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Show I FAMOUS EDUCATOR DEAD PI PAWNING A $1,000 BILL i I CITIES .OF PORTUGAL Auntie "June," Spinster. She was the first to rise at morn And start the kitchen stove; She'd bake a dozen loaves of bread Before the rest would move. She'd cook a meal for twenty men When harvest came around. Our spinster. "June," who was so strong Where work was alway .found. She cured the babies of the croup; In measles she arose. The sleeping watcher or the night While others found repose. She made the dresses for the brides Who -went from out the door; For them she robbed the flowerbeds Of all their precious store. Ah! years apro she came to earth. When breezes all attune Went merrily a-down the path Of fragrant ways of June. They called her "June," she was so sweet. And crowned her golden head. They named her "June" in days agone. The month when brides are wed. Beside the stream whose waters cool Sung peacefully of rest. This patient little spinster walked Alone and unmolest. Now lilies nod and daisies bend To kiss the grave of this Old-fashioned spinster who has found More love than earthly bjiss. There children tread the gravel path When breezes are attune. And whisper soft as zephys are: "This ia our Auntie June." Horace Seymour Keller. Riding Upon a Knife. Split a match at one end and insert Into the split the flattened end of a second match, to form an acute angle. Place the two matches on the sharp edge of a knife held horizontally in such a way that the heads of the matches touch the surface of the table. No matter how hard you try to hold the knife steady, to everybody's surprise sur-prise the matches will begin to move up and down. To render the experiment more effective, ef-fective, crack the matches in the middle mid-dle to form the legs of the rider, then cut the upper body out of paper and insert in-sert it Into a split made in one of the matches. Green Paper Frog. A friend from Japan has taught us to make a frog of green paper in the following way: Cut a piece of paper in the shape of design). Fold the paper along the diagonals a-a, turn it around and fold along the lines b-b. When this is done Fig. 2 can easily be made. Fold the ends b and a as shown in Fig. 3. You will now have got a series of eight small wings around o-a as axle. Fold the paper at point a and fold it carefully care-fully in such a w-ay that you get two new regular points &3 shown in Fig. 4. After going through tue same operation opera-tion with all eight wings of the folded paper, you will get Fig. 5. Fold each M wing of the paper again, to point S toward to-ward the center axle (Fig. 6), and take care that you get the folds at point a as correct as possible. To finish fin-ish the frog (Fig. 7), unfold two of the upper points (a) and bend them to form the front legs, while you fold the two lower points (a) to form the hind legs. The left side of Fig. 7 shows the points not yet folded, while the right side gives the shape of the finithed legs. Mr. Gladstone's Catch. "How many members of this house," asked Mr. Gladstone once in the course of a debate on electoral qualifications, '"can divide 1,330 17s. 6d. by 2 13s. Sd.?" "Six hundred and fifty-eight!" shouted shout-ed one member. "The thing cannot be done!" exclaimed ex-claimed another. A roar of laughter greeted this last remark. But it was true, nevertheless. You cannot multiply or divide money by money. You may repeat a smaller sum of money as many times as it is contained In a larger sum of money, but that is a very different thing. If you repeat five shillings, as often as there are hairs in a horse's tail, you do not multiply five shillings by a horse's tail Perhaps you did not know this before" Never mind; you need not be ashamed of your ignorance, for it wa3 shared, as has been demonstrated, by the entire house of commons (bar one member), including the then chancellor chancel-lor of the exchequer American Boy. This Calf is Bald. Charles H. Anderson, near Frazey-burg, Frazey-burg, Ohio, owns a bald calf which is attracting hundreds of people to his farm. Mr. Anderson says the calf, now two months old, is a thoroughbred thorough-bred short horn heifer and that it has been bald from the day of Its birth. With the exception of a little tuft of hair on each ear, a bit at the end of its tail and a little hair on each leg below the knee, the animal is wholly devoid of hair and it is a curiosity which has prompted many flattering offers for its purchase. The calf is of the usual size and is as sound as any animal. Its flesh looks like that of a Dew-born baby. Cincinnati Enquirer. En-quirer. Work of the Plodders. If we were to examine a list of the men who have left their mark on the world, we should find that, as a ruie, it is not composed of those who were brilliant in youth, or who gave treat promise at the outset of their careers, but rather of the plodding young nen who, if they have not dazzled by "heir brilliancy, have had the power of a day's work in them, who could stay by a task until It was done; who