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"A DREAM.
Oh, it was but a dream I had
’ While tho mugician played—
And here the sky and here the glad
Old ocean kissed the glade.
And here the laughing ripples ran,
And here the roses grew
That threw a kiss to every man
. That voyaged with the crew.
‘Our silken satis in lazy folds
Prooped in the breathless breeze,
As o'er a field of marigolds
“Our eyes swam o'er the geas,
While here the eddies lisped and purled
‘Around the island’s rim,
And np from out the underwold
‘We saw the mermen swim.
“
And 1% was dawn"and middle day
And midnight-—-for the moon
On silver rounds across the bay
Had ciimbed the skies of June,
And here the glowing, glorious king
‘Of day ruled o'er the realm,
With stars of midnight glittering
About his diadem.
The seagull recled on languid wing
In circles round the mast;
We heard the songs the sirens sing
As we went sailing past. lr
And up and down the golden sands
A thousand fairy throngs
Flurgz at ns from their flashing hands
The echoes of their songs.
g © —=James Whitcomb Riley.
PRINTING BY TELEGRAPH.
hd sls oh
An Flos rieal Typewriter That Transmits
Printed Characters.
The printing telegraph, though a de-
vice of carparatively recent develop- |
ment, has Yon the subject of ceaseless
investigation, and practical workers in |
electricity have directed their whole at- |
instances to the trans- |
mission of messues and the recording |
tention in some
of them in plain ko man characters.
Its advantages are simply those of an
elentrical typewriter, by means of which
‘the message is printed in the presence |
of the transmitting operator in page |
farm, and a dupli¢ate of the same print- |
ed at all the receiving stations on the |
line, whether it bo a long ‘or short cir-
cnit. A single transmissiom prints it
simultanconsly in page form ready for
the compositor’s case in all the nows-
paper ofiices of many cities.
I is said to differ materially from all
other known means of telegrapiy in one
essential particular. In it the impulses
move the instruments, whereas in other
systems the instruments move the im-
pulse—that is to say, the transmitter of
the message is caused te run by a sepa-
rate power. No combination of elec-
trical impulse or currents is employed.
An even succession of dots or impulses,
which operate the polarized relay arma-
tare at the receiving Siationg pices the
revolving type wheel in t® required
position, whem the local mechanism
causes the letter to be printed.
The apparent impossibility of trans-
mitting printed characters 500 or 1,000
. miles over a single wire at once presents
itself to the mind, and it is overcome in
this system, it is asserted, in a very
simpie way. Each letter of the alphabet
. is represented by a certain number of
impulses, which revolve the type wheel
to the required position, when the let-
ters are struck by the local mallet.
- Fourteen impulses represent the en-
tire alphabet, making a complete revola- |
tion of the type wheel, which may be
- tmrned 200 revolutions per minute, thus
securing vory rapid printing. Its advan-
tage also is that of absolute secrecy as a |
means of communication. The advan-
tage of the printing telegraph for the
transmission of news to the newspaper
~ offices is unquestionably a subject com- |
manding attention on the part of pro-
gressive proprietors. —Paper and Press.
Too Much Machinery.
journalism?’ asked an old joarnalist
the other day. ah
“It’s the typewriter. It destroys orig-
inality. It gives to everything that is
written a mechanical tooch. Therd’s
‘no style or individuality about anything
composed on a typewriter.
“You will find that the newspaper
writers in all the larger offices use type-
writers. The use of them has extended
in many other directions. Mgr. Satolli
has one. But wherever you find a man
writing on ome aud composing as he
writes you will find thas his work is
- “gramped, mechanical, unimaginative,
‘without the slightest touch of fancy or
vitality. :
‘iio nto the offices of the big dailies
and yoa will find the young men Who
make the papers seated at a typewriter,
grinding out cchimms of. colorless, un-
readable stuff for the paper. Youn can’: :
ithe
tarn out thought by machinery. #7
young men who write their maior for
the press on typewriters never rise above
the level of mediocrity. (Go into the
comnosing roums of the big dailies, too,
wand vou will find the. printers setting
type by machinery. No style about that.
