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THE PAST AND PRESENT
OF PETTICOATS AND THEIR PROS¬
PECTIVE DECLINE.
A.t»«ur<l Devices of Fashion In Women’s
Attire—Mr..* .Tonne*. Miller and Her
Correct System of Drees for Women.
No Corsets, No Ligatures, No Hands.
We are in the habit of calling this a high
civilization. We boost much of our progress
In culture, commerce, the arte, sciences and
Inventions; but in the matter of women’s
dreas we are still slaves to tho foolish fetich
fashion. Let any one hint that women are
improjierly, unhealthfully and unbeautifully
dressed, and a howl goes up from tho throats
of both sexes that said hinter wants to turn
all the women into men. To inveigh against
that curse of humanity, the petticoat (which
Includes all draperies under the ttanio of skirt
as well), is to draw sneers from simpletons
and provoke the twaddle of fools.
Tho skirts of wftmeu make all the trouble,
Their shape, dimensions and trimming keep
their wearers in continual slavery keeping up
to the murk. That was a wise Frenchman who
dollned woman as "the trimmed animal.” He
might also have added that she was owned by
her trimmings.
The French costume of 1705, adopted by
Madame Beauhamnis (afterwards the Em¬
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FRENCH, 1795.
frequently wears a trained gown, bo anxious
is she to avoid “revealing the outlines of her
figure.”
The hell hoop which reign,*d France from
I860 to 1867 and pervaded in this and other
countries was an atrocity in dross which for
downright indecency could not bo improved
upon. It operated on the wearer like an open
umbrella set on a floor to dry out. If any¬
thing touched it on one side it reared extrav¬
agantly on tho other. When it came to ex¬
posing the leg the graceful costume of Mnie.
Btauharnais was modesty itself beside it Yet
so powerful was the hideous fashion that no
woman, rich or poor, dared keep out of hoops.
If one belt? or there refused to don them she
was the object of riiiieulo everywhere, and
was even looked upon with suspicion whore
aho was unknown.
Finally the hoops died tbe death of all evil
tilings. The pullback came in, and once
more women were permitted to admit that
they, too, had l>een formed in the image of
th**ir endowed with built on
pincushions, as one
might have sup¬
posed from their ap¬
pearance. Tho pull¬
back was a graceful
style, hut fool fash¬
ion would not let it
live It was ban-
ished to make room
for bustles, which
hnve grown and
grown until they
now extend from
tho rear of a wo¬
man like a huge
annex to a build-
ing. And the worst of it is that hoops, genu¬
ine, old fashioned hoops, are threatened.
Whether sane American women will put
them on I know not.
Mrs. ,, Jonness , Miller, formerly of Boston,
she appropriately rails “a system of correct
dress for wome».” If universally adopted,
this system would, it is believed, lift the bur-
den of ill health *eid the curse of deformity
from womankind forever. It discards both
corsets nnd petticoats, and is entirely free
firom ligatures and bands. Think of what a
mercy to women such a style of dress woul<
be. More than that, it is beautiful, far mor
beautiful than the clumsy things ordered b.
fashion, aud what a time saver as well a
dress? strength and work saver is this new style o
Next the body is a union garment of silk or
wool, for winter wear, covering it completely,
clinging jersey fashion, and making no bulk,
Over that is a muslin garment, also follow ing
the figure. Then come what Mrs. Miller calls
f
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REFORM.
beautiful and graceful than, fashion can de-
rise. Mrs. Miller’s tlieory, which is unmis¬
takably correct, is that we should be clothed
iu all respects as our natural structure de-
mands. __
On this princees or tea gown foundation a
woman can pile the temmuȣ she
press Josephine)
and Madame Tal-
licn was a Greek
gown of delicate,
soft falling mate¬
ria], slit to the
knee. With it was
worn digitated
stockings and san¬
dals. Their effort
was to revive sim¬
plicity. The com¬
ment upon it was
that they had ae-
complixhed im¬
modesty. But that
is always said of
any innovation in
dress which reduces
her load. Tho lady
who gathers crusts
from the ash barrel
S v •
HOOFS,
“leglets. In plain
English these are
trousers, made for
winter, of warm
cloth, as thick as
the material of
men’s ^ trousers,
They extend a trifle
below the knee,
and fit snugly over
the lower part of
tho body. They
supply all the needs
of petticoats, and
more. Over them
is worn the gown,
which is cut
princess fashion,
consequently hangs
no weight on the
hips. Its lines fol¬
low tbe lines of the
body, which are, or
ought to l»e, more
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VOL. XIV.
to; but the wise ones don’t won't to spoil all
the lines with furbishing*. For the street
Mrs. Miller’s gowns are extraordinarily short.