have had grit, persistence, common sense and honesty, says Success. It is the steady exercise of these ordinary, or-dinary, homely virtues, united with average ability, rather than a deceptive decep-tive display of more showy qualities in youth, that enables a man to achieve greatly and honorably. So, if we were to attempt to make a forecast of the succesful men of the future, we should not look for them among the ranks of the "smart boys," those who think they "know it all," and are anxious to win by a short route. Children's Amusement. "Head, body and legs" a game that will afford amusement. Good games are always worth knowing about, especially espe-cially those Innocent games that, with their funny consequences, offer such real relief from the day's cares. No one wants to make a business of playing play-ing games, but the greatest minds are not aboe simple diversions; nay, they must have them. One of the best pastimes pas-times of the kind is the old English game of "Head, body and legs," the origin of which Is lost in the past. Take a slip of paper about two inches wide and four inches long. Draw two lines across It. Now it is marked off into thirds. Let the first player draw at the top of the slip a head, using only the upper third of the paper. This head may be that of any imaginable or unimaginable creature. If it's something some-thing mongrel and absurd, it's all the funnier. The first player then folds the paper down, so as to cover up what he has drawn, but leaving the neck extending just below the fold. He then passes the slip on to the next player, who in turn draws a body on the middle third of Lie paper, joining it to the neck, and then folding the paper, just so as to leave enough of the body showing to indicate where the legs should join en. A third player play-er then adds legs and feet to the strange being, to suit his fancy. It will add to the fun to have a fourth player name the portrait. Finally, the paper is unfolded. To say the least, the company will be surprised at the queer composite. It may be that the head and legs will disagree over the direction the creature is supposed to be fronting. Oftentimes one of the members will be so out of proportion with the rest as to make the whole effect very ludicrous. The best way to see the possibilities of the game is to try it.. You needn't be an artist to make a success of it, since the most awkward hand will frequently produce the most laughable results. The combinations com-binations may not always be so comical, comi-cal, but out of half a dozen trials there are sure to be several roaring successes. success-es. When there is quite a company assembled, each may be given a piece of paper and a pencil; each draw a head, fold the paper, pass to the next; then each draw a body, fold, pass; then each 'draw legs, fold pass, and the next name it. In this way all those present will be occupied in the sport, and the large variety o portraits will increase the entertainment. Wonders of Our Language.. The construction of the English language lan-guage must appear most formidable to a foreigner. One of them looking at a picture of a number of vessels said: -"See what a flock of ships." He was told that a flock of ships was called a fleet, and a fleet of sheep was called a flock. And it was added, for his guidance in mastering our language, lan-guage, that a flock of girls was called a bevy, and a bevy of wolves is called a pack, and a pack of thieves is called a gang, and a gang of angels is called a host, and a host of porpoises is called a shoal, and a shoal of buffaloes is called a herd, and a herd of children is called a troop, and a troop of partridges par-tridges is called a covey, and a covey of beauties is called a galaxy, and a galaxy of ruffiians is called a horde, and a horde of rubbish is called a heap, and a heap of oxen is called a drove, and a drove of rowdies is called a mob, and a mob of whales Is called a school, and a school of worshippers is called a congregation, and a congregation con-gregation of engineers is called a corps, and a corps of robbers is called a band, and a band of locusts is called a swarm, and a swarm of people is called a crowd. Fuller's Close Shave by Lightning. In the storm yesterday evening David Da-vid Fuller, a well-known farmer of Henrico, was struck by lightning and knocked to the ground senseless. All the hair on his head was burned off. He has been in an unconscious condition, condi-tion, but the physician .who is attending attend-ing him says he will recover. Fuller's head is said to have been shaved as close as if a barber had done it. Washington Post. Trick With Pair of Scissors. If Alexander the Great were asked to free this pair of scissors tied to the back of a chair, without untying the cords, he would perhaps draw his sword and cut the cords with one blow. We will show him how the trick can be done without force, as follows: Take hold of the cord at A, pull it through the handle B and carry it over the dotted lines. This will free the scissors without breaking