Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 14, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 December 1895 — Page 6

THE INDEPENDENT.

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. ; CAPT. CAVARLY'S WLL. provision Made Therein for All Unexpected Widows ami Children. The will of -the late John M. Cararly vas filed for probate tin other day. The veteran mariner left an estate valued nt 100.0;. x in trust to the Union Trust Company for his children, Mrs. Anna X:iiz:ibetii Ilemtel and Julia. I. Jennie D., John M., Jr., and Trank Holies Cavtirly. The will, which is dated !n April last. Is witnessed by C F. Bowman and Alexander Center. The income of the estate is to be livided anions the children until the son, Frank 11.. now IT years of ace. shall mich the aire of "0, when the estate; is to In divided anion;' them sh ire and share alike. If any of the children begin action to contest the will the legacy to such children is declared void. The Mjit;,lii was determined that no one should lay claim t his instate as his wldcw or his child other than the childtvu he ha I named :r.:d lie tr.ok a leaf from the will of .lames ( '. Fair. "I do solemnly de, l.uv that I am v.r.t married." he said in the will: "also that 1 have no children other than the live ir.tir.rd. Nevertheless. I make the following provision: I givo ami beqm ath unto such person as shall bo found, proved, ami established t he my surviving wife or widow, who: '! the marriage he found to have tal.M place before or after the ex "cut ion of this will, the sum of .SiM. and to each and every jerson who shall he foil ml and established to be my child by birth, adopdon. acknowledgment, or otherwise, before tr after tho execution of this will, J. And I do hereby omit to make any further provision for ;iny of the perfoin men'loned in t!;U paragraph.'' San Francisco h'xamiiici-. Tlie Sword. Mr. Bavershxk. an English scholar, recently lectured in London upon the hword. detailing some of the countless legends and superstitions with which that weapon was surrounded in the days when lighting was the principal occupation of life. So highly was the FV. ord esteemed that Mohammed, in the Koran, declared it to be "The key to liea von and ltell." The warrior or knight pi ve a name to Iiis sword; lie vowed at the altar never to draw it in a false cause; it was his companion and friend, and descended from father to son for many generations. It is no wonder that in those superstitious days legends gradtially clustered about it. and were believed. One sword, named Brother of the "Lightning, had a golden hilt inscribed .with magic words. In times of peace these were said to be illegible, but before a battle "they glowed red as Wood." It was believed, too, that a sword lifter Ion? use acquired a life of its own. Many famous swords were said to utter cries before battle, and after a 'weapon killed fivescore men it became blool-hungry and leaped out of its scabbard at the approach of a foe. Certain swords were said to refuse to give a wound in a bad cause; anions these was the brand Excalibur, which was pi veil to Kin? Arthur l3 a spirit, and which IMchard Coeur de Lion professed to own. i The family of Conycrs, in England, won their estates and have held them for centuries by virtue of their possession of an old falchion with which, according to tradition, they asserted that i knight, their ancestor, slew the faanous Dragon of Want ley. There are no knights nor dragons now. but the family still cherishes the falchion. In the East a superstitious reverence Is still paid to the sword. The Daimios of Japan, when they voluntarily surrendered their ranks kept, as a rule, the wonderful blades which had been handed down from father to son, in nome cases for more than a thousand years, and which had absorbed, as they lielieved, some of the character ami life of the family that had owned them. We look upon these superstitions as Idle and foolish. We live in an age of peace. A man goes out to light the battle of life not with a sword but with with his wit and ton sue. Does he use 'these in no false cause, but only for truth and honor? Experiments with 1 Juliets. 1 In a lecture on the effects of rifles, Prof, llorsley of Loudon, bavins showed some photographs of bullets in llisht, demonstrated that in front of every bullet is a paraNilic curve of compressed air, while behind it are a series of little eddies of air rushing into the vacuum created by the llisht of the nnisslle. A tin canister was taken, and ti ten-grain bullet bavins a velocity of three thousand eisht hundred feet per tecond fired throush Jt; there were two email holes in the canister. The professor nmw Idled a canister with some wet, soft substance, put oi a lid and iired guln, the lid of the canister Hew off, showing that the bullet in its passase caused the hydro-dynamic effect to be communicated risht to the outside particles. An empty skull was then fired throush, two small holes beins the result, and, afterward, a skull tilled with water was t mi ted in the same manner, when the skull splintered and gaped. These demonstrations show that when a bullet is fired throush a brain tue substance is forced In all directions with violence and great pressure against the skull; ho has also proved by experiment that after the shock of a bullet throush the brain the heart will begin again irregularly, spasmodically, but tili It will begin again, though the Jungs will not. Prof. Horsley lelieves fthat If a mxui were shot .through the

head and treated first as if he were a drowned person until such time as trephining could to performed, his lifo might bo saved.

