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ENGLISH INNKEEPERS. Bald to Be Mainly Boors Who Treat P>- trona a* Intruder*. If your pocketbook allows or fa e or the desire to see the country con pels you to remain in England, there are parts where you can ride on your Wheel With groat at ex pense. Nothing could be more beautiful than the midlands, lovelier than the conntie* that surround London, but westward go no farther than Bristol or Truro, northward than Chester, avoid ing Manchester —that is, unless you mean to go still farther north into Scot land, which at times will repay your enterprise. The southwest is largely to be avoided. Cornwall and Devon have the worst roadadn civilized Europe—in .fact, the roads and inns explain that tho country is not and never has been civilized. In the inns yon are often treated as an intruder, and sometimes cheated in a fashion that would bring a blush to the cheek of a Swiss landlord, for the emptiness of the larder the bill makes up in lavishness. There is hard ly anything to eat save cream, but for that and salt bacon and ancient eggs you are asked to pay as much aa for a good dinner at the Case RoyaL The inn keepers are mainly boors. As for the roads, they go straight to the top of all the hills, as uncompro misingly as the roads of Bohemia, then drop down the other side and are unrid able in both directions. When not climbing precipitately, they lie buried at the bottom of a ditch. They are shadeless and uninteresting, rarely ap proaching the seacoast or passing near anything that is worth looking at, and yet we know Englishmen who are pro foundly impressed with tho belief that they are the best in England, and there fore in the world. The roads, inns and innkeepers of Scotland are in everyway better, but the fact that the average Briton spends his holiday on the conti nent when he can proves not only that he wants to get there, but also that he is driven from his own country by the shortsightedness of the people who keep its inns and look after its roads.—Mro and Mrs. Pennell in Fprtnightly Review. ANCIENT MEDICAL METHODS The Maimer of Doctors’ Consultations In the Fourteenth Century. Coming to Mondeville’s exposition of tho method of holding a discussion, we find his description almost a story of what might take place today. “First, ’ ’ he says, “we should inquire into the nature of the disease, examining care fully add feeling, because the diagnosis is made by touching with the hand and observing with the eye. All the consult ants engage in turn in the examination. Then, if the case demands it, they make a new examination all together, point ing out to one another the symptoms of disease and the special or remarkable features either in the patient or tho dis ease. Then one of them, the highest in rank, says to the patient, ‘Sir, we per „ ceive very clearly what is the matter with you, and you ought to have full confidence in and be glad that there are so many of us here and such doctors— enough for a king—and to believe that the youngest of us is competent to pre scribe and carry on your treatment and bring it to a good result.’ Then he in terrogates the patient about the circum stances of his attack, ‘Sir, do not be displeased or take it ill, but when did your illness begin?’ following this with many other questions, the answers to which are recorded as indications fur nished by the patient. “When all the questions called for by the case have been asked, the con sultants retire to another room, where they will be alone, for in all consulta tions the masters dispute with one an other in order the better to discuss the truth, and sometimes they come to a pass in the heat of discussion which would cause strangers witnessing their proceeding to suppose there were discord and strife among them. This is some times the case. ” —"Fourteenth Century Doctors,” by M. E. Nicaise, in Popular Science Monthly. Mozart’* Method. Mozart’s method of composition was such as could only have been pursued by a child of genius. He would rise early, eat a hearty breakfast and then stroll for several hours in a forest near his home, where, inspired by nature’s beauties, heavenly melodies came troop ing through his brain. Repairing to his cottage, he would summon his wife, a very witty woman, and bid her tell him stories. He would then mount his high stool and proceed to commit these inspirations to paper, his wife telling him jokes and funny stories while he wrote. These he enjoyed immensely, frequently interrupting her with hearty bursts of laughter and sometimes even falling from the stool and rolling on the floor. But amid all this hilarity and uproar the flow of music which was to move the world went steadily on. His productions were wrought without the least thought or study, but came almost unbidden “direct from heaven.” Like Shakespeare, he wa; purely tho creature of inspiration, a genius of the highest order.