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Show CHILDRENS CORNER. NOT ALL KILLED IN ACTION. KISSES FOR EVERY ONE. nt Krenrk I.lue Pier on (lie I' purl ure of a Steaiuer. Certain physicians of more or less repute have publicly condemned the inimipractice of kissing as cal to il.o pirrer.s wliu pursue it, nays the New York Tribune. Although the fulminatiuns of there would-b- e reformers have a it railed a good deal of attention from the comic papers and from the small army of people whose greatm delight in life it ia to toi.e and follow fads in rapid succession, yet the tiling has never been held of weight to derm nd the official notice of the health authorities. But the abolition of slavery was long in coming, and for hundreds of years the earth was held to be flat All reforms rise from small beginnings, and it is poBBlble that in time we shall see signs similar to those that now denounce expectoration in our public conveyances, declaring that osculation is moat dan- gerous to the public wellbeing and Is thereby forbidden by the board of health. If that day ever cornea the first public place to reoelve (he attention of the health authorities will be the pier of the French line of transatlantic steamers at Morton street If anybody happens to be abroad at the unseemly hour of 3 oclock of a Satur- day morning and la looking for an en- tertainlng spectacle he can do no bet-than to hie himself down to the river front to see the French liner go out. He will get a new Idea of the tremendous possibilities of osculation. He will find the big pier a strange contrast to the ailent and deserted streets through which be has come. It will be ablaze with electric lights. It will be thronged with a crowd of passengers about to embark for Havre, and with them will be nearly every one of their friends who could by any possibility get there. No passengers go aboard the steamer until the last minute, and in the time that elapses between their arrival at the pier and the moment when is heard the cry of All ashore that's going ashore!" there Is not an instant when somebody is not getting kissed. The French are noted for tin ir effusiveness, but there is probably no occasion when this trait appears to such an extent aa whr-- they are about to commit their friends to the mercy of the sea. They are kisses that are felt, too. None of your Berne TIMELY TOPICS FOR OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. t Allllll; imp l.illlt OiicM llltllla- ( I"' lluly Catiili'. I alt ftaja tlict AiiII;ih SurpriM- ItluMlni; Out I lir oiiiu Y the pa's best iiii li.'iia ,c Thiii I mu-:- imy 1 i f-- in pits win h lit- is liy Tii make tin il.iys anl liuiii-- fly, Fur any bird or Is nst or llali I want he'll tie whene'er I wish. - s Fur instance, if 1 chance to want A wife and gentle elephant, liell fasten on his own big nose One of my long black woolen hose. And on his hitnds and bended knees Is elephantine as you please, And truly seems to like the sport Of eating peanuts by the quart. Then, when I want a lion's roar. He'll go behind my bedroom door And growl until I sometimes fear The king of beasts is really near; But when he flnds my courage dim He peeps out, and I know It's him. And he can meow Just like a cat No Tom can beat my pa at that And when he yowls and dabs and spits It sends us all off Into fits. Bo like it seems that every mouse Packs up his things and leaves the house. Then, when he barks, the passers-b- y Look all about with fearsome eye. And hurry off with scurrying feet To walk upon some other street. Because they think some dug is there To rush out at 'em from his lair. And oh, 'twould make you children laugh When daddy plays the big giraffe. He'll take his collar nff. you know. And stretch his no k an inch or so. And look down op you from uluve, His eyes so soft ami full of love. That, as you wiitclii-- them, you would think From a giraffe he'd learned to blink. Tis as a dolphin though that he Is strongest as it seems to me. And I don't know mud) liner fun Than