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THE MONROE
VOL XXXIX.
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/rfivcTH and Thf*ir \Vnyi Tho •?okon Bfaclo
nt Their I ijr-mhi* Drafriopii anti ltiiiifl*
tir^H \t<‘ C ti 1 - ,tilm' l Pro*
paring to SMigagf* a l .itliur-ln-Law©
fh-ipter <>n Courtship,
r,” said a prim aunty to a
77 < DL'IIL'ial Latin 11! ce. tiling “do to you bo know niar-
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“Vi 1 , a 1 ort rejoinder,
“but < • ;il solotnnor not to
b<>. ’’
Ik a dpoint of youth and
Ui t 1 ;i ■ undoubtedly riiiht,
wnati '• - w " >'* uc ,,f
•in >■*... r. of gold
broid >i eii it'i■ :.i".4SJite
find the ■■
arbiters i X r.t lii-n docluro .-hail he
worn by t - bcautio . of the day, there
can bo no C- <u l»t, that the ultimate end
nnd aim of caeli and •very adornment
1 h, for tho youn lady at l< a t, nothing
jnorc curious nor hook fi '..an inan im,my In his
-m -.Natural Selection,
Dm win V>l,h h(nv'inmf.rtantTs
etnntia ity and foi Lv’brlmamSdab: (‘C
.tho ] t v. I
orately disp ay i plunnign gorerations in Um im
i >rov«*iu ‘nt ( f s"<vessi vc of
tli>' feuthoi't d ti ib and als » how dis
tin t originat'd from the
proioront'o '•'•'!»»- nm on.,elon,s!v dis
T)1 i , Vi . b.\ in.du binls fo elegantly
udorned femalos . An eiiimlly interest
Tki ing disquisition itton will p-rh, ns someday
to show wi how by tho studo social ! K
world is tho inilui inij ortant in the
neo —**
3iow t eon 1 no ol < 1 ives is
aomot lino 1 . utii I’d by a 1 7 nv i f ribbon
or a hilt or ho uiTunvoment of a cor
Hugo lion in
Intorosl : as all those tl gs are to
Women, thoy aro none the •ss so to
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AS IT H DONR !\ TIIB COITNTKY.
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. , ... how stremmsly , the
11,1 maw.’i
hitter may |*r. tout their imlil ore nee to
U li'i .n^ti >»l mat Mtioiiy, it 7
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. f Und
Xin V, .fi T 1 ’ "T 111,1 ' S f Dummy ° en at ;
; i' 1 ' 1 "••** 1 ’> suy n thing of the
mldi I, it it on. 1 : o.iviim ism e that the men
' vm-.v ,hUU TV r;ov 1 0 and f 1 oxcojit " ‘'onrt tonal mg, cases, and, save women m
1110 1 mor man ie.| until urged to
ch ango their _ . onditlon by members of
10 seiner n \. If, however, young
genllemon, or even eld bachelors, fuHy
reamed the load ot responsibility they
were incurring in undertaking sen
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llu ie is little doubt that a bear move¬
ment in matrimonial stock would at
oneo begin, which would sweep away
more than one margin which has al¬
ready been advanc'd to tho broker.
1 'Yr getting married, both in the
preparatory and in the final stv.gos of
the proeoss. js. m the ejnmen of a St.
Lem < (,lolv IVm m at; writer, undoubt
ed v a very sole, n thing. In the first
by the parents, or in le'hind where a
go-between attends to tho business or
in and Timbuctoe, where ‘drls are bought
sold like sheep, the voung
must ho courted, and courting is ot it
self u serious nutter, involving no
tie sacrifice of ti.no, disregard of per
senal cent fort, and eecasionally a lib
oral pec uniary outlay. As far as time
is e >n cerr.e !, tli expenditure is made
with some degree of cheerfulness, for
court in g. like virtue, is its own
ward, ard more than one man has real
i/ed, in the words of Owen Meredith
that
•I hi. deed In thc doln- It roaches Its atm
Ami tho fnot has n value apart from the
» f timx
M hen the matter of comfort enters
into consideration, a field is opened, as
the for clergymen say, too wide to enter.
one i>{ the most astonishing things
ub. ut that phase of idiocy known as
lovo is the peculiar influence it e erts
in changing the nature: sometimes in
tensify limes ing traits already existing, seme
istenee bringing out qualities whoso ex
As general was thing altogetl or unsuspected.
a love is an incentive
to exertion. The lazy v< nth who with
difficulty his daily drives liimVolf or is driven
to tasks, under the influence
of the tender passion displays an
energy before unknown. He' takes
long walks, not because he likes walk¬
ing: in fact he may despise it, but he
fee’s the need of working off his su¬
perfluous energy and walking suits the
pun* >se a it tic better than labor,
AVhil o walking he can tlnnk and doe*
Fo. and if his walks take him in the
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bv th KRKT-CAK method.
direction of her house, so much the
bettor, for he finds mm* his uis mental menial opera
lions much a ui ekened by that cireum
stance. When he gets back he is tired
to death, it is true, but that is a mere
trifle; only his muscles hare given out.
his mind is as fresh a- ever.
