Bloomington Courier, Volume 2, Bloomington, Monroe County, 14 May 1895 — Page 2

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BOBBY SHAFTOE.

NE DAT I WENT out fishing with Uncle Will I went and Tom went, and auntie went. We fished from a boat. Auntie caught some fish and uncle caught lots. Brother Tom tried to but couldn't. I did not want to catch any. the poor things .gasped so. What I liked was the sail and the picnic on the island under the trees. I wanted to take my doll with me. I should have chosen Lucy Lee, for she has a yachting suit and a sailor hat to wear; but mamma said that I was certain to lose overboard any doll I took, because I always did; and really that is quite true I forget, and she slips but that if I chose to take my little china boy, I might. I never seemed to care much for him. My little china boy is a sailor, with a hat on one side of his head, and black curls and a striped shirt, and an anchor on his necktie, and wide pantaloons, and slippers on his feet, and he Is dancing a jig; and on his stand is printed in gold letters the name: !: LITTLE BOBBY SHAFTOE. : He was bought at a fair, and sometimes I forgot all about him for weeks and sometimes I played wtth him -eveiy day. When mamma spoke of him now, I went and looked for him. He was lying in & corner of my closet, all covered -with dust: but I wiped him off, and so I should be sure not to lose him I tied -a, pink cord under his arms and made -a knot in the end. If I forgot my little sailor I should feel the big knot slip through nay fingers and remember and pick him up WelL we had been fishing a long, long -while, and uncle was rowing in to the island where we were to have lunched, when I thought I would give my sailor a bath. So I let him down into the "Water, and he came up all bright and shining, as if he were newly painted and frflded. and I called to Tom to look, xnil lot Mm down a train: and Tom laughed when I pulled him up. And just once more I let him down, holding the knot tight, and this time something seemed to catch him and pull him away from me, and the cord slipped through my fingers, knot and all, and auntie r"says I'd have gone over the side of the boat if she had not caught my skirts. "What is the matter?" I asked. "My sailor boy is drowned," I said, - .and I told her how. "Just as your mamma said!" said she. " "Well, you did not care much for him, i so don't cry." "I wouldn't have cared if he had been lost or been -given away," I said, "but sto see him drowned before my eyes is

so different. Just as he was so happy, too: He was fond of the sea. Oh, poor little Bobby Shaftoe!" And I cried quite --vhard. fWhat your mother is going to do With Buch an imaginative child, I can't think," said auntie. "No one is drowned. Tou've lost a bit of painted china. Do Jbe sensible." I tried to be; and on the whole, we liad a very pleasant day. All mamma .-said when I told her about Bobby was : "Don't you feel glad you did not take your doll?" feople don't lave much sympathy -with us, I'm afraid. They were much :nere Interested in the fish uncle and laantle had caught. One that he had .polled in just after I lost Bobby Shaftoe overboard was to be baked for dinner. Cook promised to clean and stuff It beautifully. Then auntie went to rest and lie down, and when I had taken off my big apron and been washed and "'. tidied. I sat down under a big tree with my crotchet work; but I could only N'tHnk of poor little Bobby Shaftoe dancing in the sun, and dipping into the water, and then gone.

"Only a bit of china," they told me. Somehow when a "bit of china" has a pretty face, and arms and hands, and legs and feet, it will make you feel as if tt was alive just a little and I was crying again, when I saw Jane, the' upstairs girl, runnningdown the garden path. "Kiss Kitty! Miss Kitty!" she was crying. "Do come! Cook wants to show you such a funny thing!" Of course, I went with her at once. Auntie, mamma and Tom were all in the kitchen, standing about a table. Cook had opened the fish and cleaned It, and made the stuffing, and now the -fish lay shut up again in a nice clean -towel. "It's a big one, miss, isn't it?" asked -cook. "Yes," I said, not much interested. "And it has a big mouth," said the cook. "Look till I open it for you." Saying that, she opened, not the anouth, but the whole fish, and there, 'inside of it, lay something all blue and S white and gilt and shiny my little "Bobby Shaftoe, and nothing else, with the string tied to him yet! "Just where I found him, miss," said 'the cook; "and as your ma says you. : lost him while you were out fishing, it's - plain the fish swallowed him, and then swam around the boat and let your uncle catch him. Sure, the crayther, I've -no doubt, thought he was alive." Then she lifted Bobby out of the fish, and washed him nicely for me, and ' dried him on the roller towel; and everybody else laughed a great deal. ' But as for me, I could not even speak, was so astonished and thankful. I put Bobby on the mantel-piece in my room, and I keep him nicely dusted now. Tom always calls him Jonah, and it was a kind of a miracle, too, only not so solemn, that happened to Bobby - Shaftoe. Your Birthday. Born on Monday, fair in face; Born on Tuesday, full of God's grace; Born on Wednesday, the best to be Born on Thursday, merry and glad; Born on Friday, worthily given; Born on Saturday, work hard for a Miving; Born on Sunday, shall never know want. Furniture Polish. For French polishing cabinetmakers -one: ' Pale shellac, 1 pound; mastic, 1 2-5 ounces; alcohol of 90 per cent standard, 1 to 1 1-5 pints. Dissolve cold, with :Xrequent stirring.

