THANKS dVING DAY. A FESTIVAL THAT DATES TO COI'PONIAL TIMES Intermittent for Many Years. How the President lssues His Procla- mation. The Seal of State, Every the President of the United States issues a proclamation fixing ‘' Thankegivin Day,” it has come to be Every year the proclamation of the President is transm to the { the States, and the day named the President is set aside a general holiday Originally it was int as a day of fasting and prayer. it is a day of feasting i voy Vent 4 as Known Lovernors « by itted as ended Now r frolic and 18 customary *lamation t into it ’ pu { he day & rred ate, Harrison prefer rather than to d jeveland also writes some hand, but ict iis own he a the pro- ready to to of g0 about ientious es toward the CONtroversies quently with persons who are in a hurry for public documents, and who do not understand why the State Department has authorized under the general law to affix the great to any document bearing the President's fonatitre signature sen! when the proclamation has been completed by the addition of the seal clerks of the State Department are get to work making copies for trans. missions to the governors of the states and territories. These copies are not made on typewriters or with manifolding paper or by any other process of duplication The State Department uses the typewriter for gome purposes, but not for official | correspondence. All of the copies of the proclamation are written out on the long sheets of blue paper which are used for official correspondence. Each governor who receives a copy | of the President's proclamation will | make a proclamation of hisown. But | in the meantime the proclamation | of the President has been made pub- | lie, and the people all over the coun | try know what day has been chosen | for “Thanksgiving.'’ 1 There is no law providing a day for general thanksgiving. ‘‘Thanksgiv- ing Day’’ is a product of custom. The President could omit his “Thanksgiving'’ proclamation in any year, or he could fix the Tth of May or the 21st of December as the day for giving thanks. But it bas come to be the custom for the President to tesue n proclamation each year. nam. ing, usually, the last Thursday in the month of November as Thanks. giving Day hs sugtom Jue Duck only to ong ankgivin Day was celebrated at odd times . { 1 { far back as the days of the enlonles. {| Among the records preserved by Con- gress is a proclaraation by the Couns cil of Massachagetts, dated Novems { ber 186, 1776, recommending ac { knowledgments for mercies enjoyed.’’ A form of thanksgiving proclamation was reported to the Continental Cone gress November 1, 1777, by Bamuel Adams. of Massachusetts. It was Samuel Adams who urged the open. ing of Congress with prayer In oppo- sition to John Jay, who sald that Episcopalians, Presbyterians, &c,, could hardly be expected to unite formal worship. Adams’ form proclamation has not been observed since, for each proclamation follows the fancy of the President who writes ol not been the invariable day for festive In 1779 the Tuesday in May was appointed as n th first Ta f Gay Oi seiving, and thank oint was made Conti 3 perform our several and elative Duties properly and punel ally render our i ernment a Blessing to allgth by constantly being wise, just, and ystitutional Laws directly and faithfully executed an obeyed ;~~to protect and Sovereigns and me such as have T- * an $03 L1OV- a people, ( guide al nat especially shown Kindness to us) and to bless them with good Govern ment, Peace and Concord (—to pro- mote the knowledge and Practice true Religion and Virtue, and the in- crease of among and us :~and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of Temporal Prosperity as he alone knows to be best. ‘‘(tyiven under my Hand, at the City of New York, the third Day of October, in the year of our Lord One Thousand, Seven Hundred and eighty-nine. science them (i. WasuinaioN, The Thanksgiving proclamations issued since the time of 'G. Wash- ington’’ have usually been less elab- orate, FOR THE PAMILY'S8 GOOD NAME. An old gentleman reproved his nephew for fighting with another boy. * But,” said the lad, ‘' he called my sister names!’ “Why, you haven't any sister, and never had one!’’ ex. claimed the uncle, in astonishment, “1 know it,” replied the boy, dog- gedly.’’ ‘*but he thought I had, and suid «he was squint-eyed, and I sailed in on the principle of the thing.” — [New York Ledger. At M unich, Bavaria, t he police have forbidden the playing of pianos with the windows open. There are twenty-five recognized breeds of sheep in Great Britain, Millions of Jauanese work for from five © ten cents a day. SWEDEN'S GREAT KING EC — Buntessaa Adolphus and the Groat Work Ho Wrought. Che Three Hundredth Anniversary of Iisa kdrth to Iie Celebrated In All Parts of the World Much and Clreamstance, with Pomp {Special Lett This being of s not surprising that ions are bei ie mgland and to nn era hero worship great prepara- Sweden, Gor- Prot 00} mi in { nany, | other celebrate the anni- birth of Gustavus Adol- eden, wountri which occurs De me (ncn as the mber this vear : mongreh, familiar “Lion of of North,” was withoat donbt one of the 0 of ly } the reatest soldiers and leaders in the his v of the world, and has well earned of the ‘defender tho pumber YA JO i 8 OCH ORRNes a horde of Seythians hare Protestantism seem elector of Saxony, Lutheran princes, vacillated and in to carry water on In TT other members of the league ha neither money mon. int your of greatest peed appeared Moses of the reformation, th to lead the Protestant wilderness of defeat d doomed. Th sryomt powerf 11 © wth shoulders 4% nor in the he man who of the yosts ont The of Anstria had bee France smarted insults, yet eould that time take up arms against In this emergency Cardi- anal Richelieu, promier of Franca and srince of the charch, made overtures to he warrior king of Sweden who had returned from WArsS Gustavus grrogance unbearable. ander countless victorious his time, listencd to the offers of Rieh- slieu, and Mn June, 1630, landed in the island of Usedom with fifteen thousand picked soldiers. le drove the im- perial garrisons from Pomerania and