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Show T RUT H 10 How It Happened. I had told tho-maNo,' And ho rose from his knees. When ho wild Shall 1 go? 1 said, Do as you please. 1 am sorry, but still It's the best I cun do. If you'd liko it I will Real Pleasure. . n He a sister to you. Most decidedly, No! It was plump, it was plain, But his going was slow. That he wished to remain I could easily see, And I blamed him for that IJnd it happened to me I'd have reached for iny hat, "Do you really mean 'no?' 1 was qulto in distress. I had told the man so And I would not say "Yes. So I said it once more For I quite lost my head-j- ust the same as' before, And I meant what I said. Chicago News. -- Unexplored Countries. The submarine cable has made the world a much smaller place than it was in the time of our grandfathers, yet there are portions of the world that have never been explored, despite tho remarkable energy with which research has been pushed In ' Miss Elliotts Beauty Talk. Maxine Elliott is soon to be a sojourner among us. Hence a beauty talk is not inapropos. Of course, it is generally known that the actress is besieged almost constantly by women admirers, who beg advice on the secrets of beauty. ' Miss Elliott is generally ac- Her hair of some hue forgotten hut beautiful through thickness of its polished coils, a countenance chiseled for a sculptors ideal. She was clothed in purple. The skiff which she propelled In the Central park lake moved forward like a snail while tho prodigious splashing credited with being the most beautiful woman on the American stage, but Miss Elliott herself avers that she has no license to give advice as to how to To one feminine become beautiful. correspondent who had been most persistent in seeking beauty advice trom Miss Elliott, the actress suggested to her unhappy admirer that she let That is what I well enough alone. do, added Miss Elliott One admirer took it for granted that physical .culture had been the means whereby Miss Elliott has attained her symmetrical curves and beautiful complexion and begged facts regarding her system. Miss Elliotts secretary had to Aint the water nice? answer this and the seeker for from her oars drenched the young the fountain letter, of beauty received the mad who held the tiller ropes. from the accommunication He dodged what he could and en- following tress representative: dured the rest cheerfully. He leaned Miss Elliott has no system; has forward eagerly when she spoke. Aint the water nice? she suggest- never had a system. Like Topsy, she that way. Chicago growed ed, chopping off a bucketful, perhaps just Ocean. Inter as a sample. I do so love to row a o boat, dont you? New York Ada Rehan's Plans. Ada Rehan denies that her present tour Js in the nature of a farewell, or Crane Was a Monster. A crane was recently shot in Coi that she has any immediate intention rain. Mass., which was five feet tall of retiring from the stage. Miss Reand measured six feet from tip to tip han is still a young woman she was bom in 1860 and her love of the theaof wing. ter is such that a life of leisure would o not appeal to her. The actress avers in Slam. Courtship however, that after this year she will The declaration of marriage in Siam play over routes that do not involve is very simple. You ask a lady to much traveling, and only in the largmarry you by merely offering her a est cities. Consequently, her present flower, or taking a light from a cigar- season is in the nature of a good-by- e ette if it happens to be in her mouth; to the smaller, places. It is for this and your family anil the brides fam- reason that Miss Rehan-ha- s clung to ily hayo to produce at least $200 a repertoire of those comedies with apiece for a dowry. The principal im- which sentiment and her own ability her. The Tam pediment in the way of marriage is ipvo that each year is named after an ani- ing of the Shrew, The School for mal, and only certain animals are al- Scandal, and The Country Girl. lowed to intermarry; for instance, a o Travelers in Japan are astonished person' born in the year of the cat cannot marry with a person born in to find the grandest shrines throughthe year of the dog, or a person born out the land situated on the tops of in the year of the cow with a person high, precipitous mountains. This is born in the year of the tiger; and because every mountain in that counthere are similar embargoes about try is dedicated to some deity who is months and days, akin, perhaps, to believed to be its guardian. These the old superstition that a marriage temple grounds are covered with the would be unlucky, if the birth months oldest and largest forest trees, and to of the couple are far apart. April the eyes of the people below the efshould not wed with November, nor fect of the clouds which hover around the peak has originated the belief that January with June. the gods hold the power over the clouds