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J THE DAILY IIKUALD, PLATTSMOITTII, NKBItASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMHEIC 10, 1SS7. SONG. Go nt. O iMTfiK-t clnyl O lny 80 Ix-iitil ifiil, un bright. A li' ' Iuii;; r hliiy I Koon in tliy jv-.:t' rii uiinlow laden the llht; txxju cuiik u lliu ln,.llt! Iii l.i j J Go iiot, O ) irl ottInyI Go r:-t, div.r life, uv.ny! Dear oi..-Y, i-l.-'i-rliil fiiiii'l ami Kiii:t f yorn. A li!t!. Iii;'.r!iy. Xoon wilt Hum t.u-al from in, uml tthut-tiiu door. And Cuius no luui'i ! Jx-l.-.y! Go iv if, I'i nr lif", nv;iyl 1;uIm i i ,'in 'l'i i.u Lriiij.;.- in l,iiij inc(iU.. TAKEN FCfJ A THIEF. M. Ilo-liffrt't Aii'oiiiit tit it Triii to London ! lo ilsitl III l;vftir-. M. K-ii! fui't its tin? I'uri. i.:::s ;i very lk':isunt ::f u..ni:t of l:ir,v Ii.r w ii (.; ft thief on lii.s nr-iit 1ri:i ti lji,n!-!i. "1 lui'l," l.e- writes, ' f !:-!ru- to p.;i 01 frW lii.Ul-.i ill !;i- Mi l nf t,;;.t Alliii'll ! f.iiiii.iis l-,r li r j-i rllcly. I look i:ua!..t not -cii ii i:iv;lit --liirt, v. a I ir.!i !; l il io ic ttirn t!n; k.w.w. cvin.ii'r. I i.. ..ever tlici-i-t ;i:;;-.-i;'i v;i.-. trying :.: tin; train r-;ic!ieil I.diiiVii i -ii' i hut, j rouMii tliink f'f ni:;kiii' a ,'. that iie,'lit. I t in n fi.r i u ! :i! to 1 ';. id mi's lio t( I, i:i I'.mioii ; i i' i . v 1 . I s:.-i-.l fi-r-liu-rly ami u liosi- -.. im ;- I !:mi-'. I in tend k lib' t::I : ly, , i: m.-.-.t l!.i.,:.in ,f th'j rfVt-rt li;y t.-avil :'.;.:'ihiI I. l:.c o ilur ntul c-nll'.-i v.oulil i,ro!i i f .,n j;,,. tin; iinni-v. Tin 1:::.::'; -r.I I h id Known hail sold out SfMTal yi ars lu-I'mc, and tin; vaih ts, on M-i oil; a M.-fi k ill l-nisla-d llinl lii.vraf-li-tis filter t'n- i!i:iin ro!::, lieujan to look aton j::n.-t her ery i.-ii.s-trust fully. I iis1:mI l'.,r a room and was told then; was no room. I a.-Ked for a bit, f roast beef and was told i!u iv was no'li ititC to tat in tin-hoiise. I l.ieni imie'l t Iv; IwiiiM'oC tlio fonner laialli.rd, bni thai, did inori; harm than !. 'I'hey vidd avne Io take n io in and do fm me only on con dition of my ia !!v beforehand. I at once Milaaiu: d to tho.iu ti rm.s, and when the employes ii ,: tin.; eonl.nt.s of lay jmr.-c they cast looks at -ach other which plainly said 'Jit; ha", made a b;LC haul in Paris and e:.eaped without -hanv;-in.Lj his dress.' The ! i n o r was a triad one, though pa.id for beforehand, and every time the waiter brought mi; a dMi, for which I had to wait, an unreason:. h't: time, ho fave me a look which ::a; 1 as plain a words could have spoken ii 'iVrhaps they vdl tome and arrest, bi n la-fore tlio desM'ft, and that wiil be mi much Ka.ined.' I tla ::;.'!. L'cd my cas" ut terly by asking for the Paris papers. Kvidcntly it w;is to see whether the police were on my tr.;t k. 'i'c.c bailer, the por ter ai:d the dooikei per we-v idaialin.LC be hind me, as if in e;:;;cctat ioti of an extra dition order. A paragraph having iii.iiic me l;"?ti.e;!i, thcymaile r,:;ux to oath other which plainly meant. 'Jle sees they have lost the scent and he can't restrain his joy.' My meal ended. J asked one. of the women to ira ami buy me a couple of clean shirts, but ;;ae rcl'iT-i d to become an accessory to my crime alter the fact by helping me to destroy my identity. How ever, she consented to lead me a brush.. "I had my revenue. 1 wrote to an In: ii member of parliament n telegram : urned with my own name, smd inlorining' him that I was in Konili.n. That produced t!a; cll'cct tit a thunderbolt, members of parlia ment iciii'-r; f;)luu more seriouslv by the Kntclisli than by us. V. Ian t!a M. V. tame, abt;ut 10 p. m., to take ie to the house in his cab. the waiter, asl.amrd cf the mistake lie had made, hid Ids head, i.i n saucepan. It wasa'.renl that myt.' iend and I should cca.e back and have supper at 2 a. m., aid the ui.haj p- waiter ca;:- out of la's smc. p;:-i to sketch for us tl " richest possible ;;aiu. 'That'll d : I; 'jxive us a good supper: hr.t, yon l;::.w, I nlisohtttly ir..: :st c:i p.:yi.r- for i! l.