no EN - “ # Ld 5 3 W | saperstitious taboo May marriages, but «there is no excuse yet fur this idiosyn- "Ovid was a firm beliover in the sa: | | Nid with mach deliberation, ‘I think * have discovered that there i¢a livelihood goialists. euch as saperior pig ids, Ww her own narrow sphere—gave us carte : . With prizes like that in prespect, itis ap who braved their wrash would fill an the stars and’ all the suparatitions to . . the manufacture, being produced by rub- A ears was cold aa wa0V. » she thought, with good ¢ld Plato, s ve alone, ; fo dhe smiled on many a wuitor, wh ber hears was hard as sions, Li s 8 bachelor man a-suing Por her friendship trae. This, alas, was her undoing : As it might have been with you. +1 Por her friendship still he sed her— : Such a simple thing ; ! T11 before she knew he woted her, Wood her with a friendship ring. ~~ 1 Wow, although she's fond of Platg, : Her cold heart's grown wun, And her theories of living = Fave imbibed a wondrous charn, Por she says: "Tie human nature Spite of Plato's pen. Men were made for luving yhomen, : Women made for loving me n.'' ~Mary W. Slatter in Kate Field's Washington. wirwtnier weyciaL PULISHL. An English Couple Who Instruet In the : Art of Being Vine. . ; A new profession for teaentlefolk’’ has been discovered in Leadon by two fmpecunions members of the clus. They to be obtained by “polishing off’! the nouveany riches and other whe minn- pers ‘‘have not that repose ] the easta of Vern de Vere well born, well bred FAT t fur FBP RE TR J yvhich eta BL pens who are still #3 pone adaptable. They have been hid to ways of the leisure class, and they are alever enough to teach then. Anyih from the cure of {he coeloey soosnt the proper way to eaterisin a dul taught for & “consideration.” The wife deseribos her shar of work thus: “I generally.’ ihe == regndertake to entage the servites. ol 5 wag 3 what is what and can give judi- gious and useful hints to their mistress; also manienrists, teachers'f deportment and sometimes teachers of eloontion. have cured one very bad case of mere outward vulgarity in three weeks for 10 and I have corrected i cockney accent in three mornings for 3 guineas, whilegon the other ‘hand, a certain city man, who never aspired to anything better than heavy British dinners, Fri- days to Mondays at Brighton, and Man- sion House balls until he married the daughter of a west end restaurant man- she knew nothing «f life beyond ~ planche to make ‘fine folks’ of them. “Not much could be done for him be- ‘yond keeping bim quiet, but she lent herself to our process. Now they havo a very pretty place in Hampshire and en- _gertain some rather nice people in the sammer. Wo ourselves recnived 100° gaineas for our advice, but the husband mast have spent over 25,500 in adopt- : our hints as to mode of living, and Be tells ns that what he has got for it is} double as much. "’~-Philadelphia and Matrimony. bad a myth that ‘only’ in May.” They had another, that if the mariage did take | place the couple would live most anhap- fren born of the marriage =z 1 not hopelessly rendered bar- wom by thus slapping the {utes m the face—would be deformed or imbecile. “mot much wonder that ths ignorant and | .erasy of thinking peoplo—at least, no and said that no widow or girl would marry in May unless she wished to invite the displeasure of the gods, and that the irsprodent wom- early grave. Ovid pinned his faith to rosy June, the birth moath ¢! June, and when he got ready to latneli his daugh- ter on the matrimonial ses he studied . make sure that he would not rua npon Scylls in steering off Charybdia. Resolved to match the girl, be tried to find What days unprospercus were, What moons After June's sacred ides hid fancy strayed Good 10 1s man and happy to the maid. » testo pap Wises eo = .. 1. Better Ove Way. . : In North Caroliria litely a case was gried in which, the defindant’s charac- ter having been impeached, it was ™ to bolster it up by showing he bad reformed and joined the church. itness, who beloxged to the same , insisted that ns thé defendant . was now a Christian nan ¢! course hu charaster was better. Counsel asked “him, *‘Doesn’t be drink just as mach as ‘he ever dia?’ The witneis, who was colored and evidently embarrassed by _ the inquiry, slowly raised hia eyes and do, but he carries it more better. "'— - San Francisco Argonaut. Am——— : -- Calomel. . Calomel was discovered by Crollins in the seventeenth century, and the first for its preparation; were given . by Beguin in 1608. Its name is desived ‘grom two (Greek words, signifying “'a beautiful black,’’ becaase in its prepara- . tion a black powder 4 the first step in bing mercury togethar—with oorrosive sablimsis : A Winning Bho Fogg—What do you mesn by saying ‘that the thing can’t be dane? Gouger fognd the do | Wadi-Eaha, Assuan, Caio ane - across it abont four feet higher. _khalig, as the opening ceremony 8 FLOOD OF THE NILE, | Wwouearu cold ear a ie How Tt In Masufactured snd Some of Its WE GREATEST EVENT OF ALL THE | Vela”. - - yzan AT SA. into. thin leaves is called gold beating. : Ls = Ll, | As yet the nse of mrichinery {x thie Impressive Ceremonies at the Cutting of | purpose is very limited, pearly all gold the Bank to Alliw the Wiater to Flow leaf being beaten by hand Into the Capal—The Ancient Nilometer First the gold is css imo oblong in- on the Island of Roda. : gots. about three-fourilis of an inch in : s width and weighing two onnees eal. The tourist who only comps to LZspt 10 | These ingots re pes td etween pol- shun “winter and foul weyther’’ knows ighed steel rollers end t'aseenad ont into nothing of the majestic glories cl t%%, ribbons of aboat an cigke-tmadredth of Nile flood. The ancient Nilomewr at! gn inch in thickness. Tha ribbons are the south end of the island of Rexin, inst goftenad by heat and cus fit places an above Cairo, is one of the nuost interest- | inch SeInATeL ing sights of the place, Phe wildy en-: One Luplred and fifty of these pieces ters from the river by aeplyirt 10108 gre placed between vellum leaves, one sell about 18 feet nquare, With a ified pisos above another, and the entire pile ated stone pillar in the center. O13 curl fg inelosed in a domble pamhment Crass side of the well is a recess about 6 leek’ gpd benten with a 16 pound hammer wido and 3 fest deep, surinoauicd by a until’ the inch pieces are extended to 4 pointed arch, over which | is cars d 10 jpeh squares. They an then taken from relief a Kufle inscription, and a tiniilar the case, arid each ‘square is cat into inscription is carried ail around 100 four pisces The piceos thus obtained well, consisting of verses (f-the Koray. | gre then placed between goldvbeater's A staircase goes down the well, from gina delicate membrane prepared the steps of which the initiated may. from the large intestine of the ox—made read the height of the water on the pil-| juts piles, inclosed in a parchment case Jar, but they are few in nujuber, nnd the | und again beaten, but with a hammer of hereditary sheikh of the Niloraatar, | lighter weight whose duty it id to keep the rerad, is ths a person of some importante Tae Nil! and once more ese omieter dates from A. D. 481, and Tbe | 4 live in the archives of Cairo may V0 tering a1 gnd the thickness of each leaf js absu one two-hrmdred-thonsandihs of an inch Hl: Gold is #0 malleable that it is possible of ganazes wi po obtain a still greater degnroa of thin- leaves ure pot-thin enongh. 4 leaf is cut into fonr wl again beaten. This ast quar iv record for 1,000 years 1 { I peed hardly tell you {hat win Englidh engin ape tole flap river iad CRUISIN ONAN I tO Lis ii - ‘ 1.32.3 . : ne } we establisheil a pumbel y 1 » Pix hii 583 ness, but not profitably Thea thin leaves are taken up with other points on more seieniilio prodcip ed thun ths von > aa 1a lari Pooda 18iand. After the river has begun to piee it erable ~ ter of ta wood piuchers, placed on a cushlen, ; i! squares 314 inches in size. The squares height is daily chanted throngh 106 apd placed bx syreent the leaves of paper Cairo streets until it renches 13 oubitd) pooks, which have provionsly been rub- on the gange. At this point tho Khilist | ped with red chalk to prevent adhesions el Masri, the old canal thal flow 8 tardng : the heert of Cairo, {8 openid—nujt to thi ag syusres or leaves of