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VERDI.

Verdi was a poor boy, apparently with
out any prospects in the world. He was
apprenticed to a grocer. In Italy an ap-
prentice to a grocer cannot be looked
upon as human being with magnifl-
cent start in life. Verdi took his bad
start good-naturedly. He busted the
macaroni put up in little parcels, and all
the time he sang and whistled and in
vented tunes Of his own. In Italy every
body is musical more or less. Fortu-
nately, VerdPs grocer happened to be
very musical. He encouraged Verdi and
gave him g. chance.
At first, as Verdi himself admitted. his
work was very poor. His first opera
was produced when he was twenty six
years old. He wrote fifteen operas in
succession. They were thoroughly bad.
But he also wrote 'Ernant," ''Rigo,etto. -
''Trovatore'' and LA Traviata."
Always remember, If you have a must
cal protege in your neighborhood, what
it means to write a good opera His
first two or three successes made Verdi
so rich that he decided to stop work
entirely. Late in life, when he was near
~ sixty, he consented to write Aida
as a personal favor to Tsmail Pasha. who
offered him $4,000 for the first draft OF
the opera. The royalties from this one
opera alone paid Verdi 100000. Although
he spent most of his life in pleasant idle
ness, he earned more than So, eco 0GO by
his music. He spent a million francs on
home for aged and INDECENT musicians
at Milan. Near that home, near the bic
cathedral with the thousand statues. he
will be buried and his bones will crun-
Die, but his music will live
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Do Men
Understand Them /?

not have the clue. Try to guess what
she will say next, and you will find that
you are all at sea The man who says
that he understands women Is himself a.
woman. No man can understand a wom-
an. He may love her, There may exist
between his soul and hers that fndef1n-
able and celestial sympathy which is the
sweetest thing ON earth; but he does not
understand her. Fer mental operations
her ways of thought, her point of view,
will always be as sinscrutabIe to him as
the mental processes OF an angel wheth-
er women unders tand.9each other is not
quite certain. A great part of the delight
that men find in the eompanionship of
women arises from their inserutabiIity.
You cannot measure or exhaust them
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Odd Gbtfngs

A NOVEL TRANSFER TICKET.

A NOVEL TRANSFER TICKET.
A somewhat original and amusing way
of guarding against unfair practices has
been hit upon by the street railway Off
Gals of Hagerstown, Md. They found
that transfer tickets were sometimes
transferred to a new passenger, to the
loss OF the company.
To prevent this, a pictorial transfer
ticket is now used. Near the lower right
hand corner are pictures Of four typical
male passengers boy, young man, mid
dle-aged man and old man. When the
conductor gives such a ticket to a pas
senger, he punches it at the figure that
to him appears best to represent the per-
son to whom 1t is offered. The punching
fs guide to the collector, who can at
a glance see whether picture and person
tally.
An amusing difference is seen between
the arrangements for keeping track OF
female passengers and those employed
for the male part of the travelling public.
AT the lower left-hand corner are figures
Of women, but only three-a girl, a young
woman and an old woman.
-Four were originally seen, but the use
of such ticket gave serious offense. The
conductor found 1t dangerous to look at
lady passenger, and then, passing over
the figure Of a young woman, punch the
label upon the middle-aged one The
company solved the problem by removing
one figure.
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your Ddm7e?''.
AN OHIO IDEA.

AN OHIO IDEA
A family in Cleveland. O., with the
patronymic Of Stickney is said to have
developed singular idea in naming their
children. These were not so numerous
as to cause distress in finding good names
OF ordinary signification for them. But
for some reason they We're checked by
number only. They were but three and
must travel through life with official
tags Of "One,'' Two" anu Three"
stlckney.
Several years ago a case of Importance
was tried in Detroit. Two brothers by
the name Of Stone were Interested par
ties in the case. The subject-matter
was of great interest IN itself, but the
given names Of the two brothers caused
q greater fame to spread over the trial
The men were known as Jasper and
Onyx Stone. One Of them-Ouyx, NC
cording to memory-died during the
trial. but the other Stone lived to see the
end.
Hogg, while family name Of good re-
pute, is one most men would be apt
to shrink from from deucaoy. A nan
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O0G1en :
WOMEN UNDERSTAND

