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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
The Fertilization of Willows,

Some singular exceptions are found to
rules generally deemed absolute, and re-
markable ones have recently been noted
in connection with theories recently
established in regard to the relations
between flowers and insects. Flowers
have to be fortified by pollen before
they can be productive. Most flowers
have stamens OF pollen bearing organs
and pistils, the reproductive organs, in
the same flower, but these separate or
gans maturing at different times the
wind or insects are agents for carrying
the fertilizing pollen to other flowers
than those which bear it. This is known
as cross fertilization.
Those flowers only which require the
aid of insects have color or fragrance.
This is said to be an arrangement for at
tracing insects and insuring cross fer
~tilization by their aid. But the exception
comes i'll the case Of willows which are
in bloom in early spring and often COM
monty knowh as pussy cats" Though
in the class fortified by the wind, they
have bright golden color and a delight
full Fragrance, and the philosophers are
at a loss to understand what this excep-
ton means. -Philadelphia Times.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
Ideas of Heaye

There used to be a popular form Of
torture, in the form of Books of Cues
tions," which n figured on most draw
ing room tables, and in which visitors
were expected to write their definitions
of Happiness" "misery," etc. How diff
%ferent, by the way, would be many det-
nitions of both these conditions! The
old woman's idea of heaven as a place
'where she would sit all day in a cleal
apron and knit and sing hymns" would
not be an entirely satisfying ideal to some
minds, while Cowley might have sympa-
thized with the denizen of q town slum,
who on her deathbed, being comforted
with illusions to the golden city,"
promptly retorted, "Oh, no; if ever l get
to heaven, | hope l shall be let to live in
the country."-London Standard.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF.
How n Married Man Passed a Very Unhap
by and Improbable Day.

How II Married Man Passed a Very Unhap
by and Improbable Day.
They had been married years and years
yet had he gone away from the
breakfast table in the morning without
a goodby kiss until a friend came to visit
them-one Of those cynical, time soured
bachelors who find fault with everybody
and everything and decide for them.
selves that the whole scheme of creation
is wrong.
The friend did not say anything at the
time, although the kiss Jared on his
sense of the proprieties, but he waited
until he had his host by the ear, SO to
speak, then he said:
"You seem to keep the honeymoon
pretty well, George. Must be a deuced
bore, too, when the romance is over"
Then good, weak George began to get
wabbly in his mind and had a silly fear
that his friend was making fun of him.
yes" he said as he lighted a cigar,
lit is rather a bore, don't you know. but
the little woman expects it,"
II dare say" resumed the friend, "but
l wouldn't coddle her any more if l were
you. It's too-too domestic, you see. for
this age. Makes a man seem spoony and
weak"
Eyes, I've thought so myself. Guess
III turn over a new leaf with the little
woman"
The little woman, who had more sense
in her least finger than George had in
his whole body, was greatly surprised
when her husband threw his breakfast
napkin on his plate, rose in haste and
with a cackled TIA ia, dear" ran off
without the customary salute. But she
didn't say anything and bided her time.
1t came sooner than was expected.
George wen home at night without
the friend, who had returned whence he
came. At dinner George was silent and
morose, and the little woman asked:
Anything gone wrong today"
Eyes. Everything. Lost $50 out of
my vest pocket"
TOO bad, but it might have peer
worse"
Then | mislaid some valuable papers
that l carried in the inside pocket of my
coat-it's just been one of my worrying
days, don't you know"
George" said the little woman in a
calm, sweet voice, don't you think it all
happened because you went away with
out Il goodby kiss? I've had II worrying
day, too, ana l laidit all to that"
"By Jove, little woman, believe you're
right. Queer, but really believe there's
something in it."
"And here is the money. You dropped
it on the hall floor in your hurry. And
the papers are probably in your other
coat-you know you changed this norm
ing"
THAT settles it, little woman" and
George gave her the kiss he had omitted
in the morning with interest, and if the
friend could have seen it he would have
CRASHED his teeth-but he didn't.-De-
trOit Free Press.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
The Giggling Habit.

