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IfDTS HARD TO CSACK

QUESTIONS WHIOH EXCITE STRONGLY INQUISITIVE M1ND&

|ome of tk« IroalileMBe

the Pawn aftiw Put Propounded—to-

ptiror

IUmHui

e'opoab^v

ben,

of uwuww«r«ble questions

bis

earn?

A somewhat ewly example of the pqser pqie and simple was tjie Saijpwor toberius The uafor!QiJ*te philosophers Whom he \ued to $eep for paetlme in bis island retjeat at Caprae Were cfestifcually being plagne^ by ftbtftfTd jOflfctilcro«, Suetonius us that fcfaS emperor used to demand •f theee ^iea w«om Heoqba's mother was. 11 fAHSjr refused to ocunmit them#olv«a,

Jits

ftuBrti?

tree

aproatf"

baCbox covered

Qo«HM

an Bearly Example—The

nuzlisg Bmtu of a

OUmm.

Baoon dgqabtteas .bad is bis njlncj, the

on "Biscoyrse," be ad

vised all waters after knowledge to avoid patting troublesome queries—a practice Svhleh fie declared was fit onlj far a poser. The poM», however, Jma esUfted time oat pi nflje4 Be Is #o be foood among all classes ol men, from emperors down to private IndivWaaifl who prepare scientific ooaandroms.

of the Heoubaa ndt

^having eenne d«wn to posterity, the em' ^evor waa won* to was wrotfc as'their ignoranceand threaten them with corporal jpnniahmetii Jf on Me following day they did nobop«HS prepared with an answer. Other faverita qneatfoni of hie were: "What n&pue didAtj|ftle» paea under when he eojonrned wiw the virgins, qt 8oyrofi?" V-Whafc ppq-Qpulfcr gong were the sirens ^ybea seated- 'Ob t^e'rooks in the habit of .chanting ojfter to allure travelers to 'Jtbeir deafcfl?" In vnis |ras it for these wise roten to lm«nt fiipfcitians answers, for 6he jpinperor invariably psked for authorities, and If otiaptas and verse weire not fortheoxntog soflse ingenious punishment fell to the lot of. these un&rtuuata Daanufaotacnps of hiatoty,

Perbape it was because time hnag heavtly en their bands that the holy men of the phurah during tbe middle agaa pestered their spiritual superiors with fcallsh questions drawn fttmj tha Bible, A blabop in those dsja bad to know, ar rather appear to

kncfvr,

even jnero than Maoauley'B om-

sJsolest splwwftqy. No small portion of Jtits tame, it would mens, wfcs spent in enjdeavoriog to Qfid anajpgra te mob qnes^ioss tbe lfeltowipg What vcaa tbe u?e of the ladder wbiob Jeoob aim In ids Vision, teeing thut the *£mpls bad wings, kpd ae did not acquire anjr other means of descent £ram beataa to «•*$?" "What kind 9^ implements did Adam ahdlEve use wheft uey dewed tbe fig leavas togethernnd made themselves

Far from

eheobinpi ff^eenl&ffasd snob as the above, the digfiitartaa of tk$ oirarah appear te liave esootoaflpsd tho«i, and "tbe nloer tbe flints!the be^tof tfefl bi«b«ra liked them."

The regal as well as tba eiterioal mind delighted i« proponindhag abstruse questions. Was, tet^Boe, a man yf ho came isa staaiB^ey to A.otty and being in extreme t^lre^iooa nisblfled in stealing in iwder to save t^ lif^ Srotius, Pufferidorf «pd whele host of foreign jortsts declare the asffirtBstive. Ohxtro, Sale, Blackfrtiorie and others tabe the opposite side. The great Baoon himself suggests a nice point, If two perqoes a^ftahipwreoked and get on the same plank, but find it is not able to save them both, is either justified if, in order to save hi a life, he thrust the other from it?

Scientific) men, too, have raised some curious questions for posterity te argue over. Ma.ny of these, however, are similar to 'that which Charles II propounded, to the Royal eooiety—vis, "If a fish is put Into a globe full to the brim with water, why is it that the water does not overflow?" The society, being lqyal subjpots, took a dooent time to look into this profound question, and then informed his majesty, in the politest terms which they oould muster, that under tbe given oircumatanoes the water would overflow. There is that anoient question, "What would happen if an irresistible force came into contact with an Immovable bodyf"

Equally fvctitless is the speculation as to which oame first, the ben or the egg. In spite of the old Greek saying, ihe beginning of all life is an egg," we usually imagine hens' eggs at least Co have been laid by a hen. Perhaps the theory of evolution oan furnish an answer to this, for evolution oan explain much. As the Americans Bay, "We pass anglioei, we give it up, "Doeg a water wheel run faster at night than in the day The savants even of Germany hat* studied! this nice point and own there is no satisfactory auswer. Again, "Does rest improve the cutting properties of a razor?" There is no answer to this either. "Does a man weigh more at the equator than at the north poie?" and •'How do birds soar without moving their wings?" are both questions which seem to im bitter the lives of many apparently sane people.

