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FORMER DUELS.
Some of the Vamous Affialr. of Hon®*' •<
the Pert.
General Benedict Arnold fought a
duel near Kilburn Wells in 1701 with
Lord Lauderdale, who, after Arnold
missed him, refused either to fire or to
apologize, saying that if the
■was not satisfied heoould keep on firing
i Sutil he was. In 1804 the turbulent
Lord Camelford, the symmetrical ar
rangement of whose whips and sticks
over his chimneypiece is described by
Byron, “From the thick bludgeon to
• the taper switch,” lost his life in a
duet he owed to a vengeance de femme.
Captain Best had caught a sharper
named Symonds in the act of cheating
and kicked his face to a pulp. The
man’s wife wrote Camelford an anony
mous letter to tell him his friend Best
had slandered him. A duel was fought
with pistols (they were the two best
shots in England), and Camelford fell
with a mortal wound. “You have killed
me, Best,” said the dying man, “but"
the fault is wholly mine. I relieve you
of all the blame. ” But men of mature
years and established reputation risked
life as recklessly as the wildest young
guardsmen or London rakes.
Charles James Fox fought a duel with
a cabinet minister, Mr. Adam, in 1779.
Four shots were exchanged. Adam
missed, Fox fired in the air and apolo
gized. ’’Sir,” said Adam, “you have
behaved like a man of honor. ” In India,
toward the end of the last century, a
duel was fought between Warren Hast
ings and Sir Philip Francis, the latter
being dangerously wounded. Shortly
afterward, in Bombay, Lord Macartney
and Mr. Sadler quarreled at the council
board, and in the duel Macartney re
ceived a dangerous wound. The Earl of
Talbot and John Wilkes, fighting a duel
at night in the garden of the Red Lion
inn, at Bagshot, and discussing the
conditions of it beforehand in a private
room Over a chop, is a tableau de mcenrs
George Canning was seriously Wound
ed when he and Castlereagh met at Put
ney in 1807 to exchange four shots. In
the duel between Henry Grattan and
Mr. Corry a bullet shattered the latter’s
arm. As late as 1835 Mr. Roebuck
fought a duel with Mr. Black of The
Morning Chronicle, when two shots
were exchanged without result. The
fighting parson was then as well known
as the fighting editor. The Rev. Henry
Bate, editor of The Morning Post, was
both. A dead shot, and with what his
contemporaries call “a profligate
tongue,” ho was most successful as a
duelist. He “pinked” “Fighting Fitz
gerald,” a Mr. Temple, a young barris
ter who was his assistant editor, and
several others, but met his match at
last in Captain Stoney Robinson, who
gave him a severe wound, but whom
he also wounded.—Comhill Magazine.
The Number Thirteen.
The superstition that 13 is unlucky,
which is traced back to a sacred source,
meets with as many contradictions as
confirmations. The fact that the horri
ble fire in the Paris bazaar started at
booth 13 was telegraphed all around the
world, whereas little notice is attracted
by Nansen’s success with 13 men. At
one time 2 was a dreaded number in
England, owing to the dynastic disas
ters to all monarchs second of their
name from Ethelred II to George IL
Yet Napoleon’s number through all his
life was 2, and who could wish for
better luck than came to Goody Two
Shoes or than that which results at
times from having two strings to your
bow? •
Three, which since the days of Py
thagoras has been the divine number,
shows that it is not invariably fortu
nate, for, though the fates are three, so
also are the furies. The graces are
three, but so also are the judges in
hades and the heads of Cerberus. Then
there are the records of three disloyal
tribes in Welsh history; there are the
three robbers in Orion’s belt; there
were the three tyrants at Athens, and
8 in mythology is as unlucky as it
is divine. Just so clearly as it has been
shown in time that the' unlucky 2
can be lucky and that the pleasant
8 can be unpleasant the followers of
the late Captain Fowler would show
that the unlucky 13 can be the luckiest
number there is. So we may as well
regret his departure, while we wish
success to his associates.—Boston Jour
nal.
Bia Authority.
