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A TWO HOUR BREAKFAST.
It I. one of the Institution, of XeW
Orlen ns.
There is a place in New Orleans I that
strftigers are a!ways French
this breakfast was intend
ed for the butchers, and they contribut
ed to it the daintiest meats that the
splendid French market in New Orleans
provided from day to day. Gradually
outsiders began to come in, and now
one must engage a seat at breakfast two
days ahead. The morning the writer
was there a distinguished judge of the
supreme court was the principal visitor,
and he, with his family and several
guests from Boston, sat at the head of
the table.
One long table occupies the little
dining room, to which one climbs by a
rickety flight of stairs. Every French
man, when he gets up, takes a cup of
coffee and a roll, and at 11 o’clock eats
his real breakfast. This is the meal that
Mme. Begeuy serves, and it costs sl.
The kitchen is right off of the dining
room, and there is no pretense of adorn
ment. Everything is as plain and sim
ple as it can be, excepting the food, and
this is the perfection of the gastronomic
art. A bottle of claret stood at each
place, which, with water imported
from Germany and called “blue label.”
was all there was to drink until the lit
tle cup of black coffee finished the re
past.
The first thing served was duck. It
was excellent, and so was everything
else included in the eight or nine
courses that came on, and that con
eluded, singularly enough, with liver,
so cooked that the only regret was that
the piece was not larger. It takes two
hours to eat a breakfast at Begeuy’s,
and you get enough to last you for all
day.—Leslie’s Weekly.
A GRIM CEREMONY.
An Emperor'* Death Hastened by
Rehearsing His Own Funeral.
Emperor Charles V of Spain brought
about his death by rehearsing his own
funeral. For the last two years of hie
life, after resigning the scepter of Spain
and the Netherlands to his son Philip,
in 1556, Charles retired to the monas
tery of Yuste. in Estremadura, and
there lived a cloister life in close inter
course with the monks, devoting much
time to religious exercises. During this
period, prompted it may be by- the ex
ample of Cardinal de la Marek, who
for several years before his death, in
1528, had annually rehearsed his own
obsequies, the emperor, in the summer
of 1558, formed the resolution to cele
brate his own funeral before he died.
Accordingly, on Aug. 30 of that year,
the grim farce was carried out with the
most elaborate ceremonial. The imperial
domestics marched with black tapers in
their hands, and the emperor, clad in
sable weeds, himself followed, wearing
his shroud. While the solemn mass fol
the dead was sung before the high altar
in the cathedral Charles gave up his ta
per to the priest, typifying thereby his
resignation of life, and was solemnly
laid in his coffin. The ceremony closed
with sprinkling holy water on his body;
then, all the attendants retiring, the
doors were shut, and Charles rose from
his narrow bed and withdrew to his pri
vate apartment.
The damping of the graveclothes in
duced a chill, which, aided no doubt by
the mental depression caused by the
grewsome ceremony, induced a fever
which ended in his death three weeks
later, on the 21st of September, 1588.
A Min Mina Link.
It will doubtless surprise many who
have never even heard of the brute that
there still exists on the island of Java
an animal, or rather a reptile, which
seems to be the missing link between
the ichthyosauri of prehistoric days and
the well known saurians of modern
times.
This animal is known to the Javanese
as “linguin. ” It fell to the luck of
Baron Alfonso Pereira, consul general
of Austria-Hungary, to shoot one of
these beasts some years ago. Its length
was between nine and ten feet, and it
looked a cross between a snake and a
crocodile. Though the beast was cut
and -wounded in its encounter with
Baron Pereira it did not bleed.
Pcnnaylvanlft Sand Mines.
There are all kinds of mines in Penn
sylvania. The greatest are of course the
iron and coal mines, but few people
would guess that the next extensive
mining industry is the sand mines in
western Pennsylvania. These mines are
rarely underground, however, and many
of them are viewed with wonder by
passengers on the Pennsylvania, ap
proaching Pittsburg. Whole mountains
are being dug away, and the granular
rocks forming them are being reduced
to sand for the manufacture of glass in
and about Pittsburg.—Philadelphia
Call.
