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QUESTIONINGS.
Dairies in the rammer meadow.
Fern-leave** in the woodland shadow,—
Why they grow and why they blow,
Kaow*st tbou wbjrf —
Bay, not I:
Dreams of happy day* uik! p!a«*.
Visions of fond (warts and laces,—
Why they come and why they roam.
Enow *t thou why?
Bay, not I:
Wooitbt thou »t2p the Rower* from bloom -
ins?
Wouldtt thou stop thy bent from roaming
Where tbs beams of love-lit d trams
Charm ||m eye:
Bay, not I*
— Willis Fletcher Johnson in thr Current.
TWO OF A TRAD
“Plague take the beast 1” exc!a'|ned
Dr. Nelson, wrathfuUy, with an iastinc-
tire movement toward.* :»bootjack which
a second thought convinced him would
come in too late to In? available.
* Dr. Nelson we* a good-looking
•bachelor of four-end-thirty, owner of the
‘comfortable house by a w'ndowof which
'bo was standing at that moment, survey-
iiwnirm, »• J
the neat garden at the back, whose
•two flowering bed* were his special pride
aod pleasure. That pleasure, however,
had just been rudely disturbed by ob-
.serving a cat l»clonging to his neighbor
on his left—a crabbed old maid, whose
Pf 1 *. a savage, snappy little cur,
with a long tattered coat of dirty white,
a screaming jarrot with a never-ending
tongue and a vocabulary tliat would
have made a pirate b!m*h, and the afore
said cat. were making life a burden to
the doctor—I . ap surreptitiously over the
fence, stalk across to one of flower-beds,
and, after scratching up two or three
smaller plants that were in her way.,set
tle herself for a sunning against, a tube*
rose, with a pressure that broks off
several of the flower-laden stalk*. Ah
the doettf- flung up the window, the
Iguilty quadruped bent a hasty retreat
over the fence and out of sight.*
' “This thing ha* gone on long enough!”
exclaimed the doctor, pulling the bell
icord. “Gallantry or no gnllantry, IT
let that old maid know she can t ride
over everybody with her plagued mena
gerie. liri lget.” he added, ns a neat-
looking Irish girl appeared in answer to
his summon*, **go in the garden and see
if yon can prop-up that, tuberose so that
it will do until I have time to attend to
it, and then go next door and tell that
weman that if she doesn't keep her cat
out of my yard, I II find some way to
compel her to—that * all and, seizing
his hat, the doctor strode from the room.
Bridget descended to the yard in some
perplexity. {She had only entered the
doctor's service the day before, and was
not acquainted with the neighbors or
their peculiarities. {She wan consequent
ly at a loss to determine the quarter from
whence the outrage had emanated.
Aided, however, by a happy thought,
•he scrambled up by the fence and peered
into.the yard nearest to the desecrated
flower-bed. A sleek, white cat was
seated in the middle of the grass-plot,
wuhino’ h«*r fun- will, *l,nf J
What can it mean?'* she exclaimed,
a seem* to actually hate me! and jrt
he does not look like a man who would ,
be jealous of a poor little woman like nje.V
even though she had been presumptuous"
enough to embark in his own profession.
I never beard any one complain of my
singing before, and a* for giving up the
house when I’ve just cot sett led. ana paid
a year's rent,.I cosnot think of it. I be
lieve if 1 could speak with him wc might
come to some understanding. I won’t go
to hi* house, but I'll watch an oppor
tunity to meet him on the street.”
Fortune favored her design. As she
u preparing to leave the house the next
morning, she spied the doctor descend
ing his own stoop: andn moment later
she followed L*i< example. Tie had passed
on a few step 7 , but hurrying after him
she laid one band on hi* arm.
Turning quickly. Dr. Nelson looked
down at the little, dimpled, cherry-
chcekcd woman, not higher than his
shoulder..
‘Well, madamf? be . said, interroga
tively.
"Excuse me!" faltered the lady, her
carefully prepared and effective little
speech slipping from her memory in the
most treacherous manner, and leaving
her at the mercy of the present inspira
tion. “I want to ask you if we cannot
be friends, and disprove that disagree
able adage that ‘two of a trade can, never
agree V ”
i)r. Nelson’s handsome eyes opened
wider than ever. “I beg your pardon, .
madam! I do not understand you; inex
plicable'?” he replied.
“Let me introduce myself,” continued
the lady, raising one hand toward the
house she had just quitted, in a window
of which a modest sign bore the name of
“El inoro Morrow. M. D.”
The doctor’s eve* traveled mechanically
in the direction indicated; then he shook
his head again.
“I don’t understand it!” he repeated.
“I have taken special pains to keep
Muffct indoors, ’ continued Miss Morrow,
earnestly. “Ami if my singing really
annoys you, I am even willing to discon
tinue that: only—”
“Annoy met” repeated the doctor,
more and more hopelessly mystified—
and, if his fine eyes spoke arigi.t, expe
riencing another equally strong, but much
more agreeable sensation. “I cannot
conceive it possible that anything you
could or would do could annoy met”
WOMAN’S WORLD.
Artistic Embroidery.
- - Mr. It. Gray, of Manchester, England,
possesses an interesting sample of em
broidery applied to book-covering, the
lK>ok in question being a small Bible
dated 1502, covered with silk, on the
sides of which raised figures represent
ing King Charles IL and the queen,
Catharine of Braganza, have been
worked in colored silks and silver wire,
evidently contemporary work. Speci
mens of this class are of extraordinary
rare occurrence; the interest of the book
it further enhanced by it containing a
MSS. pedigree of* the Chase family of
American fame.
