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Show 7 1 ' tQ e rtvsr, Wcit IH tfe It f iZX Tkot rtL ! 8 The editor of one of our exchanges much elated over the fact that the bens are laying again. He must take This reminds eggs on subscription. s of a setting hen. Did you ever try a hen that wanted to to "break up Set? When a hen gets a notion into her head she is due to set, she will coddle down onto a china egg, a baseball or a croquet spheroid and be as immovable as the Rock of Gibraltar Argument never touches her and nothing avails but muscular interference. This is not easily, consummated. The average ben choosqs to set in a corner vthere she commands the Thermopy-lae- n Pass with a sharp bill and battering wings. She is as unreasonable as other females when strenuously determined, and fights against intrusion with bravery worthy of a better cause door-knothan nursing a flve-ceShe wants to set and she remembers this to the utter oblivion of all else. And she will set unless you throw fear of pain to the winds, grasp her firmly by the neck and duck her in the rain barrel whenever she persists in hovering over the knobs and the hen that lays balls An piously, cackles joyously and forgets to set unless sufficiently urged, is a mortgage lifter, but the hen that Insists on hatching a miscellaneous balls, pepper-boxe- s geny of ping-ponand Igneous rock should be made to feel the contumely of every honest What we need in chicken fancier. this country is people and hens that will stay on their eggs when there are eggs under em, and forget to set when they might better be hustling g g t Ik lM o for grub. X -- It or 3 Jt :x o tt tJ I 1 t U i u 1t re ft- - ' T U l 1. ' tl i n? was Hamlet who was made to "Ptfceasds despeiate By desperate appliance Or not at all'" grown - are reliev'd. and the worst of it is, one feels after reading the daily papers, that his own private ailment is a desperate one. Argument is persuasive when at its best, and if ever an argument is clothed in the garb of perfection it is when it tells of disease that man is heir to. We have, ere this, perused a goodly article in some worthy publication, telling of the cruel ravages of tapeworm, and by my withers, Horatio, we have felt the worm gambol and twist within us. So well have the ubiquituous advertisers told their story that we have felt the nauseating sti angulation of catarrh, the pestiferous cankering of the dread diphtheria, the excrutiating twinges of the warping rheumatism, the sharp kniving3 of the purulent other strenuous appendicitis and troubles that delight in mans unHad we a wooden leg and doing toes of cork, the gout would pain our very limb when reading thus and so. So far as we know we are as healthy as an alley billy goat. We can eat almost anything the goat can (except cans) and enough of it to founder a flatboat but we have symptoms! We can't help it when we read the advertisements which describe: "That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beautys transient Busier. A New York humorist is founding a home for decripit jokes. We hope he wont get all the old ones corralled until we can find some one who can originate a few new staples. Anyhow we desire a permit to use that one about the old lady who thought the hippopotamus awfully We want to use this occaplain. sionally when referring to the beauty of a near and dear friend. A Minnesota man has just killed himself because one he loved told him he was homely. Had she been more careful and insinuated he was plain but honest, he would still be alive and kicking at the price of coal. Anyhow, why should a man commit suicide just because he is homely? Despite this fact we have lived and thrived, grown fat and had our pictures in the papers. We were once spoken of as a candidate for aider-ma- n in our home ward and several times have been the target for a mule who is no respecter of persons, A man who Is plain should endeavor to be good and cultivate a beautiful character. He will then be happy, even though married. Dont kill yourself, as funeral expenses are mighty high these good times. If you love your relatives who must bury you, try and he cheerful until a financial panic hag leveled all inflation in the prices of necessities The Chicago minister who is preaching against dudes should not waste his time and disposition in this manner. The dudes are almost as extinct as the dinosaur, which had a brain In both ends. The dude was something like this prehistoric animal, he had as much brains In one end as the other, but the combined gray matter would not sink a cerebral canoe. The dude was not popu lar. He was too much one way as the man who buttons his collar to a wart on the back of his neck, is the other. Unfortunately while the dudes have lessened in