There is a story to the effect that a certain gentleman, being commissioned to write an article

OJQ

Chinese metaphysios,

looked up the Words "Chinese" and "metaphysics" in the Enoyolopaedia Britannica and oomblnud his information. Considering the questions which the metaphysicians of China are in the habit of propounding, we think the gontleman did wisely in sparing his readers an introduction to the subtleties of the Celestial Intellect. As an •sample of Wbat they thus escaped we append the following: A certain Chinaman fell asleep and dreamed he was a butterfly.

During the dream, while in the form of butterfly, he dreamed he was a Chinaman. On awakening, a terrible feeling oame over him. dreaming he was a Chinaman, or bad he last night been a Chinaman dreaming, that be was a butterfly? The question weighed upon this Chinese man's mind. He sought out the greatest thinkers of China, who pondered over this question, but oould make nothing of it. It is aaia that the joy and beauty have gone out of that Chinaman's Ufa. Fortune may unite upon him, be may be decorated with paacock feathers and yellow j«pkets, yet content will not be bia, for he can uev«r be certain in bis own mind whether he be.a Chinaman •r a butterfly.—London Standard,

TRIALS OF A TRAVELER.

0ne of Them Caused a Chambermaid to Hies Her Tip. You have beard of the man who had •mployed a new servant, fresh from a country town. Tbe man had oome highly recommended as honest, industrious and intelligent, and in appearance he evidently justified his sponsors. His employer-re-turned after a conple of days' absenoe to find tbat the n«w servant had been cleaning up generally, and particularly in the wine cellar, where he had aoonred all the dust and rust off of the wine bottles.

Well, I know a man who bad a similar experience, though perhaps not quite so readily comprehended by the general reader. This man bad traveled a great deal and bad a fad. They sometimes,go together.

*1 ^any

His fad was traveL Alpine climbers oarry in the company of

burn the umphs—the name of the mountain climbed, height, date, eta They overrun the mountain regions of Europe, bragging of their exploits and proving them by the •tick. I can show a straight rccord of the Swiss Alps myself-—having bought it at Interlaken, where it had evidently' been 16ft in pawn by some impecunious amateur mountaineer. I bad aiimbed Mont Blanc—by telesoopo—and got rby record eomethisg after die m^a^or of tbe man who bought his ancestors in the "Pirates pi Feasance."

But to returp,. Jdy friend didn't 'carry A notched stiok, but bsd trunks and

wlth11

showed just

Which

"^ieselabeli

wha'i^bl

fellow he was and bad been and They *ff. repord of hia how often. .j §Athe

COQUETTES AS

91 ma

faavels over tbeworld.pnda»£e bad been SS a good bit tbef ftore curiositie*. It used to give my fnen^who is well known

York, imnienf* satisfaction to see

£,3*Ek 5

.^^Jjjhljh

theirs

were regarded baggage men hotel clerks whj#» he weiit. They

-e that plastered ff|h steam ship cabin mark* *nd

llOt0

kOfS

»Dl5 ODStom

"ouse labels and railway stamps thit you couldn't tell what tbe| were exoept by the

^We were in Detroit last winter,-when he came to my room

tlj{^otel

half intoxi-

cated and tbe other ba crazy with anger.

soon as I could get .hini to converse intelligently botween ^tha -calculated to sink this

confounded *untry

told

out of eight

me that fr?H®^r™aid'

oil

every last one of bis patearmarks, and that it was blankety, biaDK~» "And to tbink that I havo to begin all over again!"

said

boj the seven wasted

years staring blin ln jhe faoe And it was toush, vou will adroit Bnt that chamber' maid didn't get her tip.—New York Herald. 4.

George Eliot says, ''One's self satisfaction is a kind of untaxed property, which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated." The men's woman, with a word, or a gesture, or a look, conveys to her companion the conviction, "You interest me, not so muoh for the sako of pleasing, as beoause it is truo." Can such oonduot be actuated by any other motive than that of tho purest and truest philanthropy?—Lippinoott'a.

The Writer.

