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m THE AMEBIC US DAILY TIMES-BECOKDER: SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1891. THINGS YOU CAN DO AT A DINNER. . Ways of Entertaining Your Gnr.U Wblcb I Are Kot Commonplace. It is very hard to invent anything new that will help to make a dinner pass off well and moke it remembered. If one has money enough and brains it is less difficult, but there are always so many people who have more money and quite as generous an allowance of brains who have done the thing before and done it so much better. The gastronomic part of the dinner is not considered—that is a matter for the cook; but there is much more to a good dinner than food, although some people will deny this and call it absurd. There is n great deal in making the dinere at ease with one another if they chance to be strangers, and that cannot bo done bv substituting Little Neck clams for oysters. But it was done very cleverly the other night in this city where some bright young people of New York were to meet some as clever young people from two other cities. When they seated themselves they found u large, square envelope at each plate nddressed to each of the dinner party, and with mutual bows of the head they opened them with some curi osity and read them with gradually in creasing smiles. Each note began abruptly acfollows: “My Dear Miss," or “Mr.,” as flic case was, “This is to assist you getting along well with the man [or girl] on your right. His full name is , and he is interested in , noted for , talks well on , and becomes tiresome on his special hobby, which is ." Then followed a warning not to speak of such and snch topics, or to refer to this or that political, religious or public ques tion in terms of disrespect. Of course the notes were at once passed on to the man on the right, and so on aronnd the table, and the ice in conse quence was broken at once. It is just as well to remember, howover. that the writer of the notes should possess great tact, and not too keen a cense of humor because the slightest jest which might offend would be fatal. The opportunities in the way of din ner cards and menu cards ore vast Sometimes they can be made very pleas ant reading by clever quotations under the names, which compliment or satirize the (linen, and sometimes they can be made very valuable by nutographs and sketches by clever artists. One man in Philadelphia, wlm is noted for this sort of thing, gave a dinner to a theatre party who were going to see Henry Irving, and had the menn cards made of photographs of the actor, with bis and Miss Terry’s autograph under neath. At another time bo gave u din ner at the Rittenbonse club to a dozen men. on which occasiqp the menn cards were printed without punctuation and ill a solid block of type, something like this: “Littlcneckclamspeasonpwhitebait if tliestewardcannotgetwhitebaitbroileds meltsiambsbrains," etc. Thb card end ed with, “Cheeseandtheusualswcetthiugs C< tffeeaudlargef; atexpensivecigars." Some menn cards now have places for the autographs of the diners, and some time during the dinner they nre started ironnd the table with stylographic pens, ind every one present signs his name to -very other person's card nntil he gets his own back again.—New York Even ing Sun. A London Method. London is covered with houses which have been huddled together anyhow by the speculative builder, on borrowed money, and without mnch, if any, re gard for the comfort or convenience of the persons who are doomed to inhabit them, now the thing is worked was briefly explained the other day in the bankruptcy court A receiving order wns made against a builder who began business thirty years ngo, admittedly without any capital. In due time he became a bankrupt That, we may as sume, did not hurt him very much. At any rate, we shortly afterward find him carrying on his business again, and then in tho course of another nine years ho onco more found his way into the bankruptcy court On that occasion there was tho choerful payment of one shilling in the pound—an unusually Jirge dividend under the circumstances. On he went again, more gayly than be fore. Then ho “worked” several build ing estates with a firm of solicitors, but somehow or other that did not answer, nnd consequently that enterprising gen tleman made his third appearance in the court Thus do the gods qometimea persecute those whom they love.—Lon don Herald. Wood Like Steel. Jarrali wood forms the subject of an interesting article in The Eew Bulletin. This wood, a native of western Australia and a species of eucalyptus, has several valuable properties which fit it for special uses, but it is so hard that it cannot be easily worked with ordinary tools. Were it not for the fact that ships ore now mostly built of steel jarrah wood would form a valuable material for their con struction, for vessels built of it have after twenty-five years’ service been found as sound os when launched, although they liavo not been sheathed with copper. Tho Kew authorities have been in com munication with some of the London vestries, and as a result jarrah wood is being tried in the London streets for paving purposes. Something Like Leather. Student (from Pontefract, alias Pom- frot>—I say, professor, whatever did they make soldiers' shoes of in Caesar’s time? Professor—Of leather, I presume. Was there anything more suitable in those days, do yon think? Student—No; but not the kind we uae, you know. 