If his miseries ended with the ach
ing « f 1*is tired limbs, however, he
would l*i singularly blest. But they
do not. for < - .e of the penalties of being
In love ia u.e ^ fart that the roan who is
l|*rt«in pourting abriiit » unabody h\* footing G never ie exactly lIk«M
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, TUESDAY JULY 1894.
W on rotten lee, who takes
after s’ep in dismal uncertainty
whether at each the thin crust may
not give way beneath his feet and let
junpnnh... In every matt-r other than
ioTd’rV: ‘ < „‘"« Bhe K, t °
lx. prt fei rod to a doubt, but < no of the
curious cranks to which a lover is sub
Misniei.Ins^rul .u pM.nis ana "f f*.ais it to th th "? • be.-t-c V* TT tab
Live''htm ^ mt e ‘ ‘ ° ai
to bo miserable, and gen ‘rally g ts
what he wants. Nor, in this respect,
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“somkijodv’s coming !' 1
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d< os ho usually receive much comfort
from tho fair object of his regard, for
'[ thlMO i y ,no thinga v.mmm.loliglit,
Ut on "o? flno^ Jn if Wkeen teute? fS
or three aclmiiors the hooks
of oxpectati n, each alternately hoping
and ],is fearing, and each afraid to open
mouth to her on tho subject for
f, of hearing that fatal no, whi.dt he
( ..,n not but bdiove would end all the
happiness clothe that life has for him, and
even tno neavons in a figurative
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fused, at the end of a twelve-month he
won Id probably ho just as devoted to
sian • o her girl, he regards as an in
salt, as to him, for the moment, at
least, the world contains but one
woman, and eho is the deity at whose
”whi“! ,t s
“tboff
complaint cured by speedily and permanently
matrimony, it is a triviality
ondurable only because it is so funny.
that to th
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Y LL i14 < < ii t! i k 1 n s t ’ a Vu"
, r ,1 ,™ v.u u f
without a rca-on for ’ “ as a rule ’ lover J
carry on their business so openly that
v' en tho unobservant can not fail to
Loo what they are about, and to be
amused or annoyed accordingly, as
tomporr meat or caprice may indicate.
A pair of lovers in a street car, for in¬
stance, novel* fail to advertise them
selves and their calling as openly as
tin ugh they wore placards on their
backs, for as soon as they are seated
without the billing a
intermission until they aisle get out
a ^'in. The people across the may
smile and nudge each other, the con
ducto'* may lip a wink to the motor
inttn , win lo -ks back from time to timo
j n grinning onjovmont o'f of tho speefca
c le, regardless the fact that he is
endangering human life by indulging
his merriment: the rough fellow in tho
end seat may hurst into"a loud guffaw
as he loaves tho car, and in audible
t mo ‘allude to the “antics of them two
loonies.” but tho lovers themselves see
nothing, hear nothing, their cars catch
no wound Vu but ooloi th,. I n f ii t fT t
that tlnit l. s .wietei tlm than tho the music of the
spheres, their vi ion has no horizon
beyond the eyes;
Tliatth'rouath Fvoi so tnmsnarpnt thrni
one sees the soul.
It is well that tho lover is blind; he
is additional) v fortunate in being deaf,
and other tumple would bo sometimes
in luck if he were also dumb. But that
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aro a ] one r . ls a cuntnis fact which
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uul -\ be cc mmendea , , for observation and
v £o {be ®Biuoiits 0 ^f sociology, that
£ ", 0 ) ovors wbo can sit 111 a parlor a
whole evening without making noise
encul !sh to keep the mice in their ho.es,
tan lnto :l and ^’. v fbeir
c’atter cause the people m . three rows
V.‘-i! cat ? t0 become inwardly profane,
}' £om b ? - 80 th° diverse tender in passion dit.erent assumessymp- places and
^ lt 1111108 so ln T 1 l? OI .' tune 1 ’. not cven t0
be eon.eeturod; it is eng of those mys
teries of which the universe is full.
aud which must be received in the
arms of faith without even so much as
an effort at explanation.