It’s : riight, stiff, formal, unattractive,
with ut any individuality. It takes the
_ human touch to give the proper life and
color to anything. There's too much
. machinery. ’—Atlanta Constitution.
Did you ever sce a geode, the ngly,
. © greamy, yellow, rounded rock, which,
.mpon being broken open, presents a per -
"fect wilderness of diamondlike crystals?
‘They are oddities of the oddest kind,
and are not too plentiful anywhere. The
word ‘‘geode’’ means ‘‘earthform’’ and
is applied to all hollow stones which
are filled with crystallized matter.
When broken open, some are found to be.
| the Chinese women, but how much ruore
"CARE OF THE FEET. |_
More Civil Lawsuits Here Than In Any | Value of the Thousands of Tons of Cos) st
THE CRAMPED AND TORTURED FOOT
‘NO LONGER THE IDEAL.
Views of a Celebrated Anatomist— The Im-
portance of Wearing the Right Kind of
Shoes— Something About Corns and How
to Treat Them. ; ”
Very {ow geem to realize the impor.
tance of giving the feet proper attention
in order to secure better health as well
as. general comfort.
the modern age there are still so mn
otherwise sensible women who are will
ing to maim and cripple their feet and
guffer tortures for the sake of
ghoes just a little too small, cr which
are, as they imagine falsely, pretty
more fashionable. We gee the f
the cramping process upon the foot of
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Wearing
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inexcusable it is for women of this en-
lightened country. j
In former times it. has been the fash-
ion for shoes to be made with high
heels, narrow, pointed toes and all goris |
of extravagant shapes eontrary to case
and comfore, and as too many people
have felt it ineambent upon them to
-tiful foot, considered from the anatom-
i
: { realize the importance of care in select:
“Do yon know the curse of modern
such shoes saon become unshipely from
i Old leat!
full of pure looking, clear water. Oth;
_ ers appear to be full of yellow or brown
paint, while a third class are filled with
- what appears to be a very fair quality
of tar. . No odds what the filling of the
cavity may be composed of, the sides are
always studded with crystals. Should
the filling be yellow the crystals are
likely to be of the same color, but by far
the greater portion of them are as clear
as ice or diamonds. —St. Louis Republic.
The New York town of Bolivar has
_. gtreots lighted free of expense by acom-
pany which furnishes the illuminant as
a payment for the privilege of doing
business in the corporation.
A lie is often told without saying a
word, by putting the rotten apples in the
bottom of the basket.—Ram’s Horn.
discomfort, the probable deformities in
bow to the demands of the tyrant fash:
ion, no matter how unreasonable her
demands, the result has been for sue-
ceeding generations untold suffering in
the ~ corns, bunions and
deformities, until now itis comparative:
ly rare to see, except among savage na
tions, a perfect, well shaped foot. Bat
a more seusible fashion allows the wear-
ing of various styles of sensible shoes
that are adapted to the ears and oom-
fort of the wearer, with thick soles,
wide, low heels and plenty of room for
free expansion of the toes and muscles,
and tl:e pumerons corns, which are not
‘only ciceedingly painfal, but often seri-
ous affairs, are gradually disappearing
form ather
from the feet of the sensible ones and |
the ideal foot is no longer the cramped
and tortured feot. he
The celebrated anatomist, Professor
Hyrti of Vienna university, opened one
of his lecturss to his class with the sin-
gular question, ‘* Which is the most beau
ical standpoint?’ and then continued:
“It is remarkable that there are so many
divergent opimions on this subject.
‘While the sons of men lock upon a
stall, slender and graceful foot, a lady’s
foot, as an ideal one, the anatomist ut-
terly rejects it as beautiful, and only
the large, long and broad foot is the
ideal one in his eyes. Even the greatest
classic writers of antiquity, Horace, Ca-
tallus, and others, who had great appre-
cidtion of the feminine beauty, never:
mentioned in the descriptions of their
beloved—and, as is well known, they
had many—their small feet.
