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Show HfflE oil"' COOOOOOCOOOOOI An Appeal to Maud. Came Into the gnroen. Maud. And see how Iht. wVf..la have growm, They're -lllng ao IhLk, And growing a., qui. k. 1 ren t poll Vm all itlone. go mme Into Ilia b.O'I-ii. Maud. And alia me a h Ipltig hand. Tli'f " a lot of wllehgrua In the lellu.e. ale.' And II a growing In bent the bandt Come Into the gnrnVn. Maud. And lo m-fl the nnlona nratl The leltiu e la hail. And the h.-eia mi.ki ma Bed. ) tint Ih. onion h-.l la lha woial. I o put on voir bloomera. Maud, And In.kle tha peifey waaUa Without any foaa. For woe la 11a. If ever they scatter their aaadat Come Into the garden. Maud. Fur the 1,1,, k l.ai. nlal.t. ha flown. There' . i.l y of oik. Wo .Ion t ny to ahlrk And Ir.ve It to me alone J"t 'Mil. k. n your iiioMoua. Mund, ' And hiitil.li th.it hauahly anaar And kuirl ,l.,wn In Hi. dew. F..r II . HkIu t yu To help gut ihla 11 ir.l.n rlearl H.1n1.rvUl JoumaL A Novae Team. The owner of a largo ostrich farm In aoulhern California haa trained a pair of these huge birds to drive as he would drive horses, hitching tbern to a light buggy or trotting cart, which haa In lta design a third wheel. Thla la to prevent th vehicle from turning over. It Is by no mean an easy task to drive such a wlerd team, aa you can not pull up your "horaea" by relna. If you did It would probably result In acrloua Injury to tho valuable valu-able birds. The only way to guide th conveyance la to bit tho offsld bird on the opposite sldo to that which you want him to go. Another objection to this kind of "horse" la that If he should catch eight of a bit of banana peel, or aomothlng equally attractive, he doea not healtato to make a dive aldewnya for It A ostriches os-triches go Ilka th wind, and can make a sudden dead atop, th Jerk th rider receive la not a pleaaant ont, If a piece of orange peal ahould happen accidentally In meet th eye of hi atrango "horaea." A Chemical Datectlv. Truly the way of tha transgressor la hard and hla Ingenuity I kept buay eluding tha connlnntly Increasing mcthoila of detecting him. Th lateat device la extremely aubtlle, and It will be a clever thief who can ae hi way clear out of the trap which a scientific scien-tific mind haa prepared for him. It waa invented by a chemist ot Budapest, and la a chemical powder, of a yellow color, which ha tha curlotia property ot dyeing th akin of th person touching It a deep blue. Th color I not removable by any known means, and washing It only make the color deeper. However, after about a fortnight It begins to wear off, and at the end of about three month all trace of th coloration colora-tion will vanish. Sword 278 Veara Old. Dr. J. V. Peck of Amorot, Mo, In Kanraa City yesterday, ha an heirloom heir-loom In the form of a aword 278 year old. Dr. Peck declare It I th oldoat word In the United State. It wa brought to thla country by hla greatgrandfather great-grandfather more than loo yeare ago, and haa been handed down In bla family fam-ily through th succeeding generation. Th aword bear th data 1629, during dur-ing the tlmo when Christian, king ot Denmark, was carrying on hla th'rty yeare' war with Sweden. It beara a picture of the warrior monarch. On one aide I an Inscription In Oer-i.sn aa foMowa: "I am a good blrdo If ku use me woll." Another ln-crloticr un Ih rcverao aide soys: "He who hath no lov for the beautiful bath no heart In hie body." Kansaa City Time. A Quear Pat. Many people have wondered why the Empress Eugenie alwsv. carries about wltb her, wherover ahe goea, a llttlo wlckor banket, and many apveu-latlona apveu-latlona have been mailo aa to It contents. con-tents. The banket la lined with cotton cot-ton wool, and In that aoft autntance neatlea a hedgehog! It la the em-proas' em-proas' only pet, and ah would not dream of allowing It, to bo attended by any one but herself. She haa rather a auperatltlotia attachment to the curious crealuro, and believes that It haa a tallsmaulc power of Insuring hor safety and general well-being. Bulla Fatal to Family. It la a remarkable coincidence that on the samo day that John Htewait of Weal ford, Vt., waa killed by a bull on hla farm his brother, V. 1). Stewart Stew-art of Ilnkc ratleM had a narrow escape from death by nn enraged bull on bit own farm. V. I). Stewart saved himself him-self from tho uttucka of the Infuriated hulniul by dodging around a hay crib built for sheep to feed from. Well Paid Engllah Lawyer. Sir Kdwnr.l Clarke, KC, I said to be tho best paid professional man In Kngland. Hu dlHtlnguliihed himself In the baccarat case, tha htartlett case and tho Jameson rase, la a member ot parliament, and waa for at year solicitor general. His earnings at law are about $217 an hour. If he work ten hours a day. Suo daya In a year, bl Income la Jii.'.l.'iuO a year. Benevolent and Uaeful. Pencun Arlund K iton hna caused tn bo placed by tho roadside, near hla fnrm bnlldlnr.a. In Vuncock, N. IT, a tone watering troui-h to fiirulnh a piihllc waler supply from a never-falling never-falling spring. It la Inscribed, "K.Uon. 1797 IH04." and Is Intended to com-memornto com-memornto tho aeltlement of his family fam-ily In town. |