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FRANKLIN COUNTY REGISTER
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LAND TRAVEL IN NORWAY.
Excellent Roads and Comfortable Ye*
bides—Fast and Slow Stations, Inns.
The land traveling in Norway has come
to be very comfortable; the roads are ex
cellent. Apart from a railroad for a
short distance out from Bergen and a
railroad from Christiania to Trcndhjem
there are substantially no public wheel vehicles convey
ances. You travel in two
carioles, which carry only , one
known as which
perBon, or in a stolkjaerre, except carries that
two. There are no springs, the seat;
obtained by an arrangement of
but this makes them generally yourself, very and com¬ the
fortable. You drive
boy or girl who is’ to take the horse and
vehicle back stands or aits or hangs be¬
hind. He will drive from behind if you
desire. Tho way th6 Norwegian horses
have of going at a breakneck pace down
hill reminds me of our boyish expression,
“lickety cut.” You can ordinarily make
about eight miles an hour, including a
change of horse* if you are not detained
by the fact that so many traveler have
gone before you that they liave.exhausted
the supply of horses, in which case you
may have to wait some hours.
The charge for vehicles in Norway is
very reasonable. Stations axe established
at distances of about eight or ten miles.
These stations are of two classes—one is
a fast and the other an ordinary station.
At the fast stations there must always be
kept a specified number of horses ready
for travelers except when they are in use
by preceding travelers. At tho slow sta¬
tions no horses are required to be kept,
but time is given to send out to the
farmers near and bring them in. There
is, however, a system which is not much
used by which you may send a notifica¬
tion ahead and have horses ready even at
the slow stations. In theory all the
horses are furnished by the farmers.
This is required at a price so low that it
is regarded as a tax upon them, but
since traveling has increased so much
arrangements seem to have been made
by which the keeper of the station as¬
sumes the farmers’ burden and furnishes
the horses. They are also required to
furnish a vehicle, but this obligation only
extends to the rough country cariole of
two wheels, with only a seat for one, and
without springs. In fact, however, the
vehicles furnished are quite comfortable.
At a fast station you pay less than five
cents a kilometer for the horse, harness
and vehicle, and the boy to take it back.
If you get a stolkjaerre, which has seals
for two, you pay about seven cents.
Sixteen kilometers are equal to ten miles.
Ilie amount of baggage allowed is
small, yet sufficient for an ordinary trav¬
eler's use. In the stolkjaerre it goes
under the seat, where there is plenty of
room. In a cariole it is fastened behind,
and the skyd, which is the name of the
boy who goes along to take tho vehicle
back, rides or stands upon it. You can
always carry in a cariole a small parcel—
on the floor between your legs—and
fasten something to the dashboard, or
what take# the place of it. , It is astonish¬
ing how enduring the Norwegian horses
are. They are tough, small, sure footed,
good natured animals, who will start out
at a trot and keep it up thirty miles with¬
out stopping, going that distance in four
hours. The harness is of tho simplest
possible make. There are no traces, always even
when you have two horses, but
shafts, to which the harness is fastened
by pegs. There is an arch of wood oyer
the horse’s head, through rings in which
the reins pass, and which is arranged so
as to take much of the weight from the
collar. The reins are rope or twisted
leather.
The hotels or inns are comfortable,
with no elegance, but always, without
exception, clean, and the food is fair. In
these respects Norway has made great
improvements within a few years, and
improvements are going on in increased
ratio. The scenery in riding in Norway,
much of it, is exceedingly beautiful. I
can imagine no more beautiful ride than
that of the four or five days’ trip from
Bergen to Christiana.—Col. George Bliss
in New York Times.
Decorations of Interior Walls.
A new material for tho decoration of
Interior walls and ceilings is made from
chemical wood fibre. The sheet or roll
of chemical wood fibre of the desired
thickness is taken while wet or damp,
and any desired raised design or pattern
Is produced in high relief by means of
suitable embossing ■ rolls or dies, after
which it is allowed to dry, and may then
be colored or bronzed, if desired, or it
may be colored in the' pulp if preferred.
