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Precocfous.

In these days of precocious children
it is difficult to uncover any exploit
that will seem unusual but the CONVEX
sation of the 6-year-old New York boy
who has just returned after living and
being Schooled several years in Eng.
land certainly deserves to be entered
for honors.
This youngster had a small brother
named Maurice; both boys had beer
brought home from a neighbours be
cause some friends of their own family
wished to see them. They had been al
home only a few minutes when sud
denly the 6year-old reappeared at the
neighbours house.
Why" said the lady of the house
how did you get away?"
Whereupon with great dignity and
broad English as the boy replied:
When the conversation had reached
its height l slipped out unobserved, but
Maurice had not the fortitude TO follow
my example.
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Some Queer
Bank Notes

On Aladdin's principal of giving
new lamps for old, Moberly Phillips,
an associate of the Institute of Bank
ers, is preparing at any time to give
new notes, or their equivalent in gold,
for old notes, which have some in
terestng history attached to them Mr..
Phillips is the only collector of bank
notes in the country, and probably
out of it, and his collection amounts
to 500, more or less. Some of the
more valuable of his specimens he
exhibited recently at a meeting of the
Institute of Bankers in the London in
stitution.
One of the most interesting was
note issued by Mai.-Gen. Baden-Pow
ell, during the siege of Mafeking. 1t
and is printed in green ink on an OBJ
viously primitive machine. Another,
with, if possible, a still more fasci-
mating history, was a currency note,
with Arabic lettering, printed by Gen.
Gordon when he was besieged in Khar-
toum. OF Bank of England notes MIR.
Phillips has specimens of the face
value of So not unlike in appearance
the Scotch twenty shilling notes of
the present day.
In times of emergency, when coin
was scarce, paper money of as low a
value as five shillings was issued by
traders. But there has been a lower
depth even than this. cards and paper
tickets have been resorted to in some
places for as small sum as one shil-
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-19
NOT MUCH or AN EPICURE.
Emperor Francis Joseph Exceedingly
FruKal at His Meals.


Emperor Francis Joseph OF Austria
is very plain in his tastes and habits.
At o'clock in the morning he takes
his breakfast, consisting Of some cold
meat, coffee and freshmade bread and
cake. Between IL and / o'clock he
takes his dejeuner, two dishes of meat
and some ordinary pastry. Dinner is
served at o'clock, sharp. All his
meals are served in his library at his
writing desk. Not even a tablecloth
is spread. His personal valet on duty
receives the dishes in an antechamber
on a large tray and puts the tray be-
fore the emperor on his desk
Very often the emperor takes a
spoonful of soup between two sigma
lures. He is very busy man. With
the meal the menu for the next days
dinner is sent up and laid before the
emperor. 1t contains two soups, pat
ties, fish, two entrees, two roasts, two
desserts, pastry cheese, fruit, ETC., and
the emperor with blue pencil crosses
off whatever he does not want The
emperor does not care much for wine.
He prefers a glass of beer. Nor does
he indulge in expensive Havana cigars.
A plain homemade cigar, the so-called
| Virginia cigar, long and thin, with a
| straw running through it, is his favor
| lite smoke. These cigars cost only 5
kreuzer-that is, about twopence
| apiece
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The Body as a Barometer.

The body gives many indications of
approaching rain. Rheumatic joints
always begin to ache when rain is
coming on. This is due to the damp
ness of the air. Those who curl the
hair can invariably predict wet
weather by the fact that the hair gets
out of curl.
East wind has a peculiar effect on
the temper. If you are of an irritable
disposition, whenever you feel particu-
larly exasperated with everything and
everybody, ten chances to one the
wind is in the east. Or you can infal-
libly spot an east wind by your neu-
ralgic pains if you be an unfortunate
sufferer.
On the other hand. if you are of the
nervous temperament, you can foretell
:wenty-four hours in advance of a
storm from the south or southwest
with its muggy weather. Even when
The sky is blue and the sun bright ner-
yous people feel the approach of a
southwestern gale This is very re-
narkable, for the storm may be 1000
miles away.
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The Boy and the Man.

