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i aaaaalalalBWBESHBEEESSSKSSB DRAMATIC NOTES Albert Chevalier has, with the aid of an old friend, Brian Dally, made a book about himself. There Is no dis puting the fact that Mr. Chevalier Is one of the celebrities of the day. Here In America he Is almost as much talked of and admired as in old England, where the type of human being which he de lineates Is known and understood. And no his new book, although smacking somewhat of egotism in Its very per petration, is likely to find as many eager readers here as in the old country. The biography Is probably as vera cious as any yet published. Mr. Chev alier's father was a French teacher at Kensington grammar school, and he himself comes of three races, Gallic, "Welsh and Hliernlan. It is to this mixture that Mr. Daly attributes Chev alier's "Mimetic power, plaintive mln stresly and natural power." PARIS, July 17, 1S96. Last winter no less than four Pari sian actors young and inconsequential, to be sure got themselves Into varying degrees of trouble through their al legiance to the "Green Fairy," absinthe, which seductive potion Marie Corelll has heralded as the eventual conquerer of France. These young men, thanks to -hasty reformations, are still with us, but others are dally drawing nearer to the doom that, we are told, lurks cer tainly In the pearly green of the wormwood. Last week two gay spir its one employed, they say, in a menial capacity In one of the lesser theatres met for a game of cards In a modest wine shop In the Rue Jouffroy. Small gambling and larger drinking led to recklessconversationandoneman at length bet the other, the stage em ployee, that he could not drink off a pint of absinthe at one draught. The dare was taken, the money posted, and the liquor ordered. The pint of wormwood was swallowed in a single gulp, but be fore the drinker could place his glass up on the table, he fell like a log to the floor. Medical attendance was summoned, and the absinthe drinker was removed to the Beaujon hospital where, after twenty hours of agony that appalled even the stoical surgeons, he died. One story even had It that his poor body turned livid green after death, but this rumor has been contra dicted, and the warning is sufficiently terrrible as it stands. Just why a mer ciful Providence should have sent the Green Fairy upon earth to benumb the mind of man, and steal his soul away Is not clear. Can It be that the power of Evil in creation Is as strong as the power of God? Dramatic Mirror. "-'Well," said Tenspot, "I'm setting pretty tired of ladles' society." "What's the matter now?" said Tad dies. ' " Why.Just as soon as there is no long- er any necessity to tuck in halioon sleeves, I've got to lace up bicycle leg gins." He I am going to Improve my mind. She Tou are alwon .- .. much. , lcUilHUIS loo Wife John, did you miss me night I was away? the Husband No. I went to a lecture. Town Topics. In That U. Shade of the Period "In your day, as understand it, there as no glori- m. do.ih -.. t u..i.. c . . I5il-T.7 :: "I' .,.aa! " ZZ " ; rrrr""""' T m swk tL ul v uiu uu ! ww . Fiir im nniin dlcltls thea." Detroit Tribune. If the armies of Europe should reft at an eight-mile rait, five abreast, ifteea inches apart, it would naaire mine and one-half days for tiMsa to Baas a given point. xai THI A ROMANCE PROM AFRICA. Th Wtorjr ef Treainre fBrenloai and far lie Troe. Englishmen are pedatory creatures, and the London papers do not hesitate to express annoyance because the expe ditionary force recently sent against King Prempeh found at Coomassle only a meager number of gold orna ments, and hollow ones at that, says the New York Times. The value of the loot taken from the royal "palace" was only about 2,000 and made a poor showing when exhibited in London, as compared with the results of pre ous raids. Now a correspondent writing from Accra tells a story which if true a very large "if will make the British officers wish they had not left the Ashanti capital quite so soon. He says: "Some years ago a slave girl of surpassing beauty of the Ashanti type bein entendu had the misfortune to attract the fickle fancy of a chief, whose head wife tolerated no rivalry. To reproach a husband is generally useless; in Coomassle it is dangerous. The lady, wise in her generation, fore bore to risk her head, but