Loap City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - - NEBRASKA.
Those prisoners in a Boston jail
saw their way to freedom and they
sawed It.
The man who threw a rock at Gen.
Shatter without hitting him was not
a baseball player.
It is consoling to know that Mr.
Nicholas Longworth can afford to buy
the best wig in the market.
Another way to make football less
brutal would be to compel the players
to wear boxing gloves on their feet.
Sealskins have become so expen
sive that the number of seals wear
ing them is growing smaller every
year.
Another gold mine has been discov
ered in Vermont. It is too early yet
to estimate how much it will cost the
finder.
"In Germany it is the newcomer’s
duty to make the first social call.” Is
it also the old resident’s duty to re
turn it?
It would be interesting to hear the
McCurdys expressing their minds con
cerning young Mr. Hyde, who started
all this fuss.
We may be obstinate, but we stand
ready to argue that there never was as
good mince meat as some men say
there used to be.
"Let us pray for Boston,” says the
Boston Globe. What’s the matter
there? An epidemic of split Infinitives,
or a bean famine?
A report of the American board of
foreign missions says that the sultan
has broken some promises. That is
what he makes them for.
The next Grand Army national en
campment will be held in Minneap
olis, beginning Aug. 13. It will be
considerably warmer then.
A German baron complains that he
cannot live on $40 a week. Couldn’t
he manage to lead a baron existence
on that sum, if he tried hard?
Col. Pettit’s error arises from the
fact that he imagines the nation exists
to maintain an army, whereas the
army exists to maintain the naticn.
The Chicago professor who says
that beans, soup and pancakes are
not wholesome food may be right
about the pancakes.—Boston Globe.
A great deal can be said in support
of the contention that no man in this
country is worth a salary of $150,000
a year. Furthermore, a great deal is
said.
A letter written by George Washing
ton was sold the other day for $250.
It would have been an unlucky thing
for somebody if George had used a
typewriter.
Said Pat McCarren of New York be
fore an Irish audience, “I would put
dynamite under London to-night and
blow it oft the face of the map.” And
spoil the map?
May Yohe wants a divorce from
Capt. Putnam Bradlee Strong. May
never did seem to get much enjoy
ment out of the business of support
ting husbands.
Doubtless the rich have their handi
caps, as President Eliot declares, but
the poor would get along with them
gladly if they could only have their
handy pocket books.
It is not true that the national song
of the new province that has just cut
loose from Russia will have a chorus
beginning: “Livonl-a! Livoni-a!
Swee-de-le-wee-bum! Hi-rasa!”
Gen. Sollogub, newly appointed dic
tator of the Baltic provinces with su
preme powers, may be a statesman
like genius, but it certainly can't be
said that he has an inspiring name.
President Corey is of the opinion
that he is not the only financial big
wig that ever attended a stag dinner
party. And there seems to be more or
less ground for thinking he may be
right.
Miss Gilman declares the bathhouse
incident was greatly exaggerated. Sev
eral of the gentlemen who have b»en
referred to as millionaires were prob
ably not worth more than $700,000 or
$800,000 each.
A Buffalo woman says her husband
used to get a jag once a week when
they were first married, eight years
ago, and now he gets one every day.
Marriage certainly does have a bad
effect on some men.
An orator rises to remark that
these be parlous times in which we
behold the marvelous spectacle of bla
tant probity yawping out its gizzard
from the pinnacle of flatulent self-ap
preciation. This is real post-prandial
eloquence.
England has conferred the title of
viscount on a newspaper man. In this
country we have no titles to confer on
the people of the press, and even if we
had it is doubtful if any member of the
staff outside of the society editor could
be induced to accept them.
This seems to be the open season
for European ministries. England
has just had a change, the ministries
of Greece, Italy and Montenegro have
been forced to resign, and there are
rumors that Witte has serious doubts
about his ministry’s ability to pull
through.
A Missouri farmer Is dead of too
much money. As he gathered' spoil,
and kept it, his mind grew inward, so
he perished. People threatened with
ingrowing minds should see that they
contain no germs of conscience.
Daniels’ Reasons.
The night of the first performance
of ‘‘Sergeant Brue” in Chicago last
September, a friend of Frank Daniels
remarked to the comedian
‘‘Frank, I saw you twenty-one years
ago, and you were just the same then
as you were to-night.
