Anti-Rheumatic Potatoes,
i Corporal Tanner, of the Algiers pre
dnct, oat out In front of the station
the other nlgbt In hla shirt sleeves and
took In the glorious breeze that came
town Morgan street In all Its glory. It
has been a rare occurrence to see the
Corporal In negligee attire. He has been
suffering terribly from rheumatism,
and throughout the summer has worn
his heavy woolen coat, even when the
humidity would woo It from him. When
fate had him transferred to Algiers an
Irish lady living over there told him of
the virtues of the potato. She gave him
two small "prathies" to carry In his
trousers pockets, nnd he swears that
he at once felt the rheumatism sneak
ing from his bones. In a few nights It
was all gone.' The potatoes have begun
to get as hard as a rock, and Corporal
"Bill" swears he will carry them
through life.—Chicago News.
ITS WORST FORM
All Symptom h of Catarrh Have Disap
peared Since Taking Hood's.
"My daughter has had catarrh in Its
worst form since she was four years old.
She obtained only temporary relief from
medicines until she began taking Hood s
Sarsaparilla. Since using this medicine
the disagreeable symptoms of the disease
have entirely disappeared." M. W. Silsby,
Hartland, N. Y. Remember
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What Children Fear.
President G. Stanley Hall of Clark
University has been collecting faeti
concerning the fears of children. The
fears of children, he says, are gener
ally created by parents and servants.
He found that 1,701 children had 0,-
45(1 fears, the leading ones being the
fear of lightning and thunder, reptiles,
strangers, the dark, death, domestic
animals, disease, wild animals, water,
ghosts, Insects, rats and mice, robbers,
high winds, etc.
A few of these fears are rational. Ir
New Jersey no children were found tc
be afraid of high winds, but In the
West that fear naturally leads all oth
ers. At Trenton, however, sixty-twc
children were fonnd who dreaded the
end of the world, a fear created entire
ly by ndult teaching. Ills tabulation
shows what education can do in this
respect.
No child was fonnd to be afraid of
the devil. Two hundred years ago and
less that fear would have led all the
rest. Few were found who were
afraid of ghosts, a fear that would
have stood high on the list not long
ago. The fear of robbers and of wild
animals Is a survival, though robbers
have not disappeared as completely as
the wild animals.
Forty-six New Jersey children were
afraid of being burned alive, a mon
strous thing to Inculcate in the child
mind Fear will always be one of the
strongest Influences In human life, but
at least It Is possible by teaching wlint
real danger consists of to eradicate
groundless fears.—Chicago Tribune.
Klondike Trademarks.
The Klondike craze has had Its effect
on the Patent Office, as has been shown
by the application for trademarks
hearing the word. Two or three patents
have been applied for for objects which
might be better suited for the gold
fields there than elsewhere, but the
chief clerk refuses to tell of them.
When a girl does not. look with favor
upon a young man's suit he should
transfer his putronage to auothei
tailor.
A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE.
Heat, sense of tenderness and swelling of a part,
*fe all indications that thero is need of instant repair atg
—the stitch in time. Where these symptoms exist on • O^s*.
the left or the right side of the womb, disease of the
ovary is setting in, and soon there will be, if there A
is not already established, a discharge, trifling at K&bjf oWJlXxth >A.
first, but later copious and irritating. Soon, also,
thero will be felt dull, dragging pains radiating from
Do not, my sister, let your malady go so far, but X >- : " J]l
those of you who are already suffering in this / / II
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In this connection Mas. E. L. MYERS, Quak-/ I i
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There is a Class of TeopTe
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Origin of "Blue Illood."
The origin of the term "blue blood" .
Is most suggestive. After the black
Moors were driven out of Spain the
aristocracy of Spain was held to con
sist of those who traced their lineage
back to the time before the Moorish
conquest. These people were whiter
than those who had been mixed with
Moorish blood. The veins upon their
white hands were blue, while the blood
of the masses, contaminated by the
Moorish infusion, showed black upon
their hands and faces. So the white
Spaniards of the old race came to de
clare that their blood was "blue," ■
while that of the common people was
black. The phrase passed to France,
where it had no such significance, and
was, in fact, quite arbitrary, and thence
it came to England and America.