Chemical fibre is especially adapted as a
material for embossed wall coverings, as
its great elasticity permits it to be very
deeply embossed without liability of
breaking as it is stretched, thus enabling
designs to be successfully' produced in
high relief with a smooth and unbroken
surface, while after being stretched in
the embossing process the strength and
toughness of the fibres will cause the de¬
sign to permanently retain its form and
effectually resist any pressure to which
• it might be subjected in the operation of
applying the material to a wall or ceiling.
—Paper World.
Too Mach Notoriety.
It is hard to understand, but it seems
to be a mania with young married peo
pie, to celebrate their honeytiioon by hav
fcg their photographs taken together in jnd
then conspicuously displayed such somo displays art
store. The good taste of
may b* as seriously questioned marriage as certifl- the
propriety of hanging tho front
cates «r state fair diploma# subject# in tlte
pari lor. Tho act young
brid ...ue to coarse and ill-natured criticism,
and leaves the groom open to tho qu«
gbtt of every gxiftser-by, “How could sho
hove tnarrif'i him?” If bridal couples
wnmq be photographed with the orange
wreath and lace thrown smjriwt ip, hang behind tho pict¬ tho
ure in the lift** garret
plate pi fronts oi itow. Marring®
CARNESVILLE, GA„ TUESDAY, JANUARY23Tl887
The Seal’s Healthy Appetite.
Where do they northward, (the fur seals) go to?
Certainly not for it is well
known that not a single seal is to bo
found north of the Pribylovs, and thd
floating ice of winter prevents any There con¬
gregation of amphibious life. is
then the southward, the enormous ex¬
panse of sea south of the Aleutian chain,
5,000 miles of water between Japan and
Oregon swarming with tho natural food
of the seal—fish. They can have no
resting place or it would be known; they
mdst therefore spend all their time afloat,
seeing that they sleep at sea just as com¬
fortably as, or perhaps more so than on
land. , They lie on their backs, fold the
fore flippers across tho breast, turn the
hind ones up and over, so that tho tips
rest on their necks and chins, thus ex¬
posing only fhe nose and the heels of the
hind flippers above water, nothing else
being seen. Hero is no poetical fancy,
but a prosaic fact, “rocked in the cradle
of the deep.”
One cannot but think of the enormous
quantity of fish they must get through.
The common seal, such as we see in our
aquaria, has evidently a most voracious
appetite, and never seems to be able to
get as much as he can do with. Con¬
sider, then, the weight that must be con¬
sumed in the year by the fur seal, several
times its size, roaming about under thor¬
oughly natural conditions in its natural
element, instead of being cooped up with¬
in the four walls of a tank.
As a matter of fact, the hosts of fur
seal produce a notable scarcity of fish
around the Pribylovs. It is perfectly
hopeless to throw a line over the gunwale
of a boat. You must go out at least
seven or eight miles, and then you can
get nothing but very large halibut. Prac¬
tically the sea for 100 miles around is
cleared of fish. It is computed that
forty pounds per day is rather a starva¬
tion allowance for an adult male, twelve
pounds to a female, and not much, if
any, less for the fast growing pups.
Allow an average of ten pounds per in¬
dividual per day, and calculate what
4,000,000 or 5,000,000 would consume
evefy day—only 7,000,000 tons or so.
Why, all the fishing of the world is but
a drop in the bucket compared with this.
We must remember, too, that the seal is
only one of tho many creatures which
prey on fish. I can well believe what is
asserted by many well informed people,
that the supply of sea fish is inexhausti¬
ble by any means known to man.—All
the Year Round.
The Causes of Cancer.
Tho predisposing causes of cancer are
in the habits of the patients themselves.
Just as civilization is tho cause of tho
strain that wrecks so many intellects, so
it is also the cause of depressing the
animaj vitality of tho individual, and
brings in its train this dread disease.
Tho main cause of this disease is “estab¬
lished wealth and a state of luxury.”
