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DAILY BfUPlRBR»BOiy t OOLUMBUB, GIORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 19, 1887.
1
The Drawback* to Running a Newtpapar
in the French Repubiio.
Experience In Editing “The Sew*"—Plfllcultie*
of Bill 'Ponttav »nd Interviewing—A Duel That
Happily (oiled to Ezentuite.
St. Louis Poet-Dispatch.
“They order,” said Sterne, “this matter
better in France.” What matter? Not
newspaper making, certainly. Compared
with the methods of procedure in Patago
nia or Siam, or the empire of Morocco, the
customs of France may be liberty itself;
but judged by the accepted standard of
this easy going republic, they smack of
tyranny and other unspeakable things.
When, in 1883,1 contemplated starting a
yankee newspaper in Paris, the situation
was this: English and American popula
tion, fixed and transient, estimate upon the
basis of the police statistics, about 11,000;
ditto, scattered through other continental
cities, Dresden, Frankfort, Munich, etc.,
perhaps 20,000 more; total, say, 30,000. To
these 30,000 benighted Anglo-Saxons the
process of getting news was divided, like
ancient Qaul, into three parts. One was
by taking the French papers, eminently
unsatisfactory, inasmuch as the French
papers never, upon any pretext, indulged
in the trivolous pastimes of printing news.
Another way was by subscribing to the
London papers. This was sutficient unto
the English, but not to the American ex
ile, who shirked the mauual labor of un
folding eight solid nonpareil pages
of “Speeches Out of Parliament,”
even for the sake of learning in
a seven line dispatch that Chicago had
been burned to the ground a day or two
S reviously. The third was via Galignaui’s
tessenger, ThiB able journal, now a wide
awake newspaper, was at the time the
most remarkable daily publication issued
on our planet. Having lost its oiiginal
subscriber, the dodo, it had drifted into a
later zoological period wholly unpropared.
Typographically, it was ot the epoch of
Gutenburg. Its editorial staff consisted of
a hermit and a pair of shears. The hermit
had eschewed all contact with this wicked
world, except in so far os a daily contami
nation with the most stale, staid and state
ly parts of London papers was concerned.
The London papers usually reached Paris
at 7 p. m. The hermit tackled them at 8.
By 9 nine the shears had skipped every
thing of possible contemporaneous human
interest, and the remainder was sent to
the medieval compositor to appear next
morning under tne guise of Galignani’s
Messenger. The most extraordinary thing
about this phenomenal affair was that it
fetched a higher price than any other
daily paper in the world. Eight cents a
co
ipy was the figure; the London Times
ffln * '
ing at
most New York
and the fore
newspapers at 2!
MR. CHAMBERLAIN’S EXPERIMENT.
It was at this time that, being unexpect
edly thrown upon my own resources, I de
termined to plant in what seemed a fertile
and untllled field a small but newsy daily
paper. The plan was sufficiently simple.
The backbone of the whole enterprise was
to be a special wire from London, by which
a correspondent in Fleet street could
transmit a summary of the nows contained
in the London papers as fast as their first
copies issued moist from the presses (about
3:30 o’clock a. m.), to be put in type and
printed on the Paris side by 7 o'olock, or
almost simultaneously with their appear
ance in London. There were twenty-seven
cables across the channel. To hire one of
these for three hours daily—from 3 a. m.
to 0 a. m.—would be sufficient for the pur
pose. Accordingly application was made
to the minister of posts and telegraphs,
with a request for all possible expedition.
The rent of the wire was to be 100,000
francs or (20,000 a year, payable quar
terly in advance. This was highly satisfac
tory (the adverb being used iu the sense of
of altitude), but the main thing was nut
the question, “how much,” but the query
“when.” The first issui of the paper was
due in a fortnight. It would be desirable
to experiment with the wire for a week
beforehand to get everything in smooth
running order. Would this magnitudinous
Niblets hurry mattersa little, just the least
trifle in the world, so that such disruption
of the republic as was necessary to the
signing of a lease of this vast importance
might he over with in the next six or
seven days? The minister of Posts and
Telegraphs at that time was M. Cochery.
credited with being the most efficient and
business-like man who had ever presided
over that department. In appearance he
strongly resembled the Russian bear of
popular caricature. In manner he was
not unlike the grizzly ditto of actuality.
