Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 2 August 1906 — Page 6

4 THE SHELL. ’ A flew One la Grows Before the 014 < . One Is Cast Off. Odd m it may sound to say so, the lobster grows before, not after, he casts his old hard shell—that is to say. he makes new cells and tissues, which are not at once filled out, but which are intended to swell to their full dimensions as soon as he has got rid of his binding and confining external skeleleton. When the critical moment at last arrives a new soft shell grows entire within the older and harder one, and the animal then withdraws himself, leg by leg, claw by claw and swimmeret by swimmeret, out of the enveloping coat of mail which covers him. The shedding of the old coat is eomplete and absolute. Not a fragment i-emains. Even the apparently Internal hard portions are cast off with the rest, for the entire covering forms One cintinuous piece, the interior portions being really, so to speak, folds of the skin inserted inward. An entirely new skeleton had already grown within the old one, but exceedingly soft and flexible in texture, and the body becomes so almost fluid or jellylike—not in structure, but in power of compression and extension—that even the big claws are drawn out through the narrower apertures of the joints in a perfectly marvelous manner. After a longer or shorter period of muscular paroxysm the soft lobster at last disengages itself entirely from the dead shell and emerges upon the world a new and defenseless fleshy creature. The whole cask skeleton, unruptured in any part, but disengaged by lifting up the body piece where it joins the tail, looks exactly like an entire dead lobster, A FORTUNATE MISTAKE. i The Result of Putting a j Wires In Wrong Terminals. I A large number of the world’s greatest inventions have been the result of some accidental union of forces the • nature of which the person who started them neither understood nor susThe working of dynamos at long distances apart when properly connected was discovered by accident. -A scientific journal says: “Soon after the opening of the Vienna exposition in 1873 a careless woi-kman picked up the ends of a couple of wires which he found trailing along the ground. He fastened them in the terminals of a dynamo, to which he thought they belonged, while they were really attached to another dynamo that was running in another part of the grounds. The dynamo to which he fastened the wires was not running, but as soon as the wires were placed In its terminals it revolved as If a steam engine was driving it. The workman was amazed. The engineers and electricians were astonished by the discovery that a dynamo electric machine (turned by steam power) would turn another similar machine a long distance away If properly connected to it by electric wires. Thus originated one of the most revolutionary applications of electricity.”

The fact that power can be transmitted for miles by electric wires is one of the most important factors in mod- ■ era civil engineering achievements. The Hymn Thafl Fitted. On the evening of the first Sunday after their removal from their house in the suburbs, which was the only home the children had ever known, to the top floor of a seventh story apartment house, the family gathered around the piano C®r the usual hour of song, each member la turn, according to time honored custom, requesting a hymn of his choice. When ten-year-old Marjory’s turn came she said, “I think the most appropriate hymn is: Tm nearer my heavenly home today Than ever I’ve been before. ‘1 think of it every time I come up in the elevator.”—New York Press. Fine Art In Show Windows. It is a common error for dealers to put too many shoes in their window. In fact, some windows would lend the impression that the stock was in the window and the samples on the shelves. Said a shoe manufacturer who has traveled extensively: “One of the most impressive windows 1 ever saw contained but one shoe in each window. Each was a fine shoe, mounted on a standard in the center of the window. From this shoe red and white ribbons were draped in various directions, much like a sunburst. A small, neat Sign told the story. Everybody stopped to look.”—Shoe Retailer. Mozart’s Work. Mozart lived thirty-seven years. His first mass was composed when he was less than ten years of age, and the enormous quantity of his compositions was the work of the succeeding twen-ty-seven years. Mozart wrote forty-one — -symphonies, fifteen masses, over thirty operas and dramatic compositions, for-ty-one sonatas, together with an immense number of vocal and concerted pieces in almost every line of art. At Ueaat n Choice of Worries, “Do you think that wealth brings happiness?” “No,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax; “it doesn’t bring happiness, but it gives a man a little bit of option about the kind of worry he will take on.”—Wash, ington Star. Badly. Smitten. “I wish there were ten days in tb*» week,” sighed Gladys. “Why ?” a skell Grace. “Jack could call oftener then.”—LOßdon Answers. Sc.lltnde Is as needful to the imaglnu* I tiou ns society is wholesome for thfl cha r;:e t e r.—LowelL