One Of the things with much mean.
ing which is pointed out with regard
to boys is that they are influenced
great deal by the way the city in which
they live is governed. If the govern,
ment is corrupt, the boys make thai
their standard of living. When what
is known as the Lexow committee
looked into the police system of New
York and found how criminals couI6
go on committing crimes and be lie
alone by paying the police officials 70,
the privilege, the regamuffins all over
the city invented a game they called
Protection" in which part of then
played criminals and the others played
policemen, and all the players got the
idea that the law was a humbug ant
that the right thing and the smaT
thing to do in this world is to ge'
money-no matter how.
The sum of it all is that a boy is 6
man growing up; that he wants to
learn about men and do things as mer
do them. and the kind of man he turn!
out to be will depend on what kind OF
grown people he has to help him learn
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Suicide Us
Increasing

Medical men are deeply interested
in list of statistics just compiled
dealing with suicides and suicidal
tendencies. The figures show that sui
eide has steadily increased 200 per
cent during the past fifty years and
may be considered as formidable
hereditary disease.
Another peculiar fact brought out
is that there is a certain season of the
year when the suicidal tendency as
serts itself more strongly than at any
other time. The suicide season is I'M
doubtedly May, June, July and Au-
gust. Suicide is least prevalent in
winter, and in December, January and
February it reaches its minimum.
Locality, also. has a great deal to
do with suicides. A mountainous
country where there is plenty of fresh
air, trees and grass is as free from
suicide as a low-lying district. hemmed
in between tall hills. is fertile of it.
In support of the theory that suicide
is a hereditary disease a case is stated
where a man killed himself, as his
father and grandfather had before
him. In all. fourteen relatives had
predeceased him by the same means.
The increase of attempted suicides
has been very rapid in recent years.
During the decade from 1876 to 1856
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Firearn Lore

The caiber of a firearm is the diane
ter of the barrel; that is. the hole
through which the charge is projected
Rifles are measured by caliber and
shotguns by gauge, says the Buffalo
Express. The term bore is frequently
used Interchangeable, though in its
most general use it refers to large
weapons OF special make. The ele-
plant guns of African travel tales are
always referred to as having bore.
But hereabouts caliber and gauge are
the terms most used.
A 1-caliber rifle would be a rifle with
an inside barrel diameter of one inch.
Thus a 5O-caliber weapon would have
an inside barrel diameter of half an
inch, and the 32-caliber arm would
carry ball sized for a barrel 80 of
an inch in diameter.
Rifle and revolver measurements are
made on a scale of their own. One
might think they would follow the
theory of cents, dimes, quarters and
halves, so long as they are reckoned by
decimals, but they don't. The small
est caliber, unless a special size, is %
From that rifles and revolvers are
built in recognized sizes up to Social
Der Beginning with the 22-caliber,
the standard American sizes are as fol-
lows: %, 80 80, SO, IA, AS, so.
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Making Money

Everybody recognizes the fact that a
boy should early give his attention to
some kind of money-making SO as to
give him a feeling OF responsibility
Nothing can more test the boys ener-
gies and abilities than poultry raising
1t calls for the exercise of both mental
and physical powers. 1t is not routine
work. Then, too. it is a profitable en-
ployment, requiring no great outlay of
money. 1t does not require late hours
nor does it tend to bad company. 1t
is a safe recreation and often develops
from recreation into a business says
the American Boy. 1t offers something
definite as an object to work for. The
boy soon comes to have a desire to
excel-to get the best results. He
wants to produce better birds and more
eggs than his competitors. He finds
that Nature is erratic in her moods,
and it is no easy matter for him to
learn her secrets. Defeat that often
comes arouses his fighting blood and
makes him determined to succeed, with
every faculty awake. 1t is outdoor
work and for a boy who is inclined too
much to sit and drone over a book the
work is beneficial. 1t fosters a love for
animals, and contains few unpleasant
features.
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In an Earth
quake Shock

