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4 'I fe A KANSAS ROMANCE. THE FARMER'S EUREKA DITCH "KNOCKED DOWN." The rnrclmorm Valil Only 910,000 for ItCost n MHUon Sail Story of a Collapsed Irrigation Scheme In Arkan at Valley. offEBRASKA Farmer soys: Tho remains the famous Eureka 4ltch iu Kansas, which cost tho In vestors an even million, was sold under tho hammer n few days ago for ?10,000. The ditch was projected by tho Arkansas Valley Ir rigation compnny several ycarB ago. It was to be 100 miles long, extondlng from Tngalls, In Gray county, through Ford, Hodgson and Edwards counties, to the town of Kinsley. This gigantic scheme to reclaim a vast area of arid lands and make It one of the richest agricultural districts on the continent, relates a correspondent of the St. Louis Republic, was tho con ception of J. C. Soule, a wealthy bit ters manufacturer of Rochester, N. Y. He had accumulated a large fortuno in the bitters business, nnd in the early '80's went to western Knnsas to find an Investment for his surplus capital. He became an enthusiast on tho sub ject of irrigation and made arrange ments for utilizing tho water of tho Arkansas river to make the dry and worthless lands through which it coursed valuable for farming purposes. After extensive surveys Mr. Soule decided on starting his enterprise In Gray county. Selecting nn advan tageous point on the banks of the Ar kansas river for beginning his great Irrigation ditch, he laid off a townslto and started a city, which, in his opin ion, was destined to become the me tropolis of the plains. He christened it Ingalls, after the then senator from Kansas. Gray county nt that time was an unorganized prairie waste, but Soulo caused the legislature to have it regu larly organized, bringing to Topeka a powerful lobby. This had not been accomplished be fore a syndicate of speculators was formed to profit from the enterprise of the bitters man, and a rlvnl town called Cimarron was started. Upon the organization of the county, Ingalls and Cimarron became rivals for the county seat. A county seat election was held, which was typical of western Kansas. The two towns were nbout equal In population, and each exerted every effort to secure voters. Soule spared no expense In rounding up cow boys and floaters of all kinds to cast their ballots for Ingalls. Largo sums of money weru expended in this way by both towns, but the bank account of Soule was the larger and Ingalls carried tho day. The county seat question having been settled to the satisfaction of the promoter of the ditch, work on the canal was begun and pushed forward as rapidly as men and money could do it. The first excavation was com menced near Ingalls, and it was on such a grand scale that it amounted simply to changing the course of the river. At that point the river had a fall of eight feet to tho mile. The fall of the ditch was but two feet to the mile, so that a gain of six feet was made in every mile of ditch dug. In twenty miles the canal had reached a point in the hills 120 fret abovo the river bed, nnd ten miles further eabt It had reached the divide nnd proceeded eastward on its course, carrying life to the parched lands, which at once yielded to Its influence nnd were transformed from a sterling waste to an area of wondrous fertility. No expense wns spared in tho con fctructlon of the great canal. At points on Its line Immense reservoirs were constructed to hold the surplus water, and at frequent Intervals, large em bankments and solid walls of masonry were built to carry the water over ob structing ravines. No enterprise that was ever put under way in' the west had brighter prospects than this "Eureka Ditch," us Mr. Soule delighted In calling it. Many towns were laid out along its course and water works and electric light and power companies were or ganized without number, all of which weie to depend upon the ditch, for necessary power. The country which It traversed gave promise of soon be coming a new Eldorado. The popula tion rapidly increased and a boom was inaugurated which has never before or since had its equal in the west About this time the people of Colo rado began to Investigate the subject or irrigation, and they, too, tapped the Arkansas river, tho great artery through which the melting snows of the Rockies were being carried on their way to the Gulf. Ditch after ditch was cut