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VOL. XIX.-NO. 15.
COLUMBUS, NEB. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1888.
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GEMS AND JEWELS RARE.
DIAMONDS STILL KEEP THE LEAD
AMONG VALUABLE STONES.
Chat with a Chicago Jeireler'n Clerk.
Emeralilx anil Kuble Cvttlns Scrce.
A Ioublet An lTnruimou Stone Geni
Illsitiiirtively American.
'DiutiMimls ure still trumps among
jewels,'" baitl h jeweler's clerk in a State
strvet store, "ami, in spit of the chang
ing fashions in jewels, the diainuntl re
mains the kiii of precious stones us far as
popularity goes. Turquoi., sapphires,
emeralds and ruhies are increjuiuy; ill
popularity, however, and are very cxpen
i ve. The emerald and ruby seem tc be gtt
tin scjin-er and dearer every year. Why,
a line three carat ruby is worth $43 any
time, and the emerald is. worth nearly as
much. Some very common rubies will
brin $50 to $100. There are fewer rubies
being found every year. It is the same
with emeralds, besides the latter are sel
dom perfect. I cannot recollect having
ever seen a flawless emerald, and I don't
believe any one else iu the store ever did
either. In every one of them will be
found a 'feather,' a crack, or a 'cloud' of
some kind. It seems as if every stone had
lH-eii struck with a hammer and stunned.
The edges will be all right, but the
center will look as if it had cracked with
out splitting, or else there will be a cloud
or flaw of some sort. Itubies are apt to
be the same, although not so much so as
emeralds. Tho-e emeralds on that cotton
there are 'doublets.' Don't you know
what a doublet is? Why, it's a manu
factured stone; that is, it is a joining of
two stones. Look at this emerald. Pretty,
isn't it? Beautiful tint of green. Now
turn it upside down. There, see that rim
of red around the edge? A doublet always
has that, no matter what the color of the
amalgamated stones was. But it only
shows when you turn the stone upside
down. See, they have even put a flaw in
the surface to further simulate genuine
ness. They can make doublets of any
stones which will cement together, and
make them so cleverly that the unprac
tical eye will never detect the fraud if
you call it that."
"Do you not have to guard against
spuriousness in other gems besides the
diamond?"
"Certainly. Turquoise is simulated by
jewel counterfeiters. Two small and infe
rior stones will be 'doubled' into a stone
that will cause even exjwrts to cxer iso
the greatest care in examining. Or
they will he pulverized and mixed up
with foreign matter in such a way that
the new jewel will have nearly all the
brilliancy of color ami polish of surface
IiObsessed by the genuine article. The
light blue Persian tunjuoise is the rare
variety at present and is very expensive."
"In the window is a white sapphire.
How is that? I supposed all sapphires
were blue."
"Then you supposed wrong, but you
are with the majority. Host people think
that all sapphires ure blue, but that is far
from the truth. The one in the window
is pure white, as pure ns a diamond. Be
sides those there are violet, pink and
yellow sapphires. The violet nnd pink
varieties arc very beautiful and considered
extra fine jewels. The yellow sapphires
partake of the nature of the chrysoberyl,
which comes also in yellow and brown
nnd pale green. It is a rather uncommon
stone and a very beautiful one."
"What is that green stone on the cot
ton in the corner?"
"That is another very uncommon stone.
They call it Alexandrite. It is an orien
tal jewel, and there nre not many brought
to this country. It is very expensive and
is very highly prized by connoisseurs, who
nre the purchasers of most of them. It is
a peculiar stone, changing its light. In
the day it is as you see it, a dirty green,
but by night it is full of reddish lights.
It comes in various sizes, from one to
eight carats, and is sometimes almost as
expensive as a diamond." -
"Are opals popular?"
"Much more so than they were. There
was a time when you could hardly sell an
opal at any price. Now there is a con
stant demand for them. The supersti
tious regarded them as unlucky, and so
widespread was the hallucination that it
wjis seldom you saw one worn."
"J low about cat's -eyes?"
"Cat's eyes are very hard stones, found
in various countries. The best come from
Persia and the east. I have one of a
brownish tint that is worth $500 any day.
A cat's eye weighing three carats will
bring $000 easily. Tiger's eye ure inex
pensive and very popular. The tiger's
eye is not a stone, as is generally supposed,
but ietrifled wood. It is found iu very
large quantities in northern Michigan,
but most of the "better kind comes from a
petrified forest of Arizona. There they
find it in sections as large as a tree trunk.
They are made up into scarf pins, rings
and other articles of jewelry."
"Which distinctively American stone is
the most valable?"
"I can't say that any distinctively
American stone is very valuable, but we
produce a few diamonds. They come
from Iowa and Wisconsin. They are
small and are too yellow. I do not think
this country, however, will ever produce
very many diamonds; still it is interest
ing to know that genuine stones can really
be met with occasionally. Here's an odd
stone, that mottled green and black one.
