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Show THE BEE There is a town of GO, 003 Inhabitants tie mot forward In a In which )lk deer, and before Jt reached the Syria, not far from handa of the first he was receiving there Is not a single physician. The uurilDaeman, the congratulation of hla friends, amid the vociferous "boorays" of the spectators, It was a close game' said the captain of the Watersides, grimly, as he shook hands with Rodgers, and If It hadnt been for that deerhound of yours, would have ended differently." As the hilarious crowd moved away from the ball ground a tall, portly gentleman approached Snaggles. "Arent you the fellow who asked me for a Job In my factory the other day?" ho asked, graciously. "Yea, sir." "Well, suppose you call round In tho morning. I think I can let you have a Job In my factory, and as soon as there Is a better place you can have IL Jove! but you played a good game." name of this unfortunate place is Hamah. As is the case with most of the towns in that country, diseases of the eyes are exceedingly common, and an oculist who Is willing to rough It and to suffer many discomforts could doubtless gather In numerous shekels. In the twenty-thre- e libraries of Berlin which are either public or belong to official bodies there are over 2,000,-00- 0 volumes. The royal library contains over l.OOO.OoO volumes, the university library 158,000, that of the royal statistical bureau 13C.000. Tho war academy collection consists of SS.000 volumes, that of the general staff of C9.7G0 and that of the royal chancery 72,600 volumes. The twenty-seve- n city libraries have only 76,000 volumes between them. too' precipitate. Tooth with ' GOLDEN FISH. Desire for Notoriety Gets The Chinese make great pets of their a l!d Scare. goldfish and patiently teach them Young Whlrlem's a schemer and always awake to opportunities for doing himself a good turn. When he servec notice a few weeks ago that be hat - decided to enlist, and In case of war serve as an artilleryman or In the navy there was widespread consternation, says the Detroit Free Press. His family think that the hopes of the future, so far as this country is concerned, rest largely with him. He Is a social lion and the consternation extended among eligible daughters and managing mothers. That was Just what Whlrlem had anticipated. It was what he played for. Nothing could be nicer than to have the folks at home trying to make everything as pleasant as possible for him while all the girls of his acquaintance were deploring the imminence of fate that might take him from them forever. He was right in clover and making hay while the sun shone. But Whlrlem is not the fellow' to make a false move, though he will bluff to the limit. He w'ent to the old family physician for a careful physical examination and was informed that his condition did not meet with the requirements of the service. The doctor did this with the hope of having Whlrlem forego his purpose. But the result was just the opposite, for if he would not be accepted there w'ould be glory with safety in offering himself. He did. He almost fainted when informed that he had passed an admirable examination. Now give all kinds of money if he had not in his desire to counterfeit a real hero. he-woul- d four-flush- ed tricks, such as eating from their owners hands or rushing to be fed at the tinkle of a hell. The goldfish belongs to the carp family and Is sometimes called the golden carp. That the demand for goldfish Is large Is shown by the fact that from the fi.h farms of Oldenburg over 300,000 fish are sent to market every year. Their prices vary according to beauty. They will live a long time without food, subsisting on the anlmalculae, but it 13 well to throw bread crumbs, flies and small Insects on the surface of the water. In Oldenburg, Germany, is one of the largest goldfish farms. More than a hundred small ponds contain the fish in all stages of growth, the little ones carefuly kept from the rapacious big fellows of eight Inches, which would be delighted to eat their helpless brethren. In spite of this the goldfish is a great coward, and a tiny fish with courage to attack it can frighten it almost to death. About 200 years ago Portuguese sailors saw swimming in the lakes of the Orient China particularly a very pretty variety of fish which glittered like gold. They caught some, brought them back to Europe, where the fish thrived until all streams became well stocked with them. Goldfish are also found in some parts of the United States. Their beauty soon made them popular as ornaments and pets, and establishments also devoted to raising them for market. recently patented has a casing containing a shaft, on which a rope Is wound, with brake straps to grip the ends of the shaft and a strap suspended below, in which the user sits in convenient position to grasp the brake lever. . A Oldest Kind of Money. The skins of animals were the earliest forms of money. Sheep and oxen among the old Romans took the place of money. ODDS AND ENDS. The triangular bridge at Croyland, Lincolnshire, is the oldest bridge in England, and one of the greatest curiosities. Gray horses are the longest lived ones are the most and cream-colore- d delicate, being unable to stand very warm weather. There are several varieties of fish that cannot swim. In every instance dwellers, and crawl they are deep-se- a about the rocks, using their tails and fins as legs. ' The oldest paper In the world is the Kin Pan. of Pekin. For nearly a thousand years it has been published regularly, first as a monthly, up to the year 1361, when it became a weekly, and for the last ninety years as a daily. fire-esca- pe Wireless Telegraphy. In the attempt to turn "wireless tel-egraph- practical account and make it a commercial success, Mr.W.J. Clarke of New York has produced ; an apparatus for sending and receiving telegraphic signals without wires, which is to be placed upon the market. Where for any reason it is desired not to use Morse signals, a special receiver is provided, which is furnished either, with a vibrating bell, or with an incandescent lamp, the latter enabling the person who receives the message to read it visually. Inasmuch 'as Marconis experiments have shown