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Familiar, but Unseen.
Things we see but don’t notice were
ander discussion at the club luncheon
table. This was the opportuuity of
the member who took pride in his su-
perlative powers of observation. Tak-
ing from his note case a crisp one
pound note, he laid it on a plate and
offered its equivalent to every mem-
Der at the table who could answer
correctly the following simple every-
day questions: (1) On looking at the
face of a penny with the dated side
toward you and the date at the bot-
fom, does the head of the image on
the coin face toward your left hand or
‘toward your right? (2) How many
ribs are there in the cover of an um-
brella? (3) 'In a pack of cards one of
the kings has only one eye visible—
that 1s; his profile only is portrayed—
which, of the kings is it? (4) Which
way do ‘the seeds‘in the core of an ap-
ple point, toward the stem or opposite
to it? (The ome pound note did not
change hands.—London Standard.
£ A Once Legal Fiction.
In the legal calendar the 24th of Oc-
tober~is "worthy ‘of “notice, as on that
‘day, in 1852, two individuals, though
(personally Known-t6-110 one ‘#nd enjoy:
ing ian extensive repita tion Among iaw-
yers, ceased to exist-in. England. These
persons were John Doe and Richard
“Roe, 4nd no two'persons’ were tore frev
quently referredito inilegalrdocuments.
In eyery.proceds, of: ejectment,
of the real parties to the suit, tnd
-~ named, John -Doe; plaintiff, sued Rich
ard. Roe; deflendants | Their names) were
alsg inserted .in criminal proceedings.
This fiction” was introduced into Eng-
lish Yegal ‘practice’in the time~ of ‘Hd-
ward IIL. in consequence, it was said,
required the production of witnesses
before every criminal trial, and hence-
forth John Doe and Richard Roe were
inserted as: the names of the alleged
witness, a custom which was carried
across the Atlantic to this country.—
Indianapolis News.
§
3
i A Well Hated Landlord.
The most hated landlord in Ireland
for the last 100 years, a miger known
as “the parsimonious. peer,” was Hu-
bert George de Burgh Canning, mar-
quis of Clanricarde. He was unmar- |
ried, and with his death the marquis-
ate became extinct.
extended from Athenry, in Galway, to
Woodford, twenty miles southeast, and
it was said that.anywhere along this
route could be obtained a story of trag-
edy in the land war. Time and again
the aid of the forces of the crown in
evicting tenants had been refused. He
was never seen in a vehicle. He took
daily wall's to Regent's park. There, |
on a public seat, not one of the chairs,
for which he would have been charged
a small fee, would sit this owner of.
60,000 acres watching the squirrels. He
was a noted collector of china and pic-
tures, of which he was a wise buyer. —-
Chicago Journal.
According to Degree.
Horse breeding is an occupation
which requires much learning, and a
certain English farmer has a great rep-
utation for his skill.
A neighbor of his who sought some
advice on the cheap, asked the horse
breeder’s son one day:
“I say, Tommy, when one of your fa-
ther’s horses is ill what does he do?”
“Do you mean just slightly ill or real
bad?” was the lad’s cautious counter-
question. : .
“Oh, seriously ill.”
“Well,” said the boy,
only just a little ill, dad gives it some ’
medicine, but if it is seriously ill he:
sells it.”
Sacrificed Their Hats:
Many years-ago the master butchers
of Washington market, in New York
city, used to kick their hats about the |
market at the close of business on Sat-
urday night. Under the custom in the
market it was considered a slighting of
the profession for any butcher not to
appear behind his counter with a high
hat, and it was thought bad taste if the
meat seller at the end of a prosperous
week failed to destroy the hat. The
apprentice butchers couldn’t afford silk
headgear and so used to gather up the
broken hats and repair them for their
own use.
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All Pervasive.
The teacher's last question was
meant to be a scientific poser.
«what is that which pervades all
space,” ‘she said, “which no wall or
door or other substance can shut out?”
No ‘one hadi ‘an answer ready but
Freddy Sharpe.
“The smell of onions, LEG he said
promptly.—New York Times.
A Ready Sealer.
For traveling carry a candle with
you, and ‘when about to make a jump, ;
as the theatrical'people ‘say, seal your
bottles with it. It takes only a minute
to light the candle, turn it upside down
and let the tallow drip: around the
cork of a bottle, but it insures perfect
carriage of the fluid content. .
iin )
Told Him Truly.