Tho appetite for eating meat and highly
seasoned food is indulged, and can be
regulated and habitually indulged, only
in a state of established civilization, with
communities engaged in accumulating
fortunes and vicing with each other in
sumptuous living. These conditions, to¬
gether with habits of indolence and in¬
sufficient exercise, cause an accumula¬
tion of the waste products in the system
which predisposes to cancer. Then, an
accidental bruise, or reversal of fortune
with mental depression, or any other
exciting cause, may develop this terrible
disease. should
The»lesson is obvious. People
live more frugally and take plenty of
exercise in the open air, and, in short,
follow hygienic modes of living, and the
danger of cancer is much more remote.
The cure may be difficult, but prevention indi¬
seems to bo in the power of the
vidual.—Medical Summary.
The Staff of Life In Sweden.
At Falun we found the average Swed¬
ish inn, with a cheerless dining room,
where each table was piled high with
knackbrod, enough on each table to feed
twenty soldiers. The knackbrod is a
national institution and a sign surer than
any sign post or frontier stone to tell one
that he is in Sweden. It is made of rye
ot barley flour, mixed with potatoes and
quantities of caraway seeds; is baked in
thin sheets a foot in diameter, with a
hole in the middle, and through this hole
the market women run a string and carry
it aro.und for sale. In tho bread market
at Stockholm they fasten these strings of
knackbrod to their shoulder yokes in
piles that reach from the yokes nearly to
the ground. To an unappreciative palato like
it tastes quite as much as it looks
dog biscuit and is tougher than anything
else the human teeth struggle with. Be¬
sides the knackbrod, the Swedes offer you
many varieties of sweet bread full of car¬
away seeds, and with the morning coffee
give you plates of these fancy kick¬
shaws, but never any plain white bread,
and the coffee at Falun was something to
make one shiver with disgust.—Cor.
Globe-Democrat.
Identification ol Prisoners.
of identifying _
The latest method pns
oners, which has been Introduced into
France by M. Alphonse Bertillon. anrl
which is, now successfully practiced not
only in the chief French prisons, but m
Russia and Japan as well, is the exact
measurement of the prisoner on his arnv
al width at the of jail. the head, His tho waist, left the middle length finger, and
the left foot, the outstretched anA% the
throe other fingers of the left hand, the
left arm from the elbow to tho wrist, anu
tho length and width or tho ear are
measured, aid the color of the eye's and
any particularities aro noted down. A
photograph is also immediately tuiten,
and by this means tho many mistakes
which have boon made by trusting to a
photographer only aro avoided. tJoston
Transcript.
HOW GREAT PEOPLE DINE.
Pcops at Royal Tables Where Good
Things Are Fed to Stapld Diners.
Tho strict ceremonial of tho dinners of
Queen Victoria has not changed since her
assumption of the throne. A quarter of
an hour before tho time fixed for the re¬
past—generally 8 o'clock—all the party
invited to dine with the queen meet in
the grand salon . and form themselves
into a half circle about t X door where
she is expected to enter, o queen, on
entering, makes a beautiful courtesy (for
which she is renowned), then bows to
the gentlemen, and gives her hand to the
ladies, who courtesy deeply. She then
goes in first to the table, accompanied
generally by one of her sons. If any im¬
perial or royal person is present, he sits
at her right hand. But even in the case
of Gen. Grant she placed the Princess
Beatrice between, them. The queen never
removes her gloves during dinner, except
at state banquets. This is a singular
piece of etiquette, and one would think it
would be exactly the reverse. Her gloves
are new, of white kid embroidered with
black, never worn but once, and become, ladies
after using, tho perquisites of tho
in waiting. The queen has a small and
beautiful hand.
As soon as she has finished a certain
“plat” every one else stops eating of it,
as when she finishes her fish every one
else stops eating fish, etc. After 6ho has
spoken to her guests on either side, con¬
versation may become general, but in a
subdued tone,’- always deferring to the
sovereign. Sir, Arthur Helps, who was
her private secretary, used to tell an
amusing anecdote of being snubbed by
her for telling a rather funny story down
the table, among the ladies-in-waiting,
to relieve tho monotony of a dreary din¬
ner, when the queen remarked: “What
is it? We aro not amused.” She has,
however, a love of fun, and somelimess
laughs heartily.
