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American ohrxsanthsmnms.

The foreign horticultural papers speak
with some admiration of the American
chrysanthemums which were shown at the
autumn exhibitions in Great Britain. In
the term American, however, they not only
include seedlings raised in this country, but
importations which have reached Europe
by way of America.
One writer, speaking of the competition
between the chrysanthemums raised in
France and those raised in America, states
that the best of the new introductions
have come from this side of the Atlantic,
and, with the exception of the new flowers
sent out by M. Ernest Calvat, the gen.
uine novelties of American growers far
surpass those of all other French growers
put together Garden and Forest.
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solomon Might Have Hesltated.

Solomon had to sit in Judgment in
many difficult cases, but wise as he was
even he might have hesitated before de-
Gliding the simple case in which lat
ter day justice pronounced a Judgment.
A woman was summoned to answer q
charge of Withholding pitchfork
which had been lent to her by neigh
boring gardener. She straightway de-
clared that the fork had been the prop
erty of her late husband, and in proof
thereof showed the justice her hus-
bands initials, ''M. W., cut in the
handle. The complainant demurred, and
turning the fork the other way asserted
that the initials '.W M" were his
The justice was in quandary and con-
fessed his inability to determine which
way the fork was to be held i'll reading
the letters, but the woman ruined her
case by interposing, unaskcd, that, al
though she knew the implement had
been her husbands properly, she
wouldn't want to swear to it.
Anyway, she added, my husband
died. He had a fork, and he didn't take
it with him. If that isn't it, where is
it?''
In the absence of better proof, judg-
ment was given for the plaintiff. New
York Herald
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Chinese Advance.

Vast and populous as China, is the expe-
rience OF the present century shows that
she is weak for aggressive purposes. She
has not the hold on territory adjacent to
her borders which she could claim hun
dred years ago. European nations are
pressing ON her, both on the south and on
the north. She has been forced to cede a
portion of her territory to England, and
she has been compelled to avail herself OF
the help of Englishmen, both for civil ad-
ministration and for military command.
All these things show that an expansion
of the Chinese race does not necessarily in
volve an extension of Chinese dominion.
On the contrary, they tend to prove that 1t
Is the order introduced by European admin.
istration which leads to the multiplication
Of these industrious people, and there Ia
therefore at least as much ground for say
ing that, though Borneo. Sumatra and New
Guinea and the great islands Of the eastern
archipelago may be ultimately peopled by
yellow races, they will be governed by the
white races as for believing that new
Chinese empire is in process of formation.
A Chinese India may, in other words, be
developed in these great and fertile islands.
Edinburgh Review.
A fool is man who lives In a house with
all tina doors and windows shnt
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A Big Cypress Tree.

We started at $3.50 O'Clock, determin
ing to take ON our way the big cypress
of lula, which is SO large that it is
worthy to be ranked above the big trees
of California. We found it in the in
closure of the parish church. There is
no doubt that the latter was built in
that place because of the tree, for which
the Indians feel great veneration. 1t is
precisely of the same kind as the trees
of Chapultepec, but the largest there is
only 40 feet in circumference, while this
one is, by recent measurement, 152 feet
4 inches. There is another difference,
and a very marked one, and this is the
tendency to fiattening of the lower
and larger branches and of the peculiar
buttresses which the trunk throws out.
In the latter they are almost as fiat as
boards, and III the branches the fiatness
is that of q wedge. The contrast be-
tween these and the upper ones, which
are rounded, is very striking. The
trunk is not like an ordinary one, but
resembles buttressed wall, so that the
two diameters vary enormously The
height must be less than 200 feet, max
ing the appearance in a photograph al
most dwarfish. The spread of the
branches from north to south is gigan-
tic, and the effect of light and shade is
enhancing to the artist. There are col
onies of lizards and of various birds in
the different departments of the trunk
and branches, and upon the green dome
of the top were a group of buzzards that
croaked without intermission during our
whole stay. Francisco Chronicle.
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Night Air.