-;fore-hand.' The w; ':. r, I:i::.ibh d 1 t he da- ; . pleaded extenna; in,,- ircamstancts. aii-l said to the M. 1'.: 'I assure yea, sir, we never took yoi:r fri'-: I for a munkivr. Vv'e merely tiiought i hat be had robbed a bank, that's all.' " lb ;r.o .Journal. rconoiiij- of :i Trousers S-ivrr. On jroadvv:y a wo::r-n rai .dit have been t-een carrying a. l.ttn-Ik of u-onsers. 1; was so la !;.'.' that sla' w:.:- obliged to li -'d it by a strinji. The won.an's l.ict w ore an cxpressio!i t f ww.rir.o-s. Ibr dnss wus shabby and t.f tda-ap a-.;:T . ri;;!. l'rompted by curiosity, a. n;r-rUr fol lowed la r to her ht-nv.'. This was on tl fourth t:oor of a t'T.i raeat boa.-e in an ley. Tb.e ir.'v.:-ahc:rr wa.s k": diy re ceived, bat tke ir.istre-s .-ecmcl e' !::: rassed tit the c incitioii of l.t r ro.n. .'!'..' hastened to explain that s?-e had bc-a obliged to leave everylbiag in tlisoyo-.-r that morniti ia enk-r to get her ota. r work done on time. A Iktle girl la.y t :i a loiv cot and two small children were l-day-ln.it al'out the room. It was i l;:rge roor.":, a::d c vidciiil.r f erved as a kitchen, btdroom :uul work room. The furniiuie consis'ed t.f a cock stove, a cabinet wii'i a t-uri;ii:i in frt at, a lied still unmade, a sewing mat i.k.e. afc-v.-chairs and a table with the remains cf a. previous meal upon it. "I have heard of the very small pay yoxi women get for your work, ar.d I wished to ascertain it were true,5' suidiiie reporter. "Oh. I prness it is true."' Paid the woman. "Sometimes we ti'-u't make more than s" or sjvJ a week, hr.t once in a while by working very late I have made "How do yon manage to pay rent and. live? Will that buy vour bread and but ter: "Well, we have fcr breakfast a loaf of. bread and a pot t f coffee. Then when I have n lire in th.J stve to pre.-s my work I cook something for dinner, and have enough so there is some left for supper. These little ones go to the marki t ami buy neck beef unless I have time to go myself, but I don't go out much, only to take hack my work. They send it to ir.e, but I always take it bat!:. Vv'e buy cracked eggs at half price, ar.d sometimes bread that is a little stah, for yo-.i can get two or three loaves .f that kir.d for the price of one good loaf. I buy little pota toes, too, which they sell very cheap. This neck beef is very good, and for ten cents we can get enough f;-r two or three meals. Some days we get along without butler and milk and sue a things. My rent is $7 a month." And this is bnfonc of the many stories that might be told of toil in a great city. New York livening Sun. In ttte City I'oorliouse. Visitors to the institution of which I have charge always express much sympa thy for the old men and women who are classed as paupers, and are inclined to pity the friendless and forlorn condition of the aged men. If these visitors knew how many of these feeble and broken down charges upon the city have healthy and ell to do grown up children in the city, more than able to care for them, they would consider much of their sympathy as wasted. Poorhouse Supt. La Globe-Democrat. MYSTERIOUS POISONS. THE DEADLY RESULTS OF DECOM POSITION IN ANIMAL TISSUES. Tlin I u t i est I ii;; Si-iiiH of l'olson Known nit I'tiinoti ik-h Vli:tt Tln-y Art, IIw Thi-y t)i i-iioil.. IVitlKibility Unit Th;y Fi--cjuoil!y Cainn iM-illll. Among tk;1 investigations and discover- j.'Si.f luob.-ru sftienee iheiV is perhaps n s.ui.j-ct of more iii'i re - t. or far reaching imp 'ii fa , iii a geneial a- ucil as in a i i- 1 1 ii i -legal . ease, i ban that of ptomaines, " lb.:! ' ' e . i f in-.-, iy di-eoVei-ed poisons en!;. ei ! alkaloid which ;:e evolved from t In d '-.,.. 1 1 o i t ion of animal t is.-. ne. Ti .'-e. ' i S.-luii, oi I'oiilogne, in 1 ."-) . 'i- v. a ; i rlia os the lir.t to discover, or at I ( .nliii.-h an iiilelb;'.-i.t ;.t.i-o:if-t P' ! -. .a ap'ii led t i 1 he,.i t .:e t el ni of t :a 'plot Wei".; 'in1, as :di;;ali:ig tic.t tiiey a cat a i v.i ;c on.oi, l. from the ilet . .in p. i.