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COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY. JUJ.Y 24, 1895.
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II1TDE FRENCH MARY
HE- town of mil
ham was not- used
to -Hoeintj foreigner 1
of any sort, or to
hearing their voices I
jn uie sirecis, so
that it'-was in some
sense a matter of
public interest
when . a Canadian
family was- report
ed to have icome to
-. "" : .the white house by
the bridge. This house, small and low-
-utoried. with a bushy little garden
In, front. ' had been standing empty
. .for several months. Usually when a
lirtue was Irft-tcnantlcss n Dulhanj It
. remained o and fell Into decay, and,
. Af tcr smne years, the cinnamon rose
. hu-slics straggit.d into- the cellar and tho"
dutiful cthss grew over the mound that
.rovered (he chimney bricks. Dulham.
as ji rtuict place, wliere the population
steadily, though such citizens
ad more and more reason
pleasant as.any country
mvn in the "world.
Some f the old- men who wot -every
day trtni!r vt Uio tuwti affairs were
much interested in the newcomers.
- . They approved the course of the strong
- -looking joung Canadian laborer." who
: had lK-en quick to seize upon his oppor
tunity: one or two of them had already
engaged hira lo make their gardens and
to do oild jobs, and were pleased with
his willingness and quickness. He .had
come afoot one day from a neighboring
town, where he and his wife had been
mnde ill by bad drainage and fnctory
woik. ;tnd saw the little house, and
aked tin postmaster If there were any
". woi k to le had out of doors that spring
in Dulhaui. Heing assured of his pros
I reels, he reappeared with his pale,
bright-eyed Wfe !in(i Httlc daughter tin
very nexl day but one. This startling
prjniptncss had given time for but few
p:ons to hear the news of a new
jjeiKhbor. .and as one after anothercame
over the bridge and along the road
there were many questions asked. The
H hou.sf; ieemert to have new life looking
out of its unall-panfil windows; there
weie clean White curtains, and china
doss on tho chimney sills, and a blue
Mnoke in the chimney the spring sun
wns .shining in at the wide open door.
.Theie was a chilly east wind on an
April day; and the Iderly men were
gathered inside the postoflice. which was
frj srK if '
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A BRIGHT LITTJ..K FIGURE STOOD LOOKING IN.
alno the chief giotvty ami dry goods
sUnc. K.K-h was in his favorite, arm
chair and there vis tjie excuse of a
morning fire in the box stove to make
them rrin again into the close group
that was usuatl broken up at the ap
proach of summer weaiher." Old Cap
tain. AVeathens was ralkibg about Alexis,
the ni'u comer (they did not try to pro
nounce his last name), .anil was saying
for the third or fourth -time that the.
nioiework jou sot for the Frenchman
the belter pleased he seemed . to be.
"Helped em to lay a carpet yesterday
at our house, neat a wax." said the
captain, with approval. "Made the gar
den' in the front jai'd soJt hasn't looked
so well for years?. We're all going- to
find him' very handy; he'll have plenty
to do among us all summer. Seems to
know "what you want the minute you
P'int. for he can't make out very well
with his English. I used to be able to
talk considerable French in my early
days when I Milled from southern ports
to Ha re andjUnrdcaux. but I don't
iem "to recall it now pry w ell. He'd
haxe.made aVmait sailor. Alexis would;
. quick' an' willing."
-. "They say Canada French ain't spoke
the same anyway." began the captain's
devoted Xt iend. Ezra Spooner. by way of
assmanee. when the. store -door opened
and a blight little figure stood looking
. In. "All tin- gray-headed mea turned
that way. and every one of them smiled.
"Come Tight in, dear." said the kind
.varted old captain.
. 7" "They aw a charming little creature
"about six years old. Who smiled back
again from under her neat'blt of a hat;
she wrtre 'a pink, dress that made her
look still more like a dower, and she
- said -"'lion jour' prettily to the gentle
men as -she pa'ssell. Henry Staples, the
. .storekeeper and postmaster, rose be
hind the counter to serve this customer.
." us if ihe bad been a queen, and took.
i from ber hand the letter she brought,
with fho .amount of its postage folded
. " up In a warm bit of newspaper.
The captain and his .friends looked on
with admir'itioh. .
"Give her a iece of candy -no, gtve'it
" -,to"me an' I 'II give it to her," said the
captain" eagerly, reaching for his cane
and leaving his chair with more than
- usual agility u.d everybody looked on
while he tok a striped stick of peppe'r-
. .mint froia the storekeeper and offered
it gallantly. Tnere was. something in -"
. the way this favor uas accepted that
- savored of tlie French court and made
.every man in the store a. lover.