Daniel Webster’s oratory was not al
ways of the ponderous order. Occasion
ally he would introduce a bit of humor
very effectively, an instance of which
The Green Bag gives as follows:
Daniel Webster when in full practice
was employed to defend the will of
Roger Perkins of Hopkinton. A physi
cian made affidavit that the testator was
strudk with death when he signed the
will " Webster subjected his testimony
to a m<Mt thorough examination, show
ing by quoting medical authorities that
doctors disagree as to the precise mo
ment when a dying man is struck with
death, some affirming that it is at the
comi uni cement of the disease, others at
its climax and others still affirm that
we bigin to die as soon as we are born.
“I should like to know,” said the op
posing counsel, “what doctor main tains
that theory?”
I*Dr. Watts,” said Mr. Webster, with
great dignity. “The moment we begin
to live we all begin to die. ”
Religion Versus Politics.
Clerk—Man wants transportation to
Chicago.
Railroad Official—Confounded cler
. gyman, I suppose. Well, I hate to do
it, but .you may sell him a ticket at
half fare. 1
Clerk (a minute later)—Man says
he’s not a clergyman. He’s a member of
the legislature.
Railroad Official—Ah! Tell him we
take pleasure in handing him a free
pass.—Brooklyn Life.
Smaller, but More Active.
The tongue of woman is smaller than
that of man —Exchange
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I
WANTS HAMS, NOT
A Music Hall Manager’s Complaint of Ae
tors Who Are Above Their Business
“I don’t want any more artists, ” said
the music hall manager who gave the
burlesque. “The people I want are
hams and nothing but hams. Whenever
I get an application from an actor who
calls himself an artist, I’m going to
tear up the letter for fear I might lose
my presence of mind and engage him
If the play’s a success, the artist did it.
If it’s a failure, it was jibe author.
Sometimes I wonder, when I hear theai
artists talk, what is the use of their ever
having plays written for them at all.
They’re independent of the dramatists,
and I should think they would just step
on the stage and talk their plays. But
they don’t do that. They merely con
tent themselves with refusing to speak
this or that line because it’s‘rotten,’
substituting something of their own,
and then saying it’s the fault of the au
thor that nobody laughs at their stupid
gags. I happened to have a bunch of
’em here, and that lasted me for the
rest of my life. Hereafter I’m out of
it?’
“What are artists?” asked the inno
cent.
“They’re chiefly actors who’re con
demned to come and act in the music
halls for three times as much as they
ever got in their lives before. What
they do is to call everything rotten, de
cide that they know more about the
play than the man who wrote it and
walk around as though it Were beneath
them to do anything more like acting
than that when it came to the question
of acting in a music hall.”
“And hams, what are they—the sort
of hams you mdan?”
“They’re chiefly variety actors accus
tomed to hard work, rough maybe, with
a quality of get there that makes the
audience interested. They’ve come up,
and the artists think they’ve gone down.
The difference is between trying to do
something well, because it’s the best
opportunity you’ve had, and taking no
interest at all in it because you’ve been
in the habit of doing,what you think is
better. ’ ’
“But isn’t it better, as Sam Bernard
says, to be a has been than a never was
it?”
“Maybe it is, but it’s rough on the
manager who pays his money out for
them. I had one of them here, and he
was going to be so original that he
would not use the lines the author
wrote, but promised to tickle the audi
ence to death by some entirely original
grinds of his own. When the test came,
he went on the stage and did the same
things he had done 11 years before. He
was never able to do anything else dur
ing the rest of the time. I had some
others like him, and that is why I say
now that I only want hams, not artists
—hams that work hard and know how
to make an audience enjoy itself, not
artists too fine for anything.”—New
York Sun.
Fresh Figs For Northern Markets.
Fresh figs are not known or appreci
ated in northern markets, and conse
quently the demand is too limited to
encourage shipments. It seems doubt
ful if the distant shipment of fresh figs
will ever become a profitable business.
The fruit is more perishable than any
other that is generally marketed. It can
be handled only by the most careful
and experienced persons, and even then
it is not in a condition to show its best
quality. Ripening in midsummer, when
the northern markets are crowded with
many well known fruits and not being
especially attractive to the eye, fresh
figs would at best gain favor slowly.
The fact that many people do not care
for them at the first would be another
obstacle in the way of their popularity.
Moreover, the fig is a tedious crop to
handlewhen in proper condition for the
market. It is necessary to pick the trees
over carefully every day during the sea
son or much fruit will be overripe.
With large trees this involves much la
bor. The acrid juice of the immature
fig eats into the fingers of the pickers
and packers, while rainy weather oc
casions heavy loss by the cracking of
the fruit, which renders it unfit for
market. —Southern States.
