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Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON. INDIANA. WALTER a BRADFUTE, - - PuBUsaa Of 26,000 criminals arrested in Paris, 16,000 had not attained the age of twentv, Lorj Salisbuey, the English Premier, is a man with a great head. He "wears a No. 8 hat.

In Borne there are 30 cardinals, 35 bishop, 1,469 priests, 2,215 nuns, and 3,000 monks, friars, candidates, etc. Omttsg to the failure of the rice crop in Cores the Government has prohibited the exportation of other cereals. Ox one of the foggy days in London recently the output of one of the gas companies there was 105,046,000 cubic feet of gas. A block of firewood was recently ro ceived at Portland, Ore-, -hat was cut from a tree which was 150 feet high to the tirsc limb.

It is not alone the Irish who are coming to this country. During last year 51,649 Norwegian and Swedish immigrants land at Castle Garden. The disastrous floods of the past two years in Georgia are attributed to the -wholesale destruction of forests at the headwaters of the rivers affected.

A New York girl accepted a German baron s offer of marriage only on condition that ho would sign a contract permitting her to retain her own fortune. The Pacific roads are using a rotary snow plow this winter which will eat its way through a drift fifteen feet thick and half a mile long in twenty minutes. Capt. Frisk, of South Windham, Me., who has been almost totally deaf for the past two years, during a violent sneezing attack a few days ago regained his hearing. A Lewiston man has invented a device for stopping runaway horses. It blinds the anif"ftl by clapping something over his eyes. The mechanism operates frm the driver's seat C. R- Herr, of Stamford, N. T., is said to be the possessor of the gold watch which Major Andre of revolutionary fame offered as a ransom to his captors if they would let him go free. It is said that Sing Milan, of Servia, would be delighted to abdicate if the German Government would guarantee him an income of 18,000 a year. Bismarck is believed to consider the price rather high.

It cost a county in Nebraska $2,893.25 to run the poor farm last year. As here were but two paupers, the daily oosts per capita was slightly more than $3 about the same as a first-class hotel would charge. They have succeeded in photographing the germs of yellow fever, which is a great step forward. They are now trying to photograph a tacky sore throat, and all' lovers of science will wish them success.

With a dozen confederates he seized on

a Spanish vessel, landing the passengers in Hayti. Being pursued as a pirate by Spanish men-of-war he eventually reached China and went thence to San Francisco. The King and Queen of Italy presented a splendid diamond bracelet to Mme. Crispi, the wife of the Prime Minister, as a New Year's gift. In the

center is a horseshoe, composed of

twenty brilliants, all picked stones, and

these inclose one superb s&pphire, which fills the horseshoe.

A Spanish magistrate, shocked and exasperated by repeated food adulteration, has issued a proclamation allame

with righteous wrath, that "all wines,

groceries, and provisions which, upon analysis, are proved to be injurious to health, will be confiscated forthwith and distributed to the different charitable institutions."

A correspondent of the London Times savs that the word "teetotal" had its origin through a stuttering temperance orator, who urged on his hearers that nothing less than "te-te-te-to-talw abstinence would satisfy temperance reformers. Some one at once adopted "teetotal" as a suitable word, and it sprang into general use. Gen. George A. Sheridan, the lecturer, political orator, and wit, has a superstition, at which he laughs and scoffs, but which is as inflexible as law in its regulation of his habit. If he happens to don a stocking or garment wrong side out ho will wear it in that manner till the close of the day, or, if it

be an outer garment, will exchange it for another. Coi. Bobkrt G. Ingersoix, among his other multifarious duties, as lawyer, cattle grower, lecturer, telegraph director and after-dinner speaker, has undertaken to run a silver mine. He is President of a company which owns and operates a mine and quartz mill at Silver City, N. M. Its definite and classical location is in what is known as "Legal Tender Hill." A writer on etiquette has just paralyzed the reading world with the announcement that ''birth does not make the gentlemen, though it helps." That's 'right, that's right. It helps. If one will but stop and think it will be noticed that the gentleman or ladies either, for matter of that who at some period of life have not been born are extremely rare. Extremely.

