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THAT IS NICE HASH.
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LEONIDAS LUNCII recently stepped
into n dlning-saloon, not more than
ono hundred rods from Franklin Statue,
and with composed but hungry countenance
called for a pinto of hash in a very genteel
voice. It hnpponcd fortunately for him,
that the desired compound was not quite
rcadyilmd one of the waiters told him so,
nt the same time handing him a paper and
politely asking him to take a seat. Leoni
das did so, with a - graceful bow, at the
same time remarking that he was in no hur
ry; and he was not' as will he presently
proven. Ho observed as he was compla
cently reading the lnstnows of the Alabama
claims, that the waiter was blacking his
own boots: which done, Leonidas arose and
asked for tho brush; just to rub a bit of
mud from my boots."
Taking the brush in one hand, and the
blacking in tho other, in a few moments he
had given his foot-casings a brilliant pol
ish, then followed up his luck by a liberal
and adroit use of the broom-brush over his
clothes. He took up a hat-brush and re
generated the nap of his tad Bilk hat.
"Those hash are not quite ready yet, aro
they?" he coolly inquired; and being an
swered in the negative, ho said it was no
matter, " as he was not wanted at the City
Hall just yet; and turning around calmly
surveyed the arrangements of tho place,
and condescended the remark that it was
" not quite equal to Metropolitin or Dul
monco's, still neat ! very neat indeed." '
Upon careful examination of his hands
he observed that the blacking had soiled
them, he proceeded to tho wash-basin, ho
turned on tho Croton, and with free use of
soap, he scoured his face and hands most
thoroughly. Then he whisked out a once
white handkerchief, ' quickly' washed and
wrung it, rind returned it to his hat to dry.
Tho waiter being busy with other custo
mers, and taking advantage of this suspi
cious fact, Leonidas removed the dirty pa
per collar and substituted a clean one, im
mediately subsequent he had hold of a castor-bottle
containing sweet oil, and pouring
out about an ounce, treated his distracted
head to a bath of it. And now before a
mirror, be made a rapid and tasteful use
of comb and brush.' Observing his move
ment, one of the waiters approached hiin
with:
" Have you given your orders sir?"
" O ' yes, thank you. It's coming on
noon." . ' '
" What dish was it sir?" '
"Hash. A plate of nice hash, to begin."
Lepnidas now approached the counter,
where seeing a case of fancy articles,
among them tooth brushes, be called for
oue as If intending to purchase, and after
a long scrutiny he selected one, at the same
time helping himself to a pinch of snuff.
just as the proprietor was closing his snuff
box. He now lightly stepped to the wash
basin and gave his teeth such a cleaning as
few teeth can withstand, and finished just
as the anxious waiter hurried, breathlessly
toward him, exclaiming: . v,;,
,. " Here's your hash sir ! Hash, sir, bash "
Leonidas laid down the tooth- brush and
strode with dignity to the table , where he
seated himself with a satisfactory ','Hal"
as if one of John Ludins's bad been, spread
before him. , t , , . .. , ;1 , y, , ,
.After one mouthful. - Here waiter," ex
claimed he, " fill this water press, and
bring me the walnut ketchup I" This man
date being fulfilled . he ' proceeded to lay
waste tha hash.. After finishing that, with
which he devoured half a dozen thick siloes
of bread and about a quarter of a pound of
butter, be crumbled the remaining slices
into a tumbler of milk, the pitcher happen
ing to hold about two quarts. Seeing noth
ing else to eat on the table except a plate
of plokles, he swallowed them all regard
less of curds, probably considering that he
had stomach enough for anything. ''
By this time Leonidas Lunch appeared
to have got quite comfortable, for tilting
his chair back against tho wall, crossing his
legs aud folding his bands he fell into a
snooze, having achieved ono of the cheap
est dinners on record. ,In a little while he
began to snore harmoniously, resounding
blasts of victory.