“Johnnie, how do: you spell nickel?”
the proud father asked:
“N-k-l-e,/~responded Johnnie.
«phat is not the way the dictionary
spells it,” said the father.
“You didn’t ask me that. You asked
me how I spelled it.”’*~Exchange.
Heartless.
“Why didn’t Rastus marry dat Coo-
pah gal?”
“Oh, ghe dun flunk at de last minute
—wouldn't iend Lim a dollah foh t' git
de il wif.” --Boston Transcript.
A slanderer and a suake of deadly
poison each have two tongues.—Tami}
Proverb.
Pseaeccd
®His Irish estate:
“if a horse is
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WASHING THE DISHES.
Doing This Jeb Qnly Cnce a Day, it ls
Said, Saves Time.
“The careful housekeeper will always
resent the suggesion that ounce a day
is often enough to wash dishes,” writes
Dr. H. Barnard in ‘“Table Talk” in the
National Food Magazine. “She cannot
train herself to allow soiled plates and
silverware to stack up from one meal
to the next, for she has been taught
that such actions are evidence of shift-
less, slovenly housekeeping. As a mat-
ter of fact, along with many other no-
tions which are fixed in the operation
of the home, both time and energy are
saved by cutting out two of the three
daily dishwashing jobs.”
: Dr. Barnard'goes on ‘to recite the ex-
perience of one housekeeper who actu-
ally dared study the homely work of
dishwashing. One week she washed
dishes tliree times a day; the next week
she washed each day’s- dishes. dlto-
gether. She used the same number of
dishes each day in. both: weeks.. 6 She
found that it took her fifty-one minutes
a day to wash dishes after seach meal
.and forty-one minutes a day to wash
them once a day.t > Uf
«! This took account-only ‘of time, but
thore was-a considerable additional
saving in gas or fuélicomsumed by
heating” water once {xstédd.of thrice a
day, to aay noting of the, saving;in
(soap. afer
SALT IN THE FOOD.
i 8 ——
Why Its Flavor at Times ls Too Weak
rn .or Too Strpnga-*+ ir vit
The average housewife-wonders why
+ she often over ‘or under salts her
of a provision in Magna €harta, which | >
dishes; when she "“kmows” that .she
salted them just right, as she always
did and as the recipes called for. .
The reason is just this: The season
ing value of different brands of salt
varies widely. This is easily proved.
equal parts of five makes of salt upon
the separate pieces.
meation, rapidity and equality of dis-
1 solution and seasoning value are read-
| ily detected.
| “A table salt should be fine, the crys-
tals of equal size, quickly soluble and
free from ingredients which absorb
moisture from the air. Large ang
small crystals will not dissolve uni
formly; consequently the full salting
effect is not obtained until the large
crystals are dissolved. The quick!y
soluble salt diffuses itse!f through the
feod at once and gives an equality of
savor. . Sticky salt is an intrusive nui-
sance.
Trailures in salting are largely due to
| changing from one make of salt to an-
other. Get the best grade, grow ac-
customed to its ‘use and stick to it.—
, San. Francisco Chronicle.
>
Single File.
they seldom walked or rode two or
more abreast, but followed one anoth-
er in single file. It has been thought
by some that this practice resulted
from the lack:of roads, which com-
pelled them to make their way through
woods and around rocks by narrow
paths... If this were the real reason
for the practice, then we should expect
to find that the tribes who lived in
open countries traveled in company, as
do whites. The true reason for jour- !
neying as the Indians did in single file
seems to be a feeling of caste. This
feeling was at the bottom of other
customs of the Indians. It made their
women slaves and rendered the meu
2 Signs and unsociagl. This peculiarity
‘Asiatic. How it has w@rped and
: a Hindu life is well known.
The women of a Chinese household are
seldom seen in the street. The chil-
dren, when accompanying their father,
follow him at a respectful distance, in
single file and in the order of their
ages.
Poor John!
“Hello! Is this you, mother dear?”
“Yes, Sue. What is it? Something
awful must have happened for you to
call me up at.this”—
“It’s not so awful. But John, dear.
hasn’t been feeling well, and the doe
tor gave him pills to take every four
hours. I've been sitting up to give
them to him, and now it's about time
for his medicine, but John has fallen
asleep. Should I wake him?”
“I wouldn't if I were you.
he suffering from?”
“Insomnia.” — Pittsburgh Telegraph-
Chronicle.
