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Show J5he INDEPENDENT. X. C. JOHNSON, Publisher. SPR1NGVILLE. . . . UTAH Hawaii may now claim te be at least a distant connection of ours. - fere's hoping that the new Sham-rack Sham-rack will have all her bad luck now. Marconi suggests the possibility of putting a girdle round the earth for forty cents. 1902 brought wireless communication communica-tion with Europe. Will 1903 bring the flying machine? Nevertheless milk is a safer drink than some others that are considerably consider-ably more expensive. Russell Sage now has a valet. "Uncle Russ" must have had a chance to get one at a bargain. A dash of lemon juice in lemonade improves the flavor, whether it destroys the germs o not. Both John Bull and the kaiser knew enough to avoid a live wire when theii attention has been called to it. Reciprocity treaties would be more popular if both sides could always get the best of every possible bargain. Don't have the twitters just because Max Nordau is seeing nightmares. Max's bad dreams will not all come true. It might save time hereafter to have The Hague tribunal O. K. all international bills before their presentation. presen-tation. Thomas B. Reed was truly a great man. He left a simple will, la whioh there was no provision for cutting anybody any-body off. Why is it that people who pride themselves on always saying what they think seldom have any but disagreeable dis-agreeable thoughts? France continues to hold her elections elec-tions on Sunday, but not because the French people regard action at the polls as a religious duty. On looking over the "Christmas present" of the steel trust to its employes em-ployes has any one discovered where the trust is out any money? Somebody suggests the erection of a monument to the mothers of the United States. And don't the fathers, too, deserve some consideration? If there is anybody in Saxony who hasn't heaved a stone at Princess Louise he will please stand until counted. No one seems to be getting up. "Hinky Dink" makes $50,000 a year running a saloon in Chicago. Still, let us hope that he is an exceptional case and tnat it continues to pay to be decent. Prince Henry may be disappointed if he comes over here again in 1904. At all events, he is not likely to repeat re-peat the dazzling success of his first reception. Forty "girls in' Troy, N. Y., have formed a club In order to find suitable husbands. The good old plan of hunting hunt-ing 'em alone, however, will never go out of style. , What Is the use of people taking the trouble to think gloomy and sarcastic sar-castic things when they can go to the ores and buy one of Thomas Car-books Car-books for ten cents? The army of Morocco Is commanded by a Scotchman of the name of Mae-Lean. Mae-Lean. The fact that he seems to be rather timid indicates that he doesn't belong to Mary's branch of the family. fam-ily. Mark Tapley wasn't in it with the British taxpayer who smiles when he learns that according to the latest efiimate the Boer war added $1,200,-000,000 $1,200,-000,000 to Great Britain's national debt. The only explanation of the statement state-ment that a Kentucky man has a bottle of whisky forty-two years old Is the assumption that his stock has never come within one bottle of running run-ning out. A Chicago preacher declares that a girl who has reached the age of twenty-five without having learned to bake pies and make shirt waists is not a true woman. We concede the pies, but why shirt waists? A man who put all his wealth into money orders payable to himself while in Alaska Is having some trouble proving his identity here. Uncle Sam does not believe that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Lord Roberts has consented to become be-come the guest of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery company of Boston, Bos-ton, his experiences in South Africa having given him a strong predilection predilec-tion for weird and harrowing adventures. adven-tures. New Jersey's income la6t year from giving a legal standing to new trusts was only $464,064. a great falling off. And when-what Industries are yet left are made into trusts, then poor New Jersey will have to go back to work for a living. A woman was burned to death yes-terday yes-terday through trying to light a Are with benzine. This is a surer way than in using kerosene, but should it prove ineffective there still remain gasoline, gaso-line, naphtha, carbon bisulphide and blasting powder. It is announced that there Is to be some modification of the relations which Mr. Schwab has hitherto enjoyed en-joyed in connection with the steel trust. It would never do to say of a man In Mr. Schwab's lofty position that he ;s about to lose his job. "Thatanonymous gift of $10,000 ta the fund for a memorial to Henry Ward Beecher probably did not coma from Theodore Tilton, who, we believe, be-lieve, is still living quietly in Parts. A writer on the Newark News the other day brought forward "punt held" as a rhyme for "disgruntled." And the next day the Old Year died. President Roosevelt Is to sit for his portrait by an eminent French artist, being not wholly satisfied with the work of the American cartoonists. FATE OF THE ARBITRATOR. 