Jacob L Tome, of Port Deposit, Md., who recently announced he would give $500, COO to endov a seminary where boys and girls can be taught to earn an honest living, has materially expanded, his scheme. He will set apart $2,000,000 as an endowment fund and will erect buildings sufficient to accommodate at least 500 poor children, where they can acquire a practical education to fit them for the duties of life.

I HIS WIFE WON HIS MOSEY.

Slie Disguised HersoH and Broke Him at Baclen-ltaden. R. T. Simmons, an old operator in the Titusville oil regions, tells this story to a correspondent of the Philadelphia Times: "One day I received a foreign letter post-marked Baden-Baden. It was a hastily written note from Mrs. Dols:m, inclosing a draft for $1,001) and asking me to come to Baden-Baden. I was doing little but enjoying myself, so I packed a few tilings, and in two days ai'ter receiving the letter was on the ocean bound to Baden-Baden. Arrived there I found my old friend and partner, Dobson, in a deplorable state. He had taken to drinking heavily and playing with great recklessness. In six months he had wrecked himself physically and lost his entire fortune, amounting 'in all to $250,000. I found him confined to his bed in a hotel and his mind bordering on madness, "Then Mrs. Dobson told me a strange story and, moreover, produced corroborative evidence of the truth of it. She was a large black-eyed woman, find although just a trifle masculine in her features was strikingly handsome and a woman of uncommon business qualifications. She had studied for the lyric stage and had sung in several public concerts, but, inheriting a fortune, nhe abandoned the stage and afterwards married Dobson. Her story was most peculiar. After coining to Baden-Baden with her husband lie became a slave to liquor and being a reckless gambler, with plenty of money, was soon a habitue of the gambling rooms and losing large sums nightly. At times he would not appear at home for a week and always intoxicated.

"To save her husband and Ids fortune Mrs. Dobson had to resort to a maguiti-

! cent strategy. She was a fine card-

player herself, and set out to win ner husband's money at the gaming table. She cut off her beautiful hair to help along her disguise, and arraying herself in the outfit of a Baden-Baden sport she frequented the gambling rooms and played against her husband at every opportunity. Dobson was a 'high roller and paid his losses like e thoroughbred, and one night when he was especially maudlin Mrs. Dobson went home with $20,000 of his money. In three months she won his last cent,

I something like $150,000, and produced

her bank-book to show me where sue had it deposited. "Poor Dobson knew that he had lost his money, but never suspected that his wife woit and had it safe in a bank. He had become brutal toward her in his drunken frenzy and once or twice had threatened her life. She knew I had some influence over him and had sent for me to help restore him to his proper senses and get him back to the United States. I got Dobson weaned from the bottle, and when he was in proper frame of mind told him the story that his wife had told me. He went to his wife, who was then ill from overexertion and anxiety, asked her forgiveness, and promised in the most earnest manner to make amends for his past shortcomings, He seemed to be the most contented man in Baden-Baden, but two weeks later, while in a public park, he fired a pistol ball into his brain and died almost instantly."

The Bev. D. H. Hand, of Sandwich, Conn., is a muscular Christian who is handy with his lists. Ho was accosted the other night by a couple of footpads, when he promptly knocked one down and the other ran away.

