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BANNER-'WATCHMAN, ATHENS, GEORGIA, J
MORNING.
Peep not so sorely, mother mine.
It is not os If 1 were dying;
I not be death when I resign
FThls weary coach, where I'm lying.
. ie flowers die not when they close.
And oo one dreams of heart yearning,
hey may not know, but my soul knows
I shall awake In the morning.
I him come near who loves me sot
Fear not, 1 am strong to bear it,
[ have a peace he may not know.
And 1 would that he should share It
le used to smile when I was gay
J^Over this poor form'** adorning,
»dares not weep to hear me say:
I shall awake in the morning.
1 hand to each—mother and Jim—
l know that you both are lovers,
i can see when the eyes are dim;
trange how much dying uncovers,
jr knew the wealth of love,
td far so little earning,
I not be lost In realms above,
en 1 awake in the morning.
ads, tried and true, ono last request;
: me go this promise keeping,
, when this form is laid at rest
_ j will not sin In your weeping,
tie same dear one who sent me here •
i spoken for my returning,
ago is not worth a tear;
Po shall all meet in the morning,
—William Lyle in Home Journal
The Story of n Bracelet,
lid you lose this?” inquired a little
>f some strangers who were picnick
er Cypress Point, on the seventeen
drive out of Monterey, as she held
, pretty gold bracelet. It was during
Chautauquan assembly at Pacific
-e, in 1887, that a party was made
f thoso who took part in the lectures
jnjoy the ride, which is the great
:ure of a visit to the Ancient City by
Sea, To come to Monterey without
king the trip would be on a par with
person going to Saratoga and not
’ iking at the mineral springs, or
iding a vacation at Coney Island
ithout enjoying a surf bath. In re-
*>nso to the child’s question a gentle-
i stepped forward and took the oma-
it, winch he discovered bore the name
one of the young ladies stopping at
Carmelo, together with tho further
sription that it wa3 presented
her by admirers during her en-
_ >inent at the Havinarket theatre,
indon. An inquiry as to whether any-
ig had been lost brought a negative
ly, but the gentleman, after giving
child some slight reward, carefully
insigned tho bracelet to his pocket, re-
srving a pleasant surprise for the even-
and all were apprised of the fact
something would occur after supper
:h would make at least one heart
»afc for joy.
The trip home was made without
:ial incident, and at last the looked
time arrived when ono of the litter.',
iteurs present, who had been appointed
perform the duty, called ou Miss
leanor Calhoun, the talented young
ilifornian, and returned her lost keep-
ike, which, it then became known, she
ropped tho year previous while lunch
ing at the same spot, and there it had
lain hidden in the sand to be turned up
by an unknown child’s foot during the
owner’s next visit.—San Francisco Bul
letin.
HITTING
THE PI°E.’
HISTORY OF THIS DELICATE DI§J4
SO POPULAR IN FRANCE.
year
Mi
Death of It» Greatest Maher—How the
Goose Livers Are Made Fat—Apocryphal
Story of Datnas—The Famom Pies of
Straubnrjj—Giving Them a Soul.
At Colmar, in Alsace, died in his 71st
jar a worthy bourgeois named Jean
angold, who,-in the opinion of all save
some members of the medical profession,
deserved well, not only of his own coun
try, but of the whole world. Colmar,
the antique Columbaria of the Romans,
next to Strasbugg, is unsurpassed for the
fabrication of **pates do foie gras." The
friends of the late M. Maugc'd, indeed,
who was for many years the leading
pastry cook at Colmar, claim that his
§ ies were even superior to those made at
trasburg. M. Mangold was a poet to
boot, and composed a large number of
local idyls, satires, vaudevilles and songs
for music. But it will be with his pies,
and not with his poems in his hand that
he Will probably go down to postesity.
It might be desirable in tno outset to
stigmatize as wholly apocryphal the story
to which Alexandre Dumas the elder, in
his “Dictioniiflire do Cuisine,’* has given
currency as to the horrible tortures in
flicted on the Alsatian geese in order to
fatten their livers to the degree required
Alarming Growth of This Heathenish
nib it as Noticed In Chicago.
