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SAYS OF DEEP SEA DIVERS. A Life That Isn't Exactly Jolly--A Veteran Tells of Experiences He and Other Divers Have Had--A Close Shave--Fairyland on the Ocean's Bottom.

"I suppose you sometimes see some fearful sights in wrecks," said a reporter to a veteran deep sea diver. "Yes, but you get used to 'em when you have been in the business long. When I first started diving, I was sent down to report a wreck. Nobody was supposed to have been drowned when the vessel went down, but when I went

into the cabin the first thing I saw was

the body of a man seated at the table.

The water was very clear and magnified him until he looked about four times his natural size. His hand was upon the shoulder of a little boy, who was sitting

on his knee. It was my first experience

with dead bodies, and it gave me a

shock. Now I don't mind 'em at all.

Most of the tales you hear about groups of dead people sittin round quite natural in a cabin are lies. A body will rise after being in the water a coupl of weeks and be found floating up against the ceiling. When they have their legs under a table, they sometimes sit right where they are until their bodies decay away, because they are held down by the table, which is usually screwed to the floor.

"An English diver I knew once had a

pretty nasty experience with sharks. He was diving in a wreck which had been loaded with live cattle. When she had been down at the bottom for a month or so, the bodies of the cattle became light and floated up against the hatchways. As soon as he started the after hatch, the cattle began to float out and up to the surface of the water. The locality was infested with sharks, and they soon began to gather round the hatchway, grabbing the cattle as they came out and following them up to the surface, fighting among themselves. Some of the cattle had been tied, and they floated out as far as their ropes would allow. The sharks gathered round them and began to tear them to pieces. Pretty soon they began to fight, and poor Marsh--that was his name--was afraid to go up for fear he might be attacked and afraid to stay down because one

snap of a shark's mouth would have severed his air hose in a twinkling. He

gave the signal to be hauled up in a hurry and went biff among the school of sharks and through them. In going through a shark snapped at him and took off his right hand, so that he had to give up the business."

"What's the narrowest escape you ever had?"

"Well, about the closest shave that I remember was when I was putting some copper on a steamer's bottom while she was in dock. I took some plates down with me and did some work on one side of the hull, after which I wanted to put some plates on the other side. The vessel was about three feet off the bottom. I crawled underneath, dragging some plates after me. When I had been working for some time, I noticed my air was getting short, so I went to try to get under the keel again to be hauled up. I found the steamer nearly on the bottom

and squeezing my air hose between her

keel and the ground. The tide was giving out, and she had gradually sunk until she was almost aground. I had forgotten all about the tide, and when I pulled the hose I found it would not budge an inch. I can tell you scared is

no word for how I felt.

"If the bottom had been soft, it would not have mattered so much, but it was rock, and the hose was gripped like a

vice. There was nothing to do but wait.

If she fell any lower, the air would be entirely shut off, and I would simply

have to die. You can bet I shall never

forget those few minutes when I was

waiting to see whether she rose or fell.

My head felt as though it was bursting and my nose and ears began to bleed. Presently I felt the air getting a little fresher. I took heart, and soon she began to rise with the turn of the tide. There was plenty of time for me to get my nerve back before she was high enough off the bottom for me to crawl under. I didn't get it back, however, but just stood there trembling until I could squeeze under her bottom and give the signal to be hauled up. For weeks

after that I was a sick man, and my hearing has never been right since.

"Sometimes, especially in tropical waters, the bottom of the sea is a lovely sight. I have seen a forest of kelp and seaweed gently waving with the tide which looked like fairyland. The dim light and the bright colored fish darting about make it look all the more beautiful. A bit of seaweed on land does not amount to much, but if you see a regular forest of it growing it looks very different. "If you stand still for a minute, the fish will swim all around you and examine you just as a lot of human beings would look at a some strange animal. At the slightest movement they whisk their tails and not a living thing is to be seen. "It takes the life out of a man somehow, diving does, and I never knew a diver who did much smiling. They are all rather grave, sober faced men."--New York Tribune.