"It always anusos me, (" remarked
DR.. T. L. Goodwin of Chicago, when
/ hear people say that they are afraid
to have their bedroom windows open at
night, owing to the night air. What
other kind of air can we breathe at
night but night air? The choice is be-
tween pure air from without and foul
air from within. 1t has been proved
that a large number of the diseases we
suffer from are occasioned by people
sleeping with their windows shut. An
open window most nights in the year
can never hurt any one. In large cities
the night air is the best and purest to
be had in any of the "a hours, and it
would be great deal healthier to keep
the windows closed during the day than
at night. The absence of smoke, etc.,
tends to make the night the best time
for airing the rooms. +"
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Coal mines were begun in Pennsylvania
In 1854.
Uncle Sam pays about 500 minute In
interest on the national debt.
Naturalists assert that a healthy swal-
low devours 5000 flies every day.
Britons use most salt-40 pounds apiece
every year. The Americans use 80.
Copper is believed to be the metal earli-
est known to man and first used in the
arts.
Anew York cigar dealer refers to cous
In who runs restaurant in Hartford as a
ssConnecticut filler"
Moscow is said to have /, 700 big bells, ~
the smallest of which weighs 5000 pounds
and the largest 443, TIA.
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The EAGLES EYE.
why 1t Can See Both N arby or Distant OBJ
jects Equally Wen.

jects Equally Wen.
All birds of prey have a popularity
of eye structure that enables them to
see near or distant objects equally well
An eagle will ascend more than mile
in perpendicular height, and from that
elevation can perceive its unsuspecting
prey and pounce upon it with unerring
certainty. Yet the same bird can scruti
nize with almost microscopic nicely an
object close at hand, thus possessing a
power of accommodating its sight to
distance in a manner to which the hu-
man eye is untitled, and of which it is
totally incapable.
In looking at printed page we find
| that there is some particular distance,
probably 10 inches, at which we can
read the words and see each letter with
| perfect distinctness, but if the page be
moved to a distance of 40 inches or
brought within distance of five inches
we find it impossible to read it at all.
A scientific man would therefore call 10
inches the focus or focal distance Of
our eyes. This focus cannot be altered
except by the aid of spsctacles
But an eagle has the power Of alter
ing the focus of its eye just as it pleases.
! 1t has only to look at an object at the
distance of two feet or of two miles in
order to see it with perfect distinctness.
OF course the eagle knows nothing of
the wonderful continuance that the
Creator has supplied for its accommo-
dation. 1t employs it instinctively and
because it cannot help it. The ball of
the eye is surrounded by 10 little plates
called sclerotic bones. They form a
complete ring, and their edges slightly
overlap each other. When it looks at
distant object, this little circle of
bones expands, and the ball of the eye,
being relieved from the pressure, be-
comes fatter When it looks at very
near object the little bones press to-
gether, and the ball of the eye is thus
squeezed into rounder or more convex
form.
The effect is very familiar to every
one A person with very round eyes is
near sighted, and person with flat
eyes, as in old age, can see nothing ex-
cept at distance. The eagle, by the
mere will, can make its eyes round or
fiat and see with equal clearness at any
distance. philadelphia Times.
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Mis. nu.selrs ronanes. ror Poker.

am informed that one reason of the
little rift within the Perugini Lutte con-
sisted in Miss Russell's prediction for
poker. This is a science to which the
golden diva has devoted much study.
She likes game of poker and plays it
ON the strict rules laid down by Gen.
eral Schenck. Her parties for this di-
version are usually composed of four OF
five people, each of whom is million
aire. But Miss Russell's income aver.
ages $50, 900, and she can afford to play
The limit is high and the betting lively.
Signor Perugini, whose salary is only
$3.50 week, could not sit down at such
game without risking his entire week Is
earnings. Consequently he was ruled
out and had to solace himself with SEN
timental arias up stairs while his wife
was winning or losing fortune down
stairs. This isolation brought dis
quietude to his thoughts, and next morn
ing he was perhaps not SO cheerful a
companion as diva would wish at the
breakfast table New York Press.
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AN UNSUCCESSFUL wooINe.
A Pretty Girls Request That Crushed He
Enchanted Admirer.