The Oitinipreaent Hose.
Every continent on the globe, with
the exception of Australia, produces
wild roses. There can be little doubt that
the rose is one of the oldest flowers in the
world and, perhaps, grown from the
wind blown seeds in Paradise.
In Egypt it is depicted on numbers of
early bas-reliefs, dating from 3000 to
8500 B. C. Rosewater, or the essence of
roses, is mentioned by Homer in the
“Iliad,'’ and the flower is spoken of in
the Proverbs of Solomon.
Lamblike 11 evlgnation.
Charles Lamb, when reminded by his
sisters of the days when they were poor
and capable of enjoying the smallest
treat with the keenest relish, so differ
ent from the days when they were rich
and surfeited, said, “Well, Mary, since
we are in easy circumstances we must
endeavor to put up with it. ”
FIVE REMARKABLE TREES,
Which Rank Among the Curiosities ot
Plant Life.
The whistling tree, or Acacia fistula,
is found in Nubia and the Sudan.
The Arabs call it soffar, cr piper, be
cause of the whistling sound that it pro
duces, and the specific name of fistula,
a word also meaning pipe or flute, has
been given it for the same reason.
Insects infest the tree and deposit
their eggs in its shoots. A gall-like ex
crescence about an inch and a half in
diameter is produced at the base of the
shoots, and when the larvie have
emerged from, circular holes in the sides
of the shoots the holes, played upon by
the wind, produce a whistling sound
equal to that produced by a sweet toned
flute.
The cow tree is so called because
it yields an abundant supply of milk. To
obtain the milk deep incisions are made
in the tree, from which the fluid flows
into vessels placed ready to receive it
This vegetable milk is white, somewhat
viscid and has an agreeable flavor, and
an analysis of it shows that it is very
much like the milk of a cow in its com
position. The cow tree grows on the
slope of the mountain chain bordering
on Venezuela.
The cloth tree is found at Otaheite, in
tho south sea. The bark is taken off in
long strips and put to soak overnight
in running water. The soaking softens
it, so that the inner fiber may be easily
separated from the rest of the bark.
The fibers aro put together in lengths of
about 11 or 12 yards, and the lengths
aro placed side by side until they aro at
least 12 inches in width, and two or
three layers of fibers aro put ono upon
another.
The fibers adhere together in ono
piece, and the material thus formed is
beaten upon a smooth piece of wood until
it becomes as thin as muslin. It is then
bleached in the air for a time, when it
is ready to bo made up into clothing.
The stinging tree of Queensland is
pleasing to the eye, but dangerous to the
touch. Its effects aro curious. It causes
great pain to the person or animal that
has the misfortune to get stung by it,
but it leaves no wound, no mark of any
kind, and for months afterward the part
stung is painful in rainy weather or
when in any way it gets wet. Frequent
ly it is necessary to shoot horses and
dogs that have been stung by the tree,
so maddening is its effect upon them.
The angry tree grows in Nevada, east
ern California and Arizona. When
in the least disturbed, this highly sensi
tive tree shows its anger by ruffling up
its leaves and emitting a disagreeable
odor.—D. V. F. in Philadelphia Times.
A Movable Code.
“ ’Other time, other manner,’ ’’ re
marked the man in the big leather arm
chair, “ought to be amended to read
’Other countries, other manners.’ Not
long ago I went back to the small coun
try town of my boyhood to make a short
visit, and while there the whole town
was set agog by the appearance of a
highly interesting foreigner—a Hun
garian of noble birth. No, he wasn’t a
barber in disguise. He was a genuine
titled Hungarian. One of the- clever,
pretty girls in Smalltown had gone
abroad to study music and had there
met and made a serious impression on
this Hungarian gentleman, who had
crossed the water to make her a visit.
He held a military position in his own
country, and tho tails of his military
coat, lined with a brilliant red, near
ly prostrated the entire community.