Home Duties of Indian Children.
There are home duties as well as
pleasures for the childrep. Boys are re
quired to look after the ponies, to lend
a hand in planting, to help in the har
vest, and they are often made to do ac
tive duty as scarecrows in the newly
planted field, where, like little Bopeep,
they fall fast asleep. The girls help to
gather wood, bring water and look after
the younger ones. As they grow older
they are taught to cut, sew and make
garments. In former days, the old Oma
has say, no girl was considered mar
riageable until she had learned to tan
skins, make tents and clothing, prepare
meat for drying and could cultivate
corn and beans, while a young man who
had not learned to make his own wea
pons and to be a skillful hunter was not
considered fitted to take upon himself
the responsibilities of the provider of a
family.—“ Home Life Among the In
dians, ” by Alice C. Fletcher, in Cen
tury.
A Peculiar Dutch Custom.
A peculiarity among Dutch farmers
who live at a distance from a town is
to have a coffin in readiness for their
burial. It is by no means uncommon to
see a still sturdy old patriarch going to
an outhouse and gravely contemplating
that which is to hold his body when he
shuffles off this mortal coil. This char
acteristic has also appeared in President
Kruger, who has recently imported a
coffin, and at a cost, too, of £IOO.
Precautionary Measure.
Patient—lsn’t it a little dangerous to
administer anaesthetics? Must be terri
ble to have one die in your chair after
you have given him ether.
Dentist —Yes. It was for that reason
that we adopted a rule that where an
anaesthetic is administered the patient
must pay in advance. —Boston Trsu
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A HARVEST OF HUMAN HAIR.
Million, of round. Kvory Tear Get Tangled
tp In Commerce.
Perhaps there is no staple article
about which less is known by the aver
age person than human hair as an ar
ticle of commerce. It will doubtless
surprise many when it is stated that
the dealers in human hair goods do not
depend on chance clippings here and
there, but that there is a regular hair
harvest that can always be relied upon.
It is estimated that over 12,000,000
pounds of human hair are used annu
ally in the civilized world for adorning
the heads of women. In New York city
alone over four tons of this class of
goods are imported yearly.
“Not a little of the hair used in this
country, ” said a New York dealer to
the writer, “comes from the heads of
American women, and it is fully as fine
in shade and texture as the imported ar
ticle. We had a big harvest during the
craze that the fair sex had not long ago
for having their hair cut short Many
thousands of women who then had their
locks sheared have since bitterly regret
ted it, as in many instances their hair
has grown so slowly that they havb'
been compelled to wear a wig or a
switch since the fashion changed. After
the majority of women reach the age of
80 the hair seems to partially lose jt»
vigor, and if cut it will not grow lon 8
again.
“Two-thirds of tho ladies nowadays
use false hair more or less. The decree
of fashion, or the desiro to conceal a de
fect or heighten a charm, is the reason
of course. One woman) for instance,
has a high forehead and wishes to re
duce it in appearance. Another has
worn off the front hair by continued
frizzing and would like to conceal the
fact Both make use of a front or top
piece, with a choice of many styles.
“Ladies’ wigs cost from S2O to $2«0;
half wigs, top pieces and switches from
flO to SSO, according to quality.
“The largest supply of hair comes
from Switzerland, Germany and the
French provinces. There is a human
hair market in Merlans; in the depart
ment of the lower Pyrenees, held every
Friday. Hundreds of hair traders walk
up and down the one street of the vil
lage, their shears dangling from their
belts, and inspect the braids which the
peasant girls, standing on the Steps of
the houses, let down for inspection. If
a bargain is struck, the hair is cut and
the money paid on the spot, the price
varying from 60 cents to $5 in our
money.
“A woman’s hair may grow to the
length of 6 feet, and I know a lady
who has been offered and refused SSOO
for her crown of glory, which is over
6 feet long. A single female hair will
bear up a weight of four ounces with
out breaking, but the hair thus heavily
weighted must be dark brown, for blond
hair breaks under a strain of 2% ounces.
There are some 2,000 importers, manu
facturers and dealers in human hair in
the United States.—Washington Star.
Valorous Cow«.
