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English Ncccnts.

Tho great French actor Fcrvre has an
ambition or q dream that somo day the
stage of every country viii speak the
language CT ms country with y perfect
accent and I'll academic unity. 1T is
that very ching, the variety Of accents,
that makes English so pu2zling to- for
eigner. Go into any Of tho first class
comedy theaters il London. An actor
enters. He speaks one English. Another
walks on the stage. He speaks y second
species. A third and 4 fourth have 8
third and a fourth variety. 1t is just as
though, at the Coincide Franchise, ono
role were to be played by a Marsaillais,
another by a Bmdelais, q third by 4
Breton, each with his individual accent.
A stranger would find il difficult K oppose
himself, to take his bearings. On one
Of my visits to London | was talk
ing with the Prince of Wales. BY
the way, Febvre. said he suddenly,
how do you get along with English
All, monseigneur,' | replied, the Eng
lish l learned in Paris does not pass be-
yond the Notifications and is only
spoken between Freuchmen!' "-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
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GrfCian IntCrUr:se,

1t is tao way of travellers to complain
Of tho food they arc obliged to eat ia
foreign countries. Whether it IS an
American in Europe Or a European IL
America, the result IS much the am
We like the things to which we are ac-
custoined. When Edmond About was III
Greece, he carried matters so far as to
object to eating green peaches. He was
IN tho bazaar at Athens.
Wouldn't it be possible to get some
ripe ~peaches::" he asked the vender.
Il think not" answered the Athe-
MAN.
But pray tell me Why"
Eve have no good roads. If the farm
ers should try to bring ripe fruit to mar
ket on muleback, it would arrive in the
shape of marmalade.n
But at Corfu also the peaches We're
green, and there they have good roads
and bring the fruit to town in wagons"
Ah, we'll" said the man, there is
another reason. The farmers have no
money, and they have creditors. They
can wait for fruit to get ripe"
There, says About, you have a fair
example of the state CT Grecian agricul-
ture.
A French gardener, being at Smyrna,
noticed that the Greeks lad almost 10
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PERlLS OF A MEsMERlC EYE.

They Drove a Respectable, Clean Shaved
Lawyer Into Whiskecs.
A we'll known lawyer who has always
taken considerable pride in the classic
mold Of his clean shaven face appeared
in the county court rooms recently with
a we'll developed growth of very unbe-
coming beard. Every friend that he met
wanted to know why he didn't get
shaved, and finally he corralled half a
dozen Of them in q corner and told them
the reason.
He had never learned the art of shay
ing himself and had always %patronized
II barber. Not long ago the barber
dropped into the habit of telling him
that he (the lawyer) had a mesmeric
eye. The lawyer didn't mind much what
his barber thought Of his eye SO long as
he shaved him satisfactorily. But hav
ing discovered that the lawyers eye
was mesmeric the barber went q step
further and once in awhile, after max
ing n slip with the razor, would explain
that it was because he was mesmerized,
SO that he did Hot Know what he was
aD0uG. Matters Went on tnlS way Tor Q
week or so. the barber insisting that he
was mcsmerized every time the lawyer
looked squarely at him, and the lawyer
took it for granted that the lnesmerisin
business was a dodge to excuse tho oc-
casional cuts from the razor.
A different aspect was put to the case,
however, the last time tho barber shaved
his lawyer customer. Leaning over him
after he had finished. he asked if the
lawyer thought a man would be excusa-
BILE for cutting the throat of one who
mesmerized him. The lawyer said he
certainly wonld not be excusable and
got out of the chair as quickly as pos
sible. He learned afterward that the
barber had developed into a perfect
crank on the subject of mesperism. and
nothing will persuade him that he did
not have a very narrow escape. He will
probably so to another barber some
time, but at present his nerves are so
shaken by the occurrence that he pre-
fers to wear an unbecoming beard to
sitting down i'll any barber chair. Chit
cago Tribune.
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An Appreciative WeIshman.

London Truth has the following:
1.-THE following tasty inscription is from
a family mausoleum erected by q Welsh
landowner and magistrate i'll Merion-
etlshire. To expend turf winnings on
erecting a tomb looks, at first sight, &C.
centric, but possibly the builder was
by the reflection hat betting
has bought many to their graves:
As to ny latter end ! so
To scel. my jubilee
l bless the good horse Bendigo,
TIL E-It this tcEh fer me
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Out Of Place.