“The people belonging to the Celiic
race have small feet; the Hindoos es-
pecially have such feet and hands that
they may be envied by many European
countesses. The native troops of the
English army in India possess in Eng- |
land their own armory where peculiar
kinds of weapons are constructed for
them, and the sword hilts made for
them are mmch too small for us to grasp
with ease. The greatest beauties of Eu-
rope, the Italians, have really long and
broad fest.” : :
But even if we do not care to be con-
vinced that the ideal foot is the foot
that is long and broad, we can certainly
ing shoes of the pwoper size for comfort
as well as beauty. The foot never looks
pretty in a shoe too small for it, and
gndue pressure, giving anything but a
pretty appearance. Eoin
On the other hand, wa should not fall
It is almost inecon- |
ceivable that in our civilized nation in | :
F for the last ten years as a fair average,
| there are 1,250,000 lawsnits bronght
| England every yer,
| 1,400,000 “1
{| many and
i States.
or |
ily of |
{ found in the fact that the conditions of
litigation vary exceedingly.
| especially those arising from dispntes
city in the southern hemisphere.”
into the error of buying shoes too large. |
These are quite as apt to cause corns as |
small ones by rubbing certain parts of §
the foot. If any une has the misfortune.
to fall into this mistake, it can be reme- 4
died to a great extent by inserting a soft |
wad of cotton batting in the toe of tb |
shoe or in the part that robs ag#in: |
the foot, :
The same cara is necessary in buying
shoes #8 in buying gloves. They will
last much longerand have a better ap-
pearance when made of new, good skins
ser or kid is not soft and elastic
and Cues not easily shape itself to the
t..t or the hand. This isnot only a
matter of comfort, but of ecomomy. In
this, as in many other things, ‘‘the best
is the cheapest,’” and as few women, or
men either, for that matter, are good
judges of leather it will be wise to buy
only of houest, experienced dealers, in |
whom we can confide, for we cannot
afford risks in a matter where so much
is involved. An uncomfortable shoe ia
really a very serious matter when we
take into consideration the pain and
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the way of corns and bunions, the wear
on the nervous system and the unpleas-
ant consequences of our irritable tem-
pers because of personal discomfort.
It scarcely seems necessary to speak
of the importance of frequent bathing
of the feet and paring of the nails, and
yet many are surprisingly careless i
this respect. Corns are s.nply compose.
of a great pumber of layers of cuticle;
or scarf skin, one above another, each
succassive layer being larger than the
preceding, so that thre whole assumes
the form of a grain of Indian corn;
hence its pame. This is constantly press.
ing its point upon the tender flesh when
the shoe presses or rubs against it, and
as this cuticle is easily dissolved tea
great extent by the warm water and
scap we can see that bathing is the most
ready and harmless remedy as well as
preventive. — Exchange.
Columbia River.
The Columbia river was first ealled
the Oregano, the Bpanish name for the
wild sage tl growson its banks. Whit-
ney says that the Spanish name was Ore-
jon, ‘*big ear’’ or ‘‘ore that hath large
ears,’’ an allusion to the custom of the
Indians in that region of stretching their
ears by boring them and crowding them
| lay claim to possessing within 100,009
pass Buenos Ayres, and in North Amer
- that there are tailors and fashion plates |
with ornaments.
- WE ARE GREAT LITIGANTS.