The child nor only made a quaint
.bow before "she reached out h'er hand
"--with -childish eagerness for the unex-
".- "pecte'd delight, but she stepped forward
"" fand" kissed the-captain.
' ' ."Xh'ete was a. murmur -of delight at
. ". this charming courtesy; not a man
there" would not have liked to find some
away with ber. and
sigh as she shut the
door behind her 'and looked back.
through -the glass with a parting smile.
v. -V'That's httl French Mary, Alexis lit
"'. fie -girlj'. said the storekeeper, eager to
.-- proclaim his.-advantage'o'f previous ac-
:'". "quaintance "tShc came here yesterday
-. and" "did "an" erraiid for her mother as
- nice as a grown person" could."
""V "I.never'.saw.'a JiUle-"cfe"atur; with
. . - prettier way" -ssid the" captain, blush-
i ""-"; '"lng and'tapphig his cane on the floor,
. --."" Thte.'nrerapp"caraaceof the little for-
'""". -eigper on an-April day" was like, the
:r. ;" coming of "a young queen to cher. kjng.-
V ' --d.6in:" Shfe;reigned .all "sjummer over ev-
" -;.-J'ry. iienrt'ln" Dulham not a- face .but
.'"'.. wore Ijs '-smiles' when "French Mary
. . ' --crae"down the street, hot a.motherwho
."."""-'".aid np't-'ay'jttf 'her. children that she
- -.:w'Jrbed."they had-, such pretty manners,
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and kept their frocks as neat. The child
danced and sang like a fairy, and con
descended to all childish games, and
yet, best of all for her friends, seemed
to see no difference between young and
old. She sometimes followed Captain
tTeathers .home, and discreetly dined or
took tea with him and his housekeeper,
an honored guest; on rainy days she
might be found in the shoemakers
shop or the blacksmith's, watching
them at their work: smiling much, but
speaking little, and teaching as much
French as she learned English. To this
day in Dulham, jieople laugh and re
peat "her strange foreign words and
phrases. Alexis, the father, was steady
at -his" work of gardening and haying:
Marie, the elder, his wife, washed and
ironed and sewed and swept, and was a
helper In many households: now and
then on Sunday they set off early In the
morning and walked to the manufac
turing town whence they had come, to
go to mass; at the end of the summer.
When they felt prosperous, they some
times hired a horse and wagon and
drove there with the child between
them. Dulham village was the bright
er and better for their presence and the
few old-fashioned houses that knew
them treasured them, and French Mary
reigned over her kingdom with no revolt
or disaffection to the summer's end.
She seemed to fulfill all the duties of
her childish lifo by some exquisite In
stinct and infallible sense of fitness and
propriety.
One September morning, after the
first frost, the captain and his friends
were sitting in the store with the door
shut. The captain was the last comer.
"I've got bad news," he said, and they
all turned toward him. apprehensive
and forewarned.
"Alexis says he's going right away,"
(regret was mingled with the joy of
having a piece of news to tell). "Yes,
Alexis is going away; he's packing up
now, and has spoken for Foster's hay
cart to move his stuff to the railroad."
"What makes him so foolish?" said
Mr. Spooner.
"He says his folks expect him in Can
ada; he's got an aunt livin' there that
owns a good house and farm and she's
gettin' old and wants to have him set
tled at home to take care of her."
"I've heard these French folks only
desire to get aforehand a little, and then
they go right back where they come
from," said some one, with an air of
disapproval.
"He says he'll send another man here;
he knows somebody that will be glad
Of the chance, but I don't seem to like
the idea so well," said Captain Weath
ers, doubtfully. "We've got used to
Alexis and his wife they know now
where we keep everything and have got
to be so handy. Strange they don't
know when they're well off. I suppose
It's natural they should want to be with
their own folks. Then there's the little
girl."
At this moment the
store door was
opened and French M
came in. She
and her eyes
was dressed In
were shining.
"I ko to Cana
carsTsne an-
nounced. joyful
Canfe dancing
down betaiaefrthe two long
ounters to-
ward hir regretful friend
they had
her so charming:
ent and regret were impossible
rcbodlngs of the elderly men and
xperlence of life were of no use
moment, a gleam of youth and
was theirs by sympathy instead.
child's pleasuie in a jeurney moveS
the dullest heart; the captain was the
first to findr"some'"mea"ns of expression.
"Give me some o' that best candyTor
her." he commanded the storekeeper.
"Nn, take a bigger piece of paper, and
tie it up well." J?
"Ain't she dressed a littjf thin?" said
gruff Mr. Spooner. anxiojusly. and for
his part he pointed the storekeeper to a
small plaid, shawl that Hung overhead,
and stooped to wrap it himself about
the littlehoulders.