"What," asked the king in the play,
"are those Roman citizens doing over
there?"
Your majesty" rejoined the her
aid, they are believed to be forming a
plot"
"Tell them they mustn't" COM
manded tho monarch, with asperity, not
unmingled with ennui. .Admonish them
that they are throwing their time away.
Plots have no place in this kind of dra-
ma"
With which the king turned to the
audience and sang with fine effect,
Her Auburn Tresses Wouldn't Stay In
Curl. Detroit Tribune.
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was printed undoubtedly changed a few

was printed undoubtedly changed a few
descriptive words to screen the truth, it
way he from Cornelia herself. She new
er saw it, but l think he died believing
that she had.
Rcmors Of this story reached me long
ago, but 1 would rot print "a mere sur
mise and by long and devious ways
leading throng, probate Offices and town
registers, through church records end
private papers. III a varied correspond
oiee that has occupied two months.
nave ] followed tie story IS | tell it.
Springfield Republican.
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emily Said.

Really, Mr.. Sfa.ate." she per-
slst5d. you have given nnefour hoCrscf
CIR time this eveIiac."
"Why-er-Enan Fly word! So !
lave. Tho hears PASS like minutes
wi:en l am with yo..'
You We're telling mo that since
voGr promotion yoar ,imo IS valuable. !"
Yes"
We'll, papa doesn't allow me to ra-
eve expensive presents from young
nen. Washington Star.
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THE EARTH is RUNNING SLOW.
But the Scientists Need Not Alarm One
Seriously Yet.

$3.50 oiO
Seriously Yet.
Lord Kelvin estimates that the ''run-
ming slow of the earth i'll its daily ro-
tation round its axis amounts to % sec
onds per century.
The main cauSe of this retardation is
the friction caused by the tides. which
act as a brake, the action of which has
been calculated by this eminent physi-
cist to be equal to a weight of i, 900, coo
tons applied on the equator.
Other causes have also to be taken in
to account-as. for example, the increase
IN the size of the earth, due to the fall
ing on 1t of meteoric dust, which, if de-
posted at the rate of one foot in 1000
years, would produce the observed re-
tardation by itself.
Such a phenomenon as the annual
growth and melting of snow and ice at
the poles is introducing Irregularities
into the problem. the growth ut the
poles, by abstracting water from the
other parts of the ocean. acc~elerating
the earth's motion, and the melting, by
restoring the water, retarding it.
Against the retarding forces there has
to be taken into count a probable ac-
celeration, due to the gradual sinking
of the earth by cooling, but this Lord
Kelvin believes to be very small-per-
haps not more than one six thousandth
part of the retardation due to tidal fric-
tiOn.
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vegetables i'll their gardens-tomatoes
everywhere and scarcely anything else.
"Wby don't yor raise other things:"
he asked. Asparagus, now. Your soil
is just right. You would make a fine
thing OF it. I will furnish You with
seeds"
"How soon should we get crops?"
I'm four years at the longest"
-Four years. Are you crazy? Do you
suppose we would spend money to get
something back il four years? We
should be bankrupt 20 times over =
Youths Companion.
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HYPNOTIC oixG.i>G.
Inc Most disputed Incident eff "Trisby'
Supported by Fact.

