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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: DECEMBER 24, 1894
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A NEW JERSEY BANQUET.
A dinner somewhat out of the usual
line iwas enjoyed by a iMfty of gtwutte-
roeo at Newark, New JerBtgr, Ute other
Bay, whom Dr. Richard Hopkins bad
invited to Jolu him in a feast of horse
Arab. A famous “chief” was employed
to cook the dinner end he served the
old nag in all the different ways his in
genuity and Paris training could sug
gest. He sent in horse steaks and
horse chops, horse pot roasts, baked
hone, horse rib roasts, home hash, homo
soup, home liver and goodness knows
how many frtcasees and flddle-da-dees
and Frenohlflostt-In-n* hoaido
The company numbered some twenty
or thirty of the most prominent men
in Newark, umi no one hesitated to
paruake of the feast except the former
owner of the animal, who declined only
liecause he did not fancy the Idea of
dining on one of his old-time friends.
The uni vernal verdict of the assem
bled epicures wns highly favorable.
They voted house meat a great delicacy
and will probably feel their mouths
water hereafter whenever they visit a
swell furnished stable.
It Is related that lAchtBe Murat, son
of Napoleon's famous marshal, once
said that he had eaten ail the Ameri
can birds he could lay hands on, in
cluding the owl and the crow, and
found them nil simply delicious, ex
cept “ze Triorkuy Roozard"—he "could
not eat him; he was too Strong.”
' M Dr. dlopkins and his friends wish
to'brntk the eptcurain record of this
continent, they see what Is before thorn,
and “so Boozand” Is heartily at their
service.
any other one man, perhaps, he con
trols the political opinions of the work
ing class of Great -Britain. The secret
of bis power, perhaps, lies in the fact
that he is an optimist. He dues not
spend his time in exciting the hatred
against classes or institutions. What
he does Is to Impress them, as far as
he Is able to do, with certain ideas
which he believes, if incorporated In
the tows, will result in a met! orating the
oondttiota of all classes of society. He
Is engaged, not in the work of punish
ing men or classes who have been most
successful In- the tvntfd, but in trying
to help those which have been less suc
cessful. He is a bulkier up, as we un
derstand him, not a tearer down.
AVe have no doubt that M.r. Burns
is mistaken to many of his ideas; that
some of his plans are Impracticable;
that some of them, if carried out, would
result in positive barm, Instead of ben
efit, to the class which he especially
desires to serve But, aeverthel-eBS,
his example is a valuable one for those
who aspire to lead a reform. 11 is easy
for men to follow an ablip man who Is
at the same time cheerful, hopeful of
the future, actuated only by a desire
to serve all men, and free of the ran
corous bitterness that would lend to the
destruction of any class in the commu
nity.
Americans will smile at Mr. Burns'
prediction .{hat they will be emigrating
to England In order that they may en
joy the benefits of a model govern
ment But though they smile, fluey
will Wave nothing but sympathy for
the hopes of so brave an optimist
TEX-CENT COTTON LEAGUE.
DETECTIVE SCIENCE.
A striking proposition bas been ad
vanced hy a South Carolina planter
through the columns of the Charleston
Nemo anal Courier. Briefly sieeieu, he
wants the Southern farmers to pledge
themselves In writing to plant one-half
as much ootiton as they did last spring,
and should any farmer violate hts
pledge, or fail to I'Jake the pledge,
the refractory firmer, in cither
case, is to Ibe boyooSted vigorously by
the farmers at large. What vigorously
boycotted means oniay be conjectured
only. The tatim Is not speoittoally de
fined. It is fair Hb assume that It
means a great deal more than ought to
bo meant by an edict which any class
having a decant respect for individual
rights has a right to promulgate.
The Telegraph sympathizes with the
desire of the fanners to advance the
worth of goods anywhere on the face
of the earth. Five silver dollars melted
are worth only $2,80 because the metal
in them will not pay more ihan $2.80
of debts or buy more than $2.80 worth
of floods anywhere ot» the earth.
Cur government ran make the rndtsal
In five silver dollars worth $5, but It
can do so only by mating silver instead
of gold ithe measure of vtaiue. When
gold Is exported from this country to
Europe, W is exported not as dollars,
but as bullion. It does not .matter if
it Is tn the form of our coined money.
