IV.lixl! Weildii.n ( UHlomu.
According to the Polish custom. HIP j
marriage ceremony usually occurs on a j
Sunday, this Ix■ i: Id.me to permit the 1
men to a I tend williout losing any time j
from their employment, while the bride j
is supposed to maintain the greatest j
secrecy concerning her wedding until
she is actually clad in her wedding j
garments of thin white and bridal j
veil. Then she goes from house to !
house, regardless of the conditions of
the weather, and invites her friends to
her wedding, which, of course, Is pay
ing them a very pretty compliment. I
Again, according to custom, and during !
the course of the reception, a china \
bowl is placed In the center of the j
table upon which the feast is spread,
and each man whom the bride honors
with a waltz understands that he i--- to
throw with all his might and main n
silver piece into this bowl, the idea
being to break it, and the man who is
so fortunate as to shatter the vessel is
entitled to the farewell dance and a
kiss from the bride. While the cus
tom is curious it is none the less prac
tieal, as it Is not an infrequent thing
for the newly married couple to re
ceive three or more hundred dollars
at their wedding feast.
A Doir it ltd a Sons-
During one of the last birthday cele
brations of the poet Whittier he was
visited by a celebrated oratorio singer.
The lady was asked to sing, and, seat
ing' herself at the piano, she began the
beautiful ballad, "Robin Adair." She
had hardly begun before Mr. Whit- '
tier's i>et dog came into the room and,
seating himself by her side, watched
her as if fascinated, listening with a
delight unusual in an animal. When
she finished he came and put his paw
very gravely into her ha ml and licked
her cheek, "ltobin takes that as a
tribute to himself," said Mr. Whittier.
"He also is Uobin Adair." The dog,
hearing his own name, evidently con
sidered that he was the hero of the
song. From that moment during tlw*
lady's visit he was her devoted at
tendant. He kept by her side when
she was Indoors and accompanied her
when she went to walk. When she
went away he carried her satchel in
his mouth to the gate and watched
her departure with every evidence of
distress.
Sorry lie Sued.
A stranger admitted below the bar
of the British house of lords was re
quired to deposit his umbrella with one
of the attendants. The umbrella was
not to be found afterward, and the
owner brought an action in court to re
cover its value, lie was successful
and was awarded sr>. But this was a
violation of sanctuary which the lord
chancellor would not tolerate. Sum
moning the plaintiff and his attorney
to the bar of the house, he only re
frained from committing them both to
prison on their making a humble apol
ogy and refunding the amount they
had gained.
The Small Grain*.
A man recently made u fortune by
picking out specks of gold from the
heaps which tbe miners had east up
and abandoned. They were in search
of nuggets and despised Che smaller
grains which rewarded their persever
ance. And how frequently the rich
est findings of philosophy are In the
commonplace incidents of life! In cir
cumstances and places that seem whol
ly uncongenial to it the poet's heaven
ly attuned ear discerns a sweet under
tone of harmony which all the burly
burly of sin and misery cannot down.
No Difference.
Young Criminal Lawyer—l have ar
ranged to have the prisoner's wife and
babies sit in front of the jury and
weep all through the trial. Do you
think it advisable to pick bachelors or
married men for the jury?
Old Criminal Lawyer—Oh, it doesn't
make a particle of difference. If bach
elors they will sympathize with the
woman and babies, and if married men
they will sympathize with the pris
oner.
Bntler'H Act re** Wife.
General Butler deprived the stage of
one of its great beauties and a most
talented and popular actress. It is a
bit of forgotten biography that he fell
in love with Sally HUdreth when she
was twenty-one years old and had been
on the stage five years, ttbo-capitulated
to the young lawyer and retired from
the histrionic field.
Did Not Menu It.
"Honesty is the best policy," sapient
ly said the commuter.
"My dear sir, you're wrong!'' ex
claimed the suddenly awakened insur
ance agent who had been dozing in
the opposite seat. "My company has
the best policy. We long ago aban
doned the other as out of date."
ShonluK tlie Way.
"Whose little boy is tills, I wonder?"
asked the old gentleman.
"There Is two ways you could find
out," said the small l»oy.
"How so, my son?"
"You might guess, or you might in
quire," replied the small boy.