Mecklenburg, reinstated the expelled princes, and formed alliances with France and other countries. Meanwhile Tilly invested and took the rich city of Magdeburg, at the same time committing such atrocities that public opinion compelled the slector of Saxony to support the Swedish king. On September 17, 1631, Gustavus Adolphus met Tilly at Breitenfeld, sear Leipsie, and defeated the imperial forces in a murderous battle. On April 15, 1682, Tilly was defeated again in the battle on the Lech, and on May i7 the Swedish king made his trinmphantentry into Munich, the capital of Bavaria. In less than two years the man frem the north had most completely humili- ated the t Ferdinand who now turned to Wallenstein, one of the most unique characters in history, for sue | one of the greatest men of his age. | Immen ely w venlthy and inordinately ambitious, he DIOPOH d to Ferdinand to raise an army ot 50,000 men at his own { expense. ani Baxony. and rdinand u a8 he was { things, did not fail to sce that Wallen- He conquered northern Ger- many i devastated a portion of His nrmy he considered hi 1 i own defled emperor and I'e in other 1 and i uded, in and his army. conel September, he duke hi , to dismiss tl n with ng his regiments his vast inand Bohemia, After degradatic Instead of dismis the best od them stein took POO” Frace. he pt and station Ii Mor iy on estnles | at the he roaches Friedland's made ke of “clinperor LAAY au hour came, the and eonsented i wmmilinting conditions im Wallenstein but re- right appoint hi the rights of confiscation, After having the bumblest ¢ most by the 3 Sid k. ne yl his Pr Ys raise WwW army to % Own 1 vardor | pardon imperium in imperio, ! iegre the cl its unusual Hoon . I up a rock and strick the ect a sharp blow near the I'he interior shell eracked hree pieces shelled off, reveal- ing about half of a perfectly rounded object nestled away the ing portion of the sheil. sphere is of a pinkish hue, a granular its on. in nd composition, The first a person would think of on be- se it would be the yellow of an and more he looked the T in 3 io convinced that that was what it was. sphere. The shell's ex- terior is also granular, though per- uniform. It about one- and imme- is is of a drab color, resembling very A close inspection of a very thin exterior shell of about the thickness of an egg shell. In fact, the entire effect produced is the same ns that obtained by taking a hard boiled hen egg and cracking the shell, part a section of it with the white adhering to it, from the yellow leaving the sphere nestled in the re- maining portion of the shell. The petrified egg—for that is undoubtedly what the freak is—weighs about half a pound and is about the size of a large goose egg, perhaps larger. ———— New Slot Behame. The city railway company of Berlin has adopted the nickel-in-the-slot plan for selling tickets during the busy hours. The im machines are so ronstructed that the coin drops out again if a wrong one has been put in or |. there are no more tickets ® i THEY WORK FORUNCLE SAW IN i WASHINGTON. The Detection of Counterfoits. Some Rapid Maninulation of Money in Con. Devices for Counting Coins Women money. That by General Spin Or exampis » contents u Apon an i she throws them table into ia held beneath Her them every pis feit 1 the betray itself Supposing tliat sight, 118 rng it 3 a die ’ i Is } : : nce in coinr ot detected by into the » +a ¥ + it COINS Ives ii iF Rs 13 drops palin with ti other away hae It is hardly possible for one to escape. All mutilated, worn pieces aside. mich Inid oO the maint foreizn or rejected and The last are sent t to be recoined. Uncle Sam loses a good deal of money in way Taking an average, £1,000 worth of silver returned for recoinage is found to have lost about 830 worth of its substance, In other words the loss by abrasion of silver money is 8 per cent. The ‘life’ of a silver dollar in constant circulation is only four or five years, During the first two or three years after the standard dollars began to be coined it was possible to count them by weight, and the delicate scales could even detect a sipgle counterfeit in a bag of $1,000, But now they have be- come so abraded that this is no longer practicable. Speaking of rapid reckoning, John Lewis, coin-teller in the subtressury at St. Louis ona wager, has picked up a newly re ceived bag of 1,000 silver dollars, counted them, thrown out two or three counterfeits and tied them up again inside of six minutes. Among the bad coins a good many brongze cents occur, It is said that most of , aye this them are made by Italians in New who ean afford to use the thetnl comoosition as thint eme- I v(t of fripl mam This in ; fr est iit be Yorx, same 1H pens snsiines iB nUe i ”~ ff FULD but An- nt in iit simply , in gain spring, Deo: ling, as peare i by ¥. Duggon, t Agriculture, js attention to these experiments. —_— i nlindeiphia ex nave Qisaj A Dog's Fidelity. A pathet le story of th affection of a dog | his master comes {rom Cookham, England. One afternoon a walking along the riverside when he heard a splash some hundred vards off. On his way to he was mast by a French which, betraying great ex citetment, ran him barking loudly. After directing the police man for a considerable distance the animal suddenly sprang into the water and swam to the spot whenee the alarm had first come. Finding nothing, the dog then made his way to an overturned boat, which no one "wr i CxX-Constal & le was the spot Pp vod le belore being made and the river dragged the body of Dr. Charles Per- cy Lovell of Portchoster Square, was discovered by the assistant lock. keeper at Cookham, entangled in a mass of weeds. Not till then could the faithful poodle be persuaded to quit the spot where his master had lost his life by the capsizing of the boat. As Dr. Lovell was an expert oarsman and a good swimmer, it was surmised at the inquest that he must have met with his fatal mishap while secking shelter from the rain beneath the bridge, the weeds preventing him from trenching the bank.—[Lon(un Telegraph. In Germany the forest land ownea by the State is thirty-eight per cont.
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