U Is still, in that form, nothing but bul
lion io the eHttlrnttrioni of the people to
whom It Is paid in the seMlemenit of
debts or in payment for goods. The
government Itself does mot accept Its
gold coins at their face value unless the
scales thiw -tha t they Have Hie bullion
In them required by law. If the meas
ure of vwluu were the silver dollar, and
all values ware measured by it, tho
same rule would dbtuln. Five silver
dollars .melted would bo (worth five dot-
ton. Silver dollars exported would go
out ait ithelr bullion value. But gold
would oeuse to be money in this coun
try, would cease to circulate, and would
no longer be used in settling tirade bal
ances, exoejlt In Ithe sumo .way that
com and cotton and other products are
used to settle sudh balances. As a
money metal. It would cease to exist.
It is true, as the Farmers’ Voice says,
that the market for silver is tleprreued
by the closing of the Uoited States
mints against it. We have no doubt
that If these mints were open thut sil
ver would be worth more 1c the Mar
kets. But as long as It is not a money
metal in 'the sense of being used as the
standard of value by Ithe princqul com-
meroial nwtwins of 'the .world, it oainnot
regain .the relative position which
ocoupled when it Was free to enter the
mints of all muttons and was used as
money and as a standard ol value. The
United Sttntea can &> something to
raise its price, but cannot pm it in the
position to which -all nations once
united 'to raise it. In adher words, the
United States, however powerful po
litically and cammardaiHy, are not so
powerful as is nil the world.
To say that a man en.noOt pay a dol
lar’s worth of debt with 412 1-2 grains
of silver In the form of bullion because
It ‘bus mot the .govemnumt stamp on it
and I* therefore not legal tender, is to
miss the real point at Issue In this con
troversy. He can pay a dollar of debt
with a gold dollar, not bemuse of the
were tortured and burned to death. The
troops plunderedi and burned the
churches. Among those who fetl vic
tims to the savagery of the soldiers
were forty priests, iwho were brutally
massacred.”
■Near W.ilkeabnrre, Pa., on December
19. a boy told the police a hair-raising
story of the treattmeot he hud under
gone it the hands of certain detectives
who wanted htm to elve information
comcerning the blowing up of a house
in that locality. When he protested
that he knew nothing of the matter,
the datafltJvee strung him up to the
nearest tree. A/tec some momenta,
they cut him down and gave him an
other chance. Ho stubbornly reas
serted his Ignorance, whereupon they
gave him a second tnsto of the rope,
but still without effect. It is high time
for Peunsylmania to quit that sort of
business and become olvlllzed if she is
still to enjoy the privilege of jumping
on our Georpla moonshiners and
“whiteoaps.” It Is a. notorious fact
that some gentlemen from up her way
who marched through Georgia with
Sherman tried this identical experi
ment on the tote lamented Chief Jus
tice Warner. 'He was bung about
three .times to make him tell where he
had hidden his gold. He probably hail
no bidden gen'd; certainly lie failed to
show bis persecutors where it was if he
had any. A mistake was made in the
man. The lamented chief justice was
constructed of tough Umber. Before
yielding a point, hed stand as much
hanging as the next one.
jMre of cotton It Wleve.lt Is for the aU <m 4t> but Who* of. ^fard
Interest of this section itihht cotton
I The way of ithe transgressor seems to
grow harder year after year. Science
keeps poking her finger into the crimi
nal eye. Hypnotism has far some time
threatened to become a detective agent;
but It happens that the worfd feels al
most as doubtful of hypnotism as of
the criminals hypnotism proposes to
exposa
Independent of hypnotism and mes
merism and ail conjuring, of -whatever
character, the science of medical Jarls-
\prudfoso Is undoubtedly growing. The
statement has been made that to shoot
or Utah a man on the pUhHo streets Is
safer than to kill him by poison, he-
■ cause the chances that the crime will
,bo detected and punished are, through
, ; iluo iuHtTunussaury of soiaoioe, greater
1 In the latter rate than in tho former.
Rut perhaps the most striking In
stance in which soleooe has been om-
> ployed aa an adjunct to the detective
[force was that recorded In our dis
patches yesterday.
It Is a merited that on the retina of
tho victim of a mysterious murder it
was found by microscopic examination
that the image of the muclever trad
been OlsUndOy photographed, la the
particular oase hla features were not
illsceralbfcv hut hi* figure, clothing—
oven the creases to his trouser* were
plainly visible. If the fine contrasts of
light and abadow were so faithfully
portrayed as to show tho wrinkles la
the clothing of the murderer. It la fair
to presume that had the eye of his vic
tim happened to rest on his face ait the
moment of death, the* woifld have
been Just as accurately pn.wcnt.-d.