To Siiine by Contrast.
Aunt —Your bride, my dear boy, is de
lightfully rich and all that, but I don't
think she will make much of a beauty
show at the altar.
Nephew—You don't, eh? Just wait
till you see her with the bridesmaids
that she has selected.
A llenlor.
"Why, Sharpe, I'm glad to see you
60 lively again. You were quite lame
when I last met you."
"(ih, yes; I was awfully lame then.
But tbat was before I got a verdict
of $5,000 against the railway com
pany."
. v . •-■ufcrrvwrrc,. . V«ir - '
New Vork'n Hi <t. ■ ide "Viiihera.
"At a recent tc&i-hoiV meeting." said
a visitor who just "happened in," "one
of the speakers made the statement
that the Male teachers of New York
city ptibli. schools were all specialists
of exceptional ability; that they were
just such men as one finds outside of
the city in the positions of superintend
ents anil principals of high schools.
This statement seemed to me to be
worthy of verification by something
more reliable than the words of an en
thuslastic partisan, so 1 set to work
making Inquiries about those male
teachers in the school nearest my home.
The following are the data given me
by the principal of this school, which,
I am told, is by 110 means more favored
in the way of appointments than the
others in the system: 'Out of ten male
teachers all but three could boast. If
they desired to do so, the possession of
a bachelor's degree. Two of the seven
are masters, with some work done to
ward a Ph. D., and nearly all are
doing some postgraduate work either
at Columbia or at the State un!ve«ity.
The three spoken of are ex-high school
principals from up state cities.' My
respect for the New York city school
teacher has been wonderfully in
creased."—New York Times.
Marriage Performed by Slirpatare.
There are always a humber of mar
riages on board the cooly ships which
ply between Calcutta and the West
Indies. The coolies nre very fond of
marrying before entering on their pe
riod of servitude. Sometimes as many
as a hundred of them will want the
nuptial knot tied.
The captain of any British ship has
legal power to marry jieople, but the
master of one of these cooly vessels
has grown tired of reading the Ahgll
can service fifty or sixty times a voy
age So he has had a number of forms
printed with the essential parts of the
service. Tlie bride und bridegroom
step into the cabin, sign one of these
forms, have It witnessed and become
man and wife. No questions are
asked. They simply sign their names.
It is the quickest kind of marriage
on record, but the British authorities
have declared it to be perfectly valid.
Heart* and Heels.
Many good stories have from time to
time been told of Kev. Thomas nunt.
the temperance orator who was a well
known figure in the early history of
Wyoming valley.
During the civil war he enlisted and
served as chaplain In one of the regi
ments of infantry raised in the valley
One day, in the midst of a fierce bat
tle, the major rode up in front of the
regiment and to his amazement found
Fathef Hunt at the head of the ranks.
"Chaplain, what are yon doing
here?" he asked.
"Doing?" echoed the old minister
briskly. "I am trying to cheer the
hearts of the brave and look out foi
the heels of the cowards."
The Sen Cook'n Trick.
"Having tried every kind of female
cook, I determined to get a man." said
a portly millionaire. "It very natural
ly occurred to me that an ocean linei
was the best place to find him. Every
thing is so clean about a ship's kitchen,
you know. Well, I found a line look
ing Swede and established him In my
kitchen at $2. r > a week. He seemed tc
be all right, but presently my neigh
bors complained that he was throwing
all the refuse out of the window. Old
habit; He thought the window Was a
porthole on a ship. I could nevei
break him of the trick and had to let
him go."—New York I'ress.
A Faithful Senant.
Carlyle told once of a lawsuit pend
ing in Scotland affecting the succession
to a great estate of which he had
known something. The case depended
on a family secret known only to one
old servant, who refused to reveal It
A kirk minister was sent to tell her
she must sjieak 011 peril of her soul.
"Peril of my saul!" she said. "And
would ye put the honor of an auld
Scottish family in competition with the
saul of a poor creature like me?"
Theory Vernu* Practice.
"Medical science has reached the
point," boasted the optimistic young
doctor, "that for a patient to die we
must take out his heart and kill it with
a club.''
On his way home he caught a oold
and for the next three weeks made ev
ery one miserable listening to bis symp
toms.
An Eauy Order.