sitting in the noonday sun Upon the beaeh and watching pop, Aa In the ocean he goes flop, And makes us children think that he's A porpoise from across the seas. And when he takes the tin tube out. And blows tip water through the spou The stupidest can hardly fail To think they see a great big whale! And that is why I say to you My pa's a perfect dandy zoo, The very best menagerie That ever you or 1 did see. And what is finest, let me say. There never is a cent of pay! Gaston V. Drake, In Harper's Round Table. ' s ltuul It I me. Several rhyming game are given among these Round Games, and the following is simply a vaiicty of some of them; A slip of paper is given to each playaicd to. write in one er, who is corner of it two words that rhyme. Tile papers are then culhvtcil and read aloie.l, after which eery one is expected to write a short stanza, 'icing all the rh; nms Licit have in-tr- od bet n suggested. When the completed poems are read aloud, it is very amusing to observe liow totally different are the styles adopted by the various authors, and how great is the dissimilarity that exists between the ideas suggested by each one. at I'rilnr Creek. Evidence accumulates that the defeat of the morning at Cedar Creek would uot have been turned into a victory during the afternoon if it had not been for the arrival of Gen. Sheridan. The Btorv Is told that a Confederate officer of deservedly high reputation present at the flrsi interview between Gens. Early and Gordon, after the hitter's surprise and defeat of our troops, quotes this dialogue: Vlrtory Gen. Early 1 congratulate you on your gnat victory. Now- we will go into camp. Gen. Gordon (in surprise) Into camp? Why, shant we pursue? Gen. Earl- y- No. we have done a great thing and we'll not run any risk. So their arm rafted, in a bud conaf'erward followed. dition. and dcfi-aIt was nil due 10 Gen. Sheridan, who showed (he sumo ii'i'nciry nnd grip in were 'which aficiwi-rFork his pursuit of la1' aft r i!ie victory. - r rmit-pii-nou- A Strlklnc l.lkenr. Miss Susan Is an exceedingly refined young lady, who has s.cn soma five summers. She is full of airs nnd of nnd degraces, reserved, cut She her uncla cidedly uppish. dead lu the street one day, and when he reproached her for her extrema hauteur, sho said, with her most d pro-aounc- ed society manner: saw you, uncle, but I thought auntie! was It llarper'ii Round Table. Oh, la ItMttle Not co AppulliiiS Mill) Delieie. Summing up the whole quiTtiiiii, ns between auy twu Knri.p.-apiiuc-t- r allied .'iruiies of die picscit! d.iy. the FXtrrnic pi i( i n;;iyi or luss to ! e loudly i. e.. on pirdcid.ir brigades ,1:0! one in tiitic 1 Tim Stamper Mumpeil. rolitlcus: "My son. you must leara say no.'" Son: "But, father, yoa lover soy no." You say: Til the matter. " Truth coo-Id- cr Sajr lruile That Jniiriii.-rl- hi.-tor- hi-to- ry (of 1 er er n 1 1 r .1 ei -- . alarmiiif.' in thiir prei-iiprev.iiriuu-The true strength of every human Some people g.-- t ill ii'.i .1 lll.U they iii is to h'1 di piinltnt mi jig many si have tile 'iii'ip' liu IIR II'.I lil the coll tract a slight cold, but there is a wide nobler as it ran iMsrrru. and to he deby as many inferior as it difference bciAt-i-the two maladies. pt mini upon -A person suliVring fiom Hie gr. feels e.ii. reai. h. John Kurkin. Coarse lire for food, water to drink, as thougli every Poiii In his body is broken and that his head is twice the the lx n ded arm for a pillow happiness usual size, lie hasn't to he told Iliat may be injojed even with them; but he has the grip, but gots to Ud and without virtue both riches and honor sends for a doctor, while the man with seem to me like the passing cloud. a cold, although feeling badly, is able Confucius. to continue at hw business. October For the best results there needs be la a great month for colds. The tem- the longest waiting. The true harvest perature is so uncertain du' i this ia the longest in being reached. The month that many people do .1 1 take failures come first, the