A Smart Girl.
Miss Jennie Corson, who is known
through-out the country as the “Shep
herdess of the West,” came to Montana
some years ago, and took up a sheep
ranch in Meagher County. She did ft
all alone and unaided. After awhile she
sent for her lazy brother from Chicago,
and made him overseer of her flocks.
Matters went well with her, and soon
, she had a fine band of sheep, and as val
uable a ranch property as there is in
Montana. She took up some land under
one and another of the government acts,,
proved up on time, and became a landed
proprietor. Now, it happened- that the
next claim to her own was taken up by
an enterprising young man named Sev
erance, who, tike his fair neighbor, first
started a sheep ranch, and then got hold
of some of the soil. They tended flocks
in company for some time, and then
Severance proposed marriage. He was
accepted, and the two united their for
tunes and have been doing better and
better ever since.—Kansas City Times.
THE PAWNBROKER.
Jet ornaments arc abundant and ex
pensive.
Twilled lace handkerchiefs are in fash- 1 _ 71
ion again. | SOME POINTS ABOUT AN INTER.
Stripes appear in many of the new * EST1NG OCCUPATION.
dress fabrics.
Cashmere and camel’s hair are much ’ Article* t he Impecunious Moot Often
combined in costumes. ! Fs * to Raise the Wind—Storage
Riding habits are made jurt long ~ Thin f' *“
enough to clear the ground. ,he Detectives.
Sprigged mulls are in again, to
delight of very yotmg ladies.
Every trousseau, to be complete,
have at least one green costume.
Overskirts continne in favor, although
trimmed skirts are fashionable.
Gauze woven of metallic thread is used
for the foundation of small bonnets.
Yetis are now worn so as to fall just
above the mouth and under the nose.
Cherries, bcrric?, hips and haws arc
among the newest decorations for bon
nets and hats.
A single sapphire, since tms stone has
become popular,'is sometimes employed
in an engagement ring.
Etamine with embroidered stripes or
printed crape, are the newest materials
with which parasols are covered.
The setting of all fine gems is delicate
and often invisible, the object being to
present the gem pure and simple.
Satin screens on rollers, to be made
large or small after the window shade
method, are the newest for drawing
rooms.
A navy-blue straw turban is trimmed
with folds of velvet of the same color and
j “The pawnbrokers’ business? Oh,
j about a* active as ever,” said a well-
known Central avenue “uncle” when
interrogated yesterday as to the status of
trade in his peculiar line. “It is always
basy with ns, but just now more so than
ever. The over-coat season is on.
What do thej get on them? Well, that
depends, of course, on the quality and
amount of wear. . I should place the
range at fifty cents'to $5, the amounts
running all along between those limit*.
a huge bunch of white cherries placed J
Here is a light spring affair that is in for
$1.50, while ths beater over here repre
sents a loan of $5. The amount ad
vanced rarely runs beyond that,
course, with the warm weather, the
‘benny’ becomes a useless article of the
young man's wardrobe: Beside, the
pawnshop is a good place to put it away
until next winter. They are carefully
laid away and precautions taken to • pre
vent the moths getting to. them—in feet,
the owner secures a safe place of deposit
where his ‘fenny’ can remain intact
until the cold weather calls it forth
again. Very many single men utilize
their ‘uncle’ just for that phrpoee.” ;
“Wliat arc the staple articles of .spout-
THE HOME DOCTOR.
Onions for Sleeplessness.
Whether onions havo a? soporific effect
upon all persons must bj determined by
the usf of thru). The lamented 3Ir.
Frank Ruckland found them beneficial
after mental fatigue, followed by sleep
lessness. Onions prepared by the follow
ing method have afforded relief to many
persons suffering from imomnia. To
each quart of onions allow a quart of cold
water with half a teaspoonful of salt.
Let ^ the onions simmer for two hours.
Drain them thoroughly when cooked and
let them liecome quite cold. Mix one
tablespoonful of butter with one table-
spoontul of flour, adding salt and pepper.
nnA ~~ the mixture one pint of bail-
ACANARYAT THE FARSI.
and pour
irg milk, stirring constantly. Put the
onions in the since and set them on th<
fire until they boil.—New York Commer-
Poultices.
Some suppose that there arc very pe
euliar and specific “drawing” or “heal-
. qualities in poultices,"and are at
great pains and expense to procure cer
tain compounds for this purpose, because
they have heard some old granny or ig
noramus declare that they possessed
wonder-working qualities; and not in
frequently injury is done by these ridic
ulous and worthless applications, and
better idea* ought to prevail as to 4b val-.
uable an application as a well-ad vised'
poultice. Let all understand, then, that
jKraltircs possess no “drawing,”.“Beal-
curative or specific qualities, and
that there is no difference in the applica-
directly In float. '
pretty
that part of his
tinned:
You certainly
r only c
speech,
> she con-
mg her face with that air of rerene
and self-satisfied comp’accncy peculiar to
the cat who has ju»t committed some
more than usually outrageous mfrdc-
,‘cch, you numberin' baste?” ex-
©f her fiat. “If yer m’slhref*-is a decent
wsym, it’s a-sound thromcia’ yell be
aflhpr {jettin'.”
Repairing the damage us well as she
could, Bridget next proceeded to lodge
her complaint. In spite of her ..mingled
valor and indignation, however, she was
somewhat aha-licd Ik*fore tho quiet, aclf-
possessed, «unl decidedly pretty little
lady who opened the door in answer to
her vigorous summons. But there was
no back-down about Bridget, and accord
ingly she blurted it all out in a breath.
