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Show I . n ; : i : i1 : 'T 10 v !: .t i ' " h ' i i r . i : V :$! I, ' CARE QF PLANTS IN WINTER. Air and Sunshine Chief Requisites for Window Ornaments. Give plants all the fresh air you can. Open doors and windows at some distance from them on pleasant days and give them a chance to breathe in pure oxygen in liberal quantity. Give all the sunshine you can. And aim to keep the temperature of the room between 70 degrees by day and 55 at night It will probably exceed these figures in both directions, but try to regulate it in such a way as to avoid the extremes of intense heat and dangerous cold. Use water liberally on the foliage of your plants. By washing off the dust it keeps open the pores of the leaves through which they breathe and St tempers the hot dry atmosphere usually prevailing in the living room, the only way to modify this condition s to keep water constantly evaporating on the stove or register and make frequent use of the sprayer. NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF f STOCKHOLDERS. v-,- s,v:;; f , ; i i i Notice is hereby given that there will be a special meeting of the stockholders of the Victoria Gold Mining company at its office, No. 417 D. F. Walker Building, upon Monday, the 16th day of January, A. D. 1905, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of amending paragraph 16 of the Articles of Incorporation of said company so as to read, but no one assessment shall exceed five per cent of the outstanding capital stock of the corporation." D. S. TRUMAN, r? By order of Secretary. the board of directors. FUNERAL OF A. C. IVINS. J H'. . i; . The funeral of A. C. Ivins who died from pneumonia at the Holy Cross hospital, took place 'last Tuesday. Services were held at ODonnell's undertaking parlors in the presence of about fifty of the relatives and friends of the deceased. Short addresses were made by Apostle John Henry Smith, W. in-J. Newman and Perry Nebeker. The terment was in the Ivins family burying ground in the City Cemetery. o Lights on Brooklyn Bridge. There are three lights on the Brooklyn bridge which are never seen by those who have occasion to use the bridge at night, but those three lights mean much to the masters of sailing vessels whose masts approach or exceed the 135 feet between the center of the span and the water. One of the three is directly in the center of the span and marks the highest point, the other two are at each side of the center light, about 10 feet from the towers, and mark the danger limit. o Not Partial to Water. An old farmer arrived in Glasgow RU fM. THE USES OF RESPONSIBILITY. Mere Work Not the Chief Thing In Childrens Training. o Every mother should remember that the making of her daughter is of far greater importance than the administration of things in her home, and every daughter should realize that she can learn to avoid mistakes only when she sees them. She enjoys most seeing her mothers mistakes and resolving that when she has a house she will never do so. A beginning may be made with a small and comparatively unimportant responsibility, suggests Womans Life, and it. is to be remembered that responsibility, and not mere work, is the great thing. The very little girl may have the care of one plant, a hardy one to begin with, but system and neatness may be practiced in its care to great advantage. If the plant should be a blooming one, a small vase for the breakfast table would give an additional bit of care and pleasure to both child and par- Travelers Tricks Shown Up. Many have looked with awe upon suit cases and steamer trunks covered with labels of every size and color, and thought enviously of the advantages the traveled owners of such baggage had over the poor that The proclaimed baggage from had been owners its to from San Francisco, Sydney Copenhagen to Colombo, to say ents. nothing of visiting half the capitals o and health resorts of the continent. To Kill or Cure the Dog? But the iconoclast has found shops A Mr. Gray of Georges Corner took where such baggage is sold, all shathis dog out recently, says the Marine tered and battered and labeled with Sportsman, to chase foxes. It was a a score of foreign towns, although it hopeful dog, filled with the enthusi may never have traveled two miles asm of youth. Somehow the hound from New York. got switched off from the foxs track and went after a lively loupcervier, and when Mr .Gray came along to Pumpkin Came From Asia. shoot a fox, he found a very sad and The pumpkin is a native of Asia dilapidated dog sitting under a tree, and was introduced into Europe about with the wild cat overhead among the 1570, being first raised merely as a limbs contemplating a fresh assault. curiosity and later as a food for both Mr. Gray shot the loupcervier and man and beast. Just when it was took the pelt home for the purpose of brought to America is not known. patching up the places where the skin Some claim that a variety of the was missing from his dog. He says pumpkin was cultivated by the Ameranother wild cat is needed to com- ican aborigines, being grown in their maize fields, but this is probably a plete the job. misapprehension. But if the pumpkin is not native to American soil, the Value of Character. Character is one of the best things uimpkin pie certainly is. o a man or woman can be born with or Connemara Cabin. acquire. That is to say, good characA typical Connemara cabin is buil: ter. There has never been a time and there will never be a time when char- of unmortared stones and consists o! acter will count for nothing in the a single room with earthen floor, a building of success. It is one thing bed at one end a large wooden and at the other a general that no misfortune, no calamity, no continued run of ill luck can take dwelling place for animals and hens. away from a man if he wants to hold The turf fire never goes out, night to iL It is exempt from forced sale or day, and, as the fumes of peat are and no man is a bankrupt as long as very aseptic, this fact is thought to account for