Tho smoking of opium in Chicago
began about ten years ago, among the
white population, though the habit
has prevailed with the Celestials since
their first arrival in the city. In 1879
the fact that tho custom was contagious
was brought to the notice of the police
department, and the “opium joints”
were pulled. This served to kill it for
timo, at least apparently, though it
by the pastry cooks. Starting with the
postulate that the liver of the bird can
only be fattened by the tumefaction of
that organ, and that for pie making pur
poses the goose livers should be ten or
twelve times the normal size, the author
of “Monte Cristo” goes on to say that
the wretched bipeds are nailed by their
web feet to boards, that their eyes are
put out, and that they are incessantly
stuffed with pounded nuts and deprived
of water.
Keeping Tlieir Records.
Paris has hitherto been regarded as the
paradise of faux menaces, and quite a
number of foreigners of distinction have
been until now accustomed to allow
themselves a latitude of conduct which
would not have been derated anywhere
else. No less than half a dozen well
known English noblemen, and an equal
number of ladies of the highest rank,
having been living there for several
years past in what tne church unkindly
describes as “a state of sin.” Of course,
they do not dare go near the embassies,
but the ladies in question know and visit
each other in tho most brazen manner.
Moreover, as far as tho men went, whom
one met in their salons, they were the
best and most amusing to bo found any
where, ranging from the Prince of Wales
down to tho most impertinent “attache.”
All this has now been put an end to
by tho decree ^of the French govern
ment, proclaiming that all foreign resi
dents shall register their names, domi
ciles, and other indiscreet particulars at
the prefecture do police before the close
of tne year. Unfortunately, these reg
isters are open to public inspection, and
while it has hitherto been possible for
the relatives of the delinquent ladies to
wink at their more or less prolonged
escapades, it will no longer be practi
cable to pretend to ignore their miscon
duct once it figures in black and white
on the public registers of the French
police. Those agreeable salons in which
the chic, wit, and gauloiserie of the
French grande dame were blended with
the beauty of face and figure of the
Englishwoman of birth and breeding
therefore, have to be closed, ana
the presiding deiti ?s will be forced to
migrate to Brussels, or to some other
equally tolerant capital.—Town Topics.
How It Was Named.
Have you ever heard why the little
burg of Upper Alton, Ills., has the nick
name of Pie Town? It took that queer
name in a very peculiar way. Along in
the summer of 1864 a number of society
people from St. Louis were invited by
some Upper Alton people to go there
and spend a day in social spores. The
invitation was not without a reminder
to the guests to bring up a supply of
things for the inner man. When the
time for luncheon came, it developed the
fact that every person had brought a
goodly number of pies, not a single per
son having a loaf of bread. The party
made the best of the impromptu dinner
without bread. At the close of the pie
feast one 6f the number suggested “ Pie
Town” as an. appropriate nickname for
Upper Alton, and tne little village has
carried it ever since.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
STUFFING THE UVE BIRDS.
Another alarmist, improving on Alex
andre Dumas, asserts that the nailed
down geese are placed before a raging
fire ana allowed to drink as much water
as they like, thus leading to enlarge
ment of the liver. As a matter of fact,
the birds, like capons and turkeys, are
no doubt systematically crammed,
usually with a paste made of Indian
oom and millet; but there is no more
truth in the wild stories of the nailed
down feet, the blinding and the semi-
roasting in front of an ardent fire than
there is in the tales that turtle soup is
made of conger eel and the sauce called
soy from cockroaches.
Toulouse, in the south of France, Ruf-
fec, in the Charente and Nerac, in the
Bordelais, have in modern times, rivaled
Strasburg and Colmar in the making of
“pates de foie gras;” and there are culin
ary antiquaries who maintain that
pasties of fatted goose livers are _
Gallo-Roman survival of Apician origin.
The mode of fattening the geese was
somewhat cruel. The birds were cooped
in solitary confinement in very narrow
cages; three times a day they were
gorged with maize, and, on the twenty-
second day of cramming, a spoonful of
poppy oil was added to the com; water
was freely given them, but it was always
mixed with sweet wort from tin
brewery. At the end of forty-two days
the goose became so fat as to be in dan
ger of suffocation and was therefore
killed. Its proper weight should then be
about sixteen pounds, out of which the
liver should weigh thirty-two ounces.
Another quicker but more equivocal way
of fattening the geese was to mix anti
mony with the farinaceous paste with
which the birds were crammed. »
HOW TO MAKE THE PIE.