Alter the terrors of courtship have
been wen endured uimiuouiui for a aseason season the inemisery misery oi of
a P r °V KV?at as in oix.or.ar.d if there wove
no other obection to getting man led
than the necessity of making a pro
posal, sufficient this of diminish itself would seem to be
to the number of
marriages 75 per cent, in a single year,
To a mau not in love asking a woman
to marry him seems t > be a very simple
and easy ma ter, but to the lover, torn
to pie es with anxieties for which
there is no valid reason, a proposal is
a veritable slough of despond. Some¬
how or other, though, he must strug
glo the through absurd it, and and generally ridiculous does so.
in most man
ner. making himself an object later of ridi
cule to the lady, who, in years, if
she accepts him. rarely fails to remind
him how cheap and insignificant he
looked when, with sheepish aspect and
hesitating words, he asked her to do
him the honor of looki* g after his rai
ment until death should them part,
Men never talk about their proposals,
for no matter how carefully they may
have prepared for sal. this like momentous fall down oe
easion, a prop a
stairs, or a death in the family, always
comes with a shock, and the studious
preparation goes for naught. Blessed,
therefore, is the man who does not
have to propo e. for there are a few
cases where the twain understand ea h
other so fully that a proposal is a su
thing perttuitv. for granted, They simply and, with take the whole
the most
perfect conftd«nc« in each other, re
jrerfl it m settledi *
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But even in such eases, while every*
thin? may be perfectly satisfactory for
the young lady, the trouble of tho
youth hai ju-t begun, for in all well
pro .-nu-d to tlio inton-Bted'votth exin, l>v
his inaraorata. he may be e l for
feeling that, as the biblical proycrb
says, “there is a time for all things.”
And he ^ has p *T it, r too. "T for forac as the ^ ld dismal sweat,
his reluctant ',™ P™"ed into the portal, of
cars, he feels that death
wood heard tef. But there i ; no help
f< r if. m» he am ango, \w.h himself a
time when he will call on lus prospect
n e fa, h o -in-.aw and adjust matters.
lie does not, in the language of Old
Virginia, hanker after the job. Ho
ha- a dim consciousness that an inter
a hai j£ raan on thegalu'w <
- not to hilarious,
Ul .’. u '. > “, a J uvla L say
matter'froUthn.ftcfti'rTu. ™f a^ mic”” Thc^htovtmhic' ‘IVvi’n'.r'hlm’
re from
deferred, > V E"' •>••»<»•«,. he puts it ran bo bold „„ face longer
on as a as
in ns ospiossod condition he can pos
sibly assume, and starts for the house,
f^ ous as be 1U1 D ba\e been at
Dicture'^bofora , r bo^-fchf^
his destination ITU couraeo oo/es
out in an inverse ratio to the
distance; that is, the nearer he
i- ^ 'XlTiZ T°\ h ® ** ^ oald di f?Tf bet ‘
on nr ™
m ,,tr wnmcwi, thfnTnf
die lie tries to
8av shall^answer^ and fails He tries So to father think indlw what
if
that is to be asks him anv mm tlnns
about himself and scores ‘another
failu o lie walks past the house half
b dozen times before he c*n make up
by boltim" default and letting the whole 1 th& ne^-es <^o
He fails to see the
sitv of a girl having anv Darents and
although For devoutly thankful to Provo
donee having provided him with a
sweetheart ontirely to his taste, can
dreading "MJr,M the interview just
as much as
himself, Roved and will be just as much re
as ho when it is at an end.
Blind as a kitten, however, he can not
see that their love for their daughter
lmiels them to he careful of her in-
1 ? est ’ ai } d ^ hat ^ ho obstacles which
they ly see to the union are created sole
their by regard to tho future happiness of
child. As a rule, he finds that the
ordeal is by no means so dreadful as
h° feared it would be, and before
the business is half oyer lie realizes
that parents, are not ogres lying
in wait to scare timid lovers into
fits, but kindly, considerate, well
meaning embarras people, ready to overlook - his
ment, oh! and even, when r, n ^
tvi’fThdM a helping band to a
suffering fellow-creature in distress
and smooth his path when they see he
is about to make a disgraceful stumble,
In fact, before the interview is over,
he has experienced a radical change of
heart with regard to parents-in-law,
and has made up his mind that as a
young lady's mother is to her the dear
est either one on brute earth, that husband must be
a or a boar who could, in
terms of disrespect, allude to his
mother-indaw. But time would fail to
tell of the miseries of the engagement
and b ?. w the young lady keeps it secret
by does telling all her friends about it. She
it, of course, because she nnnLtn is proud
of him kthcd^.'S Shf> nrnhahlv hn
o KI e cn »nces a.e toat) he ne is is a u
very ordinary ,. fellow withi nothing to
bodv^ut Xr hereelf letteJs Mdthe othe? kfndlv ai?£'
? read in-his to her a’nd
0 ndered for that iiurnose o-ehXawav n
m uncino- them ‘ Ant
man to admire: but then she has said
J u8t the samG thing about their beaux,
and so the honors are about even. The
P 001 * fellow thought that the whole
trouble was over when he had asked
her the lady and but obtained the consent of
parents, to his terror finds
that it was only just begun. For there
ar -!. tb f miseries of the engagement
Wlt h the tw.tting of his friends going
. stream: the
on lr ? a never-ceasing prep
fol ’ tbe wedding, and, worst
ofaI1 ’ the jedding itself, with the soi
emn preacher m front, his own Lem
bung self as an aim for curious eyes.