“Sure, ma’am, me masther say* will
yea be kind cnongh to kapo that villain
ous baste of your* out of his yaard!
Faith, it’a broke off his beautiful tube
rose, bad cesa to its dirtv self, an’ he’s
that mad he could kill tho crather!”
“Has my Muffet been doing any mis
chief in your garden?” was the response,
in a sweet ana perfectly self-composed
tone, a^ the bright blue eyes of the
speaker looked straight into Bridget’i
face.
“If thatV the name iv the four-legged
to have consid
ered me ajvcry disagreeable neighbor, sir,
judging from*the tone of this letter.”
“Letter I” repeated the doctor with a
gasp, at the some moment taking the
offered document, and glancing over it.
“How in the world did you get hold of
this, madam?”
' ‘It was handed me by your servant
yesterday,” was the reply.
“Oh, my good gracious!” exclaimed
the doctor, actually red and pale by
turn*. “My dear lady, who are you?”
“Your next-door neighbor, sir—Eli-
nore Morrow, at your service!” was the
demure reply, although a new bright
ness was * creeping into the bonny blue
eyes.
“Next door? Oh—why bless my
heart, I hadn’t even noticed that the
house was taken! The fact is. I’ve had
but one ‘next-door neighbor* for the last
year, and she has l»cen such an unmiti
gated nuisance that you cannot wonder
—but pardon me! this is all a mystery to
you. and I certainly do owe you a full
explanation, as well as an apology for
that stupid mistake of Bridget's! So yon
i French Female Physicians.
“La Doctoresse,” the amusing piece
now running at the Gymnasc, has had
the effect of directing attention to the
lady physicians actually practicing in
Paris. They are eight in number, and
are all said to have a considerable prac
tice Mme. Brea, the oldest and best es
tablished of them, secs none but female
j patients, and she has resolutely set her
• face against the pretentions of those of
j her professional sisters who a9pire to
; compete with physicians of the other sex
r in'every department of the art. Time,
j Rosa Peirce, a younger practitioner, is
: ready to treat the ailments of cither sex,
• and has a large number of clients among
:• the male relatives of her female patients.
!- It is to the Empress Eugenic that the
first female aspirants to medical degrees
owe their admission to the profession.
She happened, in the absence of the em
peror at the comp of Chalons, to preside
over the council before which tho demand
first came. The empress supported it
with the whole weight of lifer influence,
and the council established the precedent
which has opened the doors of the facul
ty to women.—Pali Mall Gazette.
haste what’s enjoying herself on ""the
grass beyant, just ax if she had no con
science at all, at all, it is! Sure, she’s
Kilt the docther’s ilisant flower en
tirely!” .
“I’m very sorry. Please take my re
grets to your master, and tell him I will
try not to let it happen again.” Then
the door ; creaked suggestively, and
have a cat, too? I’ll be bound it’s a very
different looking and acting animal from,
the ill-favored, ghoulish imp of darkness •
next door—the other way, I mean!” cor
recting himself precipitately. “But ”
“I begin to sec your mistake, and as
sure you in advance that you. arc quite
excusable!” said Miss Morrow, inter
rupting this decidedly incoherent flow
of words. “Audaswc both appear to .
be in a hurry just now, suppose you
come this evening and let us talk it over.
I will be home by 0 o'clock. The place
is in order now, and as I have obtained a
servant I have been able to leave my
shutters open for the first time.”
“I will do so with pleasure!” was the
response; then lifting his hat, the doc
tor walked off in in a strange whirl of
emotions.
“ The prettiest little creature I ever
saw!—and a doctor, too! What an id
iot I was not to notice that the house
was occupied! And to think that I have
been abusing her all this time!”
But if one were to recount all that
A Society “Freak.'
Returning from a visit to Boston, tho
city of learning and refinement, I cannot
refrain from informing our society ladies
of the “latest” indulged in by their sis
ters of that city. The ladies l>eing fa
tigued and their nerves overwrought by
constant attendance on balls, operas,
theatres and weddings, find it utterly be
yond their strength of endurance to read
the daily papers, much less to acquaint
themselves with the literature engrossing
society at the present time. 8tiU a cer
tain knowledge of our own and. foreign
Bridget withdrew.
“Did you attend to that matter about
the cat?” a«kcd the doctor on his re
turn.
“Sure, I did, *orr! an’ l must say that
a nicer spoken lady i niver saw,” said
Bridget, delivering the message!
“Humph!” grunted the doctor, as he
busied himself with the plmt, happily
unconscious that a pair of bright eyes
were watching him from behind the
closed window-blinds of the house on
his right. “She hasn’t given up hopes
of capturing roe yet, I tec, and thinks to
mak« an ally of my new servant-girl! I
believe she’ll let those pests annoy me
more than ever now, for the sake of try
ing to strike up an acquaintance, even
though it must begin with a quarrel!”
Tho doctor’.* predictions teemed des
tined to be verified. The garden con
tinued to bear evidence of feline depre
dations, mostly nocturnal, however—and
Bridget’s. cadtpUinta, instigated by her
master, were met bz polite regrets gnd
assurances that she was taking every
pains to prevent further annoyances;
while it seemed to' the irate ‘doctor,
whose hostile feelings toward his neigh
bor were increasing hourly, that the dog's
Some of the straw bonnets have the
queerest pinched crowns; others are in
horseshoe shape, or are outlined with
horseshoe ornaments.
i ecru guipure visitc has the fronts
of brown velvet. The centre of the back
is of the velvet;-gold passementerie trims
the fronts and back.