" I say Jack," said one waiter to anoth
er, "who is that snoozer out there agin the
wall?"" ' "
" I don't know. Thought you did, he
makes himself so much at home. ' He call
ed for a plate of hash about two hours ago.
Said something about not being in a hurry
to go to the City Hall clork, perhaps."
"I noticed be swallowed all the bread
and milk-and pickles, and thinned that
butter down."
" What makes him snore so?"
" I s'pose it's the pickles quarreling with
with the milk."
At this moment Leonidas sneezed with
such violence that his chair tilted forward,
ami b,e awoke amidst a peal of laughter
from the waiters the customers having
long before gone about their business.
"Hnd a good sleep, sir?" gravely inquir
ed a waiter, as Leonidas strode up to the
counter to settle for bis bash. :
" Bleep t Me ? Yes, I believe I did doze
ft little. Ten cents, I believe?"
"For the bash," said the clerk, laying
j-aitlcular emphasis on the word.
' " Ye-e-es," said Leonidas, airily, strok
ing his English whiskers. "Ono plate,
only, I believe, of the hash ?" ' '
" Ten cents a plate for hash only," re
plied the clerk, winking slily to the wait
ers, who were making all sorts of grimaces,
v Leonidas put his hand in his pocket, and
after fumbling a whilo, he drew out from a
corner a dilapidated ten cent stamp, so
wretchedly withered and dofacod such a
mutilated evidence of the evils of civil war
that tho clerk started, aghast at the
sight. '.r; ; , ;rM ,;
" That ain't worth more than five cents,"
said he feebly. "It looks sick had tho
small-pox, or must have boon badly vac
cinated." ' ' ' ' "-'' ' '
"0, never mind," said Leonidas, with
lofty carelessness, and yawning. " I shall
come in and tako dinner here every day.
I'll pay you the other five cents next time.
I like your hash, and whon I like a place I
stick to it." .
His threat of coming every day, incrcasod
tho clerk's alarm, and he thought it best to
bo rid of such a customer as soon as possi
ble. "Very well," said he, forcing a smile.
"It's a small affair, any way."
" Of courso, replied Leonidas, with a
happy coincidence of opinion. " Have you
got such a useful trifle as a penknifo about
you?"
The clerk looked rather savago at Jthis
and felt as if a carving knifo would have
been moro sorvicable just then. IIo thought
of Felix Larkin and John Glass,' but with
heroic solf command ho smoothed down tho
bristles of his indignation and presented
his knife. Leonidas took it and commen
ced pairing and cleaning his nn!ls,apparent
ly ' unconscious of being "cynosuro of
neighboring eyes."
"Jack," shouted tho clerk fiercely, put
another ' cord ' of pickles ' and another
mountain of bread on the tablo out there
and see that we take nn extra gallon of
milk after this !"
"Yes, sir," shouted Jack ; " Sure not to
forgot it."
" Thank you, sir," said Leonidas, re
turning the penknife.. "Oh, by tho wny,
I suppose you don't care about that even
ing paper out there. There's an article in
it I am anxious to preserve a money ar
ticle. . .. ' ......
"Jack." cried the clork, biting . his lip
in despair, " hand this gentleman the even
ing paper." . i
"Yes, sir," exclaimed Jack, rushing and
presenting the paper to Leonidas with
so much alacrity as if waiting . upon the
Qrand Duko. ,
" Jack," said Leonidas familiarly, "now
I'll trouble you for a bit of your tobacco."
And Leonidas helped himself liberally.
"I shall be around again to-morrow,"
said Leonidas, " but I must go now aud
attend to my city accounts." And wav
ing bis band gracefully to the clork, he loft
the establishment. ' ...i
" Round again? Heaven prevent him !"
said the clerk as he disappeared. ! . . .,
' ''He didn't pay for the tooth brush,"
said Jack, " and washed bis ah t here be
comes again." ' ' 1
"I say, my friend, it is just beginning to
rain," said Leonidas, popping his head in
at the door. i ' i
' "Can't you lend me an umbrella ? In
again, you know, to morrow. ' '
'Umbrella? No, sir, ' bavn't got ony.
