Show the rose of remembrance I 1 bloom for all says the frag ant rose I 1 bloom for the grae and gray I 1 bloom for the lo 10 ed one in repose I 1 bloom tor the young and gay on one and all does my blessing rest in this fleeting life of mine on the north and the south and the and west like a message of love divine washington star big trees of the sea if you ask most persons what the world s biggest plants are they will probably mention such growths as the giant trees of california the wonder ful eucalyptus of australia or the huge banyan tree of asia but thit would be wrong all these mam of the vegetable world are mere pigmies corn pared with the true monsters which have been seen by a very few in the deep sea hidden away from man except when fierce storms tear a few of them from their secret beds or when the deep sea dredges of some ex clorer wrest them from the abyss grow plants that are 1500 feet long they are grown seaweeds with their roots in the sunless ocean bottom where never a spark of light filters down and their stems reaching up through a full quarter of a mile of ocean the greatest of these plants has a stem only about a quarter of an inch thick and at the end of it has a leaf or a leaf like growth that Is 50 feet long surely the longest leaf in the world this leafy end is beset with great bladders each as big as an egg the bladders are full of air and this buoys the vast plant up so that it stands upright in the water on our own northwest pacific coast is another weed that grows to be more than feet long at its upper end it has an air bladder shaped something like a cask and from this again there grows a tuft of 50 or more leaf sprays which are 30 feet long A BEAR AND A BOASTER at a place called georgetown which lies in a narrow valley apparently shut in by mountains were a great many bears but these were much smaller and less fierce than the griz alles still they were savage enough when they were provoked especially if they were hungry otherwise they would often choose to run away rather than fight one day news was brought that a bear had been seen on the hills above the town and was prowling about there just then there happened to be staying in the town a somewhat conceited person who thought he knew how to do everything dear me he said bow fortunate that I 1 am here just now I 1 will rid you of the bear ver speedily only look out to morrow afternoon and you will see me come down with the skin over my shoulder the people rather thought that this was brag so they watched him but sure enough the next morn ing he started off to shoot the bear though he had talked so grandly he was really somewhat uneasy and as he climbed higher and higher up the lonely mountain he began to like bear hunting less and less on he went looking cautiously about him on every side and thinking every heap of stones was his enemy and eyeing anxiously each cluster of brown bushes and so he slowly neared the top of the aidee meanwhile the bear was shuffling easily up the other side of the moun tain not thinking at all about hunters or guns but enjoying the sunshine and wondering what he could and for dinner suddenly the man and the bear met face to face the man gave a shriek and the bear a growl for a second they looked at each other then both tuond and fled each down the side of the mountain which he had so lately ascended tricks W th the hand hold your hand in a horizontal position palm downward place a piece of paper about two inches sq lare directly under and against the crack between the first and mid die fingers and blow through that crack instead of flying away the piece of paper will cling to your hand without support this Is because the current of air carries away some and the torce of the outside air pressing on the paper makes it stick to the hand press the finger tips of one hand forcibly against those of the other hand and open andi shut the hands bigi aly shut your eyes and do this several times and the feeling will be such that you can easily believe you are holding coins between the finger tips hook the fingers of each hand hold ing them far apart and shake the hands swiftly freely and forcibly from the wrist for several seconds the air currents between the fingers will give a sensation as it the hands were full of cotton of some woolly substance look closely at the inside of the fingers near the tips you will see furrows running in curved lines they appear like mere lines but it you look at them through a magnifying glass you will see they are really slight furrows or rub chalk of pow der over them and they will be out lined in white it Is said that no two persons have these markings exactly alike and al so that the markings remain the same through life in each individual you may test this by taking a print of your own spread some ink thinly over a piece of glass or paper when the ink Is nearly dry press the fingers on it lightly and then on a piece of clean white paper A few trials will give you gome very good prints another way of taking the print Is to drop a little heated sealing wax on paper and before it hardens to wet the finger so as not to burn it and press it on the wax the am print of all the lines will be clearly marked or sealed in the wax plucky sparrows A pair of sparrows built a nest in a tree in hoboken N J and one of the young sparrows with which the nest was afterward equipped fell out before it had learned to fly and fell fluttering to the sidewalk the parent birds followed it but an alert cat was already after the oung sparrow noth ing daunted by the size of their appon ent the parent birds made a rush for the cat they fluttered about the cat s head and pecked at its eyes and kept it so generally busy that it had no time to look after its intended prey while this was going on more birds flew down and in some way supported and the young sparrow until they carried it to a fence whence it made a short fl on its own ac count and succeeded in reaching the tree from which it fell by that time the cat had been put to flight and the parent birds flew back