Speaking of queer sensations" said
the old reporter, Il have passed
through all kinds of violences during
my career, but there is one which
stands out by itself. There is moth
ing like it I have been in burning
buildings and have heard the walls
numbering and the floors crashing
next door, and l know how a fellow
feels under the circumstances. / have
been in the range of bullets during
street duels, and have had to skirmish
TO get out with an unpunctured hide.
| have been on top of the talleSt and
slimmest buildings in Chicago, with
experts, who marked a spot in the
street below so I could tell the num-
Der of inches the building would swing
and sway in a given time, and l felt
like building. baby and all would tum-
Bile over in a heap, like the proverbial
treetop we have all heard of in the
nursery.
these sensations are violent
enough. They are narrowing in some
instances. But the earthquake sensa
ton, when you feel the ground under
you simply shivering into smithereens,
is more gradual and magnificently hor
rible than any l have experienced.
was out on the Pacific slope a few
years ago, and. while | had felt slight
shocks of the kind before, on this
occasion / had an opportunity to I'M
derstand more fully just what 1t is
to feel the old earth rumbling vigor-
ously under your very feet. The SEN
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FAME EASILY FOUND.
Hish-Priced Chef Copies Dishes from
Peasants of Europe.

Joseph, the famous chef who died
in Paris recently, left a fortune OF
$500, 900. After all is said and done,
Joseph, while well known to the ex-
travagant gourmet, had little patron
age from the real gourmet. The cele-
brated crushed duck which first
made him famous, was not his own
creation, but for centuries had been
popular with the Norman peasants as
holiday dish and was also a faVorlte
dish among the peasants of Midi. The
success of Joseph's crushed duck IS
only a sample of what might be done
by a fashionable chef" with brains
enough to seek out among the peas
antry of Europe and the working and
rural classes of this country, certain
dishes which they enjoy, and which
now are scorned by palates polite
Your fashionable person would rather
die than eat one of those savory
messes now. but let a great chef intro
duce it to the world of fashion under
another name and its success would
be assured and it's introduction re-
dound to the fame of the fntroducer.
For after all, good thing is good
thing, whether it is prepared in a
palace ora hovel, and there are many
peasant dishes which would be quite
as successful if they were properly in
troduced az Joseph's crushed duck.
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Phillips Brooks and the Lost Child.
It was nine years ago the 23d Of jan
uary since Phillips Brooks died, and
yet to many it seems but yesterday.
This anecdote of the kind bishop,
whose love for children was but one
of his many beautiful traits of char
acter, was told in verse by Margaret
Sangster in Harper's Bazaar:
A poor little pale-faced baby,
Lost and hungry and cold,
With the chill wind pinching her tear
wet cheeks
And ruffling her bright hairs gold.
For just when the busy people
Were hurrying here and yon,
Buying their gifts for the Christmas
Her mother was suddenly gone
She did not cry poor midget,
But lifted pttifui eyes
AT the crowds of careless strangers,
At the gray Indifferent skies.
Jostled and pushed and frightened,
A tiny waif of the street
With the wintry darkness falling,
And the Snow-flakeS gathering fleet.
She was seen by a great kind giant;
With swinging stride he came,
Even then the angels in heaven
Wrote Saint before his name.
From the height of his splendid stature
He stopped to the little maid,
Lifted her up in tender arms
And babe her not be afraid.
Against his broad breast nestled,
She chung like a soft spring flower
That a breeze had caught and Carried
To strong and sheltering tower
In his thick warm cloak he wrapped her
The little shvering child.
I'll find your mother, baby,
The Bishop said, and smiled.
That smile like a fash of the sunrise
IT'S but memory dim.
For the years are hasting onward,
And We are mourning him.
The cold white SHOWS drifting
Where to-day he lies asleep,
After his lfe's long warfare
The soldiers rest is deep.
But of dear things said about him.
OF victories that he won.
No sweeter tale is told than this,
OF his grace to a little one.
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MIGHT HAVE SAVED TROUBLE.
Provost Marshal Neglected to Write n
Pass for Himself.

