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AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
Their Names do not Indicate Their Spec-
ial Object.
The Providence Telegram saysthat
many agricultural colleges, especially
in New-England, show a 'disposition
to conceal their special function as
schools of agriculture. “The college
in Maine,” it declares, “has had its
name changed to
ing, and 5will add a school for the
production of lawyers to its equip-
ment. The State continues to be
taxed for its support. The professors
of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col-
lege are ashamed of the name, and .
want it called the Massachusetts Col-
lege.
College of Agriculture and the Me-
chanic Arts have not waited for legis-
lation, but quietly talk about the
Rhode Island College, a title which
would belong to Brown if it was to be
assigned to any institution. How
can these men be expected to accom-
plish much for the elevation of farm-
ing and the farmer when they sail
under false colors and do not like to
have it. known that they are conncc red
with an institution where farming is
taught? ’
NOTES FOR DAILY THOUGHT,
Fretting people fuss away their best
friends. Sunshine gladdens even the
gloomy.
Society is interested in a man’s fu-
ture, not his past; as it is interested in
,3 woman’s past, not her future—How-
ells.
The epochs of our life are not in the
visible facts, but in the silent thoughts
of the wayside as we walk.
God’s blessings are given to us as
the dew and rain; softly, quietly and
abundantly. Many of us are half dis-
contented that they come so, and try to
provide a more noisy way ourselves.
We even get to think the kingdom
would be better if it would come “with
observation.”
The Fair and the B1 ave
“So, after they had fought for her
she marred the man who got thrashed,
did she?”
“Yes; she reasoned that a man who
would fight a man who could thrash
him must be braver than a man who
fought a man he could thrash.”——Bos-
wn Traveler.
‘the University of ‘ -
. 1 - - -- ‘ her much in her household 1abors. She
Maine. om1tt1n an allusmn —
' g y to farm lappreciates his help, too, for the work
helping at his house.
Professors in our Rhode Island ,
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A Model Husband.
A veryiactive old gentleman
lives in the southwestern part of the
city .is noted in his neighborhood to;-
his industry in keeping his yard in fine
condition. He works 'hard all day in
the city, but when he returns from
work he is always active in helping
with the work at home. He is es-
pecially good to his wife, and he helps
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is done so willingly.
Not long ago the old gentleman was
He was doing
more than two hired people would do.
A neighbor happened by and say him
bustling about the kitchen. The neigh-
bor remarked that 'he was a model
husband. To this the man replied:
“Well, I want to be just as kind to
my wife as I can. When I get to
heaven I am going to hunt up my first
wife and beg her pardon for not help—
ing her more.”——Topeka State Journal.
THE CARRIER PIGEON.
l‘ho Explorer’s “’ife Cheeredhy the Mos-
sago That It Brought.
One day a wonderful bird tapped at
the window of Mrs. Nansen’ s hoz use at
Christiana, while hei husband v - s ab—
sent on his last exploring trip. Ini
stantly the window was opened and in
another moment she was c0vering the
little messenger with kisses and ca—
resses. The carrier pigeon had been
away from the cottage 30 long months,
but it had not forgotten the way home.
It brought a note from Nansen stating
that all was going on well with him
and his expedition in the polar regions.
Nansen had fastened a message to a
carrier pigeon and turned the bird
loose. The frail courier darted out in-
to the blizzardly air. It flew like an
arrow over 1,000 miles of frozen waste --
and then sped forward over another
1,000 miles of ocean and plains and for—
ests, and one morning entered the win-
dow of the wai-tingmistress and deliv-
ered the message which she had been
awaiting so anxiously. We boast of
human pluck, sagacity and endurance,
but this loving little carrier pigeon, in
its homeward flight, after an absence
of 30 months, accomplished a feat so
‘ wonderful that we can only give our—
} selves up to the amazement and admi-
I ration which must overwhelm everyone
3 when the marvelous story is told.—
i Philadelphia Times.
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whose house is consPicuously clean, whose work
her least, whose leisure time is greatest, how she manages.
The chances are ten to one she will answer:
“ I do all my cpleaning with
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‘1<'n:11;1E¢-:«- )l u»11.’1cmry Found Among
Inc El '1- 11s. 0: Forums“.