and the grinning and giggling audi
enee in the b: ckground. Of course.
when the affair passes from the state
of the engagement to the condition of
a public wedding, the groom loses his
prominence and passes into insignifi
canoe v hen compared with the bride,
He is a sort of neeessarv nuisance, tol
orated because there is no getting
along w tlimit him, but long before the
close of the ordeal he usually subsides
j nXo a state of harmless idiocy, me
ebanieally hands grinning and shaking
with e ery oae who comes near
him. that being the only thing he can
do. for in his state of mental vacuity,
such a thing as e nversation is out ol
the Such question.
are soma rf the miseries that
men will undergo in order to get a
wi f c . and it is perhaps a merciful dis
pensation 1 blind of nature that lovers are
t jea! ; 11 to what is said and done
about about them. them. Nature Nature often often makes makes won- „ —
derful provision for the comfort of her
creatures, but in all the list of bless
ings none is more People kindly in its benefi
cence than this. in their right
m _ : nd* would ___ 'lovers fight _ stand"wiVhout or go crazy over so'much the
half that
as a pang. The lover is a pachyderm¬
atous animal, and so long as he is
forced to endure the gibes of all crea
tion it is well that this is the case.
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Its Uses Are Manifold.
In the slaughter of cattle very little
if any of the carcass is wasted. The
j blood is caught and sold to make
albumen’ for sugar refineries, or tc
form a cheap substitute for hard rub
bar. out of which buttons are made,
When the meat ie dressed the contents
of the stomach are dried and baled as
manure, and the stomach itself is pre
pa-ed as tripe. The hide goes to the
tanner, the head is skinned anc
d'nuded of flesh for the sausage-
1 maker, the horns go to the comb
maker, who knocks out the pith anc
sells it to the glue manufacturer, wht
is ever ready to bay tbe any of the refuse
from any part of steer. The shin
bones make the best of bone handles
and the rest of the tony structure ii
j used for of the fertilizing animal's purposes. including Even
scrap skin,
the pate, is u ed in one wav or another
and the refuse of the tanneries be
I co:cee an important part of the innomi
; ot
WHY HORSES ARE SWIFT.
fh«*ir Speed Was rievelopeit In Trying to
Escape Their Enemies.
TlTuVwritosT^fiuiTEobiMon^^he £
... hesand the wila horses and’ moreover he cnvs
were con-tunt v at war
thc W()f was the only predatory beast
Ste existing t“ in ancient ti “ holTand times which was
pm-sue hunt H
down on the open ( steppe. The gallop
inir doped powcr of he horse was thus de
v \ to enable it to escape theso
gauu and persistent foes.
Even now after many centuries of
training some of the habits of the horse
in a wild state crop of'an put “fehyiim” is
undoubtedly The a wild relic ancestral in
stinct. horse* swift of foot
and keen of vision, feared few enemies
! vh< l n ou 4 ? n th ? IJIK>n I’*?*"- tou *,*XP rjr
V?? h •»»*«»•»miaht , and often
^“Skn? horse have saved a™nt his life "rajK^the by “j
a sudden
swerve and leap in the opposite direc
tion the moment he heard tha rustle of
j oave3 or descried some strange and
dimly outlined object amid the under
To ' da v raai )* v horses tremble
wit - hearing u
Sfis'lis^tale'of ^ terror on a^'raScTncldent the rustle of
mahv
wild desert steeds, parched with thirst,
sought the water courses, where was
“glass with reeds and rushes,” and
were there crouching, pounced upon concealed, by leopards,
or on the
w-ateh for prey.
<>n account of the dose association _ _ of
md Y hov f S latter J hav ® not
f
d fo ^ the firs i th ?. e P acks o£ fox
bounds. u T In hunting coyotes in the
Prairies horces enter the sport with
ent busiasm, straining every nerve to
ca .^b the wmlvos and striking at them they
^=1 ssas£* tho pers8ou
A STRflNGE MEXICAN city -
Quaint Catorce, where Carriage? e Are Never
seen.