Sho tells how she was stared at in the parlors
of a fashionable hotel by some women, who
said, one to another: “Isn’t her dress short? ’
On hearing this she answered pleasantly, “Yes,
it is short, but it is comfortable, and never
untidy.” She recommends that ladies short-
en their skirts little by little until they at last
reach a degree of brevity which shall enable
them to walk or perform any other work
with ease as men do.
Mrs. Miller is such a Juno in appearance,
tbat man > T a wotnan who would 1,ke to & et
into comfortable apparel looks at her and sighs
in despair, “Oh, that woman can wear any-
nnd look lovely in it.” But the lady
has designs for thin women, and fat women,
and shapes of women,
CAPT. EADS’ SHIPW .Y.
Comparisons Hetweeu It and the Isth¬
mian Canals.
Capt. Eads, who is now at Nassau, is jubi
lant over the senate’s action in passing tho
bill authorizing the construction of his pet
scheme, a ship railway across the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec, and well he may be. Whether
the enterprise will be a successful one in case
it is carried on to completion is, of course,
still a matter of debate, but no one will dis¬
agree with the statement that it is a grand
oouception and that the captain’s plans are
singularly ingenious and complete. If it lie
successful there is no doubt but the world
will be the gainer by it, the United States
most of nil.
Tho interoceanic communication that will
be afforded by the Eads ship railway
will open for us the door of the Gulf
of Mexico into the vast domain of
the Pacific ocean, with all its great
and increasing commerce. Tbe Pacific coast
of the United States, Mexico and South
America, and India, China, and Aus¬
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ROUTE OF EADS SHIPWAY.
way requiring for its construction not a
quarter of the probable expenditure on the
Panama canal, it will be able to control the
larger part of the commerce.
Without giving at this time a detailed de¬
scription of tho proposed plans, it should be
stated that the earlier plans have been greatly
modified. Instead of being drawn up an in¬
cline, the vessels are to ho raised by a vertical
lift on n Hom ing pontoon, a system of hydrnu
lie rams taking the vessel under the keel ard
bilges and supporting it in a natural nnd un¬
strained jKxsition, so that the vessel is vir¬
tually water borne through the lifting, trar.s-
porting and lowering process. Three tracks,
each of the standard gauge of four feet eight
and one-balf inches, will lie laid on a solid
roadbed, constructed of excellent materials,
in the most thorough manner. The carriage
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CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO AND TBE GULF.
that carries the vessel is most ingeniously ceil-
structed. The immense weight of the maxi-
mum load is so evenly distributed as not to
ordinary “L railroads. on ^riit*b?™i"?whS‘
on Any irregularities in
the track will be overcome by powerful
springs placed over each pair of wheels and
allowing a movement of fivo inches. The
people living on the isthmus are favorably
inclined and even enthusiastic for the rail-
way. ..
The bill as passed incorporates Capt.
Eads ‘and eighty others as a body politic,
under the title of the Atlantic and Pacific?
Ship Railway company; the stock is not to
exceed $100,000,000, and when 10 per cent of
it is subscribed and paid for a meeting of
stockholders is to be held in New York ami
Washington to elect directors. If this is not
accomplished in two years the charter is to
expire, by limitation,
The maps given with this show the routes
0 f tbe Panama and Nicaragua canals and
tbe Eads railway, and will be interesting for
comparison. The Panama canal project,
which is now beinsr pushed forward under
j e Lesseps’ supervision, is too well under-
stood to need further description,
The scheme for opening the Nicaragua
canal to navigation provides for a harbor at
Brito on the Pacific coast; a canal 16> s miles
long, thence to Lake Nicaragua with a rise
of 107 feet, which is to lie overcome by ten
locks; an open passage through Lake Nicara¬
gua 56 niiles In length; 03 miles of slack
water navigation in tho San Juan river, se¬
cured by the construction of four dams at
Castillo, Balas and Machuca rapids, and at
tho mouth of the San Carlos, respectively,
around the upper three of which are to be
constructed short sections of canal whose
united length is 3 1 , miles; a canal about 42
miles in length leading from the basin formed
by the lower dam dire-rtly to Greytown; and
lastly, the formation of a harbor at that
place.
SUMMARY.
,-Miles of-.
Slack
Canal. Lake.water. T'l.
