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DOCTOR'S ADVICE WORTH
EARING IN MIND.
to I'OOfilA ll uu sftrv iu ihw
' i . .
ot Abunlug Their IloitIv Ap-
alu lurui; tlio not rfUMn urn-
'T1hto i.s no inoro prolific cuuso of Lot,
fetid breath than i-o creuui," iil u ix.iiular
iliysictau tins other day.
"J low so;"'
'Well, it has ln-en shown to a certainty
Hbat a dish of ict; cream taken after a meal
or 'lunch will retard digestion tit lt'ost two
liouis, aiitl whero tho digestive organs uro
not in first rate order it may do even worse
than this. We know well that digestion ilot-s
not tako place in u teniiM-ratiii'ti of less than
100 dogs. ; or in other words, whatever is
taken into the stomach must become, heated"
up to 100 dogx. Fahrenheit liofore it begins
to 1 digested. Whenever the teuijioratUTo
fulls ln-lovv this digestion is at. ou-o sus-jx-mli-d,
ami fermentation tuki-s place."
" Why do physicians prescrihu it for some
dyRjx-pticsf
"lJi-causo it suits some of them. Where
there is a feverish condition of the stomach
a fcmall pinto of ice cream will not. only
prove refreshing hut relievo that disagreo
uble jpuivving sensation that necompanhin
(.his form of d ysjicp.iiu. It must not Ini taken
Immediately lofro or pfter a meal, bub
when the Htwuach is entirely freoof food,
and no cake oy other sol ids fchould Io eaten
with it."
"How about icecream and strawberries?"'
"They form a strong combination, too
fctroiig for delicate stomachs. Tho l-rries
alone are almut all in the way of an u id that
the average stomal h can liear, so that it is
putting it ralh'T strong to udd milk and corn
fctarch. Some jiersous cannot eat strawlw-rries
at all without sulIVring from irritability of
tin.' stomach uf.erwards. The aci.l which
they contain is the same as that in sorrel and
iithi r ild groAtlis that make their tippe-af:
once ear'y in the spring, which seems to le it
.provision of nature for cleaning tho system
of the accretions of tho winter. You notice
that the strawlcrry season is quite short,
pHliough much longer thnn la-fore the fruit
Jjceniiiu profitable. It is followed by other
fruits, all mor or Jess tart, but growing
sweeter 3 the weather grows hotter, wind
ing up with sweet ix-ars. which are ospeel.-."-'
f ict iij sngai .''
"Are we to infer from thi.i that lemons and
- other aciil fruits should not be used except in
,mntric wle ro they natni ally lx-longf"
'""'onio good authorities say that fruits
ifJourl only Ihj eaten in season and in the hit i
hinilii. iiero they grow. For my iart I do
J:i?k Hal whether there is danger f bad re-
' . ;,-ious us' of fruits out of
IAS NO. inclined to think that
dai'ev.iin at H.' the best, and t.iat we
I), ether are reuevell oir. and probably bet
K ,.! ner, Venoratlt,rj )(V jt
"lrk5 S--M-vnc, of WsIu.,Stuf
. ' 2 ed his folks to preserve
- I 4 TTU1IA
.nut had tolw ialcd up,
;ar to preserve it. He s.-iij
A -
t, . "... YlKz- wefj
designed to lo oaten at a
ejrrLiir time, and if they XVero suitable for
other fm-s they would keep without liaving
to .sijs!'!id the jaws of nature to prevent de
cay. L'otaiHs, apples, turnips and the like
wcre.Ji his opinion, suitable for all seasons,
JoaiV' they could lie -kept all the year
Ton in'
' rT.!i von wM fldvise imople to go si- '"
mi jit. cream"'
'Vcs. Of rourso ea-h individual must
jtidg for hiiiL-lf as to the general elf:t. If
Leadi?-"his follow, with clamminess, sour
tast. or a fe-ling is If the mouth had breo
sealded, it will 1k lietter to leave the straw-l-erriis
outs:nd if any of theso symptoms
continue, then lrop tho '"- ua
was said about its cjr.-ct on the digestion of
food ap:! ics to all classes. The delicate wiL
cxi'rieljf..' tlie K-id cire ts sooner than t host
who are strong, but even the st:o:ige:t will
f... it ie time Ji: mv Judgm.-nt tin othr-i
aii-J: iuV- in en moi e piohlie ol 'lisoi dei ed
ijigestioirt.i!! ibis, and I know of no other
(oVriectioii that will produce sallow Coiu
il -.iou, y-lt:v t'-eih: dark ring:-: ;i!-iUi!i! tint
t-ves, Jie'id.iches, fuul bleath.nild lo-vi Ot iijii t -
I ft, more- promptly on i more cc-itaiiuy thai
i .t this sjime ieliciou-. ice cream. :'
I.-, there no way ju which it may lie eaten
n-iLli safety ('
"Yes; vol. ean take I lie antidote wit :i t lie
p,Ison. H I were to pres. ril k; or suggest ice
cream to i-ii her well or sick I would insist or.