Why Men Stand. We are so accustomed to standing uprisht as a natural attitude that few of us think what a special complex mechanism is required for this purpose. A moment's consideration will show that the ordinary explanation of the erect position (the center of gravity to be directly above the feet) is insufficient. When a man is suddenly shot, whether from the front or behind, he drops on his face, for the truth is that there Is much more weight in the front of the spinal column than behind it. The fact is that when we are standing a large number of powerful muscles (both front and back) are simultaneously at work, the effects of their action being to neutralise each other. Thus, the legs would fall forward were it not tha; they are kept vertical on the feet by the strong tendon .the "Achilles") at the back of the heel. At the same time the muscles of the thigh are tightened so as to prevent us taking a sitting position, and tin muscles of the bark are pulled tens- o that the trunk does not stoop forward. The head is prevented from dropping on the cliest by the ligaments In lie nape c the iv:-wi:. That the upright is not its normal position i easily shown by tue fact that a man nods as he falls asleep: for as sioji as the controlling nervous force is deadened the head drops forward by its own weight, only to be pulled back in position again with a jerk when the brain becomes suddenly aware of an uuuual attitude. Scot tish American. A Mouse Engi Heering. "While digging holes for telegraph poles at Byron. Me., said a Western Fnion man. "I became interested in watching the ingenuity and perseverance of a mouse. lie fell into one of tlie holes, which was four and a half feet deep and twenty Inches across. The first day he ran around the bottom of the hole, trying to find some means of escape, but could not climb out. The second day he settled down to business, lie began steadily and systematically to dig a spiral groove round and round the inner surface of the hole with a uniformity ascending grade. 1 Ie worked night and day, and as be got. further from tlie bottom he dug little pockets where he could either lie or sit and rest. Interested witnesses threw in food. "At tlie end of two weeks the mouse struck a rock. This puzzled him. For nearly a day he tried to get under, arjnd or over the obstruction, but wifiiout success. With unllinchiiig pa t'u nee he reversed his spiral anil Trent on tunnelling his way in tlie opposite direction. At the end of four weeks he reached the top. and probably sped away to enjoy his well-earned freedom. Iiis escape was not seen. When his food was put in in the morning he was near the surface, but at night the work was seen to be complete, and the little engineer, whose, pluck and fkill had saved his life, had left." New York Sun. Out of the Mouth of Habe. The park of genius shows itself early in life, and my friend in Wobuni has a little girl just beginning her career at school who already exhibits sublime ilights of intellect. One blustering, lowering day the teacher asked the school chihlrui to write their iinpressious of tlie weather. Tlie little tots struggled for some time with their imaginations, and in ma ivy cases the result was nil. But not so with my friend's bright little daughter. She sat near tlie window and watched th onfall ins leaves dashed hither and thither by the ficklq autumnal breezes. Then she was seen to write something "upon her slate, and when the teacher approached, the child triumphantly exhibited this brief but wise composition: "The world is full of wind." Boston Globe. A Lawyer's Ilreach of Confidence. A queer case is reported from Sydney, Australia. A man was convicted by a jury of having tried to poison his wife with arsenic. His lawyers obtained a reconsideration of the sentence by a commission appointed by the Legislature, consisting of two doctors and a lawyer, .which pronounced him innocent, the doctors voting down the hnvyer, who thought him guilty. Tlie man was set free in consequence. Subsequently one of his lawyers, moved by conscience, told another member of the bar that the man had confessed his guilt to him at the time of the trial, and the