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the mistletoe bough. Singular Notion* Concerning It" Origin The oak mystic tree, and to injure one wasi consl ered an act of sacrilege, the- W survival *7u. arnressed in the saying that An in- XfttSl * t •Mr ± rtown of an oak, to which the rt c &“io^d^U^ M Th. „ became lame, two others each lost ’* 0 ' «hije the man who out down the an eye, tree broke his W- _ But all legend does not give the oak as the first home of the mistletoe. There were those who believed that It was the forbid den tree in the midst of the garden of" Eden, the tree of the “knowledge of good and evil,“ white still others claimed that it was once a forest tree, but the cross having been made of its wood it has since the crucifixion been only a parasite. Just why it has been eoolesiastlcally excom municated and excluded from church dec orations it is difficult to say. There is an instance on record of its having onoe been taken in procession to the high altar of York cathedral, but Immediately taken out again, whereupon a general indulg ence and pardon of sins was given at the city gates. Another instance is on record of its having onoe been found among the decorations of an English church, bpt by order of the clergyman Immediately taken down. * Where and when the custom of kissing under the mistletoe originated is also un certain. Some authorities <?lalm that the mistletbe was not excluded from the early church decorations, and that at a certain part In the service the people were allowed to embrace and kiss each other, but that this custom became so boisterous a demon stration that it was abandoned, the mistle toe, which seems to have been in some way connected with it, being then and there excommunicated. We find the pres ent custom first in the kitchens of great housiM, where the mistletoe was hung at Christmas, and woo to the maid who did not get a kiss beneath it. For one thing, she was doomed to remain single for that year at least. Won altos to thol. man who refused or forgot the ? request of the maid to furnish holly and ivy for the decora tions of the house. He was debarred from the privileges of the mistletoe. It was long customary, too, to pluck a leaf or berry after every kiss. But a more picturesque setting to this custom of “kissing under the mistletoe” is that furnished by the Scandinavian leg end. According to that, at the request of the gods and goddesses, Balder, after his death by the mistletoe arrow, was restored to life, while the mistletoe Itself was given Into the- keeping of his mother, Frlgga, who was the Scandinavian Venus, the goddess of loVe. But her power over it lasted only as long as it did not touch the earth, Loki’s dominion, and she decreed that every one who passed under it as it hung aloft should receive a kiss to prove that It was the emblem of love and not of death. We can see in this also the proba ble origin of the idea that if mistletoe is dropped or placed on the ground misfor tune will follow. The song of the “Mistletoe Bough,” familiar to all, has doubtless done much to keep alive the old custom. At the pres ent time, however, the mistletoe is rarely found on the oak in England, and is so scarce that the “kissing bunch,” a bunch of evergreens, ornamented with oranges and ribbons, has taken its place. In this country, on the contrary, the plant, with its dainty white berries, is a menace to the life of thousands of oaks used for shade and ornamental purposes, and hundreds of dollars are spent yearly for its destruc tion in order to preserve the life of the tree from which it gets its own life and nourishment. When this is going on in a southern town, Jn passing along an av enue of oaks, one literally walks on a car pet of mistletoe, and as the dainty berries crack under the feet there comes a feeling —is it Inherited!—that one is almost com mitting an act of sacrilege to thus tread upon the “curer of all Ills.”—New York Post. Knows His Bible by Heart. “While visiting an old friend on the Tennessee river, near where Shannon’s creek empties Into the larger stream, not long since,” said a country minister, “I saw a negro lad of 19 who fs'as great a wonder to me as Helen Keller, the world famous blind girl and deaf mute. He Ilves in a typical Kentucky backwoods community and has had no advantages. My friend asked me if I would like to see the youth, and I assured him I would. We went to the child’s home, if the little hut might be termed home, and before I left It I had opened my eyes wide In astonish ment. The boy was born deaf and blind and with one arm. He was for years, while a mere tot, called ‘the freak’ by the negroes, who unfeelingly poked fun at the unfortunate.. This child was given a raised letter Bible by an old nomadic missionary who happened to see the pickaninny white preaching to the negroes, and from it the boy learned every chapter In the Bible. He can