'What Happened to the Mutual Friend Peace Advocate. The lovers had quarreled. "I'll never speak to you again!" she cried. "Perhaps you'll give me back my" ring," he retorted scornfully. "I wouldn't wear your old ring for a thousand dollars," she asserted. "This is the end he said. ; "Wait a minute," interrupted the mutual friend. "Don't forget that these are the days of arbitration, so let's arbitrate this affair." "He's entirely in the wrong," she insisted. in-sisted. I '"It's all her fault," he replied. "Well, let's have a statement of the case from each side," said the mutual friend. The girl thought It over, and her face grew red. . "If I tried to put it in words," she said to herself, "I'd be posing as a little fool." Somehow her grievance wasn't tangible. tang-ible. The youth thought it over, and he began to' feel uncomfortable. - "I'd be a jackass to try to explain this thing to a cold blooded mortal," he said to himself. , "Well, let's hear what it is," said the mutual friend. "Nothing," said the youth. "Not a thing," said the girl, "and I'd like to know what business it is of yours anyway?" "If you annoy my fiancee any more," said the youth, "I'll break your head. Here's your ring. Grade." "You're so good to me, Ralph," said the girl. "Go away can't you," they both said to the mutual friend. Buffalo News. MADE A NAME QUICKLY. New Congressman Becomes Popular in Washington. When Capt, Gardner arrived in Washington to take his seat in the house he was welcomed by Secretary Moody with the facetious greeting: "You are entering a congress badly handicapped. You have to live down a father-in-law, a predecessor, and a bad reputation." Gardner has been here a fortnight and be has already overcome his handicap. ' His first ,chance came at the Gridiron dinner a (few days after his arrival, when he gave a talk which was a gem of postprandial post-prandial oratory. He held his own in unaccustomed surroundings and tossed back telling retorts at malicious interruptions, inter-ruptions, until Speaker -to-Be Cannon turned to Speaker Henderson with the remark, "That boy is all right. He can Uthe care of himself anywhere." ' At the Tantalus dinner Gardner gave a line that will live in history: when he referred to Littlefield as the, man "whose name was never sullied by being attached to a majority re port." So that, thanks to his readi ness, Gardner is already better known in the house than many a man whd has been here for years. Boston Journal. Jour-nal. . , WAS PUNISHED FOR SLANDER. How the Laws Were Vindicated ill England in 1364. In the year 1364 John de Hakford was convicted of bringing a fals$ charge of conspiracy against thi "chief men" of London. The sentence of the court was that "the said JohiJ 6hall remain in prison for one whole year and a day. And the said John within such year shall four times aavd the punishment of the pillory that i to say, one day in each quarter of th year, and in this manner: The saiq John shall come out of Newgate without with-out hood or girdle, barefoot and un shod, with a whetstone hung by a. chain from his neck, and lying on his breast, it being marked .'with thq words, 'A false liar. And there shall be a pair of trumpets trumpeting before be-fore him on his way to the pillory, and -there the cause of his punishments punish-ments shall be solemnly proclaimed. And the said John shall remain on the pillory for three hours of the day, and from thence shall be taken"back to Newgate in the same manner, there to remain until his punishment shall be completed." Cat Forty-Two Years Old. Heir Pohl, president of the Get man. Society for the Protection of Cats, has just published the results of his luves-tlgation luves-tlgation in regard to the age which) it is possible for these animals to attain. at-tain. Cats, he says, are like human beings' in one respect. The more peaceful and better regulated their life is the longer they are likely to live. As a proof, he points out that a favorite cat in the royal castle of Nymphen-burg Nymphen-burg has lived to be forty-two years old, and consequently may fairly claim to be considered the dean of cats In Germany.- That this remarkable animal has still some youth in her is evident from the fact that she gave birth to a kitten kit-ten two years ago. Moreover, the kitten kit-ten thrived wonderfully and attracted much attention when it was exhibited at the exposition in Breslau. A Wife's Strategy. A good story is told of a man ho one day told his wife that he would give her all the silver pieces she found in his purse or his pockets which were coined the year she was born. ' As a result the lady In due course of time had quite an amount of silver sil-ver on hand so much, in fact, that she went to the bank and deposited It in her name. Then, speaking to the cashier, the lady said: "My husband tells ma you are going to pay him some money today. Will you please pay him in this silver I have just deposited? should be so much obliged to you if you would." Of course the cashier quickly re plied that he would be happy to please her. As a result the lady has still more birthday money. Advocates Tutorial System. President Woodrow Wilson ol Princeton university is at work on the" development of a plan of his own which will be an innovation In American