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"Since arriving in the United j States I have been greatly aston- ■ Lhed at the way you pronounce proper names/’ said Mr. John II. Laiison, a tourist from Hudders field, England, in Washington a,few days ago" "For example, this very hotel at which I am stopping (the Raleigh) is given a pronunciation that sounds barbarous to my ears. You call it as though it were spelled "'Pawley.' How, this is positively incorrect, for the great Englishman in whose honor it was no doubt named is known now and has al ways been known .with us as though his name were spelled ‘Rally.’ I can’t criticise your pronunciation of such words as ‘Potomac,’ but in, England your beautiful river has over been called Pot-o-mac, with il|p accent on the last syllable. It is in an Indian word, I believe, and you have the right to place the em phasis on any syllable you like, al though it seems to me .that our way of pronouncing it gives far more strength and dignity to the name.” ,,Peanuts Versus Insomnia. The peanut cure for consumption is widely known and believed in. Mow a lloxborough man comes for ward with a peanut cuse for insom- | in. He says of it: "I had been a poor sleeper for live years. Violent ucercise, drugs and other remedies L:ul given me no relief Finally, at the suggestion of a vegetarian, I tried'the peanut. I put beside my 1 3(1 a bag of peanuts, newly roasted, helled and salted, and on my first .utack of’insomnia I ato fifty, mas- • eating them very thoroughly, giv ing, in fact, twenty-five chews to ■ eeh nut. While taking this large ioso I felt a gradual drowsiness ■'< oaling over me, and as»soon as the Lise was ended I fell asleep. Sinco : fiat time I have always lcept fresh neamits by me at night. They have rover failed of their effect, and I •Live! noticed furthermore that my i Hacks of insomnia have decreased Lira in average of eight a month . > two.”—Philadelphia Record. All His Money In Clothes. According to an Omaha corre spondent of the Chicago Tribune, II. Iloffmun, a Union Pacific ! ichinist, getting $3 a day, has re vived the palm as the most expen- si vely dressed man in that city. The extent of his wardrobe was brought ,<io light in a trial in Omaha, where a man was charged with stealing a ■’it case full of clothing from him. W bile under oath he stated that the p ip contained $6 worth of neckties. Low many neckties have you alto- /.•■Lher ?” asked the attorney. He . ' plied, "I have $40 worth of neclc- CONpENSED STORIES. Mr.- Thomson Thought Conductor, Should Have Got Another Wife. The late Frank Thomson, presi dent of the Pennsylvania .railroad, was called upon in his official ca pacity on . one occasion by the friend • <ji a conductor who had! been issed from, the service be cause . intoxication while on duty. Mr. Thomson- received the delega tion of pleaders very courteously, listened to all that could be said on behalf of the luckless employee and then, while expressing his sorrow,; said he could not see his way clear, to interfering. It was urged that the conductor had always thereto fore borne a reputation for sobriety. "Necessarily,” replied Mr. Thom son, "else he never could have be come a conductor on this road.” "But,” one j)i the pleCtlers went, on, "he never drank a drop until last winter.” "And why then ?” asked the pres ident. • "You see,” it was explained, "he. lost his wife in the fall.” "Well,” quietly questioned the disciplinarian, “why didn’t he get, another wife ?” A Cure For Monotony. A British soldier tells the follow ing experience in the Transvaal:. "One night I went to the door of 1 our tent rather late and was at once; attracted by an unusual, object, straight before me. I went up to it and found it to be tho figure of & man turned upside down and ap parently fixed so in an everlasting THE STRENUOUS LIFE. a .ip" The court gasped and the ; ..orney turned pale. "Is the rest % your wardrobe in proportion?” i. la d the attorney. “It is,” re- M mded the witness. Iioffman was i jorie d faultlessly. Passing of the Lightning Rod. • Tho day of the lightning rod is ) .ssing. The government’s latest O' asus returns shov^ that Frank- li /s invention for protecting the V mso is little used today. Ho elec- Lical manufacturing establishment reports it among the products, and Tolar as the census expert has been nb'.o do learn only one American c«a rical engineering firm makes a i..less of setting up the rods or L ipiling them. So far as large ■ oa are concerned, disastrous L^. ming strokes are reported to 1 e more rare, and the decrease is ac- avuited for by the network of elec- t v ' ally charged wires and other ap paratus with which .the city is now interwoven and surrounded. C Good Better Best. ) v prosperous Cincinnati malster - himself "G. B. Best,” and only j , .nv of his intimates know that his A >11 name is Good Better Best. "When his father came to this coun try from Germany a good many yfoirs ago, he wisely made haste to learn the English language. While studying that part of grammar which treats of positive, compara tive and superlative he found the letters of his own name preceded by "good” and “better.” Just about that time his wife gave birth to a boy, to whom the happy father promptly gave the curious name he now bears. Ping—That fellow Graspit cer tainly knows the value of a dollar. Pong—Been trying to borrow one of him ?