- it ii .n J.i ! Olg j. nt:v. ciMt in J iove t i a p-ii!' or Ti'.; of ank.i.d ti: nes. ,Mi,i'(i rc . i I i "ai ion, however, s.cc-m to at. ti:iy may :. Isu be dv eloped as of i: i-tnal I i - io ehangt; in the I i v i : n i al, or even from the dejecta or c.vri i ii :: s of '!.ebii;g on 'a id ;;u. The at! : at : li of I i.i; s! Jioioo ; public has been in the j ;--t f' veer-. atlr.i. Ied to this rubjeet v. ii ii jt: i !:.!.! curiosity jmd iu 1iie;t. Tl:e leeoii for this is that the ji.oni.iiin s, al the same lime that they are sutii deaily po.o.i -, are naturally tlevel- ooeit in l i.e t ao i i r uy ;--ail Ooily, or m any dead 1 '.-.-.ue i-i ab 'UL jorty-i iuhl hours id ! : r ileal ii, and fu i ; !n r, 1 li.it upon analy sis t'n-y give ti." i- actions as do the l : i ' -. L poweriul all.aloidal vegetal poisons. s-'!ito t'l' . e fae!s b -fame known t.hey have In vm eagerly s'-i..; d upon and used ti'ieel ively by clever lawyers in the de fense of tk.-ir clieiiis in iimrder trials both in this count ry and i in gl::nd. It is implies. ble by any known chemical profes.-.es to ! fi:l.-iy determine these ptomaine p i- as m medico -legal cases of poisoning. f.r in-iance, as they give, as before :;t.t"d, the same reactions of tests as are given by the principal and most pov.eiful vegetal alkaloids. One can readily ima i:u; a ease in point that might arise at any time as a test medico-legal case of liuiri'er or suspected murder by poisoning and in which .night, bo involved the guilt or iuuotf iise. the life or death of the accused. For if after forty-eight hours or thereabouts subsequent to death we sire able to evolve from the tissues or organs of the corpse a poison that will answer to alt the tests of the main ve'."-' 'I alkaloids, and which has been cvolv. the tissues of the natural results o: t.i -composition, ve have surely lost our cri terion and (!' t. sis are of ' .avail. Con v. ... .... hat ft wi l iiii.l i '. . ii )ur i.. ..ideous work of the criminal poisoner, and the alio.-.-- certainty of his escape from justice. Tin: chemical characteristics of these ptomaines so far known tire that they ;e- ur generally amorphous in form and alk.nine in reaction, they are unstable and volatile or easily alterable; that they form crystalline salts with acids. When ex posed to the air and allowed to oxydize from the basic form they emit very dis agreeable cadaverous 'or putrescent odors; lute in their combination with acids form ing salts their odors are generally changed, resembling that of the orange, violet and in it k. Vp'n the exhibition of a poisonous doso g -n.-'-aliy i'ij--cted under the skin the fol lowing toxie symptoms rapidly ensue: Dilation of the pupils, mu:-cu!ar relaxa tion and llact idiiy, with loss of muscular contractility and cutaneous sensibility, disturbance f the heart's action, paralysis of: l ho hinder or lower extremities and cotivulsii -is. They possess much the eamo poisonous action as i-ui-carin and atropin. Tis.-y ail have a strong- power of reducing pot .'.-a fei : oey.;::i.! j and answer to tha same color te-: as t! the vegetable alka loi 's, !-.iit-h as morphia, atropia, hyoscya mi:n, aco:ikine tU.giisilk.ie, etc. Tii.-se n ii -;ns are loiital under the fol-lowin-t coiidii ions: J 'ir- A- -e.!:stiiuents of normal juices or ti.;sa- s. tiiey oecur in human and ani mal saliva, in snr.'ce poison, which difi'ers from h.i'.maa sa.liva only in the intensity tf its strength and action, and in normal as web as abn--rm d v.rim.'. Several of tha p . i. iv tk . the' .-re aiii. 1. ck h: V air..-', have been obtained from thesa . :::! by tiikVreut chemists, ptir r. iy tin ;:ler, cf lh-ance. i l ia-y occur in constituents of t f patier.is s.aivering from jro iee j!,ir-oy- is, interstitial imeunionin, ..in il typhus t"e e; in tetanus or i ,v and in l-iiinry fever, as proven by t oos. rva ; ions of s'i-ii:U. ird. i k-. y are dove Ic-pod largely in s ord-e-id e-vgauic mutter as a product omp. - itii n. Th.ese facts have been V. . i udant ly voerJl trr.t ed by diii'ere-nt cb- .-.c rv. rs. 'i ::e symptoms of irritation of stomach and bowel-:, alter reaching a toxic charac tcr. rcsu'iing lroni the ingestion of bad food-- and !;i:";ts sansnges, stale fi.a, i ream pti!"s a.-.