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VOL. IX.
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teach a child to think.
X rem Infancy th® Mother Should Stodj
to Promote IU Mental Growth-
Froebel's "Mother Play" book is full
of the richest suggestions as to how
the every-day life of the nursory can
Ve made to yield up Its treasures of oil
f rid wine, goodness and truth. for both
V'itiv and mother. He showB very
<Nearly there that while It Is eaBy to
1 pep In sympathy with child-nature,
rr.d for many mothers to jrovlde for
the varying ceaseless activities, yet
that to really understand the origin
end end of this activity an earnest
rtiidy of the human mind In Us Indi-
vidual and social relations Is also need-
ed. The mother must learn that
thought and feeling, as well as nerve
iiml muscle, have their pulsations,
their rhythms, their periods of greater
or less activity. She must learn that
to try to work against these laws writ-
ten in the whole being of the child Is
lint "kicking against the pricks." She
•will learn that Just as there is seed-
time and harvest, and the work of the
one period cannot be done except In
that period, so the child cannot be
made to take on certain states of mind
and heart. To take up certain studies
when he has not yet reached the tirno
In which such mental or heart nourish-
ment is demanded is but to block the
wheels to a true, logical, orderly de-
velopment of all the faculties,
SIOUX MEDICINE WOMAN.
An Act ma Said to P "• <« Some ValaabU
InitUn Secreti.
Henrietta Crossman, the actress, is
a full-fledged medicine woman of the
Sioux tribe of Indians, among whom
she is held In high esteem. It Is not
to be inferred from this that Miss
Ciossman has Indian blood in hervelns.
The story of how she obtained the se-
crets she Is alleged to possesslllustrates
the mortal hatred which one tribe of
Indians may feel toward another, while
at the same time showing the grati-
tude and appreciation of kindness that
sometimes crop out from beneath the
calm and reserve of the redskin. When
Miss Crossman was a baby her father.
Major Crossman, a well-known Indian
fighter of tho regular army, was sta-
tioned in Minnesota. At that time tho
Chippewas were almost continually
turbulent. During a brief period of
A QREAT
french etcher.
Fine Fainter but
Would Hltvo
for Color VltudDM
Charles Meryon—born In 1821—was
brought up to the navy, going first In
1837 to the naval school at Brest, says
Pall Mall Gazette. As a youth, he
sailed round the world. He touched
at Athens; touched at the then savage
coasts of New Zealand; made sketches,
a few of which, in days when moBt of
his greater work was done, he used
as material for some of his etchings.
Art even then occupied hln, and deep-
ly Interested as he soon got to be In
It, he seems to have had a notion that
It was less dignified than the profes-
sion of the navy, and after awhile ho
chose deliberately the less dignified—
becauso It was the less dignified. Ho
would have us believe so, at any rate;
he wished his father to believe so. And
In 1846, having served creditably and
. become'a lieutenant, he resigned his
peace one of the Chippewa braves took ^ comm|ssion, A painter he could not
*' " be. The gods, who had given him,
even In hlB youth, a poetic vision and
a firmness of hand, had denied him the mu<t have gome intrinsic worth,
true sight of color; and I remember C0lnmlttee d|6Rgreed.
to wife a Sioux maiden. This was
serious breach of Chippewa etiquette
and tho new squaw had to face tho
bitter Jealousy and hatred of several
other wives. While peace lasted sha
was comparatively safe, but as soon as
hostilities broke out again and her hus-
band was called away to fight her life
was made miserable. About this time
Mrs. Crossman was deeply concorned
a :ut her baby girl, who was suffering
from pneumonia and lay hovering be-
She | tween life and death. One evening the
wVll'learn that a child's Interests can- > mother was sitting beside the cot of her
rot be Ignored and other Interests for- I suffering little one when a young
fu'n to his present stage of growth sub- squaw dashed into the house and
Vitutrd for his own. Sbe will study ' sought protection. It was the Sioux
. , ,,, , Donelson's "Growth of the girl who had been driven from her hus-
Ii°iUn or Warner™ The Study of the band's tepee by the other wive,. One
Child.'" to find a true physical basis for of them had attempted to stab hej.
education, and then strive to gain a
clearer, larger view of all those psycho-
logical questions which bear on mental
development. To this will be added a
true knowledge of those principles
which make for a better understanding
of the child as a spiritual being. It Is
Qlipptt.
Oklahoma, Mar. 2, 1899.
Number 40.
seeing hanging up in the salon of M
victoria's costly bonnet.