But in spite of his brusqueness and appar
ent indifference I have since learned
that he really tried to carry
through the aflair in question as
rapidly as possible. It will give la fair
notion of the infinity of official red tape
in France when I say it was three months
from the date of application before the
sanction of the department was finally
granted, with the necessary array of seals,
signatures and other paraphernalia. Mean
time, the paper having been announced to
appear, had to be issued, wire or no wire.
By a system of surreptitious “tipping” we
managed to get sharp enough work out
oi the telegraph operators to make the
regular public service ansvverourpurpo.se
in the interim. This cost a small fortune,
of course, but it iH only fair to the govern
ment of a sister republic to say that the
excess of payment was afterward politely
refunded. Politeness, indeed, marked ail
the stages of whatever transactions 1 had
with the government Anything that a
French official lacks in speed he may he
depended upon to make up for it in de
portment.
THE FRENCH “MANAGER.”
“Before the debut of the new paper
another unexpected hitch occurred. The
forthcoming journal must have a gerant.
A gerant is defined by Spiers and Surenne
as “a manager, a person at the head of an
establishment.” 1 found that the French
law forbade my contemplating myself or
permitting myself to be publicly contem
plated as a gerant. No foreigner whosoever
may lay that flattering unction to his sou!.
The gerant must be a French person, actu
ally of native birth, or anointed with the
divine unguent of naturalization. Accord
ingly, I had to hunt up a properly qualified
gerant. After some search I learned of a
worthy individual named Malabouche,
who fulfilled all legal requirements. Mala
bouche was a gentleman of humble
station, who dwelt somewhere in the
suburbs. He was described to me as being
a hopeless cripple from paralysis, who, for
the stipend of $20 monthly, would act as
figure-head for any aspiring editor
of foreign extraction. His re
sponsibility comprised the shoulder
ing of legal actions, appearance in
cases of libel, infringment of the press
laws, and bo forth. M. Malabouche was
engaged forthwith. Whether or not he
justified the description I had of him, I am
unable to Bay. I never set eyes upon the
g ood man, and for aught I know he may
ave been a journalistic Mrs. Harris, with
a gift of drawing twenty dollars a month,
and receipting therefor in a very Frenchy
chirography. Imagine M, Meuuier hav
ing to engage a cripple and impecunious
native of Hoboken, or Williamsburg, to
act as his “manager,” before being per
mitted by the government of the United
States to issue the Courrier des Etats-
Unis.
INFORMATION FROM MR. BARNUM.
Before the first issue we (I use the plural
as referring not to Malabouche, but to my'
able associate, Mr. Albert C. Ives, former
ly of the New York Times, struck another
n - ■>g. To properly herald the coming
bir.j, a quantity of posters had been pre
pared for placarding the vacant walla ot
Pari*. It was our untutored American
idea that to order and pay ior a few
thousand flaming bills, ana to hire men
to stick them to the walla, comprised
all the process necessary for thia pleas
ing form of attracting public attention. In
genious barbarions that we were, we had
fallen into new errors. First, we narrow
ly escaped arrest for affixing one of the
placards to our own premists withoutpre-
viously having it stamped with the official
stamp. Every bill must, under penalty of
the law, bear the government stamp as
conspicuously as though it were going to
be sent by mail. The stamps vary in price
according to the size of the poster, but the
rule is rigid and the penalty ior its infring-
ment severe. Further than this, a good
E art of our stock of placards was seized
ecause, forsooth, the announcements had
been printed upon white paper! The use
of white paper is reserved by the French
repubiio to itsef for such proclamations or
other announcements as it finds necessary
to placard about the capital. Red we could
use, or blue or peagreen or any shade of
color, whatever that might please our res-
thetio fancy, but the posters which we had
presumed to order printed in plain black
and white must be destroyed, and destroy
ed they were, ruthlessly.
LIBEL IN FRANCE.
When the paper had been running about
two months we made the announcement,
based on a careful canvass of the kiosks, or
news stands, that our circulation in the
city of Paris was six times as large as that
of our venerable rival. The said rival nad
meantime reduced its price from eight to
four cents a copy, applied for a special
wire to London, and. actually taken to
printing sporadic items of news. Our
statement of comparative circulation was
printed In tabular form, based upon the
actual sales of the kiosks. The figures
were carefully verified before publication.
