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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-
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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.
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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.
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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
,
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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."
We have purchased (because it is
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Columbian Cyclopedia Library, con
sisting of the Columbian encyclopedia,
which is also an unabridged dictionary
thirty-two volumes of convenient size
neatly bound, four volumes of thean
nual cyclopedic review, lour volumes of
current hlstoryfor 1896, one Columbian
atlas and the neat convenient revolving
oak cas ewlth glass doors. From the
evidence obtained we find that some
part of this work is placed In the
best private and public library In this
country an dabroad, for the reason
that they cover a field relative to the
past, present and future progress
and achievements of the human race
not attempted by others. The plan
Is original, and the work throughout
is carefully and ably written.
Current history contains 220 psges.
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social religious, literary, educational
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The magazine will be Indlspensible
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