IN THE ODD CORNER QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS thinas AND EVENTS blend jtb trap airmans are sot sol to I 1 binl there fig fg ind Ml it for or Inva dIris I 1 litell attlas I 1 story slaty of little ned d 1 little ittle ned A 1 recitation lly byj J L lurton L s P nr awn the I 1 astern cli cil c cult U it wre ned ed and a d B hill 11 and a d 1 1 bill was an art ul 01 I 1 ch O 0 0 ima te of mi mine tt and ned ed hie his only b bi A pretty kit with mith lauxen curla at a I 1 e yea es ot of azure da blue true an I 1 a face like that of u un an anil 1 it as no goad and hue true the clyl llyle gI dirae trapeze rae wa our b business U iness and 1 d only t ti li i yta re oil boult out look ook like a it very saraph with till his aali curla of 0 got I 1 As idyll g ahro t the he air he 1 come like a I 1 hot shot fr from u in a nil nit e po ind gun and I 1 ei d lauh aloud an hll his diunda clasped mine aj as tho hueie the bt b st 0 of inn tun ua 1 9 v ero pla ing dates that summer lu ramer and nl one jay struck troy L two no eaks tand stand it was to be and duall there wo ao lot lost our boy abrand A tirana new allt wa was practiced hard but a livas with the he net and ali d up d to b daue atiat I 1 ad inver ii ver missed and an a yu you il be sd bufe f to 0 be bet t U 9 could hate hae dont it a thousand time times w with th neer a mishap nut but little ned ed t want ant the net and smi the lucky little chap tum said aa its how a ly kill co im lid do it that ay jy t aal he tie wattle to make hl his mark and 1 owed vowed to I 1 1111 ill ani ant I 1 that he could ilo do it in ill the tire dark so we let the tho boy hate hae his hi way and the olet 1 inic night had cc ce e the oka louse foul wa c cadd add fram acm pit right r g t lit up to dome our lur turn wa was last on the pro gramme and as we w C 1 imbed into the air the th e shout and cheer deafen w were re deafening inc lor for we were fa aorl orites te there thru three time times had 1111 let go of ned and his tiny hand hands clasped mine and anti a As I 1 him back the third his father to rejoin I 1 w I 1 bourage little ned tor for I 1 the fourth was wa to tw our lt last and I 1 felt his mail small form tremble tremble as a I 1 held hold him in my grasp ani ant now hem he wincing swinging once again and he gaily faily shouts let ral 0 o nl tit then ihen goti god help hin he fall falls too chort her I 1 an ani I 1 the next tah thine g that I 1 kno know vve e ar are landing standing arouni aroun I 1 him on the stage an ani 1 1 1111 1 ill I 1 Is well nigh mad 1 I il 0 ob b and cry I 1 ike its an infant for I 1 lo 10 ION the little lad and when the doctor telle tells us u at last his effort efforts are all in vain I 1 et right do down n on my anen boys boy 9 and pray my 1 to pare him pain at bajt tho it emed seemed like ages he open ed d hi is pretty ea ets and aid said in a voice all ch ahk iad d with tear tears am a be gazed up into the ines don on t weep for me jack beef for or I 1 rn all right 11 aall comfort dear old dad it w wa as all my rity fault you t to blame altho it teems too bad to have hae ended up the act that way and a wan m mile smile wreathe wreathel lit hia face and ai an he whispered ws rr dad he went ent to th t letter better place where wh ere I 1 tit BU su tre ate angele angels welcomed him and with ith all th thi arm arms outspread outs preal prea I 1 and that a th the O 0 of vol atory bill and arid me and our mate door or little tie ned ed an island death TP in lit a dispatch from halifax N 9 S de do teri bing the strengthening of that port by the british military authorities mention was made of george a island in halifax harbor where a quick firing battery Is to be placed neit next summer it Is probably not generally known outside of the english officers in command of the station that georges george a island Is a huge hilge pit filled with water and that if an altac ing party succeeded in passing the forts torts at the entrance to the harbor and landed they would be precipitated into the water and drowned ir owned the surface of the ground Is and planted with scrubber sh rubber and Is apparently solid but the only really olid solid part of it Is a narrow board alk on which the bent fi entries rles pace to and fro in case an invading part took the island for the purpose of commanding om manding the city of halifax they th ey would break through and arid fall into the pit about fifteen feet below the surface the excavation was as made about sixty years ago and the secret was a kept for not less than thirty barj it waa was not until 1867 that the discovery y was made by two men in a boat arisen ashore in a gale one of them ot attempted to make his way to the dwell dwelling inK occupied by the garrison and suddenly disappeared his ills companion happened to get a footing on the board walk malk discovered by the sentry he wag as summarily ejected from the island being placed aboard his boat and scat sent adrift in the storm he ile sue ceded in reaching halifax the man ullo ho broke through was drowned the story got spread about but mas is not believed and as no ChIl lanti arc are permitted to land at georges george s island the peculiar estem of protection Is today practical ly IY a secret new I 1 ork mall and Ls lx press T brawe the norl lern third ot of I 1 r ranee rance and rind half ot of belgium are today tod ay iy more teutonic than the south mouth of germany this is clearly attested atte sted b the maps which show tho the distribution of each 0 of toe the characteristics ct of race it shout I 1 not occasion surprise when i hen we A e remember the incessant downpour don Pour of teutonic tribes during the bholi bla big period it was 3 i 1 constant procession of goths from all till points of the compisi ot of I 1 ranks burgun deans and others frai WA cattle ly overrun by the I 1 r in 8 with the exception of brittin Dr ittin by the middle of the sixth century centi irv all through the middle agai this pirt part of europe was not only etan