Daniels got up from his chair, did
his funny little strut, and wiggled his
eyebrows. The friend threw back his
head and roared.
“There you are,” said Daniels, drop
ping quietly back into his seat.
"You’re laughing just the same as
you did twenty years ago.”
The friend stared, “That’s right; I
never thought of that before.”
“Well, I did,” was the reply, “and
just as long as audiences keep laugh
ing at my strut and wink, I’ll keep on
strutting and winking.”
Prolific and Successful Writer.
Charles Klein is one of the few
American playwrights whose efforts
have met with enduring success.
“Heartsease” produced by Henry Mil
ler, has served as a perennially popu
lar vehicle for this actor. “El Capi
tan,” which he wrote in conjunction
with John Philip Sousa furnished De
Wolf Hopper with one of his great suc
cesses. The same may be said of “A
Royal Rogue,” written for Jefferson
D’Angelis; with Lee Arthur he collab
orated on “The Auctioneer,” in which
David Warfield made his stellar de
but. For this actor he wrote “The
Music Master,” which is now in its
second year in New York with no
abatement in its popularity. “The
Lion and the Moujse” seems likely to
rival this record, for its success at thje
Lyceum has ranked this season with
that other theatrical phenomenon.
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Maud Larbert Is to succeed Cheri
dah Simpson as principal boy in
“Babes in the Wood.”
Charles Miller will create the lead
ing male character in Jay Hunt's mel
odrama “A Crown of Thorns.”
Julia Marlowe’s costumes for Portia
have all been remodeled after medie
val portraits in European galleries.
Henry Arthur Jones has cabled $100
from London to Daniel Frohman as
his contribution to the Palmer testi
monial.
William Gillette is back in America
after new honors in London with
“Clarice,” which will be given at the
Colonial.
“The Woman in the Case” had the
longest New York run of any play
in which Blanche Walsh has appeared
in that city.
Thomas Jefferson, whose “Rip Van
Winkle” was rejected in New York,
has been a great success everywhere
else he has played.
The new piece Intended for Edna
May, when she returns to the Vaude
ville theater in London, will be known
as "The Debutante.”
Eva Davenport has left “Wonder
land” and is now a membe* of the
“Coming Thro’ the Rye” company.
She plays opposite to Joseph Coyne.
Miss Grace Van Studdiford, prima
donna in "Lady Teazle,” has been so
ill in Pittsburg this week that she
did not appear at the Belasco theater.
Clyde Fitch has signed a contract
for a play of modern New York life
in which Blanche Walsh will appear
next Autumn at the new Astor The
atre.
Grace George, In the stage version
of Mrs. Humphrey Ward’s “The Mar
riage of William Ashe,” is in her third
week at the Garden Theatre, New
York.
When “The Silver King” was first
brought out in America at Waliack’s
in New York in 1882 the cast Included
John Gilbert. Miss Coghlan and Mr.
Tearle.
Nance O’Neil, back from Australia,,
began another American tour at the
Grand Opera House, San Francisco.
The opening play was “The Fires of
St. John.”
The revival of interest in Oscar
Wilde’s play is evidenced by the re
cent printing by John W. Luc9 & Co.
of the “Plays of Oscar Wilde,” in two
volumes.
W. H. Thompson is again to join the
stellar ranks in a new version of his
former play, called “The Bishop.” He
will be under the management of the
Shuberts.
In Joseph Murphy's first production
of "Kerry Gow,” a quarter of a century
ago, Katherine Corcoran, the widow
ot the late James A. Heme, played
Jack the Jockey.
Miss Bijou Fernandez has been en
gaged to play the role of Alice Goff in
Bernard Shaw's ‘Cashel Byron’s Pro
fession.” James J. Corbett is to have
the leading part.
Miss Charlotte Walker, late leading
woman for Mr. Haekett, has been en
gaged to take the first role in “As Ye
Sow,” left vacant by the death of
Miss MacGregor.
Miss Marion Stanley, the fascina
ting Tryxie in "The Wizard of Oz” is
a splendid musician. One of her lat
est songs will be dedicated to Miss
Leona Stevens of the same company.
Julia Sanderson, the new beauty of
“Fantana,” has been on the stage less
than three years. She started in the
chorus of “Winsome Winnie,” but
was soon promoted to Mataya in
"Wang.”