Mat to Her by the * « « '
MavlcaV>r Island*.
Hir majesty, Queen Victoria, who la
the dowdiest royal personage in Eu-
rope, has In her possession the moat
expensive bonnet in the world, says
the Doston Qlobe. The natives of tho
Navigator Islands were several years
ago anxious to make the queen a pres-
ent. There was formed a oommlttoe,
which debated long and patiently what
would be most appropriate. Jewols
were out of the question. It would
cost a fortune to give one of tbe rich-
est sovereigns in tbe world a Jewel that
■he would appreciate. Even the most
gorgeous cloths were not advisable. In-
dia had excelled them in wearing. The
gift should be suggestive of their part
of the world and made by their people.
But what?—that was the question.
Their women were skilled at plaiting
grass and making It into everything
from furniture, matting and mural dee-
orations to gowns and hats, but this
would not be valuable enough. Aside
from the thoughtfulness of the gift it
The
One gentleman
rUNNYCBAPHS. j OYSTERS' AGE ASCERTAINABLE
Mis, Totltng—"Miss Sincoe was born u * « B,"Be
.. i. tiwuith " Reor«i*nl m
resigned in despair. The new mem-
Burty, who knew him, a large, impresj ! ^ Ejected some ginger Into the crowd
Bive pastel of a ship cleaving her waj i revived their lagging spirits. The
through wide, deep waters, and the member said emphatically that
sea was red and the sunset sky wii
green, for Meryon was color blind. Ho
would have to be an engraver. Hu
entered the workroom of one M. Blery,
to whom in after times, as his wont
was, he engraved some verses of hli
writing—appreciative verses, sincers
and unfinished—"a tol, lllery, mon
maitre." The etchings of Zeeman,th|e
Dutchman, gave him the desire to etel
even a queen had vanity enough to
want to possess the most expensive
bonnet in the world. One of their own
tortoise shells should be made into a
bonnet. It should be carved by their
own people and while it would not cost
them very dearly Victoria would find it
quite expensive if she went shopping
for it in Bond street. An elaborate
bonnet was made of a whole shell. The
with a silver spoon in her mouth.
Miss Dlmllng (after a glance at the
mouth): "Tablespoon?"—Harlem Life.
She (having nothing else to say)—
"It's funny how we ever came to think
so much of each other." He—"Fun-
ny? It's positively ridiculous."—Bos-
ton TranscripL
" 'Kf at first you don't succeed try.
try again,'" said Uncle Eben, Is a
good motto. But ef It aln' used wit
Judgment it's liable to be 'sponsible
foh a heap o' bad singin'."—Washing-
ton Star.
The Medium—"The spirit of your de-
ceased wife ib now here. IV) you wish
to ask her any quostlons?" Newly
Made Widower—"Yes; tell her I want
to know where she put my winter llau-
nels."—Puck.
"My salary has been raised," said
the young lover, "and I think I am In
a position now where 1 enn safely ask
you to name the day." "It would look
that way to any one who could see
us," answered the blushing maiden
seated on his knee.—Indianapolis Jour-
nal.
"I'm ready," shouted the speaker,
"to meet calmly any emergency that
may arise." At this momunt the plat-
form collapsed, and the speaker ex-
hibited groat perturbation. "How
about that one?" they asked him later.
"That one did not arise."—Indianapo-
lis Journal.
The Senior Partner—"I don'1 " _
this ad." The Junior Partnor— What
ltaprMent* ¥' *•
He who wishes may find out the ex-
act age of an oyBtor, though ho has
not the telltale evidence in teeth. The
lines In the groove of the hinge of the
shell tell the whole story, each line rep-
resenting a year. An oyster Is of age
at four years- -that ib, he Is old enough
to vote, take care of a family and g"
to marl-et. Ooing to market is a disas-
trous undertaking, for a four-year-old
oyster is particularly palatablo. By
this it must not be supposed that after
an oyster has passed the four-layer pe-
riod and has five, six or even ten wrin-
kles on his shell, bo is a back number.
Indeed, there are records of oysters be-
ing eaten Just after celebrating their
thirtieth birthday, and in most caseB
they formed a delicious meal. Thirty
is an unusuwi age for an oyster to at-
tain, because few are given an oppor-
tunity to Ilkw bo long. If left to enjoy
life In his md way, It is quite proba-
ble that th« .ystor would become an
octogenarlaa oven centenarian. Cap-
tain Cochratuk on his last trip to I1 ul-
ton market, York, brought an oys-
ter found on .«ls beds that ib believed
to be at ft.,— jOrty-flve years old.