Other @onntry In the World,
A man of ingenious mind and appar |
ently ample leisare has gone to the
tronble of fizuring out the number of |
lawsuits brought in each country in a
year, and hie has reached the conclusion
that the United States is a better coun:
try for uttorneys and counselors than any
other civilzed land under the sun. He
figures as lawsuits civil actions only,
taking into no account proceedings of a
criminal character brought by the pub-
lie authorities against individuals, He
has nsortnined that, taking the figures
in
150,000 in France,
),000 . in Ger-
the United
in Italy
5,500,000 - 1n
It is not to bo in” red from this that
the people of one country are much more
prone to litigation than are the people
of another, but the explanation is to be
to
law in England is very expensive bnsi-
ness, for it entails outlays in the form
of costs and expenses so large that many
of the courts are practically cldked to
persons of modest means, and a. bona
litigaticn nunsuccessfully . pu: ta |
often in bankruptcy. In Fu Lhe
pumber of lawsuits is kept down through
the general practice of ‘‘arbitration,”
as many as 100,000 cases in a year,
Going
over waged, being settled by this agency
without cnercnscest to either party. In
Germany i great majority of cases are
petty ones, involving a small amount of
money and due, many of them, to cus
toms or usages which are not sufiiciently
defined to be, in all cases, similarly un-
derstood by both parties to an agree-
ment, This is especially the case in the
farming districts of Germany, and there
aro many legal disputes in the manu-
facturing districts too. ; :
The number of cases credited to the |
United States seems enonenous, but it |
is probably accurate. There are, for ex-{
ample, 11 district courts for the disposal
3
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of civil cases in New York city. Ju one |
of these courts, by recent report, the
number of actions brought in a year
was shown to be 9,100. These courts
bave befcre them each year, on,the
average, 75,000 cases. The cases brotght
in the state courts of New York amount
in a year to about 150,000, and of those
brought in the federal courts New York
furnishes a very large number. Taking
the whole country through, it is seen
that the average nuinber of cases per
thonzand of population is in the neigh:
borhood of 75 to 85. The number of
lawyers in the United States is material-
ly larger than in any other country in
the world, and the amounts in dispute
here are much greater than elsewhere
—New York San. 1
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BUENOS AYRES.
Argentine's Capital Is the Queen of the
Southern Hemisphere.
The omniscient Whitaker, under the]
heading '‘British Poles In Avs
tralasia,’’ states that Melbourne, with
its suburbs, contained on Dec, 31, 1894,
an estimated population of 444,833 in-
habitants, ‘being the mast populous
We
have alwys understood Rio de Janeiro
and Buenos Ayres to be also in the
southern hemisphere, and, oddly enough,
Whitaker himself gives larger figures
for both of these cities than for Mel
bourne. The remark. is probably obpe
that has been at some time true and has
been carried on from year to year.
In any case, the results of the census
establish incontestably the claim of
Buenos Ayres to be the greatest city of
South America and of the southern
hemisphere. With allowance for imper:
fections in the execution of the census,
inseparable from the way in which it
was carried out, the figure 655,053 may |
be taken as practically correet, and no |
other city in this half of the warld eon
+
asd
of this number of inhabitants
The population of Duenos Ayres 18)
thus larger than that of any city of the |
United Kingiom, except London and |
Glasgow. It is considerably larger than
that of Liverpool or Birmingham, and |
it is only about 50,000 less than the
combined populations of Manchester and
Salford. Of the great cities of Europe
only Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Peters- |
burg, Constantinople and Moscow sur
ica anly New York, Brooklyn, Chicago
and Philadelphia. Onur city is the second
city of the Latin world, sugpassing Mad-
rid, Naples and Rome in Europe and
Rio Janeiro, Santiago, Lima and Mex-
jco in the new world. The rate of
growth is no less remarkable than the |
actual size, for in the last eight years
Buenos Ayres has increased about 50
per cent.—Buenos Ayres Review.
New York's River Tunnel.
There is a big hole under North river.
Some day it will be a tunnel connect-
ing this city and Hoboken. No work
has been done for four years, but the
owners of the hole are now trying to
raise money in London to complete their
tunnel before a bridge can be built over
North river. Only 1,230 feet remain to
connect the two holes bored from either
shore, each of which is now full of wa-
ter. This water bas simply soaked
through since work was abandoned on
the death of the principal backer. So
far $3,000,000 has been poured into the
hole, and only $500,000 will be required |
Make Clothing For Dogs.
lanl many Enropeim ports
yards of the
‘of the long
| are perforations or leepholes,
- | which
It is well known that there are den-
tists in London and in Paris whose |
specialty it is to fit lapdogs with a set of |
false tenth. It now appears from a Pa-
risian monthly magazine of fashions
for dogs. The list of garments includes
raackintoshes, Jaeger vests, comforters
and respirators, side pockets with a lace
handkerchief inside, fur collars, small
silk umbrellas, which dogs are taught to |
carry over the head. —Chicago Tribune.
FORTUNE IN BLACK DIAMONDS.
Perth and South Amboy.