The dinners at tho Quirinal are far
more simple as to etiquette. The same
formality is observed in the entrance of
the king and queen, but the conversa¬
tion is more general, and the queen does
not wear her gloves. She converses in
English fluently. The king only speaks
Italian and French, so tho conversation
is generally in these two languages.
French, of course, is supposed to be a
universal
The dinners of Germany aro not long,
but they are formal and tedious, and the
cooking does not commend itself to all
tastes. /
The perfection of a dinner is found in
London, generally at tho houses excellences of am¬
bassadors, who combine tho
of all nations with the follies of none.
After asking the consent of the ladies
present, the Italian and Turkish embas¬
sies allow the smoking of cigarettes be¬
tween the salad and dessert. This fash¬
ion prevails in Franco and Russia, ladies
smoking quite as freely as men. Tho
dinners of tho czar and the richer Rus¬
sian princes aro models of their kind. It
was the Russians who invented the idea
of serving all the dishes from the out¬
side; hence a service a la Russe, which
prevents the table cloth from being
smeared with gravy and other greasy
substances. The choice porcelain and
glass, the gold and silver, beautiful or¬
naments—these are the wonder of all
travelers who visit Russia.
America, having begun to import
cooks, now rivals all countries in the art
of dinner giving. The fine napery of
Berlin, the glass of Bohemia, the gold
and silver work of Russia, tho choice
dinner services of England, the delicate
fancies of France aa to pretty dishes for
the ices, and the general tastefulness of
American women find expression in those
dinners.
The Princess Louise and the Marquis of
Lome live at Kensington palace, one of
the most curious and romantic of all the
royal palaces. They give beautiful din
ners, and are said to have the most
charming table equipments. —Harper’s
Bazar,
a F< L f i-ti, t in the Snow
Among . eight . little gnls • , playing in to „
street m New York the otnei day a -
porter noticed one ot about 7 years or
age. Sho was the happiest of toot,
had ably a were new wagon given and her doff, as winch Christmas pro^
presents. The air was frosty. and on the
shady side of the street, where the chdd
ren were at play, the light sno wh c
had fallen m the morning was sa on le
ground. There was nothing peculiar
about cept that the little she girl wore a.x>vo neither mentioned shoes nor
stockings. She had rosy cheeks, and v as
the picture of good health. cold, She and did when not
appear to suffer irom tho
the other children little bare went f^et to ^lide joined on them, ice in
the ater
and her little feet glided over ...( xq which, as
well as those of the other chfiren,
were encased in shoesi.
veloped the fact that the child did not g
in her bare feet from necessity, G
choice, anc. the cold weatlrer n er
troubled her. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Emperor Iturblde’# Son.
p iance iturbide, who is reported duel to
ljave w0U11 d e d },i. s opponent in a
w ith 6WOr da' in tho City of Mexico, is
we jj k no^vn at Washington. Hi# mother
wag a Green, of Georgetown, and it
wag Q f j jer family country that tho president pur
clia&8 d hifl place. Miss Green
' beautiful When
waa verj , yollng an f l very
sb e married Prince Iturbide, tlicri minister
(j{ j Iex | co to t jjo United Stales, and. soil
^ t jio Emperor Iturbido. IIS was do
formo< j ljr , uc h her senior. After his
j n jfexico, Mme. Iturliide remnisiod
jjbere, sod her'son, tlio present duelitt,
was aa }jj a heir by tho Emperor
MnT ,, r , ilifl „ n f (er the fall of tho
aB pj ro> jjme. Iturbide brought her ren his
to college. Ho finished
there, and took a course in law.
—Chtosgo Times.
u6E OF MECHANICAL REMEDIES.