A serious aspect of the giggling habit
is that it is SO nearly incorrigible. Man.
nerisms of all kinds strike their roots
deeply, but ''he! he!" and cha! ha" be.
come part and parcel of the offenders
against reason and taste. That which
makes the listener to irritabil-
ity, fretting the amiable into a desire to
smother the meaningless cackle in the
throat that gives it birth if he cannot es.
cape beyond hearing Of it, is practiced
involuntarily by the habitual laughter.
Like the famous button on the learned
advocates coat with which he fumblcd
necessarily while pleading. the giggle
would, if suddenly taken away, deprive
it's slave of the power of speech. To
command gravcly temperate articula-
ton would be to strike dumb.
The origin of the obnoxious trick is of
course in youth and ineypericnce. and
almost always in native diffidence or
temporary embarrassment. When the
girl has no fitting words at call, she gig
giles. When the lad is oppressed by a
weight of bashfulness and would swag-
ger it off, he outlaws. In the tyro's
opinion "a laugh outdoes charity as Il
cloak for every defect and extricates
him from the most trying position. AT
fectation is an active ally in the evil
work, and the ambition to be agreeable
brings up the real guard.--Marion Har-
land in Harper's Bazaar.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

We were speaking Of Emerson, and !
had shown my idolatry Of that sweet
Athenian Yankee, when my friend said:
"There is no question that Ralph Waldo
Emerson was a grand old American
Socrates, or Plato If you will, but much
of the starch of my generation for him
was taken out by the way he ono O n
tended with the n~ewsdealer at the Cause
way street end of the Fitchburg depot
for the reduction of the price of a Boston
evening daily paper because it was Of the
issue of a day or two previous. 1t re-
minded me of the huckstering l wit
messed in a bakeshop some time before,
where a woman insisted On having q
scent loaf for 8 cents because it was two
days old, and finally, after a wordy con-
tention with the worthy white capped
baker, compromised by paying 4 cents
for the bread.
"Ralph, the venerable, had the our
age Of his m%ercenary convictions and in
sisted for a time on having a cent reduc.
ton on the price of the paper. The
n~ewsdealer, too. had the courage of his
trade and did not seem to care a baubee
for the author of the Over SOUL al
though l found afterward that he knew
the intellectually august gentleman with
whom he was dealing. Knowing the
person of the Concord philosopher, l was
amused enough to wait over another
train, had not the purchaser and vender
compromised, and the dear good man
bought the wished for old paper with
another Of that evenings issue. Dos
ton Globe.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
An Ingenious SwindIe-

A novel kind of swindle was practiced
in a German town the other day. Aman
struggling along under a heavy burden
suddenly stumbled and crashed through
a plate glass store window. The propri-
etor of the store demanded payment.
The porter said he had no money. Pass
ersby advised that he be searched. A
thousand mark note was found on him,
which, he said, belonged to his employer.
The storekeeper, however, deducted 100
marks for the value of his window and
handed 900 marks change to the porter,
who went away swearing and protesting.
A little later the storekeeper discovered
the thousand mark note was spurious
New York Sun.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

We doubt if very many persons ever
saw mud shoes for horses. They are
used on horses in blowing the low and
wet lands Of the valley north of Sumner
nearly every spring. The mud shoe con-
sists Of a heavy board about s inches
wide and from y to 10 inches long, round
ing in the front. On this board a red
hot shoe of the size worn on the horses
foot for which it is intended is placed
until it burns into it to u depth almost
sufficient to bury itself. 1t is necessary
that the shoe have a long toe and long
corks. A piece of circular band iron to
fit over the top part of the hoof is then
attached to the board and over the hoof
to hold the mud shoe solidly to the foot.
One end Of the band is fastened to the
board with n screw, which when tight
ened holds the board as sGuarely to the
bottom of the hoof as if it had grown
there. The horses become accustomed
to wearing them and after u day or two
experience no difficulty in working in
them. BY this means farmers are en-
abled to plow land in the spring where
without the use of mud shoes horses
would mire down.-Sumner Wash.)
Herald.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