Amer-ican universities. He intends to Introduce Intro-duce the tutorial system into Princeton, Prince-ton, such as is used in Oxford, and by which tutors are available for every student in his individual preparation for classes. It will require $12,500,000 to institute the change effectively. Not the Direction. Recently during a dense fog on Long Island Sound a steamboat took landing. land-ing. A traveler anxious to go ahead came to the man at the wheel and asked why they stopped. "Too much fog; can't see the river." "But you can see the stars overhead." over-head." "Yes," replied the pilot, "but untij the biier busts we ain't going that way." The passenger went to bed. American Girl Radical Changes That Hare Occurred in the Last Century Novelists Must Take Cognizance of Facts Now Fully Established Yesterday, To-day and To-morrow. HE statement of Dr. Lorenz that American women are the most beautiful in the world may be accepted with Joy and confidence, but he goes on to say that while In all other countries coun-tries he has visited the women are as a rule inferior physically to the men, he has discovered In America that the physique of the women, particularly the young ones, Is superb and that it makes the physique of the American man seem Insignificant in proportion. At this point it is time to stop and consider whether this fact, so plain to all who see, is matter for patriotic congratulation or not. Poor American man! Does he really real-ly need sympathy on this score? Is it necessary to inquire where is this wonderful increase in feminine physique to stop? From an aesthetic standpoint the great stature to which most of the young women attain may be regarded as a mistake. No poet, no artist, no sentimentalist can readjust in a hurry the tradition handed down through countless generations that their heroines hero-ines should be about a head shorter than their heroes. To arrange this nowadays the he roes would have to approach seven feet in height, a thing whlcn seems not at all likely to happen, for the boys aren't keeping pace with the girls at alL And there's the difficulty. A race of giants would be endurable aesthetically, but a race of amazons who could look straight over the hads of the masculine half of humanity so upsets all the good old cherished notions no-tions that it would take a few hundred years with an entirely new literature and art before the old traditions could be blotted out. But without borrowing borrow-ing trouble there's no disguising the fact that the "as high as my heart days" have vanished from this land. Elderly women who are only a little over five feet will say that in their girlhood they found themselves to be of the average height and that a girl of five feet six or eight was considered consider-ed extremely tall and as such girls happened not to be in fashion they were generally rather pitied than admired. ad-mired. Indeed, in most truly sentimental stories of this period the heroines are often spoken of as dainty little fairies who could easily walk under the outstretched out-stretched arm of the hero, while the adventuress was likely to be tall and commanding. To-day there are occasional occa-sional small girls, , but they don't count. The fashions aren't made for them, neither are the sports and they must be exceedingly pretty and winning to escape insignificance. Heroines and adventuresses are alike tall and stately, and novelist and popular popu-lar illustrators agree in making their eyes on a level with those of the hero. This is a faithful representation of nature. na-ture. Girls of great stature are to be found everywhere and there are no class distinctions in the matter. The girl who has always enjoyed every advantage ad-vantage and luxury, the simple country coun-try maiden and the girl who has earned her living in shop or office, are of the same height. The people at large observe this magnificent young creature with admiration ad-miration and wonder. They are fond of speculating as to why she is so tall and the favorite, because the most obvious reason assigned, is her ath-. letic training and out-of-door life. That this is not the only cause is proved by the fact that the boys who have the same athletic training, only a great deal more of it, by no means keep pace wtlh their sisters. This may be partly accounted for by the fact that many boys drink and smoke at the early age when such practices would be likely to affect their growth. At any rate they are the same sort of average boys that were to be found fifty years ago and don't match well with the race of young goddesses who are developing. Peschel makes some interesting statements In regard to the stature of people in this country. One Is that the descendants of European emigrants emi-grants have perceptibly increased in stature in the United States and that men here do not obtain their full growth until their thirtieth year. He thinks that this is probably caused by the change of locality, as the aboriginal abor-iginal race Is also very tall and likewise like-wise does tot attain full growth until 30, but it seems, th't this explanation cannot oniv to American wopaen as " YISUROAV T.O-DAV 'I Is the Tallest of Her Sex their increase of height is of recent manifestation. When all is said no one knows exactly ex-actly why this wonderful tall race of girls has sprung so suddenly to existence ex-istence nor why they threaten Jready to leave the men behind them.