Pacific to Lake Nicaragua. 16.33 16.33
ba^e Nicaragtia .... 56. oP 50 50
San JuanJUyer .... .. S.M - M « «53
tralasia will then
tits brought near
us, and will pour
into the lap of the
U nited States 1 heir
important com¬
mercial products.
should the
project of cutting
tho Panama istli-
»»us be successful,
th ° T ° huant °p« c
}’ to so S5an d ,ui i^ hraneisco, sho . vteT
and the rail¬
Devoted to News, Politics , Agriculture and General Pi'ogress.
GA„ MARCH 4, 1887.
J^HhertoOrertt,. 4UU 41.00
Totals •GI.74 56.50 63.02 181.86
The general design of this route is essen-
tiallv the sunie as that adopted by O. W
Childs in his survey of 1857. The lake and
the river are both made use of as far as possi-
ble, and where the latter becomes too much
obstructed by sand deposits to admit of its
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PROPOSED NICARAGUA
CANAL.
and the lowlands by the Icj', swamps
most direct route to
Greytown. So far there seems to be no choice,
nature having marked the route which
must be pursued.
Between the lake and tho Pacific coast, how-
ever, the route to bo followed has not been
s Del r Medio, 'z&ssgszszz Gonzalez 235
and Ochomongo rivers,
show that the choice lay between tho route by
tbe Rio La jus and that by tho Rio Del Medio.
Ten locks on each side will effect the descent
to the sea; those on the Pacific side being dis-
tributed over the distance of|10 miles be-
twwn the lake and tho ocean with a tide
loc. lnadditwiiat; IJuto, and those on the
Atlantic si<.e being placed, one at each of
the three upper dams and the remaining
seven distributed over the 4-nules of canal
Sl”ytown " U,e
The dams by which it is proposed to secure
slack water navigation in the San Juan ap-
pear to be well placed, and a: e calculated to
raise tho water -from 111 to 27 feet; their
heights will vary from 21 to 34 feet, depend-
ing upon the d-p-1, of water in which they
are to be built.
THE OCEAN YACHT RACE.
Pictures of the llival Craft Under Full
Sail.
That the admiration of true seamanship has
no! departed from American yachtsmen is
evidenced by the interest taken in tho ocean
race shortly to be sailed bet ween the schooners
Dauntless and Coronet. Yacht club houses
everywhere aro thronged in the evenings by
yachtsmen, eager to discuss every point in
reference' to tho race. And the public crowd
about the docks in New York to catch a
glimpse of the contestants during their
preparation for the trip.
Of late years the majority of yachtsmen
have taken to the steam yacht, which is sim-
p'.y a floating machine operated by an en-
ll dicer and pilot, requiring but little skill or
txperieneo in handling. Tho sailing vessel
on the other hand requires both skill and < x-
p Hence in a great degree, together with
navigators. bravery and endurance on tho part of the
The owner of the Coronet, R. I. Bush,
posted a challenge on the first of tho year, in¬
viting “owners of all American keel schooner
yachts” to compete with his vessel “in a race
a -ross tho Atlantic, from Sandy Hook to
Queen town.” This challenge was backed by
a certified check for 8 10,OCX).
The Coronet is one of the finest and largest
sailing yachts afloat. She was put in com¬
mission only a year ago, and proved herself a
very fleet and staunch craft. Lost summer
her owner with his family took n trip in her
across the Atlantic to Europe and back, and
it is Mr. Bush’s purpose, when his sons com¬
plete their collegiate course, to take .them
with him on a trip around the world before
establishing them in business life.
She is 133 feet in length, with 27 feet beam
and 12^ feet draught, and cost $70,000.
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The Tl 5' ac hfc Dauntle.ss was formerly owned
*?- famol v James 'aft ^ ort Her ^ n Bennett, Jr., and is Mr. a
* s Cl present owner is
CalJwe11 IL Colt - Ho promptly accepts the
challenge of the Coronet’s owner, providing
that tbe raco take P lace in the month of
March, which was agreed to. Tho Dauntless
has cross ^ tbo ocean many times and has
©ntered in many international races. On
July 24, 1S70, she was beaten by the English
y acllt Cambria, in an ocean race, though she
defeated tho same vessel in three races on
this side of the water that same year:
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DAUNTLESS.
