Rev. Mr. Milburn says that woman considers herself the white of the egg and clings to the yolk, which is man. Sometimes an egg is found with a double yolk.

"Strange," mused a north side man when he was more or less dexterously fishing clinkers out of his furnace with a poker, he speared a bright, silvery fused mass about the size of a No. 8 shoe.

"Extr'ord'nary, in fact," he exclaimed as he examined the metal, the identity of which he did not fix at once. He glanced with interest at his coal pile, for this N. S. man is of a sort of scientific turn of mind, and he was somewhat pleased with himself as he figured that some kind of ore had been mixed up with his coal, and his furnace acting as a smelter, had reduced the bright shiny mass therefrom. It tickled him that he had explained the matter so easily and he thought he would modestly show his wife how he had solved the strange occurrence.

"Look here, dear," he began. "I don't suppose you could tell me what this is, could you?"

"Yes," she snapped. "That's my aluminum skillet."

NOTE.—She put the skillet in the furnace to burn off the dried particles of turkey hash. No trace of the turkey could bee seen.—Cleveland Leader.

Since it is the unanimous opinion of medical authorities that smoking by minors is highly injurious, it is certainly distressing to observe in all parts of the city an amazing increase of juvenile smoking. Many of these youngsters have told me that they were only fourteen or fifteen.

It seems clear that the reason why these youngster take up smoking is because they think that it is manly and that they are thus made into little men.

One boy of sixteen, who had on short trousers when I met him smoking told me that usually he wore long trousers, and imagined that that gave him a right to smoke five years before we give him the right to vote.

If smokers older than twenty would constantly rebuke all such juvenile smokers as they chanced to meet, these youngsters might realize that it wisest to wait.

A dealer in tobacco informs me that youngsters come into his shop with orders supposed to have been written by some grown person desiring tobacco and that it is the custom to let the minor have tobacco on such doubtful orders.

The old question. "Do lightning rods protect?" has been referred to Thomas A. Edison, and Mr. Edison replies: "One or more metallic conductors at least one quarter inch in diameter of either iron or copper, without joints, when connected to a proper amount of metallic surface connected with a permanently damp earth will certainly protect a house from being affected by lightning. Any metallic surface on roofs, etc., when connected with rods, will increase protection." That ought to settle that.

The great prize of life may come by accident. Shakespeare says: "Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered." We must all admit that happenings and unforeseen events over which a man has no control often change the whole course of his career.

Good positions do not always come by merit, as the result of one's own direct efforts. Many a poor laboring man is raised to wealth by the death of some rich relative or some poor washerwoman is raised to high position by marrying a man of fortune.

Some are moved forward to eminence by chance, sickness, accident, death or having kinship with the men they work for, while a more worthy worker is left behind.

You know what it mans to be in the right place at the right time, although your being there was not of your own calculation.

Too many people in this world take great credit upon themselves for what they are, when if it were not for the fat that they were lucky they would be not better off than their less fortunate neighbors.

For that matter, they are lucky to be well, strong and of good, sound mind. It is of none of their doings they are such, because if a man is born of good health and strength it is chance. If he does not dissipate and drink he is lucky--lucky not to have the disposition to do so.