through Colorado soil, and in a short time the supply of the Arkansas river was exhausted before the Kansas line was reached. As a re sult the "Eureka Ditch" went dry, the land near its banks in Kansas re turned to its original arid condition, Ingalls, Cimarron and other towns brought Into existence by Mr. Soule's enterprise lost their population, and the "Eureka Ditch" filled up with sand. Mr, Soule also built a railroad forty miles long In tho desert, extending from Dodge City to Montezuma. The only evidence that it ever existed is tho two streaks of rust across the cheerless prairie. Soule started the town of Spearvllle and made It his headquarters. He organized a bank In every town that was built along his irrigation ditch. Three miles north of Dodge City he built a college, which cost him $75,000, It was never occu pied, and stands there today, deserted, the home of bats and owls. MM tk'sSp Ufc MS While the "Eureka Ditch" has re sulted so disastrously, it 1b not gen erally believed that Us originator lost anything by reason of It. He succeeded in selling large blocks of stock In tho company at big prices, nnd then secured ,$1,000,000 from English capitalists from the sale of first mortgage bonds. "With the failure of the ditch Mr. Soule abandoned Kansas and sold bis bitters business In Rochester, from which ho realized J500.000. He has since died, nnd Knnsas receives an occasional visit from his son. "Wilson Soule, who has inherited his father's few remain ing possessions In tho ArkanBns valley. The bondholders, It Is claimed, pro pose to fully investigate tho underflow theory. It is believed that a largo volume of wnter flows oceanward be neath the surface, and thnt It can bo tapped and brought Into tho bed of tho big ditch. Should It be demon strated that this theory Is practical the roseate visions of tho elder Soulo may yet be realized by his successors. NOT A DUDE'S BADGE. Cnno No Longer the Special I'ritllt'Rn of the Fop or Dnnriy. "You know," said a discerning gen tlcmnn to .an Atlanta Constitution re porter, "it used to bo said that n man who carries a cane every day wbb nn Idler, a dawdler worthless for all practical purposes.. If you'll let mo see how a fellow handles a cane, I'll tell you whether he is worthless or not. U'b not in the fact of carrying a cane, but how It Is carried that the sig nificance lies. When a man comes Into my olllce with u cane in his hand I watch him closely. If he sits nnd twirls it Idly and aimlessly about on his fingers, he Is a worthless Idler. But If he walks In, puts it up ngalnst the wall nnd proceeds to business, there is something iu him. You mny hope for him. If he holds It firmly while he Is talking to you nnd does not twirl it about, he's all right. The fellow who plays with his cane, swlngB It around, marks figures on the carpet with it. punches the furniture with tho tip, isn'Jt fit for much else. Yes, a decent, hard working fellow can carry a cano all the time, and they do so, many of them, and the act does not Indicate that they are Idlers. But the fellow who goes around swinging his cane and playing with it is a nuisance anywhere you put him." Ills I'utiny Day Aru (ioiic. The juggling fakir, having been driv en from more lucrative schemes, has been reduced to a very common level. One of the class who was recognized as having worn diamonds five years ago, nnd who wns known as one of the most skillful shell-workers In the country, wns the center of an eager group of boys in the rear of a big store at dinner hour Saturday, lie was seedy and run down, and a wreck of his former days, indicating that the shqll swindle is too well-known nowadays to bo successful ly worked. He had a basket In front of him, containing a number of small paper bags. In one hand he held a pretty gold ring, and this he pretended to put Into one of the bags. Then he shook the pile up. "Pick It out for a cent, boys!" he cried many times. "It's In that one," cried one. "There It Is," shouted another; and so the boys vigorously guessed, but they didn't pro duce the pennies, When the observer left the decayed thimble-rigger was still monotonously and despairingly calling out: "Pick it out for n cent, boys! There's no deception, and tho lucky boy gets a gold ring worth $50. Pick it out for a cent!" Philadelphia Call. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Of the CS.000 postoffices In tho United States, only nbout one thousand aro Eelf-supportlng. The Pueblo Indians are a moral race. They have resisted all attempts of traders to Introduce whisky and play ing cards in their midst. About 12,000 acres of grain in Lane county, Kan., have been Insured against fire, flood and tornado. This Is a new kink in agriculture. Feather beds were employed by the better classes in England during the days of Henry VIII, though they were considered luxuries and were expen sive. In 1S90 the horses of the United States were valued at 978.000,000. In 1S95, though the number has Increased over 1.000,000, the value was only $570, 730,580. In the medical department of the University of Michigan the two stu dents who stood highest were Meiyll Sble and Ida Khan, girls from Klu klang, China. The Sault Ste. Marie canal, between Lakes Huron and Michigan, now car ries 20.000,000 tonB a year, or twice the weight that passes through the Suez canal annually, With a population of 3,725,000, Scot land has 6,500 university students, while with a population about six times as great England has only 6,000 uni versity students. A match-cutting machine is quite an automatic curiosity. It cuts 10,000,000 sticks a day, and then arranges them over a vat, where the heads are put on at a surprising rate of speed. "Familiarity breeds contempt" Is a proverb found In on? form or another in every European or Asiatic language having a literature. Its earliest form is believed to be in the Sanskrit. The first regular peal of bells hung in England was that sent by Pope Calixtus III, as a present to King's col lege, Cambridge, in 1456. For threo centuries It was the largest peal in tho country. A strange freak of nature occurred at Brldgeton, N. J., on Tuesday, when the cat belonging to Mr. A. E. Robinson gave birth to a litter of five kittens all closely joined together. They all ap pear to be healthy. HOBBIES OF FAMOUS PERSONS. Queer Wlilmi of MlmU tilirn to Con templating Important Matter. A very peculiar hobby was thnt of nn old woman who had been employed nt court in the capacity of nurse, nnd who had a most extensive collection of pieces of wedding cake. The cakes to which tho fragments belonged had been cut nt the marriages of the highest in tho land. Tho place of honor wns given to a portion of Queen Victoria's wedding cake, and nenrly every royal marriage that had occurred since the accession of William IV. was repre sented in this curious collection. Lord Petersham, a noted dandy In his day, had a hobby for walking sticks, nnd also for vnrlous kinds of tea and snuff. All round his sitting room were shelves, those upon one Bide laden with canis ters of Souchong, Uohcn, Congou, Pekob, Russian, nnd other varieties of ten. The shelves opposite were decorated with handsome Jars, containing every kind rt snuff, while snuff-boxes lay here, there, nnd everywhere. Lord Petersham prided himself upon possess ing tho most magnificent array of boxes to be found In Europe, and wns supposed to have n fresh box for every day in the year. When some one ad mired a beautiful old light-blue Sovres box he was using, ho lisped out, "Yes, it Is a nice summer box, but would not do for winter wear." Count Henry von Hruhl, a famous German diplomatist, busied himself In collecting boots, shoes, slippers, nnd wigs of all shapes, sizes, nnd fashions. This curious hobby was rlvnled by that of n late King of Bavaria, whose collection of hats wns unique. A King of Wurtemburg boasted tho possession of nbove 9,000 copies of the Bible; and a nicotine-loving American revelod in a trensury of pipes, of which ho could count 365 speclmcnts In meerschaum, brier, glass, china, and clay. Tho Duke of Sussex, brother of King Gcorgo II., had a pair of hobbies that were wide as tho poles asunder. He was nn Indo fatlgable collector of Bibles and of cigars. Pope PIub IX. was a collector of slippers. He always had twenty four pairs in his wardrobe, made of red cloth embroidered with gold, nnd orna mented with a solid gold cross, his chamberlnln being strictly enjoined not to part with a single pair, however well worn they might bo, to any of the many devout applicants for them. Wigs and walking Btlcks were the especial vani ties of Mr. William Evans, some time principal clerk in tho prothonotnry's office for Anglesea, Carnarvon, nnd Merioneth, and so highly did he value