The Dauntless is ten feet shorter than the
Coronet and has two feet less beam, for which
some time allowance must be made. She is
considered one of the fleetest of the large
pleasarc yachts. But many seafaring men
claim that an ocean race is more a matter of
luck than a test of speed, as the yachts are
separated by many miles and are therefore
sailing in different winds and currents. The
experienced sailing master will endeavor to
keep his vessel in the course of the most
favorable winds aud currents, and this is the
test of the seaman and the point that lends
most interest to this race.
It Won Id Make » Difference.
“I wouldn't be a fool, if I were you,” said
Jones to a fr.end. * , ‘
*‘If you werf rn^ vou wou’.dn t b6 % fooli 9 *
was the reply.—Mail and Express. _____
further use, ’at which
occurs the
mouth of the San
Carlos, the first
large tributary re¬
ceived after leav-
ing the lake, it is
boldly abandoned
and a canal is run
through the val-
the
ABOUT POSTAGE STAMPS.
THE BUSINESS OF PHILATELY AND
ITS FOLLOWERS.
The Invention of Postage Stamps—The
First Designe*»$taiups of Different
Countries—Old Time Postal Routes.
The United States Ahead in Variety.
The legend about 1,000,000 of canceled
postage stamps being a valuable property, is
still believed in by many confiding souls,
old and young. Somebody started the fib
years ago, and, being an attractive one, it is
not permitted to die. Touching stories, without
any foundation in fact, float around in tho
newspapers telling how some impoverished old
woman collected 1,000,003 of canceled post-
age stamps and then sold them for money
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early English.
pief have when been they engaged find that in polishing they might tho as stove well
ce?ni S ** fiUanClal b “* llt WM COn *
Small boys are often enthusiastic stamp
hunters. They, too, cherish a belief that the
stamps can bo turned into money. Rare
stamps are marketable; but not of en at the
fabmous prices quoted. In this city there are
collectors who devote themselves entirely to
stamps and fill whole shops with them; but
qu?ititl U U &COr ° ° f ranty ’ n0fc
Certain stamp maniacs make dados and
friezes of them, and only recently tho writer
sa w a small table covered with them, legs and
all, and then varnlshod to tho ultimate limits
of varnish. But the spectacle was hardly &
sight to benefit gods and men, or even fools.
Th >’ i**? stan, p
mau ia, like any
other disease, has
a name. It is called
“philately,” and be-
gan as soon as
stamps wero m use
in half a dozen
count ries. Big and
numerous are the
books devoted to
the literature of the
postage stamp, and
several periodicals aro devoted to it, one in
Brussels, one in Berlin, one in England and
The American Journal of Philately, now
twenty-two years old.
Not every one knows that the postage
stamp is a woman’s invention. A French
woman, the Ducbeso de Longueville, in 1653.
devised it. But for somo reason the idea died
out for near.y 200 years, and was then re¬
vived. It was first advocated in England by
Rowland Hill in 1837, and adapted in 1840.
The first design was a small boy on a gallop¬
ing horse, blowing a trumpet and clad only
in his integrity. He had a scarf along with
him, but apparently only used it as a wrap in
cold weather, for in the picture it float.aout
behind him adding tothe appearance of great
haste. This design was in memory of the
days when Assyrian and Persian monarch*
had their posts placed at stations a day’s
journey from each other, with horses saddled
iiflls m
PERSIAN.
all. The first stamp bore the head of
Benjamin Franklin, who was efficient in de-
veloping our postal service, and who was
s ,y r“rr
lw oIJ It fa ^ ^ t . * .
with a fair complexion ^ and b 3
eyes
The first adhesive stamp issued by Great
Britain consisted of a profile of the queen
with the word “Postage" above and the value
below; but other governments saw iu this a
desecration of the sovereign, because her face
was necessarily blackened by the cancellation,
Brazil was the second which
system,
It is also said
that the first pro-
posed British
stamp, drawn by
Mulready, was a
large one represent-
ing industrial and
commercial life.
The Cape of Good Hope, iu 1653, adopted a
three cornered stomp both novel and pretty.
The stamp of Afghanistan is meaningless to
an American, while that of Japan, with its
dainty tea leaves, is graceful and beautiful.
In 1869 the United States issued a twenty-
four cent stamp, which is a miniature repre¬
sentation of the signing erf the Declaration
Independence.
The perforating machine was an English
invention, which was at once alm ist uni-
versal’.y adopted.
The colors of postage stamps vrfRr continn-
aliy, the why and wherefore thereof none but
the postmaster general and his creator knows,
3^,
Bi s.