—C. C. Hieatt in Housekeeper. Remote Ancestry. “It has long been supposed,” says The Outlook, “that the most startling genealogical claim is that of the negus of Abyssinia, who insists that his de scent has been in a straight line from the union of Solomon with the queen of Sheba, but some one has discovered a noble family in France, the counts of Noe, who not only claim Noah as their remote ancestor, but show on their fam ily blazon that veteran seaman in the ark.” ■ -• '■ Laying Brick*. • A bricklayer can lay about 1,500 or 1,600 bricks in a day of 10 hours where the joints are left rough, about 1,000 per day when both faces have to be worked fair and not more than 500 a day when carefully jointed and faced with picked bricks of a uniform color. —Exchange. ALLIGATORS AS MASCOTS. . Stuffed. They Mow Outrank the Rabbit’* Left II Ind Foot. ■ The newest thing in tho way of a luck I bringer or fetich for Chicago people is the ( small stuffed alligator, which may also be made to serve a useful purpose.. Why lucky nobody knows. ’ One man, whose stock in trade is al -1 ways an infallible indication of popular 1 taste, says that he is selling upward of > three dozen a day and that his supply of ■ tiny alligators is frequently far from equal to the demands made upon it. Ho re ceives orders, too, for small alligators ar ranged in a variety of original ways and has sent no small number of tho baby rep tiles to the various suipmer resorts, where • the summer girl ami man are trying' to i beat their previous records in the way of i golf and tennis. As a maecot or fetich ; the alligator is considered far superior to L the old time rabbit’s foot, and he or she t who finds and captures one personally is indeed lucky. All sorts and sizes of the infant saurians ’ are liked, and the fad is by no means an Inexpensive one. .Two dollars and a half I is the sum required to purchase oven the ■ smallest representatives of alligatorship, • with an ascending scale which reaches the l |ls mark for specimens 154 or 2 feet long b Tho very large or very tiny ones are best liked, and these are mounted with the greatest care. The ‘ ‘ seconds’ ’ —those spec imens which are less perfect or have been • marred in the killing or mounting—com mand but slightly smaller prices, how- i ever, and even those which show marks of shot or other wounds are anything but ; hard to dispose of. “ Anything so long as it is an alligator, ” seems to be the watch word of superstitious people just now. The conventional way of mounting the precious creatures is by bending the tail backward in such away as to support the L body in an upright position with the as- ■ sistanep of the hind legs. The front feet ; are extended to serve as a support on which to place the painted seashell, small I saucer, match safe or othLr trinket which r is to render the ugly thjrig useful. In some cases the body is fantastically draped s with bright colored silk or cheesecloth, and the addition of a gaudy cap is of fre » quent occurrence. Thus decorated or ) merely in a state of nature, the quaintly j traced figure is placed in the entrance hall > to receive cards, upon the smoking table with matches, cigars or tobacco, or, if the owner is a summer girl, in her room, where it acts as a file upon which to pin all sorts of scores, records or memoranda ’ of the season’s games.—Chicago Times- Herald. i How the Phonograph Was Discovered. f Possibly the most widely known of all j Edison’s Inventions are the telephone and j phonograph, and the latter was discovered , by the merest accident—namely, an acci dent happening to the right man. • “I was singing,” says Mr. Edison, “to the mouthpiece of a telephone when tho I vibration of the voice sent the fine steel L point into my finger. That set me think - . ing. If I could record the actions of the point and send the point over the same surface afterward, I saw no reason why the thing would not talk. I tried the ex ’ periment first on a strip of telegraph paper and found that the point made an alpha- • bet. I shouted the words,‘Halloa, halloa!’ Into the mouthpiece, ran the paper back i over the steel point and heard a faint ‘ Hal . loa, halloa!’ in return. I determined to . make a machine that would work accu- L rately and gave my assistants instructions, telling them what I had discovered. They • laughed at me. That’s the, whole story. The phonograph is tho result of the prick t ing of a finger. ” All this sounds remarkably simple, and L Mr. Edison has a habit of speaking of his inventions as though they had dropped . from the clouds, but needless to say, after j the principle Os the phonograph had been . discovered, thpre were days and nights of anxious thought and experiment before 1 the famous talking machine, with which > even the nursery is familiar today, had • reached its present perfection. ' Barbarism In Africa. It is satisfactory to note that there is > considerable Indignation at the Gape re garding the mutilation of the remains of the Bcchuanaland chief, Luke Jantje. , The statement is that the head was cut off k and boiled in order that the skull might bo pretorved, presumably as a curio. , However this may be, there seems to be ■ no doubt that a volunteer was found in 1 the laager ‘ ‘ endeavoring with all his might to sever the dead chief’s head from tho ’ trunk, ’ ’ and that when he was spoken to ■ on the subject he replied that ho was “merely acting under orders.” Aboard of inquiry has been appointed, and it is to be hoped that tho matter will be probed l to the bottom. There has been some ugly work in South Africa during the past year or two, but that is no reason why ’ barbarous inhumanity on the part of vol -1 unteers or any others should be tolerated ‘ for one moment. Surely, even a Bcchu -1 analand chief’s bones “cost more tho . breeding than to play at loggats with ; them.”—Westminster Gazette. [ A Fault of Young Men. I “A grave fault with a goodly number of j young men is a disposition to quarrel with , their surroundings, whereas the real fault is not there,” writes Edward W. Bok, in ’ “Problems of Young Men,” in The La- ■ dies’ Home Journal. “Young men do not ’ seem clearly to realize that where they are i they were intended to be, and for some ) mighty good purpose too. The place L where a young man finds himself is exact , ly where his Creator meant that he should ] be. Therefore he is capable of filling it. God makes no mistakes. But it is meant J that we should grow of our own efforts; ’ get strong through the conquering of diffi- > cutties. When a young man starts out to ) live a useful life, and starts out with a ; right determination, an adherence to hon orable principles and a faith in God, no power on earth can retard him long, seri ously interrupt his career or effectively I stop him. He is bound to win. Our fail , ures are always due to ourselves; never to • other people nor to our environments. ” Maddened Him. , Ex-Governor Stone of Missouri recently told this story of Colonel John T. Crisp: [ When Colonel Crisp was running for con gress, he proposed to use the same speech all over the state. An old man who heard it tho first night was so delighted that he t asked Crisp where he was to speak the next. When the colonel saw the old man in his next audience, he was forced to • change his speech to give it a semblance ■ of originality and so delighted the old man ( that he insisted on knowing the colonel’s ( next engagement. He followed Mr. Crisp all over the state and so worried him by ' forcing him to constantly alter his speech ' that the colonel at last in despair cried, > “1 speak in shool tomorrow night, in sheol, be gad, sir, and I hope you will b* the first man 1 see when 1 get there!’’ MRS. BLACK’S CHURCH. Ker CoMhmiui Thongtit It Too Humtelo For a Cabinet la ly. Daring Mrs. Jeremiah Black’s life in Washington, when her distinguished husband was in the cab.net, she was one of the most efficient helpers in the early struggles of the Vermont Avenue Christian church. With the little hand- ’ tul of that faith who “broke bread” in some private house or obscure hall, she went regularly. A well remember ed anoedote of that time illustrates her fidelity and at the some time her gen tle, kindly nature. The church was meeting in Temperance hall. Judge Black’s driver, Peter,'sensitive for the honor of the family, or more so for his carriage, felt it to be something of a dlsgrance to stand before such a build- Ihg on Sunday. One day ho touched up on the subject as gently as he oould by saying: “Mrs. Black, that ain’t a very fine church you and the judge go to. ” ‘•No, Peter,” said the lady, “it is not a very grand one. ” “Mrs. Black, do you ’spec’ to ’tend that church every Sunday?” “Yes, Peter, until they get abetter one.,” “‘Well, Mrs. Black, I wanted to ax you somethin, though I don’t much like to say it, marm. ” “What is it, Peter?” “ Well, marm, I wanted to tell you de drivers of de other members of de cabinet kinder makes fun of me ’bout Stand in ’fore dat meetin house, and I wanted to ax you if you hadn’t no ob jection to let me drive down to dat fine Presbyterian church where de other big men go and stand dere wid my carriage until your meetin is out, an den drive back for you and de judge. ’ ’ “All right, Peter, if you’ll be on time,” said Mrs. Black, and Peter satis fied his mind that he saved the credit of the family and of his horses and car riage afterward by standing regularly With the fine turnouts of the other cab inet officers.