them drinking a i-rtioii of a cup of hci
co:Tce or tea before beginning the cream and
the remainder at intervals, and finish with
at least a halt cm as hot as it could Ik
drank. In this way tho ill eftect of the cold
butistauii.- would te counteracted ;:
' -lint it is ttio cling etTci-ts tiiat we aiii
ptost ai!iusto get."
That is inerelv a tn-ation in the mouth
and iipit-r p- !!
uf ti thlont.
.Tietiditjg
i., faitlier than the nervi-, of ta.-te. IV-siil. s
that, instead ot cooling the Ihi.1v it increases
tho heat. Nature has to raise that cold mikss
of stutl" to the average TomiK-rature of tho
l-otly eis .)u:ckly as jKis-ible in order to pre
vent a paiiiiui stale of ntraii-.. n::.l t.. th-.t
end she -.ir.s largo ipiar.tities of blood to tho
endangered organ. This disturbs the
juachiut so ihai it rioou get:i into a p i iVct
furor. I)ur:ngthUlerioda chiil, exposure.,
... ..-i ..i i.- i ;.. ,...n ,.f
.:ii'"ss."'
What aVout ice w ater as a cooling liever-
ir is a snare and a delusion. A ghissful
rof it is just as bad us a plate of ico cream
taken at :cr a meal, because the digestive
I roecss has to be suspended until tho tem-p-rature
ot the stomach has n rais.M to
t Ik. nronet pitch, t'o-l water is always more
t'uetive in allaying thirst than ice cold
water. The latter may increase the thirst,
ami it docs increase? the heat of the body.
Cool water may be indulged in without fcar
of bad results, but the iv cold article is
tii.vavs dangerous. The quickest and surest
wav to cooi the btdy is to take a gla-ss of hG
lemonade or hot water. It is instantly nl
KorU-d, !"' I in a few minutes it is being
t vni -ir.it-. 1 fr-im mo surface of tho body.
K.vnponJ;.a, you krow, pr.Klmts cx)lnev,
Tie- hot draughts ahJ met as topics tq the
i-:o::iaeb end remove tho sense of thirst."
-Would- vuu advocate the cicvtion of hot
water fountains with a view to keeping the
public cool,"'
-Xo, 1 would not, l-ecRUse the sudden rool
inof thel-Iyby tL.-sc i.:ea!;s might bring
id lout c-i serious ilU as any other sudden
chan-e. I would advocate the use of tool
water, and I would net have tho Ice come in
coattet wit'.i it, but remain outside of tho
ye.vsel containing tho water. Ice cream, .ce
vaU-r and ice drink. kill more n.-cple than
. Ch dera. You needn't laugh; it's right. The
cholera may knock them out faster jut
while it is at it, but tho others are getting
their work in the year round." Pittsburg
Commercial.
?
la Vlnoo Time.
The grr.po vine is shooting forth its hvivea,
Oio morning glory climbs the fence, the Vir
ginia creeper mounts the trees, and the bo
vino is at large. These be vinous thaw.
Harper's Bazar.
THE SENSES OF SMELL.
Concerning It Ivelopinent to the Baats
of the Field.