Pretty Girls Request That Crushed Her
Enchanted Admirer.
The drummer was leaning up against
the hotel counter talking to the clerk.
'eYou look worried about something,
said the clerk.
"I am, responded the drummer
promptly. II saw the prettiest girl ON
the train today have seen in dozen
years of travel "
''That oughtn't to worry you. "
'sPretty women have worried better
men than 1 am, +" yentured the drum
mer.
"Who was she?''
''Blamed if know.
Didn't get acquainted with her?''
ssOf course not. You must think /
get acquainted with every woman /
see. -
tYou do, don't you?'
mo, l don't, nor do any Of us.
That's vile SANDER ON the profession.
Ibid you try tor asked the clerk,
with smile of doubt
''No 1 didn' "
''Then what's worrying your"
'The wayashe treated me. F"
''What did she do?'
The drummer fired his half smoked
cigar at the cuspidor viciously.
"Well," he explained, latter had
been gazing at her for all hour or SO,
thought I'd try her with newspaper.
She declined it with thanks and beau
tiful smile. Then l tried her with a
new novel, with the same result. Then
sent over some nice fresh fruit, and it
came back Then / wanted to fix the
window for her, and again the thanks
and the declination. That lovely smile
is what broke me up" sighed the drum
mer, land was sure if / had half
chance would get acquainted. About
10 minutes after l had made the last Of
fer the train stopped at station. and
she nodded for me to come over. By
George, I was sure had made 10
strike, and fairly flew to her.
will you do me favor?' she asked,
with that same enchanting smile, as If
/ wouldn't have done her a million,
and the drummer sighed again.
Certainly, with the greatest pleas
ure, said l.
"'Well, says she, suppose you get
off at this station and take the train for
Detroit that comes along this evening.
You make me dead tired where you
are. -
The clerks eyes filled with tears, and
the drummer went out and stood in the
door gloomily .-Detroit Free Press.
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King of Beleium.s Bodyruard.

Under the Belgian constitution the
king valet is responsible to parliament
for the safety of the royal person. AT
night, therefore, when the Belgian mon
arch has retired to his sale a cou-
cher, the valet turns the key upon him
and locks himself in the antechamber,
where he himself sleeps, by turning the
key also of the outer door. If, therefore,
a miscreant had any designs upon the
person of the king, he would first of all
have to force the door of the antecham
Der, overcome the armed resistance of
the valet and then unlock the door of
the royal chamber. London Tit Bits.
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What You shoot In China.

A naval officer once told the writer
that pheasant shooting in China was
very fair and would be really good il
there were not SO many obstacles about
to enjoying it comfortably. He said that
the people were so numerous that if you
let a gun go off almost anywhere in Chi
ma you were pretty sure to hit a China
man. They seemed easy, however. ). to
deal with, a small present as damages
sending them away in acontented state
of mind, and indeed this naval authority
did say that they would sometimes try
to get in the shooters way on purpose te
get these damages. -Macmillan's Maya
zine.
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ODDS AND ENDS.