matter was brought before the Legislature. Lawyers and clients Iiavr? been arrested and are to Tie prosecuted for conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice. Communications between lawyer and client are apparently not privileged in Australia. A Bargain. A doctor, who occasionally walked In crooked pathsand never went to church, was called to see a pious and orthodox old clergyman who had been taken sudIy ill. "Am I going to die, doctor?" asked the parson. "Well, I guess not this time," said the doctor. "We will make a bargain you keep me out of hell anil I'll keep you out of heaven!" An Ancient Shoe. A resident oM5rownsville, Me., has a shoe that same over in the Mayflower. It is of the toothpick variety, made of a curious looking grot a silk, with ttes over tlie instep. An Egg Iiiko n. IHimh-IIcIl. A Pa n bury hen has laid an egg tho shape of a dumb-bell, the connecting link being the only jHirtion out of pro portion One of the spheres contained the yolk and tha other tLc whiU

-t. tr i a The corner stone for tle now dormitories at the Fniversity of lVnnsylvania lias just been laid. The United Hebrew Charities Society of New York gave work to öo,ouo persons during the past year. The New Orleans Picayune devoted two columns to an effort to j'love that We were in no danger from earthquakes. Thirty-one knots were made by the 1'orban. tlie latest ' French sea-going torpedo boat, in her trial trip at Havre recently. A proposal has been made that v. national exposition be held in Washington in r.tm to celebrate the centennial of the Capital City. Six hundred crates of celery were shipped from Muskegon. Mi h.. to Chicago the other day. The v. eight of It was ;;.",m! pounds. There are colored twins In Futuani County, Connecticut. 1 years old. with red hair. P.aiJey, the circus man, has sought in vain to get them. Tlie IYcton. the largest tank :'l steamer ever bui'd, has just been completed at West Hartlepool. She i-: U. feet iong by is broad and .".l1 j deep. Ten steamers for the China trade, aggregating 'Jo.ink tens, were turned out by one Creenuek firm in nine months recently. Tins is a record for quick wo:k. The headlights from the locomotive engines on .Maine railroads attract the deer from the forest, and numbers of the animals are being killed by the engines. The first colo'vd man to work on a street car in Detroit was recently appointed mot innan on one of the trolley cars running on the principal route in that city. According ton Paris paper tlie crown of the King of Portugal, which was reretitly repaired by a jeweler, is the most costly in the world, being valued at $i;.IN.)0,OUO. Africa is to be triangubi ted from the Cape of Cood Hope to Cairo. Dr. (Iii!, astronomer royal at Cape Town, luts rropared the plans and Cecil Ithodes Is backing him up. Seven hundred Berlin journalists are to have their pictures printed in a volume which Justav Iahms has written and which is to ive an inside view of modern Cernian journalism. Large coal deposits have been found in Suderoe, one of the Faroe islands. A French company Is going to work on them, having obtained a concession from the Danish lovernment. Kuss-ia is soln? to send astronomical expeditions to tlie month of tlie Ainoor river and to Nova Zembia to observe the total eclipse of tlie sun that wii take place on .Inly g7 of next year. In imitation of tlie electric lighting of Jedneys channel, it is proposed to i-stablish electric liuMit buoys in the Thames up to the London docks, so as to enable vessels to pass up by night. Frescoes representing the salutation of the Virgin ami tlie nativity, earlier than the reformation, have been found under the plaster of the parish church at Ashanfstcad, near Heading, England. Salmon packers on the Pacific roast are worried over the report that tlie Kassians are arranging for the establishment of several large salmon and herring canneries along the Siberian coast. As many as 2ÖS students are entered for the course in ".Modern Novels" which has been introduced Into the curriculum of Yale university. The course is more popular than any other in Yale. Those who know and love the Wordsworth country will learn with regret