-Ias it some subtle connection with the per- J feet freedom and independence of thought and deed? And if this strange luxuriance of growth mkes the same swift progress in the next thirty years, that it has in the past, where, oh, where, will man be then! COPPER JEWELS IN VOGUE. People Now Prefer Them to Those of Either" Gold or Silver. Copper is the latest of the common metals to become the object of the jeweler's work. It is the most fashionable fash-ionable as well as the newest of the metals so employed, and all the smartest smart-est things in the way of sleeve links, card and cigarette cases, belt buckles, vases and the like show it. It is highly high-ly ornamental so used and remarkably remark-ably beautiful. It holds the same relation re-lation to silver and gold as do gun metal, which is essentially steel, and kay kayserzin, which has block tin for its basis. It is made up in combination with silver, is reddish in hue, highly polished pol-ished and it costs just about the same as would a similar article of solid silver. It affords a relief from the: somber gun metal and the shiny silver sil-ver and some people think it is pret tier than either. Many of the new articles shown this fall are delightfully artistic. Sleeve links of the royal copper witl iiver rims and silver imposed heads a.J the. like were much admired. Silver vases! with copper holders and especially sil-f ver and copper card and smokers'' cases are among those most in demand. de-mand. The metal is also used for' flasks, brushes, whisks and toilet ar-; tides generally. It is scarce at pres ent, but will become more piennmfi as the makers are better ajiuiuptm jtH4smIled and said: turning it out. VERY OLD FORM OF WIT. The Retort the Most Ancient of All Laughternducers. The retort is of all verbal coins the quickest to get into circulation" and the readiest to pa3s from one hand to another. Perhaps of all coins it is also the oldest. In our English tongue we have legends of the repartee of king and courier for well nigh a thousand thou-sand years. The pun, which is often a species of retort, goes as far back as our language. To play on words, often in a very personal manner, is the simplest form of retort. Old Thomas Fuller made a witty as well as a true epitaph for himself when he bade them 'write on his tombstone two words only, "Fuller's Earth." But Fuller himself got caught sometimes. The Dame "Sparrowhawk," in which one of his friends rejoiced, was tod tempting to the habitual punster, and so he asked the unfortunate man who was afflicted with it what was the difference dif-ference between a sparrow hawk and an owl. The answer which he got was, "An owl is fuller in the head, and fuller in the face and fuller all over, which was probably more fuller than Fuller bargained for. The Kaiser Gets an Alp. The German emperor has come into possession of another windfall. A Ger man merchant named Hilderbrand of Dresden, who for many years has been established at Berne, recently died, and, having no heirs, bequeathed bequeath-ed a considerable fortune and a quantity quan-tity of land to the -Emperor. The kaiser becomes the proprietor of the Ifflgen Alp, which is situated between the Weisshorn and Wild-horn; Wild-horn; the Niessen Horn, and the beautiful beau-tiful waterfall of Ifflgen, situated in the Canton of Berne.. To give an idea of the-extent of the property which bis majesty inherits, it is said that it takes five hours' hard walking to cress It. Many chalets are ; dotted over the land, which is rich in pasture pas-ture and in woods. The emperor of Austria is also a Swiss proprietor, having lately come into possession of the historical castle of the Hapsburgs in the Canton of Thurgovie. Clay "Butter." It is not generally known that in many parts of the world clay is eaten on bread as a substitute for butter. This is termed "stone butter," and is used in Germany. In the northern parts of Sweden earth is often baked in bread, and is sold in the public markets on the Italian peninsula, as well as on the island of Sardinia, Persia. Per-sia. Nubia, and other tropical eoun tries. This practice probably had its origin in the knowledge that all earth's have some sort of flavor, and take the place of salt, a necessary ingredient in all kinds of food. New Flying Machine. Joseph H. Linton-of Fort Worth. Tex., has invented a flying machine wblch he intends to enter for the $100,000 prize in the airship tournament tourna-ment at the World's Fair, St. Louis, in 1904. His machine is to be built on the aeroplane system, and differs grectly from any machine yet invented. in-vented. Many Monuments to Bismarck. There are 301 monuments to Bismarck Bis-marck In Germany and other countries of Emope. Russian Business Ways Bank C'JIcials Hardly What We Would Call Upst&Date Delights of a Sail on the Black Sea Some Views of Moscow, the Ancient Capital of the Empire, ' (Special Correspondence.) O say farewell to Ba-toum Ba-toum was good-bye to the Caucasus, with its mountains beyond compare, com-pare, its wonderfully good-looking men, its