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| Any one can distinguish a poisonou
| serpent from a harmless one, for
venomous snake invariably possesses
| riangular-shaped head and a blum
nose, while it's tail is corresponding!
blunt and stubby.
The tails of fishes are so much large
than their fins because their tails ar
their chief instruments of motion, whil'
their fins are employed more to direc
| their progress and steady their motion
| An English actor who died on thu
road was shipped in his coffin to Lon
don recently by his manager as ''the
atrical properties" This cost 81
| whereas if he had gone as corpse the
| cost would have been $50.
A German professor, in giving hi:
| experience as an explorer in the wild:
| Of Africa, says that the best protection
| against lions is an umbrella, as the
beasts are especially afraid Of one wher
opened suddenly upon them.
An eminent physician says that nc
| one should be permitted to drink tea
or coffee until he has attained the age
Of eighteen years. In the young those
beverages unduly excite the nervous
system and have an injurious effect
upon the digestive organs.
The bulldog trust which is announc-
ed may or may not be followed by a
corner in Cheshire cats, one combina-
ton being financially about as import
ant as the other, while in geological
respects honors between them are
more or less easy.-New York Trib-
une.
There's little expansionist living in
the upper section Of the city whose
father is an officer in Gen. Otis army.
She was recently taken out to dinner,
and in reply to a query as to where
her father was, replied: ''Oh, he's away
OF there" pointing to the east, fight
ing the si"-Philadelphia
North American.
Here is an advertisement that ap-
peared the other day in a Havana pa
per: "This is without doubt one OF the
factories Of first class and Of the most
universal credit, and we affirm that no
other has this credit with more mer-
care employed in the preparation and
perfect1onment Of his productions"
In order to save its charter rights
the Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) Street
Railway company had an old steam
railway baggage car dragged through
the streets of the town by horse power
on Monday last. The tracks for the
electric cars have not been laid, owing
to the fact that a location has not yet
been agreed upon.
A writer in the Lancet says that
there is undoubtedly a good deal in
the open air treatment Of consumption,
but the way it is being at present
doomed by people with ready pens but
with no medical training, is calculated
to make men who are accustomed to
look at things from a scientific stand
point rather critical"
An Iowa engineer claims to have
demonstrated that liberal use of cruue
oil on muddy roads soon transforms
them into models of cleanliness. The
effect of sprinkling oil on the ground
is to give it a hard, compact surface,
upon which water can not remain. The
result is a complete absence Of mud
in wet weather, and of dust in other
times.
1--WE are so happy!" she whispered.
Eyes, my darlingi" he answers. A sigh
flutters her gentle bosom. do you
know" she falters, "our great happi-
ness frightens me? 1t almost makes
me think the opal in my engagement
ring is pastel" In the clearest, bright
est day the air holds the material of
which at the first chill breath
gather and overcast the sun.-Detroit
Journal.
The percentage of illiteracy is higher
in the Southern states and New Mexico
and Arizona than in any other section
of the country. That is due in the for
mer to the large number of uneducated
colored people; in the latter to the
Mexican population. Nebraska is the
banner state for education. Only 3.11
per cent of the population Of over ten
years of age are unable to read and
write. Wyoming is second, with per-
of 3.41 Iowa third, 3.61, and
fourth, 3.99. Compared with
this the percentage of illiterates in
is 6.22, exactly double
hat of Nebraska. In New York state
it is 5.53 and in Connecticut a little
less, 52S. In Ohio it is 5.24, and in IL
inois 5.25. This is due chiefly to the
foreign population in the large cities
and manufacturing centers. The farm
ers Of Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa
lever fail to send their children to
.chool, while the slums of Boston, New
York, Chicago and other large cities an
tlled with Bohemians, Hungarians,
and other immigrants, who do
not value education, and can not read