the cord. The' lazy man wants things leveled down. The ambitious one tries to have them evened up. (Special Letter.) OW this Portugal g.v3 on one! A very terra incognita only two and a half days by steamer from London, or 4C hour by express from Paris. H As pretty a land as one could ask for, an interesting aDd courteous peo pie, scenery to delight rather than astound, hotels only a few, it must be admitted, quite up to date with prices as low or lower than Switzerland Switzer-land or Italy. Yet nobody comes here, except on business or very adventuresome adven-turesome tourists. . I have seen just four Americans In my eight weeks in Portugal and her near islands, and perhaps a dozen English since I reached the mainland. My letter of credit, issued by an old and substantial London bank, gives just one place in all this country to draw moEey, which shows what its makers think of the probabilities. It is generally understood that Lisbon Lis-bon is a beautiful city, but its misfortune, mis-fortune, from the traveler's point of view, is that it Is not on the direct route to anywhere. And there is a prevalent idea that when one has seen Lisbon he has had all that is worth seeing in Portugal. Now, Cintra alone Is worth a journey jour-ney across the Atlantic. Busaco rival3 the Bavarian Alps, Coimbra has at least as many charms as Heidelburg. Mafra almost causes you to forget Escorlal, Batalba is one of the great sights of the world. And these are only the beginning. The inhabitants, less touched by i-vxtv: - :-:-v -J 6' -71' ''? . . Vjg&r 'tfeJtfV L. 1 - Ti 't n fifi m ?s n J6.B hft h3 HiS M fel 14 PART OF GREAT CONVENT. the 19th century than most otners ui Europe, retain to a greater degree their primitive customs and dress. They are not of ono type, either, it frequently happening that entirely different dif-ferent faces are found in dislricts but a few miles apart. The Moor left his impress, whicn will not soon be eradicated. The Gotli perpetrated his fair hair and blue eyes over a large trea. The purely Iberian race survives here and there unadulterated. Nevertheless, all are Portuguese in sentiment.strongly patriotic, patri-otic, ready to repel an invader from whatever direction he comes. The Spaniard must keep his own side of the mountains they want none of his rule. Their ancestors fought with Wellington to drive Napoleon's Na-poleon's legions back to France. Today To-day the young men serve their terms in the army, and the people willingly bear the heavy burden, that they may have these six millions a force to fight with should the integrity of their land be menaced. , Cintra the summer residence ot royalty and diplomacy is less than 2C miles away and 1 must get there before Don Carlos if ! intend to view the interior of the palaces. The first thing to be done aTter alighting from the train was to drive to the Cas-tello Cas-tello da Pena, a well-imitated mediaeval me-diaeval castle which the King-consort Ferdinand erected or. the site of an old and. disused monastery. Only the Moorish castle, a short distance away, dominates the Pena, where King Charles lives during the summer season. sea-son. This Castello dos Mouros, as its name Implies, is a veritable relic of Relic of Arab Occupation. the Arab occupation, and occupies, as was usual with those astute conquerors, conquer-ors, a rocky heigLt difficult of assault as-sault Coimbra interests the traveler, as it contains the only university in Portugal. Por-tugal. The town, which is somewhat nearer to Oporto than to Lisbon, contains con-tains about 14,000 inhabitants, and has some 1,500 students. It is pic turesquely situated on Montego river, the embankment wall of the esplanade being some 30 feet in height, and the ground rising gradually toward the rear. The region in the government-owned hills of Bussaco are worth a page in themselves, instead of the trivial mention that can be allotted them here. The people are indebted for this splendid reservation as they are for many more in Portugal to the monks, who have such an unerring eye for grandeur and situation, and showed such taste in adorning the vast estates which they acquired. The story of the great convent at Mafra reads like a page from the life of Louis XIV. Between the years 1717 and 1730 the average number of workmen work-men employed was 14.700, with a maximum maxi-mum of 45,000 men. One is not astonished aston-ished to learn that the cost, 520,000,000 (equal to double that at present prices), left the nation in a state of bankruptcy. A church, a monastery and a palace are included in the scheme, besides barracks. The four-storied building forms a rectangle measuring 820 by 720 feet. There are said to be 2,500 wlndows'and 5,000 doers. The chimes In the tcwers, compiijiig 57 bells, cost ?2,000,0P0 alone . . . .'