In the city of Catorce, iifMexico, the
sound been of carriage wheels never has
heard, said a traveler who re
cently in returned. Tho city is located
the mountains, eight miles from tho
railroad station. In order to reach it
an extremely perilous be ride up tho
mountains must made. For that
reason but few foreign-people have
ever visited the.town. As a result, at
Catorce are four.d the Mexican people in
all their primitive purity. They know
but little of the outsid ‘world. Ti Its ip
habitants are ov..v*ged ve , mining. bullion
Thou-ands — , -.v-wth of
f« ^‘curod ' - •
tend in all directions, and thousands o
dollars have been expended on the
mines. The streets of Catorce run up
and down the mountains ( ften at
angle of 45 degrees, making the use of
wheeled vehicles impossible. All
transportation is done by the burros
or by the Cargedores, who are able to
ca rry great weights on their backs,
suspended by bands from around their
foreheads. With 300 pounds on their
back, these men will move along on a
trot. The only level spot of ground in
Catorce is its plaza, which is very bcau
tiful, as also is its cathedral, which is
cious^stones richly decorated with silver and pre
A Catorce which vyuion .s is the ino
q P panlsh i word mea f ing £ountaln > & ot
1Xs t name, so the tl legend runs, from
fourteen bandits who discovered the
rich deposits of silver in 1780 and at
? n 9® made wonderful xt tiel r headquarters. It
is indeed a f town, fabulously
V C ' & rand in ^enery. and interesting
One Of Private Allen’s Tales.
Congressman Allen, of Mississippi,
tells this story: “Down in my neigh
borhood there was bad feeling between
two lawyers, and it was decided that
whfch elS" n'ck'nowledgia. ° 6 ,M
and appointed duly and th© two The in
was men met
a secluded spot. One of them was a
great sufferer from St. Vitus’ dance,
the other was cool and collected. As
they faced each other the afflicted
? la ? ie >Tu n uL t! e 0 D-om head to
"varvin.r ; m anXlXn ] strniX
with ud
His opponent stood firm as a, rock"
waiting for the signal to fire. Before
it came, however, he laid his pistol
on the ground, walked into the woods,
and cut a limb off a tree with a fork in
the end of it. This he brought back
and stuck in the ground in front of his
antagonist. Then turning to the sec
end, he said: *1 must request you to
ask -kt°h your principal to rest his pistol in
th r a;'
for-' asked his opponent r s
second
“ ‘Well.’ replied the other. ‘I have
shot, no objection I certainly to running do the risk of one
but decline having
one bullet make a honeycomb of me.
lianc^fs sSnTthewav full It D hisfi^r h«
wou’d fill ^ me efuliof of holes boles at his first
shot/
“This was too much agreement^ for the sec
ends, and, by mutual a
truce was patched up and no shots
were exchanged.”
A Coo! Soldier.
A fellow campaigner with the late
Gen. Curetcn. who died at Kearnsev.
near Dover, lately of the told the following
story illustrative gallant officer's
Imrln^tVe "“ther Kaffir warTen
axd three officers were sitUng in
a bell tent p'aving whist by the light
of a candle stuck in a bottle. A desul
tory fire was kept up by the enemy,
but of this no note wa-taken, although
several shots passed clean through the
struck > he Hot tie eanltetick puninl
erher bott e. relit the candle, and the
game was quietly finished, Gen. Cure
ton and his partner winning the rub
yer.
No Librarian Needed.
In the heart of London is a public
news room without a librarian or any
one to look alter the papers. They
aro chain© carried i and jadloeked Little so damage they can
cot i>© off. is
done and the it‘ =,'-iaky »nd
wrderiy.
ADVERTISER.
ABLE TO TALK AGAIN NOW.
A Southern Woman Supplied with an Ar¬
tificial >Ta\v by a Gotham Deni sa
*s*;x nw
the P™' 11 ™ ot dentistry than in ail,
other branch of the healing art,” said
a dentist to a writer for the New
York Evening Sun. “Dentistry as a
scien< * COQSis ^ of a deal more ;
nowadays than the mere extracting!
of teeth. In fact, at, up-lo-dute spe
cialist does not extract teeth at all.
! So long as there is the least bit of
crown ° ° or root 1 left 1C 1 he 110 sets bUS himself mmsUI to 10
work to save that bit, and usually
accomplishes his purpose. 1 know
of a rec ent case where an artificial
I ? aw vvas clever provided for a young woman
in so a manner that, so far as |
external appeatance went, there was
Dothin S to show that anything was
wrong. A mal'guaut growth of a
1 Stroye d half of the lower ot the the
jaw
J°nng woman, when she was brought
to this city from her Southern home
f° r treatment. Her condition was
such that she could not masticate
even the softest food, and she h ;K l
lost control of the muscles of the
jaWS ' She was nourished with liquid
“clusively
‘The specialist who took the case
fn . hand cut away more than halt of
the lower jaw, and made an artili
cial one to take its place. He con
structed artificial hinges also, and
made a plate which is fastened upon
; the upper jaw for tlioguidance of the
lover. Then a small but powerful
s i )rln « ™ Httcd into the joint, so
plcted lt ^ as pos ! ,ble for tbe .^ 0UD f
woman not only to move the , jaw at
will, but also to" masticate all
of soft foods. The best part of the
operation, in the young woman's
opinion, however, was the fact that
p ai ’ Electricity has been made to
help the dentist materially in his
work - By means of the small incan
descent lamp which is inserted
the mouth the dentist is unabled to
see distinctly every detail of the im
perfect teeth and so may work more
intelligently few^7ear, and auicklv than WdS wag
possible V )SSWlG a a Tew y caFj ago a ^°- ”
Wonders of Ancient Glass Blowing,
Thebes The S-e ulass blowers of .meienr
1 b eb es are knowto know to have have boon been P equally
as pro f * ,on ^ ,a that particular art as
18 Ul ' uiost scientific craftsman 9 f.
the. A 1 '-' --------- •' "
.» >.