BISMARCK'S TRAITS. How the Old Chancellor Came Out Ahead of a Stupid Hotel-Keeper. Perhaps the chief trait of his genius is to be found in his entire freedom from the preconceived notions, and in the limidness of his mind, which refused to submit to accepted fallacies, This tendency in early age earned fot him, of the dull pedantry and prim Philistines around him, the sobriquet of "Tolle Bismarck" the mad Bismarck; but later on it resulted in the complete demolition of the old system of diplomacy. For equivocation and downright .falsehood his powerful intellect substituted a kind of outrageous frankness, which bewildered and outwitted his adversaries. Nothing, however, marks his strong personality more vividly than intense hatreds and blind devotions with which he has surrounded himself. He had the courage to be himself, the power to rely upon himself and to look at things in the face, while his keen sense of humor enabled him to see clearly the vast array of sham and pompous pretense of public and private life. Never had madness more method than is shown by the originality of this strange being, half Mephistopheles, half dragon, who, before subduing to his iron will

the whole of European diplomacy, achocked and horrified the fogies of the old school with the inuendoes and insinuations, the sarcasms and stories, the gibes and jokes which he flung at their heads mercilessly and continually. The wigged and powdered pomp which covered diplomatic pretense and mendacity was torn aside the instant that Prince Bismarck got a grip of political realities, and his first appearance among the dignified excellencies of the German Diet constituted a veritable revolution. The incidents of his early relations with these empty-headed "importants sans importance" offer perhaps the most racy of the many anecdotes related in Prince Bismarck's own words In many cases by his Boswell, his faithful secretary, Dr. Moritz Busch. His first encounter at Frankfort was with his hostler, who, like all the good burghers of the Free City at that time, was intensely anti-Prussian. The old hotel where he put up, as Prussian delegate to the Diet, was not provided with a complete system of bells, and Bismarck asked for a hand bell, at least, wherewith to communicate with his valet But he was grufily told there was none to spare and that he must shift for himself. Early next morning the loud report of a pistol set all the guests in a panic, with the exception of Bismarck's servant, who explained that, as no bell was forthcoming, his master had summoned him by pistol shot Five minutes later the desired bell was placed within Bismarck's reach. FIGHT WITH A MORPHINE FIEND. A San Francisco Physician Has a Narrow Escape from Being Murdered. Dr. W. O. Wilcox, the demonstrator of anatomy in the California Medical college, had a narrow escape from death yesterday at the hands of a maddened morphine eater, says a San Francisco dispatch. Dr. Wilcox returned from the college of the faculty about 12 o'clock. In the patients' sitting room stood a young man of about 20 years of age, with that sallowness of complexion which indicates the excessive use of some deadly drug. "I detected that he was a morphine fiend," said the doctor, "and I told him he would have to go elsewhere. He begged I would give him only one 'shot' of the drug. I hesitated, when his man ner became threatening. He commanded that the request be complied with. On the operating table lay a keen-edged surgeon's knife with a sixinch blade. He possessed himself of it. "Give me morphine or I'll cut your heart out,' he hissed. "I thought of calling for help," said the doctor, "but I felt that it would precipitate matters. I stood near my drug case and the first object upon which my eye rested was a six-ounce bottle of chloroform. I quickly grabbed it and had hardly done so when the fiend made a lunge at me with the knife. I removed the cork and dashed some of the liquid into his face. It stopped him for a moment and in the interval I soaked my handkerchief with the fluid. He sprang at me again and the next instant I grabbed his right arm with my left hand and with the other held the saturated handkerchief over his mouth and nostrils. He struggled furiously, but as he was physically weak I succeeded in holding him long enough to give the chloroform a chance to act, when he sank to the floor. I then gave him a shot of morphine and when he regained consciousness he disclaimed all knowledge of his attack upon me and left the office I never saw him before and hope never to see him again." Population of Cities. J. G. I. wants to know the names of the ten largest cities in the T$rld according to population. The following is the list according to the best authority: London, 4,231,431; Paris, 2,447,957; Chicago, 1,850,420; New York, 1,801,739; Canton, 1,600,000; Berlin, 1,579,244; Tokio (Japan), 1,389,684; Vienna, 1,364,548; Philadelphia, 1,142,653; Brooklyn, 957,103. Birds as Weather Prophets. The birds are weather prophets. Fishermen and shepherds often are guided by tfce augury of birds, some of their actions so surely foretelling change of weather. When the rooks come home by day and Indulge in one of those mad and mazy dances, cawing loudly, this is a sure presage of coming rain. To keep paste from molding put two or three cloves In the paste pot while heated.