'Ow do you think the hides of March would 'are answered?—Puck. HU First Stump Speech. “Talking of campaign speeches re minds me,” said Senator Graham, of Nashville, “of the first speech that Char ley* Fairbanks, of Indianapolis, ever made. Fairbanks, yon know, is a genial, whble-sonled gentleman, with plenty of jury eloquence, but at the time of which I speak had no experience on the stump. One day I met him and he seemed con siderably worried. “ ’Graham,’ said he, '1 have been in vited to address a political meeting at , and you know I never did any thing of the kind in my life. I haven't a bit of confidence in myself and 1 am afraid l cannot hold the crowd. Yon are up in this kind of thing and I want yon to post me a little.’ “I never wanted to laugh ho mnch in my life, but Fairbanks' woebegone face told me plainer than words that he was very mnch in earnest. So I gave him all the points I could bring fo mind. I remember that I said that an auctioneer always held his crowd by entertainini it, and told him to imagine himself an auctioneer. Well, ho went to his meeting, and everything went wrong. He was placed so that a strong wind blew through the room, tossing his hair over his face and giving him a terrible cold and sore throat. “The brass baud drowned half he said, and the small boy got in his deadly work. I met him a month or &Flatcr, and he told me his experiences. ‘Every time I would feel myself giving way,' ho exclaimed. ‘I would think of your in structions to Imagine myself an auc tioneer, and I guess I entertained them, for I made myself more of nn auctioneer than I did a political speaker.’ But Fairbanks is all over that now. There is not a better or more effective speaker in Indiana than he is."—Indianapolis News. Photography Applied to Surveying. Surveyors are becoming more nnd more indebted to photography for the way in which it facilitates and improves their work. For reconnaissance the cam era offers some pleasant features. The public is always anxious to know what an engineer is doing with a transit, but if he has a map of the country and an aneroid in bis pockot, so that, by fences or otherwise, ne can tell pretty nearly where be is, be is only an ama tcur artist, making views of scenery, and the fanner is not suspicions that he wants to run a railroad through his corn crib. Sncb pictures as may thus be se cured, undoretandingly used, may help to decide where a line will probably lie best, so far os the general features of the country are concerned. Progress is the order of the day. It is not long since the engineer who used camera to take occasional or semi- occasional records of the progress of hit work was looked upon os putting on airs. Now, however, the bine print and the camera come in very handily, so much so that it is not the engineer who nses them, bnt rather the one who docs not, who is the exception. Tho engineer is not likely to dispense just now with his transit, bat ho who avails himself of snch help as photography can give him. especially in snch work as making close topographical surveys, will have a very great advantage over him who does not —New York Commercial Advertiser. The ifon-Comprsbeaslea ef a Word. The Head Waiter-Isn' yo' gwine V tip me, sah? Mr. Hayborn — Lord, not I won’t touch yer. Yon ain't been very 'tenttve, but I don’t lay it up agin yer'nought? lay hsnda on yer.—Judge. Cat* as Chronometers. An acute observer of contemporary life remarked the other day that the typical cat devoted each one of his nine lives solely to the cultivation of his voice. The statement, although obviously ex aggerated, serves very well to convey the impression which the cat has made upon those who know him best. The weasel having largely supplanted him os a rat and mouse exterminator ho has come to be regarded as an animal of leis ure, mnch given to music, but bearing few or none of the practical hardens of existence. Bat attention has lately been directed to the fact that the Chinese use cats to tell time. A Celestial who was asked what o’clock it was took up a cat and examined it, and replied that it was two hours past noon. On being asked how ho told time' in that way he explained that the pupils of a cat’s eyes were largest in the morn ing, and that they gradually grew smaller as the light increased till they reached their minimum at noon; that then they began to widen again till at night they onco more became large.— New York Tribune. Early Minstrel Sliows. It was in tho early fifties that minstrel shows first became so popular ia tho States, and in 1857 Jock Raynor, who used to bo middleman and bass singer for E. P. Christie when his troupe played in old Mechanics’ hall, at No. 473 Broadway, New York, started the first Christie minstrels in London. Raynor is one of tho few old timers still'alive, ind he lives in Paterson, N. J., to-day. Another of the old leaders to the front is Dick Hooley, who used to bo with Campbell's for years and afterward run a minstrel theatre of his own in Brook lyn. What’s he doing now, d’you say? Why, it’s the samo Dick Hooley, of Hooloy’s theatre, Chicago, today, and the some Cool White that was. middle man and stage manager of the Hooley Opera booso of tho war times, is mana ger of Hooley’s theatre today.