-' .. f- r i feUfa-.A -"VA.v -,!..f j"$-J .jas"i . As these monks were expelled with the others, many years ago, this gigantic gigan-tic folly is only used now as a place for exhibition, and may all be inspected inspect-ed for 25 cents. John IV. is credited with this, but he only followed an idiotic example. In order to show how grateful he was for the" events which secured the independence inde-pendence of his country, King John I., husband of Philippa (daughter of John of Gaunt), proceeded to wreck it financially finan-cially by starting the immense structure struct-ure known as Batalha. From 1388 to 1551, the ruinous work went on, impoverishing im-poverishing the country. Afterward the earthquake of 1755, combined with the usual tactics of the French invaders of the last century, made sad havoc with it. At the present pres-ent time it is as valueless as the one at Mafra, except to attract tourists, which are few. The figures of size and cost, as may be imagined, are stupendous. stu-pendous. I wonder with what feeling the overtaxed people of the country regard this monument of imbecility. There are many other places in Portugal Por-tugal to which the traveler who has sufficient time may well turn, but let us close with a handsome, active, wholly interesting city of the present day, hardly second to Lisbon itself in attractiveness. , Oporto is a very few miles north of a line drawn east from New York, about as far away as London, and yet less known to most of our people than Buda Pesth or Odessa. A fairly good steamer makes tie direct passage once in six weeks, I believe, but the Yankee Yan-kee would probably prefer the roundabout round-about road via England, France and Gibraltar. It is not too much to say that no American city of its size has so pretty a site as Oporto, whose 150,000 inhabitants in-habitants are spread over a dozen hills on both sides of the gorge through vhich the Douro flows to the sea. The common people, from the western west-ern point of view, are not "common" at all, but fill the streets with a kaleidoscopic ka-leidoscopic procession at which one never tires of looking. The women seem in all outdoor pursuits to far outnumber the men. As they pursue their several ways with the inevitable burden poised on the head,, the sinuous movement of the strong body is as rhythmic as an Arab dance. With the feet bare, the skirt held up by a loose band around the hips, the torso and head absolutely rigid, all the movement move-ment of walking takes place below the waist. "Queenly" Is the inaccurate and inadequate in-adequate expression that rises at once to the lips when the poorest market woman passes. Even the children acquire ac-quire the same gait, for hands are never used to carry any article that can be poised aloft. A girl of 12 has just filled her bucket with water at the fountain opposite my window, and now goes down the street with 30 pounds on her head, erect, square-shouldered, square-shouldered, full-chested, a very picture of grace. There Is a solidity to the city that impresses the beholder, massive masonry, ma-sonry, tall towers, architectural gems everywhere. The numerous open markets mar-kets are filled with meats, fish, vegetables, vege-tables, fruits, flowers, the latter in rank abundance. Except the professional profes-sional beggars no one seems -idle, and nearly all look strong and well. FLAG OF THE IRISH BRIGADE. Emblem that Led Brave Men to Battle Bat-tle Taken to England. The flag of the 2d Irish Brigade, one of the two regiments said to have been commanded by "Colonel" Lynch, has found its way to Kingston-on-Thames, and was presented to the mayor of that borough by a soldier just returned from South Africa. The flag is in th Boer colors, and bears the name of the brigade and the words "For liberty," and "Remember '98," in reference to the Irish rebellion rebel-lion of that. year. It was found un der the most dramatic circumstances. Shortly after a fight in which the 2d Irish Brigade took part, and just be fore it was disbanded, the dead body of one of its members was found lying on the veldt. The flag was wrapped around his body, and pinned to it was the fly-leaf of a Bible, on which was written in blood the following words; "Send this flag to Dublin, and pray fbr the soul of Patrick Mooney. Good bye." Sewn into the flag was an an cient-looking bullet and a piece of paper, on which was written: "This bullet was taken from the dead body of an Irish patriot, who died for his country in 1798, named Patrick O' Wore." Might Have Been. A young and very pretty matron has not lost her sense or her love of coquetry co-quetry since becoming a wife, and has subjected herself to some caustic criticism crit-icism among her acquaintances because be-cause of her ill-concealed penchant for flirting with every good-looking man she meets socially. Her ingenue manner man-ner and baby ways usually gain for her a monopoly of masculine attention She attended a party some weeks ago, and was, as usual, surrounded during the afternoon and evening by a bevy of gallants. She dropped her handkerchief, handker-chief, and one of the men, in returning return-ing it, noticed that it was knotted and asked why. "Let me see," she said musingly. "I knotted it to remind me of something; some-thing; but what?" "I hardly suppose." remarked