Inc Most disputed IHrihent of "Triiby''
Supported by Fact.
Among tho nany items apropos of
4ll Manners ria>terTlecc I.ot the least
Interestingly Is the einse!ess Will. which
lie s;urk te tie facts. Ones first impress
sion anon r2"dins how Syengali taught
Trii,r' II sing-haW to h~ypnotized her
ard commanded her to initiate the
sounds lc made on his flexible flageolet
-was 10 ,tsEht that this at least was a
fight OF poetic ~iieensr. 1t seems, how
ever. 10 be We'll within the possibilities.
* case which IL al essentials covers
it WIS reported rs long $50 as 1850 by
Jan.rs Braid, the inst Of tie successors
q Mcsalcr to approach the hypnotic
sleep frCn the slie Of science rather
tban Ct cl.ariatanisln. After speaking of
the heightened sense cf hearing under
mes:EcTi@m and Of the increase of niGs-
cuiar precision, they make. he says.
'feats Of phonjc imitation possible
which are truly astonishing.
Many patients will thus repeat ac-
caratcly what is spoken in any language,
and they may be also able to sing cor
rectly and simultaneously both words
"sa Masic of songs III any language
which they had never heard before
i. e., they catch tho words as well as
music SO simultaneously as to accom-
pany tho other singer rs if both had been
previously equally familiar with both
words and music.
In this manner "a patient Of mine
who, when awake. knew not tho
grammar of even her own language,
aud who had very littlc knowledge of
music, was enabled to follow Mile.
Jenny Lind correctly in songs III differ
ent languages, giving both words and
music SO correctly and SO simultaneous
y with Jenny Lind that two parties III
the room could not for some time I'M
aglne that there were two voices, so
perfectly did they accord, both in music
al tone aud vocal pronunciation Of
Swiss, German and Italian songs. She
was equally successful i'll accompanying
Mile. Lind Ill Il e Of her extemporane-
GUS effusions, which was long and ex-
trcmely difficult, All elaborate chromatic
exercise, which the celebrated canta-
tlice tried 10y way of taxing the powers
CT the sonnambulist to the utmost.
When awake, the girl burst not ever
attempt to do anything Of the sort, and,
after all, wonderful: as it was. it was
only phon'c imitation, for she did not
understand tho meaning Of a single
word Of the foreign language which she
utfcrc1 81 pnrractly
This is exactly Trilby's case, only
mere SO, except that there is nothing to
Indicate in the report that the patient
remembered Jenny Lind's songs and
could reproduce them, but the formEi-
ton Of Il trance state memory is a suf-
1icientiy frequent phenomenon. The
c9otation is from Braid's "~Observaticns
Gu Trance page 43.-New York Post.
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0hibo0uuf 5rntiuel.
A e,nrKtE.

Said a saucy little Maple
To her cousin, Willow Tree:
"Miss Fir has no new mantle
This spring, Ike you and lee.
"She wears the same Ole garment
That shes worn kinee WAS porn.
I.shcula think she'd feel 81 sEaLty
With no new III ag..
AS she tossed her heaG ard not,LoG
At the Fir Trees eia stylc clothes
Willow lav.ghnG-sA, coca1n't holp it
AT tho tUrlea IP, lea green nose
The Fir Tree. staid sna n4ofcst.
Answered Gapie reg a word,
Though IN very srle-.ses. certain
Everything Vas o~vtra.afG-
sir cniy softly rrr-@@fua
NJ >ac rtalya1 tltltt@thee,
~ II .i;o my fri.aG~ ct have lee
With every Mia tL:ft iiss,>.
-. +. Clilwtn & CHRISTINA Eat.on.
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A fortnight after Easter the English
formerly observed festival called Hook
tide. It was customary for the women
to go out into the streets with cords ard
bind the mel Whom they met until the
latter purchased their release with small
contributions Of money.
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Professor Newcomb has declared from
astronomical considerations that the
earth went slow and lost seven seconds
between 1850 and 1862, and then went
fast and gained eight seconds between
1862 and 1872. changes Of rate explica-
BILE by possible changes in tho eartb's
shape. SO slight as TO be quite undiscov-
cradle in astronomical observations
Chicago Times.
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A Realistic Dream.

Taking the other day, as a brief re-
spite from labor, a little nap at my
DESK said a man, dreamed that I
was smoking, and that I had swallow
cd a lot of smoke. l awoke coughing.
Wasn't that kind Of curious:"-New
York Sun.
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London Newscirls.

The London Weekly Telegraph, a
miscellany published i'll connection with
the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, is now
being sold in the streets of London by a
corps Of presentablo damsels, becoming
~ dressed III a uniform of dark gray,
with red facings, hood lined with the
latter color and forage cap to match.
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Spotted.