Many of the pretty conceits In jewelry,
exquisite in design and of the most ex
pensive material, are copied in imitation
jewels and will lose their beauty as^oon
A short mantle of twine-colored grena
dine, beaded with iridescent beads, has
a long jabot of Spanish lace,and is edged
with the same. The lining is of wot
satin, corresponding to the beads.
A mantle of jet-embroidered grenadine
has the back aud front of sicilivnne edged
They .......
and value. Some have heavy gold cases
with fine works, on which w« i caddy ad
vance $80 to $50. Then there are the
silver timekeeper*. looking Kke heir
looms in the family, handed down from
grandfathers. On these we- rarely loan
more than $1 or $2. Revolvers are an
other stand-by of the hocking fraternity.
TVe receive large numbers of these. On
the finest we advance $4 or $5 r while the
cheaper varieties, ‘bulldogs’ and the like,
are pledged for from fifty cents to $1.30.
tions made, so far as the effect, is con-
c watches tfmn ; cerned, provided they are moist, soft and
of every kind lx>roii?- Thus in cases of boils and fa
flamed swelling, where the surface is hot,
dry and hard, the object U to soften,
open the pores and carry off the heat,
and reduce the swelling and inflamma
tion, and all that is needed is warmth
and continued moisture with a porous
substance which will tako up the heat
and the impurities in cases of old ill-
conditioned and suppurating sores; and
any preparation or compound which best
effects these ends is the best poultice.
will add that a common cloth wet in
Rings arc also very frequently put up, and | co ^* cool or warm water, as the
of more kinds than any other class of
pledges. Every sort of clothing is of
fered to us, from an entire suit to a vest,,
pair of nnment'ona'Acs, or even a shirt.
The women are ns prone as the other sex
to seek the aid of the pawn-shop,, as you!
may see from this collection of sacques, \
has the back aud front ot sicmenne edged { circulars, skirts, shawls, dresses-in fact,
jvithwiSc jet ^mcntine. The front about „ er y orticl-- of feminine apparel
Iras n Figaro jacket of beaded lace. Rich | ThcJ . neve - , mlK . h _ My „ or if.
lace edge) the back ot the mantle and
the long-pointed fronts.
Some of the.mantles arc in grenadine
with frise figures, and light-colored
grenadines trimmed with laces of the
color, lined with self color in silk,
form most dainty mantles for dressy oc
casions during the warm weather.
A pongee dress has the skirt bordered
with striped pongee cut bias. It has
short punier* and a jabot of the striped
material faced with brown velvet. The
long-pointed drapery is of the plain pon
gee. The bodice is of the striped mar
tcrial, with a littlo velvet vest.
There is no abatement in the rage for
lace dresses, and beside the regular piece
lacc, with edging to match, which nave
hitherto formed these elegant and airy
toilets, are added* lace-robe suits imported
in boxes colored in pale yellow, nun’s
gray, ecru, coffee color,, golden, brown
and black.
affairs, as well as of current literature,
being indispensable, one of the ladies
contrived ways and means to gain the
required, accomplishments .without any
great discomfort to herself, and licr
method, proving successful, was in
abort time adopted by all her friends.
They have a liidy secretary, whose duty
it is to be amanuensis, reader and conver
sationalists. This lady appears at a cer
tain hour each day, or several days a
week, in accordance with the engage
ment, and while my lady reclines grace
fully on her couch the secretary attends
to her correspondence, reads the items of
interests in the papers or discourses on
literature. That the one who fills this
» Breath Catching. Fire*
Dr. Bcatson says in the British Medical
Journal: I have thought it right to put
on .record tho following ca
to be one of some
Name some strange articles put ___
“Well, lake umbrellas, for instance;
they are very frequently figuratively as
well as literally put up. Here arc a few
things that you might call peculiar. In
this case a woman ba> pledged a liolt of
calico for twenty-five cents, probably just
after having purchased it. This alarm,
clock also represents twenty-five cents,
while this album is in for twice as much.
On this looking-glass $1 was given.
These roller skates arc in pledge for the
same amount. Three dollars were loaned
on this old finely-colored meerschaum
pipe, and on this trunk $2. This family
Bible represents $2, this sewing machine
$4, and this baby’s carriage seventy-five
cents. The lowest amount, advanced ii
_ require, will be equally efficient
when changed as often as it may become
nearly dry or too warm; will be neater,
quite us convenient and comfortable, as
it will not be necessarily heavy. I will
also add that such a wet cloth will effect
far more good than any salvo, ointment
or liniment with which I nra acquainted,
and-will be far less expensive. Were water
far more expensive, more difficult to ob
tain. it is very possible that its virtues
Would be more generally understood and
appreciat-d.—Dr. Ham ford, in Golden
Jfiu!e.
Folks have been to town, and Salry
Fetched her home a pet canary,
And of all the blame contrary,
Aggervatin’ things alive!
2 love music—that’s, I love It
When its free—and plenty of it—
tint I kind o’ git above it
At r. dollar-elghty-ftve!
I And it’s just as I tvcs savin’,—
Jest the idy, now. o’ layiu’
Out yer money, and a-payin’
Fer a willor cage and bird,
When the medder larks is wingin'
Hound ye, and the woods is ringin’
With the beantifulest ringin'
That a mortal ever heard!
Soiry's sot, though:—eo I tell her
He’* a party little toiler,
With his wings o’ creamy yeller,
And his eyes keen as a cot;
And tho twitter o’ the critter
’Pears to absolutely glitter!
Guess I'll lutf to go an i git her
A higher pnr<xl cage ’n that!
—James Whitcomb KU-'
PITH AND P0IN
The barber is fond of making cutting-
remarks.
The action of the heart—A broach of
promise ease.
Fine weather is never admired until’ it
ii? mist.—Motional Wieliu.
Nothing reduces a man’s income tike »
visit, from an assessor.— Call.
If* a poor man that ran’t havo a-few
enemies.—Indianapolis lltrald.
Working tike a horse—A lawyer draw
ing up a conveyance.—Untnliler.
There has always barn a ’-oldness be
tween autumn and spring. — Washington
Critic.
One of the latest :ind most effectual
cures for toothache I* a pair of tight
boots.—Puck.
A tcachor of swimming is submerged'
in business even when lie has but one
pupil.—Siftings.
The barber is the greatest of modern
travelers. He roams continually from
poll t> poll.—Shu*r Fails Leader.
“Oh, inamma. I’ve got an awful piin!”
“Where Tomm'e?” “Right here in the
large part of my back.”—Philadelphia
■ Cant ion* for the Aged,
i Ago works great physical changes,
many of which are generally recognized.
Sdmc of them involve dangerous liabili-
and impose the need of constant
itiom
'ne is to guard against undue cxcr-
The tough, elastic coat of the arter-
apt to become, on the one hand,
clmlk-likc and brittle, or, on the other,
futtyiand weak. Nature seeks to guard
against the consequent danger by render
ing old persons less inclined to effort.
twenty-five cents on this razor. Musicians Hut auittlc extra exertion put forth snd-
you
good customers of
see from this collection of violins, clar
ionets, piccolos and other instruments.
The sporting fraternity are of course our
best patrons. Their diamonds find tho
way regularly to our safes. A fortunate
winning or the timely discovery of an
*angel’ enables them to redeem, but the
jewelry always comes back’. We get good
position must be highly educated and l
fined, write a legible hand, be famiti
Incd, write a legible hand, be familiar
with literature ana a reader is understood,
for only one having acquired all this ac
complishments is qualified to undertake
so responsible a position. In this manner
reused through the doctors mind it ! raadamc c * tt inconvenience
would require a volume. Suffice it to t • nn °y a “ c ® ®n her part attain a knowl-
sav that that evening found him com- j ofa >' toprea, and m the
fortablv ensconced in one of the chair. ! «!??» 5?" , ‘ h 5® “"™“
in ■ Mis. Morrow-, parlor, listening ! e * l,e “g “J® to«?te’tam the company
with unwearied pleasure and «it“ t she will grace with her presence and be
considered a talented and brilliant
isfaction first to her lively cm.^****™*™]™*
venation, and then* to her singing—all j women - Chicago Time*.
thought of any further explanation of
that ridiculous blunder being apparently
forgotten by both, for it certainly was
not alluded to from tho time they met
until, on leaving, the doctor returned to
his fair colleague’s invitation to repeat
his visit a most hearty affirmative.
Those visits continued, moreover, with
unabated frequency, and about six
months after the first, one, Dr. Nelson,
taking the tittle soft hand that made
Paper Flower Making.
Mrs. Noxon is an enterprising'woman,
who keeps a double store on Fulton ave
nue, Brooklyn, N. Y. One side is de
voted to stationery, the other to birds.
She was interviewed lately by a reporter
a! 11*uiL AM tl. n ..ihleel C .h.
of Woman's Work on the subject of the
new industrial craze among women, the
malting of paper flowers.
“It started,” she said “about a
efforMo disengage itself from his clasp. 1*8“: La* February I put. few quire.
Mid a few manly) straightforward words ' Of t'Mne paperui mj «ut.on.nr.depart-
u PftmKSw.. ! ment, not thinking paper flower making
that brought a most charming combina
tion of blushes, smiles, and tears, to Miss
ment, not thinking paper flower making
would amount to much. But the busi
ness has increased very materially, until
cow my bill for tissue paper, and the
trie sTence, with a “yea* - r.- .'r.~'s"7g 7 «—** -—
which told‘two «f a trade" had de- ; “ ““SST
cided to “agree" for the remainder of ! with the work, mnonnU to from *40 to
their liv<a.—KJE «•**.!» tWaMontt. My price for teaching the
yelping and the parrot", screeching were
ugnientrd tenfold.
“This thing must l»e stopped T he ex
claimed, ririug one morning in a more
’Lan usual bad humor,' having been kept
awake most of the preceding night by
ycl tings of the parrot. “There’s no use
sending verbal message*—she seems to
hax a learned the art of fibbing to perfec
tion. Sitting down to liis de.de he uashed
off a few rtvcnlfidTicc*.
Two hours later “the lady next door’
opened and rend the savage missive.
Madam: Unless some ecay can be found to
pat a stop to the repeated annoyance* I am
feoeirinp fi\*n voa, one of u«.will have so
leave Hr- iW*U»rfaco i: ami a< I bold my
bouse by the ri^ht <t ownership, and you are
merely the ley** of yours, I do not toel dis
posed to he driven away. Not only ai
•objected to depredations from your cat,
my much-needed re*t at night is dut orbed bv
the distracting barkiuR and x reaching that
go on in y<mr boose, i Mippoee it is ir.wric to
you, hut in my opinion the prv petiator of it
ought to be indicted a* a public nuisance;
and unless u very different order of t bints is
iaanguniced forth** ith. I riia'l be comp iled
to seek legal redrew
Respectful!'. Ceohgk Neksox. M. D.