Apparently developed in a much greater
degree than that of horses Is tho scenting
tower of cattle. Most animals seem to identi
fy their young by their smelL The barbar
ous custom still prevails throughout the
country of placing tho hide of a butchered
calf licforo its mother to stop her mournful
lowing. It would Im rating human acumen
rat her high to mjpposo that a mother could
recognize her baby by Its skin, yet a cow w ill
identify the bloody relic of her offspring and
instantly ceuse her noisy grief. Yurd fed
cattle nose their hay tilled racks and bins,
and from tho many varieties of dri!l fodder
select only such as will please their pulates
and nourish their lxidi.-s.
Cows eat many kinds of fungi the com
mon pufTball w hen young, mushrooms, fairy
ring champignon, and some wood growing
toadstools, by which their milk is much
affected; but by far the greater number they
pass untouched w ith a contemptuous sniff.
The pig, from tho well known uml proverb
ial length of its combination nose, would
naturally lo exweted to have en
larged olfactory sense, and so it has.
When its omnivorous apjietite is con
sidered, and it is rememl-red that it seeks
tho greater part of its food by plowing
under tho surface of tho ground to obtain it,
where it cannot see and must detect it by tho
process of smelling before ;t can get it to its
mouth to. taste it, its discernment of tho
edible and non-odible from the countless
things its nose encounters is, to say tho
least, highly complimentary to that much
derided organ. It is said that "learned pigs"
(they aro worthy of capitals) are lirst trained
to their card playing accomplishments ,y
placing grnins of corn under such cards as
they aro afterward by signs instructed to
move.
The ground mole, with fur covered eyes,
capable at tho best of discerning bright light
only, discovers and chooses food in its sub
terranean groping by its long, delicately con
structed nostrils. Sheep areeven ni'.M e dainty
than cuttle in sclectiug their iKjur;yhi)iiH!l,
and, like nil othor uniiiK'.H, d-eiid uin.ost
entirely upon the sense of smclL Lambs,
after a long separation from their mothers,
will seek them out in a largo herd. But ex
perience goes to show that sight and hearing
aro Ruxiliury to scent in some cases, as lambs
frequently fail to recognize their mothers
after tho latter havo been shorn. 'iw York
T;mes.
Ilrhll.ig the Knglisli Channel.
The scheme of constructing a briugo over
the Knglish channel has just Ivl-u ximpieiod.
It has been worked out by the Creusot engi
neers and M, Ilerseut, ex-president of the
Society of Civil Engineers. The progress of
metallurgy makes tho construction possible
of an immense bridge, thirty kilometers long,
with a platform at the height of fifty meters
above the sea at full tide, and supported by
piles at distances of SOU meters. Tho heipht
allowed fur tho bridge over tho channel
would allow large steamers uud sailing ves
sels to pass freely. It would support four
railway linos, besides a road for carriages
and footpaths. This will be s-itijfactovy for
thoou dread b.a sicklier Tho only
trouble left them will lie that of choosing
tht jr mode of locomotion whether by rail
way carriage, omnibus, cab or velocipede,
riaces c.f refuge, watch houses and alarm
liells will lio placed on each pile, with a pow
erful light.
The authors of this gigantic scheme believe
that the foundations may be constructed by
means of compressed air diving bells, the
depth of the strait between Calais and pover
not being, on mi cvtrage, moro than from
twenty-five to thirty-nine motel's, and in few
places exceeding fifty mc-ters. Tho bridge
will cost btXJ.t-.'O.OOy francs, it metallic
weight will amount to 2,000,000 tons, and it
might be constructed in six years. The
schema will shortly be submitted for exami
nation to an international technical commit
tee. When this examination has been com
pleted, tho Channel Bridge society will apply
for a concession to tho French m;: J Ung!i-u
governments, from w bleb it v. il! ask for no
subsidy. pnder these con'dtiiohs the con
cession might bo ea ily granted and tho work
immediately begun. la a few years the
commerco of the two nations vyouid benefit
from the simplification introduced, into their
relations by the execution of a work which
might be considered us one of thu most im
portant of tho century. Paris Temps;.
iolmcco a Cure for Croup.