Caring for the Teeth.
Do not eat, or do not feed your chil
dren on, white bread, which is deficient
in phosphates, and causes the teeth to
crumble. A little hard food requiring
thorough mastication should be takeD
at every meal. The teeth should be
brushed both night and morning. Avoid
sweets. Drink at least two quarts of
water a day—a glass the first thing ID
the morning, another the last thing be
fore going to bed, the remaining quan
tity between meals. Consult a good
dentist about every six months.—La
dies' Home Journal.
Around the World on a Wheel.
Miss Annie Londonderry, the Ameri
can woman who has made a tour of
the world on her bicycle, is now writ
ing an account of her experiences. She ,
was unattended, and it required two
years and two months for her to make
the trip.
It is a rare man who commends; men |
like to te'l how it should have been
done.
WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE.
He looked at my tongue and he shook his.
head—
This was Doctor Smart
lie thumped on my chest and then he said:
"Ah, there It is! Your heart!
You mustn't run—you mustn't hurry!
You mustn't work—you mustn't worryl
Just sit down and take it cool;
You may live for years, I caunot say;
But. in the meantime, make jt a rule
To take this medicine fcivio* a dayl"
He looked at my tongue ¥rd ho shook his
head—
This was Doctor Wise—
•'Your liver's a total wreck," he said*
"You must take more exeroisel
You mustn't eat sweets,
You mustn't eat meats,
You must walk and leap, you must also run;
Y'ou mustn't sit down in tho dull old way;
Get out with tho boys and have some fun —
And take three doses of this a day!"
A VOYAGE ACROSS THE WORLD.
■* ...
IJy 13. C. KITTON, J 1 !*?
C* rv /x ' M
/TV
e-1 Poking poverty, I
, \Mh°/ must say, Georgia,"
'V I jsaid Geoffrey Martin,
looking around the
VJj little room appro viug
ly. Certainly the
dainty furniture nnd
hangings and the blazing lire were
worthy of approval.
"I quite agree with you, Geoff," an
swered Georgia from her low chair,
where she sat with her slippered feet
on the fender. "At first we found
several drawbacks, but now that we
have got used to making our own beds
and cooking our own dinners we rather
enjoy life than not. Of course there
are heaps of things that we miss, and
it was pleasanter to have servants to
wait upon us than have a woman in
every morning to hlo up' the rooms;
but we are too busy to have leisure to
pine. I teach the young ladies of the
town to play the piano, and to speak
their native tongue with accuracy; and
Josie is daily companion to au elderly
lady—hours from teu to eight, and a
holiday ou Sunday. We rather like
it."
"But Anna would not beud her
shoulders to the yoke!"
"No; Anna thought poverty in Eng
land very objectionable. So she wrote
to James that she bad changed her
mind about going out to be married,
and should sail for Melbourne in the
next steamer. We wanted her to wait
for an answer from him, but she had
a more perfect faith in liirn than we
had, I suppose; anyway, she is gone."
"Have you heard of her arrival
yet?"
"Yes, and have heard that
the Petrel arrived safely, but we could
hardly have a letter from her till this
week. It is just about three months
since she sailed."
"Let us hope that her letter will not
bring the announcement of her mar
riage to somebody else upon the voy
age. It would be too bad if she
broke poor old Jamie's heart, and
those things do happen."
"So do snowflakes in May. No, I
am not going to waste much anticipa
tory sympathy over Jamie's heart. I
am anxious to hear from Anna though,
and so is Josie. That young woman
is late to-night, and I am dying to see
her surprise when she finds you here."
"She is due, is she?" said Geoffrey,
' walking to the window and pulling
aside the blind that he might look out
on the garden path, dimly lighted by
the gas lamps 011 the road. "Goes she
I walk or drive? Thero is a cab now
coming along."
"Walk, of coursel We cannot afford
carriages!"
"The cab is coming here, neverthe
less. Stops at the gate—somebody
gets out; it is Josie, or Anna!"
"Nonsense!" exclaimed Georgie,
starting up in such haste that her chair
went one way and the fire-irons
another. "Oh, Geoff, what is it? I
j am so glad you are here!"
j "I am glad you are glad," he re
turned grimly. "There, you see, if it
is not Auna 1 am a Dutchman."