The four countries in the world which
possess the smallest telegraph facilities
are Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay and Per-
STA. In the first named there are only 80
telegraph offices in the whole country
and but 1000 miles of wire. In the ter
ritory of Paraguay there are only $40
miles of wire in operation, and the entire
Geographic service of hat country re-
quires the services of but 20 persons.
One line of 800 miles, owned and oper-
ated by tho government, u IL from AS
uncion to Paso de Patria, the limit of
Paraguayan territory, and the other $50
miles by the railroad from Asuncion to
Pirapo.
Owing to high water and forest fires
in that country the line is often inter-
rupted for a days at a time. At Paso de
Patria the line breaks, there being no
cable over the Alto Parana river, which
is three miles wide. Communication is
therefore by canoe. which takes mes
sages over in the morning to the Argen-
tine side and returns to the Paraguayan
side a tnight. An important telegram is
often delayed 10 or 10 hours.-Hartford
COurant.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

The pig treats the snake with disre-
spect. not to say Misunderstanding,
ophidian or otherwise, can fascinate a
pig. If your back garden is infested
with rattlesnakes, you should keep pigs.
The pig dances contemptuously on the
rattlesnake and eats him with much rel
ish, rattles and all. The last emotion Of
the rattlesnake is intense astonishment,
and establishment is natural in the cir
cumstances. a respectable and expert
enced rattlesnake, many years estab-
lished in business, has been accustomed
to spread panic everywhere within ear
and eye shot. Everything capable Of
motion has started off at the faintest
rustic of his r~attles, and his view of ami
NAL life from those expressionless eyes
has invariably been a back view and a
rapidly diminishing one
After a lifelong experience of this sort,
to be unceremoniously rushed upon by a
common pig, to be treated as SO much
swill, to be jumped upon, to b. fiouted and
shouted. and finally to be made a snack
of-this causes a feeling Of very natural
and painful surprise in the rattlcsnake.
But a rattlesnake is only surprised in
this way once, and he is said to improve
the pork.-Arthur Morrison in Strand
Magazine,
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

II still maintain that a person enter
ing a profession late in life has no future
to speak Of" said n gentleman to an.
other as they sat chatting in a suburban
train speeding along the lake front. Il
really do not see how that is relevant
was the answer. Every one is sure of
the present; no one of the future, no
matter what time of life he or she has
reached. When this woman graduated
from the law school n few years ago, the
fact that you shook your head and said
that it was absurd made me interested
to see what she, whose children were
grown when she began the study Of law,
would accomplish.
''In five years she has built up a bust
ness which makes her independent finan-
cially, which is more than usually &C.
complished by able and brilliant young
men. Whatever her future may be, her
present is all right, and she has alum
dainty demonstrated that a woman may
begin life in a professional way when
she has reached middle age and make a
success of it. | really didn't think she
would, but she has, and in doing SO has
demonstrated what can he done by any
woman providing she has grit, energy
and fair ability. More often late than
earlyin life women find themselves with
out occupatic- or means of support, and
it surely is III unmixed good if they can
take up some congenial occupation by
means of which they Fan make a living"
Chicago Post.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
Passing of the Snake.

Readers of newspapers must have no
ticed that during the last five years tho
breed Of newspaper snakes has greatly
deteriorated in intelligence and general
accomplishments. Time was when Geor-
gia and Alabama snakes wriggled along
on the tips of their tails and picked cot
ton buds, when they entered houses in
the nighttime and drained babies milk
bottles, when they grew to enormous
lengths and performed under proper
training many acts Of domestic service.
All this is changed now. The reptilian
kingdom has experienced a setback in
it's progressive march toward intellectu.
atty. AS a consequence, newspaper
writers have been obliged to fall back
upon such commonplace animals as the
cat and dog.-Omaha World-Herald.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
The Latest Thing In Petitions.