“Ono Sunday morning ho accompanied
the young lady to church, and of
course Smalltown was out in full force
to get a good look at him. Certainly his
church deportment differed widely from
anything ever witnessed in this coun
try. Ho was seated in the pew with the
young woman when her father came
down the aisle. As the father entered
the pew the tall Hungarian arose,
placed his hand across his breast and
bent double in a ceremonious bow, then
seated himself, the red coattails being
much in evidence during the salute.
When the girl’s mother entered a few
minutes later, the same formal recep
tion bow was made to her. As a rule,
Americans do not rise and make sweep
ing bows in church; but, as is evident,
such is the Hungarian fashion, and
Smalltown was naturally much inter
ested and agitated over this unusual dis
play of foreign manner. ’’ —Detroit Free
Press.
The Moslem’s Rosary.
The rosary consists of 90 beads, and
a distinct ejaculation is appropriated to
each as it passes between the lingers.
Each ejaculation generally consists of
two words, and declares a name or at
tribute of God. Almost all Moslems in
the upper and middle ranks of life carry
in their pockets or bosoms a string of
beads for this purpose, which they use
not only on the occasion I am describ
ing, but while sitting and smoking
their pipes, walking in the streets or
even while engaged in conversation.
When a Moslem has gone over his
beads at the regular time of prayer, he
folds his hands, and then, holding them
up open, as if to receive something from
above, he prays for such blessings as he
desires for himself or his household.
When this is concluded, he strokes his
beard with his right hand and says,
“Praise be to God!’’ This concludes
the whole.—Mind.
Os Honest Parents.
“My opponent,” shouted the orator,
“has seen fit to refer to the fact that
my mother took in washing. She did,
and what is more to the point she al
ways sent it back."
After that there was nothing to do
but cast a majority vote for the man
whose parent showed such evidence of
perfect honesty and attention toduty.—
Indianapolis Journal.
What Jone. Did.
“ What did Jones do after he insulted
the judge?”
“Sixty days, I understand.” —Chica-
go Record.
CHERRY RIPE.
There »1 a garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies grow;
A heavenly paradise is that place
Wherein all pleasant fruits do Sow.
There cherries grow which none may buy
Till “Cherry ripe” themselves do cry.
Those cherries fairly do inclose
Os orient pearl a double row,
Which when her lovely laughter shows
They look like rosebuds Sited with anew.
Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy
Till "Cherry ripe” themselves do cry.
H'-r eyes like angels watch them still,
Her brows like bunded bows do stand,
Threatening with piercing frowns to kill
All that attempt with eye or hand
Those sacred cherries to come nigh
Till “Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.
—Thomas Campion
THE SLY POLAR BEAR.
How He Get* Iliw Dinner of Seal or
Walk'll* Meat.
In his native home the polar bear
does not often meet with small boys
anxious to treat him to buns and other
dainties. The consequence is that bruin
has to devise many curious ways of se
curing his food, and none is more
strange and interesting than that relat
ed by two trustworthy travelers in
Greenland, that country of strange
sights.
They have known the polar bear to
take a stone or a huge lump of ice in
his fore paws and from a favorable
height, as a cliff or a precipitous ice
hill, to hurl the missile down upon the
bead of a walrus, an enormous brute
often twice the size of the bear, and so
stun him that bruin could rush in and
complete the destruction at his leisure,
thus securing a month's rations.
The most usual food of the ice bear,
as the Germans very appropriately call
this beast, is the common seal of the
arctic regions. The latter is the wari
est animal of the north, and both Eski
mo and polar bear need their best strat
egy to catch it.
In the summer time, when the snow
is off the ice of the ocean shore and
islets, the seals can be plainly seen as
black dots on the ice, probably asleep,
but always near their holes, which lead
down through the thick ice to the water
below, and into which they can throw
themselves by the least movement.
Bruin, seeing one afar, walks up as
near as he deems safe and then begins
crawling on his wary prey.
The seal, if the weather be sunny
and pleasant, takes short naps, relieved
by shorter moments when it is scanning
the vicinity for signs of an enemy’s ap
proach. During these times the bear is
very quiet and as still as death itself,
with eyes apparently closed, though
really a corner of each is kept open, and
in this way he hopes the seal will take
him for a heap of snow, an appearance
which his coat readily helps him to as
sume.
