Show plea in mitigation mahac my 1 gi levous yes 1 fear me monstrous in the eight cod and man the red array of deeds that do my record blight they hurl me from height A aijrer site with fulle ard yet I 1 abear me thlu rny bins I 1 never a pig irette my faults are aa tl e ilavee tl at fall in number the chitti hands I 1 claim no ness at I 1 yield to sundry strong 1 mands of flesh mv to nd in bands by demon of the bloo I 1 and apt with all my faults leguid stands I 1 smoked a cigarette son I 1 know my feet have trod outino ohp and narrow aab I 1 am with human weakness shod like ou b t tell it not in gath i hough still I 1 may escape the wrath and wan my soul s salvation et I 1 or this bright page my record hath I 1 never smoked a cigarette leader take this little lay and enow u may be happy yet it only you will watch and ibay and never smoke a cigarette I 1 ortland Oree onlan self protecting plants plants protect themselves much the as insects one 0 the uses ot the movements 0 the sensitive plant Is to frighten animals A venturesome browsing creature coming near it Is afraid to touch a plant which so evidently Is occupied by spirits the squirting cucumber of the terra nean alarms goats and cattle by dis charging its ripe fruits explosively in their faces the moment the stem Is touched the cucumber contains a pungent juice which discharges itself anto the eye of its opponent and the smarting sensation which results hard to bear the dainty grass ot parnassus Is beautiful but dishonest alt Is a bog herb has glossy green leaves and pure white blossoms and Is supposed to be the poet s flower its milk white flowers are lovely yet they are deceivers the drops ot honey which bees and insects fancy they aee inside the petals are solid glassy imitations of honey which fool the bees which are lured in this way that they may carry off the pollen to other blossoms and are held fast until they die new jersey honey mine nearly quarts of white honey were removed from between the clapboards and plastering of the mcmahon mansion in milton avenue radway rahway N J on a recent morning workmen discovered the honey oozing through the plaster and on making an open ng found the place packed from stud ding to studding the bees fought valiantly tor their stores stinging moses reed nearly blind they crawled under his clothes from shoe top to collar band faith fully paying their respects along the route the house had been unoccupied to two years it stands in the center ol 01 a rose and vine filled pine grove with wisteria in abundance there are probably pounds ot honey yet be tween the walls awaiting removal new york tribune investigate prehistoric tumulus A systematic excavation of the pre historic tumulus on claber moor alln gavie scotland began a few days ago the operations are being conducted by mr W A donnelly whose former discoveries created so much interest in the world already the workmen s operations have dis closed some remarkable features and the finds are such as to rank in inter est with some of the best in the edinburgh museum the tumulus Is 0 the circular type built on a rising mound feet above sea level it has a diameter of nearly ninety feet and consists of an inner and outer circle the urns already Is covered were deposited in the outer circuit mr donnelly has also discovered in the same vicinity evidences of other remains worth more than she thought two stamps were once put into an offertory box by a lady in georgetown they were 2 cent stamps issued in british guiana in 1850 the lady bad come across an envelope among her papers bearing two of these stamps the incumbent canon josa sold the envelope with the two stamps on it by auction and it realized the following year the same two stamps changed hands at the first pur chaser making profit on the deal the new purchaser sold them for to a german dealer who sold them to a russian nobleman tor 1000 london tit bits eggs had vitality michael gibbons of great barring ton placed sixteen eggs under a hen at the end of eighteen days the hen died and mr gibbons threw the eggs upon the compost heap four days later four motherless but healthy chicks dug their way out of the straw mr gibbons then placed the remain ing eggs under another hen which hatched out eleven more chickens dog underground ten days jerome thornton of center vt has a fox hound which in giving chase to a fox recently ran rey nard into a hole in digging after the fox a stone caved in behind the dog stopping the return passage and the dog it Is thought remained entrapped ten days until by some means the hound treed hedelt and went home a mere skeleton new anesthetic from japan A new anesthetic juice has recently been discovered in japan the product of a plant growing in that empire this anesthetic has been called lne and is said to be superior in its effects to all other articles of this kind it is administered and produces a deep sleep lasting from eight to nine hours veterans died together by a strange coincidence each ot the three saco me veterans john W sherburne mark patterson anu john ridlon who have died since saturday were 73 ears of age two of them were members of the samo regiment the twenty seventh maine and had been neighbors tor year boston gloats fai |