them that he bequeathed one of each to threo different maiden ladles, for whom he had In turn felt n tenderness in early life. Another gentleman had a hobby for scarf pins. Ho Is snid to have kept n book containing as many pages as there are days in the year, In each of which a different pin wns stuck. Every morning he fastened Into his scarf the pin which occupied the space allotted to that particular date, return ing It to Its place when he undresHPd at night. A Suu-SWleualk Itulluuy. A novel plan for a sub-sidewalk rail road, to take the place of elovated roads for rapid transit, has been designed by a Chicago Inventor. The road, as Its name Implies, is to be built under the sldewnlk of the street, the space re quired "being only eight feet In width by eight feet In hight. At the curb line a wall Is laid from one end of the street to the other. Under the other side of the walk the curb wall Is parallel with a stone foundation for posts and n fence. On this foundation and on the babo of the curb wall rails are laid. Iron columns nro feet on the Inner wall suporting girders level with the top of the curb wnll nnd marking the line be tween the sidewalk proper and the so called area t-pace. A wiro fence con nects the posts nnd separates the rail road from the area space. This space will be for btairways and entrances to basements. With the curb-wall, gird ers and bases of buildings for suppor;, a prismatic walk is laid for the purpose of admitting light into the spnee below. Electricity Is to be the motive power. The speed, the plan sets forth, will not be less than thirty miles nn hour, and may in some cases be as high as sixty miles an hour. One of the advantages claimed for the road Is that it will con vert the babements of buildings Into valuable property. This and other clr cumstancses. It Is believed would make the property owners readily give their consent to the construction of the road A Story Told In Kn-jlunil. One of the most valuable flocks of Southdown shcr-i In the United States Is tho property of Mr. Mansan Mlgg, the beet-root sugar magnate, Kays the Lon don Tit-Bits. A peculiar fact In con nection with the flock is that it Is looked after, not by sheep dogs, but by six trained Spanish game cocks. They are armed each morning with spurs, and have so Herco n way of attacking any sheep that tries to run away or will not be driven that the animals are now thoroughly afraid of the birds and obey their directions perfectly. Mr. Mlgg's daughter brought the birds from the Canary Islands. Daring the Transition I'crlod. She Er George! He W-well, Laura? She I I think we understand each other, George, but but Is it my place or yours to put the question, and ought I to speak to your mamma about It or ought you to go and ask papa? Chi cago Tribune. Veteran. Belle was asked where her little broth ers, aged 4 and 2, were. She replied; "They are sitting on the doorstep talk ing ovw old-times." FOE THE HOUSEWIFE SOME USEFUL RECIPES FOR THE CULINARY. Vegetable SalaiU ltaplerry Vinegar I'.iiclUh Fruit 1lrt Coffee Cnke -Cherry .lam strawberry Ten Cako MlM'ellaitrou Illn'r , EGKTABLE Salads. In making vege table snlads, which nrc, especially In spring nnd summer, refreshing nnd con ducive to nppotlte, , the prerequisite Is ' to select tho very freshest vegetables, and tho next im portant condition Is that In your dressing no matter how many flavors arc used, no one of them should domlnnte a salad dressing should be nn even blend of flavors. A further requisite Is that tho dressing should never be added to tho prepnred vegetables until you uro ready to serve. Among the salad vegetables are lettuce, aspnragus, dandelion, wnter cress, celery cauliflower, cucumbers, toma toes, string beans, and very young lima beanB. The nnsturtlum Is useful to give tone nnd sharpness to tho more taste less sorts of vegetables. English Fruit Tart. Make without an under crust. Fill a shallow dish with one and one-half pints of Heeded cherries; sprinkle with ono cup of sugar and one tablespoonful of flour. Make a rich pie-crust and roll out a little larger than the top of the dish, but of the samo shape. Prick It with a fork and spread over tho top of the cherries, turning In nt tho edges. Bake about nn hour In a moderately hot oven. The English sprinkle Biigar over tho tart before It Is brought to tho table. Coffee Cake. Beat half a cup of but