The latest thing in petitions to parlia-
ment is the petition Of a single house
hold. A. B. Of Some street, Somewhere,
entertains an objection to a bill which
is before the house, and straightway he
and the members of his family draw up
q protest, sign it and forward it to the
member of the division in which they re-
side for presentation to the house of com
Mons. This may be a highly proper pro-
ceeding, but if it should became popular
it will add largely to the duties Of the
honorable members London Tit-Bits.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

Did Moses have horns? Certainly not,
but if you have ever had the pleasure of
examining q copy of Michael Angeles
great picture Of 1.-The Lawgiver" you
have wondered why the great painter
surmounted the patriarchal face, gray
beard and becoming priestly gown with
a pair Of horns much resembling those
of a 2-year-old animal of the bovine
tribe. The reason is this: Jerome's BIZ
BILE, the Latin Vulgate, tells that when
Moses came down from the mountain
top his face was radiant" (rayed) with
the great light shining from his pure
soul. In the Greek Septuagint the trans
lation said it was "~cornua," meaning
radiant" Jerome used this later YER
sion in making his Latin Vulgate and
translated ''cornua" as ''cornuta," the
last meaning horned. Angelo made
his picture Observation-Disclosures
Press.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
They Burned tho Vampire.

To most people the word vampire"
only brings up visions of noxious South
American swamps, whose banks TEEN
with venoinous creatures, legless and
otherwise, nightly visited by myriads of
large, leathery winged bats, which are
reputed to have an Unsuitable taste for
human blood. To the ancients it meant
something far different. There was a
time when all Europe believed the YAM
pire to be a blood sucking ghost of a de-
funct human being. The most celebrat-
ed of these blood chilling vampire stories
is that of Arnold Paul. During life he
had resided near Madnerga, Hungary.
Within 80 days after his burial four per-
sons near the place of interment had
died, each with the marks Of a vampire
(small blush missions in the throat.
Another person had been awakened in
the night and recognizing Paul's ghost
in the room cried, "Avaunt, vampire!
in Jesus name!' whereupon the appari-
ton instantly vanished.
When this story was told, the town
projects held a meeting and determined
to open Paul's grave. This vas accord
ingly done. There was blood On the lips
Of the corpse, also upon his hands. The
ambassador Of Louis XIV, who was pres
ent at the disinterment, declared the
proof positive, and Arnold Paul's re-
mains were hoisted to the surface, burned
to ashes, and the ashes scattered to the
four winds. 1t is needless to add that
Paul's vampire ceased to vex the good
people of Madnerga.-St. Louis Repub-
lie.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

A good story is told about a gentle
man who lives in Brooklyn and crosses
at Fulton ferry nearly every day. He is
much prosecuted by the bore who al
ways accosts you on a ferryboat i'll mid
stream with the stereotyped question,
"Ah! are you going across:'
The other day one of these demons
hooked on to the Brooklyn man as usual
and said: Hello, old man! Going to
York;"
mo, sir" he replied promptly. 81
am going to hit you Oh the nose"
And he did amid the cheers of the
crowd.-Texas Siftings.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
La Buses Portrait.

A photograph of Eleanora Duse now
on exhibition attracts constant atten-
ton. The picture is far removed both
in expression and costume from the or
binary actress. The hair, guiltless Of
curl or bang, looks decidedly "tousled,"
a straight, disheveled lock straying
across the forehead. The face is neither
young nor beautiful and is ineffably
sad. The dark, melancholy eyes look
YEARLY away from the beholder. Nine.
Duse wears IA high black gown without
ornament. Philadelphia Press.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
BEAUx YEUx.