sent for the executioner and caused the ears and lips of the too fascinating maiden to be removed, rendering her such an object as can only be seen in savage king doms. History does not say If the ex pedient answered the purpose of re storing the chiefs wandering affections to their rightful owner, but the slave girl developed, not unnaturally, into a woman with an undying thirst for revenge. Lately she sought an audience with the governor, and she informed him that the real treasure of the Asbantris lies buried some fifty feet below the soil, in a dis used shaft of a mine near Coomassle, and readily undertook to point out the spot. Digging is being vigorously car ried on, already more than a fourth of the depth has been cleared, and should the treasure amount to anything like the rumored value, the cost of the ex pedition will be fully defrayed, making the Ashanti war a record one, as not only bloodless, but free of cost." III Brother Revenge. We are all more or less familiar with that exasperating class of individuals who seem to feel that the simple com mon sense of the world is centered in themselves and that the rest of us are in need of guidance and direction in the simplest duties of life. Mr. B was a young man of this class. He was always painfully pro fuse in details regarding anything he wished done. He had a parrot, of which he was excessively lonrt. and when he was about to go abroad for a few months, leaving his bird behind, he bored and exasperated his family and friends with senseless details re garding the care of the parrot and his last words, screeched from the deck of the steamer that bore him away, were: "Hi, Jim!" "What?" shouted the brother on the pier. "Look out for my parrot!" came faintly over the water. Jib if this was not enough he had no sooner reached Liverpool than he sent the following cablegram to his brother, who had assumed the charge of the par- rot: "Be sure and feed my parrot. On receipt of this the infuriated brother cabled back at his brother's ex pense: "I have fed her but she is hungry t lirfcof olioll T An tidtH" Hor. aB . ' L ' . pers Magazine. Itath Tub v. Antlprretlc. The typhoid statistics of the Bris bane hospital show a remarkable tri umph of pioneering work in what the Sydney Herald calls the "ghoul-haunted swamps of medical conservatism." The man who introduced the cold bath as a means of reducing temperature, instead of the antipyretics prescribed in hog Latin to subdue the fire of the " "" r by mln down the lamp of life, was held grimly responsible by tne pro- fession for every failure. Results, V 11 - - 11- however, have now proved beyond all doubt that the cold-water treatment is, on the whole, the best yet discovered. Since its adoption In the Brisbane hos pital the mortality fmi typhoid has , I-to uvku. reuuwu iunj inu-uuiua. uu 5- , r-,j. -rs-i Sf , single COURIER. year, out upon teat 01 a long series, throughout the whole of which statis tics tell the one consistent tale. "The bath tub has beaten the pharmacopeia all along the line, and the doctors have to admit 1L" Westminster Gazette. Keeitl i; n- . The king of Desnsrk'j "part of new Invented guns. ?h!c bci:g fcu. once charged win discharge many times, one after another," in 1657, would seem to have had rivals about the same period. Pepys twice refers to such. On July 3, 1662. when "at the Do'.phin with the officers of the ordnance, after dinner was brought to Sir. W. Coapton a gun to discharge seven times, the best of all devices that ever I saw and very serviceable, and not a bawble, for it is much approved of, and many thereof made." And on March 4, 1663-4, he mentioned "a new fashion gun to shoot often, one aftor another." Notes and Queries. The Batelwll Pitcher. The famous base ball pitcher had walked the floor with the youngest of his family for an hour or so. "Mary," said he, "if the manager saw me now, I bet I'd get soaked with a fine." "Why?" asked the wife, sleepily. "I don't seem to have any control of the bawl at all, I don't" Foresight. "I think," said the statesman, who didn't have aHy great hopes any way, "that it would be a good plan to make these here campaign buttons of mine wlth eyes to 'em so that if the demand is smaller than the supply, I kin sell 'em to some overalls factory or some thing of the kind." 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