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New York r.8 Opine Makes Delivery
1 to a Very Vague Addres8- Let-
ter from Ircln.nd.
Among thc truly remarkable
{ f feats performed hJ' thc post of-
I I flee employes in the way of de-
i. I L ciphering addresses and discover
l j ing the persons t.o whom letters
. I are addressed , the following incident -
dent , related in Youth's Com pan-
c ion , which took place in Ncw York
' trot long ago , is one of thc most in-
; . t tel'eHUng. A leUPI : was received
at / thc general ofhce addressed
I simply : "My i' Mot.hel' ' , New York ,
o . America. "
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, " \ difJicult , but even With this final- I
t I.y I } mastered and the deciphering
. ; uf its Irish post mark , the fact '
\ Iha t t there was more than one
.i . [ pother in Manhattan with a son
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\ in Ireland made the post otlice
IK'oplp despair of ever discovering
the t rightful owner.
A clay 01' two after thc receipt
of this mysterious missive a
' ' Irishwoman elbowed , I
( 'heer-Iooldng ) .
bowed her way to the general in- I.
" ( quirJ' window. "Yc haven't a litter .
ter 1 front me h'y , have J'c ! " she
queried , eagerIJ'
As most of the employes on that
Moor had had a laugh over the ad-
dress of the letter to "my moth-
PI' , " the thought of it returned to
the mind of the inquiry clerk at
mention of "me b'y. " It was quit
possible that such a questioner
might be thc mother of such a' '
, nit cr.
The hollleof the "b' } ' " was found d
to I be the same us thc postmark on 1
he I letter , and after a few more
precautionary inquiries , the mis ,
Hive was handed over to "m } ) '
mother , " on condition that she
open it on the spot and verify her
I'laim. : ehis ' was done , and " 11) '
motheI' was actually identified
among the t three million and a
half recipients of mail matter in l
I he great city ,
HUBBY DID NOT HOLD HER
Spouse Thought He Would Silence
His Wife with a Query , : But
Effort Is Vn.in.
She is a clubwoman with a
sense of humor , but the other daJ'
when she decided to attend a federation .
oration session in another town
she had some misgivings , says the
Chicago Record-Herald , She
told her husband that she was
possessed of a premonition of CyiJ
j tJ and cautioned him to he especial- 1
ly I careful of the 'hildI'C'n n (
merely laughed I and said that he
# guessed they would be all righ t .
hen remarked '
i jocosely :
"If yon get Worried , you mifrht o'
tt'legI'uph
fll the ( ' , 'cningof her second
day away she did Worry and sent
this telegram to her husband :
"How are the children ! "
The messenger boy came with
the dispatch just as the man wag
about to retire. He read it , smiled
and then penned this answer :
I "They're all right. Why ? "
"I guess that will hold her for
while , " he said to himself , and
then hc went to bed.
He felt so good over what h e
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considered \ to be the shrp\wlnpsHI
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of his reply that he laughed to
himself , forgetting for thc time
being the old adage : "Hc laughs
best who laughs last "
It was three o'clock in thc morn-
ing when he was aroused by the
violent ringing of his doorbell
Slipping into bathrobe and slip-
pens , he went to the door and ad
[ mined It young llicrcucy , who
handed out a yellow rnyelope It-
was torn open quiekl } ' , read , and
then the husband kicked himself
back to bcd un a recollection of his
question in his message to his wif
impressed itself upon his sleepy
eonsciousness. Ilex reply was
in i olle ) wOl'd ( :
CIneca use , "
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HYSTERICAL HERO WORSHIP
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Famous Fighters Are : Belittled by
Quoting Life Incidents in Short
Parngl'llphs
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Says the Baltimore American :
Charlemagne , you were a kin
del'gart.nel'
\VilIiam the Conqueror , we
scarcely respect J'ou
Agememnon , what did you do.
anyway : !
Alexander , did you lick any
body !
: Napoleon , what was it they arrested -
rested , you for ? !
lfuns lon-let's see ! "rhere did
we hear that name' ! .
Kitehenel' , : your last name
sounds familial'
Bobs Bahadut' '
, yours was some
skirmish in India , wasn't it' ?