Thousands of tons of coal are shipped
from the ports of Perth and South ..m-
boy, at the wenth of the Raritan river,
every month. It is loaded in vessels for
all points along the Atlantic =seablard
The coal
docks of the Lehigh Valley railroad at
Perth Amboy aye
the world. The ducks of the Px
vania A Amboy
BEAriy us acity,
In ing
guch imnewns
ong the Jargest an
rey ls
railr are
1 of
ane of
the mist ablescine problems for the
Hiro
ing ston
sider a loss of revenue for a ear
mail several days at a given point
6+. ive te done to facilitate the ny
movemeanol ; ‘he loaded and
empty. For anumber of years loaded
cars were kept standing in the stor
3 Penveylvania railroad at
South Amboy? At
times the com; for
want of cars to
the mines. T
solved about t!
i Iv
yr1A28
ir weeks at a time
ny was embarres
transsport the coal from
» diffienliy was finally
cea years ago. In place
ing of loaded cars mav
nov be seen ir. mense piles of cos
“When a train arrives from the mines,
the various kins of coal are sorted out
and the cars dr led to the proper side
track for unloading.
to each side track stands a large derrick
with a movable boom extending diagon-
ally into the air about %0 feet. To this
boom is attache. a large traveling belt,
on which are fastened lirge buckets, The
belt is opératid
In close proxitnity
tea by a small steam engine
in charge of the man who manipulates’
3
As tha coal drops fron the
t in the carit falls intot
on the elevator belt and
end of the swinging boom, where it is
dropped Pa the cénter of the pile and dis-
1 ibuted by gravity, The coal remeins in
tes piles until at. is required for ship:
rat: then it is loaded in cars and trans-
erred to the docks.
The immense piles of coal vsvally
«ntain from 10,000 to 12,600 tons each,
cd are worth from $40,000 to 50,000,
sording to the. market value of the
al It is frequently the case that there
y 12 of these piles of coal m the stor-
y yard, representing a value of from
10,000 to $600,000. It was discovered
ently that the coal rusted while in
so piles. This did not detract from
y buming qualities, but affected the
ling value. To prevent this canvas
cars were made at a cost of $1,000
~h.. When the piles of coal are all
ered, the storage yard resqmbles a
20 circus. The sight of such an im-
nse quantity of coal is viewed with
as onishment by strangers, although the
re.-idents of South Amboy are so nocus-
tomed to it that they never give it a sec-
ond thought, —New York Telegram.
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AN ANCIENT BLOCKHOUSE.
The Bouquet Redoubt the Only One In
Existence.
Here in Pennsylvania we find what
is not in existence in the east or south
-—one of the original blockhouses built
before the Revolution and still in a per-
fect state of preservation. All the others
Pitt are things of the past, but the re-
doubt of Colonel Bouquet stands today |
as it stood 130 years ago. To the Pitts-
burg chapter of the Daughters of the
Revolution we are indebted for its res-
toration. It has been owned by them
since 1888. Until that year the old
redeubt of Bouquet, as it is called, was |
occupied as a tenan$ house, and ‘within
its walls was born Pirtsburg’s local his-
torian, the laté Neville B. Craige, Esq.
Down on ‘‘the point,’’ om a narrow,
dirty little street called Fort street, sur-
rounded by tumbledown buildings near-
ly as old as itself, is a little fivo sided
building of stone and brick erected by
Colonel Bouquet in 1784 as a defense
against the Indians. The lower story is
of stone and the upper of brick.
tir
the defenders could fire with
comparative safety from the enemy.
Why this redoubt was erceted. has
been a query to us, as but a short dis-
tance away stood Fort Pitt, a w
consrderail magnitude and
arectiom cost the colony of Virginia, a
the English g £80, 30, but
the redoubt was built, as a stone sleh
over the door with le 17
Coll. Bouquet,’ testifies. — Chiladelphi.
Tames. :
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wwernmenr,
the nd, 1H
Munich Street Lamps.