quote any verse in the Scriptures and do it quickly. He spends every hour of his time in studying God’s word and says he is going to teach the blind chil dren of his race. The lad’s name is Harry William Balaam Freeman, and he is a good looking mulatto. lam going to.get some friends of mine to join me in a col lection to be sent the boy to further his studies. His mother works in the field, and bis father is a steamboat roustabout.” —Louisville Post. « • "Coin” Harvey. William Hope ("Coin”) Harvey lectured in Baltimore the other evening. He has 6 recently turned over to the new political order, the Patriots of America, the entire assets of the Coin Publishing company of Chicago, which he owned, and the value of which was estimated at about 828,000. The organization is now in complete con trol of this company, although Mr. Harvey still has a hand in its management. With the Coin company went the copyrights of all of Mr. Harvey’s works and about 70,- 000 volumes. . i . J? . . v' Slight Bnror. 1 “I’m very sorry, Mr. Peck,” said the editor, “that in giving our account cf your silver wedding wo should have said you had been ‘tarried’ 26 yean. Os course wo meant to say •married.’ 1 ’ “Ob,” answered Mr. N. Peck, “I guess A Moslem Grave. When once filled in, a Moslem grave Is never reopened on any account. To re move the faintest chance of its being thus defiled a cypress tree is planted after every interment, so that the cemeteries resemble forests more than anything else. MADE IN MAINE.’ tasresting Vacta About th. Gaareto W • Spool* and Shoo pegs. “Oxford county, Me., turns out near ly all the spools on which the sewing thread of this country is wound, ” said a wholesale dealer in such articles to the writer. “The spools are made from white birch timber, and they are pro duced by the million in Oxford county. There are many other parts of western Maine, also, where the industry is im portant. There are numerous sawmills in that part of the state Nvhioh are kept busy all the year round sawing white birch logs into strips 4 feet long and from 1 to 3 inches wide and of the same thickness. These strips are sent to the spool factories, where they are quickly worked into spools by the most ingen ious labor saving machinery. fl $ “The stripe of white birch are fed in to one machine, and they are not touch ed, in fact, are hardly seen again, until the spools, all finished for market ex cept polishing, drop out by the bushel from another machine several rods away from where the strips started in. The spools get their gloss by being rapidly revolved in barrels turned by. machin ery, &e polish resulting from the con tact of the spools in the barrel. . “In the backwoods villages of Ox ford county one sees scarcely any other industry but spoolmaking, and every person in the neighborhood is in some way interested in the business. The fac tories have been eating into the Maine birch forests for years, but there still seems to be enough of the timber left to feed the machinery for many years to come. Hundreds of thousands of feet of logs are cut and eawed into spool tim ber annually. “Shoe peg factories are also an im portant branch of business once pecul iar to, Maine, although it has of lata been followed to "tome extent in other eastern states and is spreading to the hard wood forests of northern Pennsyl vania. Maple is used largely in the manufacture of shoe pegs, although white birch is used at some factories. Shoe pegs are sold by the bushel and are worth all the way from 76 cents to 11 a bushel, according to quality- More than 1160,000 was received by Maine shoe peg factories last year for goods. “A curious and profitable business has grown up in the Maine woods near the sawmills in the utilizing of the im mense quantities of sawdust by compres sion. Thousands of tons of this waste material are bought for a mere nothing and are pressed into compact blocks and bales, and in this form is finding a ready market for kindling and fuel in eastern cities. ’’ —Washington Star. A TRIFLE TOO MUCH. How an Old Darky’* Sympathy Was Un feelingly Imposed Upon. General Nichols of Louisiana com manded a brigade of infantry during the valley campaign in Virginia which so immortalized the name of Stonewall Jackson. In one of the three famous victories over Banks,Milroy and Shields, says the Nashville American, the Louisi ana brigade bore a conspicuous part, and its gallant commander was carried from the field mortally wounded, as every one supposed, but good nursing and skillful surgery saved the life of the general. He left a leg and an arm on the battlefield and lost one of his eyes. He wears an artificial leg on one side of his body and an arm on the op posite. The pluck which enabled him to withstand these terrible wounds, and to which he is indebted for his life, perhaps, more than to any other cause, sticks to him yet, and he is one of the most jovial of men, enjoying