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Japanese.
and a-greater number in us 2 at our
time than any ouior country* A total of-
issued is I8S, wrbiia U7 have
wen m, use at on® tlsia
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enough to secure
“ ni r^
women. This has a
stimulating effect
on other impover- w^men,
^ed old
and they set to work
®° llect stam P®»
a ! ld ar ® °* er ~
whelmed with as-
tomshment and
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FIRST AMERICAN.
ready to carry with
fleet feet the de¬
crees of the despot.
In the Roman em-
pire imperial edicts
were passed to the
provinces by the
same means.
TheUnited States
took up tho postage
. stamp in 1847, not
such a while
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CAFE OF GOOD HOPE.
The style of print¬
ing on white ]»per
with colored ink is
considered more
secure than an y
other hence has
been adopted every-
t ’ re ‘ 1 L nited
States has issued
more varieties of
postage stamps,
In the days which preceded postage stamp*
Jetton were not much indulged in. For a
while they cost five cento, which the receiver
woe obliged to pay, unless the sender chose
to prepay them.
LIEUT. E. L. 2ALINSKY.
A United
“ Wo
, ~ Now *. that _ the
government . ha. contracted
for a cruiser capable of throwing bombs con-
taming dynamite, weighing 200 pounds, a
distance oj a mile, the experiments of Lieut,
in this mat ter haV e about
* n “f wa * de ‘
tailed , , . by Secretary
Lincoln in 16S3 to
investigate the pce-
sibility of firing
dynamite safely
with a pneumatic
gun, as suggested
by a manufacture
big company The
s
first as tothe possi-
bilities of a cannon
on the popgun nrin-
an e£h^t 1 tb*
us0 of compressed air for firing explosive
compounds, on account of its safety and tbe
nicety to which the propelling power can be
regulated. Many of his practical suggestions
have been added to the system, notably a
method of exploding the tori>edo immediately
on its contact with the water or «s many feet
tho Efface as required.
a mau^SS^Yeara of* iJ°«nd ^hen
Hij parents to tuis country he
b ut 4 v«ars of was°but >^s I,.
New York Ho 12 old when
the civil war came and at the ago of lfi
manage d to take f part in it as an aide on Gem
Nelson Miles * sta( At the close of tho war
he was commissioned a second lieutenant of
"T ed th VTZ ^
* nt ’ and ^ dun f° " S r tda% Ume ye , bas ftrs a , ^ «^Jieuten- ^tioned
. ^ the Atlanticand .
gulf VT° coast U r For three years Z and a half he
was professor of military science at the lusti-
tute of Technology in Boston. Before under-
taking his dynamite experiments he passed
«il month* At W illet’s Point at torp<rfo tn-
struction under Gen. Abbott.
The lieutenant ha* given tlio subject of coast
defense his entire attention, and ho says it
amuses him when he hears even officers of tha
late war “Pooh! pooh!” at fortifications.
“Wo can throw up breastworks 100 feet
thick if necessai*y,” they sometimes add.
“And what then!” the lieutenant net*; “are
you going to lire the breastwork* at tbe
enemj . '
Gu “ “? 7 h * t c,,llnB -
„. He holds that if we establ.shed arge pm
factories they would prove a highly success-
ful commercial enterprise. Wo could soon
compete with any nation in tho world in the
manufacture of ordnance, as we now do in
small arms.
THE GRANT MEMORIAL BRIDGE.
Proposed to Cross the Potomso From
Washington to Arlington.
A recent bill before congr&a proposes a
unique monument to the memory of Gen.
Grant in the shape of a bridge-across the
Potomac, which woull be both ornamental
mnd useful and a departure from the tower
and statue stylo of monument. Tho hUl call.
for $500,<-00 toward its construction. -
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PROPOSED ORANT MEMORIAL.
• t?SS Tho _ brtdgo ... n " t i.tobo4,8.>°feet “ 1 * r C ‘“ w,th .* Ion*. f» wbr J* .. “«» , rt
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S’SST Tbe bill states tbat “the design is most t. ap¬
propriate as symbolical of the restored Union,
across the Potomac river, which divided the
north from the south in the tremendous strug¬
gle in which the services of Gen. Gi ant were
so conspicuously valuable, leading from the
national capital to the sacred ground where
lie buried 15,000 men who died for tbe Union.”