ter and a cup of sugar together until light, then add two eggs well beaten and ono cup of milk, mix nnd add suf ficient flour to roll out; this will tnko from threo and a half to four cups. Measure threo cups of flour first, add a teaspoonful of baking powder, nnd sift It. Knead this In and then add more If necessary. Flavor with nutmeg and roll out hnlf an Inch thick, cut Into squnro cakes and bake in a moderate oven. Strawberry Tea Cake Two eggs, re serving tho whites of ono, ono cupful of sugnr, butter tho size of an egg, hnlf cupful of milk, two cupful8 of flour, ono teaspoonful of cream tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda. Bake In three layers. Filling: White of one egg beaten very stiff, three-fourth of a cup ful of sugar; boat again, then add half a cupful of freBh strawberries bruited to a pulp, and beat till stiff enough to stnnd alone. This gives a filling of a lovely pink color. Cherry Rolypoly. Sift hnlf a pound of flour Into a bowl, add one-quarter of a pound of suet, chopped fine, nbout n quarter of a teaspoonful of salt nnd Just wnter enough to make a dough that can be rolled out on a board. Stem and seed ono pint of Morello cherries. Roll tho crust nearly nn inch thick, spread the cherries evenly over It and dredge them lightly with flour. Roll It up. put It in a floured cloth and pin it se curely. Put it in a pot of boiling water and boll It, without stopping, two hours. Blackberry Pudding. Beat together thn-yolks and whites of three eggs, nnd when light stir In two cupfuls of milk, three and a hnlf of flour, a plueh of salt, a tablespoonful of melted butter and two heaping tenspoonfuls of bak ing powder. Bent all tho while as the uovcral Ingredients are added, stir In a pint of blackborrles nnd turn the bat ter Into a greased mold. Cover closely and bteam over a kettle of boiling watt r for threo hours. To Cover Jam Pots. When the Jam or Jelly has become quite cold dip tissue paper or kitchen paper either In hot milk oi In the white of nn e?g, lot It get fairly saturated, but do not keep It In the liquid long, or It will bleak. Gently strain the paper over the top edges of the pot. press It Into shape at tho sides, and you will find In a few hours tho paper will become firm like u piece of parchment. It effectually ex cludes tho air. Snrsaparllla Mead. Three poundr sugar, threo ounces tartaric acid, one ono ounce cream tartar, one ounro of Hour, one ounce essence of sarsnparilla. threo quarts water. Strain and bot tle It, then let it stand ten days before using. Rhubarb Fool. Stew the rhubarb and then press It through a colander and return this to the fire. Beat the yolks of three eggs, remove the rhubarb from the fire and stir them nil In, then quick ly stir In tho well-beaten whites, and turn Into a dish to cool. Was a Hip Johnny Cake. At an Oakland, 111., barbecue recent ly twenty sheep, ten hogs, two fat steers, 700 loaves of bread and the us ual fried chickens, pickles, fried cakes and other "flxlns" were provided for the 50,000 people present. One of the old timers there said that tho johnny cake reminded him of one that was baked at a barbecue in Hamilton, Ohio, dur ing the presidential campaign of 1840. This cake, he said, was 26 feet long and two feet wide. It vas cut In twenty six pieces, one for tach of the twenty six states, and required four men to turn it. A Johnny cake twice as big as that would be required to supply the union now. 11 A THE TRIPLE CALL-DOWN. Mow n Horn) IrUhinnn Silenced a Crowd of denial. There were four of them, as genial, good-natured, whole-souled retailers of old wives' tales as ever got together In the smoking compartment of a sleeping car. They had all fed well In the diner and nettled down with the anticipation of enjoying n long evening of yarn swapping. They spread themselves over ns ninny of the seatB of tho smoker us thoy could cover, nnd crowded Into a corner, n lnrge round-faced, Jolly looking Irishman, who was enjoying Ills nfter-dlnner cigar. Somehow ho wasn't amused by the stories. The narrators spread themselves, but they couldn't phase him, nnd the bored expression on his face grew in intensity ns the elorlcs went on. Tho stories were not funny. Onco In n while thero was n gleam of humor, but for the most part they were commonplace or vulgar. But they seemed Irresistibly humorous to the four, who pelted their IhigliB nnd wheezed and chuckled and roared as each In turn finished his yarn. At last tho big Irishman could en dure It no longer, nnd he broke In with: "That reminds mo of a farmer who caught three Hoys stealing apples in his orchard." Tho original four turned toward him with a look of expectant triumph, ready to yell at the first sign of conclusion, "Ho chased thorn," wont on tho Irish man, "and thoy nil ran up a tree. 