Colds and Croup—Hand Baths—Mustard
Draughts—Cold Foot—Pneumonia.
At this season coughs, colds and con¬
gestions various sorts are to be looked
for. If the blood can bo drawn away
from the parts congested, relief will at
once be afforded. A warm woolen shawl
pinned closely about tho neck and chest,
covering the arms, if put on when the
first sound of tho cough occurs, will al¬
most infallibly stop it at once. Supple¬
ment the shawl with a warm brick or
soapstone at tho feet, and relief is imme¬
diate and often permanent. Twenty-five
years ago what nights we spent fighting
the croup! The little sufferer would
throw his arms out from under the cover,
and then the cough tightened. But on
veloped in a shawl this was impossible,
and at last wo learned that in cool
weather the children should take their
airing always before sunset, and at the
first suggestion of a cough put on a
shawl. For twenty years there has been
no croup in the family. This remedy we
have found just as effective with adults
as with children.
Hot foot baths and hot hand baths are
excellent alteratives of the circulation.
The hand baths act more immediately
than the foot baths, and there is less
danger from after exposure. They are,
too, more easily given. Mustard draughts
(mild) applied to the extremities chango from
the circulation. Flapnels wrung
hot soda water are extremely helpful in
many cases. Or, if saturated with soda
water, they may bo heated by putting
them in a steamer, by placing them on a
plate''in a hot oven. This saves wring¬
ing them, which is difficult when they
are hot. Great relief is sometimes found
from drinking freely water as hot as can
be comfortably swallowed. It draws tho
blood to the stomach, opens tho pores and
washes out the clogged sewers of the
body. Wo have observed that a patient
suffering from a cough will hare rest
from it after a hearty meal. The blood
is summoned to the work of digestion
and the aro relieved.
Those who suffer from sleeplessness or
from not sleeping soundly will find help
from wrapping their feet warmly in
flannel and putting to them a warm
soapstone. Those who must get up in
the night to see to children or invalids
should have a pair of night shoes to slip
their feet into, so that when they lio
down falling again cold feet shall not prevent
their at once to sleep. As a warn¬
ing of what not to do we give the follow
ing, which came under our observation
last whiter:' A little Irish boy, very ill
with pneumonia and burning with fever,
begged his mother to put his feet into
cold water, which she did and in a few
minutes Happily, for tfitereaf|er her, she he yet ceased, does to not breathe. know
how fatal was her indulgence to her only
boy.—Tribune.
Tho Effect of Music.
I once heard a mother, who was obliged
to do literary work with her little clfil
dren around her, say a thing that sot me
thinkin g of the different effects of pleas
ant and unpleasant sounds. Sho said:
“I never notice the children's noise so
long as they romp and laugh and frolic
in a good natured way, not if they take
tho roof off, but if they quarrel or fret in
a whisper, it disturbs nfe so that I can
not diRiny tiling.” Many great philoso
phers and famous phvsicians liavo .writ
ten and spoken cf the good effects of
music on human brains and nerves,
Pythafmms, a wise heathen who lived
in Greiwiaioro than 2,000 years ago,
suggested that music should bo used in
treating certain diseases; and Pindar, tho
famous Greek poet, whoso songs so
touched tho heart of Alexander tho
Great that the conoueror * spared and the
poet’s houso when ho sacked
destroyed the city of Thebes, where it
stood, relates in ono of Ilia odes that tho
father of medicine, Aesculapius, so
treated some of his patients; and the
great and good Pinel, who sixty years
aga in Paris, by his writings and earnest
labors, brought about a grand reforma
tion in t p e met i 10 j a 0 f treating tho in
^ g0 t j ie 0 j f ] ) barbarous ways of
thcg0 j, c ]pi eS8 and unfortunate
£umLio beings were changed land* into something like
and and even tender at
■ recommen ds music to calm and
sootho tlic ,; r f rcnzy , as it s^t calls op pleasant
recollcctiong ar) j brings impressions
^ ^ dj seaae d To-day concerts
aro a standard treatment in asylums for
^ insane, and it has been noticed that
are affected in different ways, ac
“diar to the character of the music and
nature of their disease.—
^ ori eans Times-DemoCrat.