successes lasL proper precautions In the matter of The unsatisfactory ia soonest seen. dress. Many who cannot afford to Calder wood. change their raiment promptly with The right human bond ia that which the season are thinly clad and readily unites soul with soul; and only they contract colds In consequence, while are truly akin who conscientiously live those who are able to make "renipt in the same world, who think, believe sing and love alike, who hope for the Bame change are generally carelesa , too heavily one day and too . the things, aspire to the same ends. next, when the weather Is cL.f.Kruble. Bishop Spalding. Another reason for ihe prevalence of Contention and are not colds at this season la due to the the mark of either disputation a great mind or a change experienced by many who have calm, sweet spirit. The thinker quietreturned from the mountains or seadoes his best to make his meaning shore, where their habits of life and ly but if there is still lack of perclear, the climate have been different to on the part of his hearers he ception what they find in the city, and the for that justification which waits simply change results in a slight type of inIs sure to James u 1 bring. MvJga. fluenza. Their systems are generally time mildly charged with malaria, and naTO KEEP A BOY AMUSED.' ture avails herself of this opportunity to work It out. ruiilra anil iaiii to lie Opriml at Station Along tlir Koulo. It was the general concensus of opinLast week my sinter was constrained ion among the physicians seen iliat the health outlook fur Philadelphia for to send her youngest sou a long railthe coming winter was promising, and way journey. She was greatly puzzled the prevalence of grip, to a large to know wliat to do to nmiise the extent, was not anticipated by any of child during the wt.iry hours of travthem. The druggists report that the eling. no he was too viuug to i nteiiion sales of quinine and antlpyrlne during himself by midiug. Mnn dm r, Ihe the last few days has been unusually liny was an frrepirss.ble fidget, and an large, which shows a disposition on eldi iiy relation lmd viry kindly unthe part of a large number of thoBe dertaken to take charge of the child, The so that my sister was na:a;;.!ly anxsuffering to doctor themselves. public schools should be warned ious to provide him with snme with whith to fmploy bis misagainst a too generous use of antlpyrchievous little fingers and his busy litlne without the prescription of a physician. said a prominent druggist, tle brain. This was her device which I as at times It has a most deleterious thought was so ingenious that 1 would effect, especially with persons who record it for the benefit of t,ia h of our have heart trouble. The effect of the readers Hs'nre mothers and guardians of little hoys about to trave Link to drug is to suddenly lower the temperature, and when this Is done to too school. She bought a nmiLir cf lit.'.mi Khe great an extent with persons suffering tle cheap puzzles, gnmrs. from heart trouble the consequences are fastened each littje gift in a ie para to Philadelphia sealed parcel, sml w'n.li on Mile the likely to he serious. name of the station after U;.v i! g w hb.h Times. wl'h. it micht hp opened and p's Then she acquired a map ' UMir 1 iMi (HfklllK , of Europe and mourned it 0:1 I lii! Mi'lc'. Those ti bought here last anil dpw the boy's journey in ink on ii 11. ib." the map, making an X ;.t f it ry s'ation i:. said the clerk; It where he was to have oite U ii.e mys... ;v i",.,,Ti. ! you find them in futerious pam Is. f :i!:i i:fr..i a arm fii'wgh'." iliat my nephew- IV.bhy .'ill now ture "Tin y with v.;.rin riinteh when 1 nssoeif'ite the Mdcf 'owns in t in- Mirth p.ir tbtm nil. but uiuii't think to of Europe with th" ef of iliat a boil ; thn.i this morning. it qi'.i r r memL.'ig. ami w.P fnsrir.uilug aboat "ipiire ber la ipsic us the p!.: wi.'n in- obYc.:. Ever tinre they wen washed fish iitui :i Man- two tained . hi- baby 1..1K ben wearing Now, over where he .1 In:, of colnnwiTppd