that telegraphic signals can already be sent ten miles, or more, without wires, it ; . Is hoped that the new system will have a rapid development. transferred his abode from Jlollt q4 (6 France, become a convert to the Homan Catholic church and established himself at Paris. He is childless and CLAIM THAT A GRANDSON OF very respectable. His younger brother LOUIS IS IN PARIS. died some time ago, leaving two sons. These joung fellows, havlug run A New Trench Complication ltellei ere through whr.ever money they possessThai the Little Dauphin DM Not Die ed, got Into a considerable amount of trouble in Holland as well as In France, tu 1'rUon Como in the fore Again THE DAUPHIN'S SON? Au OM htory ltevlril. Considerable curiosity has been aroused in France and elsewhere in Europe by the fact that the timie of the two Naundorff Bourbons has taken up his peimanent residence at Baris, where during the last week he has solemnly abjured the Brotestant faith and has been admitted to the Roman Catholic church by no less a personage than the of the metropolis, who performed the ceremonies at Notre Dame, where so many of the kings and emperors of France have been crowned, says the Bhlladelphla Bress. The convert is the head of his family that is to say, of the Naundorff Bourbons hears on his visiting cards the name "ITInce de Bourbon and figures on the registers of the cathedral of Notre Dame as "Louis Charles Adalbert Philippe de Bourbon." He has the true Bourbon profile. It may be remembered that considerable doubt has always existed with regard to the fate of the unfortunate son of that king and queen of France who were guillotined at tho close of the last century. It is alleged that he had succumbed to the brutality of the cobbler Simon, who had been appointed as his Jailer. But there Is much evidence to show that it was the body of another boy that was interred in his stead and that he himself escaped. Of course, neither of his fathers younger brothers the count of Provence, who afterward reigned as Louis XVIII., and the Count Artois, who ruled as Charles X. would have anything to do with him, since he stood in the way of their accession to the throne in the event of its restoration. Moreover, they had been among the bitterest enemies of their Austrian Queen Marie Antoinette. So they indirectly provided for the lads maintenance cn the understanding that he should be kept in the background, and when he grew up they denied his identity and denounced him as a fraud. Yet his uncle, Louis XVIII., never dared to be crowned, and when the benediction of the pope was asked at the time of the consecration of the memorial chapel erected at Paris over what wTere understood to be the remains of Louis XVI., Queen Marie Antoinette and her son, the dauphin, only consented to permit the blessing to the chapel on the condition that the name of the dauphin be removed, taking the ground set forth in an official dispatch, which is on record, that he could not lend himself to the comedy of consecrating a memorial chapel to a living person. Moreover, the Dutch authorities, who are the most strict in the world in all matters relating to the assumption of unauthorized names and titles, not only permitted the alleged dauphin to figure on the marriage and death registers of the Delft as Liouis of Bourbon, duke of Normandy, son of King Louis XVI. and of Queen Marie Antoinette, but likewise permitted his two sons to serve under the name of Bourbon in the Dutch army. It may be pointed out, finally, that although the opponents of the pretensions of this branch of the house of Bourbons have always denounced its claims as fraudu-lent'an- d the alleged dauphin as an impostor, yet, in spite of all their efforts and of the money spent, they have never succeeded in finding out who the alleged dauphin could possibly be if not the son of Queen Marie Antoinette. It is Charles, the elder of the two sons of this alleged dauphin.' who has now so-call- ed cardinal-archbisho- p sister-- in-law, one of them being charged with obtaining money by fraud, while the other has a warrant out for his arrest as a deserter from the foreign legion of the r, Both managed, French army. to clear themselves of the charges against them and are now established in the wine business at Berry, a suburb of Baris, where one of them has Just married the daughter of a wealthy liquor dealer. Tho peculiar thing about this solemn conversion of tho uncle of these two wine merchants and of the transfer of his abode to Baris Is that it should have taken place precisely at the moment when tho republic is shaken to its foundations and when thero Is no other royalist pretender ready to take advantage of tho circumstance. The duke of Orleans only the other day issued a manifesto asking his followers to support the republic and manifestly prefers to spend his wealth In luxury and comfort In England. Austria and Spain, where he Is treated as a royal personage, Tather than to squander It In monarchical conspiracies which would lead him to be ostracised by foreign courts. The same may be said of Don Carlos, and while Prince Louis Bonaparte seems resolved to make his home In Russia his elder brother U so weighted down by Indolence at Brussels that he does not desire to remove thence. So the door Is open to the Dutch Bourbons. how-eve- , MORE THAN ORDINARY. 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Y. structure is more than a quarter of a; mile long and 216 feet' thick at the base. It turns the whole Croton river into the aqueducts to 'New York city. The lake, which holds back 40, 000,000,- -. 000 gallons of water, is the largest artificial lake in the world. three-quarte- rs . - The human heart is six inches In length, four inches in diameter, and beats on an average of 70 times per minute, 4,200 times an hour, "100,800 times a day, and 36,792,000 times in th course of a year, so that the heart of an ordinary man 80 years of age has - r beaten 3,000 00.000 times.' ; Least. S The Very. , . Visitor And your daughter painted, . 1 -- - , . , this beautiful picture? Mrs. Uppstartt My daughter paint it? Nc, indeed!. Her teacher did the work. Considering what wre paid him for the lessons, it Boston was the least he could do! : . Transcript. , - , : |