Show on our front porch Is a clematis yards of it had taken possession of the wire netting but there was a fitce over a foot long quite a distance from the support that was only on one side of the plant and a solid brick wall on the other that forlorn piece was bound to catch the netting one evening I 1 stood by the vin 0 o there was a breeze ans I 1 wai thinking tiow fasten the booso when it began to move of itself slowly at first then aster and always gowani the netting at last it gave a pretty good kick and tho tendrils caught huttt where it wanted to go and a little chuckle of delight seemed to go through the leit vea now why did it choose the netting side persistently and know there waa nothing to cling to on the other again a little any the clematis was a woodbine about four feet 0 it had taken of the netting crowding out n queen of the prairie rose perhaps you know how this vine clings but I 1 patiently unwound the whole length twined it around pillar of the piazza without breaking a tendril did it like the new place not a bit what was my astonishment the next lay to lind the long branch in its old place clinging harder than ever you obstinate old thing said I 1 you must como off that netting and give the place to the rose so I 1 untwined it again wound it round the pillar and tied it on it waa several days before it waa satisfied and looked as if it were trying to get the better of the stout hiring and abo liard cnota didat the woodbine show its dl very plainly success with punta contraction of tho iron ansel in constructing ting tho great biffel tower that famous structure eight inches shorter in winter lhnn it is during the hot summer months the relative ratios of the lower case letters in ordinary work is z 1 k j q x 3 b v 7 g p w y 10 f n d I 1 20 h r CO ai n 40 t 43 e 00 total A bath joker in 1742 nil the turnspit doge in the city oa night to deprive the citizens of their loasta the next day |