AND DO WOMEN UNDERSTAND
WOMEN.
A man can very seldom tell what Is
passing in woman's mind He talks
with another man and ne can follow his
processes; he gets his point of view; he
can read between the lines; he can make
a shrewd guess as to how he came to
say that, or why he refrained from say
ing the other. But woman's mental
processes are not those Of man. Her
mental machinery is geared differently.
You hear what she tells you, and you
only know what she tells you You can
make differences from #; they will be
wrong. because you do not know how
she came to say what she did; you do
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The ladies had no visiting cards, nor
paper boxes to store away millinery In,
in fact, there was no feathered, plumed,
or ribboned bonnets in those days.
Potatoes began to be used for food in
the early years Of the century. 1t was
about the same time that forks were
introduced for use at the table, before
that only knives and spoons. Bread was
made of rye flour and eornmeaL The
kitchen was the most important room In
the average house.
Napoleon was master Of France at the
BEGINNING of the century, and although
only first consul, was exercising absolute
power, and had surrounded himself with
the observanceS of royalty. As a soldier
he had no rival and it seemed that the
Corsican lawyers son held the destinies
of Europe in his hands. Nothing Of
romance approaches the facts Of his
amazing career.
Sp ain, once the mistress of the world,
was dominated by the French at the be-
ginning of the century. During the CEN
fury the country has been the scene of
revolutions, which resulted IN republics,
but which in turn disappeared. The most
crushing blow received by Spain in a
hundred years was the loss of Cuba and
the Philippine islands, in 1898, during a.
ermany a hundred years ago was
composed of nearly three hundred in
dependent powers. There was princes
civil and prices ecclesiastical; there were
SECTORS; there were free towns; there
were some kings Of secondary import
ance; there We're also the great Austrian
, and PruSsian monarchies. Over this con-
stituency the king of Austria exercised
the authority Of emperor, representing in
shadowy way the old, Caesars, whose
dignities he was supposed to have in
herited.
Aust a had for centuries predomf-
mated IN Central Europe At the beginning
of the century she had %, 100000 people.
The Emperor Francis was on
His theory of government dis
pensed not only with nopuIar inter-
ference, but with popular criticism He
allowed no liberty of thought, speech or
press; he kept his people in abject sub
mission, believing that to be for their
good. In an address to the professors at
Layback, he said: IT want obedient sub
9ects and not men of learning"
1 a Y was broken I'D into different
states. Piedmont and Naples We're i'll =
dependent kingdoms. Venice, the oldest
H'Silo III europe, although gTteVouSly de-
cayed, still maintained her precarious ex-
1stence Austria ruled in Lombardy. The
Pope exercised paternaI sway over two
million subjects. Genoa was ruled by an
aristocracy. There were several duchies;
and some Of the free cities which sprang
up in the twelfth century now swelled
out into vigorous little states. There was
no federation. The petty monarchs could
enter into treaties to unite their toy
armies for mutual defense but fhera v,as
no organization for that purpose. italy
was practically at the mercy of any
strong invader, as Napoleon proved to be.
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<<.Ns III lJas" and <t.Bs TT n2ag BE. -
Ioo YEARS HENCE.
In the Days of Cur Grandchildren.
Complied for this paper by Moses Folsom.

