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Show T ) I IN THE ODD CORNER. attend In person at the factory e have them made under their own There is no limit to the enAND CURIOUS THINQ8 thusiasm of an artistic fly tyer, who AND EVENTS. will use hairs from his own eyelashes to finish off an extra speolal fly. Babys hair is a material. If of the right shade golden Glmmt Crab IomUmi Attala a Ua(th for all the lighter salmon flies, yellow f Twa Fm Klrds and one curl will make a dozen first-claBather la Kbaaari. s. on. - much-sought-af- HE WANTED TO KNOW. other was disposed to dogmatize about He ambled up to the winodw In a everything. 'Care less manner and put his elbow on They met at his house one evening; the shelf for support. Then he drew a and a long argument on things theo ietrong breath you could tell It was I logical and otherwise ensued between strong without looking and smiled at the two, with the customary result I the clerk. Neither of the disputants succeeded Zlsh his lnformashun burro?" he I In convincing the other, nor even in I asked, in deliciously thick accents. shaking his opinion. The clerk nodded and looked wise. Well, said Uncle Jerry, drawing a Zlsh where long breath of relief after they had gone away, there isnt very much difthings? "It is. ference, after all, between an agnostic "Wise guysh. and and a cognostic.' .The clerk looked annoyed and waxed It was a new word, but seems one groggy as he inhaled the atmosphere of legitimate coinage. .lingering Just outside. SCIENTIFIC TERMS. "If you have any business with me anstate it at once, he said, please ter ss flies. Fata. ""Tbe sky is crowded, the rocks are bare. The spray of the tempest is white in lr; s The winds are out with the And The Chicago newspapers and the Chicago public have become greatly excited over the mysterious society known as the White Boxers. This organization (in its secret councils) has begun a war of conquest against the darker races, using the heathen Chinee as an object of peril to the Caucasians. In their meetings the Boxers wear gowns and masks. Their organization came about as a result of the publication of William Roes "Boxer Book. This book first saw the light in Chicago and was freely distributed among people of advanced thought. It dem onstrated (to the satisfaction of the author) the fact that inasmuch as the darker races of mankind are more prolific than the whites, the Mongolians and Africans will in time rule the earth, with the whites as slaves. It is shown that, the darker races already form y far the most numerous division of the human family. It therefore advises the whites to follow up the Biblical injunction to Increase and multiply, that the ratio of increase In population over the darker races may ward off the peril. The negroes of Chicago are naturally , Indignant at the proposition, and have called meetings of protest. In the meantime the Boxers are said to be increasing at a rapid rate, and the sales of the "Boxer Book are said to . at play I shall not tempt the sea today. The trail is narrow, the wood is dim. The panther- clings to the arching limb; And the lions whelps are abroad at Play, Ami I shall not Join in the chase today. . - Tit-Bit- Falleaa Days la KlMtizL There are great sights for bird lovers at the lakes of St. Charles county, Mo., these days. The pelloans are passing. The pelican is the largest of all migratory birds of Missouri and the Mississippi valley. Full grown, h Is as large as a big turksy, but for all his bulk he is not physically oi mentally awkward. He can catch fish with all the cunning of men, and he is strong on his wings as a wild goose and skillful at circling to great heights as an eagle. ' The pelican Is not known as a Missouri bird, but he visits the fitate every fall and spring on his migratory trips between the North and South, and it is unlikely there Is another place in the United States where the big bird is seen in greater numbers than he may be seen at this season in the lake district between tbe Iowet be enormous. A public meeting was held at the Chicago Auditorium "Zash it Zackly hie tel Ft right Sunday, and was addressed by the chief But the ship sailed safely over the sea. nowshohelpme! Shee, zlsh way. Came down town of the Boxers, who wore gown and And the hunters came from the chase shevenln t balance ' booksh no cant balanBh anyshing in glee; mask. he, he Rah fr but shay, whashwan The speaker was accompanied by And the town that was b(illded upon tell y ish I met a frien