They call it chrocilodite. They come
from northern Michigan, and in that size
are worth about $15. Sometimes they
are mottled and divide exactly like the
upper shell of a turtle, aud I once made a
scarf pin of one of them, fixing on the
legs, tail and head of gold. We sell
quite a few of those aquamarines
aud the pink topaz, which is quito
common nowadays, is greatly sought
after. Here are some pearls. No, that's
an imitation, I thought you would be de
ceived. I think they are made of wax,
but they have succeeded in making as per
fect an imitation as is possible. They pre
serve, too, the irregular shape of the
genuine pearl. By the way, I might say
right here that some of the prettiest pearls
we get are found in tl fresh water clams
of Illinois and other western states. Look
at these," and the jeweler showed a hand
ful of pearls all the way from twice the
size of a grain of wheat down to that of a
pin's head. They were irregular in shape,
but most of them were full of subdued
and delicate half tints of blue, purple and
pin';. "These are first rate pearls for
their size and come from the Miami,
" abash, Illinois and Sangamon rivers.
Chicago Times.
Superstitions of the Chinese.
A girl who is partaking of the last meal
she Is to eat in her father's house previous
to her marriage sits at the table with her
parents and brothers; but she must eat
no more tlum half the bowl of rice set be
fore her, else her departure will be fol
lowed by a continual scarcity in the domi
cile she is leaving.
If a bride breaks the heel of her shoe in
going from her father's to her husband's
house it is ominous of unhappinesa iu her
new relations.
A piece of bacon and a parcel of sugar
nre hung on the back of a bride's sedan
chair as a stop to the demons who might
molest her while on her journey, Tha
"Three Baneful Ones" are fond of salt
and spices, and the "White Tiger" likes
sweets.
A bride may be brought home while a
coffin is in her husband's boose, but not
within 100 days after a coffin is carried
out. Domestic troubles are sure to come
noon one who is married within 100 days
after a runerai.
A bride, while putting on her wedding
garments, stands in a round, shallow
basket. This conduces to her leading a
placid, well rounded life in her future
home. After her departure from her
father's door, her mother puts the basket
over the mouth of the oven, to stop the
mouths of all who would make adverse
comment on her daughter, and then sits
down before the kitchen range, that her
peace and leisure may be duplicated in
her daughter's life.
A bride must not, for four months after
her marriage, enter any house iu which
there has recently been a death or n birth,
for if she does so there will surely be a
quarrel between her and the groor . If
a young mother goes to see a bride, the
visitor is looked upon as the cause of any
calamity that may follow. Allele M.
Fielde in Popular Science Monthly.
Ihe Matter of Nurae anil Titles.
The latest fail is for the woman to re
tain her family name after marriage in
stead of taking that of her husband.
Every woman has a perfect right to do
this if she wants to, because there is no
law compelling her to adopt that of tho
man she marries. The style has lieen
started anew by some of the strouger
minded English women. This aloue is
sufficient to make it the proper thing for
Anglo-Americans. In England, however,
it is necessary for the woman to advertise
the fact that she is goiug to retain her
maiden name. In this country a man
may take his wife's name instead of her
taking his, but it would probably be bet
ter to have the change legalized by a
court or legislature iu order to prevent
any trouble in relation to property or in
heritances. Wouldn't it be better to call men and
wflmeu by their proper names? The
Quakers do so, und there Is nothing offen
sive nor suggestive of undue familiarity
alKnit it. They do so from principle
rather than to be odd. They say: "Call
no man master." Mister is but another
term for master, and was originally used
by common people when addressing their
superiors, or those whom they served.
As a people we are opposed to titles sug
gestive of social rank. Our term "Mrs."
is merely a form of the English term mis
tress, which was and is now an undesir
able title when used iu certain connec
tions. Usage has changed this somewhat,
yet it is an unnecessary prefix to the
name of alady. Pittsburg Commercial
Gazette.
Mental Organization of Criminal.
Dr. Henry Mondslcy, of London, in his
address before the recent meeting of tho
Anthropological association in this city,
distinguished between the occasional or
accidental criminal, who presents nothing
characteristic in form, feature or cere
bral structure, and tho natural or essen
tial criminal. Tho latter is what he is
by no reason of defective intellect. "It
is not true that lack of intellect and of
moral feeling go together in defective
mental organizations in some instances.
The defect seems to be mainly moral.
Those of this class are either born of
criminal parents, or sprung from families
in which insanity, epilepsy or some nearly
allied neuropathy has existed. It is only
of this class that we can say that they
have a special criminal neurosis. A third
very distinct group is that of those who
break the law while laboring under posi
tive disease."
The conclusion reached by the investi
gator is, that there is no general criminal
constitution predisposing to crime, and
that no theories of criminal anthropology
are so well grounded as to justify their
introduction into a revised criminal law.
