$HAKE DICE FOR A BIBLE. Queez Custom for Cilild1en 111 an Ancient English Church. Perhaps the only church in the world where it is permissable to shake dice is located at St. Ives, England. Not only is the rattle of the cubes heard there every year, but it is girls and boys who do the shaking. The custom is a survival of old times. More than 350 years ago a bequest of £50, invested in lands, was made by a queei Old doct01,Robe1t Wild. This money was to be used to pay the ex penses of distributing annually six Bibles among twelve children. It was stipulated that six boys and six girls should shake dice for the Bibles dur- ing the services every Whitsun Tues- day morning. When the first game was played, in 1533, the bones were shaken on the altar. This was kept up until half a century later, when the rector of that day rebelled, and ever since the dice have rolled out on a table placed in the middle aisle. The way the game is 11m is like this: Th1ee boys compete against the other three. The church wardens keep the counts and each competitor is allowed thrre throws. Then a chance is giv- en the girls. The six highest out of the twelve get the Bibles. In the er suing the successful ones attend the services and are no doubt warned against the evils of gambling. The 'zznsuccessful six keep on trying year ‘after year. Of course in the ordinary run of the bones, some of the children might get married before they get the Bible, but somehow no one has been known to wait longer than five years before luck turns. ——Cl1icago Times- HcIald. NEARLY A CONTINUOUS. SLEEPER. Minnesota Farmer Waieting Under a Stu- por “'hich Has Laated Twenty Years. Near the city of St. Charles, Minn, resides a sleeping wonder in the per- son of Herman Harms, who has 'spent nearly every hour during the past eighteen or twenty years in uncon- scious slumber. Mr. Harms has a family of adult children, and, although much money has been spent for the- best of medical treatment and advice, no dector has yet been found who has been able to break the spell under which the sleeper rests. He is given food by tender hands, but seems only partially aroused when being fed and on being left alone at once again drops off to sleep. In fact, so" hard is it to arouse him, a great part of. his food has to be administered in liquid form. When the first symptoms of his trou- ble made their appearance in 1875 the patient weighed 180 pounds; now he does not weigh more than half of that ——about 90_ pounds. He is, in fact. al- most a living skeleton. His beard and hair are long, his features drawn, white and thin; the cheek bones look as if they would soon force their way through the cov- ering of skin. Harms has five chil- dren, none of whom show any signs of the terrible malhdy which holds their father to his bed—Cincinnati Enquirer. - 1. DOG FARMS. They Are Raised for Their Skins. “'hich is Utilized for Clothing. In Manchuria and all that part of China adjoining Mongolia there are thousands 'Of far-ms devoted exclusive- ly'to dog-raising. At each of these establishments several hundred dogs are kept, which are killed by strangu- lation when they are eight months old, usually toward the middle of win- ter. At this time their Shin is cov- ered with very fine hair, and from these skins are made winter clothes for the inhabitants of the celestial em- pire. The dogs furnishing these skins are entirely different from the breed of dogs known here or in Europe, and their fur is said to be so long-haired and close on account of the extreme cold of that region. These fur (logs constitute the only wealth of this desolate region, and the only dowry given to the daughters of these farmers consists of a number of dogs. The value of a dog is about 50 cents, and, as it takes eight fur dogs, to make a coat, such an article is rather evpensive. Traffic in dog skins is centered in large cities like Moukden and F00 Chow, where they are tanned. At the first named place the amount of dog‘skins hand- I‘ed last year represented $500,000.— London Times. Oysters Taught to Keep Their Mouths Sh lit. The oyster stands as a model for hu- manity, in that he can easily be'taught to shut his mouth. There is only one correct way to accomplish this, howev- er, and it is done in this fashion: The newly dredged oysters are placed in water; then occasion-ally dur- ing the day the water isrun Off, leav- ing-the oysters uncovered and other- wise incommoded. “During the first time the oysters are uncovered a great number of them open their shells, and these. probably feel very uncom- fortable until the water covers them again. After a few lessons of this kind the oysters slowly learn not to Open their shells when,they are expected to keep them closed. , Looking Backward. , “You must feel very happy in this lovely cottage you call your own?” “How can I when I think of my family that owned an estate of thou- sands of acres, with a castle and a whole regiment of servants?” “Why, when did they lose it?" “During the seventh century."— , Brooklyn Life. . Housewife—I suppose you could eat a. sandwich with a relish.