extortionate hotels and cheap railways. Its de licious peaches, and, lastly, to its fleas. And in spite of the drawbacks it was to us a painful ceremony. The ceremony of departure was painful to some extent, both on account of our passports and of our letters of credit. The former had been delivered Into the hands of the hotel on the night of our arrival, and were returned next morning. When they had been snugly stowed away, our portmanteaus and bundles packed, our dressing cases locked, and we were preparing to sally forth in search of the bank we were informed that we must again deliver our passports. Tiere was much botb- Y'ii . J;; L k JL mi :t llr I li'ii Mi.siilf mi i BmZm Temple of the Savior. , ( Moscow.) er in unearthing the things, but they were at la3t produced, and after an hour returned, and again we prepared to sally forth As by that time we felt that we pretty well understood the ways and methods of letters of credit, we decided decid-ed to send our courier on a shopping expedition and go by ourselves to the bank. We found all the officials of the bank most polite and considerate. To all that we said they bowed and "Yes, , certainly." And, taking our letters, returned to a far room to peruse per-use their contents. After waiting many minutes it occurred oc-curred to one of us that the identification identifi-cation was not sufficient. So we begged the attendance of one of the stalwart gentlemen,' both of whom looked like Germans, and said in English Eng-lish (which we took it for granted they understood, as there had always been English-speaking cierks in all the banks heretofore), that ir they wished further identification we could name such and such people in Batoum. They still bowed politely and said, "Yes. certainly." Then we decided that those two words were the only ones they knew or understood . which really proved to be the case. I said politely that possibly pos-sibly Monsieur would prefer to speak General View French, and they both brightened visibly. vis-ibly. After a time, however, the same affably knowing. look begin to return to their blonde countenances, and they retired again to cover, taking the letters with them. Can it be that they understand no French either? we speculated. One of them appearing at the door of their private lair, to regard with .puzzled glances our open countenances, we hailed him poMtely in German. An expression ex-pression of immense relief overspread hi; fat face, and he sped to us with fleet, "flat" feet, and, all smiles and beaming glances, took a chair back of the large table at which we were seated, seat-ed, and then, in fairly good German, begged that the ladies, if they objected object-ed not, would read to him the contents- of the letters of credit. " The ladies did so in German, and ex plained as best they could the meaning mean-ing of the thint why we had come to tl em and the fact that we were not to be charged a large percentage on our checks. The ladies themselves were, I fear, extremely hazy in their understanding of the subject in hand: but they did their best, wondering at the same time why the sign "English spoken" was o be seen displayed upon the bank's dcors, and wh;- the name of a bank which evidently knew not the ways of a letter of credit was to be found upon those 'etters. An understanding beieg'arrived at. after -fully an hour of explanations, we wr-n .itif. wke'ir? our mixture of Frer -h 'lt' -'.zh cc:n.5 when J a Trial to Tourists the courier appeared and informed us that we must again deliver up our passports (alas!) for the inspection of the port, as we understood it. When, an 'hour later, we demanded them at our hotel, they told us they had them not, but we would receive them aboard ship. Then and there we made up our minds not to leave the town without those passports. They had cost us already about $20, the price for having hav-ing them vised by the various consuls, con-suls, and they were our one possibility of landing at Constantinople and getting get-ting back by Bulgaria to Paris, a route we had determined upon long before. We were duly cheated out of our few remaining Russian coins by the extortionate boatmen who rowed us out to the ship, and we finally fin-ally set sail on the Memphis on a brilliant day In September. All that afternoon we skirted the ii ii shore in sight of the magnificent mountains,' with those of Asia Minor also in - view, a panorama of peaks seen across a sea almost unbelievably unbeliev-ably blue. The Russian mother was enthusiastic in praise of the Caucas-an Caucas-an coast for summer or winter residence. resi-dence. She had bought a hillside under un-der the range not far from Batoum, and was just putting up a cottage which was to have a roof of thatch. She said that all the servants were Turks, and they were the "est and most honest servants she had ever had; fine workers and very grateful for any kind of a good word. When I thought of the reports we had heard of the Russian servants and their inveterate in-veterate dishonesty, I wondered Just how much the Turks could be trusted. It was a dreadful night, and had there been any kind of shelter near by the captain would have put us off. But we were several miles from town, and there were no droschkes in