At Strasburg the construction of a pate
is a serious and even solemn affair. Six
fattened livers are the ordinary pabulum
for a pie; they must first be washed in
many waters and then parboiled, and are
next scrupulously trimmed so as to free
them from all fibrous substance and from
any matter approaching bitterness in
flavor. Each liver is then cut in two,
and, out of the dozen, three are chosen
to be beaten in a mortar and passed
through a sieve with bacon, snalots,
parsley and mushrooms, so as to make
‘farce,” or forcemeat, which is boiled,
and forms the basis of the pie. The other
half livers are then larded with the finest
Perigord truffles, cut in the shape of
dice, and the contents of the pie are made
to consist of layers of liver, truffles and
forcemeat. Two hours are sufficient to
bake this dainty dish, fit to be set before
a whole congress of kings and emperors.
When the pie is withdrawn from the
oven the top crust should be delicately
lifted and a large glass of Madeira poured
into the interior. Then it should be her
metically closed, so as to be fit to be at
once packed and dispatched to the utter
most ends of the earth.
It remains, however, to show how
these famous pies came to be made at
Strasburg ana Colmar at alL Only 100
years have elapsed since the French
military governor of the province of
Alsace^ Marshal de Contades, brought
with him to Strasburg as cook a Nor-,
man by the name of Close. Alsace was
already remarkable for it “terrines” of
fat goose livers, which were preserved in
earthen pipkins with a layer of clarified
butter under the cover. They were
somewhat ruddy prepared .and lacked
one supreme accessory; The artistic
Close practically exclaimed, “Pipkin,
thou shalt become a pier’ He discarded
the earthen jar and imprisoned the rich
livers in a casket of pie crust. “The body
is there,” continued the enthusiastic
chef, “we must now give it a soul;” and
he found a spiritual element for his pie
in the exciting perfpme of the Peri-
gordian truffle. Close, the Norman, must
Merely m Social Call.
Lady of the House—Now, you can go
along] I have nothing to give you.
Tramp—Don’t get excited, miss. I was
presented with a turkey at the last
house, and, having found the wish -bone,
I have called, thinking you might like to
break it with me.—Lowell Citizen.
“Gretchen," said a German professor,
“do have that cat put out of the room; ]
can’t work while it is making such a
noise. Where can it be?’
“Why, professor," answered Gretchen,
“you are sitting on it”
There can be nothing sadder than the
expression which creeps over the face of
tho man who has on a twice round scarf
sympathetically inclined in
ks him if he has a sore
man refused a hat with
lining because it might make
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TALKING MACHINES.
15, 1880.
was not long befpre rumors were fly
ing around again that tlie practice was
S on and growing. Considerable
ilty was then experienced in lo
cating the joints, but so soon as one
was found it was promptly pulled.
Despite police vigilance, however,
the Celestials continued to spread their
business until two years ago, when it
attained such a growth that a system
atic warfare was begun and waged
against it, headed by a detective who
has since “resigned” from the force,
with tho result that, save a few small
“joints, "the Celestial business was en
tirely broken up. Not long ago, how
ever, it began to show signs of aresurg
rection, and now there are 100 estab
lishments, and they are increasing in
geometrical progression.
An old timer can detect a joint by
standing on the steps leading to the
basement, so strong is the odor of the
opium. Upon entering the visitor is
met by an almond eyed pigtail, who
gutturalizes an inquiry, tf the visitor
is a stranger and desires a smoke he
must give his name. The keeper
looks in a book and if the name
not there it is no go. If, how
ever, one of the “stcerers”—as a half
dozen or more inveterate white
smokers about town are called and
whom a novitiate must apply—
has seen that the name has been
registered, the celestial parts a curtain
behind him, and ushers the visitor
into a long, narrow passage, on each
side of which are a number of small
rooms furnished with bunks. Into
one of these the visitor goes, lies
down on the bunk, gives his guide the
regulation fee and is given a pipe
containing a pill of opium. A few
whiffs ana enchanted aominions are
reached, and there the visitor remains
for half an hour. Sometimes he takes
another pill, but generally one suffices
until the next visiL
And there is always a next visit, so
long as money and life lasts; for once
a man (or woman, for that matter)
takes the drug, he is, with most rare
exceptions, ever afterward its slave.
After a few indulgences, which be
come constantly more frequent, the
newly enthralled suffers a weakness
of the nerves, he becomes suspicious,
a crafty air tinged with a strong and
unmistakable suggestion of guilt takes
possession of him, his skin loses its
clear complexion and gradually its
whiteness changos to a yellow hue.
