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Show ed In uge o' ligio ji Its very Interesting," said Tommie You bet It Is! sail! Captain Jack; but It aint half so Interestin' to me ns :i box of ImjHirted clears would be. And the lioys walked off, nnd, latei gn, Captain .lack received a box of Im- etea. f 13 THE BEE. e dei len its i, just, as Tommie said Interest him. Ilaq ers Bound ported cigars lecei ,e to turning a eonier, there are several rules to be observed, and in praetiee they ought all to be observed invariably. If you a iv turning into a street to the left a wide cirrle should be made, keeping well to tin- right, leaving room always at the corner for any vehicle, whether bicycle or carriage, 0 easily pass. Harpers Bound Table. - Id rec Table. Zane lie Keep Hie lloune Free of Mice. Clilnpif Conjurer. It Is a fact of natural philosophy The court Judders in the time ol Kuldai Khan made it appear to those that rats and mice do not nfest. a Ilcr quick eye detects the oversight or neglect on the part of another, nnd she quickly hastens to remedy the matter, careful that none shall knoAV her hand has made up another failure. Is a harsh round of Judgment started criticism? She by some deftly and. tenderly drops the gentlest, the sweetest possible AAord for the criticised one and sAvitelies the eonver-satioto other topics. l)o avo not recognize this angel? We call her mother, Avife, sister. In the glory-lam- l they will call her saint. The Contributor. n rerrii repre who looked on as if dishes from the jiouse niv the Suitor (lot the Itauk ol Cuptiiln. Captain Jack, said Tommie, as he . ml Bobbie drew near to the old sail r at the seashore, shortly after their ,i nival, youve told us a great manyj Dries, but you never told as how you .ame to be a captain. Was it bravery la battle? No, my lad, replied the old cap-aiIve been brave enough in bat-- . ie to be an admiral, but I never got . :ny promotion for it. It was indoor-are won my title for me. Endurance? said Bobbie. Thats Lrood as bravery, isnt it? Better, said Captain Jack. A .reat deal better. A great many brave .'ple give out when they oughtnt to, nut indoorin people never gives out. Nor in, neither, said Tommie, I i th 1 JACKS TITLK. g 73 thu 0 ti , p a tie nt fair itatiie lardh lave a ench: there i n. i preme ; re on ois is-- h its guess. I guess likewise, said Captain and Jack. It wuz this way: In 1871 no, I it was 1873 no waal, I never iange; guess when was it? .Make it 1S74, said Bobbie.. Tliree and one make four. Thats when It was, said Captain TY. Jack. In 1874 I shipped a3 an able-bodie- d pious tding; r. At j. 1 l and be is what the! rowd i store n in, t the? i seaman before the mast with Bilkes of East GloucesWilliam Capt. of the brig Peter J., of Nanter, Mass., tucket. The Teter J. was a pretty good boat. They, called her a brig, but she wasnt nothin in particular, so far as 1 could see. She was a composite boat like them fortygrafts. The owners of her bought her stern in New York, and fastened it onto the bow of a wreck theyd purchased in a junk shop at Plymouth. The rudder was a relict an of a defunct Spanish at a masts were bought the bargain sale of shipstuffs at Philadelphy. Where the cabin come from I dont know, but it was amatoor from way-bacman-of-wa- r, k. i When I first seed the ship I says, the j No, 1 dont want none o her in mine. ghtyj I'm fond o swimmin, but I wants it have ; as a diwersion, an not fer bizness. hut Capt. Bilkes he says to me, says table actually flew through the air. One of the travelers who visited the regiom of which Marco gives us some account says: And jugglers cause cups ol gold to fly through the air and olfei themselves to all who list to drink. And Ilm Itatuta, a Moor, who visited Cathay a century after, gives this account of a similar incident: "That same night a juggler, wlic was one of the khans slaves, made his appearance, and the amir said to him Coire and show us some of your marvels. Ipon this he took a wooden ball with several holes in it, through which thongs were passed, and, laying hold of one of these, slung it into the air. It went so high that we lost sight of it altogether. (It was the hottest season of the year, and we were outside in the middle of the palace court.) There now remained only a little of the end of a thong in the conjurers hand, and lie desired one of the boys who assisted him to lay hold of it aud mount. He did so, climbing by the thong, and we lost sight of him also1 .The conjurer then called to. him three times, but getting no answer, he snatched up a knife, as if .In great rage, laid hold if the thong and disappeared .also- - By and by he threw down one of the boys hands, then a foot, then the other hand and then the other foot, then the trunk, and, last of all, the head! Then he came down himself, all puffing and panting, and with his clothes all bloody, kissed the ground before the amir, and said something to him in Chinese. The amii gave some order in reply, and oui friend then took the lads limbs, laid them together in their places and gave them a kick, when, presto- - there was the boy, who got up and stood before us! All this astonished me beyond ..measure, and I had an attack of which overcame me once before in the presence of the sultan of India, when he showed me somethin.2 of the same kind. The kazi Afkharud-diwas next to me, and quoth he: Wallah! tis my opinion there has been neither going up nor coming down, neither marring nor mending: ! tis all The Story ol Marco Polo, by Noah. Brooks, in St. . n pal-pitatio- n hocus-pocus- Jack, youre the best sailor f the alloat, an I needs yer. Come with me, Nicholas. i an Ill give yer $2,000 a month! near I Capll, says I, that aint what 1 For Bicycle Riders. 1. genrally gets, but to oblige ye. Ill There are several well known rules I come at them figgers. An I went, in which have estabbicycling y not askin at all where he was I to t; I go to. lished themselves by custom, and yet that f; "Waal, we sets out, me before the many of which, perhaps, will not be bese mast with the others, an the capn an found in any booK. They are, none two mates, four midshipmen, three the less, rules to be folloAved, because I suupycargoes, an others behind the they are founded on experience. Bid ti different from ded mast. ing iu the city is First day out, dowTn comes the capn riding in the country, and there are with the mumps. Dies. Chucked over- certain differences in riding in small lout I boa iM. towns from either the country or the Second-daout, down comes the city. In the country there is no realese f two mates with measles. Dies. Buri- son wliy. one should not ride on side-pat3 in (1 ed at sea. or sidewalks if the road is betif comes the down Third out, iuse tor there. There is much less traffic, day with soupy cough. not so many pedestrians, and no one whoopin cargoes the j: Pies. Alls over. has any objection to this side-patFourth day out, down, comes the riding there. It is very different in towns, howmil whole crew, cept me,, with shycumotis, due to havin eat too much, tomatoes. ever. There, whether the law forbids ded j Pies. Nothin left aboard but me with sideAvalk riding or not, no bicyclist the Mary Joues should leave the street. Iu towns and Bobbie. I Peter said in cities bicycles become in every way J., to The observed Peter J.? Captain subject to the laws of carriages; a md I Jack. Get em mixed sometimes; Avlieelman should keep always on the side of the road on principle. dils I theyre so many boats, I aint more right-hanh trouble to. There was me all alone by When a horse and carriage or another I myself aboard the Henry Q., to bring Avheel is approaching, he chould turn i tier into port, loaded as she was with to the right, although both the driver i Jives and fried of the horse and carriage and the rider potaters. BE I It was a tarrable responsibility; but of the Avheel must give him room to I took it on. So, iny boys, there bein pass on the right. In overtaking and r j n) soupycargoes, nor no mates, nor no passing either carriages or bicycles, I apus, nor no nothin save me an the you should pass to the left , turning, iu f decks onto the side ship, I pinted myself other words, from the right-hanof commander-in-chief- , center. the In road in towards the an thar ve be.T f: he: to-da- a-go- in k y hs h ; d . ! d 4 at the same time. Working upon this hint as to the nature of rodents, N. K. Laureson, of Vicksburg, lias fid op tot I a scheme by Avliich lie keeps jhimsolf rid of both pests. Tl is he accomplishes by capturing a young rat find training liim to catch mice. This singular mouser, whose name, by the jivay, is Czar, is doubtless the most successful one on record. He has be-- A Finn! Itemed)', A young lady once called upon one of Louisvilles most prominent homeopathic physicians, and, after discoursing on all the topics of interest of the day, settled down to tell him. her ailments. Among other things she said taught to pounce upon a mouse on she Avas greatly annoyed Avith a sinkshort order, ivithout fear and without ing feeling. The physician prepared a Of l'avor, and he slioivs no mercy. course he can folloiv the mice into close quarters and never has boon Juioivn to lose liis quarry. .Strange jto relate, large rats have given the house the also, seeming to understand that the house belongs to Czar, find that there must be no encroachment upon his prerogative. Laureson is very fond of his queer pet, and has taught him many interesting tricks. Among others he has trained him to handle a boiA and with a miniature violin Czar manages to scrape the strings in a way not unmusical. Of course it lias been impossible to teach him really to play a piece, but sitting up on liis hind legs, with his fiddle grasped in his tiny claws, Czar produces a sort of sound that is altogether iveird and fantastic. Laureson is himself a violinist of no mean order, and Czar