Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — Page 6

yvl l\ THE Cotton J \ States and Inter- ? national ExposiI f£T^§;' 'r! tion at Atlanta, Ga., opens Sept 18 and closes Dee. ’ 31 of this year. Southerners aver that the marvelous agricultural, mineral, lumber and manufacturing resources of the South were not fully represented at the World’s Columbian Exposition. On the eve of a revival of business and of an industrial expansion and activity such as this country has not before known, there can be no doubt that now is the time to show the world tho possibilities of our wonderful Southern land. The South now invites the world to come to Atlanta in order to realize fully the fastness of her territory and to better appreciate its material advancement In recent years, to study its wonderful possibilities and to see and understand what a factor it is in the progress of a nation which now surpasses every other nation b its mechanical triumphs and In its productive industries. A great exposition is a “flash photograph of civilization on the run.” It is not a museum and can only be kept open a portion of the year. The national fair, the precursor of international expositions, Is of great antiquity. Long prior to the time of Christ the sovereigns of Egypt, by imperial decrees, set apart times and places for displaying the products of the country. Similar fairs, and largely of a commercial character, continued through the middle ages and, alternately, through the enterprise of the French, English and Americans, the International exposition came into existence, finding its best example In the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1898. And there is promise of a fair equally

Instructive to be held in Paris at the close of the century. In a smaller way, and most valuable in their lessons, were the fairs of Antwerp, San Francisco, Lyons, Liverpool, Milan and Madrid, and similar fairs are now projected for New Zealand, Tasmania, Constantinople, Mexico and Jerusalem. As the means of transportation and intercommunication have improved, the fair has been found to be the best general school for "teaching onehalf the world how the other half busies itself, and what one-half can furnish In exchange for the products of the other half to their mutual advantage. Mechanical Industry. Onrage is oneof mechanical industry,and the improvements in mechanical devices during the last half century far exceed in number and value all that have been made during the preceding 2,000 years. In man’s struggle to bring the forces of nature under his control, to subject the material world to his uses, he has not only acquired a more skillful hand but a better trained mind, and, instead of remaining a mere machine himself, he has grown to ha a handler of machines, thereby mnltb

MRS. JOSEPH THOMPSON, President Board of Lady Managers.

plying his physical strength many fold. Of the 900,000 patents issued by other nations and the 550,000 issued to inventors in the United States, by far the larger number have been awarded during the pant fifty years. These patents, better than anything else, tell of the marvelous industrial activity of our time. Civil society is competitive; and nations of the earth are engaged in an intense but peaceful straggle for industrial supremacy. Paradoxical as it may seem, the product* of Mnstry in thip otruggle have not. only Incranood enormously through the use of w thin cry, hot have become so cheep as t» ho srtthin reach of the masses of the

COTTON STATES AND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION

people, who can now provide themselves with hundreds of home comforts and conveniences t>t which their grandfathers did not even dream, and, while this cheapening process has been going on, the earnings of operatives and workmen have steadily grown larger. Transportation, by means of steamships and railroads, has steadily grown cheaper, and now the products of other sections of our country and of other countries can be sent across seas and continents and afforded at prices within the reach of all. The strong men to-day are the captains of industry, men who, a century ago, would have been leaders of armies. They have become skilled producers instead of trained destroyers. The phrase “A family of nations” now has the deepest meaning, for nations are rapidly becoming mutually interdependent. Even the former exclusiveness of China and Japan will never again be possible. Those nations cannot longer live by themselves, but must become members of the “family of nations.” How Expositions Pay, To the man who can see nothing beyond “gate receipts," the Cotton Centennial Exposition held at New Orleans ten years ago was “a failure,;’ but to the enlightened economist it is known to havo been the great awakening impulse which carried a thousand dollars into Southern enterprises and into developing tho matchless resources of that wonderful land for every dollar “lost* in that exposition. The best agencies of civilization, such as schools, courts of justice, parks, museums, art galleries and architectural monuments pay little if anything at “the gatee,” but remotely they pay most richly in all that makes civilization of tho highest value. Men, too, are beginning to realise that such agencies have a commercial value bCyond computation, and that, without them, we would only be a race of propertyless semi-civilized beings. Whether millions are mgctii or lost at the gatee of a great exposition, the whole country reaps an incalculable benefit therefrom in new and quickened impulses and in a larger grasp of constructive and peaceful pursuits. The Great South. One who has not visited the Sogth can form but the faintest idea of its magnitude and resources. A few illustrative comparisons, therefore, cannot but be helpful in this connection. Inclusive of New Mexico, the Indian Territory and Oklahoma the area of what we term the

