2 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURC, P: CHILDREN OF OLD MEN. Seventy Years o liar to the Acqnlsl. Hon. of Interesting I'in lllea. Cusps of children being born to men verging on the three score years and ten, which ore declared by the Psalmist to constitute the span o human life, are by no means so rare as might be imag ined, says the New York World. The pn-hont earl of Leicester, one of the only peers of the realm who wit nessed Queen Victoria's coronation, was 71 year of nge at the time of the birth of his youngest daughter, whose eldest sister, aged 49, is already a grandmother. The famous French Field Marshal Felissier, duke of MalakotT, was 68 when he married, nnd his only daughter, recently divorced from the Polish Count Zambiskn, was born a year later. His fellow fie,!d marshals, Cnnrobert and lianine, likewise mar ried wheu they w ere in t lie neighbor hood of 70, and each left several chil dren. The father of Queen Isabella of Spain, old King Ferdinand, was 6S at the time of her birth, and 09 when her sister, the lute Duchess dfc Montpensier, mada her appearance in the world. Ancient history furnishes many more such in stances, among the most notable being, perhaps, those of Cato, King David, and last, but not least, Father Abra ham. CHARACTER IN HATS. Amatrnr rtlvluntlons ly Very Strnnse Means Now the Fnd In Chicago. Character reading is the very latest fashionable diversion of social Chicago. Not professional character reading, but amateur divination by society people themselves. The old style palmistry is now supplemented by character read ing by means of a study of a person's handwriting, of bis facial lines and ex pressions, of his walk, of even the clothes he wears, says the Chicago Chronicle. "I can tell more about a woman's personality by examining her shoes and hat than by watching her face," remnrked a clever man the other day. "I always look first at her shoes, then fit her skirt and finally ut her hat. The waist or coat I never remark at all. Sometimes I am mistaken in the shoes, because the pair may be new and still! and have not had a chance to become part of the individual. "Hut the hat is never debatable ter ritory. Its shape, its trimming, its size and the way it is placed on the head all tell something of the owner's personality. A hat is to me the typical traw that denotes the outlines of the wearer's character." GOLF AND SCOTCH WHISKY. The Growing- Payor of the (;t,n.c Over Here Increases the Sales of the Liquor. "The game of golf is responsible for an Increase of almost 200 per cent, in the sale of Scotch w hisky in this coun try," said a liquor dealer. "Scotch whisky is as essential to a golf player as beer to a man at a clam bake, and the growing interest in golf is increasing the sale of this commodity every year. "In Scotland, where the game of golf is said to have first been played, the standard drink is Scotch whisky. Of course, the American golfers have to follow the Scotch fashions, and Scotch whisky and soda a really delicious and refreshing beverage is the favorite drink in the golf clubs in this country. "In a liquor trade paper, I saw, some time ago, some figures on this subject. Before the game of golf became so pop ular in this country, the annual sale of Scotch whisky here was less than 30,000 gallons. It is now said to be some thing like 90,000 gallons a year. There is a well-grounded suspicion that a good deal of this whisky is distilled right in this country and put into bottles bear ing the labels of a Scotch firm, but I thfnk It would be Impossible to prove this." FRENCHMEN DON'T TRAVEL. necanae Thc Have an Innate Horror of Anything; Like "Itonarh Inar It." M. Ilonvalto, the distinguished ex plorer, is constantly exhorting his fel low-countrymen to travel, and his ap peals are once more lending to a re view of the reasons which render the average (Jnul so uvense to adventure beyond his own frontier, says the Lon dou Telegraph. How does it happen. it is asked, that so few, even of the younger generation of Frenchmen, dis play any inclination to see the world, although at their age, many Anglo. Saxous have, already been round it? Two maiu explanations for these stay-at-home propensities are volun teered. One is t,hat people in Frnnec rarely trouble themselves to learn for eign languages, so that they ure like fish out of water when they go abroad. Another is that they arc ubsolutcly ig novant of the practical side of travel and have little idea of the articles that they requiro or of the best mode of fitting themselves out for a long jour ney. In short, they are not handy or enterprising and have a horror of any thing in the shape of "roughivg it," as the saying goes. Do Song-Dlrtls Predict Storms f A writer in the Monthly Weather re view avers that for a considerable time in advance of a great storm songbirds cease their music, nnd that this muy be taken as an Indication of the storm's approach. For 48 hours before the be. ginning of a series of severe storms in northern Illinois last summer not a sound was heard from the throats of the thousands of birds which inhabit that part of the country, and whose xuu hIo, ta fair weather, la one of the obarmr t titt fttetrict. ADDS PI TO HIS LUNCH. Tlia Tardy Sakarbanlte's Mortlfyln Straggle, with the) Ilestleas Paper Tared. The man In the suburbs had his lunch neatly tied in a square paper parcel which did not look its function, lie started from the house in orderly pre cision, says the Chicago Chronicle, but had barely turned the corner when he stubbed his toe and dropped the unsus