OMENS ON WAIISIIirS.
SUPERSTITIONS WHICH GOVERN OLD
8ALTS OF THE WW.
Hoodoo anil Rprlla Vlilrti May Word All
Sort of Evil on Hoard unit Wlilrli
Mnat Hii Crftill Oaaii.'i-ii 'ijnlnut
. thm Titniln llahlt.
The timet picturwqrw mtrr'iitiniis t
the fi n" are tluw which ;nviin 11 mn,
era miin-o'-war. Kvrry H t in :
tinvy lulirvpA In IhihiImw mill fptllx
wliirh limy work nil whin of rvils on
Ills Flitp mill tiiiiNt Iw currfully Ki-.iirilrd
Aftninxt.
Tim power i'f n flilp's hurdim mm
mrnre iirfnro tun ship hanfliitcrt'd tlio
water. It Is n utm-ntHy nr-pfed super
stition tlmt -If tho llrst lilmv which In
struck the kcol ItIiis cpnrkd the chip I
destined to sutler from raking lire
from the enemy
The old time pmctiee of 'stealing o
piece of wood mid imbedding It in the
prow for pood Inch is, of course. Impos
sible in the ense of steel ships.' though
it is considered tacky to have a piece of
ttolcti wood on board.
Another old superstition is .itisficd
by pluciiiH a silver coin in some.orevice
of tho IlKhtiiiK top of tbe ninitmiiiNt or
snmo place below decks where it touches
the steel mast. Originally it wns n very
common custom to imbed n silver coin,
and preferably a Spanish coin, lu the
wooden steps near the mast
Figureheads Imvo liern in high favor
with sailor from remote antiquity
Originally they were carved to roprti
sent some god or saint Even today a
sailor would besitato to sail on an iron
clad without such protection
Tbe ceremony of luuiiiliiiiR n ship is
merely a concession to on old supersti
tion. The various formalities of ship
christening have been followed with
little variation for centuries.
In the early days of sliipliuilding it
was the custom for tho captain and the
kw to eat their first meal stowed away
in the mold loft. Their meal invariably
consisted of eggs and sulphur From
this custom has come the present clay
practice of providing enkes and wine
for the crew And the old libation
which the priests used to pour over the
prow of tho ship us she (dipped into tbe
water has been replaced by the break
ins; of a bottlo of champagne.
The modern man-of-war dashes into
the water with flags waving from every
masthead. In order to gratify this old
superstition it lias been necessary to ex
pend hundreds of dollars for tbe chris
tening of a single ship. But no one be
grudges this extravagance. In a way it
is neoossary
The good or ill luck of certain days
is still belief among the sailors. Fri-
day is a day qf ill omen, and Sunday is
usually a tacky day.
A snperstition about women is a rello
of tbe old belief in witchcraft. It is
thought that a woman by throwing sand
in the air on shipboard tun produce
violent storms. Not many years ago
some women who traveled on English
warships were tortured during a storm
to make them quiet tbe waves.
These barbaric- beliefs, however, are
partially compensated by tbe supersti
tion which sailors bave held for centu
ries that boautiful children bring a
blessing to a ship The Neck was a
handsome boy with goldon curls. It is
said that be is always accompanied by
black lamb and carries with bim a
golden harp. Our old salts bave especial
confidence in a ship which is christened
'1y a child.
The average sailor is superstitious
bout the ringing of the ship's bells.
In olden times the bells were blessed
before they wore used. At present, if a
mistake is made in striking the hour,
the sailors Insist that the belli at once
be struck backwards to break the spell,
and if by any chance tbo wind should
catch the bells and swing them all the
way around, or if they strike nine bells,
it is behoved that it will be the last of
that ship. !
All good warships go to the "shores j
of Fiddler's Green" as a final resting ;
place. Just where this mythical harbor !
is situated no geographer has yet dooid-
ed. It is in every way tbo antithesis of .
"Davy .louos' locker." A warship '
wnicn goes aown lu cattle witn nor
flags flying, as occurred several times
during the civil war, goes to "Fiddler's
Green "
The tattooing habit is, of course, very
common in the navy. It is believed that
an arm or a leg decorated with the de
sign of a gun or a sword or some such
design will never be lost in battle.