TRIUMPH OP THE LADY BUQ.
rot hard to do all this if you will look
jit life from the child's standpoint., giv-
ing him your own loving instructive
sympathy.—Alice H. Putnam In Wom-
en's Home Companion.
MIXED PARAGRAPHS.
— ——— — .. bbvtrui Ul uccuiau o ~
but the young Sioux seized the knlie adcireBsed him with praises, o
arl thus saved her life at the C0Bt of uule ^pper, nke the one I
a terribly wounded hand. Mrs. Cross
man gave the poor creature such aid
os was possible while the wounded
squaw told her story. Then the dusky
visitor asked to look at the sick baby,
and on learning the cause of sickness
He copied with freedom and interest j WOrkmanship was exquisite. Never
several of Zeeman's neat little platen Wftg tortoiso shell more artistically
carved. The shape is like that of the
salvation army lasses. In due time
the queen received the Rift and wrote
the committee a note of thanka. The
queen found the material as well as the
shape a little impracticable as far as
The littlest star yoo see in the he}- | every-day wear goes, so she sent It to
tho British museum. But the commit-
tee, which feels that a load is off lta
another
Blery—"a Zeeman, pointre des mate
lots."
home-made philosophy.
declared her ability to relieve the 11 -ie ,ns lz b|gger than the biggest mamn
one. adding that her father was the head go don't be affeared. , ■ of oucen
great medicine man of the Sioux, an I Tqo many peepie feel like kissln the I • .plvine down "the lady'fl
that from him she had learned ^ny feet ov the tyrant, instead of havln a ; tn her faithful sub-
secrets. Mrs. Crossman. feeling that ^ feelln Benito brcak Ms head. W'.tnd nodding,to he
According to tbo official forecast the
wheat harvest of Australia for 1898 will
be 1,500,000 bushels in excess of that
cf 1S!)7, and there will be a surplus
available for export of 2,225,000 bush-
At the battle of Atbara a number of
Italian rides were captured from the
dervishes by the Egyptians. The Ital-
ians lost them to the Abysslnians in
1RS7 and the Abysslnians in turn to the
dervishes in 1889.
One important Wall street commis-
sion house recently borrowed $2,000,000
for six months at 3 per cent. It has
boen in business for many years, an
never before was able to borrow so
much money at so low a rate for so
long a time.
By the latest extensions of the long-
distance telephone it Is announced that
-the merchant whom a tardy vacation
■keeps In his house at Bar Harbor will
Y,e able to converse with his agent in
Austin, the capital of Texas, by t e
banks of the Colorado, 2,600 miles
away/'
The British government laboratory
last year analyzed 1.580 samples of so-
called "temperance" drinks. Of tnis
number over one-third were foun o
contain more than the 2 per cent of al-
cohol allowed by lay. Some of the
samples contained as much as to
per cent.
When a traveler In the grand duchy
of Baden wants to send a telegram
■while he Is on the train he writes the
message on a postal card, with the re-
quest that it be wired, puts on a stamp
and drops it into the train letter box.
At the next station the box is cleared
and the message sent.
Recent observations among Indians
show that In South America, as well
as in North America, the red woman
lives longer than the red man. But the
average duration of life Is only seven-
teen years for both sexes in the south,
and 22 per cent or the Indians die dur-
ing the first year of lire.
Apropos of the agitation on the sub-
ject of cheaper postage between this
country and Great Britain, it is poln -
ed out that the cost of a first-claw
ocean passage between this country
and Europe averages about $100. The
charge for conveying tbe same weight
of letters os the passenger weighs Is
$187.
the Indian girl would at least not harm
the child, gave permission for an ex-
periment to be made. The squaw at
once departed atd In an hour returned
with some herbs which she combined
Into a medlclno which actually seemed
to afiord tho child speedy relief. A
few days later the baby was aB well as
ever. Then the Sioux girl disappeared
and succeeded in reaching her own
people. When Miss Crossman was old
enough she told the story. In after
years she met the Sioux woman and at
tho tetter's request was formally
chosen a medicine woman. A number
of Indian secrets were confided to her,
and now her fame Is great among the
Sioux. Thus It happens that whenever,
with her company, she chances tj be
playing near an Indian settlement she
Is sure to be overwhelmed with dnsky
vlBltors bringing all sorts of offerings.