THE TOYS. My little son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes And mov'd and spoke in quiet, grown up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobeyed, I struck him and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, His mother, who was patient, being dead.

Then, fearing lest his grief should hinder sleep, I visited his bed, But found him slumbering deep. With darkened eyelids and their lashes yet From his late sobbing wet, And I, with moan, Kissing away his tears, left others of my own, For on a table drawn beside his head He had put, within his reach, A box of counters and a red vein'd stone, A piece of glass abraded by the beach And six or seven shells, A bottle with bluebells And two French copper coins, rang'd there with careful art To comfort his sad heart. So when that night I prayed To God and wept and said: "Ah, when at last we lie with tranced breath, Not vexing thee in death, And thou rememberest of what toys We make our joys, How weakly understood Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom thou has molded from the clay, Thou'lt leave thy wrath and say, 'I will be sorry for their childishness.'" --Coventry Patmore in Church Standard.

The Poets and Sunshine. One might fancy that there is some natural affinity between genius and the

sun, seeing that so many gifted ones are

attracted in such a peculiar manner to the source of light and heat. Shelley

loved to expose his small round head to

its intensest ardor and indited many of his his [sic] burning strains on the roof of his house, near Leghorn, unscreened from

the pelting rays of an Italian sun--that

sun from whose supposed malign influ-

ence even the natives shrink. Byron, whose early home was in the bleak north of Scotland, was no less of a sun worshiper. "I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day," he writes, "as if there was some association between an internal approach to greater light and purity and the kindler of this dark lantern of our external existence." And elsewhere he declares that he could "bear gold no better than an antelope and never yet found a sun quite done to his taste," in full accord with Coleridge's saying, uttered, however, in a symbolical sense, that "the poet's soul appears to crave the sunshine." It is as by some passionate impulse of affection that our men of genius are attracted toward the sunny south, many of them being apparently more at home beneath the clear blue skies of Italy or Spain than under their native clouds. Venice has won a luster the more from the devotion of Robert Browning, while the memory of his wife has shed an added grace on Florence. The names of Keats, Leigh Hunt and Landor are associated almost as closely with Italia's image as those of her own immortals.--Temple Bar.

GRIEVANCE OF A SUBORDINATE. He Quickly Resented the Imputation That He Was Lazy.

"I'm a pretty easy going kind of fellow," he said as he poked his head into an Illinois Central suburban ticket office window, "but it seems to me you're sort of rubbing it in." "What's the matter?" asked the ticket seller. "Oh, I suppose I ought not to complain, but I always get the worst of it everywhere, and I thought maybe I could get this one matter fixed just for a change." "I think the company is anxious to do anything it can to please its patrons," said the agent. "What is your trouble?" "Well, you see, I am an inveterate smoker."

"Yes." "And out where I live the entrace to the station is at the south end of the platform." "Yes." "It's the same way at Randolph street." "Yes."

"And you put the smoking car at the

north end of each train, no matter which way it is running."

"Well, what of it?"

"What of it! Can't you see that I have to walk the whole length of the train to reach the smoker and the whole length back again when I get down town. It isn't fair. I ought to get the best of it at least at one end of the line. You can't change it? Well, then, would you advise me to moev or give up smok-

ing?"

"Smoking." "Well, I don't know. If it wasn't for the work, I'd move. By the way, you don't think I'm lazy, do you? Of course not. I'm only justifiably indignant over an adverse fate."--Chicago Times Herald.

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ASKING THE CAPTAIN. Just What Happened When Information

Was Sought From the Commander.

"Once on an ocean steamer," said a

traveler, "we had a heated shaft bearing, or something of that sort, so that the engines stopped for five or six hours. I had often read and heard about how the captain was the great mogul aboard ship, how about all things pertaining to the affairs of the ship he held aloof and must not be approached by the pas-

sengers, and that it was a sort of viola-

tion of the unwritten rules of the sea for a passenger to ask the captain anything. And there may be some reason in all this; if one passenger might ask him, 40 might, and surely the commander of the ship ought not to be unneces-

sarily disturbed by useless questions.