to give or withhold rain. Pens from Ton of Steel. o About 10,000 gross of pens are pro Cossacks Guarded Frontier. duced from a ton of steel. Cossacks were The the first set-tieo of the Amur Territory in 1856, Bird Caught in Fish Line. where they strung out in a frontier Clinton Bruce of Sawyers Crossing, cordon 1,630 versts long to prevent N. H., while trolling for pickerel, cap hostile invasion. tured a large fish hawk in a peculiar Q manner. The bird swooped down to Pays Better Dividends. seize his bait and became entangled If you must choose, it is better to a in the fish line in way that prevent have cheerfulness in your soul than ed his escape. money in the bank. : N recent years. This picture will give a fair idea of tho area and location cf these unknown places. The black denotes the known regions which, according, to a fair computation, have more than G4 inhabitants to the square mile, or onb person to each ten acres. Tliero seems to be no danger of overcrowding. The shaded portion shows tho unexplored regions, which in time will be made familiar to the world by human endeavor. Turtle Had Been Dated. Whilo Bertha .Wheeler of Prospect, Conn., was orossing a meadow recently she picked up a turtle on which she found inscribed M. C., 1875. o i ? . Womans Most Dangerous Weapon. As if tho eye were not a weapon with which every young woman' is al-- . ready expert, certain rules for an eye drill have recently been promulgated. It seems that .the beauty of a v. Omans orbs lies not so much in their shape and color as in the way she uses them. Ilcnco a long list of directions for rotating them so that the muscles Man never may bo best trained. : knows when Transcript. V 0 i.' I V i. f . he is sale. Boston o Always One Woman. No matter liow fclupid, uninteresting and tiresome a man may be there is always some Sentimental woman ready to make a hero of him. V . rs Maiden on the Bridge. A pretty young woman, not over 19 came into town last week from Jer sey to spend a week with sonie friends. Shortly after her return home her father received a polite note from the head of the house at which she had been a guest requesting check for $100, the amount the giri had lost at bridge! Truly a Bridge of Sighs! An old friend of mine, on I am not hearing this, remarked: 1 a father, but had received such a letter I would at once have consign-eit to its proper place and the pla came from the gutter. Gambling it will always exist, but to rope In a poor, innocent girl who had never stood on the bridge at mignight or is the limit any other hour,-befor- e the or caps climax. New York Press. - o Red Spot on Jupiter. In 1878 something happened on Jupiter which caused a red blotch to appear in his southern hemisphere, near one of the great belts that cross his disk like huge bands of colored clouds. It was thirty thousand miles long and eight thousand miles broad, yet, after all, only a little patch on the mighty disk. It has remained ever since, sometimes brightening to almost the crimson hue of fire, and sometimes fading nearly to invisibility, yet always, even when faintest, certifying its presence and its power by keeping the area originally covered by it clear of all other subjects. Success. d . o a What Lump of Coal Can Do. A single pound of cool is capable of producing 236 horse-poweand could do the work of an express locomotive for one-fift-h of a minute. In other words, it Is enough to haul a r, train of eight cars, including the man sleeping-car- s and dining-caran hour of rate miles the fifty at one-sixt- h of a mile. In sawing wood a man may work at the rate of about sixty strokes a e minutes, and his may have a five feet minutes, but a progressed circular saw, driven by machinery, will cut seventy times as much wood in the same time. And yet this one little pound of coal contains power enough for 180 such saws. saw-blad- o - . Slight Misunderstanding. A young farmer proposed to contribute $2 toward buying new hymn books for his church as soon as he had sold one of his calves. A couple of Sundays later he walked into church as the choir was singing The Half Has Never Yet Been Told. He thought .the choir was saying, Tle and calf has never yet been sold, started to fight. Parsons (Has.) Palladium. " o Too Big for Comprehension. The sun is a million times larger than our earth, but if we increase the suns size ten thousand times, we only reach the volume of such mammoth suns as Arcturus, Canopus, Antares and Beta Centaurl. It is estimated that a motor car traveling at the rate of 100 miles an hour would take 8,000 years to go once round Beta Centaurl, and far longer than this to go round either Arcturus or Canopus. o. - Consumption of Bananas. The inhabitants of the United States ate more than $8,500,000 worth of bananas last year. o Why Trouble Presses. It isnt that- your troubles are eo many, but that you dont know how to handle them; - t, A i I. O' li . Pull- s, i, |