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Show SBBBBBBBBB bsbbbbI CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT. !; A cuitious occrnitr.NCE. Wee Willy Nilly ran kmIv nV To green groany noun's one lino eiimmci .lay. So wc.uy kIic ricw, tlio sweet little ni.it!. She lav (low n to rest in the cool, pleananl shade, Xor wli.1t happened next is ccitainly queer, And taclly perp'cxed the poor little dear, Hut, ftranRc tliouuli it be, I trally c.m't doubt it, For Willy herself told me ull about It, She Kcarrvly was nettled, nnd taking her cne, When luiils chclcd lnunil Iter in tloekn from the trcc, . While Miuiiiels and rabbits nnd like quad- lupeds Stared HoVnmly at her or stood on their head. The biids iliirjicd and chattered and ((uttered ((ut-tered tlinr winw. Tlic "be.isticii" tmnc' liandpriugit nnd did lot of tliiuga. At lot n pcit bunny (.limbed up nn ii ntump And cried, "Willy Nilly is such n sad guiupi" Then cc Willy Nilly nroc in diimay, Determined to ilrie tho nulo runea.it Mwiy, Hut, iretot before i)lic could speak, in her fright, The w lio.o saucy circle quick vanished from night, Washington Star. A MYSTIFIED CItOW. During n piazza game of plug pong, ono of tho balls was sent qulto n ills-tanco ills-tanco out ocr tho lawn, whero a crow seized it and bore It off In triumph, ovidently thinking It was an egg. After much pecking, from all of which the frollcsonw llttlo ball bounced away unbroken, un-broken, the crow had an excited consultation consul-tation with secral of his fellows, and then deliberately carried the ball to tho top of n high tree and lit It drop. Again the assembly of black feathered experimenters gathered around In u cloth and place the toy watch In full jH view at the other end of tho stick. To fl those uninitiated tho ticking to b I'ifl heard wilt appear marvelous. New ' WM tori: World. ,, '' ' THE PHANTOM PIN. Nil In studying the properties of tho re ''sll flection of light there nro numberless I'ilsfl interesting experiments to bo per- . i'llSsH foi mod. One is herewith presented: i'll Take, a cork and cut It out Into the ' HH form of ji disk of about tho thickness ; of an Inch. In tho centra Btlclc the 4 point of a pin. This done, tako a glasi ' FiH about three-quarters full of water and ill tiluco tho cork upon tho surfaco of the iffl water with the pin below. Now If you . Jssi will look nt tho cork from above you Issv will not seo tho pin, but If you will liH alter your position aud diminish the -1 sense of tho visual ray by placing the ''sH eyu on a parallel with tho table oo' ''iH which tho glass rests, you will pcrcclvt JH a pin above the cork. 'iliH FABLE OF TWO BATS, !M A rat seeking n place In which t iiH live chosn a palace, saying ho preferred .H a blgli life, while Ills compnulon cIiobi '11 a hut, saying ho wns content with less , But the pnhico was found to be n pool '1 place for a rat The walls and lloon ''IH |