number, the wart buttoners seem to have in creased until a young marrying man almost has to support his own wife these days. Pa won't help at If the Chicago minister will turn his attention to the town miser who has a wad of money as big around as the waist of the fat lady in the circus and who wont spend cent for the benefit of the community r to cure his lifes cold, we will turn our batteries to hia account. Otherwise we shall be neutral. The dude is failing rapidly and we wont strike a man when he Is down! An Iowa paper has been figuring and has arrived at the conclusion that the average wage of school teachers in Iowa is $1.01 per day. Is It possible that the apostle of all that was good and lovable In our youth, the descendant of her we respected and looked up to In the palmy days of our marble age. makes but a paltry $1.01 per day? And why this extra cent? Is she to save or does ghe live on the copper that, and put $1 by for a rainy day? Unfortunate instructor of youth, you could have made more money had you In your adolescent period applied .yourself to a dissertation on woodsawing or currying a horse. Alas! There seems to be little use for education these days. Can it be that the foreign visitor waspossible who right declared America a place where the people scowl at their writers and teachers and amile at their butchers? Years ago we loved our teacher. She was the symposium of all that was noble. She not only inspired us to climb the ladder of success but she taught us to keep our ears clean as well. She inculcated in us a for the true and the beautiful, regard honesty of purpose, integrity of accomplishment. In a sense, sue was our ideal and we worshiped her on a pedestal of our own manufacture. When we became a man we profited by her early counsels and to think she may have been making only $1.01 per day for starting us In life toward the Presidents chair. Cold, cruel, unappreciative Pate! Samuel Eels says the hope of this country is in the schools. Can it be that for $1.01 per day, and board themselves, the school maams will pitch in for home and native land and save us? It would be Just like them, the unselfish, dutiful women, but as a free born American citizen we feel rather ashamed at being saved. It seems cheap to us and makes us think we are hardly worth saving! HOLY CITY OF RUSSIA if Moscow the Spot in the Vast Empire ol the Czar of Which the True Muscovite Is the Most Prcud Where the Coronation Ceremony Takes Place Hawaii Postmaster Resigns. Since David Kaphokohoakimohoke-weona- h resigned his office as postmaster at Keokea, island of Maul, Hawaii, the fourth assistant postmaster general has been unable to find any one to take the office. David of the unpronounceable name has been holding down the office ever since Hawaii was made a territory, but some time ago he got more lucrative employment on a sugar plantation at $3 a month and left the government service, where he received $24 a year. Mr. Kaphokohoaklmohokeweonah is said to be a lineal descendant of the famous King Kalitapckamikokiwealo-ha- , who, tradition tells, was very fond of missionaries. (Special Correspondence.) OLY Moscow! Who nation procession mat enter is the has not heard of Mos-coBlagoveshchensky, or Cathedral of that brilliant the Annunciation, the edifice to of Asia and which the ancient monarchs of RusVjjfev tanglement as the sia were taken for baptism and beEurope. Conte de Segur called trothal It dates from the year 1397. A with its the original structure having been of complex of palaces and wood; renewed by Ivan III. In 1484-89- , cathedrals, of mansions It was elaborately restored soon and of hovels, upon after the coronation of Alexander which m 1812 Napoleons grand afimy III. In the years gazed down from the Sparrow hills, Another characteristic feature of struck, upon its first view of the city, the Kremlin is the great palace In with mingled admiration and aston- which the Czar resides whenever he ishment, yet destined to recoil from is in Moscow. After several disasters its fascination in suffering indescrib- to the palaces which preceded it, the able, and in a ruin at which the world present structure was erected by has never ceased to shudder? Nicholas I. at a cost of $6,000,000. The inspection of Moscow by a for- The plans were those of Prof. Thon, eigner properly begins with the and the work of construction occuKremlin, or fortress of the city, in pied ten years from 1839 to 1849 which are gathered many imposing the dedication taking place in the monuments of Its historic past This spring of 1849. stands on rising ground, facing a Forming the west wing of the bend in the river Moskva, and is surGreat palace" of the Kremlin is the rounded by a high wall with five Treasure palace, built by Nicholas