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Show HUGGED THE DEXTIST. SOME ODD EXPERIENCE BY ONE WHO PULLS TEETH. 5as Which Acted an an Irian Anirsthetlr Thought He Had 8tru.lt a Fair Tooth Pull-- H i" on the Dec-line-. trying to help me out of my predica-ment he stood and laughed at me. ) stood the hugging for a few moments and then the effect of the ether becran to leave her. With returning con-sciousness her maiden modesty came back, and when she found me in hei arms, she pave a scream, broke from the chair and ran out of the office. "I have noverseen her since, bul that woman probably thinks that hei youth wax taken advantage of. She will probably never tell 'Hobert' how bold she was." "The tooth pulling business is on the wane," remarked a dentist to a re-porter of the Detroit Journal. "A few years u0 we could extract quite a revenue out of work, but now a man who relied on pulling teeth for a sub-sistence would starve in short order unless be traveled with a circus tent and a brass band. "Then there's the false tooth indus-try. Some people imagine that it's on the increase and that nearly every woman over 80 goes to bed at nisrht with her molars on the dressing table. Xow, as a matter of fact, false teeth are worn very littlo more than they used to be. You don't see as many people with bad teeth, but that is be-cause they take care of them. They begin to see that bad teeth means bad health, and they are correspondingly nxious to keep theirs in good shape. "Womon pay much more attention to their teeth than men. "But men. too, are beginning to give the dentists more work, and in our offices the lord of creation often makes a very humili-atin- g display of his weakness. This is painfully accentuated when contrasted with the behavior of women in similar circumstances. "The dentist's chair is a good place for studying the characters of men, and their behavior often affords us considerable amusement. Some men come in with a swagger and an air of braggadocio. They aro not afraid. This matter of filling teoth has been greatly exaggerated, thoy say. It's a mere nothing to a man of nerve. Well, that kind of a man usually goes all to pieces the moment the forceps touch him. His loudly boasted courage dies out ut the first scrape and he squirms and groans like a boy. "Tlio quietest men aro generally the bravest. They understand that a cer-tain amount of pain must bo endured, and when it comes thoy take it without any ado. Most men, in their conceit, make a woman's fainting proclivities a subject for their jokes. But in the dentist's chair the joke is on the other APV. "It is natural that a woman should be a more courageous subject than a man. She bears all sorts of pain with more fortitude than a man. She mere-ly appears less courageous because she shrinks from any sort of encounter, but when it comes to quiet suffering men can only stand and wonder at her. "A man is naturally combative, and "when he has to sit down and take pun-ishment without striking back be is apt to lay himself open to some very truthful criticism from his sisters. This fighting propensity is more highly developed in some men than in others. It very often crops out when a subject is under the influence of an anteslhetic. I remember one case which was ex-tremely interesting for me. A little red whiskered Irishman came in one afternoon and wanted his tooth pulled. "D'yese pull tete wid or widout gas?" he asked. "I told him if ho thought he could not bear the shock I should give him an anaesthetic. " 'Will, thin, do yese be goin' ahead an' givin' mo gas. But no monkey business wid mo, d'ye understand, be-ca- se if you fool wid me, Oi'U wake up, sure, and Oi'll catch yese at it' "I put him to rest, but had just got my arm around his neck, Vhcn he woke up in earnest, and the way he flew about that room was enough to make you think there were Bix or seven Irishmen in the neighborhood. Ho imagined himselMu the midst of a Cork-tow- n scrimmage. " 'Come an, me bucko,' he yelled, I'll show yez if ye dare take hault of an Eighth ward b'hye wid yez dhirty arm round mo neck. Come an' ye divil.' "But I didn't come an. I found I had isiness elsowhere and- - left the Irishman to come to his senses as best he might. 'I will tell you another case which may perhaps be taken as illustrating how a subject's proclivities will crop out while unconscious. An elderly female, who evidently had never been married, walked in on us one day. She was tall and angular, and her face was one that might on a pinch have been used to raise the city hall. She was dressed in a costume of many and incongruous colors and her gener-al makeup made her a fit subject for a freak .i a dime museum. She insisted on taking ether to have a tooth pulled. When the ether began to take effect she commenced to struggle. She kicked and screamed and it kept two of us employed to hold her in the chair. Then she began to cry for somebody by the name of Robert " 'O, Robert dear, come and help mel' she cried. In her struggles one of her arms fell on my shoulder and in a moment she drew it about my neck