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nabftm of the Centipedes.
A curioug f act connected with centi
i a worthy of relating. A young
rngr< 1it aing nortn n fow miles had been
somewhat concerned at the appearance
^gbtly in iiis dugout of a great number
0 f these unwelcome visitors. tllfcm, but Jreighhors he
geI< j olfc QT ever 8a w was
visited to an alarming extent. He could
not understand* till some one learning
that he was in the habit of playing on the
violin suggested that the music attracted
them. He suspended the concerts and
the centipedes interrupted him no more.
—Richfield (Kan.) Southwest.
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condition of the Russian Press.
Tho Kolnischo Zeitung says it is char
acteristic .of the condition of the Russian
‘press that in 1883, out of tho 273 editors
of St. Petersburg and Moscow, one-half
w< n officers*in the employment of the
government,. 86 being 65 generals, privy
and state councillors, officers of tlw
staff or employes of corresponding rank
in civil service and 37 lower officers and
employes.—Boston Transcript.
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Don ,X on tii« Rnngn.
. , .■ r* S Hf r the cattlemen aro
suU/rlliing to Uio proposition to import
several packs ot fin . dogs, to bo indued
iSWUT oa
SIGN OF THE THREE BALLS.
A Chat With the Proprietor—Sights in a
Junk Simp—Auctions.
What a field to tho imaginative mind
i3 conjured up by tho sign of three balls.
Let not the impecunious young man when
he resorts furtively to tho houso of his
uncle bo unduly humiliated. Other
young men as well connected as ho liavo
gono * beforo him and will come after
him; and, indeed, if he deal with a first
class establishment (for there aro pawn¬
brokers and pawnbrokers), ho will find
his host a very model of delicacy and dis¬
cretion.
Enter a needy gentlewoman, heavily
veiled, at tho ladies’ entrance. Timidly
she gazes around and finds herself in a
long, narrow hall; scrupulously neat and
well carpeted, from one side of which
opens a row of little rooms. On (ho op¬
posite wall a framed placard in gilt let¬
ters assures her that all will be conducted
upon a strictly confidential basis, and
that any neglect or impertinenco on tho
part of employes is to be reported at the
office. A deferential cleric motions her
to a seat in one of thd little rooms, which
is comfortably furnished and even decor¬
ated with photographs 6f actors and
actresses. If in immediate straits, sho
may pledge her $350 sealskin for $35, or
a valuable ring for tho price of two days'
If not, slie will keep her sacquo
or her ring and go her way, musing upon
tho exceeding bitterness of want that ad¬
mits of no alternative. Tho average
dealer in collaterals is not a creature of
tender sensibilities. But were tho an¬
omaly of an impressionable pawnbroker
to bo found giftod with tho powers of a
recontcur, one might spend a week with
him for tho saka of hearing what ho
could tell or suggest in the way of ro
mance.
This watch with a chased monogram,
is not tho same that young Nowcombo
Montmorency said was at tho jowelor’s
for repairing? Verily it ia. And when
ono considers the infinitesimal salary of
young Nev&ombo, tho flowers and opera
tickets which ho lavishes upon Miss
Midas, the bills for carriage hire and per¬
fumery! Poor fellow I Why, it is allras
plain as tho noso, on a man’s face. And
that necklace! Surely tho visitor had
seen that L tore. And was it a week or
a fortnight ago that Mis3 Midas’ maid
was seen stealthily emerging from tho
rear entrance? Well, it ia a known fact
that dressmakers and milliners liavo no
consciences, and tho “horrid things”
must bo paid somehow, unless one chooses
to mako one’s own hats and dresses and
look like a “fright;” and what is one to
do with bills coming in and a father that
rages and swears and asks questions
about every one?