called “progress.” They wv.
acquainted with the art of staining
glass, and are known to have pro
duced that commodity in great pro
fusion and perfection. Itossellini
gives an illustration of a piece of
stained glass known to be 4,000 years
old, which displayed artistic taste of
high order, both in tint and design.
Jn this case the color is struck
ST ” 1 !,'! 77?,.U 10 , Vltrmet S ' S f , tru UCk , cturc f ' nUrtly ; an , d
n .lo t b J 4° thrc , 7 >. uartc;3
o ,f an inch n .h th thick the color being per
lectly incorporated with the
ure of the piece and exactly the same
on both the obverse and reverse sides.
The priests of P’tah at Memphis
were adepts in the glassmakers’ art,
and not only did they have factories
for manufacturing the common crys
tal variety, but they had learned the
! vitrifying of the different colors and
of imitating precious stones to per
j j fection. amethyst Their and of imitations the of the
various other
, colored gems were so true to nature
that even now after they / have lain
in the desert takes" sands fron 2 0 00 to “it 4 -
030 R an expert to
tjnsuish spurious. the genuine It has articles been shown from
that besides being experts in glass
making and coloring they also used
thediamond in cutting and engraving.
In the British Museum there is a
beautiful piece of stained glass with
an en S rav °d emblazonment of the
m onarch Thothmes IIP, who lived
3,400 years ago.—St- Louis Republic,
t 77 iC ’ r L cli8anas
*
liT I don . t want any more experiences
with quicksand,” said C. B. Whittle
sey, of Austin. Texas, at the Laclede,
“I am not a scientific expert upon the
j subject of quicksand, but I have had
dro?e a riractical e\-npriencp to" with TeJs it t
! a team the State of
from Nebraska, and started to cross
the Niobrara River. Fortunately, I
had gone first, leaving rny assistants
to drive over the rest of the live
stock. I had reached t’ne middle of
th °N widc but shallow stream when
P y hor::es 5 to P ped aad be ^ an to sink -
Soon there was very little left of
| fhem visible except their heads, and
it did not take them long to go ul
! der - Then the wagon started, and I
[ jumped into a bed of quicksand up
| to my waist and began to sink. It
is an absolute impossibility to de
scribe the sensations of sinking into
! quicksand; there is a pressure which
j numbs every feeling In your body.
and the experience is not unlike that
| of drowning, the effect upon the
Derves of the lower limta <*e*»“>* »«
ex f enci to the brain and render a per-
1 S0D insensible of their real danger.
My men rescued me, but the horses
and wagon were gone beyond recov
ery.”—St. Louis Globe Democrat.
z el .he B,r..ne. s .
-
rines have, in many cases, become
highly magnetized through contact
with, or close proximity to. dynamos.
and the result is that compasses have
become affected by sentries passing
theS6
arm /- An order .bas been issued , that
future ^entries are not to wear
^idearms when on duty in the neigh
borhood of dynamos, and it is ex
diKeullf.^Klectrirc! peeled tbit this will overcome thq
OUR BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DO*
1NGS HERE AND THERE
Jokes and jokclets that Are Supposed to
Have Been Recently iiorn-Sayinjfs and
Doings that Are Odd, Curious, and Laugh ,
able—Tho Week’s Humor*
I.et Vs All laugh.
A pro’s tail is no teamster, but it
generally has a wag-on.—Dansville
Breeze.
If you can “raise the wind.” tht
“dust” is quickly collected.—Fhila
dclphia Record.
A beetle can draw twenty times
its own weight. So can a mustard
plaster.-Siftiugs.
TsAcngg-What d'd Ctcsar sa,
when Brutus stabbed him? Bright
hoy—Ouch!—Hallo.
( J 1 , bo " , blw a , fashionable ,. .,
1 '
^ess ln -h. —Dallas may be Iscws. cm, it always comes
Dude—D o Doctoif? you think I have the
brain fever, Doctor—Oh, no,
but you have the fever.
When a mans wife runs away he
can And a new one easier than he can
hunt the old one up.—Atchison Globe,
Y^J 0 ^e m H the evnerienced S
w I U ^. S ‘- l - Ir| ,lorn oin unset upset, no n0 mattei
, V nv l, ‘ S a tip 10 gets.—Buffalo
Coimer • -
“Is Jenks in the swim nowadays?’