sight or hearing. Even if there had been, it would have been impossible to drive in such a wind. The captain was up all night and in great doubt as to the strength of his cables. We were thankful that they held, for in any other case we would have been torn away from the dock and dashed against the stone breakwater. No anchors an-chors could have held, and engines of Moscow. had not strength enough to such a wind and sea. with Next morning we watched with interest in-terest the arrival of two droschkes of passengers. They proved to contain only a melancholy young Russian and four French officers,, none of whom could speak a word of English. We longed for one other woman. We started late in the afternoon, and the next four days were made as pleasant for us as was possible. The ship's officers of-ficers did all in their power to make us content. The captain we' consider a very remarkable person. Born in Corsica of parents who could not even read their language, and who had not money enough to give him an education, he had educated himself and worked his way up, until at the age of fifty he commanded the best ship of the Black Sea merchant fleet, besides which he had learned to speak Italian. French and German and could iindsrstand English. Simple Precautions Effective. Medical men say that books and paper pa-per money carry the microbes of disease, dis-ease, and yet the employes of public libraries, who handle hundreds of books daily, and bank officials, who handle thousands of notes, do not "catch" the disease. The, reason is that library people do not wet-their fingers with their lips to turn over the leaves of tae books, and bank officials offi-cials do cot wet their fingers in tl e same way to count money. The One Difficulty. If things were as we wish they were. What blisses would awake! It' wondrous what a difference Such little things can make. TMs earth, on all the heavenly map, Would be the finest star If things were as we wish thejr were. Instead of aa they are. We'd have no wintry blasts to chill The fragile flowret's smile;. Life would Its promises -fulfill And hopes would ne'er beguile. The universe, from year to year. Would run without a jar. If things were as we wish they were. Instead of aa they are. A Simple Phenomenon. Draw any geometrical figure, a square, a triangle, etc., on a square piece of paper, using a lead pencil, the point of which has been dipped in water. wat-er. Place the paper on the surface of water, the figure turned up and fill the space inside of the outline of the figure with water. This will not be very difficult, as the water lines of ths figure prevent the water from flowing over the limits of the figure. For instance, in-stance, the figure is that of a triangle. Place the point of a pin on any point of the figure, penetrating the water surface without touching the paper itself, and you will see that the figure will turn and move in any direction, until the true geometrical center of the figure is right under the point of the pin. Candies From a Kerchief. To perform this trick well before a small party is to become at once the hero of the evening. The performer per-former hands the audience a dessert des-sert plate and a cambric handkerchief for examination. These being returned, he places the plate upon a table near him.- The handkerchief is then spread cut quite flat over the plate. At command com-mand candies, nuts and raisins pour into the dessert plate the instant the handkerchief is lifted up, producing an effect that might well have astonished even the magician of old. The way it is done Is this: Make a calico bag large enough to hold the The Magic Shower of Sweets. nuts and sweetmeats you intend to distribute dis-tribute exactly to the pattern "of a nightcap or the letter A. A small selvage sel-vage is turned up at the bottom of the bag. Get two pieces of watchspring and bend them quite flat, each spring to be exactly half the diameter of the bag. These are put into the selvage and sewn up. When the bag is opened, it will close itself in consequence conse-quence of the springs. A long pin is passed through the top of the bag and 4bent round, hook shape. If the bag be suspended by the hook without any danger of the nuts or anything else falling out, because, - although the mouth of the bag is downward, the springs keep It shut. When this trick is to be shown, the prepared bag is hung on the side of the table that is away from the audience. The plate is also placed on that side, and when the handkerchief is laid over the plate a portion is left to fall over the side of the table. Now the handkerchief is picked up with the 'right hand in the center, just as a lady does when she wishes to exhibit the lace edges, and with t the bag of candies, the folds of the cambric hiding hid-ing the bag. The left hand is now used to draw over the handkerchief and to press the bag. This causes the springs to open, and out falls the "good things" upon the plate. This causes sufficient diversion for the merest mer-est tyro of a conjuror to drop the bag behind the table unseen, while he advances to the audience, politely inquiring, in-quiring, "Will you take a few sweetmeats?" sweet-meats?" Shadow Pantomime. An entertainment that ' any smart boy