The gratifying of the habit becomes
absolutely essential, many fold more
irresistible than the sway of King Al-
cohoL There is very little hope of re
covery, and once within its clutches
the captured is a goner. When his
money has disappeared he joins the
ranks of the “steerers," and in con
sideration of steering a new customer
into the joint, receives tho privilege of
hitting the pipe, and in that way ekes
out a most wretched and miserable ex
istence until, even his “steering” fac
ulties being lost, tho habitue is dis
carded by tne Celestial, and is thrown
upon the street to die, which he shortly
does amid the acutcst sufferings.
Most of the beginners are between
18 and 25 years old, some even
younjjer. Comparatively few begin
when over 30. An observer between
the hours of 2 and 4 and 8 and 11
p. m., may see smokers enter these
joints, ostensibly laundries; but if the
observer waits he will be surprised at
the length of time it takes to get one’s
washing. When a joint keeper be
lieves his place is being watched, he
will furnish the smoker when going out
with a bundle to carry as a bund, and
many a bundle has been opened and
found to contain, instead of carefully
laundried linen, a lot of wasto paper.
Women, though mostly outcasts, form
a no small part of the Celestial’s cus
tomers, and not infrequently young
girls with an adventurous and roman
tic turn of mind are decoyed into
“just one indulgence.” The smoker
is invariably robbed of all his valua
bles, not by the Chinaman,“but by the
steerers, who wait until their victims
are asleep, when anything can be done
with them without their knowledge.—
Chicago Journal.
THE GRAPHOPHONE IN ACTUAL USE
AND DOING GOOD WORK.
The Opinion of a Gentleman Who Em
ploys Ono at His Work—It Is Superior
to the Stenographer In Some Cases—How
It Is Run—Six. Minnies* Solid Talk.
assuredly be considered as the inventor
of the Strasburg pie. —London Daily
News.
How College Men Turn Out.
The “ten year book” of Cornell uni
versity shows that during the last twenty
years the total number of degrees con
ferred is 1,487 and the total number of
graduates is 1,352. Of this number 45
are engaged in agriculture, 61 in archi
tecture and building, 6 in art, 23 in bank
ing, 11 in chemistry and assaying, 150 in
civil engineering, 246 in education, 80 in
electrical engineering, 61 in newspaper
work, 235 in law, 89 in manufacturing,
48 in mechanical engineering, 05 in med
icine and surgery, 115 in mercantile pur
suits, 80 in the ministry, 5 in publishing,
18 in scientific investigation, 65 in study.
One hundred and twenty-one are with
out occupation or are unreported.—New
York 1
“I declare, Robert,” said the old man
irascibly, “you are the most stupid boy
I ever saw. I wonder at your ignorance.
It seems to me 1’U never he able to learn
you anything.”
“Do you mean teach me anything,
Pa?’ asked Bobby calmly, picking a
toothpick.
As towR Peddler’* Terrible Scare.
A peddler who put up for the night
at Maquoketa was so frightened at the
threats and boisterous talk of some
men who were stopping at the same
house that he fled m his stocking feet,
hatless, coatless and clothed only in
shirt and pants. For two* nights and
two days he remained in the woods,
when he ventured to return. His feet
were frozen and he was almost dead
with cold and exhaustion. The man
who had frightened him so was Talber
Streets, who was on his way home
from Maquoketa under the influence
of liquor. The latter proceeded oq his
way after the peddler left, and his
team running away he was thrown
out and killed. Talber Streets was
about 60 years of age.—Des Moines
Register.
His life Saved by a Dream.
Another queer dream that, seems to
have proven a real, substantial warn
ing is told by a fireman on the Balti
more and Ohio road. , Frank Baker
tried to get out of his run when his
freight was ready to leave Wheeling
by reigning sickness. Not being able
to get off he bade his wife good-by,
telling her he had dreamed of a fatal
accident and that all would be killed.
When the freight took a siding at
Valley Falls, Baker made an excuse
and left his engine. A moment later
an express crashed into the freight
and tho engineer and brakeman in nis
place were killed.—Kansas City Times.
Any, one who doubts the usefulness of
the phonograph or graphophone, both
devices now being under the same man
agement and both presenting the best
features of the separate devices of Bell
and Edison, needshut to wander through
a few Wall street law offices in order to
be convinced that the talking machine,
by whatever name it is called, has come
to Btay. It is in daily use at the office of
Bray ton Ives, Sweet & Co., Haines Bros.,
and in many other less prominent houses.