Although Dr. S. Learitt, professor of
Hahnemann college, does not use tobacco in
any form, ho is never without a small pack
uge of lino cut in his pocket, and the reason
of it is this: A gentleman of the doctor's
ncquaintanco told him how he had saved his
child's life after all tho doctors hai s;11 "or
up. Sl.ti had meinbranocu-: croup, "and" while
the niothtr, from sheer' exhaustion, had lain
down for a few moments' rest, tho father sat
by the child. The hard, difficult bribing
of the little one, gi'HT. '.n 'iiiitt,.r and JVinter
aa the ihiont dogged up, was torture to the
father. Everything in tho way of emetics
hail lx;en used, but without effect, but sud
denly an idea struck the nearly distracted
father. Ho remembered how deathly s'c!;
he was the first tinyj he chewed tobacco, and
having a cud in his mouth, without thinking
twice he opened ths child's mOuth and placed
the tobacco in.
Tho father knew it s a dc-peiatu act,
and he waited, ii. ten ioio suspense for tho re
sult. It came, and quicker than hf oouid
havo liopod. There was a sudden convulsive
movement and the poor little thing was
nearly doubled for nn instant, and seemed to
writ ho i:i agony when, throwing herself for
ward, there slt f rom her throat a chunk
almost solid plum at least two inphes long
and having through it a passage' no' larger
than a small lead pencil. After a few min
utes of rctphing tho liUlp ojio Uy vueUy
buok and slept caimiy aud sweetly, and the
next day was pla3'ing around the house with
all her wonted vim. Dr. Leavitt remarked
that it was a tough remedy, but said he
would alwavs carry tobacco hereafter, and
he does. Chicago HcraX I.
At Home, Sweet Home.
Bunker (at dinner table) Strangest thing
happened, my love, today. I met Charlie
Blazer.
Mi s. Bunker Charlia Blazer I Weil, I
never didl Johnny, take your elbows off the
table. What did he have to say! More
coffee ?
Bunker Half cup. We talked about old
times and Thomas, don't rattle your fork on
your plate. He said
Mrs. B. Maine, leave the room if yos
can't keep quiet. Is ho living in Boston yet
Bunker No; he moved to Tom, see who's
at tho door, and if it's a beggar, tell him no
to Fortlaud, and he thinks he will
Mrs. B. Mercy on us I Kate, do be care
ful. You nearly put out baby's eye with
your finger. So clad to hear it Did you
tell him -
Tom Man with a ton of coaL
Bunker Must be a mistake; tell him to
try next door. I told Charlhs
Mrs. B. Excuse me, dear. I hear Mrs.
Eattlesfc.lling mo over the back fence.
Bunker (with energy) If I ever try to telj
a sto.-y again I (Chokes himself on his
coii'ce aud subsides.) Detroit Free Pres.
IN TOE VACmG HOUSE.
LAST HOURS OF A HOG'S LIFE IN
EAST CAMBRIDGE.
I'orcli.e Kr.criitioii Tliut Tuke l'luce
Daily In On of the Kuburhv of JloHtcn.
1MkmK1..-I in the Hot Water The Khav
ing MiM'hiiM-.
A pig may go into the pork xickiug house
ii East Cambridge a pig, but when ho goes
out he is numerously referred to as hams,
lork sides, pigs' f-ct, hogs' heads, spare ribs,
pickled tongues and shoulders, lard, bristles,
fertilizer, hair and hogs' greaso and lard oil.
Hecently, in ooiuiuiiy with one of the em
ployes of the concern, the writer spent several
hours in examining the various buildings. A
l)i!g, low struct lire at t he extreme northeast
orner of the enclosure, about which a hih
fence i ntends to prot. i t it from the world
outside, is the hog house when new arrivals
are kept before the slaughter. A car load of
sleek looking porkers, t hat might bo called
the .vristocraey of the swino population of
the west, were jtisf, beginning to settle down
for a few hours of solid comfort when a small
Imyand a man came hurriedly along, and
shouting to them, the entire drove were i.u a
minute ujm.u their feci. They eaw a means
of exit that had purposi y be. n h i t open, and
through it they passed, unconscious f tho
terrible fate awaiting them on tho other side
of tho long, narrow bridge into w hich they
were cnurin;r. And what a long, dark
bridge it is! You have seen covered railroad
bridges up in the country that are like it.