The editor of the Condon (Or.) Globe
saw a deed of cow valor that was worth
recording as well as seeing. A herd of
cattle, and among them two cows, ac
companied by their calves, were graz
ing in tall dead grass when the calves
became separated a little from the rest
of the herd.
Just then two huge, hungry coyotes
crept up through the grass, cut off the
calves from the rest of the cattle and
started in pursuit of them. After run
ning about 200 yards the calves came
to a high, five wire, barbed wire fence,
and, being small, managed to get
through it On the other side of the
fence -was an open pasture.
The wolves quickly followed the
calves through the fence and were rap
idly running them down on the other
side, when the two cow mothers discov
ered what was going on. Each uttered
a loud bellow, hoisted her tail and
started for the rescue.
It appeared to be a hopeless chase,
for the wire fence intervened, and the
cows were certainly much too large to
get through it They knew well enough
that it w r as there, and could, besides,
see it plainly, but both cows plunged
together straight into it
The watching editor, horrified, look
ed to see them hurled back, frightfully
wounded, but instead one of the posts
gave way under the onslaught the
wires sank down, and in another mo
ment the mothers were on the pasture
side of the fence, badly cut and bleed
-1 ing, but still able to charge the wolves
successfully and put them to flight
Soon the cows were licking the rea
-1 cued calves affectionately, and the coy
' otes were howling a disappointed duet
from the summit of a knoll near by.
Cat Basket*.
Cat baskets are made especially for
the convenient carrying of cats in tiav
, eling, and they are also used to some
j extent for small dogs. Those of Ameri
( can manufacture are made of whole
willow and are oblong in shape. Cat
baskets imported from Germany are
rather more costly, and are made of
split willow. The German cat basket is
oval in form, made larger at the top
i than at the bottom, and with the top
! finished rounding. There is in the side
t of the basket a grated door of willow
> rods, which opens on hinges and gives
> the cat light and air. In each end of
> the basket, higher up than the door,
> there is a small square window.
Cat baskets are made in various sizes,
t and in the course of a year there are
i sold a considerable number of them
New York Sun.
Perhaps She Came DoWh Too.
’ She—So you are engaged to Miss
’ spry?
r He—Yea, but it’s a big come down
for me.
1 She—Why, I thought she was such a
1 sweet girt
! He-— She is, but she rooms on the
first floor and I’m cn tho eighth.—New
York Journal
LI ICELAND PONIES. . '
They Are Docile and Marvels of Strength
and Endurance.
If tho camel is tho ship of the desert, the
Iceland pony is the cab, train, omnibus
and tram car of tho wonderful country to
which he belongs. To begin with, be is a
misnomer. He is not a pony in the ordi
nary sense of the word. He is a home in
bone and sinew, in strength and endur
ance, in manners and deportment—a hen*
in everything, in fact, except Inches, and
a sober, steady, hardworking horse too.
He is a very “muitum in parvo,” a “con
centrated essence” of horseflesh. He can
swim like a fish, climb liko a goat and
jump like a deer. He sticks at nothing
and takes every variety of travel—bog,
lava bed, sand, bowlders and grass mound*
—with undisturbed equanimity. If he
has to ford one or two rivers, with strong
currents flowing girth deep, it is all in
the day’s work. Only give him time and
periodical halts for refreshment and he
will do his 50 miles per day and thrive up
on it.
Iceland ponies are bred in hundreds in
the largo grass plains in tho southern dis
tricts of the island. Little or no care is
taken in selection, so the breed remains
unaltered and unimproved, tho average
pony standing from 11 J* to 12X bauds,
though here and there one will reach to
nearly 18 hands. Every variety of color is
seen, but skewbalds of many shades are
the commonest. The chestnuts, as a rule,
are the finest and tho browns the hardiest.
Beautiful cream colors, with light points,
are not infrequent. Black is very rare,
and roan also. Their paces are fdfct, con
sidering the size of tho animal, a journey
of 82 miles being often done in six hours
or less, with heavy baggage. They trot,
canter and gallop, but tho pace most es
teemed by the natives is tho amblo or
“skeid,” in which the fore and hind legs
on a sido are advanced simultaneously,
giving a running action, very smooth to
the rider. A good pacer is considered very
valuable and often sold for a high price.
Some of these ponies amble so fast that
they keep ahead of another going at a hand
gallop, and they maintain the pace for a
day’s journey under a weight of 11 to 14
stone. Iceland ponies are steady and fast
in harness, though wheels are a compara
tively new departure in their country.
