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Show f the one pleafiing Paragraphs for the Amusement ind Instruction of the Little Household Blossoms, jO HAKE GAS JET PEOPELLESS. i Pretty Toy That Will be Pound to be InBtructive Bright and Spark, line: Ohit-Ohafr-Notes. f o make a toy propelleror rather a pair j propellers take an ordinary cork, such ' for eineer ale bottles, and niif U 5 through the mid-die. mid-die. After this bore a hole through each piece with a red-hot red-hot knitting needle. nee-dle. Make tour cuts or notches in a slanting direction direc-tion (A) in the sides of each piece and insert card-board card-board blades about three inches long by one inch wide (B). Now take a smooth piece of string (C) and, after making a knot at the en, (lip on a gliua bead (D). and f&l-GAS f&l-GAS JET PROPELLERS. lowlng thJg a pi(8 of cardboard the size of a silver half dime. These form a bearing for the propeller, which should now be threaded on to the string. About six Inches above the first propeller propel-ler make another knot and repeat tha above directions, taking care, however, that the second propeller has the blades in t contrary direction to the first. If the string is now carried up to the ceiling, directly di-rectly over the gas Jet, with the lower propeller pro-peller about twelve inches or fifteen inches from the flame, they will be seen to revolve rapldlv in opposite directions, and the effect ef-fect is very curious. A bullet or other small weight attached to the end of the string to keep it straight would bo an advantage. ad-vantage. The Garrison of One. A French grenadier, In a war with the I Austrians, was put In charge of a small fort commanding a narrow gorge, up which only two of the enemy could climb at a time. Wften the defenders of the fort heard that the enemy were near, being few I in number they deserted and left the brave grenadier alone. But he felt that he could not give up the place without a struggle, so he barred the doors, raised the drawbridge draw-bridge and loaded all the muskets left behind be-hind by his comrades. Early in the morning, with great labor, the enemy brought up a gun from the valley val-ley and laid it on the fort. But the grenadier gren-adier made such good use of his loaded muskets that the men in charge of the gun could not hold their position, and were compelled to retire, and he kept them thus at bay all day long. At evening the herald came again to demand de-mand the surrender of the fort or the garrison gar-rison should be starved out. The grenadier grena-dier asked for a night for consideration, and in the morning expressed the willingness willing-ness of the garrison to surrender if they might "go out with all the honors of war." This, after some demur, was agreed to, and presently the Austrian army below saw a single soldier descending the height with a whole sheaf of muskets on his shouldor, with which he marched through their lines and then threw them down. "Where is the garrison?" asked the Austrian Aus-trian commander, astonished. ' "1 am the garrison," replied the brave man; and they were so delighted with his plucky resistance that the troops saluted him and called him the "First Grenadier of France." ?' ; The Audacious Kitten. "Hurray 1" cried the kitten, "hurrayl" As he merrily set tho sails; (i , "I sail o'er the ocean today To look at the Prince of Wales." "0 kitten 1 O kitten I" I cried, "Why tempt the angry gales?" Tm going," the kitten replied, "To look at the Prince of Wales 1" "IF A CAT MAY LOOK AT A ZXSa." ; "Oklttenl pause at the brink, And think of the sad sea tales." "Ah, yes," said the kitten, "but think, O, think ot the Prince of Wales 1" "But, kitten I" I cried, dismayed, "If you live through the angry gales, You know you will be afraid To look at the Prince of Walesl" Said the kitten, "No such thing 1 . Why should he make me wlncef If a cat may look at a king, - A kitten may look at a Prince!" ' St Nichols A City Boy's Composition. It was a 13-year-old London lad who wrota , the following composition on "Flowers:' "Now, in the country the flowers grow wild in the fields, though not so close together, to-gether, and not in skwares and rounds. And nobody believes it till they go in the train; but certainly boys and girls can run amongst them, and pull up as many as they like, and fill their arms and baskets, and bring them home to there fathers ana ttothers. And the teacher said that u we uld only go tho next day there would 08 Just as many flowers again. Some boys would not believe what the teacher saio, but I holla that it in true, for I believe that God can easy do miracles, b6"1. believe that the flowers are not stuck in oy hen or policemen after it is dark, elswla,i about taking so much pulling outf W hen I am a man I shaU go the next day. i bould so like to live in a house in the middle mid-dle of the fields, so that I could always see them flowers all round me, and the trains oing by on them green banks. Perhaps hen I am a man I shall try to find a house . jbere, and a kind woman in the inside ol , A Second Jack th Giant KUlr. There was once a small boy, but his name was not Jack, . And he hadnt a bean stalk at aD; . Yet be "hitched his hatchet" with sturdy naca. Which helped him to climb a bighwalL "ow the name ot that hatchet, can any oneguo' , A giant be killed with it, tool . - His name of th wail which he climbed wt Bi : cess, I giant he eooqned was Slothfulnea. And Work was the hatchet that slew i |