Sue has a smattering of the Sioux
language, and It seems strange to see
the big chiefs and warriors bow down
to this dainty little woman.
bits of humor.
Bald Mr.
Good sense duzent take up any room \
in a manze head. It Insists on bein
crowded with brain matter on every
side.
A good manze karacter iz I"1®
china egg—yoo can't spile it by sit-
tin down on it six mouths outer the
year.
Az yoo do unto other men, sum flaj
sum other man will do unto yoo. Tils
lz wot keeps men az good az wo n
find 'em.
Sum men spend awl thare life work-
in for glory, wile otherze are satlsllde
to work fur taters and bread and seck-
ond-hand kloze.
When a young girl talks cheerfully
ov livln and dying an old maid, yoo
kin bet yoor peanuts that sheeze got a
feller almgst landed.
A man^jnOBt hev a great hypnotic
flooence over his stummick wen he
make it yearn fur flat beer, or i lgh
fur llmberger cheeze.
A poor man iz never naked bo long
az his soul pants fur holy things, but
heed feel more comfortabull In clillly
The Sore Thing* of Life.
"There Is no such thing as certainty
in this life." exclaimed the melancholy
mon. "Ain't there!" responded Far-
mer Corntossel, contemptuously, "I
guess you didn't never play games with
any of these men that goes around to
county fairs,"—Washington Star.
"I am sorry. Tommy,"
Tucker, with grave rebuke in his voice,
"to see such a report card as this from
your teacher. In arithmetic you stand
only 5#." "Them Aggers ain't right,
paw," sniffed Tommy. "I worked like
sixty on my 'rlthmetlc.
"What," inquired the psychological
student, "do you regard as the chief
end of man?" "Well." answered Mr.
Blykine, "it depends on what you want
the man tor. If you want him to do
brainwort it's his head, and If you
want him to run errands it's his feet.
"Samuel" said the minister's wife,
"if you want me to repair your trou-
sers you'll have to go downtown and
get some buttons." "Never mind, dear,
replied the good man, "let them go
until neit week. I'm going to take up
collection Sunday morning for the
benefit of the heathen."
"I don't want to hurt your feelings,"
said the man who was evidently in a
hurry "but your contention doesn t
seem reasonable. You say there Is no
telling the trouble we are going to have
with the Philippines.' "Yes, sir," an-
swered the excitable friend. "Then,
what's the use of taking up time try-
ing?"
Sunday School Teacher—Who was
the shortest man mentioned In the
Bible? Bright Pupil-Peter. Sunday
School Teacher—Why, I wasn't aware
of any reference being made to his
stature. Bright Pupll-He apoke of It
himself, when he said, "Silver and gold
Could any one be
One of the most serious criticisms
made of the department of agrlculturo
Beveral years ago by eastern newspa-
pers concerned the money it had spent
in bringing "lady bugs" from Austral-
14 to "infest" California and Florida or-
^niatt^Uh it? I thought It was I chan!B. but the lady bug (Novlus car
excellent." "It says that the sales of | dlnalia) turned out to be one of tb<
our unparalleled mineral water have
increased so that we have been forced
Jects and wearing the gift that caused
so many wrinkles in the gray matter
of tta brain.
scraps.
tbe
most satisfactory Importations ever
made from the Antipodes, lta habit of
preying on tho scale that was blight-
ing fruit trees being tho means of sav-
ins to this state and Florida their
principal landed industries.
H.« villi iBdaatrr Ot Ifcitwh*
A recent distribution of a half to*
of lls'u to the Boldlers at Camp Wlkotf
possessed greater significance than ma
casual observer would Buspect. This
Incident possibly markod the opening
of an important new industry, one
that Professor Baird believed would
date from 1881, but which, for fifteen
years, has been abandoned. The fish
were" newly discovered specimens ot
a lost species. This species was th«
to double tho output of our "Pri"*
twice In five years."—Cincinnati Kn-
Qulrer.
Getting Through the List— wn«
does your majesty Intend to do next.
Inquired the German emperor's ,rle"<V
I don't know," was the answer, with
a suppreBsed yawn. "I'm afraidI the
field Is pretty near exhausted. When
you get time I wish you'd try to think
up something more for me to excel in.
—Washington Star.
Practical Education.—When Chris-
topher Columbus was going to school
be spent much time in learning to
make an egg stand on end. 'That
,sn't practical knowledge.^ Pasted was ^st discovered
the
her.
weather if hiz pants wuz put on at
other end, no dout.