They showed conclusively that the Paris
sale of the Morning News versus the Galig-
nani was as six against one. But though
this statement was true, it was, according
to French law, illegal. We were promptly
sued by the enemy, who estimated his
damage at 20,000 francs ($1000). The law
under which our behavior had become ac
tionable was that of concurrence deloyalo
or “unfair competition.” We might
say whatever we chose with regard
to our own circulation, but we
must not make comparisons derogatory to
our neighbors. A long lawsuit followed.
The truth of our statement was not ques
tioned—did not, in fact, enter into consid
eration at all. The only point at issue was
that we had made comparisons odious and
presumably damaging to our rival. Ac
cordingly the tribunal decided against us,
and we were mulcted.
Another litigation was that with M.
Clemenceau. 1 had sent a reporter to in
terview the great radical leader, and bad
satisfied myself of the genuineness of the
interview. In it occurred the expression
cllquestapageuses, “noisy cliqueB,’’applied
by M. Clemenceau to a section of his own
political following. The anti-Ciemeneeau
papers got hold of this phrase and used it
with decided effect. A few days after
wards I received word from M. Clemen
ceau that we must deny the whole inter
view. I replied that I would modify any
part of it upon M. Clemenceau s
authority, but that to stultify ourselves by
swallowing the entire story, even to the
fact that an interview had taken place,was
quite out of the question. Thereupon suit
was brought against me, damages being
laid at 100,000 francs. The French courts
decided in Clemenceau’s favor. It did not
appear to be at all a question of fact as
based upon the evidence. The undisputed
testimony as to the occurrence of an inter
view did cot apparently come within the
purview of the court. It was simply as
sumed to be the right of M. Clemenceau
to insist upon any retraction he wished.
Had he chosen to ask us to deny not only
the fact that he had been interviewed, but
even that Buch a paper as the Morning
News existed, I am inclined to thick the
law would have sustained him.
THE DUEL THAT WAS NOT.
My dueling experience was limited to a
single affair, and that did not, as the late
Mr. Charles Backus would say, eventuate.
For some fancied slight a well known
Bohemian writer assumed the right to
wade in my gore. Two excruciatingly po
lite Frenchmen called upon me one after
noon and with appropriate gesticulations
favored me With their cards and announced
themselves as the friends of my infuriated
penny-a-liner. 1 requested the privilege of
twenty-four hours in which to select my
seconds and prepare to meet my doom.
This having been haughtily granted the
friends withdrew. Next day I borrowed
from a sporting friend an elephant ride, a
double barreled affair, weighing something
over fourteen pounds and chamberea to
carry door knobs. At the meeting to ar
range the preliminaries this young Colum
bian was presented as the weapon of my
choice, a mate to it to be immediately pro
cured from London, and the distance to he
Cored by S. 8. 8.
CAUTION.
Omtumtrs thould not confuw our Specific
with the numerous imitation/, suMi!ut/s,
pota/h and mercury mixture« which are got
ten up to sell, not on their own merit, but on
the merit of our remedy. An imitation is
always a fraud and a cheat, and they thrice
only ae they can steal from the article imitated.
Treatise on Blood and Shin Ui/auct mailed
free. For sale by ail druggtet/.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawer 3. .\flanta, Ga.
S. S. S. vs. POTASH.
I have had blood poison for ton years. I know I have taken one hundred bottles of
Iodide of potash in that time, but it did me no u 0<> d- Lust summer my face, neck, body
and limbs were covered with sores, and I could scarcely use my arms on account of rheu
matism in my shoulders. 1 took 8. 8. 8., and it has done me more good than all other medi
cines I have taken. My face, body and neck are jierfectly clear and clean, and my rheu
matism is entirely gone. I weighed 116 pounds when I began the medicine, and 1 now weigh
159 pounds. My nret bottle helped me greatly, anti ga\e me an appetite like a strong man.
I would not be without 8. 8. S. for several times its weight in gold.