I. ri 1884-189- without touching the hat. Take the glass and the hat, put your head under the table, make a noise as if drinking, rise and ipe your lips. Some one of the company thinking you have drunk the water will certainly take up the hat to see. As soon as the hat is removed pick up the glass and drink its You can now drink the contents. water without touching the hat. Wiiid some clean thread tightly around a small pebble and secure the end. Now if you expose It to the flame of a lamp or candle the thread will not burn; for the heat runs along the thread without remaining in it and attacks the stone. The same sort or trick may be performed with a poker around which is evenly pasted a sheet of paper. Two Broom Holders. Cut four circles of cardboard and cover them and overhand two of them together, and then the other two. Featherstitch on one of them an inch in front the edge, taking up.a white bead on each stitch. When this is finished tack the two parts together and In Darkest Africa. One would think the roads of Central Afriea are hardly suited for cycling purposes, but numbers of old bicycles are now bought up. painted in gaudy colors ami taken into the interior, where there is a ready sale TIC EL 5 5.5 Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman in the world, has had considerable to say in the newspapers from time to time about folks and things. She says women who fuss and ruffle, rub liquid rouge on their noses and loll around are fools real fools. Several of the newspapers the yellow newspapers, of course, said Hear! hear! to this, and when Hetty added that the sensible women were those who stayed home and baked and brewed while mother rested a line or two was a princess compared to the anemone patens kind of there were those real demonstrations of applause and great applause the reporter works into his report about prominent citizens speeches. Now Hetty, the female Midas, says women never get rich partially because they cant save the nucleus for a start; but tlhe great cause, she says, is that- - by the very nature of the girl she is not often splashed by the, tide that leads to fortune. She is not around among men to hear of the snaps and the legitimate opportunities. In other words, Mrs. Green thinks these fair creatures should mingle with the male sex more and be good fellows, that they may learn much of business and business chances. Hettys idea may be seconded by a few men who never seem to get enough women near them, but the average manly man with a good hoiiie would ponder awhile before he took one of these dear mlxera into his own nest for a helpmate through life. Most men are jealous as the very old scratch about their wives and respect a woman witb a quiet past more Into than one who has to plunge stocks and becomes mannish simply for gold. One sex crazed after lucre is enough, and it is restful to come home and find your wife gentle and feminine rather than a bull or a bear. fasten a ribbon or cord to hang It CP by. Figure 1 represents this idea. For the other, cut two pieces of card- board like figure 2 and cover and overhand them together. Then, out of velvet of contrasting colors, cut six pieces likq figure 3, allowing for seams, and sew them together. The one pictured Is In the colors of the rainbow. Then cut out a piece of cardboard which they will just cover and fasten them to It. Then put the pieces together like figure 4. fastening at the sides. lady-flowe- r, 5 5 5 Someone has said, as the school girl says in her graduating essay, that two friends may drink together without much scattering of lucre, hut when the third man puts his foot on Make mine a the rail and says; whisky sour, it is then the foundation is laid for a night out with the boys and a headache next morning. A Utah statesman is evidently a believer in the statement and knows its truth either from reading, hearsay or He has intropersonal experience. bill In the legduced au islature of that state. This bill prohibits treating and imposes heavy fines as penalty. The blossoming candidate may not give away cigars or liquor under its mandates. The It probill Is even more drastic. vides that the candidate may not ginger-pop- , or dispense mineral water or lodging. In other words he may give away nothing but kind words and the sunshine of jiis presence. If this law should become general many a man would save enough in a week to buy his wife a new pearl tiara. While the Utah man is about it If he could broaden his bill a bit and bar serving and livery horses to best girls, he would confer a lasting favor on the young man in love and help him to put Something away for a wedding day that may be rainy. We subscribe to the wisdom of the Utah goliath, but ' we dont see why a good thing can not be