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Hamilton's Dueling Pistol.

In the parlor of the Roy homestead, in Superior, Wis., is the pistol with which Alexander Harilton fought Aaron Burr [ the Hud wn in the

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year 1s nd the mate of the wea 1 With . Aaron Burr took Ham n’s life on ‘ SiON. The owner of the relic is M A. Roy, widow of Vincent Ror Ni Roy was ene of Superior’s pio nees, and over 2 years ago, upon theo casion of a Visit to the town of a party of southern and eastern speculators, the pis tol was presented to him by ex-Senator J. B. Beck of Kentucky in return for a favor conferred by Mr. Roy. Mr. Beck received the weapon from a relative of Colonel! James Loyle, and subsequently loaned it toa friend, who used it during the civil war. Colonel Boyle received the pistel,

together with its mate, from Judge Van Ness, who was Burr's second during the duel with Hamilten.

The Surr pistol, which is an exact dupli

cate of the other, js now owned by Louis Marshall, son of Colonel Thomas Marsha)] of Vermont. It has changed hands many times, and finally got into the hands of Colonel Marshall after passing through

the Mexicun and civil wars. Both weapons were marked by Colonel Van Ness to in sure identification, the Burr pistol with an “X,"’ to signify that it had killed one man, and the Hamilton pistol with the character ‘‘O’’ above the initials ‘‘A. H.’’

The pistol owned by Mrs. Rey is of the old |

flintlock, horse pistol pattern. Although made of good material and well finished, it is a clumsy looking affair compared with the pistol of today. The barrel is 12 inches long and carries a two ounce ball, while the handle is heavy and extremely dificult to grip.—Chicago Times-Herald. Not Religious and Not Fussy.

“When I enme out on my regular trip the other morning,” relates the Lee stage driver, ‘‘the only passenger I had was ar old lady of very demure manners. I was most dead for a smeke, but I had sort of got it into my head that the old lady was &@ religious and a fussy party. When we got along a piece, however, I got to finger. ing my tobarker and, by snum, 1 just couldn't resist the temptation. So I turned round to the old lady and asked her if she had any objection to my taking a whiff or two. She straightened upa like a mon key on on stick.

‘** *By golly, young man,’ she shouted, ‘you've hit me just where I live. I’ve a hankering for a smoke all the Se Gimme a match.’

“She pulled out a black T. D., and I tell you, mister, me’n that old lady made the stage look likea steam engine going up @ grade.’’— Kennebec Journal.

No Monotony.

According to the statement of the 10- year-old daughter of a Massachusetts cler- gyman, there are ways of making an old serinon seem almost new.

**Molly,’’ said one of the friends of this young critic, ‘‘does your father ever preach the same sermon twice?’’

‘I think perhaps he does,” returned Molly cautiously, ‘‘but I think he talks loud and soft in different places the second time, so it doesn’t sound the same at all.’’ ~~ Youth's Companion.

. Trophies of Victory.

‘*What are all those ribbons hanging on the chandelier?’’

‘*Those are not ribbons. They are neck- ties I’ve pulled off different men when I was learning to ride a wheel.’’—Chicago Record.

Handel had one of the most phenomena} musical memories ever known. He knew by heart over 50 operas from beginning to end.

Oliver Cromwell had the largest brain on record. It weighed a little over 50 eunces, but was jound to be diseased.

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man emperor were both remarkable for their strength of body. The latter, in fact, thought sufficiently well of bis powers to oppose himself to Sandow, who wrestled with and defeated the monarch with difficulty.

Augustus II, elector of Saxony, was aman of immense strength. He once seized a man who had concealed him- self in the royal sleeping apartment by the waist and flung him out of the win- dow into the courtyard beneath.

Maurice, count of Saxony, a natural son of the above elector, was as noted as his fatber for his feats of strength. It needs no small amount of strength in the fingers to enable one to twist a long, thick nail into a spiral. This Matrice did and afterward used it as a corkscrew to open bottles of wine ata luncheon. At another time, while stop- ping at a farrier’s to have his horses at- tended to, he broke half a dozen of the man’s horseshoes by the strength of his hands like so many biscuits. That Mau- rice was equally strong in other parts of his body is shown by the following:

While traveling on foot in London he bad an altercation with a dustman. The dispute developed into a quarrel, which the count terminated by seizing his adversary by the head and throwing bim over his shoulder inte the mud cart, which was standing near.

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Elevating the Painter.

A Scotch journal says that a certain well known painter went to a seaside vil- lage to paint a pictmre and put up ata small public house. One day while in his room he heard a comimotivn, and on run- ning down stairs found that the chimney was on fire. Two or three men were try- ing to put out the flames by sweeping the soot down with brooms, but the blaze was too high to be reached in this manner. Seeing their want of success, the painter caught up a thick mat, ran with it to the roof, and, climbing up the stack of chim- neys, placed it on the top of the one that was on fire. His idea was, of course, to obstruct the draft. It happened thata stiff breeze was blowing, and, as the mat was in danger of being blown off, the art- ist sat on it to hold it down. He was just comfortably seated when he found himself lifted bodily and landed upon the tiles of the roof. What had happened? That was more than he could imagine till he went down stairs. No one knew that he had gone aloft, and when the landlord saw that sweeping down the soot was ineffec- tual he tried the old fashioned remedy of lighting a charge of gunpowder. This it was that removed not only the soot, but the mat and the painter.