Julia Marlowe has never had the
privilege of seeing Ellen Terry, Mod
jeska or Ada Rehan in the character
of Portia in “The Merchant of Ven
ice.” Her impersonation, therefore,
is original.
“The Pearl and the Pumpkin” is the
latest of the big spectacular entertain
ments to hoist the white flag. This is
the extravaganza in which W. W. Den
slow, the Chicago artist, is interested
as librettist.
Mme. Bernhardt's “Camille” on this,
her farewell American four, is said to
surpass even her former efforts. The
eminent French actress has the assist
ance of an Armand of splendid worth
in M. de Neubourg.
Ill fortune continues to trail poor
old Henry Clay Barnabee. His start
ing tour in “Cloverdell” came to an
end at Portsmouth, N. H., this week
because the stage manager insisted
on having his salary.
When Wilson Barrett first presented
"The Silver King” at the Princesses
in London in 1882 it was commended
as being the most notable advance
in this class of plays known to the
generation of that day. \
It may be interesting to note that In
Joseph Murphy’s first production
of “Kerry Gow” more than twenty
eight years ago, in his company were,
Annie Pixlev, James O’Neil, Felix
Morris, Lewis Morrison and • many
others.
Mrs. Lottie Blair Parker’s dramati
zation of “The Redemption of David
Corson” has been successful enough -
“on the road” to warrant the theatri
cal powers in giving it a New York,
hearing at the Majestic theater in
January.
vviniam comer win continue in on
the Quiet” throughout the present sea
son. His new play, “The Heart of a
Sparrow,” which he will produce in
Boston, will be given for only one
week, after which he will return to
‘On the Quiet.”
L. Frank Baum, the writer of chil
dren’s stories and fairy spectacles, has
been commissioned b r the Smithson
ian institution to go to Egypt for the
purpose of compiling an unscientific
volume on the pyramids for the use
of the everyday reader.
Klaw & Erlanger’s production of J.
I. C. Clarke’s dramatic version of Gen.
Lew Wallace’s romantic novel. “The
Prince of India,” will receive its pre
miere at the Colonial, Chicago, Feb. 5.
Its “first night,” will represent the
culmination of over two years of'most
earnest effort and preparation on the
part of the dramatist, scene painters,
costumers and producers.
Elsie Janis will make her debut
as a star on Jan. 5 in Hartford, Conn.,
at Parson’s theater. After three per
formances there she will go to Phila
delphia for a week and then into New
York for a run. She will appear in
"The Vanderbilt Cup,” which is de
scribed as a “new, eight cylinder
comic machine carrying three shoes
and eight tubes,” whatever that may
mean.
Olga Nethersole revived “Carmen”
in New York at the Herald Square
theater, New York, and duplicated
the success she achieved in the origin
al production of this play. She has
brought with her a new scenic pro
duction on an elaborate scale, with
many picturesque costumes and trap
pings purchased in Madrid. When
she leaves the Herald Square theater
in New York next month she will
start out on her transcontinental tour.
She will take with her a company of
forty people who will appear in nine
plays, requiring seven carloads of
scenery and furniture.
Around the World In % Second.
Around the world In three-fourths of
a second and less is the trip a cable
message makes. Since the laying of
the cable from San Francisco to Ma
nila completed the telegraphic circuit
of the earth it uecame possible to
measure by the ordinary method of
telegraphic’ longitude the arc across
the Pacific and hence to complete the
entire circle of the globe. Of neces
sity this must be equivalent to 360 de
grees, or twenty-four hours of time,
and the interest lies in noting how
nearly the sum of the links which go
to make up the whole approximates
to this total, and thus obtaining some
indication of the degree of accuracy
which attaches to such operations.
There are several routes across the
eastern hemisphere by which the ends
of the Pacific cable might be joined,
and taking one direct route, via Ma
dras, it appears that the closing error
is less than a fifth of a second—that
is to say, the sum of the various links
exceeds 24 hours by only .174 second.
Another interesting fact comes out.
This Pacific cable consists of four sec
tions divided by transmitting stations
at Honolulu, Midway island and Guam,
the total length of cable being 7,846
nautical miles. The time a signal
takes to traverse this length, exclud
ing that occupied by reading and pass
ing on the messages at intermediate
points is not quite three-fourths of a
second.
New Fire Escape.
