Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1905 — Page 6

' MOURNING CUSTOMS. Diigcln of the Widow'. c«i> and Black Sleeve Bands. < The customs of mourning as practiced in various parts of the world Fcctn at first sight to have little relation with each other or with the inrward grief which they are supposed to typify. Yet by the exercise of a little patience many resemblances may be discovered among them. The widow's cap, for example, dates back to the days of ancient Egypt. Egyptian men shaved the beard ami head as a token of mourning. The women, Instead of cutting off the hair, concealed 5t by a close cap. The Romans, who Were as a race clean shaven, shaved the head In mourning and wore a wig. The black band on the sleeve as a Sign of mourning comes to us from the days of chivalry. The lady tied a scarf OT napkin, as the handkerchief was called, about the arm of her knight. If he was killed in battle she wore the band in memory of him. Black has so long been the color of grief In Anglo 'taxon countries that it seema a part of the upside down civfnzatlon of the east that Japan and China wear white. But no longer ago than the time of Elizabeth the unfortunate Mary of Scotland wore white on tne death of Darmey. Even now ilia hearse used for children is white, Bi’.t m England the mourners at funerals of young unmarried persons hatbands and sashes of white. A queer English custom is that of decorating the black hearse horses with long false black tails. They attract no more notice on a street in Liverpool than do the biack nets used in this Country to cover the horses. A great many sensible people protest that wearing tokens of mourning is a barbaric custom that should be abolished or greatlv modified, but when loss and grief actually come into the individual life one discovers that there is a strange, subtle fitness in gloomy garments and that they answer to the need of the soul for silence and separation.

ODD DERIVATIONS. Curlon* History of the Word “Vote.” How “Reticule” Got It* Name. “Vote” is a word with a curious history. To the Roman a “votum” was a Solemn promise made to a deity. From the solemn promise Itself the meaning Os “votum” gradually became the prayer or intense wish that accompanied the promise and then any intense Wish whatever. So far the development proceeded in Latin, and “vote” passed into English with the same Sense. When Ben Jonson wrote of •“public votes” to heaven he meant not mass meeting resolutions, but prayers, finally “vote” acquired its present meaning, the formal and emphatic expression of a wish, while the old sense remains with its double “vow.” That openwork bag for shopping called a reticule, gets its name directly from the Latin “reticulum," “little net.” Popularly, however, the word is supposed to owe its existence to the fact that when an Englishwoman visited the first I’aris exhibition with her little bag in her hand the Parisians cried “Ridicule!” The Englishwoman, misunderstanding the exclamation, is Baid to have thought it the correct translation of "little bag” and returned to England calling it a "reticule.” Philologists claim that the phrase to '“sleep like a top” comes from the French “dormir comme une taupe,” to Bleep like a mole. It is said, too, that Cinderella's slippers were not made of glass, but of “vair,” the old French word for ermine, which in time became corrupted into "verre,” glass.—Chicago News. The Beaver's Tooth. No carpenter's chisel can do more es fective work than is turned out with ease and neatness by the beaver's tooth. This is the principal tool with which these patient, clever builders construct their dams. The outer surface of the tooth is a scale of very hard enamel, while the body of it is ot softer dentine. As the softer sub stance wears away in use the end of the tooth takes a chisel-like bevel, leaving a thin, slightly projecting edge of hard enamel as sharp as any carpenter's tool fresh from the oilstone. The thin scale of enamel gives keenness, the softer dentine supplies strength, and thus the combination forms a formidable tool, which actually sharpens itself by use. t A Queer Festival. A queer festival is celebrated in Malacca every ten or twelve years. The opening of the festival is signalized by a grand procession, in which huge piles of eatables take a large share. At the end of the third day the viands are burned. On the last occasion the piles of food were placed in a specially constructed boat which was towed out to tea and there consumed by firc. together w ith all the contents. A large sum of money, amounting to several thousands of dollars, was subscribed, largely in Singapore, for the proper observance of the festival. The Point of View. I “Henry, if I were a young man like you and expected to have to make my own way in the world some • day I Should try to make my expenses come {Within my income.” i “Father, if I were as rich as you are end had only one son I'd try to bring fcis income up to his expenses.”-Chi-cago Tribune A Sac-' has been raising pond J arket. His pond j s yields thousands of b. oor. During the height of the season the daily yield w< nt above 500 blossoms. The uoual price was S 4 per hundred.