—Washington Post. WOMEN AND JEWELS. The Combination I* a* Old a* Time and Not a New Fad. The critic who finds much to blame in modern women in the number of jewels they wear on both this and the other side of the Atlantic will find that history had set the fashion long before the fair creatures of today had opened their lovely eyes. . According to Pliny, Lollia Paulina, the wife of Caligula, wore on her hands, arms, neck, head and waist pearls and diamonds to the value of 11,680,000. Faustina had a ring worth $200,000, Domitia possessed one worth $300,000, and Csesonia had a bracelet worth $400,000. Seneca cried out that one pearl would no longer do for a lady, but she must insist on at least three for each shell-like ear. The' weight of these, it is hard to believe, could ever be endured by even the vain est of fair maids and matrons. There were women in ancient Rome whose sole occupation was healing the torn ears of ladies whose ornaments had proved too heavy for the pretty lobes. Poppaea’s earrings were worth $750,000, and Calpurnia, the wife of the mighty Julius Csesar, had a pair valued at twice that sum. Later on the extravagance had not seemed -to have died out. Marie de’ Medici had a dress prepared for the baptism of her chil dren, and when she attempted to wear the marvelous creation she found that it Was so heavy that she could not stand in it- It was trimmed with 82,000 pearls and 8,000 diamonds. Men, however, excelled in costly ap parel in the middle ages, and Philip the Good of Burgundy frequently wore jewels valued at $200,000. When he walked along the streets, people climb ed over each other to get a peep at him. The Duke of Buckingham once wore at the court of St. James a costume cost ing $400,000. The dress of the nobles of the middle ages was literally covered with gold and .precious stones.—Chica go News. A Good Sally Lunn. A good Sally Lunn, made according to the original Sarah Lunn’s recipe, without yeast, is this: Mix 3 cups of flour, 3 tablespoonfuls sugar, 3 table spoonfuls melted butter, a cup of milk, 8 teaspoonfuls baking powder and 3 eggs together and bake in a loaf. If a “raised” bread is desired, nothing is better than this often tested recipe. Add 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter to a large pint of warmed milk, then 2 well beaten eggs and half a yeast cake dissolved in 8 tablespoonfuls cold water. Pour grad ually over a quart of flour and beat to a smooth batter. Add a teaspoonful salt and a teaspoonful of sugar. Set to rise for 2 hours in a warm place and bake. To those who like the hop taste a whole yeast cake may be used with these pro portions and will, of course, accelerate considerably the rising process.—New York Post. A Fearful Duel. The most terrible duel fought at any time in Paris was the one between Colo nel D , an old Bonapartist officer, and M. de G of the Gardes du Corps, a mere youth, but of herculean strength. The two men, lashed togeth er se as to leave their right arms free, were armed with short knives, placed in a hackney coach, and driven at a tearing gallop around the Place de la Concorde. They were taken out of the coach dead. The colonel had 18 stabs, the youth only 4, but one of these had pierced his heart —San Francisco Ar jonaut. Lady Dufferin, in her amusing book, “Viceregal Life In India,” gives some good examples of “baboo” English. One of the natives was -told to write an essay on the horse in an examination, and this was the result: “The horse is a very noble animal, but when irritated ceases to do so. ” The nest and eggs of Pallas’ gray shrike (Lauius major) are said to ba still unknown to science. ~ ’» !■«—S > 1 ' ' “ w ■’ I , . 1 ’ BEATING THE BOUNDS. A Quaint Old Ceremonial Performed Tri •nr ially In London. Only once to three years does the quaint old ceremonial of the beating of the tower bounds (duly observed on Ascension day this year) take ptece. In the quiet, tree planted quadrangle against the white tow er a posse of yeoman warders assembled in their full uniform of scarlet, decorated with the Tudor devloe of the rose, sham rock and thistle united, with ruffs and rosettes, and being joined by Lieutenant General Godfrey Clerk, lieutenant of the tower, they filed into the historic chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula, where Anne Bo leyn and Catherine Howard lie buried. Here a short service was held, and then a procession was formed, led by the chief yarder, bearing his staff of office, on which is mounted a silver model of the white tower, and the high constable of the lib erties of the tower. Then came the chil dren of the garrison school-boys and girls—all armed with white peeled rods wherewith to beat the bounds. Among the escort of warden yras Veo man Jailer Sweeney, bearing the axe of state. This hale old beefeater enjoys the distinction of being the oldest servant of her majesty in the diamond jubilee year. He entered tho service in February, 1887, and so came In