Show OUR LITTLE PEOPLE I Fresh Stories and Rhymes for the Rising Generation TO PLEASE AND INTEREST THEM Triumph of Patience Nineteenth Century Knight Thoughtful Kenniboy Bright sad Witty Sayings by Juveniles p L ARK Scarlot a blacksmith 4 St black-smith who lived dur t > the reign of Queen ZlztIof k1 Elizabeth made a I i ire chain of fortyfive S1 dJ links to which he at k 54 inched a padlock made of steel end brass consisting of eleven pieces besides the key The chain was so small as to freely admit of being fastened about the neck of a common flea The apparatus flea chain padlook key and all weighed but a grain and a half when exhibited before the wondering royalty on a plate of solid silver The reader will no doabt think tats flea story worthy to betaken be-taken with the proverbial grain of suit noting as he will that it bears the date and ear mark of Ye olden times but what will we havo to say when informed that within the last five years a San Francisco Fran-cisco professor has equalled Scarlets ingenuity in-genuity in every particular This Golden Gate wonder worker has exhibited ex-hibited a perfectly trained team of fleas drawing a miniature tallyho coach made of gold with all four wheels perfect each turning nicely on its axle Professor Schuman of Berne Switzerland Switzer-land worked seven years making a silver i gold and platinum model of the areat I Krupp fiftyton hammer now in the Krupp gun works at Essen Germany In Schu mans model the frame hammer and pulleys pul-leys all complete weigh but one and a half grains The frame is of platinum the pulleys pul-leys silver and the hammer solid gold A flea trained by Mr Schuman will at the word of command hoist the hammer to the top of tho frame where it is automatically set free descending in precisely the same manner as the monster after which it is modeled Mark Scarlot did wonders but the professors of 189 have excelled his best efforts |