If mm have anything that mn't quite ored (hulks and u picture book, and a f i Is li a little so on a ruui bargain and through :d! the major and minor :ii, re likf ly to remain my size, I'd like towns along his runic. The li'tle parSt. Leals ,0 bee itcels were so arranged th.it there waa one for every of an hour till 8 o'clock at night, and one between Queens-bor-o for every half-boChinese Urggara. and London the lowing mornA Chinaman cun live fairly well on Gentlewoman. ing. five cents a day. Every scrap that can he utilized for food or clothing is Skirl tlanrrr Annoyed Her. made available. Yet In spite of this A small object upon the scarf of a the fact remains that there are more young man in the Sixth avenue car beggars in China than even in southern happened to attract the eye of a Italy. They travel In great companies old lady seatand tuar-i- men, women and children. Tramp- ed si.i-'The i bji t wiined opposite. ing is often a matter of Intense pain nt Hip first p?ance to lie a caudv bectla to the women, because their feet have a pin nnd kicking franbeen mutilated so that they can scarce- impaledto upon rf leas'1 himself. The old lady tically ly walk. Crowds of yelling young de- ."rose from seat with the evident mons of hoys follow carriages a mile intention of the youth, whom for alms. she or two, sometimes, begging like the lute Bill Nyes supposed, The vagrautH have become so artistic dog. v. a:- - a K.llertor of insects, for hla In begging that they frequently Mrr Indignation turned to swarms of beggars roam about when she discovered bowevir. liMi'or, to excite sympathy, late :!.( i. rule was in reality u tiny the land in spite of the fact iliat every Mil skin da mrr, kb king her diir.ln-:r- e ir family of moans takes care of all of Its fc ii.e air in a most llfs-- e poor r Drives to the utmost exlfint of The shitt daio'cr Is a :,:'.,"Ci' i:s ability. Tin' Chinese are not lazy. in 'be pier. One ;:yf ' They '.vould '.null if thry cniiM, hut :r.ib- mure ilpi-- than it 1.' there is nut. mlViiifiir work for ail. be, t.t the r.'l.i r U ac- belli, 'i'l.i re i. u pr.eu-1- '.,;i .. el itliiu ib" licura a. bv merr.-tia .1 lirjr Cain. : :be wi'h a s'l.nlb r rub-- .: V, City Star According to tho Kd:i--at of '" I; e;,ii"d in H.e !is one place in tin United Stji.es hi re Like to have P'liiicr, you bo mun a in out a may where heavy u j.nket to l e her dan-.o- . .' rain and not get wet, though he has to apply a little ,:.!' neitbir m;nkintosb nor umfirclla. Ia . 'We in li t ii'ilb in the ) is ki l and ih'Sirt have (uiorndu tl:.j they da'i-'s pd;.l cvtririity do-- .during which not a tingle drop 1." air with precision in .'' til water touches tho earth. The ruin !o dcMiuy a tile at ovuy kirk. e 1. :,.ii ran be ret failing from the clouds '.1 a turn." ,.. t;ie hid!), she high above, hut when the water reachi .1 of the mialli r cil- -. .id va lit. ' 's tb; rtraui of hot. dry air biuuath ,.iit ij it :I.e Hi her kind Jies in the the clouds it is entirely absorbed be:. i.iil is perfectly obedient to fore fi'll'ng half the distance to tbs "Slade Cdtlera." . , and nil her I'l.iii.'gi-Mrs. Chaffi" .Johnnie, I have dis- -. ground. It Is a singular sight to wit10 l; r own line of c'l'iciml is .i .ii.y, down-poof rain, not a 14 1. Ilci.-ldthat you have taken more cake ness a heavy ,1 pi man I gave you. Johnnie Yes, ma; drop of which touches the ground. A Waterloo veteran, agea a years, occur in reI made believe that there waa another These strange been discovered among ths Inmates has ofgions where the shade temperature little boy spending the day with me. f tha as Nottingham work bonus, as one ten and bundled high ranges Texas Sifter. twenty-eigdegrees Fahrenheit. able-bodie- milk-and-wat- neiu-putlo- n Hivd.-di'iv.- lia-n- op-o- J ! r i j "1 A . 1 uh-m- n ! I ed oak-panel- (laic if . is nt half-and-ha- lf, colder-blood- suffer feaai I liiu-l- ) ju - (livi.