-l the like, are doubtless ilae to the ;.-"aeration of these poisons in tk.' favorable conditions for their develop ment found in the alimentary canal. Tho ptomaine .-.lknioid called tyrotoxieon, found in stale crt-ai.-i I'tilVs. which has ia a number of cases iu this city caused very aiar'.iiing snri'a;:.is and death, is devei-op-.-d from the decomposition of the casein of the cream or milk or butter used iu mailing the cream pull, and these doubt less coming in their turn from swill fed cows. Tkce investigations have opened up a fie! 1 fcTscienlliie research that cannot fail to have a marked c fleet upon the general herd lii eif every civilized community. It requires no great amount of perspicacity to observe that our high figure of mortal ity, particularly among the children, in tk- summer months may be, and undoubt edly is. due t the development of one or more of this .-.cries of ptomaine poisons in the prepared foods and the ir.il k supplied to bottle fed inktuts, which may have come from diseased and swiil fed animals; to say nothing cf the thousand and one sources of similar poisoning by stale or so caliod prepared or potted meats, fish, frame, cheese, sausages and the like, and in the pastries of the character of cream puiT-, etc.. that endanger the life of tin adult. rhiladelpkia Times. A Complertioiiist-. One of the newest occupations upon which women can cuter is that of the "comrlexionist." Such ft person makes ft study of the skin, and for a stipend en deavors to improve customers' complex ions. Here is a prescription that one of them gave a client, promising that it would clear the skin in a short time: A table-spoonful t L sulphur taken every morning for a week, then omitted for three' mornings, and taken again. A mixture of powdered brimsl one or tliiuted glycerine should be rnbbe l en the face at night and washed off in the morning with soap and water in v. hieh there -s a little ammonia. Chi cago Times. NICKNAMES. Tlio Odd Ways In WM-h the Idlers at Karatogn Adiiren Their Wives. When a lounger on the veranda of one of tho big hotel ; at this place hears ft man say "Hurry up, little one," or "Come along, birdie," lie may be sure that it is ft husband addrci-ing his w ife and that she is enormously fat. Apparently nil hus band of fat- women address their wives with diminutives, if not wiih nicknames til only for small women or little girls. "Daisy," ''liirdie" and "Iklby" appear to be the p-t 1'fimes mot favored by the hus bands of maminoili womt-n. In this haven of conjugal rt-.-t, for Saratoga is distinc tively for married couples and has less con eiiiences and attractions for lovers than any place in America, ono gels a deep knowledge of the ways of wadded folk. This matter of nicknames for wives is one of the mo.-t interesting studies. To pursue this branch of learning it is only necessary to nit for an hour or two, on any afternoon, while the mut-ic is playing in the inner garden either of the United Siates bob 1 or of tho (Irand Union. All the rest the married couples will do for the student. They will talk unguardedly in his hi arlng, and he will soon be able to classify the couples and the pet names, for certain names go with certain sorts of couples as infallibly as pie goes with sup per in New England. The very swell and exquisite youni? married men, who dress vainly and seek, to give the impression that they btdont; to the F. (,'. D. C, dance at Delmonico's and know all the fellows who . have yachts, call their wives with monosyllables, such as 1'uss, Chris, Hen, Fan, Ioo, Tot. There seems to be only one marked ex ception in the list. You often hear ono of these wives called "Popsy." There are two l'opsies at the States and there is one tit the Union. Oddly enough, the fathers of these same fellows, men so well kept that you can't Bay whether they are Io or (ii), are fond of drawling out tho full name's of their helpmeets, as, for instance, "(.'omo heah, l-'rarnces," or "Now, my d-.