and pulled my head down to her. Then she threw her arms about me and cried joyfully 'Ah, Robert at last I have you. They can't hurt me now.1 "This might have been very nice tor Robert, but as the office was a rather public place for that kind of a demonstration, the situation was rath-er embarassing. My assistHnt thought it was awfully funny and instead of successful men in all branches of agrW culture who have but little If any edu-cation. We judge many of them do not appreciate any necessity for it, so far as their work is concerned. There is a class of farmer who aru naturally I observant, quick to notice methods of ( others, and being withal practical suc-ceed well. They are endowed with natural abilities and they ore thus enabled to be on a level with others who may be deficient in natural talent and have to depend largely upon ac-quired knowledge. But with all their natural advantages they can never be anything but experimenters or imi-tators, though they may not, realize it. They can never be original investi-gators because they do not understand the foundation principles of the science of agriculture. NAPOLEON'S AWFUL FOE. THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW OUTCEN-ERALLE- D HIM. Memorable Winter of the Taut llerall the Kar-- t that the Fleecy ha taken m I.lrely Part In the History of Cireat Wars. Everybody agrees that sloigh riding in August would be the very acme of pleasure. The trouble with sleighing has always been that it came at the wrong time of the year and in tho wrong kind of weather. 9 There really isn't much pleasure la sleigh riding when the weather is so cold that one's ears and nose and toes are likely to freeze. About as much real joy could be obtained by putting one's feet in a bowl of ice water and ring-- ing .1 dinner bell. The ifltrin- - Bio worth of anything as a source of pleasure depends very largely upon the happy harmoniousness of the sur-roundings. This explains why the se-vere winters of the past made "Beau-tiful Snow" rather unpopular. Snow has played a very important part in the making of the world's his-tory. It was not the "stained snows" of Linden so beautifully enshrined in poesy that were responsible for the most dreadful and sickening page in the awful annals of war, wherein is recorded the story of the retreat of Napoleon's grand army. The his-torians of that dreadful event tell us that all over Europe there are tokens of an early winter, when, on the 10th day of October, 1812, Napoleon evacu-ated Moscow. In Russia the winter had set in not merely much earlier but with almost unprecedented severity. It required three weeks to march from Moscow to Smolensk. The snow fell almost without intermission through-out the whole of this terrible time. Before and behind, on this side and on that, nothing was to be seen but this fateful winding-sheet- , save where dark, moving specks told of tho presence of the Cossacks, ever on the watch to harrass their dispirited foo. By hundreds and by thousands, by rank and by battalion, men and horses fell by tho way to rise no more, overwhelmed by the blinding, pitiless snow drift Starving, frozen, half-nake- d, shelter-less, lighting their way against the terrors of a Russian winter and the exulting attacks of the Russian troops, it was a miserable remnaut ol the French strength lhat reached Smo-lensk, only to find that they could have neither rest nor succor there, but must continue their terrible com-bat with the powers of nature and of man. lu one respect did the cold favor them. It enabled Ney, with the remnants of his following, to cross the Dnieper on the ice. But when the troops came to the fatal lierosina the thaw, more merciless than the frost, had filled the channel of the river with floating, rolling ice blocks. Twenty thousand perished there alone, and then the cold increased, and so at length a few wretched strag-glers only returned to France. Four hundred thousand died in that cam-paign of woe and terror. Who can guoss how a map of the European na-tions would appear to-da-y had Napo-leon and. his army not been overcome by the Bnow? History contains ac-counts of many wonderfully cold and snowy winters. In 1718 the Swedish army marching to Drontheine was overtaken on tho mountains by a snow-storm and 7.000 men perished and the expedition was abandoned. In 1836 snow foil in England to the depth oi from four to nino feet, and to a similar depth in New England. While many American winters have been remarka-ble for their cold and suow no Import-ant historical events have been grave-ly influenced by them. History also records some romantic love stories in which snow has been a chief actor. Eginhard, tho secretary and biographer of Charlemagne, fell in love with the monarch's daughter Emma. hile paying her a stolen visit one evening it began to snow, and when he was about to leave the earth was covered by a tell-tal- e coat. But Emma was not strong only in affection. She took her lover on her back and carried him to his lodgings. By chance the pair were observed by Charlemagne. He first frightened Eginhard by asking