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Show I Miscellaneous Gleanings M A Few Pick-ups From Here and There of B More or Less Interest. Uncle Ephr'm. B "Th1i' le case ol) ite 'Pontic I'uul," H said tlneln Kphr'm. "He neither Htud H led fur iW- mlnlitry, an' It dor ain't B a prenrlicr on iIIh rarlli Out kin liolil a H candle to 'lm " Chicago Trlliuu. B Keeping Fern Freeh. H Maldcnhnlr torn, which iiniially B withers soon nftor gathering, ran he 1 kept frcBli fur n week If when first picked the ends urc held In a flame until quite black, H Die on Mother Earth. H Those torn. or fminttcH of India, the H Rlkhu, when they come to die, prefer H to expire on the bare Kroiuid. Ilogard. H less of rank or age, no run Intervenes H between thlr hoillus and the earth. Courtship In Mxlco. Staring at the wlivli w of t holt 1 adored ones Ib the way Mexican Inv H era woo. If the younc, woman It H ncrceable. she wilt a,,j:ear at th H window nfter Hevnral ilnyn, and the) H thus become aciinalnton. H Hard Talk for 8mall Pupils. H In Kaat Indian schools monlnl H nrithmetlc la a vastly moie sorloua H matter than it la In tho schools of H this country. Pupils of ten yenra are H taught to remember the muttlpllca- B tlon tnble up to 40 times 40. H Cheerfulness. H The Dovcrelgn voluntary path to H chocrfulncBS, It our spontaneous H cheerfulness bo lost, Is to sit up cheer- H fully, to look around chcorfully nd to H net and speak as If cheerfulness were H already there. William .Junius. H Much Sustenance In Nuts. H A snmplo of the nuts upon which H the watrlors of Somnlllnud march and H fight so well has been brought to Eng H land. Twenty of tho nuts arc u day's H rations for the Hamuli, who eats thorn H boiled H Street Nsnud for a Clown. H Joey OrimahM. tho famous clown, H has yet his c'imlrers, Henry street, M rontonville, England, Is about to fl rhnngn its nvnio to Grlmaldl street, M In honor of the prlnco or modern jest- H ers, who wan born there. H An Eye to Spare. H "He cniuful how you shoot that ar- H row this way," said tho supporter of H tho family to the litd. "You'll put out H my eye and then 1 can't wrlto any H more." "Why?" asked tho kid, as he H kept on shoot Ini;. "Can't you write H with lino eyo?" H All Is Vanltyl B "At first," Bald the apartment houso H philosopher, "life In n flat seems an M Interesting study of humanity, but B soon you loso your urbanity, part with HBJ your Chrlstlunlty, fall Into profanity, H and pnss by swift stages from 'mental H Inanity Into violent insanity." H Four-lsaf Cl-er. 1 There is in old ru stltlou that 1 it brings good luck to find n four- M lenfed clover. Tho Htiporstltlon Is B founded, flnit, on tho ratlty of the H specimen; but chiefly on tho fact that H tho fuur leaves nr arranged in the H form of a cr r j H I Appointment Came Late. B A good r)"nl of nnvwmeiit was H caused by tho locout unnounceraont H In tho French "Journal Otnclel" that H Augusto Paul Henii Au.jnrl.in was H nominated t i a clerkship in tho post 1 ofllcc. Anjnilnn applied for tbo berth 1 when bo retired from tho gendnrmorle H enrs ngo. Hut he died In 1904. M A wlco man in Dublin tolls tho l.on- 1 don pollen how to deal with the riot- M ous "suffrugottos," who havo been H besieging tho houso of commons. H "Glvo eneli of your men n llvo raouso H In n llttlo cage," ho says, "and tho H ftuffraKtsts will lcavo tho houso of H commons ami never como back." H Iluffnlu Commercial. H Salt-free Diet for Cplleptlcs. M Tho suppression of alimentary salt H tho diet of cjitlcptlcs has u favorablo M effect on epileptic seizures, Inasmuch B ns It roduccs tholr froquoncy and M their sovorlty. It is of tho samo valuo H In tho treatment of opllopsy as tbo M strict obsorvancu of dietetic and hy- M glonlc rules. Doth factors combined m aid considerably In reducing and con- H .trolling thu solrures. N. Y. Medical B Journal. B Japan Growls at the New Woman. M Tho girl who Is tho pioduct of the M fomalo education of tho present day M docs not mako a suitablo wlfo for or- H dlnary Japanoso, by any means. Bho B learns much nt scliool that Is of no H use to her In after life, and slio Is H too often mado concoltod by tho sraat- B terlng of knovledge sbo possesses and H Is apt to put on airs. Thero Is a great H lack of practicability about tho In1 H jstrucUoa glvon to young k 'rls at most H modern schools. Some of tho girls M .from theso schools may suit tho tastes fg-m of officials, but tbo majority ot thorn 'jB are shunned-by marrying men, for tho IM reasons slven above. Hlktigo Zassbl. 