pushed along. anti-treatin- g - House of Romanoff Czars. It contains an at intervals along the wall in the years there are picturesque towers, some enormous collection of the art 1849-5- gates; in number. It is these architectural features which, together with palaces, cathedrals, churches, barracks, government buildings and monuments, make the Kremlin one of the most interesting sights in Europe. Yet the Kremlin is only the nucleus of the city, for around it, separated from each other by walls built one after another, as the place expanded, to protect the inhabitants from attack, are the separate divisions of Moscow the known as the Chinese City, Earth-WaWhite City, and the twenty-on- e ll City. , The chief entrance to the Kremlin which even the monarch himself must pass uncovered. It is this gate which Is used by the coronation procession, as well as by the Russian army on its return from war. The three great cathedrals in the Kremlin are the Uspensky, or Cathedral of the Ascension; the Archan-gelskor Cathedral of Michael, the Archangel, and the. Blagoveshchensky, or Cathedral of the Annunciation. The ceremony of the coronation takes pl&ce within the Uspensky. After the ceremony In the Uspensky cathedral is over the procession makes its way to the Archangelsky of all the cathedral, the burial-plac- e early rulers of Russia, from Rurik up to the predecessor of Peter the Great. Here they rest in the sarcophagi forty-seveof them the. remains of each covered with a red cloth and provided with an inscription giving the name of the deceased ruler, as well as the date of hia birth and death. Is the young Among the forty-seveDimitry, the last of the Ruriks, believed to hare been murdered, in Is the Saviour Gate, through n n Ice-crea- To Make Lily from a Candle. is something that will be sure Here western and of of Russia products to please the girls. You will be surEurope, Thrones, crowns, carriages and sceptres of the Czars, including prised, perhaps, to hear that you may the crown of Peter the Great, with its construct a spray of lilies of the val 825 diamonds, and the sceptre of the ley out of a spermaceti candle and a Czar Alexis Mikhailovitch; weapons few pieces of wire. Get six or eight pieces of very fine from all periods of Russias history, and bend each of them into a wire naamong them the sword of the curve at one end, terminating with a tional heroes, Minin and Pozharsky; hook. Now hold a lighted spermaceti and many relics of Peter the Great. candle over a glass of water and let So much, then, for the Kremlin its white stone walls with their pic- half a dozen drops of the wax fall into turesque towers and gates, US'" pal- the water. Each drop, as soon as It aces, cathedrals, monuments and pub- touches the water, will be transformed lic buildings. The visitor who has into a little floating white cup. These cups will have exactly the sated himself on its sights finds it convenient to pass at once to the size and shape of the little bell flowers Chinese City, the business section of the lily of the valley, and they may of Moscow, and the most interesting be made large or small, according to feature of this is generally admitted the distance at which you hold the to be The Red Square, with its candle from the water. Now take one of the little wires and Cathedral of Basil the Blessed, its statue to Minin and Pozharsky, its historical museum, Iberian Gate, trading bazaar and Kazan cathedral. Of these the Cathedral of Basil the Blessed, over 150 feet high at its highest, is probably the most striking. Its fantastic towers, suggesting half a dozen different styles of architecture, were found only recently, through the discovery of the archives of the cathedral, to be the work of two Russian artists who This planned the whole building. to negatives the story according which Ivan the Terrible put out the eyes of the Italian architect of the cathedral in order that he should not Making Wax Flowers. be able to build another like it warm the straight end of It, and while In addition to the features mentioned above, Moscow is well supplied it is warm run it through the center of one of the wax cups. This should with theatres, picture galleries and museums. Her public monuments In- be done while the cup is still In the water. clude one to Pushkin, the great RusThen push the cup down to the Lomon-ossofsian poet, and another to end of the wire, from which it the first Russian litterateur. hooked will hang just like the bell flower of Arch of Triumph, Hie celebrated the lily. Having thus pierced six or eight of the cups, twist the wire together, the smaller cups above the larger ones below, and put the spray thus completed in a small vase In which are green paper leaves. The effect will be far more delicate and