We had been lying there three or four hours waiting. There was no danger whatever, but it was a delay and an incident of interest, and of course all the passengers talked about nothing else--the common information as that the delay was due to a heated bearing. "I was standing on the upper deck by the door to the main companionway leading to the deck below. The captain came along the upper deck from the after part of the ship and went below by that companionway. He must pass within a foot of me, and under the circumstances it did not seem like a violently unreasonable breach of salt water etiquette to ask him what was the matter, which I did. A passenger who stood on the other side of the doorway looked at me with the amused smile of an older traveler. The captain said nothnig. He simply passed on, to all outward appearances quite unconscious of my question or even my presence."--New York Sun.

EVEN CHICAGO WAS SHOCKED. One of Her Up to Date Girls Wore Bloomers of Vivid Hue. Four Lincoln park policemen mounted on bicycles chased a little scorcher in bloomers today, but instead of catching her they landed in a promiscuous heap in Lakeview, while the girl of the period laughingly raised her jaunty cap and was lost in the labyrinth of streets that wind out of Lake Shore drive at that point. All along the line the exciting race was watched by thousands, who cheered the pretty girl and jeered her clumsy pursuers while the contest lasted and burst their buttons off at its ludicrous conclusion. The girl's bloomers caused all the trouble. While Officer Mchaffly leaned against a tree he was startled by a vision of green and gold that made his hair stand on end with horror. Not 100 feet away rode a girl with the bloomingest bloomers he had ever seen. The bloomers proper were of old gold satin and fitted almost like gloves. They came to the knees and were finished at the bottoms with bright ribbon binding. The leggings were undeniably silk stockings just a shade darker than the bloomers, while the dainty feet were incased in tan oxfords with needle toes and satin bows. A green satin zouave jacket embroidered with yellow silk and trimmed with ribbon bows of the same color but half concealed a tan colored leather belt with silver buckle and a white shirt waist. She wore a stand up linen collar, a negligee tie of yellow silk, which floated beyind as she flew along, and above all was perched a little yachting cap

greener than the tree that supported Of-

ficer Mahaffy when he was stunned by the giddy costume, violative alike of fashion edicts and the city ordinance forbidding either sex to wear the other's clothing. That dignitary quickly recovered and

gave chase on his wheel. The crowd

yelled like lunatics. Three other coppers on bikes joined the hunt, but they were never in it, for the girl held her distance, and the mob wouldn't have seen her captured anyway. The end came in Lakeview when Officer Mahaffy's forward wheel struck an obstruction, and he went sprawling on the drive, with his companions floundering above him. At this instant the

little sinner whose naughty costume

caused the rumpus raised her cap to her vanquished pursuers and disappeared. The bobbies brushed themselves off and modestly sneaked back to Lincoln park on a quiet street to avoid the compliments of the crowd.

The Tree Killer.

One of the curious forest growths of the isthmus of Panama and lower Cen-

tral America in general is the vine

which the Spaniards call matapalo, or "tree killer." This vine first starts in

life as a climber upon the trunks of the large trees, and, owing to its marvelously rapid growth, soon reaches the lower branches. At this point it first be-

gins to put out its "feelers"--tender,

harmless looking root shoots, which soon reach the ground and become as firmly fixed as the parent stem. These hundreds of additional sap tubes given the whole vine a renewed lease of life, and it begins to send out its aerial tendrils in all directions. These intwine themselves tightly around every limb of the tree, even creeping to the very farthermost tips and squeezing the life out of both bark and leaf. Things go on at

this rate but a short while before the forest giant is compelled to succumb to

the gigantic parasite which is sapping

its life's blood. Within a very few years the tree rots and falls away, leaving the matapalo standing erect and hollow, like a monster vegetable devlifish lying upon its back with its horrid tentacles clasped together high in the air. Morgan, "Central America Afoot," says, "Corelike arbors of matapalo are to be seen in all directions, each testifying to the lingering death of some sylvan giant that formerly supported it."--St. Louis Republic.