- Wraggles—Yes’m. I could eat it with out a relish, too. , Ina YOUTHIISI Some Pertinent Queries—A ' South Norwalk Ex- perience. Is your head stufi'ed up ? Is the breath bad ‘:’ Do scales form in the nose ‘1’ Does the nose bleed easily ‘1’ Do you sneeze a great. deal ? I}: there a pain over the eyes ‘? Is the voles husky ? Do you spit. up slime. ’ Is there a. buzzing sound heard? Aie you giaduaiiy becoming deaf. ’ Is there 3. 111101110 in your ears? Is the sense of smell leavmg vou. ‘9 Does it. hurt the care when you blow y 111 nose. ’ Does youi nose discharge continual- ly ‘3 Do you snore at night. ’ Is there a pain between your shoul- det's? Do you hawk to clear the thi oat. "’ Is them a di opping in the tin oat. 9 Is the thi oat- (11 v in the m01 ning. 9 Are you losing the sense of taste? Do you take cold easily? I, If you have any of these symptoms Vou are suife1ing f1 om catarxh' 1n some for 111. California Catarih Cure will instant-1y relieve and speedily cure you. Mr. H. L. VVooo'Vv orth of 1 Burbank st1-,eet South Norwalk, Says: “I have been troubled VV ith catar 1h for some time; mv head and nose seemed pretty well stuffed up, and the quantities of matte1 that 1u11 into my throat at night, would cause me to hawk spit, and often gag in the morning, before I could clear my th1 oat. I got some CalifOI n1a Catarih C111e at Plaisted’s chug stone, and alieady these sy mp- toms a1 e ver v much better. My thi oat. is flush free f1 0111 all matter in the mO1 mind, and an IV hole h'ead feels much clearer." California (.‘atarrh Cure is sold by all dealers for 50 cents, three times as much for $1. SIR ISAAC NEWTON AND THE DOG. lIis Patience ‘I‘V'hou His “fork Represent- ing;- Five Years‘ Labor, “'as Ruined. Sir Isaac Newton, the great English mathematician, was fully as known :or his wonderful patience and self— contiol as f01 his other gifts of mind. The following anecdote is told of him to illustrate the point: One day a great mass of finished manuscript lay on his library table. It represented the labor of five years, and cor. 'ained the treatise on gravita— tion, the binomial theorem, and other intelesti 11g matters which Sil Isaac intended to submit to Punch that day. While he was out of the room for a moment a pug dog belonging to Lady Blank—who was then visiting at the house—~stole in, and, jumping upon the table, upset a pail of ink all over the precious manuscript. Three minutes after Sir Isaac had retulned a neat maid-servant appeared at the door in response to the bell from her master’s room. “Mary," said Sir Isaac, who always had details at his fingers’ ends despite the weighty affairs that occupied him, “tell John to come up here immedi- ately with a dustpan, broom and sponge, and remove that, " pointing to the floor. ‘ “Dawd sakes-alive! What is it, sir?” cried Mary. “It was a dog,” answered the great philosopher, without the slightest sign of emotion. The maid turned to leave. “One moment, Mary!” called Sir Isaac. "If any one should speak of this, tell them that. all I said was, ‘Oh, Diamond, Diamond, thou little know- es-t the mischief thou hast done!’ ” “Yes, sir.” “And add that the dog died of a broken. heart.” Then came the sound of a scratching pen as the mathematician calmly en- tered upon another five-year contract. ——H. W. Phillips in Life. ‘ ' A, Royal Bed ling. “When I was visiting the Duke of Atholl, at Blair Castle. some years ago,” says a correspondent of a New York paper, “the housekeeper, with great pride, showed to a party of us Americans the bed chamber occupied by her Majesty, who had just been visiting her ducal neighbor. We were particularly impressed with the great state bed, with its curtains and va~ len-ce, standing on a dais in the midst of a vast' room. The good caretaker, much pleased with the interest 'we took, made haste to turn down the coverlet to show us the white 'satin (fact!) sheets within on which» royal- ty reposed, when 10! before our vulgar American eyes scrambled forth a ’fine, fat specimen of the genus cimex lec- tularius, which a. wag in the company of spectators proceeded to capture and put away in an envelope as a souve- nir, aShe put it, of the “blood royal." A 'l‘all Fish Story. The following is vouched for by F. Makett,-who .lives. in Leflore county, Miss, near Cane Lake. Mr. Makett went out a few mornings ago to a marshy place that had dried out on account of the'continued dry weather, to dig fish bait, and while digging with a grub hoe, to his great surprise, instead of finding fish bait. he dug up a fine fish that weighed three pounds, and upon examination he found that in the mud for 100 yards around there was a great quantity of trout, white perch and bass. Mr. Makett carried home 'a half bushel of the fish, and now, instead of digging bait, he goes out every morning and digs a mess of title bass. The fish are under the surface about ten inches—Memphis Commercial Appeal. Hendry. ——“So you take stock in that yarn? Why, I wouldn’t believe that story 11 I told it myself r" . Cowgage—“Well, in that case, neith. er would _I."-——Bost9__n Transcript. well - I THEE CHECKER-BOARD BUSINESS DIRECTOI2Y. huluuiuacu In Successful 0061‘- Mo Outstandina Claims. NORWALK 11.11011 times 1860. 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