Shopkeeper— What can I show you
sir?
Absent Minded Professor—l want
let me see. what do I want? Dear me
I can't for the life of me remembei
what it is. Well, well, it doesn't mat
ter. Give me the nearest thing yoi
have to it.
Kxtinpraiahed.
Bookseller—l have a very interesting
work by a favorite author—"The Lasl
Days of Pompeii."
Customer —Pompeii? I dou't know
an author of tbat name. What did lit
die of?
Bookseller—Of an eruption.
Too AccummodatlDfc.
Stranger (gallantly, to woman win
is eating a tough piece of beef>—Mad
am, I envy you your teeth if you cai
eat that meat.
Her Bitterest Friend—Elsie, whj
don't you give the gentleman the ad
dress?
A Bud Spell.
"Poor Jack! He never could spell
and it rutned him."
"How?"
"He wrote a verse to an heiress he
was in love with, and he wrote bon.\
for bonny."
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1902.
FLEET MANEUVERS.
North Atlantic Squadron Will Aft
semble Off Mew England Coast
In Augi'st.
Washington, July 29. —An elaborate
programme for the maneuvers of the
combined North Atlantic fleet off the
coast of New England and Long Is
land sound during the month of Au
gust has been prepared at the navy
department.
From August 3 to 10 the search
problem will be developed between
Eastport and Cape Ann. This will in
elude an effort on the part of a pre
sumably hostile squadron to enter an
anchorage ground in the face of the
defending fleet.
The combined fleet will proceed tc
Oyster Hay on the night of Saturday
August 15. remaining Sunday and
Monday. The fleet will be reviewed
by President Roosevelt.
From about the 22nd to the 29th ol
August there will be joint demonstra
tions by the combined fleet against
the batteries at Portland, Me. Umpire ß
will decide the contest.
Target practice at Gay Head will fol
low. More than 30 vessels will par
ticipate in the maneuvers.
PEOPLE'S PARTY.
Amalgamation Effected and Outline o1
Principles Announced.
Denver, Col., July 29.—Amalgama
tion into one party was effected by
the two factions of the People's party
in national conference.
An address was adopted declaring
for a unification of reform forces in
the country and opposition to affili
ation with either Democratic or Re
publican parties.
The address declares for money is
sued exclusively by the government
whether gold, silver or paper, public
ownership of a system of transporta
tion and the transmission of intelli
gence, land for use rather than foi
speculation, and abolition of alien
ownership of land, and American ships
for American foreign commerce, with
out a cent of subsidy.
FATAL LIGHTNING BOLT.
Struck a Tree, Glanced and Killed Nel
son S. Anderson.
Washington, N. J., July 29.—Early
Sunday night in a severe thundei
shower lightning struck and killed
Nelsr.n S. Anderson, a successful con
tractor and builder of Port Murray
Anderson's wife and her sister were
knocked down.
To escape the intense heat Ander
son and his family were sitting undei
a large pine tree in front of his house
As Anderson was about to enter thfi '
house a bolt struck the tree top, de
seended to within 18 feet of the
ground, struck a knot and glanced off
and hit Anderson on the breast. The
fluid ran down his left side and
burned a deep furrow in his foot. Hit
shoe was torn off.
Three Boys and a Girl Drowned.
Plttiiburg, Pa., July 29.—Following
the formal opening of Dam No. 1 in
the Allegheny river last night, Joseph
Brown, aged 19; Henry Brown, aged
14; Frederick Bulger, Jr., and Edna
Shipley, aged 13. were drowned. The
three boys were rowing below the
dam in a skiff and invited three girl
friends to join them. Within short
distance of the dam the suction from
the "Bear trap" drew the boat undei
water. Two of the girls were rescued
in an unconscious condition.
Bodies of Morton House Victims.
New York, July 29.—The body ol
Bertha Quitner, one of the victims of
the Morton House tragedy, was re
moved by the Hebrew Charity Organ
ization society and burled in Silvei
Lake cemetery, Staten Island. The
husband of the dead woman said he
had no funds to pay the interment oi
his wife. The of Christopher
Weiss, tho other victim, Is still at the
undertaker's. If the lodge of Elks tc
which the dead man belonged is not
heard from today the city will take
charge of the burial.