picious bundle to the sidewalk, split ting the yellow paper and depositing sandwiches and cake on' the ground. Then the train whistle sounded Its warning note, and in despair the tor tured suburbanite crammed coke and bread promiscuously Into his pockets and started on a run for the station. He caught the lust platform of the last carand hurriedly sank intoaseat. When the conductor asked for his ticket he managed to extract the small paste board without showing the contents of one pocket, but tugging deep into the other for his handkerchief to wipe his heated brow, out flew crumby tread and stringy ham nnd cake thnt looked as if the frosting had been nibbled by mice. The passengers smiled. They could not have been human and done otherwise. But the man made no al lowances for uncontrollable risibilities. He glared at the offending men and women, savagely thrust back the bread and battered cake Into his pocket and enveloped his burning countenance In the cooling pages of the morning paper. But there was a look of flint in his eye that spoke the finish of the home concocted luncheon. THE SWEEPER TEAM. A Picturesque Spectacle That Is Still to Da Seen on City Horse Car Lines. The sweeper team, always the pride of the cur stable, is disappearing rup idly now before the power sweeper of the electric and cable roads; but when, on occasion, it docs appear on the few remaining horse-equipped lines of the city, It is made up in the same fme style as ever. When the sweeper teani finally goes for good it will trot away In good form and flying colors, says the iS'ew York Sun. Thus there was seen the other day on a city street car track over which horse cars are still running a sweeper team of eight white horses in perfectly matched pairs and all good-sized, the wheel pair big horses and the other pairs tapering uniformly to the lenders, but not running down very much, just enough to give the big team form and style. The bames of every set of har ness were painted red, not a glaring ea nor a muddy dark red it was more pinkish and transparent and this nar row band of, bright color running around the black collar of each white horse looked neither gaudy nor out of place; it gave the outfit just the proper touch of jauntiness. The horses were all good steppers and they moved with a proper pride; the big team was of course well driven. It was not perhaps the greatest team ever was, but it was something uncommon slick. SIGNAL SERVICE. As Operated by the Cap tali, and Ills Drlde When They Were Separated. The captain had not been long mar ried when he was ordered into camp. The long-expeoted call had come at last. To be sure, the camp was in plain sight of the captain's residence, which was some mitigation of the hardship, but then It was still a separation, and to lighten their terrible condition it was arranged that the bereaved husband and wife should signal to each other often with handkerchiefs, says the Cin cinnati Enquirer. It was on the second day thnt the young wife was seated on the porch reading. 'Toll nA -TnrtA . .t.l til. Vtill signaling?" ' " es, ma am, answered the maid. "Then keen waving your handker chief. I want to finish this novel!" At the same moment, In camp, an offi cer fram an adjoining company stepped up to me captain. "1 say, old man," he asked, "why do you keep that man out there all day waving a handkerchief?" Oh, it s merely a bit of signal code practice for him," he answered. "Say, I've got some good stuff inside." The Length of Human Life. According to M. I. Holl Schooling of Brussels, says Cosmos, there is an old rule for finding the lcntrth of a man's life if the present age lies between 12 and 80 years. This is the rule: Sub tract the present age from 86 and divide the remainder by 2; the result will give the number of years you have yet to live. This old rule was discovered by the mathematician De Moivre, who emi grated to England from Fronee In 18C5 and became a member of the Hoyal so ciety. The curves given by Mr. School ing are interesting to examine. A first diagram shows the chunee that every man has of living one yeur longer thau his present age. At birth this chonce is 5 to 1; at 8 years, 119 to 1 at 10, 812 to lj at 15, 347; at 20, 807; at 25, 156; at 80, 120; at 35, 97; at 40, 78. etc. Mr. Schooling affirms from his calculations that of 1,000 Individuals of 00 years, 599 will live to be 70, 120 to 80 years and 17 to 90; while of 1,000 nonagenarians, 4 will reach their hundredth year. We may add that for men of 65, the average expectation of life is 10 1-3 years. Soldiery of Prance and Uermany. Twenty-flvo years, ago France was able to put as many soldiers In the field as Germany. To-day it fails short by about 1,000,000 men. Postal Cards. More than 2,000 different kinds of postal cards have been Issued during the last 25 Tears. THE ODDEST JOB YET. Hiring; a Woman to Personnte n Col lection Agent In Nerd of a Heating. "t ttsed to work for a collection agency in one of the northern cities," aid a lady perfumery drummer to a New Orleans Times-Democrat reporter, "and my experience was tolerably ex citing. My duty was to sit at a roll-top desk In the olUce and impersonate tins proprietor. Light work, did you say.' Jiijt you wait. All day long men would come in red-eyed to lick the boss. "Where's the fellow that sends out these blackmailing letters?" was the usual salutation. Then I would smile sweetly nnd say: Tin the proprie tress; what ran I do for you?' At that the visitor would look dazed, mutter things under lkis breath and walk off. Occasionally the real proprietor would peep through an inside window to see whether I was still alive, for 1 must ad mit our letters were calculated to give u man the homicidal mania. "Well, things went on nil right for nearly a month. Then one day a little wiry chap wnlkcd in carrying a thick cane. 