—Chicago Hews. "WHY, WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU, MIKE?" station. I turned the figure over and found it to be a friend of mine in the regiment endearingly known as the ‘Dubs’ (the Dublin fusiliers, that is). ‘Why, what’s wrong with you, Mike ?’ I asked. ‘Ugh,’ he re- E lied, ‘doctor, he sez, “Ye’re not joking yerself today, Mike.” So I sez, “Heither am I feeling it, doc tor,” sez I. ‘‘So what is the mat ter wid ye, then?” sez he. “Ugh, sonr,” sez I, l “I thinks it’s the mo- nothony that’s preying on me vi tals.” “Why,” sez he, “go and shtand on yer head, man,” sez he, “that’s all you’re needing.” So I thried it, and I felt such an im provement in me gineral health that! I’m just continuing the motion.’ ” j A Joyous Wedding Day. M. MalleVal, a Parisian financier who is mixed up in some swindling transactions, is an interesting char acter. His lively youth resulted in his being disinherited. He decided to marry money and did it. And then on the day of his wedding he went out with his wife, took a cab, went to a certain -gambling club on the boulevards and. told her to wait outside. That was, it appears, in the afternoon, and at 2 o’clock In the morning the bride was still waiting. When he finally arrived, the bridegroom informed her that he had lost the whole of her ‘ f dot” at play. According, to the fParis papers, that was but a typical inci dent of his career. Casserole Chafing Dish. An earthen casserole set in a cop per frame and fitted with a copper covet is the newest thing in chafing dishes. The casserole is made of the common red earthenware and is glazed inside and unglazed out side. A severely plain and rather “stumpy” earthen handle adds to ihe picturesque effect. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature on eachbox.25c. Of the strenuous life led by most business men nowadays W. J. Otis of St. Paul, who . is a successful grain merchant himself, says: “What is the use of all the wild, hysterical stampede that takes place’, daily? From the cheap clerk up to; the business man, who ought not to waste his energy in wild rushing, ; every one is tearing along as if the: fiends of hell were pursuing him. He '-wastes more' time by needless hurry than he saves at the other end. Your average business man does not have to be at his office un til, 9 or 10 o’clock in the* morning, yet he gulps his breakfast' down in five minutes and reads the paper for an hour. When he gets to nis office,’ everything must run at fever heat. He has an hour for luncheon, eats it in three minutes and wastes the balance. He hurries home after the day’s" work, wades through his dinner and races ior the theater or club, then is whisked ,home for a nervous, restless sleep. How can a man last under such conditions and be at his best ? If that is the way modern business must be conducted, with no regard for hygiene, diges tion or nerves, I think the man is better off with less money and more ease/ We Don't Need the Pole Now. In my note on the results of the arctic expedition of 1875, written in the following year, I had already come to the conclusion that there was a deep sea and not land to the north of Franz-Josef Land; that there was a continuous drift across the arctic regions from east to west and, consequently, heqvy ice pres sure on the western side. All this was oonfirmed by Hansen in his great discovery of the polar ocean. After his voyage there is no longer any geographical object in going to the north pole, except for the sake of deep sea soundings, for it is merely a point in \ the polar ocean, the economy of which has been made known by Hansen. That h'lieat explorer finally removed the veil which concealed the secret of the arctic regions. There is no 'lisuperable difficulty in reaching the pole with an able leader and a proper system, but there is no suffi cient object.—Sir Clements Mark ham in London Geographical Mag azine. It Was Funny. •The death of R. M. Field, for many years manager of the Boston Museum, recalls his experience some years ago with Maurice Bar rymore when he tried to engage that actor as bis leading man. Bar rymore was in He ( w York, making $250 or $300 a week, when Jack Mason, then leading man of the Museum stock company), resigned. Mr. Field looked over the list of leading men and finally telegraphed Barryinore: / Will give you $150 a week to play leads at the Boston Museum. R. M. FIELD. Barrjpnore was sitting in the Lambs’ club when the dispatch was handed to him. As he read it he smiled, and then, sending for a blank, he indicted this reply: R. M. Field, Boston Museum: I have sent your offer to Puck. MAURICE BARRYMORE. —Hew York Times. To the Bitter End. Whether .there is any foundation for the prejudice of women labor ers in England against the female labor inspector is immaterial. The prejudice exists, says the Queen, and is sometimes displayed in strict ly feminine fashion. In England, where legislation is concerned with laundries, a female inspector, after much argument, persuaded the head of a small es tablishment to show her over the premises. The superintendent threw open the door of a steaming kitchen in which there were some half dozen washerwomen bending over tubs. “Ladies,” she said in a dramatic voice, “a woman from the govern ment to see you!” Rheumatism IT Years Cared. People who have been cured sound the praise ot Uricsol. Mrs. Mary E. Hart well, wife of the treasurer of Los AngeL es, Cal., says: “I desire to express my sincere appreciation of yoi^r remedy. 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