-ah Eleanor, you must have a wrap." Equally fixed is tho rule that thin and sickly women, dyspeptics, r.curalgics, and the like, are addressed by their liege lords as w ife, madame, tr Misses Thompson, Misses Brown, or w hatever. The invalid husbands, and all the prim and precise ones as well, address their better halves as "my dear." This, by the way, i3 tho established custom with the Hebrews, though they usually are heartl to pro nounce the words "mine teer." The clergymen seem to have united upon the word "mother" as a title for their wives, mid the men who are no common here, a. i who teem to be wrapped up in an only girl or boy, call their wives "ma." Other nicknames resist classification tut. ; far, though perhaps the key to all can be found by diligent application. There is no end to the Dollies aifl the "my loves," while one hears a miscellaneous lot of passersby addressing their comrades as "Pet." One plump little wife is grad ually becoming known to everybody iu one of the hotels as "Sugar," the nick name her husband calJi out assiduously and loudly all day in tho parlors and on the promenades. Tho temptation for others to call her Sugar 13 growing pain ful. She is not tho only feminine confec tion, for, at the States, there is a dimpled brunette who answers to her husband as "Sweety," anil yesterday a very prim looking wife, somewhat the shape of a board, was siddressed as "Sweetness" be fore till the crowd at the spring ia Con gress park. It may be an oversight, but there does not sccia to be a "darling" in town. A muddy faced, corpulent man of 40, who looks as if he had been born and brought up in the Stock Exchange, always addresses his wife as "Precious," and in the saute hc'tel a husband, who appears to h:iil from the west, replies to his wife with "Yes, Pigeon," "All right, Pigeon," end so on. As it happens, there is romething ak-.-att tho wife's appearance or manner, or per. ps it is her shape, that renders this oide : t'f nicknames peculiarly appropri ate. The young fellows who ars spending their time in pulling the down on their upper hps are fond of pointing out "Sugar" to all their acquaintances, and in another week they will doubtless add "Pigeon" to their stock cf fun. Saratoga Cor. Xc.y York Sun. S-leep and Its Counterfeits. The Frenchman, whose long trance or i;ke: r ttn.cted extrnerdinary attention in the latter part of March ami the begin ning of April, was commonly spoken of as the Soho tlet pcr;" but when wo speak of ft man "sleeping"' for several days or weeks consecutively, it is obviou3 that we do not use the term in its ordinary sense. Y,"e all know by experience what sleep is, and we cannot conceive ourselves as sleep ing for an indefinite time. Yet it is diffi cult to draw a line between normal and abnormal sleep: tho physiological con dition merges by insensible degrees into all kinds t'f pathologic-til states, known as lethargy, trance, stupor, coma. Through the usual phenomena of dreaming, wo pass likewise into those of nightmare, sor.imuubuiism, hypnotism, ecstasy, and the-like. Yet it is important sharply to define typical instances of these condi tions, so as to avoid hopeless confusion in an already obscure field of scientific in quiry, and though we may for the sake of convenience occasionally use the term sleep in the wider sense, yet the distinc tion between the various states included under it must be kept present in our minds. Popular Science Monthly. Oil on the Waves. In a pamphlet issued lately by the United States hydrograpluc office, Lieut. Underwood says that mineral oils are not eo effective for use at eea as vegetable or animal. A comparatively small amount of tho right kintl of oil, say two quarts per hour, properly used, is sufficient, he asserts, to prevent much damage, both to vessels and to small boats, in heavy seas. The greatest result from oil is obtained in deep water. In a surf, eir where water is breaking on a bar, the effect is not so cer tain: but even in this case oil may be of benefit, and its use is recommended by Lieut. Underwood. He advises that, when an attempt is about to be made to board a wreck, the approaching vessel should use the oil after running as close as possible mider the lee of