Grant , . YOU . were merely going
some
\Vellington , you had some slight
trouble ut 1Vaterloo , we believe.
Washington , didn't you oncc
run short of house comforts at a
place called Valley l orge ' /
Xerxes what was it you were
cured of' !
Garibaldi , oh , yes ! some new
brand of macaroni , 1)1'obabl
Von lo1tke , some folks used to
think you knew something about
tactics .
O.rama , yon have given us an ed
tlcation in What real I war is.
\Ve groyel.
DAY OF FAKE JEWELRY FAD t
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Dealer in Genuine Article Sees Trade
Fall Off Because : of Imi-
ration Gems.
This is the day of the manufao"
tured 01' imitation jewelry. It is
said the sale of genuine jewelry in i
New York has suffered from thc
trade. For some time past it has I
been possible 10 obtain imitation I
jewelry in ll'l'anee and England 1' !
which is dif1icult' of detection b.y }
' , 'l'he ' ' manufac-
expl'rts principal ) -
lacers deal in jewels of their own
manufacture which extra
m'p , are 01"
dinal'ilJ' tine imitations of the real '
Stones and will have a life of O )
' . 1'11l' "diamonds" '
veal'S. arc a eons -
position ) of glass , lead and carbon ,
tipped with platinum , which i : ;
harder han gold. Every rea 1 .
utone , except a diamond , is trau , '
IJIlrent 11'ithint the tip of plat
llum these ; "diamonds" would also
be transparent , but with it time y
are given an undetectable resew
blance to the genuine stow
These "gems" are mounted in 14
carat gold , and so well that , who
worn , thc platinum tipping CUll
not be seen. An infinite variety
of designs , copied from the best of
real models , are shown , and at n
price which is about 80 per cent
less than the genuine. All the
colored s tones-ru bies , sapphires .
emeruldsnnd turquoises-are also
manufactm'ed and are similar in
npp ( > arancp , Time turquoise is so
hard that the surface can be tiled
and no blemish made on the stone
As genuine pearls arc thc most
costly of gPllls the imitation
learls ' lake the lead in pricl" 1.'IIl'r
are made of fislH kin and a secret
composition The n1:1J1ufactuJ't : !
of some especially good imitation
pearls , known as "Venet ian
pearls , " is a loll art , the process
having been IIIV@Ilted by a poor
Venetian , whose secret died with
him The diflicnlty in the manufacture -
facture of pearls } is in obtaining
the orient , 01' luster . similar to the
gl'nuinl' gems , and it is said that
vely often out of 10,000 n1:111ufa- :
lured very flAW will bl' marke ! .
able
TREADMILL AS PUNISHMENT
Use of This Device Still Employed in
: British Prisol1s-Locn.ted in
the "Wheel House. "
1.'he ' treadwhel'1 is still in vogue
at : many English pl'isOJlYithiJl
the walls is a little building , built t
of bhw-gI'ar stone , standing somC' .
what apart : from the main strut ,
tune in the corIlPl' of the exercise 1
grotulcl and prison garden On
llu' t chucola - colored ) door is i
painted in white letters t the two
words " \\"heel laoase. " As thr ) !
door opens t1IP d u 1 I , gl'iud iugsotlJlIl c 1
hat f wp hear outside grows a little -
tic louder aud cleuer. The doom '
closes ) behind us with the ineta ,
hip clash and l'lil'k of the return -
tug bolt. Time house is an apart ,
llll'Ut some ao ( ) feet long and 15 feet
wide. Ou the left hand side Ill'p ( I
he I wheels , four of them , in two ) :
tiers , divided i by , a gallery runnin g
the I whole lengt of the t house and f
c 'ommunil'a ting with the floor bys H I
staircase at the opposite end. On
the right hand Ride there is an
other , lower and shorter , gallery
ou which stands the warder in 1
charge. ( The wheels are separa .
pd ( by a section of brick wall.
Each wheel is divided into cost l
JlUl'tnIPnts , cutting oft each pris.
