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THELEVENING
SCOTS AND EDUCATION.
More College Men in Scotland Than in
England.
This desire for education is, indeed,
the best feature in the intellectual tem-
perament of the Scottish people. The
well-known ambition of the Scottish
mother to have her son “wag his pow
in pu ’pit” is now somewhat weakened
by the opening up of other paths of In-
iellectual achievement, but there is still
says Westminster Review, a. widely dif—
fused desire for intellectual in prefer-
ence to commercial pursuits. It is an
indication of the craving which exists
for knowledge in genel al that for ev ery
young man who goes to college in Eng-
land seven go to colleges in Scotland.
In 1885 Scotland with a population of
3, 725, 000, had 6, 500 students attending
her four universities, 1v hilc England,
with 26, 000,000 of population,h had 6,000
attending her four. tea-chinguniversi-
ties. This, it may be supposed, has
some connection with the large per-
centage of Scotch 1:111 vers, doctors, cler-
gy men and schoolmasters to be met
with throughout the English- speaking
world. The success of “the Scot
abroad” is perhaps not entirely or even
mainly due to his theology, but it was
at any rate the Scottish kirk that found—
ed and fostered the Scottish educa-
tional system, and as to theology itself.
if it gas tended to confirm in him that
quali 'y of “high seriousness” which
Matthew Arnold considered'so impor-
tant a feature in the best type of char—
acter, then the Scotchman’s theology
and its associations have borne a not
inconsiderable part in making him
what he is.
LINCOLN’S WIDE SYMPATHY.
Treated All People Alike in a Courteous
lVIanner. .
“Horace 'Greeley once said: "I doubt-
whether man, woman or child, white or
black, bound or free, virtuous or vi-
' cious, ever accosted or reached forth a
hand to Abraham Lincoln and detect-
ed in his countenance or manner any
repugnance or shrinking f1 cm the prof-
‘feied contact, any assumption of supe-
riority, or betrayal of disdain.’
“Frederick Douglas, the orator and
patriot, is credited with saying: ‘Mr.
Lincoln is the only white man with
whom I have ever talked, or in whose
presence I have ever been, who did not
consciously or unconsciously betray to
me that he recognized my color.’
‘_‘_George Bancroft, the historian, al-
luding to this characteristic, which was
never so conspicuously manifested as
during the darker days of the war,
beautifully illustrates it in these mem-
orable words: ,‘As a child, in a dark
night, on a. rugged way, catching hold
of the hand of its father for guidance
and support, Lincoln clung fast to the
hand of the people and moved calmly
through the gloom.’ ”
SMART COYOTE TRICK.
Sheep Cleverly Herded to the Brink of a
Precipice.
An incident in illustration of a smart
trick said to be. frequently played by
coyotes in securing food from among
the herds of sheep on western ranches
is related by a rancher of Grant county,
Oregon. He had a herd of about 1,-
000 sheep, and recently missed a large
In searching for them :1.
herder found three sheep lying on the
brink of a precipice, their throats
marked with the teeth of a coyote. He
made his way to the bottom, a canyon,
300 feet below, and there found the
bodies of 110 sheep, or rather parts of
their bodies, for the coyotes had been
feeding on the carcasses for a week or
more. From other incidents of like
’ character it was concluded that several
coyotes had got among the herd when
the sheep were driven off their bedding
during a storm, and had herded them
to the brink of the precipice, much as a
lot of sheep dogs would drive sheep.
When the edge was reached the coyotes
pressed the herd so hard in the rear
that the 110 at the front either jumped
or were pushed over the precipice.
“PA FELT Logan?
Queer Freak of a Drunken Brute in
Cleveland.
A Cleveland family was in coucrt the
other day. A daughter was one of the
witnesses, and she had this cheerful
tale to‘tell of her father: “Pa was sit-
ting in his saloon, feeling lonely. He
went to the barn, and putting a halter
on his horse brought him into the
house, saying he wanted the animal
to eat supper with him. Pa made me
set a plate for the horse. Then he took
hold of the horse's front legs and lifted
them 11p 0n the table. We all satdown to
supper and the horse began to eat. Pa
picked up a mug of beer and began to
laugh and throw both hands in the air.
The mug hit the her se on the nose. The
beast pulled his feet down, dragging
the tablecloth and upsetting the table.