that the old rectory at Orasmore. wherein the Met prepared "Tlie Excursion" for the press, has loen razed to the ground. The Czar of Hussia has Issued a decree warning duelists that they will incur severe punishment, if they continue the practice. The royal displeasure will extend also to those who encatirage dueling. Russian scientific men have ascertained that out of Ö07 trees struck by lightning in the forests near Moscow Vm'1 were white popular. They advise farmers to plant poplars as natural lightning conductors. Indian forest Hies are terrible pests, tsome horses are driven mad by the presence of a single fly, and in driving along not unfreqiiently start kicking most violently, frequently running away with the carriage. Fred Harris, who was accidentally shot at I ronton, Ohio, has just died. An autopsy showed that the bullet went through his brain, struck the opposite side of the wall and rebounded, being imbedded in the center brain. Dr. C. F. Scott, Stale veterinarian of Wisconsin, has declared war on the llower called golden rod. He says that horses that cat it contract a peculiar disease resembling consumption, which is Incurable and causes speedy death. 15y the issue of the Apocryphal books early In November the publication of the revised version of tin scriptures, begun in 1S70, will be completed. Work was begun on tlie apm-rypha in issi, on the completion of the new testament. The sensations of great cold and great heat are the same, because the nerves an convey but one sensation, and heat is more dangerous and, therefore, it is more necessary that the nerves should be able to give a warning of It. Tlie total value of coke made last year In the Fritted States amounted In cost to more than JflL'.tHKi.bOO. N'.aeteentwentieths of American coke comes

from the Appalachian coal field-, while Pennsylvania produces three ticies ns much as any other State. A valuable armchair is in the possessionu of the Earl of Itadnor. It orginaliy cost .S'Ojhk) and was presented by the city of Augsburg to Emperor Rudolph II. of Cerinany about the year l,"7d. It is of steel and took the artist about thirty years to make. A Capuchin friar in the south of France named F.vther .loseph has been in the habit of firing off a cannon t attract congregations. Tin camion blew up reci inly, ki'lin i a man s n:e distance ort, and the friar was fined L'oo francs for "lwüiiv i(!e through imprudence."

Laws have been enacted in itelgium prohibiting tlie hunting of frogs. The Belgium hunters, however, have found it easy to continue their occupation Iii the neighboring country of Holland. Recently, in one day. these hunters sent as many as iN.mu frogs legs to Paris. As these delicacies bring from 4 to Ö cents apiece, the calling is a paying one to s -:ne of the homers. The phrase "to die in the last ditch' is stat-d by an English authority in such matters to he an Americanisr.!. originating during the civil war. In fact, ii was tivsi used by William. Prince of Orange, who. during the war with France, was asked what he would ; do hi ease (he troaps of Holland Were defeated in tile field, and he replied: "I will die in the last ditch." An interesting letter, the last written by the American explorer. Clave, news of win se death on the Congo was received in dune last, has rceen'iy been brought to light. Jnit Mr. 'lave claims to have discovered the veritable tree under which was placed the heart of Dr. Livingstone. The tablet sent by Mr. and Mrs. Bruce was fastened to a tree six miles from the real tree. She Bid Agrinst Herself. A lot of people were present at an auction sale of Japanese goods recently. "How much am I bid for this exquisite vase";" asked the auctioneer, holding it above his head. "Five dollars." responded an elderly lady, sitting in one of the front seats. "That's a shame," cried tlie man with the hammer. "This vase, as a work of art, is woiili four limes that sum. Why. look at it. Will an intelligent audience allow such a sacrifice':" "Six dollars," came in the same woman's voice. "Well, well, well! Can't you fee t!u;t this is a treasure, and you stand here and allow it to be pven away for such u paltry sumV" "Eight dollars." Again