shay, you a rock , two other men similarly masked and frlen o mine? robed. After the meeting the three Was swallowed up in the earthquake "Yes, yes, I'm a friend of yours; but Bhock. Missouri and Mississippi rivers. From disappeared through a rear door and get a move on, old man, and let that Marie Temps Claire, thirty miles ' Bret Harte. all attempts to trace them were In crowd behind you take a peep. above St. Louis, up tbe Missouri point vain. Their identity was a mystery to The visitor wasnt so certain about to Lings lake, forty miles above, there Crib Islands every person in the audience but one that, but after surveying the angry is a chain of prairie lakes in which An Interesting account of the Frank Finsterbach, 3030.. Archer line just subsequent to him, he stopped giant the pelican delights. He can fish In landccabs that swarm over Christmas avenue, and he refuses to divulge it. hesitating and went on: the shallow waters roost on their and in Island, the Indian The speaker stated that the very exOcean, is given "Sho men my frien we took a drink and In grassy shores, Pearsons every spring and Mr. Magazine istence of the white race was threatCharles autumn he visits these by hie an here I am . 'Rah f'r but oftenAndrews. places, "Natural These curious creatures selection. ened by. the Mongolians and negroes ehay, whaswan know Ish his times coming In great flocks of many sometimes attain a length' of 2 feet thousand birds. Fifteen miles and that unless something was done and are burro? LITTLE LAUGHS. above colored. gaudily the Caucasians Certainly, hurry up would be from St. Is Louis a turn In swept Missouri the A Wld ZzptriMM. In Christmas Island these crabs are the face of the earth. ' He advocated common Well, I wansh know shay, Im go-l- a known as Pelican bend. It is so Jenkins has just written a book on everywhere, and even if none river, home I wansh know ish my wife war first named education beginning for the pelicans which stop with are How to Succeed. in sight it Is only necessary to sit got a club? Denver Times. and ending with caifhon and sword. down for there a year and fill the day with twice I wonder if it will be a success? a few minutes, when a dozen He told of the new society formed to or so his noisy fishing. The to be. Jenkins has failed It will.be seen ought approaching from Isher is no A MARINE VIEIV. promote this war, and asked his hear- all sides. They advance bird. He is bright. Life The ship had dropped anchor in the at everything else. slowly, with f he were ordinary ers to join. not he would have become frequent stoppages, and If the observlower bay and the, captain was nerv-ousextinct . The only man in Chicago for marksthe ago, er long poorest sits publicly quite still, they finish the last man His tTsnal Lack. pacing the deck waiting for the could hit a pelican If be got with- identified with the- movement who few with a rush, and First then commence In Burglar (disgustedly) Only $2 owners tug, say the New York Tribknows the Boxer leader is Mr. Finster- Investigating boots and clothes range of it, and the fields are filled une. A man hailed the ship from a in the house and the silver all plated! with with But a pelican Is seldom bach. He their idensays that those claws among big Second with a view to getting killed.hunters. Burglar Yes; an I spoee, rowboat and said he was coming on He files tified at with the Boxers is a Chicago high and does his Ill get ketched Into the bargain. I something eatable. The experiment board. in Isolated places. H ground was wofk writer who never is well known and who is do get collared for these mean litearned beyong this point, knows The captain recognized him as a man a with a gun like a wild as the a the author of tle consequences Jobs that wasn't wuth doin. Puck. pamphlet containing seemed likely to boarding house runner, and ordered knows an Indian from a red turkey the statement of the beliefs and prln- -' prove painful. As soon as the him off. The runner insisted. least movement was made, they would fox. Chicago Chronlclei ' ciples of the order. The minute you come over the rail Qnlckar Tfaaa Thonrht. scramble away backwards . by a AcHe also says a Chicago philanthroA little boy hearing some one reof this ship. Ill shoot you like a dog! cession Be M a Riron-tc- r. of jerks, and seek to ''thrust Is who a millionaire is pist backing mark that nothing was quicker than yelled the captain. the movement financially. The order the hinder part of the body into any Generally