San Francisco Call.
A Real Leopnm
Dunwich, More ton bay, Queensland,
consists of about 1,000 inhabitants. In
four years there have only been two
births and two deaths.
There are no streets, no omnibuses or
trains, no soldiers, no polioe, no shops.
There is a beautiful theater, and every
one is admitted free. Clothes are free,
and so nrfe food and lodging. Very few
' do any work, and there are no hotels.
Very little money is required, and med
ical attendance is free.
There is a lockup, but that is not
used. There is also a postofflce, and if
short of money tbe letters are stamped
free. There is also a free hospital and
library. Loudon Tit-Bits.
A Demand For a Walatooat.
At Strathfluldsaye there are (or were)
llamas. A good story is told of tbe Duke
of Wellington that years ago the first
llamas brought there were shorn and a
rwoisteout made for the duke, but a late
(frost sol in, and they had to make flan-
Sel waiHtooaU for the llamas instead of
leir own wool. Notes and Queries.
It is estimated that there are no fewer
thau 70,000,000 Europeans who wear
wooden shoes. Basswood is ordinarily
' amployed for sabots, but willow is the
tat material.
Wfeaa Sha Tmkak U.r Tiaw.
"b your wife a rapid reader?"
- "yes, unless I'm waiting for tb p
' tr.'-Johloago Record.
CONTRASTS IN fNAPLES.
Onljf Sli-n frnm Royal IMnrnlflcenmi to
Crofffli of Half Naknd Wnrkara.
One of tho strangest contrasts in Na
ples is to walk from the royal pa I nee,
with its fine ninrlile staircase, up tho
new Cnr.-o Re d'ltalin and to climb in
to the steep streets around the Church
of Mull Hnvrrlnu o Hnsin.
The:-.i! streets are the dwelling pliirrn
of the ! jh, mid one steps from regul
ningniliui'iitu into n crowd of m iiiiiiuknl
people, who are busily dipping great
hanks of cotton or wool into seething
calilrons. As elsewhere, the work Is car
ried nu In the street, utid little streams
of water red, yellow, brown mid black
pour over the rough stouee and gath
er in multicolored pools, while on low
benches against the wall women nro
washing clothes, standing in the dirty,
soapy water thut splashes .over from
their tuhs.
The ptisHcrahy walk heedlessly through
the dye and soapsuds, while the chil
dren Unci pleasant occupation in throw
ing mud of every variety of color at
anybody who chances to be wearing
light colored garments. It is a veritable
feast of color from the murely spectacu
lar point of view, but a visit to these
streets leaves n bodily as well as a
mental impression.
Very often in the depths of these nor
did alleys one comes across a forgotten
old palace, built when carriage were
unknown, its great court of honor
crowded with booths, its vast halls tflll
ed witli a heterogeneous collection of
men, women and children, fowls, goats,
sheep ami occasionally a donkey, nit
living together in the happiest proxim
ity. The massive old walls are bidden
beneath centuries of dirt; the wood
work has, for the most part, disappear
ed ; the rooms that otiee knew the revels
of Angoviu nobles now shelter tho hap
hazard existence of la.zaroni. Lud
gate.
FUN IN THE FOOTNOTE.
A Pnpnlar l.llircttlut Cnulitn't Withhold
Joltr on I'rnspFctlva llrlile.
V. H. (illliert does not retain all of
bis humor for use in his librettos.
In the early days of his success, when
Gilbert and Sullivan wero considered
by managers as the "suro winners" in
tho comic opera field, a young woman
who was n member of one of tho "Finn
fore" companies wrote to Gilbert toll
ing him of her approaching marriage
with a young man of good position and
family
Gilbert congratulated tho young wo
man and expressed the hope that her fu
ture might be prosperous and iiappy.
Only a little more than a month pass
ed, and another letter from the same
girl reached bim, in which she stated
that her engagement with tho young
man bad been broken and that she had
accepted another suitor.
He replied that be had every confi
dence in her judgment and again ex
pressed his hearty wishes for her wel-'
fare.