a good joke as much as anybody. He tells this on himself S When canvassing for governor, he was invited by a lady who knew of his loss of limbs to make her house his home, and he accepted. She ordered her manservant, who knew nothing of the general’s misfortune, to see that he was comfortably put to bed. The darky felt proud of the honor of serving a distin guished general and the next governor, and the general was inclined to be com municative, which delighted the negro very much and made him feel at home with his guest When he took the gen eral’s arm off and laid it on the table, he commenced to express great sym pathy, saying: “Itsho’is bad for a man to lose he arm dat erway! An .de Yankees done dis, diddey?” When the general told him to take his leg off, the negro thought he was joking, but went at it in a businesslike way, though he was almost ready to shed tears of sympathy this time. Plac ing the leg op. the table by the side of the arm and looking at the general, he said: j “Umph! Leg off on one side an arm off on t’other. Dat is too bad, to cut a man up in dat sort o’ way. ” The general saw the opportunity for a little fun had come, so, leaning his body forward, said: “Come, now, take my head off. ” But the negro was gone. The Wheat King. The “wheat king” of the world be longs to Argentina. He is an Italian immigrant nKmed Guazone, and his broad acres are situated in the south of the province of Buenos Ayres. His crop occupies an area of 66,870 acres. He numbers his workmen by the thousand, and each one receives a certain share of the profits. When his season’s crop is harvested, he fills over 8,000 railway trucks with the grain. Japanese theaters have their boxes so arranged that the ladies can change dresses, as it is not considered stylish for a lady to appear an entire evening in one dress and with the same orna ments. ' ?• The busiest time on the Atlantic cable is between, the hours of 10 and 12 in the forenoon. ’ During that time on an average about 9vo messages pass over the cable each way. A NATURAL WONDER. n« Tramp Ba« SukMmm BawkUr at the Maw Jaraay XtawwtalM. Countless thousands of years ago vast stretches of glacial deposits came slid ing across the state of New Jersey, mounted the Palisades, pushed their way across the Hudson river, scoured over Manhattan Island and slid out into the Atlantic ocean, whither they disin tegrated and sank into the deep or per haps glided on to the other shore. But in their onward march these glaciers left indestructible evidence of their grinding stride, and today all along ths palisades the trap rocks and bowlders are worn smooth where the mountains of ice and sand passed over them. In some rooks axedeep sczatobes, all pointing eastward and showing which way the glacial deposits drifted. There is the evidence, mute, but indis putable. To the careful observer there are numberless other evidences of the pres ence ,®f glacial influences in the post, but none is more convincing than the tramp bowlder that has finally settled down in the woods in the heart of En- Kxd borough. There it sits, a tow mass of rock weighing perhaps 300 tons and resting upon three points which in themselves find a purchase on a flat rock that is part of and common to the character of rock Which composes the palisades. But, strangely enough and to the wonderment of geologist*, the tramp bowlder is red sandstone from the Jersey hills 26 miles inland, and the pedestal is metamorphite ar soft granite. Around this marvelous monument have grown trees that may perhaps be a century old, and tbeybave completely Hedged it in, while the rock itself has stood where it stands today for thou sands of years On the pedestal or that part of it which is protected from the action of the elements can be seen the deep ridges and scars made across its fiat surface by the great grinding pres sure of the body of ice and sand that passed over it countless years ago when New York was ice and snow clad and the world was a desolate waste in a state of chaos. This tramp bowlder has caused geol ogists much wonderment and is regard ed today as one of the finest specimens ever left in the wake of a glacier. It is equally astounding as though an explor er should find the hull of a steamboat in the Sahara desert. The only way it could get there would be through some great convulsion that had landed it from the sea in the heart of the inland sands.