oi girl may arrange, with very little lit-tle needed in the way of material. Is the Shadow Pantomime. Stretch a sheet across the folding doorway of a double parlor or wherever a curtain for theatrical performances could go. Behind it at the back of the stage put a lamp. The side where the audience FLAGS OF SPAIN - Spain tnd Portugal are represented n our flag pictures this week. The first banner is that of the Spanish ravy; it consists of three stripes a central yellow one, and a red one, slightly narrower, above and below. Tbe central stripe bears an escutcheon es-cutcheon containing the arms of Castile and Leon, surmounted by a crown. Tbe left half of the escutcheon is red, with the castle of yellow, while the whitehajf is white with a red 'ion. The crown is yellow, with the openings red. The commercial flagy of Wpain is a5so red art! yellow, having a yellow stripe at ton a rd bottom, and a wider yellow stiir throng!! the center. The two remabirg stripes are red. siis is left dark. Now the play may begin. The lamp casts shadows on the sheet, which are big or little ac- 1 pF3" MMMaMiMWnMVr',Mr'war'a,' cording to their distance from the light. Jumping over the light will make it look as though the performer had disappeared by jumping through' the ceiling. Chairs and other objects may be made to appear or disappear in the same way. The actors should keep their profile turned to the audience audi-ence as much as possible. A Guessing Game. This game is not exactly intellectual, intellect-ual, nor is it a mere time-killer. It is rather betwesn the two, for it requires the exercise of some judgment, and it certainly is amusing. Some little preparation is necessary, but not enough to give you serious trouble. The object is to have the players guess the full particulars about certain cer-tain articles that are placed in view on a table, but without any clew to guide them. Each article is numbered and corresponding numbers are written writ-ten down the margin of sheets of paper, pa-per, one sheet being given to each player. The players are allowed a certain time, say, five minutes, to examine ex-amine the articles, and then they must write their guesses opposite f the numbers. A prize should be offered, of-fered, to make the game ' more Interesting. Inter-esting. Of course, some member of: the company must know the particulars particu-lars about each article, and he should receive the papers, and decide the contents. The following articles are suggested, but many others might readily be used. 1. The length of a ball of twine. 2. The number of beans in a glass jar. 3. The exact length of a pole. 4. The number of Beeds in an orange or an apple. 6. The quantity of water in a pail. 6. The denomination of a postage-stamp, postage-stamp, face down. 7. The number of pins in a cushion. 8. The number of pages in a book, 9. The number of cards in a pack from which some have been taken. 10. The contents of a certain boy's pocket. Feathers From a Handkerchief. A clever trick performed with large-plumes, large-plumes, such as are worn by officers-Take officers-Take off your coat and lay the plumes along your arm, the stems being toward to-ward your hand. Now put on your coat again, and the feathers will He quite smoothly and unsuspected. Borrow Bor-row a handkerchief from one of the spectators and wave it about to show that it is empty. Throw It over your left arm, and with the right draw out one of the plumes from up the coat sleeve, at the same time giving it a flourish in the air, which will loosen, all the fibres of the feather and make it appear much too large to have been concealed about the person. Wave the handkerchief again, and repeat the operation until all the plumes are gone. You can carry enough plumes under the sleeve to cover a table with, and if you prepare pre-pare a board or an ornament vase full of holes you can place the plumes upright up-right as you take them out. Five Generations of One Family. Five generations of one family are living in the town ol Pillow, Dtuphin county, Pa. They are Mrs. Henry Feagley, aged 91; her daughter, Mrs. Jacob Leuker, aged 69; Mrs. Leuker's daughter, Mrs. Frank Snyder, aged 44; the latter's daughter, Mrs. A. D. Deib-ler, Deib-ler, and her son, Russell, aged three months. A Match Puzzle. Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Here is a puzzle. Put twenty-four matches to form nine squares, as shown in' the left hand figure. Now take away eight matches so as to leave two squares. The solution will be found in the right hand figures. AND PORTUGAL. The Portuguese royal standard bears on its scarlet field a shield showing the royal arms of Portugal. Tbe shield or escutcheon is scarlet like the flag, but it is outlined with gold. On its surface are six golden castles, and a white shield with five smaller escutcheons of blue. If this drawing were larger, there would be upon each blue escutcheon five white circles. The, Portuguese ensign for "the navy and merchant service bears the coat of arms, but the ground work cf the flag is half blue and half white, the blue part being nearest the pole. The coat of arms is colored ,as. In the royal standard, a red shield with golden castles, and the smaller shield of white. Paint the picture. |