her aunt, who was standing near, "that you put that knot there to remind you that you are a married woman did you?" Not the things we endure but tiost vre mirs make life's tragedy. Dr. William M. Beardshear, president of tse Iowa state college of agricul ture and mechanical arts at Ames, Iowa, died last week at Des Moines, Iowa, as the result of an attack of nervous prostration incurred while attending at-tending the meeting of the National Educational association, of which he was president, at Minneapolis a month ago. Dr. Beardshear had been connected con-nected with educational movements in Iowa for more than twenty years. He attended Otterbeln university, Ohio, where he secured his A. M. and LL. D. degree, and then spent two years at Yale. His progress was so rapid PORTRAIT OF LADY ARNOLD. Wife of Celebrated English Poet Is a Japanese Lady. This is a new portrait, just taken, of Lady Arnold, who was Tama Kuro-kawa Kuro-kawa of Sendai, Japan, before her marriage to Sir Edwin in 1897. The author of "The Light of Asia" has just passed his seventieth birthday. i-fis first wife, who was the daughter of an English clergyman, died in 1864. Russel Sage on Success. "Always pay attention to business; be on the lookout for opportunities. Every man must make mistakes. There's no way of avoiding them. But the man who succeeds is the man who sees the blunder he has made and" jumps in quickly and remedies it. I don't believe in hard and fast rules for success. You can't say to a young man, 'This Is the thing to do' or 'That Is the thing to do.' I think the young men of to-day have as much opportunity opportu-nity as they ever had." This is the gist of a statement made to-day by Russel Sage on his eighty-sixth birthday. birth-day. The old financier was in fine health and attended to his busi' ess as usual In his downtown office. He even condescended to pose in City Hall Park for a quick snapshot from the camera of a reporter for an evening even-ing paper. King Alexander's Position. King Alexander, like his father before be-fore him, is ignored by his fellow-sovereigns fellow-sovereigns when he travels abroad. No official notice is taken of his presence pres-ence at Vienna when he stays in the Austrian metropolis, while his offers to visit St. Petersburg and other foreign for-eign courts with his elderly consort. Queen Draga, have been curtly declined. de-clined. Nor could any European prince of the blood, no matter how impoverished, impover-ished, be found who was base enough to be willing to give his daughter in marriage to King Alexander, who mprried his mother's discharged lady-in-waiting merely because he could find no woman of royal rank willing to become his queen. Assault on Tobacco. Resolutions have been passed by the Shelby district Methodist conference confer-ence in session in North Carolina condemning con-demning the use of tobacco a3 "injurious "in-jurious to the body and mind, and to some extent to the soul," pledging the members of the conference to set a "wholesome example" by refraining from indulgence in the habit; and ex-Dressing ex-Dressing the opinion that "no. applicant appli-cant for license to preacn or for admission ad-mission foito tha annual conference who uses tobacco in any form should be licensed or recommended to the annual conference, unless he solemnly promise to quit it forever.' Tons, of Precious Metal. A bar of gold containing $1,250,000,-000 $1,250,000,-000 worth of precious metal would be three square and 300 feet long. At two tons to the million, it would take 2,500 double teams, or 5,000 horses, to haul this mass of coined treasure over the average roads of country. Fixing fifty pounds as the proper load for the average man to carry any distance dis-tance it would require an army of 100,-000 100,-000 to carry the stuff. In ranks of twelve moving in fairly open order this army of gold bearers would stretch over eleven or twelve miles, or about the length of Broadway on 'ie island of Manhattan. Propose Second Monte Carlo. It " is proposed to establish a Japanese Jap-anese Monte Carlo on an island in To-kio To-kio Bay. At present, however, the laws of Japan discourage gambling in any form. Ancient Custom Revived. Dumfries has just revived the ancient an-cient system of shooting for the "siller "sil-ler gun," presented to the trades of the town by King Jamea VI oi Scotland. 