”Lt-111st distinct mention of soap
gov. exta nt is by Pliny, wno speaks of
it as an invention of the Gauls; but
be that as it may, the use of soap for
‘2'}.hing purposes is of great antiquity.
in the wins of Pompeii a complete
3:15.11:- maxi factmy was found, and the
utensils and some soap were in a toler-
able state of preservation. The Gallic
soap of eighteen centuries ago was
p1epai‘ed from fat and wood ashes, par-
Licularly the ashes from beechwood,
which wood was very common in
France as well as in England. Soap is
spoken of by writers from the second
century, but the Saracens were the
first people to bring it into general use
as an external cleansing medium. The
use of soap is thus described: “When
examined chemically the skin is found
to be composed of a substance analo-
gous to dried white of egg, in a. word
albumen. Now, albumen is soluble in
the alkalies, and when soap is used for
washing the skin the excess of alkali
combines with the oily fluid with
which the skin is naturally bedewed,
removes it in the form of an emulsion,
and with it a portion of the dirt. An-
other portion of the alkali softens and
dissolves the superficial stratum of the
skin, and when this is rubbed off the
rest of the dirt disappears. .So that
every washing of the skin with soap
removes the old face of the'skin and
leaves a new one, and where the pro-
cess repeated to excess the latter would
become attenuated—Pbiladelphia Led-
cer. .
OLD METHODS ARE BEST.
The Englishman Doesn’t. Taxe to Station-
ary Bath Tubs.
It is remalkable how many incon-
venience-s and old-fashioned methods
that are obsolete in America the peo~
ple of England will put up with. Take
the item of bath-rooms, for instance.
In the modern hotels, says the Chica-
go Record,which draw most of their pa-
tronage from American tourists and the
upper classes of English society, suites
of rooms are now to be found, and even
single apartments, with bath-rooms
attached. But the average English-
man and his family still insist upon
patronizing the old-fashioned inns that
are not supplied with running water
and have tubs of tin brought to their
rooms every morning, with buckets of
hot and cold water, so that they may
take a bath. They prefer this method.
it is what they are accustomed to, and
it is as difficult to persuade an English-
man to change his habits as a leopard
to change his spots. At the leading ho-
tel in Manchester, 3. modern building
erected within the last few fears, there
is a modern bathroom on every floor,
but the majority of the guests prefer
to have tin tubs brought to their
rooms. The charge for all the trouble
they thus entail upon the chambermaid
is only sixpence for a bath in a station-
ary tub. In very few modern residences
and in none of the old ones is running
water to be found. There is a preju-
dice against it.
Not Up in Nautical Lore.
‘ At sea, as many people know, time,
instead of being reckoned by hours, is
divided into watches of four
hours each. From 4 o’clock to 6, and
6 o’clock to 8, there are half divisions,
naut-ically termed dog watches. In an
insurance case the counsel asked an
old sailor what time of day a certain
collision occurred, and received the re-
ply:
“About the middle _of the first dog
watch.”
in summing up the case the barris-
tel enlarged upon the information thus.
1mpa1 ted as follows:
, “You can imagine, gentlemen of the
juiy. the care which exiSted on this oc-
casion, when, as appears from ovneoi
the plaintiff’s own witnesses, this val-
uable ship and her cargo and the lives
of her passengers was intrusted to
what, gentlemen?~—why, to the more
watch of a dog!”~—English Paper.
The Old Darkey Good on Sim iles.
The Boston Budget says that a mer-
chant who lives near Boston numbers
among his acquaintances and
friends an old colored preach-
er, by whom he was recent-
ly invited to make a Sunday morning
call at the church over which the latter
presides. The merchant, although
wishing most heartily to accept the in-
vitation, and to bring his wife also
was somewhat in doubt as to the pro-
priety of so doing. “I am afraid,” he
said, in explanation, “that our pres
ence would not be wholly pleasant to
your congregation.” The shepherd re.
named him. “Why, sah, ” he excla im-
ed, “dere s so many white folks in dat
chuich some Sundays, mah cong1ega-
shun looks likea han’ful of blueberries
in a bowl of milk!”
Island That is it Big Magnet.
One of the most dangerous places in
all the seas, says the Chicago Record,
is near the coast of Denmark, where
there is a little island that goes by the
name of Bornholm. The seas do not
run unusually high about it, nor are
the currents strong, but when the mar-
iner approaches it, the needle of his
compass begins to act in the strangest
and most unaccountable manner. In-
stead of pointing north, it switches
so
that if it happens to be dark and
stormy the pilot may guide his ship
straight on the rocks, thinking that he
is making due north. This strange
condition exists for the, reason that
Bornholm consists almost entirely of
magnetite or magnetic iron, and it
'Fraws the compass needle like a power-
ful horseshoe magnet.
Willie—Pa, what’s a quar Le: ma ster?"
Pa.——The porter on a sleeping cal,
Willie. -Chicago News.
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THE GREAT JOKE OF PARIS.
The l'ernutx-fitor of It Made 332.400191'
”is Olmtilmcy.
Paris has been laughing over. a com:
edy in real life, entitled “Le Locataire
Recalcitraint," or “The Obstinate Ten-
out.”