C. K. MITCHELL, W, 23d St. Ferry, New York.
BROWN & KING,
CAPITAL PRIZE, - $150,ooc
* We do hereby certify that we supervise
* all the Monthly ana Semi-Annut1
rangementfor all the Monthly and SemirAnnwe
Drawings of The Louisiana State Lottery Oorr
yany, and in person manage and control iht
Drawings themselves, and that the same are
ducted with honesty, fairness, and in good fait)
toward all parties, and we authorise the Oompant
co use this certificate, with facsimiles of t.w tig
natures attached, to its advertisements.*’
Manufacturers and Dealers in
COTTON AND WOOLEN MILL
Top
Holler
Covering
Specialty,
SUPPLIES-
Loom
Strapping
and Pickers
A Specialty.
LEATHER AND RUBBER BELTING,;
MACHINISTS AND ENGINEERS SUPPLIES,
WROUGHT IRON PIPE FITTINGS AND BRASS GOODS.
62 South Broad Street, ATLANTA, GEORGIA-
augS-dSm
(oiuinni.liihiri
K« I be under/ignrd Bank/ and Bank/rt MS
yap all Pri.cs drawn in The Loui/iana State Lc
tcric. which may be prr.cnted at out counter/.
H. OGLESBY. Pro., I.n. Unt’l >Unl
PIUlMtU. k.ANVUX, Pro. MIh<«. ISnt'S HI
A. ItAI.II VYIN, Pres. 8.0. Nnt’l Uwnl
IAKI, 14(1118, Pm. I'll ion NhPI Bnuk
U NmiCKftmKFYTTRACTION I
Over Half a Million Distributed
Louisiana State Lottery Comp’y
Incorporated in 1868 tor 25 years by the Legtali*
lure for Kducational and Charitable purpopes—
with a capital of $1.000,000-to which a res err*
fund of over $550,000 has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its fYanchtai
was made a part of tne present State Ooustitn
tion, adopted December 2d, A. D. 1870.
The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed 6}
the people of any State.
IT NEVER SCALES OR POSTPONES.
I In <*run<! Single Sninlnr Ihawlnpt
lake place Monthly. i»n<l Hie Gram
Seinl.Aiiiiiiai Drawing's regularly «v<
ery nI» moitlli* (June an«l heeeinber)
SI»l.i:M>ll> OPIMMITINITY 11
WIN A FORTUNE. ELEVENTH GRAND
DRAWING, CLASS I., IN THE ACADEMY OI
MUSIC. NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, Ko
Oh, No! No Dull Times
HAVE EVER OVERTAKEN THE '
EMPIRE STABLES.
SUCCESSORS TO
JOHN DISBROW & CO.
No city in America has a better appointed Livery, Feed
and Sale Stable than we furnish the people of Columbus
The citizens of this live and thriving city appreciate progress
and they patronize us. We have showy, spirited but gentle
horses, the most careful and experienced drivers, the mosl
elegant and luxurious vehicles.'
Funerals personally and perfectly conducted by our Mr.
Reynolds. The finest Hearses in the city.
Telephone 58.
octtdly
Grand Republic Cigarros
The only ten-cent Cigar in the United
sold for five cents.
States that can bt
■W C3-.
o continue | NOTICE is hereby given to all manufacturers, jobbers and retail dealers of cignrt
until suspended by tne death or dislocation j that wo are the sole and exclusive owners of the band or trade-mark for cigurrot
the opposing forces. r_
tne"
ten paces, the bombardment to continue |
of one of the opposing forces. Two hours
Inter I was notified by my representative
that proceedings had been discontinued,
my methods having been considered by
the parties of the other part as “too bar
barous.” < |
Experiences Under Ether.
Every one who lias inhaled ether feels
that he has passed through a remarkable
experience, whether of a disagreeable na
ture or the reverse. Sometimes the vapor
carries with it the most delightlul sensa
tions, and again is only productive of the
horrible. When a patient is “going off”
or returning to consciousness, be often in
dulges in absurd remarks.
“There’s my blue bonnet,” said a lady,
opening her eyes after some time spent in
a dentist’s chair, “so I can’t be dead; that
wouldn’t have been waiting for tne in
heaven.”
Another, a sober matt on, was so delight
ed on returning to consciousness at seeing
the kindly face of her physician bending
over her, after she had been floatiug off
i ito space, that she exclaimed excitedly,
•O, doctor, I love you!”
“Yes, yes, I know it,” he replied, sooth
ingly, and she lias since declared that she
was so angry with him for under-estimat
ing the importance of her statements that'
she kept on wildly insisting, “Hut you
don’t understand; I adore you!”