The site selected for the bridge is certainly
a very fortunate one. It will always possess
great historical interest. In 1775 a portion
of Braddock's army camped on Observatory
bill on the march from Alexandria to the
fatal field on the Monongahela. Oa the Po¬
tomac bank is a rock on which tbe troops
were landed known as Braddock’s rock. It
is from this point in the rear of the Naval
observatory, near the foot of New York and
New Hampshire avenues, tbat the bridge is
to begin in Washington: It was a favorite
project of the Father of His Country to es¬
tablish a national university on that very
spot, and here it was also that the Ameri-
can army encamped in 1813-14 and ad¬
vanced to Bladensburg for the defense of the
city against the English, and if the bridge
now proposed be built, from here will go from
yaar to year thousands to strew flowers on
the graves of the dead in the beautiful Ar¬
lington beyond.
The Game Cock and the Gobbler.
“I had a game chicken once,” said another
of the goesipers, “that I thought was invinci¬
ble. He whipped everything on the planta-
turn and then wanted to ta Jtle the yard dog,
I was verv proud of him. Finally one day
a stray t<i>k turkey gobbler came on tbe premises
and no his abode there. For a day or
two there was no war. My rooster, it is true,
followed the gobbler around and picked up
gjavel in front of him, and once or twice
made a point of jumping him, but the gobbler
seemed determined to attend to his own bu i-
oesi About the third morning, however, I
lizard a peculiar noise in thevarci. I Ueonl
queer ‘prut-p-rul-prut' pf too gobbler afid tbea
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BILL HEADS,
NOTE HEADS, ;
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CIRCULARS. ,
LAND DEEDS,.
MORTGAGE NOTE
MARRIAGE LICENSE, &C.
*om*thingtfiat sounded like a scuffle. Indeed
.windowand found that the game chicken
M( j the gobbler were engaged in war. I want-
ed to go out and keep the rooster from killing
the gobbler; nevertheless, I was interested in
watching would be. the result, uever doubting what it
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* "The rooster was full of fight, and made
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peculiar cry, and I noticed that every time
the rooster flew at him he merely dropped one
of his wings receiving the attack cm that. This
continued for some time, until finally the gob-
bier darted foward, seized the rooster by the
back of the neck and proceeded to lead him
around in a circle. The gobbler widened the
circle imtil he brought the rooster in contact
with the fence. This was apparently the point
at which the gobbler bad been aiming, for he
had no sooner reached it than he proceeded to
jam my rooster’s head against the pickets; and
before I could interfere my game chicken
was dead. ’’—Atlanta Constitution.
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Swell Actor (meeting swell octrees at phe-
tographers)—I know you are after that task
one of me aren’t you Miss Slasher!
Swell Actress-You are a perfect mind
reader, Mr. De Bloak IVe got to play Dca
demona next week, yon kn™, and I want
something that will give me a pained expre*
8,011 every time 1 look at it.—Tid Bits,
ANOTHER DEBUTANTE.
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An American Girl Singing Abroad and
Acquiring Glory.
A now American singer has made ber ap¬
pearance in Loudon with the proverbial
“marked success” of American debutantes.
She is Miss Alice Whitacre, on and off the
stage, and she comes from Berlin. Wis
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ALICE whitacre.
{or tht ^ yeant ^ Ma 8he we|lfc
Lo ndon to Alberto Randegger, who
received her as a pupil. She made
her first public appearance at Coven*
garden in October and was received with en¬
thusiasm. She refuse 1 offers for operatio
work and resolutely set herself to the study
of oratorio, making her first appearance in
that phase of musical art in “Elijah” before
the Philharmonic society of Liverpool. She
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several months before coming back to ber
native land.
A Boneless 4-Year-Old.
Levi Oshall, a well to do farmer living
about two miles from Coalport, Pa., has a
child 4 years old, intelligent, healthy and well
developed, that seems to have no bones in its
limbs. It con sit on a bench and without
any assistance from its hands can put both
feet behind his head and fold them just the
same as any person could place both arms in
a similar position. Tbe child will sit on tbe
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as its toes. It can double itself up and roll
ah over tho Boor. Tho marrol is (ho child
doe. not .stint any one limb with anotbw in
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A dustpan full of clean snow scattered 1
over the carpet before sweeping gives it at
brighter appearance than when swept with 4
broom.
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Since Mr. Gladstone has chopped down m
many trees it is now remarked that be ought
to plant some.
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A , mg o . m Alabama was , orought up for
«tealbig a pair of chickens, bnt declared, sol-
emnly, that he “didn’t steal dem ar fowls,”
declaring on tbe other hand; that the com-
P lair * ant bad bcaten hlm brutally with a
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“Bu‘.” said tho judge,' “you’re twice ar
large a r.d strong as be 13, why didn't you
dicr.d yourself 1”
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