Plattsmouth weekly herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1882-1892, June 25, 1891, Image 8
Trie. dot .in fHe. i. Character n-:tflliic fviui the Insignificant Mark Over Suiill Letter. "Po you imt t'.ie d- t hili above 1 hi letter i? l) yon put it close to tlie 1. t ter? Do you sv-nl it 11 yin;: l-for"? Is it fat, round, irn-ular:' Tln-.st are ii question which a master in the art of deciphering character from hand writing at-kn. In each cas--e your re culiarity is tin outward and visibly fiin j of some idiosyncrasy. Look at the dots j of your i; try to make them diilVivnt jj smaller, larger, rounder, more oblong I you cannot do it. Tin; dot above the i J only changes with your character. if you often forget to dot your 1, yon i will also forget other thing which set ni i unimportant to you, but which for thd coinfort C)f everyday life areas necessary as the dot is to the i. If you have often 1 to look in vain for the dot, you will also l look often in vain for ol her things, Ix-cause j you have not put them in their propel iJace. For instance, you put the tilth ) knitting needh; into your buok because 3 you were suddenly called away, and no better bookmark was at hand. You are ; anxious to finish your sock where is the j fifth needle? The servant girl must have i mislaid it while dusting. Servants are i euch a trouble! J In order to practice patience and self i -control you knit on with your four needles, "gently pardoning," and pres- i' ently tarn back to your interesting novel. The book opens immediately, and there and then the glittering needle preaches a silent sermon to you. The knitting needle Btory is nothing new: it occurs in infinite variations, and happens especially to ; those who forget to dot their i. I If the dot flies high above and far away from the letter to which it belongs your hopes, thoughts, wishes and aspi rations are apt to fly about in far off re gions, and instead of making practical use of the present day you dream of the ideals of the future. If this '"high flown" dot is of an oblong .shape, and if, in conjunction with it, the loops of your 1, h, g, f. etc., are loose and long, theu goodby symmetry and cairn, for yon have very little fcelf control. If your husband's dots are heavy, shapeless and blotchy 3-011 will have a hard time of it where food is concerned, lie will not be satisfied with a cold sup per, an aesthetic tea, or a meal of beef and vegetables. On the other hand, you have iu his favorite dishes a means to pacify the grumbler, and to incline him to listen to your wishes. Your request for a new gown, for the ater tickets, which was peremptorily re fused before dinner, is listened to with much more interest after the man of the heavy dots has had a good meal. Never ask such a man to grant you a fafor when he is waiting for his dinner. The larger the dots appear, the more critically a dish will be attacked and judged. Carlsbad, during the time when the pa tients go to drink the waters, is full of people who dot their i's heavily. The dainty dot, on the other hand, if it goes together with a handwriting that consists or tnin strokes only, aenotes a mind above "these things." Such a "dainty dot" husband will be easily satisfied with his meals. He will hardly know what he is eating. You can get nothing "out of him" by giving him a dainty dish. He may even offend you by scant praise, when you happen to have prepared a dish with your own hands. It may even happen if other graphological signs agree that such a "dainty dotter" forgets his meal times altogether, allows everthing to get cold, does not eat, nor praise, nor blame, and spoils the pleasures of the table for him self and others. Edelweiss in Von Fels zu in Meer. Fifth Avenue Stage. "It is just like Paris or London, you know," was the excite 1 comment of a lady seated high up on t tie roof of a Fifth avenue btnge. And if it Uv.'t "just b'ko" this ride up from the VVa.-h-irgton arch to Central park is a Mioiig reminder of "London from the Kr;;le board" and the pleasant hours to be f-pent on top of the Parisian 'busses. In 2ew York the possession of the roof is most vigorously contested by ladies. It is the vantage ground from which the visitor to the metropolis gets the be.st view of the storied wealth and grandeur of Fifth avenue. In the cool of the evening it is where tired shop girls and their ardent escorts, young couples arrayed in their best suits of clothes, take a happy evening out above the maddening crowd. Ten cents a paii goes immeasurably further on top of a Fifth avenue stage than twice the money in ice cream. The inside of the stage may lie empty it usually is in fail weather as long as one vacant seat re mains on top. The seeker after fresh air and the sights of the streets declines to ride anywhere else but on the roof. If four times the number of coaches were run the roof seats could contain but a small proportion of those who de light to use them at certain hours of the iay. If you desire to enjoy the finest street of residences in the world from the most advantageous point of view you must go down to Washington place and start with the stage. And right there is where you occasionally get the additional treat of a dozen half h-steri al women and shouting young girls scram bling up a steep, crooked, 8-inch stair- wav for the hr.st time. From that time you will probably think the abolition of the old Broadway stage was a mistake, and that all they needed was a double row of roof seats to have converted them into a joy forever. New York Herald. Or. 4. Sillnliorjr ha the nctnulTf right to ue r. Mel m"" I. or! A nirth-)r f.ir the PftinlfM . rrl k of Irrlh Id Kill. it j. O flier liork wood 1 Heading by Moonlight. Reading novels at midnight by the light of the moon is not known in the United States, but according to the En glish wife of Sig. Gregorio Reruelto, of Guatemala, it is no uncommon thing to see a senorita reclining in a hammock with a book