The systematic mapping of the solar
sytem begun in the nineteenth century
will be brought to perfection in tie
twentieth and be so accurate and valu-
able that the researches and predic.
tons concerning the motion of the
planets will doubtless change in many
details our conceptions of the univer-
SAL Nebulae forming distant worlds.
comets wandering through Illimitable
space, variable stars and meteorie
showers. as well as eclipses, will be ac-
curately caught in their interesting
phases
The tie that will bind the American re-
publics and colonies will be the tie Of
trade, and in A. D. 1000 American COM
merce viii be beyond ordinary compre-
hension. The extent and magnitude of
our Internal trade almost exceeds human
estimate, and is one Of the most wonder
full demonstrations of human progress the
world has even seen; yet the foreign
commerce of which the United States
is capable is destined to far exceed our
present enormous inland figures, and in
that foreign commerce exists the hope
Of the future generations Of this CONT
nent.
It is possible that new cities will be
built; perhaps trust will take up city
city building as a business as individuals
now build shops, stores and hotels. To-
day millions of dollars are waiting for
those who will build a new city, COM
plete sewers, pipes, pavements, all
things finished, and empty the unclean
and rotten old into the healthful and
pleasant new. We are going to have
great cities, such as have not been.
Whereabouts the future will reveal, but
all the world is going to live in town.
Machinery Is fast emancipating man
from the fields.
Man begins his requirement of knowl-
edge with words, and he ends with words.
But an unnatural civilization has taught
him to walk the greater part Of his in
tellectual journey by means of arbitrary
systems of writing and printing. The
year A. D. 1000 may see children taught
on a natural plan of utterance. Nature
teaches by sound only. Artidciality
whites a scrawl Natures book is a
book of sounds. Mans book is book
of signs and symbols. Natures book
utters itself to the ear, and mans book
blinds the eyes and overheats the imagi-
nation. Natures method Is to teach by
the ear and to save the sight for the
discovery Of place and beauty.
The rude chunks Of bread or rolls
necessary now to be carved or sneared
over with animal grease before they
are made palatable; the still recognizable
fragments of recently killed animals,
charred and hacked, rare or well
done;" the eggs torn ruthlessly from
beneath some protesting hen-such things
as these, though they constitute the or
binary fare Of today, will awaken on'y
unhappy feelings in the refined minds Of
the people Of coming days. Instead there
will be pills, pastes and cakes of agree
able and varieSated designs, without any
suggestion in color or form of the unfcr-
tunate animals and fishes from which
their substance and juices were derived.
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COINS.

Among American coins the highest
price paid by collectors is for the silver
dollar of 1904, price s4OO to $500, according
to condition; the boss half dollar is
that Of 1876, with sixteen stars, price $40
to $27 .50-although that Of 1897 each COM
mand nearly the same premium. $40 to
SIS. The boss quarter dollars" arc those
of 1923 and 1927, each quoted at SIS to S25
The boss dime is that of 1884, quoted at
81 to Sc. The boss half dime is that
Of 1902, worth SIS to $40. The "boss
cent" the rarest of all cents, Is that of
1893, quoted at 81 to Sc, higher rate Of
premium even than that of the "boss dol
lar" The boss half cent is that Of
1886, worth s. to IS, or from one thous-
and to sixteen hundred per cent more
than its face
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ANIMALS

Mr.. Beddard in his book on whales re-
minds readers that although imagination
is apt to picture the giant reptiles of the
Jurassic and cretaceous periods as hay
ing exceeded in size all modern animals.
yet In fact there Is no evidence that the
earth has even contained either on the
land or IN the sea creatures exceeding
the whale in bulk. The mammoth was
larger than the elephant. but the ichthy-
osaurus could not match the whale for
size, although with It's terrible Jaws it
would doubtless have been the whale
master
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of their. ancestry as the We're de veres
or Fitz Montmoreneys
''Have- you ever thought of changing
your manner" asked the friend.
NO" answered the Coward in ques-
ton. There are too many thrilling as
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WOMEN WTTu BE4BDs

There is a barber in New York who
makes speciality of shaving women
He has number of regular customers.
One Of them Is wealthy Cuban woman,
who spends great deal Of TIME at the
Fifth Avenue hotel. None OF them are
young.
In speaking of his customers he said:
''They don't want depilatories They
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HsWFANW s.sesFI
~

scciations connected with 1t. %sF
I'm what way?" ..
"Well, from the time when 1 was a
little hoy until I went through college
1 had moro than fifty fights on account
of It," @
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.Boog9 TO
DO Gbings
OVER THE TEA LEAVES.