'Come down,' said the farmer, but they wouldn't. , " 'Will yo come down for once?' asked the fanner. " "We will not,' nnswered the boB. " 'Will ye come down for twice?' '"We will not.' " 'Will ye come down for three times?' "So they nil enme down." And with that tho bus Irlshmnn winked at the only other man in the compartment who wns not f tho story telling crowd. The yarn spinners laughed uproariously for a second or two nnd then a light went up, na the Germans Bay, and they stopped sud denly. They looked nt one another for a minute, searching for the point, nnd then ono snid with a yawn nnd a stretch: "Well, I guess It's bed time. Good night," nnd the party broke up, wondering. New York Sun. .May Sot t:urop by tho V.art. Things nro not going In Chlnn an John Bull wants them to. RubbIu Is got ting too firm a grip, and Franco has made a treaty that cuta squnrely across his Interests, and against which he is likely to protest. Now comes this kill ing and maiming of British subjects to complicate the situation, and call for a protest and perhaps something strong er from Great Britain. Japan's grow ing jealousy and fear of Russia enters Into these complications to a very largo extent, and Great Britain ns Japan's next friend, Is Intimately concerned In the outcome of this bitterness of tho conqueror of China toward the power which Is trying to destroy the fruits of that victory. If Salisbury takes It into his head to demand from Chlnn territorial Indemnity for these mission aries' lives, and as an offset to tho ad vantage gained by France under her treaty, there may be a clashing of In terests In the far east that will set ill! Europe by the ears. ISrri-7y ltltn of Thought. China Is the biggest crop Japan has ever harvested. Turkey must be up and Bedouin to stop the looting of her Arabs. All the same, duck trousers are not the things to go Into water with, Tho diplomat who knows something should not open his mouth, for fear what he knows may escape. Indianapolis people want the hors hitching posts removed from their Btreets. They have a country village appearance. MANNERISMS. Alfred the Great sa!d: "A king can afford to be polite." Count de LBseps was a true type o" the French gentleman. Colhouu wns so absent-minded that lie often forgot he was In company. Monroe was, een In his own time, called " a gentleman of the o!d school." Bancroft was rather reserved than otherwise with most persons whom he met, Garrlck was generally so quiet thnt he often created the Impression of dif fidence. Milton was quiet nnd reserved In con '.erxatlon, but thoroughly refined and well bred, Dante was solitary In his habits, and by his austerity chilled most of those whom he met. Henry Clay was eald to hne made the inoFt engaging bow of r.r.y gentle man of his time. fMolnunn;ed Inculcated politeness In the' Koran. He himself was one of the most courteous of men. Pius IX. botn before and after his ele vation to the pontlflclnl chair, was a model of studied politeness. Beethoven was rudo and gruff nnd seemed to be In a perpetual bad humor with himself and every one else. Robespierre was urbane in manner and courteous, though brief, to those who approached him on business. Byron was affable to his equals and to those whom he wished to please, but haughty and distant to most others. The Duke of Marlborough said that be owed his success as much to his elegant deportment as to his talents, Talleyrand owed his success In life to no small extent to the uniform cour tesy with which he treated every one. Andrew Jackson was rough In his manners, but could be polite when he pleased. He was always courteous to ladles. HARD NUT TO CRACK. rha I'erutlar Will That Fooled Ilia I'enntylvanln Court. One of the most peculiar wills ever upheld by n court wns that of Samuel Eddlngcr, of Moore township, Pennsyl vania. It has twice been construed by tho Supreme court of Pennsylvania, which lias now held thnt It conveys clearly the Intentions of tho