gold, and in this point it is dry, and full or empty it 11 fom the leaf is sold, not by weight, bat little more than a sanitary abonenation | bv a saperticial meastire — Philadelphia at presout, but in former days jt coon aa i pied an important placo, and when th Nile water was high enough to flow down its bed it was Jooked on that this | ; : flood had fairly set in, and that ae kind. | A Wester Afrirdy we Explanation as Given ly fruits of the earth might be duly ex- : SH EY un Sudan . pected. : ; | In writing of the native dogs of Cen- The head of tais canal is on the right | tral America, Frederick Boyle brings park of the river, just south of Cairo. | forward a theory as to how dogs foro The water enters a channel some 30 feet | the habit of barking. He was discossing wide, with a high wall an its left and a | with tn old resident of the country sloping bank on its right or suthera | some ‘traits of the coyote, aM the na- dank The water then flows under the | tive wolf is called, bat which mire nea pointed arch of an old stone bridge. The | ly resembles the. dog. on i; : bed of the canal is cleared so that it ogs will never go wild so long as would flow in at a gauge of about 14% cobits, but an earthen bank is throwa WHY DOGS BARK. more especially trained doge. The coyote never barks, and only gallops when pur- There is no niore interesting ceremony in Egypt than the annual cutting of the | op" Jgee | auked an old Indias, called. It takes place between Ang. 5 pointing to one I was trying to reclaim. and 15. Days before preparations are | k - made for ths festival. Tents with innu- | Pus pron “His wot Jon merable lamps are placed along the wall answer was, ‘He won t earn. on the one side. Frames for all manner | tr of fireworks are erected ¢m the sand bank | "TIL on the other sida. All the notisbles av there in full uriform or in canonicals ‘The khedive himself cr his representis- ; : tivo, the Sheikh ul Isic, tho highest | 3% ren fhe ster Sonn. ot 8 dignitary of the -Mcohammedun faith: | ho Es INE ON the Sheikh el Belkri, the Sheikh el Sadat, | iiels suuster 8 sods ce Md sol all the learned scribes of the great uni- | to drive in cattle to the corms, anc varsity of the Azhar, th cabluet minis: | 08 barks also In fact, thie dog imate" ters and under secretaris, the sirder of | iw hii won Bis durin; he. felts ‘th - A ai ! $i i i i : . : 2 . . ' the AY Sn jue staff the jedgos a I give this curions observation * I At dos : : 1 . ut for The Egyptian troops are turned ort, only uttempt I ever heard to accou® *% salutes are fired, and atout 8 o'clock in | the burking of our tame dogs. wid the warm summer night the classes sll | breads make any noise except "WERE gasemble under the gayly lighted tents, | dud sarling, nor, ander the ®5 © ‘he Masses crowd yomnl the f-ames for cumstances, will they learn tors un i 4 i : - ary: ] the fireworks, the street is Lined with | til the third or fourth gepation.— | Pittsburg Dispatch. | bark, to try to imitate his master, or, harem carriages full of closely veil i ‘figares, though it is not much that they : Gnas ont: can see from their brooghams = Out inl oo wore whole streetsin Tyre en- | the river just opposite the canal 8 most tirely occupied by glass wks, and it is’ is moored an old hulk of a certain soa- | ¢ Sumit eh going ontline which his beer: towed up stated that the first gast Sou WE x 3 : “F 1 erected i 4 ouses of | from PBulak during the day and is an ery a Ire highlselebrated ror! ‘emblem of the time when the great re- | ie nd skil)? their work public of Venice sent un envoy to wit |e cengioffiels Toun Pi) ness the ceremony. This bot is full ma 3 walt \ . | y { AE a had : : 3 oh , aad Srovarks a As the Bis fL Ley, dn writingsboat his discov- | populace én the bridge and opposite exes suiary the yuinCl - wa ? = Rs oa Jabolon, save: **In 96 chamber were, ban at cing § JOU Ey i Yank aro shosting, yeling and 442138 | go. bo nies ble, wth fo | ; | ments of others. 