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His wife promptly decided to buy a. piano and have a new house, and when the old man didn’t think much of this scheme she upbraided him for’his selfishness, and went about in the sulks. son-s suddenly decided that they would bIOSsom out as Jim-dandies and work no more, and his two daughters howled for diamonds and silks. A deacon called and wanted him to give $500 to the African heathen; he was asked to establish a foundlings’ home; his mother-in—law demanded a brick house and new carpets and his ten sisters and brothers arrived and wanted the spon- dulix to make a trip to Europe. Neigh~ bors who had loved «him now referred to him as a stingy old varmint, and men who had asked him to be a candi- date for town supervisor sent him word that they’d snow him under if ever he ran for office. In afortnight he found himself without friends and mixed up in a score of broils, and, taking the gold to the river, he dumped it in and exclaimed: “That over which I rejoiced has b1 ought me only sorrow, and durn my pictur’ if I w ant any more of it! ” -Moral~—Riches do not bring happi- ness, but he ought to have licked the whole crowd and invested that money in four per cent-s. AH CHOW’S' MISTAKE. ‘ Took the Trolley E3119 Steam Railway Train. Ah Chow, a Chinaman with a limited kn owled go of this country, its ways and its language, started from Berkley, Cal., to ride the few miles into San Francisco, recently. He had been i11- structcd where to take the train; but he made a mistake, and instead of board— ing the regular steam railroad train he took an electric car that passed the same corner.- It happened to be a car of the loop line that runs between Berkeley and Oakland, going one route and returning another. He made the complete circuit once, but made no eiifort to get oil3 the car. The conductor thought the scenery ~ charmed the celestial, so said nothing, but collected his fare a third time as the car w cut 011 its second trip to Oakland. Eight times Ah Chow' made the circuit of the line, paying his nickel with cheerful- scss every time the conductor asked for fare. Then at the end of the eighth trip the conductor called a policeman and Ah Chow was taken before a police judge for examination as to his sanity. The interpreter in the court soon dis- covered the reason-of Ah Chow’s peculiar doings, and with the court’s permission accompanied him to San Francisco. EPITAPH ON A WATCHMAKER. Curious Inscription Seen on a. Tombstone in an English Graveyard. The following curious inscription to the memory of George Routleigh, a. watchmaker by 111 ade, occurs in the churchyard at Lydford, Devon: “Here lies, in horizontal position, the outside case of George Rutleigh, whose abiding in that line was an honor to his profes- sion. Integrity was his mainsprin g, and prudence the regulator of all the ac- tions of his life. Humane, generous and liberal, his hand never stopped till he had relieved distress. ular were his motions. He never went wrong except when set ageing by peo- ple who did not know his key. Even then he was easily set right again. He _ . had the art of disposing of his time so well that his hours glided in one contin- ual round of pleasure and delight till an unlucky minute put- an end to his existence. He departed this life, No- vembcr, 1802 u, wound up in hope of be— ing taken in hand byhis Maker and of being thoroughly cleaned, repaired and . set a going in the world to Come.” Snakes for Iceland. Iceland has from time immemorial enjoyed a strange immunity from rep— tiles. This seems to have grated upon the nerves of two German naturalists, who, emulated by the same spirit which induced the Chicago contractor to send in an offer to the (town council of the Italian cit-y of Pisa. to straighten the leaning tower which is the principal at- traction of the place, are now devoting their energies to introducing reptiles into Iceland. They have already ex- perimented with frogs, both Danish and Prussian, and as the pioneer serv- ice of these humble handmaids of the biologist has proved successful, a cargo of able—bodied snakes is about to be dumped on the island, unless King Christian sees fit to resist this alto- gether novel form of German invasion. The Moon and Stammerlng. Nature publishes from a. correspon- dent a curious fact which it vouchcs for. The correspondent says: “It was accidentally observed by a stammering friend of mine, during the months of May and June last, that on moonlight nights he stammered more than or dark nights, and when he slept exposed to the rays of the moon during the month of June he found he stammered the most on days succeeding full moons, while a day just after the new moon, and a day before, he had not a single attack of the fit.” Absent-Minded Professor. Prof C had gone to spend the evening at a friend’s house. When he was about to leave it was raining very heavily,~wherefore the hostess kindly offered him accommodations for the night, which he readily accepted. Sud- denly the ge‘ust disappeared, nobodyr knowing what had become of him, and the family was about to retire for the night when Prof. C walked in, as wet as a. drowned rat. He had been home to fetch his night shirt. T H E ‘ Evn N His three‘ Sincerely reg- ' AUSTRALIAN BEE HUNT. How the Natives h ind the Well-Emmi ' Hives. An Australian savage comes up to an Irishman’s idea of human Skill, for “he hates the bees.” A native seldom fails to get honey when he discovers the bee he has been wathching for. T he following description of a native’s beed h nut is giv en in Mr. Arthur’s “Kangaroo and Kaurif \Vari uy allah, the chief of a. tribe, went w ith two little nets to a small pool, filled his mouth with. water, and then lying down, his head hanging over the pool, he. remained quiet for an hour, apparently looking at his own reflection in the water. Then the hum of a. bee was heard. Buzz—z-z it went over the pool, round the block’s head, now‘on one side, now on the. other, and now close to his ear; but not a. motion betrayed the bee hunter. But when the bee, dropping close to the water. gave notice by the change of its tune that it was about to sip, thci chief, with a snort, squirted the water from his mouth over the little “buzzer.” Before it had time to recover from the unexpected douche, he seized it dex- teriously