'Where's the boss?' he said. I gave the usual fairy story. 'Don't be lieve n word of it,' he replied, 'still 1 can't beat a woman.' He thought awhile, and something in his eye made me feci creepy. 'I'll have to take it out of the fixtures,' he said, finally, nnd, upon my word, he broke up every blessed thing in the shop. He did it quickly and systematically, and you never saw such an awful ruin! 1 yelled murder, but it dsd no good, and he went right ahead. As a wind-up he smashed the chandelier and bade me a polite good-day. When the proprietor came in ho had a fit. It was after that I went Into the perfumery business. The work is harder, but it is much less try ing on one's nerves." Ave Amaae tne foreigner. From Plymouth to Calais there Is a chain of decayed seaports and idle ship yards a chain of rotten wharves, tumble-down piers, shiplcss harbors and old sailors, says II. Phelps Whit marsh. In Atlantic. All speuk eloquently of u great carrying trade, of a great foreign shipping interest, of a great marine power that was. The foreigner, when he looks at all this for the first time. and realizes what has been lost, standi aghast, and finds himself wondering whether the high estimate Bet upon the American people as an energetic busi ness nation is not, after all, an unmer ited one. Aids the Clrcnlatlon. Xine tons of pennies are taken from the London slot machines raeh week, the firm which runs the "mutoscope' vraging ft1.3f)fl alone. B4.SRELS OF SAMPLES- Over Two Hundred Thousand Sample Bot tles Sent Free by Mail. By special arrangement with the manufac turers of that justly famous Kidney medi cine, Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Reme dy, the readers of the Columbian are ena bled to obtain a trial bottle and pamphlet of valuable medical advice absolutely free, by simply sending their full name and postoffice address to the DR. DAVID KENNEDY CORPORATION, Rondout, N. Y., and mentioning this paper. Of course this involves enormous ex pense to the manufacturers, but they have received so many grateful letters from those who have been benefited and cured of the various diseases of the kidneys, liver, blad der and blood, rheumatism, dyspepsia and chronic constipation, and all weaknesses pe culiar to women, that they willingly send trial bottles to all sufferers. Upon investigation it was found that 91 per cent, of those who had used the trial bottle had received such benefit from it that they purchased large sized bottles of their druggists. It matters not how sick you are or how many physicians have failed to help you, send for a trial bottle of this great medicine, it costs you but a postal card, and benefit and cure will most certainly be the result. Put some urine in a glass tumbler and let it stand 24 hours ; if it has a sediment or if it is pale or discolored, milky or cloudy, stringy or ropy, your kidndys or bladder are in a had condition. Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy speedily cures such danger, ous Symplons as pain in the hack, inability to hold urine, a burning scalding pain in passing it, frequent desire to urinate, espec ially at night, the staining of linen by your urine and all the unpleasant and dangerous effects on the system produced by the use of whiskey, wine or beer. Dr. David Kenne dy's Favorite Remedy is sold at all drug stores at $1.00 for a large bottle; six bottles for 5.00. Lippincott's Magazine for June, 1899. The complete novel in the June issue of "Lippincott's" is entitled "Green Withes." by Jeanette II. Walworth. This is a tale of strong human interest, touching, as it does, on one of the vital questions of to-day. The snapping of the green wiches of convention ana the inevitable awakening are told in a forceful and interesting way, which is calcu lated to arouse the reader's deepest sym pathy. A iruly delightful article on "The Sum mer's Birds," by Dr. Charles C. Abbott, will be found entertaining, as well as useful in country walks 'his snmmer. "Chemistry in the Kitchen," by Albert G. Evans; "The Samoan Feast of i'ilnui," by Owen Hall; and "Fires in Metalliferous Mines," by John E. Dennett, are all excellent and timely papers. Shorter fiction is well represented by Dora Read Goodale in "The Opera Glass," and by RoHo Ogden in 'A Scientific Reader." Theodore Gallagher contributes a story of life in a miner's camp, called "Father Mc Grath," and Alice Miriam Roundy writes of "King McDougal's Kitten." The verse of the month is from the pen of Margaret Oilman George, Geraldine Mey rick, and Eliza Calvert Hall. Doa't Tobacco Spit and Sraokt Toar Mr Athj. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netlo. full of 11(8, uerve and vigor, take No-To-Bao, tlte wnnder-worlior, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, too or II, Cure guaran teed. Booklet sad aample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Obioago or New York. .rfyeffetaUeltaparatlonror As similating riToodandRetfuta ling the S tomochs and Dowels of Eroinote3TXCcsHon,ChccrfuI- ticss and ifcst.con tains neimcr Opium.'Morphind nor frfmr.rnl. Not NAJftc otic. JLxJtmm nut Smd fhnm Sttd - A perfect Ifcmcdy for Constipa tion, Sour Stonuvh. Diarrhoea Worms .ConvulsionsTevcrish tiicsscmdLossOF SLEEP aaassaBsaaaBBBW aaaasasaaaaajaaaa, Tar. 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