What is
Smoking In Japan.
In Japan woman has smoked ever
since tobacco was introduced and in-
variably used the pipe of metal with
| the tiny bowl holding only sufficient
. tobacco to provide half a dozen whiffs
which was in universal use until the
cigarette entered Japan with other
western innovations.
His Excuse.
“Yeur honor, I frankly «dmit that 1
was: exceeding the speed limit, but I
was afraid of being late at court.”
“What was your business at court?”
“1 had to answer toa charge of ex:
ceeding the speed limit.”—New York
Friendly. Advice.
“We surprised all our friends by get-
ting: married” ©
“Good endugh. Now v surpele ? em by
staying: married.”—Exchange.
An Ancient Cake.
Patience— Would you like to see thc
cake I got cn my twenty-eighth birth
day? Patrice—Why. yes! Is it we!
preserved ?- Yonke:- Statesman.
How blessinzs brighten as they tak
their flight!— Young.
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Take: five slices of ripe tomatoes; apply !
Eat as soon as !
| salted. The difference in flavor, per-
When the Indians traveled together
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QUIET” AND "NEAR LONDON.
The Lonely Cotswolds Nearly Touch
The World’s Biggest City.
The Cotswolds are an example of the !
variety of natural scenery that Eng-
land succeeds in packing awdy within
her narrow sea barred boundaries.
Here, within three hours of the largest
city in the world, you can walk in |
complete loneliness over a grassy road
that follows the route laid out by Ro-
‘man engineers, with a tumbled sky
line of real mountains on your right
and a sweep of empty fields falling
away to the left. You can take tea in
an old Roman villa, where the tiled
courtyard 1s still smooth and tight; you
can sleep in an inn that has apparent-
ly not changed its habits or its bill of
fare since the days of Richarg the
Crusader. . :
As mountains the nol cannot
pretend to any:great eminence or bold-
ness. They have no attractions for the
man who wishes: to brave steep cliffs
or for him who would travel for a
week on end through a single pine dark
valley. They are well bred little hills
compared with the Alps or the Rockies, ;
hut they have the true mountain flavor 1
.of loneliness and sturdy <harm. ““The
culiar feeling of isolation, for a single
human dwelling only \serves'to set, oft
loneliness. UV, 215
hand the roads are a perpetual de-
light. ~ The King's- highway winds
through these ‘hills—=a pnblic:road that
would cost ‘the landed proprietor who
half his fortune in legal SApenses to
.close up.—~Exehange., 2
NEW YORK'S DI DOWNTOWN.
Where Those “Tired § (Budiness Men”
Earn Their Daily Bread.
| There is a region of mystery into
jswhich the metropolitan husband and
| father vanishes between 7:30 and 8:45
: a. m. six days in the week and from
i which he emerges in the la'e after-
noon. He is welcomed, after;the man-
ner of all returning: warriors, with a
tender solicitude.
Downtown is the trackless jungle
into which father plunges to stalk the
family’s living. After 10,000 years of
civilization it is still the same. Anx-
ious eyes follow him from the wig:
wam tili he turns the corner to the
railroad station, and fond eyes greet
him. as he staggers out of the elevator
door in his apartment house home with
his prey. =o to speak, on his shoulder.
Wives will never be reconciled to
| downtown. It swallows up the ean of
| the house when he would much rather
stay at home and play with the chil-
dren—so he pretends—and it sends him
home at night too tired to be agreeable
—as he asserts. Thus the little game
goes on. ‘
The primitive hunter, 1 imagine,
made believe that he hated to leave
the family and go off 'into the dark
forest, and on his return he threw him-
Actually, I believe, the primitive hunt.
er as soon as he was out of sight of
home broke into a cheerful whistle.—
Simeon Strunsky in Harper's Maga-
zine.
\ Primogeniture.
The law of primogeniture sends
back its. roots to the most ancient
times. Away back in the patriarchai
ages the firstborn son had a supe:
riority over all his brethren and in the
absence of his father was in every im-
portant sense the head of the house.
Upon the death of the. father he be-
came by the unwritten law, which
could not be questioned, the priest and
‘lord of the family, and naturally to
him fell the property as well as-thé
| honors of the household: - Primogeni-
ture wherever it is found today is the
lingering remnant of the ancient cus-
tom.
Dufferin’s Warning Dream.