During the naps he creeps forward
with greater or less rapidity, according
to his nearness to the seal and conse
quent fear of being heard or seen.
When but 10 or 12 yards away, and the
seal is in the depths of a good nap, the
bear rushes upon him and with a single
blow of his powerful paw knocks tho
smaller brute senseless and so far away
from the holo that he cannot escape by
that way, even if tho blow received is
not immediately fatal.
In winter time tho ice is covered with
snow, and this is hollowed out by the
seal iuto a snowhouse, covering the hole
in the ice and connecting at the top of
the dome with an aperture about the
size of a shilling, called the blowhole,
for it is through this that the seal
breathes when ho is in want of fresh air.
Here the bear watches for many a
long hour if necessary, and when the
snorts of tho seal are heard ho crushes
in tho fragile dome of the snowhouse
with his paw, impaling the seal on his
curved claws, and proceeds to practi
cally demonstrate how polar bears can
subsist in a arctic winter. —London
Telegraph.
It Suited.
The other afternoon I was in a gen
tleman’s outfitting shop when a cus
tomer came in to purchase a hat. He
tried on several and was evidently hard
to please, the counter becoming covered
with tho rejected. At last the salesman
picked up a brown felt bowler, brushed
it round with his arm and extended it
admiringly.
“These aro being very much worn
this season, sir,” he explained.
“Are they?” said the customer
thoughtfully, surveying himself in tho
mirror, with his hat on his head. “Do
you think it suits me?”
“Suits you to perfection, sir, if the
fit’s right. ”
“Yes, it fits very well. So you think
I had better have it?”
“I don’t think you could do better,
sir. ”
“No, I don’t think I could, so I won’t
have a new one. ’ ’
The salesman had been praising up
the old hat.—Pearson’s Weekly.
A “Steele Hargain,”
Adam Steele of Shelby county once
rented a tanyard to a Mr. Jones on
shares. His idea was to risk in the
business only the use of his tanyard
and not to incur any further liability.
So he protected himself by the fol
lowing safe clause in the contract:
“If anything is made, the said Steele
is to have it, and if anything is lost the
said Jones is to lose it.”
And this is known in Shelby as a reg
ular Adam Steele bargain to this day.
—Lexington (Ky.) Gazette.
Quite Another Question.
“I could die for you!" he cried pas
sionately.
“Os course,” she replied. “But
would you?”
Some girls are so practical and pto
sale, you know.—Chicago Post.
Amsterdam is the nearest European
capital to London, being only 199 miles
distant.
There were breech loading cannon M
early as 1888.
OU\ OF THE FIRE.
One Horae 1 hat Wa» Not I’anfo StrldKKß
When Hi* ..cater Went to K<>»cue Him.
The common beli. f that horses in a
burning building are always paniu
stricken and refractory, not recognizing
their friends and refusing obedience to
those who would-rescue them, is not
stm tiy tru< us jh pi red by an incident
related by a Companion contributor.
Th" governor had a fine black driving
horse called Dexter. Although strong
and spirited, Dexter was docile and obe
dient and was petted and made much
of by his must. r. As the governor kept
no other horse, Dexter had the stable
all to himself, with a clean stall and a
full manger.
The stable was near the house, and in
addition to Dexter’s stall and harness
room contained a large carriage room,
an oat bin and ,i haymow over the stall.
Ono night, when the family and the
servants were away from homo and the
governor was in the house alone, he
was awakened by an ominous crackling
and a bright glare <ai his chamber win
dow, and Im fi -r.i ho could collect his
sleepy wits ho was .startled by a cry un
like any sound he had ever heard. As he
sprang out of bed the cry came again,
and hastening to tho window he learned
tho cause. The stable was all ablaze,
and out of the smoko and flames Dexter
was calling his master to his rescue.