General Barry Verjuj “General Orders’ By M. J. PHILLIPS Copyright, ICOS, by Ruby Douglas The .colonel's daughter was paying her first visit to a national guard encampment and had voted it the jolliest affair imaginable. •’Everything's so knowing and swagger,” communed the girl with herself as she lay in her cot the morning after her arrival. “The officers all talk so fiercely to the others when they’re marching! They say 'Port arrmsl’ in a regular ‘Tremble, villain,' tone. And some of those common soldiers are nice looking too." Fearing to miss something of the picturesque camp routine, she arose and dressed noiselessly. Her parents were still sleeping. The sun was just rising over the hills to the right as she stepped.to the tent opening. In front of her, his back turned, a sentry stood at right shoulder, looking down at the canvas city. Some distance to the left, at brigade headquarters, a group of men in khaki clustered about the fieldpiece and the tall flagstaff. A trumpeter stepped out from among them. The sun glinted on his instrument as he raised it to his lips. Then sharp and true, a little mellowed by the distance, came the rollicking notes of the reveille. “I can’t' get 'em up! I can’t get ’em up!” called the bugle merrily. The group about the gun fell into orderly lines. A huge puff of smoke gleamed like silver as it swept across the grass. Boom! While the echoes were still resounding over the lake the regimental baud struck up a quickstep. The gun crew uncovered reverently, the stars and stripes slowly mounted the staff and another day of camp life had begun. This little tableau over, the girl’s eyes turned to the sentry in front of her with a good deal of approval in their depths. His shoulders were broad, his campaign hat had the angle of a true soldier, and the back flung cape of his overcoat reminded the colonel’s daughter of a picture of Paul Revere. Stealing through the dewy grass until she was scarcely a yard away, she said softly, "Good morning, Mr. Soldier." The sentry turned so quickly that he nearly dropped his gun. "Grace!” he cried ecstatically. The tone of his voice and the light in his eyes caused the girl to recoil a step while she blushed adorably. "Just one little kiss, sweetheart,” went on the young man. He had not forgotten his drill regulations in the presence of this most distracting bit of femininity. His rifle was at "port," as the book says it shall be when the sentry is holding conversation with anoth er person.

“Why, Tom, the very idea,” came the saucy answer. “Right here on this hilltop in plain sight? I don't believe I would even under the tent fly.” Still, there was no suggestion of panic in her leisurely retreat. But the sentry did not, as expected, pursue her to the friendly fly. "I can’t leave this path,” he gloomed. “Oh. indeed! And why?” “According to general orders I am ‘to quit my post only when properly relieved,’ ” lie quoted. The girl tossed her head and pursed her tempting red lips. “All right, Tom Kennedy, if any old general is more to you than I”— There was a thud of horse's hoofs up the parade ground, and General Barry rode up. He was commander of the Second brigade, and as he swung gracefully from his horse he looked the part thoroughly. The general was young, handsome and unmarried. It could be seen that officer and enlisted man had one point in common. Both loved the colonel's daughter. “Good morning, Miss Grace. Y'ou’re up with the birds.” Then to the sentry, who. having presented arms, started to resume his beat, “Hold my horse, orderly.” The sentry was an astute young man. He knew that the general had divined something from the manner of the interrupted conversation. The request was merely to humiliate him before the girl. Yet his manner was respectful, even meek, as he came to port arms again and replied, “I'm not the orderly, sir; I’m sentinel on this post.” “Well, hold the horse, anyway.” “The regulations don’t require me to,” was the composed reply. General Barry's anger arose as a gleam of merriment kindled in the girl’s eyes. "Nevertheless I command you to do it.” The sentry apparently regretful. “General orders say that I shall receive, transmit and obey all orders from and allow myself to be relieved by the commanding officer, the officer of the day, officers and noncommissioned officers of the guard only. You’re not any of those, sir.” “Indeed!” was the sarcastic response. “And if you know your general orders so well, bow about the one which says ‘to hold conversation with no one except in the proper discharge of my duty?’ Hold this horse or I’ll put you in the guardhouse!” The sentry’s reply was to resume his beat. Almost bursting with rage, the general took a step or two toward Kennedy. but as the relief came plodding up the hill be decided, a smile of triumph on his face, to await its arrival. “Corporal.” lie said sharply to the noncommissioned officer in charge, that man under arrest.” Tiie corporal saluted. “Why, sir?” “He was impudent, and he refused to hold my horse when asked.” “If he was disrespectful you can pre-