1 On Its Round. "Walter, do you mean to say this Is tho steak I ordered?" "Yes, sir." "It looks like the same steak the xontloman across the table refused to eat a few minutes ngo." "Yos, sir: we always try it three times before we give It up. sir." Twenty-Three for thu Chickens. The chicken grubbers live relumed to Now Hope after 'qulto fcn vbsenco. One night last week the was a visitor visi-tor In Dr. at'Uit's bnck ;rd, and the next mornlne revealed the fact that 23 youut; chlckeiiH hud it sappoared. Staunton (Vn ) Sun. Proper Care of the Eyes. If a chlld'n oyoH bo examined whll qulio young by a skillful oculist, much trouble In afior llfo nilclu be provent ed. An occasional visit to the ocullsl by older persons could result In no linun. while nno Hiich visit might provs a "stitch in time," etc. Africa's Qlory Departed. Africa had groat cltlos thousands of years beforo the first white settlements settle-ments wore mado In America. The "Dark Continent" Is much blggor and probably moro populous than North America. Yet Cairo Is the only city In Afrlea which Is as largo as Clove land. Woman's Idea of Them. "Hero's a clever thine In oil." said alio, at the nrt exhibition; "It'a called 'When tho C-' s Away,' but 1 don't seo tho artist's name 1 wonder who palntod it." "Kvldentlj a woman," replied re-plied her escort; "see what u ferocious fero-cious expression sho has given tho mice." Superseded. As tho cur ot Juggernnut.Mts whcols wet and red, thundered on Its bloody wny. It met n 90 horsepower automobile automo-bile Tho two great machines confronted con-fronted ono another for an Instant Then, humbled and ashamed, tho car of Juggernaut turned and slunk back to lis antiquated gurngo. Africans Put on Clothes. Tho natives of tho African Gold Coust, who, up until thrco months ago, went about Innocent of clothing, or cloths of any kind, nro said by a Ilrltlsh publication to havo qulto suddenly sud-denly doveloned a deslro to clothe themselves, mid supplies are bolug furnished thorn from German Togo-land Togo-land Consulnr Iteport America's Charles Lamb. Ollvor Horford, who is equally fa mous ns a poet, illustrator and brll llant wit, was ontortnlnlug four mag nzlno editors at luncheon, when the boll rang nnd a maid entored with the mall. "Ah," said an editor, "an epistle." "No," said Mr. Horford, tearing open tho envelope, "not an opUtle a col loct." Dire Prediction for 1907. A lama living at I.hnssa has issuod a Borlcs of predictions for 1907. "Tho king of the year," he says. "Is Saturn, Sat-urn, undor whose malign Influence meritorious pooplo will suffer, and thieves will prosper. Great dlsordor will provall. The rich will satisfy their hunger at tho expense of tho poor, nnd tho oarth will quuko tbrlco." Use of Languages. Tho most oxtonslvely spoken language lan-guage Is Chlncso, but as there are so many dialects in tho langunge and as thebo dlffor bo greatly In tho confines of Mongolia and Thibet from thoso around I'okln, It Is scarcely correct to say that tho 3S2.000.000 Colostlnls all speak ono language Putting, therefore, there-fore, China asldo, tho most spoken languages In tho world nro ns follows. fol-lows. In millions: Kngllsh, 120; Gor-man, Gor-man, 70; Itusslnn. GS. Spanish, 44; Portuguese, 32. Ready for the Worst. D. M. L. King tolls this story of nn applicant whom ho recently examined for n leading H'o insuranco company: "Ills heart action wob poor, tho man hart gouty tendencies, had an Incipient nppondlcltis, and his eyes and com-ploxlon com-ploxlon woro thoso of a stronuous wlner and dlnor. Concluding my examination, ex-amination, I frankly wnrnod him that ho was In tho wny of drinking himself him-self blind. 'Oh, well,' wns his philosophic philo-sophic reply, 'I p-nts I'vo soon about everything worfi wing, anyway."' Ways of Bees. Thoro nro about 5,000 anodes of tho wild bees, all with Interesting ways of tholr own. Among thorn Is a species whoso females aro vcrttablo Araaions nnd carry moro end bettor weapons than the malos. These are tho "cuckoo" bcos, which doposlt tholr oggs In tho nost of others, tho progony ot both living peacefully together until un-til maturity, whon thoy sopnrato. Then thero Is tho tailoring boo, which cuts leaves with his sclssor-llko jaws and fits a snug lining. ot the lost watorlal Into his cnvo-slmpod nost. |