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' ENGLISH INNKEEPERS.
laid to Bo Mainly Boors Who Trent Pm
trona as Intruders.
If your pocketbook allows or fate oar
tho desire to see the country compels
you to remain in England, there aro
parts where you can ride on your wheel
with great satisfaction and at great ex
pense. Nothing could be more beautiful
than the midlands, lovelier than the
counties 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
The southwest is largely to
be avoided. Cornwall and Devon have
the worst roads in civilized Europe—in
fact, the roads and inns explain that
the country is not and never has been
civilized. In the inns you 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 as 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 the 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 ho 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. —Mr.
and Mrs. Pennell in Fortnightly Review.
ANCIENT MEDICAL METHODS
The Manner of Doctors’ Consultations In
the Fourteenth Century.
Coming to Mondeville’s exposition of
the 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 and feeling, because the diagnosis
> is made by touching with the hand and
observing with the eye. All tho 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 the 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 us 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 tho 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 tho 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’s 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 monnt 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 of study, but came almost
unbidden “direct from heaven.” Like
Shakespeare, he wa. purely the creature
of inspiration, a genius of the highest
order.—C. 0. 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 Bricks.
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.
BARNATO IN THE COMMUNE.
How the Diamond King Saved tho |
of France.
A writer of stories about Barney
Barnato says, in tho Philadelphia Bui- I
letin, that there is a circumstantially ‘
definite account of his presence in Paris ;
during the commune of 1871. In the
ntter break up of all social fabrio he
found his capacities of a paying order. ,
For there is little doubt that his was
the craft that enabled the shrewder i
communards to realize the money need- 1
ed to supply the sinews of war.
One day, during the gloom and stress :
of the government Siege, the president
of the Bank of France was confronted ,
by an unkempt mob. The demand was |
explicit They wanted all the gold in (
the bank’s vaults. The spokesman i
flourished a bloody saber and the mob <
accentuated the demand by all sorts of ’
ferocious threats. It was in tho height 1
of this melee that a man who had been (
counseling the financial deputy of the j
commune rode up, adorned by a red sash
and other insignia of tho terrorists. He i
made his way through tbe vociferous ’
throng and handed the governor of the I
bank a large envelope. While the official
was reading it the besashed emissary 1
turned to the clamoring nomads and, in !
a tongue unknown to the officials and ,
probably to many of the mob, addressed j
them a few sentences. A singular event <
followed. A dozen of the ringleaders at i
once began haranguing the rioters. In 1
a few minutes every one of them with- 1
drew. The besashed personage remained
in consultation with the governor and
when it was' ended withdrew. An hour j
later six covered wagons came to the j
bank and were laden with bags such as (
the bank always makes use of in trans- i
porting specie. 1
When Barnato appeared as the dia- 1
mond king in South Africa, a score of 1
the communards, who had fled from J
France, were in exile in the region (
where Barnato had cornered the mines. ,
One day in the plenitude of his afflu- ;
ence he was waylaid, riding in the i
Rand, by a company of miners. One of ’
them, by a few words, succeeded in ’
gaining his private ear. This man was 1
kiiown as the most ferocious dt the blood
thirsty gang who had taken part in the J
killing of tho hestages in La Roquette.
Ho recognized Barnato as the emissary
sent by the commune to the Bank of
France, and the knowledge enabled him
to get in on the ground floor of the dia
mond deal. The tale goes on to tell that ■
Barnato, who figured as Felix Barnette,
had fallen desperately in love with a
figurante in the Folies Bergeres justr as
the war of 1870 broke out; that he had
lingered in Paris, became a member of :
one of the “Red” societies, exploited
the ardent patriotism of his coworkers I
and succeeded in getting several mil- 1
lions of tbe cash he bad forced from the '
Bank of France. The tale, whether ;
true or not, is by no means so improb- ]
able as the actual facts known in the :
man’s mastery of the African diamond I
yields, for to do that he was forced to
put himself against such schemers as
Cecil Rhodes and to contend with
the “dour” shiftiness of the Boers, and
particularly with that astute old fox
Uncle Kruger. x
ARMY LIFE.
Its Social Informality Constitutes One of
Its Groat Charms.
“Army life is informal to a degree, ”
said Mrs. Custer, during a recent inter
view. “The custom of using cards when
calling is only of very recent date
among officers’ wives. When I lived in
garrison, we should never have dreamed
of such a thing. It is only at a few of
the larger posts, near the cities, where
there is anything like the formality of
civio life. The people in a garrison are
like one great family. Nothing that
deeply concerns any member is a matter
of indiilerence to tbe others, and the
spirit of good fellowship is universal.