The right aim of scientific study is indi
cated as the investigation, first, of crimes
committed by persons suffering" from
positive disease; secondly, of crimes by
persons of defective mental organization.
It is tc Ikj liojK'd that this explanation
may help to combat tho sentimental no
tion tha? there is a criminal constitution,
that the criminal is to !e pitied rathei
than censured, and that crime is a disease
for which the criminal is not to le held
fctrietly responsible. Frank Leslie's.
Mexicans and the Railroad.
Mexicans take more kindly to railroads
than is generally supposed in the states.
The stage coach will go out of business as
soon as the trains reach Guadalajara. As
much as the people cling to ancient cus
toms they never ride in a stage w' n the
cars will carry them to the same destina
tion. It is funny, however, to see them
getting xtsed to the new mode of travel.
The whole family will come down to the
depot to see a member off on a ten miles'
journey. Two or three rounds of kissing
take place, accompanied by steady sob
bing. Choking adioses are shouted and
handkerchiefs are waved until the train
is out of sight.
Mexicans not only learn to ride in the
cars, but they take to railroad work with
great zeal and aptitude. Mexican brake
men and firemen are now employed on all
the roads. Mexican clerks and book
keepers fill most of the subordinate posi
tions iu general offices. Many of the tele
graph offices are manned by Mexican
oiierators. The natives will fill these po
sitions for half what Americans demand,
and, of course, they get them. About the
only complaint which the railroad man
agers find with the native help is that it
is sometimes oversuiart. Mexico Cor.
Globe-Democrat.
An Kxaninle for Americans.
One sees everywhere throughout India
one general coufmon characteristic. That
is a sort of kindliness of disposition, kind
liness to man aud brute. All domestic
animals are as gentle and tame as fire
side petted kittens. The cow and ass,
the sheep and goat, the camel and horse,
the chicken aud duck, all seem absolutely
a part of the family. Pigeons in flocks
are frequently seen whirling in great
circles in the cities for several minutes,
and then swooping down upon certain
housetops. Often several flocks unite aud
fly together and theu separate as people
do In dances. I have seen this several
times, but one day when on a minaret I
saw men on different houses waving flags
and directing the flights of those birds,
and bra motion calling them down to
them. I thus one day saw six different
flocks flying at once now mingling, then
separating and all done under the orders
of their respective owners. They are
kept iu a sort of coop in the house top,
nnd are thus sent out for exercise. After
flying for a half hour or so, they are fed
aud quietly go into the coops. One gets
pigeons at almost every meal in all cities
here. Carter Harrison in Chicago Mail.
Patrons of m Toney Restaurant. '
The demands made on a clerk at Del
monico's are almost infinite. He must
be able to answer all sorts of queries
from astronomy to horse car routes in
San Francisco; from the news of the latest
lire, races or accident to the rules of so
cial precedence at the court of St. James.
People are continually wanting checks
cashed, tickets for entertainments, money
changed, bills made out, etc.
The other day an infantile looking dude
came in and cried:
"What's my bill?"
"Ninety-seven cents," said the clerk,
after a short computation.
"All right; don't let it run over fl,"
and the youth departed with a flourish.
People send servants in at all hours for
bouillon, salad, wine, cigars or cigarettes,
some of the latter being doubtless for
women. New York Tribune,
The first lead mining done In America
was by Jullen Dubuque, scar the aita of
Dubuque, la.
WHEN PEOPLE MEET.
THE SALUTATIONS COMMONLY EM
PLOYED BY DIFFERENT NATIONS.
Gentleman and Fair Lady On the Conti
nent Men Embracing One Another.
Malays, Chinese, Japanese The Moorish
Way The Military Salute.
In walking down a busy thoronghfaro
an observer cannot help remarking the
different manners in which the various
travelers, pedestrians or otherwise greet
one auotlier. A gentleman approaching
a lady watches her closely to see whether
she will bow to him. If so, off goen his
hat. Hardly two men, however, do this
bimplc act in the same way. One flour
ishes it at arm's length; another hardly
raises it from his head; a third exposes
the side, as if he were asking a charity,
while a fourth seems frightened lest by
some mischance he should disarrange his
hair. The fair lady, too, does not always
return the salute in tho same way. Cross
the channel, however, and one is in a
land where hat lifting is tho recognized
salutation. It appears at first curious to
a nativo of American or English soil to see
a not too clean coal heaver or jHildler sol
emnly raise his head covering it does
not always amount to as much as a hat
to an equally dirty brother workfnan,
with an air many young dudes might
envy; but iu time ono fails to notice such
things. On entering and leaving a shop,
no matter how small, the ioIito man
again uncovers his head, while each of
these actions is always accompanied by
an appropriate word of greeting.