Equal to the danger on sea is the
danger from fire on land. When a fire
breaks out there is seldom time to
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Instantly Applied.
escape by the ordinary way and im
mediate means are imperative. This
is especially true in large houses,
where there are no fire escapes. An
Ohio woman has devised a fire-escape
ladder which is commendable in sev
eral respects, as it embodies strength
and efliciency, together with simplicity
of construction and has many advan
tages over a chain, and rope, which
are often used. In this fire-escape lad
der the rounds of the ladder are
strung on cables, two on each side.
Extensions projecting to the rear are
formed on every round, the extension
contacting with the wall of the build
ing when the ladder is in use to space
it sufficiently to allow of a good foot
hold. The cables extend between and
are clamped to two plates, the rounds
resting on and being supported by
these plates. Blocks which rest on
the window sill have hooks which
catch under the'’sill, the blocks being
adjustable on rods to accommodate
the apparatus to different-sized win
dows. Pivoted to each block are links
which support chains, the cables being
suspended from the chains. In case
of fire the ladder can be instantly
swung out of the window and persons
within the burning building descend
to safety.
Italy in Need of Water.
Water, water is the cry of Italy, as
in no other land in the world; not to
drink, but to create power, so that
about $25,000,000 need not be spent an
nually. as at present, to buy from for
eigners her coal for fuel. Beginning
with the renowned Tiber, with 500,000
horse power, the rivers of Italy are es
timated to have 767,000 horse power,
of which 592,000 horse power lies in
idle latency. Waterfalls, mountain
streams and torrents to the number of
24,486 are credited with an annual po
tentiality of 2,642,000 horse power, all
unused. A law providing an annual
payment to the government of about
25 cents per horse power has retarded
development, but beginnings have
been made, particularly In the river
Tierno and on a waterfall in the river
Adda, and great things are foreseen in
tbe coming days of the electro tech
nical industry In Italy.
Temperature and Butterflies.
Some remarkably interesting experi
ments are reported from Zurich show
ing the effect of temperature on the
development of species among butter
flies. The experiments have been con
tinued through a period of about four
teen years, and it is found, for in
stance, that the common small tor
toiseshell butterfly, if subjected to
warmth of from thirty-seven degrees
to thirty-nine degrees centigrade—de
velops into the variety found in Sar
dinia, while those bred in a tempera
ture of from four degrees to six de
grees produce the Lapland variety.
Similarly the application of heat pro
duced the Sardinian form of the swal
low-tail butterfly, and the Syrian form
of the Apollo.
A Harbor for Airships.
An Interesting series of experiments
to test the military value of airships
Is about to be made by the French
artillery. It may be premised that the
fact of their value may be taken as
established up to a certain point to
the satisfaction of the French mili
tary authorities, since a permanent
“harbor” for airships has been es
tablished in the artillery quarter or
the garrison of Toul. "Ms “harbor”
will be used as a continual center for
studying the question as to what ser
vices can be obtained from, airships
-V aid the defense of a fortified place
-■ler the siege.
DEVICE FOR WATERING PLANTS
Automatically Reflates the Supply of
Moiature.
Two ingenious methods of watering
plants automatically are shown in the
accompanying illustrations. The es
sential part of the first device is »
long untwisted wick such as is used
by lamplighters. These wicks are
about five feet long and the threads
of which they are composed are easily
separated. The wick is protected by
a glass tube about three feet long
and about one-quarter inch bore,
which is bent in a flame into a siphon
or U-shape with one leg very much
longer than the other. The wick is
drawn through the tube with the aid
of a flexible wire, and is allowed to
protrude at both ends. It takes up
water slowly at first, and the tube
containing the wick should be left
over uight in a vessel of water.
To use this device for watering pot
ted plants, three or four pots are
placed near together, and a pail of wa
ter is put near and above them, on a
tench. The short leg of the tube is
immersed in the water and the flow is
started by sucking at the other end.
The strands of the wick are distrib
uted among the pots, being placed in
contact with the earth but not with
the stalks of the plants. One or more
strands are assigned to each plant, ac
cording to its need of water and, of
course, the entire flow may be given
to one pot, in which case the end of
the tube is inserted in the soil. In
very hot weather it is advisable to
cover the pail and wrap the tube with
wadding to prevent the wick drying.
The German inventor of this device
says that he has always found it to
work perfectly. It was designed for
watering house plants during the ab
sence of their usual caretakers, but it
seems adapted to garden use as well.