it was the same bidder speaking. Eight dollars! The very idea: ejaculated the auctioneer. "I never saw the like. Come, what is the meaning Of this? One of the Mikado's especial designs slighted in sin h a manner! It is a reflection on our taste." "Nine dollars," said the .solitary biddor. "It Is too costly, too precious, and too rare in pattern. Wake up, or I'll put it back in the box." 4,Ten dollars." the woman said. "Well, it doesn't seem as if can get any more, so here it goes. Ten dollars once, twice, throe times! Sold to the Pldy there at that shameful figure." Tho lady stepped up. paid for and recelved her parcel, and departed, apparently without noticing the smile oi the audience. Ohio State Journal. Think of the Future. Despite all that has been urged In behalf of sensible forest supervision in this country, the ruthless destruction goes on almost unabated. Only about a quarter of the timber cut year by year has its place supplied by new growth. It is easy to see how short a time will elapse at this rate before the land i bare and the streams dried up. Mr. Fernow. chief of the forestry division of the United States Department of Agriculture, estimates the value of our timber land at a thousand millions of dollars. Surely this is a property wornh caring for. Two plans for helping to put things on a sound basis have lately been pro posed. Mr. Fernow advocates a law es tablishing an American college of forestry. Prof. Sargent, of Hartford, suggests the establishment of a chair of forestry at West Point, with the view of ultimately using the army in part to preserve the forests. Perhaps both ideis might be carried out independently with good results. Certainly all possible educational means should be used to place our people on a level as to information wit.ii those of France and fionnany. Forest fires alone are said to destroy ten million dollars' worth of timber annually. Intelligent forest wardens could prevent much of this. Waste the greedy cutting of large and small trees at one sweep- destroys more than fires. If we are to have any forests left at all. the United States ('ovornmeiit and the several States must push vigorously the policy of founding ami maintaining forest preserves. The Deepest Sea. Heretofore the deepest sounding of the ocean has been forty-six hundred and fifty-live fathoms, mur Japan. But the survey ship Penguin, sent out by the British ('ovornnient. has found a deeper spot. The sounding wire broke at forty-nine hundred fathoms, when bottom had not been reached. This new deepest depression in the earth's crust lies exactly south of the Tonga, or Friendly, isles, e.nd almost on the Tropic of Capricorn. I Keen y of the MoiiKtry. It Is probable, as Sydney Smith observes, that the decay of memory in old men probably proceeds as frequently from the very little interest they take in what is passing around them as from any mental decay. The mind, as well as the body, requires constant exercise to keep It in a healthy state.

SALT AS A STIMULANT.

AIcoTiol Will Have No Allurements for Jlau in the Near Future. When the food of the future is onco In vogue, the food dispensary, licensed by the government, will long since have supplanted the butcher shop and the grocery store. We'll breakfast and lunch and dine by prescription at a cost of 1 or 10 cents a day per capita. Doubtless our houses won't be heated and supplied with power from a Keely motor at a, penny a day additional, but the chemical or artificial food of the future is already a moral certainty. For does nm Fhimmarion describe it in "Omega." and has ict Berthclot. its chief apostle, been elevated from the laboratory to the foreign ollice of France V Civeu the formula for our food, says Berthclot. the father of ihe artificial food idea, and why not prescribe it from the ch. -mist's'.' Surely the nitrogen and carbon of the bee fsteak may not be as grateful to tin palate if absorbed from a capsule or masticated in a tiny tablet, hue the bones and the blood., the fiesh and the sinews will be just as w.'l supplied with their essential material, their own special foods, provided always the proseriptioii is right in proportion, and, after