A lie, shot out ov a big gun from
pulptt, or from a son-ov-a-gun In
lyticks, goes much farther and looa
greater damage than if shot out ov
common every day pop-gun in cver-
awls and jumper.
When a man rlvitB his eyes on
purty girl every time he meets
that old boiler-plate story ov love Is
goln to be circulated agin, unless her
pa comes upon them unexpectedly and
roots them to the spot.
Trubble floats In whisky on the sub-
mareene plan, and pops up agin be-
tween drinks like a dipper duck <lodg-
in the slugs ov a blunderbuss. Whisky
is not a good beverage, but a netful
pleasant medlseen to take before ineAlB
and afterwardB.
The ill-will ov one man in author-
ity creates misery for the mlllyunn who
foolishly obey In the name ov patriot-
ism. JuBt as tho it would be loyallty
In a dog to let the fleas eat him up,
rump and Btump, because the
estate dealer had adwertised that
was no fleas in the new boom to'vn.
If man had no better way tt> hide
his faults than country butter hns got,
and was obliged to go as bald an
from whlBkors, this would be a
real
there
d free
much
butter world to live in, and sweetness
would be of far more walue than
strength, and the milky way to hea-
ven would be greased with Ice cream.
ItnAton H P M<t HtrMta.
Boston claims to have the longest
paved street of one name In the wond,
Washington street, which la 17Va miles
In length.
Gladstone's coffin was made by the
villnire cRi-nenter.
have 1 none,
shorter than that?
Tt>* €W< Proposal.
"Wall, Jim. wot d'ye think abart the
Czar o' Rooshla and this 'ere universal
disarmament?"
jim_"Well, it's summat like me and
my old woman, mate, when there's a
bit of a shindy brewing. The one wot
proposes peace is the one wot aln t got
'old of the poker."—Fun.
HlMlnff In L nd«.
Hissing means different thini
cording to where you happen to be at
the time. In West Africa the natives
hist when they are astonished
gs.
In tilt
New Hebrides when they see anything
beautiful. The Basutos applaud a pop-
ular author tn their assemblies by hiss-
ing at him. The Japanese, again, show
their reverence by a hlsr, which has
probably somewhat the force of
'hush" with which we command si-
lence.
Prussia has 541 high schools for
boys.
Only one man in 203 Is over §4* f®6*
in height.
The German army contains 10.000
musicians.
There are 47 Chinese temples 1 the
United States.
There are three newsy llttl* Ameri-
can papers in Manila.
A large tomcat for thirteen years
made voynges on a mall steamer be-
tween Sydney and San Francisco. The
animal has died, and was burled at sea,
having almost completed 1,000,000
miles of travel.
This story Is told of Commissioner
Peck during his recent visit in Paris.
"Like all Americans, he was not to
be put out by trifles. One night an
excltjpd bellboy woke him by crying
that the hotel was on fire. 'How near
is it?' he was asked. 'In this corridor,
monsieur, at No. 15.' 'Well, this room s
No. 40; call me again when the fire
gets to 88.""
Water-logged nail brushes may now
be a thing of the past. The simple ex-
pedient has been resorted to by some
manufacturer of perforating the back
with rather large-sized holes, through
which the water runs as the brush is
used. It Is a wonder that so simple a
remedy for soaked and quickly spoiled
bristles has not been thought of be-
fore.—New York Post.
The number of acres of sugar beets
under cultivation In the European
countries during the year 1898-99 was
3,658,322, as compared with 3,749,151
the preceding year. The estimated
production for the year is 4'386'®®®
tons, a falling off, as compared with
the preceding year, of 875,000 tons.
Germany leads with an
1,054,229 and an output of 1.84T.00U
tfB8.
Samuel Untermyer of New York is
greatly elated over the fact that his
12,000 trotting horse, which ran away
in the New York streets, and tore "P
and down, In and out among the
crowded traffic and high snow banks
on Fifth avenue, chased for a good
deal of the distance by a cab. never
broke out of a trot, and went some-
times at a 2:20 clip without driver or
guiding rein.
the educators of the day. "*ou j"~ "^mens taken In 1879 off the
engage In manual training or' pra^ | BOUthcrn coast of Nantucket. In 1881
But when
America
vertical handwriting 1
Columbus discovered
through being able to make an egg
stand on end the educators perceived
they were wrong.—Detroit Journal.
AS TRUE AS OOSPEU
It is right t be contented with what
we have, never with what we are.
Life is a battle, and the downfall of
one man is the opportunity of another.