in her hand on her father's feranda in the Costa Cuca district, Gua temala, between 12 and 1 o'clock in the morning. Sig. Revuelto is a wealthy coffee planter, and is in this country, ac companied by his wife and sister-in-law, on a pleasure trip. The travelers are reistered at the Grand Pacific hotel. "There are no moonlight nights in this country or in England like we have in Guatemala." said the Spanish planter's wife. "The moon at certain periods of the month is so bright that it is as light outdoors as during the day. English and American poets write about the sub lime August moon, etc. They should see a moon in Guatemala during the time it is fulL They would then have some thing to go into ecstasies about." Chi cago Tribune. A Peculiarity of the Schoolboy. A peculiarity of the schoolboy mind is 1 to put things negatively. As for exam ple, a boy was asked to write a short es say ob pins by way of an exercise in composition, and produced the following: "Pins are very useful. They have saved the lives of a great many men, women and children in fact, whole families." "How 83?" asked the puzzled inspector, on reading this. "Why, by not swallowing them," was the immediate reply. On the 6ame line was the essay of an other schoolboy on the subject of salt, which he described as "The stuff that makes potatoes taste bad when you don't put it on." London Tit-Bits. Sanitary Intelligence. Teacher You must not come to school any more, Tommy, until your mother has recovered from the smallpox. Tommy There ain't a bit of danger. he ain't going to give me the small jox. "Why, how is that?" "She's my stepmother. She never gives me aything." Texas Siftings. A New Catitrrh Kemoly. Vaseline spray for catarrh and throat troubles is a new thing to most of the members of the medical association. Dr. J. YV. Moore, however, says that :is long as twenty years ago Dr. Rumbold, of St. Louis, discovered the merits of the treat ment. He has pursued itexer since. For thirty years Dr. Rumbold inadea special study of nose, throat and ear inflamma tions. His conclusions were that the usual remedies were too strong and caused too violent reactions. In experi menting with milder methods he finally took up vaseliue and has used it to the present time. With the other remedies water has been used for cleansing pur poses. "While water is the best thing for keeping the outer surface of the body clean," Dr. .Moore says, "it is not the thing to apply to the mucous membrane of the nose. That membrane absorbs the water and puts the patient in condi tion to catch cold again. The way to clean the nose is to spray it with vase line. That not only cleans, but it leaves the membran protected and the danger of fresh cold is prevented. Of course the vaseline must be warmed sufficiently to melt. It is then applied by an atomizer, and that is the new treatment for nose and throat complaints. It seems mild and simple, ami so it is, but it is taking the place of the more radical treatment for catarrhal troubles." Washington Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat Mr. who Why He Bolted. At one of the clubs one evening Montagu Williams met Lord , had just lost his father. The young lord was naturally melancholy, and the law yer proposed visiting a theafer opposite, which proposition was accepted. There was a slight fire in the theater, where upon the young lord was among the first to bolt, "like a rabbit," out of the build ing. Returning leisurely to the club. jmx. winiams iouna mere nis young friend quietly smoking a cigar. "What on earth made you bolt that way? Yon seemed frightened out of your wits (not a difficult matter, perhaps). Don't you know that on such an occa sion if everybody got up and rushed out a panic would ensue, with very likely fatal consequences? Why on earth couldn't you sit still, as I did? There was nothing serious the matter." Upon this, with the most patronizing air, the young gentleman replied, "Oh, yes; that's very well for you, but you've not just succeeded to a peerage and 20,000 a year." San Francisco Argonaut. 1 lie Knee Pro Mem lAt-n III AustiMll:i. Sir George Grey thinks that a barrier agaitist the participation of New Zealand in Australian federation is to be found in the colored labor question, which he believes is one of the first difficulties which an Australian fed-ral parliament will have to face. 1 1 has declared that the northern territories, if they are to be worked at all, must be worked with col ored labor, and although ho is opposed to the employment of Chinese labor, thinks that Kanakas and Indian coolies might wisely be employed iu the north. Sir George Grey's information differs entirely from my own, which is to the effect that even m the event of a divi sion of the colony of Queensland the majority of the people in the north would opposo the introduction of colored labor, and I regard it as most nnlikely that this question will lx raised in the federal parliament, should it meet, 01 at leitt be raisd with the slightest chance of a reversal of the recent jiolicy of exclusion of colored labor. No doubt the growing of tropical prod uco upon the northern coast will be preventM, if I am right, but I firmly be lieve that the Australian people have made up their minds that the continent is to bo reserved for white men, and that those industries which cannot be sup ported by white labor are not to be en couraged upon Australian soil. Sir Charles Dilke in Forum. TriMlition of Scot limit's Thistle. Queen Scotia had led her troops in a well fough; battle, and when the day was won retired to the rear to rest from her toils. She threw herself upon the ground where, as ill luck would have it, a bristly thistle grew. Whether the fair amazon fought in the national costume of Scotland or not the tradition fails to say, but at any rate the spines of the of fending plant were sufficiently powerful to penetrate the skin in a very painful manner. A proverbial philosopher