The second device, patented in Ger
many a few years ago, is still .simpler.
It consists of a pear-shaped glass bulb
drawn out to a point at one end. The
point itself is closed but near it is a
lateral opening, through which the
vessel may be filled with water.
When filled it is thrust into the
earth near the plant, to which is sup
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plied the proper quantity of water for
several days or weeks, as the water
flows from the hole with greater or
less rapidity according to the dryness
of soil.—Montreal Herald.
To Relieve Overworked Fathers.
Surely one of the most curious pro
fessions that physi-culture and hygi
ene have called into existence is that
of the “foster-father.” Yet, when we
learn the duties expected of this pa
tient creature, we realize that he is
among the "long-felt wants” proceed
ing from the modern domestic prob
lem.
The foster-father takes the 'first
steps in molding what in nursery par
lance are known as "little gentleman.”
His duties are to drill boys and take
charge of them out of school hours, to
display an active interest in their rec
reations and to assume responsibility
for their neatness and good behavior.
There must be thousands of those
helpless individuals known as “harass
ed parents” in all classes of society,
who would gladly shift the anxieties
of teaching the young male idea on to
the shoulders of an able deputy.—
Lady’s Pictorial.
Industrial Future of Mexico.
The prophets foresee in Mexico a
manufacturing country of the first
rank. This because of abundant
hydro-electric power, cheap and un
organized labor, stability of climate,
and geographical situation. To these
are added the recent discoveries of
mineral oil or petroleum, and the de
velopment of the coal fields in the
northwestern sections, which will
supply the required fuel. The amount
of power in use in Mexico is estimated
as 66.008 indicated horse power steam,
32,147 indicated horse power water,
17,828 indicated horse power electric,
all of which are probably below exist
ing figures. In developing the last
Mexico is making marvelous strides,
and there are power plants now in ex
istence or in the course of construc
tion which will rank second only to
those of Niagara.
CleanlTness in New Train Shed.
Light, quiet and purity are the trin
ity of virtues adorning a novel train
shed now building in New Jersey.
Withal it promises to be cheap in con
struction and inexpensive to maintain.
It consists of a number of longitudinal
sections built up of structural steel,
reinforced concrete and wire glass.
Wherever the steel will be subjected
to the locomotive gases it is protected
by concrete and copper. The longitu
dinal opening over the locomotives’
stacks extends the entire length of
the train shed and is almost entirely
open. The tops' of the locomotives’
stacks will come within six or eight
inches of the opening, and are ex
pected to discharge practically all of
their exhaust directly through and out
side of the shed. Three continuous
skylights will be placed longitudinally
in the roof of each section, admitting
light directly t« the windows of the
cars
MANY WEAR AMULETS
ALL SORTS OF CHARMS IN FAVOR
WITH MEN.
Generally a Story Connected With
Odd Tokens Which Are Never Laid
Aside During Either Owners’ Sleep
ing or Waking Hours.
“About one-third of the men who
come into this place wear an amulet
or a luck charm, or something that
they never take oft when they strip,”
said an attendant of a turkish bath.
"Four or five regular patrons wear
little lockets strung on cords round
their necks. Pictures of their best
girls, I suppose. The locket of one
oldish fellow, who has been a patron
for years, is studded with diamonds
and must be very valuable.
"There are all kinds of luck
charms. I’ve noticed two or three
rabbits’ feet, a little bronze Japanese
god, and a piece of green stone, jade
I guess, with a Chinese inscription.
“One drunk, who always comes in
here when he is tapering off, has a
lead bullet hammered out flat. It was
easy for me to figure out the com
bination, because on his left breast,
just over the heart, there is an ir
regular, whitish scar.
“One night he told me about it. He
got it in a gambling quarrel down in
Arizona. A Mexican shot at him
point blank with a bulldog revolver.
A check book in his pocket turned the
bullet, so that it just ploughed up the
flesh and lodged in his coat.
“You'd have though he’d have worn
the check book, but somehow he fig
ured it out that the bullet was lucky.
He had it hammered out flat, hung it
around his neck and has never taken
it off to this day.
“College boys who belong to some
fraternity or other which makes them
wear their pins always come in here
now and then. They always call for
a string before they undress and go
into the hot room with the pin tied
to their necks.