South is 1,094,750 square miles. This area is twenty-four' times that of the State of New York, or is'large enough to make twenty-four States the size of New York with more than enough territory remaining to make three States like Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Thla great Southern area is also equal to the combined areaß of England, Ireland, Scotland, the entire German Empire, Aus-tria-Hnngary, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland Denmark, Spain, Italy and France, with a surplus sufficient to make two States like Delaware arid Rhode Island. These European.countries above named have a population to-day of 230,000,000, or more than three times the I present population of all the United States and Territories, or nine times the present population of the South. ,/Ehqjpopulation of the State of Massachusetts is 300 to the square mile. A population of like density in the South would If peopled as densely atr England the South would have a population of 602,000,000, a number equal to. two-fifths of the human beings now on the globe. Saxony is the most densely peopled country of Enrope, having 633 persons to the square mile. An equally dense population in the South would give that section 693 millions or twenty-gtoe,times as many as it now has, a number pearly equaling half the population of tbif'earth. Kesonrce&pf the South. “The Sooth,” as wo-use the term, embraces the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and the Territories pf New Mexico, Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Space does not paonit us to speak of the resources of the South, except in a general way. The fair will adequately set them forth, and the several States will issue descriptive pamphlets and books which can be obtained by visitors. For centuries Egypt was the granary of the world, yet its productive area, the valley of the Lower Nile, has never exceeded one one hundred and fiftieth part of the area of the South. On less than onetenth of the acreage admirably adapted to the raising bf-cotton, and with an imperfect cultivation which does not bring from the land one-half of what it can easily yield, the South will produce 9,000,-; 000 bales of cotton this season, or threefourths of the world's entire cotton crop. The coal, mineral, lumber, agricultural and horticnitoral resources of the South an simply inexhaustible, and it would require the labor of a population ten times as large as the present one to healthfolly develop these resources. The writer recently visited the iron region of Alabama and merely reiterates here what he ■aid and wrote twenty-eight years ago, when this iron was practically untouched. Iron can he made there more cheaply than

anywhere else in the world. Limitless quantities of iron ore, coal and lime stono lie together, and while few may be inclined to credit the startling statement, it is nevertheless true that pig iron can be made in Alabama to-day so much under $7 a ton as to astound one capable of estimating the cost of that product The writer has taken pains to prove beyond a doubt that steel of best qualities can be made of this iron, and, in the near future, steel will be made in large quantities in Birmingham add neighborhood at prices which will astonish this iron age. In 1890 Alabama stood second as an iron-

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDING.

producing State, and Pennsylvania stood third, Michigan, of course, being first The world is now making and consuming yearly about 30,000,000 tons of iron and Alabama alone could easily furnish that amount every year for the next thousand years, by the end of which time her iron mines might be fairly well opened , and in good working condition. The Site and Buildings. The site of the Atlanta exposition is Piedmont Park, which is situated only two miles from the center of the city. The park contains 190 acres, is hilly in character, and has been so treated that it forms a circular valley surrounded by a rim of terraced hills. It appears like a vast amphitheater, the arena-like center of which has been made very attractive with park features and lakes. The fair buildings, now entirely completed, are so placed around thiß plaza, and in many cases on elevations, that they can all be seen from almost a.ny point in the park, giving innumerable impressive views. In addition to tho Government Building the following is a list of the larger structures: The Manufactures and Liberal Arts, Fine Arts, Fire, Agricultural, Auditorium, Administration, Machinery, Minerals, Negro, Transportation, Electricity and Woman’s. In architecture the Romanesque style seems to be emphasized, yet tho traveler will notice some clever adaptations of widely-known architectural designs. Exhibits will bo made by several European countries, from Mexico, and from all the Central American States, from Argentina, Chili, Paraguay and Venezuela. The fair will thus present much that is very interesting and instructive from neighboring countries of the western hemisphere, countries with which we have large and increasing business relations. The following States will have special buildings: Georgia, Alabama, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California. The States Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Maryland ami Arkansas will have State exhibits. Besides these State exhibits there will be individual exhibits from every State in the Union. Amusement features will not be wanting at Atlanta. There will be Mexican, Guatemalan, Japanese, Chinese, Esqnimo and German villages. Hagenbeck’s trained animals will be there and Buffalo Bill with his hardy riders is coming. Incidentally this fair, like others, will, no doubt, have the urbane Arab from New Jersey selling relics from the Holy Land, which may have been manufactured in Connecticut. The petticoated Albanian from Tipperary may also sell pressed flowers gathered at Bethlehem, Penn. But this kind of merchandising serves as a diversion to throngs, helps defray expenses and harms nobody. The City of Atlanta. Atlanta is the beautiful capital of Georgia. Its site is the Chattahoochee ridge, over a thousand feet above the sea level.