The method adopted in Munich for
lighting street lamps from the ousside
without opening the lamp has proved
quite satisfactory, the results, us enu-
mevated, being to economize in flashlight
gas, to enable the lamps to be lit in a
storm, to shut off the main stoperock, to
light Welsbach lamps without explosion,
and to prevent the casting of shadows.
As described, the main pipe cornmun!
cates with a kindling pipe, which. ag one
end comes to the outside of the lantern
and at the other goes to the burnyr--this
kindling pipe being bored w:th fine
holes, which make a row of flying
fidmes leading from the outside to the
burmer; the main pipe and its connec
tions, with the stopcock, are divided so
ps to enable gas to be supplied vo the
kindling pipe and burner, and then
the burner alone. The lighting is done
with the ordinary rod lamp, provide
with an aperture at its end which rn
ceives the lower end of the kindling
gabe. When the lamplighter's pole is
slipped into position, wind has no effect
on the kiudiing operation. —New York
Sun.
i A Broad Hint. :
* They were seated in the parlor con-
versing on the uncertainty of lire.
She—The future is a vast; unfathom-
able,mystery to us, isn't it?
He—Yes; all we know
have to go some time. -
Voice From the Library—It would
guip the convenience of this household
if you'd muke it a little sooner than
that. —Richmond Dispatch.
is that we
-pisher to a reporter. Take, for instance,
en
WOT
cite mining company were desirous of
efforts | in other directions were tried,
\ delegation of the miners in New York
| city anf discuss the situation.
18¢ ar 21 1 i ’ : : :
have disappeared. Forts Duquesne and | 0 "0 01 prgieniest miners in the region
ugh |
af |
whose |
“fare yon not aware that were I to vote
my permission, go ahead.
CURTAINS.
Er TMEATER
Costly Draperies That Are Used In Some of
the London Theaters.
Few have any idea of the mopey |
spent by the managers of London thea- |
ters’ in procuring the curtain which
hides the stage from public view, re-
marked a well known theatrical fur- 8
the glorious curtain at Sir Heary Irv-
ing’s theater, the Lyceam. That car-,
tain, if it.cost a penny, cost at least |
1,000 guineas, I 2m told that 1,000
yards of beautiful 1! <d red plush were |
nsed to make it compli te, and for it Sir!
Henry Irving is indebted to the Baron- |
ess Burdett-Contts
. who stans vers
Aa
generonsly mude him a present of the
curtain ibate to his artistic gen- |
ius. :
A very expensive enrtain is that used
ut the Prince of Wales’
try street; now occupied by Mr Arthur
Roberts. Its cost was abont £600, It 18
mada of boiler plate, is ‘entirely fire- |
848 Qa i!
theater, Coven-
proof and weighs no-less than six tons. |
No fire can get from the stage to the
anditorium or vice yérsa, as the top and |
bottom of the enrtain respectively rest |
against and upon a solid wall of brick
I believe this, as well as other!
enrtains of the same kind, was the in-
vention of Mr. C. J. Phipps, the theat- |
rical architect,
Perhaps the most beautiful theater
curtain in London--where the finest
curtains in the world are to be seen—
aré those at the Lvoeums, to which I
have referred, the Palace Theater of |
Varieties, and. the Savey.. The Palace
curtain is a real work of art, and Mr,
D'Osly Carte must have lavished a
small fortune opon its make. It isa
beautiful dream of gold and varions oth-
ar colored sills, and something like 600
square yards of silk wese used in its
manufacture. Iam told that the director
of tha Paris Opera was slwest thonder-
struck when, daring Mr. Carta's prodne. !
tion of “Ivanhoe,” he saw the curtain |
for the first time.
The Savoy curtain must have cost
£300 if a penny, its mupesbal being of
the finest gold plush. Another expen-
give curtain was that booght by Mr.
Charles Wyndham for the Criserion. It
cost over £120, being made by Maple.
Most of the other Londewm houses, and
probably all the countwy shesters, con-
tent themselves with the old fashioned
curtain of canvas, somelmunes with a
scene and sometimes witis initation cur-
tains painted npon it. The cost of these
varies of course, and may ran from £20
to £200, according to the amount of
work put into them and she artist en-
gaged to paint the scene.—London Tit-
Bits. ]
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THEY WON THE RAISE.