M Wit! wh. to/ had i not I she piece than t.’ addrv •ssar the d* the a: i Plutarch her afflict sistency < dignity of when ah .u i ■ ing too foi: f his wife of this coi. 'nition. 1: brief and refrigerated e < an amazing degree of ret. • . > a writer who needs only th? :*•< of a faucet to enable him to f.• a a quenchless stream of i >u .-:ny and every subject from tin < to immortality.—Martha Baker Dunn in Atlantic. A Strange Fen at. A curious feast is observed by the Mohammedan inhabitants of India, In which the origin of custom known as painting the town red may possibly be traced. It is called the HoU and consists chiefly in the plentiful sprinkling upon all and sundry of a certain red preparation called holi powder. It stains the white clothes of the natives witl an ugly, dirty looking red that conjures up before timid- eyes dread visions of bloody fights and ghastly mutinies. The powder Is made in two shades—the one vermilion, the other rose red—and both are used impartially by the observers of the ceremony, who delight in bedaubing their faces With the powders until they look like strange and hideous denizens of hades come up, still glowing with the fires of that region. Among the better classes this festival is falling into disfavor, for it leads to many unpleasant excesses and had its origin in some decidedly dissipated scene in ancient heathen history. Gladstone aa a “Supe.” A reference to “The Corsican Brothers” recalls an amusing story of Mr. Gladstone’s visit to the Lyceum when Irving was playing in this drama. Mr. Gladstone at the time was not burdened by the cares of office, and one evening he dropped In at the Lyceum, where he was occasionally accommo dated with a chair at the “wings.” On this night, however, when the stage was set for the opera ball in “The Corsican Brothers” his curiosity led hint Into one of the boxes for spectators in the scene. Up went the curtain; Mr. Gladstone was at once descried by the pit and greeted with shouts of joy which caused him hastily to withdraw. “This,” says Mr. Austin, “was bis first and only appearance in the drama outside of the dear old ‘legitimate’ at Westminster.”—Westminster Gazette. The Wife’s Reproach. In an address to a temperance society a,lecturer told how drink had once caused the downfall of a brave soldier. In the course of the sad story he said: “Sometimes, after a debauch, the man would be repentant, humble. He would promise his wife to do better. But, alas, the years taught her the barrenness of all such premises. And one night, when he was getting to be an old man, a prematurely old man, thin limbed, stoop shouldered, with red rimmed eyes, he said to his wife sadly- “ ‘You’re a clever’ woman, Jenny, s courageous, active, good woman. You should have married a better man than I am, dear.’ “She looked at him, and, thinking of what he had once been, she answered in a quiet voice: v “‘I did, James.’” A Peculiarity -of the Crow. Most birds canned carry anything which their mouths are too small to contain. The crew is an exception at times; Iq Vermont, near Manchester, five crows were seen to come down into an apple orchard. They came dally and after a time the owner discovered that they were taking apples from a tree bearing the mellowest fruit Each crow jammed its closed bill into an apple, raised its head and flew to a tall pine tree, Where the fruit was eaten. More remarkable still is the fact that crows will sometimes carry turkey and hen eggs from a nest in the same manner.

Proper Kind of Window. Every window in a house should be as high as the ceiling, but a paneled top that can be •opened in the summer and closed in tbe winter. If ceilings were only six feet high and every occupant of a house stood seventy inches the accumulation of fetid odors against the ceiling would soon kill. Wouldn’t Be Low. “I understand that Mrs. De Style Is a great stickler for having everything of the most exclusive kind.” “Yes; she discharged her doctor be cause he told her that her temperatuw was too low.”—Exchange. Learning hath its Infancy, when it 18 almost childish; then its youth, when luxurious and juvenile; then strength of years, when solid, and ly, Its old age, when dry and exh —Bacon. Made a Bad Jeb of It. Mr. Bacon—That Mr. Cr >-•' called last evening Is n ko’** Mr,«. n r -on--Too ’>ad < F-<id<- tns.oJf :< !!*■(’•• • 'b-, : - ■ *• Si' proV. ■