Gravitation and the Blood. We ordinarily think of the attraction of gravitation only as producing what we call weight, and as governing the motino of the earth and other planets in their orbits. But gravitation acts in a very important manner upon the circulation of the blood in our veins and arteries. An elaborate series of experiments has recently been carried out in England to determine just what effect gravitation exercises in this respect, and how its disturbing influence is compen-

sated in the bodily mechanism. It has been found that man probably

possesses a more complete compensation of this kind than any other animal, and

that the monkey stands in this respect next to man.

Injuries to the spinal cord, asphyxia, and poisoning by chloroform or curare paralyze, more or less completely, the power of compensation, and then the influence of gravitation on the circulation of the blood may become a serious danger. In such a case death is more likely to result, according to the conclusions of Professor Leonard Hill, if the body is placed in such a position that the abdomen is at a lower level than the heart. But the danger may be diminished or removed either by elevating the abdomen or by compressing it so as to drive the blood up to the heart. When the heart itself, however, has been injured, as by chloroform, there is danger in forcing the blood too rapidly into it. Professor Hill finds that, generally speaking, the best position of the body, when the power of compensation for the effects of gravitation has been arrested, is with the feet up instead of with the feet down.--Youth's Companion.

CATS AND DIPHTHERIA. Evidence That the Animals May Spread the Infection. The cat is acquiring a bad reputation in Brighton. Dr. Newsholme, in his recently issued quarterly report, devotes a separate section to a description of an outbreak of suspicious illness among cats in a particular district of the town, and to a warning against keeping cats which are suffering from certain enumerated symptoms. Dr. Newsholme's attention was called to cats by the fact that in the neighborhood between Elm grove and Southover street--a part of Brighton inhabited almost solely by the laboring classes--there had been notified a group of cases of diphtheria in the course of a single fortnight which pointed distinctly to the operation of some local cause. The patients comprised both children and adults. They did not attend any particular school; there was no community of milk supply; personal infection from case to case could not be traced, and no sanitary defects were found in the affected houses. But in each instance there was a history that the household cat had been ill, and in several families the child who was specially fond of the cat was the sole victim of diphtheria. The illness of the affected cats had not been carefully observed, but it included one or more of the following symptoms: A bad cough, difficulty in swallowing, discharge from the nose and marked emaciation. In some of the houses the cat had simply been observed to be wasting, and in several instances the head of the household volunteered to surmise that "the cat had been poisoned." In one house, in the center of the affected neighborhood, nine live cats were found, and the neighbors stated that in the previous week a dead cat lay in the yard attached to this house with discharge oozing from its nostrils. In another house a mild case of diphtheria was attributed to the smell arising from a cat which had died in a garden adjoining the house. Four of the emaciated cats referred to above were secured, and necropsy, including a bacteriological examination, was made, but with entirely negative results. The illness of the cats in question dated from at least a month before the opportunity for examining them arose, so that the negative result is not surprising. It will be remembered that Dr. Klein, in his investigation into cat diphtheria, found that the diphtheria infection produced in the cat an acute lung inflammation, the kidneys becoming degenerated in the manner known in man as the "large white kidney." The condition of the household cat is worthy of inquiry in all such local outbreaks as the one briefly described by Dr. Newsholme, and it may be well to remember that if the cat can be secured for anatomical examination, even in the acute stage of the disease, there will probably be no exudation in the throat, but only marked pneumonia, and possibly also renal inflammation. The public warning given in Brighton as to cats has had the desired effect, the small outbreak having come to an abrupt termination with the destruction of suspected cats and of many others whose career has been shortened in consequence of the publicity given to the facts of the case.--British Medical Journal.

HE WAS VERY HUNGRY. How a Texan Got a Good Meal at a General's Expense. Mr. Goss, in his "Recollections of a Private," quotes the remarks of a Confederate about two famous leaders under whom he had fought. This man said of Stonewall Jackson, "If you uns had

some good general like him, I reckon

you uns could lick we uns." When asked whether he had ever seen General Lee, he replied: "Yes; I was a sort of orderly for Uncle Robert for awhile. He's a mighty calmlike man when a

fight is going on."