Through occasional cracks in tho walls tho
sunlight streamed in, and thero in a babel of
sounds could lie s'.'cn a line of hogs packed
closer than sleighs on t he Milldam in Janu
ary. They were crowding, pushing each
ot her towards t he little opcnle M. aheait
winch marked the ;('( ui tlie bridge, and
pretty so,iu they had all passed through it
nor into th'J sunlight which seemed to bo
awaiting them, but into a triangular pen
where the rumble of machinery came tothcir
ears, and occasionally the (lying wail of one
of their kind whose wind had been cut by
tho lord high executioner.
The porkers were close;- K.gyihor than sar
dines in ! !., ami n .-.tless as eel -. They
tri'd t walk on top of each other, rubUil
against the trousers of tho men among 'hem,
and then some would trv tclimb the wooden
wall and escape As it was no less than six
feet l.ighj they could do little, more than
stand on their hind legs. This iva.-. nil es'-el-lcnt
opportunity Ju tin; sw lne herd. Ho had
Imhu for several minutes watching a wire
ropo that h;:iig from a pulley somo twenty
feet above the icn. Then it was lowered
toward him, and we knew the end was im
minent. If I were to droTihn i'lirt weenu after, tho
newspaiK-i styio of an execution, 1 would
ay:
10:f o'clock Tig Sty, the large-it and most
intellectual npj tearing vi. inii, is now being
seized by the liind legs. Tho left is clasped
by a band of iteel, which fastens like a hand
cuir. 10:'i3;p Ho is suddenly drawn high in the
air, and is swinging to and fro like the i-en-dulum
of a grand father's clock. A pro
longed squeal in the key of high ' I vh ' Ikt
ntes through the de-i?l; ch.iutltcr. The. Vope
begiie; ;iii!iieii io puil him along towards
the executioner.
li:01 o'clock The executioner ha. just let
fly a mouthful of tobacco juice. Tho victim
for a '-'ci.nd liangs silent' before him. The
aw fulness of the situat ion is evidently numb
ing his mind, for no sound escapes him.
Courage such um his in tho last moment of
life .-.'.-ems more than human. The execu
tioner raise his knife, lie holds it as Edwin
Booth does his rapier in a stage duel. A
second its trusty blade glitters in the electric
light, and then it is buried in the victim's
apoplectic neck. He twists 'il.0 it screw
driver, ami thr. v'nc kiHer pulls forth liis
weapon, w fiite the life blood starts in a rim
son stream like muddy CoHiitunte through n
half open fa uei't. In an instant con-, ulsjous
seize the dying porkt:y. His llesh twists and
the muscles OccLmo distorted. The agonies
are intense, and then the reaction of Jyuih
bc'.ins, the cords relax aiii tii towards he
bathing tub 1". g-ies, dead as a doornail..
Ten secoiuK after -the pig Involute pork lie
is shot down into a hot water bath. Ye who
have thought litVs end was coming in the
sweltering confines of a Turkish bath takt
heart always. Don't kick ebout hot water
until you havo seen tho bubl.lh-g, seething
caldron in a killing room. The hog is
alw-avs supposed to lie dead when Xb' stao
is reached, but it somctinev '.tttpt.is that he
is not. -.111.1 in U'e. few brief moments before
final ttaikness blinds his ruin 1 how thoughts
of past wrongsnnd misdeeds must ;-oJie from
their graves to lmund him; Tho tub. iu
which he. i-, dro.p..-d is a long ne., r.M'J after
U:ing yplled tiver- se.vtMi'.l times until the
hi ri.-tle. uiv leiidy to drop out of their own
accord he is pulled up on a board, and in a
twinkling two men have removed his belies
and he goes on his way i'"r. iiig. Hooked
like a li; h nude;;. iie chin, the ropo to which
ho i suspended 'carries him through a shower
bath, und then the shaving v,:;.hine, js
reached. lean say truthfully that I would
rather take. uy Chances, in going thr(tkih
that mayhino than to repeat ;hi evi-i-iei:ee
of lieiiig shavejl bv sotun ihii U-fs I know who
claim t-t l" th st class wot kiuea.