That rare old meerschaum—what hours
offuiot smoking and meditation it sug
gests! tankard? My undo
That quaint silvor honestly by.
is afraid that was not come
It was “put up” by a tough looking
customer, who was afterward wanted fin;
burglary. brought
“And that locket? It was m
by a handsome woman who had soon
better days. You’ll sea her initials in
diamonds on the other side. A very
striking looking woman. Sho seemed
quite desperate, too. Well, tho next
week I read of a wiicide, and recognized went
her by tho description. I oven
around to tho morgue to mako pertain,
Yes, yes, it’s a very sad business. But
often things aro took redeemed. hack his Why,, wife yes- dia
terday a man. been in for s ‘ ton
mpnds that had pawn
years. And some very swell people come
here to buy things. You d bo surprised
at the number of elegant Ghrisanaa and
wedding presents wo Soli—jewelry, etc.
Polish’em up, you know, and you won fc
know ’em from first hand. Tho people
who get ’em think they all camo freim
somo of those high toned places. And
my undo chuckled complacently att tho
recollection. •*
Tho junk shop, dark and ill smelling,
reeks of tho sea. Bails and cordago are.
there, and all manner of flotsam; old iron 1
and copper, rags, sacks and bottles, and
heaps of unclassified rubbish. Is it pos
siblo that there can bo a demand for such
trash? Ah, yes; hero is our old friend,
the rag, sack and bottle man himself—
just aa dirty, just as gruff as ever. But
ho is not bargaining for big bottles at a
cent a piece now, and, in a non-profos
sional mood, relaxes to quite a clever old
fellow. One learns from him how the
sails aro repaired for two or cut into
smaller sails; how tho bottles are washed
and resold, and work their way back in to
good society; how tho iron is rcmelted,
utilized in hardware and tho manufact
uro of horseshoes, cheap wagons, etc.
it was here, now, that Jack Benedict
found that marvelous pair of brass tiro
dog s, which pass with tho uninitiated for
an heirloom, and aro the envy and ad
miration of his^iends. He bought them
for a song, and when ho took them home
only tho eye of faith could pierce tho
verdigris upon them. Indeed, Jack’s
mother-in-law rated him soundly for his
bargain, them and it to took their weeks pristine of pouring glory. to
restore
From here, too, camo that qtfeint silver
lamp which shone so conspicuously
among tho wedding gifts of Jack’s cousin
Ethel. It was whispered among the
guests that it camo from Venice, and a
lady present could swear to having seen
the mate to it in a palace on the Grand
canal.
Ha*J taste for auctions? _ Are j
you a sheriffs’ sales? Hero
you a frequenter of
is the familiar red flag and tho Ix flnian is
ringing his bell. Walk in fearlessly, Jew i ^
and Gentile, through doors■ tliut a week ,
ago would have been closed in your*face. ,
Walk in, Mrs. Jones; you nmy sit on tho
ottoman that my lady herself embroidered
in liappicr hours. You may thumb the
curtains and mantel ornaments. Hero is . :
cabinet that from over seas. *
camo
You may peer into it and toko out ull tho
drawers, and examine tboM<>quotte rugs, tiw
and mjo your ugly visago refloctod in
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has gono for . »* **« -
cabinet for a twelfth of its original cost.
The ottoman is knocked down to a
hatcliot faced woman who murders the
king’s English, and the tall old clock falls
to a dealer in curios.
“Let us go,” says the philosopher always
rising. “Somehow an auction
depresses mo, for all it lias a kind of hor¬
rible fascination. It’s all a part of the
great seo-saw. ‘Hero we go up, up, up;
and here wo go down, down, down. ’ A
queer world, my boy; and he who sees
only the surface sees very little of it.”-—
San Francisco Chronicle.
Superstition in Alaska*
Tho Mutes have a curious custom
which is observed whenever the first
white whalo of tho season is killed. After
tho carcass is brought on shore, the old¬
est male of tho village or hunting party
sits upon tne beach, and, facing the dead
whale, intones a series of invocations to
tho deceased, imploring its spirit not to
return to tho sea, and thereby warn
other members of Iris family against and his
captors. Small portions of the lip
fins are cut off and buried in the earth.