the bee stays at horns Youll hang for it if you do! yelled thought said he knew better than that;' when rain is in the air. When the In Chicago has one secret lodge, which hole or crevice In the rocks or the man making his boat fast to tbe whistling was quicker than thought, is simply dark and elouQy these that to meets a sky be in happen unknown at to side. ex all tTiij place ship's hand; Being asked to explain, he said: My ships my home, and Id have as cept a very few and whose head is the done, they at once presented a bold busy workers do not leave their dwell"In school the other day I whistled front to the foe, and struck out vic- ing all at once. A few go out first, much right to kill you as a man on before I thought, and got a licking for speaker referred to. shore to kill a burglar, continued the it. The Evangelist. In connection with the organization iously with their long, sharp front legs. as though the queen had sent out the captain. a a free school at the Peoples Insti- The reason for this anxiety to reach messengers to study the state of the Thats the instructions The greater number refrom the owners on my last trip. got tute, Leavitt and Van Buren streets, shelterIs Is that the hinder part of the atmosphere. verbatim oed. body on main Just then the owner's tug arrived observation until the clouds soft vuland comparatively where' children are Instructed in elo Miss Swagger Exponents of physas Just nerable, Is It to In and the runner took to his oars. Is only then case tbe begin and.it of dissipate, the and athletics. cutlon, music, dancing hermit-crab- s, which are often seen on that the battalions entire rush out In Wouldnt I hare had a right to ical culture tell us that we should not was the first Sundays gathering English shores, living in old whelk search of their nectar. A bee never shoot him if hed insisted on coming Incline the upper part of our bodies public meeting of the society, bul; ahells; the on board? asked the captain. The forward in walking. creatures seem fully con- goes out in a fog, because It Is well one hereafter is to be held regularly scious of their Miss Swelldom I know, but its owner had consulted his attorney since PROFESSOR FINSTERBACH AND BOXER CHIEF. weak point and always aware that. dampness and cold are every Sunday. keep their face to an enemy. The dogs two fearsome, redoubtable enemies. the captain had been in port before simply impossible to stand erect while sjsji of the Island have discovered that they wear these land had to modify his orders. S' lent they We. do not 'mean, however, that the ' can kill these crabs by The law is different than we hats. Ohio State Journal. bee' Is a" meteorologist In the absolute The reticence of the away biting the soft tall, which they eat, and the sense of the thought, he said. The Bhip is not is provoking. Several of them, word. Its cleverness conolder hands are very skillful in Georgetown, O., Correspondence Bartlett a Mr.-J- . brother your home, but your yard. You can deof Mrs. Bailey, DlfttrmtfuL in never sists the doing Plerpont Morgan among being taken una wares, Mrs Lucinda Power, who died here re- Power, to pass the examination that this, but for a ' fend your cabin as if it were your for often novicet&e.a.ttempt It number, lately returned from Europe, possesses I dont Stickney is said to .have been ofj(of Gen- gave young Grant a chaaM to go--to leads tq dlsastronscoqsquencelC!' ' a 4 Dff'WI1. wiy.aug-iibMr- Ta untiring vigilance. housck. Thee forecastlee is. .another bookkeeper. Tney had been on the ocean in close cently, eral Grant's sounds of lamentsftHfi;'Wblch bln. be entrance of bees Into tbe hivesuddwtL. sweethearts. West Point. building in 'your yard, the quartern of Leave your umbrella where communion for tbe better part of a When Grant wasboyhood a mile off, uttered by a dog with a dense cloud hides the sun, and vhu; heard elected he President Mrs. your servants. You cant keep their hePickney Powers husband. Dr. Henry even can get it; then if he steals your week. They must have spent most of made Mrs. Power a crab hanging on to its nose or friends out by force. big of died in postmistress Power, and 1858, tbe is rain not In their time in discussing grave affairs evidence; subsequently though umbrella youll know he is a thief. . Is. ear, ought to be a warning to inGood scheme! Er do yoi of business, just as statesmen of the Stickney cautious puppies. The pain inflicted COL'FLKO IN THE RETTING. same party, if thrown together on a ' To Boll