"I-nwrft get the little girl something.
too." said the mTnister, who was a
grandfather and.nad just come in for
his maiL "What do you like best, my
dear?" and French Mary pointed shyly.
.but with instant decision, at a blue silk
parasol, with a white handle, which was
somewhat the worse for having been
openly displayed all summer. The min
ister bought it with pleasure, like a
country boy at a fair, and put it into
her hand.
' French Mary kissed the minister with
rapture, and gave him her hand to
shake, then she put down the parasol
and ran and climbed into the old cap
tain's lap and hugged him with both
arms tight around his neck. She thought
for a moment whether she should kiss
Ezra Spooner or not. but happily she
did not decide against it. and said an
affectionate good-by to him and all the
rest. Mr. Staples himself came out from
behind the counter to say farewell and
bestow some raisins. They all followed iff
her to- the door and stood watchinMn
while she tucked herjtfundles under Jifr
arm and raised th new parasoLfcnd
.walked away dovafi the street m the
chilly autumn morning. She hap taken
her French gaafty and charrand all
her childish sfeness and deputy away
with her. Lisle French Mpy had gone
Fate, had paced her like Vflower out of
their liveafT
She dinot turn ba4c. but when she
was half way hom&phe began to run.
and the new. shawlras given gayly to
the breeze. Theiptain sighed.
"I wish the URle girl weU." he Aid.
and turned ay. "We shfcll mbher.
but. she doorfh't know .wbmt pagflng is.
girl well." he
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Bli ssMtaaam.
I hope.shejn please tbemflust aCwell in
Canada.
-Cheap Gas' laKlm
The City; of Bjrminelfim,, England,,
supplies pure cm! gasjEo its citizens at
27 cents a thjBandrhe municipalii
bought ouycwo ptwate gas compj
at. a price whichakes an annualfcost
.to the .city-'of 91,000. This 4Eiount
.has been paid Cor seventeen Mars', and'
the people of Birmingham have reaped
a net profit oh the investment during
that time of 3,57p,000. . .
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'LINKED SWEETNESS"
Sat II ITu Tm "liMig-tormwa-Oatf to
Agree with the CHtrteb.
One of the family of twelve ostriches
attached to Sells', circus, which has
been wintering at River Front Park,
went to his long home yesterday, a
victim of curiosity and a voracious and
indiscriminate appetite.
About 1 o'clock yesterday one of the
circus attendants brought a lot of
chains and whiffletrees from the upper
floors and threw, them down in front of
the ostrich pen. All of the chains
were attached to the whiffletrees except
one. which lay loose among the pile.
The attendant left them lying there for
a while, and after he had gone away
one ostrich, more curious than the
others, caught sight of the shining
chain. Quick as a flash he darted his
long neck through the bars and seized
the chain in his bill. He threw it into
the inclosure, and his companions stood
eyeing him curiously to see what he
was going to do with the chain.
They were not left long in doubt.
He at once began to make a meal of it.
Link by link it disappeared down his
clastic oesophagus. It was very evi
dent that the task was no easy one, for
before he got it half way down he
seemed to repent of his .bargain. But
he would not give it us, and finally it
disappeared altogether. The bird
looked around as if in triumph, but its
triumph was short-lived. In a few
moments he was seized with par
oxysms of pain, and, as all ostriches do
when sick, he lay down on his stomach
on the floor of the pen and stretched
nut his neck.aa far as it would reach.
Mr. Sells happened to pass through the
animal department and noticed the po
sition of the bird and at once surmised
that he was ill. As the usual troubles
from which these birds suffer are Indi
gestion and similar complaints, Mr.
Sells gave him the customary remedy
a large dose of castor oil. This, how
ever, had no effect on the bird, which
continued to show signs of distress.
Nothing that was done gave him any
relief, and within a half honr after
bolting the chain he turned over on his
back and gave his last kick.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
How the System Is Being Adapted for
Private Carriages,
For private carriages an electric
lamp is placed inside, in the center of
the roof, and the twin lights are shield
ed by a circular glass plate rather
larger than the "bull's-eye" of an or
dinary search light, but neither con
vex nor concave, says the Engineer.