“The queerest case in my exper
ience was an old fellow, a mining man,
I believe. He was in and out for
eight or ten years. He always wore
a flat disk of tin on a string about
his neck.
“I got curious about that thing;
used to look it over when I was rub
bing him down. I made it out to be
a kind of box. It opened with a clasp
on the under side. I never asked any
questions, but I mighty well wanted
to know.
“Well, sir, one night he showed up
very drunk and talkative, and told me
about that little box.
“It seems that away back some
time, when he was a young man, he
stumbled against a dying Mexican
who had a notion about hidden treas
ure. Before he died the Mexican
handed over a little old diagram on a
piece of parchment.
“There was something wrong with
the diagram. The miner had found
the place where the treasure ought
to be, dug there, and drawn a blank.
Then he figured on places where the
direction was hazy, went back, and
tried again In another direction.
“He’d been doing that for years on
every trip he’d taken to Arizona. Safe
deposit vaults were no use to him for
keeping his little map. He’d had that
water tight tin box made and lashed
about his neck by a stout thong, so
that sleeping, waking or swimming
it was always with him.
“I haven’t seen him for more than
a year. It’s getting about time for
him to turn up again.”—New York
Sun. __
A Baa ucui.
Don’t talk to me of nature’s debt.
Lord bless this world. I love it!
I love Its blossoms dewy-wet.
1 love the sikes above it!
I ain't a-thinkin' of on debts—
I see the blossoms blowin'—.
No thought of debts my conscience frets,
I hear the cows a-lowin'!
And I ain't thlnkln’ of a thing
Except life's sunny weather.
Of thickets where the wild birds sing,
And you and me together!
Old nature's debt's an honest one.
Perhaps. I'll not gainsay it;
But life’s so full o' love an fun
I ain't got time to pay it.
I ain't got time—Lord love you. sweet.
Your hand In mine here, honey!
Life's ragtime tuggin' at my feet!
It's funny, honey, funny
How glad I am to hear the cows
Contented far-off lowin'.
And walk with you where winds carouse
An’ blossoms are a-blowin'!
So it don’t worry me at all.
This debt that I'm a-owln',
I'm laughin’ back the mock bird s call
Where sunlit streams are ttowln ,
An' chasin' butterflies all day ,
Where laughin' winds are shovln ,
And I ain't got no time to pay
I'm laughin', livin', lovtn !
—Houston Post.
Tramp Had Not Suffered.
It is related that one day William
Lloyd Garrison was called from his
dinner table by a man who begged
for a pair of trousers. Thinking he
would give his the pair he had on, and
don a new pair he had lately pur
chased, he went upstairs to make the
change. He was somewhat dashed, on
coming down to the table and explain
ing matters, by Mrs. Garrison s ex
clamation: "If you give him the pair
you had on you gave him your new
trousers!” Garrison laughed, and
said: “Well, he has a good pair any
how.”
Booker Washington's Names.
When Booker T. Washington first
went to school he knew himself by no
other name than Booker, but, having
heard other children give second
names In answer to roll call, he added
one to his own. “Booker Washington,”
he called when asked for his name.
Later ho found that his mother had
called him “Teliaferro,” as well as
“Booker,” so he adopted that name
aa well, but cut it down to plain “T.”
Labor Scarce in West.
There is a great scarcity of common
labor aii over the West, and it threat
ens to become a serious problem next
spring with so many big enterprises
being projected. There is certain to
be a very large amount of railroad
work. Government work will require
thousands, and private capital is be
ing invested in so many schemes that
the East must contribute heavily or
many great works will be held back.
More Than One Beantown.
"I’m from Beantown.”
“Boston?”
“That’s the only beantown, isn’t It?”
“Well, there’s Lima, Ohio.”
Serious Error Rectified
All the mountains in Switzerland
have suddenly been reduced in hight
by about ten feet. !n 1820 the tin o
a certain rock in the Lake of Geneva
was calculated to be 376.86 metre*
above ocean level, and on this basis
all the summits in the country were
calculated. Recently the discovery
was made that an error had been
made in fixing the height of that rock,
and that it is 3.26 metres lower than
it was marked.
The Pace That Kills.
^ ork is good. But when it reaches
the point where the worker is con
scious of its strenuoslty it becomes
the pace that kills. In no country are
there so many nervous wrecks both
among men and women as in this
hustling, get-rich-quick America. It
is here that we need less strenuous
ness. more repose of soul and body.—
Chicago News.
A Necessity.
Now, when life is so gloomy, it be
comes a necessity for people to bask
in the humor of the professional com
edian. It is terrible to contemplate
what would be the consequences of
a dearth of comedians.—Bystander.
Just Wonderful.
Vestry, Miss., Jan. 1st (Special)—
. he case of Mrs. C. W. Pearson, who
resides here is a particularly inter
esting one. Here ’s the story told by
Mr. Pearson, her husband, in his own
words. He says:—
“My wife’s health was bad for a
long time. Last July she was taken
terrible Dad with spasms. 1 6ent for
the doctor, and after making a thor
ough examination of her, he said un
doubtedly the cause of her trouble was
a disordered state of the Kidneys.
His medicine didn't seem to be doing
her much good, so as I heard about
Dodd’s Kidney Pills, I got her a box
Just to give them a trial. Well the
effpct was just wonderful. I saw that
they were the right medicine and I
got two more boxes. When she had
taken these she was so much better
that she had increased thirty pounds
In weight. She is now quite well, and
we owe it all to Dodd’s Kidney Pills.”
A Servian litigant was allowed $180
compensation for the loss of one side
of his mustache, which had reached
to the middle of his chest, and which
was cut off by a jealous rival.
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A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES.
Itching. Blind. Bleeding, Protruding Piles. Drug
gists are authorized to refund money If PAZ<>
OINTMENT falls to cure In S to 14 days. 5Uc.
Farming in Austria.
In Austria field labor is still largely
done by the women, who also thrash
the grain with flails.
Lewis’ Single Binder straight 5c cigar is
good quality all the time. Your dealer or
Lewis’ Factor}', Peoria, III.
Like it, but Different.
The capital of a western state had
been relocated at a small county-seat
village where an old-time exhorter
preached every Sunday with increas
ing enthusiasm as the building boom
enlarged his congregation. He want
ed a big revival, and urged ail to join
in the Christian work, saying vehem
ently: “The Christian work is just
like any other work, only it is very
different.”—Magazine of Fun.
—
Rubenstein’s Demand.
When Rubenstein was in America
some years ago, a friend in New York
took him to church. A little preacher
preached a little sermon on a little
theme. The next Sunday evening the
friend invited the great musician to
go again. “I will,” said Rubenstein,
“but on one condition; you must take
me to hear a man who will tempt me
to do the impossible.”
Ben: Perley Poore's Joke.
Maj. Ben: Perley Poore was on a
train from Boston to Indian Hill
Farm with an invited guest. At a
station a brakeman announced Tops
field. "Topsfield,” mused the major.
“Top's-fleld. I have always wondered
where his house and garden are.”
Relic of Chicago Fire.
Among the curios preserved in the
Bank of England is a banknote that,
passed through the Chicago fire. The
paper was consumed but the ash held
together and the printing is quite leg
ible. It is kept carefully under glass.
The bank paid the note.
MALARIA? ? ?
Generally That Is Not the Trouble.
Persons with a susceptibility to ma
larial influences should beware of cof
fee, which has a tendency to load up
the liver with bile.
A lady writes from Denver that she
suffered for years from chills and
fever which at last she learned were
mainly produced by the coffee she
drank. <
“I was also grievously afflicted
with headaches and Indigestion,” she
says, “which I became satisfied were
likewise largely due to the coffee L
drank. Six months ago I quit its use
altogether and began to drink Postum
Food Coffee, with the gratifying result
that my headaches have disappeared,
my digestion has been restored and I
have not had a recurrence of chills
and fever for more than three months.
I have no doubt that it was Postum
that brought me this relief, for I have
used no medicine while this improve
ment has been going on." (It was
really relief from congestion of the
liver caused by cofTee.)
“My daughter has been as great a
coffee drinker as I, and for years was
afflicted with terrible sick headaches,
which often lasted for a week at a
time. She is a brain worker and ex
cessive application together with head
aches began to affect her memory
most seriously. She found no help in
medicines and the doctor frankly ad
vised her to quit coffee and use Post
um.
“For more than four months she
has not had a headache—her mental
faculties have grown more active and
vigorous and her memory has been
restored.
“No more tea, coffee or drugs for
us, so long as we can get Postum.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek. Mich.
There’s a rpacon. Read the little
book “The Road to Wellville” in pkgs.