The real business in talking maohlnpa,
however, has not yet begun. Such in
struments as are to be found in use are
owned by persons interested ’in the com-
r y. None are to be sold. They will
rented at $40 a year upon the same
system as that adopted by the telephone
people.
NO MORE PUNCH AND JUDY.
“There you see it,” said this gentle
man, lifting a cover about half tne size
of a sewing machine cover from a cor
ner of'his desk. “It takes up no room
and is always ready to take dictation.”
The graphophone is about the size of a
sevAng machine, which it slightly re
sembles. A cylinder of hardened wax
is revolved by a small electric motor con
nected with a battery if there is no elec
tric current at hand. In the Mills build
ing the motor is run by a wire from the
electric lamp, with which the offices are
supplied. The principle of the apparatus
is still that of the old Edison phonograph
of 1875. The sound of the voice causes
a minute diaphragm bearing a fine
needle point on its under side to vibrate.
As a wax cylinder ten inches long and
two inches in diameter revolves, the
needle point indents the wax according to
the vibrations of the diaphragm, making
a long spiral line around, the cylinder,
which, as it revolves, travels from right
to left. In order to get a reproduction
of sound a species of sounding board is
adjusted, and the needle is made to pass
again over the indentations it haa made.
As it scrapes along the “sounding” dia
phragm gives forth a reproduction, more
or less perfect, of the original words
talked into the instrument. In the first
Edison phonograph of twelve years ago
file instrument gave out a caricature of
what was said to it; if one knew what
had been said or sung into it it was easy
enough to make sense out of the phono
graph’s Punch and Judy talk, but not
otherwise. The changes have been in
the direction of improving the quality of
the sound and its distinctness, rather
than volume. As it may be heard to
day the phonograph's message or repro
duction is more distinct than one from a
telephone in first class order and under
favorable conditions. And when the
telephone “talks” well it talks very woiL
COMPARED WITH STENOGRAPHY.
That instrument has been there
nearly a month,” continued the lawyer.
“It lias saved me days of labor. When
lam ready to dictate a brief or a con
tract, I touch this little spring, which
sets the machinery in motion; but so
noiseless is it that unless you put your
ear close to the motor you cannot hear it
at alL I take this phone or mouthpiece
and talk into it just as I would do with a
telephone, using my natural voice, and
talking just as fast as I please, which
you cannot do with a telephone. If the
machine is allowed to run, the cylinder
will be used up at the end of six minutes,
but whenever I come to the end of a
paragraph I want to think a moment, or
whenever I am interrupted a touch stops
It. In this way a cylinder represents
six minutes of ‘solid’ talk, or about
1,000 words. The work of putting on
another cylinder takes about a second,
and then I can go on. When my work
is done my typewriter takes my cyl
inders, puts them on his phonograph
and writes out from the dictation, mak
ing the instrument go as fast or as slow
as lie wishes.
“Now as to the advantages of the ma
chine over a stenographer. In the first
place no stenographer can go as fast as I
like to talk; 1 have to wait at every sen
tence for the stenographer to catch up.’
Sometimes the stenographers are busy.
The phonograph is always ready, and
does not mind any rate of speed—the
faster the better. In the next place even
a good stenographer, especially if hur
ried, makes blunders, substitutes one
word for another which looks like it, or
skips words. The phonograph repeats
every syllable just as you gave it The
typewritten transcripts of my phono
graph dictation ’are more perfect than
when my typewriter had to use his own
notes. Of course, there are some disad
vantages. When you wish to change a
word or a sentence you have to give the
necessary direction at the end of the
message; it will not be long, however,
before some method of erasing will
be devised. As compared to dictating
directly to the typewriter operator,
you can speak three times as fast and
not so loud, for you do not have to be
heard above the rattle of the typewriter.
One little point will show you how valu
able the graphophone wul become. I
have a machine at my home in the coun
try. In the evenings I do a great deal
of work in my library, and very often I
have to make long quotations from books
which I have at home, but of winch I
have no duplicates at the office. Conse
quently, before the graphophone came, 1
had to indicate in my brief where I
wanted the quotation to begin and end,
and then I had to carry these books
down to the office for my operator to
copy from. With the graphophone it is
so easy to rattle off a page or two of
print that I do bo and avoid taking my
books out of my library. In five min
utes I can dictate to the graphophone
what it would take me a good hour to
write out in long hand.”—New York Star.
Th* “Turned Aronnd” Mystery.