At the back of the lamp there is a dome
or bell-shaped enameled reflector. The
carbon filaments are very diminutive
and the current is conveyed to them by
platinum wires. In this way the roof
of the brougham is fitted with a light
which will not interfere with a per
son entering the vehicle. Each of
these lamps gives a light equal to seven
candles. In the first attempt to light
carriages in this manner the moving
of the carriage was apt to jar the
lamps, often causing a breakdown, and
steel springs were not found sufficient
to prevent this. The plan now adopt
ed is to suspend the complete lamp in
a sheet of rubber which is attached to
the interior of the carriage, neutraliz
ing the vibration. A supply of elec
tricity for the lamp is stored in an ac
cumulator. One accumulator, weigh
ing two pounds, is the allowance for
each lamp. Should the two outside
lamps be also electric, two batteries
would be needed. The outside illum
inators are not of the same shape and
differ in principle from the interior
lamp, but an India rubber socket is
nscd to reduce vibration. Accumulator
or accumulators, as the case may be,
are carried in the boot, under the
coachman's seat, and they are easily ac
cessible. The coachman himself, with
out electrical knowledge, makes the
necessary connections. An eight-cell
storage battery for an ordinary car
riage or brougham is a box 8 inches
long, 4 inches wide and 7 inches deep.
This keeps the lamp lighted eighteen
hours, -which is sufficient to last the
owner from one to two months. The
cost of recharging varies, according to
wear and tear, from 50 cents to $1 not
more than the expense entailed by the
employment of oil lamps, which give
&ut an unpleasant odor and an uncer
tain illumination. The electric lamp
docs not wear out unless subjected to
careless treatment or unless it is weak
ened by the application of too strong a
current. The accumulator, however,
makes the latter contingency almost ao
Impossibility.
HUMOR.
Lady: "I see you advertise home
made bread." Baker: "Yes, ma'am."
Lady: "Does It taste like homemade?"
Baker: "No, indeed, ma'am. It's sweet
and light."
A contemporary contains an adver
tisement of a dog for sale. Among the
good points of the animal are these:
"He will eat anything and is very fond
ot children."
"Did I understand you to say that
Thompson was a farmer?" "Good gra
cious, no! I said he made his money
in wheat. You never heard of a farmer
doing that, did you?"
"What fools the girls are to marry!"
said a single lady of mature years.
"Very true," replied her married friend,
"but that is the only way you bring
them to their senses."
Young wife: "When my husband gets
cross I always threaten to go home to
my mother." Old wife: "Mercy, child!
how simple . you are! You should
threaten to have your mother come to
you."
Raynor (at fashionable restaurant):
"Do you like turtle soup?" Shyne:
"No. I detest it." "Thea what are you
eating it for?" "Confound it, one owes
something faugh to one's position in
society!"
Mrs. S.: "Why don't you go to
work?" Tramp: "Please, mum. I made,
a solemn vow twenty, years ago that
I'd never do another stroke of work till
women was paid th' same, wages as
men." Gets a trifle. .
"Books that have helped me?" said
an eminent American citizen. "I guess
that Webster's Dictionary contributed
as much to my elevation as any. I
used to sit on.it regularly at meals
when. I was a small boy."
Mabel: "Do yoa notice, how attentive
Tjm Terrapin Is. to-that elderly Miss
Gotfox? I wonder." if he really means
business?" Maude: "There is certain
ly little about ber to lead one' to suppose
that he means anything else.".'
She a woman's rights woman): "Do
you believe that woman should have
the right of being the equal of man?" 1
He: "Well. If she wants to let her
self down so far I don't see any rea
son why she should be prevented."
J3-l&hr
THE LIGHTS ON MARS.
YERKES" f EtlESCOPE WILL TELL
ABOUT them;
tt They Are Meant as SlgasW for the
rnhahltaat Flash Will lie Ketaraed
to tne Slgaalen A Woaderfal la
traameat. E ARE LIKELY
during the coming
summer .to learn
more about Mars
than astronomers
during all the his
tory of their
science have dis
covered up to the
present time about
that planet and its
people. It required
the 26-mch ' telescope of the United.
States Naval Observatory to discover'
the satellites of Mars. Then the Lick
telescope, with Its 36-inch glass, was
built, and immediately the three
strange signal lights on Mars were ob
served. Now the great 40-inch lens the
hugest telescope glass over made
which Alvan E. Clark has been working
on for more than a year at Cambridge,
Mass., for the Yerkes telescope, is com-
pieted and will soon be shipped to its
destination. The big telescope at the
Naval Observatory had been unable to
bring out the signal lights of Mars, as
the telescopes before that time had
failed to note the satellites, and the
Yerkes telescope will be so much big
ger than the Lick, now the largest in
the world, that astronomers are con
fident astonishing discoveries may be
made as soon as it is set up.
Who knows but that looking through
the great 40-inch glass of this huge
instrument, astronomers will be ena
bled to make out definitely the system
of signals which the Martians are be
lieved to be using in an effort to com
municate with the inhabitants of
Earth? Even the great canal system
of Mars, as is now suspected by more
than one, may turn out to be a gigantic
semaphore.