OVER The TEA LEAVES.
The tea is gone from my cup,
But my fancy romance weaves,
AS sit here idly dreaming
OF the fortune in the leaves.
Tell me, and tell me truly,
Ye little eurled-up things,
That from the land of mysteries
Such wonderous knowledge brings.
Tell me If fay OF fairy
Or guardian angel sweet,
Or witch or uncanny nature,
VIII pilot my hayward feet
Through the hazy mists of the future,
Past which my soul must stray,
Over the valleys and snoW-capped noun
tains
To the horizon of the PARKWAY.
Tell me If loves bright pinions
Will hover DER nay head,
Or sorrow gloomy phantoms
VIII darken the air instead.
Tell me If the hottest mission
OF my life shall be fulfilled,
Or II the work undone remains
When my beating heart is stilled.
And lastly 1 pray you tell me
If the jeWeled gates Of gold
VIII receive my Worn-out spirit
When the scrolls Of Time unfold.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
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OF Large Size.
Some of the Big Things of the World
PAINTING.

PAINTING.
The largest painting in the world. cx-
elusive of panoramas and cycloramas.
Is Paradise" by Tintoretto, in the
grand salon Of the Doge's palace at Ven
Ice, being eighty-four feet wide by thir-
ty-four feet high
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: THE MOSQUITO Family.

The word mosquito has no scientific i'm
port. DERIVED from the Spanish or Portu-
guese, it simply means little fly" it is
used popularity to denote a gnat which
bites, and most gnats bite when they
have chance. The word is sometimes
extended to include certain midges The
Dipterous family Culicidae, to which the
snat belongs, contains, according; to Mai
Giles, some 242 species divided among
eight genera, The great majority OF
species Some I60), however, belong to the
genus Culex; Anopheles includes thirty.
while the remainder are divided among
the other SIX genera, none of which ara
large. The collections which have re-
Gently been made at the British museum
are said to contain ten species Of Anophe-
les new, to science, so that if all Nal
Giles species are accepted we have a
total Of some forty species of the genus
which has been hopeIessly convicted of
being the medium by which the malaria
parasite is transmitted from person to
person. The mosquito has a wide range
of latitude, from the iee-bound north to
tropic sands along the equator 1t is the
most universal pest Of human and animal
life
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The Strange
Things People
Believe.
=. Sqpers61ji0aas.

13 Is that no one ever haggles over it
when the baker makes that number a.
GozeH In the sale of cakes, nor does q
buyer fear sudden death when the vender
of bananas throws in an extra one in the
dozen for good luck.
THE FIGURE 40.
The number 40 is very prominent In
Bible and church history:
l. It rafned. forty days and forty nights
In the f1ood.-Gen. vii, H.
2. Moses twice tasted for forty days
and forty nights.-Exod. XIV, 1S. etc.
8. The spies sent to Canaan were for
ty days in searching the Iand-Num.
kill, IS.
4. The Israelites wandered forty years
in the wilderness.-Ps. Kew, 10.
s. Goliath defied the armies of Saul
for forty days. Sam. xvii, 16.
g. Elijah tasted forty days. Kings,
XIX, 8.
Z. Ezekiel bore the iniqufties of the
house of Jacob forty days, a day for a
year.
s. Jonah cried to the Ninevites. yet
forty days, and Nineveh shall be over
thrown.-Jonah ill.,, 4.
o. Jesus tasted and was tempted forty
days In the wilderness.-Matt ". D.
II. Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus
forty years after the Ascension.
II. According to church tradition. Je-
sus was forty hours in the tomb
Is. The Lenten fast continues for forty
Gays. from Ash Wednesday to Easter
Sunday.
And there are others.
Here and there in the highways and
byways of the civilized world many le-
gends and superstftions still linger. and
continue to retain their ancient prestige.
Among the civilized races storms, clouds,
thunder, lightning, the winds and other
manifestations Of nature are viewed with
supers titions, awe and dread
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Their charming inconsequences, as they
seem to you. will never cease to puzzle
you, and every fresh conversation reveals
a novelty of attitude or opinion.
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FROM
L0WLY LIFE.