One ol the annoying things of life is
what is known as being “turned around”
—that is, confused as to the points of the
compass. Probably nearly every one has
had something of this experience, but it
is much more vexatious in some cases
than in others, A friend of the writer
thus describes his experience: “The only
place where I have been thoroughly nnii
this matter is
have had occa-
in the course of
my life. Everybody has beard of the
orator who, in an impassioned moment,
exclaimed: ‘I know no north, no south,
no east, no west.’ Well, his condition
was greatly to be envied by the man who
As usual the occasional extraor
Grand Semi-Annual Drawing of the
Louisiana State Lottery caro-e otf oa-
Tuesday December 18th. Ticftet. No*-.
69,704 drew the First Capital Prize ©fT
$600,000. It was sold in fortieths at
each, sent to M. A. Dauphin, New fihr*-
le&ns. La.: one to Eagene Brackett, Sams
Francisco, Cal.; one to Sam Schneideiv
Petaluma, Cal.; one to Geo. W. Span —
forth, Denver, Col.; one to T. C. SL
Hatch, McGregor, Tex ; one to LoiuStCl
Koehler & Bro., 1714 E. Lombard St*.
Baltimore, Md.; one to a depositor Unioxs*
National Bank, New Orleans, La.; one to*
C. Staib^Phil. Pa.; one to John E. EBB
thinks that west is east'and north is A- «-« oo unji.
south, and who cannot rid his mind of ^ anor ’ Tex.; the rest went elsewhere toe
tliQ id<
“The first time I went to Poughkeepsie,
some fifteen years ago, it was firmly im
pressed on my mind that the city was on
the west bank of the Hudson and that
the principal street, which runs directly
back from the river, went in a direction
exactly west.' Passing Poughkeepsie on
one of the river steamers, I am well
asvare that it is on the east side, but the
moment my foot is set on the shore a de
mon takes possession of me and my no
tions of direction are all awry. 1 am
even in doubt when the train enters the
station whether it is going north or
south, and if left to myself I should prob
ably take the train bound for Albany
when I wanted to go to New York.
“The other night I had to wait half an
hour for a train there, and during the
interval I made desperate efforts to set
my mind -right. On the newspaper in
my hand I drew a mental map of the
Hudson, and then, starting with the as
sured fact that Poughkeepsie is on the
east bank, I tried to convince myself
of the true state of things. Qpt my mind
refused to stay convinced. As I think of
Poughkeepsie now, Main street, os yon
f > up it from the river, runs just west.
wish some one could explain t-liia phe
nomenon for me. One part of my men
tal make up knows positively which
direction is north and which is south, as
well in Poughkeepsie as elsewhere, but
the other part (and the one which is con
trolling) refuses to accept this knowl
edge. Why is it? Where is the philoso
pher who can explain it?’—New York
Tribune.
A NEVSfri ENDING TALK OF
winners whose names are withheld..
Ticket No. 68,744 drew the Second-Cuw-
ital Prize of $200,000, also sold, m for
tieths at $1 each, one to J. Bt.
Melody & F. B&rcomb, ' Chi
cago. Ill.; one to George Hink^ 2£c
Columbia, St., New York City;*one
a dep. sit >r Germania Savings Bank,New
O-le ins, La,; one to Waggoner & Larsh..
Purcell, Ind. Ter.: one to R. A. Johnson^
2 Garden St. Arcb, Boston, Mass.;one to
1st Nat’l Bank, Sulphur Springs, Tex^r
one to Bouillot & Snyder, 129 Bank Ave
Phila. Pa.: one to Ohae. Edwards, Norths
Platte, Neb.: and the remainder else^-
where to other winnets. Ticket No.43.-
085 drew the third Capital Prize of
000 also sold in fortieths at $r-each > ..(nr9.->
to J. C- Tolson. Gadsden, Ala.; one to A—
Robinson, Baltimore-. Md.; one to
Vicksburg Bank, Vicksburg, Miss.; ,two*»
to D. L. Collins, Augusts, G>„ two to
Allen Bros., thro’ German Trust andh-
Savings Bank, Dubuque, Iowa, etc.,, etc;..
The next occasion of a grand distribution
will take place on Tuesday, February-
12tb, of which all information will be-
iven on application to M. A. D^uphm^.
*ew Orleans, La.
Buying Historical Chairs.