If the truth about the matter haa
hern told. It wtta s mere chance that
L- pt the eye of the dead from discov
ering to the authorities the Identity or
tli guilty person. It is reasonable to
suppose that iu nine cases qht of ten
where murder Is committed la a light
sutticleotly good to servo tho purposes
• of inis kind of photography, the crim
dual's features would appear; for it Is
puimroi under the circumrimoces to
nook an assailant directly la the face.
If the report is confirmed, crime will
receive an ualooked for check. Would
be murderers, if an accurate picture of
-their crime and of tbomedvew in the
•not of ooomf.ftiag the crime la
ito be furnished the wocbl, w*A think
twice before they take tine enormously
.increased ririr.
As ta the case of bjpcoaam, science
will first, however, be obliged to con
vince the world that there Is no “hoo
doo bust ums" relied on in Ms accusa
tiona.
prices abound g> up. It believes that
nothing, a t the present time, is so essen
tial to the interest of this Beotion, and
It also believes that the only practica
ble way to insure it, is to cut down cot
ton produnttan.
But are the means which It la pro
posed to employ in accomplishing this
very desirable -Ibange Justifiable? We
think not. The boycott la a modern In
vention, little fitted to modem civiliza
tion. It would have accorded very well
with the usages of feudal ages, when
might was right, but not with the spirit
of these times, when right is supposed
to be respected, independently of
might
If a man owns ten acres of kind, be
la eulUHad to phot ft eCl—every sore of
It—In com or itoe, or tobacco, or wheat,
oats, barley, or Bermuda grass, as he
sees fit Then why non tn eothmV
Plainly, hts ocigtilnrs have no legiti
mate business to diState to him In the
matter. He is only Standing up tor hla
own when he rays; "I will aitXefld to
my bust mss; you attend to yours.”
Fhrmnna of the South have done great
things in the lust quarter of a century,
During the early '70s, cordon at 20 cents
a pound was considered low. Yet the
sltuatlo.. was met, and Sin 1894 only
half flut price la demanded to yirid a
profit. In order to meet the demands
of tbe situation imvvnty years ago or a
little arioru, the cost of production had
to be reduced, and It was reduced
without seriously affecting the price of
labor. Whether a further reduction U
practicable is a mant-er of great doubt.
If such were possible, that would fur
nish the surest and most expeditious
channel of relief.
The reduction aocompHMtcd when
cotton was 20 ocota a pound did not re
sult from organized effort; mat tier did
the wholesome proportionate Increase
of hog land hominy within the past few
yean, which Has so much improved the
condition of our farmers that they are
now considered to have been less In
jured by tho hard times than any class
lu America. These wetoomo results
were the outcome of individual action
la both cases. It Is sCunviy to be de
nied that uniform action on rim part of
the planters, springing from a general
appreciation of the situation and s uni
versal determination to remedy It,
would products tbe best passible results.
Tbe only question Is, is uniform action
S thing to be raumatUy hoped for? The
Telegraph fcat* not, and under the
Broth Orrolln* bulldozing method, it
feels sure that nCtUng useftfi out be
aocompltshed. Those by -whom this
method la initomeil oonfere that It la
open to tbe charge of toorortam. Hut
la resouflh to settle tt* chances of prov
ing a valuable suggeriBon.
JOHN BURNS’ OPTIMISM.
, John Bures, the famous English
fat.or leader and member of parliament,
ratio is now on a r.alt to this country,
will tbe other day to an American au
vlience:, “Mark tay wurds, within the
next twenty-five year* Americans will
3>e emigrating to England, because in
tthat country, by that time, we will
Aiave the model goveraanaria of the
world, and It wtB be the only happy
end contented people on the earth.”
Mr. Burns la a great power In Eng.
Ii*h politics. To a greater extent than
(but In that coin are 25 840 grains of
gold. If 'there are not toh.t many gra ins
of goOd, tested by the assies, then he
oanmoit pay a ddttar of debt with it.
Hie small ntkxwunoe made by the law
for wear Is merely to serve public con-
vcnlence, tend does not nffoit this prin
ciple. The Intent of .the law Is that
every gold dollar which is legal tender
ahull be of full weight, arid when it pro
vides 'thut a coin a very small fraction
abort of 'the lead weight Sha.lt still l>e
a legal tender anil at tbe same time
provides that the treasury shall accept
coins (hojtt of weight to that extent, it
doe* not, as we ray, ignore the princi
ple .that the worth of tbetapln Is in Its
contertttt and not in the stump on Its
face. ', ,
"If tho flovenmnot were paying five
dollars for ithe melted mnto (of silver),
is there anybody stupid enough to sup
pose that the sUvenamdli could buy It
for less?" asks the Voice, and the Con-
Btit'Uuou says of the paragraph in
which this question occurs that it
“wuuAd be difficult tn pick more sound
solid, borne annuo into so small i
space.” If the flivermnent were pay
tag five dollars in gold for the n mount
o( racial in the five melted stiver dot-
ktrs, of course mo allrersmlth could buy
it Dor less. Btlt tf the government paid
the five doltara In aUvur, he could buy
(be mass for $2.89 in gold—just the
same ns he ran now—except for the
slight increase in the market price of
silver that might result from the ln-
aressed use of stiver as money In the
United State*. The people who ask
such qutwtlons seem to think that the
wvjrd “dolhr” imaius u certuio fixed
value under any and all drouinstaoces.
