Evening journal., 1901-08-06

India has hundreds of dialects. which
may ali be classed under three great
heads-the Sanscrit. Pracrit, and Ma
p gadhi The Sanscrit is the funda-
mental language and that of the We
das; the Pracrit, the vernacular Ian
lguage in many dialects; and the Ma.
gadhi or Misra is that Of Ceylon and
the islands.
It happened that he had never been
on board a boat, but he had an aching
longing to ride the bounding pillows
He sailed on board whaler, and was
LEANING over the stern rail, making
minute examination of the Atlantic
ocean. when the captain shouted:
"Heave up that anchor!"
The landlubber just then saw some
Thing interesting in the depths.
fHey, therel Are you going to heave
UP that anchor?' angrily demanded
the captain
II think / am, sir" replied the new
one. clutching his vest convulsively; Il
think it's comm up now, sir"
If the average man gave as much at
tention to having his domestic affairs
in proper shape as he does to having
his pipes draw we'll, marriage would
be quoted higher than Standard Oil
The earliest wheat grew on the
plateau of Armenia, where the plant
once existed as a native grass.
She-I suppose / do look older, but
nevertheless I've seen only twenty
Summers.
He-Poor girl! And couldn't the ocu-
list do anything for you?"
Warm weather doesn't bother the
woman very much who knows she has
a pair of pretty shoulders to show
through an Open-work waist.
On a big White Star liner, say the
Oceanic. the meat carried in the cold
storage chamber for the voyage of six
days is $4,000 pounds, to say nothing
of 1,SOO head Of poultry.
Graphite suitable for making lead
pencils is found in almost every coun-
try on the globe.
I'VE must have had a terrific storm"
remarked the visitor, gazing out in the
early hours. 81 can see hailstones in
front of every house on the avenue"
Those are not hailstones,' respond
ed the Chicago cousin; those are
lumps of ice left by the trust"
J., ! Pasteboard armor is likely to come
into military fashion. It is. if thick
enough. almost impenetrable to car.
bine bullets. which can pierce fve-inch
wooden planks. Recent experiments
prove this.
y The English are now having trouble
about their horses for the army in
lSOuth Africa. First 1t was the mules.
which lost Nicholsons Mex Then it
was the asses. with high titles, who
lost various battles. Now it is the
horses.
Angry Patron-Iook here This
lsteak is so tough that I haven't been
able to bite it yet, and I want a re-
bate for it,
| Head Waiter-Very sorry. sir, but
do not think we can give you a rebate.
i You might try a rebite. however"
There are mighty few people who
don't dip a kind word in gall before
they utter it.
A woman will forgive man for
abusing her but she will hate him
s with undying hatred for not noticing
e her.
Several pairs Of pigeons which a
scientist has observed in Paris have
! raised their young in nests made en-
. tirely of hairpins collected on the paths
of the Luxembourg.
e Statistics show that OF the popula-
3 ton of Paris only 26 per cent, are ma.
j. ltives. whereas the figures for the Other
r capitals of Europe are as follows: st
n Petersburg, 40 per cent; Berlin, Al PEI
e cent: Vienna, As per cent, and Lon
don, 65 per cent.
= Mrs. Horse-A lot OF us girls hav'
u started an audubon club.
nj Mr. Horse-Whats that?
irl Mrs. Horse-Why. we are not goin
Of to wear birds or wings on our hats.
Of A Kansas school board received Oh
re Following letter the other day from on
he OF the teachers: II would like to hay
n the refusal of the school as long a
he you are willing TO hold it for m
is though / can't say positively that
is will not teach. nor positively that
lis viii. If ] am married, as / think
will he. of course | will not want q
W school. But you know the old stol
ng about many a slip, and I would hate
ay be out OF a job as we'll as the other
he The South includes one-fOurth
lis the total area and one-third of Il
he population of the United States. /
IS cotton and cottonseed alone gave Il Z
income last year OF S545,000, o.
re, the largest value Of any single err
tn in the world. It's corn and its lumb
lte product brought It the snug sum
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