A FIERY FIGHTER. 1

HOW LIEUT -COL. BUTLER WON HIS MEDAL. He Commanded Many Campaigns Against the Hostile Tribes of Indians and Has Been In the Jaws of leatli More Thau Once. T WAS AT THE beginning of the civil war that congress authorized the striking of two thousand medals of honor to be presented "to such officers, non-commissioned officers and privates as shall .most distinguish themselves by their . i ui. gallantry in action and omer ulu.cllike qualities, during the present Insurrection." Later, congress directed that additional medals be struck from these same dies to be presented to soldiers who had "or who may hereafter most distinguish themselves In action." Under this enactment, a number of officers and privates in the forces that have been sent against the savages of the west have been adorned with the medals, and among these Lieut-Col-Edmond Butler, U. S. A. (retired), occupies a conspicuous place. It was for gallantry In the hard-fought battle of Wolf mountain, on Jan. 8, 1877, that Col. (then captain) Butler was awarded his stars and garters. The battle was one of a series in the campaign conducted by Gen. Miles against the confederated Sioux and Cheyennes under the daring leader, Crazy Horse, says the Illustrated American. The thermometer, on the day of the fight, registered twenty-eight degrees below zero, and the snow lay two feet deep upon the ground. The rf attle was turned in favor of Gen. Miles' forces when Capt. Butler led a victorious charge against a force of Indians who were flanking the United States troops on the left and rear. Capt. Butler had a horse shot from under him, but continued to lead the charge on foot. Gen. Miles, in his official report, recommended the brevetting of the captain for "this successful charge against superior numbers of hostile Indians strongly LIEUT.-COL. BUTLER, posted." Lieut. Butler was born In Ireland, March 19, 1827. He was appointed second lieutenant Fifth Infantry at the outbreak of the war, and detailed to accompany Gen. Baird (afterward in spector general) in inspection of Kansas and Missouri troops. In 1862, he was concerned in remustering and consolidating Kansas volunteers, and was officially complimented by Gen. Hunter for settling without resort to force "difficult and delicate" matters affecting Kansas troops. He was in New Mexico in 1862, and in Texas in 1864. He was promoted to a captaincy in 1864. and in 1865 he commanded an expedition against the Navajos, in which he inflicted severe loss upon them. In September, 1865, he received the formal surrender of Manoelito Grande, and sent two thousand prisoners to the reservation. In leters from his headquarters on Nov. Z6 and 17, 1865, Gen. Carleton wrote: "To Capt. Edmond Butler I owe many thanks. To the efficiency and straightforward course and the energy and good sense of Capt. B I owe a great deal of the luck I get credit for as a commander. In June, 1868, Capt. Butler was or dered in attendance rn Gen. Sherman. In December, with a small Infantry force, he exhumed the bodies of the killed in the Forsythe affair, on the Arlckaree Fork, under the Are of the main body of Sioux and extricated his small force from a perilous position. He volunteered for the expedition against the Pawnees under Gen. Woods, and commanded the expedition after Gen. Woods was disabled by illness. In 1874 he served through the expedition against the Kiowas and Comanches, under Gen. Miles. In the campaign against Sitting Bull, he commanded the center at Cedar Creek, and In subsequent pursuit. He was shot at by Gall while relieving an outpost. At the close of the campaign of 1S77, in which occurred the battle of Wolf mountain, Gen. Miles wrote Capt. Butler as follows: "In leaving the regi ment, be assured you have the thanks and good will of its commanding officer for your hard service in the field and fortitude in action." Nothing in his service, however, touched the captain so deeply as a letter signed by every enlisted man in his company who was in the notable charge, thanking him for "the gallant manner in which he led the charge on the 8th of January, in which they had the honor of participating, and for the kindness he had shown them in so many different ways heretofore." Capt. Butler was promoted major in 1885, and was assigned to various posts until his retirement from active service in 1891, when he was admitted to the bar of Montana. He received the title of lieutenant-colonel in March, 1892. Col. Butler is the author of an "Essay on the Indian Question," honorably mentioned by the board of award of the military service institution for 1880. After the fall of Sumter, he wrote a series of articles In French for the Parisian and Brussels papers, presenting the Union side: of the question to Continental Europe.

