HIS PAPERWEIGHT. A FAREWELL CHAT. Travels of a Bottle of Wine ana Its Ultimate Fate- A paperweight consisting of a piece of thick glass with a tokay wine label fastened on the back and showing through is a part of the desk furniture in the library of a man who goes to Europe nearly every year. “People iook at the thing,” he said, “and won der what the wine label is doing there, and when I see the question coming I always tell the story. “Some years ago I went to Raab, in Hungary, where I called on an old lady who in Vienna years before had shown much interest in and befriend ed a young American student at the university. The poor student had grown to be a rich physician, and he wanted me to call and present his compliments. When I was about to leave after a pleasant visit the wo man handed me a bottle of wine which had come from her estate and asked me to take it to our mutual friend. I carted that bottle all over Europe, paid duty on it several times and flnal- -ly landed it safe^ and sound here in the house. A few days after my return we invited the doctor for dinner, and the bottle was brought in with much ceremony. I made a little presenta tion speech and then in handing it to the doctov dropped it on the floor where you see that stain. That’s the label under the glass." — New York Tribune. HORSE AND DOG. Contact With Civilization Lessens Their Cunning and Sagacity. The dog is no doubt the most intelli gent of our domestic animals, and I yield to none in my affection for him. I can almost eat and sleep with a flue dog winter and summer. But I try not to deceive myself about his intelli gence. It seems to me that if the dog- had the least spark of wit akin to our own—that is, power of reason—his long association with man would have fanned it into a flame, however small. But after all these thousands of years of human companionship and love he has less wit in some respects than his wild brothers, the fox and the wolf. Having been spared the struggle to live that falls to their lot, his cunning and Sagacity have deterio rated. The same is true of the horse, which has less intelligence than the wild stallion of the plains and for the same reason. These animals do not grow wiser as they grow less wild. They do not civi lize or develop. We train them into certain ways that make them service- able t l.o us; we humanize them withoiit adding to their mental capacity. In other words, we cannot cross our in telligence upon theirs and make it fruitful in them. The germ will not take.—John Burroughs in Outing Mag azine. Interview Between the Boss and the Man He Fired. Neither of the partners had arrived and the clerks that morning were in dulging in their usual bout of gossip. “Did I tell you, chaps, that I was leaving?” drawled the languid swell of the staff, whose incompetence was as palpable as the splendor of his at tire. “Heard you’d got the* sack,” replied the spectacled cashier gruffly. “I answered an advertisement yes terday for what looks like a first class job,” resumed the overdressed one, ig noring the remark. “I’ve pitched rath er a strong yarn, but you’ve got to do that if you want to keep up with the times.” Just then the senior partner entered, and all wrote intently. Within five minutes the “old man. who had been opening letters, called the last speaker into his room, and the following dialogue became plainly au dible to those outside: “Have you been in our service seven years?” “No, sir; only fifteen mouths.” “And is your salary £4 10s. a week?” “Eh, no, sir; 30 shillings.” “And are y ou in "entire charge of the counting house?” No reply. “And are you leaving us because of a difference with the Arm regarding the management of our colonial branches?” Dead silence and a short pause. Then the old man: “You should be more careful in your statements, sir. This is a small world. The advertisement you answered was for the situation you are leaving or Saturday. That will do.”—London Tit Rita. THE LAND OF OPHIR. Where Was It—In Mashonaland, South Arabia or India? One of the most interesting and im portant questions concerning Biblical sites perpetually invites research and persistently evades solution. “Where is the land of Ophir?” Dr. Karl Pe ters at a public meeting in Berlin de clared emphatically that this famous Biblical region is located between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. He told his German audience how he has dis covered many shafts of ancient gold mines, 500 temples, fortifications and other ruins of Phoenician origin. Dr. Peters affirms that coins unearthed in Mashonaland belong undoubtedly to the time of King Solomon. His opin ion is that no other part of Africa could have exported the ivory, silver and precious stones which are record ed In tiie Bible as coming from Ophir. , Against {his theory, founded as iir undoubtedly is-on very plausible evi dence. Bible students are still like-Ey INSULTS TO ROYALTY. Some of the Things That Constitute Leze Majesty In England. Many people think that leze majesty —giving insult to royalty—is not a crime in Great Britain. The English statute books, however, contain many penalties for such offenses. Placing a postage stamp on a letter apside down is a punishable offense, as is also the defacement of a coin bear ing the royal image. Thisds insulting the king’s effigy. Private individuals may not raise the royal standard over their dwellings This is the emblem of the regal au thority to be displayed only where the king is present. While an agitator may talk against royalty in the abstract as much as he chooses, contemptuous or insulting personal references to the reigning sov ereign opens the offender to a heavy fine and imprisonment. The slightest slap upon the face of the king or queen—or any other part of the anatomy, for that matter—is punishable with the death penalty. In the reign of Queen Victoria a Lieuten ant Page struck her across the face with his cane, ftle was sentenced to death, but the queen commuted bis sentence. It is likewise a crime to bring the uniform of the sovereign into con tempt. To garb a low comedian or a villain of the stage in a discarded uni form of the army or the navy is suf ficient to bring heavy censure from the government. For this reason theatrical managers usually see to it that the uniforms worn are not exactly copies of the real things. ARTIFICIAL LIGHT. The Most Brilliant Illumination Is No-i Always the Best. A writer in an engineering maga zine offers some disconcerting inforuta tion on the subject of illumination, dis concerting because the reader will probably find that he lias been, inno cently enough, following a coui'se of procedure there described as injurious. For instance, in the case of eye strain he may have felt that even the dim light by which he worked was too strong, and so turned down the light, thus increasing the difficulty, or, what is more likely to be the case, when the strain has been caused by too brilliant illumination he fancies that what is needed is stronger light and so increases it. Overstrain from too bright ai light is said to manifest itself by an itching sensation in the eyeballs, with the tendency to rub the eyes for relief. The proper eonrsfython, is to see that the light is more perfectly diffused or softened and that it falls in the* right direction. After these precautions have been taken It is worth while to try a smaller quantity of light, this trial to continue long enough iu time English House Names. House owners arc sometimes rut her unfortunate in their selection of names for their abodes, and in suburbia house naming is occasionally rather ludicrous. Thus “The Maples” has never a ma ple near. “The Rosary” only exists in imagination. “Sunnyside” is the most depressing villa residence, and houses named after the English lakes no more suggest the lake district than Fleet street suggests the Bois de Boulogne. The Anglo-Saxon word “hyrst.” sig nifying a forest or wood, lias become “hurst” in house naming, and “wood’ and “holt” have the same meaning. All house names ending with these ter minations are pretty and not unsafe to choose. It is curious to note that iu Hastings and St. Leonards quite a number of houses have typically Saxon names, perhaps to commemorate the great Saxon tragedy: of which the name Hastings is reminiscent. to maintain, on the testimony of Gene sis x, 29, that Ophir was a section o'? I 1 for the eyes to- become fully adjusted South Arabia. Here down to the fi.nc of Ezekiel the Phoenicians' still land ed to procure gold and gems wP!» which those famous sailors and mer chants of the ancient world! traded fra many countries)distant from their Syri an shores. Many erudite writers have ’attempt ed to identify Sofala, ow the' east const of Africa, with Ophir. while yci <>1 br ers have located ft In India. One .< * the most learned essays written on th “ subject Is froms!) the pern of Professo - Hommel. who argued that the ancic- land of gold was Arabia Fellix.—Hioom iletic Review. to the clyan-ge. The- value of illumiha tion is not to- be judged by the appar ent brightness of the- lights when look ed at ‘directly—the- brighter the light the bettei—but by the- effect on the ob ject to be looked at,, and the most de sirable effect, so- far as the eyes are ji concerned,, is not always produced by J the most brilliant lights.—Indianapolis j Star. P ************** THE OFFICERS, FACULTY A. and M. 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Chichester arms its chief magistrate with a gold mounted malacca cane of office, while the mayor of Guildford carries the stick presented to the bor ough by Queen Elizabeth. At York both the lord mayor and lady mayor ess are equipped with the silver mount ed oak staves which have marked their authority for centuries. Among the official retainers of the mayor of Ripon is the municipal horn blower, who every night at 9 o’clock winds three blasts upon this aged musical instru ment before the mayor’s residence and again at the marked cross.—London Standard. # mn r-ie Said. Officer—How is this, Murphy? Ser geant complains that you called him names. Private Murphy—Plaze. sur, I never called him ony. names at all. AH I said was, “Sergeant,” says I, “some of us ought to be in a menag erie.”—London Tit-Bits. Inevitable. “So Nelson is dead. What killed him?” “You know he had one foot in the grave?” “Yes.” “Well, some one pulled his leg.”— Harper’s Weekly. A Man to Be Envied. “Do you know.” remarked a visitor to a Broadway hostelry, “I’m always inclined to envy' the- clerk in a hott I like this. He is always well groomed and smiling: has a wider acquaihta-nxoc- among the wealthy or well to do than I can ever hope to have- and is always so aggressively at pence- with the-world and himself: also he wears, more- of ten than not, a diamond scarfpha. or ring which Is certainly beyond! me. It’s a pretty comfortable berth.” Several honrs later the hotel clerk reached for his coat and hat. As he left the office he turned to- a comrade: “Say, Ned, can yon let me have $10 till the first? Reut due at home tomor row, and I’m shy. Doctor’s bills hit me pretty hard this month, and I don'U want to lie awake tonight if l can help it.”—New York Globe. Her Poor Memory. A woman who belonged to an ancient but penniless family married a rich plebeian, but she never forgot the mis alliance nor allowed any one else to do so. One day, attended by a servant, she went into a store and gave au or der. “And where shall 1 send it. madam?” said the shopkeeper. “Jean,” said the woman, turning to her sei-vant, “tell the man your mas ter’s name. I never can remember it.” fered We are accustomed to see men de ride what they do not understand and snarl at the good and beautiful be cause it lies beyond their sympathy.- Goethe, Methods of the Ingenibias Thuringlan T oymakers. Dollmakiug did not become eonspJe- aous us au industry in the Thuringian mountains until the middle of the niise- teentli century, when a citizen of Son ne berg brought from, London a doll * which was regarded as a. great curiosl- _. . _ , *!fcy. It had come originally from China, . Ir ?* 0 . rne ’ ,r . .. i* v * ‘ . I 1 and its head, legs and arms were- m u fol, » d J 1 with a smooth was on my way to. a. bazaar. You’re and ^autitu coat of the substance. first, and there’s an, end; of it!’ ’’-Lone He “ ot s t «', se *? e th ® idea ’ ^ doctTelegraph. resu,t befng tbe adoption of the d p- ping process, the final touches of color being put ou with a camel’s hair pen cil. Later on the movable eyes and! closing: lids, to feign sleep; were added, and the fleece of the Angora goat was substituted for human hair In the mak ing of wigs, holding its color and cur» much better, the doll as it is known today thus assuming its final and highly artistic form. Dressing the dolls after they are made has become an industry in which numbers of women and girls are em ployed. For the small, inexpensive dolls little chemises, finished with a ruffle of lace around the neck and arms, are made by hundreds and re quire no skilled labor for their con struction.—Rene Bache in Circle. Modern Plays and Players, We no longer demand that a man, or woman play a parti We insist that the part fit the man. ov woman. This con dition noydoubt is largely the fa-ultt of managers, who. instead of requiring impersonation pick performers for their likeness to- tile characters to be assumed.- “Have you a father?” one can imagine them inquiring o-f a can i didate. “Yes.” “Then you won’t do. This man’s father died twenty years before the beginning of the play.”- Argonaut. Reformed. “Did she marry her husband to re form him?” “I guess so. She reformed him, all right.” “Why, he drinks like a fish.” “I know it, but he didn’t use to be fore she married him.”—Houston Post. J. IV. HUNICUT L.i'Oeryman First Class Service- J. Allen Myers safety Razors, Pocket Knives, Etc, Bryan. - Texa. W. H. LAWRENCE Dentist Bryan, - - Iexas Office over Haswell’s,. Phone 275 EXCHANGE S having Parlor BATTLE BROS,, Props.. HOT AND COLD BATHS NEXT DOOR TO EXCHANGE: MOTEL. BRYAN, TEXAS. 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