There -are many stories on record of
the warning dream. The late Lord
Dufferin when in Paris dreamed that
he was in a hearse being conveyed to a
cemetery. A few days later as he was
{ about to enter a hotel elevator hé was
startled to observe that the attendant
was the living reproduction of the
driver of the hearse in his dream. He
stepped back, and the lift went np
without him. Before it had reached
the top of the building some breakage
| took place in the mechanism, and the
lift crashed down to the bottom. every
one in it being killed.
Too Much Music.
Street singing is an especially Nea-
politan institution, and when for the
first time one hears beneath his win-
| dows the more often than not off key
versions of the snappy, lilting. inex-
pressibly infectious Neapolitan songs
he is enchanted ang throws: pennies
freely. After a week or so of it as a
steady diet. day and night. he inclines
{| much more ‘toward heavy crockery.—
National Geographic Magazine.
His Idea.
“Would you say that marriage is a
failure?”
“Not exactly;
ness venture.”
“In what way?”
“Well, ‘yo can’t blame the business
for the failures that get into it.”—De-
troit I['ree [’icss.
it’s more like a busi:
~Saving Money.
occasional farmhouse Shades the pe-
owns the ground on either side of it |
self before the fire too tired to speak. | = %
Mrs. Muggins—Don’t: you ever try to
gave any money? Mr. Muggins—Sure.
1 save $4 today. Borrowell struck me
for $5. and T only let him have $1.-
Philadelphia Record.
It Was Possible.
Edith—You haven't seen my engage
ment ring, have you? Marie—I don't
know. Who is the man ?--Boston Tran
script.
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promise suits.”
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OLD’ KASSAN VILLAGE.
Curious Aiaskan Landmark In the Ton-
gass National Forest.
No other locality ts quite like “Old
Kassan National Monument,” a unique
tract of land held by the United States
government. It consists of thirty-eight
acres within the Tongass national for-
est, Alaska, and the tiact embraces the
well known abandoned Haida Indian
village of Old 'Kassan; situated on
Prince of Wales island; in southeastern
Alaska, about thirty miles west of
the city of Ketchikan.
The village was abandoned by the
Indians about ten years ago. Among
the relics which remain there are about
fifty Indian totem poles, five or six of
which are classed as exceedingly good
specimens. In the deserted village
there are also eight large square build-
ings which were originally construct-
ed according to the peculiar plan of the
Haida Indians and which, it'is stated
by those best qualified to know, repre-
sent the best specimens of Haida ar-
chitecture that now ‘exist. The largest
of these buildings is approximately 40
by 60 feet in-size and is made entirely
of round and carved timbers.
There also remain a number of In-
dian graves, with the typical small
grave houses erected by the Alaskan
Indians. “Kassan’ is said to be the
Indian word which means “a pretty
town,” and all reports agree that the
village was well named. The fact
that the village was occupied by the
Indians for many years explains the
local name, “Old” Kassan,’ by which
it is widely known. Since the village
was abandoned by -the Indians the
buildings have been rapidly falling
into a state of dilapidation and decay.
—Exchange. .
AMERICA VESPUCCI.
She Asked Congress For Citizenship
and “a Corner of Land.”
A decided ‘sensation’ was created at
Washington during the Van Buren ad-
ministration: by the appearance! there
of -a-handsome and well dressed Italian
woman. who called herself America
Vespucci and claimed descent from the
navigator who gave his name to the
continent.
Dantel “Webster became her especial
friends, and she soon was a welcome
guest in the best society. In a few
weeks after her arrival she presented a
petition to congress asking, first; to be
admitted to the rights of citizenship
and; secondly; to be given ‘a corner of
land” out of the public domain of the
country which bore the name of her
ancestor. An adverse report. which
soon was made, is one of the curiosi-
ties of congressional literature. It eu-
logized the petitioner as “a young, dig
nified and graceful lady, with a mind
of the highest intellectual culture and
a heart beating with all our own en-
thusiasm in the cerca of American and
|
Auman iibercy.” ‘ine reasons why tbe
prayer of the petitioner could not. be
granted were given, but she was com-
mended to the generosity of the Amer-
ican people.
“The name of America, our country’s
name. should be honored, respected and
cherished in the interésting exile from
whose ancestor we derive the great
and glorious title.” :
Later it was discovered tbat the wo-
man was an impostor. “Perley s Rem-
iniscences.”
: Sonite and Hair.