M. Dauphin insisted on occupying his
flat on the fourth floor when all the
rest of the building except a modicum
of wall had been removed. When he
finally went away, it was with much
pecuniary profit.
Early in July' the owner of a house
in the Avenue de Clichy decided to
pullit down and build another on the
site. The occupants of the various
flats accepted notice to leave on Octo-
ber 15. Subsequently the lgndlord
found it would be to his advantage
to have the house pulled down at once,
and 11c offered his tenants $200 com-
pcnsation apiece if they would
remove before July 15. All agreed
except one, M. Dauphin, a law-
yer’s clerk, occupying a flat on
the third floor in the back of the
house. He stood on his rights and tie
clined to budge before October 15.
Nevertheless,
ed .in and his men began to pull down
the premises. The gas and water
were cut 011,,111111 the whole of the front
part’ of the house was demolished, but
the lawyer’s clerk remained obdurate.
Then the workmen attacked the back
of the house, and took off the roof and
all the floors above the third. M. Dana
phin's ceiling suffered a good deal, but
he spread a tarpaulin over it and ap-
peared as contented as ever.
Then the staircase between the
ground and the second floor was re—
moved, but the tenant replaced it by a
ladder. Fully appreciating the humor
of the situation, he hung out a placard
bearing the words,
to sub-let.” Occasionally the “Plaster
Hermit,” as he was dubbed in the
neighborhood, would take his after-
dinner cup of coffee outside his front
door and beam upon the crowd be-
iow.
The contractor was obliged to stop
work, and for three days M. Dauphin
remained in undisputed possession of
the ruins. The proprietor was forced
to come to terms. M. Dauphin pocket—
ed $2,400 compensation, and retired
with all the honors of war.
A MYSTERIOUS'4-YEAR WONDER.
A New York Boy with Phenmneual Pow-
ers of Memory,
Lavender Richardson, a four-year-
old New York boy, is a mystery in
point of mental development. In ap-
pearance and action he in no way dif-
fers from other little boys of his age,
but in his correct answers to questions
that puzzle most grown people he is a
marvel.
It is related of him by his parents
that when he was twenty two months
old be commenced to talk plainly, and .
that then they were astonished to hear
him repeat facts he had heard told
with an accuracy that would have been
amazing in persons of much greater
a go.
When the boy was three years old he
had memorized the names of the capi-
tals of all the European countries. His
feats of memory were not like those of
the parrot, for his knowledge appear—
ed to be so judiciously arranged in his
mind that he could utilize any portion
of it whenever occasion required.
Then people who were told of his
marvelous powers of memory began to
test them, and speedily found out that
the stories they had heard were true.
Everything told the boy seemed to
be retained by him without the slight-
est change, and the result of the men-
tal training, constant questions, ac-
companied by the ceaseless imparting
of information, was to soon make him
a veritable encyclopedia. Statistical,
historical, Biblical, psychological, po-
litical and other queries he answered
without hesitancy. Where he gained
all his information was another mys-
tery.
As the months have passed physi—
cians whose curiosity has been excited
i-ted by the boy’s strange feats of mem-
by the boy’s strange feats of mem-
cialists have subjected him to various
tests. None of these, however, has
been able to detect any indications of
the physical degeneration that as a
rule, invariably follows such remarka-
ble mental development.
Learned men from various Eastern
colleges have visited the boy for the
purpose of satisfying themselves of the
truth or falsity of the remarkable
statements made concerning him-—
New York Journal.
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Lord Iluil'erin a. Diplomat. ,
A writer in commenting on the ten-
dency of some of our United States
cousins to indulge in “tall talk,” ro-
calls an incident that occurred in Mon-
treal at the time that the press of the
United Statesswas threatening that the
$5,500,000 awarded to Canada by the '
Halifax arbitration would not be paid.
Lord Dufferin had just got back from
i visit to Washington. There had been
objections raised‘in Congress to pay—
ing the money. Lord Dufferin saw
that a joke would relieve the strain.
He looked round .tbe large banquet;
lug hall of the Windsor Hotel and re-
marked with pretended solemnity:
"N0, gentlemen, I have not brought it
back in my pocket. Our $5,5‘00,000 of
fish money was not handed to me
across the counter by the President.”
He went on to say that he never even_
it, so con;
right.—
looked as if he wanted
vinced was he that all was
Montreal Herald.
A good old preacher down in lndiana ‘
was a little bit confused over his an-
nouncement: “Remember our quarter-
ly meeting next Sunday. The Lord
will be with us during the morning ser-
vice and the presiding elder in the
evening.” .
the contractor was call—-
“Comfortable flat.
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