There is considerable truth in the observation of the Eastman (Ga.) Journal that "the idea of teaching every girl to thump a piano and every boy to be a book-keeper will make? potatoes i a bushel in twenty years." Ovsr seventy million pairs of suspenders were made in the United States last year. That would give every man at least two pairs, and it; looks queer to see some men going around with a piece of clothes line girted about them. Portable electric lights, arranged to hang on a button of one s coat, and with a parabolic reflector to concentrate the light, with storage batteries weighing one and one-half pounds each, are made to enable persons to real in railroad cars by night. Ohio has a law reading: "Be it enacted, that whoever selK gives, or furnishes to any minor under fifteen years of age, any cigarette, cigar, or tobacco shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $25, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. A person convicted of any crime in China, except that of murdering one of the royal family, can lure a substitute to take the punishment, even if it is death. The rate of pay of these substitutes has lately advanced about 20 per cent, and the cauue is laid to the English. The tabl on which Noah Webster wrote his dictionary and the saddlebags in which he carried the manuscript of his famous spelling book when he i ode from State to State to aecnre the copyright, are preserved in the New Haven Colony Historical f Society rooms. PfiADO, the French assassin, it is now Mated, was a natural son of Gen. Prado, President of Peru from 187$ to 1870.

Gambetta died sis years ago. His memory is sincerely cheiished ia France. "Nothing," says a writer in the European edition of the New York Herald, "has been altered in his bedchamber. The bed on which he battled with the destroyer is strewn with flowers laid on it by loving hands, and on the wall still hang the withered wreath 3, the number of which increase every year." His old friends are fond of dwelling on his cheerful temper, his joyous laugh, his character so free from bitterness and rancor.

The a'ory is told that when Commodore Yan lerbilt asked Samuel Barton to take ve treasuryship of the steamship company he hesitated on the ground that he was not a book-keeper. "You can receive rioney, can't you?" asked the Commodore. "Yes," Mr. Barton replied meekly. "And pay it out when I tell you to do so?" continued the Commodore. "Yes." "And give me what's left over?" "Yes," "Well, that's book-keeping." And Mr. Barton became treasurer. He is now one of the executors of the will of the Commodore.

Cincinnati has the champion absentminded man. A gentleman living in the suburbs went in a store on Walnut street to make a few purchases. The only light in the store was a candle standing on the counter near the money drawar. After making his purchases he handed the proprietor a bill, and, after handing him the change,, the proprietor walked to the rear of the store to arrange something, when suddenly he was left in the dark. He started toward the counter, and, grouping around on it, found, not the candle, but the change. It struck him then that probably the man, in a fit of absent-mindedness, had taken the candle instead of his change. He started out after him, and, catching up with him, saw that he had the bundle in one hand and the candle in the other. After apologising for the mistake' the stranger took his change and gave back the candle.

Wellesley sophomore to Vcssar ditto I do think your class yell is just to lovely for anything! How did you get it up ? Vassar sophomore Oh, we were having a meeting for that purpose, and a mouse came gliding out of its hole. The yell was a kind of spontaneous affair. Burlington Free Press. A cold climb-it Shinning up the North Pole.

Dancing Girls of Sinm. Poised on tiptoe, bending their arms and limbs back as far as they will reach, and picking up bits of straw with their eyelids, and dancing girls of Bangkok are always exercising in the royal gymnasium. The new volume in the Zigzag series, 44 Journeys in the Antipodes," gives a very graphic description of the wonderful physical training of these girls, whose ages varv from five to