J'.ut you want to know something about
this machine. Suppose, thl, you see tho
head of a barrel removed, and in its hwv
imagine there aro arranged ; np-.m springs a
dozen or moi-e knil- tilade, so that when no
piessui.e. is bi'vight ; iipon them from the under
side tiiey remain so close together that you
could not drop n. kitten down between them.
Thee, jiorigiitu Hint a pig's nose comes into
sight. It gent 1 j- slides up, pushing back the
scrapers, which in turn do their duty and
leave his snout hairless anil white as a baby's
face. On he comes, and further back the
blades are pushed ills neck comes through,
then his body, ami finally, when he has lieen
all scraped, as he is by one passage through,
the knives resume their original position, a
stream of water dashes over them, and the
hair is washe down through a passage into
a ivpository lie low.
Oil goes the porker until he reaches a table
where four men aro employed, two on each
side, in removing such hairs as have escaxtl
the automatic barber behind. Before you
can say Jack Robinson he has resumed his
journey and is landed on a bench, w hero his
internals are removed and. several shower
baths given. Then, when all is over and he
is looking as pure and clean as pork can look,
ho is given the only roller coaster ride a pig
was ever known to take. The course from
the end of the finishing room to the cooling
room, where the pork is placed beroie pack
ing, is down a long incline of perhaps i!00
feet. The dressed hog is hitched to a iittle
truck by the bind legs, a push is given, and
down the track it runs to the refrigerator,.
To be candid, this was the 011I3- portion of
the business that I should like to pass through,
and the enthusiasm of boyhood days could
not be kept down as we watched the porker
swing wildly to and fro as the truck carried
him down like the wind, faster than a bicycle
coasts down hill, with no chance for a header.
Henry G. Trickey in Boston Globe.
NOTES, ITEM3, RARAC?UPH3.
More than one million men are em
ployed by tho various railway lines in
the United States.
A Florida man advertises for a couple
of alligators of "mild disposition und
good habits."
Emperor Frederick died within thirty
foot of whero he was liorn, and at ex
actly the natiio hour of the day.
'Dinners for a jH imy" tire given every
week to 1,000 ieople out of employment
by a liii iniiigliain, Knglund, charity or
ganization. The monster timlxT ship at the Finger
board, Nova Scotia, is alioiit two-thirds
built. Thero arc 121,000 piec es already
in the ship, ami, it is exiected, ?,Oi0
more will be required to finish it.
It is a. curious fact that a man named
Messenger has just In-en appointed gunner
in the navy, while a man named (Juiuier
was recently mado a messenger in t he
navy department at Washington.
In a recent French murder trial the
l67losof the murdered man were brought
into court and placed hcfoio the accused.
Tin) man turned pale, but over the
ghastly relics reiterated his protestation
of innocence; nevertheless lie was con
victed. Men who object to the useful and neat
occupation of dusting may be encouraged
by the examj iIo of Inimas, who lrc
UentIy has a house cleaning mania. He
is very orderly and is often seen, feather
duster in hand, dusting his study and
changing pieces of fiirui:
The coach which the emperor of Japan
has lately had made in London is lined
with white silk, and decorated without
in ciaivr, vermilion and gold. On tho
center of the roof is torched an iminen.se
gilt bird carrying a chrysanthemum in
his beak, and the chrysanthemum ap
pears here and there on the panvi:..
It is said that the shares in the Suez
canal which Loiu Beacon sfields govern
ment purchased from the ex-Khciive
Ismail for four millions sterling tiro now
stated to havo a value of more than nino
millions. It js further added that by tho
sale of theso in the open market no less
a sum than ten millions would lo res
ized. In the pulpit treatment of texts there
is such thiiiij-tis nomiletie vivisection, in
which the very lift? of tho sacred words
is killed out by artificial plans and x
cesstTe divisions. VCo so busy ourselves
vvitli the hkelvtcii" of the se'nnon that
the E0d of tho text escajKs us, and it,
too, becomes a skeleton in our hands.
The first pair of wx-ks ever worn )y
Lord Byron has just been presented to
the Flayers' club of New York. They
are fmeer looking little things, and .seem
to lo made of narrow braid sewn to
gether. One can learn nothing of ly
ron's deformity from them, for they
were cut down to lit a doll before they
came into tho hands of their last owner.