' "And if it is Anna it is her heart
that is broken and not Jem's," cried
Georgie, rushing from the window to
the front door "Oh, my poor, poor
dear!" she wenton as she Hung it open
and caught the new comer in lior arms.
"What is it all, and how came you to
be back again?"
"I am so tired, Georgie! I cannot
talk," answered Anna wearily. "All
1 my luggage is out there."
! "Geoff shall see to that. Come right
I in, darling. You shall rest and tell us
. all the tale to-morrow."
Best was just what the wayfarer
wanted. She drank her hot cup of
tea, and took her soup in Georgie's
lately vacant chair and was after that
only too thankfully led away to bed.
Her sister undressed her and settled
her with all the love and tenderness
amongst the pillows without permit
ting a word of explanation, and then
ran down again to Geoff and Josie.
"I call this a horrid surprise!" she
said. "I always did hate surprises;
they are no better than practical jokes.
What do you think of Jamie now?"
"Perhaps the poor fellow is dead,"
suggested Geoffrey.
"Not lie; naught never comes to
harm," said Josie spitefully. "The
best I can hope for him is that he is
ruined."
"Well, heaven be thanked that
whatever has come to him wo have
Anna back safe. She looks horribly
ill. Geoff, you will come in to-mor
row to hear all there is to hear about
it?" For Geoff was evidently ready to
depart.
"I shall be in first thing, of course.
I would stop if I might, but it won't
do to scandalize your pupils. If there
is anything to be done you will fetch
me directly?"
He looked at my tongue and he shook hie
head—
This was Doctor Bright—
••l'm afraid your lungs are gone," he said,
••And your kidney isn't right.
A change of scene is what you need.
Your case is desperate, indeed.
And bread is a thing you mustn't eat-
Too much starch—but, by the way,
You must henceforth live on only meat—
Aud take six doses of this' a day!"
rerhaps they were right, and perhaps they
knew,
It isn't for me to say.
Mayhap I erred when I madly throw
Their bitter stuff away;
But I'm living yet, and I'm on my feet,
And grass isn't all that I dare to eat;
And I walk and I run and I worry, too;
But, to save my life I cannot see
What some of the able doctors would do
If there were no fools like you and mo.
—S. E, lviser, in Cleveland Leader.
"I am so glad you are here!" said
Georgie again.
Poor Anna! her tale was told in few
words, but those few words coutained
a volume of sorrow. Her outward
voyage had been prosperous aud ex
ceedingly pleasant. She was leaving
poverty behind her, and was about to
meet the man to whom her whole heart
was given, aud who had, as she knew,
made a comfortable living for himsolf;
she was strong aud well and light
hearted, aud all on board the vessel
conspired to court and liatter her. She
might have chosen a husband from
amongst half a dozen men, but it was
Jamie she wanted and Jamie to whom
she was goiug. All through the voyage
she pictured his delight when he should
rush on board the Petrel to welcome
her, but the Petrel arrived and there
was no Jamie. Nor the next day, nor
the next day; she settled herself in a
hotel, wrote to him and waited.
After throe days' waiting a lady was
ushered into her room—a lady most
distinctly of the strong-minded genus.
Not a bad-looking woman, Anna
thought to herself as the two stood
watchfully regarding one auotlier; not
bad-looking, nor vulgar, nor quite a
lady, nor just at this moment quite at
her ease.
"You are Miss Edgar, aren't you?"
she said, after that pause of inspec
tion. "It is rather awkward for us.
you see. lam Mrs. Barrington—you
won't take it kindly, I am afraid—but
Jem would not come himself, he would
send me. Now what can we do to put
things as right as they can be?"
So the delay was explained. The
delighted bridegroom had not rushed to
meet his bride because he was already
husband to another woman. It went
hard with Anna, but she was a proud
woman and compelled herself to give a
cold attention to the explanationa that
Mrs. Barrington forced upon her. As
if, being betrayed, it mattered to her
how the thing was done! A rescue
from danger on the one side, a nursing
through an illness on the other. What
did it matter to the woman they had
cheated? Mrs. Barrington's offers of
assistance were haughtily declined,
aud the flrst steamer that left Mel
bourne carried Anna Edgar with it.