Talk is arising, as it has oil and on since the now womout subject of "woman's sphere" came before thepublic, about women in place of men for waiters at'the private dinner table. The man is 30 infinitely superior to the woman at the publia table that it does not seem possible that he can ever bo superseded in private life. A man will wait upon a man as well as upon a woman, or a woman as well as upon a man in a bote! or restaurant, provided always he expects to receive a tip and thinks it worth his while. A woman in either of these places usually treats a woman with scant courtesy, and in her amiable moods she is apt to be officious to both men and women. Women do not seem to appreciate the fact that waiting on stable is a function to be executed with dignity. If the man waiter makes it too much of a funotion and bis dignity is somewhat excesses, his is an error in the right direction. He at least ssems to take a certain pleasure in tha work, while womum apparently regard waiting a3 merely a duty to be gono through with as muoh grace as may be.—New York Times.

nize uo emperor). Usbored into the royal presence, ho slid his petition on to a side table, and tlion stood ovorawed and dumfoundud for nwiiiia, until Francis Joseph

Was he now a butterfly inquired, "And what can I do for you, my

frjeild?!

pQor

-T THE VEIL OF ISI3.1

To lift her veil, whose broideries Are borued moons andlotaaes,

To lift itt i«ll

Tf lift her veijf

a71"

ticipatlon of an estra.tip, had washed

1lNo.

BENEFACTORS.

Creature* of Iaftnit® ^ot, Their Interest In Men I* Genuine. From an ethical standpoint, at the,risk of appearing paradoxical, I win go as far as to assert that tbe coquette is your true philanthropist. To tyegin with, she Is generally a "men's womun. That torjn immediately generates a prejudice in al) well regulated minds, and yet why should it? Charles Dudley Warner says of her. "She is a happy combination ef qualities somewhat difficult to doscribe."

Mrs. Ruokct says: "A creature for whom education has done much ana nature inoro. She bas taste, eleganoe, spirit and umlorstanding." Warner says: "She is all this and more. To begin with, she is old enough to know bar world thoroughly yet, though shoneednewr have been beautiful, she mnst have kept her youth. Rhe ia in no sense a light woman neither is she overlntolJeotual. She would not speak Greek even if she could. She is a oreature of infinite tact, whom every outward semblance of a man interests profoundly. With him she is always athsr best, and she contrives to get out of him the best t,hero is. She listens well and grows sympathetic at she listens. "Has he a special weakness? She'ball tempts him to beliete it is a virtue. An adept in the subtlest forms of flattery,r she would force tbe meanest of us to shine, even when he is ill at ease. And yet, above all, she remains slnoere. Her interest in him is real and survives tbe fleeting mdment. He is a man—that is to say, for her tho brightest page In nature's book. She respeots convention, knowing well when she may vonture to be unconventional, yet she is unapproaohable and irreproachable. In return he adores ber."

"80

'\:0m

Both of One MbitV V#

A storv going tiio rounds of society in Buuppe.st will illustrate tho simple good nature which makes tha Emperor Francis Joseph so popular among all classes of his often unruly subjects. Herr Sikel, a Hungarian deputy, after growing gray in the exercise of his parliamentary duties, thought tho ti mo had osma when he might fairly ask for post under government as the reward of his services. Accordingly he called on the premier and dolioately broached the subject. "My dear fellow," exclaimed Baron Banffy, "I should bo delighted to And you a billet, but nobody over 40 can be appointed to tho civil servioe without the express permission of the sovoreign.'

So Herr Sikel, donning the national costume, hurried up to "Vienna, went to Hofburg, and after duo preliminaries got an audience of his king (Hungarians

teoog-

gjkGl only

,uanage

to blurt out, "Your majesty, I should like to bo 40 years of age." "Ah," replied the kaisor, "and so should I." But a glance at tho 5urtivo dooOmont bad repealed the man's errand, and h0 was

gent

off rejoicing

with the. royal signature.—St. James Gazette. ^I

p«

The drug clert hml unique customer the other day—a man from tho county, as his appearance indicated. He came in with a prescription of the "gunshot" varietythai is to say, it called for about ten differ^ enc ingredients. The .)erk proceeded to fill the prescription, uud was watched oloscly by the customer. Finally tba clerk noticed that the man was becoming agitoted, and concluded that he was in a b""?"I'll bo through in af0wminutes," said tho clerk to pacify the man. "I ain't in a hurry. But say, young fellow, I don't like gettij. old inedioine.'

VS hat do you moan?" "Why, them bottles votf^ot thereara only half full. You're Elvln me jour old stock."