3 fflit that at the age of 29 he was made president of Western college at Toledo, To-ledo, Iowa, and was the youngest college col-lege president in the country. He was appointed superintendent of public schools at Des Moines In 1888, but two years later he was elected president presi-dent of the college at Ames. His school work has been wholly of a supervisory nature. He was appointed a member of the United States Indian commission in 1897. Dr. Beardshear was a civil war veteran, having enlisted en-listed in 1864 in the Army of the Cumberland. He was mustered out at the close of the war. A Wonderful Feat. Recently a party from the embassies at Constantinople went to Inspect the international lifeboat service on the Black sea coast. At one of the life-saving life-saving stations they thought they would like to test the conditions of lifeboat work, so, clothing themselves in bathing costumes and cork jackets, they each took an oar in a lifeboat, ta the huge delight of the Turkish boatmen. boat-men. One of the secretaries of the British embassy is never seen without an eyeglass, and is said even to sleep with it. On this occasion he was laithful to his glass and solemnly embarked em-barked in a cork jacket and eyeglass. All the proper exercise were gone through, and finally the boat was capsized and righted again by its own crew. As they crept out from under the capsized boat a howl of surprise came from the Turks, for t:ie secre tary's head appear id with the eyeglass firmly fixed in its proper position, its owner taking it as a matter of course that it should be there. London Telegraph. Tele-graph. Austria's "New Woman." The women- of Austria are coming to the front with rapid strides in the struggle for life. Their latest conquest is the railway. They have already taken possession of the posts and tel egraphs, the state tobacco shops and sleeping car company's offices. Now one of their number is become a station sta-tion mistress and an official of the ministry of ways and communications Miss Mizzi Horak of Vienna tegan life as a clerk, a position for which she qualified by joining a commercial school. She next became comptroller of the International sleeping car com pany and the government has lately appointed her station mistress of Vil- pian, and if circumstances continue favorable she may rise in time to the post of directress. Death of Sea Serpent. Science has received a blow in the untimely death at the New York Aqua rium of its latest and greatest treasure, trea-sure, the Channomuraena Vitata of Bermuda, which was the nearest ap proach to the sea serpent ever cap- tured. Two negroes caught it in very deep water by their hook getting into the monster's head back of the right eye. The thing looked more like a boa-constrictor than an eel, and had the unique power of being able to breathe through body gills while his jaws were distended. He has been preserved In a big jar of formaldehyde. WILL ACT FOR THE POPE. Mgr. Guidi Apostolic Delegate to the Philippines. The announcement from Rome that Mgr. Guidi has been appointed apos- tolic delegate to the Philippines is regarded as further evidence of the Pope's desire to personally look after the affairs of the church In the Islands, Mgr. Guidi having for years been the pontiff's nearest councilor, Mgr. Guidi occupies apartments In the Vatican palace, snd it is said the Pope in late years has taken no important step without consulting him. Moving Sidewalk in Paris. A well known engineer, M. Casa-longa, Casa-longa, is so favorably impressed with the practicability of the moving sidewalk side-walk that he has worked out a plan for a rolling platform running from the Place de la Concorde to the Place de la Baitille. That part of Paris now has an omnibus line, but owing to the crowded condition of the streets the accommodations are very unsatisfactory. unsatis-factory. The platform itself would consist of three parallel parts, running run-ning with speeds of 2.4, 5 and 7 miles an hour, respectively. A passenger walking on the third platform could thus attain a speed of nine to ten miles. The promoters are contemplating contemplat-ing even a quadruple platform, making mak-ing the higher speed as great as twelve to fourteen miles an nour. First American Public Library. What was probably the first public library in the United States was started in Charleston, N. C, in 1749. Municipal Debt of Paris. Paris has the biggest municipal debt of any city. It amounts to 80,000,-000. Of a man with a thousand-dollar bill in his pocket and no smaller amount of money, a story has been written that traced him through many experiences and took him to the verge of starvation. But, as a matter of fact, one man who had nothing smaller small-er than a one-thousand-dollar bill got through the difficulty very easily in this city a few nights ago. Ten of these coveted promissory notes of the United States had been paid to him in the afternoon. In the pursuit of business and a modicum of pleasure he had, after the receipt of his $10,000, spent the last dime he possessed other than the big bills. He was with some friends, any one of whom could and would have ac commodated him with sufficient money mon-ey for his needs, but a discussion arose about what he would do if he were a stranger In the city and had no money other than that which was in his pocket. "I wouldn't .care if I were dressed as a beggar," he said. "I can get all I want so long as I have a one-thousand-dollar bill in my pocket." "You would be arrested or turned down if you tried to use it," said one. "There are not many places where $1,000 in change is kept' handy. Be sides, most people would be shy of taking such a bill from any of us. We don't look as though we