"Did you foresee this, Georgie,
when you gave mo the exact passage
money in that purse 'towards the
house plenishing'?"
"Don't ask home qnestions, dar
ling," answered Georgie with kisses.
"Lie still and get well as quickly as
you can."
For Anna had beeu exceedingly ill
upon the return voyage, aud was still
terribly weak and shaken. The sym
pathy of all tbo place was with her,
for seeing the impossibility of keeping
the disaster secret, the Edgars had de
cided to spook of it openly at once,
and friendly gifts of nil kinds camo in
to show the kindly feelings of the
neighbors. The little house over
flowed like a cornucopia with fruit aud
flowers.
Geoffrey hung about, ready to nurse,
run errands, write letters or do any
thing that oould be required of him,
as long as his business could spare
him, and then unwillingly announced
that he must go.
"You will say it is heartless of me
to suggest that it is an ill wind that
blows nobody nny good," he said,
squeezing Georgie's hand as they sat
over the twilight fire; "but you see
Anna could not have done me a better
turn than by coming to grief in this
way. All your misfortune seems to
be good luck to me. If she had not
come back I should, have been afraid
to ask you to come to me. Georgie,
darling, for you would have said you
could not leave Josie. I cannot offer
yon anything like what you are used
to or what you ought to have, but
you say you do not mind being poor."
"I like it, Geoff, dear," answered
Georgie; "aud, besides, your poverty
is wealth compared with ours."
Three-aud-twenty was Anna Edgar
when she went out to Australia in the
"Petrel." At three-aud-thirty she
was Anna Edgar still, aud the "Petrel"
was steaming towards England with
James Barrington on board.
The little house iu Oxford Road had
proved a cheery home during these
teii years to two busy and therefore
happy women. Josie had tended the
invalid to the close of'her pilgrimage,
and now aided her young daughter in
tho superintendence of the household;
Anna had stepped into the place that
Georgie loft vacant, and had become
famous through the neighborhood as
a teacher of elocution. Her roinantio
story, instead of covering her with
contempt as she expected, had
brought her hosts of sympathizers aud
admirers. Life had prospered with
the sisters, and they could now afford
I to work leisurely if they chose.
On a day in August, Anna Edgar was
taking decided holiday. Georgie and
her babes had just left after one of
their frequent gleeful visits, and she
was resting in preparation for the next
event. Her music was open on the
piano, and her blotting-book on the
writing-table; but her attention was
wholly taken up with certain patterns
of laces and silks and velvets that.were
spread before her. She was evidently
choosing a dress or dresses for some
important occasion, aud she fingered
oue pattern after another with linger
ing care. Anna had always been hand
some, but she was handsomer now
than ten years back, and to-day, with
an expression of gentle contentment
upon her face, she looked particularly
well. She was so entirely engrossed
in the train of thought with which the
silks and laces were associated that
she did not notice the sound of foot
steps comiug through the garden, and
started when Mary ushered into the
room "a gentleman to speak to you,
Miss Anna." With a flush of surprise
on her beautiful face, she turned to
encounter her old lover James Bar
rington.
"There is some mistake, I think,"
she said, drawing herself back haughtily
after the first shock of astonishment
had passed. "You can scarcely have
wished to see me."
"There is no mistake," answered
James. "I have come across the world
for that purpose. They tell me you
are still Miss Edgar."
"That is perfectly correct, but I fail
to seo what concern it is of yours—
now," she cried with emphasis.
"I have come across the world, as I
said, to seek you out, and ask if you
have forgiven me for what happened
ten years ago, Anna? This i 3 my only
child," he said, pointing to a little girl
iu a mourning frock, who hung shyly
behind him.
Anna looked curiously at the child
of tho woman who had supplanted her.
She bore a softened resemblance to
her mother, but iu her face was n
strange expression indicative of Anna
knew not what.
"Indeed," said Anna, and paused
inquiringly.
"I have brought her with me," re
sumed James; "she is all I have. It
is almost two years since she lost her
mother."
"And you probably wish her to be
educated iu England. I am sorry to
hear of your loss; it is a great charge
to be left with so young a child to
train."