to the tree where they and the other sparrows twittered and chirped for half an hour as if they were holding a political con golden days two card tricks take the pack of cards and separate all the kings queens and knaves put these all together into any part 0 the pack you fancy and inform one of the company that he cannot in twelve cuts disturb their order after each taking the pack cut from and placing it on the pack cut the chances are to 1 n your favor this trick may be rendered more surprising by placing one halt of the number of court cards at the ip nd the other half at the bottom th s pack the second trick tells you how to find a certain card after it has been shuffled in the pack As you shuffle the cards note the botton one being careful not to shuffle it from its place then let any one draw a card from the middle of the pack look at it and place it on the top let them cut the pack the card in question will be found immediately to follow the one which was at first the bottom card something every day every day a little knowledge one fact in a day how small is one fact onla one ten years pass by three thousand six biad and fifty facts are not a small th every day a little self denial the thing that is difficult to do to day will be an easy thing to do days hence it each day it shall have been repeated what power of self mastery shall he enjoy who seeks every day to practice the grace be prays for every day a little happi ness we live tor the good of others if our living be in any sense a true living it Is not in great deeds of kindness only that the blessing is found in little deeds of kindness repeated every day we find true happi ness at home at school on the street at the neighbor s hou e in the play ground we shall find an opportunity svery day for usefulness quaint queries do ou know that the custom of lift ing one s hat dates back to the age of chivalry 9 knights then never appeared in public without their full armor when they entered an assemblage of friends they removed their helmets this action signified I 1 am safe in the 11 of friends thus the custom of gentlemen of to day means the same thing that he is in the presence of a friend do you know that the three generals who never knew defeat are alexander the great julius caesar and the duke of wellington the hero of Waterloo 7 do you know the reason the hour was divided into 60 minutest 9 it was because no other small number has so many divisions as 60 it is evenly dl eded by 2 3 4 5 6 10 12 15 20 and 30 do you know the origin of the phrase vp salt river 7 before steam navigation along the ohio was carried on by flatboats which were rowed up stream this was barly hard work especially tip salt river a dangerous crooked branch of the ohio river in kentucky when slaves were to be punished this was a common method employed by their owners hence at election times people refer to sending the defeated can dilates up salt river as a penalty do you know how many blue beans it takes to make alve white beans five if they are peeled do ou know that the word dude comes from the english word duds which means clothes 7 hence a dude Is one very fond of clothes for ch idiens party from water color paper cut ou and decorate noah s arks three or tour inches long and on the back of these paste an envelope to contain the in vl tation the whole in a large envelope for mailing says the woman s home companion the inalta tion may designate the kind of animal each guest Is expected to represent or that may be left to the individual choice merely asking them to come to the party in costume these costumes are to be as simple as possible only expressing some characteristic feature of the animal to represent the ele a loose domino of gray muslin may be used and a close fitting cap with huge flapping ears attached for the lion a tawny colored domino with a fluffy ruche for the neck and ders made of tissue paper fringe FISH AS A BRAIN there are many men of many minds and many elsh of many kinds therefore there must be a elsh adapted for each particular mind for instance for the schoolmaster he should prescribe whale and tor his pupils blubber for the critic carp for the soldier swordfish and pike for the plaice for a shoemaker sole for a carpenter sawfish for a smoker pipefish and whiff for a blacksmith for lean persons chub for a sculptor of course for a cheese manufacturer smelt for the basso singer of a minstrel troupe black bass for a sea captain skipper for dwarfs minnows then there Is the archerfish for archers the tor drummers the tor pilots the skate tor skaters and the tor huntera in case of bad bleeding I 1 know one thing said john it you cut an artery the blood is red and spurts and if you cut a vein the blood is bluer and flows that s right but in real accidents you generally have both and so there is a mixture of blue and red blood it the bleeding is very bad tie a large handkerchief around the injured arm or leg with a knot over the artery about an inch above the cut slip a stick through the place where the handkerchief is tied and twist it until the knot is pressed deeply against the artery it would be well to tie a string around the arm over the other end of the stick to prevent its unwind ing in this way you compress and close the walls of the artery between the cut end and the heart and thus you stop the bleeding cold or heat in any form also helps to stop bleed ing for they both help to clot the blood and of course when the blood clots it acts like a stopper in a bottle and so the blood ceases to flow from dr E E walkers first aid to the injured in st nicholas the nd mouse one day while sitting under a shady maple tree by the roadside reading a bool the soft bustling lust ling sound made by the wind blowing through a field of tasseled wheat caused me to look up to my surprise I 1 saw two large field mice slowly crossing the road to the wheat field one mouse had his eyes tightly closed and seemed totally blind while ae other mouse was cautiously lead ing him along by a small stick which hey both held in their mouths |