its altitude giving it a cool and equable climate even in summer. Its present population is 110,000. It impresses the visitor as decidedly metropolitan in every way. Its wholesale and retail houses do a business aggregating $175,000,000 a year, and there are now 600 establishments where manufacturing is done. It is a iarge cotton mart, one firm there handling $20,000,000 worth of cotton a year. It is a great railroad center. Four direct lmeg jof road run north and east, three go west and northwest, and three to the South Atlantic and Gulf ports. The city ha's-an excellent system of pnblic schools and an industrious and enterprising population.

Its water supply is one of ths beat bt tfM world, ail tho watar being perfectly filtered before it ia admitted into the water mains. It is everywhere lighted by electricity and has 100 miles of street railroad, the largest mileage in proportion to its population of any city in the country. It has sixty miles of granite block pavement and 180 milea of brick sidewalks In 1860 the city had but 5,000 people. The visitor rides along miles of streets bordered on either side by costly and beautiful residences. Peach Tree street can hardly be matched for beauty by any, street in any city of America. With its beautiful homes, its shade trees, shrubbery and flowers, it seems a veritable-par-adise as an abode for man. Northern men; who visit Atlanta and expect to find itj composed of tumble-down shanties for a! thriftless population and "fifty years behind the times," will be not a little amased to find that it is probably a quarter of century in advance of many pretention* Northern towns, and that there is much in Atlanta which most Northern places could profitably imitate, and nothing in which the Gate City is behind them. Ib is pleasant to speak of the'delightful andhospitable manner in which an accred-; ited visitor is received in Atlanta, and of the many ways in which his stay there is, made a continuous delight. All who visit the fair will be amply provided for.

though all the available room in the city will be required to accommodate the visitors. The undertone of this fair will be another impressive lesson in human brotherhood, in the mutual helpfulness of industrial effort and in exchange of services. Earth has no equal area comparable with the South in natural resources and in all the elements for diversified industry. Entering as we now are upon another era of business prosperity and confidence, capital will soon be seeking new opportunities for investment, and tho Atlanta fair will start inquiries which will present numberless opportunities for good investments. Within the coming ten years a thousand millions of dollars will go into Southern enterprises from the North and from Europe which can be traced to les-

sons, suggestions and impressions given and taught by the great fair. The resulting material advances and successes will not only unite men in peaceful pursuits, but will tend to do away with the militant and destructive ideas which have dominated the world in the past and substitute for them a combination of men in peaceful - industries which will conduce to greater comfort and happiness, and which will hasten the advent of that auspioious day—- “ When the war drum throbs no longer And the battle flags are furled, In the parliament of man The federation of the world.” DUANE DOTY.

There is nothing like making people feel at home. There is one man In Washington who prides himself on it. My friend Lucy called at his house not long ago, and, as everybody urged her to stay to dinner, she stayed. They had beefsteak for dinner that night, and it was simply ideal beefsteak. The host urged Lucy to take a second helping, and after politely demurring, she accepted it. She was eating it when the young son of the family asked for more, too. “Don’t be a pig, Jim,” said his father, with the utmost cheerfulness, “there

SOME BUILDINGS IN ATLANTA.

isn’t any more for you. You see,” turning to Lucy with a smile of keenest hospitality, “we wern’t expecting company.”

Clocks have been placed on the outside of the lpcomotives on the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Railway Company. They are fixed on the. side of the engine—that is, toward the station platforms—fqr the benefit of both passengers and station agents who wish to note the instant arrival and departure of the trains.

THE WOMAN’S BUILDING.

His Notion of Hospitality.

Clocks on the Locomotives.

“UNITED STATES IS" GOES.