Oue young girl, compelled to go through
a paintul surgical operation, began laugh
ing immoderately as soon as the ether af
fected her. After her recovery she was
asked to recall the cause of her mirth, and
in doing so she laughed as heartily again.
‘•I can’t tell you how funny it was,” she
declared. “I s’eemop to be crocheting, and
there was a big mosquito going iu and out
with the loops. Oh, it you could only have
seen how funny he looked!”
From which it may be inferred that
ether, in common with hashish and opium,
has the power of investing the simplest
objects and imaginings with some absurd
characteristics.
A gentleman who had inhaled ether for
the purpose of having his teeth extracted
Bays there was some delay in the course of
the operation, and when the last teeth
were pulled he had begun to regain con
sciousness.
“I felt no pain,” he says, in describing
his sensations, “but I felt the jar when
each tooth left my head. But all the time
I was dreaming that I was whizzing
through the country on a lightning express
train.
“At intervals some oue threw a huge log
across the track, iu Iront ofthe engine, and
we went over it with a bump and jolt. Not
until afterwards did I realize that the jar
was that of a departing tooth."
You can’t afford to laugh, dear girls,
Unless your teeth are white as pearls—
Unless your mouth is pink and sweet,
And your two lips in rosebuds meet:
And vou cannot supply this want,
But through the use of SOZODONT !
sat,su,tu,tnurs,\v
Ml/Sll), IS KW gkluaixh, TUESDAY, 80-
vcmlx-rHill, 1HM7 -ctotli Monthly Drawing
Capital Prize, $150,000.
SS-Xftllor—Tickets are Ten Dollars only.
*•">. Fifths,(2. Tenths,$1.
U aim
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF
1 GRAND PRIZE OK
1 GRAND PRIZE OF
8 LARGE PRIZES OF
4 LARGE PRIZES OF
20 PRIZES OF
50 PRIZES OF
100 PRIZES OF
200 PRIZES OF
600 PRIZES OF
APPOXIMATION PRIZES.
100 Approximation Prizes of 1300 S80,0>0
*150.000 1150.001
50.000 60,00'
20.000 20,001
10,000 20,001
5.000 80,001
1.000 90,001
500 16,001
800 80,001
200 40,001
60,001
A Chinook Wind.
A TV. stonian, who lias just returned
from a flying trip to Portland, Ore., re
lates how he left Chicago with the mer
cury at zero, and went on to find it con
stantly sinking, until with two locomo
tives it was difficult to get up steam
enough to drag the train; and with a roar
ing fire in the cars it was still necessary
to keep muffled in furs to be anything
noarly comfortable. Ho says that in
crossing snowy plains through Dakota,
when evcryliody was bundled up to tbs
eyes, n man accustomed to the country
suddenly threw buck his heavy ulster col
lar, exclaiming:
‘There, we’ve struck a Chinook wind.
Now we are all right. I’m going out on
the platform.”
Those not accustomed to the idiosyn
crasies of the American climate In that
especial locality regarded the man as be
side himself, but when the platform was
visited by .the more daring ones it was
discovered that the temperature was that
of a mild spring day. The snow every
where was visibly melting with much
rapidity, and the mysterious wind seemed
to have blown in a now season. The name
of this warm breeze is the same us that of
u tribe of Indians of British Columbia,
who iierltaps manufacture it, and It is said
to be so warm that It destroys three or
four feet of snow in a single night. The
gentleman who relates this thermic voy
age closes by relating how when he ar
rived at Portland pansies were blooming
in the garden beds, and mildness had pos
session of (lie land; an ending which is
especially effective in thuse frozen days.—
Providence Journal.
loo
100
1,000 Terminal “
1.110 Prizes, amounting to..
200 10,004
100 10.0M
50 60,ore
or further information write clearly, givlni
hill address. PONTAI, N42TEN, Exp res.
Money Orders, or New York Exchange in oidt
nary letter. Currency by Express (at oar n
pense) addressed
M. A. 14A1TP11IW,
New Orleans, La
Or H. A. DAUPHIN,
Washington, D. C.