Tho peasants of Spain, in the country,
on meeting a stranger offer him, as a salu
tation, a portion of the bread they always
carry with them. Of course, it is refused
with thanks, and great would be the as
tonishment of tho would bo donor if it
were accepted. In Germany in frfbt,
pretty well all over tho continent to pass
a man or woman on a country road with
out saying a friendly greeting is looked
upon as very impolite, nnd the person do
ing so would certainly bo regarded as a
stranger. Among tho French and Bel
gians especially the habit of men embrac
ing ono another is quite common, a father
and son, or two Intimate friends, thinking
nothing of falling into each other's arms
and kissing in public. Colder tempered
nations consider such effusions unneces
sary, aud believe there is just as much
feeling in tho warm grip of tho hand and
few words of welcome.
The Malays and other Polynesians sa
lute by smelling. This is ierfonned by
rubbing noses. A former resident of Now
Zealand says that on meeting after an ab
sence of some time two Maories seizo
hands and rub noses violently, at the
saino time loudly weeping, presumably
from the pleasure of teeing each other, or
perhaps from the pain of friction. In In
dia tho Buddhists salute by lowering the
palm of tho right hand and bringing it up
toward the face, at the same time saying:
"Kam, ram chair." Tho Mahometans do
tho same, but simply say "Salaam." This
is only done in cither case by members of
the same faith. Tho salutation is always
made, too, with tho right hand, to use tho
left being considered an insult.
Tho Chinese have a regular codo of
salutations, eight in number, which do
fine the proper amount of respect to bo
paid to different individuals. The ono
which is perhaps most familiar to San
Franciscans is that when at the new year
the Chinaman clasps his hands together,
and, gently bowing, wishes his friend tho
compliments of tho reason. Two curious
greetings which these people have among
themselves are those of asking each other:
"Havo you eaten riceV" and "Is your
stomach In good order?" The Japanese
show respect on meeting by bending tho
knee, though in the street they only make
a feint of so doing. This is tho general
salute.
A stranger coming among the Moors for
the first time would, perhaps, be astonished
and a little frightened by seeing one of
them riding at full gallop toward him, as
if ho wcro intending to execute a cavalry
charge. His fears might perhaps bo in
creased when this horseman, when almost
close to his apparent victim, suddenly
reined up and discharged a pistol over his
head, lvccovering from his astonishment,
however, he would find that this is
tho Moorish way of welcoming a
stranger. Natives of tho Gold Coast
have still another modo of salutation.
They lower their robe from the left shoul
der with tho right hand, and gracefully
bow, though if it is a groat man they
salute, and if they wish to bo particularly
respectful, tho whole robe is removetl,
exposing tho breast. Egyptians greet
ono another with a remark peculiar to
their country, "How goes tho perspira
tion'r" The military salnto required in nearly
all civilized countries is nearly the same.
Perhaps iu Germany, however, t lie regu
lations aro somewhat more stringent. A
soldier, on meeting the emperor, has to
stand still, face about, and remain with
hand raised for from twelve to twenty
paces before his majesty approaches to
tho same distance after he has passed.
In Belgium an officer has to do the
same for the king, and subalterns for
generals, though ten paces only are re
quired for the latter case. Soldiers car
rying anything, so that their hands nre
occupied," salute with their eyes that is,
they turn their heads in thodirection of
the person coming and going. French
officers ralso their caps to each other, but
tho privates do as the privates in other
armies do. London Globe,
AT A MILITARY SCH00L.
The Leavenworth Pupils in Review In
fantry, Cavalry and Artillery.
One after another they move out upon
the field, facing west, the infantry on the
right aud nearest us; then the battery, In
two lines, its gun carriages to the front;
theu the long single rank of the cavalry
battalion, stretching to the far southern
edse of the field. Well out to the west,
in front of the center, is the commanding
officer with his staff, nnd presently, as the
white plumed adjutant gallops down the
line, turns toward his chief on reaching
the center, then halts and reins about,
there is a simultaneous crash as arms arc
presented, and n long line of steel the
sabers of the cavalry springs into air.
Then review order is taken, ranks nre
opened, the battery unlimbcrs and whirls
its black muzzled guns to the front; an
other present of the line to the exalted
personage who receives the review, and is
hailed with a flourish of trumpets and
the simultaneous droop of all the stand
ards; another movement, and the line be
comes an open column; another com
mand, and with a triumphant burst of
music from the band the whole array
moves as one man; tho passage in review
has begun.