Anna was aware that she spoke stiftily
and indifferently, but she was still iu
the dark as to the meaning of the pres
ent interview, and she resented what
she looked upon as an unwarrantable
intrusion.
"I brought her with me because I
could not do without the only creature
I have belonging to me, and, besides,l
want to show her to an English doctor.
Anna,you do know what my loneliness
is, and how ill I can benr to be alone.
I never could bear to be by myself. It
was that that brought about what yo
must look on as my treachery toward
you. You know how I urged you to
come out to me, and how you would
still wait till I could come to fetch
you. It was too lonely, and then I
met with Jessie. She told you all
about it; she was good to me aud I
married her. Then you came out, two
months too late, and it broke my
heart, Anna, for it was you always that
I loved."
"Hush!" exclaimed Anna, aghast,
as ho ended with an appeal in his
voioe. "This is scarcely fit talk be
fore your wife's daughter."
"Do yoh not know," he said bitter
ly, "the child is stone deaf? The
same calamity that deprived me of her
mother took away her hearing. We
may say what we choose before her;
she only knows whnt we say on our
fingers."
"Poor little soul!" said Anna, sud
denly relenting toward the mute little
figure, aud talking her into her friend
ly arms. She understood now the
strange expression 'that she had
noticed on the child's face.
"It is a heavy trial to her and to
me, and she has no mother. Anna, I
have come to see if you can be won to
forgive me the past and take the place
now that you have always had in my
heart. lam a rich man now in every
thing but happiness; I can give you
all the luxuries you were born to, and
if you do not choose to go to Australia
I will sell my property there and pur
chase an estate where you please in
England."
Anna had released the child, and
now stood proudly confronting its
father.
"I am exceedingly glad to hear of
your prosperity; it must surpass even
your expectations, aud I trust that
you may long enjoy it. But, as I said
at the beginning, you have made a
mistake; your presence here is un
called for."
"I know," said James earnestly,
"that you must even yet feel sore and
angry when you think of my treat
ment of yon; but you do not realize
how much I too have undergone.
Jessie was a good woman, a good wife,
but she was not tho woman that I
loved."
"More shame for you," interrupted
Anna.
James put up his hand imploringly.
"You speak truly; but it was you—
yon always that I carried iu my heart,
aud it is yon that I have come back to
seek. Anna, if you are still angry
with me, will you not have compassion
on the child? Think of her helpless
ness, for what am I as a guardian to
that little thing? Women are nlways
tender-hearted, and the child has
never offended you. Think of her
love aud my need, and of how I have
loved you always."
"Aud betrayed me," said Anna; but
he went on unheeding hoi'.
"And how I love you still. Will
you not yiold? You are still Anna
Edgar."
"I am." said she. blushing in spite
of herself; "but here is Dr. Wilber-1
force. I had better refer you to him, I
for this day month I shall be Mrs,
Wilberforce."
"Anna, Anna! am I too late? Have
I come across the world in search ol
you in vain?"
"You forget, perhaps," she an-1
swered coldly, "that there was a time
when you led me across the world in
search of you in vain. I loved you ,
once, but I am only a woman, and if I
were weak enough to love you still I
should scarcely have courage to risk a
second betrayal."
She stood before him, proud and
prosperous and liappy, and if she had
desired revenge for her past wrongs
she had it in that hour. —New York
Ledger.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Icebergs sometimes last 200 years
before they entirely melt away.
Frogs subsist on insects, and are
themselves devoured by a variety of
other animals.
It is said that if the earth's atmos
phere were suddenly increased in
thickness to 700 milies the sun could
not penetrate it and tho earth would
soon be wrapped in ice.
A lamp-wick which does not require
trimming has been invented. It is a
thick coil of clay, perforated with
minute holes, through which tho oil
asceuds by capillary attraction.
Tho overhead trolley now is in ;
Cairo, Egypt. The line was opened a '
few weeks ago. Tho cars are divided
into three compartments—for natives,
for Europeans and for women of the
harem*
A ton of Atlantic water, when evap
orated, yields eighty-one pounds of
salt; a ton of Pacific water seventy
nine pounds; the water of the Dead
Sea more thau twice as much—lß7
pounds to tho ton.