It required a

g00d

deal of explanation

on the clerk's pnrt to convince his customer that tho medicine was "fresh."—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Moments With Dictionaries-

iuteresting hont iuay iP®®'

0 fff

what they call alpenstocks, on which they should tell you that kincs were In the records of their mountain tri- earlier times merely "fJirJrB of famili«," while queen meant

J, dictionary. It

name villain."

f£t "wife" or

'^nother.!' An earl was an "elder '.' pop* was the same as "papa" and czar and kaiser both meant "Ciesar k°r* *8 Anglo-Saxon hlnford, mining "loof distributer." "Huzzy" once a rentable housewife "knave was simply a boy, and oatiff"

captive. From

the name of the laborer on the villa of an 0id tiiac1 Keman gentleman we gefc

tJf

"paoan"

oTl&'

Daily a countryman, while ''varlet'r is the same word as "valet" Out st»d«»ts shonld study thsir dietionariesa little mow

S fc-.

None dare, though prieat and tharifer Cham her with Jrahkinoense end myrzh And lone drawinaystio hansonies. iOf all aiankiad'a divbeittes 1)6,aeor^ler than.tbisof hla. bold,'tis but to anger her

Nathelees, la each xaan's time there la-. A lifting of ber yell. .-Jjacb diea. To die, when an the hat® and ptlr .Are o'er, te be a «ln?41»r#r. Te dream perebaneewobi it sot this

—Victor ^larr in Sew York Tribune.

^0-

A SUCCESSFUL RUSE.1 1

Or Why One Women D09 Not Now Slake Her Own Hate. "Why don't women buy (heir bats aa men do? Now, there's a derby that only tost me a ooople of dollars, and I will wear it for two seasons," and Chaunoey Smith took off a neat bat and banded it his wife. "That is your privilege, "Do you wish me to wear a bat like yours? Tbey are all the style."

I mean a feminine affair, with laoe

and ribbon something tbat compares in You I

tbat compares in

prioewith mine. You let your milliners

swamp you with their ideas and expendi-

tures. Be original and make.your own bate and buy otber things with the money saved." "I tm willing to try," said bis wife pleasantly.

That's right, Lottie. You know a man

bat. It is the face under the hat that ap-

peals to us," and lighting a oigarbe swaggered off. A day or two afterward business called Cbauncey out on the avenue. He saw some pretty girls In gainsborough bats, who were (ttjBnds of bis wife. Tbey were pretty, but he inew they had always been outranked by Lottie, and it gave him a pleasant thrill of satisfaction. Then he saw a dowdy looking girl approaching, and he looked at her with a mental shosk.

Why will women get themselves up in such a frightful shape? I daresay that poor thing would be passably good looking if she were stylishly dlfessed. Good heavens) Lottie?" Sft "I made It myself," said Lottie, as she shot past him, leaving blm tbe picture of mortifloatien and dismay.

•bu uuuw command in the

You see," she explaini evening, "millinery la a profession I never learned, and I haven't millinery fingers naturally, as very few women have. But what is wrong with my bet?" .. "It Is simply frightful tbat's all." '/•I made it for a song.'' "I should think it oame nearer being a nightmare,"

do I," said biB wife decidedly. "A milliner studies the features of ber customers and makes hats to suit them, and the effect is harmonious. My effort made a fright of me, and I can never improve. Making hat# Isn't my forte." "Have one made tomorrow and send the bill to me. 1 hope you didn't see any of our friends on the avenue." "Qh," said Lottie demurely, "none of them recognized me in that bat. "—Detroit Free Press.

"Cry

of the Heart."

It was formerly the custom for young men who were making a beginning in literature to treat the living "old masters" in letters with great veneration instead of winning some notoriety by publicly ridiculing them. When, therefore, they had an opportunity to express some honest criticism of a master's work, the expression had about it a decided plquanoy.

It is related tbnt in 1829 Chateaubriand, then held in very great honor, invited a group of literary people to his residence at A,uteuil to hear him read his tragedy of "Moses." Among the guests were Alexandre Dumas and Frederic Soulie, then young men, who listened respectfully, wh.o even after they left the house at midnight and started back to Paris in a cab did not venture to express an unfavorable judgment, but rode on in silence.

By and by they came to one of the ootrol stations, where all persons who enter Paris are'required to "deolare" or announce any articles that they may have, in their possession whioh are subject to the municipal import duty. The agent in charge of the station stopped tho cab in which the two young men were, thrust his head into the door and said: '"Have you anything to declare, gentlemen?"