As a matter of fact, it mean* very dlf-
fereot things under dlftereot ciroum-
stances. Under our prraerit system, In
which sliver <1>Uim are ipnintioiMy ex-
obnngeaMe for gold dollars, all dotars
hare the same value, nul thut is the
raVue of the gold dollar. Bue this
would not onrinno If gold and silver
dollars ceased to be cxciungaable, in
effect, at the ttrrasury. Then a coined
piece of metal with 412 1-2 grains of
silver tn tt would he railed s dollar,
and a oin with 25 8-10 grains of gold
In It woifld also lie called a doUar, but
they would be tho same tn name only.
One would he worth more than the
othiw, riiRtmerdally as wvS as tntrln-
stcally. The floud dollar would nos clr-
oulato and therefore, la the proper
sense, would not be money,
AM nUeinpta to ignwe the fartt that
the world la one, couinurclalty, must
foil, and, tn failing, they will always
tiring dlftmtar on the country that
makra riusn.
According to one of tho Telegraph's
exchanges, Kant, the Gorman philos-
oplier, was content with the simplest
food in small quantities. A bit of fish
or an egg, with a piece of rye bread,
made bis ineul. YYdU. that ought to be
quite enough) for a philosopher who
carat get any more.
OF GENERAL INTEREST
One of tbe suggested features for tht
Paris exposition of 1900 Is a hole In the
ground 3,000 feet deep, with elevators
aud a restaurant below.
The Kansas City Star says that since
1830 there haa not been a term of cir
cuit court In Clark county without a
trial for murder or assault with lu-
temt to kill on the docket.
The kaiser has already earnrd $8,000
in royalties upon hla much advertised
song. It Is to be hoped that Its sue
cesa will prompt him to try again.
one of ithe otd ships that were filled
■with atone arid sunk tn Charleston har
bor by the federal government during
the war of the rdbellton, and toad not
been In Behring 3ea (or ten years
previously, so that for sixty long years
the whale carried this weapon w.lth it
in all (to wanderings.
Tbe Newark Dally _ Advertiser de
scribed yesterday the alleged discov
ery ot a pointing of Raphael. It had
been ait Perth Amboy (on many years
In the lumber roam of the Catholic
rectory .It was sold by a local auc
tioneer to a paiimtw of local fame (or
$12. It was bought from the latter by a
New Yorker, a picture lover, for $250.
It was sold by the latter fpr $600 to a
person whose name "cannot be ascer
tained, as the translation Is one that
brings wlitih lit no honor.” But “he has
been offered $10,000 for the old painting
a number of time,’' and this Is not
singular, (or the work is nothing other
than “the long-lost ‘Holy Family ot
L/oretto,’ painted by Rluphael In 1513.”
The moist convincing explanuitdion given
for Its aippirlttlon at Perth Amboy Is
that “It wus stdlcn from Che studio of
George I ranees, which was part of the
BggleswoOd estate.” whSdh was once
the estate at a wealthy family.
ANTE-BREAKFAST SMILES.
It Is che nudity of the live wire ttokt
makes It shocking.—Pittsburg Post.
Author's Wife—Chi Id ten, you must
not be so notoy. Your ftnther is writing
hts collected works.—(FUegonde Blatter.
■My rule," said the new guest, “Is to
pay as I go.” "Our rule,” Said the ho-
I -I keeper, “4s to pay as you come, un
less you have sufficient luggage.”—Cin
cinnati Tribune.
TotUng—I have a labor problem for
you. Diluting—Go ahead. Totting—If
four men do a piece of work *n seven
days, how long will It take six men and
a -milking delegate ?—Life.
Mrs. D’AvnJoo—I advertised for a
Fronidh niumse. Apolicani -Olve been in
France, mum. “Not very long. I guess.”
“No. mum; Ol onty shtayed tong
enough to get the aoofnt.”—New York
Weekly.