Pausing only to don coat and slippers,
the governor rushed out The outside
door of the stable leading into tho stall
was already blocked by the flames, and
the only entrance to bo had was through
the carriage room, the harness room and
a narrow entry leading past the oat bin.
These rooms were on fire overhead, and
burning wisps of hay and shingles were
raining down in showers.
Blinded by smoke, tho governor stum
bled along the roundabout way and,
reaching the stall sooner than he expect
ed, fell headlong down the steps against
tho excited animal, who was vainly
tugging at his halter. Thinking some
new danger threatened him, Dexter
gave a mighty kick that sent his master
sprawling and lamed him for a month.
“Whoa, Dexter!” shouted the govern
or. “Don’t you know mo, sir? Steady
now, old fellow, and we’ll get out of
this. ”
Recognizing his master’s voice, Dex
ter turned his head toward tho prostrate
man and uttered a coaxing whinny quite
unlike his previous loud cries of alarm.
Knowing he need fear no more kicks,
the governor crept up and cut the halter
and, calling Dexter to follow him,
limped blindly through the smoke filled
entry and the two blazing rooms be
yond, and close after him went Dexter,
his nose pressed against his master’s
shoulder, man and horse reaching the
safe outer air together.
“It was Dexter’s obedience that saved
him,” said the governor. "I could not
lead him, and had he shown the least
obstinacy or any less readiness to fol
low at a word through all that round
about, unaccustomed way I must have
left him to perish in the flames, but he
followed like a well trained soldier, and
we escaped from our burning, fiery
furnace almost as safely as Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego did from
theirs.” —Youth’s Companion.
A Thorough Cure.
There is no sentiment about Grizler.
He is close and is not easily alarmed. It
is not surprising, then, that the doctor
assumed tho utmost gravity when Griz
ler called to present the case of his wife.
“I’m greatly afraid,” said the bus
band, “that her mental equilibrium is
disturbed. She is not like other women
and not as sho used to be.”
“What are the symptoms?”
“You may regard them of a negative
character, doctor. To begin with, she
never opens her fashion papers of late. ”
“Bad! Bad! Very bad!”
“I feared as much. Tho woman who
lives next door called last night and
wore one of tho most elegant hats I ev
er saw. You know that lam not given
to noticing such things. Mrs. Grizler
never seemed to see it and said nothing
about it after the caller had gone. ”
“Awful, ” exclaimed the doctor, “aw
ful. I’ve known your wife, Grizler, ev
er since she was born. No ono ever had
a brighter mind or a happier disposi
tion. I can’t understand it. Used to be
the life and beauty of every company
she was over in. Does she go out?’ ’
“No, nor entertain. Never mentions
tho theater, burns all invitations and is
without the slightest interest in tho so
cial whirl. I would give half I’m worth
to see her the girl I married. ”
“Done,” snapped the doctor, and he
wrote out the strangest prescription on
record. It called fur horses, carriages,
fine raiment, jewels and a well filled
purse. At the bottom was a receipt in
full for $250,000. There was no chance
for Grizler to weaken, and now his
wife is one of the most brilliant women
in the swim. When she and the old doc
tor meet, he winks and she whispers,
“You dear old soul.’’—Detroit Free
Press.
Parliamentary Humor.
The London World gives this as an
illustration of tho keen humor of Jus
tice Darling: On one occasion, when
Mr. Gladstone was beginning to give
up the lead in the house of commons to
Sir William Harcourt, it was noticed
by the members that he left the bouse
at the dinner hour and Sir William
Harcourt led for tho rest of the sitting.
Mr. Darling one evening drove Sir Wil
liam to fury, on failing to elicit a defi
nite answer to an inquiry, by casually
observing in the course of his speech,
“I have noticed that lately the party
opposite, adopting an ancient precedent,
has set up a greater light to rule the
day and a lesser light to rule the night. ”
He I mwl Out.
“I won’t submit to being turned
away, ” said the disappointed arrival at
the hotel. “See here —I’m flush!” And
he displayed a roll of bills.
“I know,” responded the clerk, “but
I vo got a full house. ” —Philadelphia
North Atoericau.
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