In time of sickness the friendly helpful
ness of the women for each other is
shown strongly. Many a time I have
known a number of women to detail
themselves, in regular military fashion,
to duty in the house of sickness at cer
tain hours, relieving one another
through the day and night with abso
lute precision, so that the siok person
should never be left without an attend
ant
“With all this close intimacy there
is surprisingly little friction or ill feel
ing. There are, of course, at every post
a few people who are disagreeable or
hard to get altong with, but they cause
no more trouble in general than they
do in their own households. They be
long, we feel, to our army family, and
their shortcomings must be overlooked
just as we should overlook the faults of
a husband or brother or sister. No dis
tinctions between rich and poor are
ever observed. There is occasionally a
question about calling upon new ar
rivals, but it is solely on account of
reputation aid honor. If there has been
anything discreditable to the good
name of an officer or his wife, the cir
cumstances must be investigated before
other families of the post will calk ”
—Philadelphia Times.
Where Princes Are Sacred.
When a young prince of Japan wishes
to learn the mysteries of chirography,
young maidens bring paper, others make
the ink and prepare the paint brush.
The master expresses admiration by
gesture and face, for no words must be
spoken by him to the prince, his mouth
even being bandaged that his breath
may not blow upon the face of the
prince. The teacher must move about
in the quietest manner and give com
mendation only.
How Dead Soldiers Lock.
A British army surgeon is authority
for tbe statement that tbe cause of death
is clearly shown in tbe expression of tbe
face of a corpse on tbe field of battle.
He states that those who have been
killed by sword thrusts have a look of
repose, yhile those killed by bullets
usually have pain of an intense nature
clearly depicted. • ...
ALLIGATORS AS MASCOTS.
Stuffed, They Sow Oat rank tho Rabbit**
Left Hind 1 M>t.
The newest thing tn tho way of a luck
bringer or fetich for-Chicago people is the
small stuffed alligator, which may also bo
made to serve a useful purpose. Why
lucky nobody knows.
One man, whose stock in trade is al
ways an infallible Indication of popular
taste, says that he is selling upward of
throe dozen a day and that his supply of
tiny alligators is frequently far from equal
to the demands made upon it. He 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 tho various summer resorts, where
tho summer girl and man aro trying to
beat tjieir previous records in tho way of
golf and tennis. As a mascot or fetich
tho alligator is considered fur superior to
the old time rabbit’s foot, and ho or she
who finds and captures one personally is
indeed lucky.
All sorts and sizes of the infant saurians
aro liked, and tho fad is by no incans an
inexpensive one. Two dollars and a half
is the sum required to purchase oven tho
smallest representatives of alligatorship,
with an ascending scale which reaches the
115 mark for specimens IK or 2 feet long
The very largo or very tiny ones aro best
liked, and these are mountod with tho
greatest care. The ‘ ‘ seconds’ ’ —those spec
imens which aro less perfect or have been
marred in tho killing or mounting—com- >
mand but slightly smaller prices, how
ever, and even those which show marks of
shot or other wounds aro anything but
hard to dispose of. “Anything so long as
it is an alligator,” seerins to be tho 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
body in an upright position with the as
sistance of the hind logs. The front feet
are extended to serve os a support on
which to place the painted seashell, small
saucer, match safe or other trinket which
is to render the ugly thing useful. In ,
some cases the body is fantastically draped
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, tho quaintly
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.
How the Phonograph Was Discovered.
Possibly the ntost widely known of all
Edison’s inventions are the telephone and
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
tho. mouthpiece of a telephone when tho
vibration of the voice sent the fine steel
point into my finger. That set me think
ing. If I could record the actions of the
point and send tho point over tho 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 tho point made an alpha
bet. I shouted the words, ‘Halloa, halloa!’
into the mouthpiece, ran the paper back
over the steel point and heard a faint‘Hal
loa, halloa!’ in return. I determined to
make a machine that would work accu
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
ing of a finger. ”
AH this sounds remarkably simple, and
Mr. Edison has a habit of speaking of his
inventions as though they had dropped
from the clouds, but needless to say, after
tho principle of the phonograph had been
discovered, there were days and nights of
anxious thought and experiment before
tho 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 Cape re
garding tho mutilation of the remaps of
tho Bechuanaland chief, Luke Jantje.
The statement is that tho head was cut off
and boiled in order that the skull might
bo preserved, presumably as a curio.
However this may be, there seems to be
no doubt that a volunteer was found in
the laager “endeavoring with all his might
to sever tho dead chief’s head from tho
trunk, ” and that when ho was spoken to
on the subject he replied that he was
“merely acting under orders.” A board
of inquiry has been appointed, and it is to
be hoped that tho matter will be probed
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
unteers or any others should be tolerated
for one moment. Surely, even a Bechu
analand chief’s bones “cost more tne
breeding than to play at loggats with
them.”—Westminster Gazette.
A Fault of Young Men.
“A grave fault with a goodly number of
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 aro
they were intended to be, and for some
mighty good purpose too. Tho place
where a young man finds himself is exact
ly where his Creator meant that ho should
be. Therefore he is capable of filling it.
God makes no mistakes. But it is meant
that we should grow of our own efforts;
get strong through the conquering of diffi
culties. 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
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 the first night was so delighted that ho
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,
“I speak in shcol tomorrow night, in
sheol, bo gad, sir, and 1 hope you will b«
the first man I see when 1 get there!”
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A VIRTUE OF OLIVE OIL.
■an-af-war** Men Say That It Will Pre
vent Intoxication.