the wreck. The wreck will soon drift into the oil. and then alxat may be sent alongside of her. Scientific American. To Prevei:t Seasickneyg. Y.e have already mentioned a number of remedies for seasickness. Dr. Suther land suggests another, which he -mployed successfully in crossing the English chan nel, he escaping when almost every one was sick. He takes a tight hold of the pillars supporting the deck, and, as the boat rises in going over a wave, he runs uphill, as it were, reversing the direction of his run when the boat descends the wave. Science, Americans spend $00,000,000 in Europe j rvery summer. ' MARRIED Industrial Training In Germany. An interesting letter giving an ncconnt of tho Industrial training system in tho ; schools of llesso-Darmstudt, (Jcrmany, i was recently published in Science. Jt tsecms that iu tho girls' schools sonio kintl of needlework has iilways been taught. "Prom tho very earliest times of tchool i history girls have been known to take ! their knitting and sewing to school, and, I in tho early part of this ccntur)-, not only the girls, but tho boys also, used ! to knit their own stockings nt school." j This work, however, was performed sim ' ply for tho sake of the stockings which it ! produced. At the present time tho prac tical end has not been lost sigiit ot, out the educational end has become the more important. The jmrrit furnishes the child with tho needed material, which, of course, its work may render worthless; yet, for all this, no one complains that tho training does not pay. Tt;o first lfs sons ia tewing are the use of tho thimble and scissors, threading the needle mid the ways of holding tho cIl-Hi while sewing and cutting. "Tho stitch lesson Is lirat performed on paper; after a while a cheap kind of mu.slin is substituted." Patch ing and mending nro thoroughly taught. In the high schools th garments made by the girls often evince a great deal of taste and a good knowledge of dressmaking. In the boys' schooi.s of Germany indus trial training is not usually a required branch. At Darmstadt it was begun a few years ago by private citizens, who gave such Instruction outsido of school hours. The results of the experiment were bo satisfactory that the institution estab lished was made part of the public school system. The other schools close th daily session about 2 -MO. The manual train ing is therefore given duriug the latter part of tho afternoon. In the summer time the boys nro put to work in tho different gardens belonging to the institution. At other seasons of the year they are engaged in tho light and plain carpet ry, and in the making of such articles as baskets, brushes, brooms, etc. Typesetting and bookbinding aro taught to tho advanced classes. Each boy re ceives a small remuneration for his work when it is well done. The money is not paid directly to him, but is put into a- sav ings bank, and from time to time he re ceives his certificates of deposit, which he carries home to his parents for safe keep ing. Frank Leslie's. Itoy.il Itrot hei-H-ln-Law. The Prince of Wales was thoroughly sorry to lose his cheery brother-in-law, the King of Greece, at the termination of the king's jubilee visit. Though they have met for a day or two occasionally during the twenty-four years of their relationship, the two men had never laid an opportunity of seeing what sort of stuff the other was made of till now, and it is satisfactory to know that the king's visit to Marlborough House litis sown the seeds of a close friend ship. Tho King of Greece was brought up in tho same hard school of poverty ks his sister, and is proud of it. Indeed, ho car ries his homeliucss to the verge of affect a tion, for not only does he dispense with the services of a valet, but he doe a great many things for himself that other men who don't keep a valet would never dream of tloing. The king always brought his work bas ket into the smoking room beforo retiring for the night, so that ho might use the half hour devoted to the nocturnal "night cap" in replacing missing shirt buttons. But the monarch wasn't allowed to have