The horse backed up and sat'squarely
on a. rcdhot srove. This burned its
tail so the animal kicked the stove over
and ran out of the door. I screamed
and pa threw a lamp at me. 'The house
came near catching fire, and a police-
man came in. Pa. has been arrested
108 times.”
Not the Replies Intended.
The following extracts are from ex-
amination papers. recently handed in
at, a public school in Connecticut: 1.
From what animals do we get milk?
From the camel and the milkman. 2.
The hen is covered with feathers. Wit-11
what is the cat covered? The cat is
covered with fleas. 3. Name an animal
that has four legs and a long tail. A'
mosquito. 4. Name two kinds of nuts.
Peanuts and forget-me-nuts.
:Cruel Examiners.
A reporter for the Cincinnati Trib-
une lately overheard a dialogue“ be-
tween two suburban gentlemen.
“How did your daughter pass her ex-
amination for a position as teacher?”
asked the first man.
“Pass!” was the answer. “She didn’t
pass at all. Maybe-you an’t believe it,
but they asked that poor girl about
things that happened before she was
born.”
LUCKY PlGS—UNLUCKY .OPALS. ,,
Former with Tivo Legs No Good and Lat-
_ ter for Folk Born in October.
They——the girl with the violets and
the girl with the feather boa—came
into the public tearoom and settled at
one of the small tables. She of the vio-
lets studied the menu. It was her
treat. She of the boa drew her gloves
off and then began to study her neigh-
bors. Presently the order was given.
it was not for a chocolate eclair and a
pickle, by the way. Then she of the
fields began to draw off her gloves.
her companion chattering about others
at luncheon in the room. Suddenly
she stopped her chatter and gasped:
“Margaret! What a beauty. Wherq
did you get it? Aren’t you afraid to
wear it?”
“What? Oh, my opal? Why, Char-
ley brought me. the stone from Mexico
last spring, and mother had it set for
me at Christmas. No, I’m not afraid
to wear it. It’s perfect nonsense about
Opals being unlucky. I don’t believe in
such things, anyhow. I’m not the least
bit superstitious.”
“VV ell, I 1v’ouldn t wear an opal for
anyt- iing, unless I had been born in
October. It may be nonsense, but
since Christmas you’ve lost your
purse—”
“Only a. dime and a glove buttoner
and some samples in it!”
“-—And your watch; and two stick
pins, to my certain knowledge; and I
believe it was that opal!”
“Nonsense! It wasn’t the opal at all.
It was my pig.”
“Your pig?”
“Yes. My lucky pig! You know
Katharine gave me a dear little one, cut,
out of ebony, for Christmas, and On
New Year’s day I took it off my watch
chain to show to some one, and be—
tween us we dropped it; and as I
stepped back to see where it had
fallen I stepped on it and b1 oke off two
01' its legs. VV asn ’t it awful? Of
course with only a two—legged pig I’m
bound to have the lamest sort of luck
this year.”
“That was hard luck. But I thought.
you Weren‘t superstitious.”
“Well, I’m not. But everyone knows
about lucky pigs. And thcidea of blam-
ing it on my opal. V1 hy, ope '11s, can’t do
any harm, anyhow. My birthday s the
7th of October. ”—Chicago Times-Hei-
ald.
WHY HE SHAVED.
Senator Bacon Did Not Want His Whisk-
ers Pulled.
There was a time when Senator Ba-
con, of Georgia, wore an ornate and
slavish hirsute adornment like the fa-
mous whiskers of Mr. Peifer, and pic-
tures taken at the time he was presi-
dent of the. Georgia senat‘e so repre-
sent him. Now he contents himself
with a simple mustache. How he hap-
pened to shear his beard was told by
- the senator himself recently.
- “it was,” he began, “when the roller
skating craze broke out and invaded
the best families in the south. It
struck Macon, and somehow it found a
victim in me. Every body was going to
the skating rink, and consequently I
went. I soon acquired a remarkable
degree of grace in gliding dreamily
o1 er the fioox to the pulsation of exhil-
arating 11 altz strains. and my company
was in great demand by ladies who
were still somewhat distrustful of
their own skill. . I shall never forget.