Reported Massacre of Jews.
July 29.—Nothing is knows
here of the report to the effect that e
mas-acre of Jews has occurred at Of
ran, near Tangier, Morocco. The
Morning Leader of this city in a dis
patch from Tangier publishes a report
that the Jewish quarter of Ofran was
looted by Arabs July 17, that a build
ing was destroyed, that a girl was ab
ducted and that in a quarrel among
her abductors six Arabs were killed
This is doubtless the basis of there
port.
In Favor of a Barge Oanal.
Utica, N. Y., July 29. —Hon. Horatic
Seymour, ex-state engineer and sur
veyor, presided at a banquet held here
night in favor of the thousand
ton barge canal, at which upward of
300 were present. The speakers in
eluded Senator William Townsend, P
W. Casler of Little Falls, a leading
member of the Grange, and Gustav H
Schwab of New York.
British Schooner Wrecked.
Halifax. N. S., July 29.—A Char
lottetown, P. E. 1., dispatch says thi
British schooner Laurel, Captain Don
rette', was totally wrecked near Tra
tadie, during a violent northerly gale
{'he captain and crew of five men es
•aped.
Killed by Natural Gas Explosion.
Columbus, 0., July 29.—An explos
ion of natural gas in tho rear of Cor
saloon killed two women and in
Jured half a dozen men.
A HiK'khiK Slirinc.
The tin st wonderful temple in the
worlil i>; built on a rocking stone on
the summit of a mountain in northern
India which is over 20.000 feet high.
The rock weighs many thousands of
tons, but is balanced on so fine a point
that a comparatively light, pressure is
sufficient to make It sway. Hindoo
priests teach their followers that this
rock was placed in position by the help
of the gods, and thus they add consid
erably to the feeling of awe which they
desire to create.
Worshipers at this shrine must first
make a perilous ascent of the moun
tain. Then tliey spend seven days of
preparation in a temple built on the
solid mountain before they are permit
ted to make the final passage to the
mysterious rocking stone. To reach
this it is necessary to cross a bridge
over a great chasm, for nature and
man have combined to make this Hin
doo shrine difficult of access. After
crossing the bridge the pilgrim mounts
a ladder, to which he clings in terror
for his life here and in the hereafter.
The temple on the rock is necessarily
small. Three priests officiate there,
but its mysteries no man is permitted
to reveal. Europeans have seen it only
from a distance.
The Unman Body,
The blood, muscles, bones and other
parts of the human body are composed
of many chemical constituents, and a
correct chemical analysis would be
long and tedious. The specific gravity
of the blood is 1,028, and 77!) parts of
every 1,000 are water. Of the other
parts chloride of sodium, chloride po
tassium, carbonate magnesia, calcium
phosphate, calcium lactate, potassium
phosphate, sodium carbonate and other
constituents ure found. This is gen
erally true, with variations also, of
tissues and bone. The fundamental
substance of bone is compose*! of or
ganic matter, combined with various
inorganic salts, in which calcium phos
phate largely predominates. In addi
tion the bones contain calcium carbon
ate, calcium fluoride, magnesium phos
phate, sodium phosphate and sodium
chloride.
Buttoning n Coat.
Buttoning a man's coat from right to
left was the original way, when our
ancestors, wrapped In skins, held the
right edge with the left hand and
naturally inserted a fastening thorn
with the riglit hand. This right to left
custom has been retained by the He
brew priests in their garb to this day.
When fighting men became necessary
and swords and knives had to be
drawn by the right hand from the
left side, the edge of the coat, buttoned
from right to left, was found to be in
the way, and men began buttoning
from the left. Nonfighting women
and priests continue to follow the old
custom.
Jewels on nn Idol.
The jewels of an Indian idol must be
worth stealing if many of those re
markably hideous images possess such
valuable head ornaments as one made
for the idol I'arthasathy. in the Tripli
cane temple at Madras. The orna
ment is worth some 50,000 rupees and
is made of sovereign gold, studded with
diamonds, emeralds and rubies, the
largest emerald being valued at 1,000
rupees and the biggest ruby and dia
mond at 300 rupees apiece.
Keep Moving;.
