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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 t _ _ . ... .... . . . . 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 •cript • 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. ? TM« CBMTAVH TT BMfiBMAV ItMCT, NSW : . 1 —GET YOTTK — JOB PRINTING ) DONE. A.T ; The Morning Call Office. 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