In quick time, the band leading, they
come jauntily toward us, changing direc
tion at the upper corner and swinging past
the animated groups of spectators. Front
after front the sturdy infantry trudges by,
the student officers hidden as file closers
behind their companies and wishing for
this occasion only that they belonged to
the cavalry and could command and be in
front or their men instead of trailing
meekly after them, as required of the in
fantry ' 'sub. ' ' Well they knovy that they
cannot by any human possibility look half
so picturesque in this position as their
rivals and contemporaries of the cavalry
on their "prancing chargers" and in front
of their platoons. All the same, they
have their sympathetic admirers in the
throng, and so they pass us by. And
than with cbaxauins bits and tossins
manes come flie p"Iutootis of horse. The
battery quickens its gait on the marching
flanks, and the girls wonder how those
guuucrs sit so straight with folded arms
and never make hysterical grabs at the
bars or at each other, as they would do
under like circumstances. The cavalry,
too, comes around at a trot, the young
platoon commanders fully alive to and
making the most of their golden oppor
tunity, looking vastly martial and striving
not to look ns though they very well knew
just where "she" happened to stand
among the groups of fair ones under the
shade trees.
Down the long field goes the glistening
column, officer after officer saluting as be
passes the reviewing point, and then the
infantry reappears, tramping up the east
ern edge. Like some perfected machine,
the long array wheels into line to the left,
the ranks are dressed, then brought once
more to review order. Again the trumpets
flourish, the standards droop, and arms
clash to the present. Then comes brief
rest before some one of tho three com
mands is summoned to the front to show
what it cau do in the maneuvers of its
particular arm. It may be a stirring
skirmish drill, covering the entire valley,
by -Ac bright plumed cavalry. It may be
a dashing series of battery maneuvers,
with much smoke, noise, and odor un
limited of "the villainous saltpetre." It
may le rapid evolutions of the foot bat
talion; but in each and all the student
officer must take his part. Charles King,
U. S. A., in Harper's Magazine.
Making Ilonnctt at Ilome.
"Forty dollars for a spring bonnet?" a
lady was overheard to remark to a friend
as she was riding down Fifth avenue in a
stage yesterday morning. "Not I. Nor
20 cither. Money is worth too much for
that. I haven't spent over $10 und not
often more than $0 for a bonnet since I
was married. This I havo on cost me
just $4.27.
"And I thought it was French. How
can you look imported when 5'ou are
really homemade?"
"Oh, but I'm not homemade. I'm just
as French as if I came from Paris iu my
little cousin's big trunk. That's the
beauty of the thing. My bonnet was
made to order by a bona fide French
milliner and one of the cleverest in the
city, too. Yes, of course, there is a little
scheme. There were n dozen of us who
passed a unanimous resolution that bon
nets for us, individually and collectively,
had got to come down. We shook hands
upon it nnd exchanged pledges of bon
net pins. While we were discussing
ways and means we heard that one of
Mme. 's assistants was out of a plnce.
Our course was clear; Mile. Julie should
work for us. We inquired, every one of
us, among our acquaintances nnd found
plenty of women who jumped at the
chance of having their hats aud bonnets
provided for by a milliner who would
come to the house. She comes, that's all.
She works by the day or the half day, or
even by the hour. She charges $5 a day.
She has more work than she can attend
to, and talks of hunting up a partner.
She makes more money than she did as
one of Mme. 's designers. And ns
for us, we're going to tho country this
summer on our savings. We are paying
for material and good wages for skilled
labor; nothing more. And really it is a
new way of self support for women, you
see." New Yoik Mail and Express.
Getting Ahead of Hotel Men.
The way hotel and some other people
have beed" bled by some showmen is a cau
tion. All sorts of schemes havo been re
sorted to. with more or less success,
generally tho latter. I know one man, now
in the circus business, who used to travel
with combinations on circuits among
small towns, and play several nights
stands. Money is often a scarce article
with such managers, and, necessity being
tho mother of invention, they proved very
prolific in schemes to do their creditors
when they wen hnrd up.
The watch game was a popular one, nnd
the man of whom I speak had it down to
perfection. Ho carried regularly an as
sortment of watches, presenting a good
appearance, but cheap, awful cheap, filled
cases, common movements, etc. He had
them done up in style, though, with all
sorts of incriptions, such as "From
Mother to Willie." "From Father," or
from admiring memberaof some company,
in something of that sort. These would
not Ikj of any great value to a man who
would bnnglu the job, but this man was a
born actor. His favorite was "From
Mother to Willie," and when ho went, to
the landlord it was with tears in his eyes,
and tin l.imilord was very hard hearted if
he did i:ot cry, too, and yield up. Did he
ever ruleein many of these watches?
Well, not many. Advance Agent in
IJlob' '-Democrat.
Tho Voice' or an Actor.
Tho stage is not n drawing room. You
cannot address 1,500 people in a theatre as
you would address a few companions at
the fireside. If the tone is not raised,
you will not be heard; and if you do not
articulate, the public will be unable to
follow you.
So-and-so, I nm well aware, has won
for himself the reputation of a natural
actor by affecting the conversational tone.
He scarcely pronounces one word louder
than another; he lets the ends of his
phrases sink; hesitates, abridges, pretends
to be at a loss for words, repeats his
words two or three times over, drawls
along for ten minutes, and then hurries
his delivery in order to arrive at the ef
fect. And as the public is like Panurge's
sheep, even when it happens not to under
stand, it exclaims: "Dear me! how very
natural! He seems a if he were talking
with his feet on his fender by his own fire
side. What an actor! I did not hear
what he said did yon? but how very
naturally he said it!" C. Coquelin in
Harper's Magazine.