The lady read the miwivc, and then
puckered up her smooth white forehead
The Air of the Sea.
The air.of the sea, taken at ••great dis
tance from the land, or even on the shore
and in port* wbentbe wind blows from
the open, is in an almost perfect state of
parity. Near, continent* the land winds
drive before them an atmosphere alwa;
1 art is fifty cents for a two hours’ lessox.
i If a woman is at all handy and has any
• sa, * * - —
idea about the art, she will not want
more than one lesson. The flowers can
be made to look very prety and
natural. They- are largely 'used
home decorations, they
interest, anti sometimes the time lapses
. . . mr - j and the stuff becomes ours. Another f re-
Jravo some importance from » medico- , Bent [e( , b no |e. parable nt future
Z l The" holder, are Sufficiently
than give the facts m thb words of the we ll known in banking circles to get
patient himself, who communicated them thcm aiscount( , (]j „ n<1 £ avc to f he
to me by letter. He “'t; 1 ' 3 “ fo °^' i high rate such risky payer dtmauds. Pco-
“A rathm rtrange thing happened to ,» o{ten , cd ^ ^ ^
myself about a week ago. For a month It is ,<?„ wh , h (lo so ^ £ t*.
or so I was troubled very much with foul because they don’t want to break them,
eructation.. Ihadnoreun, butthesmeU or cls0 they are roll, a or lick/pieces
lucky \ pieces,
as&astiJsrJLr* 5 ^wTimV^n^d^
who happened to be in the room. Atjout and .hoc. are by no means rare pledges.
Every pawnbroker’s p ace is a veritable
a week'ago, as I said, 1 got up
morning and lighted a match to see the
time, and when I put the match near my
mouth to blow it out my breath caught
fire and gave a loud crack like the report
of a pistol. I burned my lips and they
are still a tittle sore. I got a terrible
surprise, and so did my wife, for the re
port awakened her.”
From the above occurrence it would
appear that the conditions known as
“halitosis,” or diseased breath, is not
only a source of misery to the sufferer
and those compelled to associate with
him, but may, under certain circum
stances, become a condition of danger to
the unfortunate possessor of it., In the
present, instance the gaseous'results of
the imperfectly' digested food hod thair
atoms of carbon and hydrogen eo ar
ranged as to give rise to the presence of
carbureted hydrogen, the inflammable
and explosive qualities of which came
into play when mixed with a due pro
portion of atmospheric air in presence of
the unguarded lightoftheburmngmatch.
I may add that the patient to whom the
accident happened is a most intelligent
and observant man, and that the diet I
prescribed for the indigestion from which
he suffers from time to time has alcohol
excluded from it. and I know that my
instructions-: in that yrespeet are acted
upon. .■
Punishment in Old Times.
The Hartford (Conn.) Ctoimnt says: At
the risk of wearying readers with a
repetition of what has already been
printed in the C-ourant, the following
brief record is reprinted from this paper
under‘dateofSeptember 7* 17B1:
Hartford. September “
‘old curiosity shop.’ ”
“IIow dn vaii lilro tVi
How do you like the business?^’
“Certainly it has its unpleasant fea
tures, as when some poor creatures! want
a large loan on an article of small value,
probably to keep the wolf from the'door.
Then some people look down>on oyr oc
cupation. Of course, like every other
business, it has its black sheep, but
will find many honorable men c
it. Another thing, too, you
don’t know. Wc are among the Jbest
rids the police have, aud many a ’ “
has been brought to justice wno >
have escape:1 but for the honest pawn
broker You hear a good dfcal about' *
superhuman shrewdness about
York and Chicago detectives—how
after the robbery of a jewelry store
arrest criminals and recover tho sto)
properly. The «fact is, without-inf<
tion furnished by the pawnbrokers
detectives would be as-blind a
else. In tho<e title 4 every pownbrok
daily sends to the Chief of police- a- d
tailed account of the art Yir she has tak
in pledge, including a description oft
denly,\ may cause the weakened vessels
to giire way, from the increased force
with which tho heart throws the blood
into thfem. Hence may result apoplexy
fatalianeurism—the latter being a sud
den bulbing out of arteries.
So, top, the heart itself (or its aorta—
c great curved trunk which first re
ceives the blood from the heart) may be
in a similar condition, and suddenly fail
because of undue exertions when it might
have beei^ equal to the ordinary work of
years. Such no doubt was the late case,
when an elderly gentleman hurried to
reach a railro id train, and fell dead
entering it. The aged should firmly re
fuse to hurry.
A like caution applies to whatever
quickens the action of the heart. Every
-■ knows the power of violent emotions
this respcCt. No one wishes to fall
‘ J s - a fit of anger. Undue eating,
dead
especially of 'stimulating food, is almost
ns dangerous. \ All the appetites need to
be kept under (control.
A special caution is needed in descend
ing stairs. Ik our normal voluntary
movements there are certain nice adjust
ments effected\by unconscious mental
acts. But age affects such a change in
the brain- substance that mental activity
is lessened. Ani old man can no more
think as quickly UsA young man than ho
can ran as fast/©* jump as high. Hence
the missteps of the aged in descending
stairs. Aged po^ms, therefore, should
form the habit of Viking their bearing, so
to speak, at the ft T the stairs, and
keep’tlieir mind on e.u-h step down by a
conscious voluntary effort.