It was almost two months after that
thatGilbert received a third letter from
tho same girl, who informed him that
young Lord had proposed and that
she had accepted him after breaking
her engagement with No. 3.
Gilhert's humor could no longer
withstand tbe temptation, and he wrote,
"I desire to congratulate yon on your
approaching marriage with" Hero he
placed an asterisk and in a footnote
added :
"Hore insert the name of the happy
man. "
This is probably as characteristic a
piece of humor as any that appears in
his "Bab Ballads" or in hii works for
the stago. Now York Press.
Wonderful Pumping Engines.
The standard attained by the per
formance of modern pumping engines is
pretty high, as was illustrated by an
incident which ooourred not long ago
here in New York, whore some large
pumping engines that had recently been
set up and were working at rather high
speed and almost absolutely without
noise were inspected by an expert in
such matters who hailed from an inte
rior city. He remarked, "Well, those
engine! work very nicely now, but wait
until you get to pumping water at that
peed and thon yon will bear somothiug
from them probably."
His astonishment may perhaps be im
agined when it was demonstrated to
him that they were at that moment
pumping water and had been continu
ously doing so for 48 hours. American
Machinist.
They Help One Another.
A singular custom prevails among
the Tartars or Kurds. If a man gets in
to difficulties that is, loses bis cattle
or other movable property he pours a
little brown sugar into a piece of col
ored cloth, ties it np and carries one
suoh parcel to each of his friends and
acquaintances. In return he is present
ed, according to circumstances, with a
cow or sheep or a sum of money. He is
thus at once set on bis legs again. The
same method 1b adopted when a young
man wishes to mlirry, but is not in a
position to satisfy the parents of bis
intended brido in the matter of the
"bashlyg" that is, marriage dower.
Only in this case he does not go round
himself, but soudsa friend or a servant
Japanese Firework.
In Nagasaki, Japan, there -is a fire
works muker who manufactures pyro
technic birds of great size thut when
exploded sail in a lifeliko manner
through the air and perform many
movements exactly like those of living
birds. The secret of making these won
derful things has been in the possession
of the eldest child of the family of each
jonerution for more than 400 years.
No Cause For ComuiUe ration.
"Poor Dibbles! They say begot ft
pair of beautiful black eyes lately. X
feel sorry for him."
"Yon needn't. He got a very hund
lome girl with them." Short Skits.
Fanny Tnothaohe fjaraa.
'Bifforo the days of dentists, and when
peopl generally belioved in tho valuo
of olmrms, there wore ever so many
mystm lous ways of preventing toulb
ache. Oni-of theso was to dress the right
side i tho body first right stocking,
right shoe, right sleeve, right glove, A
favorite plati In -Scotland was to draw
tooth, salt It well and burn it in fall
view on glowing coals. In Cornwall
inuiiy s.ive thi-lrjeelh by biting the hi.-it
young torus that appear.
The custom of catching a common
ground mole, cutting 1T the paws whijn
tbe little creature still lives, mid wc u
iug them, Is traced to Ktailotrtshlre.
England, 01110 people who uro fond d!
exercise believe that walking 19 milir
no more, no less to get a splinter crt
the toothache tree that grows particu
larly well .in Canada and Virginia will
drive awrry tho worst ncho and pain
that ever tortured a poor tooth.
The belinf that toothache is caused
by a worm at the roots is prevalent iti
many parte of the world; hence thl
cum: Kediicn several different kinds of
herbs the Rreator variety tho better
to a powder. Put a glowing cinder into
this powder and Inhale tho Iiicciim;
Afterward breathe Into n cup of water
and the worm will be gone forever.
Etrranrriinary Drinks.
Of the many extraordinary drinks
regularly consumed the blood of live
horses may perhaps bo considered tho
most so. Marco Polo and Carpinl wero
tho first to tell the world of tho practice
of tbo Tartars and Mongols opening the
vein In their horses' necks, taking
drink and closing the wound again. As
far as can bo seen this has been tbo
practlco from time immemorial.
There Is a wine habitually consumed
in China which Is made from the nVeh
of lambs reduced to pasto with milk or
bruised into pulp with rice and then
fermented. It Is exceptionally strong
and nntritious and powerfully ttim
ulating to the physical organism.