There jre fought 2,261 engagements during the war of the rebellion, )

EASTER IS AN OLD FEAST.

The Chinese Had a .Spring Festival 8,500 Years Ago. Few people have any idea that the originals of the many colored "eggs" which are now being distributed as Easter gifts have probably descended to us from the greatest of the "Chinese spring festivals," and can boast of an antiquity of more than 700 years before the Christian era. So there ap pears to be. no new thing, under th sun; and, although the magic eggs of today are merely receptacles for a nondescript medley of bon-bons and bijoutere, they are a survival of one of the quaintest of old world customs. This practical method of disposing of East er eggs suggests that much of the ceremony connected with them is due to the celebration of the Easter feast, which succeeds the Lenten fast. That "an egg at Easter" is a very old proverb in this country is sufficiently shown by the fact that the pope sent Henry VIII. an Easter egg in a silver case; while an exact schedule of the personal expenses of Edward I. contains, against Easter Sunday, the suggestive item: "Four hundred and a half eggs, Is 6d." The price is as note worthy as the number. But the most remarkable feature of the usage is its international character. Thus in Russia it is customary to exchange visits and eggs on Easter day and "to drink a deal of brandy." Again, in Italy, dishes of eggs are sent to the priests to be blessed, after which they are carried home and placed in the center 6f the table. It is the correct thing for all the guests to eat one of them. The custom also exists in Spain and Germany, says the Home Journal, and generally among the Hebrews, Greeks and Persians in some form or another. BURIED TREASURE. An Old Negro Plows Up a File of Curious Money. Mr. E. M. Bass, of the well known house of E. M. Bass & Co., is counting a pile of Mexican and Spanish coins and trying to decipher the various descriptions and peculiar marks on them. Mr. Bass and his brother own a farm near Carrollton, and Friday the money was plowed up in the field by an old negro farm hand. The coins had been buried for years near the stump of an old tree, and their discovery was entirely accidental. The old man's plow turned one of the pieces of money out of the ground, and a little work resulted in the finding of over $100. The coin must have been buried fifty or more years ago, for the most recent date on any of the pieces is 1838. The oldest of the coins is a Spanish 25 cent piece, which bears the date of 1746. Many of the smaller coins have holes punched in them and look as if they had been worn strung around the neck of some person. The coins were brought to Atlanta yesterday by Mr. Bass' brother and given to him to dispose of. The old man who found them promptly reported it to Mr. Bass, who says he intends to give the proceeds of their sale to him, says the Atlanta Constitution. Many of the coins are very quaint .and there is no doubt many a collector of such things that would be delighted to get hold of them. MAlLtfMG A STAMP. How It Can Be Done Without Trouble or Discomfort. How many people know how to mail a stamp in a letter? Nine people out of ten stick it so carefully down that the recipient always loses his temper, and generally the stamp, in the effort to release it. It is really more exasperating than when the sender forgets altogether the stamp he should have enclosed, for then, at least, it is not wasted. Even the most extravagant of us seldom have souls above saving a stamp, for it is, strangely, far dearer to us than the two cents it represents. The tenth person sends it loose, which is well enough, providing t does not slip out unseen and vanish, as these totally depraved small things have a habit of doing. The proper way is a simple one. Cut with a sharp pen knife two parallel slits at the top of your letter and slip in your stamps, which will then travel as safely as if in a special paper case. Perhaps you have been in a country village where money orders and postal notes are unknown, and for some reason it becomes necessary to send change in a letter. Cut a piece of light cardboard the size of the envelope, and from this cut circular pieces the size of your coins. Insert the coins and paste a slip of paper across one or both sides. New Consumption Cure. United States Consul Gen. de Kay, at Berlin, reports that a New York doc tor has discovered the means of curing consumption, lupus, and perhaps cancer. The doctor announces in the German medical papers an extraordin aryaction of minute injections of pile carpine, a crystalized extract from the Brazilian jaborandl plant, on the lym phatic system. This, in a sense, com pletes the celebrated "heil serum," acting favorably on patients whom the serum does not cure. The key of the discovery is this: By successive injec tions of minute doses of pilocarpine in the veins he arrives at a gradual stimulation of the lymphatic system. That system increases the white corpuscles In the blood which, in some way not agreed upon, certainly overcomes par tlcles in the blood that produce dis ease. The report closes with a state ment of a case of lupus of twenty-two years' duration, regarded as incurable, which was relieved immediately after the first injection, and is now almost cured. It is Injurious to bathe within two hours of any meal.

