holding out the beautiful presents. Finally, an old man, the leader of the
party, stuck his head out of the bush. He broke off a green twig and held
it up. It was a sign of peace and the white man nodded to him. The ice was
broken. The Negrito approached the European, they shook hands, some of the
presents were distributed and the visitors became the guests of the little
mountaineers. They were passed on from one group to another till Grubauer,
after a considerable time, had completed his studies.

HOW THEY CONSTRUCT ENGLISH IN BELGIUM.

A REQUEST TO "TWIRL THE PAGE."

American Postage-Stamp Collectors Are
Amused, When Not Puzzled, by a
Queerly Worded Circular.

"English as she is Japanned" occasionally appears on the shop signs of
Yokohama, Tokyo, and other Japanese cities, to amuse travelers from
America and England. But it is not necessary to search the Orient for odd
perversions of the language. As near a country as Belgium is the
birthplace of the following circular, which has lately been received by
many American philatelists:

"Seek you good Correspondents extra-European? Want you
Postage Stamps from Africa, America, Asia, Oceania? Sent
immediately and advertisement for the ---- Extra-European
Directory, 4,000 addresses of Philatelists, residing abroad
Europa. Work's price, book in 8 deg. stitched, ---- The
advertisements sind inserted opposite the country selected
by you ... One Justificative copy gratis."

At the bottom of the page is the further instruction to English and
American readers to "Twirl the page, please."

PRACTICAL JOKING OF EUGENE VIVIER.

"A MOST GENTLEMANLY EMPEROR."

How the Calf Which This Famous Hornplayer
Put in His Apartment Became
in Time an Ox.

Henry Sutherland Edwards, a London journalist, who died a short time ago,
published in 1900 a volume of "Personal Recollections" which is very much
alive with anecdotes of men of the past generation. Considerable space is
given to a man who is now almost unremembered--Eugene Vivier, the
hornplayer, "the most charming of men and the spoiled child of nearly
every court in Europe." Vivier is the man who said of Napoleon III, "He is
the most gentlemanly emperor I know."

"What can I do for you?" said this gentlemanly emperor one day, when
Vivier had gone to see him at the Tuileries.

"Come out on the balcony with me, sire," replied the genial cynic. "Some
of my creditors are sure to be pa