Mr. Wtioapla—Suppose, Dollle. I were
to roto you of a kiss, what would you
do? Micw Po-ppinjay—How can I tell.
Mr. Whooipla, what is going to happen
before It occurs? Do you think I am a
of bitter and some devii«i T/"
Thao b» looked amiably tomaJF 111 '
ty of us and raid;
“Forgive my Intrusion, emrim.
Pm a yatihlaman myaoif a na?*
puzzling my bmin over an <via M
tion. A year a
the sloop yacht Nhney u,ji“ LS
old boot and I've ko r .t o“rer*u
ever since. .When i took H!
commission in October I (,,,..5
rhare was mot a single stick of Z 1
1'iaJ timber In the hull. .w.'iJ
want to know is whether the'h'
own now is the Nancy Boil or mV?
other boat"
“D's a now boat, of course ••
sporting editor, pieasainitiy;
any of the old left.”
•Nonsense,” answervi ithe
mamuger; “It's 'tbe same boat *
new stick became a part of tv 01
boat as Hast os it was laid in."
“You're both right and you're
wrong." suggested the lead.ng
“It’s neither the otd boat nor tj,,
one, but a oomblnutlon' of both" 1
“Your brains are mud!" r-mionv-.,
the Wall street broker, who ’j ( jA
her ot the Darckunoniti Yacht ra
“Tbe old baait never lost its ini r
allty."
‘'MeitaphysHcally speaking," su-,,,
the society novelist, dreamily, ‘-T*
now any boat at all In the strict m
of the word as wre understanil th» y
cy Bell? Is -the Nancy Ben nnv-tte
more ttwn an idea? Philosophi-w f r ,'
Kwles ito Comte have shown-"
Well, -that iw&s the beginning of
trouble. I newer supposed an Ishm
question of -thait kind could prov„ke
much debate and Incite such o--
feelings. Tho more they nvningh] *
hatter it got, and about 3 o'clock ;n,
morning I sneaked out .if :h- 4^
sion a nd went home. I 'lof t, ithom v
at tt, but l noticed that tbe d lp „
HtitCe roan had disappeared long bet,;
I think Jib put that question out „f
pure spirit of deviltry. But was it t
old boat or a new one?
THE LORE OF MARRIAGE.
Paul Vernier, u mathematical' prodigy
of 18, has been admitted without exam
ination 'to the Higher Normal School
in Paris.
Mrs. Catherine Stearns, agon 91, cast
her vote at the recent el ctlun in Bos
ton. There was no question as to ncr
being old enough to use a ballot.
Pneumatic Urea an the wheels of
oaJbs have 'been successfully turd tn
Glasgow and Dublin. Passengers great
ly prefer itihese cabs, as (hey lessen the
jolting.
A well known Kansas lady, whose
forte, executive ability. Is as energetic
as <K la admirable .recently knocked
out one of her u-nolirs while Investi
gating It with a tooth brush.
The Peruvian government has large
ly Increased the duties on cigars, cigar-
lattes and tobacco. The government
offers at public auctioD the duty on ths
consumption of tobacco for a period of
two years.
In the balloting for a fiord emblem
to represent Maine, which Is now going
on ail over that state In schools,
granges, clubs and societies, the pine-
cone has a good lead. At last accounts
there wa* a plurality of 383 for It.
The papier-mache celling of the as
sembly chamber ;it Albany, which was
put up to replace the crack'd stone
ceiling In 1883 at a coat of $270,009. Is
gradually crumbling away, and la full
of holes.
Mrs. Blackwood of Indiana Is about
to marry her twelfth husband. She
has had such a charming vmvailllty in
married life that, when the proper time
comes, she will be quite ready to put
aside the vulgar superstition about
unlucky uumbera, and take die thir
teenth.
Freddy (day before Chrlsimas)—Santa
Claus is going to have Dome trouble
coming <fx.vn our chimney. Johnny—
How is that? Freddy—d wen; un on
the roof yesterday and put a s.ray rat
In the chimney, urel she hasn’e come
down yot—Harper's Young Peiople.
Dealer—Here, madame, is a banquet
lamp which will delight you ill properly
attended. We call It the "Af.er-Dlnner
Speaker Limp.” I/ady—'Why do you
give It (that queer name? Dealer—It's
so brilliant when It's full.—Now York
Weekly.
“Doctor," said the .partto elocutionist.
“I fear I am losing my voioe.” The
specia-llet made a careful examination
of uhe eloouulonlsi'e larynx, vocal condo,
and other Instruments of torture.