1 (nerboa,d - Buffal °
rVmrW Courier,
Just about now one naturally ex
pects the poultry raisers’ conversation
to abound in set phrases. —Buffalo
Courier.
ls «,«w h0 »„,«
CKak,ag 51,oe3 '
This is the season of the year whet
thc awning-maker begins to put the
remainder of mankind in the shade.
—Buffalo Courier-
ki-.w people can stand prosperity;
but ^ arc ^aaon compared with
the people who never have a chance
to stand it.-P uck.
l lmT vmf ^ Y wTrt Pn ’.nar, rli n tnnw k fwSh mn
fn 16 y° a were uiarried? p 1 ft a (with a «
• Sh) tll0UKht 1 did Johnn
S Boston “m Transcript. ’ y—
«HU. p:> XCH Aunt _It seems 1 to me ^needed as il
n]v !
. &V but- . ; J , .
— C 2 )} '
a
n,NAtiY Deer is som oy me bar
rcl > but bock > notwithstanding its
goat emblem, is not disposed of bj
^ ne —Philadelphia Times,
A Stile Hunt.— Nervous wife— 1
hear a burglar. Nervous husband—•
Woo! I’ll crawl under the bed and
see if he is tliere.—New YorV
Weekly
CLARA-What are you readlnt
now? Dora—Historical novels. “Dc
you like them?” “Yes, kip.”_Ne4 indeed; there
js much j tan s York
vYeeklv y '
Sobbing wife —Three years agt
you f vore eternal love, and-
bru ^ a ^ husband flow long do you
ex Peet eternal love to last, anyway?
* Iall °*
Jillson says it ill becomes a cler
g.yman to rail against Board of Trade
ni en simply because they make their
by dealing in futures.— Buffalo
Courier.
TF-Armim—“tJamp J nf
?> „ rp inventions ?. of the “ be ag 5‘, /“ T lttle
1 an'^^tto Tn™’
y
/ c ,maru q pi ® r Jas1, . r L . 2 , Dt , in . saying .
11 he speaks r reach without any
''Dhout n ?^ . ceab c accen C” I tench “Yes, accent.”— indeed,
e\en a
Chicago Becord.
Hotel Proprietor —“We don’t
aJ -ow any games of chances here.”
Gambler—“This isn't a game ol
chance. My friend here has no
chance.”—Brooklyn Life.
EHPLOYEB-Boy, p p take . , this ... letter
nnd wait for an answer, hew boy—
^ es ’ ‘ s,r - Employer—Well, what are
you WaItm £ for? New boy—The an
swer, sir.— Harper’s Bazar.
SraDAT School Teacher —“What
crime did Joseph’s brothers commit
when they sold him for twenty-five
pieces of silver?” Practical Boy
“Sold him too cheap.”—Hallo.
“Haven’t vou made Air. Bulger’s
portrait a good deal more than life
size?” said one artist to another,
“Perhaps. You see, that's as big as
he thinks he is.”—Washington Star
1 ‘, L fweeDinszP-I’m ec Ptn,) l m so so sorrv sorry you von
, btUe d q the road It al
again.
DQ° s b breaks my heart. Drummer—
^°[ 1 ^ cry ’ banny, I manage to
pick up another girl somewhere.—
biftings.
Curiosity.—“G randpa,” said Tom
W. examining critically the bald
bead of his ancestor, “may I ask you
a 1 uerti ?“ f “Certainly. Tommy. "Do
7° u Domb your hair with a razor? —
Texas Siftings.
Judge —Well, Doctor, what is the
condition of the burglar’s victim?
Doctor—One of his wounds is abso
lut el [ fata1 ’ but the other two are
f , ^ ealed -
Mr. Gru.aips—“W hat earthly good
lowed to i\“ take a -rr-v* hand in politics.'”
Mrs. Grumpps—“Well, for one thing,
w o‘d clean house a good deal oftener
JbaD you men voters do.”—New York
Weekly.
Idu f A P (vituperatively)-I.was
a fool woen I married you, Mary!
\\ ife (quietly)—^es, Tom, I know
you were! But what could 1 dtfr
You seemed my onlv chance, and I
thought then that you ought Ingprov«
u Buk with Grip
NO. 39
VALUABLE SEEPS.
Th© Clever Ruse of a New York Smug
g!er.
“This stone was smuggled on the
first trip of tho City of New Vork
made to this side of the Atlantic.“
George Meigs, of New r N ork, tossed
a sparkling. 1111 ctil. diamon i in his
hand at La Normandie as lie gpoko.
“I bought it as a memento of H 10
best piece of work 1 did while in the
customs service, Don’t think I’m
bragging when I tell the story. Wo
had been having a great deal of
trouble with diamond smugglers.