This story is told of General John B. Magruder: "Our General Magruder thinks a powerful heap of what he eats and wears. He allers has a right smart of truck. "There was a Texas feller one time who had straggled from his brigade, and he were a pert one, he were, stranger. He were hugry enough to eat a general, buttons and all--that Texas feller were. He saw Magruder's table all spread, with a heap of good fixin's on it, and I'll be hanged if he didn't walk in, pert as you please, grabbed a knife and fork and opened fire all along

the line on them fixin's. "Magruder heard something in his

tent and hurried in and asked that Texas chap what brought him thar. Then Texan 'lowed he were hungry. Then the general, stiff and grandlike, said, 'Do you know, sir, at whose tablin you are eatin?' "The Texas chap, he kept drivin in the pickets on them chick'ns, and he said to the gen'ral, said he, 'No, old hoss, and I ain't no ways partic'lar, nei-

ther, since I've come solderin.'"

"What did Magruder do?" asked a

Yankee listener.

"Do? Why, he saw them chicken fixin's were spiled, and he jest put his arm under his coattail, pulled his hat over his eyes and walked out. And that Texas hoss didn't leave anything on that that table 'cept the plates--not even his

compliments.

"Who were he? Well, no matter. He hadn't no manners, he hadn't. He were powerful hungry, stranger, that chap were."

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Time and Step. "Sometimes," said an old soldier, "one sees the captain of a company marching proudly along, in time with the music, but out of step, the company right, the captain wrong. Distressing.

But then I have seen a musician marching out of step to the music of his own band, and there is now and then a soldier who never really learns to keep step. The familiar order is, 'Left, left, left, left, the left foot down at the heavy tap of the drum.'"--New York Sun.

Thin as the Mist.

Scene, a town in the north on a very misty day. Sandy McKay (coming out of a public house and meeting his minister face to face)--Losh, sir, it's an awful deceivin thing, this mist. D'ye ken (impressively), I wandered in there the noo, thinkin it was the grocer's?

Versatility.

Jess--Well, I must go and take off my bicycle bloomers.

Bess--What for? Jess--I've got to attend a meeting of the Society For the Introduction of Dress Skirts Among Turkish Women.

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An Ivory Mat.

Many people have never even heard of such a thing, and it is not to be won-

dered at, for these mats are exceedingly rare, and it is said by those who know that only three of these beautiful curiosities exist in the whole world. The one we now write about is the largest one made. It measures 8 by 4 feet, and though made in a small hill state in the north o fIndia has an almost Greek design for its border. It was only used on state occasions, when

the rajah say on it to sign important documents. The original cost of the mat is fabulous, for 6,400 pounds of ivory were used in its manufacture.

The finest strips of ivory must have been taken off the tusks, as the mat is as flexible as a woven stuff and beauti-

fully fine.--Ladies' Pictorial.

An Illustration Given.

Gaswell--No, sir; I maintain that it is not possible to have too much of a

good thing.

Dukane--You are wrong.

"Am I?" "You are. I'll prove it to you." "Go on."

"Matrimony is good, but just marry three or four women at once, and see what the law will do for you."--Pittsburg Telegraph.

Leather Tires.

Two Frenchmen of Rheims have re-

cently completed an invention which they claim will in a measure revolution-

ize the present pneumatic tire. They

build their wheels by substituting an outer pneumatic tube made of leather for the rubber tires now in use. Their invention has been taken up by the min-

istry of war, which is now perfecting

the idea with a view to supply all the military cycles with tires that will not

give out easily.

The resistance of leather is considerably greater than that of rubber, and it will better stand the pressure from within and the exterior agents of destruction, such as nails, hoops, roots or sharp pebbles. It is not absolutely imperforable, but it is at least as good as the fine steel band which was experi-

mentally placed between the outer and

inner tubes, and which was pierced by needles and tacks. Leather offers the greatest impenetrability in relation to its thickness without impairing the necessary elasticity. It is further improved by a preparation which renders it impermeable to water. The leather tire is easily repaired in case of perforation--any cobbler can sew it up--and this repair is permanent and not likely to get

out of order.