7Te8¢ DOW are prob- | On'the other side are thegnyunifoimos | "yp 41 same riod as the small] and lighted tents, from which we can A found. in t ruins of the aorth. Jockbyer swell Awe ot D6 A TS | wed palans dusty the Bisriome SU ; B81 a . .w ‘the British museom. | ing in and, waist deep, digging writh| tons, A new Co Ho is the their . hoes at the embankmens that | On this highly. ING Ie Ine ol ’ Ho ens Aakl same of Sarge with his titlo of king midnight the fireworks have gupe cut} ’ . tf : ! the figure of on We are, therefore, le aes to themselves [| e : . i al left tei A Ee i abla to fix jpdate to the latter part of the gran ee Lv 2 TB oy dh " | the seventh tury B. C. Iss conse-| tha i > 7 80 oveiv ith had) quently thenst mens known spect ; come back. Then hot Hitt les of the hank 1 men of - ansparent glase — Bast n ; | al iHemla 0 _- _ : oo A Bit of Black. Werk is complete without its bit of sunlight from above Tlen to Sheil ball black. -18 a bat. of cunning the Frencl | Islam solemnly thanks the. Almich, have tht us and is most valoable, Ajilah the all powerful, the all mercifal | for 14 mmediately adds the touch we He implores his blessing ou the | nave Tived fi IT. No matter what the and at a signal the bank is cut, the wa- I colo material if not pointelle ar strip- | ters rush in, and with them a crowd of | ed th black, a bunchy black chon, ! swimmers. A bag of silver pastors is | bar’ ¢f ribbon ur pipings of satin are] scattered among them, and the cerarncuy There are no end of means of deco: is at an end. — Nature re23, and all most effective too. Ho : EL cversal has this fashion become that | Reserve In Death Notices. pther frock nor bonnet escapes it —. One notices more ahd more with ev- ston Travelier. wo ery year how the age is oftener and of- mires tener dropped from death annoonce-’ Heavy Sermon. ments. This is in s@iit accordance with Miiscn—Why does Jason prefer taking | the growing reserve (f the individua a walk on Fifth avenue on Sunday worn. | is left uncut, and a fer moe SU the big hoes will a: acd tied skins and brown whiter rallet t —— The process by which gold is made | 1d beating produces 2,400 leaves, | blown ont flat and carefully cut into 4 3 ti of the zold, each paper book containing | | Venioa approsc Xs tho delicions port they can find- 8 master to serve, and | “Why don’t these coyotes bark like *“ And why do they only howl and the “Not learn?’ said L ‘What do you “No,"" he replied, ‘not lear, for if ‘Norld Go Round,’ is dead, but the love he were of an honest breed he wonld she wrote about is turning i own persona Therefore all they could | This means money, which | gain was throngh treachery and deceit, | prietor says, with a sbrug, “they nalk ! and it is only tatoral that these traits | about all the time, all the time.’ 5 me 1x afore | ; : blocks the canals mouth. Long before! o Assyria, in Deiform charaeters, and during the last six months?” 1 trust you will centinue to live an hon : Huropeans Nriw to Iritate It, but Thely 3 — : " Mffwrts Have lees Vain. | CURIOUS COSMOPOLITAN 'RESTAU- Ios cream is pre-emivently an Amerl-| © RANTS ON THE COAST, can specialty. All the Atlantic passen- dia : ge= steamers plying betwen this port and Earope . aboard in New York a sufficient supply of ice eream for the voyage back to New York as well as for the outward journey, despite the fact that the poet of the article is greater here than abroad, and that it is expen- give stuff to keep. The round trip oocu- | pies at least three weeks, and the cream has to list that period, one week of which the ship is tied up in dock, with the cream eating up ce in the refriger- ator at a prodigious rate. When the an- tnmn rush homeward sets in and the steamers am crnvded to the Hip, the amount ¢f ice cream thus carried from this port and kept af; least two "se eks for ase on the return vovrage is a big item in the provision aceoant. 