ha. said that "he that sitteth upon nettles riseth onic.klv." and the same rMiiurt holds good with thistles. Queen Scotia sprang to her feet and tore the thistle out by the roots. She was about to cast it aside, when it struck her that the prickly herb would hence forth le ever associated in her mind with the glorious victory which she had just gained. Her intention was changed. She placed the thistle in her cask, and it be came the badge of her dynasty. St Louis Republic. M-L ST "$7 uT t I ' I J 0 E , Majnet in Window Casings. There is a decided noveltv about the idea of applying magnets to windows to prevent the rattling of the sashes, but this can now be done simplv and effect ively. A bar magnet whose two poles project toward the face of the sash is inserted lengthwise in either side of the window. Fixed rigidly in the window frames are rods of iron, and the attrac tion between the magnets and the iron rods prevents the play which is usually the cause of rattling. The consequence is that the sash need no longer be made to fit so closely that dampness will cause it to swell and become difficult to open. The power exerted between the magnets and side rods is just enough to effect the desired object, while not enough to in terfere with the easy raising or lowering of the windows. New York Recorder. Lost a (lixxl Story. a reporter called at tlie nou.se ot a prominent city pistor who had been uown witn pneumonia, llis wite an swered, the door bell. "How is the doctor?" "Much better, thank you." A shade of disappointment mirrored itself on the reporter's face, and he said in a tone wnicn suoweu that he felt ag grieved, as one who had lieen robbed of a sensational item: "Well, they told me at the office that the Rev. Air. B was at the point of death, and that your hus band was very low. I've just called at the Rev. Sir. B 's office and I find that he's got well and gone out. And now you tell me your husband is better," sighing. Then, with a hopeful look, he asked quickly: "Is there auy likelihood of a relapse?" "Slercy!" cried the frightened wife, "I hope not!" "Good morning, then," said the sad re porter. St. Louis Republic. The. Power of the Kleetric Current. Professor Elihu Thompson is led to conclude, after long and elaborate ex perimentation, that the alternating cur rent's power to destroy life Is in inverse ratio to the number of alternations per second. It took, for example, twenty times as strong a current to kill a dog when the alternations were 4,500 per second as when they were 120 per sec ond. When the alternations were 300 per second the current was only half as dangerous to life as when the alterna tions were 120. Exchange. Four Easiest Species of Plants to Raise. Says a florist: "Were 1 restricted in my gardening operations to the use of four species of plants, then, without hes itation, I should choose hardy roses, lilies, rhododendrons and clematis. Lil ies I should give a second place in im portance, roses the first; but, if I consid er results in proportion to labor and ex pense, then lilies should have the first place. And in every garden these four plants should predominate and should be relied upon for grand effects." Exchange. He Had Waited Itefore. "Are you ready, Emma?" John called. "Yes. I'll be there in a minute; I've only my bonnet to put on." "All right. I'll Ifave time to ehave fcefore we go." Harper's Bazar. The Receipts. An officer gave a party. After the company had dispersed his man, a raw youth fresh from the country, who had received sundry tips in the course of the evening, took the cash to his master, saying: "Here, captain, is the money taken at e door I" Schorer's FamilienM?tt A Scrofuluos Boy Runniug Stores Covered His Body and Head. Bones Affected Cured byCuticura Reme dies When six months old, the left band of our little grandchild betrti to swell and had every appearance of a large boil. We polticed it bur. all to no purp ce. About tire months after it became a running sore s -on other sores form ed. He then had two 01 them on each hand. And as his blood-became more and more impure it took less time to break out. A sore came on his chin beneath the under lip which was my offensive, head was one solid scab, a is charging a gieat deal. This wae his condition at twen tp-two months old, when I undertook the csre of him, bis mother having died when he was a little more than a year old. of consumption (scrofula, of coursa), lie could walk a little, but cnild not et up if he fell d jwn. ami could not move when i'i bed, having no ue of his hand I immediately commenced with the CniriTRA Khmkdirs, u-eing all freely. One sore after another healed, a bony matter forming in each one of these five deed ones just before healing, which wauld finally grow loose and were taken out ; then they would heal rapidly. One of these ugly bone formations 1 preserved. 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Mr. and Mrs, Loren Trescott are keepers of the Gov. Lighthouse at Sand Beach Mich, and are blet-sed with a daughter, four years. Last April she taken down with Measles, followed with dreadful Coujrh and turned into a fever. Doctors at home and at Detroit treated, but in vain, she rew worse rapidly, until she was a mere" handful of bones". Then she tried Dr. Kings New Discovery and after the use of two and a half bottles, was completely cured. Thev say Dr. Kinir.s Aew Discoverv is worth its weight in PTold, yet you may jret a trial bottle free at h. G. rriehey lrugfstore. Remarkable Facts. Heart disease is usually supposed to be incurable, but when properly treated a larsje portion of cases can be cured. Thus Mrs. Klmira Hatch, of Klkhart, Ind., and Mrs. Mary L. Baker, of Ovid. Mich., were cured after suffering- 20 years. S. C. Lin burirer. drutrsrist at San lose, ill. sa3s that Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure which cured the former, "worked wonders for his wife. 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