what doom the man deserved who made the daughter of his king a beast of burden, and then right royally consented to the mar-riage of the pair for whom the snow-fall proved to be the chief match-maker. Farm Literature, There is an impression in the minds of many that the boy or girl with a profession in view must be educated, but if the life of a meohanic or farmer is in view, very little education is necessary. It Is possible to be a suc-cessful farmer without education. It Is also true that with natural abilities in that direction it is possible to be a physician, lawyer or minister without education. Perhaps we can all recall some quite successful persons in these lines who could scarcely read, perhaps not at all, yet who would think of advising such a course if it was prac-ticable to procure an education? We will not claim that the need is not greater in the professions, but we will claim that it is great in that of the agriculturist and artisan. We know there are very many very THE CAMP FIRE. i;i:r.Li.i.ioN ukvived. I'm luring tlia lYar (Iitncrs In tiuns rrol,l lnrr-a- of I'njf-itii- ur? M.tttrr. Afiei the war had progressed sev-eral years, nnd the soldiers of Uncle Sam and those of Jeff Davis had dev-astated this section of Alabama, says Hub. in Toledo Blade, it became nec-essary for my elder brother nnd my-self to "seoul" around the country for cominisHnries. We owned a little black pony, and a remodeled dump-car-t. Wu put in a second bottom, rallied several Inches from the original one, and thus equipped w started for tho country. Our route was by way ol farm roads and s, for the woods were full of ' scouts" and bush-whackers. Wo reached a farm of a very wealthy phinter, six miles from town, after having traversed fifteen miles of road. We succeeded in getting two sides of bacon nnd two bushels of corn. The bacon we placed between the two bottoms, filled tho body with corn-shuck- placed the sack of corn on lop tho loud, and started for home. We had got nearly homo, and wero in high spirits at our success in dodging the enemy, when, oh, horrors! as we turned to go up a hill, just east of town, we met a column of federal cav-alry. They halted, bo did we. Tho officer in command questioned us very closely, and ordered the troops to move on; but one young soldier searched the cart, and found noth-ing! yell in the front. J'huy muu not co the front line, but soon saw our mem coming back, and they went over the second iia to 'he rear, when th order was given to lix bayonets and not loicta man through. The writer' regiment thou made the charge and drove the rebels back into the bush a bhort distance and tried to rally their , men. Several of the writer's regi-me!;'., wero shot down while on this line of the works. He would like to hear from Col. Sudsburg and Col. Kobinjoii, and he knows they could givo an interesting account of this action.- National Tribune. The 1'each Orchard I. .11. liarnes, Battery F, 8d U. S. Art., having noticed the statement, that some batteries fought for five hours at the Peach Orchard at Gettys-burg, does not understand how this could bo tho case, as the battle did not commence until 3:80 p. m., and the lino was brokon at 5:40. for lbt writer looked at his watch as the order came to got out the best way they could. His battery was F and K, 3d Art., and went by tho name of Livingston's buttery. The writer's skull was cracked in this engagement and his horse shot through the hip as they were leaving tho Held, and ho did not think that ISu.Un.iy It, or any other buttery, remained after they left. They did not change position untii after the lino broke. Andrew J. Miller, Battery i!., '. lT. S. Art., says he cannot locato Hart's or Randolph's baltory at the Peach Orchard, July i. 1863. but thluka that Comrade Timms, of Clark's battery, gives an able account of the engagement, tnougn, making an error in speaking of Capt Thompson' bat-tery of Regulars. He should have said Capt. Scelcy's Battery K, 4th U. S. Artillery, as this was the only Regular battery in the Second Division, Third Corps. It took a position just on the border of Peach Orchard, there being a small brown houso almost in front of . tho right section, whilo tho Shorfoy house was to tho left and front. Be-fore reaching this place they learned that Capt. Clark was already in posi-tion a littlo farther to tho left. On that spot Battery K lost many men and horses, and there Capt. Sooley was badly wounded. Nat. Tribune. Cost of the Sioux Campaign. An estimate sent to Congress by the Secretary of War to supply a deficiency In the Quartermaster's Department, tells the story of the cost of the Indian campaign recently closed. The sum of $1,800,000 is asked for, tho pnincl-p- al items of which are $935, 0V6 for transportation of troops and supplies, and $187,702 for extra clothing, camp and garrison equipage necessaryjto fit out the troops for the winter cam-paign; 870,000 to replace hprses broken down by the campaign, and for the purchase of ponies, and $87,-00- 0 to cover the difference in, oast of supplies purchased for troopship the