A Curious Negro Superstition.
There is an old "darky" superstition
which still holds a place in the mluds of a
great many of our colored population.
When the first thunder storm of the year
comes the superstitions negro makes a
beeline for the nearest river or oreek. He
may be seen watching the rolling waters
for some time, till at last he spies a dark
object on its surface. Ho grabs it as it
floats near the bank. With one exulting
exclamation he binds the object around
his wrist and goes his way iu peace, se
cure, as he thinks, from the rheumatism
and kindred ailments. What was the
object? The skin of a water snake. Snakes
are said to shed their skins when lightning
first appears, and the negro believes that
winding a snake skin around his wrist at
this time exerts a counteracting influence
on nearly all diseases. Charlotte (N. C.)
Chronicle.
lie Got Kven.
First Club Man (heatedly) All I have
to say is that I consider you a puppy.
Second Ditto (coolly) If that were the
case I could take the first prize at the dog
show, and that's more than you can say.
First Man How so?
Second Ditto You lack the necessary
pedigree and breeding." Harper's Bazar.
Syrup of Figs
Is Nature's own truo laxative. It is tho
most easily taken, ami tho pipst effective
remedy known to Cleanse- the System
when Bilious or Costive; to dispel Head
aches, Colds anil Fevers; to cure Habit
ual Constipation, Indigestion, Piles, etc
Manufactured only by the California Fig
Syrup Company, San Francisco, Cul. For
Bale only by Dowty & Becher. 27-y
MIDSUMMER DRINKS.
COOL PALATE TICKLERS FOR NEW
YORKERS' HOT THROATS.
A Great Variety of Fluid Refreshments for
the Heated Term At the Drug Store
Fountain A Crowd of Thirsty Women.
Girls.
New York probably beats tho world for
the variety and quality of its lluid re
freshments, both for warm and cold
weather, but more especially in summer
does it seem to run riot in the profusion
of drinks with which to cool tho parched
tongues of its citizens. This is a good
deal duo, no doubt, to the mixed character
of the population, each nationality having
its favorite distinctive tipplo. but each
being by no means slow to appreciate the
virtues of tho favorite of any other, iho
result being that the German immigrant,
who has hitherto been wedded to his
lager, the Englishman to his ale und
porter, tho Dutchman to his gin, tho
Frenchman and Spaniard to their wine
and brandy, tho Irishman and Scotchman
to tlieir whisky, tho Mexican to his
pulque, the Russian and Pole to their
vodki, rapidly become tho American citi
zen, who drinks anything and everything.
THE Dltt'O STORK FOUNTAIN.
Tho drug store "fountain," with its
gorgeous clerk, has become an established
feature of the thirst supply trade of this
city, and from humble beginnings as a dis
penser of soda water nnd mild essences
only has evolved into a mammoth necro
mancer's casket, concealing a multiplicity
of strange mixtures in its many cham
bered interior and glistening outside with
polished marble turrets and slabs brist
ling with scores of silver plated taps,
knobs and faucets, till it looks like nn
undersized Chineso pagoda. Watch the
stream of people that pass in and out to
tho favorito down town resort. Here
comes a swarthy young fellow who calls
for orgeat.
"What's orgeat?" yon ask. "Orgeat,"
says the clerk, "is the temperanco drink
of the New York Spaniard and Cuban.
It's mado of sweet and sour pulverized
almonds, sugar and orange juice, and is
somewhat similar to the peach phosphates
that southerners like."
"Wlmt'vc you got good for dyspepsia?"
says a sallow New Englander, who comes
up nt a rapid gait, forgetting to buy a
check in his hurry to get away again.
Without waiting for an answer, he adds,
"Gimmo pepsoline." Ho fills up the, to
him interminable, moment it takes the
clerk to fill his glass by reading the names
on a row of patent medicine bottles, gulps
his pepsoline and is off. "Lots of them,"
bays the clerk in a kind of compassionate
tone. "Haven't got time to chew and
want their stomachs to do the work of a
cyclone pulverizer."
"Nerve tonic," says a jaded looking
man with a wink to the clerk. He gets
it from a bottle in a little closet behind
tho fountain and it seenis to do him good,
by the way he smiles und smacks his lips.
""What's that made of?" you ask. "Iron
for the blood quinine for the liver
phosphorus for the brain nnd strychnine
for the nerves," says the clerk all in one
breath, like a man who has said it many
times before and is a little tired of it.
"Oh, not enough strychnine to hurt," he
adds, in reply to your surprised look,
"just enough to brace tho nerves. It's
soothing."
A CIJOWD OP WOMEN.