beautiful than one would think, and the wax cups will have the whiteness, the transparency and the pretty indentations of the real flowers. f, Course of the Cable. When we follow the course of cable dispatch and see how many hands it passes through before reach lug the person It is intended for, the wonder is that all cipher messages do not contain mistakes. The operator ticked It off to the cable station at Hongkong, .writes the Northwestern Christian Advocate. From there was sent to Singapore; it entered India, was caught up at Madras and hurried on to Bombay; with lightning wings It flew to Aden in Arabia, where It was put on the cable to Suez. Africa. Then began the race toward Europe by the way of Malta, Gibraltar and Lisbon, ending on the eastern hemisphere at London. From the English capital it made another deep-se- a journey to New York, and from three was telegraphed overland to Washington, having ?. been transcribed no fewer than fifteen tinea. ice-crea- 5 5 5 A man from Maine left home with $165 In his pocket He went to purchase a drink. This was three week ago and the supposition Is that he got what he went after, at least once. There have been times when an Individual who desired a drinl has had difficulty in securing it, but no man with $165 In his pocket ever set out determinedly to satisfy bis but sooner craving for a high-balor later reached the bar. That the Maine resident has not returned. Is further evidence that this statement is true. He may have had to ge a long way for the stimulant, but he will come home some day with the fire of success in his eye and a three months overdue haircut on his head, but he will have had that drink. There is no use in trying to legislate liquor away from a man with $165 and a thirst x as' l, 5 5 5 Save your surplus, says an advisor, so that some day when your friends are eating prunes you may be eating strawberries. In other words, be a lobster when young, so you wont enjoy being anything else when you grew old and unpliable. pBWl Areh of Triumph. 1591, by Boris Godunoff, the uIbo the notorious Ivan the usurper! too, i. one of the most beautiful and Terrible, imposing of the publ'c buildings, and whose mad deeds were the scourge of of Moscow, and who once, In a fit d stick anger, drove his through th foot of an ambassadorIn who had begun to read a message his nreserep. The thir cb'srfh wlitnh tbe coroiron-pointe- the House of the Romanoff Cars is one of the interesting sights of the city. The 1 riversity of Moscow, with over 3,000 students. Is an institution known for ''t'viqkness of its of uiauy of its work pod the ail over Earc;e V A Bunch of Tricks. Tell a boy that you can make a circle round him with a piece of chaT; out of which he cannot jump. The chance, are that he will say you can not ds it Draw a circle with the chalk around his Jacket and any. Now jumD out of it Ask n boy whether he thinks If he clasped his hands together he conld walk out of the room. He will, f course, say that he could. Request him to pass his arms around the leg of the table or piano. Join his hands, amt walk away. Fill a small glass with water, ctrtw tt with a hat, and ray you can drink H for them among African chiefs and kings. these dusky potentates believe that the spectacle of a monarch careering through his dominions a bicycle is calculated to strike a fitting amount of awe into the minds of refractory subjects, or whether they purchase the machines for the satisfaction of hearing the bell ring. It is difficult to discover. No matter how dilapidated and useless for riding a machine may he, the natives are always satisfied U there is a bell. When Dreams Come True. I shall see far plainer than I do Here and now, when what I dream Just leaving room enough for thw scissors to cut round. Let these get perfectly dry, and then cut each figure out very carefully. Take a piece of stiff paper, or another piece of pasteboard, and cut it about half an Inch wide and an inch long. Measure a quarter of it, crease it, and thee paste the bit that is creased on to the back of the doll. You will find that, when dry, it will enable the dolla to stand. You must remember to cut the figures quite even at the bottom, or they will not stand. . Remains Found in a Cave. of a human being were discovered among a motley assortment of those of animals In a cave near Ganoga Glen, near Wilkesbarra, Pa., the other day by John Truax, a farmer. There were also household utensils, all in a good state of preservation; a flour barrel, a quantity o chacoal, flint and metal weapons, and a number of ornaments, such as ar generally found deposited in old fort! fixations and ancient mounds in the district. Many of the bones resembled tnose of bears, catamounts and othei large wild animals. They crumbled