twenty yearn. The curious and subtle feat of picking up a bit of straw with the eyelids can be learned only by the youngest of them, who are made to practice it in order to render them flexible in every part of the body. There are two long rows of benches, one a little higher than the other. On the lower is a row of little girls, and on the upper bench are laid fine polished bits of straw. At the sound of the drum the little girls all together bend back the head and neck until they touch the bits of straw, which with wonderful dexterity they secure between the corners of the eyelids. The cup dance is the most graceful and poetic of their dances. A row of young women with a tier of cups on their heads take their places in the center of the gymnasium, A burst of joyous music follows. On hearing this they simultaneously, with military precision, kneel down, fold their bauds, and bow their heads until their foreheads almost touch the polished marble floor, keeping the cups steadily on their heads by some marvelous jerk of the neck. Then suddenly springing to their feet, they describe a succession of rapid and intricate circles, keeping time to the music with their arms, head, and feet. Next follows a miracle of art such as may be found only among people of the highest physical training. The music swells into a rapturous tumult. The dancers raise their delicate feet, curve their arms and fingers in seemingly impossible flexures, sway to and fro like withes of willow, agitate all the muscles of the body like the flutter of leaves in a soft evening breeze, but still keep the tier of cups on their heads. At other times a cup of some liquid is placed on the floor in the center of the hall. A girl will spring to her feet and dance about it in wild round eddies, and suddenly laying herself down, keeping her arms folded tight on her breast, will take up the cup with her lips and drain the liquid without spilling a drop. Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. A Philanthropist Everybody in Philadelphia has heard of Isaiah V. Williamson, and his name is destined to become bs famous as that of Stephen Girard. Mr. Williamson, began life as a farmer's boy without a penny, and while still a boy struck out for himself as a country peddler; then lie opened a dry goods store and used his surplus profits in fortunate investments. He is a bachelor, dresses very plainly and has carried the same umbrella for fifteen years. In fact, his life has been so quiet aud obscure that the city directory gives only the

location of his office, his residence being apparently unknown. This i the man who has placed nearly three million dollars in the hands of trustees t establish a mechanical training school in Philadelphia, A short anecdote will illustrate Ids character, "Mr. Williamson," said one of the trustees, "do you wish the bovs to be moralhi as well as

mechanically trained?" "Teach them j

to tell the truth," said Mr. Williamson, "and they cann t go wrong." Wliajb a volume of sermons is contained in that short sentence. Steam Outdone One of the Modern

Natural Improvements in Dakota. The artesian-wells of Dakota are probably 1 he most remarkable for pressure and the immense quantity of water supplied, of any ever opened. Moro than a hundred of such wells from 500 to 1,000 iVet deep, are to-day in successful operation, distributed throughout twenty-nine counties, from Yankton, in the extreme south, to Pembina, in the extreme north, giving forth a constant, never-varying stream, which is in no wi&e aifected by the increased number of wells, and showing a gauge pressure in some instances as high as 10. 170, 175, and 187 pounds to the square inch. This tremendous power is utilized, in the more important towns, for water supply, fire protection, I and the driving

of machinery, at a wonderful saving on the original" cost of plant and maintenance, when compared with steam . In the citv ci Yankton a fortv-horso nower turbine-wheel, operating a tow-mill by day and an electric light plant by :aight, is driven by the force of water :!:ving from an artesian-well, the cost of obtaining which was no greater than would have been the cost of a steam-engine developing the same power, not counting the continual outlay necessary (had steam been employed) for fuel, repairs, and salaries of engineer and fireman. What has been accomplished through the aid of natural gas and cheap fuel in building up manufactories elsewhere, may some day be rivalled on the prairies of Dakota by tapping the iuexhausible power stored in nature's reservoirs beneath the surface. P. F. McClure, in Harper's Magazine. Missed the Point. He vas, indeed, a very romantic young man, and hisdatest extravagance in senti:nent consisted in hanging a little white satin slipper which belonged to liis fiancee against the wall, and using it for a watch-pocket. One day a friend who was fond of his joke dropped in at the young man's room, and seeing its new ornament, cried out, "Hallo! What's this? Cinderella's slipper?'' "Not quite," answered the proud pos

sessor. "I believe she could wear it,

though." "Nonsense, man! Why, this, slipper ia one foot wide!" The joke was rather lame, but they both laughed as heartily as at a better one, and that night the engaged young man tried to repeat it to the owner of the slipper. "Brooks is such a funny fellow!" he began. "He came into my room to-day, and what do you think he said, about your slipper? 4 Wiry,' said he now 1 do hope I can remember it exactly why, Miss Bell's feet must be twelve inches wide V n An Absent-Minded Mail, Cincinnati has the champion absentminded man. A gentleman living in the suburbs went in a store on Walnut street to make a few purchases. The only light in the store was a candle standing on the counter near the money-drawer. After making his purchases he handed the proprietor a bill, and after returning him the change the proprietor walked to the rear of the store to arrange something when suddenly he was left in the dark. He started toward the counter, and grouping around it found, not the candle, but the change. It struck him then that probably the man