Other advantages claimed for the leather tire are: Greater lightness, it will not get out of shape as does rubber,

and it will not slip on asphalt pavement

or wet roads. The new material for the

tire seems to meet with great encouragement on the part of the military author-

ities of France.--Paris Nature.

The Hamadryad. The keeper at the zoo, describing to me the hamadryad's appearance when it raised itself to strike, said it was "proud" and "bold looking." Its action was as swift as thought and looked almost like a spring from the ground.

How high when irritated the terrific

thing can strike is not known, but no other instance is authenticated of a snake making good a blow so high as four feet from the ground, while marks on the glass of its cage show that the reptile has, in its endeavors to escape from confinement, reached up to the

height of nine feet.

Supposing, then, that we were inclined to believe all that the natives of India say about it--that it is so fierce as to attack a man at sight, so vindictive as

to follow him with dogged resolution and add to it all we actually know about

the reptile, that it can climb trees like an anaconda, swim like a hydra, get over a 9 foot wall and squeeze through a 6 inch hole, and that its bite is death, it would have to be confessed that the snake eating snake is the most terrible creature in nature.--Good Words.

How Massachusetts Treats Debtors. Some recent letter writers in various newspapers have been complaining that Boston is provincial in several respects. So it is. But the charge may be extended to the state just as well. It is said to be possible to imprison a man for debt in Massachusetts, barabarous as it is looked upon in other regions, and it is said to be possible, too, for a creditor to intercept the salary of a man with a family, except $10 a week, and this, too, even if there are a dozen in the family, and the judgment debt is really another person's. When one learns of such things as these, one ceases to wonder at the extent of the emigration from regions where such things are possible.--Boston Traveller.

SAMBO'S NARROW ESCAPE. The Enumeration Was Not Complete Enoug hto Convict Him. It is not strange that the southern colored man has vague and mistaken notions about property rights. He and his ancestors were for ages enslaved and had no rights whatever, even to their own persons. Therefore all they could gain was through treachery and deceit,

and it is only natural that these traits bred by slavery remain as inherited characteristics, now that the negro enjoys the blessings of freedom. It may take several generations before their habit of stealing will be unlearned, for even when the colored man becomes religious

his easily besetting sin will be most often found in his not respecting the prop-

erty rights of others. And thereby hangs a tale.

It was a Tennessee Methodist class

leader who had before him a six months' probationer whom he was questioning for admission to all the privileges of the church.

"Well, Sambo," said the class leader. "I hope you are prepared to live a Chris-

tian life in accordance with your profession. Have you stolen any chickens during the last six months?"

"No, sah! I done stole no chickens." "Have you stolen any turkeys or pigs?"

Sambo looked grieved. "No, sah!"

"I am very glad to hear this good report," continued the class leader, "and I trust you will continue to live an honest Christian life." After church Sambo hurried home, with his wife, who had overheard the catechizing. When they were fairly out of everybody's hearing, he drew a long breath of relief and turned a self approving glance to his better half. "Golly," he said in a half cautious whisper, "eg he'd er said ducks I'd be'n a lost niggah, suah!"--Boston Budget.

A Fortunate Accident. "I am lost!" the prima donna sobbed. "My years of hard study have gone for nothing." "Alas, what is the matter?" asked her maid. "My prospects are ruined, all through a wretched accident. Just as I was approaching the end of my aria a horrid bug flew on the stage and lit on my neck."

"And you screamed?"

"I did. What else could I do? It was my last scene and I had no chance to re-

deem myself."

The bell sounded and the maid announced a man from the theater. "Show him in," said the prima donna. "I may as well meet my fate at once. It is my dismissal from the company."

"Scuse me, ma'am, fur disturbin

you," said the visitor, "but de manager wants to know did you run away from yoru curtain recall 'cause you was took sick." "No. I am perfectly well." "All right. That'll ease his mind. He says that screech you let out at the wind up was the finest high C he's heard in years and you've got the town crazy over you."--Washington Star.

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The Yacht America Today.