There are said to be large tracts Of
country in Cuba still unexplored.
A go pound boy hauled in so pound
catfish at Winfield, Kan, few days
ago.
There are 10, III. 200 acres of unin-
closed mountain and heather land in
Great Britain.
Under anew New York law you must
be a citizen to get employment on pub
ho work done by contract.
A spaniel owned by DIR. Frederick A.
Lyons of New York city has adopted a
chicken which it cares for necessarily
Corneille died in the most bitter pow
srty, unrelieved by many whom during
his day of prosperity he had benefited.
There is an old French couple in New
York neither of whom, after residence
of 40 years in America, can speak Eng
lish.
The United States has 800 lights upon
its coasts. Thirty of them are displayed
from hghtships; the others shine from
lighthouses.
There are $50 mountains in the Unit
ed States, which have height exceeding
$1,000 feet. The greatest number are
in Colorado and Utah.
The New York board of health boasts
that it has vaccinated $50, 900 persons
this year SO far. The Brooklyn board
boasts of 400, 900 since February.
The Chicago police raided prize
fight one day recently and arrested the
combatants, two 10-year-old lads, and
their fathers, who were the seconds.
A tablet has just been completed on
the front of 80 Castle street, Edinburgh,
bearing the following words, ''In this
house Sir Walter Scott lived from 1893
to 1896
Paris has society of novelists called
Les Romanciers Francois, which has
now 100 members. No one can be adj
mitted until he has published at least
four novels.
Que thousand and sixty persons were
killed in coal mines in Great Britain
during last year and 60 persons in met
dl1lI6TOuS IuluSS, DObH uuIlD6IS U6luk
above the yearly average.
A beggar, who for many years had
subsisted on charity died few days
ago in Auxerre, France. In q trunk he
left bonds TO the value of 1000, 900
francs, and in his cellar were found
bottles of wine of the vintage of 1900.
Vienna has l, 1871, 900 population and
8,741 police; arrests last year, "a, 988.
The linguistic knowledge Of the Vienna
police force comprises English, French,
Italian, Spanish, Bohemian, Polish,
Russian, Croatian, Servian, Hungarian,
Roumanian and Hebrew.
The Spanish government reserved to
the mother country the exclusive right
of trade with all Spanish colonists.
The interests of the natives and of the
colonists were all sacrificed to those of
Spain and the Spanish people, and Span
ish colonies never fourished as did those
Of some other countries.
When Mr.. Gladstone first became
premier, gentleman called ON his old
tutor, Rev. Mr.. Rawson Of Seaforth,
Liverpool, to congratulate him on the
high position gained by his pupil. The
old gentleman replied: 81 had two let
tiers this morning from old pupils-one
prime minister, the other gatekeeper of
workhouse. Such is hfeP'
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ODDS AND ENDS.

England pays $3.50 for box of California
oranges.
The largest mammoth tusk yet discover
ed was 10 feet.
Nearly 1000 children are born yearly In
London warehouses.
The lungs of the average man contain
about 1--WE quarts of air.
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Cemeteries do not always excite sad
thoughts. Occasional y one reads on a
white headstone the cue for smile. Not
far from this city "A well known merchant
has lot in which, side by side, rest two
wives. On one headstone there is touch
ing lamentation, my beloved Lily" and
on the other, My cherished Violet" And
what passionate adjective will precede his
present wife's name. for he is now living
happily with number threes 1t is the flu
ture that often brings embarrassment
Boston Journal
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"No, Herbert" she said in low tone;
"it is impossible l fear to trust my fu-
ture with you"
sand whys"
81 have watched your conduct closely.
1t lacks the mark of such devotion as my
soul Graves
do not come to see you four nights in
the week."
Eyes. But have detected a calculating
selfshness in your nature, which fear u
What do you mean?'
"You have never yet failed to leave In
time to catch the last car"
But that's only common sense"
II know it is, Herben, and therefore IL
is not love. '-Washington Star.
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George" she said in low voice,
''would you make a great sacrifice for my
happinessr
Certainly" he replied.
Would you quit smoking for my sakei"
"Quit smoking for your sakel' he re-
peated. Then, after silence, he exclaimed
hoarsely; Il can refuse you nothing. 1
will quit smoking for your sake. Here
after when smoke il shall be exclusively
for my own sake "---Detroit Free Press
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The increase in the number of suicides
In Austria, which is stated to have been
very marked in the sixties and seventies
fell off in the 10 years 10000. Sine,
the latter date, however, it has agair
become noticeable. In 1891 the number
of suicides was S72, in the following
year it was 908, and last year it reached
l.O06. --London Times
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He Was Up.

Travelling in second class carriage, "A
gentleman had q small misunderstanding
with a lady in reference to the opening of
a window. ''You don't appear to know
the difference between second and third
GLASS, - the lady said cuttingly.
tOh, madam, - he replied Il am an old
railway traveller. l know all the class dis
tinctions. In the first class the passengers
behave rudely to the guard. In the third
the guards behave rudely to the passen-
gers; In the second''-with a bow to his
fellow passenger the passengers behave
Rudely to each other. Tit Bits.
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Disclosed.