-
Pass for Himself
Many stories have been told of lit
eral Interpretation which some soldiers
place upon their orders, but one of the
best is told by General Hughes, who
has recently returned from the Phil
ippines, about an Irish volSnteer pri-
vate, who was acting as guard over a
captured Spanish storehouse and had
received orders to pass no one without
special order from the provost mar
shall of Manila. Gen. Hughes was pro-
vost marshal at the time, and when
he drew near the storehouse he found
his stomach very close to a triangular
Springfield bayonet and heard in rich
Milesian brogue:
Halt! If yes come a step furder
I'll jam this inter yes!''
why not?" asked the general.
"Niver moind." said the private. 81
know me orders. It's a pass yez
must have from the provost marshal"
We'll. I'm the provost marshal"
said Gen. Hughes.
TITS l that don't care if yez be the
prisidint. Divil foot ye'll sit inside
here till yez show me yer pass
The general drew out a blank book
and scrubbed a pass.
The private surveyed it and passed
Gen Hughes with the remark:
Why didn't yez do that without all
this palaver?"
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One of the natives of the Alps, Pyre-
nees, and other mountains of Europe
is an animal about two feet long, call
ed the marmot. They live for choice
in the snowy region and prefer cliffs
and precipices where they cannot
easily be reached. They seem to post
sentinels, whose duty it is to warn
the rest OF danger. At the watchers
signal. which is a shriN, piercing
whistle, the creatures at once bolt for
their holes in the rock, hiding for
hours until all cause for alarm has
gone. Even then they come no further
than the entrance of their crannies.
where they stand stock still for a
while, to make sure that everything
is right.
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wasps Worse than Bullets.

Richard Harding Davis relates this
incident, which happened while he was
acting as correspondent during the
English-Boer war.
A regiment of Scottish Eistfanders,
noted for their bravery in action, dur
ing the heat Of the battle were sudden
ly seen to break ranks and run in all
directions. The officers as well shared
in the stampede, and apparently made
no attempts to urge the men under
them into line. Their behavior was a
surprise to everybody on the field, and
after the battle was over the colonel of
the regiment was summoned before
Gen Roberts.
What the devil was the matter with
your regiment" asked "Bobs."
Well replied the colonel, there is
not man in the regiment afraid of a
Dutchman's bullet, but we were steer
ed into a field literally infested with
wasps' nests, and you know, general
we were all in kits and with bare
legs"
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THREE WOMAN'S ERAS.
Ages of Elizabeth, Anne and Victoria
Wore Remarkable Epochs.

Ages of Elizabeth, Anne and Victoria
Wore Remarkable Epochs.
1t is a remarkable fact that three
sovereign ladies-EHzabeth Anne and
Nictoria-have given their names to
the three greatest periods of English
literature, which We're also eras of nota-
BILE military conquest. Elizabeth, herself
a learned but stilted and pedantic
writer, gave az impulse to authorship
which eliminated in Shakespeare and
Bacon and a brilliant galaxy OF lesser
lights. The reign of Queen Anne.
dull, commonplace. indolent woman
with no intellectual aspirations. was
rendered illustrious by the genius of
Prior. Pope. Swift Addison. Defoe.
Congreve and other authors, while
Newton and Berkeley were making
valuable discoveries in science which
valuable discoveries in science, then
in its infancy. and Marlborough was
winning brilliant victories
Space fails for mention of even the
foremost of the writer's who have lent
honor and renown to the Victorian
age-names familiar as housewOrds.
Victoria herself made some modest es-
says in authorship-Chronicle of the
travels and domestic life of the royal
family in its various resorts, which
greatly endeared her to her people, for
even the most trivial personal details
of the reigning house are of surprising
interest Remarkable as were the
literary achievements OF the Victorian
age. and worthy as We're the contribu-
tons to art and music, they fall far
below the signal triumphs achieved by
science in this reign of almost sixty
four years-the longest in British an
nails.
Still greater than all the achieve
ments of art, literature and science,
which have lent such luster to the
Victorian age. says the Minneapolis
Tribune. are its abolition of ancient
abuses. the educational and philan-
thropical activities. its efforts for
ameliorating the horrors of war and
for settling international difficulties
by peaceful arbitration rather than by
the sword
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1t was not precise middle-aged man.
knowingly. Presently Mr.. Holden
would come in with his eyeglasses. She
wondered trife drearily what kind of
a figure he would cut as one of the
happiest of men. But she knew she
would be glad when he did come and it
was all over.
There was a step outside and Molly
felt that she was quite equal to the oc
casion. 1t was not precise middle
aged man. however, that came through
the open window. Nothing but bass
voice trolling out vaudeville song:
"Oh my Mexican Juanita,
In the moonlight I will meet her,
Way down upon the silver Rio
Grande."
Max my splendid Max. No, I'M
Molly clenched the ring in her palm
and started upstairs on run.
why, Molly"
Beg pardon, Max. I was in hur-
ry-I didn't see-'
"All right. but see here. I've been
made editor and I'm going to get
married
Who to?''
'Why, to you"
ooh. MAJ. I'm so glad"
Are you, dear? l know I am
Max, you silly. I didn't mean that.
OF course. l am glad, too. But what l
meant was-let me go just minute
I want to get rid of this miserable
thing
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be easy enough to do. Especially when
those girls from the other club are to
take supper here tonight" She turned
the ring slowly and blaze of light
leaped out from every apex.
My goodness, how 1 would hate to
see you flashing on another girls fin
ger, And that's what would happen
you know. Gus Holden isn't the man
to daily over a thing. If you don't
wear it some other girl will, and pref
ty quick, too She gazed at the flash
ing stone wistfully. 1t was very beau
tiful, yet not so beautiful as the light
in Max's eyes had been when he told
her huskily that she had made him
happy.
We'll, it was decided at last The
diamond in her lap winked up at her
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Civilization in Africa.