Mr, Lightweight airiiy, TO conductor)
Il wonder what that shabby old codS-
y finds so attractive in this direction.
Hes been eying ire for ten minutes.
Conductor tthoughtfully)-I guess
res wondering how you happen to be
travelling oa a pass. He's the president
& tie roaG.-New York Advertiser.
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ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

The United States supreme court
gave its decision on the 10Th on the in
come tax law, declaring it unconstitu-
tional in toto. Those against it were
Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Field,
Gray. Brewer and Shiras. Those for
the law, Justices Harlan, White, Brown
and jackson. The majority declared
it direct tax because not apportioned
according to representation.
THE president has retired Adm.
Meade on his own application. and in
doing so has administered severe re-
Duke to him.
Mrs. WARRICK. farmers wife, near
Oskaloosa, Ia, gave rough on rats to
committed suicide. Two children will
die.
THE Henry McShane Manufacturing
Co., at Baltimore, Md, has voluntarily
raised the wages of its 1000 employees
10 per cent.
DISPATCHES from points in North Da-
kota indicated that the frost on the
night of the 18th was the severest in
many years Young wheat was frozen
off to the ground in many localities
One report placed the damage as high
as 20 per cent. Corn was believed to
be ruined.
INTERNAL REVENUE COMMISSIONER
MILLER has telegraphed all collectors
of internal revenue to forward at once
to his Office all income tax returns.
There has been collected about $50, 900
under the income tax law. Commits
sioner Miller, as soon as he is officially
informed of the supreme courts deci-
sion, will, no doubt. take steps to re-
fund all of the collections.
SECRETARY CARLISLE opened the dis
cussion of the question of sound money
at Covington, KY, on the Goth. The
rush to hear the speaker was tremen-
dous. An attempt was made to reserve
seats for ladies, but it was given up
when the pressure for admission by
voters was felt The beginning of the
address, which was very long, was de-
layed by street demonstration of con-
siderable magnitude.
An order of Importance to the Iron
hall claimants all over the country was
issued by Judge McMasters at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the goth. Upon the APP
plication of Receiver Failey the court
that June 10 be fixed as the
final date. on which all branches of the
order must complete their accountings
with the receiver at Indianapolis and
all claims for allowance must be fled
under penalty of being shut out
from all future benefits arising from
the payment of the final dividend.
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Hoods Sarsaparilla
Is the Only
True Blood Purifier
Prominently in the Public Eye To-day.
Prominently in the Public Eye To-day.
An African Dance.

The dances consisted chiefly of rows
of men in line, holding their knobber-
ries upright in one hand, and slowly
lifting each foot alternately as high
as possible, and bringing it down fiat
on the sole with a thump that made
ones own sOles ache to see it. This
was accompanied by a mOnOtonOus
chant of some eight or ten notes re-
peated endlessly with the same words.
One of these phrases, we are told, was
to the effect that as they had no corn
that year to make beer the white man
should give it to them. Another was
in praise of the good old tines but,
to judge by the singing, these much
vaunted times must have been lugu-
brious enough to make the old COW die
on the spot. The women danced in a
group by themselves, several of them
with their babies tied on their backs,
the little things taking the joys and
shakes to which they were subjected
with absolute equanimity. Both men
and women were dressed in every vari-
ETY. of garment, from a suit of tweeds
to mere little piece of skin hanging
from the waist. Brass anklets and
bracelets were frequent, and every
native carries a snuffbox, either round
the neck or waist or stuck in his ear.
For this latter position empty cartridge
cases are in much request. They are
stuck through a slit in the lobe of the
educational Review.
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Spring Makes Me Tired

it makes pure, rich blood. 1t gives
strength to nerves and muscles because
it endows the blood with new powers
of nourishment. 1t creates an appetite,
tones and strengthens the stomach and
digestive organs, and thus builds up
the whole system and prepares 1t to
meet the change to warmer weather.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is a medicine
upon which you may depend. 1t is
the only true blood purifier prom
inently before the public eye to-day.
1t has a record of cures unequaled in
the history of medicine. 1t is the medi-
cine of which so many people write,
Hoods Sarsaparilla does all that it
is claimed to do" You can take
Hoods Sarsaparilla with the confident
expectation that it will give you pure
blood and renewed health. Take it now.
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Clippings.