•»« • 1 BMta. > a . . it capsizes,** sajfl “the occupants am ry climb* aboard, bit ■y- vi'...g to St untiEhelp n .1 h Eg t canoe will in sdl tin their weight until .ee am es if they wM only < Eghtly to its overturned sides « - ible. a.lowing the body to float i water, which it will do, and not •e.-'any circumstances to attempt to 6 ir down upon the canoe or to crawl ■ iu.l the overturned bottom. T s is where the fatal mistake ocrurs in nearly all boating drowning acr ?u s. A single man with a good kz? plank in the water can in his ►rr :g r!es and efforts to save himself push the plank beneath the surface of the water and drown then and there, whereas the same plank will support the weight of three men who are well posted and cool enough merely to grasp Its edges with as little downward pressure as possible. A single oar has saved many a sailor’s life in this manner, which a landsman would grasp, push it down in the water and go down with it.—Washington Star. The Guesalns Cook. “I’d give a dollar,” said the man who coddles hi? stomach, “to find a cook who doesn’t measure. There used to be plenty of them. I remember the time when half the kitchens in the land gloried in a guesswork cook. Eating was a pleasure in those days. It isn’t so now. In these whirligig times everything has a machine made taste. That is because the cooks measure so much. Instead of trusting to inspiration, as the heaven born cook is bound to do, the kitchen queens of today measure even the salt they put in the porridge. No wonder such cookery lacks individ-

uality and is all on the same dead level of mediocrity. Merciful heavens, what tills these biscuits? They’re heavy as lead.” “I think the cook made a mistake,” said the man’s wife. “I got a new one yesterday—one that doesn’t measure. I am afraid she didn’t put enough baking powder in the biscuits.” —New York Sun. .11 ■ ■ —■ 1 ' FM An Oddity In Building. "If you want to see an oddity,” an undertaker said, “go to a cemetery and note how'in the erection Os old fashioned tombs they lower into place the marble slabs. These marble slabs are not lowered by means of a derrick. They are lowered by hand. The work is so delicate, you see, and it Is so necessary not to chip the edges of the stones, that only hand work answers. You wonder, I suppose, how the men avoid pinching or crushing their fingers as they lower a great slab of marble on to its marble base. Well, they accomplish this by lowering the stone upon lumps of sugar arranged in or derly lines, and then they gradually dissolve the sugar by squirting water over it All the huge, flat stones of old fashioned tombs or vaults are lowered by hand on to lumps of sugar.” The Beauty »C the Snowflake. The thin snow now driving from the north and lodging oa my coat consists of those beautiful star crystals, thin and partly transparent. They are about one-tenth of aa* inch in diameter, perfect little wheels with six spokes, without a tire, or, rather, with six. paffect little leaflets, fernlfke, with -a distinct, i straight, slender midrib raying from the center. On each side off each midrig there is a transparent, thin blade with a crenate edge. How full of the creative genius Is the air in whMh these are generated! I Should hardly admire more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature Is full of genius, full of the divinity, so that not a snowflake escapes ills fashioning hand. Nothing is cheap and coarse, neither dewdrops nor swwflakes.—Henry T>. Thoreau. I Love Yon. A Danish paper compares ‘T love ywtf” to many languages. Here are some eff them—the Danish paper is our oatiy authority for their correctness: The Chinaman says, “Uo ngai an;” the Armenian, “Ge sirem ez bezq” the Arabian, very shortly, “Nehabeeck;’? the Egyptian, similarly, “Niaclikeb;” the Turk, “Sisi sevejoruuk” and the ffiadoo, “Main tym ko pipxr Ikaryn.” But overwhelming is die defflaration of tore trf an Eskimo, who tries to win the chosen one by the pleasing sound of the dainty little word: “Univifigswwwtdluinalerfimajungnarsigigak.”

The Checkerboard Towau Improvements, as St Paul said of science, 9s often “falsely so called.” If the reaß estate men would but forget the checkerboard idda tn laying out a new town and would take a good landscape gardener into their confidence and the contour of the land Into their consideration and plant trees accordingly suburbanites would rise up and call them blessed.—Country Life In America. An Optimist Hotel Keeper. Hotel Keeper—What did the stranger say when you gave hyn the bill? Walter—Such monstrous prices he never saw. We were an abominable gang of thieves. _ Hotel Keeper—Good. So he didn’t become abusive, then?—Fllegende Blatter. Why She Took Mother—Why did you accept Charlie from among all the young men vffio have paid yon attention? Daughter— Because he was the only one that had the good taste to propose. Implicit Trust. ” “Do you trust your husband Implicitly in all things?” “What a question! Os course I dot n certain extent”—Stray Stories. ue politeness is perfect ease, and >m. It simply consists In treating lust as yoo love to be treated

Palltical Speeehea. Boms people-think, Cor instance, that political speeches do not matter. Political speeches matter far‘more than the acts of parliament which they introduce. Men care less even about what is being done, than about why it Is being done. The spirit in which a thing is effected is of far more practical importance->ven-tb&n the thing itself. This can be tested by the simple experiment In social life of removing a gentleman’s hat for him, first in one spirit, then in the other. If you get rid of all the talk about practical politics (talked by tired men with £IO,OOO a year) and really look impartially at the history of human society you will see that collisions have arisen far more from Insults than from injuries. Some of my Imperialist friends, for Instance, tell me that because I think South Africa a nuisance to England therefore I should permit Germany to pluck it from us in war. This Is like saying that because I think a top hat ugly and uncomfortable I should let another man knock it off in Piccadilly. No doubt it is uncomfortable. But why should he knock it off? Who is he? I wonder.— G. K. Chesterton in London News. Portngvene Money. Portuguese money is based on a unit which is worth about the thousandth part of a cent. So if you buy a single •postage, stamp it costs you about 10,■OOO milreis. We were shocked at the price of the objects the Vendors in Ponto Delgoda desired to sell us. When presented with a bill some of us got heart disease and some of us apoplexy. Only after long explanations in mingled Spanish, Portuguese, French and English did we learn that a photograph offered at several thousand milreis was worth about 15 cents. In short, it was brought forcibly to our attention how extremely artificial a medium Is money, how difficult it is to •get, how difficult it is to keep, but also how difficult it is to exchange this interconvertible medium in foreign countries—when you have any. Probably it is even more difficult when you have not—Argonaut,

Hospitality. While the reportorial representative of a great news bureau was In San Antonio, Tex., whence he had'posted In such haste as to have little luggage, he met with a charming bit of southern hospitality. % He had no cuffs, and a local reporter promptly drew off his own and said to the guest within the city gates: “Here, take mine. I’ve more at-home.” Later It was learned that the donor of the cuffs worked for the San Antonib Dally Express, and the superintendent bf the news burea'ti upon hearing of the Incident Immediately wrote to Frank Grice, owner of the Express, in appreciation of an act peculiarly, southern in its frank good fellowship. Here Is Mr. Grice’s reply: “If you can send me the name of the member of the Express staff who offered his cuffs to your man he will 'be discharged for not 'tittering his shirt as weH."—Chicago Record-Herald. I , Sharp, but Not Clover. A sotontist says that life in a metropolis makes young children sharp, but not clever; ‘that it often destroys itheir chance 'of ever clever, for ift hastens the development of the brain cial, alert, but not observant; excitable, but witbout one spark of enthusiasm. They are apt to grow blase, fickle, discontented. They see more things than the country bred child, but not such interesting things, and they do not properly see anything, for they have neither the time nor capacity to get at the root of ass the bewildering objects that crowd themselves into their little lives.

Social Limits.

You may tell a man that his necktie cannot be reckoned among his successes, .'you may point out his errors in regard to investments, yon may reproach him for omitting to .take advantage of the opportunities he has had for advancement, and be will accept All your criticisms with a reasonable cdlm, but take gentle exception to the way in which he pronounces a word and the chances are that his next remark -Is of a heated nature.—Loadoa Queen** Took All tke ffieapoßalklllty. Tm going to give up that new specialist I’ve been trying.” “What’s the reason?” “Why. he’s always telling me that I must try to help myself.” “What did the other man tell you?” “He always told me he was helping me.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. WJiereJ An English mayor tells this story: “A woman, speaking at a meeting in support of women’s rights, repeatedly asked her audience, ‘Where would men find themselves without women?’ ‘‘A weak voice from the rear of the hall: — : / -- . “ Tn paradise, mum!’ ” Ate Off Hta Hand. •Smith—l hear Jones, the naturalist, had a bad accident. What was it? Brown—Why, somebody gave him a young tiger cub and said it was so tame it would edt off his hand. Smith r-Well ? Brbwn—Well, it did. Improved. “Does your papn get much practice?” asked the visitor of the doctor’s seven-year-old son. “Oh. he doesn’t have to practice any more,” replied the boy. “He know.-.' how now.” flmrgery. Medical Student —What did you operate on that man for? Eminent Surgeon—Five hundred dob Jars. “I mean what did he have?” “Ffve hundred dollars.”—Puck.