When Livingstone died, few years
ago says the Northwestern Christian
Advocate, there was not a civilized
town in Central Africa. Now Living
stonia is to be lighted by electricity.
The cost of its machinery and it's
transportation to the mission was
about 100000. The only source of il
Elimination for the home or the school
or the church has been, hitherto. ilero-
sene, obtained at a cost, by the time
it reaches Lake Nyassa, of $1.58 a gal
Ion. Steam power being out of the
question, on account of the scarcity of
fuel, it was suggested that the falls Of
the River Manchewe, near to the mis-
sion, be used for the production of
light and the driving of machinery.
The machinery rs on its way and was
to be set up this month. The natural
waterfall will thus thresh wheat, grind
the -four and bolt it in the mill by
day, and at night give light to the peo-
pie in their homes. The civilizing in
tiuence over the natives of this electro
cal power is beyond calculation.
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New GnmeS,

Awakened Ghosts is fine game for
boys and girls. Write the names of
Napoleon. Washington. Grant, Daniel
Boone, Paul Pry, Paul Jones, Captain
Kidd. Roger Williams, Molly Pitcher.
and other famous characters on slips
of paper Each child draw one from
a hat. Then all pretend to go to sleep
and at the tap of bell awaken and
act the part given them. If anyone
forgets himself he must pay a fine. At
last the bell taps and the judges decide
which has been the best ghost. 1t is
great fun when two enemies, say Ma
poIeon and Wellington. get together.
and are Obliged to argue out their part.
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AneCdofe of Armour,

Phillip d. Armour, millionaire and
philanthropist, continually warned
young m"n against getting into debt
He loved free men and despised slaves
When asked if he admired a certain
brilliant orator he said: He may have
a superb voice and fine presence. but
can't you hear the rattle of his chain
That man is not free; he is under
moral obligations that demoralize him.
He is not speaking the deepest thing in
his soul, and haven't time to hear any
slave talk. / want man to be Just as
free as l am"
On another OF. aston he said: Don
get into debit mean moral debt. 1t
is bad enough to get into debt fnan-
cially. There goes young man who
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Simple and Amusing Game.

A small feather with very little
stem must be produced to play the
feather game; also a tablecloth or
small sheet. The feather is placed
upon this. and the company stands in
a circle, holding the sheet.
Some one gives the feather a blow,
and the object of the game is to pre-
vent it from touching any one.
Each one gives the feather a puff
whenever it comes near him, and over
it goes to the other side again. The
excitement produced is very great, and
it is always a most amusing spectacle,
the onlookers enjoying it almost as
much as the players themselves.
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Don't Mind Heat or Cold.

The native camels of Siberia are q
source of constant wonder to travellers.
On the Mongolian plateau, for instance
the thermometer often registers a tenn
perature of 40 degrees below zero but
the camels do not mind it at all. walk
ing about as blithely as if the weather
were as balmy rs spring. On the other
hand. the temperature on the Cola
Desert in summer is sometimes lao de
grees above zero. and che beasts mind
that heat just as, little as they 90 the
extreme cold.