Charles Kassal has carefully review-
‘ed the biographies of most of the emi-
‘nent men ‘of thé world and bas tabulat-
ed the results of ‘his work, so far as
the color of the hair is concerned. Dark
brown to black is the prevailing hue on !
the heads of great men, A list of fifty
names has been compiled in which the
color of the hair is given by -biogra-
phers, and 90 per cent are dark brown
or-black. The structure of the hair—
whether straight or curly—is given on
twénty-six of Mr. Kassel’'s list of ge-
niuses, and of these all but four pos-
It is ex- |
«tremely notable that, of the remaining
! nothing but blank
sessed curly or wavy hair.”
four, Napoleon and President Jackson
were the two remarkable for. “wiry
hair,” and that James Russell. Lowell
and Grieg were those having lank,
straight hair,
Why He Got “Licked.”
“I understand you were punished in
school yesterday, Thomas,” said Mr.
Bacon to his twelve-year-old bey.
“Yes, sir,” promptly replied the truth-
ful Thomas. “It was for telling the
truth, sir.”
“Your teacher said it was for some
reflection on her age.”
“That's the way she took it, father.
' You see, she drew a picture of a basket
Ex-President ‘Adams and
of eggs on the blackboard, and while
she was out of the rcom 1 just wrote
under them. ‘The hen that made these
eggs [isn’t any chicken.’ "—Pittsburgh
ChrepiclerTelegtaph
Only Wa Way to Know Dogs.
The only. true and thorough straight
way to know, the deg is to own one. A
common residence under the same roof-
tree, be it animals or humans, ‘is the
sure test of personality. To own the
dog: is to comprehend him in his faults
aad virtues, te protect his weaknesses,
be anxious at his vagrancies, to catch
the contagion of his love and to agonize
if it so be that he die.—Our Dum .’
imals:
Not Becoming.
“You used to say that girl was an
angel.”
“Yes. And I'm sorry I said it. Sh
| got interested in flying, and, after see
| ing her in her aviation costume, I must
say she doesn’t look the part.””—Wash-
ington Star.
i —-—
BEN BUTLER'S BLUFF.
It Was Well Worked and Completely
Fooled General Bingham.
General John A. Bingham was a
member of the military tribunal that
tried Mrs. Surratt and the Lincoln as-
sassination conspirators.
After the trial'in the subsequent de-
bates in the house General B. F. But-
ler frequently charged that the com-
mission Had arrived at an unjust ver-
dict and had convicted an innocent
woman. In a memorable debate he
boldly proclaimed that if the contents
of a diary which had been found on
the dead body of J. Wilkes Booth were
ever made public it would disclose the
fact that it contained the proof of Mrs.
Surratt’s innocence, which proof had
been infamously suppressed by tke
commission.
When General Bingham made a move-
ment as though he would repel such
an accusation Butler dramatically drew
a memorandum book from his breast
pocket and held it aloft, but did not
utter a word. Bingham naturally sup-
posed that Butler had a copy sf a
diary such as He had spoken of. As
a matter of fact the book contained
leaves. General
Butler was just bluffing.
The diary was in possession of Sec-
retary Stanton, but President Johnson
finally demanded it. It was an inter-
esting book, but it threw no light upon
the great conspiracy.
Squeaky Soles In Tune.
Manufacturers of shoes who make a
specialty of the squeaky variety should
pay more attention to pairing them up
in harmonious. duets. The squeak,
squeak of the hired girl’s high heeled
bronzed number tens would drive a
saint to cuss words. But we must not ’
heap our displeasure upon the poor |
girl. She is not the author. She is!
only the reproducer. She merely acts
the part that the wax cylinder per-
forms for the phonograph. There is
just as great a necessity for a musical |
director in an up to date shoe factory ;
as there is in grand opera, and no |
workman should be permitted to build
a pair of squeaky shoes unless he can
pass a severe test in barmony.—Car-
toons Magazine.
Horses In Trousers.
When the horses in Nice, France,
are hitched to tar spreading carts
they wear trousers to protect their
jeg from the hot tar. A further pro-
ection for them consists cf a curtain
Ns ooadu between the cart and the '
ijorse. The trousers are what lend
distinction to the horse, however.
The knees are a bit baggy, but the
horse doesn’t seem to ecare.—Popular
Science Monthly.
Lloyd (Serubby) McCreight of In-
diana, Pa, star fullback, was elected
captain of the W. & J. football team
for 19117.