Upon the other hand, when these
canals fill up with water and irrigate
the land, which turns green and yields
crops, as Flammarion has witnessed,
the Yerkes telescope may show the
process of cultivation, here noting
where a field has been cut and there
where a fire has ravaged. The strange
LENS OF THE GREAT
lights in a triangle may no longer be
mysterious and puzzling to astronom
ers, while the black dots and dashes on
the white polar caps of the planet may
be deciphered. Railroads, water-works,
ships and wh'ole cities existing on the
surface of Mars may come out under
this huge telescope, the glass of which
has just been photographed in the
workshop of Mr. Clark.
The latter, by the way, is the great
est builder of astronomical lenses the
world has ever seen. It was he who
made the Lick lens, and the Chirks
have been the foremost makers of as
tronomical glasses for two generations.
They have .witnessed the steady growth
of glasses to their present enormous
size.
Alvan E. Clark, aided by his father,
constructed the 5-inch reflecting tele
scope which showed the satellites of
Jupiter and the rings of Saturn. Then
followed in succession from their work
shops at Cambridge the 12-inch for the.
Vienna University, the 12-ineh for
Morrison, the 15 for Wisconsin, the
16 for Warren Observatory, the 18 for
the Northwestern University, the 20
for Denver, the 23 for Princeton, the
26 for Virginia with one of like size
for the Naval Observatory, the 30 for
Russia and the 36-inch for the Lick
telescope.
All of these have now been eclipsed
by the 40-inch lens for the Yerkes
telescope. Even this may not reach the
limit, for Mr. Clark believes that it
can be expected if any millionaire will
be liberal enough to give the order.
And it requires a very rich man to
build one of these enormous telescopes.
The lens of the Yerkes telescopa, now
at Cambridge, when the glass came
from Paris in the rough, and before a
stroke of work had been done, upon it
to fashion it into its present delicate
and beautiful shape, cost $40,000.
Probably the grinding and polishing
of the lens, which have been going on
for two years, cost as much again,
while several hundred thousand dollars
were required to furnish the grounds
and buildings for the new observatory
with its numerous instruments and the
elaborate and enormous brass tube for
the great telescope, besides the endow
ment fund for the maintenance of the
instituion. Some of Che most accom
plished astronomers in' America will
be attached to the new observatory.
The great crown glass now at Cam
bridge is about 3 inches thick in the
middle and 1 inches thick at the
outer edge. Like a' great staring eye,
it is placed at the end of a long, dark
tunnel, where the marvellously precise
work of testing the purity of the glass
and the perfection of focal range' has
been .carried on.
The great lens, representing a, for
tune in itself, will have its own palace
car, which will be specially chartered
for the trip. It will be transported
from the workshop of Mr. Clark -and
lifted on. board with the utmost care.
Mr. Clark and a body of his skilled
workmen, besides several astronomers,
will accompany the glass, keeping con
stant watch over it from one end of
the journey to the other.
Even in its palace car the great lens, J
which may shed more light upon the
ifykU
science of astronomy than all the te!e-
scopes that have ever been' built, will
not be left to itself upon the cushioned
floor. It will be? poised and balanced
sw as to receive as little Jar aa possible,
and it will be turned from one posi
tion to another from time to time dur
ing the trip, thereby avoiding podarl
zation ot the molecules .of glass from
the motion of the train. .
The telescope for which this magnificent-
product of science and skill
is intended was the gift of Charles T.
Yerkes to the . Chicago. University,
made at the time. when the announce
ments of the startling observations of
the Lick telescope', oh Mars were first
exciting the scientific world. But it is
now admitted on all hands that the
Yerkes instrument, from the satisfac
tory tests that have been made and its
greater size, will completely ccHpse
the Lick instrument in focal range and
power, and the-flrsf result of its being
turned on Mara when the planet is in
opposition will be anxiously -awaited-
CHARLES DICKENS' SONG.
It Concerned the Hlatdry of Cay i'awNe
and Had a Chores.
A favorite song of ours and I think
my father enjoyed them all even moro
than we did was one concerned with
the history of Guy Fawkes: "Guy
Fawkes, that prince of sinisters, who
blew up the House of Lords, the King
and all his ministers." The beginning
of each verse contained some startling
statement of this kind which was after
ward modified and explained away iu
what we considered a most artful and
humorous manner. I forget exactly
what happened to Interfere with the
final stage of Guy Fawkes' nefarious
project but in another verse It was
stated that Guy "crossing over Vaux
hall bridge that way came into London.
That is, he would have come that way,
to perpetrate his guilt, sir; but a little
thing prevented him the bridge it
wasn't built sir," and also that when
they wanted to arrest him "they
straightway sent to Bow street for that
brave old runner Townsend; that is,
they would have sent for him, for fear
he was no starter at, but Townsend
wasn't living then, he wasn't born till
arter that."