“Yes," he said 'T think I can cure you
—but you must never tell anytime that
I did."—Cincinnati Tribune.
Pastor (chldlngiy to the boys who
have Just been fighting)—Your pure nils
Blio-uld teach you boys hotter than to
fight like cads and dogs. Now you
never see my little boy quarreling wf-h
h)i playmate. He knows her tec. Bad
Boy (wkh a sneer)—You bet the deen!
There ain't a boy la town but can lick
him.—Puck.
DINED ON HORESFLBSH.
The Animal Was Old But the Queate
Enjoyed lit.
OivUwt GnwwwAt.lit.ioiiw Ohwfrt--yl
ithe Bridal Day.
One hundred prominent men o( New
ark sat down to a dinner last evening
whkill Wttfi rttffrirew -«t»y 8Jt»$«*
ever served in the otty. To outward
appearance* it was Hke others of a so
cial nature, but every guest who sat
Hit the long MWies knew he wits par
taking of horsefieah.
Dr. Richard Hopkins was the host.
When a horse slaughtering establish
ment was started in Harrison, N. J..
several months ago 'there was a great
agitation over -the alleged fact that the
-meat, was being dtoposed of In this
city and New York Instead of In Eu
rope, us the proprietors of the stimssh-
ler house alleged. This led to ihe j
breaking up of the business, for the j
board of health caught the firm In an ;
Infringement, of ith- law. It had its !
buildings too close to a 'highway.
There was a dlrcussion biitw-u-n the i
citizens us to 'the g>od and bad quali
ties of horse flesh, and almost every :
one took sides. Dr. Hopkins was ode
•Ary one living wt the iprassa; s
would mudh resertt the idea- dm
W.i« ait all mtirewiiKous, still Hie I
remains that little superstition*, ii
dents and coincidences ore trauural
for nopals t.011 to tino-se who care
Hatton.
GreUt rare is taken when deciding
the marriage day to avoid any im
inary ill omens; thus they are win,
“Murry in Leralt and y-ui'U repent;''
"Marry iu May and you'll rue tht-di]
both of Which notions come hum
time of the Bo-mares; while ao-ih
says, "To wed iu Mhy is to wed >
otty."
In regard to the 111 luck attached
May tt was said that woman disobi
ins the above predUJt.ons woud
chi Idiom, or If they did have child:
Oho fir it would be dofo.iuisl or in Id*
or the married couple would live
Ua-pp.-y to-giltiinr.
June la pruomned to be a higby |
vored moutli. Any onu maxr.id
June will be blessed w.tli weali
lira 1th and ohflirrwi, aud live tupi>i
■id titelr l.veB.
The days o-f rhe nv. >k have a pooul.
significance.' Friday la a day siu-llw
ly avoided by all corrtomp.iv.w mi
xtuge,- be.ug moat unluuky, tin- idt;
lnfr.oglog tula rule be.ug doxad
lead a oat aud dog Ute.
Suucliy, Monday, Ttimiiy
Wvtln-wLiy are all supposal t-i bj$«
djjn, neither Is Suturduy a Uni <h
bu: some cousldcr Thuradtiy as hid
Friday.
There are numoroul odd ornou s
I»ix*«l to be o»uu<'Jti-<l with < : v o»l
ritamsedvea. For inatanoe, it 1* ox*
«red unforhutlito for tho lady* 1
name to commence with the anus 1
tor an her liaace. and all romuntut
i/xl saying:
To cbo-nge vhe name A-nd not thiktt<
i_. .1 .1 ivngc for the worse and not
(he better.
It is connt-1 .ri*l by soime to bo -
tramely unlucky for euifj-ged pirnos
entirely read ta rough ithe mir.-led 1
vloj. as It Is said those -who do » t
of those who ussertekl that horae HI
meat wus na good If not better than , aueraly remain unwed.
J 1 * Long engagements Arc DM wed
Heaven’s blrasiog fat upon the ge-
tvlua who trill Invent a postal card de
sign which will become as flx.-d ond
j permanent as the $ mark ~
m- nded: we ulil know the couplet:
Happy’s the -wooing
That la wot long In doing.
While anoMier adage warns us
toa speedy murrtagea *re not destnki
in kheae words:
Marry In Waste -and repent atMim
A number of auperatltloto on
itBohed to '(he bride trt a wenMInx
“TEST OF TIIE MBITHNO POT.’