--J. W. McAndrews in Chicago Herald. A Mooted Pronunciation. The chores “O ho ro, i ri ri cadul gu Io” in Sir Walter Scott's poem “The Lul laby of on Infant Chief” means, freely translated, “Bye, bye, lullaby, sleep till the mom." The pronunciation is, “Ohoro, ercre, cawdlegnlaw;” at least, so say two Bcofch women, members of my house hold, who are direct from the highlands of Scotland, and who dally speak the Gae lic In preference to the English language. —Cor. Boston Transcript It is not in color only that domesti cated cate differ -widely. There is the gloved cat of NuHa, tho Chinese cat with ears tamed down Instead of up, the twfated tail cat of Madagascar, the short, truncated tail cat of the Malay Archipelago, and tho entirely tailless cat of tho Isle of Man. To Printers and Publisher*. The Times Publishing Company has for sale n portion of the newspaper and job outfit made surplus by the recent consolidation of tho Times and Recor der, consisting of one cylinder newspa per press, two Gordon job presses, one Hem paper cutter, one perforator, si stands, two Imposing stones and tables, tive hundred pounds of nows type, etc. This material and these presses ate viitu.dly new, having been in use only year. 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For Over Fifty Year# Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup has been used for children teething. It soothes tho child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and Is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Sold by all druggists through out tho world. When Baby was sick, we gave Her Castorla. When she was a Child, she cried for Csstoria. When she became Hiss, she clung to Castorla. When she bed Children, she gave them Cestoria. Skin and scalp diseases, the heat, at times a running Roro, the body entirely covered with sores ns largo as a quarter of a dollar, and no medicine had the de sired effect until P. P. P. was taken. The disease yielded at once, and P. P. P. provee itsels the best blood purifier of the age. Abbott's East Indian Corn Faint Is a quick cure /or coins, bunions aud arts. A nice lot of cigars, smoking tobacco and pipes at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. A man in Milwaukee, Wis., saw a wo man fall down and be helped her up and spoke words of consolation, and she sent him a deed of a $5,000 house. for Infants and Children. • ^ostorlal^oo wells "spt Jchlldrer *hat Ir smmend Itusupugrtlf <yprMcri$wkm ktome." B. A. A2RBxa, M. D., Ill So. Oxford 66., Brooklyn, a T. “The use of ‘ Castorla* Is so universal nnd Its merits so well known that It seems a work of supererogation to endorse It Few are the Intelligent families who do not keep Castorla within easy reach.” M ^ Carlos Mar-tot, D.D., New York City. Late Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church. ijutft * cures eeosfipttloft Lour & jmach, DiarrVea. Eruv jtU » Kills Worms, fjrem sleep, and pr /motes <h- WitEout injurious medication. M For several years I hare recommended your ‘ Castorla. * and shall always continue to do so as It haalnrariably produoed beneficial results.” Edwin F. Pardsx, K. D n “Tho Wlnthrop," liSth Street and Tth Are, New York City. 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They will furnish the trade with Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mantels, Stairwork, Pulpits, Pews, COUNTERS, SHELVING, MOULDINGS, ORNAMENTS, STO. Prompt attention given all orders. Write for Catalogue and prices This is the'ivay with the Ball corset: if you want ease and shapeliness, you buy it—but you don’t keep it unless you like it. After two or three weeks’ wear, you can return it and have your money. Comfort isn’t all of it though. Soft Eyelets, and "bones” that can’t break or kink—Ball’s corsets have both of these. Forralelby GEO. D, WHEATLEY. THE NEW WEBSTER JUST PUBLISHED—LfltlRELY HEW. , The Authentic - Unabridged,* < tune, of list, TO »nd 'M, cor ' of the undersigned, to now ’ vtood tad Enlarged, nnd ban the l , Webittr’s International Dictionary. Editorial work upon this revision has been in progress for over io Vesn. Not less than Ono Hundred paid editorial laborers have been engaged upon It. Over 9300,000 expended In its preparation before the first codt was printed. 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Illgb-clauacoommodatlons lor C00 (peals. HU.ration 1,000 feet. Para pine woods uir. No malaria, The greet Piedmont Clmutuu. qua, with It. brilliant attraction*. Auk Ion portal, in L — May 19. mayg-Sm. HSHt Prop Dissolution, Ths firm of Andrews A Carter Js this day dissolved by mutual consent, ft. M. Andrea s retiring. He wLI be sucreeded by C. O. Car ter and ths firm herein tor wilt ae C, C. Car ter, who assumes all the liabilities of the lute firm of Andrews A Carter and will collect at! debts due them. C. C. carter also luummotr all liabilities aud will collect all debts dus the firm of Argo A Andrews. r It. M, Andkkyvm, C. C. Cautkk. In retiring from the firm of Andrew* A Carter I return thanks to the public for the generous patronage bestowed, and oespeak for the new firm a continuance of the mum# ^ ABBOTT’S ^. si® q UNI0N5 43MfctWiTH°UT 4 N0 WARTS m ‘\ u " PAIN. U8PMAM CA Foreale by the DAVENPORT DRUG COMPANY Amerlcus, Ga.. ^EXTHE BEST KNOWN REMEDY A.JI “d.o.c." 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