210Ny kinds of provisions ‘and supplies are Cheaper in Europe than here, znd of these the steamers lay in a denble stock ag the La- ropean ports. Jon cream, too, 38 choaper in Europe, but it has the fatal disad- vantage that it is not ice area 48 the ‘One Msy Dine In the Manner of a Differ ent Country Every Night In the Weel. A Dirty Italian Bestsurant on the Water Froat That Is Very Popular. ‘One of the features of commapolitin San Prauci oo is restaurants Every forciem colony boasts of a plac where is native cooking be had, and ad- voutarous San x who care to book these plac up cau ding in the manner of night in the week a difieregt country every iI an elaborite Cli- nese dinner, swith ids pomuorless 1EDHos- gillian coarses, each ascompanied Ly sweetmeats, proves upgttractive, a Bae waiian dinner, with poi and éalted fish, can be bad by walking a few blocks For those who like highly spiced din- ners there ard the Italian and Spanish restaurants to choose from; and for these with small appetites, who look for nev vlty in service, there are the Tarkish { American regards the article restanrants, with their onpronounceable Ice has come 10 Toes lex spf an | ish 2 and delicious coffen. | on th# table in Enrope in pooent years, | The most popnlar of the foreign rea. | mainly, doghtless, becansg of 10¢ 1 15158 § cngrants Ztalian. Ther gnea of the thonsands of Lmeican veal of these sca wrod abont the Latin | make Frrope their suniges Day ro smarter, which are mach frix { Tce cream, tog, yoa can get in ! the big cities, even’ In Ungland lence of the cooking. Most of them are ueually lacks the main gdndefinable: lirty, very dirty, as to fl walla, | ities that make it #0 afractive at hora {and the Italians are not ovorsdeamish | Enropeans may talk altpat the inh i pouquet-of their wing, but the of Amerie { This is | tages and {actlities | wine a LOIRE Lis full of ico topped morn: valleys nro filed wih cows ae th Ara Sey s ian Franciscans on acoonnt uo | regarding the table linen. Wien a party Ei tf +f Am#ricans enter, howeseor, mh | peperal shuffle among the Wwallers to se | sure the service of the table and the ' prospective tips The question of prece- denen being settled, the wine stained tablecloth is whisked off and replaced by . : | sna not always newly launderid or else A varied and yleent experience with | gnepicionsly damp. : bs i Tinie i i the These restaurants are rarely on the | conclusion that Gy 1h whet one Lmain streets and have to be approached | gets ou. the Piazza of St Mark's inj throogh dark alleys. One situated be- By : lieloas perfec | pind the county jail occnpies the back tion of the ordfary every day i098 CTeaIn | spam of a small Italian grocery store | of America. Brhaps this is because the | In going thers one is reminded of dark Yonetiats tismaelves eat ioe cream, | Jeads and sharp stilettos, bait the din- | whereas in sost other European cities{ nar is worth the journey. The chet of f it is reqrardd as an outlandish o neo | thig place is famous {i wr enonking ‘Italia- i tion, prepard only fi ir the peculiar pal-| ripi,”' a paste made by himself and cut | ate of the stanger. It is a far erg and a] in strips and oqoked with a sauce made strange Oi4 from kot . Mark 8 15 Madison | of tomatoes, §pices and mushrooms | mare, bythe delighted £3CLAmALK n of} Ig js extremely rich and very peppery. | a group ¢ AmMETICAn girs, ordering ice | hut all Italian Jishes are strongly dashed cream tere as thiey had done: all the! with chili peppers ly way do from London, ** Ah, this i*} * The dinner |is sameoth ig like! covered the distanc®| waremony. A in no tae. — New York San. { { theres 18 8 su] other ! the jee creams o Furope ’ attended with great Wottle of their sonr oliret | is served with each dinver. Every Ital- smorx Weight. | ian drinks about two quarts of it with Th Salesman (holding up a vellum his dinner, so the bottle. supply soma- SouTy brochure )—-The price of this book | times rans short. In this event the | waiter goes to the bar, flllls an empty » 2 Narich— Nonsense! You can't | bottle from a demijohn, drives ina cork, {mos upon me in that way. Why, a| and then carries the bottle to the table msutn 6go you offered me 4 book twice | Where it is needed, sometimes four feet | 1 size for 81.50. —Chieago Record | from the bar, and Lmprossively ‘produc. J a : | ing bis corkscrew draws the oork as Mrs Grannet, New England's poet, | carefully as though he were handling the I ho wrote, ** "Tis Love That Makes the’ finest burgundy. His demeanor is so se- rious throughout the performance that one dare not look amused. A very popular restzurant is Baz. or wat ant