all. the pleasures of the table have ages on end been absorbing too much of tjo time and inclination of man and woman. Wien the era of chemical food comes we shall have done with symposia and supper parties, Welsh rabbits and golden bucks. There are certain elementary foods which a man can't d without. He must absorb, or eat and drink, if you please, carl mil and nitrogen and calcium for his bones. Without going too much into dry detail, lie must absorb or receive each day. to repair the waste tissues, calcium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and sodium. There are other trilling chemicals, like phosphorus, which is an awful thing to burn one's self with, which the well-fed man needs. But he could get along without It. He could get along without sodium, were it not lor the fact that salt is chloride of sodium, and nobody can got along without salt. It isn't a simple, an dement, but it is absolutely indispensable. When the era of the chemical food sets in we'll all be in the habit of stopping morning and evening at our favorite dispensaries for a bracer of salt. New York Herald. Bought Jlcr Ow: (ioivü. They tell a story of an unfortunate society woman who, being terribly pushed for a gown to wear at a groat occasion, sold seven gowns for tin? pric of one to Mine. X. Among those ?owns was one hardly rumpled, and which, though very magnificent, had evidently been worn at most only once. This dross Mine X. sold as a model to Mine. Y.. who was the soch'ty woman's dressmaker, and who had been obdurate about making another tiling for the poor little woman without cash down. When this "model" came In she saw a. chance for bij: return of money, so she compromised with her customer, and a greet I to let her have a model dress, just imported, for a very low figure. Whereat the poor woman paid all the money she had received for aU her dresses, and out Mine Y brought the IikmIcI.- The poor woman talkel herself blue in the face, hut she could not say anything 1o protect lnrself without botrayint; her dealing; with Mine. X.. so poor thing, she lanee! in her old frock after all, having swapped all her other gowns for the privilege. Cincinnati Enquirer. A New Kind f Pie. During the recent visit to southern Ohio I came across a delicate dish which I think it worth while to present to an epicurious public, esiecia7ly that part of the said public which does its eating in New England. This dish consisttd of what is locally known as a "layer pie," and was built out of pumpkins and cranberries. That is. an open front or "unkivered" pumpkin pie aa inch in thickness was laid as a foundation, and upon this was placed a cranberry pie, on top of which was superimposed another pumpkin p!e of the sann proportions as the foundation pie. The work of construction being completed, the pie was cut as a jelly cake would be cur. and liner eating I am nt a loss to think of. I may add to this connection that this composite pie of marvelous loathsomeness was not partaken of at but one nual. It was srved at breakfast, dinner and supper, and didn't taste bad between meals. -New York Sun. A C'otl Kxeuse. Down to Charles H.'s reign womMi were not permitted on the English stage, and their parts were taken by men. Kynastoii was to act thus in the "Maid's Tragedy," and. not being ready, the curtain did not rise. His majesty, losing patience, sent t know the meaning of the delay, and was told by the manager that "the queen was not shaved yet" Three Ages of Women. Often you will lind a in yir old girl in a family who is brighter than all her ohh'f xisters put together. (litis are brighfest nt 10, prettiest at Id, ami most sensible when they begin to loik like their mothers. Atchison Ciobe. INditicn! Emblems. In a Kentucky town where the local issue was the running at large of .iogs in tho street one party headed its ticket with 1'he picluro of a roting hog and the other adopted the portrait o Washington. Americans in London. A calculation recently made gives the number of Americans in England, more or less resident in Indoii, at 00,000; twice as many as there are Frenchmen, four times as many as there aro lUlluus, and so on.

TflUtVlPET CALLS.