I say, you didn't pay for that tooth brush."
" The tooth-brush ? Tooth-brush. Oh,
no, so I didn't, did I f Well, tho fact was,
you see, I tried it, but the bristles were
altogether ' too ' soft: 1 1 like your ' hash,
however 1 coiild live on that hash 1' Good
bye I In again to-morrow," ' ' ' '
And again ' waving his band gracefully
shaking out bis clean ; wet handkerchief,
Leonidas Lunch departed in the direction
of Printing House Square. '' "
Unlucky John.
On the 28th or November,' 1870, Jason
McCord, a wealthy gentleman of Chicago,
departed this life. Before bis death he
made no will, and, it was left for the courts
to say who should inherit bis riches. An
appraisal of his real and personal property
showed that he bad died worth upwards of
$000,000. Costly buildings iu the southern
and western parts of the city; blocks of
city land aud acres of country farms; rail
way, insurance aud bank shares; live stock
and steamboats were scheduled to a vast
amount, while those who made out the pa
pers wished they were his next kin. , , ,
. Outside of Chicago, some eighteen miles
or more, there has lived for many years a
poor hard-working farmer named John
McCord. Despite bis toiling aud his con
stant tilling of the soil, " Unlucky John,"
as his neighbors called him, grew poorer
and poorer as he grew old in years. The
only thing iu which be prospered was in,
raising of a large family. Horses aud cat
tle and hogs sickened and died, but children
to tbe number of ten lusty boys and girls
were born beneat h their father's lucky star.
When the boys were big enough they too
worked on the farm ouly it was hard to
raise enough for so many.
A few weeks siuce, tbe court decided that
John McCord, brother of tbe deceased, and
bis only living relative, was heir to all his
possessions. And the farmer,, who is no
longer " Unlucky John," but "Lucky Mis
ter MoCord," is often seen dressed in a fine
suit of clothes, in the County Clerk's office,
waiting until the last entry is made in tbe
title books, to take full possession.
Tour Kid Gloves."
IN the first place they're not' kid, prob
ably, but lamb-skin. 1 Or, if they're
extra nice three-button gloves, from Paris,
they undoubtedly grew on tho back of a
colt.
I don't know as that's anything against
them. I don't see why the skin of a lamb
isn't as pretty as the skin of a kid ; and
colts, for all I know, have as good skins as
oJUier of them.
.
You see there are not kids enough in the
whole world to supply the glove-makers,
and that's why they make war on lambs
and colts.
I'm afraid there would't bo many colt
skin gloves, if they come to America for
skins. We are too fond of horses to kill
colts for their skins. But they get them
easily from Tartary, for the peoplo of that
country oat their colts, as we do lambs.
Besides kids, lambs and colts, sheepskins
aro made Into gloves in Germany and Italy,
and sold in America for kid. They have
the advantage for being cheap, so that
Biddy can buy gloves for a dollar, that look
as well at a little distance as yours that
cost three dollars.
, But whether sheep, kid, lamb, or colt,
the skins have to go through the soveral
operations before they are put in snug
packages of ono dozen pairs of gloves.
In the first place they are collected from
the ends of the earth, and sent to tho
glove-makor, we'll say in Paris, sinco all
gloves profess to come from that city.
Tho Mist operation in this factory, is to
remove tho hair. If it was a common skin
for shoes, it would be taken oft with lime,
but delicate skins require a different meth
od. So It is soaked in water and Indian
meal. What it does to it I'm sure I don.t
know, but whon tho meal is well beaten
out, tho hair comes off with perfect ease.
Tho skin has next to bo cut down a littlo
thinner, and is then ready to be colored.
For this operation it is laid right side up
on a large, Hat stono, whilo the color is put
on with a brush, painted as you may say.
That's why gloves of whatovcr color, are
always white inside.
Whon the color is dry tho skin is ready
to cut out, and that is a very funny oper
ation. The glove-cutter has a steol framo, shaped
like a pair of open hands, and all around
the outside of the frame is a sharp edge.