by the wings. Then he prepared it for the chase by fastening to it a bunch of wild cotton with some gum. The bee was let go; it made for its hive, slowly at first on ac- count of its novel burden, which im- peded its progress and showed a sign in the air for the. chief to follow. Over bramble and brake went the chief, ac- companied by the men of his tribe, and in half an hour halted at the foot of an immenSe gum tree, into whose top the bee had gone. The chief mounted quickly, by cutting notches into the bark with his stone tomahawk. In a short time he brought down a quantity of honeycomb, a small piece only of which contained honey. The Australian bees are si‘ingless. NOT TH E SAM E. Beranger’s Terse and Clover Character- lzation of Victor Hugo. A terse and clever characterization was that by which Benmger, the poet, summed up Victor Hugo’s relation to the great republican spirit of France. Hugo, although it is said that he was not a republican at the very beginning of his career, became a most enthusiastic and outspoken one. He represented the pic- torial, dramatic side of popular feeling. and became so picturesque a. figure in French politics that he could not have failed to serve as a popular idol. Bcranger, who was a. republican of the simplest type, notwithstanding his share in establishing Louis Philippe on the throne, denied the poet ’5 attitude in one line. ~ - One day, says the Contemporary Re- view, shortly aftcr the revolution which overtoppled that throne, an acquaint-- ance of Beranger met him coming out of the Pa ais~Bour on. “I shall feel obliged," said the poet, “if you will see me home, for I do not feel at all well. Those violent-scenes inside there are not to my taste. I am not. at all well,” he, continued, with avxistful smile; “I have been accused of having held the plank m or which Louis Philippe went to the '.l‘uileries. I wish I could be the bridge across the Channel on which he would return. Certainly I w ould have liked a icnublic, but not such as we are having in theie.’ He pointed to the home of the Con- stituent assembly. “You ought to be plcascc ,” said his friend. “Victor Hugo is in the same regiment with you.” “Victor Hugo is not in the regiment,” VS as the quiet reply. “He is in the band.” .1-.. ~ _-:,«.' r-. ‘- PICKED UP IN THE'STREE A Blacksmith Finds His Tool to Be a. Nugget of Pure Gold. Curious things somctnncs happen in the geld bcuiing regions of the north- ‘wcst. The Blackfoot (Idaho) News tells of a somcw hat remarkable experience which occurred to a blacksmith at. that town lately. it The smith, whose name is Farmer, had in his shop a grindstone which he wished to “taper off.” For this purpose :1 small stone was requisite. -So he went out of doors and made search for a stone of the right size and shape. He found one somewhat smaller than a hen’s egg, and returning to his shop began to smooth down the edge of the grindstone with it. He had not “smoothed" long before he thought that the stone worked rather queerly, and was, in fact, too soft to grind the stone. He took it to .his. anvil and. broke it in half, and then he found that he had picked up a nugget of pure gold. Unfortunately, it was a. rather small nugget. He sold it for $5.82 cents, and though this was a very good price for a pebble picked up in the street, it was not wealth. Waits Long for a Drink. On Laurel hill in Bridgeton, N. J., there stands a. house between whose walls is hidden 3. quart bottle of the purest applejack. The bottle has rested there for 39 years, and has, according to the old story told, eleven years more to stay. years ago, a quart bottle was filled with "jack” and tightly sealed and plastered in the wall by a man who had the house built. The bottle is not to be taken from its dark recess until the son of the man who placed it there for him be- comes 50 years of age. The “boy” is now 39 years of age, and in all these years has kept true to the promise made in the days of his youth to his father not to touch the bottle of applejack until he reaches the half-century mark in life’s journey. Louis Napoleon’s Prediction., A correspondentbf the New York Sun calls attention to the fact that in his “Recollections of a Minister to France” Mr. Vt’ashburne says: “I was somewhat surprised to hear him (N a poledn III.) remark that he thought Spain could not hold Cuba, and that the result would be that she would sacrifice all her soldiers and spend all her money and than lose the island in the en When the house was built, 39 ' lNS RICHARD A. MCCURDY President ‘ hoYoa‘r Endingl‘ioodl. 1895. ‘2; BillBfl Assets. ‘ . Liabilities . Surplus '. MUTUAL '. LIF f RANGE 00. 117," OF NEW YORK. ’. - '. $221,213,72133 . 194,347,157 58 $26,866,563 75 Total Income . $48,597.43051 Total Paiol Policy'holders in 1895, $23,126,728 45 Insurance and Annuities in force, Net gain in 1895 $899 074, 453 78 $6], 647, 645 36 NOTE—Insurance merely mrmen, Is discarded from this Statement as wholly misleading. and only insurance actually 1ssued and paid for in cash 15 lncluded. 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 Committee. cities of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New Yorx, 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 ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by com- parison with the assets of the Company. The Committee have carefully 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 general transacted. the investments of the Company and express their approval of the system, order and accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers. have been kept, and the business in g. H. C. Von Post, C harles R. Henderson, James C. Holden, Robert Clyphant, Wm. P. Dixon, Committee J. H. Herrick. ) ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., 001.866] ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy. FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. ' - IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier JAMES TIMPSF 1h 2d Asst. Trees EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, J 13., Asst. Actuary. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, WM: W. RICHARDS. Comptroller. HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp. JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, EDWARD LY'MAN SHORT, Gen. 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