field and the contract prices of, the posts from which the troops were drawn. There were other (expanses under the supply department;1 that will probably bring the total cost of the campaign up to $2,000,000, a sum sufficient to have given the Sioux the $1 00,00(k annual appropriation. prom-ised them for a period of 'JO yeiirs. Committed Suicide. , Itii-s- . Catherine McKnlght','' who hanged herself at Chicago recently, says the Nat Trlbuno, watf'mrrn in New Hampshire 61 years ago; and at the ago of 18 eloped with Ionrya Wil-son. When Wilson entered the army in 18G1 she followed lfiiriV'and was adopted as the daughter1 of' 'Marf regi-ment. For assisting hinu; totiefeeape from a rebel prison in iv.hioii Adven-ture Wilson was shot and j ki(f(Jr she was sentenced to death as(iji,,spyf but escaped. After that she became a noted Union spy. She mnrViod! four times afterward, two ofliei'' hAi$ands being noted criminals, and'fr'oril kll of them she wasdivorcod. Sho supported herself by laundry work,' but iiis in destitute circumstance. SbQahadbcen despondent, was unable to obtain em-ployment, and friends tested that sho had threatened to Winiriit suicide. She was found hanging from a nail in her room. 1 si) i M As the troops moved off the officer and a weather-beate- n trooper remained behind, then a recognition took place, the soldiers put his questions and got the desired information, and the officer gave us strict orders to enter town by another road, which we obeyed, and that is how we "saved our bacon." In 1803, some federal cavalry were stationed at Florence, Alabama, for some time, among whom was a very dashing, handsome lieutenant, whose name was Fisher. After tho troops wore comfortably settled, they wore forced to evacuate, and a dance was given in honor of l ho event; but on the following morning the robs gave way, and the feds cauio up serenely. Liout. Fisher was acquainted with one of tho young hostesses, and rodo up to the houso and saluted the young lady, when she exclaimed: "Oh, lieutenant, I danced with such a pretty rebel last night; you ought to have seen me enjoy myself!" "Why, Miss , you did not en-joy it any more than I did, for I danced four sets with the prettiest girl in the house." "Oh! oh! you horrid, hateful Yan-kee, you!" But she did not faint. Changes In Onus. Though I am more than eight years beyond the three score and ton allotted as the life of man I con-stantly think and speak of myself as a boy, says James Whalen.in Chicago News, and it is only when I con-sider the wonderful changes that have taken place in our country and its military service since I first shouldered one of Uncle Sam's guns that I realize my age. The only arras we had then wero heavy, clumsy, old muskets that contained only one ball at a tiny), and had to be loaded from the muzzle after boing once dis-charged. We did not even have cartridges. With an ramrod we first rammed down some powdor. Then we placed a bullet in the palm of our hand, covered it with powdor. poured powder and ball into the gun, rammed them down, rammod down a small wad of paper, placed a cap on what was called the nipplo of our gun something that ito modem gun-mak- er or user knows anything about -- and then we were ready to shoot. How different from tho noodle guns, Chassepot rifles, the Winchester and Remington arms of the present day! A littlo brass cannon carrying a twelve-poun- d ball was the largest gun we had, and wag considered some-thing terrific. Now Undo Sam's can-nons are sixteen-inc- h guns, carrying a ball weighing 600 pounds, which re-quires 250 pounds of powder to lire it, and which will perforate a steel plato sixteen inches thick at a distance of twelve miles. It wa6 but a short time after my en-listment before I became convinced that a mun in the army has a far eas-ier, pleasanter life and a much hotter chanco to prosper and do woll, if he behaves himself, than in any menial position such as that of a laborer or servant, for example outsido of it The officials always manifest an inter-est in a private who shows a desire to be faithful and improve his condition, and will encourage and aid him in ev-ery possible way. , .iisii "Uncle Sam" In Need of Kallors. The new Navy nees !tpprj'1 sailors, but finds it next to im'ikisiiliieto get any at all. Twelve hqndred men are wanted at the present 'tnotrient and eight ships are delayed' into commission because they .Cannot got sailors. Something wrong. What is it? Before Uncle Sani undertakes to send forth any new ; ships froftt his navy-yard- s he should remedy ''with legislation tho difficulties which stand in the way of getting ' good "sailors, and plenty of them.'