t;ou the :ue j. two or Il quart, TO be drunk
without Tie removal Of the mug.
About t.se event OF the evening before para
graph "a breaks Ioo-e l. she beer speech. This
speech j. ~ l. HIgc TOdge vi every thing which is
lowering sroGu-. ~ the atmosPh here at the ad-
Va-cs- LpGr - which it Is made. such an
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CRIMINAL ANrHRoPoLoGY' AND WHAT IT rs TRY
ING TO AocoHPLisH-xvrL DOORS CLASS
APART, TO BE DEALT WITH As MORALLY INSANE
how TO TELL BORN GRIMM AL AT A GLANCE.
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A Suggestion for Growing Rich.
From the London World.
The investor who follows tips invariably lose
his money in The long run.
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With lead pencil or the thumb nail in play il
is readily and neatly pressed down to the
proper angle. Treated thus a good collar will
last twice or three times long in Use as the
iron down affair. Some difficulty may be ex-
perienced at first in having the collars returned
as requested, but a card attached to the pack
ages containing instructions will be effective.