Q. ‘ through the heart and lungs and is re- ' grown so that it needs to be refitted. _ an’s slightly less, but, of course—- -royal road to learning. He has been .1411 'OLD TREASURY NOTE. issued in 1815 to Pay Arrears of Wax Debt of 1812 Turns Up in New ,York. A certain $10 treasury. note of the - series of 1815. which was lately for- warded to the treasury department by the Fourth national bank some time ago. is to be paid. The note was re ceived at the bank about a month ago from the First. National Bank of West- field, Mass. How it came into the pos- session of that institution is not known here says' the New York Sun. The note w as taken to the sub- treasury and returned, as the officials there had no way of proving its genu- ineness, nor any available funds to cash it. On December 12 the note was sent to Washington, where after va1ious in- spections,1eferences and conferences it- has been identified with. others of the . same issue. The issue was authorized on February 24, 1815, to pay arrearages in the expenses of the war of 1812. It. was for $25,000,000 originally, and the act. allowed the reissuance of notes or their conversion into bonds. Of this amount $8,362,304 was actually issued, and $7,182,740 reissued. The notes were redeemable in nine years or convert- ible into government. bonds. When the notes themselves were for amounts greater than $100 they bore interest, but. for less amounts were payable to bearerand did not. draw interest. until converted. Nearly all the issue was soon retired, and the last note received at the treasury prior to the one now in hand was present-ed in 1842. _ The redemption of the note will be' chargeable to the public debt. matured prior to 1861. The note is held to be good for its face value, because no date of maturity is mentioned on it. Some of the notes of the same issue have been declared worthless. it is said, because they were not properly stamped and signed. SHOES FOR THE BOY. The Boy’s Father Now Span-ed the Trouble of Remembering What Size Be Wears. “The boy,” said the youngster’s father, according to the New York Sun, “goes through a pair of shoes in two weeks; they will stand'resoling once; so I have occasion to communicate wit-h the store where I buy his shoes twice a month; 12 times a year to buy new shoes, and 12 times to carry a pair to be- repaired. “My memory is not. thebest ever was, and I couldn’t always remember what size shoes the boy wore; so I’d have to ask his mother when I went to order a pair. but now I don’t have any more trouble of that. sort». I’ve hfld my name put down 011 the list that is kept by the salesmanin charge, of the department of boy’s shoes whereI go. “Ithas the names of hundredsof boys on his list, with the name and address of the parents, and nobody ever has to bother to remember the size shoes worn by any of those boys—they’re all down on: the list. The boys footis fitted right to start- with, and the size is put down with. his name, and there’s nothing more to do about. that. until his foot has All that’s necessary to do in ordinary shoes for any of them is to say send a pair of shoes for William, or John. or James, or Charles, as the case may be, not even specifying the kind' unless shoes different from those ordinarily worn are wanted; and the same guide serves also in the purchase of overshoes and other footwear." NOTES ABOUT MAN KIND. Where Men Are Taller or Heavier _ Than Others—Travels of '1. the Blood. The average weight. of a. man in the latitude of New York is 140 pounds, of a woman 125. The average height of Americans has been about five feet seven inches for men. five feet four for women. The average has unquestionably been low- ered by immigration of small races, like the Italian. In Kentucky and Vermont andi in Minnesota. where most. immigrants are Scandinavians, the average height- of man is an inch or so greater. Lunatics are smaller than sane peo- ple. and are seldom fat. On the other hand. centenarians are also generally small-boned and lean. The blood completes its circuit through the body in. 22 seconds, and in three minutes every drop passes vitalized. Figure this out. A drop of blood will travel 61,320 miles a year. In 84 years a. blood corpuscle would travel, 5,150.808 miles. 