Ham's Utra Sound a Warning Xot to tlie Uureilofmc J. "j EI' land ttow- , A4 h i'-ithmlikam: A-r J ; honey has giants U'S . ?x rfMn it. k iP Tl!o devil has I i 2. n3 whose fa leu is a, I M'yVJ.T m.:u!erat'drihker. It nev.-r hurt X'-M V'fi truth anv to be The man who i kKl r truth any ! be believes nothing never am etti.s to much. A goad prayer nieet'.ng always begins before the bell rings. A cohl diurc'i can only be we. d by fire that comes from Cod. Evrything we do will be great when it is what Cod wants d- i Fortune cannot change us. I: can only being on: vhat ::: in u. The man who hates the Bible ivj-it gom rally Iris ums; iva-- n t-. The devil t tikes a pan iti the talk when pride and fiartery m.-et. Every life has unfinished t 'v--rs in ; it that wore begun t; 'ppo v 1. J Prove that liter., is :;. devil. e.::d tho I saloon-keeper will be y..;ir tV: :' I. j If you are not against the saleon. I "what are you uoing in too ci.iiiv.i Z Doing good win be fouml nt-ev profitable in th.'eüd than digging gold. The ni i.nent we d cid to f -rsake sin, we can count on dd fr h dp. That man is dying who--e I if. is not greater to-day than u was yc-erday. Job sinned not wiih his to:r: because there was no sin in his heart. I No matter what kind of a lottse truth, -lives In, it is always built on the rook. A stingy man can get religion, but he can't grow in grace and stay that way. No man can be a. leader who I: a. 5 not tlie courage to sometimes stand alone. ! The man who ha s never Pern ashamed of himself is still a stranger , himself. Cod-made kings are sure to come tothe throne, no matter where th -y begin life. The devil's claws an none tlie loss sharp when hidden by the cloak of religion. Every man is a robber who takes from another anything Cod wants him to have. Nobody can tell what a man will doIll a horse trade by ihe noise he makes in church. The man who fears fhvl is nor afraid to walk in the dark, but he fears to -walk alone. G'od still lias plenty of angels ro minister to those w ho resist the devil until he leaves them. Scandals and crimes in the newspapers tire helping the levil about as much as the hypocrites in church. Just as surely as we seek first the kingdom of Crodand His righteousness, will Cod supply nil our other needs. The man who sits down to wait for a golden opportunity to knock at his door will need a thick cushion on hia chair. Many boys are save;l when their fathers are wrong, but the child stands a poor chance when its mot her Is wrong When a preacher spends more timo In preaching than he does in praying, he is notdoin Gud's work as lie wants it done. The devil is not throwing many stones at the preacher who lias to jKHind the Bible to keep his congregation awake. It is better to have only a little honest meal in the barrel than to sit down to smoked meat That should be returned to somebody's smoke house. What Victoria C.mlri Do. As a matter of fact, says London TitBits, our sovereigns have rarely taken any active part in politics sitwe Ceoig Ill.'s time, but they could still do some? vry astonishing tilings if they -hse. The queen culd dismiss every Tommy Atkins in our army, from the o:nmand-or-in-chiof to the youngest drumimr boy. She could lisband tlie navy in the same way. ami sell all our ships, stores and arsenals to the first eus.omer that cairn along. A ting nitirely tn her own responsibility, she eouhi declare war against any foreign oiintry, or make a present to any foreign power of any part of the -mpive. She 'otild make every man. woman and child in the country a pt or of the realm, with the right, in the -aso of males who are of ag. to a sat in ihe house f lords. With a single wonl she could lismiss any government that happened to be in pow-r. and -ould. it is boliovnl. pardon and liberate all the criminals in our jails. Thos are a few of the things the piceli could lo if she liked: but it is not necssary to say that her majesty nv-r acts in matters of stab. exopt on the advice of the government for the time being. Stoppe! thv I'anie. One night at a Juulon theater sumo od its and nds of scenery took lire, and a very perceptible odor of burning alarmed the spectators. A panic seemed to be imminent, when an actor appeaivd on the stage. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "compose yourst lvs. There is no danger -1 give you my word of honor there is no danger." The audience did not seem reassured. "Ladles and gentlemen." continued the comedian, rising to the iiecssities if the occasion, "confound it all: do you think if there was any danger I'd bo here?" Tlie panic -ollapsed. Sarlanaia!it Idke! His Toil Hr. The wine list of Sardanapalu lias been found on a terra eotta tablet and contains ten kinds.