in a tit of absent-mindedness had taken the candle instead of his change. He started out after him, and catching up with aim saw that he had the bundle in one hand and the candle in the other. After apologizing for the mistake the stranger took his change and gave back the candle. Miscalculation. "John," said a wife who was supposed to be on her death -bed, "in case of my death I think a man of your temperament and domestic nature, aside from the good of the children, ought to marry again.' "Do you think so, my dear?" "I certainly do, after a reasonable length of time." "Well, now, do you know, my dear, that relieves my mind of a great burden. The little widow Jenkins has acted rather demure ever since you were taken sick. She is not the woraan that you are, of course, a strong-minded, intelligent woman of character, but she is plump and pretty, and I am sure she would make me a very desirable wife." The next day Mrs. John was able to sit up, the following day she went down stairs, and on the third day she was planning for a new dress. The Bishop Made Him Get Up. The late Bishop Pinkney, of Maryland, was a nervous man, who constantly jerked back his lawn sleeves with a motion as if beckoning some one to him. A member of one of his churches took a Presbyterian friend to hear the Bishop. As thev were leaving, the

Episcopalian asked his companion how he liked the service. "Not at all," was the answer; "there was too much bobbing np and down." "But why did you not keep your seat; you were not for3ed to stand V "Yes, I was," replied the Presbyterian, "for every time I remained in my

i place, the Bishop, looking right at us;

sternly and impatiently beckoned me to get up." The American. G uest (of an evening) Well, it is getting late, and as your wife has excused herself I think I ought to tear niyfielf away. Host O, don't hurry. I hhaa't go up-stairs for an hour yet. "You will not?" "O, no. After my wife retires I always allow plenty of time for the bed to get warm. Pvovideti.ee Telegram.

The Curriculum, -t Annapolis. Outside of the technical studies, tht course of instruction at the Naval Academv is comprehended in the one word, "Math. "Math" is the cadets1 abbreviation for mathematics, the rock upon which many an aspirant for naval honors is wrecked. Of course there is instruction in other branches modern languages, English studies., natural sciences, etc. but a cadet soon realizes that the great stopVing-stone is mathematics. When a graduate looks back upon what ho has passed through, his most vivid recollections are of thi3 hydra-headed "Math"; of tho algebra and geometry that worried him as a "plebe," and of the applied mechanics that took away half the pleasure of his senior year. 'What a struggle it was to weed out all youthful imagination from the mind, and to plant there only those ideas that could be expressed in mathematical formula! And yet Math's" importance is not overrated, for it is the groundwork of many of the professional studies. Naval Architecture, which teaches the cadets how to design and bui ld a ship, Navigation, which teaches them how to guide this ship across the trackless ocean ; Ordnance, which teaches

them the methods of constructing and usiuff the great trims: Steam Engineer

ing, which teaches them the many applications of that geat motive power all require a thorough Jknowledge of mathematics While the theoretical part of the education may prove irksome to those who are filled with a spirit of adventure, who might have succeeded better in the days of the old navy, where there was wider scope for such temperaments, these will find the practical instructions more to their liking. Here they can satisfy their longing to hang by their heels on a royal-yard, or to put a pistol shot through a wooden soldier at twenty paces. These drills are based on the general principle that before a cadet can become an oflicer he must be thoroughly familiar with all the duties of those who will be under his command. The only way to attain this familiarity is by actually performing; these duties in every detail. The drills afloat," in which there ia a large fleet engaged, are particularly novel and interesting, Every Saturday the cadets embark on the "Wyoming,1 a ship-rigged steamer, and make a cruise in the bay. They do all the work. Down in the fire-room some of them are heaving coal into the roaring furnaces, others are fn the engine-room looking out for all the machinery. On deck, youthful sailors are running up and down the rigging, ready, at the call of the boatswain's pipe, to handle the ligh t spars or heavy sails. John if. Gibbons,