it all his own way, for Prince Gceirgo of AVales, liko most sailors, is pretty handy with the needle, and ran his uncle very close in some of the wagers they had to gether ns to who could sew a button on tho quickest. The king is said to be equally proficient in the art of darning socks, though of course ho throws them away when they get like that now. Lon don Society Ktlquettn of the Cigarette. There is a fashion even in so small a thing as the lighting of a cigarette. In Cuba it i3 customary among gentlemen for one to place the cigarette between his lips, light it, take a. few puffs and then hand it to his friend. In Spain the came fashion prevails. An Austrian is very punctilious about the etiquette of cigar lighting. He lights his cigarette first and then hands the lighted match to his com panion. The idea is that it is more cour teous to allow a comrade the greater length of time. If he is handed the match first he naturally hurries in order to hand it back again. A Frenchman always hands his companion the match first. An Englishman-proffers the cigarette to his friend, lights a match, hands it to him and theu helps himself to another cigarette and match. An American usually hands his friend a lighted match and takes a light from his cigarette afterward. The small boy gets a light wherever he can, generally from some passerby on the street. The habit cf slopping men in the street to ask for a light is looked upon as ill bred in all countries. In no country is it tolerated to such nu extent as in the United States. New York Mail and Ex press. A Berlin Weather Prophet. The astronomer Falb, who last year at tained some celebrity by his more 'or less accurate predictions of earthquake shocks, has this year ccme to grief by his weather predictions for the months of June and July. In commenting on his failure, a Gormen paper recalls the fate which once overtook another scientific weather prophet, Professor Dietmar of Berlin, who had predicted that the winter of 1823-29 would be so mild that butchers, confec tioners, etc., would be unable to procure a sufficient supply of ice. It so happened that after New Year of that winter un usually cold weather set in, and, as if by common agreement, so many boxes filled with ice were sent by post to Professor Dietmar, the freight charges being un paid, that the Postmaster General von Nagler advised all postoffices by circular to refuse the acceptance cf boxes with ice for Professor Dietmar of Berlin. New York Post. A Considerate Menial. Sam Walkup, although in affluent cir cumstances, is ono of the most s-habbily dressed men in Austin. His colored body servant, Tom, on the other hand, dresses like a dude. One day Mr. Walkup said to Tom: "It must cost you a great deal for clothes. You are always dressed in the height of fashion." "Yes, sah, it doe3 cost mo right smart, but I does it, sah, entirely on your ac count." "On my account?" "Yes. sah; cf I was to dres3 as you do, nobody would hab tho slightest respec' for you, sah." Texas Sif tings. Steam Omnibus in Dresden. A steam omnibus is in usa in Dresden. The motive power is applied to the hind wheels, and is supplied by an uprighl ooiler and n compound engine. It i3 used in the streets for carrying passengers, and will seat twenty. Chicago Times. TS Tin; stunt! initility t pxxjs 10 porci'iit. dioaimr tlitin uny Ijowmj wct f the .Missi.-s-ij.pi. Will never be uiiJernll. Call ami lie convinced. 91 fr I'Vt worn FURNITURE mm, SET ! 1 1.1 1.1 IP -FOR ALL IP "O" Bfc 1 - cr. ; r.i v Parlors, fiScdrooms, Diithig-roonifr Kitchens, Hallways and Olliccs (JO TO Whore a liniLpiificeiit stock of Good nnd Fair Trims abound. UNDERTAKING ARD EKBALKING A SPECUL.TT. ( OliNER MAIN AND .SIXTH, D Q (SUCCKSSOlt TO Will keep co-EstuijtJy on hand i si 9 i 6. FRICKE&CO,, w ana Meoicioes, ramis. oils. AVall Paper ami a Full Uno of IDIETTG-G-ICST'S STJliTIDSZE.S. PURE LIQUORS. RICHEY BROS., Corner Pearl and Seventh Streets. DEALERS IN ATX KINDS OK M 1 r-!e S 9 ! ifbGl cmt, Plaster, BTJIHiI3I3SrC3- PAPEB: Bbt5S: SBates. 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