The Directors Were Satisfied That Their
Claim Was Just.
Once when the miners of a big anthra-
receiving ‘increased pay an effort was
made to induce the local officials in the
mining country to make such repre-
gentations to the president of the com-
pany as would produce the desired ef-
fect. This was unavailing, however, and
he directors offered to meet
until a
A dozen
were selected as delegates—great rugged
men, who would certainly make a fa
vorable impréssion. The men met the
officials and stated their case, which
was that at the prevailing rate of wages
they could hardiy get enough to eat.
The matter was held wnder advise- |
ment, and the conferenes adjourned to |
luncheon. Then came the Most amazing |
display of appetites thee has ever been |
seen before or since, and the colored |
waiters turued pale as they saw a dish |
intended for the entire party retained
by one man, who speedily made away
with the contents. Each man seemed as |
ravenous as shough he had not eaten for
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In both | ends to provide for them ail.
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At last, when every portion had been |
eaten and all seemed inclined for more, |
| the door mat. It never seems to enter
a giant whose native phwe was South
Wales cried out: ‘Dent you wary
about no more fancy shisgs. Bring us |
a cheese, and. we'll make out all right.’
A cheese was procured, asd she directors |
gazed with awe as iv Sp ly disap- |
peared. As the last erumibs were disap- |
pearing the officials held a hprried con-
sultation, and after awit president
announced : ‘Gentlemen, we have dectd- |
ed to concede your claims to an advance |
of 10 per cent, for we amp certain that |
at present vou can scarcely get enough !
to eit. Nothing but ¢his pleasurable |
meeting could so fally bave convinced |
us of your needs.’” The delegates have |
not yet wearied of tellihg of the amas- |
ing display of gluttony which they al- |
lege was preconcerted for fhe express
purpose of creating the #mpression that
it produced. —Philadelphia Inquirer.
Market Quotations.
“Sir,” said the indignant alderman,
for your measure [ would be exposed to
the condemnation of all the good eiti-
ens in my ward? And that sort of
thing,”” he added, lowerimg his voice,
“somes pretty high, you mow. ''—Indi-
yaapolis Journal.
: Tha Modern Daughter.
“T wish to ask yonr permission to
pay my addresses to your daughter,’
said the old fashioned y man.
“All righ 1," sid the od gentleman.
“If T can io t her permission bo give you
"—dianapo-
lis Journal. :
The man who does not overcome ennui |
by occupying himself sogm tries to fly
from it by mtemperance. The idle man
is almost necessarily wieions. i
ism ———
Some one says thas, alshough it a sad
to see family relics sold at avetion, the |
most painful thing and bammer is |
generally ona’s thumb mail.
ee a ke ee —
The soand of a bed whieh can
heard - 45, 200 fest in the water can
heard only 4568 feet in the air. -
5
| big swallows of it would be a pe
i benefit to nine bathers out of ten.
| is quinine nor calomel.
dentally swallowed a big gulp of
water and then rushed off to get a drink
of whisky to wash the taste out of his
mouth, a saccessful medical practiticier,
who had witnessed the performace,
said : ‘‘That man is either a green’: mn
or a fool. Otherwise he wonld have 1ak-
en merely a sip of lemonade and allow-
ed the sea water to do its work. :
‘As a matter of fact, one of the n.ost
beneficialfeatures of a sea bath is the =ilt
| ipadvertently swallowed by bathers. It.
i is a wonderful tonic for the liver, sfom-
ach and kidneys. In many cases it will
| cure bilionsness where all drag presara-
: tions have failed. It is peculianly ¢
“of
ive in ordinary cases of indigestion dis.
i ordered stomach and insomnia and has
been known to produce excellent re alts
in many cases of dyspepsia... Sea v.ter
| is full of tonic and sedative prope. ies -
| t won't hurt anybody. - Two or
(hree
itive
It
| isn’t palatable or tempting, but neither
“You never see an old sailor + jo is
hilious, dyspeptic or a vietim of ir ~om-
{ nia, and why? For the resson tt an
ocean of good medicine spreads ail «hout
his ship, and he doses himself cop ously
with it whenever his phy¥ical me han-
ism becomes the least bit derange ll”
——
| Philadelphia Times. 1
: * What's In a Word?