fer charges, air. You're not of our brigade, are you, general?” "No; but what of it?" “Tiffin you had no right to ask him to act as orderly. General orders say. ‘To receive' “Hang general orders!” was the of fleer's explosive interruption. "You re fuse to obey too? I’ll have you reduced to ranks!” “All right, sir,” came.the cheerful reply. “I'm Corporal Kelly of B com pany. Second infantry, if you don t happen to know me. Fall in, Kennedy. Relief, forward, march!” And the grinning files straggled down the hill. "Pardon me, but "General Orders seems to have defeated General Barry this morning,” smiled the girl. “And General Barry will do his best to turn defeat into victory.” was the grim response as the man climbed into the saddle. The general cursed himself for a fool as he galloped back to his tent. A desire to punish the sentry for his presumption in speaking to an officer’s daughter had not caused his outbreak as much as a desire to appear well before the girl. He had met her the winter before while she was visiting in his home town. The general in private life was a successful young attorney who had believed himself too busy to fall in iove, but at sight of Grace he had capitulated. During the fortnight of her stay he had made ardent love and did not doubt that in time his suit would be favorably received. The girl liked him, for he was frank and handsome and not quite spoiled by success. Yet there was a barrier to her heart which he could not pass. She would not allow him to visit her at the little city where she lived, and he was forced to be content with the half promise that they might meet at camp, and straightway Randolph Barry began to count the days which must elapse before the encampment. Yet their meeting on the evening of the first day had not been encouraging. The colonel's daughter had greeted him as she did her other friends. And this second interview! He ground his teeth as he thought of his folly. An hour later he laid his version of the encounter with the sentry before Major General Goodwin, commander of the two brigades in camp. "Have a drink, Barry.” urged his superior when he had finished, "and you'll probably feel better. I can't order those boys under arrest for that.” “This confounded young Kennedy was impudent, I tell you,” snarled Barry. "He's a pretty soldier, quoting general orders to me when he was disobeying one when I rode up! I want him in the guardhouse just to square myself with Grace Van Tuyl.” He clicked his spurs viciously. “Can't make regulars out of these fellows in ten days,” was the conciliating reply. “Discipline is all right, In moderation. We can't shut down on ’em real hard. Why, this man Kennedy owns a factory down in Trenton. He's got dead loads of money. I’m surprised he was as decent as you admit he was,” and the general's eyes twinkled.

“Jim,” returned Barry very earnestly, "I've got to see him court martialed. I know Miss Van Tuyl well. and. and” —he hesitated a moment —“it makes a difference what she thinks of me. You understand ?” General Goodwin was silent a moment. When he spoke, be had dropped the half bantering manner which had marked the interview on bis part. His tone was kindly and sincere: “I understand. and I'm sorry—sorry I can't accommodate you, and for another reason. Tom Kennedy's my nephew, my sister's kid, and I've got to see him through. I told him he could have a place on my staff, but he wanted to be a real soldier, he said. So he enlisted in B company, and in view of what you've said I have to tell the rest of it, but he’s engaged to Miss Van Tuyl. They're to be married In September.” The younger man rose and walked to the front of the tent before he replied. “I believe I’ll take that drink, general,” he said, with an assumption of bis old gay manner. “I seem to have been routed with loss by ‘General Orders’ and his aid, General Cupid. I drink”—he removed his hat gallantly and clinked glasses with his superior—“to the future Mrs. Kennedy, God bless her!” Watck the Thumb*. A physician In charge of a well known asylum for the care of the insane said: “There is one Infallible test either for the approach or presence of lunacy. If the person whose case is being examined is seen to make no use of his thumb, if he lets it stand out at right angles from the hand and employs It neither In salutation, writing nor any other manual exercise, you may set it down as a fact that that person’s mental balance Is gone. He or she may converse Intelligibly, may In every respect be guarding the secret of a mind diseased with the utmost care and cunning, but the telltale thumb will infallibly betray the lurking madness which is concealed behind a plausible demeanor.” Quite Natural. Husband—What did you think when you heard the chandelier fall last night? Wife—Why, I thought you had been detained on business again and were getting upstairs as quietly as you could. Looking Forward. “Progress is becoming extremely rapid.” “Yes, indeed. In the year 3000 cr so lightning will have to get a move on if It wants to be considered fast” Lucky Patient*. “Did you ever make any mistakes, doctor?” I “Weil. I’ve had several patients get well that I expected would die.”