mind stepping out a moment while George Ilf.'a Beard. must be very severe, for the claws There goes the old colored man would have steamer, discussed new king seems to have the umbrella into Ohio put great England's position? have an who has been trying to get the extremely powerful grip. I matters of state and would have outin for housecleaning in a most have had the hard wood handle to let his boy off, said the barber.Judge State Journal, of a gone lined a political policy for the commanner. Amohg the articles thorough geological hammer scored and splinYes, said the police captain. season. The community of interII ing for sale at auction as a readvertised A tered seate. for by them, Rising the animals seem wonder if he was successful. est" men who were together on the sult of clearing up the royal palaces to have very little discrimination, and Tess I never saw any girl so am Deutschland must have outlined No, volunteered the bailiff. He are a their set of ninepins which Albert Edwill try to eat anything that has been was arrested with another colored boy, bltloua aa that Chicago heiresB. She fall campaign. What it is will to play with when a child, ward used they handled and a is little greasy. In the some and they were fined ten and costs each. bad ber choice of a German baron, d not say, but the people would like to garden implements used by tbs matter of food these creatures are by The judge told the old man he could French count and an English duke, know. Statesmen are not always taciFrederick when a little girl, Empress no means particular, dead rats and So ab took the duke, eh? not let either of them go. turn. They are often willing to take done by Queen Victoria painting birds, Tess No. she took the baron, but the public Into their fruit, the pith of the sago palm, when Why not? 12 years old, and most confidence. It was she even and their wounded 8he 'I dont know, but I suppose it was comrades, are arranged to marry the count enables them to get along better than of all a part of the beard astonishing quickly disposed of. They .are very because they were coupled in the bet- - net and then the duke. Philadelphia if they were resolutely silent about 111. of The English papers George useful Press. scavengers round a camp, and ting.1 their plans. Often they throw out uf the catathe state, upon authority clear all away which carrion, they hints of what they intend to do, and of the that the logue sale, royal beard often drag away a long distance. I Not Prepared for It. if they find a cold response they LOST IN THE CROWD. is tbe articles but it among offered, have come across one la- seems occasionally Towne Poor Subbubs is laid up. change their tactics and escape makTeas (meeting Jess on the street) incredible that King Edward, a boriously birds a dragging wing up He volunteered to open a car window ing a blunder. It would not be a bad Whats the matter? steep cliff half a mile or more from the in his desire to get rid of the rubbish idea if the financial and industrial poJess Ive lost something, and I for a lady and which has accumulated in his palaces place where It had been found. Brown Ah! Burst a blood vessel. I tentates of today were to try this praccant think just what it is. and castles, should dispose of the tice occasionally and put out feelers Teas Its wasn't your suppose? beard of his What Artificial Fly Making. Towne Worse than that. The thing to find whether the community .will Jess O! I know now. It was that will his Mahometan subjects think, The trade of artificial fly making Is little Mr. Snipp, who was alking lith went up so easy that he pitched head- take kindly to some grand scheme they those who swear by the beard the lightest-fingere- d business. in the of tbe people me." have in mind. If the men of high long through the window. Philadel New York Press. Prophet? world, and there are only about 500 Tess "Then it was nothing, after phia Press. finance and consolidated industry are In the country. They are al all. to continue to play the important Philadelphia Press. part Caaitlc Rain Rain Crap. trained, carefully picked workhighly have been they of late they playing Wines Sprontod life in the neighborhood o Peasant one is and not it man ers, or woman to ought HE RAISED THEM. reign like constitutional rulIs devoid of exciteseldom Vesuvius asked little Mamma, out can of what 5,000 who Nellie, learn to tie flies. ers and be a little less reserved. That's Gilders. Hes made big is an angel? ment. They to be soma-thin- g