11 S. AT., in St. Nicholas. Jack Frost's Herbarium. In Florida, where ice is so desirable for cooling food and drink, it is not naturally formed, and so must be made. I visited an ice-factory. They have twenty tons of ice forming here, all the time. They lift a tank every thirty minutes, take out the ice, refill the tank with water and replace it. The freezing takes forty-eight hours. The tank they have just emptied will be filled soon, and a new block of ice will be taken from it on "the day after tomorrow. n Now, it seems that this freezing takes place so gently that a spray of roses may be put into a tank of water and frozen into the mass of ice without stirring a petal from its place. There it

lies imbedded, in all its beauty of form and color a marvelous thing, I think. The ice-makers like to perform this experiment, as it shows the clearness of their ice; and pride is taken in freezing pieces of unusual beauty and transparency. A delicate spray of flowers, a cluster of ripe fruit, or a brilliant-colored rish are favorite subjects, Exhibitions of such freezings are occasionally made at fairs, and a particularly beautiful or interesting piece makes a very attractive gift for a birthday or for Christmas. What a pretty way to preserve objects! ! I would iike a collection of Florida specimens so preserved. No driedout herbarium specimens; no faded and distorted alcoholic preparations; no un

natural taxidermist mounts, but everything in its natural color, its perfect outline, its living beauty. Here, a clear little block with a chameleon; here, a larger one with a coiled rattlesnake; there a young alligator, a cluster of grape-fruit or oranges., a spray of flowers or a series of forest-leaves. But, alas I such a collection would not last a single week. "A Hose in a Queer Place," in SL Nicholas. t Difficulties in Trousers. Speaking of trousers, reminds one that they are the most difficult garment in a man's wardrobe to get on comfortably with, in a philological sense. There are large sections of the country where they are degraded by being called "pants." Even in cities they have their detainers, persons who never speak of them by their correct name. These persons frequently speak of themselves as "gents," and wherever there are "gents" you will hear of "pants." The waistcoat has had its nomenclatural troubles too ; but neve r has any name so inelegant and offensive been bestowed upon it as is applied to trousers by those who call them "pants. " "Vest" is not the name it prefers, although "vest" is not a departure from the proper name too terrible to be borne. Even the good old-fashioned word "overcoat" is being driven from its citadel. In cirdea where clothes are matters of great moment "top-coats" and "great-coats" are mentioned, but "overcoats" are seldom heard of. Words have their fashiona as well as garments. Dress. Seeing the Sights, Countryman I've read a lot about the gambling palaces in big cities, and I'd like to see the inside o' one. Policeman Gambling is agin the law. No gambling dens in this city. "Really now; none?" "Not a one." Hackman (slowly driving past) Hack? Countryman Guess not. I did think o' hiring a hack fer to be taken to see ono of these ere gambling palaces Pve I) card so much about, but Hackman Jump right in. Ph iladclphia Record.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

A WEEK'S DOINGS OP OCR STATIC JLAW-MAKKR&.

Rgolntion Ofl'rert ISUU Intnrtnaad Soma Passed ami Others Defeated A Summitry of the Proceedings.

