CEYLON MENUS. —-The Way N u". iv.. A'.'h i! i o Encjh ... Lane uje. A writer in I . tie HI - ol M>\ era I uicutis will, v.-i.i.-ls i.t ,\...- »;om fronted when tn.\eliii.Lr i.i < eymh. The Ull'tlU. lit' NSI > I- ill! I i -1"'! •fll»I»* III' Junrt to u r. >p» tahl« inn. i,. -i. r«1 u tier table in < •.. 101 l A: rule tie bead vervain writes ii .ait and from bis elementsr\ know!c.U e ol KnulisU as "she is wrote" springs a host ot quaint blunders. At the same lime lii.s fertile oriental brain is ever apt to add footnotes, which are perhaps his happiest achievement. At one lutieh there tigured among the dishes "roast beef," but it caused the hostess some consternation when 6be discovered the additional legend In very small letters, "roast beef, smelling a little." the parenthetical note being meant to intimate that the dish was accompanied by a snuce of savory odors. On another occasion there appeared this following acknowledgment of de ficiency: "Steak and kidney pie; do kidney." It was altogether delightful, con tinues the writer, to find at one dinner our old friend Welsh rabbit appear ing as "Welscb rubbish." The same genius translated haricot mutton into "burrygod mutton." Our own boy. he adds, on the occasion of a hastily im provised dinner, was unable to accom plish a dessert. Consequently he put the word "plates" at the end of the menu. A COSTLY TRIFLE. It Brought Bankruptcy to an English Iron King. it was a common penny postage >itamp that brought Hobart, the great British "Iron king." to his ruin. At the time of the Whltwortb period, when there was a big crisis In the iron trade, he had agents In all parts of the world who kept him posted. Sometimes they telegraphed news to him In cipher, but those in Englabd were nearly al ways instructed to write. At that pe riod his principal agent, who was also Ids chief partner, was In Sheffield and wrote him from there warning him to sell out all iron Interests for the time ou account of the Whltworth crisis. Hobart had frequent fits of Irritabil ity, and he had been receiving a lot of unstamped letters of uo importance on which he had to pay double postage. One morning iu anger he gave orders that such letters were to be returned to the postman. The very first un stamped letter received after this was from his partner. It was rejected as noon as it arrived. Consequently, knowing nothing of the existence of the letter or the all important private news it contained, nobart pledged himself next day for more iron deals than even his mighty credit was good for. The great drop in prices came two days later, and Ho bart. once a millionaire, was involved in a hopeless bankruptcy from which he never recovered. L«ndon Tele graph. Pillebury's Wonderful Memory. Harry N. I'illsbury. the chess player. Offered one day in South Bethlehem. Pa., to memorize thirty words, uo mat ter bow bard they might be, the selec tions to be read to him only ouce. Professor Merriman of Lehigh uni versity and Dr. Threlkeld-Edwards of Bethlehem picked out most of the fol lowing words; Antlphlogistlne, peri osteum. takadiastase. plasmon, ambro sia. Tbrelkeld. streptococcus, staphe lococcus, micrococcus, Plasmodium, Mississippi, Frelbeit, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, athletics, no war. Eichen toerg, American. Kussla. philosopher. Pict-PotgieterH-Uost. Salmagundi. Oorn ttillecootsi, Bangmamvato. Schlocbter's Nelc. Manzinyama, theosophy. cate chism, Madjeaoomslopa. Mr. Pillsbury Immediately repeated these words in the order given and la the reverse order. THE TERROR'S CHRISTMAS Turkeye Were |l7 Each During the Siege of Parle. When the Christmas day of 18T0 dawned upon Paris the city had been iu the Iron grip of the German invest ment for :ibout three months. The winter was a bitterly cold one, the thermometer registering 10 degrees be low freezing poiut on Christmas inoru ing. The Seine was frozen over. The poor's dally rations were a few ounces of horseflesh and a piece of re pulsive looking black bread. By Dec. 25 food prices had reached their highest point since the begin ning of the siege. Ou Nov. 13 a pound Of butter fetched fll and a rabbit $3.50. By Dec. 19 rabbits had risen to $5, a box of sardines brought $2.50 and • •ggs 25 cents apiece. For one's Christ inas dinner one could buy a goose for $lO or a turkey for 112 i". Pigeons were 'i>:s each, and a small fowl could be ob iained for s•">. Hum was $1.50 a pound /Vs for vegetables, carrots and turnlpr* were 4 cents each, aud a bushel of po la toes