Se»< Dowa Graee. A little Portland WbOM first • Bau>e te oqyer attended church, being too- little and too. lively to be trusted there, according to the Kennebec Journal. But at. last her mother permitted her to accompany an elder sister, giving her grave warnings beforehand. The rector of the church was a frequent caller at Grace’s home, and her mother feared that on this account she might take liberties. “You must sit still,” she said, “and you must not say one word, but let Mr. Hammond do* the talking. Now, remember.” Gracie behaved very well in meeting. As soon as she reached home she reported: “Oh, mamma, I did keep still—real still, and when Mr. Hammond called me right out in meeting I never stirred to go to him.” “Called you? Why, child, he never called you in meeting.” “Yes, but he did, mamma. He said three or four times, ‘Send down Grace,’ but I sat as still as a mouse.” v The Meaning of “Bridge.” The story goes that years ago, long before bridge was known in London clubs, two families who played the game under the name -of “Russian whist” were living in neighboring houses at or near Great Dalby in Leicestershire. The only road of communication lay over a somewhat dangerous bridge. It was a frequent occurrence for the departing guests to say to their hosts: “Thank goodness, It Is your ‘bridge’ tomorrow,” meaning that the other party would have to cross the dangerous bridge the next night; hence is said to have arisen the title of “bridge.” We give this story for what It is worth, but in our own mind we have little doubt that the modern name of “bridge” is merely a very easy corruption of the old title of “biritch.” The two words “biritch” and “bridge” have absolutely the same sound when spoken quickly, so that it is easy to imagine how the change came to pass,—London Saturday Review. The beev’k Tracka. A deer if walking always places its feet firmly closed upon the ground, and consequently the track is sharply drawn—that is, the hoof is not spread to any appreciable extent Exceptions are sometimes the track of deer that are heavy with fawns, during spring and early summer, and those of old bucks during the rutting season. But even then the heels of their tracks are considerably closer than in tracks made by a hog or a sheep. The hoofs •of. the latter^two-animals. ar<B always rounder at the toe, than those of deer, making the tracks they leave easily distinguishable, and if the difference is not discernible In frozen snow the fact that the trail made by hogs or sheep does not register should settle all doubts for the tracker. A deer if not wounded will always step with its hind foot in the track made by the front foot.—Field and Stream. Some Puritan Names. ( One of the customs practiced by our Puritan forefathers was that of inflicting ludicrous and terrifying names upon their children. One Puritan damsel, when asked her baptismal name, answered, “Through-Much-Tribulation-We-Enter-the-Kingdom-of-Heaven, but for short they call me Tribby.” Another unfortunate maiden bore the name The-Gift-of-God Stringer. A sickly boy was christened Faint-Not Hewitt Another labored under Fight-the-Good-Fight-of-Faith White. A little girl who had a propensity for crying was at the age of eight christened Weep-Not Billing. There also were Thunder Goldsmith, The-Work-of God Farmer,- Search-the-Scriptures Morton, Be-Courteous Cole. and, worst of all, Kill-Sin Pimple. TJte Way He Viewed It. “Good news!” cried the lawyer, waving a paper above his head. “I’ve secured a reprieve for you’” “A reprieve?” repliedftfie convicted murderer indifferently. “Why,-yes. Don’t you see you ought to be happy”— “Ah,” replied the prisoner gloomily, “that simply means a delay, and I’ve always been taught that delays are dangerous.” — Catholic Standard and Times. The Lava Lake of ildwaii. One of the large volcanoes In Hawaii has a large lake of liquid lava in its crater or hollow. This seething, boiling mass looks* like redhot bottle glass to the naked eye, but under the microscope pieces of the original rocks of very minute size may be detected. Where it has cooled in curious festoons along the “coast” it resembles slag from some mammoth furnace. The Cantankerous Member.. . Elder Keepalong--When we hear of these terrible calamities happening in other parts of the world, deacon, we ought to be exceedingly thankful that our lot is cast in a favored land. Deacon Ironside—On the contrary, elder, I feel like resenting it What right have we got, I’d like to know, to be better off than other people?— Chicago Tribune. Not So Easy, “Dibble, don’t you think a man ought to save at least half the money he makes?” “Yes, but how can he, with his creditors howling for It all the time?” An Instance. Hewitt—l was once kicked by a donkey. Jewett-We often hear of people kicking themselves.—New York Press. It Generally Cures. Jones—What’s good for tho toothache? Smith—Walk about halfway to the nearest dentist’s.