bound Theres These are remarkable for tyers should be as accessible as senators, the pile. all time. the Tbe latest An angel? Well, an angel is a cabinet doing beauty and delicacy of their hands, and Yes. and there was a time when he officers, and presidents, and ocruin the wicked old volbeautiful flies. wrought by that young girl only the cleverest of fingers can deal had to depend on my brother Jack to casionally they should be roihmuni-cativ- e. cano was about aid o t the does brought mamma, by But, with the why work of papa niggling" If they have in mind further knotting bring up his children. Pluvius. Immense volumes oi an call nursie Jupiter can hairs my that be seen. angel? In hardly Invasions Nonsense! When did that happen? 'and of EuroHum, responded the mother, after pean industries subjugations making a fly, the earth has tp be smoke have been issuing lately from Often. The kids used to run in pretthe will qe people moment a of Your for precisely the correct the crater, and then Nature, not connursie ransacked is thought. pleased to know it. If they are planty frequent to their fathers office, to and Kansas feathers fly going immediately. hairs, and one hair wrong tent with what Bhe had done In this to which was in the bulldln where Jack combine more railroads and ning Star. will make all the difference. A big direction, sent heavy rains, which, was elevator man. consolidate more industries, or if Philadelphia City they firm keep fourteen passing through tbe smoke, acquired English have decided that the Dingley tariff Press. different breeds of fowls alone at their properties. Thus tbe whole of the fruli schedules can Dodd's Generosity to Chu. with safety be reduced WELL RECOMMENDED. In and around Naples, especially and these workshops, provide feathers, crop William M. Chase, the painter, owes or reciprocity treaties ratified, they You say you are well Mistress cherries and apricots, has beeu the 'hackles and down of color every shade, his education in art to the generosity should give the public a preparatory recommended? Peas, beans, vines and destroyed. and quality. Half a dozen kinds of Maid maize Indeed, maam, I have thirty-- of a citizen of St. Louis, Samuel M. hint Chicago Tribune. have also been burned so badli coarser feathers for Georgetown, giving color to the roman- their three children died, leaving Mrs pigeons supply nine Dodd, now deceased, a fact of which excellent reference, no will be there that Lord Strathcona, who will yield this yeauri moth and in ' the rooms' wings, soon tic tale. drying , Power the sole survivor of the fam- are over And you have been in Mr. Chase made grateful acknowledgeMistress As a consequence hundreds of pool visit Canada, will spend part of the 1,000 skins of all kinds of Mrs. Power was the second daughter ily. On the first visit General Grant ment at the recent banquet of the fall domestic service? Invercoe tropical birds, and from each skin a people are threatened with starvattoon, GlasMissouri society. Recognizing Mr. Scotland. He owns House, Argyllshire of Dr. George B. and Jane Bailey, who made to Georgetown after his mar- few Two years, maam. Maid feathers only are usable. It takes and appeals for aid have been sent td the Glencoe ChaBe'B unusual evidence of artistic gow Times. moors and has rented several grouse were the nearest neighbors of the riage he Introduced Mrs. Power to his an expert tyer only fifteen minutes to villages in more favored districts. neigh- Grant family while residents of wife as one of his old sweethearts. turn out a New York Proas. talent, Mr. Dodd sent him to Paris and boring moors besides a deer forest. MAKING THINGS PLEASANT. fly like the late spinner, Georgetown. It was the failure of That was in the summer of 1876. maintained him there until his artiswhich consists of a tiny hook, with Tha for Mechanical L'sa. was education tic completed. 