-uer.i- Th miplo unfit of time and the tin; bort compost' the highltt'lug est bappiiiiss of m 111. Yiiiiii-y. Ilavi you got a cold? If nut, TTiivciMi! the Msp.u'j of what are fonun.ite. for ;,e;uly evcrione else a, .111 I. .is .uco!iip!:bti.l in Mils world, Out m ,1 du.e!) cl mere bus on is at bii'.tein the of the great a'.l attiih-utr- d t!: s'u. wbit hi'ii worked here. Curly la. i.nn the ii! Is from vvh'.t'h i.e.ii'! everyA Hi r and '.riyltter day for huone is suff.'iiiiL' 10 the Mid liii ll. unity upprea. in's iiih ever quirken-i,i- g .l he cf vwail.cr. "(.'will are to '.vp iti i with a fh.ir.yc of si i.s.m." prom 1. mu fijo'sirps. mi. onromisrs a ciirei-- to ever to infinite attain-llc.ulinu inent pli; siiiji.'. iiUd ih'ii is no,:.i:ig nt. It. C. Ail.im ;. I'hjislrlaii S ! . f I, if will in,1 rteiul whiih one .r mi.i J to four woiindi di. win r as for wii.i.e arin mies of 2.M.i.riiti and ou r one .a the very uu;:de piiiiiehuti lit we mac reasonably Xpert. Unmpared wuii t:. (laughter of die seven years' wr.r and best contested fields of do Napoli uni period, this is very little, imbed. A' Zorndorf the Russians left il.tiw out of 52 tHKi on the ground, and. though this is undoubtedly the bloodiest buttle recorded since the introduction of portable firearms, Eylau. Erledland. W&gram and Borodino all exceed the figures for any fixed battle since the breech-loadappeared in the field. Moreover, the horror cf the whole thing is not to be measured by figures of percentages only, but by the density in which the killed and wounded He and the fate of the latter afterward. In a modern battle 20,000 men would fall on an area of about twenty square miles; at Zorndorf the 21,000 Russians and 12,000 Prussians lay on a single square mile, and of the wounded not one In three survived and the Prussian med-tcal staff anticipate even better result st net time. But death on the battlefield is by far the leaser of the two evils the soldier has to face. There la the death on the line of march and in hospitals along the road. Whereas, formerly, particularly under Napoleon, ten would die by the way for one who fell In action; In the last Franco-Germawar only one man died of disease for two killed in action. Indeed, the health of men In the full prime of life was actually Rlightly better in the field than In quartern. It may, however, he argued that, even grunted that buttles and marches may he less destructive, there will be more of them, because d every man, being trained for war, the resistance will be more prolonged than formerly, but this prolonged endurance is only conceivable under the supposition that the leaders on both sides are hopelessly incompetent, and both fear to stake all on a single collision, a supposition that nothing tends to Justify. On the contrary, every leader brought up in the namby-pamb- y kisses for your Frenchman, but modern Bchool 1b taught to understand kisses that are to be remembered for the vulnerability of all modern milidays and weeks and months and not tary organizations, and is penetrated with the conviction that one downforgotten until the friends meet again. "knockout" blow effects more right audible all are kisses those They over the pier and they make the casual than weeks of purposeless sparring, stranger feel utterly lonesome and dis- and where both start determined to mal. The women are kissed by the bring matters to a climax the decision men and the men are kissed by the cannot long be delayed. Judging from of the relative efficiency women, and, strangest of all, the men what we know arc kisesd by the men. It is not one of continental armies, we believe that kiss or two or three, but scores and the first round of the treat encounter scores of them. It is a perfect fusillade, will also be the last, for the momenOn the tum of the blow which decides will a bombardment of kisses. n month they full and on the cheeks and 6ir,Pl' paralyze every nerve of the In and. al. I,onent body; up adding the hair and on the eyes. There" is casualties that can ocrur In no part or portion of thf-lfares iliat s0,,,1t's a campaign of this escapes. Big. hnii'iled and bronzed conclude w,? that at the very worst the nu n clasp path other in their arms, and thiir lips in fv! time and time again. actl,a ('os n human life to the puw-amount to more nt! in tween kire.a the air is fall of crs samc percentage as the inilu-foam.