Wales and Lady Romney.

Wales gets huffy with wom n on ac- eount of the slightest trifles. Though on the most familiar terms with them, he will turn them down remorselessly. It is shame that he should possess the power. Here is an instance: One night he was talking to Lady Romney at a ball. “I hear, Lady Romney,’’ he leered, ‘‘that What is it?’’

ent weal of answering the question, Lady ney said, ‘‘Sir, I hear that you are called ‘Tummy.’ Is it true?’

Without a word he turned with a scowl and walked away, leaving her an object of rude attention.—New York Press.

Spain’s wretched showing in agricul- tural pursuits is said by the British consul at Cadiz to be due to the use of primitive implements of the time of Julius Casar.

There are nearly 250,000 more men than women in Australia, and in New Zealand also women are in a minority.

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| A SONG. Bring me the juice of the honey frnft, The large, translucent, amber hued, Rare grapes of southern isies, to suit The luxury thas fills my mood. And bring mv only such as grew Where fairest maidens tend the bowers, And only fed by rain and dew Which first had bathed a bank of flowers. They must have hung on spicy trees

In atrs of far enchanted vales, And all night heard the ecstasies Of noble throated nightingales.

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Fer I would wake that string for thee Which hath too long in silence hung,

And sweeter than all else should be The song which in thy praise is sung.

} | ; | | So that the virtues which belong | | | —Thomas Buchanan R»ad.

|THE SQUIRRELS IN THE OAK,

Liew They Kept Honse and Got Their Provisions. My favorite boarders in the oak were the gray squirrels. The boys knew their hole from the woodpeckers’ at a glance, | for it was in the living trunk of thse | tree, and the red brown margin always showed where their powerful teeth had been cutting away the bark that threat- ened to grow in and close them up. I have oftened wondered how the woo#- peckers knew that it would imprison them, apd that they must put up with the dead limb.

As for the grays, they were not afraid to live in the heart of the oak, and what stores of nuts, harvested in the hickories on the hill, they did manage to ‘‘tote’’ up there. There must have been a peck at least when I ruthlessly chopped into the hollow with a sharp hatchet and captured a fine brood of young ones that were soon tamed into graceful and af- fectionate pets.

The old father and mother we did not want, even if we could have caught them, because they are fierce and up- tamable in captivity.

The abduction of their pretty chil- dren did not seem to weigh much on their minds. They gave no sign of the poignant grief, not to be comforted, that I have seen, for instance, in blue- birds whose nest had been despoiled, but refitted their den as sougly as be- fore and raised another family.

When my squirrels went harvesting, one of them first held his head in the mouth of the hole for half a minute to see if the coast was clear. Presently out he whisked and stopped again to make sure, while his mate followed. Then Mr. Squirrel gave a rasping, Jong drawn bark of defiance, which must have filled his lady’s heart with admiration for his boldness and with apprehension lest some unwary creature should come within reach of her lord’s anger.

Then—if you didn’t betray yourself and send both scampering in wildest- fright back to tae nole—after playing hide and seek for a few moments they ran in single file out to the topmost twigs of a great bough, gained a branch of the neighboring bare walnut and, crossing to ite farther side, made a des- perate flying leap into the top of a young hickory. Running half way down this, they used a succession of dogwoods and oak saplings until they had reached the grove of tail, straight hickories on the hill, an eighth of a mile from their hole in the oak. Come on them sudden- ly now if you would care to see fast time made over this queer course and some record breaking leaps that fairly take away one’s breath.—Scribner’s Magazine.

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Autograph Fiends.

The author of ‘‘Chate With Celcbri- ties,’’ Mr. Guild, says of the demand upon Longfellow for hie autograph:

I remember one very pleasant p.rty at the poet’s dinner table, at which Mr. Monti, Professor E. N. Horsford and myself were present, when Mr. Long- fellow related a number of amusing anecdotes respecting applications that were made to him for autographs. He was very kind to autograph seekers and used to keep ina little box upon his writing table a number ef slips upon which were written, “ Yours very traly, Henry W. Longfellow.’ Ome of these would be sent to the tbya mem ber of his family to whom he passed over their requesta.

But the autograph seekers were not always satisfied with a mere signature, and he eften sent a verse from one of his poems signed with his name. The most remarkable request, however, came from a lady in Beston, who, the post said, sent him by express a package of 150 blank visiting oards, with a letter requesting that he would inscribe his name Om each of them the next day, as she Was to have a grand receptian at which a number of literary people weuld be present, and she wished to present each one of her guests with the

‘s autograph. was toc much for even Longfel- low’g goed nature and would seem to be hardly credible had I not heard it from | the poet’s own lips,

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