But if you want to see a crowd of hot
women drink, step into a big Sixth ave
nue store, where they pour in fatigued br
shopping and cross with the heat and the
shortness of their purses. People drink
ice cream soda elsewhere, of course, but
not as they drink it in New York, by tho
hour by the gallon. At the check desk,
a continual thirsty lino of customers; at
the counter, tho ceaseless sound of a
syrupy pour, a fragile fizz, a gurgling
gush, and a delicate splash as the lumps
of ice cream Hop to the bottom of the
soda wnter, to bo fished for with a long
spoon by Gotliam's girlish guzzlers.
A crowd of women struggling for some
thing to quench their thirst is an in
structive sight. Many of them drop tho
gilding of good manners they assume out
side again. Watch that big one. She
values her weight now, if ut no other
time. She sails up to tho check desk re
gardless of tho polito request to fall in
line, throws her money down and grabs a
check intended for some one else, shoul
ders a path through her indignant sisters
to the counter, plants herself squarely on
tho too of a patient woman who is just
about to catch the eye of the clerk, se
cures her place as she squirms, compels
tho clerk's attention, gets her drink,
takes an unnecessarily long time to con
sumo it, uses her elbows freely to get out
again, wrecks several infants in her
triumphal passage to tho door and reas
sumes the appearance of a lady the
moment she reaches the sidewalk.
School girls geucrally want strawberry
and vanilla mixed; tho older brunettes,
coffee or chocolato; blondes, pineapple or
lemon; old women, sarsnparilla or rasp
berry, nnd the widows and unmarried
women of a certain age eschew soda water
for npollinnris or vlcliy, which has no idle
froth to prevent looking over the edge of
the glass while drinking nnd docs not fizz
up tin; nose, making it red and tho eyes
watery. New York Tribune.
In a Big Telegraph Office.
Suppose that the average man is in
duced to step off from State street for a
few minutes, and mount tho four or five
flights of stairs leading to tho main oper
ating room of tho Western Union com
pany's Boston office, having, of course,
obtained from the proper authority the
necessary permission to do so. When the
top floor is reached, and entrance to the
main operating room gainod, tlfcro is
heard the most peculiar and astounding
clatter imaginable. It is as if all the sew
ing circles iu the world hod met for an
afternoon of silent work, as sewing cir
cles generally do. It is like, and yet it is
unlike, tho clatter of a thousand machines
iu a great factory, or a myriad of looms,
and if one wishes to talk and Ikj heard he
has to talk at the top of his voice. But
this noiso comes from the telegraphic in
struments which are lieing operated by
somo score of nimble wrist ed, nimble fin
gered men seated at tables systematically
arranged in rows and sections.
The stranger is apt to think that elec
tricity is going crazy here. Ho is certain
to wonder how on earth an operative dis
tinguishes tho click of his instrument in
the general tumult. The tables are
generally divided into four sections,
separated by thick glass partitions,
and in each section is nn in
strument, and bt each instrument
thero is an operator. All operators
are working as fast jw their hands and
heads wil let them. Some are receiving
mtissages and writing them on the tele
graphic forms, and others a-c sending
them. It would puzzle the novice to
keep his wits in good order amid all this
noise, but these men keep theirs in most
admirable condition, and rarely make a
slip. There's nothing like experience.
in this room there are twenty-one quad
ruples instruments, five duplex, one
printing instrument and five sets of
'single repeaters." About 800 lines run
into this room, and aro connected with
the massive "switch board," which is
about to be enlarged in order to take in
fifty wiws more. Two hundred of these
wires are what are called main wires, the
rest are loops for the local lines. It is
certainly a mystery to the uninitiated
mind how all these wires are kept in or
der, and how they are distinguished one
from, tha other. A look behind tha
switch ooara is notmng less man contus
ing. The place is a sort of dark closet,
and from a sort of aperture in tho roof a
whole wilderness of wires is seen strag
gling down. Which wire is which? That
is tho conundrum. But thoso whoso
business it is to know can answer very
readily. Boston Herald.
Facts About Heart Disease.
Formerly, when the physician, with his
stethoscope, detected a certain abnormal
sound called cardiac murmur, indicating
heart trouble, ho said nothing about it to
tho patient, or if ho did reveal his discov
ery he did so in such a way as to take
away naturo's most powerful restorative
hope. But a chango in tho methods of
physicians has Imhmi taking placo in recent
years. Says The Medical Record:
"The opinion is now rooted in the minds
of tho advanced guard of the profession
that cardiac murmurs are often devoid of
the grave significance formerly attributed
to them. So, too. wo havo como to learn
that considerable damage to the valves
may be so thoroughly compensated by
hypertrophy (enlargement) that it seems
permissible" to speak of recovery from
organic disease of tho heart.
"True, tho anatomical lesion persists.
But tho individual thus affected may live
for years, without impairment of his
health, and with a working capacity in no
way reduced from his normal standard.
