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Show THE DESERET EAGLE man to me is tlx fruit of all his likes and dislikes, be thev 'ood or bad. Then the work of the teacher lies in making the environment good while the child is under his or her care. Remember you cannot force anything into his mind; you may place the food before him, he must eat. What kind of food shall it be? Shall it be the kind needed at that special time? Is it wholesome? These must be answered to secure perfect development, the aim of all she had gifts of a choice bit of raw steak offered her by an old Irishman on the car, a big oatmeal cracker and some gum drops presented by a little girl, a lump of loaf sugar, a lime, a sandwich, some peanuts, and a link of sausage. Kitty, when I heard from her last, was the most happy, contented and petted little puss imaginable. When the weather is line she often rides out on the platform with the driver who has been such a true friend to her, and whose conduct is proof of the fact that there is a kindly, generous heart beneath his Harpers young rough garments. true teaching.- -- Uniwxity Chronicle. People. A STREET CAR CAT. THE PIIOXAUTOGRAPH. TIIK l'KT OF TIIK COXIM'CTOIt AND THE l'ASSKNGKlts. A San Srancisco man has invented a machine which will do away with type writers, both instruments and operators, if he succeeds in perfecting his The street cars in a western city have small stoves in the center of each car for the additional comfort of passengers in cold weather. The driver of one of these cars had reached the end of his route one cold dav test November, and wa clfTiiging his homes from one end of the car to the other, when a half grown, half starved and bedraggled looking kitten came mewing across .the road and ran into the car. It curled up under the stove in great contentment, and the kind' hearted driver, who was invention. machine combines the phonograph and the trypewriter, and in looks bears considerable resemblance to a cash register. On the front of the machine are small electric buttons which you press before talking into the mouthpiece projecting from the upper part. This mouthpiece is connected with a revolving cyllinder which receives also the conductor, allowed it to lie impressions in a way similar to the .under the stove during, the downtown Edison 'phonograph. A traveling trip. He begged a saucer of milk for needle regulates the position of the the little waif at the other end of the impressions of the cylinder according route, and after lunch, for which she to the size of the paper they are to be was manifestly grateful, kitty went reproduced on. - The tilled back to her snug place under the little cylinder is placed on rollers stove, and during the next day she and in the lower part of the machine. the conductor became such good friends Above the rollers is a supply of paper that he left her in the car when he for receiving the written characters. went olT duty that night. There are several invsteiies about He lid not put her out the next day the working of the new invention. No nor at any other time, but fed her every ink is used, the written characters day, and before a week she Itccame the pet of being produced in a bold, round band the public, and quite an attractive card to by chemical action. It spells entirely that branch of tin- road. She was a pretty by sound and is unable as yet to cope playful little gray and white kitty, and with the diphthong, the silent letters, made frieiais with all the passengers. the captial, the semi colon or figures, The children played with her, Hie but it will receive the sounds of the ladies petted her: ami most of the men human voice in any language except paid her some ullcntiou. One lady tied Chinese and reproduce them in plain ;i pretty scarlet rihhon around kitty's English chirograph'. This seeming fairy tale conies from neek. and the next day another lady fastened a tiny silver hell to the ribbon. the financial backer and inventor As for things to eat, kitty lias them these two men being the persons who in variety n:id quantity enough to make have seen the wonderful machine' Kate Field's Washington. a dyspeptic of her. During a single trip The - i new A Two -- Comma. Mii.lon-Doi.lak Oli, punctuation murks arc not much account. looks. I of They're just put in for don't want to bother about them." Such are the sentiments of a good many school boys with regard to this branch of letters and composition writing. Others again appear to think that all that is necessary is to put in a comma here and there at hap hazard to set olT the ''look of the thing." How risky this way of doing things is may be learned from the following incident: It seems that some twenty years ago, when the United States, by its congress, was making a tariff bill, one of the sections enumerated what articles should be admitted free of duty. Among the articles specified were "all etc., meaning foreign plants imported for transplanting, propagation, experiment. The enrolling clerk, in copying the bill, accidentally changed the hyphen in " the compound word to a comma, making it read "all foreign fruit, plants," etc. As a result of this simple mistake, for a year, or until Congress could remedy the blunder, all the oranges, lemons, bananas, grapes, and other foreign fruits were admitted free of duty. This little mistake, which anyone would he liable to make, yet could have been avoided by carefulness, cost the government not less than two million dollars. Pretty costly comma that! Mo. liecord. fruit-plants- ," fruit-plants- THE CLERK WAS DEAF. new hymn-booksaid the minister, "will be used for the first time on Sabbath next. I would also call attention to the delay which often takes place in bringing children to be baptized. I would particularly impress this on mothers who have young babies." And for the information of those who have none," said the clerk in gentle and kindly tone (he was deaf and had not heard what the clergymen said, 4j if state that wished, they ct.n be may obtained on application in the vestry ," after service Single ones, shilling each; with stiff backs, two shillings." The Standard. immediately to-riu- v. , |