Show 1 6 one story Is good t 11 II another Is told there s a maxim that all should be will ing to mind an old one onea a kind one as true as kind 1 worthy of notice wherever you roam roarn and no worse for the heart it if kemem bared at home it if scandal or ce sure be raised a friend be the last to believe it the first to de tend fend say to morrow wl I 1 come and then time will unto d that one story s good till another Is told A friend s like a shin when with music and song the tide of good fortune still speeds him along but see him when tempest hath left him a wreck and any mean allow b how can batter his deck but give me the heart that true sym pathy shows and c ings to a messmate whatever wl d blows and says when aspersion un answer d 1 grows bold wait wal t one story s good till another Is to told d remarkable S iver leaved poplar there is a remarkable specimen of ithe e silver leaved poplar on the lawn lof of mrs kate wolcott claremont N if ithac ithac has lately be ome known to naturalists and is being visited daily it Is nearly 20 feet in circumference and its largest diameter is 6 feet from the base rise three prominent limbs the smallest of which is 7 feet and the largest 8 16 feet in cir clr cumfer ence As no member of the fam lly fly Is large growing and the abele silver leaved poplar is one ol 01 the smaller members of the family t 15 afu in this vicinity usually tv tha is as counted las a rare specimen i the tree is years old and alas nas a aprea spread af branches from east to west On early 84 feet the spread orth to south was nearly as great but as the southern branches were very heavy and extended over the extreme length of the house they amere were cut aviah an ay about a year ago to prevent possible damage to the house one limb running to the east cast is 50 feet in length 1 the wood of 0 the poplar is soft and usually Is counted as of lit little tle value but in recent years it has been found to make good floors when sufficiently dry and Is much used for floors floor in 1 thi p region the average poplar Is rarely more than 12 inches in diameter 0 A t jungle duel to the death A little while ago in I 1 kulu ulu india P F few hill wood cutters watched fron an all overhanging rock covered with undergrowth a fuel duel to the death be W tween a full grown leopard and a bear for halt half an hour tour the leopard feinted round the bear half springing at him and striking him until finding he could get no forwarder torr forr arder by this means he launched himself full twi at his adversary and the two rolled over together the result was instructive having got the leopard leopards s head in chancery brun bru n made the most 01 ol his advantage and was soon able tc walk away not much the worse the woodmen then cautiously examine I 1 1 the leopard who was quite dead hi bead head badly mauled and crushed and his neck bitten clean through the moral to those who go bear shooting is pretty avious it is in this simple and effective manner the strongest 44 destroying the strong that in the jungle the social question has been NY 10 solved curious stone pipe 9 A lemarl able object discovered w WAS s a stone pipe with bird head and wings in a grave not tar far from simcoe it 10 0 may indicate that smoking Is a much 10 more ancient pastime than has been supposed it raises a question of where those pe prehistoric historic people got their weed so j tar far from the places of tobacco culture ka T later was found many pieces of broken 0 stone pipes this particular bowl find its nearest resemblance in the modern metal mounted carved stone pipes 01 ol the haldas chief moses of this region possesses a the modern carved pipe but the poin Is not 0 much in resemblance of at pipes as in the great 14 of smoking on this continent pos sibly these prehistoric smokers mi S grated hither from mexico 0 eise where and brought the habit with them archaeology has not yet enough data to determine either where these races came from or what became of them new yoi noih k tribune balling salting vessels for general transportation 4 are now obsolete on the great lales ot of several hundred such vessels balling halting from chicago not more than thirty one are now in use the ice fee in greenland Is melting more rapidly than it is formed comparison of the descriptions of the glacier shows that its edge has receded eight miles since rince injo and it has lost twenty to thirty feet in depth until lately children under fourteen used to pay half fare on the vienna tramways but the rule has been al so that any child above three feet one and one hilt hilf inches in height will in future hai haie e to pay the full fare the only heavy cut necessary in mak ing the ship canal across scotland from the german kea to the atlantic near glasgow will be one at loch lomand averaging feet deep for one and three miles in the remainder of the route the average will be fifty feet in Is ore orn ay and sweden a number of women serve as sailors and some of them are pilots along the coast of brittany about women earn their living as members of the crews of fishing smacks they hai haie e to obtain apeci special il licenses sixty thi ee mere n ere granted last year there 1 aie I in 1 ew lork lorl city today to day 1320 millionaires as against twenty years ago and twenty in 1103 there were no millionaires in the city years ago the first person to reach that distinction was nas john jacob astor who became a millionaire about the year 1820 the massachusetts fish ioa has planted about lobster try fry this yeli ye li and it if one in a bundled would reach maturity thele would rot pot be much danged of a faillie ft the lobster crop the young lobsters have so many enemies howe howen er that the death rate among them tg Is very high ash elpe expedition liton has been sent j explore hudson baa ba for the purpose of determining whetchel i t new grain route Is practicable the plan is to ship grain aiom the we western sterix portion of canada to be stored in elevators eleva tois on hudson bay and shipped by water ater during the brief summer season in chich nI navigation gation Is open ft texis Is the biggest thing on the map in more ft ays than one the value of the produce from hei hel farms ranches oil neut ellb etc for one year toots foots up the mau mai elous Nelous sum of with an incidental inci item ot of more it if the corn crop ma tures as estimated the lone star state is shining with increasing bril haney an Ame ilcin ilein woman noman who met wils whis tier the artist a year ar two ago was amazed at the brilliancy of bis his wit and the originality of his character he was like no other human being I 1 ever knew she says a creature of moods and epigrams epig iams but altogether delightful after an hour hours s chat with urn him I 1 felt as if I 1 had been conversing with a flash of lightning A A great many perhaps the majority of othet otherwise wise N ft ell informed people be lieve that they see the same with both eyes thit this Is not the case one can easily convince himself by t the he following fol lowin simple cover one of the ea bejes ejes es with a band hand or a bandage and let the experimenter attempt to snuff out a candle suddenly placed within a few feet of him he will almost invariably miss the flame either overreaching under reaching or putting the fingers too far to the right or left of the flame eiith ith both eyes normal and open the accommodation for distance and direction Is instant let him who believes there isn t a genuine and widespread interest felt regarding reg aiding the question ot of selecting a flower to stand as our nations floral emblem make an unwarranted state ment concerning one of the floral can call dilates tor for public favor and the num her of friends that will hasten to its de defense felise must convince him that the subject is uppermost in a good miny minds it was stated in the columns of the boston herald that one object tion to the goldenrod as our national flower N as its universality there being many vanities vane valie ties of it native to europe we have since bea ben rather numerously informed that it is almost exclusively north american continues the harild of about eighty known species only one other good authorities say three it is said is found in the old world one in the azores and one in sou south th america in the cas ein luitek states alone arc art found nearly fifty species and they with the equally multi tudin ous ahtes constitute the greit gee it bulk of the kmer cin i i it it in flo veri verb |