Dead loads of fine new stones were
being offered by Maiden Lane brokers,
and the service kr?ew they had never
paid a cent of duty. Every boat.
coming over was closely w.^tclud and
suspects were put scnrcl.ing through line a course .'uch
of sprouts in I he
.* Boot they heels had were never bored imagine.! to find Ijonsihlo. hidden
gems; trunks searched for secret
drawers; clothing examined in every
p 0 r pj 0n and cakes of soap in the pos
se8si0 n 0 f suspected passengers cut
up and mashed flat, but to no appar
ent use although several cakes of
SO ap were found to eon lain liberal
supplies of the sparklers. One day, in
my walks up town, I saw a gv>od
looking woman talking with apparent
familiarity to a well-known diamond
broker at‘the 23d street entrance of
the Fifth Avenue Hote1 ’ antl as 1 a ^
J , , » hoard her tell him
d b hometodin
ner That remark bZ“ assured me ”
»
me that I had seen ht r face before. I
put on my thinking cap and soon re¬
membered that she had recently
made several trips to Europe, Jt
didn’t take 1110 long to make up iny
mind to search her baggage pretty
thoroughly if she ever made another
trip, and then turn her over to the
lady inspectors for closer investiga¬
tion, for her husband had been one
of the brokers who had recent ly been
selling numbers of diamonds at very
low prices. Two months afterward
the New York came in on her initial
trip and who was a passenger on
board of her but my Mrs. Broker.
No passenger ever submitted to a
more thorough search with better
grace, and I was knocked out when
she was reported clear of all contra¬
band goods. I knew as well as I was
living, that she had smuggled dia¬
monds somewhere in her possession,
but was at my wits’ end to discover
them. She was about to leave the
t sudd-— 1 '"' noticed luat
n»Ai>0 mined with
grapes. Thckh? fibre several compact
bunches of them on her bonnet, and
with a sudden impulse I politely
asked her to let me examine her hat.
She gave me one look of malignant
ferocity—I can describe it in no other
words—and then fainted dead away.
While the ladies were bringing her
to, I broke open one of the grapes
and found a diamond imbedded in its
interior. This is the stone. Every
grape had a diamond for a seed, and
the gems altogether were worth $17,
000. The duties and penalties were
paid, and her husband sold me this
gem in admiration of my ‘gall,’ as h«
termed it.’’—[Washington Star.
WHAT IS EATEN.
Exhibit of Queer Foods Used b\
Out-of-the-Way People.
At the department of agriculture
in Washington, hidden away in an
obscure corner, is an odd sort of ex
hibit of queer foods eaten by ou t-of
the-way people. There is a loaf *ol
bread from ll '» '«•«*
ot a plant allied to tl.o century plant
Another kind of bread is a dough ol
juniper berries. These are relished
hy some tribes of Indians, while
others manufacture cakes out of dif
ferent kinds of bulbs. The prairie
j Indians relish a dish of wild turnips,
which civilized people would not be
likely to enjoy at all. In the great
American desert the “screw beans,”
which grow on mesquite bushes, are
utilized for food. Soap berries fur
nish an “ agreeable .5 diet for some sav
' ,„trv -V „h ,' ,» in .
* jrnid the copper-colored aborigines , . .
<Jo Also not in disdain California the the seeds Digger of salt Indians grass,
collect pinenuts, which are seeds of
a 001 *tain species of pine (sometimes
ca ed p m0l ? s ^ b { bindlin .~ ‘ r es
again . f t tbe , trees, thus causing the ,
nuts to fall , out of the cones. At. the
same time a sweet gum exudes from
the bark, serving the purpose of
sugar. The seeds of gourds are con¬
sumed in the shape of mush by In¬
dians in Arizona.
In addition to all these things the
exhibit referred to includes a jar of
pulverized crickets, which are eaten
in that form by the Indians of Oregon.
They are roasted, as are likewise
grasshoppers and even slugs. These
delicacies are cooked in a pit, being
arranged in alternate layers with hot
stones. After being thus prepared
they are dried and ground to powder.
They are mixed with pounded acorns
or berries, the flour made in this way
being kneaded into cakes and dried
in the sun. The Assiniboines used
a kind of seed to stop bleeding at the
nose. Among other curious things
used for food are acorns, sunflower
seeds, grape seeds, flowers of cattails,
moss from the spruce-fir tree, and
the blossoms of wild clover. The ex¬
hibit embraces a number of models
representing grape seeds enormously
enlarged. It is actually possible to
tell the species of a grape by the
shape of the seed. There is a jar of
red willow bark, which Indians mix
with tobacco for the sake of econ¬
omy”. This, however, is only one of
a thousand plants that are utilized in
a similar fashion.
British Docking ha* been forbidden in the
nr my.