. The. aged should. afro most carefully
guard eg* inst a chill. It is more danger
ous for an old man to catch cold wan
for a young man to o$ch a fever.— Youth's
Companion.
person, his residence and other notabl
points that would affotd a olne shorn
the stuff prove to have been stolen. All
a detective has to do when a theft ii i
ported is to watch- these lists,, and mi
times out of tea he will find where
thief has disposed of his spoils. He
then, tif coarse, a pretty big clue to war]
on to catch the criminal. So- the- pro
fession has some claims on the public-.
Affection Ai
Between a pair of
lovebirds, says on au
most perfect unity of
mony of actloi besidi
other cats also; if one
accompanies it;
forthwith the wife
the other feeds it. No
of these, little birds may
a tree-each keeps with
tver sen ‘ ”
Well. yes. the profits
few of us become rifchj’—St.. Paul Globe.
- Pettigrew *
put on dresses to be worn at evening i Coart, aittt
parties, and are used for German favors, j ““J
fore the Superior
in this town, for ^ treating
; the boose of Mr.
. wy* i panics, «uu are uscu iur uennau ravors. | 7^7^,' tn
impure, but at 100 kilometers from the i Here I show you a shaving case, made of j ’ indictoentttey both plead guilty,
coasts this impurity has disappcared.The. ! paper entirely, except the ribbons. The i nod were sentenced each of them to receive
seat rapidly purifies the pestilential atmos- : ■■ paper flowers can be . mage into • screen? j 15 Stefas, to have their Right Ears cut c“
pherc of continent*; hence every expanse'-. for fire-places in ’ the- summer time. Itydbgrhranfledwtth t Vw*”.
St -rarer of a ertoin breadth become j thra*& buai,,«, jrill b. good for »■ i
absolute obstacle to the propagation of
epidemics. Marine atmospheres driven
upon land.purify sensibly the air of the
regions which t*
they traverse; this purifi
cation can be recognized as far as Faria.
—M. M. Moreau a d MlqueL
other year. I think it will be more pop-1 ZSaSSTS Amp^ttoToThfa e£
ular work next winter than it has been = that his Life was in Danger.
this, then, after that, it may gradually j ■ ■■■
die out. At present they are beginning: a Laughable Mistake,
to make dresses entirely of jiaper to J* j Henry Smith, of Sleigbtburg, U a pal-
Male Diplomatic Beauties.
Mr. Charles nardinge. of the British
legation, i* the professional .masculine
beauty of the corps. He is young, tall
and slender and has a distingue ensem
ble. Isbolsky, the new Russian secre
tary. wears glasses, and is a northern
blonde. He is peculiarly quick and alert
looking, and is more one’s ideal of what
is a foreign minister of diplomatic train
ing than any of the others. Count Lippe,
the charge of the Austro-Hungarian lega
tion, is a toll, jolly person, with distin
guishing floating >ide-whiskers of blonde
color. These geutlcmeu are all much
sought in society, but affect great ex
clusiveness to strangers.— Wo thing*# a
Utter. fatten
L&v'/.
worn at evening parties. The material 1
for such a dress would not coat more!
than $5, at the outside.
“I know many women who have taken
lessons in making paper flowers, with a
view to selling the flowers. The French
flowers have gone oat of fashion, and, not
being used nearly so much as they were
formerly, the paper flowers have taken
their place. As to the price the women
get for such work, I could not tell you,
but for a tingle rose like that which I
now show you, I get thirty cents. The
•having case I showed you would be
worth $2.00.”—Woman'r Iforl.
Fashion Notes,
Plain ribbons are few.
Crinkled seersuckers appear
ate car conductor on the Erie railway,
His xun is between Jersey City and Chi
cago. He is well-known in Rondout and
has extraordinary large hands. He tells
of a good story that happened to him at
the Chicago depot one day recently. ‘ He
hong one of his hands out of a car win
dow. Shortly after he felt some one
pulling and feeling of first one finger
and then the other. He stuck his head
out of the window and saw -a man who
said: “Say, mister, how do you sell
bananas apiece?”—Kingston (AT. F.)
Freeman.
Manners of Southern. Children.
A correspondent of . the Salem (Mass.)
Gazette, writing from Norfolk, Vo., toys
rather pointedly: “James Russeft Low
ell, in a recent review; says that about a
century ago more time- was given to man
ners than now is. These mav not be his
exact- words and sow©omit the quotation
marks.- And this prompts us to apeak at
the manners of the Southern children.
Not an instance, during our sojourn of
several months in several States, has cob©
within our observation of what, in com
mon parlance, is called on the part
of the young, cither white or block, and
we have seen them in most favorable con
ditions for making a display of that kind
had they been so inclined. This cannot
be owing to climatic influences, for the
boys and girls up North in-New Bruns
wick and the island* of the St. Lawrence
Gulf are equally polite and respectfuL
Neither is it the result of any superior ad
vantage) of education, that’ is, a school
education or opportunity. To whatever
it may be due, even if to old fashion, it is
far more pleasant than the rowdyism,
hoodlum ism, and contemptible deport
ment of some of the youth of more highly
favored sections.”