To each verse there was a chorus of
the good, old-fashioned sort, with an
"Oh, ah, oh, ri fol de riddy oddy, bow
wow wow" refrain.and a great part of
the point of the joke lay in the de
livery of the Introductory monosyl-
YERKES TELESCOPE.
Iablcs; the first "oh" being given, as it
were, with incredibility, or in a tone
of inquiry; the second "ah," strongly
affirmatively, and the last "oh" with
an air as of one who has found con
viction not without difficulty. Some
of Tom Moore's melodies also formed
part of the repertoire, and there were
no doubt others, which I have forgot
ten, but the impression of the singer,
as he sat in that rocking chair with us
three children about or on his knees,
has never in the least faded from my
mind, though of his appearance at
some other and later times the picture
may be less 'vivid. Charles Dickens.
Jr.
Philadelphia Trolley Parties.
The trolley parties are reviving and
promise to put all former attempts in
this line in the shade. There is notice
able absence of noise in those that have
been perpetrated so far this summer.
Instead of the objectionable blowing of
horns and the ringing of bells, there
is a great singing of alleged popular
songs, which is, perhaps, even a worse
offense, although not a punishable one.
The cars are decorated with small
American flags and bunting, and il
luminated with small electric lights,
that are scattered all around the cars,
both inside and out. The brightness
of the lights is a means of attracting
crowds of people, who cheer the trol
leyites to the echo. Judging from
present indications, the trolley parties
promise to be more the go than 'last
year, and the "trolleyosis wards" in
the hospitals for the incurably insane
will probably be taxed to their utmost
extent. Philadelphia Record.
w Salad Combination.
A new salad mixture that the house
wives of Boston are concocting consists
of equal parts of green peas, either
French or the new peas now in mar
ket, the latter cooked, of course, and
mixed with equal parts of English wal
nut meats, blanched, chopped, and
salted and served on a bed of lettuce
leaves with either a French or a May
onnaise dressing.
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.
For thirty years the empress of Aus
tria has not had her portrait taken.
The Queensland government 'has de
cided that in future exhibitions to uni
versities shall open to women.
Both the empress of Russia and the
duchess of Edinburgh have In their pos
session 'a set of sables which cost con
siderably over f 12,000.
The widow of John Brown of slavery-
day fame lives in a pretty cabin in the
Sierra Azure mountains, about fifty
miles from San Francisco.
Long as she has resided in England.
the princess of Wales has never mas-"
tered the English accent- "Channel."
for instance, she pronounces "shanpel."
In speaking of 'Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe the Hartford Courant says: "The
general health of this famous woman is
better than It was on her birthday last
year; her appetite Is excellent, and -her
strength such that- she is seen dally
during this- beautiful June weather
.walking with her attendant-on Forest
street; where Is situated her pleasant
home."
POWER OF KEROSENE.
WORKS WONDERS FOR
RIDDEN MAN.
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MONO the curloot
anomalies f ka
'man nature to bo
met with in medical-
practice, none
are more baffling
than the mental'
freaks who are
slaves of hallucin
ation. The field is
a huge one to plow
in, and , plentiful,
indeed, is the crop, Novels, old and
new, are liberally peppered with these
oddities in character. Some Mono
mania of which the victim become
possessed holds him or her in its pow
erful grip until routed from its mental
stronghold by some violent shock to
body ot mind.
"Did you ever hear of the man with
the glass legs?" said a well-known phy
sician. "That fellow's a record break
er in hallucinations. Here you have
an active business man, sound in body
and mind, suddenly struck by the con
viction aa he lay in bed. that his legs
were made of glass. If he bent his
knee or wriggled his toes they'd snap
right off like a stick of candy. They
tried to argue and laugh and bully him
out of his mania, but all no good. So
'his distracted family had to make the
best of it. No doctors were allowed;
his case was beyond medical aid. . They
handled him as gingerly as a peach
blow vase.
"So things went for nearly two years.
One day a seedy and frouzled vagabond
knocked at the kitchen door. Couldn't
the lady give him something to eat in
return for some work about the house?
She fed him. His talk was clear and.
logical, his fund of knowledge strangely
out of plumb with his fallen fortunes.
She grew interested and confidential.
She told of the skeleton in her closet
that glassed-legged monstrosity who
had almost made her reason totter on
Its perch.
"Then It was the tramp's turn to
play. 'Madame,' said he, in husky
pathetic tones, 'long ago, before this
viper got me down, I was a physician
with a handsome practice. I let it go
to the dogs and went to join it myself.
I'll cure your husband if you'll do pre
cisely as I direct.'