WONDER OF RELATIONSHIP.

Committed Suicide After Finding He Was His Own Grandfather. In an old scrapbook which has been In the family of the editor of "Notes for the Curious" for twenty-five or thirty years, and which contains a number of clippings without . date, I find the following: "William Harman, who committed suicide at Titusville, Pa., a short time since, did so because some one had convinced him that he was his own grandfather! Here is a copy of the singular letter he left: 'I married a widow who had a grown-up daughter. My father visited us often, fell in love with my step-daughter and married her. Thus he became my son-in-law, and my step-daughter became my mother, because she was my father's wife. Soon after this my wife gave birth to a son, which, of course, was my father's brother-in-law, and my uncle, for he was the brother of my stepmother. My father's wife also became the mother of a son. He was, of course, my brother, and also my grandchild, for he was the son of my daughter. Accordingly my wife wa.s my grandmother, because she was my mother's mother. I was my wife's husband and grandchild at one and the same time. And as the husband of a person's grandmother is his grandfather, I was my own grandfather!' " Was it any wonder that the poor man rid himself of such taagled relationship? LOST ONLY ONE PAIR. Man Who Leased Skates Told Thackeray of but One Loss. Thackeray once asked one of the men who lets out skates on the Serpentine whether he had ever lost a pair through the omission to exact a deposit, and he replied that he had never done so except on one occasion, when the circumstances made it almost pardonable. A well-dressed young fellow was having his second skate fastened on when he suddenly broke away from the man's hands and dashed onto the ice. The next Instant a thick-set, powerful man was clamoring for another pair. "I shall nab him now," he cried, "for I am a dab at skating. He was a sheriff's officer in pursuit of his prey, and a very animating sight it was to watch the chase. He was, as he had boasted, a first-rate skater, and it became pres ently obvious that he was runnin. down his man. Then the young fellow determined to ran a desperate risk for liberty. The ice, as usual, under the hridffe was marked "dangerous." and he made for it at headlong speed. The ice bent beneath his weight, but he got safely through. The aheriff's officer followed with equal pluck, but, being a heavier man, broke through and was drowned. "His skates," said the narrator of the incident, "I got back after the inquest, but those the young gentleman had on I never saw again." Wild and Domestic Animals. The question as to what constitutes a domestic animal and whatsis meant by the term wild beast is becoming more and more complicated. For while, on the one hand, the supreme court of Maryland has recently decided that the cat is a wild animal within the meaning of the law, the supreme court of appeal in France has just issued a decree to the effect that a wild bull is a domestic animal. Thi3 remarkable decision has been rendered in connection with the question as to the illegality of bull-fighting, which has hitherto been quite as much of a national pastime in the South of France as in Spain and Portugal. Inasmuch as the court has now, once and for all, determined that bull-fighting is con trary to law and therefore criminal, no one need complain of this interpretation of the code, except for the prece dent that it affords of transforming wild beasts into domestic pets by legal procedure instead of by ordinary meth ods oi taming. llandy Weights and Measures. One quart of wheat flour is one pound. One quart of corn meal weighs eighteen ounces. One quart of butter, soft, weighs fourteen to sixteen ounces. One quart of brown sugar weighs from a pound to a pound and a quarter, according to dampness. One quart of white sugar weighs one pound. Ten medium-sized eggs weighs one pound. A tablespoonful of salt is one ounce. Eight tablespoonfuls make a gill. Two gills or sixteen tablespoonfuls are half a pint. Sixty drops are one teaspoonful. Four tablespoonfuls are one wineglassful. Twelve tablespoonfuls are one teacupful. Sixteen tablespoonfuls or half a pint, are one tumblerful. Saved from Perjury. In a case before a Paris court, in which a popular actress has had to appear as a witness, the judge seems to have shown considerable diffidence about asking the lady, as he was in duty bound to do, what was her age. Evidently he considered that such a question, put to a witness, would be a direct incitement to perjury, so he asked her her age before she had been sworn. "How old are you, madam?" he said. After a little hesitation, the lady owned to being twenty-nine years of age. "And now that you have told the court your age," continued the gallant judge, "you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." Dr. Buchanan, a New York wife poisoner, sentenced to execution three years ago, had fought his case clear up to the supreme court unsuccessfully. He professes to be greatly shocked by the result and probably win be. Japan seems to have stumbled upon Andy Jackson's pet political maxim and put it into active operation without a moment's hesitation.