Feb. 12. Senate Bills passed: To legalize the elections in the town of 13ooneville: appropriating $18G,300 fcr the Indiana school for feeble-minded youth; to legalize the election of the board of directors of the Clinton Dwrbridge Company. House A number of unimportant bills were introduced and the following passed: To appropriate $60,COi' for library building at the State University; to appropriate $27,000 to the Plainfield Reform School. Feb. 13. One of the partinan billa introduced by the Democrats, taking from the Governor the power to appdiat a Geologist, Mine Inspector and OiL Inspector, was passed to engrossment in

the Senate. The election bill wa6 read a third time. A local-option bill was indefinitely postponed in the House. Bills passed: Appropriating $187,000, to oe used ia constructing a home for feeble-minded children; making appropriations to meet deficiencies; authorizing the Stttte Treasurer to borrow $200,000 to pay the expenses of the General Assembly. Feb. 14. The Andrews election bill, embracing the princprtl features of tho Australian law, passed the Senate. The Supreme Court Commission bill v;aa discussed at length, and pansted to its third reading. In the House a bill was passed making eight hours constitute a 'legal dr.y's work; also a bill making a separate judical circuit of Clark md Floyd counties. Feb. 15. The Pleasant school textbook bill was discussed in the Houses and referred to a select committer off seven with instructions to report a school-book bill on Monday. A bill was passed providing for the election by the General Assembly of three police commissioners for cities having mora than 29,009 inhabitants. (Indianapolis and Evansville.) The Senate passed a bill appropriating $75,000 for the use of Purdue University. Feb. 18. Bills making it a misdemeanor to reat to drinks in a saloon regulating deposit and truf t companies and doubling the tax on dogs were passed to engrossment in the House Bills introduced: Providing for ft State Boiler Inspector; making general appropriations. A bill w&ti passed creating a sinking fund for Now Albany. In the Senate a civil-service bill was introduced. Also, bills providing for an extension of the Capitol ground and regulating the conduct of foreign insurance companies. A bill reducing the legal rate of interest from 8 to d per cent, was indefinitely postponed, ""

Cause and Effect. Buffon, the great naturalist, one day entertained a company of distinguished savants to dinner. At its conclusion they all went out into the garden. It was a very hot summer's day. In the center of the grounds there stood on s pedestal a large glass globe, which one of the guest happened to touch with his hand, when he found to his astonishment, that it was warmer on the shady side than on the side turned toward the sun. He communicated this discover!" to the other guests, who; at once proceeded to verify the statement. Whafc could be the cause? An animated discussion ensued, in the course of which every imaginable law of physics was made to account for the strange paradox. At length out scientists agreed that it must be so, owing to the laws of reflection, irepnlsion, or exhalation, etc. The hot was, however, not quite convinced, and calling the gardener, he said io him: "Pray, tell us why the globe is warmer on tha shady side than on the side turned to the sun." The man replied: "Because, jnsfc now I turned it round for fear of its cracking with great heat." Cuetla Anecdotique. A Fresh Masculine Craze. The freshest masculine "craze" ii tin tailless dress-coat. It is just what the name describes the regulation dresscoat, minus the claw-liammer finish. The innovation is not followed on strictly full-dress occasions, such as weddings, large dinnere, dances, anil the like; but it is permissible for evening calls, operas, and even aft srnoon teas. Now the tailless; coat has been known for some time abroad ;s the Cowes coat;' but now that it is iinding favor with us we distinguish it as the "Tuxedo." The "Tuxedo," which ia similar to the dress-coat in front, but its otherwise the counterpart of t;he osr dinary sackcoat, is made of fine ribbed black cloth; the rolled collar is of black silk, and there are three pockets without laps. With the "Tuxedo" is worn black-satin necktie, a black or white low-cut vest, according to taste, aLda low hat, which is a requisite accompaniment. Ta&te Talk.

"What is a man-of-war? said

teacher to his class. A cruiser,

the prompt reply. " What unakes it go?" Its screws, air, "Who goes wiUk it ? "Its crew, sir, Ocean. An Even Divide, "This world is pretty evenly dividocL after all," said the butcher as he scraped aw at at his block. -How?" "Lady in the diamonds and Jiealsiia gets out of her carriage and comett ift. here and inquires for 'aassage.' "Well? 44 Well, other folks have the moitegf and us butchers have the edd.ecalMau Makes me feel more content Detroit

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