spree zuro’s, which is situated near the water Lehigh is a corruption of the Indian front. This is greatly patronized by the word: lechau, “‘a fork.” . Italisn fishecmen, who fils in after their . i day's work, still wearing their gum ‘boots and smelling strongly of their - pn cline thio old sphere - F =m | craft. it is also frequented by the Ital : ian vegetable gardeners, whn drive in The Enumeration Was Not Complete from the ontskirts of town, and after lis Enough to Convict Him, | posing of their stock stop to dine. Wien It is not strange that the soathern ocol- the place is reasonably well filled, there ored man has vague and. mistaken no- 18 a babel of voices They are all tulk- tions about property rights. Ho and his ing at oboe, and ont of the genfusion ancestors were for ages enslaved and | the word ‘scudi’’ is distinguished above had po rights whatever, even to their all others. SAMBO'S NARROW ESCAPES tho pro- The bred by slavery remain as inherited ~hur--| fishermen bring the best of their day’s goteristios, now that the negro enjoys | catch here, and the gardeners offer their | tho blessings of freedom. It may take | choicest - vegetables. The chef, whose | goveral generations Yo fore thar habit of | kitchen is back of the dining tables and | stealing will be unlearioed, for even | in full view of the room, is a merry fel- when the ealcred han Docomes ry Porioast low, and between his juggling feats, toss. his easily besoiting sin will be pret f | ing his pan into the air to turn the cook- ten found in his pot respecting the pron | ing flsh or meat exchanges gossip and erty rights of othe bee hinge jests with the diners. This placa 1s 8YOP THE TREMOLO. | ‘A Nutwmnee In Music Which Destroys Can any one explain to me the secret of the popularity of the detestable mode of singing which is now rncticed so ex- tensively in our city? 1 need scarcely add that I refer to what is commonly called the tremolo. It came into fashion about 40 years ago. and is it not time that that fashion should die a nataral death? Mme La Grange was the first whe iptrodaesd it here. She was moeh heralded, and therefore was believed to be a fine singer—to the extent that she drew fair audiences for a short. time, But people soon sveaticd of her peculiar syle and ceased going to hear her. She wus passee when she ame to this coun- try, and it wos said that it was to cover ns broken down voice that she had re- corse to the now ba imeved vibrata However, pany deloded gingers, consid- ering that ber style must be one of the good things which come to us from Eu- rope, strove, bit wo sucessfully, to im- tate 1 . . When I was studying vocal music, great care vas akon fo impress upon my mind the extreme importance and beantv of a fitm, pure nnd steady tone, - with its gradnal érescendo and dimionn- “anda. Ah, with ‘what infinite pains I tried to produce my notes without a shadow of wavering or change of qual ity! - And now to think that the beauti- “ful saetinnio in considensd of bot small account by so pany people who, I maine tain, caght to know better! I have seen a roomful of prople moved to tears by a pathetic semg rendered by a well sus. tained voice, and with distinet enunein- tion of the woods Yet who would ever dream of wieing over the most tonch- ing ballad in the world when song in tho misere bie, shaky style now in vogue, which leaves the listener in dort ad to whether ha is henring sung C sharp or D, P shars or G7? Among the best of vocalists belonging to oar city and its vicinity this tremolo is oftin adopted. For £9me reason so- prance and taritones use it most fre- quently, snd {may add ad nauseam. It is more than disagreeable on the stage and in the parlar. It is beyond endur- ance when it obtrudes itself in the ehiirch servior No places or occasion 1% safe from itz impertinent intrusion. I have heard a soprano of good standing profane the lofty strains of ‘1 Know That My Diodecmer Liveth'” by her tremulons rendering, obnoxious as it’ was inappropriate. — Cor. New York Tribune. or The Powder Making Family. A strange leritago was that bequesth- ed to his children by Elenthere Ireneo "Dn. Pont de Nemours, when, driven