cilly teutonic it was as german in language and customs as well the very name of the country Is teutonic it has the same origin as am franconia I 1 Iran ran conia conla in southern ou thern german in 12 de the courell of tours away ay down south ordained that every bishop hould preach both in be the romance ROM rAnce and nd the teutonic reu tonic languor the franks greened preened pre ened heir their german speech years after the conquest charle N agn was a german germau hie his courtiers w were ere all 11 german he lived and governed from outside tho the limits of modern france the abbe uttered an ethnological liulam when in the course of 0 the trench re revolution alution he cried out against the french aristocracy let us tend send them back to their german marshes they came even today the current of migration between france and germany sets strongly to I 1 the south as it has never done la in virtue I 1 of economic laws deeper than national prejudice or hostile legislation the moi movement ement of population racially has been strongly influenced by the geography of the country were it not tor for the peculiar pecullar conformation of this part of europe there would be no nd geographical excuse for the existence of belgium as a separate parate sp political entity as wo ae have said and northern I 1 rance would be hr fir more thoroughly thorough lyl than it Is uday liday W N Z ripley in Io popular pular science monthly carrying Carry lna a F rack fk k nf of coffee let iet us trace the cost of dairying cair ying a tack of coffee which weighs about one sixteenth of a tun ton from the plantation on which it Is grown to tro seaboard board As the best coffee grows at not less than 3 feet above abone sea level niel it must go an average ot of about eighty miles on before reaching the river this means 8 50 paper for the mule supposing it to travel miles on an the river that freight will be 1192 to barranquilla Barr anquilla then eighteen miles of if railway travel coit cost 33 cents lents tot total R Is 1075 in colombia paper or at th the e usual exchange of per cent premi prem i lum turn the total cost of miles travel of our jack sack of coffee Is 4 30 in gold making an average freight per ton I 1 mile of gold from the coast to new lork the freight Is tor for the sack or 0 per ton mile we ne have here the startling fact that to carry a sack of cuffe cuff es 2 milts miles by river railroad and ocean steamer cost costs but 28 88 per cent of what it does to carry the same sac eighty miles on a mule I 1 et in ill this we see another instance of the proneness of hurbai nature to strain at a gnat while the camel goes down as a matter of course le river steamer the little railway and the ocean freighter are looked upon by the average colombian as ex tort loners which by their high rates are robbing him of his hardly earned profit but the sturdy little mule la Is his hi tried and true friend and he Is begrudged nothing engineering magazine kept the th wolf from the door rev rei IN illiam dixon and hia ills wife strange to pay have to eit eat same ai as other people mr dixon has tor for some time been pastor of the ferr street congregational church in new haven conn A few days ago the pastor resigned why mr dixon said the good members of the church what on earths earth a tho the matter they got tor for their answer anser what they already knew that for a year and a halt half their mi minister I 1 had received only for or it expenses pennes ev and had been compelled compelled to eke out a precarious existence on pink teas ice cream festivals and short cake suppers on mature deliberation the reverend gentleman had concluded to stampede for some place where the mo monotony noton will occasionally be broken even it if it Is with nothing more than corned beet and cabbage la in england the benedictines whom Car cardinal dInall vaughan Is re estabi establishing ashing at anest eat minster and eating ealing were in pre defor matlon mation times the moat most numerous and most widely distributed religious order in england they had no less than abbes priories orles and nunneries nunn erles the london establishments were at westminster Cler kenwell kenell and st helens Bishops gate the head of their community at westminster abbey had a seat in the house of I 1 ards ads abbott feckenham Fec kenham the last holder of 0 the office delivered a remarkable speech in the upper house against the changes introduced in the ragn ft agn ot of elizabeth at present the benedictines hae a dozen houses in F and the three principal being at downside P rams cate rate grated harshly on delicate Del leate fan fars there Is a new jersey man v whose hose delicate car Is not attuned to profanity in any torn totra whatsoever it was this trait which brought him boro the court the other dy day as plaintiff la a novel suit hh name la Is james colter several veira eira age ag he lie went into part parta with agust A gust morris in the mill business busine qs in Ilo hoboken boken col ter Is a pillar in the tile second I 1 rian chuich while mo lo 10 la is isn it colter BIS ais that his partner swears enough it times to raise the root roof oft off the pi plan an ing mill and hit that he must either a stop top his ear with his fingers or act got out so shocked docs does sikh suji language mak him HP lip wants an order from the court to dissolve the partnership meantime the offending partner sas nothing but la Is thinking bird hard onynal loar liah in in round numbers num beri bert are 2500 journals journal s in paris oi or e hundred and seventy of these are political organizations ct over er each ot of faailoa papers and illustrated journals some 1 0 o papers over oer financial pa pers and about sixty dealing with ith the turf and other branches of sport 1 the smallest emal lest republic in tho world te Is Fran franchville ceville one of the islands in the new hebrides the inhabitant inhabitants consist of forty european Enro peana and black workmen employed by a french company