Once Cupid was weeping In pain n dismay
And railing ut cheating and theft,
For he'd lost both his bow and his arrows at
play
And all Of u culver was left.
"What arms have | now" cried the child in
despair,
"To kindle the heart into flame?
My power is vanished! Oh, ill shall l fare
In lands that are loveless and tame"
At the thought of this bitterest cup he must
sup
His tears into ~rivulets ran,
But they suddenly stopped, and a laugh bub-
bled up
To his lips. for he thought of a plan:
'How foolish, how foolish. this sorrow to
show,
To fill ali the air with my siehsl
For what is the need of my arrow and bow
When l can use Nellie's gray eyes?"
Stevens in Kate Fields Washington.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

A Washington yOungster has succeed
ed in adding to the already numerous
phrases that are used to emphasize an
impression of slowness. He was waiting
for his sister to finish something on
which she was engaged. After a time
his patience was exhausted, and he ex-
claimed:
Wont you please hurry up? You
are slower than q snail with the rheuma-
tism. "-Washington Star.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

A singular custom obtains to this day
in some of the towns on the Lower Rhine
namely, that of selling maidens at
public auctions. For nearly four CEN
turtles, on Easter Monday-auction day
the town crier or clerk Of st. Goar has
called all the young people together, and
to the highest bidder sold the privilege
of dancing with the chosen girl, and her
only. during the entire year. The fees
arc put into the public poorbox Lon
dcn Tit-Bits.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
She Liked the Old Kind Best.

1t was down in a Chautauqua village
that a gay young soldier had his sweet
heart. Such a beauty she was too!
1t happened once that he sent her down
from Buffalo a pot of cold cream to keep
her checks as fresh as the budding rose.
When he came down to visit her again,
he asked how she liked his little gift.
"The taste was very nice" she said,
with rather a sickly smile, "but | think
| like the other kind of cream best
Ouips.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
A Consider.tc Man.

Mr.. Chumly-I hear you are going to
marry a rici. widow. Is there any truth
in the rumUr?
Mr.. Fewscads-Yes; am doing it out
of consideration for my creditors.
haven't the heart IN see them suffer-
Texas Siftings.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
Sticks Closer Than "a Brother.

Bob Clamwhoopcr-About a week ago
you sold me a porous plaster to get rid
of a pain in my chest,
Druggist-Yes, | remember it very
well. What can do for you now?
Clamwhooper-Now | want something
to get rid of the porous pl2ster.-Texas
Siftings.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
An Appropriate Emblem.

An Irish laborer, a great ~favorite with
his fellow workmen, was honored at his
funeral by their Offering of an enormous
floral anchor. The widow had never
seen the like, but mother wit helped her
to its name-she thanked the givers
warmly for "Patsy's pick."-Exchange.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

Confirmed bachelors will do well to
read DR.. Benjamin Rush's definition of
life without a wife, written not long be-
fore his death. "Celibacy," he said, lis
a pleasant breakfast, a tolerable dinner.
but a very bad supper"
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30
Three Welcome SkIps.

Three steamships arrived at Montreal
within two or three hours Of each other
on Thursday. One was loaded with gin,
n with lemons, and one with sugar.
and Montreal is content. Exchange.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

There is a fire in a tenement. The ex-
cited crowd throw the crockery and
glassware out of the window from the
fourth story; the mattresses are brought
down to the ground floor in their arms.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

The most curious book in the world
was neither written nor printed. The
letters in its pages were cut from blue
tissue paper, which was afterward past
ed on cardboard.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

Correspondence holds a double power,
inasmuch as the pen that c&n comfort
and cheer and elevate IN, uecome the
weapon that wounds and doltroys.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

In the case of money finding is having
in law, but money is the only personal
property the tide OF which ...o. es va
the possession.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-05

ion and gallery at the top. observatories
or galleries at suitable intervals apart,
and q spiral roadway around the outside
of the terrace. The tower has founda-
ton of masonry, and the terrace, the
cross section Of which is traperoid. a
spiral rosdway projecting from the bot
tom Of the terrace, and a railway TRACK
within the terrace.
The framework Of this spiral tower is
made in sections, each Of which has
braces at its ends and sides and is pro
vided with one or more diagonal braces
extending nom the angle at the upper
end Of one end piece to the diagonaAy op-
posite lower angle u the opposite end
piece. Thetower has foundation fran.
ing L shaped and inclined, and made NJ
Of frame sections brsced st their end:
and sides, sach having one or more dag
onAl braces and spiral framing con
rectsd to the foundation framing made
up q hike ssosScnS