CONCEIT OF THE SOMALI. He Feel. He Is About the Mont Pertect Mon In the World. Perhaps the most remarkable cbarac- J teristic of the natives of Somaliland is their unbounded, preposterous conceit. | Englishmen who know their language have been appalled by it. When wa- ( tering his camel or his horse the Somali encourages the animal to drink by | chanting to it in a monotone. It is at such moments of extemporary effusion that the man shines in all his gloij. | The subject matter may be the experiences of the day's march, the virtues of the animal beside him, the charms of his latest wife or his own prowess in some bloodless tribal raid. By great good fortune the following literal tianslation of one of these chants or songs came into my possession, and I insert it without any comment: "Will you see a man? Then behold me! I am a Somali, as perfect in size and form as Adam was after God had breathed into him his immortal soul. Look how beautiful my curly hair is and how majestic I look when wrapped from head to foot in my snow white or jungle colored tobe. although there be sometimes only one pie (a small piece of moneyi tied to it. My house is the desert, and I am born a free man, free as the wind! I know neither king nor master. I am as Adam was—my own master and king. In the jungle 1 tend my camels and sheep. My only labor is to watch them feed. In my kerrier my wife, my dear slave, does all the manual work, while tending my offspring, and woe to her if she forgets to prepare my evening meal. The jedal (whip) shall then have its turn to make her remember for next day. In such a state is any man happier than I?” —Golden Penny. PROPERTIES OF GLYCERIN. Decomposes It Heated Intensely and Cry.taHiie. If Froien. One of the great advantages of glycerin In its chemical employment is the fact that it neither freezes nor evaporates under any ordinary temperature. No perceptible loss by evaporation has been detected at a temperature less than 200 degrees F., but if heated intensely it decomposes with a smell that few persons find themselves able to endure. It burn, with a pale flame, similar to that from alcohol, if heated to about 300 degrees and then ignited. Its nonevaporative qualities make the compound of much use as a vehicle for holding pigments and colors, as in stamping and typewriter ribbons, carbon papers and the like. If the pure glycerin be exposed for a long time to a freezing temperature it crystallizes with the appearance of sugar candy, but these crystals being once melted it is almost an impossibility to get them again into the congealed state. If a little water be added to the glycerin no crystallization will take place, though under a sufficient degree of cold the water will separate and form crystals, amid which the glycerin will remain In its natural state of fluidity. If suddenly subjected to intense cold pure glycerin will form a gummy mass which cannot be entirely hardened or crystallized. Altogether it is quite a peculiar substance. REFLOATING A SHIP. Ingenloua Expedient Devl.ed to Save the Steamer Flavian. An ingenious expedient was devised some years ago to refloat the steamer Flavian, which struck on a ledge near Cape Race. She was fixed in an awkward position for tugs to work at her, and half her hull was submerged. It was in the late fall, and proper salvage outfits could neither be obtained from abroad in time nor used advantageously, so a series of holes were cut in her sides below the ’tween decks and huge pitch pine logs passed through these apertures. Meanwhile two cofferdams sixty feet long by twelve wide and as many deep had been built at St. John's and, being carefully calked, were towed to the scene and allowed to sink by opening a valve, being then placed beneath the logs which passed through the ship and protruded on each side. The water In them was next pumped out, and as they rose they caught the logs and fairly lifted the ship off the rocks, she being towed to St. John's with them upbearing her till permanent repairs could be made, which involved patching her bottom for half her length.—Technical World. Earliest Theater. What was probably one of the earliest theaters built was the theater of Dionysus, which was begun five centuries before Christ. The seating capacity of this remarkable building is said to have been 30,000, nearly four times that of our largest amusement palace. The theater of Dionysus was erected when Greek art and literature were in their prime. Here were presented to appreciative spectators the wonderful works of .Eschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Enarllah Law of Arrests. No arrests may be made in England on a Sunday except for treason, felony or a breach of the peace, and freedom from arrest at any time on civil process Is a privilege enjoyed by members of the royal family and their servants, bishops, peers and peeresses and members of parliament during the sitting of parliament and forty days before and after each session. Nearly 10,000 Spanish Immigrants entered Cuba during the first three months of the present year. The Cuban consuls in Spain are instructed to act as Immigration agents and to set 1 forth the opportunities tor independence and wealth in the island republic.