cost $0.25. There was hurdl.v any milk in Paris, and the little there was had to lie preserve.' for the sick aud wounded. However, there were iceuns of wine, and the wineshops did tt roaring trade. For some time before Christmas tin starving people had been feeding ou Cats, rats and dogs until by Dec. 25 i disli of cat's tlesh was hardly obtain tble. Dog was 0U cents a pound, and tine rats fetched 1-1 cents each. Many domestic pets were killed for food. "Poor Azor'" said a humorous citizen is lie finished a slew made from his favorite dog. "How he would have enjoyed these bones!" With true Parisian light hoartedness the . i;i < .' • Mi -t to D..1K0 the best of Liiiiiy-'. aud th'' a '1 rest a runts iw* * * • £* j /Tit ■_ ?S [} igfi '■ '#& ,. vHIIWJ Wwf"» w. Vl«&*l«9> 5 i >u>.ti uuiutal aspect. At half past 10, however, an order of Trocliu closed every shop and cafe, and by 11 o'clock Paris had gone to bed. The midnight mass of Christmas eve was celebrated as usual in the church v?, which were crowded with pray ing. weeping women. Newspapers ap peared as usual, some of them contain ing glowing accounts of perfectly ini iglnary French successes. The sa tirtcal sheets were eveu more bitter and venomous thau at other times ind published scathing caricatures. Some showed the fallen emperor, Na poleou 111., as a shoeblack at King William's boots, or as a beggar with his pockets turned Inside out, or as a iraitor handing over France to mur derers, or as a thief making off with millions of the nation's money. Oth ers ' * f ed Julius Favre In tears and r>ocketlng Bismarck's gold and Trochu handing over the keys of Paris to a Prussian lu exchange for a bag of <>ln. In nil thn Idea of Parisians that Prance had been betrayed by those who ought to have protected her was prevalent. So at this season of peace and good will suffering Paris was nearly at her last g&sp. Owing to the tenacity of her rulers and citizens, however, her agony was to be prolonged for some weeks longer, us It was not until February that the negotiations for a tapltulntlon began Ik CAM K <»X i oI'.VTV PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1909. \ w&a only Santa C\&us•" 5a Ann\ewiTV)a. ~ * \ know c\ just one stocKing l'd put &\\ the present in 1 ." [ dl^L j^" ow awful r jf / Un\&saYs y J the^Ve shocking. Wf but they're • fc Ljl2L ngM jusT once cs year Wher \ hang up m\/ stocking 1 " WASHINGTON roaT L J If Seasonable Helps for M m • n U ft a +,ll Ao # • oui lSLmas « | Shoppers | nSl' If you need help in selecting Christmas Gifts for your friends you can get it by looking over our advertisement and selecting one of the many useful arti- Ojp cles mentioned. C_ f„i„ We carry the heat Any man can use one of iJJtlCiy IVatUI a and save hours of wailing in a barber shop /Bj/Ji C arv ing Sets ® ofne ver >' t>°°d ones and rtaß nsibl■». VuS' Bread Makers ,i;vory housewife «*>ouid htve one. ralgd Scissors and Shears We have an excellent line. |p Kitchen and Household Novelties articiSorcook d i"K purposes, in tinware and in the famous Link Enameled ware. Copper, Nickle Plated Tea and Coffee Pots Carpet Sweepers, Portable Lamps, §Mrs. Pott's Sad Irons, Meat Choppers, Asbestos Sad Irons, j/Sj&k Sleds for the Boys and Girls. wp Tools of all kinds for the Mechanics. Tool s§|f raj© chests full of tools for the young me it j Skates bought of us are always re- |1 If: liable. Your purchase is backed by i| |p For Men W©ll made Skates of best steel, hardened and temp ered. Either plain steel or nickle plated. * JsjJtf For Women Cast steel runners, leather heel and toe straps. The kind that stays on and stays sharp. Sgl P For Boys Self-locking lever and adjustable toe and heel clamps. 181 Buy only the best. Buy Winslow Skates the best a ||| made, ranging in price from 7oc to $2.50. |l| Kinds of Knives at all Prices We can almost see the look of disap- 1 iNMr pointment on the face the of boy who *8? eH not rece * vc a 8'" a knife for £SB| Christmas. We know what boys like and for this reason have putin a larger stock ranging in price from 10c to $2.00. I AN APPROPRIATE GIFT. I||# fe What would be more useful and appropriate for wife or mother apjWjl 18®^ than a nice cook stove or heater. We have some very good lines of ||BB m RED CROSS AND TUNIOR OAK 'iiid many othe good makes—all excellent bakers. For HEATERS we have them for Gas only, for Wood and Coal only and for (ias. Wood, r"'®'SSlß®ffiy B Tp H^sp I F. V. HEILMAN & CO. { EMPORIUM. PA.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers