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SEPTEMBER 23, 1904
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Ther Favorite Dishes.
Queen Victoria la said to have given
mutton the preference in the lino of
meats, and. was nowise ottended if
offered "the cold shoulder."
Queen Elizabeth was very fond of
roast goose. She was dining on this
When the gqod news was brought her
on Michaelmas day that the Spanish
ileet had .boon driven back. And ever
since then that fowl has been to the
English feast pf St. Michael what the
turkey is to- our Thanksgiving day.
Henry Villi was extremely fond of
beans, and imported a Dutch gardener
to raise them, as in his day they were
only used by, the upper classes-1 "a
dish to set Detare tne King.
Napoleon's! favorite dish was bean
salad, much cheaper in his time, but
equally good.-
Louis XV- was ''extravagantly" fond
of a dish made of the eggs of various
birds, whicnr,6ost- $100.
George Eliot, while at Brookbank,
used freoWntyy,. to walk over to the
farm, where she "purchased her vegeta
bles, and chat -with the farmer's wife
on gardening; and butter making, who
was somewhat surprised at the great
novelist's conversation on such homely
topics, and afterward remarked: "It
were wonderful, just wonderful, the
sight o' green peas that I send down to
that gentleman and lady every week."
This was the, .summer "Middlemarch"
was written. -
George. Sand '.not. only liked sauces,
but" excdiledin making them.
Lincoln in' the days when he did his
own marketing, ' often stopped at a
certain shop-for his 'favoriteginger
bread. He Used -to say': "It swells up
and makes ifreeel as if I -had had
something."
Stonewall Jaclcspn delighted in buck
wheat cakes-r-ln season andoi$ of
season.
Ralph "Waldo Emerson was fond of
pie, espqcially that made; of. plums,
which .he' called-. the fruit of paradise.-
Dr. Holmes, on the. contrary, said-of
the peach: "When nature has deliv
ered it to us In its perfection, We for
get all the lesser fruits, and if not
found by the river of life, an earth
horn spirit might be forgiven for miss
ing It."
Charles Sumner's private secretary
tells of the statesman's sweet tooth
for chocolate creams.
Andrew Jackson surrendered to ice
cream at first taste, when Mrs; Alex
ander Hamilton Introduced it into
"Washington; and swore his usual oath
"By the eternal" he would have it
at the white house, and he did at the
next reception.
Washington' was noted for his fond
ness for hickory nuts, and the amount
he could consume. What to Eat.
your eyes and move back "irdm it
about ten 'feet. Then point to It anu
tawo a sight along the top of youi
pointing linger until the object ana
the Up of your linger are exactly in
line with the eye from which you are
sighting. Next, open the other eye anu
see if the object seoms to havo moveu
irom the straight line. If it has noL
moved to one side apparently, the eye
with which you first looked is the
stronger, as the addition of the other'b
vision duqa not change the focus, li
the object seems to have .moved it
proveB that the other eye Is the
stronger, the difference Jjeing , meas
ured by the distance that the object
appears to 'have moved.
Try sighting with both ey,cs open
hrst. Then look with first . one eye
and then the other and see how far
out of line each makes the object ap
pear. The one that is furthest out of
line is tho weakest eye. Chicago Journal.
over anyono begins to exhibit prac
tical joke symptoms ho may bo sent
thero for life. Thus concentrated, tho
practical jokers might play their jokes
on ono another without fear of out
side interference. Such a schema
would certainly como within tho
meaning of poetic justice. Chicago
Record-Herald.
Each To HU Calling
Bourke Cockran was askpd by a
St. Louis reporter to give the public
some advice on the art of public
speaking. '
"A youth," Mr. Cockran answered
smiling, "once went with your ques
tion to an old Englishman who had
made a good success as a lecturer.
" 'How may I become, sir,' said the
youth, 'a successful public speaker,
like yourself?' -
"The old lecturer laughed.
" 4Tha wants to bo a public speaker,
do tha,. lad?' he said. 'An' tha thinks
Awm the chap to put tha up to a
wrinkle ahoot It? Tha's relght, lad.
Ah am.
" 'Now, hark tha. When tha rises
to mak tha speych, hit taable an'
oppen thy mouth. If nowt comes, tak'
a sup o' -water an' hit taable again,
an' oppen thy pouth wider than
afoor.
- 'f-'Then, If nowt comes, tak thysen
off, an'' leave public speykin' to such as
me.' " Ex.
Which Eye Is Stronger?
Here is a little test for your eyes
that will soon show you which of them
is the stronger. Place an object about
two inches in diameter on a level with
Hog Cholera
The seasons this year have been fav
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For worms it has no equal. After a
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they will .seruUyou the. bookifreeiby
return mail.
Another Practical Joker and His
"Joke."
At Flushing, L. I., the other day
Harold Baker, a young man who may
some day amount to something in
this world if he speedily and thor
oughly "clianges his ways and succeeds
in acquiring a new idea of what con
stitutes fun, cut open an apple, and,
having made a hollow place in it,
filled the hole with cayenne pepper.
He then replaced the skin of tho ap
ple so as to make is look natural and
gave the fruit to a 4-year-old boy, in
forming him that it was nice and juicy,
and that he might eat It. The child
took a bite and got his mouth full of
the pepper, the result being that he
was thrown into convulsions, which
lasted from 6 o'clock in tho evening
until 2 o'clock on the following morn
ing. For two or three hours the doc
tors who had been summoned feared
they would be unable to save the suf
fering little boy's life, but it is hoped
now that he will recover, although his
nervous system received such a shock
that he may not for years get over
the effects of his experience.
This is simply tho old, old practical
joke in a new way. Of course the
"joker" Is sorry now, and of course
o is explaining that he "didn't think."
Practical jokers never do think. That's
tho great trouble with them. If they
were capable of thinking they wouldn't
play practical jokes, which nearly al
ways result in disaster for somebody.
It Is a pity that thee Is not some
way to dal with practical jokers be
fore they operate. Perhaps some day
some one will discover how to dispose
of tho practical joke problem. It may
be that one of the many islands which
have come into the possession of the
United- States can be set aside as a
practical jokers' colony, so that when-
Goat with a Charmed Life
A well-known suburbanite who had
been groatly troubled by the doproda
tions of a neighbor's goat was drivon
to desperation one day Avhen ho
learned that tho unimnl had consumed
a favorite rod liannel coat of hiB.
Determined on tho goat's destruction,
ho employed an unscrupulous small
boy who lived in tho neighborhood to
secure him to tho railroad track just
before the dally express was due. Somo
days afterward a friend Inquired with
interest if the goat had betfn effectu
ally disposed of.
"Not on your life," was the disgUBtcd
answer; "that goat had a charmed
life. He coughed up that red golf coat
of mine and flagged tho train." Har
per's Weekly.
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