for duty at the proclama tion, the coronation, the reception of Prince Albert and the marriage of her maj esty. Leaving the tower the eastern draw bridge, the procession went up Tower hill and round Trinity square, and tho beat ing of the stones was done with much merriment. One boundary stone happens to be situated on the premises of a firm of wine merchants, whose hospitable custom it is to regale the children with buns and lemonade and the warders with strong waters. In the early years of thq.elght eenth century it was provided that the children were to be rewarded with half penny rolls and ale and the adults with “wine, bread, butter, sage and radioes.” Subsequently the procession divided in order to beat the bounds and the outer liberties of the tower, which stretch as far as Bishopgate street without and Wellolose square, where up to a year or so ago the Tower liberty had its separate magisterial jurisdiction, and there the courthouse still stands.—St. James Budget. While Yow Wait. “Block your hat while you wait,” was the first of the! “white you wait”, sigqs. It was once familiar, it is now nothjjo often seen. Then came the sign, “Yow. shoes repaired while you wait. 1 ’ The first of these signs appeared in the Bowery. Tiro expert Workmen sat in the window of the shoemaker’s shop, working busily. More men at work were seen ihslde. There were comfortable chairs for waiting cus tomers and newspapers for them to read. Tho shop filled a long felt want. There is now a considerable number of places in the city where shoes are mended white you wait. On the Signs es some of them a schedule of time required is given, so many minutes for heeling and so many for soling. In some tailor shops nowadays clothes are pressed while you wait, and there are dentists’ offices In which you may how have your artificial teeth repaired while you wait. In summer there are to be found nows-' days establishments where they clean and press your straw hat while you wait. They are usually set up In some vacant store in a busy street. In some of these places one may see half a dozen men sitting batlew, waiting, redo ing newspapers or looking on at the men at work, who have, in the different stages, three hats in hand at once. The modern “while you wait” signs show the enterprise that is all the time on the lookout for new ways of making money, and they show also the modern tendency to do things and get them out of the way.—New York Sun. , f ■■■'l- I. ■—■■■■., I— I Superstition of Miners. In the gold mining districts of this coun try there is a superstition that the discov erers of great mines always come to vio lent ends. It is said the belief is founded on the fact that the finders of 40 of the richest mines in the world have died in this way, 12 being shot, 3 entombed Ufthelr mines amd the rest unaccountably disap pearing. George H. Fryer of the Fryer Hjll mtoe, Leadville, comniltted suicide. Two ftors before bls death be was worth a million, yet the authorities burled him. The dis coverer of tbe Standard mine in Califonjp was killed by tbe Indians. William FJJf weatber of tbe Alder Gulch mines oamejto bls death through riotous living. The owner of the Homestake mine turfied bltn wayman. He was shot dead. John Horner of the Horner mine, find ing himself penniless, shot himself. Doughnut Bill, Old Eureka and Nine Mlle Clarks were killed in barroom rows, and MontanatPltamber, who found one of tho richest mines in tbe world, died ontbe gal lows. Dutch William, tbe discoverer of gold in Caribou, British Columbia, after whom tbe famous William creek was named, died a pauper, and Marshall, tbe discoverer i gold In California, was a pensioner oi the state some time before his death.—Atlanta Constitution. How Snail* Make Love. A scientist has been patiently watching the snails in one of the large London gar dens, and has discovered the means by which they show their affection for each other. “Tbe snail,says this scientist,“carries its eyes in telescopic watch towers. They are in the extreme tips of its horns, and as soon as another snail approaches these horns are drawn In, and tbe little animal awaits for his ladylove to get close by be fore surprising her. “Tbe emotional natures of snails, so far as love and affection are concerned, seem to be highly developed, and they show plainly by their actions when courting the tenderness they feel for one another. If another snail comes along, they imme diately retire to the shelter of a dead leaf or hide behind a paling. I have noticed, too, a lovesick snail fetching dainty bits of green for his sweetheart from different parts of the garden.” This scientist also declares that snails have a manner of putting their heads to gether that is not unlike tho general mode of kissing.—London Answers. Admiral Brown. 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