The Laplanders drink a great deal of
smoked snow water, and one of the na
tional drinks of tho Tnuqnineso Is ar
rack flavored with chickens' blood. The
list would scarcely he complete without
mention of absinthe, which may Im call
ed the national spirituous drink of
France. It Is a horrible compound of
alcohol, anise, coriander, fennel, worm
wood, indigo and snlphato of copper. It
is strong, nasty and a moral and phys
ical poison.
Snow Trade In Molly.
The principal export from Catania Is
snow, In which a most lucrative trade
is carried on in Malta anil parts of
southern Italy. It is collected during
tho winter in hollows in tho mountains
and covered with ashes to prevent its
thawing. It is brought down in pan
niers on mules to tho coast at night.
Tbe revenue derived from this source is
immense and renders tho Prince of Pa
terno one of tbe richest men In Sicily.
Snow is the universal luxury from the
highest to the lowest rank and is sold
at the rate of 4 cents for 80 ounces.
The poorest cobbler there would rather
deprive himself of his dinner than cf
his glass of "aqua gelata. "
It is extensively used in hospitals and
a scarcity of it would bo considered i '
most as great a misfortune as a fun...
and would occasion popular tuiu"!'
To guard against such accidents -government
at Naples has maily ,
providing of it a monopoly, (!.
tractors betug required to c I '.-.
to tbe amount of 60,000 ch.c t- , ... .
um is forfeited if it cuii li i - '
for one hour the supply I
equal to the demand.
The Ravage and the Itli,'
A gentleman who went o;,l
Stanley to Africa took with bim a i
ber of birdcages,' iu which he ln . , u
bring back some specimons of tho n"
birds of the interior. Owing to ... .
death of his carriers he was obli;"d '
throw away the birdcages with a lum ber
of other articles. Theso were seized
by tbe natives in great glee, though
they did not know what to do with
them, but they eveutuully docided that
the small circular cages wore a kind of
hoadgoar, and, knocking off the bottom,
the chiefs strutted about iu them with
evident pride. One chief, thinking him
self more wise than the others and hav
ing soen tbe white men eat at table out
of dishes, thought they wore receptacles
for iood and took his meals from ono,
ceremoniously opening and shutting the
door between each mouthful.
Jack Tar at a Christening.
A sailor went up to the font to have
bis baby baptized. - Sailors as a olass
olaim little stock in babies, and, nat
urally enough, this one presented tbe
infant feet foremost.
"The other way," said the minister,
and, accordingly, Jack turned the in
fant upside down.
"Exouse me," said the clergyman,
"I mean the other way." So back came
the embryo forotopman to the first po
sition, to the discouragement of every
body. "Wind it, Juok," suid tbe nautical
assistant, and with an "Aye, aye, sir,"
Jack promptly turned the baby end for
end, and it was duly christened head
first. "On a Man-of-war. "
A Literary Slip,
One of the most literary of the Lon
don evening papers makes the follow
ing startling announcement: "A com
plete set of hydrants and fire appliances
will bo arranged, and the stago is to be
fitted with a double asbestus and steel
fireproof curtain, controllable by one
man. The latter is designed to be one
of tbe largest in Loudon namely, about
80 feet wide and 50 feet deep." Glas
gow Times.
Flnt Caricature.
Probably tho flist caricature in manu
script is to be found in the Egyptian
papyrus in the British museum, where
the lion and unicorn are represented
playing a gam of drafts.
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A delightful tonio and lax
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j In All-wool Summer Clothing, Scotch Plaids
5: and Check Suits you can save from 10 to 20
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Men's All-wool $7.00 and $8.00 Suits, now
$5.50. Men's All-wool $9.00 to 12.00 Suits,
$7.00 to $9.00. In Youths' Suits .you can
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( Straw Hats Price.
Nice Over Shirts, with white band, 23c.
H SUMMER DRESS GOODS
S ; Organdy, was 15 to 18c, today 10c.
" " 10c. " 64, 74c.
Challies, " 5c. " 4c.
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