Show y polly pollys s pr de was humbled walter T pierce of south charles ton 0 who recently received an ap as fellow of romance lan ian grages at the johns hopkins sity tells an amusing incident con berning nature studies A tree had blown down on his father s estate near south charleston and a baby owl m a as orphaned by the catastrophe the gentleman took the bird under h s care and in time it grew to maturity residing in a neigh boring tree and on most friendly terms ditl the household not long afterward a relative asked that her pet parrot be permitted to remain with the family during her own absence from home and polly was duly installed received with all cordiality polly declared war mar at once and met friendly advances with a fierceness of beak and claw that caus calls ed the most daring to retreat her cage wa was set inside we th e pane of a window one morning as she swung leisurely to and fro repeating tor for the millionth time the brilliant words polly good morning the great gray owl fluttered softly down perched on the sill beyond the glass and looked solemnly in upon her there was one blood curdling from the affrighted parrot and the next minute she lay in a dead taint faint or OL the bottom of the cage it was a meek and stricken bird that finally returned to consciousness and tor for the rema iller of her stay she gratefully sought the friendly pro lection of whoever would deign to notice her Dalt baltimore imore sun conundrums why are women like salada both need reed a great deal of dressing why did P T barnum have more chance to set get to heaven than anyone else elsea because he had the greatest show on earth why cant can t the news from england ever be fresh because it comes through salt water why is a lady s belt like an ash carta because it goes around and gathers the waste wiy are book yol n be bc t friends because when they bore you you can shut them up without giving offence A dolls palace pala ce made of corks old bottle corks may seem to some people utterly useless but if any ardt harily ingenious boy or girl will collect a lot of them and follow the simple directions I 1 ere g ven he or she can produce something unique and pretty when cut into a cube or a small b ick a cork bears a close lesem blance tr ir miniature to many kinds of stone when a number of them are combined they 1001 like old specked and indented mason masonry ryD they have lots of brownish gray spots and little cavities get as many old corks as you can therefore and cua cu them into little bricks using a sharp yen penknife knife for the purpose with them you can build a very quaint model of a house or castle they may be fastened to how can you I 1 beep a rooster from crowing on sunday get him stuffed saturday batur day night why are bookkeepers ill e chick ensa they both scratch for a living how can you keep a dog from going mad in augusta shoot him in july what Is the longest word mord in the english language 9 smiles because there Is a mile between the first and last letter why Is buckingham palace the cheapest piece of property in eug eng landa it was bought for a crown and is kept by a sovereign meaning of G ris rig names frances Is 1 unstained and tree free bertha pellucid purely bright clara clear as the crystal sea luc a star of radiant light catherine Is pure as the mountain air henrietta a soft sweet star felicia la Is a happy girl matilda Is a lady true margaret Is a shining pearl pe ecca w th tl e I 1 faithful few ausam bus a Is a illy white jane has the w how s curve and grace cecilia dear Is dim of sight sopi la ia shows wisdom on ter face constance Is fire and resolute 1 grace delicious favor meet charlotte noble good repute harriet a fine odor sweet isabella Is a lady rare L cinda constant as the dav varle means a lady fair abigail joyful as may elizabeth an oath bf I 1 ade a nice princess proud agatha Is truly good and just letitia a joy abom avowed ed jemina a soft soun 1 in the air caroline caroli a sweet spirit hale cornelia harmonious and fair sel na a sweet ldla a refreshing well judith a jewel jevel none excel priscilla llla ancient of days eay vict rn of swindlers the police of Z inch irich switzerland have ive just received a complaint fr n ady dv that she has been lobbed I 1 ly y 10 00 she be INAS ft as n a av 1 I 1 1 I I 1 and the spirits of st john the evangelist and st james were invoke ed then she was asked by tho the spirits to lay jay 1000 1 whick she had with her on the table and told that when she he returned home she would find 2 in n a chest of drawers a portion of which sum she was enjoin ed to give toward the bul budding ding of a new lurch As she could not find the 2 sh informed the police ha rp rt rr wa ef ee milt mill fasten two hair togeal er with blittle a little wax or by tying at several points with thread so that they look lay twelve dominoes face down in a row with mith their lona ion sides together then announce that you will call off their numbers by spelling and proceed to do so as follows you spell aloud one one as ansay say 0 you move the right hand ed piece to the left end of the line as you say n you move the second pies piece chichis which chIs Is now on the right end to the left end a as you say e you yen move the third piece in the same man ner but as you say one you turn up the fourth piece and sure enough it Is a blank or one this you I 1 lay ay abider and count t two w 0 two carrying three pieces in succession from the right to the left end and turning up the fourth which proves to be deuce blank