Show 1 I L I 1 the river of life tho th more we A e live ve m re brief appear our life a lud stages ekx IL V day to childhood leemit a year anil anti ear ears like paring agon ax the gladsome current of our youth lre yet disorders dilord dia ord lingering ike a river smooth along ite its grassy border borders cut but as the careworn chook grow grows wan and borrow sorrows a shaft k aly thicker ie star stars that measure life to man aay hy seem your courses quiche quicker aben hen jois have hae loit lost their bloom anil and breath and life luelf is s avii hy as we reach the pali flails of death feel As e ita its tide more rapid it may be strange vet who would chan change limes 1 line s course to slower I 1 hn hen one by one our nur friends hav have gone and let lert our bonoma bosoms a heaven gives our beirs ut a fading strength fleetness neel fleet nei neRs and those of youth a s length Pro ned to theli thelt sweetness thomaa thomas compbell wild ride on deers back an exciting hunting story Is told by frank thompson a guide who claims to have beon been carried through the maine woods near mount desert for a distance of 0 halt a mile upon the back ot of a v gunild oun ild and fighting mad buck thompson mas ft as hunting in the conn coun try around eagle lake when be he came upon a big buck standing upon a knoll ho ile fired at the deer ani an I 1 the animal bounded into the air anil and then fell into a heap heat as if dead the guide ran up knife in hand to bleed tho the deer but jut ad rid he was about to cut the animal a throat the buck lumped jumped up full of fight to sais save him self thomp thompson on grabbed the animal by the horns and got a firm hoi hol I 1 the buck dished dashed away a ay into the woods with thompson clinging to his horns over jagged stumps and through thorny unde undergrowth growth tho the maddened buck dished and the guide was as banged against trees an I 1 rocks and dashed through brush his clothing g be ins ing torn to ahre Is and hia his body ody gashed and bruised at last tho the deer stumbled over a log an I 1 the shock threw so forward bre breaching ahing bis his hold an ani I 1 allowing showing the animal to h escape uen nhen thompson picked himself up ho he stag staggered geed to where lila his rigo rifle lay and then made his way home as boat best he could he ile estima estimates teg the distance over which he h va was as carried by tho the deer it half a mile invisible ink r invisible ink la 1 made by dissolving salt of tartar clear and dry la a aurli dent clent quantity of water to make it visible bruise some violeta violets in a mortar with water train strain through a cloth and apply it to the paper on abich the letter baa has been written the ile writing will come out green for education of monkeys A college tor for the education ot of mon man keys has recently been opened in cal autta the founders v 9 ho he are devoted s of garner share his belief that the monkey possesses mes human in telli gence in a latent form which it la Is the function of the college to de celop the m of teaching 1 la that known as the letter block method the alphabet Is arranged on big block letters all of which are vividly col oled 01 ed dy by dalte degree the apes are to bo be taught to place ghesu letters so aa as 0 o form simple word words As they sue suc cred in doing so they v ill be rewarded by gifts of nuts am an other daltit lea monument to famois hound the Cheh cheshire lre hunting season has commenced and more interest than equal centers round the obellia orect cd ed to the memory of the most famous cheshire foxhound that ever lived the monument was raised by the late hon lion john smith barry and blue cap cop the name of the hound has been immortalized in prose and song and Is known throughout the length and breadth ot of rural cheshire the obe alik Is in a good state of preservation ani and bears the following quaint inscription this obelisk reader la Is a monument rated to a had ahn h a hound thil thit deserves tn to be pra I 1 rd 1 for 1 it lit 11 but but a 1 chereen each act acts a part wl nd true greatness a term that a derived from the heart it fani fame honor and nr elory alory depond on the th d then 0 lilae cap rare we it 11 boast of thy breed it no tear yet a gift glass we w it 11 on the bruf brute so high famed he was we in the glorious gle glor rlou tous pursuit but nu no more of thlu th thime theme since thin this life i a but a race and has gone to the death or of the chaj chase even today to day although year years and more have elapsed stories of blue caps exploits are told some of the talea tales have become legendary