"She believed him and gave her
promise. 'Very well, then,' said the
tramp, as he gathered his nerves to
gether and shook his tattered wings
out for a professional "flight, 'lead, me to
his room and bring .along a can of ker
osene. "In less than no time doctor, kero
sene, and the glass legged invalid were
alone in the room. The wife had been
ordered out and the key turned in the
lock. One brief, business glance the
vagabond turned on the sick man, but
never a word said he. Tilting the can
he soon had a streak of kerosene along
the carpet at the foot of the invalid's
bed. Then he reached for a match
and touched it off. Imagination can
dally with horror on that bed-ridden
creature's face as he gazed at that re
pulsive and ragged agent of doom and
realized that he was at the mercy, no
doubt, of some maniac who had started
with fiendish deliberation to roast him
alive. He bellowed for help like a de
spairing bull, but no relief could come
through that locked door. And all the
time the flames grew warmer and
stronger, and there stood that stolid,
'ragged man,' that diabolical goblin
fresh from the halls of hell, with the
merciless purpose of a hundred fiends
in bis cold, determined eye.
"A moment more and this horrible
stiuation changed. Those glass toes
began to wiggle and squirm at the ap
proaching heat Then, with a sudSen
jerk, up went the glass knees like a
half-sprung jack-knife, and the next
second the glassified cripple was in a
hot Graeco-Roman wrestling match
with the tramp.
"It was the work of a minute to
quench the blaze, unlock the door, and,
admit the terrified wife. 'Next day,'
when the poor vagabond called again
by request, he received the fattest fee
he had handled in 30 years."
The Best Parrot an Vet.
A man whose niece had coaxed him
to buy her a parrot suceeded in getting
a bird that was warranted a good talk
er. He brought it home, and, after
putting it in a cage, stood before it
and said: "Say uncle, Polly!" The
bird did not respond, and after repeat
ing the sentence a dozen times or more
with no better success, the uncle put
his hand into the cage, and, grabbing
the bird by the neck, shook him until
his head wabbled around, all the time
yelling to him: "Say uncle, goll darn
you, say uncle!" The bird looked
limp and lifeless, and, disgusted with
his purchase, the old fellow took the
parrot out into the yard where he had a
coop of thirty chickens. Thrusting the
half dead bird in with the chickens he
exclaimed: "There, by gosh! You'll say
uncle before you get out!" Next morn
ing the uncle went out to see how the
parrot was getting on. Looking into
the coop he counted twenty-nine dead
chickens, and in the center of the coop
stood the parrot on one foot, holding the
thirtieth chicken by the neck and shak
ing, it till its head wabbled, and scream
ing: "Say uncle, goll darn you. say
uncle!"
Made a Goddeasv
- It-is possible for any Chinaman, or
even any OSIhese woman, to become a
deity by paying for the honor. A
few years ago a rich and devout Chi
nese lady died in Soochoo. Her
friends thought that an apotheosis was
no more than her due, and communi
cated with the priests, who interviewed
I the gods on the subject and discovered
that the God 6f the Left 'Little Toe
Nail had no wife. The old lady was
accordingly married to his godship,
and Is now enrolled as the "Goddess
of the' Left LitUe Toe Nail.'.' The
honor cost the old lady's estate over
$5,600 " . -
Ufa as It Is.
Friend What-rent do yon pay for
this house?
Taxpayer Alas I m it
CURIOUS FUNERAL RIT.ES.
A Greek ArckMsbey Carried tet tke.Teask
la a Ckalr.
The death of the Greek archbishop of
Corfu, which took place a few day?
back, afforded an 'opportunity-ot wit
nessing the curious funeral rites ac
corded by the Greek church to so cx"r
alted mu ecclesiastic. Tt archbishop
was an old Ban. and his death was not
unexpected. For' more than a. month,
the cathedral had been prepared for his
"sitting in state." The breath was
hardly eut of his body .when the corpse
was dressed 'in episcopal robes, and,
without being emblamed, taken to tho
cathedral and placed in a golden arm
.chair, surrounded with lighted tapers.
with the miter in one hand and-the
gospel in the other. The populaco
thronged to the church to view the
body and to kiss the archbishop's
hand. The priest desired to keep the
body there for three days, but the au
thorities nad to interfere for the bene
fit of the public health. The funeral
was accordingly arranged for the sec
ond day. The church bells tolled con
tinuously, tho theater and .shops were
closed, flags were hung at half mast
and the street lamps lighted and draped
with crape. The whole of the inhabi
tants, however, treated the occassion
as a fete day, and appeared in their
gayest clothes. The funeral procession
started from the cathedral at 8:30 a.
