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Show THE OLD VS. THE NEW. Sleeper's Real Offense. An eccentric minister caused some surprise one Sunday by declaring that he did not in the least object to people sleeping while he was preaching. A few minutes later he and his hearers were disturbed by the loud snoring o Give a man just below the pulpit. him a tap on the head said the minister. This was done, ineffectually. Give him another," came the order again. Still the man slumbered. But at length by dint of much tapping and shaking, he was recalled into abashed consciousness. "You are making a wretched noise," roared the minister, leaning over the pulpit edge. "I dont mind your sleeping, but you are preventing other people from sleeping!" Costlier than Champagne. Although champagne is called the wealthy water, there are few hotels in the country where one can pay more than $4 a quart for it, while, on the other hand, there are hundreds of places where Burgundy is sold as high as $35 a quart. At one hotel the menu advertises a special brand of this fine wine for $25 a bottle. There are any number of Rhine wines which cost above $8, and there is a big demand for them. Champagne does not improve with age as the other wines do and this probably accounts for the difference. o Under Restriction. We consider that the ridicule which o has greeted a notice in a Glasgow muMans Powers of Smell. sic hall to the effect that Whistling The faculty of memory plays a or cheering with the feet is strictly rather queer part in connection with prohibited" is undeserved. While it that of smelling, although around it may be difficult to cheer with the feet, our mental associations cluster most we believe that it is by no means imFor strongly. it is very doubtful possible to whistle with the feet. We whether anybody can actually call up, imagine that instead of two fingers beor represent," a particular odor, ing placed in the mouth the whole foot though there are cases of subjective goes in. Punch. hallucinations of scent among the ino sane, and the records of the Society Beer Drinking in India. of Psychical Research quote Instances The of what we might call the ghost of a more tonatives of India take more and beer. Formerl ythe consump smelL tion was very small; there are now, Poisoning in Sierra Leone. however, many large breweries, and It is stated of the last year their combined production the Journal by - rican Society that for some years aggregated nearly nine million galeath by poison has been the sub- lons. It is said that about 40 per cent of talk in the ject colony of Sierra of this production is consumed by the No one, it would appear, dies army. Most of the breweries are in rom natural causes. Poisoning ir. the Himalaya mountain districts, on ne form or another is put down as the railroad line between the stations e cause of death not only among the of Murree and Darjeling. bUt also amonS the rich. A veg o Ptow 1)018011 that Produces paralysis la u 6d The Worlds Wanderers. thou star, whose wings of light Tell me, ouent Men of War, flight, Speed thee In thyoffiery The great Duke the night cavern Mi of what in hen Will thy pinions close now? receiving reports froi als wouM produce his w ne, moon, thou pale and gray 1 m of heavens homeless way, ' Slve you a mil or day hla night VIA10? at xdepth ofiaiASA Duke of Welll .ayl I?ore or less a sphir eary wind, who wanderest ini! ! aie ot head was ke the worlds rejected pest, secret nest ist thou still some him! espon8e th0y mld billow? or tree )n the Percy Bysshe Shelley. Planting Fruit Trees. When eating a good pear or apple save the seeds and plant them either In a flower pot, where they will germinate before long, or else directly in the garden, when they will come up next spring. To prevent their loss the place must be covered as a mark. It takes a number of years before they bear fruit, but to see the progress of growth from year to year is always interesting. People often think it is not worth while for them to plant trees; they will not live to have fruit of them, and so neglect it entirely. But It some one will enjoy the harvest. WEAR GLASSES CURING SLEEP. Habit, It Is Claimed, Will Cure Cases of Insomnia. The idea of wearing a pair of spectacles during sleep is one of the strangest of the many strange ideas that have come to. our notice, says London Answers. The head of a large firm, who often traveled from one end of the country to the other, preferred to do so at night, so that he - could sleep. Although his sight was perfect, his last act before getting into his berth was to put on a pair of spectacles, which were secured to the which is just the individual egoism bridge of his nose by a good spring, In and of with this adornment he fell many affects all classes society asleep. ways. Hartford Times. o Those who adopt this peculiar aid to drowsiness appear to sleep without In New Yorks Tough Districts. The experiences of the Bellevue hos- twisting and turning, as some people they Instinctively acquire a knack pital ambulance surgeons in the un do; of turning only so far as is safe, and lighted districts skirting East river, New York, where it is not safe even they awake unharmed in the morning, adfor policemen to venture sometimes, with the glasses just as nicely have led the hospital authorities to justed as when they went to bed. The commencement of the habit is mostly equip the instrument bags carried by traceable to a difficulty in wooing the surgeons with a tubular electric to an aversion to trying dark lantern, sixteen inches long and slumber and two inches thick, weighing about two such dangerous remedies as morphine. Spectacles, when the eyes are not acpounds. It serves equally well as a customed to them, have a somnolent lantern and a night stick. According beto the stories of the surgeons, when effect, and the device afterward comes a habit. they have returned from calls to parHe Was One of the Quacks. ticularly dangerous districts, the de1828 Henry Brougham, not yet a In has contrivance of the fensive end often proved more useful than the peer of the realm, received a letter from Shakespeare Reed, giving him electric ends. the pleasant news that he had left o him all his property (excepting a few Thick Skins. The skin of the men and women of some nations is much thicker than that of others, particularly in hot countries. The Central African negro has a skin about half as thick again as that of a European. That of a negro is thickest over the head and back evidently to form a protection from the sun. legacies to relatives) in token of his appreciation of his public services. The Reed estates were situated in the West Indies, where slave labor was then employed. One day Mr. Reed, alarmed at the progress which the y agitation was making, wrote to Brougham, earnestly urging him to put down the political quacks" who were trying to win freeFeminine Way. dom for the slaves. Brougham anThe first thing a girl does to a man. swered that he was one of the quacks after they are married is to get out himself. A fresh will was afterward his middle name, dust it off, and use made, and it is needless to say that it as common as his first name. At- the great advocates name was not chison Globe. mentioned in it anti-slaver- |