Having laid the prepared skin on the frame,
he takes up a club a droll club it is too,
all stuffed aud padded so as to be soft and
with it he gives the stretched-out skin one
blow. The sharp edges of course cut, and
the glove is ready for the sewer.. The
strips for tho inside of tho fingers are .cut
from the edges of the skin. Then they are
tied up in bundlos of a dozen pairs, and
sent out to be sowed. ,,!
. This is done in the country, at their own
homes. ! Perhaps you have noticed you
girls I mean that when your glove rips,
you can never sew it so nicely as it was at
first. That is because the . woman ' who
first sewed it had a very ingenious little
mocmne to neip ner. Tills machine Is a
sort of a clamp, that holds the edges of the
seams together, with little notches for every
stitch. The sewer puts her needle iu every
notch, and she can't get it uneven and
clumsy. . r .. i
After being sewed they go back to the
dealer, who puts them up in the packages
you've seen in tbe shops, a dozen different
colors in a package.
There are for ladies ten different sizes
made. The smallest is five and three-
eights, and the largest' is eight and one
quarter, though the larger numbers are not
sent to America. ' In fact, we use the
smallest gloves made. "' ' '
Do you know how to tell what size of
glovo you need? Take a tape-measure and
measure your hand around the knuckle.
The number of inches and quarters of an
inch that it measures, is exactly the &fr.e of
the glove. That is, if It is five inches and
three-quarters around, you want gloves
No. 5J. , ,
There's one little thing I want to tell
you girls, privately, and that is, nothing
makes a young lady's hand look worse
than a glove too small. When the palm of
tne hand is squeezed double, and the first
button don't como down fairly on the wrist,
it looks like well, you.ll think it's vul
garbut it does look like a stuffed sausage,
and the wearer looks liko a weak-minded
girl.
WAn exchange "goes for" onion ea
ters after this fashion : A man or woman
who will eat onions and go into company,
Church, or any other place where people
are offended by the perfume, should be
beaten over the head with a dead cat, or
sprinklod with the essence of skunk.
Whenever a customer enters a store and a
clerk comes to play tho agreeable, who bas
been eating onions, the oustomer should
vamose at once and not purchase goods or
look at any under such difficulties. - How
any persons claiming to have regard for
the amenities of life and the rules' of civ.
Ulzation, can gormandize onions . and come
in contact with ladies and gentleman In the
business pursuits of life, is a problem we
cannot understand. Bah I If you must eat
onions go into retirement until the smell
haalcft you 1 ,
SUNDAY II BAD I NO,
The Art of Not Hearing.
Head what an intelligent, observer says
on this subject:" The art of not hearing
is as fully important to domestic happiness
as a cultivated ear, for which so much timo
and money is exponded. There are so
many. things which ore so painful, to hear,
many of which, if heard, will disturp tho
temper, and detract from contentment and
happiness,' that every ono should be edu
cated to take in or shut out sounds at will.
If a man falls into a violent passion, and
calls me all manner of" nnmcs, the first
words shut my ears and I hoar no more.
If in my quiet voyage of lifo I am caught
in one of these domestic whirlwinds of
scolding, I shut my cars, as a sailor would
furl his sail, and moking all tight, scud
before the galo. If a hot and restless man
begins to cnflame my feelings, I consider
what mischief thoso sparks might do in the
magazino below whore my temper is kept,
and instantly cIobo the door. Does a
gadding, mischief-making fellow begin to
inform mo what peoplo are saying about
mo, down drops tho portcullis of my ear,
and he car.t get in any further. Some
people feel so very anxious to hear every
thing that will vex and annoy them, they
set about searching and find it out. If all
the potty things said of one by the heedless
or ill-natured idlers were to be brought
home to him ; he would become a mere
walking pin-cusliion, stuck full of sharp
remarks. I should as soon thank a man
for emptying on my head a bushel of
nettles, or setting loose a swarm of musqui
toesin my chamber, or raising a pungent in
my house generally, as to bring upon mo all
the tattlo of spiteful poople. If you would
bo happy, when among good men open
your cars; whon among bad, ' shut them.