Whereupon Soulie exclaimed with much emphasis: "I have to declare, and that most solT .emnly, tbat the'Moses' of the illustrious

Chateaubriand is a horriblo bore!" The octroi employee was speechless, and the two young men drove on, greatly relieved in their feelings.—Youth's Companion. /,

Uncle Sam's One Jail."

How many people in the United States are aware that there is one United States penitentiary in all of the United States? Probably not 1 out of 1,000,000 of the population,except among those whose business it is to know such things. In every newspaper news items appear almost daily to the effeot. that federal prisoners have been taken to this or that state penitentiary, but the taxpayer never stops to inquire by what right the general government sends its prisoners to state prisons. He never asks why it do^s not confine its prisoners in its own prisons. If he wore ourious enough to aBk why, be would have dlsooveted that the government praotioally has no prisons of its own, except military prisons, whioh are not at the disposal of the civil authorities.

At Fort Leavenworth is the only prison vjhich is a United States penitentiary, and It is a made ove*affair from a military prison, which was originally a lot of quartermaster's warehouses, with a wall built around thjm. They will accommodate about 50o prisoners.—New York Sun.

Supremely Silly.

Such expressions as "Homely people are always bright" are not only not necessarily true, but tbey axe also supremely silly. For what good do they conserve? Whom do they please? Who accepts tha taffy as intended for his or her palate?' It is pleasant to be thought bright, pleasant to be told that you are bright, but not at the prioe of being considered homely. And who thinks himself homely? We don't know, do you?

,, Passton Flower. The passion flower bos its batne from the Latin words signifying "suffering flower, referring to the filaments or rays and other parts, being likened to tbe oiroumstanoea of Christ's crucifixion. In the various parts of the flower tbe fanciful find the crown of thorns, tbe eross, the spear, the soourge, the nails, tbe hammer, tbe lanoe and the drops of blood.

He Oltfeeted.

dostpse—'Well, Tommie, you oan tell your mother for me that you are tbe best behaved boy at table I ever met

Tommie—Thank you, ma'am, but I'd rathrtrnot Hostess—Bather not And why, pray?

Tommie—Sbe'd think I was ill, ma'am, and would send for tbe dootor.—Pearson's Weekly.

Vast iABghing 8t#ek

*«On tbat row of shelve," said the proprietor of the bookstore, "you will find a copy of every humorous publication new in ptint. In fact, there is what you might call the laughing stock of the whole country,".^Chicago Tribune.

TFUpT, HATJTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNTNO. JANUARY 22,1897.

Fiction: "The Marli|to," the new J"1™1 Ju Maurter, the eagerly «P«ted Trilby," begun U^otober N^ber. «««. 1 illustrations from Jije author dra sw novel by Frank^R.

.K -R-naissance^tuu 01

with, A new novel hy ITafiUCB.

bwciwut-...

Ing a Twentieth CeatSiftr Renaissance--humbroua situations *iM chai*oteriswo*'*, lustrated. "A Pair

pt,

Patlent

Lovera,

William Dean HoweQa., Other striking elettes by American 'fcxithora. Snorijp ^1 by Mark Twain, Thorfaa Nelson Pag6- .^^ Harding Davis, Owen Wlater, Bangs, Ruth McEnery .Stuart, liters. Mary E. Wilklns and other POPJjifT.

contributions on special

dur

Science: Story of Pjoi^ess of Sclen

Idly illustrated—the i%ehlt of a recent Mexico undertaken for Mexico is pre-eminently a silver-P

Mexico is pre-eminently a ?«ona rest en ,r tk country, and its monetary J°P®r„ *n +he keen

ad nanaea It to tirely on ft silver basli. Owing to^tn discussion of

certain

ing

papert

the Nineteenth Centum a series by Dr. Henry Smith ^il"a®»'."^Pby°|pert

B"^,e®a

nf curious

scientists. Articles on fhe relatlons psychological manlfesttfttoBS to physiology Dr. Andrew Wilson.

_4(!0

American Featuresiak' The Mexico day," a series by C«

To-

F-,Lu^„t

"is" to

economic pr

she responded, connection with issueS'of-urgent __tu comin American poliUcs. these papera. maiid general attention. "America®.

Papers," by Woodrow Wilson,

RemWcences of

"That's right, Lottie. You know a'min ^lan 'sketches,'^written'and^ rt,eD«cent doesn't know anything about a woman Hopklnson Smith. The full story ox.

ortaB

was commissioned by Queen Victor

a picture of the ceremony.

Brothers.

tru0 sioTJ

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