Tbe Attuxta Oomttttttton nska, “Why
sbonfal a melted AvesIdUw fldd piece
bring five doHara?” and fioUnwn iu
question with a long quototloo fnom
the Fanaera' Voice, In which ouch la
raid about the power of (he flovemment
to make fire rotted silver daltars, also,
worth five dtiOara.
There is a much snore ob
vious answer. A rotted five-
ilottu- flaWI p.M- brings five
(Mlsna because die muttU lu It will pxy
five dtlsn of dcU or buy five dollar*'
inn Turks from time immemorial
lave borne the reputation throughout
ehratetktom of btang a brutil race, and
would have been driven from Europe
long ago had tt no* been for the jeal
ousy existing between «ber nations
whlih preserve the Turtc dux he may
b* utilised as a buffer. When more
enkgbtetrol powers tell to Interfere
this la bow be it reoomed tb fill in Ms
leisure bourn: “The mi am ere began
Heikember 5. Those Attneoiaas who
submitted mnmBdiUunotijr were bound
to stakes and then thetr Hmbswere cut
off with asiwa. In other oaacc tbe vic
tims were (lsesribowiJed sod thetr eyes
wv-oi gouged out Obtldreo were
thrown into bunting cl!, ud srotnen
■ Durinr the h ' "* though tie would be eating I* «ne manor nrtc
past 'tbiny-five years niore than 1 MO an old friend. He was the only man completed for the
varieties have been trlrtTwIthora Vi^ v -' h0 dM nc,! the meat. All seemed there U « popttor
At Prover, tvis., „
man found $500 in
an old Polish wo-
• worn-out vest
which she was turning over in a rag
pile. The vest had evidently belonged
to a liaehelor. Had he been married
his wife would have gone through hts
pockets too carefully to permit that
money to escape.
WlWarn Waldorf Aitor rvvrHy visits
the Pull Mall Gazette, of which he Is
owner, but haa hours «t his home to
London when Its editors and special
writers ore expeated to present, them
selves with minute reports and to re
ceive equally Cue Id Instruction.*.
The 8t. John Irrigation Company of
Arizona Is constructing a targe reser
voir on the Utile Colorado river. The
embankment will be forty feet at tbe
ba«e and ten feet high, and when com
pleted it will bold a body of water cov
ering $00 aerca from ten to fifteen feet
d-ep.
Charles R .FfouJke of Washington
Is stM to have the finest accumulation
of (tapestries, of which he has been a
student and collector for years. In this
country. Mr. Ffoufice ok present is
writing cv book upon the subject of tap
estries from the earliest time.*, the
work to be slmuetanlously published
in Europe and This country.
Mary Anderson (Mrs. Navarro), now
mourning (he death at her first born,
In ft recent Interview at her home in
Tunbridge Wells, said she looked upon
the stage with postttve aversion. For
six or seven years she loved her work,
but after ffk.t the unn-etuntines* of the
life, its unwholesome excitement. Its
gutter sod glare became apparent to
her eye*.
The Duke of Devonshire has opened
Chats worth HaH aa his family resi
dence, and the palace-like pile is filled
with guests, to whom the gorgeous
suites of rooms and magnificent picture
galleries are new revelations. But
Just fa ncy a lot of laughing girls and
fussy dowagers bavin gu pink -tea la
that wonderfu malachite room.
Senator Perkins of Cullforota. has
given to the Washington Oeogiuphlcil
Society an interesting relic tn*the snaps
of the brad of a harpoon that *-n
round in a whale taken In Behring Baa
In 18*0. bearing the Dams of ths old
whaler -Mojltczunto .TW» vessel was
Chicago dressed beef. The dlnnor was
the ouiioome of the agitation.
The home was an old one. He wias,
to fact, a veteran ,aa he hid seen
twenty-six years of service. I-’or four
years ho hod been the property of
George W. Marshall of Newark. Mr.
Marsha. 1 was at the dinner, but re
fused to partake of the meat.
ONLY ONE REFUSED. .... -
He said X was not tlm he bad nwy wre tefid that am of the most unmoi
repugnance <0 (he flesh, but because -things she can do ,s to (Mara ami
-- —— in (ne minor After her toilet » ?
ceremony- .
one of It being
10 relish the dinner very much. 1 iooty tor the •“hj* «uMee
The old horse was served up tn all Again, In samc plscea tt U raMtie-
manners of ways. There were horse liTlluck for u, bride to kee-to» P<" ’
Kteaks and horae chops, borae pot her which toe has used to her ^
roasts unti baked horse, horat rto to.tet, while the notion that
rvxist and horae hash, horse Hver udd man in (he party who obta
horse soup. There were other things. these pins woUM be ...A
but no other incat was In the menu.