from Prauce by the revolation, he came to the faraway stute of Delaware, ‘and with skill in chunistry, acquired under the great Lavoisier, set to work in 1803, making gunpowder for America and the civilized world, if a world can be called civilized that uses so uch of it. Vast wealth he prepared for his descendants, the family fortunes today oniting into pearly $100,0160,000. But along with the riches he left a dread responsibility that presses down relentlessly npon every sin and grandson. ‘Thon kbalt not rest; thon shalt not fear,” is written on the brow of every Da Pont child, end read in the life of every Do Poot man. If evar a filly v5 brave, it is the Da Ponts: if ever a frazily had need of bravery, 1 : The Da Ponts monopolize the gun- powder business of Amorica, controlling 28 of the 32 mills in thiscountry. They eat. 18 LLY "do this by emfiding to no ane, not even to the archives «f the patent office, their secret methods of composition, their spe- cially devised machinery, and all the lore of gunpowder making that bas come to them through generations This in. herited knowledge is the family treas- are, aud to gusrd it inviolate the Du Ponts must be their own mechanics, chemists, superintendents and engineers, must spend hours every day in the mills, must live with the iuenace of suddcn and frightfel death always about them, —McClure's Magazine. ai. And ther a tale. | kept comparatively clean. The floor is It was «ju | covered with sawdust and the ceiling leader who had before hum ih | festooned with gaudy colored paper cut’ probationer wham Le wis fneetiouing | in fanciful designs Two parrots add to : ! the general din, and all sorts and con. | ditions of cats prowl around the floor. The restaurant is conducted by two brothers, ona of whom waits on table, + ‘while tire attends bar and looks after tho cash receipts | Evary Italian after dining stops. ar the bar for a chat and a «rink. Instead of a liquor, the | or host pours generous glasses of claret for | - : 0 A eNNEesRon for admission to all the priviiy sof ths church. “Wall, Samba," said the class Jeader “1 hogee you are prepared to Live a Clos tian life in accordance wit fessicn. Have vou stolen. any of “Na, sai! I done stole no chickens.” “Have yon stolen any pigs?" Sambo looked grieved. “+1 am very glad to hear this good ro. port,’ cantiuned the class leader, *~and 1 turkeys : himself and lis guests, and these aro | **Nn, sah!’ | speedily tossed of. A casual visitor aft- or witnessing thus cere mony about 25 times in quick succession, 1s apt to grow " nervous about the health of the host, | t he appears none tha Worse for his After church Sambo hurried home!!! riglity at the end of the evening with his wife, who had overheard the The younger brother sci! eatechizang. When they were fairly out his brother at the lar. Ho is quite as | of everybody's hearing, he drew a k rg hospitable, and his invariable doing be- | breath of relief and tarned a self “av | ing absinthe and seltzer his case seems proving glance to his haif. | even morg alaruing. “(jolly,”” he said in a half cantions| This restaurant, at 7:30 in the oven. whisper, “‘ef he'd er said ducks I'd ben ing, when dinner is in fuil swing, pre- a lost niggah, snah!”’—Boston Budget. -; sents an odd sight, the Italians sitting ees Senin | around the tables, most of them with Long Sentanows, ! their hats on, gesticuniating and talking Ex-Senator Evarts was given, in the | excitedly across the room, while they preparation of his speeches and opiu- | roll the spaghetti round their forks and laps, to exceedingly long and involved | dexterously transfer it fn yard lengths though perfectly ineid sentences. This ‘to their mouths. A butcheg with all less jocular criti | he marks of his trade about him, ocou- Some one | pies a table with the policeman on the est. Christian life.’ es relieves Epi better gave rise to more or f food auimals, Jey Chinese Cooking. This korow ledge of what we are pleased to call artificial digestion rans largely _throngh all Chinese cooking. Whenever meats, especially the heavy and indiges. tible class, are to be employed as food, the cock increases their assimilative