"Lor', mum," she gasped, gazing with bulging eyes on the face of her new employer; "lor', mum, who'd ever 'ave thought you'd been married all these times!" Strange "I SUPPOSE you find living less expensive since you took to gathering your own mushrooms?" "A little," replied Mr. Growcher. "We don't save anything on the mushrooms, but all our friends have quit accepting invitations to dinner." - Washington Star. L Oh, Yes MR. GILBERT K. CHESTERTON recently mentioned an English spinster lady who said, as she Kindly Advice A COLORED man was brought before a police judge charged with stealing chickens." He pleaded guilty, and received sentence, when the judge asked how it was he managed to lift those chickens right under the window of the owner's house when there was a dog in the yard. "Hit wouldn't be of no use, Judge," said the man, "to try to 'splain dis thing to you all. Ef you was to try it you like as not would get yer hide full o' shot an' get no chickens, nuther. Ef you want to engage in any rascality, Judge, yo' better stick to de bench, whar yo' am familiar."-Zion's Advocate. Very Thoughtful Remark THE late Fitzhugh Lee was a loyal Virginian and would see this prolific Mother of Presidents deposed by no one, so the choice of him to introduce Grover Cleveland, who was to make an address at the historic University of Virginia, resulted in some mirth. "Mr. President," he began graciously, "we are honored in welcoming you to Virginia today, both as a loyal democrat and as the President of the United States. 'Tis long since we have had a president with us." Then, fearing such adulation might turn Mr. Cleveland's head, he warmed to his real subject and added, to the delight of his audience: "But the time has been, suh, when we could go out on this very old rotunda porch and holler, 'Mr. President?' and the woods would be full of them!" to BANDS TO SOLVE BIRD WIT Bands are to be placed on the legs of The birds are caught by trapping. It is expected that when the ideas of the association are given more publicity trappers will be found all over the country catching feathered specimens and marking them for future identification by means of the little bands. Some of the questions that the plan is expected to provide answers to HOW LARGE BIRDS ARE BANDED IN ORDER THAT A RECORD OF THEIR FLIGHTS MAY BE KEPT. THE INHABITANTS OF CHINATOWN, SAN FRANCISCO, PARADED THROUGH THE STREETS turn year after year to their previous How far from their nesting place? birthplace will birds be found nesting? In cases where an identical nest is occupied in successive seasons, how is the tenancy determined? Do birds reared in distinctive nesting sites themselves favor a similar site? In migration, how far and in what direction do individual birds travel? Do migrants travel by definite routes, and if so what is the nature of these routes? Do birds have definite winter quarters which they seek each year? To what extent are males and females, young and old separated while migrating and in winter quarters? What relation do the winter quarters of the northerly-breeding members of a species bear to the southerly-breeding members? To what age do wild birds live? Some interesting results have already A robin banded in an been obtained. orchard at Kingston, R. I., by one of the investigators working alone, before the formation of the national association, was shot several months later at the same place, showing that although the robin had migrated it had returned to its original nesting place. A bird banded at Minot, Mass., was found 55 days later at a point 35 miles away. Another, tagged in Maine, had traveled 120 miles from the scene of the banding in 65 days. An interesting point settled so far is that the young birds disperse as soon as they can get away from the nests and travel mostly in a 215 BANQUET THAT WAS HELD IN THE MAIN STREET OF WACO, TEXAS. Twelve hundred people were seated. AN AIR PROPELLER AS MOTIVE POWER FOR A BOAT. This is the idea of a French inventor. The tests on the Seine have proved a success. The illustration shows thepropeller attached to the motor, northerly direction, no doubt through some instinct. CITY'S NOVEL STREET BANQUETS have been held in all kinds of places-in tunnels, on mountain-tops, in cellars, stables, and in the. open fields; but for the first time on record an elaborate dinner has been given in the public streets of a city. This interesting banquet took place at Waco, Texas. The object of the dinner was to celebrate the erection in the city of an enormously tall life insurance building and the bringing into the city of the rails of one of the big trunk lines. The banquet took place at night, and was held in the city's principal thoroughfare. Four lines of banqueting tables stretched for a distance of 370 feet, and over 1,200 people sat down. Crowds watched the event from the pavements and windows of the neighboring buildings. The dinner was begun at 9 o'clock. PUSHBALL has been coming to the front as a college sport. If someone could invent a pushball that could be made at a reasonable cost the game would be still more popular. The enormous cost of the pushball has made it possible for only a very few to own the balls, and they have been rented out at a high price to those wanting to use them. The pushball is six feet in diameter and costs $300. It was difficult to obtain any information concerning the manufacture for the reason that so few firms make. them, but these facts were gathered by diligent search: The outside covering of a pushball is made of a cowhide leather that is im ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, N. Y.. ILLUMINATED WITH ELECTRICITY. This was on the return of Cardinal Farley from Rome. where he had just received the red cap of his high ecclesiastical office. PUSHBALL-A POPULAR BUT EXPENSIVE SPORT AT AMERICAN COLLEGES. A good ball costs three hundred dollars. |