Before this ceremony takes stripping place no one the
is allowed to commenco
blubber or working upon tho body.
When a seal is brought on shore it is laid
upon its, back and some fresh water
poured over its head, so that tho spirit off .
will not go back to tho sea and warn
the other phocoe.—San Francisco Chron¬
icle.
London’H Ragpickers’ Hrlgudo.
In London a charitably inclined person
organized what is known aa the Ragpick¬ of
ers’ brigado, consisting of hundreds
neatly uniformed boys, who go from door
to door with their hand carts purchasing
old rags and •articles of various kinds.
In a central warehouse these collections
aro sorted over; old rags, bottles, bones
and paper aro piled up in great heaps,
and in due time disposed of to tho dealers
in theso articles. Strange things have
como in with some of theso purchases, major’s a
plume for a hearse, a drum, a
head gear, a bag containing over 1,000,
000 canceled postage stamps, valuable
editions of rare books and autograph let
ters of famous people. Tho London brig
ado lias an excellent reputation for
honesty, and very often returns valuable
articles which have strayed into the
waste bags.—Brooklyn Eagle. i
How Animal* Talk.
About 1770 Galliani hail two cats
which ho always kept about him and
away from all other animals. He state#
that ho understood them perfectly, and
that they had a complete language of
their own, in which they always feel¬ ex¬
pressed the samo wish and the same
ing by exactly tho samo sound. Lucian
observed tho common houso fly, and also
maintains that this insect, so greatly de¬
spised language—that and persecuted, is possesses to a com
plete say, uses cer¬
tain sounds in its buzzing to denote cer¬
tain things, and in this way make# itself
understood among kind. Lamartine, in
his description of travels in the oast, tells
of Arabian horses that used certain defin¬
ite sounds to express certain things, just
as Napoleon relates of his steed.—Popu¬
lar Science Monthly,
Ojiern Glasses In tile AntUence.
The opera glasses that we hire out to
those in tho audience belong to the thea¬
tre, but tho ushers are responsible for
them. I can assure you that wo do not
loso many glasses, for we keep a sharp
watch, and tho average visitor at a theater
has no reason to keep a glass. Some¬
times, however, a man jumps out on tho us
before we spot liim, and we pay over
price—about $3—to tho theatre. I have
lost only ono in a year, and that time the
man went out after tho first act in a
crowd and failed to return. I would
} lavo recognized him had I seen him
again at tho theatre, but ho did not turn
u p. The theatre makes the price of tho
during a good week, and in a season
it pays for itself over and over again.—
Theatre Ushgr in Globe-Democrat,
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New thifi for Soapstone.
As a finish or covering for walls and
ceilings pulverized steatite is coming into
use quite satisfactorily. It is simply
soapstone. It takes a high polish, is
pearl gray in tint, is said to present the
best possible surfaco for painting, either
in oi 1 or water color, and, what is verp
desirable, will neither crack nor chip,
is claimed for it that it is a non-conduc¬
tor and non-absorbent; that it can be
washed without injury; nails can be
driven into it without damage; when
subject to heat, moisture and chemical
fumes it gives no smell, and it does not
turn yellow with age. It is thought to
bo specially adapted for hospitals, fac¬
tories, cellars, markets, etc. —Boston
Budget.
Hay In Norway,
H ; s ^ scarce f o feed the stock in
w biter that tho Norwegians resort to
w hat would seem to us the most ridicu
economy, going over every scatter
j tcll a p jng f| l0 roadside and the
cut w ith tho sickle and dried
j or | )aJ . Owing to the constant rains
they havo what look like fences or racks
^i fields at all sorts of twisted angles,
mtl the grass is cut it is
rouf ,[,[y ovcr theso fences sufficiently
tight to hold it there and yet to let the
win j blow . rea tm y through it so as to dry
j t quickly.—Col. George Bliss in New
y ot . k Times,
Cart * Head.
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tablishment in Bajwil “ Tlafhaid [li
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