The glasses were going round when
the man who had been in the navy
•poke: “Wait a minute, boya. We’ve
had several. Let me give you a tip that
I learned when I was on the China sta
tion. You are pretty good drinkers, you
Kentucky boys, and you can hold your
own with anybody, east, west or north,
who tries to put you under the table.
But unless you carry out my plan don't
you ever stack yourself up against an
Englishman, and especially an army or
a naval officer. You could knock him
out on whisky, but he doesn’t drink
it, except in the shape of smoky Scotch
and Irish abominations. But cham
pagne, burgundy, darct, ale, sherry,
madeira, port, pulque in Mexico, saki
in China, palm liquor in Africa, bam
boos and shandygaff in India, steer clear
of them—that is, unless you have tho
good luck to meet a certain little, yel
low faced, wizened creole from Louisi
ana whose recipe is passed around the
mess table of United States men-of-war
to this day.
“It started in the old days when the
British officers always had the pleasure
of outstaying their American guests or
hosts whenever two ships met on for
eign stations. Then that little yellow
devil came along with his trick, and
the Englishman has never since come
out better than second in any drinking
bout. The secret? Olive oiL One wine
glassful before the fun begins, and, if
possible, another later on, and you can
keep your wit and legs throughout the
dampest evening. I suppose one of two
things Either the oil coats the
stomach and keeps the alcohol from be
ing absorbed by the system, or else it
floats on top and keeps the fumes from
rising to the brain. But you'll have to
ask the medicine men about that. All I
know is its practical result, and that
has enabled us Yankee Doodles to go
home cheerful and clear headed many
an evening when our foreign cousins
were speechless. ” —Louisville Courier-
Journal.
AMERICAN TOOLS ABROAD.
Pnrehaaer* Found For Them Nowaday*
Throughout the World.
American tools are sold all over the
world. The New York representative of
an American tool manufacturing estab
lishment when asked where American
tools were sent ran over the export or
ders received that day. They included
orders from Hungary, Austria, Ger
many, France, England, South Africa
and South America. There were alto
gether about 20 orders, and from some
of the countries named there were two
or three orders. The export orders of
the previous day included orders from
Russia, Australia and New Zealand,
and these were not unusual orders, but
such as are Constantly received. In the
shipping room at that moment stood
cases marked for Java, for Ecuador and
for Australia. ■
Many of these orders are small. In
some cases there were orders for a single
tool, or for two or three; for some orders
of half a dozen or two or three dozen to
supply orders or to keep lines filled.
These small orders are mostly from Eu
ropean countries, with which commu
nication is nowadays quick and conven
ient. European merchants order these
things just about as merchants in other
cities in this country would. It costs no
more to send to London than it does to
Chicago, and it is as easy to send to
Berlin as it is to Paterson.
The characteristics that commend
these American tools to their foreign
purchasers are the same that mark
American machines and implements
generally lightness, fine finish and
perfect adaptability to their several
uses. The exports of American tools to
all parts of the world are steadily in
creasing.—New York Sun.
Bad Story Telling.
If Oscar Wilde’s assumption were to
be taken seriously, that all fiction is ly
ing, it might account for much that
afflicts readers, since the lack of morale
affects the intellect and what is done
without conscience is apt to be done
badly. Os course all fiction is not lying,
as all killing is not murder, but H is a
sad fact that many writers of novels
and short stories seem to have left their
consciences and much of their brains
behind when they go forth to work— as
if these belongings might safely remain
in seclusion, with the dress coat and
the white tie, to be brought out only
for especial occasions. Artemus Ward
once remarked that he had a giant mind,
but did not have it with him, and that
(or the latter half of it) is apt to be the
case with any of us when we are care
less. True, even good Homer sometimes
nodded, but this affords no example for
us who are not Homers. To come to out
tasks otherwise than with all our wits
about us and invite public attention to
the chance “oozings of our brains” is
as if one should issue from his apart
ments unshorn and half clad or enter
upon the busy haunts of men without
money in his pocket. —Frederic M. Bird
in Lippincott’s.
Leather and Kerosene.
There is one use of keroserte which is
seldom mentioned. It often happens
that when a heavy shoe or boot has been
wet it hardens and draws so that it
hurts the foot. If the shoe is put on
and the leather thoroughly wet with
kerosene, the stiffness will disappear
and the leather become pliable, adapt
ing itself to the foot If oiled while
wet, the leather retains its softness a
longer time. The kerosene does not in
jure the leather at alt
At tho beginning of this century a
most peculiar cholera remedy was in
use in Persia. It consisted in wadding
up a leaf from the Koran and forcing it
down the patient’s throat
The medical department of the queen ’
household coats £2,700 yearly and oom
prises 24 persona
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To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTO BIA,” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
I t DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator qf “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now -S/fAs ozi
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “ PITCHER'S*CASTORIA,” which has been
used in the homes qf the Mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the hind you luive always bought sJLfA? on
and has the signature of CAa&frMucMt wrap
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. /> y
March 8,1897.
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo”
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he does not know. 7
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
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