1t was perfect day. The sun beat hot
ly down upon the world, and a tree toad
sang from his lofty perch
His--the hero's and not the SUMS or the
tree ad's-face was ivid.
"Ahai'' he Missed
There was something in his manner
of the girl.
you show yoar hand" he exclaimed.
She was rigid with terror now.
"Heavensl' she gasped. II forgot that
rip in the finger seam. "-Detroit Tribune.
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rhir.y-nIns million Pounds of Gold Fac

An experimental boring $500 feet deep
was recently made in the Witwatersrand
goldfield with view TO testing the lie OF
the auriferious deposits. The result was
Of the most satisfactory character, and the
strike" has led to calculations of the hid
den ealth of these fields, and possibly the
following by Mr.. Scott Alexander may be
interesting Ms showing the rich possibilities
of the future: Circumference of basin, 400
miles; diameter, l27 miles; area, 1850
square milt', or $50, no, 272, 900 square feet.
Taking average thickness of eight series of
blanket beds at feet equal to 4S feet,
equals l6 1884, 093. 056,0 600 cubic feet of reef
or, at 10 cubic feet to the ton, 0,52l, 49,
100, 900 tons. At 80 shillings per ton very
low, value of gold equal to 81 .57S, l96, 224,-
DOO Taking the population of Witwaters-
rand at 10000 souls, this allows each ESQ.,
%, 9O5 lbs. 6d,-South Africa.
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AMathsmatioai wonder.

Rube Field, the Warrensburg pa
mathematical wonder, is an imbeoile
and does not know one figure from an
other His pastime is to give off handed
answers to problems like this: what
will 1908 yards of calico amount to at
90 cents per yard, with discount of
8 and az per cent" 1t takes but a mo-
ment for him to answer such questions
and the reply is said to be invariably
r,nrraot
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norsanower ana sneea.

Horsepower does not always mean
speed, for the City of Rome-very little
smaller than the Teutonic-is of 1900
horsepower, against the Teutonic's 49,
600. while the Paris, which is only 500
feet long, as against the Great Eastern's
$50 feet. is of over 90, 900 horsepower.
Such comparisons show the wonderful
development in late years of ship and
engine building. Marine Journal.
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uses FOR ! DE-. nartlesn,..

RattlesnalSes are OF value to the noun
balm doctors of Pennsylvania for several
reasons. Thee oil obtained by draining
the reptile after skinning is used to cure
deafness. The rattle suspended from
string and worn by baby will have the
power of preventing the wearer from
having commissions during deatition.
The tongue of the snake when worn in
the glove will have the power of COM
polling any girl who grasps the gloved
hand to love tie one so greet i. even
should she primarily l,s in,lifl afent to
his attentions. Science.
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A Mistaken Idea.

She was reading over the column of
marriage notices.
at can't be true" she said, "that mar
rage is lottery"
"And why not? asked the young man
with her.
because there is law against adyer-
Using lotteries, and look at this" she re-
piled, handing the paper to him.-De-
troit Free Press.
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"Mary Jane" said the Dakota farmer
to his spouse, lit seems like fiyin in the
face of Providence to name the boy
Elijah. 1t sounds too much like the old
Teller in the Bible that was carried away
by cyclone. / don't think it's proper
name at all fer this country Indianap-
oils Journal.
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A pbilantbrop,st,.
"what is the subject of your lecturer

"What is the subject of your Lecturers
inquired the editor.
"'The Cause of Hard Times and How
to Cure Them" replied the gifted or
ator, 'and us the object of the lecturs
is In its very nature purely philan'
thropio will ask you to be generous in
the matter of free notices. By the way, 81
he added hurriedly, ST forgot to fill Q
blank In this advertisement. will at
tend to it now"
And he took the copy and filed the
blank after the words, "Price of admis
sion." by inserting the simple charao
ters, ''$1. Chicago Tribune.
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swallowed Her Dead Husbapa.

The only case on record of discon-
solate widow swallowing the remains
Of her dead husband is that of Arte-
mesia drinking glass of wine in which
the ashes of Mausolus had been stirred
for that purpose. The parties to this re-
markable transaction were brother and
lister and also husband and wife. Mau-
solus was king of Caria and reigned
about 800 years before Christ. After
bis death his remains were burned and
the ashes disposed of as related. st.
Louis Republic