likes nothing better than to sit on his master's knee and listen to his playing. go-b- y little bottle of pills and gave them to her, Avitli minute directions as to hoAV they should be taken. The woman again began to talk, aud after many A'ain efforts to get her out, she started for the door. She had just opened it, Avlien she turned and said: Oil, doctcr, what shall I do if these pills do not cure me? Take the cork, lie retorted; they tell me thats good for a sinking feeling. Argonaut. The Speed of a Fly. An instrument for measuring the flight of birds was made years ago. This instrument has been adapted to measuring the flight of insects. It lias been discovered that a house-fl- y flies faster than birds. It can fly tiventy-fiv- e feet a second, and Avlien frightened it increases its speed to 100 feet a second. A sivalloiv is considered the SAviftest of flying birds. A naturalist saAv a SAvalloAV chasing a dragon-fly- , Pet Squirrels. and it could not catch the fly. Bees acTo teach a squirrel to become not infrequently keep up and customed to handling, hoAvever, re- with Avasps a fast train for some distance, quires some patience. Every time lie trying to get in at a windoAA is fed it is well to make a little cluckVenus long Day. ing sound, or something he will recogIf the observers at Flagstaff are nize as a friendly call meaning feedtime. After having tamed him so that right in their conclusions that Merhe will eat ivhile you are watching cury and Venus make but one revoluhim, which he will sometimes do in tion on their axis during their journey one or two days, get him accustomed round the sun, so that each day is a to having your hand around the cage. year long, these planets cannot be inThen lasso or noose him around his habited people constituted like those body wuth a small cord, and take him on the by earth. It has been supposed out of the cage without lifting him that Venus at least Ava-- very similar by the cord. Take care, for he will to the earth in its phenomena and bite and sink his little teeth almost and be characteristics, might through the bone of your finger if he by much of the same kind of peopled beings; has the chance. as Venus of is rotation but period been Now take a glove that has same as of the that the earth Stuffed full of cotton, and stroke him nearly it must have six months of unintergently ivjth it. If he attempts to bite, rupted sunshine and six of continuous which he is almost certain to do, give Avhich, in the ease of him a little tweak. Repeat this as night conditions have been the moon, accepted as implyoften as he tries to bite, and he Avil unbearable heat ing during the day soon learn that if he sits still he is all cold unendurable and during the night. right. Now feed him from the thick The Flagstaff observers have the best glove. In a surprisingly short time for observing this difficult he Avill give up tlic idea at biting, and opportunity has yet been given to asplanet that you can stroke him or pick him up tronomers, and their conclusions are, with your hand, and carry him about most therefore, likely .to he correct; in your pocket. lie will grow wonderbut it may be noted that Schroter and fully attached to you, and when once the tAvo Cassinis have all calculated tamed thoroughly he will never run its revolution to he accomplished in aAvay; although he may pay short vis- about tATenty-thre- e hours and tAventy-on- e its to his mates, he will return to you. The minutes. phenomena on But pray remember this, that his dead- Avliich their calculations are based, ly enemy is the cat. feAv were confessedly however, aqd unif were certain, and they incorrectly The Angel of the Home. the conclusions drawn from traced, She doe3 not make any fuss about it, them are necessarily worthless. Philanor ask to have a reporter at her el- - delphia Ledger. boAV. But her sunny heart and self- It has frequently been asserted that forgetting love will not let her hands the brilliant colors of many floAvers be at rest while there is any bit of serve to attract bees and butterflies to helpful service she can render. If she them. Experiments recently reported can, without observation, slip the lo the Belgian Academy of Sciences burnt roll or undercrust on her plate, seem to show that the perfume, rather it is done. If some one must stay at than color of the floAvers, is the real atblossoms were home when there is a days outing, she traction. Bright-colorehoAV Avith and leaves in covered every tone, papers pinned tells, with music beto be about left be the insects not will she them; quietly yet closely glad hind and have time all to herself to only visited the hidden floAvers but endo ever so many things she has in deavored to force their way under the mind. And none suspect, from word papers in order to reach the blossoms or tone, how great the sacrifice to give which they could not see. Brooklyn - teazle ud the pleasure. half-screechin- g s d . ..... - - w |