It is not worth whilo to hoar what your
servants say when they have slammed tho
door ; what a begger says whoso petition
you have rejected ; what your neighbors
say about your children ; what your rivals
say about your business or dress. I have
noticed that a well-bred person never hears
an impertinent remark. A kind of discreet
doafness saves one from not a little appa
rent connivance in dishonorable conver
sation." .
The Worst or the Lot.
In the early part of the reign of Louis
XVI., a German prince travelling through
France, visited the arsenal at Toulon,
whore the galleys were kept. The com
mandant, as a compliment to his rank, said
be was welcome to set free any one galley
slave whom he should choose to select.
The prince willing to make the best use
of the privilcgo, spoke to many of them in
in succession, inquiring why they were
condemned to the galleys. ' Injustice, op
preslon,false accusations, were assigned by
one after the another as the causes of their
being there. In fact they were all injured
and ill-treated persons.
At last he came to one, when,' asked the
same question, answered to this effect.
" Your highest, I have no reason to com
plain, I have been a very wicked desperate
wretch. I have deserved to' bo broken
alive on tho whool. I account it a great
mercy that I am here." The prince fixed
bis eyes upon him and said, " You wicked
wretch I It is a pity you should be placed
among so many honest men ; by your own
confession you are bad enough to corrupt
them all ; but you shall not stay with them
another day." Then turning to the officer,
he said, "This is the man whom I wish to
be released." '
Was not this a wise decision ? Must not
all who hear the story allow that the man
who was sensible of his guilt, and so
submissive to bis punishment, was, in all
probability, the most worthy of pardon,
and the most likely not to abuse it?
Sense of sin is the first step towards for
giveness. There is hope of a man who
confesses his guilt, and feels that punish
ment is his desert. And the deeper the
conviction of sin, the more hopeful often is
tho condition.
'A Little Boy's Prayer..
More than thirty years ago a goodly
minister, illustrating the efficacy of prayer,
related the case of a little boy with a sore
hand, which had become so bad that tho
physician decided that it must be ampu
tated to save the boys life. Tbe day was
fixed for the operation.
On hearing this, the littlo boy went to a
retired spot in the garden, fell on his knecB,
and begged God for Jesus' suke to save his
little bund.
The next day the physician came aud ex
amined the hand, when to tho astonishment
of all It was found to be so much bettor
that amputation was unnecessary.
The hand got quite well again, and the
little boy grow up to be n man, " aud,"
continued tho minister, holding up his
hand: " this unworthy hand can now be
shown to you as a monument of prayer
answered through divine grace. .
tV Hooker used to say, If I had no
other motive for being religious, I would
most earnestly strive to do so for the sake
of my mother, 'that I might requite her
care for me, and cause her widow's heart
to sing for joy." !
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A.t Newport, In.
I BEG to Inform the public Hint I have Just re
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ment of the latest styles of
MILLINERY GOODS. .
t
HATS AND BONNETS,
- 1UUDONS, FRENCH FLOWER8.
FEATHERS, , ,
CHIGNONS. : ' i .'
LACE CAFES,
NOTIONS, . ,
And all articles usually found In a first-class Mil
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tended to. -W will sell all goods as Cheap as
can be got elsewhere .
DRESS-MAKING done to order and In the la
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York every month. Golferlng done to order, III
all widths. I will warrant all my work to give sat
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ANNIE ICKES,
Cherry Street, near the Station,
5 16 13 Newport, I"a.
CARLISLE CARRIAGE FACTORY.
A. 13. SIIE11K
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FOR THE SPRING TRADE.
He has. also, the best lot of
NEW WORK ON HAND.
You can always see different styles. The material
Is not liiiiestloii any more, for It Is the best used.
If you want satisfaction iu style, quality and
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There is no linn that has a better Trade, or sells
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