When Charles Blazee was leaving the Keystone restaurant in the Pennsylvania railroad station, Jersey City, the other day he cast an appreciative glance at himself in a big mirror, settled his silk hat a little more firmly on his head, and smoothed a suggestion of a wrinkle at the waist line of his frock coat. The scullery maids, peeping from the kitchen window, admitted that the restaurant had never employed a cook of more distinguished appearance than that same Charles Blazee.

The cook had hardly reached the street, however, when he was touched on the shoulder by a policeman, who took Blazee to the court of Police Justice Hooes to answer a charge of pilfering various tidbits from the larder of the restaurant. The justice took his seat and the attendant shouted: “Hats off!”

Every one except Blazee complied. “Hats off!” again yelled the court officer, making a peremptory gesture at the cook. He shifted uneasily, but made no move to bare his head. A policeman stepped up to do it for him, but Blazee uttered a plaintive, “Wait,” and gingerly began to take off the offending hat. It as a delicate job, and the reason therefor as disclosed when a tomato can full of chicken salad and a bag containing a dozen eggs were brought ot view.

As he stopped to deposit those articles on the floor, Blazee’s waistline wrinkled. The policeman noticed that and without ceremony slapped him on the solar plexus.

“Blest if he ain’t wrapped up in grub,” he declared, and, unbuttoning Blazee’s garments, disclosed a towel fastened about him like a money belt, but containing a dozen lamb chops instead of cash.

Girls in Papua, or New Guinea, an island in the Pacific, have little chance to elope. Their dads force them to sleep in a little house on the topmost branches of a tall tree; then the ladder is removed, and the slumber of the parents is not disturbed with fears of elopement.

Many claims have been made on behalf of the modern newspaper. It is now held forward as the only reasonable cure both of cold and poverty. If you stretch it over you at night, it is better than a warming pan, better than and eiderdown quilt. If you roll it up into wet balls and put it on the fire, it does instead of coals.

An American chemist has invented a tube for truth. You speak into it; the chemical solution changes color according to the tensity of your emotion, and truth and mendacity are described as being quite distinct and vivid colors.

Scientists assert that early man used to be able to wag his ears as an indication of pleasure, or to brush away flies from under his back hair, but as the muscles were not brought into continual use they became rudimentary.

Rhinelander, Wis., Oct. 10.—Nothing but unaccountable good luck prevented the worst passenger wreck of the year on the Soo line. The Boston and Minneapolis limited west, which leaves here at 1:40, went through a trestle between Heafford Junction and bradley. The stringers and piles had been sawed after the east-bound limited passed the place an hour and forty minutes before. The rails were left with no support and the engine crushed through. They were going thirty-five miles an hour, an instead of dropping into the opening, the engine struck the solid track beyond and turned clear over down the embankment. The engineer, James Dutch of Minneapolis, was thrown twenty feet ahead. He sustained a broken leg and bad cuts on the head and a badly bruised body. He will recover. he was taken to his home. Charles Cotrell, the fireman, was pinned under the engine and terribly mashed. They are still working to release his body. He was instantly killed. He leaves a wife and two children at Minneapolis. The baggage car and sleeper left the track, but none of the occupants were badly hurt. The trestle is twenty feet high.

The job of cutting the stringers and piles was exactly the same as was done near Prentice last week. Whoever did it last night was evidently surprised in their work by the train’s arrival, and they left an overcoat and a saw. It is thought the culprits will soon be captured. Every suspicious character in the country will be made to explain his whereabouts last night. In the overcoat were certain articles which will help to identify them. The saw was stolen from the had car house, near the wreck. The Soo company has offered a reward of $500 for information lending to the capture of the guilty parties. Engineer Dutch was on the train which narrowly escaped being wrecked in the same manner last week, and he thinks it is some one who aims at his death. The officials think it is done by tramps for robbery.

The fruit brick is the latest form of preserve. It is rectangular or disk-shaped and done up in oiled tissue paper. The consistency is that of a small gumdrop, and, being composed largely of sugar, the flavor of the fruit is retained admirably. These bricks will soon be on the market from California.