Me* - J A lawyer who visited Bomb telit bow the fire department grappled wit* B blaze in the Eternal'Cßy. “The fire was in what we would call a grocery store. It seemed a long time before the fire department re spended, but after awhile I saw f hoB0 r wagon dash around the cornet*, with a number of firemeu standing on the running boards on eacif side. Tfii”wagon stopped at a hydrant, and each fireman jumped from the with a little roll of hose. The first iqad. coupled his to the hydrant, and then' each man coupled his section to the preceding section. Finally they had water on the fire, and after another long period a man with a plumed hßt, drove up in a victoria. He was chief. The captain of the company and the chief saluted with much cere-' mony, then shook hands and then held a long and dignified conversation. Finally, I suppose, the captain told the chief the grocery was on fire, and the chief acknowledged it was and complimented him on his perspicuity. Oh, yes, they finally put the fire out, and Rome still stands!” ♦ ' Difficult Haymaking. One of the most curious sights that one notices In the agricultural parts of Norway is the peculiar way of drying out the hay. On account of the extreme dampness the grass rots if left on the ground after it is mowed. Wooden drying fences that stretch for hundreds of yards across the fields are built, and every night the hay is hung out to dry, like the family wash. The sun helps along in the daytime, but it is only a half hearted help, and in the neighborhood of Bergen, where it. is said to rain 364 days out of the year, the hay is almost always “on the fence.” In the lake districts, where the hilly country makes means of transportation very difficult, a heavy copper wire is stretched from the top of ft mountain to the village in the valley below. Down this huge masses of hay * are sent sailing through the air, some times whizzing dangerously near the unwary tourist’s head. — New York Tribune, Yea, We Are Reatleaa. “We are a restless people,” observes the Sedgwick (Kan.) Pantograph.. “Every thin woman longs to be fat. Every fat woman wants to grow thin.. Every town man longs for the time | when he can retire to the quiet of the country, and every fanner hopes to: some day quit work and move to town, where he can take life easy. Country newspaper men would like to try their hand on a city daily. The fellows om the big dailies dream •• of a- time wKbm they can own a paper of their own. In youth we long tor maturity. In: age we yearn for the happy days ot childhood. There is no excuse for IV other than that we all seem to be •built that way. The grass seems to be just a little bit greener and thriftier mosl any direction from the place you occupy right now. Contentment is as neat to happiness aa you can get tn this world.”

Boy Was a Good Listener. The Smiths were not overcautious indiscussing neighbors' faults in the presence of their little son. A van one day backed up to the curb, and, muete to Mrs. Smith’s disgust, her boy Tommy assisted an objectionable neighbor to move. The little fellow worked hard and made hlmsglf very useful. When the last wagonload had been hauled away and the doors of the vacant house locked Tommy returned home, tired and disgusted. Hta mother could not reconcile the boy‘a early enthusiasm with hfe present dejection., and she asked him what was the matter. “I worked and watched around the fiouse all day/’ -whined the tired little fellow, “bht I didn’t see them take any skeletons out of the closets.”New York Times. • . . Feminine Study ot Mdtt. • Man is when all Is said d vastly, lovable being and even his faults—indent chiefly his faults—have a most unholy attraction for us. But man the conquered is a very different creature from man the conqueror. The first is always ready and longing to afford us everything in the world we desireready to sell his immortal soul for our pleasures. The second. grudges us s kind word.—A Spinster in M. A. P.

Conkling's Invective. Roscoe Conkling, like .Tohn J, Ipgalls, was a master at invective. Conkling, it is said, once upon a ti- Iri summing up to a jury thus attempted to belittle the testimony of a rummy faced, knobby nosed witness for thd opposition: “Methinks, gentlemen, 1 can see that witness now. his mouth stretching across the wide (Isolation of his face, a sepulcher of rum Mnd a fountain of falsehood f Two of a Kind. . A man waiting for a street car askedl a'gentleman standing by, “it are time for the street car, ain’t it, or have n*r one went out in the last few minutest The answer is said to have been “if any have went I haven’t saw It.’*— Greensboro (N. C.) Record. Escaped Her Too. Elderly Man (greeting lady acquaintance)-! remember your face perfectly miss, but your name has escaped S The Young Woman-I don’t wonder. It escaped me three years ago lam married how.. The Guide’s Measure. "Things have come to a pretty pass.* remarked the guide as he led Algernon Lampoon 7 ¥ ° Beaiite ™lls - “Banter” is a word whose origin na, scholar can trace. e ’’ • 4 -•’tw' ► Jew*-’' • ..»• ' .'-J ’ « A?'-