A remarkable cave has been found
near Decorah. lowa. In winter its
temperature is about sixty degrees,
while in summer it is usually below
zero, the frozen moisture depending
from the roof in the form of icicjes.
For the purpose of removing horses '
from burning buildings a new fire
mask has been placed on the market,
consisting of a hood to cover the eyes
and nostrils to prevent the horse from
seeing the fire or smelling the smoke.
11l a recent test of floor material, the
most durable turned out to be a tile
made of rubber. An English earthen
tile comes next. Vermont marble,
flagstone, granolith, marble mosaic,
yellow pine, oak, Oregon pine and teak
came in the order named.
There are no fish in Crater Lake,
Oregon, the deepest fresh water lake
in the world, and the Government
has decided to stock it with trout.
The natives used to say that the lake
was bottomless, but soundings have
shown its greatest depth to be 2000
feet.
One of the first instruments to be
shipped to tho Klondike is Professor
Eliliu Thompson's X-ray jewel tes
ter, which will bo used by miners to
test their ores. Many people have a
lingering hope that in the new gold
region a diamond mine may come to
light, and in case of such a glittering
find tho assayers would be greatly
helped by the classifying which the
jewel tester would render possible, and
even non-professionals could apply the
test. This instrument can be applied
to auy ore or mineral find.
Two Birds With One Stone.
It is told of Jesso James and his
gang that they once stopped at the
house of a poor widow and ordered
dinner whilo on a raiding tour in a
certain locality. After the widow had
hustled aror.nd and gotteu up the best
dinner possible, she told Jesse she was
in great trouble, that the martgage on
her farm was duo that very day, aud
the man would be there in a few
hours to turn her out if tho money
was not forthcoming. The bandit
asked liow much it was and handed her
the SIBOO. The man came, received
the money and released the mortgage,
but had not gone far on his return
trip when he was told to "throw up
his hands." Jesse not only took tho
slßoo,but all the money and valuables
lie had on his person, and rode away
with a contented and happy smile on
his face.—Tulare (Cal.) Times.
A Peculiar Pecan.
There is a pecan tree on the planta
tion of the Widow James, five miles
from Waycross, that is a pecularfreak.
It was twice struck by lightning last
year, but is still bearing some of the
finest pecans. The last time the tree
was struck a bolt of lightning ran
down the corner of a smoke house
near by and smashed up various things
iuside of the building, leaving an old
setting hen undisturbed in one cor
ner, says the Louisville (Ivy.) Post.
It then struck the clothes wire and
followed it across the yard to the cor
ner of the fowl house, where it came
near killing the entiro lot. The
clothes line was melted from end to
oud. The tree, not to be outdone,
took on new life and is bearing some
very fine pecans this year.
Horao That Wear* Specs.
Among the wonders of Surrey, Eng
land, which is a suburb of London
town, is a horse that wears spectacles.
He wears them for a purpose, too, for
his eyesight is so dim that he can't see
a yard in front of his nose unless lie
has on his "specs." Queer sight, a
horse with nose glasses! But Toby—
that's what they christened liim—
takes Ins alHictiou and his spectacles
as a very matter of fact thing, and
goes about his daily duties calmly.
He has suffered from myopia for two
years. Veterinary surgeons recom
mended some kind of glasses. Toby i
got them and wears them. He owns .
the unique distinction of being the
only four-footed animal in tho world
equipped with spectacles.
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long ago to the Receivers of the Balti
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lias a branch running from what is
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It's easy to find an excuse for a duel
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dred and twenty years ago, says a
writer in the Tittsburg Dispatch, twe
British officers serving in the army lo
America found cause for a fight In a
discussion as to the proper method of
eating corn. One contended that It
should be eaten from the cob; the oth
er that It should be cut off onto the
plate. One of the contestants lost his
Tight arm as the result, and it Is prob
able that the manner of eating corn did
not concern him much thereafter.
There have been many other duels,
founded on equally foolish pretexts.
One man lost his life in a dispute as to
what was trumps in a card game; an
other because he was refused admis
sion to a club of pigeon shooters. Gener
al Barry was challenged because he
declined some wine on account of ill
ness, and another British officer was
called out because he asked his op
ponent to pass him a goblet at the dlu
lug table.
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