1 For that matter, a reasonably active man walks about 297,000 miles—anon: ‘ than ten times the earth’s circuit. ference—in 84 years, just. trotting about his house and oflice. The average weight of a man’s brain is three pounds eight ounces; of a-wom- A Learned “Yon-king Baker. A working baker has just. convinced the savants of Paris that. there is no awarded a diploma of the Ecole du Louvre for a successful thesis on the book of Daniel. It fell to M. Ledrain, professor of the Ecole du Louvre, and M. Oppert, member of theinstitute, to examine the thesis. and they and oth— ers had to confess that the baker’s knowledge of Hebrew was profound and accurate. So brilliant, indeed is the thesis that an. effort. will be m 'e l to interest thestate in its publication. I M. Galle, the name. of this scholar inE humble life. has ceased to make rolls. He has become a corrector for the Im~ primerie Nationale, and it is expected ' that he will save even the most. learned from making blunders in their books. , ,' ' I : ES ins snons' Sofas. ’- The Peculiar Notion of a Rootblack’s Customer 1111.1 the Theory got it. ’ “There goes a man that got. his mon- ey’s “191111." exclaimed the. tarbfaced bootblack as he bit. his nickel before putting it in his pocket. ..ecording to the Kansas City 81:1."1011 needn’t. tell me thatman ain‘t vain, either, ’cause 111 have to pass it back to you. Funny thing about him!” The bootblack folded up his rags and sea ted himself on his stand. The man he spoke of was one of those individuals with iron—gray hair and black, well- bruShed clothing—an eccentric-appear- ing man. and eccentric, indeed. if the L‘oo-t-black’s story is true. “That man gets his shoes shined on the bottom,” said young ebony, sadly. “What do you think of that? He ain’t satisfied to see hisself in. the tops of his shoes. but he wants the botoms the same way. ’Course. we can do it all right, ‘specially under the instcps. but it. goes kind 0’ funny." “What do you suppose he does it- for?” asked a man on the next box. “’Cause he’s proud.” came the. an- swer, “and ’cause he’s lazy and don’t do nothing but. sit-around all day with his feet, in a, window. He’s a boarder in a. hotel, and he ain’t got. no business that I can tell. All thetimehe’s sit-ting in- a chair with his feet on a. window sill, and of course everybody that goes by sees his feet. I s’pose it's just. a: habit, sitting with his feet up, and in order to be on the square. he has just the bot- toms shined so’s the people'that sees the shoes instead of his collar will know he’s neat. “Any how,” he added, after a. pause, “I guess we can’t kick on alitt-le. extra work on him. He has his shoes shined twice and three times a. day, when they don’t need it’only 0.111 the bottom, so I guess we get even.” OCEAN DRIFT. Like Smaller Bodies of Water It Is Uncertain and Moves- Here and There. Siberian rivers wash down the tim- ber which floods have uprooted from- their banks. Carried out into the At— lantic ocean, this timber is drifted southward along the east coast of Greenland. As it approaches Cape Farewell it is caught wby a branch of the Gulf stream flowing northwest and stranded on the west coast of that ice—bound region. t is treasure trove to the Eskimo, for it is the only wood to be found in his treelessland. Thus the Eskimo sends no fleet of steamers to fetch- his timber from afar; the ocean, lands it on. his shores and charges him no freight. By a united s-y stem of (river and ocean currents he obtains .the growth of temperate lands. And' the ocean does yet more for the. Green- lander. The seal is to the Greenland- er what the reindeer is to the Laplander or the palm tree. to the inhabitants of the tropics. And it: is on the drifting ice floes that the seal comes to his shores and supplies him with most of the necessaries of life. So also the kindly ocean lends arich load of drift—1 wood on the bleak shores of Nova. Zembla, says Gentleman’s Magazine. In certain parts of Spitzbergen, again, the beach is‘ covered with enor~ mous masses of drift-wood. Searching among these, one of the explorers in Norden‘skiold’s party found 8. Well- preserved seed of a. West. Indian plant (En-tada gigalobium). Seams of coal _ and impressions of leaves have also been found-in the same locality. In the far future these masses of driftwood may also become coal. USUAL METHOD OF ACTION. A Bobbin] Chicago Yontli’s Explana-v tion of a Sudden Assumption of a Seat. He is an extremely diffident fellow, this South side youth. but is also en- amored of a fair maiden. She likes him right back and is not averse to giv- ing him help in emergencies. But she- finds it a difficult matter to get her ad— mirer to respond to thecalls of society, for he sinks into a condition of too many feet. and hands when in the whirl social. But she has her hopes, says the Chicago Chronicle. Not. long ago, when the chill winds had reduced the previously deposited snow into glaring ice, they