BIRTHPLACE of massage. Queer NnbU, Where the Inhabitant* (fever Take a Bath. The masseur had just returned from Nubia, the birthplace of massage. “I didn't learn as much as I expected to,” be said, “but I got hold of two movements that will eradicate wrinkles and remove fat in an incredible way. “Nubia Is a queer place. They have bo little water there that they never take baths. The ‘masseh,’ or kneading, whence our word ‘massage,’ is the bath's substitute. You strip, lie down and are covered from head to foot with a cream made; of mutton fat, musk, sandalwood powder and certain plant juices Then vou are kneaded, you are massaged. I studied the Nubian movements thoroughly and learned, as I sav, gooil things. “The Nubians are a handsome and queer race. They bunt elephar.s with the s’,, ord. A hunter steals u<. on a dozing elephant and slashes aim in the back of the leg ten inches above the hoof. This cut severs -he artery, and the elephant bleeds tc death. “They cook meat on hot stones. First they build a lire, then they put big stones on it, a’id when the stones are hot enough they clean them o‘. ashes and embers carefully and throw on the meat. This is a better way of cooking than the broil, fob it preserves »11 the meat juices. But greenhorns don't knew what kind of stones to use. Most kinds heated explode. "The Nubians are shapely and handsome. They never wrinkle, they never get fat, their skins are smooth and fine. They impute these graces to the •niasseii’—the massage—that they take regularly three or four times a week. Every masseur ought to go to Nubia if he wants to learn his business thoroughly.” GLOBULES. One-third of the land surface of the globe is covered with trees. A Birmingham man named Batchelor has just married a young lady named Wildow. A penny is estimated to change hands about 125,000 times in the course of its life. A paper chimney fifty feet high and fireproof is a curiosity to be seen at Breslau, Germany. Cats are licensed in Berlin, and every cat in that city must wear a metal badge bearing a number. Gibraltar may fairly be called the land of tunnels, there being orer seventy miles of burrowed rock. London has only one mile of tramways to every 30,000 of her population. Manchester has one to every 5,600. The China Times of Peking is issued in seven languages—Chinese, Japanese, English, French, German, Russian and Italian. The Nile is noted for the variety of its fish. An expedition sent by the British museum brought home 9,000 specimens. Glasgow has the largest tramway system of any town in the British Isles. Manchester stands second, while Liverpool makes a bad third. Lion tamers frequently perfume themselves with lavender. There is, it is said, no record of a lion ever having attacked a trainer who had taken the precaution of using this p.efume. In Fiji the coinage consists chiefly of whales’ teeth, those of greater value being dyed red. The natives exchange twenty white teeth for one red one, as we change copper for silver.

Where Vessels Have Eyes. Tainted on the pro.v of nearly all the juuks, or Chinese sailing vessels, are to be seen huge eyes. It is believed by the superstitious inhabitants of China that if the eye, which is raised as If relief, was not there the vessel could not see where to go and would therefore come to destruction. Even if when at sea the eye got destroyed or damaged another would have to be painted in at once. No Chinaman will Bail on a junk which is not adorned by an eye, and even an English passenger boat which plies between two Chinese towns has a huge eye painted on each side of het paddle boxes. Whitman on Emerson. I often say of Emerson that the personality of the man—the wonderful heart and soul of the man, present in all he writes, thinks, does, hopes—goes far toward justifying the whole literary business—the whole raft, good and bad; the entire system. You see I find nothing in literature that is valuable simply for its professional quality. Literature is only valuable in the measure of the passion—the blood and muscle—with which it is invested—which lies concealed and active in it.— From Horace Traubel’s “With Walt Whitman In Camden” in Century. Better Than Referenees. “Can you give me references frem your last place?” “No, ma'am. The last woman I worked fur was Mrs. Libby that used to live next door to you. She an’ I couldn’t get along at all. You don’t know how mean she Is. I could tell you ever so many”— “You may come.”—Chicago Tribune. Very Important. “Uncle John, should I be justified In writing to a young man who has never written to me?” @ “Only on very important business, my dear.” “Well, this is Important business. I want him to marry me!”—lllustrated Bits. In some South American tribes the women draw the front teeth, esteeming as an ornament the black gap thus made.