- - (lung about in excited gcsticula- - j ban ls:.l-0cost Germany, and one gets a Imwildiring impres- - en epidemic of less than same the ratbf'r epidemic tinn of should! n, that are shrugged C08t us' T suppose that this degree are rolled and eyr brows ad eyes that chain the hat are raised and lowered with the of b,001 &',n,inew of wills of statesany responsible body speed of memory. And all the while men believed who actwere that they exof of chaos the air is full perfect clamation pointj and diminutives and ing in the interests of their country is surely too Utopian an Idea for profitall the terms of endearment of which so la full. French To the able discussion. Pall Mall Gazette. the language native of this latitude It Is all quite Incomprehensible and be- - THE QUEEN'S MAIDS OF HONOR wilderiug. Their Du tic Are Arduous and They Earn Their Salaries, a Almost Sensation, The of honor to the Queen maids A good story was spoiled the other earn every penny of the 1,500 a year Some in London. time man a ago day they .receive. While on duty they can purchased an ancient, house in Greater hardly call a single minute their own. London, a house with After breakfast, which they take In rooms, molded ceilings and a wide own rooms, they have to hold with carved balustrade, their rt&ircase, themselves in readiness to obey the some vandal had which, by the way, Queen's summons, which comes tho painted bine. There were vast attics, moment Sir Fleetwood Edwards quits too, and the other evening a party of the with hpr presence majesty's big were tlie?o for friends attics searching red morocco dlxpntfh-txi- x containing the fun of the thing, when one man his do.. '! .ork under his arm.discovered a door which had ber-- paa brief good morning, the Afu pered over. The raper was removed, Queen suggests a little reading, and a chisel forced the feeble loek and a the rnnid ndilresues to dutiful cupboard as big as the dressing room the pile of the wherein proper of a modern house was disclosed. In passages t majesty's hearing its dark recesses tlmy found, not a hive The . .11 marked. alrear, d or skeleton ruddering In over the maid of the reading hooks, honor hns to rush f(T and prepare fur a dagger, Liu a heap of middi-rinamong them a first idition of tin Wa- - drive with her After verley novels in pnpir cov rs, a groat, lutn'lif-iiis t!n nj) !y real tone the ciimbd'siimt-- ' volume, of an ext inn pa. maids of honor have to and some and even then there Is Hi" uaei r:a per, the True Bib oil, 173'i-t:iy foreign limps. an to woiher tli'.v w;!l be wauled in drive with the (pa n lac;1 :n thoKfUr-ucin:- i. ir r. pnrt-!- ! The (sIhmI KjOa They vum riey in said tt.e man in tho yelI uppi-e,fi' in :e ill y hliuiilil lie si!t fur, low ulster, it docsn'. hurt your glass it ihr: a Mrull In the ground.; alor.t is in when it? of the out any 'ill after 1 oclo'-kthing you rye Does it look aa if it would ever be when, if the ipi'en hr.s departed on a likily to have a pane in it? responded drive i !h. ini them, they know they are (he other, frigidly. And he gave him f r till fi at any rate. the g!nisy stare.- - Irdi inn polls Journal. sum-de- 'il Lua GEMS OF THOUGHT. MONTH FOR COLDS. ed n s llif-m- - 2 tln-m- - Iuril-Diiipaic- h. - three-quarte- rs nr f- - sym-pathc- hd r h-- lid-atln- niuli-Tbe- 1 se s v-'- I mo-iw- nt blnod-siainc- j u;i.-tres- ; . : " ? . f r 3 ! po-dr- i i.--i i.o-i- . . . 1 n". - I rain-v.crn- ni -- gt ;iii.,--,iun- 1 l : s. iie:i!'--ive- 7, .1 ! , 11 df-i'- . - . i c I . Klrrlrlr I'owrr. It is said that a largo number cf ' .l e smaller towns in Switzerland, water power is so tibuudaut. are bviug supplied with the electric current for lighting and pomr purposes which is generated by waur power. i i ..i.-ihc- ur 1 rain-stor- ht . tic |