- - He cannot ex-pect men to serve their country 'dti the ocean unless some inducements and the chances of some honors arri offered them. N. Y. Jonrnal; ' ." On Top of the Monument. Some of the Indians' of Vae Sioux delegation while,, in Washingtonwcre taken to the top of 'the Washington Monument They thought ft Vfool-hard- y venture, but when fhey .had en-joyed the magnificent' vjewfrpn the great hcight,T'cWfsyereifpafnW3lvea amply repaid WMfttght'rislfVhey might have run, and 4trAMis5hh9diffl-cult- y they were ind,ucqd( to descend. It would have,cHm'ptAfJ:iotohave arranged a mor'nlri''fr'fyleasurofor a band of rebellious av-ag- that would be better calculated i'to impressipon their minds tho size and might of the people thoy wanted" tdfc to' war with. We Arm Learn tij Dail, tj The reaBon'jsome 'people;; over change their minds' 'is becapse they have no minds to change" 'To-da- y offers a new point of view, and it may well change the vista from that dis-(rn- ed yesterday. Sel. :s At the Wilderness. John Shissler, Companies II nnd A, 3d Maryland, having noticed a contro-versy about the actions of Leasure's, Rice's and Carroll's brigades at the Wilderness, May 6, does not believe that the three brigades made the samo charge at the same time, and also does not think comrades should claim that their particular brigade did all the fighting. However, ho can testify to the truth of every word written by Capt. Carter. The writer's regiment crossed the Plank road to the left on the afternoon of the Gth. at the junc-tion of the Plank and Brock roads. This he knows, as they were asked by an officer to what corps they belonged, and he was answered to the 12th. His regiment had just returned from vet-eran furlough, and still wore the red star of the 12th corps. Thoy were marched, perhaps, a mile along the Brock Road and stationed behind two lines of log works. Thoy had been halted butiv short time, when they heard heavy Hi ing and the rebel POOR JOAN DONE FOR. The Heroine of France Joins the Uthel Idols f Koniani-e- . And now thoy say that, instead ol being a heroine, Joan of Arc belongs to that peculiar class known at the present time as cranks; that the voices she heard in the woods ol Domremy were the hallucinations of a disordered intellect. Her visit to (iovernor Boudricourt so annoyed him that he passed her on to the court of the dauphin for the mere purpose of getting rid of her, where in turn the dauphin dressed her up in armor for the amusement of the court-- The iconoclasts even go so far as to assert that the consecrated sword which was found, per Joan's direction, buried in the Church of St Catharine at Flerbois, and which was presented to her by the dauphin, had been planted there by hands of ordinary flesh and blood. They further assert that she did not lead the army to the relief ol Orleans, but merely went along like a vivandiere. They scoff at the story that the soldiers who tied this abused lady to a stake in the market place at Rouen were struck dead. So the indications are that the great French heroine will have to get down off of her pedestal and follow William Tell, Kulntius Curtius, et al. Mediaeval history is rapidly losing its brightest stars through the irreverent investigations of the modern quidnunc It now looks like it was a mere matter of timo until American history is at-tacked in the samo way, and thesa individuals will be prepared to prove that Patrick Henry never made a speech, that no cherries grew at the Washington homestead, and that the John Smith-Pocahont- story was due to the fertile imagination of some special correspondent. Indianapolis Sentinel. NO GREAT MAN. This Is the Golden Aageof Mediocrity An Interregnum In the Kelgn of Mind. Just now there is no great person livlnir, says Rov. Dr. Swing. This is an interregnum in the reign of mind. The parent tells the child that the old king is dead and the new king is yet in his minority. Our country is no more poverty-stricke- n than is Ger-many, France, and England. In this age of scarcity the mind turns to Tols-toi and Ibsen, but the effort Is more zealous than sucessful. The univers-ality of this dearth teaches us that genius and talent were not slain by American love of money. The famine has come alike to the great countries of Europe. One is sorry to find that genius has declined in the Old World, and when the investigator 6tarts for new America he finds the same mental destitution. But whiit is wanting in brilliancy of genius is partly atoned for by a growing friendship between men and nations. There will always be more for a man to learn than what ho has learned. The cause of this rise and fall of genius no doubt exists, but it is hid-den. Science cannotclimb high enough to explain why an Arctic wave has spread over Europe while we have summer weather in Illinois. So science cannot climb high enough to toll us why the greatest forms of intellect flourish in one age and wane in another We don't know whether it is to be a great evil or some disguised good. The Burial of the Head. There has been a gradual, but very marked improvement in tho funeral customs of the United States. There was a time and it was not many years ago when the laying in the grave of a-- friend was a horror. There was a prolonged service at the home of the dead, perhaps another at the church with which he was con-nected, and then a processiou of for-midable length set out for the cem-etery, carrying a whimsical variety of people. There was the chronic funer-al attendant the one who takes de-light