An incident of Gen. Sheridan’s visit to
Europe during tho Franco-Prussian war
is omitted from his article in the Novem
ber Scribner’s, perhaps, through ignor
ance of the facts. When the general
reached Berlin he asked the American
minister to recommend to him some
young American, who could speak Ger
man fluently, to act as an interpreter.
The minister recommended Mr. Charles
F. Mac Lean, better known to New
Yorkers as a police commissioner than as
an interpreter, and he followed den.
Sheridan through the campaign. The
general relates in Scribner’s how Bis
marck the great and Napoleon the little
sat on rude wooden chairs in front of a
cottage near Sedan, discussing the situ
ation, and there is a picture showing the
two men, one triumphant, the other
downcast, in the peasant’s garden. A
few days later Gen. Sheridan dined with
Bismarck, who began to talk of the sur
render. “That meeting,” said the Prus
sian chancellor, “will be historical. 1
sent over yesterday and bought those
two chairs from the peasant for ten
francs apiece; now I have them as
mementoes; and I suppose,” he added,
with a laugh, “the English will go on
buying those chairs for years to come.”
There was a general laugh at this re
mark, but one officer had more to laugh
at than the others, and gave his reasons
to Mr. Mac Lean afterward. “You see,”
he said, “I knew as well as Bismarck
that the meeting would be historical, so
the very nextiday I rode over myself and
got the chairs for five francs for the
pair.”—-San Francisco Argonaut.
Look Out for the Buzz Saw.
A folded sheet iron newspaper (imita
tion), designed for those prowling and
dishonest persons who steal papers that
do not belong to them, is an innovation
that will be hailed with delight by ail
honest newsdealers. The paper contains
a rat trap attachment ana a buzz saw,
which is worked by concealed machin
ery, duly and properly wound up in the
morning. A tramp-or dishonest person
pouncing on the newspaper sets the ma
chinery in motion; the iron jaws of the
rat trapfclose over the hand of the thief,
and the saw gets in its fine work with
the most discouraging effect on the
ac.—SaaFrancisco
kleptomaniac.—San J
> Argonaut
■Why It Went Out.
“Keep your seats, please, ladies and
gentlemen,” said a theatrical manager,
“there Is no trouble whatever, but for
some inexplicable reason the gas went
out.”
Then a boy shouted from the gallery:
“Perhaps it didn’t like the play.—New
York Sun,
§
APTLY ABRIDGED^
Septimus Winner, the. Philadelphia
song writer, has made $100,000 out
“Listen to the Mocking Bird,” which
is still in demand.
Doctor (passing a stonecutter’s yard)—
Good morning, Mr. Jones. Hard at
work, I see. I suppose you finish your
gravestones as far as “In Memory of,”
and then wait for some one to die, eh?
Stonecutter—Why, yes; unless some
body’s sick and you’re doctoring ’em;
then I keep right on.—Boston Gazette.
It has been discovered that the Wood
county natural gas pirie line, which cost
Tifim, O., $100,000, contains hundreds of
dangerous leaks, which the contractor
will have to repair before the city accepts
the work.
Philip Fast and Reuben Baker, while
attending a business meeting of church
members at the Fair«dew church, near
Celina, O., got into a fight, for which
som3 of the rest of the members had
them arrested. They pleaded guilty and
cot $5 and costs.
“God Shave the Queen.”
A most curious statement is being
made about the queen of Portugal.
Not only has Maria Pia, it is said, a
clearly defined mustache on her upper
lip. but she is positively proud of it
It is furthermore stated, evidently by
a confirmed courtier, that this hirsute
adornment suits admirably the queen
of Portugal’s style of beauty. Who
shall say, then, that this royal ex
ample Will not effect a revolution in
this particular direction? Hitherto the
answers on toilet matters in the ladies’,
journals have been largely devoted to
directions to fair correspondents how
they might get rid of the superfluous
growth of hair on their upper lips and
shins. But in future, possibly, toilet
iditors will be called on to recommend
the best mustache developer for ladies
whose “style of beauty” the masculine
growth on the upper Bp is supposed to
suit.—London Figaro.
The Scent of Bloodhounds.
Some people doubt the possibility of
dogs tracking a criminal through the
streets and lanes and busy thoroughfares
of a great city. They speak of crass
scents; but in doing so they speak of what
they do not understand so well as—the
bloodhound does. He has got the right
scent at the right place, ana if he is the
right sort of dog, he will stick to that
and no other. Besides, it has been done
over and over again. Whether to the
bloodhound nose every human being
has & different scent I know not, but it
would really seem so, else how can tho
tinimal follow his man so directly, and
single him out among even a crowd of
others at a publio house bar or in .the
bosom of his unhappy family?—Cham
bers’ Journal.