San Francisco housekeeper- are exer-
ss*®*
There are 15,000 members of the
nllXorVj
Birds,
species called
r, “we find the
e eats, the
the other
husband cries,
in. Is one ill,
Iter how many
assembled on
, Is mate; they
And ^mother writer
adds: “It is a well-known fact that
these lovely creatures rarely survive the
away visibly when cruel fate dissolves
the.marriage bond, rarely touch food
again, scarce utter a sound, or if they do
its tone Ls most piteous, and in a few
days they follow the loved one gone be-
Often sterner birds show the same
depth of feeling. “We even know an
1 pie where the female owl pinedito
.a on the decease of her | mate and
ipanion of many seasons.! Clinging
, ction tike this is a beautiful picture ot
nfe’oQgattaehment. Here,at ’ ’
d no jfacebf selfishness; the one find*
happiness only where the other takef
rt; each lives for the other.”
V Swindling the Farmer^,
at looks as if our farmers, aaia class,
were the most easily swindled people ia
the country. Some of them are Shrewd
enough, but the most of them arelgullfd
by l every bum that comes along. \ The
other day a man went through Dauphin
county with a lot of colored salt put up
in jar?, which he represented was a
stump-consuming powder. His instruc
tions were bore a hole in the stump, fill
it with powder, plug up the whole, let it
stand for .six weeks and then set. the
stump afire, and it would burn down be
low the plow-line. The farmers caught
Call.
□ns take after their fathers,”
remark an exchange True, but a great
many fathers take after their sons.—Hot
Springs News.
Did you hear the lecture last night?”
asked W illiams of his ne»ghbor Beasley.
No.” replied Beasley, 'uny wife wasn’t
at home.”—Tid-BiU.
A book has been written under the
title, “Four Centuries of Silence.” It is
needless to say that it is not a history of
the profession of barb? ring.—Graphic.
The gloomy winter has gone henet* u
The days are warm and bright,
The cat sits on the backyard fenc-j
And warbles through the night
—Boston Courier.
Little maiden (who is spending the af
ternoon with her aunt)—“Auntie,mother
said I must not nsk you for anything to
cat, but I’m.awful hungry.”—Harper's
Bazar.
A pilot boat picked up an oil painting
that apparently came from the wreck pf
the Oregon. By the time it was rescued
it was probably a water color.—New York
Commercial.
It seems sort of cruel, when a man has.'
fallen into bad company, to put him into
solitary confinement, and thus keep him
in the bad company which has proved his
downfall.—Boston Transcript.
‘I stood at eve, when the gas was lit,
by* the door of a cheap hotel,” sings a
a wild western poet. If the gas hadn’t
been tit he would probably have been in
side, with his liana cn the spoon-stand.
Boston Post.
“I should tike to know, sir, why you
leave my house so* suddenly?” asked Mrs.
Jackson, theboafding-house keeper.
Americans in Mexico.
fl
presume you have grounds?” “Yes,
madam,” replied Simpson, “I have
grounds—Coffee grounds.—New York
Graphic.
“Make room for the girls?” cries the
Woman's Journal. Oh, pshaw I the girls
dont want much room. A chair that
will hold one with a tight squeeze will
hold two-very comfort ally. Room for
the girls, indeed! Sit here, girls.—J.
Burdette.
‘Ah!” exclaimed Fogg, looking up-
from his newspaper, “another clergyman
come to grief l” “What’s that?” ex
claimed -half indozen eager voice*. “How
did it hmipenf” “It was at a funeral,**
replied Fogg, and everybody ejaculated,.
‘Pooh l”—Boston Transcript.
A Macon man, who has never witnessed!
a game of base ball, declares that he
never will. “I hear them talk about
catching a fly,” he says. “You needn’t-
expect me to pay my’money to see a lot
of lunatics catch flies. It’s cruel to catch •
flies, anyhow. Why not let the little
insects-live ? J ’
“Carp,” of the Cleveland Leader\ has-
been .interviewing John W. Thompson,,
recently returned from an extended trip,
in Mexico:
“Are there many Americans in busL
ness in $fexicof* I asked.
“Yes,” replied Mr. Thompson, “and-,
the number far increasing. • There is quite
an American colony in-Mexico city, and.;
the English and Americans associate
largely together. There are American
dentists, American doctors, on American
barber,' and there is - an American who
publishes a daily newspaper in English.
His name is Clark. He is a bright fel
low, and his paper, known as the Two
JlepubUes, is a spicy one. The Americana
.1 '.i » - -f 'TO.—
i have
do-th* big business of Mexico. They
are tho pushers in great enterpri*es,while
the English and Germans have the stores J
and: shops. In a Mexican shop you 1
to- bargain for whatever you; pure
iathe same way as in Italy. ' Toe si
keepers have two prices, and they do i
expect you to-pay what'they first as
For instance, a Tnttn came into wr ro<
at tho hotel to sell me a pair of figures.
looked at them and liked the
said they were worth forty dollars, *
half the sum bought them.”
Damascus*
A correspondent says that J
with its 160,000 inhabitants, mostly]
Mohammedans, is- quite as fanatical J
centre as there is in Syria. Here
curred mme of tho most <
scenes in the massacre of 1860.
arc not safe at any time. A short timd
ago it was impossible to bny a Koran H
the bazaars if it were known that yo
were a Christian. It is not an uacommon!
to it readily. The »ii weeks’ provision thin- now to be received with indignitko.:
s a wise one, for it allowed tne agent '< Children shout at^ the Christians ib tbo|
to get away.
“nowder”!
agent
^ _ An oxamination of
powder,’’’however, proved its woeful
qualities, and the farmers can k
selves over being badly fooled,-*-.
Tmss.
1 Moslems will angrily spit
id aad show other rigas of disgust. 1
R. late there has
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