- New York Journal. ' -■ 5 » BIRDS’ EGGS. The Bsmcmm Why They Are Het AU el One Shape. Why is there hot a fixed form for all eggs? We can see no reason in the anat omy of the bird, but we may often find reasons for the shape of any particular egg in its later history. It is noticeable, for instance, that tho more spherical eggs, as those of owls, trogons and the lika, are usually laid in holes in the earth, rooks or trees, where they cannot fall out of the nest, and that the eggs of the ordinary song bird, which makes a well constructed nest, are oval, while the slim, straight sided, conoidal eggs, tapering sharply to a point, belong to birds that construct little or no nest—to the shore birds, terns, guillemots and the like. Why? Because these last drop them in small clutches and with little or no prepara tion upon sand or rock, where, were they spherical, they could only with difficulty be kept doser beneath the sit ting bird, but conical objects will tend always to roll toward a center. An ad ditional advantage is that eggs of the latter shape will take up less space— form a snugger package to be warmed. In the case of guillemots the single egg laid is especially flat sided and tapering, and the species owes its perpetuation largely to this ’ since, were it not for the egg’s toplike tenden cy to revolve about its own apex, the chances are that it would be pushed off the ledge of naked sea oliff where the careless or stupid bird leaves it This suggests a word in reference to the popular fable that sitting birds care fully turn their eggs every day or often er in order to warm them equally. No such thing is done, because unnecessary, since, as we have seen, the germinal part always rises to the top and places itself nearest the influential warmth of the mother’s body.—Ernest Ingersoll in Harper’s Magazine. ■; A tacky Hind. Two men walking on Campbell street toward Twelfth one night were accosted by a negro woman who was excited, / “Kin either one of you mens give me a match?” she said. “What for?” “I lost a quahtah down there, an 1 want to hunt fur it. ” She was given several matches and ran ahead and began striking matches and looking along the sidewalk. When the two men came up, she hafi stopped hunting and had apparently found the coin. "Well, did you find it?” inquired one of the men. “No, but I done find this horseshoe, an that’s better’n two quahtahs, ” she said.—Kansas City Star. - Theatrical. . Bret te—l never saw such a cold au dience in my life. Light—Didn’t they warm up a bit? Brette —Well, when they spoke of bringing out the author I believe some of the audience got hot.—Yonkers Statesman . - A contemporary mentions that there are schools in Belgium where the girls are not only taught housekeeping in all its branches, but the management of children as well Seven British regiments have been given permistdou to add the word “Chit tral" to their colon. HIGH PRICE FOR DITTO. A EtourewW* Exyertoae* la Grtttag the lagredleat* of a Jar of Chowabow. Whatistta power of a ditto mark? A nice housekeeper In this city knows mare about it than she did onco. This is the Umo of year when mustard, stoves, main. bell peppesa, vtniqfar and the other fixings that go with cucumbers, tomatoes, cauliflower, button onions, eel try, etc., are seething in the pot and the pickle jar is yawning with open mouth to receive them. A goad recipe for mixed picklee or chowchow is at a premium just now. The lady referred to above had a receipt for ehowchow which ran something like this: Cauliflower, 8 heads; button onions, 2 quarts; small cucumbers, 8 quarts; bell peppers, fl; celery seed, 1 ounce; white mustard seed, 1 ounce; cur cuma seed, 1 ounce, and so on. Now everything went well until eh asked her grocery man to bring these tn.i terials to her. Ho said he got everythin? all right until ho struck curcuma reed The druggist, when he got the rest of the things, said he didn’t keepcurcuma seeds “Never mind,” said she, “I’ll get those myself the next time I go up town. ” Accordingly she soon called on a loading druggist for curcuma seeds, one ounce, holding the recipe in her hand and reading from it He blandly said he never had » call for them before, but would order son a and have them in a day or two. She wait ed a proper length of time and called again. The druggist referred to his bill and read a footnote which said: “None in this city. Will try Boston.” Boston could pot furnish them, but would try New York. New York responded. “Can’t find. Would probably cost 81 or more an dunce if obtainable.” Not long after her husband dropped Into another drug store one evening, and the conversation was running on the expen riveness of acme kinds of drugs, and he joined in with a bit of his wife’s experi ence on curcuma seeds. The druggist lis tened intently to the yarn and said quietly: “There must be some mistake about this. It is not curcuma seeds that you want It is curcuma, ground curcuma. I sell lota of it every day for coloring chowchow yel low.’’ “I don’t care," said ho, “the recipe reads: “Celery eeSd. one ounce. Curcuma ” “ “I’ve read It a dozen times, and if those ditto marks don’t call for curcuma seeds then I don’t know how to read English.” So the pursuit of curcuma seed was dropped, and he carried home some ground curcuma, and his wife made the chowchow and it was lovely. Now the point of this is that the curcu ma root is the part used. It grows in China, Japan, Ceylon and East India countries in general and is an Ingredient in the famous curry powder of the orient. When it Is dried, it has a taste like ginger root and is consumed in great quantities by the natives of the countries where it grows as a condiment. It is per fectly harmless and is used entirely in this country to give the bright yellow color to ehowchow and pickles in general. It is a tuberous plant and is wholly propagated from the root, which makes it unnecessary to save the seeds, which are few and entirely useless. This is why they would cost |1 an ounce if they could be obtained.—Jrewiston Journal. What I* a Title—Half Title? ‘ It is a curious thing that two well known librarians of the British museum, Messrs. G. F. ’ Barwick and A. W. Pollard, have endeavored to ascertain what was under stood among publishers by the terms “half-title, ” “title,” “head title” and “running title.” Mr. Horace Hart, Ox ford. University Press, says he agrees gen erally with the definitions given in Ja cobi’s “Printer’s Vocabulary," 1888, but he says: “ ’Head title’ I never heard of; I suppose it means the ‘drive down* or ‘drop down* title which begins the work or the first chapter of it. ‘Bastard title* is the same as ‘half title.’ ‘False title’ is not in use in England [I am glad to hear this], but is obviously the same as ‘bastard title.* ” Mr. Charles 8. JTaoobl says: “ ‘False title’ is rarely every used, and then not by printers. I hardly knqw what is meant by ’head title. * We don’t use the terin. ’Heading’ is the title to first page or chapter.” It is most extraordinary to find printers and publishers themselves all differing so much as to these terms. AU I want is that for the future wo may have some set tled terms which shall be clearly under stood without explanation. I therefore present the following terms in what ap pears to ma to be their most generally ac cepted meantag: “Half title” is half or a portion of the title given before the title page or whole title. “Title” is the main title page of a book. “Head title” is that .at the beginning of the first page or chap ter. “Running title,” Mr. Charles 8. Ja cobi says, “is the fixed title of the work used in headline, sometimes used instead of title of work,” or, to put it shorter, that which runs along tho top of every page.—Notes and Queries. One Cure Dove and Alnaholl—". ' M. de Fleury, in his “Introduction a la Medeolne de I’Eeprit,” combats with great seriousness the old fashioned hypothesis that bodily ills alone are the province of the practitioner. The disorders <jf the psychic half of the human economy are every whit as numerous and important, if not more so, than those affecting the somatic half and every one reflecting on the havoc they occasion must acknowledge that systematic efforts should be made to render them amenable to treatment. Lazi ness, grief and anger are among the mental affections discussed by the writer, not only from a curative, but also from a prophy lactic, point of view. As might perhaps be expected, an entire chapter is devoted to the tender passion under the heading, “La Medecine des Passions." “Love,” says M. de Fleury, “is a physiological phe nomenon which enters the domain at pa thology the moment it assumes the "enti mental form. Do we not habitually say, ‘So-and-so is madly in love?’ This passion, which is beyond the control of senses In face of which reason loses her rights and her powers, is incontestably a human mal ady.” The symptoms of I’amour maladle, we are further told, bear a wonderful re semblance to those of alcoholism and mor phinomanla, Every one who inquires lnt< the facts for himself will be struck with the absolute identity of the pathological processes in each care The point of de parture is different, but the reeulto axe precisely similar, and flbe asm* treatment —namely, separation—cures both.—lxm don Lancet. A ret flatted. Watts-Some of those Chinese playa axfl six months long. Potts—What of it? “I was thinking oneef thssn would be a good thing to take to the arotio regions fte • one night stand. ’’—lMlmwoUs J«or aaL XX i\l 1 J I I I 1 11111 Mr I Ihhl I wl IhIB MMB ■ ■ “ ■Bflto B . -,:f l 4,. ilATUffHft I q lYiv I ric.rco. t o EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CABTOBIA," AND , ‘ “PITCHER’S CABTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, MassachuseUs, wu the Oriffinator of M PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same that has bwne and does now s’"* w hear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original •* PITCHER’S CASTORIA, ’ which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America fir over thiriu geared LOOK CAREFULLY ai the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought on the 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. /> , March 8,1897. Do Not Be Deceived. 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