The timo has come when tho prognosis of
despair must make way for tho modern
doctrine of hope in the possibility of a
cure. What was formerly equivalent to
a sentence of death may bo commuted to
carefulness for life."
Rheumatic fever or some other disease
may have caused inflammation of tho lin
ing membrane of the heart, and thus laid
a foundation for permanent obstruction
to tho flow of the blood through ono or
more of the valves. But nature in time
overcomes this obstruction, not by re
moving it, but by enlarging the heart and
increasing its force.
True, there may be at length a weaken
ing of tho walls of tho heart, and a conse
quent lessening of its ability to do its
work, and thero may come on palpitation,
difficult breathing, cough and signs of
dropsy; but this failure may bo duo to
preventable causes. Youth's Companion.
Uses of the Prison Messenger.
The prison messenger is a peculiar
character. He is attached to every police
court in tho city, by what right no one
except himself knows. Although not
vested with any authority from local,
state or national powers, he has access at
all times to the prisons attached to the
polico courts, and in the latter lie appears
to bo of more importance than the regu
lar officers paid by the taxpayers. He is
trustworthy and seems to have unbounded
faith in human nature. Ho conducts
business in this fashion: A respectable
young man happens to have been out late
and is arrested. In the morning he wakes
penniless and with no means of communi
cating with his friends. The prison mes
senger understands the case in a moment.
He offers his services, knowing that his
client will lx only too anxious to make
good any expenses, ne will run errands,
employ counsel, if necessary, and even
pay a prisoner's finn without security for
Ins outlay. Tho messenger seldom makes
a mistake. Ho has been known to ad
vanco as much as $100 to a prisoner whc
was confined in the Tombs for a week,
without other security than the man's
word. For this little transaction the
prisoner rewarded him with a check for
$200. Now York Mail and Express.
A LeKSon on Slang.
It was at the Institute of Technology,
a few days before the close of the term.
One of the professors had been troubled
by hearing some of the students indulg
ing in slang. Accordingly, when his class
had assembled to hear his lecture, hogavo
them a ten minute discourse on the use of
slang, told them how it was corrupting tho
language, and that its use was, among
persons of cultivation and refinement, a
sure sign of ill breeding. Then ho went
on with his regular lecture, and nt its
closo called tho attention of his class to
the fact that somo of them had been re
miss in their stndlcs, and that it be
hooved them to make up for lost time, or
they would fail to pass the approaching
examinations. "Tho fact is, he con
cluded, "you've got to brace up or you'll
get left," which shows that preaching and
practice are often wide apart. Boston
Herald.
Four .-MUHUy u Week.
Friday is tho Arab's Sunday, but it
docs not put much stop to his worldly
business unless he so chooses. Then Sat
urday is the Jews' Sabbath, and then
conies our Sunday, on which day the
French workman continues to work, in
order to take at least a half holiday on
Monilny. Thero nre four days out of the
seven when the visitor to Algiers runs the
risk of finding a shop closed or a work
man not at his post. F. A. Bridgman In
Harper's.
After the Storm.
Jinks (who has just slipped nnd tum
bled down the front steps) Never mind,
old fellow. Guess I'm not hurt much.
How do I look?
Blinks Never looked more natural is
your life.
Jinks: Impossible!
Blinks I tell you it is so. Yon look
just like your rolled self.
Afternoon Caller (waiting lor uoscss)
Bobby, you haven't been over to play with
Tommy lately.
Bobby No, ma'cm. Ma doesn't want
me to play with Tommy; she says I must
mly play with nice littlo boys. Texas
"ii!;i"s
It is a false notion that Is responsible
for grievous evil, that a cheap teacher ia
good enough for the summer term, be
cause all the pupils are small.
To Save Life
Frequently requires prompt action. An
hour's delay waiting for the doctor may
bo attended with serious consequences,
especially in cases of Croup, Pneumonia,
and other throat and lung troubles.
Hence, no family should be without a
bottlo of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,
which has proved itself, in thousands of
cases, the best Emergency Medicine
ever discovered. It gives prompt relief
and prepares the way for a thorough
cure, which is certain to bo offectcd by
its continued uso.
S, II, Latimer, M. D., Mt. Vernon,
Ga., says: " I have found Aycr's Cherry
Pectoral a perfect cure for Croup in all
cases. I have known this worst cases
relieved in a very short time by its use;
and I advise all families to use it in sud
den emergencies, for coughs, croup, &c."
A. J. Eidson, M. D., Middlfttnwit,
Tenn., says: "I havo used Aycr's
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my practico. This wonderful prejara
tiou once saved my life. I had a con
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reduced iu flesh, aud given up by my
physician. One iKtttle ami a half of tho
Pectoral cured me."
"I cannot say enough in praise of
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral," writes E.
Bragdon, of Palestine, Texas, " lieliev
ing as I do that, but for its use, I should
long since have died."
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