Address Registered Letters t»
NEW OBLEA8H NATIONAL BAND.,
New Orleana, Is
REMEMBER Generals Gkauragtu'
and Early, who are In charge of the drawings, t
a guarantee of absolute fairness and Integrity
that the chances are all equal, and that no on,
can possibly divine what number will draw •
PI HEMEINBEK that the payment of all Prize-
Is GUARANTEED BY FOUR NATION.
Al* RANKN of Na\r Orleana, and the Ticket*
are signed by the President of nil Institution
whose chartered righth are recognized in the
highest conrts; therefore, beware of any irai
tatione oi anouymoun scheme*.
“GRAND REPUBLIC,”
together with the (SYMBOLS, DEVICES SEA L AND GENERAL STYLE OF OUR
ORIGINAL PACKAGE. Our exclusive ownership has been determined in the several
actions brought by us, and in which deert t-s were rendered in our favor—to-wit: In
the New York Superior Court on October'.!!), 1880, and in the Superior Court of Cincin
nati, Ohio, on May 21. 18S7. WE SHALL VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTE ALL IN
FRINGEMENTS OF OUR TITLE, NAME, DEVICES, SEAL AND STYLE OF
PACKAGE as applied to cigars or cigarros to the full extent ofthe law, and shall here
after claim full damages in all actions brought by us for infringements of this brand.
GEO. P. LIES & CO.,
Grand Republic Ci/jar Factory,
No. 200 Third District, JS’ow York City.
LOUIS BUHLER & C0„ Wholesale Agents,
Central Hotel Building, Columbus, Ga.
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AND ALL FULL OF
Handsome Furniture!!
Beautiful Carpets, Buys, etc., from the very cheapest to the
finest. We are still in I lie lead with the Largest Stock,
Latest Styles, Lowest Prices. Best value for your money.
EVERY THiinsra- ustew.
isroTHiira- siEcoiisriD-iiYLiisriD.
Don’t buy until you have examined our stock and heard
our prices.
T.T. EDMUNDS,
in8 Broad Street.
sept 18-se-tues-thur-sat-lm
.1. < . Uucd.v.
vout AGENTS In eve
nnil town.
BIG COMMISSION.
T. IB. Million*.
ll/r F.IMi v
Ilf .-r of North’
s Ij*h1 kriown
ting of K(> acre
and ;i lot re
to h!!kind-
the fruit t rt
uber will take |35i
rttiooo. One -fourth
centre of city on Kiev*
ami fourth avenue. fr«
acre' lot, 5-rooni house in
nth M rect. bet ween Third
>nt public Hrhool. Apply to
RKKDY k M A HONE.
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GOLH tfEDAI x’AP.13, It*
BAKER’S
JMfastCocot
piiy Warranted absolutely jm*
Cocoa, irorn v hi. h the oxce*n
Oil ha* licen r**movi d. IthanrAr*
esthe stn ngth of Cocoa mir*
h March. Arrowroot or Sngt,
) i i\\ an( therefore far rnoreeconcr
<• |;tu leal, coating Use than one cad
r L ! ri i* delicious nouriMhlr^
^ jl IlHtrongthorilng, easily
nd admirably adapted for inv&,
Ihu* well a* for perftonBIn hea!ti
Sold by Grocers everywhere
W. BAKER & SO,,, Dorchester, Mass
GRAND LODGE f, if A. H.
OFFICE OF GRAND SECRETARY,
Macon, Ga., October I, 1K>C.
/ < RAND LODGE OF F. A A. M. FOR THE:
IU .stale jf Georgia will assemble in annual
communication on Tuesday, the 26th inst.. at li
o'clock a m. in the Grand lxidge Temple in the
city of Macon. Officers and delegates will take
dm- notice and govern themselves accordingly.
A. AI. 8VOLIHIN, Grand Secretary,
oct .5*2taw-2w
inn Scrap Pictures. Game-. Ac., am) Sample Bonk
wUV oi Cards only 2c. Star Cara Co.. Station 15,onio,
Proparatiim of Klicrliet.
The beverage in Persia is sherbet,
which is plentifully supplied, anil ot
which there lire minty varieties—from tlio
bowl of water with a squeeze of lemon to
tlie clear concentrated juice of any sort ot
fruit to which water is added to dilute it.
Preparing sherbet, which is done with the
groutost care, is « very important iroint
in so thirsty a country as Persia, and one
upon which much time is devoted. It
may bo either expressed from the juice of
fruit freshly gathered <jr from the pre
served extract of pomegranates, cherries
or lemons, mixed with sugar, and sub
mitted to a certain degree of heat to pre
serve it for winter consumption.