testator, Mr. Eddlngcr wnB a man of advanced ago, nnd died a few weeks after ho raadf the will. 111b property wbb valued only $5,000. nnd a lnrge part of that amount must have already been ex pended In upholding tho will. Tho be ginning of the document Is apparently copied from a printed form, and the rest of it, entirely without punctuation, la in Mr. Eddlnger'K hnndwrltlng. Tho Supreme court kivh thnt tho purpose of tho will Is to give $1,000 to tho son, then a life annuity of $125 to his dnughter nnd to devise tho whole of IiIb real estnto to his eon. Afl the personal ea tato amounted to only $400 the court directed thnt tho nnnultj bo paid from tho real estate. The words written by tho testntor ns his last will and testa ment are: "thnt Js to any my Dlsiro my son John ho Shall hnve ono thousand Dollars In Advnnco before , any of the heirs Bhull have any money from my estato personal prop erty first my Son John rhtiir actio up all my Dcpts funeral Ex pense &c till nil Is paid iny Son John he Shall ' Setlo my personal proper- ty ns soon as it Is possible to shall pay of the money from my personal goods the halt of the money to my daughter Mngrct nnd whnt la left from tho Balenco "v- ' nfter the Thousand Dollars he tookt of for himself my Son John Shall pay to my for Dnughter Mnrgret on Anunlly Dowory one n Hundred nnd twenty-five Dol- lars for" her Natural Llfo time or au Long ' She will Llv In UiIb World and my Son John ho shall hnvo all my Real Estate for his own property ns soon aa my Dnughter la Dowery Deased my Son John shall not interest pay any longer not to her heirs and to no no body it be stopped," STUDYING TO PLEASE HIM. He Wh u Finicky Cniitomer, Hut the YVultor Wi Anxlnu to HntUfy 11 1 in. A man mulcted with the disease of flntcklstn, an exaggeration of the value of details, was giving his order for breakfast to a hotel waiter. Tho mnn was finical in the extrome. and the ex actitude of his order respectfully amused the waiter, who was somewhat of a Judge of human nature, inasmuch as he had served breakfast to many men, says Kansas City Star. Breakfast time is Invariably when you get down to the bedrock of a man's true dlsposl tion. It is too early In the day, and he is too close to nature Itself to have put on the little frills that he begins to as sume along about 11 o'clock. At all events, the waiter understood und took his order respectfully, even servilely, without losing his own estimate of tho man. The man had a morning cough and Blpped ice water as he gave his order. "Bring me a pot of coffee," he Bald. "And mind, it must bo hot hot'anA strong don't forget to hnvo It Btrong. And a sirloin steak, rare; remember, hnve It rare and no fat. 1 can't bear the sight of fat in the morning." "Yesslr, yessir. No fat," rolled the waiter. "And bring me some dry toast, hot. mind you; hot toast, nnd have it made from ttale bread. I don't want it toasted outside and soggy within. Now, don't forget that." "No, fair, all right sir; not soggy in side sir," echoed the waiter. "And some sliced tomatoes," .contin ued the man, "And take the chopped ice off the tomatoes and drnln them. 1 want them dry, do you understand, dry. Now, don't forget that." '"All right, tlr. Tomatoes must 1 dry." "And, lot'fc nee! Yes, bring me some fried eggs. Fresh eggs, you know, per fectly fretib. And I want them fried on one hide only. Don't forget that." "YeeMrs fried on-one side. Aud which title, sir?" irwiriu 1 1 ax m 1'nl. Photography 1b one of the favorite dinueementti of tho royal family. Queen Victoria has a tail for photographs nnd posetstcn a large collection of photo graphs of eminent personages. Sonir of them date back to the time when Daguerre first made his discovery, and many of these ancient pictures are so Indistinct as to look almost like badly developed spirit photographs. All of the varied gradations in such pictures are exhibited, down to the very latest improvements. The Queen is very fond of looking at her collection. Godiy't Magazine. N Connuiupflon Cure. Medical authorities in Europe nro dis cussing a new serum for the cura of consumption, for which, as usual, great claims are made. So far the recorns of Its use tbow at least that it deserves a trial. It is related that In eighty-three cutt'8 gTeat Improvement took place It cures were not made. That Is quite aa much ns could reasonably bo expected of any remedy.