character by thy nso of peptoniferovs tripe and vinegar. I Lave often out of curiosity exanrived the numercus made dishes of the Mongolian cuisine with a view to ascertaining thelr coustitution. P Whether it wads soups (TF SleWS, Fagonss or fricassees, pot roasts or boiled, I have found tripe fopely shrodded or thinly sliced in three dishes out of every fiviu Thi» ratio was largest nn households of wealth, where well paid cooks were the mle, and smallest in those where the | on litions were otherwise. As they dis pov sad the peptic virtee of tripe wm all likewise found the sara quality in the gizzard of the binl kingdom. They have enployed the giz zard even more literally in their cook- ing thaa they have the tripe, nnd they regard it, as is the scientific trnth, as the most valuable of all animal tissues. tf An Ex-Consul to Amoy'’ in Dietetin snd Hygienic Gazette Interfering With Natural Selestion. ‘Far countless ages umd to hand com bat has been the means of selecting the most hardy and. robust individuals to who keeps his private affaurs to himse ing to going to charch? _ | eism cn the part of the press perpetuate their race. Now, however, more closely, even in matiers of no ¢ Payson—He says he likes to read ser-| mienticned it to Evarts oye day His eye | who gets the best service of ull; a | the magazine rifle and smokeless powdex rect importance. It {8 odd that sock | mons in stones rather than to listen to tW inklod as be said: ** Yes, I know there | TOW men ans town, who have beard of | wij] probably exercise un potent influenca 3 private feeling should wax stronger i | sermons - from’ sticks. —New York Her. | are two classes of people who are very | the chef's tame, and forget the unsavory jy the reverse direction. Not omly is the oi it can be 4 1 haw nothing more | by gide’ with the grater pablicit! ald. { much opposed to long sentences; one is | looking company in their enjoyment of | gualiest and mest insiymificant individ: says ¥ : a . ‘gs affai through the wider 1‘ - { telegraph operators, and the other '® : the plates, and often a table or two iaken | ' la of inflict to say. a 0008 Mule Ln Ais Alcohol was first distinguished as an | crimioals : by young society girls with thei ‘sha Hoy eapable of indicting as much . Pigg (after Fendernon’s departure)— taken of them in the pross mom | tv substan ty a J ormios ; Fo isd cen y 0r heir 0Aap | fnjury upon the foe as tho most robust, ‘Who is this Gouger and is he such an | with society aad other menhio/?e | Slementary substalice by Albucasis, 10} Uncongenial. | eron sud escorts. The girls consider a | hot he offérs a much smaller target to WR Soe Teach th ey wl I Dis | terran ihe 0.8 Rois 50 tan | fn rere tne Fogg—Never beard of him in mylife | i Americans do not venture on the | chance of escape. — Westminster Review. Dorr't know there # such a person. Free fr ; : : | gentleman, who gave her a note to the The strait of Juan de Fuca was ume | Eo ; hg “| claret so generously served with the din: Iy n't If t is, wl Si ner. A flask of Chianti is ordered In its Probably there isu. there is, don aphorism first enumerated by ° I mow whether he is an authority on this |. "00 Blas 0 It has sines pele PrO- ger of a certain club. Tt read ns | wants washing. stead, and the proprietor always proffers : ih ] | 1 be dope, end Gouger is the ty in the whale world 1 . suppose you will admit that? -of course! If Gouger gy ; Hot—————— : “Facts are stubborn thing: 13 28 alo Judgn—-Your age, miss? Elderly Femalew—Thirty-two. ac sire reek sai ; 3 haved | : cm I after an old Greek sailor Who exp | follows: ‘Dear Mr. X.—This woman | : o | the empty flask to the youngest member } i = gia its shor es 10 10V3E. : Very shortly the an- : : : cer came back: ‘Dear Sir—I dare say Hundreds of patents have been issue: SWET cally A, : a Q i 5 : ; : she does, but I don’t fancy the job. ''-— of the party as a souvenir. —San Fran- : ws - -* to inventors of water gms. tes lon't fancy the Job. “| co Letter. 0 | Judge (to secretary )—Put down bors i . | 1882, liegende Blatter. tn Sle EA rm om London Tit-Bits. | 2 : : 2 . ¢ : : ‘ar -
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