If any of eur readers, in looking over
articles on electric railways in the Ger-
man langoagze, should come across the
word strassenbahnwagenuntergestelle,
they need not be alarmed or discouraged
nor be afraid to use it in goed sociefy. -
| Instead of getting at the subject direct-
| Iv, as is done in Bnglish) this single
word relates quite a little story—a sort
of riddle of which. youn are expected to -
guess the unswer. The story is briefly
as follows: In about the middle of the
i word we find that the object referred to
has some connection with a car, and,
retuming to the beginning, it appears
that tis car is intended to run on ras
(a8 cars usually do, by the way); that
these riils are in the streets of a city,
and that the car is supported on some
structure. Near the end it is explained
that this supporting structure is below,
and not above, the car, and, finally, it
is added that it refers to the apparatus
in general and mot to any ove form in
| particular. With the aid of this descrip-
tion it will not be difficult to guess cor-
rectly that the German writer would
have said trucks instead had he been
privileged to use the English language.
It seeins to ns that this verbal machine
is sorsewhat overcompounded — Eleo-
trical World. Ses
Calling Servants With a Pele.
A quaint practice exists at the bishep
of London's palace at Fulham, and this
consists in what appears to be a time
honored custom of waking up the epis-
oopal domestics by means of a long pole
At Fulham the palace lodge keeper has
a regular morning duty to perform in
arousing certain of the servants at suo-
cessive hours, beginning st about half
‘past 5. The pole he uses is not employ-
ed, however, like the old church *‘rous-
ing staves,’ which came in handy in
churches in the case of inattentive or
dozing members of the congregation to
bring them to a proper sense of their
position. The venerable man is provided
with a slender rod some 15 feet in
length, and with this he raps on the
antique chsements of the servants’ bed-
rooms in the quadrangle within the
massive wooden gates of the large west-
ern archway, and be continues his at-
tenticn until the sleeper gives a more or
less grateful answer. —Montreal Star.
When She Hides the Key.
It is a singular instance of the sim-
plicity of the average mind to watch
the entire good faith in which the coun-
try housekeeper, when she takes ber
walls abroad and locks up her house,
| hides the key for its discovery by any
‘other member of the family. As a mat-
ter of course, she tucks it away under
her dear, unworldly head that every
other woman in the place does precisely
| the same thing, and perhaps every
other woman in every other suburban
town. She never sééms to think that
that is one place that any student of her
| human nature who had burglarious in-
| tentions would seek entrance to the
house by simply lifting the door mat.
He would be sure to find the key ready
for him there. —Philadelphia Press.
— pred damm
‘The Cest of the Atlantic Cable.
Running an Atlantio cable seems to
be an expensive business, From an arti-
cle on the Comm woial Cable company’s
station at Hazel Hill, N.S. , in The Wind-
sor Magazine we learn - that the cables
average $1,250 per mile, and the ex-
| penses of executive management amount
to about $50,000 per sunum. Repairing
expeditions are ruinous; $175,000 was
sunk in one expedition that failed. The
repairing ship costs $300,000, and often
' absorbs $2,500 per month to maintain
her ready for sea at a moment's notice.
The landing rights in France oost this
company $40,000 and three months’
tedious negotiations. The company got
similar facilities in Englanfl for §5 and
a pclite letter to the board of trade.
Hadn't Thought of That.
Several nights ago a well known phy-
sician bought a package of peanuts from
| a Main street peddler, and while the
man was measuring out his purchase
the doctor drew a cigar from his pocket
and proceeded to light it. -
The peddler looked at him with a sor-
rowful expression on his face. “They
| don’t smoke in heaven,’’ he said.
No," answered the doctor, ‘‘neither
do they sell peanuts.’’—Buffalo Cou-
rier. : ;
A Correction.
Mistress—If I catch the coachman
kissing you again, you will lose your
place.
Maid—He wasn't kissing me again,
mura. It was the first time when you
saw him. —Detroit Free Press. ;