It is pretty difficult to perceive in the

old, mildewed craft tossing mournfully

on the water in front of the Chelsea clubhouse any semblance to General Butler's fast sailing schooner yacht America, yet the old America it is, with its sea wings gone and its racing heels doubled and twisted by years of neglect and inactivity. The old sea pacer has

the same boom and masts and the same dignified poise of the nose that made her a wonder in her triumphant days in the early seventies. An old sea salt declared the other day that a little scrapping and overhauling would put her in a condition to sail the briny deep with the same nobility and speed of yore.--Bos-ton Traveller.

Eagerness of Bibliophiles. Twenty years ago the bookseller Pottier was the best known purveyor to the book lovers, and every day defiled into his shop a brilliant assembly of celebrated book buyers. One morning Paulin Paris, the Marquis Ganay, M. de Lignerolles and M. Yemeniz met in his shop, but Pottier was not there. He had left the day before for Brussels.

What is a bookseller to do in Brussels

if not to buy an extraordinary book?

Thus thought the four book lovers,

and at once in their four minds came the same idea--"What may I do to meet Pottier before any one else?"

The next morning at 6:30 Ganay came to Pottier's shop. None of his rivals was there. He rubbed his hands in glee.

But Paulin Paris had got up earlier. At 5:30 he was walking on the quays of the station, waiting for the Brussels train, proud that none of his rivals had had the same idea.

He had counted, alas! without Yemenize, who had gone to Creil to meet the train.

The train arrived. Yemeniz rushed into the compartment occupied by the bookseller, affected surprise at seeing him, and after a thousand preliminary remarks asked him what he had bought

at Brussels.

The noise of the conversation woke a neighbor in an opposite corner. The neighbor was no other than M. de Lignerolles, who had gone to Brussels to meet the bookseller.

Nobody has ever known what book Pottier bought at Brussels. But the anecdote was soon known, and Pottier never talked without smiling of his trip to Brussels, where he had gone to collect an inheritance from an uncle.--Paris Figaro.

ALBERT GILBERT. MARK LAKE. GILBERT & LAKE,

House & Sign Painters. STORE AND SHOP: 609 ASBURY AVENUE. A full stock of paints and painters' supplies always on hand. Give us a call before purchasing elsewhere. Work done by the day or contract. Jobbing promptly attended to. Estimates cheerfully given. Guarantee to do first-class work and use the best material.

OCEAN CITY. A Moral Seaside Resort. Not Excelled as a Health Restorer. Finest facilities for FISHING, Sailing, gunning, etc.

The Liquor Traffic and its kindred evils are forever prohibited by deed.

Every lover of Temperance and Morals should combine to

help us. Water Supply, Railroad, Steamboats And all other Modern Conveniences.

Drinking Fountains in London.

The first drinking fountain was erected on Snow hill 37 years ago, and today the association which caters for man and beast in this respect has erected and maintains 700 fountains for human be-

ings and over that number of drinking troughs for cattle in the streets and

open spaces of London.--London Globe.

The Tricycle Showing Itself.

Some women who cannot master the bicycle, or who are rather averse to its conspicuousness--though a thing that is as common as the bicycle no longer deserves the adjective in its pure sense--are finding a compromise in the tricycle.

This machine is in some evidence again, and as its construction has taken on all the modest improvements except the loss of one wheel it is a happy way out of the dilemma of the woman who wants to propel herself over the ground, but who cnanot or will not mount a bicycle.

Voice of Experience. Grinnen--Dying at a hotelt is, it seems to me, the saddest thing on earth.

Barrett--There is only one thing sadder--living at a hotel.

SMITH & THORN, 846 Asbury Avenue, PLUMBING & DRAINAGE.

All kinds of Pump, Sink, Drivewell Points and Plumbing Material constantly on hand.

All kinds of Jobbing in our line promptly at-

tended to. Best of Material used. Experienced workmen constantly on hand.

Thousands of lots for sale at various prices, located in all parts of the city. For information apply to E. B. LAKE, Secretary, Ocean City Asso'n, SIXTH ST. & ASBURY AVE.