m. Three standard bearers with church
standards flying preceded it, followed
by about a dozen church beadles hold
ing lighted gilded lanterns. Next came
three town bands playing a funeral
march; then boys carrying artificial
wreaths. Thirty-five priests followed
on each side, and an officer of the army
holding a cushion with the Greek cross
of the Savior and the Russian grand
crosses of St Anne. Then came the
corpse tied to tho arm chair
still holding the miter and gos
pelcarried by priests in gor
geous vestments, with the chief
Greek officials taking the place of pall
bearers on each side. Directly behind
followed the Roman Catholic arch
bishops and the representatives of for
eign powers. The men of the garrison,
including the mounted battery and tbo
crew of a Greek ironclad, brought up
the rear. On arrival at the cemetery
the body was taken into the chureb.
and from there to the grave, which
was like a small room. A stone chair
had been built in the middle, on which
the corpse was seated, and a hanging
oil lamp was arranged from the arch
above. When the body was lowered
and some earth thrown in, a salute of
twenty-one guns wa3 fired from the
fert, as well as three volleys of mus
ketry over the grave. The bands then
returned playing opera airs.
The Last of the Rainmakers.
George Matthews of Wichita is the
only one left of all the Kansas rain
makers who has nerve enough to get
into public notice and talk about his
system. Scoffs and jeers have no
terrors for Mr. Matthews. On Friday
night he commenced operations at a
point near Wichita under an agreement
to bring rain by Monday night or ever
after hold his peace. In a talk to a
reporter the rain wizard saldT "I use
thirty-six electric batteries, two jars
of hydrogen gas, and two jars of com
pound hydrogen gas in making Tain.
In order to produce a storm center we
mix hydrogen gas so that it explodes
in the upper air. This forms a vor
tex. Then the clouds hover around and
concentrate, forming a storm center."
Carioas Bridge Ballilinc;.
Clifton suspension bridge and Niag
ara suspension bridge, built by Roeb
ling, are both 245 feet above water.
Neither of these, however, can com
pare with the Kinzua viaduct, near
Alton, Pa., which was designed, bnilt,
and finished in eight and one-half
months, without the use of any scaf
folding whatever, or even a single
ladder. It is 2,100 feet long and 300
feet high.
JETSAM.
The cabmen of Paris are forblddcu
to smoke pipes while driving a fare.
A dog market is held every Sunday in
Paris, where it is possible to buy any
thing from a black and tan to a large
mastiff.
The old Putnam house in Rutland.
Mass., where Gen. Rufus Putnam lived,
is to be preserved as a historical land
mark of the "Father af the North
west." The plant Phytolacca clcctrlca. a
plant capable of giving electric shocks
of somewhat startling severity, is most
remarkably disliked by the animal
world.
It will surprise some people to know
that Seattle witnessed last week a re
union of the "old-timers," some of whom
settled in what is now the state of
Washington about fifty years ago.
August Johnson of Boone. Iow.i. has
Just secured from some of the workmen
at the mines at In-line a section of a tree
found eighty feet below the surface of
the ground and completely petrified.
Miss Lillian Dent of Bath Beach. L. I..
whose brother, Lieutenant James Cas
per Dent of the "navy, has recently re
turned from the China station, has two
Formosa apes which he brought her.
A couple of Indians near Seymour,
Wis., pasted together two of the adver
tising dodgers of a clothier which show
on one side a fac simile of a confederate
$10 bill, and parsed the bogus note on a
small shopkeeper.
A Short Term Empress. Binks Oh,
yes, she carries herself like "an empress,
and bosses me around all she likes now;
but wait until we are married, and then
sec how she'll fawn and cringe. Winks
To you? Binks No; to the servant
girl.
Mr. West End (to pretty nurse)
Whose baby is that? a pretty little fol
low! Nurse Why, sir; it's your own
little boy. Mr. West End Really? My
wife changes nurses so often that I
cannot 'recognize, my own flesh and
blood.
An effective fly polson which has. the
merits of being poisonous only to flies.
Is made of the yolk of an egg beaten
with a tablespoonful each of ground
black pepper and molasses. It should
be soured In shallow plates and set
about.
Shopkeeper (to Importunate commer
cial traveler) SImpklns. call the porter
to kick this fellow out. Undaunted
commercial traveler Now, while we're
waiting for 'the porter. I'll show you an
entirely new line best thing you ever
laid your eyes on-
There are so many fine artesian, weirs
In Brule county. South Dakota, that
when another one is finished it does .-not
create a sensation, but a gusher just fin
ished four miles south of Kimball, less
than 1.0M feet deep-with eight-inch cas
ing from top to bottom, yields 90,009 gal
lons per kaur.
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