Another Sherbet is much drank, which
I must not omit to mention, called guzatt-
gebbou, made from the honey of the
tumarisk troe. This honey is not tlia
work of the bee, but Uie produce of a
small insect or worm living in vast num
bers under the leaves of the ulmib. Dur
ing the months uf August and Septcmiier
the insect is oolloctod and the honey is
preserved. Whan used for sherbet It is
mixed with vinegar, and although not so
delicious as that made from fruit, it tnakw
an excellent temperance beverage. Only
among the rMi and fashionable ore
glasses usod; In ail othar classes sherbet
is served in chi tut howto, and drank from
deep wooden spoons carved in peurwood.
—Batgruvia.
Work at an Araannanals.
Pushed as the writer always la to the
highest rate ot ajiaad which he commands,
he must liend every energy to the ta£.
Drain ant muscle razist be strained to m
ulmaat to accomplish their work, ant, the
note* completed, he rnudt set to work with
assiduity to tranacrlixt them for use, a
task requiring, as he knows, four times
the peii'td occupied by the dictation, but
wliioh fact numy otherwise intelligent
masters are freqaeatly unable to rompre-
bond. Tho (.trangoat experience of short
hand writers is flic inability at the em
ployer to understand tho difference be
tween a spoken and written language as
to tbo nroportiun of time required to pro
duce tjioin respectively, and the annoy
ance which is tlio outgrowth of this ignor
ance is one of the peculiar hardships of
tlie shorthand writer.
It Is as though a messenger should lie
required to emulate a racehorse in celer
ity of motion. Hu therefore bends all his
energies to hasten ids transcript, and his
day’s w> . k leaves him fatigued beyond
any of his fellow clerks. For this reason
the work is not adapted to women. The
strain is too great, and although in some
instances a good constitution may enable
the worker to endure for years, injury is
sustained which is generally irreparable.
—F. P Fairbanks in tlie Journalist.
December genenilly runs up the
were not at home In December,
ire en the last day of November,
get back until tho 2d of Janu-
Tlie Bill Always Corfcct. -Pi.,
“I see you have got mo down for burn
ing 2.000 foot of gas in December,” lie
said as he laid the bill down on the coun
ter.
“Yes.
gns bills.’
‘■Rut w
Wt left li
ami didn’
ary.”
“Dut the meter soys you consumed it.”
1 Well, I can prove that the house was
shut up.”
“Did you find
you returned:'”
“Yes, except that some one had broken
iff anil stolen u few towels."
‘ Ah, that explains! I knew the meter
couldn’t lie’ You see, thoy had to lieht
the gas to find the towels, and your bill is
turret, t."—Detroit Free Press.
rything all right when
Mode
Me
Body.
The wux model of a normal human
body, which, under the auspices and di
rection of Councillor Professor Waldeyer,
is being made at the Berlin School of
Anatomy by Sculptor Schuetz, was for the
first time used, a fortnight ago, atone of
the medical courses. Its completion will
take some years yet; meanwhile the artist
is only allowed to work in Professor
Waldoyer’s study. Thus far, no less than
seventy corpscd have been required fur
'he accurate execution of the model.—
Boston Transcript.
Multitudinous Paltry Twaddlers.
William Winter denies the authenticity
of an alleged Interview with him published
in a Boston paper. Ho says: ‘ For thirty
years I have labored in literature, and I
have always respected and sustaiped the
dignity and honor of my profession. It
is no light tiling that I now find myself
entrapped and paraded as one of those
multitudinous paltry twaddlers who fill
the uewspnpers with tho elatnor of their
gab nnil cackle tunl effluvia of their per
sonal conceit."—New York Graphic.
Gilding Class.
A process for gilding or decorating glass
with gold and silver has been brought out.
It is stated to be a revival of an older pro
cess, or in other words the discovery of a
lost art. ’ The metal is precipitated onths
back of the glass, and then coated with a
protective composition which excludes th*
atmosphere.—Boston Budget.
A Wrinkle to Photographers.
Photo Artist (to gourmand)—So, there,
now keep quite still and think of you*
favorite dish!—Beiblatt. .