The only persons satisfied with the
income tax decision are those who are
not obliged to pay. The Standard Oil
Co. asks exemption because its income
is derived from land, and some hair
splitting brewers of New York ask a
like favor because barley, which con-
stitutes essential elements of beer, is
raised on land. 1t is presumed the
stock brokers will be heard from next
because their crop of lambs have an
agricultural fiavor.-Omaha Bee.
The memoirs of ex-Empress Eugenie
are nearly finished, but will not be
published until after her death.
Elizabeth Vierebe died recently in a
German village aged 90. She had been
a servant in one household for seventy
nine years.
Mrs. Bird, the traveller, is authority
for the statement that Japan spends
twice as much upon her elementary
schools as she does upon her navy.
1t is said that California prunes
worth cents pound fetch is cents a
pound as real French importations
when sold in San Francisco.
1t is said that there are more stutter-
ing boys than girls.
Thirty thousand of New York city's
population are BARRIERS,
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COMMON MEDICINES.

TARTARIC acid was first extracted by
Scheele, in ITO.
OPIUM is the juice of the unripe cap
sules of the poppy.
BRoNISE was discovered by BALLARD,
of Montpelier, in 1926.
PHOSPHORUS was discovered in 1869
by Brandt, of Hamburg.
CHRONIC acid was first employed as a
caustic by Sigmund, of Vienna.
SULPHURIC and nitric acids were
known to Geber, the alchemist, in the
eighth century.
CREosoTE was discovered in 1880 by
Reichenbach, who extracted it from
the tar of wood.
VINEGAR is mentioned in the Egyp-
tan records as medicine in the tenth
century Il. c.
POTASSIUM, the basis of many medi-
cines, was discovered in 1907 by Sir
Humphrey Davy.
ALCOHOL was first distinguished as
an elementary substance by Albucasis,
in the twelfth century.
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THE WORLD AT LARGE
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

THE president on the 10th signed the
proclamations declaring the Yankton
Sioux reservation in South Dakota and
the Seietz reservation in Oregon open
to settlement at noon May 81. The
general land Office, it was understood,
mas already placed itself in readiness
to carry out the provisions of the proc
lamatiOns. The Yankton reserve en-
braces about 1884, acres.
THE secretary of the interior has
rendered decision in the case of eagle
against Mendenhall from the Perry,
Ok, land district. The decision of the
commissioner of the general land Of
fee is Overruled and Mendenhall's en-
try is to stand intact The secretary
holds that settlers who acted in obedi-
ence to the instructions given by the
department fOrbidding entry from the
POnca and Usage reservations should
not be deprived of their rights, and
therefore directs that the contest of
eagle, who made 1.-THE rum from the
latter reservation, be dismissed.
SECRETARY SMITH has confirmed the
decision of the Guthrie, Ok. townsite
board in awarding a corner lot with
fine brick block on it to Allen Caruth-
ers on the ground that he was the first
legal settler. The Commercial bank
erected the block, which was pur-
chased at the bank receivers sale by
]. B. Beadles, who by this decision be-
comes heavy loser, the property be-
ing valued at $50, 200.
THE president has issued a proclama-
ton opening the Kickapoo Indian res
ervation in Oklahoma to settlement at
noon on May % Gov. Renfrow, of
Oklahoma. has also given out that he
will Immediately throw open the re-
served school lands to settlement.
SECRETARY OF AGRICUL TURE MORTON,
in a letter to the National Provisioner,
says he will advocate placing beef alb
solutely on the free list if investigation
proves the existence of a combine.
The civil service commission an
nounces that an examination for store
keepers and gaugers will be held in St
Louis and Kansas City some time in
the latter part of June.
ROBERT TYLER JONES, a grandson of
President Tyler, died at Washington.
He was the son of Mary Tyler Jones,
the eldest and favorite daughter of the
president and was the only male per-
son ever born in the white house.
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\ Mothers Insane Act.

CONCORDIA, Kan, May 21.-Yesterday
morning Mrs. Hartwell, wife of DR.. F.
Hartwell, of jamestown, became sud.
denly insane and threw two of her
children-one boy of years and the
other girl of 5-into a well 60 feet
deep, and was about to throw in an
other child-a boy of years-who was
holding on to the well curb when the
father appeared. The two childr, n
were Immediately gotten out; and, al
though several bones were broken and
they were cut and bruised, it is thought
they will recover