1b ever at work wings of Egyptian dove feather, legs Science producing; Strangely enough. said Mr. Chase, of fox hair and a body of mouse fur, by new discoveries, wonderful changes in telling of Mr. Dodd's kindness to wound round with a thread of yellow in mechanical designs and enlarging him, "the motive which Mr. Dodd had ' A carelessly made fly will have the field of Invention, writes Rear Adsilk. which will now building, be removed In sending me abroad to perfect myto make way for a modern hotel. The neither legs nor feelers, but the miral Hichborn in the Youths Comself In art was commercial rather than old Bates will be wiped out wholly,-eve- true expert adds tbe legs, and puts on panion. The principle of tbe at artistic. Mr. Dodd was a practical to its name. For fifty years the a pair of long feelers of cat hair, first but a scientific toy, has been debusiness man. He knew little about Bates was the most noted hotel In In- white at the tips All of these tiny de- veloped and applied successfully not art. But he was anxious to see the diana, and for a long time It has been tails will be exactly in their places, only to the uses of surgery but to a time when America would no longei; one of the most famous hotels in the and so finely tied to the hook that number of mechanical purposes. It hare to go abroad for Its carpet and country. The house was built in 1852 the fly wI11 take half a dozen 8tron is now stated that developments la wall paper designs and other things and b ,none the wora0' Bear8" this line have resulted in a torpedo, by Harvey Bates, Sr., In whose honor which enter into practical life. He and exactly the now being experimented with in SwedIt was named. Its first cost was $60 - ejrebrowa- - beInE realized that the only way to bring 000, a goodly sum for an Investment of rgb shade, are used in the Tweqd en, which can be controlled by the Inabout that desired result was to eduthis kind In a small western town. A beauty a new,F invented fly. and visible rays of light from a station oa cate American artists up to the point board ship or ashore, the torpedo befew years later Improvements and ad- - th8e eyehrows roIUP from the Hima-ditioHerbert: Ma, you say nothing where they would be able to do the to the cost of $75 000 were layaD brown bear- There are always ing steered by this invisible force oa would make you happier than to know work upon which, at that time; Eumade.. Uqder Its various ownershins agentB aI1 over tb world searching its mission of destruction to the that I never deceive you. Then I must rope had a monopoly. And I am glad the hotel entertained many eminent trop,cal forept8 for the right birds to enemy's vessel. Further experiments tell you that I sold your diamond pin to say that time has arrived. We no and one' or. the are said to be In progress to adapt men. Lincoln stopped there before the 8upply to the peddler for 30 cents and blew longer have to go abroad to learn the civil war. President Johnson SDoke mo6t8ughtafter skln8 ,8 that of tha weird power to the control of the flight the money for fireworks. from Its balcony, Stephen A. Douglas rare gTeen creamer," an African of the aerial torpedo. highest art. It can be learned right here In the United States, and In the was a guest within its walls, and all bird, about the size of a fowl, which White woolen suits foi outing purmatter of decorative designs we can HARD TO ( HOOfrE the noted Indiana statesmen honored has a tiny, bunch of. feathers on each are much Improved in effect shoulder are worth that $15 hunch poses From the Youths Companion: Uncle equal anything that Europe can pro-- ! per the hotel with theK presence at one time or another. Another national to the flymaker. One of these birds when trimmed with white silk emJerry Ardhedd had two neighbors, duce." both of a somewhat controversial turn. event in. which the Bates figured was only supplies feathers enough to make broidered in blue polka dots. Over 2,000 sailor men and marines of One was a man who contended that the funeral of the late Vice President rings for half a dozen flies. Numbers I God heeds the curses of the comnothing could be positively known the United States navy have joined Hendricks, and to whose obsequies of men spend their lives and lore mon The and furniture of fixtures absolute too in was not kinds them, the proof capable people against the oppressions ol that collecting the right Temperance league of he Naval week without reserve preparatory eminent men came from all parts of Bates House at Indianapolis were sold to the destruction of birds for or a mathematical demonstration; the Young Mens Christian association. Several keen the rich, the prayers of plutocracy of the' historic oltt the country. . I fly flies ayd must make a discord in heaven. grily. Infor-mash- . un -- big-throat- ed ly al-l- us tree-trun- ks hang-over-in-fr- Ptulti-Xfillioneur- es. multi-millionair- es Grant9 'Boy hood Street heart . I J8 great-grandfath- , fly-tye- al-wa- J rs ys fly-maki- ng TTrs. Z ucin da Power X-R- ay Historic Hotel to be Torn Dotem. 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