set forth to walk to a nearby home- to engage in the attractions of progressive euchre and chocolates. He was very tender and solicitous lest she tumble, slip and fall upon the: icy sidewalk. Not being endowed with the certainy of footing of the patient burro himself, fate over- took him and he smote the earth with a crash heard blocks awa . ., Thereupon a look of intense anguish sped over his face, for his spine seemed shortened. The “girlie” was in tears-of pit-y. She clasped her hands and loved him for his woes. “Oh, Charlie, ”she murmured, broken- ly, “does it. hurt?” “No. ” he gasped, with a sickly grid. “Of course not. You see, I always sit down that way.” Now she loves him for his courage and ability to tell a fib to extricate him- self from a painful and unpleasant-po- sition. “Corpse- Coins.” “Corpse coins” are treasured in the north of England. They are the coins that have lain over ,the eyes of their dead. By this means infection has been spread, but superstition causes the cus- tor'n to continue. A poor collier or peasant would never think of doing anything important unless he has on. his person coins that. have been upon the eyes of his dead relatives. Grave Robbery a Capital- Crime. Bobbing graves is a crime nude-r Chinese law for which the thief. may be justly killed on, the spot by anyone finding him out. 51‘ H 1.13 EVENING . o... a.-- HATE 1111 GERMANS. Expulsion of Bones from North Schleswig Axons-es Bitter Feel- ing in Scandinavia. Pr': 1. George Brandes some time ago ag1eer‘1 to visit Ber! in and deliver an addreSs before the P1 ess association of that ciry, but later on declined to keep his engagement on z'1c-count of the ex- pulsion of Danesfrom \orth Schlesw1g. In an explanatory letter he says that. the Germans do not seem to realize the bitter feeling which the expulsions have excited through Scandinavia gen- erally. He then w-z1itcs “It is precise- ly because our government preserves silence that the wounds caused to the national feeling by these measures burn the deeper into the hearts of the people. The theoxy that an agitation is being conducted from Copenhagen to rest01e, by fo1ce if necessaiy, North Scl‘lesw 1a to Denmark' 15 too absurd to require serious notice. In all Denmark not a. single man thinks- of such athing. But. to-day one cannot denationalize a- people by force.” The Danish inhabit— ants of Schleswig, he goes on to say, do not intend to give up their mother- tongue even should their ch1ld1 en re- ceive no instructions in it, nor do they intend to renounce their right of free- ly conversing in Danish with’ their brothers and sisters across the frontier. Germans must. also learn to understand that just. as they invoke the sympathy of EurOpe in view of the hard measures enforced against the German tongue in Bohemia and elsewhere, so too the Danes, under similar conditions, plead for the right. of preserving the Danish language, even though those who speak it may be living in a. strange land. HISTORIC WINE CELLAR. Important Discoveries Made by Two German Explorers in Asia Minor. The explorer, Dr. Belck, who was at- tacked in' September last while prose- cuting his studies in Asia Minor, has made some interesting discoveries near Lake “Tan. He and Dr. Lehmann are searching for Chaldean inscriptions, and the cost of their expedition is be- ing defrayed from a fund to which the principal contributors are the kaiser and the Virchlow institute, says 8. Ben lin Dispatch in London Mail. According to letters dated Tiflis, No- vember 26, the two explorers, in ex cavating among the ruins of a palace of the old- Chaldean king Argas‘tes II., came across this monarch's Wine cel- lar. It was filled with colossal earth— enware vessels, a few of which have been secured: for the Berlin museum. Of far greater importance, however, is 'their discovery of inscriptions 0111 the drains of the palace, whitihn furnish a complete chronology to the time of' the- Assyrian king Tiglat Phalasar «(about the eighth century before Christ). The Armenianpatriarchshave been very gracious to the two German explorers, and have even allowed them the unwonted privilege of taking away an extremely interesting inscription from the wall of an old. ”monastery. Dr. Belck and his colleague intend now to visit the upper Tigris, Mossul and Nineveh, and to continue their in- vestigations in what is probably the home of the earliest civilization, the district between Mount Ararat and» the ' upper reaches of. the Tigris and En- phrates. A FEAT IN GLASS BLOWING. An Unpret-entio-s: Russian Peasant Sh‘ows Experts a. Trio]: in Their Own