Doer from the others The objel't t
of this is to IH'l'\'pn t the prisoner S
from seeing and hl'aring one al t .
other , although conversation in a
low voice , pitched ill H differl'ut
lwy . to that of "t hl' music of th e .
wheel , " is 1H.'I'fl'l'tI easy and intelligible I -
ligible
ROYAL COMPOSERS MANY
Kings and Queens Who Write Songs ,
Marches and Anthems in
Real Life.
In uo art have royalties dabbled
so much us in musil' Only a few
clays ago the lbedive of Efrrl > t
had a waltz of his own composition i.
tion played at t the ( court hall , a.nd
'yerybodnpl'lal'l'd that it was tlli'
best \ waltz I they t had ever heard
Among present . day royal 1uu- ;
sicians Prilll'esstHelll'J of Bate
berg is well kuown A sprightl l , '
march writteJflJ' her was , a good
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deal played bJ' the l. . C. C. bands '
in the Embankment gardens a
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Season 01' two back , and last yca I' . j
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too , a song bJ' her was sung by , f' . , - .
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Mme. Ella Russell.
The kaiser , of course , has produced .
uced several musical ( works , Hil3
PUl't j songs recl'ntlr written for
Bt'rlin choral societies embodied
his theories for a re t urn to a sim- .
pie style of music .
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The czar of Russia wrote a . ,
Christmas anthem a year or two t '
tJacl\ , and Grand Duke Constan
tine has also produced n few I \
works. Not long ago , when Vec . .
seJ' , the prodigy violinist , visited °
S1' Petersburg , he played one of
the t duke's pieces for violin and
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piano at the palace , the royal com.
poser himself playing the accom ,
paniment.
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WHAT HOTELS SHOULD BE'
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Less Splendor and More Comfort and ti
Good Taste Needed-Cnse of
Old Lady. . r I , . . . r.
'l'bere is a rare : - and forgotten ' - : . '
anecdote bearing on all that fol- "
lows. In the olden times , when
folks jOUl'ue.r b.r foot along the " . . .
great past t - rustcls : oftener than by
other means of locomotion , an
aged and weary couple sat down 1
beside a not very cheerful nlile
stone , and communed after this a
manner : Time old lady exprssed
her fatigue by wishing herself in
Helwen "Ah , but I wish I were
III t the tavern , " sighed the philoso
pher beside her "You rogue , "
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she cried , " 'ou always want t to be
in the best plael' " , .
1t would not be fair to expect R'
the modern tavern to compete .
with Heaven , b" , any " shelter 01' . '
provender it has to otl'er , says I
\V orld's "r erIc But the modern '
tavern ought to compete with aR
many of the home felicities the
traveler has turned his back upon
as may be. 'j will not go so far as to
say that there iH not an entirely .
satisfactory ' tavern in the city of j . .
New Y 01'1as I recently hear ( ]
declared 1)a , woml of society ,
who , I fear , alluded more to the
clientele ( than to the management
OJ' the al'chitPl'tul'e ; but the mpl-
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agel's of the hotels and the archi
tecdts have important i things to
Ipl11'n.
\Jf we compare modern tavern
with their ' ' ' ' of the
predecessors ) seventeenth -
enteenth and eighteenth centuries ,
ies , we should say that the mod-
ern ones are pel'fect. 'VaRhin -
ton Irvin [ ; , the great connoisseur ,
said : in 1857 of the St. Nichola
hotel , then new , which used to I
5i and Broad ' in the .
S on 13roadtvsty neigh-
uOJ'hood of Broom street , and '
had a most fascinating ! muting
of the putJ'on saint of New Attm . . . . '
sterdam in the act of descending '
a ehiJl1Jle , } ' , 1l'tfullJ' let into a
great pan:1 ! on the stairway , that
il "beat anything in the way of It ,
, hotel" he had ever seen. Charles '
I Hckens was also wonderfully - -
impressed with the TI'emon't
house of Boston in the early fol'-
lies , 'VIta pleased them , how. .
PVI' , was the beginning of that t
hotel magnificence which surfeits .
ns to.daJ " 'e long for less ulag , .
nificence and gilt and for more
comfort , homeliness and good
taste
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