sprouting horns" and that the counte-
nance was gradually transmitted into
the visage Of cow, the voice into the
believing of bulls" Notwithstanding the
violence Of the opposition, belief in If
spread slowly. In one village, where
doctor tried to introduce the practice,
the first persons who permitted them
selves to be vaceinated were absolutely
pelted and driven into their houses if
they appeared out of DOORS The preiu-
dice finally broke down and his views
were accepted by the profession, and he
lived to see the practice of vaccination in
use all over the wirld. Others claimed
the discovery, but his title was recog-
nized.
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In the Kitchen, Dining
Room, Nursery, ParIor
and Chamber. Up Stairs,
Down Stairs and in the
Cellar.
must be made just before it is wanted.

must be made just before it is wanted.
That in making very delicate light
cakes that are not rich with butter it is
better to use water in the place of milk,
says one giver of advice Milk ia UIceII,
to tougher in baking, while water. heinz
neutral, makes cruTnb and crust soft and
delicate.
That steamed vegetables are said to be
much more nutritious than those cooked
In the usual way, as they do not come in
contact with the water and so do not lose
any Of their flavor. Beets and onions are
especially delicious cooked by this proc
eSs. and even meats and chicken, it is
Claimed, are improved by first steaming
them and afterward browning them in
I the oven.
That very pleasing addition to the
ordinary nut cake is cup Of raisins.
That the use Of a. thermometer or the
oven Of a practical woman is an assur-
ance of success in baking.
That baking powder biscuits require
mitch more heat than bread: 440 degrees
Fahrenheit is right for biscuit, while a
bread.
That sour milk and soda make more
delicate devils food cake than the sweet
milk and baking powder.
That the popular notion that fish is a.
brain food" is a mistake, for eminent
Psychologists tell us that fish no mare
than any other heterogeneous food contrib
utes to brain growth and development.
All heterogeneous foods, such as fish, meat,
eggs and so on, re pair the waste tissues
Of the body. but fish is of no more i'm
portance than the others.
That baked potatoes are much improv-
ed by first boiling for about ten minutes
with the skins on and then draining be-
fore putting them In the oven.
That in making jelly roll, when the
cake is taken from the oven 1t should be
placed on a cloth dipped in cold wateri
then spread the jelly on the cake and
roll quickly.
That ham has much better flavor Il
| It is boiled for one hour and then bak-
| ed two hours, with brown sugar
| sprinkled over II for the last fifteen min
utes.
That followed out apples OF beets make
| artistic and pretty cups to hold salad.
! That four or FIVE ounces OF sugar is
all that an adult in good health should
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HERE AND THERE
IN THE WORLD.

want to be regularly shaved, just like
man. They have naturally heavy
growths of beard. They like the sensa-
ton. 1 have shaved one woman three
times week for ten years She won t
let me touch her with any but the sharp
est razor
ITO look at her no one would imagine
that she could grow beard that would
put man to shame. Her complexion is
smooth and clear and her skin fine and
firm She could have her whiskers per-
manently removed by q preparation or
by the needle, but she prefers to be
shaved -
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That a very pleasing addition to the
ordinary nut cake is cup Of raisins.
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Ash Wadnasdav

-
The custom In the Anglican and Catho-
lie churches Of holding a period of fast
ing forty days preceding Easter in com.
memoration of the forty days of fasting
by Christ before his temptation, dates
far back in their history From "1engen
tides" a Saxon term for spring-as being
the time Of the frightening of the day
came the familiar word. of the period,
Lent. Originally the period began on
what Is now the first Sunday in Lent,
but being found that when Sundays (be-
Ing improper for fasting) were omitted,
there remained only thirty-six days, the
period was made by Pope Gregory to
commence four days earlier, namely, ON
what has since been called Ash Wednes-
day, from a peculiar custom still in
vogue IN the Roman Catholic church, to
remind the faithful that they are dust
and ashes, in which the priest sprlnkles
dust and ashes with holy water, blesseS
them, and makes the mark of the cross
on the worshiper's forehead with them,
saying in Latin: Remember, man. that
thou art but dust, and dust wilt re-
turn" This year the festival comes %
Feb. co.
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That the use Of a thermometer on the
oven Of practical woman is an assur-
ance Of success in baking.