in the mournful ceremonies and is certain to be present even though quite unacquainted with the family; then is tho person who goes because he deems attendance a mark of re-spect for the dead, and is worrying over neglected business and catching cold at the samo time; then there are the real friends and the closely re-lated kin of the decensed, who endure the ordeal of three or four hours of unnecessary observance and danger-ous exposure at the very timo when sorrow and watching have made ex-posure most dangerous. Another matter. Americans are very impulsive. , They see in death only what is for tho present and the future In other words, it blinds them to business con-siderations, and tho great funeral often imposes a burden upon thom which they are never able to meet Let U9 go a little further in our reform. Give us simple funerals, with the least possible form, aud save the weak and the old from the torture of that awful half hour at tho side of tho grave. Let strong men face this. The Fare of a Cripple. As I was coming down town the other evening in a car a hunchback en-tered. A friend who sat with me asked me if I had observed that the faces of all hunchbacks and cripples were deformed as well as their bodies. " I mean," he said, "that their faces are pinched and dra wn, and that if you saw the face only, as though an opening in the wall, you would know at once, if you had been an observant man. that it was the face of a cripple. A physician would know it, at any rate." I told him that I had observed the fact and asked him why it was. He re-plied: "Many think that it is simply because cripples do not take enough exerciso, being unable to do so. I do not think that is the reason. Other persons who do not take exercise have white faces, but the Hps are not so thin and close, and there is not that drawn look In all the features. Don't you see that it Is a look of suffering? It may not be of bodily suffering, but I believe that their countenances are that way because of the mental an-guish they endure all through life. You know the effect of an extreme sorrow on the face of a healthy man in one week or a month. How much difference it must make when that sorrow is never absent from him. There aro rare instances where the pinched look is almost overcome by cheerfulness," my friend went on. can never get entirely away. One ol the most cheerful cripples I ever knew was the mayor of a Pennsylvania city for three years. He mixed with men and took an interest in affairs, and although he is a hunchback, he seems really to enjoy life. Ho goes shooting with the boys, and there are few better men in that vicinity with a gun. Ho has color in his face and brightness in his eyes; yet I am satis-fle- d that if, for tho first time, you saw his face only you would say it was the face of a cripple." New York Star. "Scaring the Conscience." Of all her curious customs London cannot boast of a more singular one than that formerly so strictly adhored to at Holland House, one of the most historic old mansions in the British capital. The last of the Lords Hol-lands shot himself during a fit of de-spondency; everything pointed to a clear case of self-murd- yet the Hol-land family could never be dissuaded from the notion that the old man had been murdered by some unknown assassin. Accordingly, every night for years it was the custom for one of the family to go to the rear of the house punctually at 11 o'clock and fire a gun; for the purpose, it is said, of "scaring the conscience" of the mur-derer. This curious practice is a relic of mediaeval days in continental Eu-rope, and the case to point is probably the only instance where it has been noticed since the days of the Crusades. Gould's Son George. Mr. Jay Gould thinks that sons ol wealthy men would feel more secure if they learned some trade while in college. He says: "I have learned that in the case of my own family; my son George is an expert telegrapher, and when he has traveled with me to the west we generally live in our cat and switch it off at a siding. My son will then put on his boots, his steel clamps or prongs, and go up the tele-graph pole, attach the wire to his in-strument in the car, and then he sendi for me all my telegraphic messages. It does him no disparagement and makes him feel that he could get hit living at all times.'' Give 'Km the Hoad. j An English naturalist who has been out to see the whale in his native ' pastures estimates that a full-grow- n whale, driving ahead at full speed, could break down any break-wat- er ever built and the sweep of his lower jaw is equal to the force of a thirty horse-pow- er engine working at full speed. If you meet a whala while out in your canoe give 'em the road. The Oldeat Bank. The Bank of England was established in 1694, and is older than any of the institutions of the class in any of the other great nations. It was not the first of the financial houses, however. The Bank of Venice was created in 1101, that of Genoa in 1407, that ol Hamburg in 1619, and that of Rotter-dam in 1635. In 1803 the Bank ol France was established. |