The heavens themselves run contin
ually round; the world is never still;
the sun travels to the east and to the
west; the moon is ever changing in its
course; the stars and planets have
their constant motions; the air we
breathe is continually agitated by the
wind, and the waters never cease to
ebb and flow, doubtless for the purpose
of their conservation and to teach us
that we should ever be in action.—
Burton.
A Contrast In LniißN.
Three human lungs lie next one an
other in the anatomical museum at
Edinburgh university. The first is that
of au Eskimo and is snow white. In
life this would, of course, be ruddy
from the presence of blood. The third
is that of a coal miner and is coal
black. The intermediate one is that of
a town dweller and is a dirty slate
gray, as are the lungs of all dwellers
in cities at this moment.
An 111 Chonen Sotipr.
In order to make him forget his do
mestic troubles, which were driving
him to suicide, some friends of Ilerr
Gustav Krautwinkel arranged a cheer
ful evening at a restaurant in Berlin.
Unfortunately, one of the party began
to sing a song entitled "Lost Happi
ness." Hardly was the first verse fin
ished when Ilerr Krautwinkel jumped
up. pulled a revolver from his pocket
aud shot himself.
I'i'NtHl GtftN In Spain.
It is the custom in Madrid for
friends and acquaintances to send pres
ents of bonbons on birthdays, name
days and festivals. A large silver tray
is piled with sweets of various kinds,
with a cake made of eggs in the cen
ter. This is often surmounted with a
silk flag or a pretty porcelain figure.
Well known people receive as many as
fifty of these trays on their birth and
name days.
The Flrnt Ship Monopoly.
"Somotiinos," said Uncle Ebon, "a
man gits abused jes' foh halibin' mo'
prudence duti yutbuh folks. I specks
dat Noah's wicked neighbors had a
heap to say agin his ship monopoly
aftuh de rain sot in good an' steady."
—Washington Star.
Some people are so conscientious
nbout loving their enemies that if they
haven't any they are perfectly willing
to make a few.—Philadelphia Record.
To Jiiilkc n Itlrer's Breaift li.
It is necessary to make use only of
the eyes and the brim of a hat to meas
ure the width of any ordinary stream
or even of a good sized liver, and here
is the way to do it:
Select a part of the bank where
the grounds run bael: level and, stand
ing at the water's edge, fix your eyes
on the opposite bank. Now, move your
hat down over your brow until tho
edge of the brim is exactly on a line
With the water line on the other side.
This will give you a visual angle that
may be used on any level surface, and
if, as has been suggested, the ground
on your side of the river be flat you
may "lay off" a corresponding distance
on it. To do this you have only to hold
your head perfectly steady, after get
ting the angle with your hat brim, sup
porting your chin with your hand, if
necessary, and turn slowly around until
your back Is toward the river. Now,
take careful note of where your hat
brim cuts the level surface of the
ground as you look over the latter, and
from where you stand to that point
will be the width of the river, a dis
tance that may readily be measured by
stepping. If you are careful in all
these details, you can come within a
few feet of the river's width.—Detroit
Free Press.
Her IjfiteMt llrenk.
"My six-year-old girl is an awful
chatterbox," said a broker, "and the
worst of It is that when we have guests
at the house she is continually making
breaks of the worst sort—breaks that
tend to rattle the dry bones of tin; fam
ily skeleton In the closet. Recently
when we had company at dinner she
allowed her tongue to run away with
her, as usual, the result of which was
that she very much embarrassed both
her father and mother, although the
guests. I am free to say, seemed tie
lighted. I had a very serious talk with
her and impressed upon her, or tried to,
that she must not tell any family se
cret. The next time we had company
she was permitted to come to the table
only by promising that she wouldn't ut
ter a word. She behaved beautifully
and had nothing to say until the des
sert was about to be taken away. Then
her lips began to quiver, and finally she
burst into tears. 'Why, what's the mat
ter, darling?' iter mother asked. 'I—I
want some more ice cream, if that isn't
a family secret!' she wailed between
sobs."—Philadelphia Record.
Tlie Two Clacme*.
Old Dr. Grimshaw (to medical stu
dent)— And now, remember that to a
physician humanity is divided into two
classes.
Student—And what are they, doctor?
Old Grimshaw—The poor whom he
cures and the rich whom he doctors.
C. B.
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