Trude. Emperor Nicholas wished to illumi- nate the Alexander column in a grand style. The style of the round lamps to be used for the purpose was indicated, and the. glasses or dered at the manufac- tory, w here the w orkmenx exerted them»- selve-s in. vain, and almost blew the deavor to obtain the desired size. ° The commission must be executed—— that was self-evident; but how? ‘ A great premium was offered to the one who could solve the problem. Again the human bellows toiled. and puffed. Their object seemed unattainable; when at last a. long—bearded Russian stepped forward and declared that he could do it—he had strong lungs, he would only rinse his mouth first with a. little water to refresh them. He applied his mouth to the pipe, and puffed to such purpose that. the vitreous ball swelled and puffed nearly to the required dimensions, up to them, bey 0nd them. “Hold! Hold!” cried the lockers on. “You are doing too much; and how did you do it. all?" “The matter is simple enough,” an- swered thelong beard, “but first, where is mypremium ?” find when. he had clutched the prom- ised bounty, he explained. He had retained some of the water in his month, which had passed thence into the glowing ball, and then becom- ing steam had- rendered him this good service. Pathios in Poland. What is sadder, says the New York Times, than the way in which the Poles .of Polish Russia were forced to greet the coming centenary of their great- poet, Mickiewicz. They were permitted to give money for the erection of amon- ument which was to keep alive the memory of Mickiewicz, but were not al— lowed to print or mention in any way his name. The day the monument was unveiled speeches were prohibited. and no applause was heard. What the crowd did when the monument was seen was to- keep a dead silence but every head was uncovered. - They Ticket Japanese Wo'rkmen. Every workman in Japan is ticketed. labels, attached to his cap and back, bearing his name, his business and his. employer’s name. ,breath out of their bodies in the en— . 1 BY SURGERY. Any Criminal Can So Alter Himself in Stature ms to Entirely Defy Recognition. " One of a. party of gentlemen lounging in the office of a well~known New Or- leans physician a. few eveninzgs ago propminded a curious question. apro- pos of a conversation which hadtaken a turn toward the bi7a1 re says the New Orleans '1 imes—Democrat. _“Doctor," he said.‘ ‘wouldn‘ t it be pos- sible for a man who had committed some crime. for instance. and who had strong motives for doncealing his idem tity. to permanently alter his whole ap- pearanee by modern surgical ‘meth- eds?” “Certainly.” replied the doctor. “HE could easily reduce his height. to begin with. 'by the removal of a couple of sec- tions of bone from his legs. The opera- . t-iou is often performed in ordinary surgery. and a man who was. .say five feet. eight, would. look very different when. only five feet six. But he could be changed bey ondirecob "nition- by work on the face alone. Hisb forehead could be made high and hold by the electric needle. His cars could be made to stand out or lie flat, just as he desired and his nose molded into any sliape from a pug to- a high Roman. The en- tire expression of the mouth can be altered by putting deep wrinkles in each corner, and; the eyes equally trans- formed by modifying the general direc: tion‘ of. the brows. All the operations would be of a min-or character, and two months would be sufficient for the job. At the end» of that time a man’s own mother wouldn’t. know him, and he could revisit‘the scene of h1scr1mew1th impunity. The thing 1s perfectly feasi- ble, the01et1cally, but fortunately a few little things stand in the way of its practical operation—such things as time and money. and the difficulty oi finding secluded quarters and a skillful surgeon willing to lend himself to the scheme." fi- 5. Newfoundland Ministry In Trouble. ST. JOHN’S, N. F., March 11.—-Th¢ colonial ministry is distracted with in. ternal dissensions. Sir James Winter, the premier, refuses to recall to the cab- inet former Finance Minister Morine, and the latter’s following, 15 all told, will withdraw its support from the gov- ernment and probably form an alliance with Mr. Morris, who leads an inde- pendent party of four. Sir James Win- ter, with the remnant of the govern- ment, numbering eight, will probably form a coalition with Mr. Bond, who has eight in his personal following. The premier hopes to continue in power in defiance of Mr. Morine. The legislature is likely to meet on March 23. 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