| Show the hen W who would d n not b e a larn barnyard yard hen mcw aad scratch ra h and p peck ec k and cratch scratch again ro lay a calm egg how and then to cackle when the deed la Is done to welter in ift the dust and sun I 1 think would be no end of fun to have a comb and yet et no hair seem seems careless trite and debonair and yet I 1 think good to wear A vigorous penetrating nose and widely radiating toes and from one s skin projecting clothes who would not be a barnyard hen to scratch and peck and scratch again families of eight or ten arthur colton in harper s 9 magazine A walled town in britain in the old days when might wa was right the city that was walled about i was common enough but there are very few towns in britain which pre berve their walls at the present day ot of those few undoubtedly the most unique Is berwick upon tweed the old border town which has occupied many a page of the past history of the united kingdom and which to this very day enjoys the distinction ot of special mention as a place apart from the united kingdom in every royal proclamation issued here the old battlements built in the time of queen elizabeth remain intact with all but 1 one of the ancient gateways and even in some cases the very ponderous gates them themselves selve on their old rusty hinges in reality there are two walls the outside and older one of which now only some fragments remain manding anding bt dating back to the far off times of edward the first who in the great hall of berwick castle only a small part of which now re mains decreed that callol should be king of scotland a decree which as every schoolboy knows was soon set at defiance by bruce and his hardy warriors on this outer line of the ramparts still stands the tower in i which the warning notes of the war bell were rung to denote the approach of an enemy an object naturally of great interest to all visitors to the town her life for her child capt wells formerly commander of the metropolitan fire brigade of lon don thus describes the bravest deed he ever saw the scene was a fire at an and house he said A woman and her two children were on the top floor and without a moment moments s thought she snatched up one of her children and fighting her way down the stair case through smoke and heat deliver ed the child in safety to a person in the str ot then she rushed through the burning shop and up the stair case with a view of reaching her room she must have reached her child 4 clutched it and tried to make her way out but in the attempt devoted r mother was forced back boniv to be found dead by our men who had just arrived she was still holding her child close to her and had evi dently kept her own back to the flames to protect the little one while whilo her arms and clothes were tightly a round the little one cigars at 4 apiece those who have attended the big tan banquets at such for instance as the one given to cyrus field upon the completion of the at lantic alantic cable and which cost 50 a plate had the privilege of smoking the choicest havana cigars costing perhaps fifty cents apiece but what would the dinner cost with cigars at ut 4 each yet there thero are such cigars being made in havana t to 0 day and some have arrived in new york fran cisco E fonseca a friend of president palma and who was born near where he lived in cuba received one of these a few days ago it was wrapped in a piece of imported japanese rice paper and in a handsomely decorah ed box in tact fact only one comes in a box ox and each Is sixteen inches long and an inch and a quarter in diameter at the middle it Is said that the tobacco can only be grown on one plan tation in cuba and the duty on each Is sixty eight cents horse commits suicide when commission merchant W K cassel went to his stables at morris town N J recently he was grieved to find that his most valuable horse was dead and from all appearances the animal had committed suicide the horse was lying in a most peculiar position its head was beneath its body and from the manner in which it was lying the horse must deliberately have broken its neck the strap by which the animal had been tied was torn tom and the horse from all appearances had by brute strength done efte act mr cassel went tor for dr dengler thinking perhaps that life might not yet be extinct but upon the arrival of the veterinary he at once pronounced the case one of broken neck the doctor said that the position of the animal was a most peculiar one and that the case seemed like one ot suicide coins many centuries old J F bruce of billerica mass has ha just received from a missionary who is principal of an academy in ku ching china eight historic old coins the oldest of the coins bears the date of D C while the others range between A D and 1270 A D |