Expression Conveys the Idea of a Na* tional Entity. The modern practice of the State Department at Washington, says the New York Recorder, has been to giro the United States a verb in the singular instead of the plural number, as “the United States is,” not “the United States are.” The practice before the civil war was (to use the plural form, and Mr. Seward was, I think, the first Secretary of State to reverse it Webster and his predecessors always wrote “are.” Mr. Fish, Mr. Evarts, Mr. Blaine, and other Republican premiers followed the Seward style. Mr. Olney, in his recent proclamation concerning Cuban neutrality, returns to the old form. Referring to Spain, he wrote: “A power with which the United States are and desire to remain on terms of peace and amity.” When Mr. Seward made the innovation the idea was, of course, to give additional emphasis to the fact that the United States, as a political entity, Is a nation, and should have a singular verb. Then, for the first time, natior began to be written with a capital “N.” The politicians of the States’ rights school made vigorous protest, and so did the critics, but the author of the “higher law” doctrine cared nothing about either side. He held the pen that wrote the official dispatches and proclamations, and, as there was no way in which his critics could edit them, the Seward grammatical construction had to stay. Mr. Olney has naturally provoked criWclsm by the change he has made. The political part of it Is severely condemnatory, but, as a rule, the grammarians agree with him. A Western journal, in taking his side of the controversy, says: “One cannot say ‘the Southern States is prosperous,’ or ‘the Pacific States possesses great mineral wealth,’ and no more can one say, without violating the rules of grammar, ‘the United States is.’ ’’ The main point of the contention ■is missed in that criticism. In the case of the New England, Southern or Pacific States the plural form is the correct one, because of themselves they do not possess the atribute of national entity. One division of them claimed it at one time, but the pretension had to be abandoned. However, the United States “is” all right, Olney or no Olney.

CANNIBALS FORTY YEARS AGO.

But Now a Maori Princess Is Clad in Bloomers. Apparently there is no quarter of the earth too remote for the “new” woman to penetrate. Just at present she has appeared at New Zealand in the person of the young Maori chieftainess. Forty the Maori were just emerging from cannibalism; now, the oldest daughter of the old King wears bloomers, and rides a bicycle. The princess is a source of general Interest and amusement all over the Islands. She prefers to be known by the simple name of “Pansy,” and by that name she will become celebrated the world over as the first woman of her race to adopt and even popularize the “reform” dress. “Pansy” is a very comely young woman, and it a pleasing sight to witness the attention and deference paid to her by the beaux of her race. These dusky gentlemen are exceedingly proud of the well set up Ma*

THE MAORI CHIEFTAINESS IN REFORM COSTUME.

orl girl, and they watch over and attend her wants with a touch of gallantry which knows nothing of popular antipathy to rational dress.

Shop-Keeping in Mexico.

Every shop and magazine bears a title. This custom has its humorous side. “The Store of the Two Hemispheres” may be no more than three yards square, while “The Magazine of the Globe” carries a stock worth about $25. But in the larger cities there are numbers of finely stocked emporia of different classes of goods. The position of clerk in one of these great mercantile establishments is much in demand, for what reason it would be hard to say, excepting that the comparative seclusion of the young women makes it somewhat difficult to meet them often, unless one be a special attendant in a dry goods store, in which case conversation is allowed to flow unreservedly. Many a love affair has begun with a discussion concerning pins, or other trifles indispensable to fair shoppers. In all the mercantile establishments there is the lingular custom of pelon, which apparently counterbalances any attempt at overcharging on the part of the proprietors. When you become a regular customer, a tiny tin cylinder is provided and hung up in the store in full view of everybody, marked with your name and number. Every time that you make a purchase a bean is dropped down into the cylinder, and at stated T tJfloflS these are all counted; and for Ayery sixteen or eighteen, depending upon the commercial generosity of the Arm, you are allowed six cents in money or goods. This custom must be one of great antiquity. The word “pelon” means a stone or other crude (weight with which It was in ancient days customary to balance the scales used in the market.

Where Money Is Unknown.

The natives of northern Alaska and Siberia have no knowledge of money, and tourists to that country have to exchange the same into barter goods.

