Show EVENTS AND COMMENTS i MRS ELLA WHEELER WILCOX does j not produce as much sentimental poetry fi as she use toEx She is married now 1 OLIVE LOGAN says she knows of swans r that ore a hundred and fifty years old and acruel slanderer says Olive has perhaps observed them since childhood child-hood A LADY is showing a visitor the family portraits in the picture gallery That officer there in the uniform i she says was my great great grandfather grand-father He was as brave as a lion but a one ot the most unfortunate of men i i I he never fought a battle in which he did j not have an arm or a leg carried 3 away I I Then she adds proudly He took J part in twentyfour engagements DR CARVER recently finished his task i of hitting 60000 balls in six days The i J f achievement has had no perceptible f effect upon business as yet The doctor re 11 j used a rifle in hitting the balls If he I t L had corraled < < the balls into a pIle and 11 i used a base ball club or a brick he might i t r have hit them all in one day and had 1 E five days to spare to devote to digging iit cellars or sawing wood or something 1 j = that way But we dont suppose he i ever thought of that = Nomstojvn f 1 Herald f 1 QUEEN VICTORIA it is said fulfills the f i I biblical description of taking up her bed + t and walking when she changes her residence fel 1 i resi-dence It appears that the Queen always n 1 al-ways sleeps in a wooden bed of a particular t s 1 par-ticular shape and made up in a special a d way and whenever her Majesty goes to 1 11 i i I a strange place a bed and its furniture I 11 1 f are despatched from Windsor for her I t use Two were sent off a couple of I weeks since from the workshop at the J 1 castle the one for the Queens cabin in the steam yacht Victoria and Albert 1 E and the other has gone to AixlesBains F 4 There is already one of the Queens beds i at Darmstadt It was sent out when + she was there last year t d I i A GOOD story is told of an oldtime t Bostonian whose son is still living in I I j the enjoyment of hale and hearty age I m attheTltiDT wllo scent to New York I J at the time the Astor House was it its I golden youth The old Bostonian took i 1 i his son with him and fearing lest he i 11 should be led away by the tempters oft of-t ihat day in Qotham was particular i that the youth should be at the hotel I o early in the evening In his simplicity 4 l i t the good Bostonian supposed that early iV 1 < hours were kept at the Astor House h and when 9 oclock came and his son i l 1 had not returned he felt that it was too i 1 bad that the hotel proprietors should be l 1 incommoded on his account So in the j kindness of his heart the old Bostonian I 1 went up to the office desk and said to the landlord I A j Tommy hasnt come in yet but there = t is no need of your keeping open for him 14 You can shut up the hotel now I AN AMERICAN woman goes to a big J I store or bazar and she picks up a glass y r and says How much is this 1 Two dollars a dozen She strikes it with something and j says Thats not cut glass I wanl cut glass So the dealer immediately 1 takes up another glass in which a little 1 1 lead is incorporated and it has a metallic L metal-lic ring and she pays one dollar ant d an-t fifty cents to two dollars a dozen more I 1 for a glass that is not cut glass at all 1 What is called cut glass is handmade 1 glass from the interior of Germany 11 I American glass is divided into flint glass and pressed glass There is a difference i i in the components entering into glass The people generally think that glass I j j is only made of sand It is made oft of-t sand mixed with limemagnesia arsenic lead and a great many other things a i Some of these materials only act as flux 1 I to get the impurities out of the silex or J sand Gath |