The garnishing* were of ithe best and
-most palu-abkt, and there waa no lack
of that -important part, the liquids,
with which to w.u»h the dinner down.
Chef Davis prepared uhe dinner. Pro-
fCMtottally, he pronounced u the finest
dinner, to the eye, at any rate, he bod
ever *ei before -a p'rty of diners. The
prpanaltlons began five d-ays ago.
The horae Waa led from the ttoable.
■where he hail been putting on a few
extra hsyora of fat, nnd waa slaugh
tered tn the moat approved way. The
cercass when dressed was hung In an
te. emd of the year greetolUy ratal:
a pcuffle an the brtde'u return tre
church. _
It la considered unlucky ftwlta “
py 'pah- to eater the church by
door -and leave by Another, aw
many -pbtiees lit Is considered v »n «
nous far '(he bridal party teJ®**
funeral either going or comm* w
church, ft indicating that early *»
of -the -wlfle or hueft»nd aorar«n$ '
Tile funeral la that of a mal * or
I wns once looked upon a* “
unfortunate to meet cither a dog. 1
llxanl o( hare; but df the ™
wiwna ttiini uiiTCUi n as IIUI>K in •II l w "—~» — . , _
Ice box and treated to every manner I across <v toad Or,A spider tins
very good omen Indertl.
Much haa bean wrttitien obouj
wedding ring, the “ring of gold,
is storeys regarded as Hi '
cesatty to the ro*rrktge service, e*
would eon vne wnoie airover ana annx 1 I* not 'eaw^r bo, ultbough fow •
Xhase thing* which had been provided | bmve aupemtltRlon and do
for drinking- M w.is made a rale that Then *0 many w«nesi_ane
no one who failed to parfoke of Che
horse wouM enjoy the real of the good
things.
she aime aa beef.
When Dr. HopWn* sent out hla invi
tation* ho wondered If he would have
to >1 down ulone to enjoy the horse,
and vowed tt such -was the oase be
would cat the whole dinner and drink
WELL KNOWN MEN THERE.
The deters of Newark had been in
vited to a man, -iftd almost to a nym
-they were preeeint. A few dM not j.p-
against taking off Che ring 11
onoe been pkucfd upon rhe !<’**• ■
A curirus custom tn oMon time*
that of the eldest ttfitere
foot ttt itiv* marriage at **>■'£!
one*, lest Dhey should lose *11 cto
and die oM uaalda. In some to™*
pear am! others sent word that their
profesatoDal duties would prevent them
from enjoying the Wnner. Judges, law
yers. pfUterine arid even a minister
graced the tables.
All pronounced the borae meat as
good as -anything tn the mraJ line they
bad ever eerten. Oonaldereble amuse
ment wus caused during tbe dinner hy
Dr. Hopkins calling bis deg. which hud
accompanied him to the feast. The
doctor -wanted to Show that the dog
would cut the meat readily. The Hog
did nan appear cod dnigent search
Allied to find Mtn. It was then charged
(hat » trick (tad been pHyed on all
present by Mia retraduotion at the Hog
Wo the tabes to gtvs them ft ftavor.—
New York Iteredd.
WHIGH BOAT WIAS IT ?
The Little Sian Started the TroaWe
and Tim Orept Out at It.
A dapper liUjo man. with s -watery
eye, mmo Into a Twenly-sereob steeet
rbnffisiibH- tho other night as conversa
tion sms dy ing oat and onlercd a nwg
EngSind this custom Is stfl krt* “P
As am emblem of good luck,
fexvartably thrown tatter toe brw
leaving for the honeymoon.
accounted for tn two ways, sonw
(hot the Shoe in olden torn* *«“*
oounfled an a sign of authority,
the symbol of the transfer of to^“
right to the husband, while oth«
firm HHUt the shoe throwing » »
fandrtl assault on toe husband for »
rylng swuy the bride.
In erne of (he old parts e< BtaJJ
When toe tately -wedded CQUP'«g’
enter tihrir house, a ben is
and mode to cackle as a- dgOJ* •
luck. In bygone years the hrit
not el lowed to wotk over the
In entering her new abode, h*
lifted over by her maxert retrtw
brtng done to prevent
Many art the belief* clus
around the wedfding rake. T°*.
friends of Mm hrid# an reori to*®
pass a tiny bit of the weddlo*
three tones through #
and price -The nunc under their
to Mm hope as** row drrtwi -d
future husband. wMIs rutad* 1 *
dors wXUi toe PMTrtsd prir l»
iDdraate a speedy. ta»rriae«.