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The News of the Day Given in a Terse airiK~
Spicy Manner.
Princess Bismarck, wife of the Ges*-
man chancehor, is seriously ill.
The ice outside the sea w alls of tb»-
harbor of Od. ssa is seven feet thick
extends ten miies out to sea.
A branch of i.he Primrose league, cott~-
servati e association, has been estaclishr-
ed at Hawarden, Gladstone's home!
The secretary of the Iowa state agri"
cultural society estimates the value o£
the farm products of that state in IbfiS •
at about ^lt5,OUO,OUO.
The New Hampshire constitutional
convention has rejected an amendment
providing lor annual instead of biennia? -,
sessions of the legislature.
The Norwich, Conn., National bank,
inco q-cr..ted in 17u , and having a capi
tal of $2i0,000, vo ed Tuesday io go into-
voluntary ligiida ion March loth.
The Peine- ss of iJohian-Chatot baas-
left her husband at Paris and is living at
a i otei. The princess was formerly am-
American girl named Heyward, daugh
ter or a New Yoncer. Divorce comes,
next.
Prince Nicholas of Mon/enegro ‘has-
produced at the operathouse at Geitiuge-
a drama of his own.- construetioivinti-
tied “The Czarina of tire Balkars. ’ Tbr
p ot and situations of the play are very-
exciting.
A fire at Shreveport, La., burnt nioa
buildings. Loss $.'5,000.
Secretary Whitney denies the truth of
reports that yellow * fe - er has appeared!?
on the government steamer Galena ins.
Haytien waters.
German authorities have foi bidden th«
circulaiioa by post in Germany of the
Inirransigeant, Henri Rochefort’s Par*
paper. Rochefort declares that hi is flat
tered by the action of the Geiman gov
ernment.
W. E. Bryant is under arrest in Chat
tanooga,” Tenn., charged with arson far.
setting fire to the European hotel. As
oue or two deaths occurred from the fire-.,
if the charge of arson is sustained, !*,
will also be tried for maider.
Wi liam T. Falk’s family, near Masorv
O., ate rough on rats in a pie by mistake,,
but wiil recover.
John Passanti, a New Yo.k bootblack*,
killed Antonio Gascano, also a boot-
black, by cutting his th. oat.
Six inches of snow have fallen thro ighr
out the Wisconsin pineries, and the lumc?
fcermen aie happy in consequence..
Billy And ews was acquitted at' Afih^
land, Wis.. of the murder of his mistress*,
and the citizens are indignant over tha
ve: diet.
For whipping Miss Showers, one of*
his pupils, S. L. Dav : s, a teacher, nc nor
Marion, O.. was arrested for assault andF.
battery.
Th» ^ ill of the late Captain Wdlianar
S. Adam-:, of Kings on, gives »125,'jOi) to-
the Eoston Marine so.iety, ar.d $&),00v»
to the Boston Pilot society.
A di patch f.om Rome cays: It'S*
stated that Mr. Gladstone's recent letteir
with refers nee to the position of the
pope, was part of a concerted effort one.
foot to persuade the vat lean that Mp-
Gladslone, if return d. to rower, troaldf
promote an European ooi gpuss to settles
the question at issue betw een Italy «w.
the papacy.
Girl feather-workers employed byHar—
risen and Greene, of Elee- er and Mercer-
stree s, New York-, to the number of.
about two hundred, went on a strike bo-
cause the firm rei'u ed to pay the stale*
of wages o fe ed by the ft ather-workers? -
union. All work is at a stand st 11, attjl
there is not an employe to be teen in the? •
establishment. Memb rs of the firm re
fuse to say an; thii g about the troubles.
Charles Williams, of Del± hos. O,, vs*
arre ted for stealing from Wm. Longv
and was fined $1U0 and costs and giver*
ninety days in the stoneyard.
Tom Foley, a track walker on th^-
Southern r. ad, was struck by a train
Nicho.usvide while asleep, I ut escaped
with a. crushed foot and. .three scalp-
wound =.
John L. Tavlor. an attorney found
guilty of collect ng illegal fees as a.
Uuiied States pension age/t at Chicago^
has been sentenced to one year in tho?
stare orbon
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