PIGEONS CARRY THE MAILS.

hie Only Feathered Postal Service Operated in the United States. The only regular pigeon post service m this side of the continent or the other is that which bears messages every day in the summer season between Los Angeles, Cal., and the little town >f Avalon, on Catalina Island, and »ears them at a speed which can be

BLUE JIM, A CATALINA SPEEDER.

beaten only by the telegraph or telephone. The steamers run once a day between island and mainland, and once it has cast loose from the wharf the island, with a summer population of perhaps several thousands, is as completely cut off from the world as though it were in midooean, and yet the shore is a scant twenty miles away. The demand for some additional service grew, and last summer the Island visitors and residents were relieved from their isolation by the establishment of a carrier pigeon post between Avalon and Los Angeles. The message bearers usually start without delay and arrive at their destination with a certainty and promptness almost incredible. The air-line distance from Avalon to Los Angeles is about fifty miles. This was accomplished by some of the Catalina flyers in fifty minutes. From three to four hours is required to make the trip by railroad and steamer. The fact that the birds could fly from Avalon with such rapidity and certainty filled those of the island visitors who were unfamiliar with the habits of the Intelligent homer with amazement, and nl&Hy people were quite unable to grapple with the statement that carrier pigeons have been flown successfully for a distance of 1,000 miles and more. One bird liberated in Spain not long since covered a distance of 615 miles in a single day—that is from daylight till dark. Races between pigeons and telegrams have not infrequently resulted in the pigeon arriving at his destination in advance of the message by wire. On one occasion a pigeon and a postal card started together on a trip of 540 miles,

RECEIVING A MESSAGE IN THE LOFT.

and the message borne by the bird reached the person to whom It was addressed some hours before the card was delivered. While it is the carrier’s Intense love of home which renders him available as a bearer of dispatches, neither mate nor young is the attraction which attracts him. It is the perch and nest box. He Is as averse to change as a pet cat, and will fight for his own to the bitter end. The employment of pigeons to carry messages from Catalina has its solitary precedent In the temporary establishment a.few years since of a pigeon post across i the English channel from Boulogne to London, a distance of 135 miles. In summer the messages would arrive in London at midday, whereas the Paris mail could not be expected until nearly 12 o’clock at night.

How to Economize in Living.

One-half the world does hot know how the other half lives, -nor do 1 the well-fed 1 'thousands in this’ prosperous city, ‘who daily consult their menus of many expensive and rare courses, comprehend that many other thousands of hard-working, aetivg, healthy, energetic, bustling people live for a whole day upon the price, of a plate of oysters in a fashionable restaurant. Stand upon Park Bow in front of Dolan’s or Dennett’s and ask some'of the habitues of these places-What it Aodstathem daily for their food* -. Let-on®- man—a letter—&carrier—speak for himself : “I have three meals a day—coffee, cakes and either ham and beans or corned beef and beans at each meal—at a cost of not more than 20 cents a meal. They give you bread and butter with the meat, and a fellow has plenty to eat in three such meals. If a fellow Is hard pushed he can get along on 30 cents a day with two meals, with meat, beans, bread and coffee at each. I have known chaps who have been idle for a long time to live upon 20 cents a day—corned beef, beans, bread and butter, and water for one meal and pie and coffee at the other in the evening. A fellow who could live all winter on those two meals if he didn’t have to Juggle cases and barrels and bales of cotton or do heavy work.” Thus It may be seen that a man needn’t starve who has $1.40 a week to spend on food.”—New York Recorder.

Pays for Trunks as Well.

Gen. Edward F. Jones, of Binghamton, who is known to fame as the man who pays the freight and as the Democratic lieutenant governor who persisted in being a candidate for Governor when the bosses told him not to be, has another claim to fame. Reading in a paper that a small boy in Binghamton had been arrested for swimming with no trunks on, he Went out and bought 500 articles of that description, hunting up 500 boys, and made them a speech and gave each a pair of trunks.—Buffalo Express. i

OUR BUDGET OF FUN.

HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DOINGS HERE AND THERE. Jokes and Jokeleta that Are Supposed to Have Been Recently Born —Saying* and Doings that Are Odd, Cariona and Laughable—The Week’s Humor. Let Us All Laugh. Little fishes In the brook— 4 \. That’s no cause to flout ’em; They’ll be whales as like as not When he tells about ’em. u •—Washington Star. “Cannot we become one?” he pleaded earnestly. “That depends,” replied the new girl. “Which one?;,’—Ufa. “I can forgive but never forget this whipping,” said Tommy. “That is just what I want you to do;” said bis mother.—Boston Courier. > 1 • “Jones is always at the world.” “Yes; made before he was born; an’ he didn’t have a chance at 1L” —Atlanta Constitution.' <«■ - t “The coming woman doesn’t seem to arrive,” said Binks. "jNo,” said Tubley. “She’s probably .putting bn her hat”—Harper’s Bazar. Hotelkeeper—What’s the matter here? You’re just raising the deucel Waiter—No, sir; I just dropped the’ tray.—National Hotel Reporter. “No, Maude, dear, we do not think the cat’s voice is musical even if the animal is full of violin and banjo strings.”—Philadelphia Record. “I see that John’s speakin’ on the financial question.” “Oh, yes.” “What’s the old man doin’?” “Furnlshlh’ the finances.”—Chicago Times-Herald. Tramp—Say, boss, could yer give a feller a dime fer a square meal? Kind Gentleman—Certainly, If the meal Is a good one. Where is It?—The State. '“What In the world shall I do with baby, John? She’s crying for tne moon.” “That’s nothing. Wait till she’s 18, and then she’ll want the earth.” —Truth.

“If within the business world You make yourself a berth. Let printers’ Ink the fact unfurl That you are on the earth.” —Dalton Argos. Carleton—Did you dally with the breakers at Asbury Park? Montauk— Yes; I met three charming girls, and they broke me In a week.—Brooklyn Eagle. The Mother—How do you know that he has ceased to love you? Marriageable Daughter—He buttons my gloves twice as quick as he used to.—Syracuse Post Dorcas—My dear, you remind mo of the new patent folding bed you bought Mrs. Dorcas—How so, love? Dorcas— Because you are so hard to shut up.— Judge. In a New England restaurant. The Guest—What can I get here? The Matron—We have coffee as mother used to make It. The Guest—Well, gimme tea. —Pittsburg Dispatch. ’Tls the same old picnic sorrow That comes as the seasons fly; The man with the whitest pantaloons Sits down in the pinkest pie. —Washington Star. “Some people,” remarked the cannibal chief, as he passed his plate for a second supply, “have a mission in life* while others only have a missionary.” —Chicago Times-Herald. Peddler—That little book on “How to Preserve the Hair” is the key to the entire situation. Baldy—l am very sorry; but I haven’t a single lock that It would fit—Household Words. He —Do you think blondes have more admirers than brunettes? She—l don’t know. Why not asirsome Of the girl* who have had experience in both capacities?—New Haven Union. She—Surely, my dear, you will consider the matter carefully before consenting to Clara’s marriage t» old Mr. Cashman. He—Certainly. I shall have his books examined by an expert—Life* “You seem excited, dear, what has happened?” “Poor Jack Murray, I have Just rejected him.” “Ob,>,don’t.tqjpd a little thing ilka that • Why, I reject him every six rpopths!” —Louisville JouruaL There was a man In our. tps^ii, And he. was wondrous wise, He never bragged to hTs dear wife About his mother’s pies. —lndianapolis Journal. First Tramp—What.would you (Jo if you had a hundred t.b6usasd dollars? Second Tramp—ln that think I’d feel it absolutely necessary to go to work to make it a million,— Roxbury Gazette. •t | jj& < “A mortal cad going to be next in this life,” said the moralist '"No,” replied thermah, with a bandage over his eye, "especially if he’s learning to ride a bicycle.”—Washington Star: “What is the greatest difficulty you encounter in a journey to the arctio regions?” asked the Inquisitive man. “Getting back home,” was the reply of the professional explorer.— Washington Star. Little Elsie (looking at the giraffe at the Zoo)—“Oh, mammal They have made that poor thing stand in the sun, haven’t they ?” Mamma—“Why do you say that, my dear?” Little Elsie—- “ Look at all its freckles,”—Philadelphia Record. Landowner (to party bobbing In the stream)—“Hello, there! don’t you see that sign, ‘No Fishing Here’?” Angler —“Yes; ain’t it ridiculous? Fine fishing here; just look at that f6r a string (holding up a dozen or twenty big fellows); beauties, ain’t they? The chap who stuck up that sign evidently didn’t know what he was talking about”— Boston Transcript

The World’s Reading.

It is estimated that in England on an average each person spends $2.25 a year on books, periodicals, newspapers and so on, which would give a total of about $85,000,000. Some statistician has gone so far as to calculate that the aggregate annual circulation of the world Is about 12,000,000,000 copies of printed matter of every kind, for which 781,250 tons of paper is used. • The height 5f tyranny—To arrest a brook because it murmurs. A mutton-headed doctor always has his sheepskin with him.