I was acting as the guardian angel one
evening of a lady whose main support
I was in her feeble efforts to prevent a
collision with the floor, and we were.
rather tremulously gliding hither and
thither among the crowd, when an in-
valid on skates approached us f1 om the
opposite direction. I 5:111 at a glance
that the man had lost his compass, and
nothing but a blind reliance in Provi~
dence was deferring his fall. ' hat
moment came when he . crushed
against me. The collision disturbed
the center of gravity in my fair com-
panion, while at the same time it has-
tened the downfall of the other. Be—
fore I knew what was up the man. in
order to save himself, grasped hold of
one side of my whiskers, while the lady
fastened her grip on the other half, and
both held on for dear life while their
feet were describing geometrical fig-
ures on the slippery floor. Considera-
tions of gallantry prevented me from'
turningon the wretched being who was
clinging to my beard like the roverb-
ial straw on one side and there I was
with two struggling fellow creatures
in the stress of despair dangling on
each side of my whiskers. T nut experi—
ence determined me to sacrifice the
whiskers, and to circumscribe my in—
dulgence in that line to a modest, un-
obtrusive mustache, which aifords no
comfort to unskilled skaters.”——Wash-
ington Post. '
Hints for the Family.
When you spill soup on the table-
cloth, set your tumbler on it while
your wife is not looking, and trust to
Providence for the thereafter.
A hole in a garment can be in-
geniously stopped by gathering up the
circumference of the aperture ,into a
sort of a neck and then tying it with a
twine string.
When you go hunting, the best way
to economize ammunition is to put the
shot in your gun first and put the pow- ‘
der on top of the load.
You can keep burglars out of the
smokehouse by putting strychnine on
the meat and talking about it at the
crossroads.
A good coupling pin for the planta-
tion wagon can be made out of a cylin-
drical section of a laminated beefsteak.
———Bay City\Chat. '
A Juvenile Diagnosis. '
Children are, after all. your true
i'mpressionists, with undimmed per-
spicacity in taking original views of
things. Small and hungry Julia
climbed to her seat at the tea table
the other evening and exclaimed, in
most eager, delighted, caressing tones:
“Oh, gelatine! We are going to have
gelatine—I just love gelatine—but,
mamma, what makes it so nervous ‘2”—
Indianapolis Journal.
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OF NEW YORK.
TNSURANCE CO.
E. M" TUAL LIFE
RICHARD A [MCCURDY President.
amen 31 3Y331 ingDeulMBli.
Assets. . 4 4 .
Liabilities
Surplus
. $221,213,721 33
194,347,157 58
$26,866,563 75
Total Income ' . .
$48,597,430 51
Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895,
$23,126,728 45»
Insurance and Annuities in force,
Netgain in 1895
$899. 074, 453 78
. $6], 647, 645 36
NOTE—Insurance merely written, Is dlscarded from this Statement as
actually issued and paid for" 1n cash is included.
\
wholly misleading. and only insurance
I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be Correct.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor.
From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual.
Report of the Examining
. 01113331 1h3 Mutual Life Insurance company
Committee.
of New York,
February 11,1896.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees Of this Company, held on the 18t h day of
December last, theundersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual
Statement for the year endingDecembrrP 315i, 1895, and to verify the same by com-
parison with the assets of the Company;
The Committee have calefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby
certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets specified
therein are in possession of the Company.
In making this certificate the Committee bear testimonv to the high character of
the investments of the Company and express their approval of the system, order and
general transacted.
H. C. Von Post,
( harles R. Henderson,
James C. Holden,
accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in
Robert Clyphant,
‘Wm P. l.-ixon,
J. H. Herrick.
Com mittee
' ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President.
ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President,
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary,
IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P. SANDS. Cashier ‘
' EMORY MCCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A.,
JOHN TATLOCK, .13., Asst. Actuary.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor,
e.
WALTER R. GILLETTE. General Manager.
HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., 001. Sony.
ALBERT KLA MROTH, Asst. Seey.
FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer.
JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Treas
EDWARD "P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier
Actuary.
WM. W. RICHARDS. Comptroller.
HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp.
JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies,
MEDICAL DIRECTORS
1GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D. ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D.
ED WARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor.
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GRANVILLE M. WHITE. M. D.
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JOHN W. N NEEDLE.
New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut.
A. manure.
‘ Local Agent
Norwalk Chronicler