or two in this way you may go on un til there Is only one piece left and that when turned will be found to be doub double lesti sis or 12 it is a very effective trick because you spell the names of the numbers and move one piece for each letter there are lots of such tricks that de do pend on mere counting but in this it seems as it if the dominoes must have some mysterious knowledge of eng lish spelling knowing for example gether with fine wire or with glue it I 1 Is sometimes desirable in work ol 01 this kind to gli ghe e the cork some other chape or to round the corners and this may be done with the knife using Z the cork castle sandpaper alterm afterward ard or a new keen file will answer admirably for such cutting and shaping like one broad hairpin with a groove running along it bend the ends of the compound hairpin at right angles but in opposite directions so that as the pin lies on the table one end points up and the other down spread here Is a game that Is equally well suited to recess at school or to the sitting room at home in the evening boys and girls will find it both enter and instructive especially those that have a taste for drawing but a knowledge of drawing Is not V 7 rf A C city ity of indiana at all necessary as success in playing the game depends more on the idea than on the execution at the same time it will give practice in drawing if played as a recess game it might be well to get got one of the teachers to act as aff judge if at h me one of the older membris of the family might serve this however Is not essential for the placers may select one of their own number as j idge any number of pel pei sons may pla play y in fact the more players the better the game fach player is furnished with a sheet of pai pal er and a i encil enell and when all are seated the judge tells them the object of the same game which Is bo to make the namo nam of a city into a re bus or rather to represent the name of a city b a rebus A bebus you I 1 now Is a ort of i uzzle in which things are I 1 bep ep p ite itel I 1 ly I 1 y picture the legs of the pin and balance it on the point of a lead pencil stuck on a saucer with wax the groove between the individual pins makes it easy to balan balance the apparatus and also affords a chancel channel for a few drops of water which you pour gent lyon the top with a spoon the water follows the bent ends and escapes as two tj horizontal jets in opposite directions while the litile mill turns swiftly on 1 its pivot the motion of each end being opposite to that of the jet on that 3 side the motion may be kept up 04 indefinitely by adding a drop or of water mater whenever the mill slows up effective trick to be de done with a set of dominoes f 6 1 4 rr r r 14 0 that there are five letters in the word three and only three letters in the word six in some other language in which the names of the letters are different ji 1 I you would think the trick would not work but it will everything depends on tre tle arrangement of the dominoes dominges dom inoes which Is different tor for different lan ian j grages ef for english the four beginning at the left Is 10 five one 11 12 seven two tour four six eight nine the diagram shows how the domi i i noes should be arranged but it Is not j necessary in every case to use the particular piece here shown one ot of course must be ace blank but tour four can be ac ace three ethree double deuce or four I 1 blank and so on ip dog killed his master while a sportsman named dandero 1 ra at courcoury Cour coury france was placing a 1 1 1 waterfowl in his big game bag recently he jask stood his double rifle on the ground the muzzle pointing at his hill j chest suddenly his dog with a joy r ij ous bark sprung toward him and one of his paws catching the trigger the second charge exploded eipl oded and passed through his master s heart killing him instantly M daliere s body waa was 4 V afterward discovered through the pit pitt i tul ful howling of the dog Inter interesting eting t the e birds f A scientist once put an automatic music box on the lawn and spent many hours watching the robins blue i tits and other birds gathering about it A looking glass put up where the birds can see themselves in it Is also very attractive while a bombina tion of a musical box and a looking glass pleases the birds more than d anything else one could put out for their amusement we often find people who have bale but a single idea and an entirely useless one at that amusing and instructive gamo game for he the young folks each player Is to think ot of a city and must keep the name secret having thought of one that he may represent by one or more pictures he makes his big drawing and submits it to the judge A time limit should be fixed within which the drawing must be finished but this should not be too short for good work of that kind cannot be done in a rush when the drawings have all been finished they should be arranged so that all the players can examine them and guess what names they are intend to to represent h two prizes should be offered one for player who guesses more odthe of the names than any other player does and the other for the player whose work Is done best the judge makes the decision by agreement it may be allowed tor for each player to write un der his what s ate or country the city belongs to but no other antl inti acety A city of austria hungary mation of the name should be given to the pla placers ers the two illustrations printed here show how the are made they bould be v ati ninta |