They travel mostly in strings, often tied
head and tail. Hay, baggage and house
hold goods aro thus transported, and
building materials also. You meet a“tim
bur lestur, ” or timber team, of from eight
to ten ponies, one carrying planks trailing
on each side, another strips of iron, an
other bundles of tools; a certain number
of spare animals running loose, and not
infrequently a foal or two.
It is as rare to see a- dead Iceland pony
as a dead donkey, though their skulls are
often visible, half trodden into the miry
ways surrounding tho farms. Tho pony
begins work at 6 or 7 years-—hard work,
that is to say. He is early apprenticed to
his trade by following his mother at her
avocations and when ho is footsore is
strapped upon her back. Ho works well
up to 20 years and over and often remains
fairly sound to a ripe old age. He feeds
on the fat of the land in summer, and in
winter, if his owner is poor, must live on
his wits and his stored condition. Farm
ers who aro fairly well off keep their ani
mals in during winter and feed them on
hay, but notwithstanding many of the
ponies have a hard time of it. The Ice
landers, however, koop their steeds as well
as their means allow and treat them alto
gether in a brotherly fashion, and the S.
P. C. A. would seldom find scope for its
activity, except, possibly, in the improve
ment of bitting and gearing. Taking it
all around, the Iceland pony is certainly
not loss happy—very often far happier—
than his bigger brothers in tho south, and
his endurance, placidity and docility make
him a favorite in other lands besides his
own, while fitting him for his home du
ties in a manner which could not bo sur
passed and must be tested to bo fully un
derstood. —London Globe.
How He Got a Divorce.
Hero is a Judge Gary story: It was a
bigamy case, and the accused man, after
living two years with the second woman,
had agreed to plead guilty. But this was
only after he had secured solemn assur
ance from the state attorney- that his
consequent sentence would absolutely di
vorce him from wife No. 2. He wished it
understood that he was willing to suffer a
term in the penitentiary if on release that
superfluous woman, whom ho had taken
as a result of great misapprehension,
would have no possible claim upon him.
So he went into epurt.
“You fully understand what the plea of
guilty means, do you?” asked Judge Gary,
regarding tho devoted man with great
kindness.
“Yes, your honoi
“It will be my duty in that case to sen
tence you to the penitentiary. You un
derstand that?”
“Yes, your honor. Anything to get
free.”
Judge Gary seemed to bo writing a mo
ment, and then he said grimly and with
out looking up: “I suppose there are some
things beside which prison would boa re
lief. Any relative or friend of the defend
ant in court?”
A solitary woman stood up in the
benches and said in a rasping, nerve shat
tering voice:
“I’m his second wife, judge."
Tho man of law looked at her without
lifting his head or .suspending his pretend
ed writing. Then he said In his usual
searching tone: “Soma things beside
which prison would be a relief. You ought
to be willing to take three years.” The
prisoner nodded cheerfully. “Then I will
give you one year. You seem to have had
the other two before they arrested you.”—
Chicago Post.
Tho Campaign “Orator.”
One of the saddest things about a cain
l paign is the fact that a great many men
, who haven't sense enough to pound sand
go about making wild and incoherent
speeches for Tom, Dick and Harry. Gen
erally they are gentlemen who are out of
work and who couldn't uro 60 cents a
1 month at honest toil, yet they have no hes
itation whatever in telling the people how
to run the municipal machine without
losing money on it Their speeches aro
poor, halting, stammering efforts that
make reasonable men sigh and moan, but
the gifted gentlemen are totally uncon
scious of this, for they continue to whoop
it up for their chosen candidate, just as
though they were making the hit of their
lives. Before the campaign Is at an end
they accumulate such a gall that they
come to Imagine themselves gifted orators
upon whom the mantle of Henry Clay has
settled for keeps, and whenever they go
out to take a walk they think that every
body along the street is pointing the finger
of admiration at them. The fact is tho av
erage man has no business trying to make
a specrii. SUch seldom fail to make sick
ening spectacles of themselves whenever
they attempt it—New York Telegram.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR BIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND
“ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
I t DR. SAMUEL RICHER* 0/ ifyannw, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now e9ery
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original u PITCHER’S CASTORIA,’’ which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. a
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.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought"
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE Or
sis
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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