and it Is difficult to mitt att the true from the false this much i to certain that he was one of the speediest hounds that ever lived it Is oa on record that ran for and won an tete tale which ta is edil ta the loa ft of th berry fan fam t ily cha charles rles N picketed in bia old song the Chesh chestlie lie hunt says tho the hound had ruch eh an extraordinary peed ai to require to be clogged to enable the reel rest ot of the pack to keep pace with him hini there Is to a elory story current too that the old hound actually ran from london to san lewty norwich where tho the i monument Is ralael rat 1 in two to days but there la Is no permanent record of tho the feat an ancient hostelry la Is named after the famous houn I 1 the king hing remarkable piece of luck A A springfield mass traveling man who carries a postage stamp box lost it on the train a few days ago ani ant made up his mind that it was a final disappearance lie ile boarded the same train two das later and as luck would have it it happeney hap penel to be in the same car in which he had ridden on monday lie ile went to the seat alch which he had previously occupied and much to his surprise found the box waged into the seat and with every evidence that it bad had L n unmolested in the tv 0 days the car had bad traveled far from the city and each night ha I 1 been overhauled and cleaned phases of a sunset 0 00 et i lj 0 jq a 3 i ase it Is ii because of at atmospheric refraction that the sun at the horizon appears as an oval and flattened in a vertical direction even in the calmest weather eather all the points of the disk are then raised by the effect of the refraction but they are raise I 1 unequally the lower points more than the higher points because they are nearer the norldon norl zon where the refraction refi action la Is greater the disk of the tle sun therefore appearing flattened in the vertical dl tit hieroglyphic stairway noteworthy among tho surprising ang discon ries 1 made by the peabody recent expedition in l emerica ats that of a magnificent hieroglyphic stairway at copan unearthed by mr air george U 11 gordon from its design ard ara tho the stairway la Is considered the great greatest architectural feature that has yet been brought to light in this celebrated prehistoric city this new now find haa has revealed two important facts tho the antiquity of copan Is pushed back to a greater period than wag was supposed as the stairway bears an inscription over ears earlier than any in crip tion yet found on any existing tating cx monument also the inscription with which the stairway was decorated la Is the longest hieroglyphic one that has been been met with among tho the maya rueni fragments Frag menta of sculpture mingling with the ruins show that the sla liway bo be longed to a temple undoubtedly tho most imposing bill billdt dIng ng in copan or li if all ancient america tho the stairway extended from a plaza terrace to tho top of the mound a alst di ince of foot feet and was 26 6 feet wide every foot of it was cohered with ela borata borato sculptures and hieroglyphic 1113 inscriptions crip tasse are being deciphered and it la Is thought will yield valuable ablo now la in regard to this prehistoric city and people curll n timepiece A mattir while visiting great one cf ct those islands of the in la dian than ocean known as the celebes Ce lebee ot or spice islands found a curious time re corder lodged at the house of a rajah iwo bottles were firmly lashed together and fixed in a wooden frame A quantity of black sand ran from one on bottle into the other in just halt an hour and when the upper bottle was empty the frame was reversed twelve short sticks markelwith mark marked edwIth with notches upon a string A hook was placed between the sticks bearing the number ot of notches corresponding to the hour last struck and the one to b struck next the sentry announced the time tip I 1 striking kInc the hours on a large gong stock stocks Ns OZ offenders enders th blue lawi laws in a new england used to be thus life and bath mingled A birth a marriane marr iare an I 1 a death occurred within fave hours one night in the criswell family of york springs york county ila caward criswell died at midnight firo five hours previously his niece had be married and at S 8 clock in the ey anink ills his laughter daughter had given birth to a son on wonderful electric storm the liar wel N 3 3 schooner da brings from the th su sau biats coast go co J 0 a fall at a oad erful electric ona the whole who ses c and shy sky was a ism BB of 1 1 said tb wate there va so pua it WAS one OB baze for afteel ftfe fan |