There is In nature Just as much, or
as little, as the soul of each can see In
her.
The highest compact we can make
with cur fellow Is—let there be truth
between us two for evermore.
Think of God not as one before
whom we shall stand, but as one be-
fore whom we do stand eve^y day.
The one who will be found In trial
capable of great acts of love Is over
tbe one who is always doing consider-
ate small ones.
Good nature is the very air ot 11
good mind; tbe sign of a large and
generous soul, and the peculiar Boil In
which virture prospers.
There la a deportment which suits
the figure and talentB of each person;
It la always lost when we Quit it to
assume that of another.
Look not mournfully Into the past;
It cannot return. WlBely Improve the
present; it is thine. Go forth to meet
the shadowy future without fear and
with a manly heart.
Labor la the ornament of the citizen,
the reward of toll is when you confer
blessings on others. His high dignity
confers honor on the king; be ours the
glory of our bands.
Burns' verse falls naturally Into two
main divisions. One, and that the
larger, appeals with persistency and
force, on the strength of some broadly
human qualities, to the world in gen-
eral; for the reason that the world In
general is rich in sentiment, but lacks
the literary sense. The other, being
a notable and lasting contribution to
literature, Is the concern of compai*-
tlvely few.
it was found to exist In great numbers
and early in 1882 seemed to have dis-
appeared as a result of some strange
fatality that strewed the eea over an
area of 170 by 25 miles with millions
and millions of Its dead, a conserva-
tive estimate placing the number at
1,438,600,000. At 10 pounds per fish, this
would give 288 pounds of fish to every
man, woman and child In the United
States. For ten years thereafter no
trace of the tile «sh was found, and
the singular story of its exterminatlott
was often told, but in 1892 a search of
two months yielded eight specimens.
In 1893 and 1897 a few others were
obtained, and in August of this year
the Grampus, the scientific vessel from
Wood's Holl, succeeded in capturing
a considerable number about sixty
miles south of Block Island, according
to Professor Bumpus, and In a trip in
September it took more than two hun-
dred, weighing over three thousand
pounds. Tbe hope is again Justified,
therefore, that the tile fish will become
an Important source of our food sup-
ply. The range of the species seems
limited, present determinations show-
ing It to cover only a trect of sea
bottom about 175 miles long by ten
to fifteen wide, In water near the 100-
fathom line.—Ex.
To Grow Thw Articles at Hove.
To reduce our Importations of the
little things that have been costing us
18,000,000 annually the division of bot-
any of the department of agriculture is
bending its efforts. Western states are
now growing chicory. In 1886 we im-
ported 16,317,888 pounds; in 1898 we
Imported only 315.707 pounds of raw
chicory The farmers of Michigan, Ne-
braska and other states will now fur-
i nish our supply. Ginseng is also a
promising plant for cultivation.
OrMpMl I ti
"Would you believe," said a thrift-
less young man to a friend, "that I had
a fortune in my grasp last evening?"
"How so?" asked the friend.
"I shook hands with a girl whose
fingers were covered with diamonds."
—Exchange.
remarkable _auction bids.
The Zola sale In France, at which a
little table was sold for more than 250
times Its value, recalls many Instances
of remarkable bids at auction sales.
Zola's table was worth 14 16s., but the
first bid for It was £1,880, and the auc-
tion became probably unique In the an-
nate of sales by being closed after
single bid.
It Is not the first ttoe that a table
has been sold for soch a remarkable
sum. though it is probably the flrst
time that sach an article has fstahea
such a big price. Cicero's table was put
up to auotlon after his death, but the
highest bid was *750. Another his-
toric article for which an enormous
price was paid was Cato's purple robe,
whish Hero bought for £6,§00. Tbe
habtt worn by Charles XII. at Pultow*
wss sold for £22,000, aad a cup used
by Hapeoleon went for thlrty-seren
guineas. The hat which Napoleon
wore at Eylau was keenly bid for at
auction by thirty-two persons, and was
knocked down at £75.
A CoBMdr of Colors.
"Hello, Blackl" "Hello, Whitel
"Hear about Brown?" "Yes. Oray
told me." And then they went Into
Green's to take something for the
bhies.—Life.
Mr. Quaritch, the famous bookseller,
says Tit Bits, recently advertised two
of his rarest volumes for sale for
£10,260, a sum which may seem ridlc-
ulous to most readers. Mr. Quaritch,
however, once bid £ 4,900 for a I-tln
Psalter and £3,900 for a Masarin Bible
at an auction sale.
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