carried one-thousand-dollar bills around in our pockets." "Well," said the man with the $10,- 000, 'I'll bet a basket of champagne with the bunch that I can spend my CANNON OF From deadly implements of war turned by the enemy against the sons of the land in which they have for more than a century reposed to instruments instru-ments useful in the furtherance of peaceful industrial pursuits in that same country, is the remarkable transition tran-sition through which two large cannon can-non now in the works of the Keystone Bridge Company have passed. Captured, Cap-tured, it is supposed, by Gen. Gates at the battle of Saratoga, one of the most important engagements of the revolution, revolu-tion, the cannon were placed in the Pittsburg arsenal early in the last century and remained there as souvenirs sou-venirs until 1893, when they were bought by the old Shiffler Bridge Company Com-pany and placed in the mill to be used as compressors. There for almost 33 years the old guns have done service, and no better tools of their kind could be found. In a dark corner of the dingy plant, hidden from sight, the greater part of the time by the great weights surrounding sur-rounding them, and smeared with grease and grime, the old cannon still retain their usefulness, and beneath all the grease the royal coat-of-arms of the proud King George III. stand out, the sole reminders of the days in which they boomed in the service of the king. The royal crest is close to the old touchholes of the guns. In Jones and Smith happened to meet at the same table in a restaurant. "Do you dine at this place often?" asked Jones. "Quite often," said Smith. "It is moderate in price, at least for the common dishes; the cooking is excellent, excel-lent, the service good and everything is clean." "It is pretty well patronized, too," observed Jones. "A good many merchants mer-chants and stock exchange men come here for their meals." "Yes. What are you going to order?" or-der?" "I think I'll take a steak, a glass of claret and a pudding, or something of that kind. A man on a small salary sal-ary can't afford a swell dinner." "That's a fact. We've got to curb our appetites. I'm going to try veal cutlets, breaded, a few vegetables, an THREE STORIES IN ALL. How Witty Guide Described Mr. Cleveland's Cleve-land's Boathouse. During Cleveland's first term as president he had built for himself a handsome boathouse on the shore of Upper Saranac Lake, near the Sara-nac Sara-nac Inn. It was a long, low affair, i with a deep excavation beneath for the storing of boats and fishing tackle. Dave Cronk, a famous guide of the region, never tired of describing describ-ing the glories of the president's boat-house, boat-house, which he regarded as the real wonder of the neighborhood. On one occasion Richard Harding Davis, then a reporter in Philadelphia, visited the president socially, and was met at the station by a native, who said he had been sent with his wagqn to drive the guest to the inn. "There's Mr. Cleveland's new three-story three-story boathouse," he said, pass'ng the Btrueture. "Three-story?" asked Mr. Davis. "I see but one." "Well," said the native, "there's the story you see, the story underfifcath, and the story Dave Cronk's allua tel-lin' tel-lin' about it." A Boy and a Pup. The Clayesmore School at Enfield, England has tried a novel, experinent in allowing its pupils to keep dogs. A kennel club has been formed, of which a master is president and the boy dog owners are members. Each boy is responsible for his own dog and for the state of his kennel. Buildings Build-ings suitable for this purpose were opened by the Countess of Warwick some years ago. Of the success of the ?xperiment the head master says: "It has been found that the care of flogs is a sound means of moral discipl'ne to the youth of mankind, while thoroughly thor-oughly agreeable to boyish Inclinations. Inclina-tions. Every one knows how dearly the English boy likes to keep a dog. and under proper supervision the f-os-session of such a pet tends to mAke him kind to all animals, while it fclso enables him to enjoy the open air. and in the most sensible and natural manner to learn a great deal of the common laws of nature and the ays of animal life." New York Tribune. High Prices Paid Singers. The highest figure ever paid to a singer at Covent Garden was the sum of $48,000, paid to Mm? AjJllna PattI A MILLIONAIRE'S REPAST money as freely as though these were five-dollar bills instead of what they are, and I won't have any trouble about it, either, I'll get change the first time I try it, too, or lose tne bet. And I won't go to any man who knows me." The wager was accepted, and the man with $10,000, taking one friend with him, walked out to a pawn shop. He said to the clerk only this: "I have received $10,000 In ten bills. They are mine and were come by honestly. It is difficult for me, a stranger, to get a one-thousand-dollar bill changed. Here are the ten bills. Look at them. I need some money, and I want to pawn one of these bills for $25. If you are afraid