the absence of disease due he holds it o to overcrowding. The constant fire also insures a certain amount of venWhere Women Are Free. Austria is the one country in the tilation even at night time when the world which never puts a woman in medley of inhabitants are all closed up prison. Instead of giving a female together. Here dwell the husband, criminal so many months of jail, she wife and children of all ages. is sent, no matter how terrible is her record, to one or other of the convents Green Visible Afar Off. devoted to the purpose, and kept there In clear weather and by daylight during the time for which she is sen- green is visible at the greatest distenced. The convent is not a mere tance of any color, much further, for prison in disguse, for its courtyard Xstance, than scarlet, which is usualstands open all day long, the only bar ly imagined to be the most brilliant to egress being a nun who acts as of colors. Indeed, blue, and even portress. Just as In other convents. dark gray, are far more visible at a o distance than is scarlet to-morro- w troot? Profitable .Catnip Farm. A catnip farm near New York city has proved a profitable investment. The catnip from this farm is shipped in large quantities to pet animal dealers in New York city, and is sold to owners of cats. stay-at-hom- es four-post- with a drove of cattle. The beasts so that he arhad become was and rived late reluctanty compelled to stay for the night at a hotel. The maid, on showing him to his bedA Little While Good to work, to play, while said: A little would night, sir; room, To rosebuds with the thorns: gather you prefer a hot bath or a cold bath To dream that we are more than clay To flout and natures scorns morning?" Hoots, lassie, replied the farmer; gang awa wi A little while to earn a name. To lose it mid the gibbering crowd-yer nonsense; doe ye tak me for a leg-wearie-d, First ucean cable's Cost. The original 1858 cable weighed ninety-thre-e pounds per mile and had a conductor of seven copper wires of and a half gauge; price of twenty-twdeep sea wire per mile, $200; price of spun yarn and iron wire per mile, $265; cost of outside coating of tar and gutta percha, $25 per mile; total cost per mile, $485. At $485 per mile the total cost of the 2,500 miles of wire was $1,212,500. To this deep-se- a e miles of shore dad twenty-fivadd wire, costing $1,450 per mile and Ave find that the first ocean cable, exclusive of instruments, cost $1,250,000. ill-fa- te little while for praise and blame, A little while for sun and cloud. -- A little while for speed and rest For peace and strife, for mingled chimes; For knowledge and the worldless zest Of ecstasy In poet rhymes. er Controversies. controversies were often vigorous in language. In a controversy with Milton concerning the divine right of kings Salmasius called his opponent a puny piece of a man, a homunculus, a dwarf not having a human figure, a bloodless being, a creature of ?kin and bones, a contemptible pedagogue fit only to flog boys, a rhinoceros, a hangdog looking fellow. The great English poet not only answered in kind, but entered into an extensive correspondence with people in Holland to obtain petty gossip and scandalous anecdotes concerning his opponent. Old-Tim- Old-tim- e e How to Quiet a Horse. When a witness in an English cour; remarked that it was necessary to sii on a horses head when he was dowi to keep him quiet, the judge replied: Nothing of the kind. People doni seem to understand that the onl: thing necessary to keep a horse fron kicking when he is down is to get - hold of his ear and keep his nose ui in the air. I have seen a lady keep r. horse quiet in that way without soiling her gloves. The Glories of a Throne. It has been shown that out of a list of 2,550 sovereigns 300 have been overthrown, 134 assassinated, 123 taken prisoners of war, 108 executed, 100 forced to slain in battle, sixty-fou-r t died by their abdicate, twenty-eighe were tortured twenty-fivown hands, e became to death, while twenty-thremad or imbecile. This gives a total of 905 whose reigns have ended Did She Mean a Writing Pad? Misuse of prepositions often lead to Two teachers in a painful errors. Brooklyn public school were in the same room the other day. Both are rather slim and there Is little ship between them. A little friendgirl, a recent importation from the East Side, went to one of the teachers with, Please, maam, may I get a Really, Josie, pad of Miss Blank. lo not think she could spare it A statistician has learned that th mnual aggregation of the circulate if the papers of the world is estimate o be 12,000,000,000 copies. To grasj he idea of this magnitude we ma; .tate that it would cover no fewe: :han 10,450 square miles of surface hat it is printed on 781,250 tons c. nuir. japer; and, further, that if the it er (12,000,000,000) represented, take ;tead of copies, seconds, would nore than 333 years for them elapse. Cause for Anxiety. It was a new voluntary and the orfor ganist had been going through it the first time. After she had finished asked her if it ha the organ-blowe- r gone all right. With some surprise the young woman answered: Criminality of Professional rent very well, thank yoii But wnj A French professor has been inquirI hao Well, said he, ing into the comparative criminality do you ask? an( of the professions. He finds that the never blown to this piece before, convictions per 100,000 of each are as I was rather anxious about it follows: Lawyers, 100; artists, 33; doctors, 25; lay teachers, 19; clerical Alliterative Annihilation. teachers, 7; Catholic clergy, 4. The pill-pparegoric publication printed periodically for the principal 'eiqueonou ere purpose of promulgating putrid paof political pusillanimity has l8A0 JIIO Xpxo UBdUf UJ JB9& of oo lliated Its phtrescent prittle-prattl- e IO saiiunbqyBa oOk'T late. Clarksburg, W. Va., Telegram. asaenbq)jB3 osouedep ot par-tide- A little while the play is done; The world rolls onward as before And only hearts that beat as one Can change the phase to Evermore! London Dally News. I s |