...Legal Advertising,., Notice is hereby given that the commissioners, of Adams oountv . ot Indiana, will receive sealed bids i<-l of gtruetton of the macadamized rood " e co »- township line between Hartford ana 2“ tiw townshis, in said county. known 1).,, , nctl nolds Extension No. 1 macadam r , a ? e R< *" and until 10 o’clock a. m “on oad U P a “'l Tuesday, January 2,1905 at a regular session of the said board missloners. held in the city of ams county. Indiana, sealed bids winl Ad ’ celved for the construction of Ba td rawaccordance with the plans and swiS ln and report of the viewersand engineer are now on file in the auditors oftin« 2» whlch = y. said read to be built’ifVr&tTe It J ||>® faithful performance of the said wnrv tb ? that the bidder will, if awarded the cmft'r^ 1 enter into contract therefor and comnf 0 . 1, the same in accordance with the bid ® 6 All bids shall be made so as to givo n. amount at which said road will beoo nßtrn " t e ed l or K ln X ash ' payable on esilmates to trade by the engineer in charge, not toe, ceed eighty per cent of any one estimate ! of the funds to be hereafter raised by the mu of bonds as required by law. 1 e 88,6 Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as required by law. “wavn The said board of county commissioner! rB serve the right to reject any and all bids 40-3 C, D, LEWTON. Auditor Adams Co. Furious Fighting. “For seven years," writes Geo. W Hoffman, of Harper, Wash.,“l had a bitter battle, with chronic stomach and liver trouble, but at last I won. and cured my diseases, by the use of Electric Bitters. I unhesitaticgly rec omniend them to all, and don’t intend in the future to be without them in the house. They are certainly a wonderful medicine, to have cured such a bad case as mine.” Sold under guarantee to do the same for you, by Rlackburn and Christen druggist, at 50c. a bottle. Try them today A Guaranteed Cure for Piles, Itching. Blind, Bleeding orProtudingPllesT Druggist’srefunmoney if PAZO OINTMENng falls to cure any case, no matter of How 100., standing, in 6 to 14 days. First applicatlas gives ease and rest. 50c. If your druggist h»n’t it a a nd 50c. Instamns and it will be forwarrded postpaid by the Paris Medicine Co., St. Louis Mo In Mad Chase. Millions rush in mad chase after health, from one extreme of faddism to anothtr when, if they would only eat good food, and keep their bowels regular with troubles would all pass away. Prompt relief and quick cure for liver and stomach trouble. 25c. at Blackburn and Christen drug store; guranteed. Beetle With Maxim Gun. One of the instructors of a big university led the way to a small box, smiling with pride as he did so. “I want to show you a rare species of beetle,” said he. The beetle, which was a burnished blue, with a red head and red legs, lay partly hidden under a stone The instructor advanced his finger slowly. The beetle waited, watchful and intrepid. The finger almost touched the Insect, and then—puff, a cloud of blue smoke shot out, and under cover of this smoke the beetle beat a rapid retreat. “Isn’t that marvelous?” the instructor said. “And the little rascal can emit puff after puff—can fire gun after gun—nineteen or twenty to the minute. No wonder he is called the bombardier, is it? “This bombardier beetle is rare. He has in his body certain glands secreting a liquid which, on contact with the air, has the curious property of turning into a smoky vapor. The vapor is his defense against bigger beetles. Hidden under it, he seeks a new retreat.” A Wonderful Pa«odn. The great Buddhist shrine, the Ihway Dagon at Rangun, is no temple, but a great pagoda, rising from its platform to a height of 368 feet and ab* completely covered with gold leaf. This platform, with a perimeter of nearly 1,400 feet, is the place of worship. The pagoda itself has no interior. It Is a solid stupa of brick raised over a relic chamber. A cutting made into its center has revealed the fact that the original pagoda had seven casings added to it before it attained its present proportions. The shape of the pagoda is that of an elongated cone. It is divided by Burmese convention Into twelve parts: First, the base surroun ed by a great number of small pagodas; then the three terraces, called Plchayas; next the Bell; the Invert Thabeik, or begging bowl; the Bauag- . yit or twisted turban; the Kyalan or ornamental lotus flower; the I’lauta a Bud; the brass plate for the Htl ot umbrella; the Hti; the Scln bwin or ar tifleial flowers; the vane, and. last o ail, the Seinbu or bud of diamonds. “The Silken East,” by V. C. 8co« O'Connor. Two Kind. of Bor«. “My son got brain fever from svt*.J Ing too hard,” said one mother to aa other, trying to repress a thrill of la lectual pride. " - "That’s bad, but my boy broke »• leg arid two ribs in his first gam® i of football,” replied the other, with motherly gratification. Balt.mo American. Thinking of the Cook. I Jones-What makes you think Snubl* lis absentminded? Freyer—We wen uIto an auction store yesterday ' auctioneer was shouting, •‘Going, g t Ing!” and Suubbs shouts: “Please don •go! I will give you $5 a month 1 I ' and have a girl to help you wit I washing!”