of me, call up police headquarters and I will satisfy sat-isfy the people there by papers that I can show that I am honest. Or, if you like, call up Mr. , who paid the money to me, and he will tell you if I am all right." The pawnbroker looked at him keenly for a second and then said: "I never took money as a pledge, but you are sober and seem all right, and you can have the $25. Give me the one-thousand-dollar bill." The pawnbroker examined the bill carefully and then, to the astonishment astonish-ment of the others, took another one-thousand-dollar bill out of his safe and compared them. Then, just as he would make out a ticket for a' ring or a watch, he issued a ticket for a "one-thousand-dollar bill," turned over the $25 and closed the transaction. transac-tion. New York Tribune. GEORGE III. stead of powder thgre Is now inserted in the touchholes of both pieces a prosaic pro-saic water pipe that in no way seems to belong there. Before they enlisted in the industrial service of the Keystone Key-stone Bridge company the heads of both cannon were removed, so that they are now open at both ends. Through the great sixteen-inch bore water is pumped and is forced out by long cylinders that are burdened by 60,000 pounds of steel. This tremendous tremend-ous weight is released and, settling the cylinders, forces them through the bore of the cannon. Before them goes the water that is thrown through the pipes against a machine known as an "upsetter." At the other end of this machine the "T" bars used in bridge construction are placed and the ends, heated to a white neat, are locked into the "upsetter." The force of the water from the cannon pushes the machine against the end of the bar and starts the head, that is later finished in the big five-ton hammer. Day after day these huge guns have performed this humble work, and when one looks at the proud crest of the King of England Eng-land he wonders if, were they possessed pos-sessed of life, they would not feel humiliated hu-miliated at this sad fall from their former calling that of battling for glory and victory and empire. Pittsburg Pitts-burg Leader. omelet souffle, and a pint of porter. I can't spend more than three or four shillings for a mere lunch." "That's about the figure for me. Now, if I could afford such a meal as Tubbles over there at that table in the corner is about to order, I'd have something worth talking about." "You bet. What do you suppose Tubbles Tub-bles is worth?" "He's worth $1,000,000." Jones and Smith looked enviously at the table in the corner, where the rich man, with the bill of fare before him, was knitting his brows and pursing up his mouth in the effort to decide what he wanted. After studying the printed slip from top to bottom several times he seemed to have come to a conclusion. con-clusion. "Waiter," he said to the official standing respectfully by, "bring me a roll and butter and a cup of coffee." in 1870 for sixteen appearances. Mme. Patti has, however, beaten this record in her American tours, when she has obtained, as she did at New Orleans, as much as $6,000 a night. M. Jean de Reszke holds the record for male singers, his contract for sixteen six-teen appearances being $36,000, while the famous Polish tenor never fails to stipulate for free hotel expenses and a certain sum for carriage and horses. The famous Lasalle has always drawn his $2,000 a performance, and during the Golden Jubilee of 1887 he appeared with the two De Rezkes at one time on the stage, the aggregate of their nightly salaries amounting to over $5,000. One Way to Spend a Holiday. Last year a young English barrister published a fascinating account of the four weeks' holiday he had spent among the gypsies as one of themselves, them-selves, leading the caravan horses, sleeping in the open, helping to cook the primitive meals, and exploring, under the most delightfully unconventional unconven-tional conditions, some of the prettiest byways of the southern counties. "I returned from this holiday," he says, "with a store of health and energy and a fund of happy memories which no other conceivable holiday could have given me, and if my readers wish to have an ideally enjoyable time, every hour of which is crowded with novel and delightful experiences, let them do as I did, and go 'a-gypsy-lng.' " A Futile Mercy. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals means well by its distribution of a couple of thousands of bonnets for horses. But there will be no real diminution of the aggregate suffering of the world as long as tha society contents itself with giving bonnets to horses. A horse cannot talk at night or go through a man's pockets when he sleeps of exhaustion in the gray dawn. Nor can a horse obtain credit at a milliner's, to the despondency of the man who has acquired ac-quired the right to pay some one's bills. What is needed Is a Society for Distributing Bonnets to Indignant Females. A mere horse has not sorl enough to know if its hat ia on straight. The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. |