when touched. The bones To Test Your Lungs. Is come; They that love me not, my slips shall rue. love not, deeming dull and Those dumb, shall wake to find right fellowsome. When my, dream comes true. X Lightest words that worked for me and you Barriers that clomb to mountain hlghta; Little deeds that Into great wrongs grew. All for lack of flashing heaven-lightShall be smoothed and sharpened all to rights. When ray dream cornea true. s. It may even be the love I woo Blindly now, my wisdom choked with tears. Then shall understand me, know how true Was the heart struck voiceless through its fears. Ah! a moment shall make sweet the years. When my dream comes true. Richard Burton in the Cornhlll Booklet. One can test the strength of hit lungs by putting a paper bag under any weight. BIqw gently and steadily and the object will tumble over. Who 8kated First? It is very doubtful which race firsts skated, for traces have been found among prehistoric remains all over Northern Europe indicating that the art was practiced by primitive peoThe Eskimos of the farthest ples. north are also found to he of runners carved from whalebone. Skating is mentioned by a Danish historian about 1134, and Fijzstephen, in his History of London, says that in the twelfth century young men fastened the leg bones of animals under their feet by means of thongs in order to slide along the ice. This statement is confirmed by the pair of bona skates of the period, now in the British Museum. It is likely, however, that these early Londoners got tha idea from Holland, probably via Lincolnshire, where skates have been used on the frozen fens from very remotes times. The Bud of a Tree. the curious things recently discovered by the students of plant life is the fact that a bud taken from one tree and grafted on another, carries the age tf thj original tree with it. It has always been believed that the bud so transferred began a wholly new life, but this new theory it may, after all, be more theory A Dancing Doll. than fact, as yet shows the matter v This is very easy to make out of in an entirely different light. For example, if a bud be taken cardboard. Cut the legs and arms from a tree that is twenty-fiv- e years of separate pieces, as shown in the old with a natural life of fifty years left hand figure, and fasten with and grafted on another tree, it will not live as long as its parent tree is entitled to live, the full fifty years, buf only for the period of life then left to the tree twenty-fivyears. Among e Shower of Cigars. There was an amazing shower at the Humber dock, Hull, the other day. A bale of hay was being landed from the steamer Swallow, from Rotterdam, and when the bale was suspended by the crane in midair the workmen beneath were bewildered by a sudden shower of cigars falling about their heads. It was discovered that the sup- thread, as there shown. Paint aa posed bale of .hay contained about a shown in the right hand figure. Pull thousand cigars, but although other the string and the doll will dance. bales of hay in the same consignment The Suicide Wind. for a Hull dealer were examined no was discovered. A curious belief prevails among the further contraband As a large trade Is done in Hull in natives of Bravil and other parts of foreign hay and straw future consign- South Anferlca which prompts them to ments will be closely watched. fear a certain condition of the air, which they call suicide wind. It is not a superstition, but an actual conDolts for the Dolls House. Here Is an easy and cheap way for dition of the atmosphere, which seems little girls to make dollies for the to drive people to madness, and durdeaths ing its continuance dolls house. numerous. are and Criminologists for mother ask any magazine First, or paper that has figures of ladies scientists all over the world are interested In this peculiar atmospheric Inand children In it. After choosing those you like, get fluence, which Is indicated by a soft, your paint box and set to work to moist, warm air, that settles heavily on the earth. paint them. Do not use much water. Then get a pair of blunt scissors .Diet of Mahometans. and cut them out very carefully (but N It is a rule with Mahometans to bebe sure to wait until the paint Is gin a meal with salt and finish with dry). vinegar. If they begin with salt they The next thing Is to have a piece will escape the contagion of 70 disor thin cardboard, eases. If they finish with vinegar of pasteboard which you can buy at any stationers their worldly prosperity will continue for one penny the sheet and paste to Increase. The host Is tn etiquette the cut out figures on It Is best bound to be the first to start eating to cover the whole sheet with them, and the last to stop) self-inflict- tt FIND THE GONDOLIER. , |