A novelty in the way of commence
ment exex'cLses was seen uc a New York
grammar school. After tho singing and
recitations tho girls made t raw berry
short take and poached t-ggs in the
presence of their guests and distributed
them among their friends. One of the
trustees said in a speech that tho time
would come when, if any one wanted a
cook, he would come straight to the
school and get one.
A Notorio'ii thjjiisU swell.
T';a iiotoaoiis English swell who Warn
the courtesy title, of Lord Cotirienay has
filed his luible shovel gcd.n. lcbts, live
thousand eUjhi hundred and fifty pounds
stciihig, and assets, nil. Tradesmen have
endured much at Coiirtenay's hands, for
in 18T0 he aid a shilling in tho pound
on one hundred thousand pounds sterling,
and eight years, later he parted another
"lx" dividend on twenty thousand
pounds sterling. Iu the palmy days o;
his credit (1 e never had any money)
scion of an ancient race belonged to the
Marquis of Hastings' ''plunging" svt,
and his betting liabilities rati into tens of
thousands before V.a vmg refused to tlo
any mora le.u-tness with him, except for
w.s dow n. Even when Oourtc nay's
name was listed oy. tho turf, a vuVt
would attend hi'A to race uioeil'igs with
a change of V'l.t kid gloves. Lavendct'
and lemou wore the fashionable tl;;U in
tliOSu days. On the appeavar.oo e, i
valet, his noLle master- would, change
gloves, careles-J.y t'inging tho scarcely
soiled gloves away. After the first great
oiuash, Coui'tenay cam.c-down to one pair
of gloves per day-, tho second brought
him to one pair ttveek, and now be is
doing w ithout" gloves until he succeeds to
the earldom of Devon. Then this perfect
genlleiViau will sit in the Ikuv'm; of lord
aud vote against any amendment of the
bankruptcy act. The Argonaut.
The FrentU Lottery Lean.
The French lottery loan for the Fanama
v-aiial is likely, it is now said, to provo A
failure. It would be a matter for sur
prise should the event bo otherwise. The
very fact of resort being had to such a
method for raising funds, even under
government sanction, should be sufficient,
one would suppose, to condemn tho
scheme in the eyes of all sober capitalists.
When a company appeals to tho gamb
ling mania so far as to promise prizes,
varying in amount from 100,000 to
500.000 francs, it is pretty clear that their
enterprise cannot stand on its own merits.
In the case in question a French financial
writer predicts that not more than one
half, possibly not more than one-fourth,
of the amount required will lie subscribed.
It is thought that a largo part -of the sum
thus raised will have to he debited
with the government as security fur the
successful prize drawers. Toronto Week.
Latest Fancy in Jewelry,
The latest in jewelry is rather clever
don't you think? A half opened red rose,
surrounded by green leaves, is copied ba
accurately that you would hardly guesa
by looks, touch or smell that you have
not in your hand the real thing. This
rose is meant to be pinned on the front of
a white gown just where the dainty lawn
meets tho dainty bkin. To hold" ic ia
place it is wired ever so lightly with gold,
and on one ietal hovers a golden butter
fly. Another one of these "art" flowers,
a fragrant white pond lily, with a brU
liant summer fly in enamel just alighting
upon it, is a conceit in the same line
given to a young girl a day or two ago.
New York Mail and Express.
The
Plattsmouth Herald
Xa on joying aBorjmin both its
EDITION S.
The
Will lc niif litiiii which tht' sulijicts d"
national inton st ami importance, will In
stio:i"lv :i"-ituteil and tin flection of a
Piv.-idcnt, will take .laoo. 'Iho j.eoj.l.; ol
Ca.ss Coiintv who would like to learn of
Political, Commercial
and Social
of this year :unl woi.hl keep apace with
the times should
nn:
Daily or Weekly Herald.
Now while we have the ?uljeet hef'orethe
people we will venture to epeak ol our
Which is lir&t-c-lass in all respects ami
from which our joh printers arc turning
out much satisfactory work.
PLATTSMOUTH,
A KB WEEKLY
Year 1888
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