PRINCE ERNEST.

A Royal Sapling Now on m Visit In th United States. Prince Ernest Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Ho'itein, Count of Stormarn, Dlthmarses and Oldenburg, head of the Augustenburg branch of the SchleswigHolstein family, who arrived In this country not . long ago on a visit, was born at Dolzig on Aug. 11, 1863. which makes him rather more than 31 years of age. In 1880 he succeeded to the rank and titles of his father, Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Hrtein. He derives some portion of his importance, apart from his own rank and the qual ities which render him popular and amiDUKE GUNTHER. able in his own dominions, from the fact that his eldest sister is the wife of the German emperor, another being married to Prince Frederlce Leopold of Prussia, College Graduates Debtwrs. Every college graduate is a child of the public, in debt to many people. "Why!" It will be urged "does he not pay his way?" No; no college student pays his way as the following makes plain: No American college Is or can be selfsupporting, and the higher its rank, the greater is the cost of the instruction which It gives. It is on this ground that these institu'iio.is ask. and expect from the general public legacies and gifts to increase their endowments and usefulness. The extra cost of college students beyond what they pay in extra fees varies from $50 to $400 a year. In a very few colleges this cost Is above $300, and In the reat mainrity it is between $150 and $250. The usual basis of the best American colleges Is to pay anywhere from $150 to $300 per annum for each college student over and above what It receives in the form of fees. As college Income Is provided In this country, the annual expenditure above fees for each student represents at least from $250 to $350, counting 200 students as a maximum. This extra cost is met by the endowments of each institution, and Is the part which the public provides in its equipment. This statement gives one a true idea of the position in which the higher education stands toward the whole country. It Is more dependent upon the generosity of the American people than any other of our institutions. The Father of Engraving. One of the remarkable old men of Philadelphia is John Sartain, who has been called the "father of engraving in America." He is 86 years old. but a very brisk and lively octogenarian. As a boy of 13 he was employed behind the scenes at Kemble's theater, and from that day to this he has gone on accumulating reminiscences of celebrities. He recollects Longfellow as a dandy, whose stock was so high that it bade fair to choke him. And he was on terms of intimacy with Poo and Thomas BuchanJOHN SARTAIN. an Read. Poe, Mr. Sartain says, was a man of great modesty, but once, when excited by drink, he shouted out tc Read: "Say what they will, I have written one poem, 'The Raven,' that shal, live forever." His Smile Went with the Pose. New York World: An amusing Incident occurred not long ago in a well known New York art school. The girl students were drawing from life a study of the "Dancing Faun." A good looking Italian boy was the model, and as he assumed the requisite pose hl face became wreathed in smiles. He was gazing directly at the class, and each girl imagined the smile was directed at her. "How very embarrassing," said a Long Island girl. "I wish to goodness he wouldn't grin at me." In spite of the Indignant glances cast at him the son of Italy continued to smile at the blushing girls. Presently a stolid German girl looked up and noticed the smile, which she imagined was aimed directly at her. "You schtop dot schmiling. We don't want you to schmile at us." The boy's figure instantly straightened up and he stood before the class the very impersonation of offended dignity as he said: "Ladies, I no smile at any one. I pose to you as ze 'Dancing Faun.' Ze smile goes wlz ze pose." Winter in China. It is not commonly known that the capital of China Is ice-bound flvo months out of the twelve, or that the stolid-looking Chinese could ever be graceful skaters. The Chinese use a very inferior style of skate, of their own manufacture a mere cRunk of wood arranged to tie on the shoe and shod with a rather broad strip of iron.